Speaker 1: We've got quite a few big stories to talk about today,
Speaker 1: including the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt holding her
Speaker 1: first official White House Press briefing, and the room is
Speaker 1: very different than it was during Biden and Harris's time.
Speaker 1: There are new members that are back in the White
Speaker 1: House that have been kicked out of the White House
Speaker 1: when they were in office.
Speaker 2: What did that do? It changed the entire dynamic of
Speaker 2: the question. We'll have that for you as well. Coming up.
Speaker 1: Also, Sean Duffy confirmed as a Transportation Secretary in a
Speaker 1: seventy seven to twenty two vote, and there are others
Speaker 1: that will be confirmed.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the latest details on that.
Speaker 1: And finally, Donald Trump has halted three trillion in federal
Speaker 1: grants for review of compliance.
Speaker 2: With a new executive order.
Speaker 1: Before I get to all that, there is a story
Speaker 1: though that I just got to start with and it
Speaker 1: actually just made me laugh.
Speaker 2: And this is a moment that you should enjoy.
Speaker 1: We saw a bunch of media that been exiled from
Speaker 1: the White House Press briefing room get to come back.
Speaker 1: That's always a good thing for the freedom of the press.
Speaker 1: We also saw the White House using the same strategy
Speaker 1: that he used during the campaign. We don't give a
Speaker 1: crap about ABCNBCCBS, the legacy media. We're going to open
Speaker 1: up the press briefing room to podcasters and others that
Speaker 1: are more conservative in media and talk to them. We're
Speaker 1: not going to go through CNN anymore or any of
Speaker 1: these others that lie deliberately about this administration. You're more
Speaker 1: than welcome to be in the room, You're more than
Speaker 1: welcome to answer questions, but we're not going to sit
Speaker 1: here every day and just get in a fight with
Speaker 1: you when you're not covering the news. This has had
Speaker 1: repercussions in mainstream media.
Speaker 2: What do I mean by that.
Speaker 1: We're seeing layoffs at ABCNBCCBS, we're saving huge layoffs at
Speaker 1: CNN and Jim Acostam, the guy who became famous for
Speaker 1: ripping on Donald Trump from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: while he's now out of a job at CNN, quote
Speaker 1: leaving CNN because they tried to banish him apparently to
Speaker 1: like Midnight.
Speaker 2: I'm not joking about that. Now.
Speaker 1: The media's obsession with themselves and they're in their moral
Speaker 1: high ground and grand standing that we're better than other people.
Speaker 2: That is not stopped.
Speaker 1: All right, Jim Acosta exit CNN with one last self
Speaker 1: serving virtue signal about how great he is for America. Right,
Speaker 1: because he's a member of the media and he should
Speaker 1: be a king and a god to all of us.
Speaker 1: He signed off his show for a final time after
Speaker 1: eighteen years at CNN, and this is his last words
Speaker 1: he had to say the American people. Now, I want
Speaker 1: to play it for you in just a second, but
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Speaker 1: his middle finger to Donald Trump, his anger for losing
Speaker 1: his show.
Speaker 3: Just wanted to end today's show by thanking all of
Speaker 3: the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at this network.
Speaker 3: You may have seen some reports about me and the show,
Speaker 3: and after giving all of this some careful consideration and
Speaker 3: weigh an alternative time slot, syeing an offer me, I've
Speaker 3: decided to move on. I am grateful to CNN for
Speaker 3: the nearly eighteen years I've spent here doing the news.
Speaker 3: People often ask me if the highlight of my career
Speaker 3: at CNN was at the White House covering Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: Actually no, that moment came here when I covered four
Speaker 3: President of Barack Obama's trip to Cuba in twenty sixteen
Speaker 3: and had the chance to question the dictator there, Raul Castro,
Speaker 3: about the island's political prisoners. As the son of a
Speaker 3: Cuban refugee, I took home this lesson. It is never
Speaker 3: a good time to bow down to a tyrant. I've
Speaker 3: always believed it's the job of the press to hold
Speaker 3: power to account. I've always tried to do that here
Speaker 3: at CNN, and I plan on going doing all of
Speaker 3: that in the future. One final message, don't give into
Speaker 3: the lies. Don't give into the fear. Hold on to
Speaker 3: the truth and to hope, even if you have to
Speaker 3: get out your phone record that message. I will not
Speaker 3: give into the lies. I will not give into the fear.
