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The Sudden Reversal | Episode 301 · V

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: you today. We have an epic guest, which is why
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  Speaker 2: that is Kelly Leffler. She's going to join us from
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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration. We talked to her this morning about
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  Speaker 2: the big crackdown on fraud that the administration is undertaking,
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  Speaker 2: the United States in 2026 in term two of President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: That's ahead on the program. A lot to discuss today.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the latest in the Iran saga.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some new information about the United States Senate
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  Speaker 2: being back from vacation and what they're demanding of the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration. That's ahead. And also, what just happened at
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  Speaker 2: Delaney Hall? Newark, New Jersey. Big crackdown on the violent insurrectionists.
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  Speaker 2: What did it result in? We've got some fascinating new
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  Speaker 2: information this morning. All ahead on this edition of Vince.
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  Speaker 2: This morning, I was gathering, as I always do. I'm
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  Speaker 2: always gathering, gathering things. And I was wondering to myself,
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  Speaker 2: I said, Self, what happened at Delaney Hall last night?
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  Speaker 2: We've heard so much about the rioting, the violence, the maniacs,
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  Speaker 2: the insurrectionists outside of that immigration facility in Newark. What
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  Speaker 2: happened last night? And I'm glad I asked myself that
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  Speaker 2: question because I was finally able to find a single
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  Speaker 2: news report. This comes to us from CBS News, a
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  Speaker 2: local CBS affiliate, CBS New York, on what was happening
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  Speaker 2: outside of the immigration facility last night. And I've got
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  Speaker 2: some good news for you. Apparently, things are dramatically better.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look. Here's what it said.
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  Speaker 4: Second night of curfew at Delaney Hall, law enforcement scene
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  Speaker 4: pushing protesters back. But it was a much different scene
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  Speaker 4: from last night. Good evening, I'm Dick Brennan in for
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  Speaker 4: Christine Johnson. It's been more than a week of protest
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  Speaker 4: outside the immigration detention facility, but tonight we noticed a
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  Speaker 4: visible change. It appeared things remained mostly peaceful as that
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  Speaker 4: 9 p.m. curfew kicked in. Newark police assumed control in
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  Speaker 4: the handling of the protesters, a stark contrast to the
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  Speaker 4: violent confrontations between the New Jersey State Police and protesters
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  Speaker 4: that we saw over the weekend. Adi Guajardo has the
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  Speaker 4: latest from Delaney Hall.
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  Speaker 5: Protesting is not a crime.
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  Speaker 6: As the clock struck 9 p.m.
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  Speaker 7: On Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you protect? Who do you serve?
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  Speaker 6: Protesters crawled behind a gate, some wearing gas masks, mostly
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  Speaker 6: remained peaceful.
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  Speaker 5: Freedom!
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  Speaker 2: Mostly.
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  Speaker 6: The same protesters cheered earlier as fellow demonstrators walked out
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  Speaker 6: of the restricted area.
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  Speaker 1: Many of us were detained with our hands up.
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  Speaker 6: Ashley Bates says just after curfew on Sunday, she and
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  Speaker 6: many others were taken into custody by New Jersey State Police.
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  Speaker 2: They were violent through and through. They took me and
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  Speaker 2: they dropped me. Look at her in the keffiyeh. She's
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  Speaker 2: got the keffiyeh on. Because she's a psycho.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond the cement floor.
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  Speaker 6: They came in with their horses. They came in with
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  Speaker 6: riot gear.
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  Speaker 4: And we were doing nothing.
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  Speaker 6: She says she was held for about 20 hours in
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  Speaker 6: a crowded cell and was charged with riding past curfew.
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  Speaker 6: Climate Revolution Action Network, known as CRAM, says at least
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  Speaker 6: 60 protesters were.
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  Speaker 2: CRAM. What was it? The Climate Revolution. What was it? CRAM?
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  Speaker 2: One second. Hold up.
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  Speaker 6: Action Network known as CRAN says that.
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  Speaker 2: Climate Revolution Action Network. How is it CRAN? Is that
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  Speaker 2: what she said? C-R-A-N? Climate revolution action protesters. Let's call
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  Speaker 2: them crap.
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  Speaker 6: 60 protesters were arrested Sunday night during violent clashes. Some
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  Speaker 6: hit with rubber bullets.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that guy. He's got an extra nipple now.
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  Speaker 2: He shot a guy with a rubber bullet. Holy cow.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't want an extra nipple, don't be an insurrectionist.
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  Speaker 8: When you're threatening the lives of an officer, that's verbal assault.
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  Speaker 8: When you threaten the lives of their family, that's verbal assault.
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  Speaker 8: When you spit on an officer, when you put hands
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  Speaker 8: on an officer, when you touch our vehicles, that is
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  Speaker 8: assaulting federal property and assaulting a federal officer. And we
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  Speaker 8: have zero, zero tolerance. We will arrest you.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So they did arrest. And so what happened Monday night?
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  Speaker 2: CBS reports that, well, things were very subdued. They were
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  Speaker 2: not the same as they've been all these other crazy nights,
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  Speaker 2: which what are the lessons here? Let's dwell on the lessons.
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  Speaker 2: What could the lessons possibly be?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe enforcing the law results in peace. When you impose
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  Speaker 2: law and order, you get law and order. When you
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  Speaker 2: deliver consequences, you don't get people acting like lunatics, or
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  Speaker 2: at least you get fewer lunatics showing up. These are
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  Speaker 2: very simple lessons. Holy cow. Why do we have to
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  Speaker 2: keep telling everybody, just do the job and then you'll
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  Speaker 2: bring peace? Sure enough. Sure enough, as the New Jersey
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  Speaker 2: State Police get involved, the local Newark cops get involved.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw Nick Sorter was on television last night.
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  Speaker 2: He said that a lot of the people who were arrested,
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  Speaker 2: that would have been Sunday night, were still in jail
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  Speaker 2: as of Monday night. They weren't just quickly released back
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  Speaker 2: into the public to cause chaos, to show up again
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  Speaker 2: and try and attack the immigration center. So if you
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  Speaker 2: keep the bad guys locked up, Peace prevails. This is
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  Speaker 2: all we've been asking for at every level, including with
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  Speaker 2: these illegal aliens. Take them into custody, Fairfax County, Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: and then turn them over to immigration enforcement so we
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  Speaker 2: can deport them. Don't release them back into the community
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  Speaker 2: so that they can stab Stephanie Minter to death inside
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  Speaker 2: of a bus stop in Northern Virginia. There are very
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  Speaker 2: simple lessons here. And either you're on the side of
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  Speaker 2: law and order, you're on the side of American sovereignty,
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  Speaker 2: or you are on the side of chaos. You are
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  Speaker 2: an AOC, an agent of chaos. Choose wisely. Choose wisely.
