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Trump Swaps Out Noem at DHS After Explosive Hearing Fallout | Episode 240 · V

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  Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Friday. Holy cow, we
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  Speaker 1: have a massive show for you. For the next hour,
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  Speaker 1: the entire conversation is going to be about Britney Spears
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  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 1: We're not doing that story at all. The producers, I
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  Speaker 2: You're doing Britney?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to explore what's going on with the president,
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  Speaker 1: the support the president continues to have.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually very enduring.
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  Speaker 1: Don't believe anybody out there is telling you there's a
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  Speaker 1: massive civil war between Everybody on the right. No, actually,
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  Speaker 1: the base really supports President Trump big time. He just
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  Speaker 1: made a change at DHS. We'll talk about what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with DHS because, you know, Kristi Noem's on the
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  Speaker 1: way out. And Mark Wayne Mullen is on the way in. Also,
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we do. More ahead on this edition of Vince.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here. We got a lot of news breaking
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  Speaker 1: in the last 24 hours.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: It's obviously the Trump administration. I'm on the radio show yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: and I was talking about some of the swirling speculation
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  Speaker 1: that Kristi Noem might be leaving, and suddenly the speculation
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  Speaker 1: became reality that Kristi.
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  Speaker 2: Noem is leaving DHS. We'll explore that in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: But let me just start. It's a Friday, so let's
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  Speaker 2: start with some interesting and fun news.
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  Speaker 1: The president... is doing very well in the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: Republican voters all across the country. In fact, he is
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  Speaker 1: doing so well right now that he is outperforming all,
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  Speaker 1: let's emphasize this, all A-L-L former presidents, all of them
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  Speaker 1: with his own party. Don't take my word for it.
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  Speaker 1: Here is old timey horse racing announcer, Harry Enten, watch.
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  Speaker 6: Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president's own party
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  Speaker 6: supporters loved him at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: Just take a look here.
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  Speaker 6: OK, own party supporters, 21st century presidents, own party approval
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  Speaker 6: about at this point in the second term. Bush was
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  Speaker 6: at 77 percent. Obama was at 77 percent.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty six percent.
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  Speaker 6: Of Republicans support. approve of the job that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 6: is doing at this point that is higher than either
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  Speaker 6: Obama or Bush had within their own party at this point.
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  Speaker 6: Trump's magic touch has not seen a war off yet
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  Speaker 6: when it comes to the Republican base.
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  Speaker 1: And what kind of approval are we talking about here?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so we're talking about overall approval here. How about
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  Speaker 6: the strongly approved, the strongly approved, not just like, but love, love. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: we're going to look at these same presidents again. Strong
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  Speaker 6: approval among your own party's base. What you see here
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  Speaker 6: is Trump is the only one who gets a majority
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  Speaker 6: at this point in their presidency.
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  Speaker 1: Obama was at 48%. Bush was at 47%.
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  Speaker 6: You see here Trump at 53%, not as high as
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  Speaker 6: overall approval rating, but still getting a majority of the
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  Speaker 6: Republican base, at least in the average of polls, to
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  Speaker 6: say that they still.
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  Speaker 1: Really, really, really like him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, we prefer this guy. We prefer this guy.
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  Speaker 2: What's the alternative?
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  Speaker 1: What, you know, who else could we have gone with here?
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  Speaker 2: It's Donald Trump, you know?
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  Speaker 1: This is why so many on the right are ride
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  Speaker 1: or die with Trump. They're like, look, this guy is
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  Speaker 1: the only one. who's been speaking truth for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: He's the only one who's delivering results. He's the only
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  Speaker 1: one who's fought the.
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  Speaker 2: Machine and won.
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  Speaker 1: He's the only guy who gets shot in the head
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  Speaker 1: and then goes on to become the president of the
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  Speaker 1: United States. He fight, fight, fights his way back into office.
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  Speaker 2: Come on now. Of course, he's got strong approval ratings.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got the record to show for it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a good second term already. He's been able
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  Speaker 1: to bring prices down. He's been able to secure our borders.
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  Speaker 1: He's deported a lot of illegals. He's making a lot
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  Speaker 1: of arrests. He's bringing peace to the world. And now
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  Speaker 1: he's prosecuting a conflict against the signature terror regime on
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  Speaker 1: planet Earth. And they're ahead of schedule. Yeah, so Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are still high on Trump. Do we debate things that
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  Speaker 1: President Trump is considering or doing? Yeah, all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Because unlike the left, we engage in spirited and open debate.
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  Speaker 1: They have this like tyrannical thing where they just crush
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  Speaker 1: anybody who steps outside of the party line. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as the base is concerned, people like Trump. They
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  Speaker 1: like him better than any of these other former presidents.
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  Speaker 2: They like him.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's good news for the president as we
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  Speaker 1: go into another busy weekend of his second term. Now, yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, the Department of Homeland Security, we had
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  Speaker 1: a big shift there. The rumor mill was buzzing yesterday
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  Speaker 1: that Kristi Noem may be done at the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security. And sure enough, President Trump makes the big
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  Speaker 1: announcement yesterday that that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what he said on Truth Social. This came to
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  Speaker 2: us at 1.41 p.m. Eastern time.
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  Speaker 1: So For those of you who've tracked me on the
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  Speaker 1: radio show, you know this is, I swear to you,
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  Speaker 1: this was right in the middle of this segment. I
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  Speaker 1: was doing this in the 1.30 time slot yesterday, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going through everything, going through everything, and it's you, actually, you,
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  Speaker 1: it was the Rumble chat that told me, hey, Vince,
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  Speaker 1: go to Truth Social, because literally the thing you're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: the president has just made the announcement. It was done,
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  Speaker 1: so I got to it within two minutes, I think,
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  Speaker 1: faster than every other news network on the planet because
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  Speaker 1: of you, so. Once again, I thank you. I thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being the best audience anywhere. And here's what
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  Speaker 1: the president said yesterday. I'm pleased to announce that the
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  Speaker 1: highly respected United States Senator from the great state of Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen, is now going to become the United
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  Speaker 1: States Secretary of Homeland Security, effective March 31st of 2026.
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  Speaker 1: The current secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well
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  Speaker 1: and has had numerous and spectacular results, especially on the border,
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, this is what I was saying yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: When I saw the rumor mill buzzing about Kristi Noem,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, wait a second, hold on.