Speaker 3: Post it on your social media so people can hear
Speaker 3: from you too. I'll have more to say about my
Speaker 3: plans in the coming days, but until then, I want
Speaker 3: to thank all of you for tuning in. Has been
Speaker 3: an honor to be welcomed into your home for all
Speaker 3: these years. That's the news reporting from Washington. I'm a
Speaker 3: costa there.
Speaker 2: It is eighteen years coming to an end.
Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about his words there at his grandstanding
Speaker 1: Number one, to equate Donald Trump with a dictator in
Speaker 1: Cuba is laughable. The fact that he does it while
Speaker 1: losing power is also hysterical. The media is losing their
Speaker 1: power for the same reason that Donald Trump is moving
Speaker 1: the seats around at the White House Press briefing room.
Speaker 1: They're saying, you guys are no longer winning in this country.
Speaker 1: People aren't listening to you. Podcasts, by the way, is
Speaker 1: what won this last election. There's no doubt in my
Speaker 1: mind that the strategy that Donald Trump implemented to go
Speaker 1: on podcast shows, some of them that are quote non
Speaker 1: political and to talk directly to the American people. Made the difference.
Speaker 1: It used to be you had to go through the
Speaker 1: media to get elected, that you had to go through
Speaker 1: the media to even get your poll numbers up right,
Speaker 1: Not anymore, and the bias in the media is incredibly clear,
Speaker 1: and I think that's part of the reason why people
Speaker 1: are not watching.
Speaker 2: Let me give you another example.
Speaker 1: There was a new research study that just came out,
Speaker 1: and in this research study, the legacy media obsessed over
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's pardons of January sixth protesters, spending forty three
Speaker 1: minutes covering it. That is, ABC, CBS, NBC evening news
Speaker 1: shows between January the twentieth and the twenty second, so
Speaker 1: over a two day period, these legacy networks were completely
Speaker 1: obsessed with Donald Trump partying anyone connected to January sixth,
Speaker 1: Biden partning is family coverage. You want to know much
Speaker 1: time it received just three minutes, So ABC, NBC, and
Speaker 1: CBS spend forty six minutes over two days covering Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's partying of January six protesters and just three minutes
Speaker 1: covering Joe Biden partning his family to cover up the
Speaker 1: Biden crime family criminal activity that is how much the
Speaker 1: liberal media is still obsessed with trying to change this
Speaker 1: country by misleading and lying to us. The best part
Speaker 1: is people seem to be understanding it, and they're turning
Speaker 1: it off. A constant announcing on air he's leaving CNN
Speaker 1: and says it's never a good time to bow down
Speaker 1: to a tyrant. Don't give into the lies his last
Speaker 1: words on air. I'm sure he feels brave and bold.
Speaker 1: What he doesn't understand is the fact. And I believe this.
Speaker 1: He's the reason why Donald Trump won the election because
Speaker 1: people watched him and he saw him lie to the
Speaker 1: American people and people are like, yeah, I'm not all
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 2: I don't believe the media anymore.
Speaker 1: They lied to us about COVID, they lied to us
Speaker 1: about lockdown, they lied to us about mass they lied
Speaker 1: to us about the you know, just two weeks to
Speaker 1: you know, get of the spread and everything else, stop
Speaker 1: the spread. And they lied to us about Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: They lied to us about the Biden crime family. Why
Speaker 1: the hell would we listen to any of them ever? Again,
Speaker 1: that is what's happening right now. You'll look at the
Speaker 1: broader picture with our media right now and look, for
Speaker 1: four years, they have been able to just report propaganda
Speaker 1: and they've been on a lot to you without anybody
Speaker 1: really being able to challenge them.
Speaker 2: I'll give you another example of this.
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper had on Stephen Miller from the White House,
Speaker 1: someone that he has attacked for the last four years.
Speaker 1: These worst person in the world. Now Steven Miller's back
Speaker 1: to the White House. And so of course, immediately seeing that,
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper tried to ask a quote gotcha question on
Speaker 1: illegal immigration, and I want you to listen to how
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller fought back, because this is what we need
Speaker 1: more of. And he basically said, I'm going to say
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes to explain the topic to you. You'll
Speaker 1: understand it. You're not going to just run out the
Speaker 1: clock on us and attack us. We're playing at a
Speaker 1: different level now. And this is part of the reason
Speaker 1: why CNN has lost so many viewers, is why they're
Speaker 1: having to laugh hundreds and hundreds of their employees this week.
