1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: Very Show is on the air. Thanks for joining us. 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: We begin tonight with Musk and big Balls, Big Balls, 4 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: Big Balls, big. 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 2: Balls who work for Elon mus so called Department of 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 2: Government Efficiency doge in one. 7 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 3: Case of the big Balls Kid, a literal teenager Big 8 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 3: Balls online big Balls here. 9 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 4: That Katy's talking about a nineteen year old that goes 10 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 4: by the username big ball. 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: So that would be one way that we could refer 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: to him. 13 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 5: Pool among us doesn't feel better about. 14 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 2: Big Balls, Big Balls, Big Balls. Government has wasted the 15 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 2: only three trillion dollars in taxpayer. 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 3: One and seventy billion dollars at improper payments, left two and. 17 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 6: Forty seven billion billions blown on improper payment. It is 18 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 6: people that should not have received the other payments payments 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 6: to the wrongly dead. People received more than five hundred 20 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 6: and thirty million dollars last year in pension payments. Medicare 21 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 6: paying forty seven billion dollars. 22 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,479 Speaker 7: One hundreds of billions of dollars millions. 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: That's the way it is. 24 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 6: Decad and properly issuing eighty one billion dollars. 25 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: Just take one hundred and forty four million, that's. 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 6: Money and seven hundred and sixty four billion. 27 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: Under three years of the Biden administrations. 28 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,759 Speaker 4: Improper payments have piled up to a total of two 29 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 4: point eight trillion. 30 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 6: Dollars em billion dollars per month, or enough to pay 31 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 6: for five years of US four and aid to all countries. 32 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: And child across the country. It was eight hundred and 33 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: fifty dollars. 34 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 6: Who is receiving these payments, both some instances. 35 00:01:51,280 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: Dead people's money, phone free money. For the first time 36 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: in the over fifty years since the Super Bowl has 37 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: been played, the sitting president of the United States attended 38 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: the game in person. That would be history. 39 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 3: History already in the building tonight, as President Donald Trump 40 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 3: becomes the first sitting. 41 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,400 Speaker 1: US president ever to attend a Super Bowl game. Ride 42 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: and while Taylor Swift's image was broadcasted on was broadcast 43 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: on the big screen, and the crowd booed. When it 44 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: turned to our president, a raucous roar overtook the stadium, 45 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: a roar of approval and applause and gratefulness from the nation. 46 00:02:54,919 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: Kansas City Chief Chris Jones him across the field to 47 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: share the President's hand. Now, I wouldn't want this guy 48 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: to try to attack the president because the Secret Service 49 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 1: would be hard pressed to stop him. Offensive lines can't 50 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: seem to that's a big, tough guy. The vibe has changed, 51 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: the mood has changed. But there's something that happened yesterday 52 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: that you may not even be aware of, because in 53 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,119 Speaker 1: randomly asking people, I've noticed many people weren't. And that's 54 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 1: a good thing. Did you know that during the halftime 55 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: show that a man ran out all the way up 56 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 1: to the stage with a Palestinian flag? Did you know 57 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: that One of the things the NFL and professional sports 58 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: have worked very hard to do is to reduce the 59 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: allure for people who do these sorts of things to 60 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: do them by no longer broadcasting because, let's be honest, 61 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: some dude butt naked streets across the field. It's funny, 62 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: and it's funny to watch the security guards try to 63 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,559 Speaker 1: chase him and he's ducking in job until he finally 64 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: just runs out of gas and rolls over and they 65 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: hauled him out of there, and you know, you can 66 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: tell this is the highlight of his life that he's 67 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: done this. He's a thrill seeker. But we're talking about 68 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: a place where the president of the United States was present. 