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  Speaker 1: She's done a good job. That border is secure. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if there's anybody out there who can doubt that.
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  Speaker 2: The border is secure. They're deporting a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not down on Kristi Noem. I'm high on Kristi Noem.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's done a very effective job. I had,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get back to the president's message in a second.
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  Speaker 1: I had doubts about Kristi Noem. When she came into office.
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  Speaker 2: I was worried about that. I thought like, really? She's
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  Speaker 2: the DHS secretary.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to work for us. That's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. Cause I remembered back. Remember when she
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  Speaker 1: was governor of South Dakota, she got involved in this
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  Speaker 1: nonsense where she seemed to be like kind of okay
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  Speaker 1: with the transgender garbage because she was worried about business
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  Speaker 1: interests in the state or something. I didn't like that.
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  Speaker 1: I was worried that she would be weak when it mattered.
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  Speaker 1: And she wasn't, she was strong.
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  Speaker 2: She was strong.
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  Speaker 1: She's not, she's had a good tenure there. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's been pretty good. Now, does it mean there were
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  Speaker 1: no problems and nothing worth scrutinizing?
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  Speaker 2: No, that's not what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that she outperformed my expectations, and they
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  Speaker 1: definitely secured that border. That's not even a debate. More
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  Speaker 1: from the president here, though. They say, he says he's
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  Speaker 1: moving her. She'll become the special envoy for the Shield
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  Speaker 1: of the Americas. The special envoy for the Shield of
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  Speaker 1: the Americas, our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere
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  Speaker 1: that we are announcing on Saturday. in Doral, Florida. I
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  Speaker 1: thank Christy for her service at Homeland. So let's dwell
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  Speaker 1: on this for a moment, this thing. Now, is she
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  Speaker 1: being fired or is she being promoted? You know, the
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  Speaker 1: truth is only time will be able to tell the
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  Speaker 1: answer to that question. Because sometimes people are given jobs
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  Speaker 1: that are just like ceremonial titles and they end up
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  Speaker 1: not doing that much. And it's just a way to
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  Speaker 1: kind of like pat them on the head, keep them
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  Speaker 1: in the fold, not alienate them. You don't need an enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Just give them something to do. Or this could be
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  Speaker 1: really consequential. This could be a very consequential thing. They're
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  Speaker 1: announcing something brand new, special envoy for the shield of
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  Speaker 1: the Americas. So only time we'll be able to tell
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  Speaker 1: on the subject of that question. What is, Josh, what's
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  Speaker 1: the title of the show today? Didn't I saw some
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  Speaker 1: people in the chat asking about the title. Did we
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  Speaker 1: say that she was canned, that she was fired, that
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  Speaker 1: she was trebucheted?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what we said?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Trump axes gnome. Not like asks gnome.
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  Speaker 3: Axes. Axes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we, you know, these titles, we kind of come
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  Speaker 1: up with these titles on the fly. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that may not be the perfect title. We could adjust
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  Speaker 1: the title. But the reality is, like, only time is
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  Speaker 1: going to tell what the deal with Kristi Noem is
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  Speaker 1: and whether or not she has a meaningful role. It
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  Speaker 1: does seem like a big deal, though. If you're asking
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  Speaker 1: her to be the head of the security for the
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  Speaker 1: Western hemisphere, that goes right to the Don Roe Doctrine.
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  Speaker 1: and what the president wants to do with the Western Hemisphere.
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  Speaker 1: So he's still placing trust in her, no doubt, in
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  Speaker 1: whatever capacity. Additionally, he goes on to say that, look,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen's a great guy. He served in the
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  Speaker 1: House for a decade, three years in the Senate. He
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  Speaker 1: represents Oklahoma well. That's a state where Trump won 77
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  Speaker 1: out of 77 counties, he needs you to know, in
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  Speaker 1: all three of his presidential elections. He says Mark Wayne
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  Speaker 1: Mullen's a MAGA warrior, a former undefeated professional MMA fighter.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 1: Which we could use some toughness when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigration. Mark Wayne Mullen truly gets along well with
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  Speaker 1: people and he knows the wisdom and the courage required
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  Speaker 1: to advance our America First agenda. He is, contrary to
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren's claims, the only Native American in the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne is a fantastic advocate for our incredible tribal communities.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne will work tirelessly to keep our borders secure,
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  Speaker 1: stop migrant crime, murderers, and other criminals from illegally entering
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  Speaker 1: our country, end the scourge of illegal drugs, and make
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  Speaker 1: America safe again. Mark Wayne will make a spectacular Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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  Speaker 1: In all caps, President Donald J.
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  Speaker 7: Trump.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so he makes the big announcement. He makes
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  Speaker 2: the big announcement. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: What's the fallout of all of this? Well, Mark Wen
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  Speaker 1: Mullen says he's very excited to get started. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he's very ready to get started. Here is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of Senator right now, Mullen, yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Cut to watch.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it came from the White House, so it came
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  Speaker 5: from the switchboard. But I was excited. The president, first
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  Speaker 5: of all, the president and I have a really good relationship.
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  Speaker 5: We talk all the time anyways. I wasn't, I've got
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  Speaker 5: to be honest with you, I wasn't expecting the call today.
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  Speaker 5: But super excited. And I'm more excited about just ready
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  Speaker 5: to get started. There's a lot of work we can
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  Speaker 5: do to get Department of Homeland Security working for the
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  Speaker 5: American people. Department of Homeland Security has a very broad jurisdiction.
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  Speaker 5: And I think there's a lot of work that we
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  Speaker 5: need to do.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm excited. Christy is a friend.
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  Speaker 5: And I haven't had time to call Christy yet, or
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  Speaker 5: Secretary Noem. Our families are friends.
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  Speaker 3: She was tasked to do.
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  Speaker 5: A very difficult job. and I think she has performed
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  Speaker 5: the best she can do underneath the circumstances. Is there
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  Speaker 5: always lessons to be learned? You know, listen, my wife
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  Speaker 5: and I, over the years, we have been fortunate enough
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  Speaker 5: to purchase companies and grow our companies, and every day
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  Speaker 5: there's something you can do better. And so I think
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  Speaker 5: there's an opportunity to build off successes, and there's also
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  Speaker 5: opportunities to build off things that maybe didn't go quite
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  Speaker 5: as planned.