Speaker 4: Listen, jobs many Americans do not want to do. So,
Speaker 4: how do you how does President Trump make sure that
Speaker 4: the effort to deport people who are not in this
Speaker 4: country legally doesn't end up hurting Americans who want safe
Speaker 4: borders absolutely but also don't want to see even more
Speaker 4: higher prices and groceries.
Speaker 2: Now, let's be clear about the premise this.
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper is saying that the only sane way to
Speaker 1: look at deportations is to say, we shouldn't be deporting
Speaker 1: that many illegal immigrants because they're giving us cheaper labor
Speaker 1: for food. And so if you care about Americans, then
Speaker 1: don't hurt them by deporting illegal immigrants are here, because
Speaker 1: it's going to make them pay higher prices. Right, So
Speaker 1: this is the EDI mind trick that they're genuinely hoping
Speaker 1: is going to work on many of us, saying all right,
Speaker 1: well, well just tell everybody that if we deport people, what's
Speaker 1: going to happen is you guys are gonna you can't
Speaker 1: afford to buy food for your kids, and people are
Speaker 1: going to starve, right, so listen.
Speaker 2: Now, Steven Miller responds to that, Well, I mean.
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's not your position, Jake.
Speaker 6: You're just asking the question that we should supply America's
Speaker 6: food with exploitative illegal alien labor. I obviously don't think
Speaker 6: that's what you're implying. Only one percent of alien workers
Speaker 6: in the entire country work in agriculture. The top destination
Speaker 6: for illegal aliens are large cities like New York, like
Speaker 6: Los Angeles, and small industrial talents of course, all across
Speaker 6: the heartlet. As we've seen with the Biden floods, none
Speaker 6: of those illegal aliens are doing farm work. Those thirty
Speaker 6: thousand legal aliens that Joe Biden dumped into springs.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about the ones that a no, but but no.
Speaker 5: But I'm explaining this. It's important understanding.
Speaker 4: Now you're kind of changing with I mean, I will,
Speaker 4: I will go.
Speaker 5: I give me thirty minutes. All goes deep becase you
Speaker 5: want to. I don't, audience, I don't have.
Speaker 4: A fair I'm talking about the ones that could that
Speaker 4: work in.
Speaker 5: The agriculture industry.
Speaker 4: What I mean, I'm just plaining back about the ones
Speaker 4: in the cities.
Speaker 5: I swear I'll do. I'll do the whole answer.
Speaker 6: The illegal aliens that Joe Biden brought into our country
Speaker 6: are not full stop doing farm work. They are not
Speaker 6: the illegal aliens he brought in from Venezuela, from Haiti,
Speaker 6: from Nicarauagua. They are not doing farm work. They are
Speaker 6: inner cities collecting welfare. As for the farmers, there is
Speaker 6: a guest worker program that President Trump supports. Over time
Speaker 6: as well, we will transition into automation so we'll never
Speaker 6: have to have this conversation ever again. But there's no
Speaker 6: universe in which this nation is going to allow the
Speaker 6: previous president to flutter a nation with millions and millions
Speaker 6: of illegal aliens who.
Speaker 5: Just get to stay here.
Speaker 6: And we are especially not going to allow a subset
Speaker 6: of those illegal aliens to rape and murder our citizens.
Speaker 6: So we are going to unapologetically enforcer immigration laws. And
Speaker 6: as I'm sure you will celebrate, we are going to
Speaker 6: unleash the power and might US government to eradicate the
Speaker 6: presence of transnational threats on our soil.
Speaker 1: I love the position of people like Steven Miller. They're like,
Speaker 1: we're not taking these questions sitting down.
Speaker 2: We're just not.
Speaker 1: Secretary Christineom put out a seven am video this morning,
Speaker 1: and it was a very simple video that she put out.
Speaker 1: She was wearing a police ice vest ice hat and
Speaker 1: her video this is all she said. It was three
Speaker 1: seconds long.
Speaker 6: Here in New York City this morning, we are geting
Speaker 6: dirt bates off these streets.