69 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: How'd this guy get out on the field? Now, well, disclosure, 70 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: the president was not on the field when this man 71 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,679 Speaker 1: did this. But it brings up a very important question 72 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: and a point I'd like to make about consequences. As 73 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: a nation, we are struggling and we have very different 74 00:04:53,720 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: views of consequences. If this man had done this in say, 75 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, where he knew he'd be yanked from the 76 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: field and his head chopped off for all the crowd 77 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: to cheer, you think he still would have done it. 78 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting we start having public executions, but come 79 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: to think of it, this man knew there will be 80 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: no real consequences for him doing that, and there won't. 81 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: This is the reason criminals commit crimes, because they know 82 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: they'll be released the minute it happens. This is the 83 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: reason men batter wives. This is the reason government employees 84 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: commit fraud. Consequences. I grew up in a household where 85 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: I am now grateful to say there were consequences. There 86 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: was discipline, We understood the consequences of actions, and for 87 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: every bad thing that befell me, my parents viewed that 88 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: as an opportunity to learn. Okay, so you took the 89 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: minibike out from the shed when you weren't supposed to, 90 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 1: and you're too young to ride it, and there was 91 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: nobody there to help you, and you couldn't touch the 92 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: ground on either side while you were sitting on it, 93 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: and so you went riding while you didn't think anybody 94 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: would notice, and you plowed into the little barbecue pit, 95 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: and you got barbecue sauce all over you. Of course, 96 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: my mother comes running out and the barbecue sauce looks 97 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: like blood, and she's screeching because surely I'm dead. What'd 98 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: you learn from that? Well, first of all, you get 99 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,160 Speaker 1: in your butt whipped. Secondly, what did you learn from that? 100 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 8: That? 101 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: The reason we prohibited you from riding it was not 102 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 1: because we're mean or cruel or draw some sort of 103 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: joy from that, but because you're not ready to write 104 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,919 Speaker 1: it yet. You're not tall enough and big enough to 105 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: handle it. But I had learned the hard way, didn't I? 106 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: And I did Consequences. The reason we're going to talk 107 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: about that they're going to do everything they can to 108 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: stop dose from continuing is this will exposet corruption and fraud, 109 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: and there can be no consequences Jeffrey Epstein ended up dead, 110 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: however you think he got there. But what were the 111 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: consequences for the rich American men who had sex with 112 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: underage children? What consequences have there been? Dick Durbin has 113 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: prevented the exposure of the list. Why are we hiding 114 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: the list of those who committed these crimes because there 115 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: can't be any consequences. Why is sorows as the district 116 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: attorney spending money buying district attorneys in major cities where 117 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: forty of violent crimes are happening are in Soros districts 118 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: where he's got the district attorney. Because without consequences, you 119 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 1: have chaos and mayhem and collapse, and that's what they intended. 120 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: This is the Michael Berry Show. White House Deputy Chief 121 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: of Staff Stephen Millard is one of the guys that 122 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: President Trump relies on. Unquestioningly, Trump two point zero is 123 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: so much better. And he has said, he's made several 124 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: references to this already in interviews, that he trusted the 125 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: wrong people the first time. But I would say this, 126 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 1: and I'm not a Trump apologist, he trusted the wrong 127 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 1: people for the right reasons. Trump charms people, and he 128 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: believed that he could fix our government by charming people 129 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: who were entrenched to do the right thing. It turned 130 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: out to be an error. But if you've never been 131 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: a leader, if you've never been the one that had 132 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: to make the call at fourth and one, and all 133 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: you've ever done is criticize whichever choice they make, it's 134 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 1: hard to understand how he could make that mistake. But 135 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: it's completely understandable. He didn't understand where the bodies were buried, 136 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 1: he didn't understand how money got transferred, how decisions were made. 137 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: He had to rely on some people who understood the 138 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: system itself, and in so doing, those people betrayed him. 139 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: Had they not betrayed him, all would have been well, 140 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: but they did. He's not made that mistake this time. 141 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: He has brought in people from the outside, the Elon Musks, 142 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 1: heg Seth's. The Cash betails. Although Cash has a lot 143 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: of experience, people that he trusts implicitly, because for instance, 144 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: Fox News reporting over the weekend that the FBI is 145 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: who is leaking to ice, sorry, who is leaking where 146 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: the ice raids are coming. If that happens, those people 147 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 1: need to be more than fired. They need to be prosecuted, 148 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,880 Speaker 1: because that's aiding in a betting. Those people need to 149 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,079 Speaker 1: be punished and you've got to make an example of them. 150 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: But I want to go back to why I brought 151 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: all this up. Stephen Miller is one of the guys 152 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:47,080 Speaker 1: who you don't see his face a lot, but he 153 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 1: is someone