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  Speaker 8: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: There's opportunities to build off of things that didn't go
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  Speaker 1: quite as planned.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that is a clear indication that not everything was
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  Speaker 1: going well enough, and Mark Wayne Mullen clearly knows, probably
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  Speaker 1: because the president told him, there are things that he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't like going on at DHS that need to be
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  Speaker 1: tightened up.
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  Speaker 2: What might those be?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Bill Malusion at the Fox News Channel gave us
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  Speaker 1: an interesting summary of how all of this went down.
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  Speaker 1: Here he is explaining what led... to Kristi Noem's ouster
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  Speaker 1: and why Mark Wayne Mullen was the pick.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Bill. Listen. Brewing for a couple months.
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  Speaker 7: It started in Minneapolis with all the bad headlines that
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  Speaker 7: were coming out there every day. It escalated when Secretary
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  Speaker 7: Noem went on TV and called Alex Preddy and Renee
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  Speaker 7: Good domestic terrorists. It escalated further when Tom Homan was
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  Speaker 7: brought in to essentially be the shot caller there. And
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  Speaker 7: Noem and Greg Bovino were essentially sidelined. But then it
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  Speaker 7: hit a snowball effect this week with her testimony here
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  Speaker 7: on the Hill. And we just got some clarity as
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  Speaker 7: to what happened with Senator John Kennedy and Noem and
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  Speaker 7: the White House earlier this week. Senator Kennedy just gaggled
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  Speaker 7: with reporters here at the Hill a short time ago,
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  Speaker 7: and he gave us a bigger picture look at this. So,
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  Speaker 7: he said ahead of that hearing he had heard about
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  Speaker 7: this $ 200 million ad buy that DHS and Secretary Noem did.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, we've seen the ads where she's on horseback,
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  Speaker 7: she's featured heavily. there were some allegations that maybe there
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  Speaker 7: was some cronyism in those contracts. So, Senator Kennedy said
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  Speaker 7: that he was offended by the size and scope of
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  Speaker 7: that contract.
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  Speaker 1: So, he called up the White House and he said,
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  Speaker 1: we've got Noem on the Hill tomorrow.
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  Speaker 7: I would like to press her under oath and ask
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  Speaker 7: her about this contract. And he said the White House
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  Speaker 7: essentially didn't oppose it, said go ahead. So, then we
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  Speaker 7: see that hearing on Tuesday where he pressed her about
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  Speaker 7: the contract directly and he asked her repeatedly, did President
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  Speaker 7: Trump personally approve of this contract to spend $ 200 million
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  Speaker 7: on this ad contract? And Kristi Noem replied under oath
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  Speaker 7: that yes, he did. Well, President Trump is now saying- Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Noem replied under oath that he did. In fact, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to show you two pieces of video. First and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: here's the ad. This is cut five. Let's do the
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  Speaker 1: ad first. This is the ad that everybody's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: It's an ad that you may have seen on some
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  Speaker 1: of the conservative news channels. This has been airing on
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  Speaker 1: places like Fox News and Newsmax, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: And OK, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think illegal aliens are watching Fox or Newsmax.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not really sure how this works exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But here you go. Here's the ad.
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  Speaker 9: Why do I love these wide open spaces? They remind
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  Speaker 9: me of why our forefathers came here. not just for
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  Speaker 9: its beauty, but for the freedom only America provides. I'm
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  Speaker 9: Kristi Noem. From the cowboys who tamed the West, to
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  Speaker 9: the titans who built our cities, to the dreamers who
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  Speaker 9: chased the impossible, America has always rewarded vision and grit.
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  Speaker 9: Our greatness calls people to us for a chance to prosper,
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: to live how they choose, to become part of something special.
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: Anyone who searches for freedom can always find a home here.
• 16:12
  Speaker 9: But that freedom's a precious thing, and we defend it vigorously.
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: You cross the border illegally, we'll find you. Break our laws,
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: we'll punish you. Harm American citizens, there will be consequences.
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: But if you come here the right way, your American dream.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Look, it's a good-looking ad.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: She's a good-looking woman riding a good-looking horse in a
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: good-looking ad talking about how great our country is. That's
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: all well and good. And telling illegals, you better not
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: cross our border illegally. We'll find you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, but it was a quarter of a billion dollars
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: to run that spot. And it was running mostly....
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I can't speak to where the whole contract was, but
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I know it was running on kind of the more
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: conservative news outlets, which is obviously kind of an image
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: campaign for the right. So John Kennedy, he got the clearance,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the go-ahead, the push. Somebody told him, let's have this exchange.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: So that's how this ended up happening this past week.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Watch John Kennedy and Kristi Noem.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: The president approved ahead of time you spending $ 220 million
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: dollars running TV ads across the country in which you
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: are featured prominently. Yes, sir.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: We went through the legal processes.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Did it correct? Did the president know you were going
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: to do this? Yes.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: He did?