Speaker 1: We are in New York City this morning. Quote getting
Speaker 1: the dirt bags off the streets. This is back to
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump was elected to do. Enforcement operations in
Speaker 1: cities that were sanctuary cities. And this enforcement operations in
Speaker 1: New York City criminal aliens with kidnapping, assault, and burglary
Speaker 1: charges now in Cussey thanks to Ice. All of this
Speaker 1: could have been done by the last administration. They could
Speaker 1: have gotten these criminals and gotten in the hell out
Speaker 1: of this country, but they didn't care. They wanted them
Speaker 1: to live among us. And let's go back to the
Speaker 1: other lie. There's another lie that was happening at the
Speaker 1: White House. And it was a lie they could have
Speaker 1: told you about. Now I don't understand what the point
Speaker 1: of this was, but they decided to lie to you
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: You may remember.
Speaker 1: These drones that were up there in New Jersey and
Speaker 1: the White House was saying it's no threat to society,
Speaker 1: but not giving you any more information. And everybody was
Speaker 1: putting videos up and wondering, is this UFOs?
Speaker 2: What is this? Well?
Speaker 1: President Trump issued a statement on the New Jersey drone
Speaker 1: phenomenon at the start of his first White House Press
Speaker 1: conference run by the new Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, And
Speaker 1: this is part of the promises kept promises made part
Speaker 1: of this administration. He said he was going to give
Speaker 1: a briefing and tell the American people what the hell
Speaker 1: was going on in New Jersey. Now we found out
Speaker 1: that the other administration could have been transparent. They could
Speaker 1: have told you what was actually happened happening, they chose
Speaker 1: not to listen.
Speaker 7: An update on the New Jersey drones. After research and study,
Speaker 7: the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large
Speaker 7: numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for
Speaker 7: research and various other reasons.
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, So the US government authorized the
Speaker 1: drones in New Jersey to be flown for research reasons,
Speaker 1: and they could have told the American people that, but
Speaker 1: they deliberately decided not to be transparent with the American people.
Speaker 2: So the question is why was it just going to
Speaker 2: screw with us?
Speaker 1: Is it because they want to cover up what they
Speaker 1: were studying and what their research was for. Keep listening
Speaker 1: to the White House again, giving you transparency.
Speaker 7: Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational and private
Speaker 7: individuals that enjoy flying jones in meantime, in time, it
Speaker 7: got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.
Speaker 7: A statement from the President of the United States to
Speaker 7: start this briefing with some news.
Speaker 1: How hard would that have been to be that transparent
Speaker 1: if you were Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Why weren't
Speaker 1: they that transparent? Why wouldn't the White House Press briefing
Speaker 1: room that transparent with the American people? They should have been,
Speaker 1: they deliberately chose not to. There was people that were
Speaker 1: fearful and afraid and scared. Hell, I know people that
Speaker 1: didn't go to the inauguration because they were afraid of
Speaker 1: what was going on with these drones, and they were
Speaker 1: worried about it with good reason. We even saw the
Speaker 1: media reporting that the President's cars had.
Speaker 2: Anti drone.
Speaker 1: Technology on the rooftops of these of their cars, the SUVs,
Speaker 1: because they were so concerned about drones. There was real
Speaker 1: nervousness and paranoia, not just in New Jersey but around
Speaker 1: the country from this. And they could have cleaned it
Speaker 1: up real quick and cleared it up for the American
Speaker 1: people because they love for you to be terrified, and
Speaker 1: then the government say, but don't worry, We're the ones
Speaker 1: keeping you safe. There is also another mic drop moment
Speaker 1: from the press briefing room when Caroline Levitt completely destroyed
Speaker 1: the legacy media's lies to their face. I want you
Speaker 1: to listen to what she said about the mission at
Speaker 1: the White House and also her job.
Speaker 7: Speaking on behalf of the President of the United States.
Speaker 7: That is my job, and I will say, it's very
Speaker 7: easy to speak truth from this podium when you have
Speaker 7: a president who is implementing policies that are wildly popular
Speaker 7: with the American people. And that's exactly what this administration
Speaker 7: is doing. It's correcting the lies and the wrongs of
Speaker 7: the past four years, many of the lies that have
Speaker 7: been told to your faces in this very briefing room.
Speaker 2: I will not do that.
Speaker 7: But since you brought up truth seek, I would like
Speaker 7: to point out, while I vow to provide the truth
Speaker 7: from this podium, we ask that all of you in
Speaker 7: this room hold yourselves to that same standard. We know
Speaker 7: for a fact there have been lies that have been
Speaker 7: pushed by many legacy media outlets in this country about
Speaker 7: this president, about his family, and we will not accept that.