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  Speaker 2: So good to see. Nice to bring you that update.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny, the media broadly didn't cover what
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  Speaker 2: happened with Delaney Hall last night, because I don't know why.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I assume because they're trying to cover up
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  Speaker 2: that it was a success, or they don't really feel
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  Speaker 2: like covering a story that doesn't have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: drama to it. Not much drama Monday night at Delaney Hall.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of that if it bleeds, it leads instinct from
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  Speaker 2: the press. How about this? How about report on success
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  Speaker 2: when it occurs so we can duplicate it going into
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  Speaker 2: the future? Don't be just agents of chaos. Be agents
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  Speaker 2: of change. Fix things. So some good news there, Delaney Hall.
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  Speaker 2: Let me see if I've got I do have some
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  Speaker 2: other quick Delaney Hall updates for you. Tom Holman visited
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  Speaker 2: Delaney Hall. You know, the left has been one of
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  Speaker 2: the predicates for why they're rioting is they say the
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  Speaker 2: conditions are very terrible. There are people on hunger strike.
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  Speaker 2: I love Tom Holman was like, yeah, there's no such
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  Speaker 2: thing as a hunger strike. You try and hunger strike
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  Speaker 2: inside that facility, we'll force feed you. So your option
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  Speaker 2: is you eat on your own or we'll shove the
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  Speaker 2: food down your throat. One way or the other, you're eating.
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  Speaker 2: So no hunger strikes. But Tom Holman said they should
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  Speaker 2: be eating. Tom Holman just had a meal. at the
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  Speaker 2: Delaney Hall facility, and he said it was great. He
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  Speaker 2: even got dessert. Cut to, watch.
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  Speaker 7: We gotta remember what started all this. You got Democratic
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  Speaker 7: lawmakers on Memorial Day making false allegations about the facility,
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  Speaker 7: about the food, the medical care, hunger strikes. I went
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  Speaker 7: into that facility. I went to the medical. I went
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  Speaker 7: to outdoor recreation, indoor recreation. I even made a surprise
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  Speaker 7: visit this weekend and walked into the cafeteria and ate
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  Speaker 7: the same meal that the detainees around me were eating.
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  Speaker 7: And I made sure my tray equaled their tray. I
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  Speaker 7: had spaghetti and meat sauce. I had beans. I had
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  Speaker 7: green beans. I had bread and rolls. I had drinks.
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  Speaker 7: I had dessert. The food was good. It's all a
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  Speaker 7: false premise. There was never a hunger strike. The congressman said, oh,
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  Speaker 7: people are on hunger strike.
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  Speaker 2: No, they weren't.
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  Speaker 7: They may not be eating in the cafeteria. But what
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  Speaker 7: I found out, they're ordering food from the commissary, and
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  Speaker 7: eating in their cells. So there wasn't an abuse. It's
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  Speaker 7: not inhumane conditions. I went to the entire facility. I
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  Speaker 7: ate the same meal they ate. That facility is well-run,
• 10:07
  Speaker 7: and the governor keeps saying she's going to keep raising
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  Speaker 7: hell if that facility shuts down. Well, I got news
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  Speaker 7: for the governor. That facility isn't going anywhere. We're going
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  Speaker 7: to enforce the law. We're going to detain people.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to remove people.
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  Speaker 7: Matter of fact, a lot of the people in that facility,
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  Speaker 7: we couldn't release because they're mandatorily detained by federal statute.
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  Speaker 7: So we couldn't release them if we wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: But we're not going to.
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  Speaker 7: Release any of them. Everybody in that facility I have
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  Speaker 7: ascertained is legally being detained.
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  Speaker 2: Legally being detained.
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  Speaker 7: Many of them, again, mandatory detention.
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  Speaker 2: Many of them criminals. God, do you love Tom Holman?
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  Speaker 2: I love Tom Holman. Tom Holman... has an undying passion
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  Speaker 2: for American sovereignty. And I adore it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Beast mode Tom Holman. It's so good. And you know something?
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  Speaker 2: It almost feels like he's over-explaining to the left a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Like, you said it was terrible. I went
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  Speaker 2: and inspected it. And Tom, they were lying from the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: I know he knows that. And he's just trying to
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: convince people in the public. Really, Tom's mission here is
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  Speaker 2: to convince American citizens who are somewhat on the fence here.
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  Speaker 2: We're like, is there a point? Are people really being
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: treated inhumanely? They're not being given food or they're being
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  Speaker 2: treated like crap? No, they're not being treated like crap.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: They're being treated like kings. DHS said this week that
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  Speaker 2: some of the medical care that these illegal aliens are receiving,
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: and remember the illegal aliens that are there, rapists, murderers,
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: child abusers, Some of the illegal aliens are getting the
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: best medical care that they will ever receive in their
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  Speaker 2: entire lives right now while they're in detention. The left
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  Speaker 2: is just lying about it. That's all. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: reminder that it doesn't matter how many deportations that you
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: are seeing. It doesn't matter how much effort the Trump
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: administration is putting in to deport illegal aliens. They could
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  Speaker 2: be deporting one person, one person a year. and the
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  Speaker 2: left would still be rioting. So don't let the left's
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  Speaker 2: rioting dictate your enforcement of the law. Just enforce it.
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  Speaker 2: To hell with them. They're going to lie about it anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Just enforce the law. That's all we're asking for. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what we voted for. Thank you to Tom
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  Speaker 2: Ullman for that.
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  Speaker 3: One more.
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  Speaker 2: This is cut three here. DHS shutting down some more
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  Speaker 2: fake news about Delaney Hall's conditions.
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  Speaker 5: Watch.
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  Speaker 9: MSNOW can confirm that multiple arrests were made on Sunday night. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 9: family visitation at that facility has now resumed. Hundreds of
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  Speaker 9: detainees have been engaged in a hunger strike, alleging expired food,
• 12:36
  Speaker 9: denied medical care, and retaliation against those who do speak up.
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  Speaker 9: For its part, the Department of Homeland Security says there
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  Speaker 9: is no mistreatment inside that facility.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there are no subprime conditions. There is all detainees
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: are provided with three meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, toiletries,
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers. Aliens
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: are also provided comprehensive health care for many illegal aliens.
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  Speaker 2: The best health care they've ever received their entire lives.
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  Speaker 1: So.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: We shut down the lies. Once again, we get another
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  Speaker 2: one of these like obvious left wing.
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  Speaker 5: It's like it's all fake.
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Everything's fake. So they come up with a fake scandal
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: and then they riot on the basis of the fake scandal.
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: What a neat and destructive trick. that they constantly keep using.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: It's time to take down these networks. It's time to
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: take down the George Soros operator networks, all these left-wing lunatics.