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: And one thing, Senator, I think would be helpful to
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: know is how effective that communications has been.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Well, they were effective in your name recognition. I mean,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I personally just I mean, to me, it puts the
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: president in a terribly awkward spot. And I'm not saying
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: you're not telling the truth. It's just hard for me
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: to believe, knowing the president, as I do, that you said, Mr. President,
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: here's some ads I've cut, and I'm going to spend
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: $ 220 million running them, that he would have agreed to that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Kennedy would leave that hearing.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Talked to the president about all of this and said
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: that President Trump was, only in the way that John
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Kennedy could say it, President Trump was mad as a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: murder hornet, he said about that exchange. The claim is
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: that President Trump didn't sign off on the ad campaign.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Either way, that's the TikTok of how we got to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: where we got to yesterday. That was the sequence of events.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: And Kristi Noem, out. Mark Wayne Mullen, in. Now, what
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: does that mean for the United States Senate? Mark Wayne
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Mullen's a good senator. Mark Wayne Mullen's a guy who
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: supports the talking.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Filibuster in order to get the SAVE Act passed.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen's one of the good guys, and he's
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: off now to go to DHS.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: So how does he get replaced? What happens here?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Well, first and foremost, to replace him as senator, that's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: up to the governor of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: He's a Republican.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And Oklahoma law allows the governor to appoint that replacement
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: in the event of a vacancy. And that person will
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: fill that vacancy all the way up until the next
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: general election, which is this year, actually.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Mark Wayne Mullen was up for election this year, in
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: November of this year.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: There was a law passed in Oklahoma a couple years back,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and it basically made it so that you can't put
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: the person into office who will just become kind of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the incumbent that takes it going forward. In fact, the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: person who goes in has to be a registered Oklahoma voter.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: They have to be from the same party as the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: senator who just created the vacancy.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: That would be a Republican.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And they are barred from running for the office in
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the next election. So this person, whoever he picks, can't
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: be the next senator who runs in the election. So
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen steps out. And here you have Kevin
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Stitt is going to make a pick here just to
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: replace him. He's already indicated he wants a small government
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: conservative to be that pick, and he's going to make
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: his decision. So we'll keep an eye on that particular thing.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: And then on Mark Wayne Mullen becoming the DHS secretary,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: there's a wisdom in what President Trump just did, which
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: is he picked the United States senator. Look, anybody he
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: picks for the cabinet has to go through the confirmation process.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: And there's no agency that the left hates more than
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security. But if the president is
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: going to be able to pick anybody, that could possibly
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: get some Democrat votes in the Senate. It might have
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: to be someone that they know personally. Remember, when Marco
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Rubio came in as Secretary of State, he sailed through
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the Senate with flying colors.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: He got all sorts of support.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Democrats since then have signaled, many
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: of them, they regret voting for Marco Rubio, given how
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: effective he has been as Secretary of State. Is the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Mullen confirmation process going to be contentious? Yes.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Get ready. for a bunch of nonsensical drama in the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: midst of all of this. Chuck Schumer's already promising he's
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: not going to support Mark Wayne Mullen. And he says
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: it's not even because of who he is personally. He
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: says that it's all about the policy at DHS. He said,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I've been asked, would I support Senator Mullen as Noem's replacement?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: The answer is a resounding no. The rot in DHS
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: is deep, much deeper than any individual. It's a question
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of policy, not personnel. The Senate shouldn't consider any DHS
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: secretary nominee. until DHS and ICE are reined in. So Schumer,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the psycho, is fully against anybody getting the job. They
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: don't want to fund DHS. They just voted against it yesterday.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: They don't want DHS to even have a leader. They
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: want utter chaos in the United States. You can't count
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: on Chuck Schumer and a lot of these Democrats, but
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: you can count on at least one.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Any guesses? I'm not even going to wait for an answer.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: It's John Fetterman, of course. It's always John Fetterman.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Fetterman says, as a member of the Homeland Security Committee
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Border Security,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many fellow Democrats will vote to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: support our colleague, Senator Mullen, as the next DHS secretary.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But I am I. He's for him. He's coming.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: That I am I, for those listening, it's A-Y-E, as
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: opposed to a nay. He's going to vote for Mark
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Wayne Mullen. He's seen enough.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: He's in.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: May other Democrats join him. We've got to get this
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: guy through. We have to get this guy through.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: All right, more in a moment.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: We've got a lot going on today, including a very
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: important election beginning today in Virginia. The left is trying
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: to steal the entire United States House of Representatives, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Virginians have a mighty opportunity to stop it. I've got
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: updates on that. Also, the Iran strikes. What are they
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: doing to the CHICOMs? Very few people are talking about this.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I have Gordon Chang coming up on the program. Gordon
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: is going to give us some deep insight into how
• 23:03
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• 23:07
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  Speaker 2: today's the day. Today's the day. Carnage25 says, what about
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  Speaker 2: the Save America Act?
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  Speaker 3: Slow your roll.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get there. I'm going to get there.
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  Speaker 7: I promise.
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  Speaker 2: I promise. Love you, Carnage. Thank you for asking.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on board with this too, buddy. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot to get to. But let's talk about Virginia right now.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: The left is trying to.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Rig the election. They want to steal all these congressional seats.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: By now, if you've been following the podcast, you.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Know that what they're trying to do is take a
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: 6-5 state and turn it into a 10-1 state, Democrats
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to Republicans, and they want to do it right now
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: in the midterms. It is a theft operation. On the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: ballot before Virginia voters is a question today. It's a referendum.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Starts today, runs through April 21st. And the question is,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: do you want to, quote, restore fairness to elections? Do
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you want to restore fairness?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: It's a lie. It's misdirection.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: It's intentionally meant to confuse the voter into compliance, to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: rig the elections in Virginia. The mandate here for any
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: American who doesn't want to rig elections, who doesn't want
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Democrats to steal them, is to vote no. So if
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you're in Virginia, vote no. If you're not in Virginia,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: tell the guy you know in Virginia to vote no.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Go to the polls, vote no.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And how do you want it? Do you want more
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: evidence that this is an entirely rigged operation? Look no
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: further than Barack frickin' Obama coming out yesterday and telling
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: everybody they need to vote yes on this election rigging operation.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Cut eight.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Here's Barack.
• 25:47
  Speaker 11: Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy,
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: but right now they are under threat. Over the past year,
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: several Republican-controlled states have taken the unprecedented step of redrawing
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: their congressional maps in the middle of the decade. And
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: they've done it for a simple reason, to give themselves
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: an unfair advantage in the midterms this fall.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: All right, so there's Obama. Obama's saying vote yes.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Now, of course, you should vote no. You should do
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: the opposite of what Obama tells you to do.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: But the frame up there that Obama's putting forward is,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: this is the talking point from the left, that somehow
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Republicans started this, so we need to fight back.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Of course, that's a perfect inversion of the truth.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: It was Democrats who started this, Democrats who have ill-gotten
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: seats all across the country, Democrats who've used illegal aliens
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to get unearned congressional seats, unearned electoral college votes, Democrats
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: who through the benefit of the United States Census in 2020,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: got seats that they didn't deserve. And meanwhile, Republican states
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: were undercounted in that United States Census, and they didn't
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: get the seats that they did deserve. It's a never-ending.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Election rigging operation by the left.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And the balance of the House is tilted way too
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: far in the direction of the left. It's not in
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: any way proportional or representative of the people. So in
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: light of that, what has President Trump been doing? He says, well,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: we got to fight back for once. So in Texas,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they did. They tried in Indiana. That failed miserably because
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Republicans in Indiana didn't have the testicular fortitude to save
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: the country. And now in Virginia, they're going for broke.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: They're trying to rig it to the point that they
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: can guarantee victory in the United States House of Representatives
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: this year. That's Obama doing that. That's an establishment rigging operation.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: And then, of course, there's the governor of the state.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I showed you a little bit of this yesterday. Here's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Abigail Spanberger. doing the very thing. Cut nine, same thing
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Obama did.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Watch.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: I'm Governor Abigail Spanberger, and I'm voting yes on Virginia's
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: redistricting amendment.