Speaker 7: We will call you out when we feel that your
Speaker 7: reporting is wrong or there is misinformation about this White
Speaker 7: House so yes, I will hold myself to the truth,
Speaker 7: and I expect everyone in this room to do the same.
Speaker 2: I will hold myself to the truth.
Speaker 1: That is something the former White House Press Secretary Jean
Speaker 1: Pierre could never say with a straight face.
Speaker 2: Well, let me give you.
Speaker 1: Another example of just some of the lies that are
Speaker 1: being told. And it's not just you know, former White
Speaker 1: House Press secretaries that lie to you in the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party or CNN. It's also the Democrats that are elected officials.
Speaker 1: The Boston mayor, Mayor WU said today that she's angry
Speaker 1: at Bill Malusian and Fox News Channel for sensationalizing, as
Speaker 1: you described it, and stoking greater fear about deportations.
Speaker 2: I want you to listen her words.
Speaker 8: But with Fox News embedded, going along with doctor Phil
Speaker 8: with this element of wanting to sensationalize and stoke greater
Speaker 8: fear about it. So we know that the federal government
Speaker 8: will continue to do what they do on the federal side.
Speaker 8: We will continue to do what we do on the
Speaker 8: city side, which is keeping everyone safe here. And we
Speaker 8: don't have the authority to, let's say, stop or overrule
Speaker 8: what they're doing in their domain, but neither do they
Speaker 8: in our domain.
Speaker 1: Either translation, I am the mayor Boston, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to help the federal government get rid of the
Speaker 1: worst people in Boston.
Speaker 2: They were there illegally.
Speaker 1: Bill Illusion at Fox put out a very simple tweet
Speaker 1: about this. He said, Mayor Wu should spend less time
Speaker 1: worrying about Fox News and more time why international fugitives, murders, rapists, pedophiles,
Speaker 1: and Haitian gang members with seventeen convictions in two years
Speaker 1: have decided to set up shop in her sanctuary city
Speaker 1: and roam freely until ICE arrests them. Now, what you
Speaker 1: need to understand about what this mayor saying is she's saying, look,
Speaker 1: we know we've caught a lot of these people. We
Speaker 1: know that, and we know that we have them in Cussy,
Speaker 1: and that we didn't tell Ice on purpose because we
Speaker 1: care more about fundamentally changing the city and bringing in
Speaker 1: future voters and giving them amnesty no matter who they are,
Speaker 1: what horrific crimes they're committing in our city. And then says, oh,
Speaker 1: and by the way, we're gonna don't worry.
Speaker 2: We're gonna keep you safe. They're not keeping you safe.
Speaker 1: These are the people that are actually being arrested in
Speaker 1: Boston right now, and she's like, well, doctor Phil, going
Speaker 1: out and showing these people getting arrested is just stoking fear. No,
Speaker 1: it's making people feel safer because these communities are witnessing
Speaker 1: ICE actually getting to do their job. For the last
Speaker 1: four years. It was I had a Border Patrol agent
Speaker 1: yesterday say to me, and he goes, I wish there
Speaker 1: was a way that you or somebody could explain this
Speaker 1: to the American people that I want you to imagine
Speaker 1: for the last four years where you live, none of
Speaker 1: the bad guys being arrested, and then knowing where all
Speaker 1: of them are, and then one day, because of a
Speaker 1: new person coming into office, we get to go out
Speaker 1: and start four years ago and backlog all of the
Speaker 1: people that should have been arrested.
Speaker 2: That is what ICE is doing right now.
Speaker 1: For the last four years, ICE is known about these
Speaker 1: people and couldn't get them because of the local communities
Speaker 1: that refused to tell them when they were arrested. Right
Speaker 1: local police in Boston, perfect example. This mayor a great
Speaker 1: example whether it's here, California or any of these other
Speaker 1: woke liberal esties, including New York City. And so for
Speaker 1: four years there's been in essence, zero justice with these
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2: Zero justice with illegal immigrants. Zero. I want you to
Speaker 2: just think about that.