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: It's time for the Treasury Department to produce these results.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: I know they're working on it. You just heard from
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: Scott Best, and he told this audience about this in
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: the past week that we're cracking.
• 13:54
  Speaker 5: Down on this.
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  Speaker 2: In the next few weeks, we're going to get a
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: lot of information out with the FBI. But man, that
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: can't come soon enough. We've got to crack down on
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: the insurrection. It works.
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  Speaker 5: It works.
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  Speaker 2: You start arresting a couple of these people, look what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Peace prevails. Peace prevails. Okay, as far as immigration enforcement goes,
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: you know ICE is still unfunded? You know ICE still
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: doesn't have money? The administrative employees at ICE, the administrative
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: employees at Border Patrol, the people who keep the lights
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: on inside the building, who process all the paperwork, these guys,
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: they're not getting paid. They haven't been paid all year long.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: And that's because Democrats continue to hold them hostage in
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: the interest of producing more chaos in the United States.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: They want our borders to be wide open and they
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: don't want any illegal aliens to be deported. So that
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: fight continues in Congress right now. Now, this is a
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: source of immense frustration for me, and here's why. We
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: don't need chat. We don't need Democrats to pass this funding.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: We just need Republicans to do it. That's it. Simple majorities.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Democrats have been such legislative terrorists when it
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: comes to this issue that Republicans opted to use reconciliation
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: to get it done. And what does reconciliation allow? It
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: allows simple majorities in both houses, no 60 vote threshold
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: in the Senate, simple majorities in both houses to pass
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: this funding. In other words, Republicans can do it. They've
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: got the majority in the House. They've got the majority
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: in the Senate. So why isn't it done yet? They
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: could have done it a few weeks ago, but then
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: instead they went on vacation, Memorial Day vacation, which I
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: don't know about your Memorial Day, but I didn't get
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: two weeks off. And then they finally show up again
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  Speaker 2: this week. And in so doing, have they passed it yet?
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  Speaker 7: No.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: No. In fact, they're showing up and they're bitching and
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: moaning that President Trump's administration has an anti-weaponization fund going on.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: They're still bitching about this. $ 1. 776 billion to American citizens
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: who've been tyrannized by the federal government. Like parents who
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: go to school board meetings and were spied upon by
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: the FBI. Like Catholics who wanted to practice the traditional
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Latin mass in Virginia and were demonized as some sort
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: of extremists by the FBI for doing that. Like millions
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: of American citizens who were censored throughout COVID and the
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: 2020 election. They were attacked by the social media companies
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: at the behest of the federal government. This is what
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: we're talking about. Like January 6th detainees who had their
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: lives destroyed, which was in no way commensurate with even
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: anything they were accused of. These are all people who
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: are entitled to just get a little bit of their
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: get back, you know, in the form of this settlement fund. Remember,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the settlement fund was established because President Trump sued the
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: IRS for $ 10 billion for stealing his tax records and
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: disseminating them through the New York Times. And then he said,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: you know what? To hell with that. I'm not going
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: to take a single dime from the American taxpayer. Instead,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: what we're going to do is we'll set up a
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  Speaker 2: settlement fund that's allowed under the law, literally existed since
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  Speaker 2: the 1950s. The DOJ will set up a settlement fund
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  Speaker 2: And we'll take care of American citizens who are tormented
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: by the government. Sound good? Sounds great to me. It
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: sounds like the kind of thing you were voted, you
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  Speaker 2: were elected for. Guess who hates it in the Senate? Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of them.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Too many of them. So many of them, again, they
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: have nothing to do with this, that it appears that
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: they may be throwing the brakes on the president's ability
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: to do this. by virtue of their bitch fest. So
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: now Republicans are holding ICE funding hostage in order to
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: end an anti-weaponization fund? Is this driving anybody else crazy?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Driving me nuts. Driving me absolutely nuts. Here's the latest,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: New York Post. Amid the Senate freakout, the Trump administration
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: now appears to be throwing the brakes on the anti-weaponization fund.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Here's what's going on. Remember, yesterday, Speaker Mike Johnson visited
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: with President Trump, reportedly, and they had a meeting about
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: all this. Here's what the New York Post says. DOJ
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: to cancel Trump's $ 1. 776 billion anti-weaponization fund after fierce blowback
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: from GOP in Congress. President Trump is now dropping his $ 1. 776
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: billion anti-weaponization fund the Justice Department announced on Monday. I'll
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: get to that announcement in a minute. The Senate Republicans
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: complained about the lack of guardrails on the fund and
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: grilled Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch about who could apply
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: for compensation when he met with them on Capitol Hill
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: two weeks ago. The DOJ said it would abide by
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: a federal court ruling that halted any payouts. Okay, that's
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: different than saying they're getting rid of the fund entirely.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: There was a court ruling. that said they can't dispense
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: any money from the fund while it's being litigated. So
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: in other words, the DOJ says they're going to follow
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the court ruling. Here's what the Justice Department said in
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: a statement. And instead of reading it from the New
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: York Post, let me read it directly from the DOJ
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: statement here, because I think that'll benefit us a little
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: bit more. Here's what the Justice Department said yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Ready?