• 27:40
  Speaker 13: Here's why.
• 27:41
  Speaker 12: I supported the formation of Virginia's bipartisan redistricting commission in 2020,
• 27:46
  Speaker 12: and that support has not changed.
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: Yes, it has.
• 27:48
  Speaker 12: What has changed is what we're seeing in states across
• 27:51
  Speaker 12: the country, and a president who says that he's, quote,
• 27:54
  Speaker 12: entitled to more Republican seats before this year's midterms. That's
• 27:59
  Speaker 12: a direct quote, entitled. And Virginia has the opportunity to
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: take action in response. And our approach is different. First,
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: it's temporary.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: She's lying. All right, that's enough. So she says it's temporary.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: We're only going to do this for one election. Our
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: tyranny is only going to exist for a single election.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: After that, it'll go back to normal.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: No, it won't.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: No, you'll do this in perpetuity. We have to stop
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: this while we have the chance. And we can't let
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: them steal these seats. The former governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, Republican,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: he just put a video out last night saying you've
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: got to vote no on this. And Abigail Spanberger is
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: a big fat liar.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Watch Glenn Youngkin. Virginia, it's Glenn Youngkin.
• 28:41
  Speaker 13: Tomorrow is your chance to stop the most partisan power
• 28:44
  Speaker 13: grab in the history of our Commonwealth. Just six years ago,
• 28:48
  Speaker 13: two-thirds of Virginians spoke loud and clear when they voted
• 28:51
  Speaker 13: to make independent, non-partisan redistricting part of our Constitution. Now,
• 28:57
  Speaker 13: far-left politicians in the Capitol are trying to overturn the
• 29:01
  Speaker 13: will of the people.
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: Because they want more power.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 13: They want to disenfranchise millions of Virginians to gain more
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: power for themselves. All you need to do is look
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: at the shape of the proposed maps to realize how
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: shameless they are. In 2020, then Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger said, quote,
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: gerrymandering is detrimental to our democracy and weakens individual voices.
• 29:29
  Speaker 13: She said, quote, opposing redistricting should be a bipartisan priority.
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: And just last year, then candidate Abigail Spanberger promised on
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: the campaign trail quote, I have no plan to redistrict Virginia.
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: I agree with Congresswoman and candidate Spanberger.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: But I strongly disagree with Congress.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: So there you have it. If you're in Virginia today,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: vote no. If you know somebody in Virginia today, tell
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: them to vote no. And then just keep bugging them.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Have you voted yet?
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Have you voted yet? Have you voted yet? Keep asking
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: until they told you they have. Because if the incentive
• 30:05
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• 30:07
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• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Them will be enough. Whatever it takes. We've got to
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: get this done, ladies and gentlemen.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up, I want to talk about the
• 30:14
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• 30:18
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• 30:20
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• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about an important conflict going on right now.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: The United States and Israel are striking with each passing day, Iran,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and they say they're.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Ahead of schedule, debilitating Iran.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: All of Iran's defenses and taking out that lunatic terror regime.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: For more on the impact, especially to China, I want
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to bring in the great Gordon G.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Chang. You can see him on X, at Gordon G.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Chang. Gordon Chang, we saw what happened in Iran. We
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: saw the strikes on the leadership there. I instantly think
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: of China as this happens because 90% of Iran's oil
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: exports go to China.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Tell us about the impact on China.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: We know the impact, Vince, because in the last few days,
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: the price of gasoline has increased 11.0%. But more important
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: for the Chinese economy, the price of diesel has soared 13.5%.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: China last year took 87.2% of Iran's exports of crude oil.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: And through the Strait of Hormuz, China gets somewhere between
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: 40% to 50% of its imported oil. this is really
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: important because China right now has very little domestic oil production.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: And that means it relies on these imports. If they
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: don't get it from the Gulf, they've got to buy
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: it from Russia. And by the way, the Russians are
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: going to charge more.
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So in other words, like the ability for them to
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: do anything as an economy is being hamstrung because the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: cost of energy directly correlates to how productive you can be.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Right. And there's one other aspect, and that is China's
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: been buying a lot of discounted oil from places like
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Iran and Venezuela. And they've been using the Chinese currency
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: to do that. Well, if you're buying from Russia, it's
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: more likely that they're going to have to start paying dollars.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: And if they buy more on the open market, they're
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: certainly paying dollars. And China doesn't want to do that.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Well, the problem.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It seems to me that the primary exports of these countries,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: these terror regimes like Venezuela under Maduro and under Khamenei
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: in Iran.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Has been oil.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: And then they use the revenue from that oil to
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: pay for terrorism. So in Venezuela, it's in the form
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: of narco-terrorism. In Iran, it's in the form of actual
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Islamist terrorism. And those revenue streams being cut off must
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: have a huge benefit to try and bring down the
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: temperature on the planet.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Yes. And that's important because once we take Iran off
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: the table, then the Middle East actually has a chance
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: for enduring peace. You have President Trump's Abraham Accords of
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: the first term. Those can be extended, especially to Saudi Arabia,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: if we can get that sorted out. And that will
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: be the way for peace in that extremely troubled region.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: So You can be optimistic once President Trump takes down
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: the Ayatollah's regime. Okay.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: What is China doing right now, if anything, to assist
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Iran in this conflict?
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: China has been supplying intelligence, and they've been doing that
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: clearly in open sources because they've been publishing the location
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: and showing the Iranians the location of American military assets.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: They're probably also doing it surreptitiously, as the Russians have
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: been doing surreptitiously. So that's important. But also, we know
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: that China's been supplying the components for Iran's weapons. Iran
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: makes virtually no semiconductors. They get all of those chips
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: for their drones and other weapons from China. China supplies
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: the components for ballistic missile fuel. And we know that
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: China has the components for North Korea's Hwasong-15. The reason
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: why that's important, Vince, is that the Hwasong-15 is an
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: intercontinental ballistic missile. It has a range of 12,000 kilometers.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Fired from Iranian soil, it can hit any part of
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: the United States. We don't know if the Iranians have
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: been able to put those components together, but they have
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: it all there, which means that this has become an
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: imminent war. People say, oh, you know, why did we
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: need to strike Iran now? Well, we needed to strike
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Iran now because they have highly enriched uranium, very close
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: to weapons grade, and they have a ballistic missile that
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: can deliver it to, you know, your favorite city in
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: the United States.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: What have we learned about the quality of Chinese military
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: technology in this conflict? I've seen some claims that it's
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: been poorly performing against American weapons systems.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: What is your assessment?