Speaker 1: And so now they're doing it, and yet these mayors
Speaker 1: are like, no, no, you're totally safe. No, no, you're
Speaker 1: totally fine. No, no, everything's okay. And it's not just
Speaker 1: on these issues. I'm going to give you another story
Speaker 1: that is also an extremely important one. There's been a
Speaker 1: lot of debate, for example, over the Panama Canal and
Speaker 1: who's in charge of it. It looks very clearly like
Speaker 1: the people that are in charge are actually China Center
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz praise President Trump for calling out the abuse
Speaker 1: of the Panama Canal that now the world is witnessing
Speaker 1: and watching. Because the media is not telling you this
Speaker 1: story doesn't mean it's an unimportant story because they're not
Speaker 1: telling you. In fact, they're not telling the story because
Speaker 1: of just how shocking the abuse is at the Panama Canal.
Speaker 1: But I want you to hear the facts about the
Speaker 1: Panama Canal. And this this is now Washington, DC responding
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump basically raising his hand and saying, we
Speaker 1: got a problem, and it's a problem that's really bad,
Speaker 1: and we need to deal with this problem.
Speaker 2: And not look the other way any longer.
Speaker 9: We're here today to examine a monument to American ingenuity,
Speaker 9: the Panama Canal. Senator Moreno down there suggested we open
Speaker 9: the hearing by playing Van Halen and Panama. We may
Speaker 9: not do that, But between the American construction of the
Speaker 9: Panama Canal, the French effort to build an Isthmus Canal
Speaker 9: an America's triumphant completion of that canal, the major infrastructure
Speaker 9: projects across Panama cost more than thirty five thousand lives.
Speaker 9: For the final decade of work on the Panama Canal,
Speaker 9: the United States spent nearly four hundred million dollars equivalent
Speaker 9: to more than fifteen billion today. The Panama Canal proved
Speaker 9: a truly invaluable asset, sparing both cargo ships and warships
Speaker 9: the long journey around South America. When President Carter gave
Speaker 9: it away to Panama, Americans were puzzled, confused, and many outraged.
Speaker 9: With the passage of time, many have lost sight of
Speaker 9: the canal's importance, both to national security and to the
Speaker 9: US economy. Not President Trump, when he demanded fair treatment
Speaker 9: for American ships and goods, many in the media scoffed,
Speaker 9: But the Panama Canal was not just given away. President
Speaker 9: Carter struck a bargain, He made a treaty, and President
Speaker 9: Trump is making a serious and substantive argument that that
Speaker 9: treaty is being violated right now. This committee has jurisdiction
Speaker 9: under the Senate rules over the Panama Canal, and today
Speaker 9: we will examine evidence of potential violations. President Trump has
Speaker 9: highlighted two key issues. Number one, the danger of China
Speaker 9: exploiting or blocking passage through the canal, and number two,
Speaker 9: the exorbitant costs for transit. Chinese companies are right now
Speaker 9: building a bridge across the canal at a slow pace
Speaker 9: so as to take nearly a decade, and Chinese companies
Speaker 9: control container points ports at either end. The partially completed
Speaker 9: bridge gives China the ability to block the canal without warning,
Speaker 9: and the ports give China ready observation post to take
Speaker 9: to time that action.
Speaker 5: This situation, I.
Speaker 9: Believe poses acute risks to US national security.
Speaker 1: You listen to what Senata Cruz is saying there, this
Speaker 1: is a major national security risk, and this hearing on
Speaker 1: the pane and how this could affect the US economy
Speaker 1: is huge and of course the media is like, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: this isn't a big story. This is an important story,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it's Panama Canal. This Donald Trump being crazy.
Speaker 1: When you hear this type of information, every member of
Speaker 1: the media should actually be reporting on it, and they're not,
Speaker 1: which is why I do this show. That's why the
Speaker 1: White House is bringing in podcasters like myself to the
Speaker 1: White House Press briefing, and it's why they're saying we're
Speaker 1: not relying on legacy media any longer to do their job.
Speaker 1: I'll give you another important story that you will not
Speaker 1: hear about. In fact nine nine point nin I'm just
Speaker 1: seing you this the first time you're going to hear
Speaker 1: this story. You remember the gang leaders that were shown
Speaker 1: on TV that were behind the Denver apartment takeovers, and
Speaker 1: you had actual members of the local like, look, it's
Speaker 1: not that big of a deal. Everybody calmed down, like
Speaker 1: it's just a few apartment complexes, and then the mainstream
Speaker 1: media said the same exact thing to jd.