that Trump relies on a great deal. He's 154 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: extraordinarily sharp, and he has a deeper grasp on policy 155 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: than all most anyone. So he was interviewed and here 156 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: he is talking about USAID and explaining that this wasn't 157 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: money for Third World children who were starving. This was 158 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: a slush fund. This was how they powered it. And 159 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: you know, you think about this. If you cut off 160 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: the spigot of revenue to the cartels, you will end 161 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: the cartels. When they cut off the spigot to the mafia, 162 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: it was a It knocked them to their knees. When 163 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: you take the money away from Iran to fund their 164 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: international terrorism, which includes humas, you weaken them incredibly. So 165 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: USAID morphed into being an opportunity to fund everything they 166 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 1: wanted to grab hold of power and retain it now 167 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: to the extent they can get rich in the process. 168 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: That's also good. But the power that they keep accreeding 169 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: is what they use to gain more power and more money. 170 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: And this was hiding in plain sight. No one was 171 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: auditing this. This is White House Deputy Chief of Staff 172 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, who has the keenest understanding of what was happening. 173 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,080 Speaker 3: Donald Trump is engaging in the most important restoration of 174 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 3: democracy in over a century by saying that we are 175 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 3: going to restore power to the people through their elected 176 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 3: president and his appointed officers. That is the only way 177 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 3: we can have true democracy in this country. You elect 178 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 3: a president, he appoints the staff. The staff transparently carries 179 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 3: out his orders on behalf of the whole nation. But 180 00:12:54,240 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 3: this nonsense, where we have rogue, unelected, unaccountable, and previously 181 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 3: unfiable bureaucrats who do whatever the hell they want with 182 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,600 Speaker 3: no one telling them and no one controlling them. 183 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: We're not going to let that happen anymore. 184 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 3: We're going to have a democracy, and we're going to 185 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 3: have an executive branch that serves the American people, that 186 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 3: answers to the American people, and that answers the will 187 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 3: of the American voter. 188 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 9: George Soros's prosecutor as were reportedly getting money. Did anybody 189 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 9: really understand where this money from USAID was going, Stevid? 190 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 9: Was this being just a slush fund for the Democrats' 191 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 9: favorite causes like sex change operations in Guatemala. 192 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 3: Yes, the USAID was a slush fund first of all, 193 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 3: for left wing projects around the globe, like gender surgeries 194 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 3: around the world, diversity equit inclusion policies, crazy Green New Deal, 195 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 3: climate scams, and every other lunatic left wing project that 196 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 3: is bankrupting this country. But even beyond that, it was 197 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 3: funding an army of left wing activists, these NGOs, non 198 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 3: government organizations NGOs. They get billions and billions of dollars 199 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 3: and they use that money to then infiltrate corporate America, 200 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 3: to that infiltrate the public sector to then fresettle. For example, 201 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 3: a taxpayer spends millions of illegal aliens into this country 202 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:22,239 Speaker 3: to drive racist equity policies, to drive radical left gender policies. 203 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 3: And so what we've learned is that this mammoth left 204 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 3: wing power structure plus left wing media wasn't organic, it 205 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 3: wasn't created naturally. It was funded by taxpayer dollars. And 206 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 3: that is why they are screaming and screeching so loud. 207 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 3: Now it's because President Trump is cutting off the slush 208 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 3: fund to the organizations that hate and hurt America. 209 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: I remember when Michael Phelps was that his peak as 210 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: a swimmer, and I read about his routine and the 211 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: level of commitment and focus he had on preparing his 212 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: body in his mind form at the highest level, and 213 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: as a result, he was the greatest at what he did. 214 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: Tom Brady never took a break from the diet and 215 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: training and wellness that went into making him the goat. 216 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: It was year round, the singularity of focus and purpose. 