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: The assessment so far, and this will not be definitive
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: until long after this war is over, but so far
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: we know that it hasn't worked because Right now, America
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: and Israel have control of the skies. You know, go
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: back to January 3rd. Venezuela had an export version of
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: China's radars and integrated command system, and they somehow didn't
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: see more than 150 American aircraft in or near Venezuelan airspace. Well,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: the story is really true for Iran as well. I
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: sort of assumed that in the interim, after Venezuela and
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: before Saturday's attack, that China supplied more advanced versions of
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: its radars. But obviously, that didn't help because American stealth
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: and American tactics were able to neutralize Iran's air defenses.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Do you think China is all in on Iran right now?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Or does China believe that Iran is going to lose
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: this conflict? So they're kind of giving them, I don't know,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know how else to put this, a half-assed effort.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: China hasn't supplied soldiers. So it's not, I guess you
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: can say it's not all in. But apart from that,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: it's all in. And yeah, I think the Chinese understand
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: that they're going to lose Iran. unless they can intimidate
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: President Trump into not continuing the airstrikes. The whole issue
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: is gonna be what passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: And if you have, for instance, all of these hundreds
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: of ships trapped on both sides of the Strait, if
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: they can't get through, there's going to be a lot
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: of pressure on the Oval Office. But I hope President
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: Trump actually resists that, because this is really the battlefield
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: for the world right now. We win in Iran, which
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: we can. It's within our control. We have enduring peace
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: throughout the globe.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Is there a scenario where China starts buying a lot
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: more American energy to make up for the shortfalls of
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: not having access to Venezuela and Iran?
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Yes. They have been buying American LNG, for instance, in
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: the past, but they've been diverting those cargoes to Europe.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: And so they have been taking very much in the
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: way of American energy. That could very well change if
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: you have a desperate China. But more important, we need
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: to sell to our friends because Japan, South Korea, Taiwan,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: for instance, are even more dependent on China than oil
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: coming out of the Strait of Hormuz. And we need
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: to support them before we support China.
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Okay. What else should we be on guard for as
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: it relates to China right now?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Well, people talk about Taiwan because people say, well, the
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: United States is tied down, bogged down, whatever word you
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: want to use in the Middle East. And so they'll
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: go after Taiwan. I don't think that's the case. And
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: the reason is that the Chinese military right now is
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: incapable of launching hostilities against the main island of Taiwan
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: because the chain of command has been severed because of
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Xi Jinping's relentless purges, which has left the top of
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: the Chinese military decimated. So, for instance, on the Communist
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Party Central Military Commission, which controls the military, there's only
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: two of seven members now. One is Xi Jinping and
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: the other is a political commissar. which means there are
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: no operational officers on the Central Military Commission. That means
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: you've got a military that really can't start a war.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: It can stumble into a war, and the chance of
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: that is actually quite high, Vince, but it can't start one.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: You know, I wonder also what you think the Chinese
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: leadership thinks of President Trump now and his resolve, because
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: there's lots of American presidents who pay lip service to
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: the kinds of things they might do if red lines,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: for instance, are crossed. President Trump has demonstrated through the
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: course of especially the conflicts in Venezuela and now Iran
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: that he means what he says, that he said, like,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: if you don't play ball with him, he is going in,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: he will grab you, he will kill you, whatever it
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: is he needs to do to advance American foreign policy.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: What's the message you think the Chinese are deriving about
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: President Trump's resolve?
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: 2026 was a good year for us because the Chinese
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: now respect President Trump. We know that in 2025 and
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: earlier years, They really did not respect him. They pushed
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: him around and they were chortling. They were telling everybody, oh,
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: you know, the United States is in terminal decline. Trump is,
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: you know, not a factor. Now they don't say that
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: anymore from what we can tell. But also just thinking
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: about it, since Trump has taken Venezuela off the board,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: is going to take Cuba off the board and is
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: beating the crap out of Iran. I think the Chinese
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: now respect Trump. And one thing, Vince, Trump wants to
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: go to Beijing, and I don't think he should go
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: right now because the Chinese are killing Americans, in effect,
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: in Iran. But I don't think the Chinese want Trump
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: in Iran, in Beijing, because they don't want this victorious,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: triumphant guy tramping around their capital. There's been a real
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: stark change in the way the Chinese view Trump. And
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: this is really good for the United States.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. I mean, you're right, though. It's like the president
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: goes around the world. He kicks out their power cords
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: all over the place. And then they welcome him like
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: a hero in their own country.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: That would be a big deal.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So this is very, very good for us right now. Amazing.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: All right. Gordon Chang is always available at Gordon G
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Chang on X.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Sir, thank you for your wisdom as always. Nice to
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: talk to you today.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, thanks so much, Vincent. Stay safe.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. There he is, Gordon Chang. I've
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: been eager to talk to Gordon all week. Glad we
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: could get him to stop by because what a big
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: impact on China. And what an underappreciated but deeply important
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: component to this whole story about what's going on in
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Iran right now. Thank you to Gordon Chang for helping
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: us understand it. All right. There are other things that
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I want to hit with you today as well. We
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: talked about the SAVE Act. We've been talking about the
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: SAVE Act. We never stopped talking about the SAVE Act,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: in fact, because we're like the entire opening force, the
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: seminal force for getting the SAVE Act passed in terms
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: of the media. We've been on this thing for a
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: very long time, including getting these senators to actually take
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the floor to mount a talking filibuster. So what do
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: we have as it relates to the SAVE Act? Well,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: we got a couple of updates on the SAVE Act
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: this week. which is, one, that Texas Senate race, which
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: is very, very interesting what's going on. John Cornyn, Ken Paxton,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: the final two guys are in the runoff right now.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: We were talking about this at length yesterday. President Trump
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: made a big jump into that race by saying he's
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: going to make an endorsement.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: The other guy needs to get out.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Now, Ken Paxton was asked about this two nights ago
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: by Just the News, like, hey, if President Trump endorses Cornyn,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: which is what all the the public reporting suggests is
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: going to happen. If President Trump endorses John Cornyn, the incumbent,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the establishment Republican, will you get out of the race
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: or are you staying in? And here's what Ken Paxton
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: said to John Solomon this week.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Cut 11, watch.