Speaker 2: Vance.
Speaker 1: You may remember, I think it was Martha Raddick who
Speaker 1: said to jedda, Vance was just a couple buildings, and
Speaker 1: jad was like.
Speaker 2: Listen to yourself.
Speaker 1: These gangs have literally taken over apartment complexes and you're
Speaker 1: acting like this isn't a big deal.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's just a few buildings in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Well, that gang leader that was behind the Denver apartment
Speaker 1: takeover fled Colorado and guess where he was found in
Speaker 1: a sanctuary state. He was found in the Bronx and
Speaker 1: he was arrested in the last twenty four hours. Biden,
Speaker 1: let this guy roam the streets terrorizing Americans. We had
Speaker 1: it on video of them with their machine guns, breaking
Speaker 1: into apartments, threatening the landlords, making it a no go
Speaker 1: zone apparently for the police, and taking over these apartment
Speaker 1: complexes for their criminal activities and human trafficking. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you got a new guy who's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm going to find him.
Speaker 2: Let's lock this guy up, and they did it week one.
Speaker 1: You have to understand this time, it is going to
Speaker 1: be a long four years. The media is going to
Speaker 1: fear monger. The media is going to fear monger on
Speaker 1: all sorts of issues. Today that the media was fear
Speaker 1: mongering about Trump's pause on federal grants to various agencies
Speaker 1: and institutions, and then they put out a live story
Speaker 1: that social Security checks.
Speaker 2: Were not going to go out. I want you hear.
Speaker 2: The White House pre Secretary responded that lie.
Speaker 10: I just thought a substitute question yesterday of the White
Speaker 10: House Office and Management and Budget directed across the board
Speaker 10: freeze the subtis for individual assistance. We understand to federal grants.
Speaker 10: It's caused a lot of confusion around the country, head
Speaker 10: Start providers, among providers service services to homeless veterans, Medicaid
Speaker 10: provided states saying they're having trouble access the portal. Could
Speaker 10: you help us clear up some of the condusion gives
Speaker 10: them the certainty to folks then, also, is that uncertainty?
Speaker 10: How does that uncertainty service the President's voters?
Speaker 7: Well, I think there's only uncertainty in this room. Amongst
Speaker 7: the media. There's no uncertainty in this building. So let
Speaker 7: me provide the certainty and the clarity that all of
Speaker 7: you need. This is not a blanket pause on federal
Speaker 7: assistance in grant programs from the Trump administration. Individual assistance
Speaker 7: that includes I'm not naming everything that's included, but just
Speaker 7: to give you a few examples, Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits,
Speaker 7: food stamps, welfare benefits, assistance that is going directly to
Speaker 7: individuals will not be impacted by this pause. And I
Speaker 7: want to make that very clear to any Americans who
Speaker 7: are watching at home who may be a little bit
Speaker 7: confused about some of the media reporting this administration. If
Speaker 7: you are receiving individual assistance from the federal government, you
Speaker 7: will still continue to receive that. However, it is the
Speaker 7: responsibility of this president and this administration to be good
Speaker 7: words of taxpayer dollars. That is something that President Trump
Speaker 7: campaigned on. That's why he has launched DOGE, the Department
Speaker 7: of Government Efficiency, who is working alongside OMB, and that's
Speaker 7: why OMB sent out this memo last night, because the
Speaker 7: President signed an executive order directing OMB to do just this.
Speaker 7: And the reason for this is to ensure that every
Speaker 7: penny that is going out the door is not conflicting
Speaker 7: with the executive orders and actions that this president has taken.
Speaker 7: So what does this pause mean. It means no more
Speaker 7: funding for illegal DEI programs. It means no more funding
Speaker 7: for the Green new scam that has cost American taxpayers
Speaker 7: tens of billions of dollars. It means no more funding
Speaker 7: for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.
Speaker 7: No more funding for Green New Deal social engineering policies.
Speaker 2: So yet again they lied.
Speaker 1: The media lied to scare the hell out of old people,
Speaker 1: people on food stamps, people on pensions, people on social security,
Speaker 1: people that deal with Medicare and Medicaid, because they're trying
Speaker 1: to turn the country against Trump, and they're going to
Speaker 1: do it with lies, and every day we're going to
Speaker 1: have to fight back. Make sure you share this podcast
Speaker 1: please wherever you can, and I'll see you back here tomorrow.