217 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: And you go back to Terry Bradshaw, for instance, who 218 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: showed up overweight, you know, didn't take care of himself, 219 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: or you see the picture of Lenny Dawson smoking a 220 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: heater at halftime. That Brady took the game to a 221 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: new level with the singularity of purpose with focus. When 222 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: you understand that the Democrats are and the people the 223 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: Soros is, the people who run these these sorts of things, 224 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: they're thinking about this twenty four to seven, you s 225 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: a I. D. Was a sophisticated criminal organization. They were 226 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: they knew where the big money was and they took 227 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: that big money and they just started buying people who 228 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: could help them. And when you when you spend money 229 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: with those people, you own those people. This is elaborate 230 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: and to be to be dismantling it a few days 231 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: into the Trump presidency is incredible show. If you knew 232 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: to the show, I'll tell you the experience I had 233 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: that informs a lot of my opinions about government. For 234 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: six years, I served as the mayor pro tem at 235 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: the City of Houston, third largest city, third fourth largest 236 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: city in the country, and one of the things I 237 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: noticed was that there were certain people in local government 238 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: who spent all their time trying to figure out, we 239 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: got this multi billion dollar budget, and we're not personally rich. 240 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: How can we take this big budget that the taxpayers 241 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: pay their taxes on were cops and firefighters and roads 242 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 1: and sewage and water. How can we get some of 243 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: that for ourselves. So what they would do is they 244 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 1: would partner up with service providers. They would float bonds 245 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: to build new stuff. Not because the new stuff needed 246 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,360 Speaker 1: to be built stadiums or whatever else, but because they 247 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 1: could choose who did the legal work on the bond finance, 248 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:41,360 Speaker 1: who did the architecture on the new building, who did 249 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: the engineering on the new building, who did the surveying, 250 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: which you wouldn't believe big money, So they would then 251 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: pick who the person was who did all of those things. 252 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: And we're talking about millions of dollars for the service providers. 253 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: And you could see that the service providers were providing 254 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,680 Speaker 1: kickbacks of one way or another, at a minimum for 255 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: campaign contributions, but arguably for far more than that. And 256 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: there are lots of ways that this lovey dovey goes 257 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: back and forth. You will notice that the mayors and 258 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: people like that over the years that their children go 259 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,719 Speaker 1: to work for people who have big city contracts. You 260 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: will notice that their children end up getting the credit 261 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: for bringing deals in to different places. They become the 262 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,640 Speaker 1: government relations person for this or that company. You will 263 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,080 Speaker 1: find you will notice that their spouse ends up going 264 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: to work for these sorts of things, which is what 265 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,840 Speaker 1: we have in Harris County right now. And you notice 266 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: that what they're doing is just looking for ways big 267 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: pockets of government money and figuring out, look, if this, 268 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: if this big hose is shooting out water, how can 269 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: I get over and sip a little for myself. How 270 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: can I carve out a little for myself because a 271 00:18:54,640 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 1: million here, a millionaire, that's real money, for instance? How 272 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,719 Speaker 1: how did it end up becoming the case that Samantha Power, 273 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: the woman who was head of USAID, supposedly when she 274 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 1: took over she was worth seven million dollars and now 275 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: three years later she's worth thirty million dollars. How on 276 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: earth did she make that kind of money on a 277 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: salary of less than two hundred thousand dollars a year. 278 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 1: There's got to be something going on. It is being 279 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:34,479 Speaker 1: reported that her net worth was six point seven million dollars. 280 00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: Her salary is one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. So 281 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: for three years she increased her net worth twenty three 282 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: point three million dollars. How on earth did she do that? Legally? 283 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 1: This is what the financial reporting is supposed to be. 284 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: Or for people in public office, it's no crime to 285 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: make money as of right now, it's no crime for 286 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 1: members of Congress to trade stocks, but that don't want 287 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: you to know what their trading stocks are. It's not 288 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: very hard. In fact, all of these schemes could be ended. 289 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: All we have to do is say, if you're a 290 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: member of Congress. You cannot get paid an outside fee period. 291 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 1: End of story. You cannot. You cannot give speeches for money, 292 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: you cannot write books for money. You cannot trade stocks 293 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,399 Speaker 1: for money. You have to put your your your money 294 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: in a blind trust and every trade you make would 295 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: be open to the public in a transparent exchange. So 296 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: if you're because we're not going to keep your spouse 297 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: from making money. But look, if your spouse all of 298 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: a sudden starts trading stocks after you get into Congress 299 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 1: and make it a Nancy Pelosi level return, then we 300 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: get to ask questions about that. It's that the transparency 301 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: allows the research to be done. Now, the trade off 302 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: I would make, and this is where I argue with people, 303 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: is let's pay them half a million dollars a year 304 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 1: and be going, oh on it. You could understand something. 