• 45:14
  Speaker 10: No, I'm staying in this race. I owe it to
• 45:16
  Speaker 10: the people of Texas. I've spent a year of my
• 45:18
  Speaker 10: life campaigning against John Cornyn because John has not represented
• 45:24
  Speaker 10: the people of Texas well. He sided with Joe Biden
• 45:26
  Speaker 10: on the second amendment restriction. He sided with Joe Biden
• 45:28
  Speaker 10: on bringing Afghan refugees to settle here without vetting them.
• 45:32
  Speaker 10: But he's been against Trump in both of his elections,
• 45:34
  Speaker 10: said he shouldn't run last time. His day had passed.
• 45:37
  Speaker 10: And of course, he fought him on the border wall.
• 45:39
  Speaker 10: He's been an amnesty guy. Everything that Trump stood for,
• 45:43
  Speaker 10: John Cornyn's fought. But he wasn't being helped by Joe Biden.
• 45:46
  Speaker 10: The people of Texas, at least the Republicans, would like
• 45:49
  Speaker 10: something different.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: So Paxton says, I'm staying in the race.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying. The president hears this
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: and he responds to it.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Here's how that went. The president yesterday in a conversation
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: with Politico said, that's bad. That's bad for him to say.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: President Trump, Politico reported, appears to be leaning towards endorsing
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: John Cornyn in the Texas GOP primary, issuing a stark
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: warning to Ken Paxton in an interview with Politico. The president,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: of course, did say that he's going to be making
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: his decision pretty soon. And then when told that Paxton
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: had just told us the news that he's not dropping out,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: even if Trump endorses Cornyn, the president responded, well, that's
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: bad for him to say.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: That is bad for him. So maybe, maybe that leads
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: me to go the other direction, suggesting that perhaps Paxton's
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: remarks are pushing him in the direction of Cornyn. Is
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: that what's happening here?
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Well, whatever the president's intentions here is, Ken Paxton added
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: a wonderful addition to this story yesterday. He said, I'll
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: tell you what, you want me to leave this race?
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: You want me to drop out? I'll do it under
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: one gigantic condition. Give us the SAVE Act. Here's what
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton said yesterday. The SAVE America Act is the
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: most important bill the United States Senate could ever pass.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: And I'm committed to helping President Trump get it done.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: I would consider dropping out of this race if Senate
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: leadership agrees to lift the filibuster and passes the Save
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: America Act. John Cornyn is a coward who has refused
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to support abolishing the filibuster to pass this bill. Now,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: fake news reporters in the establishment are trying to destroy
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: me with misinformation.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: The truth is clear.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: No one has been more loyal to Donald Trump than me,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: fighting the stolen 2020 election, being in Mar-a-Lago when he
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: announced his 2024 campaign, and standing with him in New
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: York in the face of lawfare. For the good of
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: our country and for the good of passing President Trump's agenda,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I am determined to help him get this done. Look,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: let me tell you about the master stroke you're witnessing
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: here from Ken Paxton. He's saying, look, I don't have
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to be a problem for you guys. I don't have
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: to be a problem for President Trump making an endorsement.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I don't have to be a problem for John Cornyn.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: I could make this real easy for everybody. And here's
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: how I'm going to make it easy. I'm putting an
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: offer on the table for you. You pass the SAVE Act,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I'm out of your hair.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Then, okay, fine.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: John Cornyn, the establishment guy, he can be the nominee.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Then Texans can go and, if necessary, hold their nose,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: vote for the guy. But if you get the SAVE
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: America Act passed, it's not just one Texas Senate race
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: that's impacted. It's every race in the whole country. We
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: get integrity. We get credibility to our elections across the
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: whole country. Only Americans are registered to vote. You have
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: to show ID in every state. I don't care how
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: blue and Democrat and demented it is. You've got to
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: show ID to vote. You've got to show ID when
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: you send in an absentee ballot under the limited circumstances
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: that'll even be possible to do. We clean up the
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: voter rolls. We get rid of non-citizens. We get the
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: dead people off the rolls. We make it so that
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Americans can trust their elections at every level all across
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the country. You do that, yeah, I'd be willing to
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: drop out. Paxton's throwing down. This is a great and
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: important move. So what's Cornyn going to do with all
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: of this? Now, here's the sequence of events that I'd
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: like to see insofar as any of this plays out.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Here's the sequence of events I'd like to see. Get
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: the SAVE Act passed first. You do that first. Do
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: it right now. Get it going. And then, If that happens,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: then we see Ken Paxton say, OK, mission accomplished. I'm out.
• 49:45
  Speaker 11: I'm out.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: You did it. Thank you.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: But until that happens, I don't want to see him duck.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: And I don't want like false promises. I don't want
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: people telling the president they're actually going to do it
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: when they don't intend to actually do it.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: I don't want any of that. Republicans are constantly trying
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: to pull.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about establishment Republicans in leadership have constantly been
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: trying to pull the wool over President Trump's eyes, constantly
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: trying to mislead him.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: About what they want to do.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: And the president, I think by now, he's had enough
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: of that crap. He wants actual commitment. He wants actual commitment.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: So yesterday, President Trump was posting about the SAVE Act.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: And he posted two iterations of the same.
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  Speaker 2: Post to Truth Social.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: And I thought this was interesting because you want to
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: know how much the president pays attention to the base?
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Look at this. Let me show you a perfect example
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: of this.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: And the base all wants Ken Paxton, by the way.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: The whole base is telling President Trump, endorse Ken Paxton,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: endorse Ken Paxton on Truth Social.
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  Speaker 2: So here's what happened yesterday. The president goes to Truth
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Social and.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: He posts early in the day that he wants the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Save America Act and he wants it with five components.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: You ready for this? Watch this.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Five components. He says, the Save America Act, all voters
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: must show voter ID. All voters must show proof of
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: citizenship in order to vote. no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military,
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  Speaker 1: or travel, no men and women's sports, no transgender mutilation
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  Speaker 1: surgery for children without the express written approval of the parents.