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Take a look. They said the Department of Justice said,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: disagree strongly with the decision on the anti-weaponization fund put
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: forth by the United States District Court judge in the
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Eastern District of Virginia, wherein the court stated that under
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: no circumstances may the Department of Justice proceed with the
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: anti-weaponization fund recently established in order to make up for
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the tremendous abuse, harm, and hate unfairly shown to so
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: many people. This fund was open to anybody who who
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: was so weaponized, targeted, or persecuted, whether they were Democrat, Republican, conservative, independent,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: or otherwise, the department will abide by the court's ruling. Now, again,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I want to point out the key detail. This is
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: just a temporary injunction that a court is telling them
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you can't dispense any of this funding for now. This
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: question is still being litigated because the left is suing
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the Trump administration for daring to try and make people whole.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: In fact, here's an establishment reporter, an establishment backing journalist
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: by the name of Andrew Desiderio. He's over at an
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: outfit called Punchbowl. And he posted yesterday, everyone seems to
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: be interpreting this as a vow by the administration to
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: end the fund entirely. It's not. It's a commitment to
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: abide by a court ruling that temporarily blocked the weaponization
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: fund until next week while litigation over disbursements is ongoing. Also,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: this exchange just now between John Thune and Frank Thorpe.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Frank Thorpe is, I think, at NBC. He's an NBC guy.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Makes clear that the Senate Republicans won't accept the Justice
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Department commitment. You see what's happening, ladies and gentlemen? The
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Republicans in the Senate want more. They want this thing
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: slashed at the throat. They don't want American citizens to
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: get a dollar out of this thing. Here's Frank Thorpe.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Does the administration need to be clear that if they
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: drop this fund, that it's not coming back? John Thune,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: that would be the ideal outcome. What the hell are
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: you talking about, the ideal outcome? These Senate Republicans, I'm sorry,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: hold on, before I spaz out on them, give me
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: a second. A little bit more. Andrew Desiderio says, I
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: also asked Thune if he's concerned that Even if the
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Trump administration says they're shutting down the fund, many of
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: his members will still vote for Democrat amendments on it
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: during Voterama. Thune said that if the administration makes it very,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: very clear that the fund is shut down, he expects
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: enough Republicans will oppose the Democrat amendments. Now, I just
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: want to get back to the Thune thing. It would
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: be an ideal outcome to destroy the fund. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: remember what I told you. Senate Republicans voted to give
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: themselves $ 500, 000 a piece last year in an amendment that
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: would later be killed by the House. But the Senate
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Republicans voted for half a million dollars for themselves each
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: because the Biden administration was spying on them in Operation
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Arctic Frost. spying on United States senators. The federal government
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: should not be spying on the United States senators. It's outrageous.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: But the fact is they, at least in that context,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: understand that, hey, I should be made whole for what
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: happened to me. But that's when they're voting for themselves,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: the jackasses. And now they can't stand up for us.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: They can't stand up for people who've been attacked by
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: the federal government. $ 1. 776 billion, by the way, to be clear,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: is a measly amount of money in the grand scheme
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of government spending. The administration was projecting something like 10
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: million claimants for the fund. If that's the case, that's
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: $ 177 a pop. What are you talking about? It's nothing.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: And you're throwing a bitch fest because of that? This
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: is one of those great moments that the Trump administration
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: has provided so frequently to expose the people who are
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: truly on your side and the people who are working
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: against you. Really disgusting stuff. And so obviously the Justice
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Department released a statement yesterday because the Trump administration is
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: trying to grease the wheels to get funding to ICE
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: and Border Patrol. That's what they want. They want our
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: immigration enforcement to function. So the president's got to navigate
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: this nonsense with Republicans in the United States Senate. And
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: you still have Republicans who are throwing a shit fit.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. One more for you, and then we've got
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: to move on to some other things. We got John Kennedy. Well,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I like John Kennedy. He has all these great folksy sayings,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: and he's really funny, and that's wonderful. But that doesn't
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: in any way excuse statements like I'm about to read
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to you. Here's what he told the media yesterday. This
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: is from Igor Bobich from Notice. Senator Kennedy, John Kennedy,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: says the DOJ abiding by a court order on the
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: weaponization fund isn't enough. Quote, I appreciate them saying that,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: but they don't have a choice. They have to abide
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: by a federal district court order. It doesn't tell me
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: whether they're planning to appeal. It doesn't tell me whether
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: the administration is backing off the idea. It doesn't tell
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: me anything, except that they're going to follow the law,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: which you have to. Kennedy says, we shouldn't be playing games.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: If the administration has changed its position on the weaponization fund,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: it should say so definitively. But saying you're going to
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: follow a court order doesn't tell me anything. Now, I
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: know John Kennedy is trying to be cute here, but
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: it's obvious if he's talking to the media and he's like,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: they should really kill this thing if they want to
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: kill this thing. He's rooting for it to be killed.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: That's establishment hackery. Have you noticed that these guys are
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: not mounting a forceful defense of what is a noble fund?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Why is it left to us to have to give
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: the story on this? Why is it left to just
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: normal American citizens to raise holy hell about this? This
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: is so crazy to me. And this is a world
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: in which we're going to the midterms. I want the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Republicans in the Senate to have a much bigger margin.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I really do. I want the Trump agenda to be
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: able to continue unabated. I want it to be just
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: going full steam ahead. But As politically active as you
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: and I are, as engaged as we are, there are
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: going to be people out there who are totally dejected
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: by this type of failure theater from the Republicans in
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: the Senate. And it's just, it drives me absolutely crazy.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: You want enthusiastic support going into the midterms? Do things
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that generate enthusiastic support among the base. And this is
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: one of them. One of them. People should not be
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: tyrannized by their government. And there should be consequences when
• 26:03
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  Speaker 10: Well, first of all, this is incredible that President Trump
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  Speaker 10: zero tolerance policy on fraud, because we knew coming into
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• 32:41
  Speaker 10: tells you a sizable chunk of it, 20%, was fraudulent.
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  Speaker 10: And under the Biden administration, they had given really what
• 32:49
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• 32:53
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• 32:56
  Speaker 10: taxpayer money. So this task force that Vice President Vance
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: is heading up and doing it so well that we've
• 33:04
  Speaker 10: already got all these actions. But it's really, like they said,
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• 33:10
  Speaker 2: So when you say the Biden administration knew that fraud
• 33:13
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• 33:17
  Speaker 2: you get into the SBA and you just started cracking
• 33:19
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• 33:21
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• 33:23
  Speaker 10: Absolutely. It was the Biden Office of Inspector General that
• 33:27
  Speaker 10: identified that they had flagged millions of loans as fraudulent.
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  Speaker 10: So we sent the first tranche of 562,000 loans, uh,
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  Speaker 10: in the last month over to treasury for collection and
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  Speaker 10: then to DOJ for prosecution because that 562,000 loans totaled
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: $ 22 billion of taxpayer money. That means every dollar that
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: was stolen did not get to a small business that
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: potentially shut its doors during COVID and never came back.
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: And you and I know, and your listeners know what
• 34:00
  Speaker 10: small businesses mean to our communities. So, um, And that's
• 34:04
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Why did the Biden administration allow that fraud to occur?
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• 34:19
  Speaker 2: stealing this money?
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: Well, the common theme was this was sophisticated, intentional theft.
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: As we've seen through prosecutions, we see that there's organized
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: rings around this because they knew the money was there.
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: But look, This shouldn't be political, but it appears that
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: the Democrats have made it their business to let this
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: money seep out of the government, into their political friends' hands,
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: and somehow it ends up back in their campaigns consistently.
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: But the bigger problem is you shouldn't be using federal
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: funding to buy votes and to bring people to your
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: political point of view. It undermines program integrity. It destroys
• 35:00
  Speaker 10: the public trust. It's not fiscally sustainable. And then most importantly,
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: the money's not there for the people that need it,
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: whether it's the elderly, the sick, or young children.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: So that's what's going on.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I'm on guard, though. I'm on guard for what sounds
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: like a vote-buying enterprise. Like, in other words, they're just
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: giving away money to Democrat-affiliated organizations who turn around and
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: then fill Democrat campaign coffers. Because that's a lot of money,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: $ 20 billion just out the door that you believe is
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: entirely fraudulent.