305 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,280 Speaker 1: They're going to make them half a million dollars a 306 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: year or more one way or another. Why not pay them. 307 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: It's a drop in the bucket. It's a few million dollars. 308 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: You got four hundred and thirty five of them, plus 309 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: another hundred senators. You got a couple hundred thousand dollars. 310 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 1: That's millions of dollars, not that many million, And in exchange, 311 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: you cut out all of the deals they do that 312 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: they cut to get paid money. You do realize that 313 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: members of Congress will sell you down the river for 314 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars if they can keep twenty five 315 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: thousand for themselves. That's how this game works. You would 316 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 1: save billions and billions of dollars. But back to the point. 317 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: I saw at the city of Houston and at Harris County, 318 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: and I continue to see to this day, and I 319 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,400 Speaker 1: see it in state governments and in Congress. But at 320 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: the local level you can see it more easily because 321 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: you can see the actual people doing it. They're not 322 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,719 Speaker 1: hiding in a federal building. You see that these people. 323 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: If something needs to be done, a task needs to 324 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,880 Speaker 1: be done, they try to figure out, Okay, how can 325 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 1: I make some money off using the government funds to 326 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: pay for the task that needs to be done. For example, 327 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: after the wildfires in Los Angeles, the Mayor of Los Angeles, 328 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: Karen Bass, appointed and LA wildfire recoveries are and she 329 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: tried to pay him five hundred thousand dollars for ninety 330 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: days of work. Angelino's lost their mind. She had another 331 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: official who was set to be paid two hundred and 332 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars for ninety days of work. These are 333 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: insane amounts of money. It's absurd. City Council Monica Rodriguez 334 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: said this is obscene. Steve, who resides in a temporary 335 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,199 Speaker 1: discord to ABC seven in Los Angeles, who resides in 336 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: a temporary apartment in Marina del Rey after his home 337 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: was destroyed in the Palisades fire, said that this compensation 338 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 1: is a money grab, adding that the city is experiencing 339 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,639 Speaker 1: a crisis of leadership. I'd be interested to know if 340 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: he voted for Karen Bass. I find it interesting how 341 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: many people have all of a sudden said I regret 342 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,479 Speaker 1: voting for Karen Bass. Really, because Karen Bass has always 343 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 1: been Karen Bass. You're the only one that has supposedly changed. 344 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 1: People tell me they regret voting for Joe Biden. Why Joe, 345 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 1: But to quote Danny Green, Joe Biden is who we 346 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: thought he was, exactly who we thought he was. Joe 347 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: Biden didn't change. Maybe you did. Maybe you changed when 348 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: these people when you finally got embarrassed, Or did you 349 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,680 Speaker 1: vote for her because she's a black woman and you 350 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: felt good about it, and now you got all this 351 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: scandal on your hands. Or is this some more that 352 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,239 Speaker 1: you realized, Oh my vote actually matters. I see this 353 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,119 Speaker 1: happen with small business owners all the time, dessay. I 354 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 1: got this communist working for me, and she's making everybody 355 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: in the office crazy. It's always a woman. She's making 356 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: everybody in the office crazy. She's nuts, she doesn't want 357 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 1: us to do this, and she's mad at the men, 358 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:22,159 Speaker 1: and she accuses it. Did you have any indication of 359 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: this before you brought her in? Did you do any 360 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 1: Did you even look at her social media post? Because 361 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: I noticed she has blue hair. There's your red flag. 362 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,200 Speaker 1: Blue hair is your red flag? Bothe through the nose, 363 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: red flag, guitars, cigars, and a few thoughts from bizarre Michael. 364 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 1: There was a wonderful piece last week that I read 365 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: on the air about President Trump's strategy to flood the zone, 366 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: to confuse and straight to the left, sort of like 367 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: a Mike Leach offense. He would have at any given 368 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: time five potential receivers, and nobody had done anything like that. 369 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: That's what took Mike Leach's offense from what was known 370 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: as the West Coast offense, which featured a lot more passes, 371 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 1: which featured using short passes and you think of these 372 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,639 Speaker 1: little quick slants that are almost like a run. What 373 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: went from the West Coast offense to the Air raid 374 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: was the moment that it was almost exclusively a passing offense. 