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  Speaker 1: You see what happened in that fifth item?
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  Speaker 2: That fifth item is no good. That fifth item is
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: no good.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that yesterday and I was like, look, I
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: support everything in here except for that fifth item. That
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: fifth item, no transgender mutilation surgery without the express written
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  Speaker 1: approval of the parents. I'm sorry, I don't care if
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: a parent writes a note that says you can mutilate
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  Speaker 1: my child. Abuse is not on the menu. That's not
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: on the menu.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: You're abusing a child?
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: To hell with you. So when the president puts that
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: qualification on number five, I paused, I saw this yesterday.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: We said this on the radio show yesterday.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm with you on all of this,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: except for that whole thing about parents can mutilate the
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: kids with their permission. No, they can't do that either.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: So what happened?
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Well, you responded to this. I responded.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: The whole base went crazy about this.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: We're like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Number five, not going to work for me. So you
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: know what the president did? He deleted the true social
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: post and he replaced it. And number five has been modified.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Now it just says no transgender mutilation surgery for children.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: This dude listens.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: He listens. That's all I'm saying. So if you want
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: the president to endorse Ken Paxton, even at this hour,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: at Friday, 8.55 a.m. Eastern time, at this hour, he
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: has not made an endorsement yet. Just keep telling him
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: you want Ken Paxton.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Just tell him. It'd be an easier thing.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen when Mark Wayne
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Mullen leaves the Senate. I don't know what's going to
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: happen to the whip count on the Save America Act.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I can't predict the future. All I can tell you
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: is that we're in a dicey situation right now, and
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: I'd like to navigate out of it by getting good,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: competent legislation passed. If Ken Paxton can use leverage right
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: now to get the Save America Act passed, he will
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: be a hero in my eyes, just a complete hero
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: for what he did to save our country. Ken is
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: throwing it, is throwing down in such a consequential way.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: And the president should use this as leverage.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: My guess is he is using it as leverage. that
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: he's trying to get John Cornyn and John Thune to
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: play ball. And why wouldn't he? This is the perfect opportunity.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: If Thune is going to President Trump right now and
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: begging for a Cornyn endorsement, then the president can say,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, that happens under this circumstance.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: You give me the SAVE Act. You actually do it.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Not a show vote, not a, oh, we tried, but
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Democrats got in the way, so we couldn't take it on. No,
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: I want a full-blown talking filibuster fight on the Senate
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: floor for the American people to see complete with an
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: actual passage of the SAVE Act.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: You give me that, I give you Cornyn. That's the
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: art of the deal, baby. That's the art of the deal.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Let's see what happens.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: We've got to keep our eyes on that. I want
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: to end today with one of the big hoaxes of
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: the week. We got the left advancing in another hoax
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: this week. A claim that the Justice Department has abandoned.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: The Autopen investigation, that it's over. There's no Autopen investigation anymore,
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: the New York Times claims.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: Justice Department, under pressure from Trump, fails to build auto
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: pen case against Biden. You know what we're talking about here.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: It's the non-compass mentis president. They had a robot running
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the entire administration, you know, Susan Rice and company and whatever,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: just like just pulling the trigger and signing legislation, executive orders,
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: signing pardons. The New York Times claims the Justice Department,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: after calls by President Trump to investigate former President Joseph R.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Biden Jr.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: scrutinize whether Mr. Biden and his aides broke the law
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: in using the auto pen.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: First of all, Biden, if Biden is non-compos mentis, meaning
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: he is not of sound mind, that he can't tell
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: people to use the pen, how is it that Biden
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: is the one breaking the law? You absolute morons. Biden,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: we can catch him on all sorts of things. But
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: if the idea is that he's a vegetable and the
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: people around him are exploiting the auto pen to pretend
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: to be him, they're the ones implicated in the law breaking.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Whether Mr. Biden and his aides broke the law.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: The New York Times doesn't even know how this story goes.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: It was ultimately unable to move forward with making a case,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: the Times says. According to three people briefed on the matter,
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: the department's failure to build a criminal case against Mr.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Biden and his aides, they once again get this wrong,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: is the latest example of its increasing inability to follow
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: through on Mr. Trump's demands and bring indictments against those
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: he wants to be criminally targeted. So this is the
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: New York Times claiming something to.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: Be true The investigation is dead. And then doing a
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: victory lap on the thing that they claimed to be true.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: So what is true?
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: Is that true? Well, here's an encouraging little post by
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Janine Pirro. She's the Senate confirmed U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Look at this post and you tell me if you
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: can read between the lines on it.
• 55:59
  Speaker 10: You ready?
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: We cannot comment on ongoing investigations.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: We cannot....
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: What was the.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: What is that?
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: What are these words? We cannot comment on ongoing investigations.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: That's fun. She can't comment, you see, on the ongoing investigation.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: That's fun. I like that. I like that a lot.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Jake Gibson is a producer over at Fox. He's got
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: this too. He adds some more color. New, a senior
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: DOJ official tells us the auto pen investigation is ongoing.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: It's not closed.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: They added that investigators are looking at the last couple
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: of months of the Biden administration, specifically pardons and commutations.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: This official also points out that the use of the
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: auto pen by a sitting president is established law. The
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: issue is whether it was used in violation of the law.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: as in, did President Biden actually bless every single name
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: on any list of pardons or commutations? It's also clear
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: that the target of any potential prosecution would not be
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: former President Biden himself. Yeah, for the reasons I just mentioned,
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: because if he's the vegetable, everybody else is breaking the
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: law by pretending to be president. Quote, it's hard to
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: imagine how Biden could be criminally liable for pardon power,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: said the senior DOJ official, describing that power as basically limitless.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, again, that.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: We could just keep explaining this, but that's the point.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: It's about the people who didn't have the right to
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: pretend to be president using presidential powers.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: And there you go.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: So it is ongoing, Fox reports, and a huge, obvious,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: rub a highlighter on it, hint from Jeanine Pirro that
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: the investigation is ongoing, contrary to what the old gray
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: lady wants you to believe over at the New York Times.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: That's fun.
• 58:01
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• 58:02
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