• 35:32
  Speaker 10: Well, it is, and you can see the prosecutions happening
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: left and right. We just announced one this week. There's
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: a woman who organized a ring where she got a kickback,
• 35:41
  Speaker 10: and she helped thousands of dollars go out the door
• 35:44
  Speaker 10: in PPP loans. She's going to now be sentenced to
• 35:46
  Speaker 10: up to 20 years in prison.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: And we see that over and over. We publish on
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: our website. Our Office of Inspector General is publishing all
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: the prosecutions that are underway now at the SBA.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: So tell me about what it's like to work with J.D. Vance.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: And in particular, you've got an assistant attorney general now,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Colin McDonald, who is in charge of going after the
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: fraudsters at the Justice Department. And I've been telling the audience,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: this seems like a very unusual arrangement where you have
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: an assistant attorney general who's basically reporting directly to the
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: vice president of the United States. I think it's great.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: What is it like working with this group?
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: Well, this is an incredible group. You know, we've got
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: FTC Chair Ferguson involved. providing great leadership alongside the vice
• 36:31
  Speaker 10: president and Colin doing great work. And I love the
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: energy he brings to this, which is no amount of
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: fraud is too small. And that's what's critical because people
• 36:44
  Speaker 10: know that this is going on across the government. And
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: most Americans are hardworking, honest, taxpaying Americans, not stealing from
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: the system. But they know this is going on in
• 36:56
  Speaker 10: pockets everywhere. across the country, or maybe across the world,
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: as we've seen some of these prosecutions involve the Philippines
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: or Al-Shabaab or other efforts. But look, people just want
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: to know that there's accountability and that we're going to
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: put guardrails up because we have to make sure this
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: doesn't happen again at scale. The GAO, the government's own auditor,
• 37:20
  Speaker 10: says that there's about 200 to 500 billion a year
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: in fraudulent.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Payments.
• 37:28
  Speaker 10: And then there's another 186 million in incorrect, inaccurate payments
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: that go out. That's unsustainable. And so taxpayers are just
• 37:38
  Speaker 10: losing trust in what the federal government is doing. And
• 37:41
  Speaker 10: that stops here. That's why J.D. Vance, the vice president,
• 37:44
  Speaker 10: is doing incredible work because he's moving so quickly.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: How is he doing? There's a big New York Times
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: piece this week claiming that President Trump is questioning whether
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: or not he has a future and all this stuff.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at it going, Wait a second. President
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Trump keeps tasking with like the biggest things in the
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: entire administration. He's negotiating peace with Iran and he's in
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: charge of the fraud task force. How do you think J.D.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Vance is doing?
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: This is one of the most consequential vice presidents we've
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: had in a long time. You think about what happened
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: in the last administration. I'm not sure what's going on there,
• 38:20
  Speaker 10: but that was a person that created problems, that opened
• 38:23
  Speaker 10: the borders. Vice President Vance is cleaning up problems, but
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: he's also setting a vision for the future of reining
• 38:32
  Speaker 10: in fraud. I mean, this is a bit of a
• 38:34
  Speaker 10: sleeper issue. I mean, we all came in knowing that
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: we were going to have to crack down on waste, fraud,
• 38:38
  Speaker 10: and abuse, and as I call it, lying, cheating, and stealing. Like,
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: that was going on at writ large across federal programs.
• 38:46
  Speaker 10: But now, Vice President Vance, because he comes from the
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: private sector, because he's been someone that has been dependent
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: on these programs— He brings passion and experience to that.
• 38:56
  Speaker 10: And this is just one small corner of what he's
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: working on. So he's incredible. The New York Times doesn't
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: obviously know what they're talking about. And it's very interesting
• 39:05
  Speaker 10: how all these left-leaning media outlets will not cover the
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: extent of fraud. They won't talk about it. Candidates won't
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: talk about it. Democrat candidates won't talk about it. They
• 39:15
  Speaker 10: want this fraud to persist and exist. And they're going
• 39:19
  Speaker 10: to try to take down anyone who's taking it on.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're instigators. They're not journalists. So tell me about
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: the Small Business Administration and how small business is doing
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: in the United States right now. because President Trump comes
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: back into office riding a wave of small business support,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of discontent about the Biden era. The small
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: business is very much suffering under Joe Biden. How have
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: things changed?
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: Yeah, under Joe Biden, Small business optimism was below its
• 39:47
  Speaker 10: 52-year average for 34 months in a row. So it
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: hit rock bottom and just slid along the entire Biden administration.
• 39:56
  Speaker 10: Thanks to President Trump, small business formation now is at
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: record levels. We've seen in 2026, it's an average around 450,000
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: to half a million businesses formed each month in this country.
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: Nothing says optimism like going through that whole process, setting
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: up a small business. And then jobs, small businesses create
• 40:15
  Speaker 10: upwards of 80% of all new jobs in this country.
• 40:18
  Speaker 10: We've got hiring at very strong levels last two months,
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: about 313,000 private sector jobs. And at the SBA, what
• 40:26
  Speaker 10: we've done is put out record capital in the first year.
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: So that means small businesses are investing and growing. And
• 40:34
  Speaker 10: that's what I do every week. I travel across the
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: country and talk to small businesses and the level of
• 40:39
  Speaker 10: optimism that is back. They love the president's policies, whether
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: it's tax cuts or deregulation or fair trade. And that's
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: why they're building.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: So help me understand that at a basic level. So
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: the Small Business Administration, you say dispensing capital, you mean
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: giving loans to small businesses to get started?
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm glad you asked. So Small Business Administration, I think,
• 40:59
  Speaker 10: is the most free enterprise agency in the federal government
• 41:02
  Speaker 10: in that we don't directly give those loans. We provide
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: a federal guarantee on your local community bank loan, your lender.
• 41:10
  Speaker 10: And so we give that lender a little bit more
• 41:12
  Speaker 10: confidence to make that loan to a startup business. Last year,
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: 60% of our loans went to businesses with fewer than
• 41:19
  Speaker 10: six employees. But we can do large manufacturing loans now
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: up to $ 10 million, and they could have up to 1,500 employees.
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: So we run the gamut.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: And the trick, of course, is to figure out who's
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: creating a legitimate business that's actually going to help the
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: country and who's trying to just steal money for fraud.
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: Well, absolutely. And that's the beauty of it going through
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: the private banking system. The private banking system has anti-money
• 41:43
  Speaker 10: laundering safeguards in place. They have know-your-customer safeguards in place.
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: They do a lot of the vetting. And then we
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: at the SBA have put new guardrails on that the
• 41:52
  Speaker 10: SBA never had before, which were citizenship checks and birthdate checks.
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: Because we know during COVID-19, Hundreds of billions of dollars
• 41:59
  Speaker 10: went out to people who are over 115 years old
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: or under 11.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, tell me about the big, beautiful bill, now the big,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: beautiful law, and what that's done for small business in
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: the United States.