375 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 1: And what Leech did brilliantly was given five options spreading 376 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: the field, stretching the defense, and that allowed him at Valdesta, 377 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: that allowed him at Ohio, at Iowa Western or whatever, 378 00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 1: and then Kentucky in then Oklahoma and then Texas Tack 379 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: and Lubbock and then Washington State and then Mississippi State. 380 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: What he did was he stretched out. He had lesser 381 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: players than the other team, but he used strategy to 382 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: overwhelm them and in the process defeat them. That's exactly 383 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:26,960 Speaker 1: what Trump is doing. He is he is making attacks 384 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,400 Speaker 1: on their side flank so that they're distracted from the battle. 385 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: You know, you see if like me, you watch these 386 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 1: videos on World Star in places where two people are fighting, 387 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: one of them's pulling the other one's wig, and somebody 388 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: will come up from behind and hit one of them, 389 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: and that just throws the whole dynamic off, right, because 390 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: you distracted. That's what Trump is doing now. If you 391 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,959 Speaker 1: can't understand that, and some people can't. I had a 392 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 1: conservative publican tell me the other day, I don't think 393 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: he's going to do some of those things he's saying 394 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 1: he is, and said, what do you mean, like, I 395 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 1: don't think he's going to buy Canada? Do you care? Well, 396 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: he shouldn't say he's going to if he's not. Really, 397 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: that's your thing. If he reforms our government, exposes all 398 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: the fraud, and ends it at the end of his term, 399 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: you'll say, yeah, but she just said you were going 400 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: to buy Canada and you didn't really. Are you that simple? 401 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,960 Speaker 1: And that's how I feel about it, So Biden. So 402 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 1: so Trump continues to just toss things out and Left's 403 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: brains explode. And just about the time two hours later 404 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: that they're trying to have the talking heads on CNN 405 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,439 Speaker 1: to describe how crazy this would be for him to 406 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: annex Canada, he goes on to the next one and 407 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 1: he keeps doubling down and it makes them crazy. Here 408 00:27:58,640 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: he was talking to Brett. 409 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 2: Bear, you know, the Prime Minister said this weekend to 410 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 2: a group of Canadian businessmen, he was a private meeting 411 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 2: he said that your wish for Canada be the fifty 412 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 2: first state is a quote real thing. 413 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: Is it a real thing? 414 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 10: Yeah? 415 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: It is. 416 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 7: I think Canada would be much better of being a 417 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,399 Speaker 7: fifty first sake because we lose two hundred billion dollars 418 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,239 Speaker 7: a year with Canada, and I'm not going to let 419 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 7: that happen too much. 420 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: Why are we paying two hundred billion. 421 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 7: Dollars a year essentially in subsidy to Canada now if 422 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 7: they're a fifty first state, I don't I doing it. 423 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: So just about the time they got everybody to gather 424 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: going this is a terrible idea. I'll upset Canada won't 425 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 1: be able to get maple syrup or whatever horrible thing 426 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: will happen if Canada somehow pitches a fit. Oh no, 427 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: what will we do with all our made in Canada goods. 428 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: We won't be able to survive without Canada. Just about 429 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 1: the time they got all their guests ready to attack 430 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: him for that, he says, Oh, by the way, we're 431 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: gonna buy Gaza. 432 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 8: Comitted to buy owning us as far as US rebuilding it, 433 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 8: we may give it to other states in the Middle East, 434 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 8: and those sections of it other people may do it 435 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 8: through our auspices, but we're committed to owning it, taking 436 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 8: it and making sure that Hamas says that you're back, 437 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 8: there's nothing to move back into. The place is a 438 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 8: demolition site. 439 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 9: It'll be. 440 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 8: The remainder will be demolished. Everything's demolished. I mean, you 441 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 8: can't live in those buildings right now. They're very unsafe. 