• 42:10
  Speaker 10: Well, that's been rocket fuel for Main Street. It's just
• 42:13
  Speaker 10: plain and simple. When you want more of something, tax
• 42:16
  Speaker 10: it less. Democrats voted 100% to raise taxes, not just
• 42:21
  Speaker 10: on small businesses, but on the hardworking Americans that work there,
• 42:25
  Speaker 10: the welder, the waitress. what working family tax cuts did,
• 42:28
  Speaker 10: no tax on tips and overtime, and then no tax
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: on social security. So you had 60 million Americans benefiting
• 42:36
  Speaker 10: from the one big, beautiful bill. And then I was
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: at a factory a few weeks ago in Nebraska, and
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: the owner pointed out the one big, beautiful building he
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: built because he gets 100% expensing in the first year
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: of that building. So he was so excited to show
• 42:50
  Speaker 10: me the building. He said, we wouldn't have been able
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: to do this without knowing that we could write it
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: off immediately, saves us cashflow and allows us to hire
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: the five guys we need to hire to work out
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: back there and make these massive water system pipes that
• 43:03
  Speaker 10: we make.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Finally, as we head into the midterms, as we look
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: at the kind of the big picture of where the
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: country is going, what are the economic indicators that we
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: all should be watching to tell us, you know, who
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: deserves to have power in the United States?
• 43:15
  Speaker 10: Well, certainly job creation is important, wage growth that we
• 43:19
  Speaker 10: finally have for the first time since the Biden administration.
• 43:23
  Speaker 10: I think things like capital investment, which we see going
• 43:26
  Speaker 10: up strongly, means we're going to have made in America again,
• 43:29
  Speaker 10: instead of like the offshoring of our jobs and our industries.
• 43:33
  Speaker 10: Price levels, we're working very hard to get the price
• 43:36
  Speaker 10: levels down after the damage the Biden administration did, driving
• 43:40
  Speaker 10: up those in the aggregate of 20%. So we get
• 43:44
  Speaker 10: through the Iranian conflict, we get back to those lower
• 43:48
  Speaker 10: for longer prices, and we're working across the entire federal
• 43:51
  Speaker 10: government to deregulate because we know that the Green New
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: Deal added about 20 percent to the price of housing.
• 43:59
  Speaker 10: So this administration is fighting massive overregulation, taxation, things that
• 44:03
  Speaker 10: make it just harder to bring home more money at
• 44:06
  Speaker 10: the end of the day and keep it in your pocket.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And businesses love certainty and nothing says certainty like
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: continuity of the Trump administration. Kelly Leffler, thank you very much.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Always appreciate our conversations. Nice to talk to you today.
• 44:19
  Speaker 10: Likewise. Thank you, Vince.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: There she is, Kelly Loeffler at the Small Business Administration
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: doing great work alongside J.D. Vance tackling fraud and some
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: morning small businesses. Glad she could stop by this morning.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Let's talk to her. You heard her say at the
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: end of that, that after we get past the Iranian conflict,
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: then we're going to see a lot of upward mobility
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: for businesses across the United States and the state of
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: the economy. And that's what I want to talk about
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: with you next, which is the state of the Iran negotiations.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: The president posting on Truth Social earlier this week, a
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: message that basically encapsulates the phrase that I often use.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Keep cool, my babies. Keep cool. Everyone just keep cool
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: their heads right now. He said there's a lot of
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: people who are telling him, hurry up, get a deal
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: now or don't get a deal. Blow them up. Destroy them.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: Go to war again. And the president says everyone just
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: needs to stop the chirping. That was his phrase. Stop
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the chirping and let me cook. Let me work. I'm
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: working on it. It's going to be great. He says
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: it always is. So he's working on it. And yesterday,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: we got a kind of a roller coaster of headlines,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: as we so often do with Iran, about what the
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: hell is going on. And yesterday, the Iranian state media
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: started claiming. And every time you hear that, I want
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: you to think IRGC. When you hear Iranian state media,
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I want you to hear the most extreme forces in
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Iran are getting the media inside of their state, the
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: propaganda media, to do their bidding. And it may or
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: may not actually have true bearing on the quality of
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: the negotiations going on between the president and his team
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: and the Iranian regime. So take a look at what
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: they said yesterday. CNBC reports, Iran stops negotiations with U.S.,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: vows to completely block Strait of Hormuz. Now, I don't
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: know how they would quote completely block the Strait of Hormuz.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Their Navy has been sunk to the bottom of the
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: sea and we're blowing up their stupid little fast boats
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: that are trying to drop mines there. in the Strait.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: But here's what they said yesterday. Iranian negotiators will stop
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: exchanging messages with the United States through intermediaries, and Tehran
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: will move to fully close the Strait of Hormuz in
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: retaliation for ongoing ceasefire violations, Iran's state-affiliated news outlet Tasnim
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: said Monday. As soon as I see state-affiliated news... It's
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: not news. It's propaganda. And again, it's generated by the IRGC.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: The report and a translated post on the social media
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: site Telegram homed in on Israel's military operations in Lebanon
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah. No dialogue will take place
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: until Israel fully withdraws from occupied areas in Lebanon and
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: stops all attacks in both Lebanon and Gaza, per Tasnim.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: And then they go on to brag that they're super
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: strong and they're really powerful and that they can't be stopped.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: And of course they can be. In fact, the Iranian
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: regime is in a state of immense suffering right now
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: and is trying to figure out how to navigate out
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: of it. And if they can contain the lunatics that
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: are in their ranks, then maybe just maybe they can
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: actually get to a real deal with President Trump, which
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: he keeps on holding out hope for. In fact, the
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: president yesterday said, first he told a reporter who asked
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: him about it. He's like, hey, what's the deal? Like
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Iran's cutting off negotiations? And this guy Garrett Hack over
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: at NBC asked about it. And President Trump said, look,
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard that. But even if that's the case,
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: I'm fine with it. I'm totally fine with it. He goes,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: I think we've been talking too much if you want
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: to know the truth. I think going silent would be
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: very good. That could be. That could be for a
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: long time, he said. It doesn't mean we're going to
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: go and start dropping bombs all over there. We'll just
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: go silent. We'll keep the blockade. Blockade's a piece of steel.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: He was asked by NBC, can he wait them out?
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: He goes, I think I can wait as long as
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: they want. They're losing a fortune. Garrett also says, this
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: is the NBC guy, that the president also seemed to
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: have some grudging respect for the Iranian negotiators when I
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: first asked about reports they were suspending talks. It's an
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: appropriate thing, quote, it's an appropriate thing to say because
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: they're better negotiators than they are fighters. Now, I would
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: call that faint praise from the president. It's almost, he's
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: almost insulting them for being terrible at both, candidly, because
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: his position is like, they suck at fighting. They suck
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: at fighting. So, of course, they're better negotiators than they
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: are fighters. Because how could they possibly be worse negotiators
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: than they are fighters? He's insulting them in his own
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Trumpy way. But of course, the NBC guy's like, he
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: thinks they're great negotiators. He's basically saying they really suck
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: at fighting. I think that's the point he's making. And
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: then yesterday afternoon, the president offered this update after all
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: of this chaos about what's going on. Are they cutting
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: off negotiations? He said, actually, talks are going great and
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: they're continuing at a rapid pace. He wrote this on
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Truth Social. Talks continuing. Rapid pace. Rapid pace. And with
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: the Islamic Republic of Iran, thank you for your attention
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. Okay. Then things
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: get really spicy. Yesterday, we saw a flurry of social
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: media activity that led to an interesting Axios report that
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: is getting a lot of traction this morning. And I'll
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: start with the post from Benjamin Netanyahu. Apparently, the Israeli
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: prime minister and the president of the United States had
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: a phone call yesterday. And the first inklings of the
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: phone call came to us from Netanyahu, who posted the
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: following to social media. He wrote, tonight, It was originally
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: posted in Hebrew, so it's really for the Israeli people,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: but it translated here on your screen. Tonight, I spoke
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: with President Trump and told him that if Hezbollah does
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: not cease attacking our cities and citizens, Israel will attack
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: targets in Beirut. This stance of ours remains unchanged. In parallel,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: the IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: So notice what he's saying. This is all in the
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: language of being on offense, well, defending Israel, but just
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: being aggressive towards Hezbollah, which Hezbollah, these like psychopath, Iranian-funded
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: terror regime that keeps on taking strikes at Israel. Netanyahu's
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: position is we're going to keep fighting them, he says publicly. Well, interestingly,
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: a short while after the president posted his version of
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: the call, He said, I had a conversation with Bibi
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Netanyahu today, asking him to not go into a major
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: raid of Beirut, Lebanon. He turned his troops around. Thank you, Bibi.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: I also had a conversation with representatives of the leaders
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: of Hezbollah, and they agreed to stop shooting at Israel
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: and its soldiers. Likewise, Israel agreed to stop shooting at them.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Let's see how long that lasts. Hopefully, it will be
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: for eternity. President Donald J.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Trump.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: So the president yesterday trying to negotiate a ceasefire between
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: Israel and Hezbollah. The guy's like trying to negotiate peace
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: deals everywhere. And then we get this doozy. This comes
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: to us from Axios yesterday, a guy called Barack Ravid
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: and Mark Caputo. Now you've noticed throughout this saga, I've
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: shared with you some of these Barack Ravid stories because
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: President Trump has done phone calls with him over at Axios.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: And here's the headline. The headline is, quote, you're fucking crazy,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: end quote. Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: President Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: over Israel's escalation in Lebanon in an expletive-laden call on Monday.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: call told Axios. Earlier on Monday, Iran had threatened to
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: abandon negotiations with the United States over Israel's actions in Lebanon.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: On the call, Trump called Netanyahu, quote, crazy and accused
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: him of ingratitude, according to two of the sources. He
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: also put the brakes on Israel's plan to strike Beirut.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: That's consistent with what the president just said, that he
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: got them to stop a planned strike on Beirut.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: One U.S.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Official said Trump told Netanyahu that following through on his
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: threats to bomb the Lebanese capital would further isolate Israel
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: around the world. Two of the sources said Trump claimed
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: he'd help keep Netanyahu out of jail, a reference to
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: his support during Netanyahu's corruption trial. Summarizing remarks to Netanyahu,
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: the U.S. official said, quote, you're fucking crazy. You'd be
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: end quote. A second source briefed on the call said
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Trump was, quote, pissed and at one point yelled at Netanyahu,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: what the fuck are you doing? The U.S. official said
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Trump knew Hezbollah had been shooting at Israel and that
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Israel needed to defend itself, but felt in recent days
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: that Netanyahu was escalating in a disproportionate way. In addition
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: to the threats on Beirut, Israel has been expanding its
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: ground operation in southern Lebanon. Another U.S. official said Trump
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: was concerned by the fact that Israel had killed so
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: many civilians in Lebanon and objected to the Israelis knocking
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: down buildings in to take out a single Hezbollah commander.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: As of now, Israel no longer plans to strike Hezbollah
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: targets in Beirut, an Israeli official told Axios. Now, here's
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: the key point. They say Trump's anger appeared to be
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: driven by the fact that Netanyahu's decision to escalate in
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: Lebanon was threatening to implode his negotiations with Iran. So
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: as we speak, you know this, as of Friday, the
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: president was reviewing the deal, the Memorandum of Understanding. between
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: the United States and Iran. Then he sent back edits.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: He's not going to take a crappy deal. You know that.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: I know that. The world needs to know that. Donald
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Trump is never going to take a crappy deal here.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: He wants a strong deal. What's a strong deal? Get
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: rid of all the nuclear material, ensure that they never
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: get a nuclear weapon, and open up the Strait of Hormuz.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: These are very simple and obvious red lines. And he's
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: negotiating the means to do that right now. He's on
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: the verge of it. He was talking about it Friday.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: And he sent back some changes to the language. And
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: it takes a few days for the gay, deformed Supreme
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Leader to review it inside of his cave that he
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: squirreled away in inside of Iran. The president is trying
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: to get that response. Meanwhile, he thinks that Israel is
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: at risk of blowing up any chance of an actual deal.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: And if the president gets a deal, part of that
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: deal is going to be to stop the funding of
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: these terror groups. No more giving money to Hamas and Hezbollah,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: no more terror attacks on Israel. In other words, the
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: president is trying to negotiate a peace, an end to
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: the nuclear threat, and an existential benefit to Israel. And finally,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: it's between President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu to really know
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: the words that were exchanged on that call. That Axios
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: report may or may not be an accurate reflection. But
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: even without the Axios report adding the color that we
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: can see so vividly, it's also once again a reminder,
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: just looking at the President's Truth Social post, that the
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: President is not being controlled by Netanyahu, despite claims to
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: the contrary. The president is asserting American interest in these conversations,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: including when it annoys Netanyahu. No, stop being an idiot.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Don't go into Beirut, turn around. And then he did. Interesting.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: I think it's fascinating. And it goes back to the
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: point that the president said on Truth Social, what was it,
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: yesterday morning. Let him cook. Just let him cook. His
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: goal is peace. It's not chaos. It's not war. It's
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: not enabling Iran. It is peace. It's peace. Let the
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: man work. He's working on it right now. And I'm
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: rooting for him. I don't know. I mean, it doesn't,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: why would you root against him? The whole thing is
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: so crazy to me that there's a constituency in the
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: United States that is constantly rooting against anything the president does.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Rooting against his efforts to try and derive a peace
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: in Iran, rooting against his efforts to try and denuclearize
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: the place, rooting against his efforts to try and get
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz wide open, get the global economy humming,
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: rooting against his efforts to beautify Iran, the American monuments,
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: including in Washington, D.C., just constantly rooting against him. It's
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: just a pernicious form of Trump derangement syndrome, and it's
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: found everywhere. Just take a breath, keep cool, my babies,
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: and let the guy work. I'm encouraged every time I
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: see reports like this, because it means he's not beholden
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: to anybody. The guy's just trying to do the right thing,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: which I dig. And yes, CJ Juggernaut with the right
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: attitude here in chat, saying, I pray for him. Me too.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: I pray for him. I pray constantly for the, actually,
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: I always pray for the president, even when it's Joe Biden.