442 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: His ability to get things done so fast is premised 443 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: on his ability to divide and conquer, as the British 444 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: did in India, to keep people on their heels. They 445 00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: can't figure out what to attack him on. He's hitting 446 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: them from too many angles. It's shock and awe. Caitlin Collins, 447 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: who he referred to as that nasty person on CNN, 448 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: was on the Late Show with Seth Myers. She hates Trump, 449 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,800 Speaker 1: and even she had to admit, the pace of this 450 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: administration is insane. This is the hurry up offense. The 451 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 1: entire game long. You don't have time to sub in anybody, 452 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: you don't have time to make adjustments. You're doing this 453 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: every day you're in DC. The pace of the Trump 454 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: administration seems to be moving pretty quickly. How are you 455 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: holding up? 456 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 4: It is insane and I think everyone is kind of 457 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 4: like readjusting and re remembering what it was like four 458 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 4: years ago. Pre four years ago. I remember when when 459 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 4: Biden first took office in January, the New York Times 460 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 4: wrote the story about how quiet the weekends were, because 461 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 4: for reporters, every weekend had just been like another It 462 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 4: was like a seven day work week. And now we're 463 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 4: back to that basically, where it's just essentially NonStop every day. 464 00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: You kind of wake up like not knowing what you're 465 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: going to be doing, what the schedule is. I was 466 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: walking to breakfast one day this week. I was like, OK, 467 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:51,959 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a nice little breakfast forre. 468 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 4: I go to work, and uh, halfway there, They're like 469 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,760 Speaker 4: Trump's doing a press conference at an hour And I 470 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 4: physically ran back. 471 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 1: Home so I could change and get ready. Oh my god, 472 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,280 Speaker 1: how did your dad You physically ran home to get 473 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: ready moves off ast? Oh my god. Christen Welker of 474 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: Meet the Press started this past week's program talking about 475 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,440 Speaker 1: President Trump's historic overhaul of the federal government. 476 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,640 Speaker 10: We begin with President Trump's historic overhaul of the federal 477 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,800 Speaker 10: government that is proceeding at an unprecedented pace and scale. 478 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 10: The president has tasked Elon Musk, the world's richest man, 479 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 10: with carrying out his mission, and now Musk and his 480 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 10: team of young tech engineers have inserted themselves into at 481 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,959 Speaker 10: least seventeen federal agencies, according to The New York Times, 482 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 10: accessing sensitive federal data like social security numbers and bank 483 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 10: accounts for millions of Americans. 484 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: Next, we have Andy Kim, Democrat, Senator from New Jersey. 485 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:53,520 Speaker 1: He's very upset. He will not stand for all this 486 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 1: waste to be exposed and ended and as a result, 487 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: will just shut the government down. 488 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 10: Your colleague, Jeff Merkley, basic they said he's prepared to 489 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 10: try to shut down the government over some of these 490 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 10: sledgehammer actions that he's seeing by Elon Musk. Are you 491 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 10: prepared to shut down the government to join democratic colleagues, 492 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 10: you want to stand in the way of keeping the 493 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 10: government over, Well. 494 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 5: You have to look at what the Trump administration is 495 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 5: doing right now. They are simply trying to there are 496 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 5: simply dry, They are simply trying to dismantle the government. 497 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 5: So yes, look, if we have to take steps to 498 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 5: be able to hold them account, we'll use the leverage 499 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,600 Speaker 5: that we have to force it. I cannot support efforts 500 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 5: that will continue this lawlessness that we're seeing when it 501 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 5: comes to this administration's actions, and for us to be 502 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 5: able to support government funding in that way only for 503 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 5: them to turn it around to dismantle the government, that 504 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 5: is not something that should be allowed. 505 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 10: So, just to be clear, Senator, you are open to 506 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 10: voting yes to shut down the government to make this point. 507 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: This is on them. 508 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 5: This is about whether or not they can get the votes. 509 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 5: They are the majority, and if they cannot govern, then 510 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,560 Speaker 5: then you know, that's for the American people to see. 511 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 5: But I worked in government. I work through multiple government shutdowns. 512 00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 5: I would be the last person to want to get 513 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 5: to that stage. But we are at a point where 514 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 5: we are basically on the cost of a constitutional crisis, 515 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:09,440 Speaker 5: seeing this administration taking steps that are so clearly illegal, 516 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 5: and until we see a change in that behavior, we 517 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 5: should not allow and condone that, nor should we assist 518 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 5: in that. 519 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: Andy Kim is the silly little shepherd who runs into 520 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: town and says wolf to get all the naive, well 521 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: meaning townsfolk to come running, and when they arrive, he 522 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: laughs and says, there is no wolf. We're on to you, 523 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,040 Speaker 1: Andy Kim, You're not shutting the government down, and if 524 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 1: you did, I'd be okay.