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: I pray that they make wise decisions that actually benefit
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: the American people. Didn't have a lot of success with Biden,
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: but I prayed for him anyway. And I constantly pray
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: for President Trump as he navigates all of this. It's
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: really amazing stuff. Speaking of beautifying the country, Doug Burgum,
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: the Interior Secretary, just shared some more information with us.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: That reflecting pool, you know, the reflecting pool in front
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: of the Lincoln Memorial, the one that the left is
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: giving Trump so much grief for. Apparently they're done. They're
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: done sealing it. And it looks great. And it's going
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: to be ready in time for Independence Day. Here's Doug
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: Burgum announcing this week that they're getting the reflecting pool
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: done in record time and at a cut rate, cut nine.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Watch this.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: But what we are doing is we are getting the
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: thing fixed because this is the New York Times also
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: wrote 12 years ago that the Obama administration spent more money.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: It was reflecting pool was closed for two years.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: It never worked that thing.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Even right now, when we took this project over was
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: leaking 45,000 gallons of water a day, uh, 16 million
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: gallons a year because the thing never worked and they
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: spent more money and it was closed for two years.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: So everybody should be celebrating president Trump, getting a project
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: done in one 10th of time. So 10 times faster,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: at a fraction of the cost of a previous administration.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: There was no outrage then. There should be outrage. That
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: thing turned into an algae-driven slew. And this thing is
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: going to be fantastic. It's going to be open in
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: time for the celebration.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. Which, by the way, remember Doug Burgum joined
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: us on this program earlier this year and said, Vince,
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: give you an exclusive here. It's going to be the
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: largest firework show in world history. Independence Day, Washington, D.C.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Very cool. And here's the post that he just shared
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon, Monday afternoon. The reflecting pool is now 100%
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: coated with American flag blue sealant, another major milestone in
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: restoring this landmark and ensuring it lasts for generations of
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Americans to celebrate our great history in our nation's capital.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: It's going to look really good. That dark colored blue
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: means you'll get a picture perfect reflection, depending on what's
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: you're standing on, of the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: Monument and that great World War II Memorial. It's going
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: to be really, really neat to see. And yet another
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: reason that we should all pay a visit to the
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: nation's capital now that President Trump has spruced it up
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: so much. Very, very cool. Love that. One more big
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: reminder for you. Can't escape today without mentioning the fact
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: that in California, we've got a massive election going on today.
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: Jungle primary day today for both governor and L.A. mayor,
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: which big, big races there.
• 59:44
  Speaker 7: In L.A.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: Specifically, Spencer Pratt is scaring the hell out of the establishment.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: A guy, a truly... A grieved guy, righteous indignation powering
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: his campaign. His house burns down and Democrats refuse to
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: let him rebuild it. He's decided I'm running for office
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to upend this whole system. I'm going
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: to try and fix L.A. for once. It's just been
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: too much despair. And he's going to tackle it. Homelessness,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: the drug addiction, animals getting tortured in the streets of
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles, disgusting stuff. He says he wants to be
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: powered by the mothers of LA. He wants the moms
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: of LA to help him win this thing. You've got
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: a big opportunity today. If you're in California, if you're
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, and maybe you've sat out a bunch
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: of elections because you're like, Democrats always win this thing
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: and they're always stealing all the elections.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Show up anyway. Vote, vote, vote. Make it too big
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: to rig. In a state that's infamous for rigging, do
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: what you can to try and get something back here.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: Try and get Spencer Pratt across the line today. And
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: then at the gubernatorial level, we, it's all been very
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: interesting to watch all the pieces moving. For a time,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: we've seen two Republicans, Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, among
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: the leaders in the field. There is a circumstance where
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: both of them could be the top two vote earners today.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: And if they are, then they head off to the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: general election with two Republicans on the ticket, which would
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: be hilarious to just get rid of all the Democrats.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: May or may not actually happen. But Two quick things
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: on Steve Hilton. One, Steve Hilton has revealed this week
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: that his first major act as governor will be to
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: investigate the Democrats responsible for all the fraud in the state.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: That would be Gavin Newsom. He says Gavin Newsom is
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: very much at the top of the list. Steve Hilton
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: wants to investigate him, and boy, does Greasy Gavin deserve it.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: You think tampon Tim Walz is bad? Greasy Gavin, guaranteed,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: has enabled more fraud than any governor ever in the country.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: So we'll see what Steve Helton can do with that
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: if he gets a chance to become governor. And President
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: Trump loves Steve Helton. He gave his endorsement to Steve Helton.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: He said the following. He goes, I've known and respected Steve,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: who's running for governor of California for many years. He's
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: a truly fine man, one who has watched as this
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: once great state has gone to hell. Gavin Newsom and
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: the Democrats, they've done an absolutely horrendous job. People are fleeing.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: Crime is increasing. Taxes are the highest of any state
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: in the country, maybe the world. Steve can turn it
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: around before it's too late. And as president, I will
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: help him do it. With our administration working alongside a
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: great governor like Steve Hilton, California can be better than
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: ever before. Steve Hilton has my complete and total endorsement
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: election day today, Tuesday, June 2nd. Get out, vote for Steve.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: He'll be a great governor and importantly, will never let
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: you down. President Donald J.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Trump.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: He says you can find your voting location at SwampTheVoteUSA.com
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: slash CA. That's SwampTheVoteUSA.com. slash CA, find your polling place,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: go and vote. But Vince, California is so rigged. I
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: don't care. You got to do what you can. Do
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: what you can. Of course, I care. I don't want
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: it to be rigged. But do what you can given
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: the circumstances. Just show up and vote. Don't let your
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: lack of voting be the reason that either of these
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: guys lose. Don't let that be the reason. Show up, vote,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: and bring your friends. Get everybody to show up. Let's
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: make California great again. Can you imagine? President Trump's cleaning
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: up D.C. What if we could clean up California? Gosh,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: that would be spectacular.
• 1:03:12
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• 1:03:13
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• 1:03:15
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• 1:03:18
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• 1:03:21
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• 1:03:58
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• 1:04:05
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• 1:04:07
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