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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. My
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  Speaker 1: dad is confirmed as Secretary of Transportation. The White House
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  Speaker 1: press briefing room opens up to new media. Tom Homan
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  Speaker 1: eviscerates Joy Reid. RFK Jr. 's family smears him again.
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  Speaker 1: Google Maps replaces Gulf of Mexico with Gulf of America.
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  Speaker 1: Trump calls for the abolition of the federal income tax.
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  Speaker 1: And New York Magazine criticizes young MAGA supporters for being
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  Speaker 1: hot and cool, I guess. All this on the Bongino Report,
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  Speaker 1: early edition. Today we are live from the Rumble studio,
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  Speaker 1: as you can see if you're watching on Rumble, because
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  Speaker 1: yesterday I went to, with my family, to the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court where Justice Clarence Thomas swore my dad in as
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Transportation Secretary. The Senate voted to confirm
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  Speaker 1: my dad. It was 77 to 22. We thought it
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  Speaker 1: was gonna be a unanimous vote, but Trump announced a
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  Speaker 1: temporary halt on all federal financial assistance programs, including grants
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  Speaker 1: and loans, effective at 5 p.m. yesterday, which is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome. It also meant that all hell broke loose
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  Speaker 1: in Washington. And a lot of Democrat senators were furious. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: they all were furious. And many of them who were
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  Speaker 1: going to vote to confirm my dad didn't in protest
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  Speaker 1: of Trump's federal funding Now, my dad, of course, made
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  Speaker 1: it through pretty safely. He had 77 votes, so it
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  Speaker 1: was a bipartisan vote. All the Republicans, many Democrats. But
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  Speaker 1: we still have to get RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Kash
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  Speaker 1: Patel over the finish line. And this really could tighten
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  Speaker 1: up the already tight numbers on these more controversial picks.
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  Speaker 1: So keep praying, you guys, because it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a tough run for many of Trump's really important nominees.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so back to yesterday. Usually the president or
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  Speaker 1: the vice president swears in these secretaries. Neither were available yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: So my dad got to select a Supreme Court justice
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  Speaker 1: and he requested Justice Clarence Thomas. Was that a good choice?
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  Speaker 1: I think that was a really good choice. And let
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  Speaker 1: me just tell you guys that Clarence Thomas was the
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  Speaker 1: kindest man. He was so generous with his time. He
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  Speaker 1: talked to each of the kids. All of my siblings
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  Speaker 1: were there except for two of them, my sister who's
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  Speaker 1: in college and my brother who lives in California with
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  Speaker 1: his wife and his baby. So he took us to,
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  Speaker 1: Justice Clarence took us to his office before we met him.
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  Speaker 1: My mom actually told all the kids, make sure you say,
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  Speaker 1: nice to meet you, Justice Thomas. And my little brother, Patrick,
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  Speaker 1: you can see him in that photo. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to pull that back up, Mikey, he's in the front.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a little suit on and he's eight. And
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  Speaker 1: you could tell that he was rehearsing this line that
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  Speaker 1: he delivered and he delivered it perfectly to Justice Clarence.
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  Speaker 1: When he shook his hand, he said, nice to meet you,
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  Speaker 1: Justice Thomas. And it was very cute. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: my parents forgot a Bible at their home in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: So they went all over DC looking for one. I
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to pick one up at the airport and
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  Speaker 1: then I forgot. So then they were scrambling, going all
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  Speaker 1: over the city looking for a Bible to buy. And
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  Speaker 1: they went to multiple bookstores and there'd be just rows
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  Speaker 1: and rows of books on Buddhism and Islam and Hinduism
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  Speaker 1: and then no Bible. DC really is a pagan town.
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  Speaker 1: And Justice Thomas touched on this when he met with
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  Speaker 1: us yesterday. My mom, I think, rightfully said it was
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  Speaker 1: fate that Trump and J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Weren't available.
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  Speaker 1: And it would have been great to have either the
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  Speaker 1: president or the vice president there. But Justice Clarence Thomas
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  Speaker 1: really had some wise, essential, powerful words for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: He talked a little bit about DC, what this town
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  Speaker 1: is really like. And I won't go into too many details,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys can guess what he said. And then
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  Speaker 1: he instructed my dad to go to mass daily, or
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  Speaker 1: at least to stop by the church and pray this
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  Speaker 1: one prayer. The prayer is, Lord, give me the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: to know what is right and the courage to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Thomas is a really wise, a very Christian man.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's one of the very few sincerely moral
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  Speaker 1: and good men in Washington. He's someone who has been smeared,
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  Speaker 1: lied about profusely by the legacy media and And yet
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  Speaker 1: he clearly remains guided by his conscience, by that prayer.
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  Speaker 1: I'll also add that he was really upbeat and warm.
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  Speaker 1: He was not somber and depressing. This was a very
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  Speaker 1: joyful person. My little sister's nickname is Mud, and he
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  Speaker 1: loved that, and he was so interested in her and
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  Speaker 1: her nickname and how she got her nickname. Justice Thomas clearly, again,
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  Speaker 1: lives by the prayer, and his advice applies really to
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  Speaker 1: all of us. Pray now. that you have the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: to know what is right and the courage to do it.
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  Speaker 1: We also yesterday visited the Department of Transportation for the
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  Speaker 1: first time. None of us, including my dad, who's now
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  Speaker 1: the secretary, had ever been inside the building. And it's
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  Speaker 1: this massive building. And he saw his new office for
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  Speaker 1: the first time. And it was kind of crazy because
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  Speaker 1: just a couple days ago, I was watching some old
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  Speaker 1: family videos with Michael that my dad had recently digitized, right?
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  Speaker 1: He had all these tapes and he had them put
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  Speaker 1: on a flash drive And one of these tapes included
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  Speaker 1: him at his first real job. It was when my
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  Speaker 1: parents first got married. I was like less than a
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  Speaker 1: year old. And my dad was an apprentice or his dad,
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  Speaker 1: my grandfather, at his small town law office in Hayward, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: And my dad was given this like really tiny metal
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  Speaker 1: desk that kind of looked like a schoolboy's desk. And
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  Speaker 1: then my mom was like, we're not having that. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to happen. She wanted him to feel confident,
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  Speaker 1: to take pride in his work. So she bought him
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  Speaker 1: this big, nice desk and this tiny little, little office
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  Speaker 1: that he had at his dad's law firm.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: But as they probably couldn't afford, my mom said, but
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  Speaker 1: she did it anyways. And now to see the contrast
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  Speaker 1: between that video and then walking into his new office
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  Speaker 1: as secretary of transportation, it was really wonderful. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't think kids often say that they're proud of their parents.
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  Speaker 1: It kind of feels kind of backwards to say. But
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  Speaker 1: seeing how far they've come to this moment, I truly
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  Speaker 1: am proud of them. My dad was the second youngest
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  Speaker 1: of 11 from a tiny town in the Northwoods. No
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  Speaker 1: special connections, just a lot of grit and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of encouragement from my mom, who always had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence in him. She always believed in him. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, before I move on, I want to play
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  Speaker 1: this video of Valentina addressing the justices in the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look. Okay, go ahead. Very cute. She's always
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  Speaker 1: so cute. All right, let's get to these headlines. The
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  Speaker 1: Trump White House has opened up the press briefing room
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  Speaker 1: to new media, meaning podcasters, bloggers, social media influencers. And
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  Speaker 1: this was a great move, a no-brainer from Trump. Traditional
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  Speaker 1: media is not only dishonest, it's irrelevant. No one watches
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  Speaker 1: cable TV or reads the newspaper, the New York Times,
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. They just don't. Now, the corporate media
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  Speaker 1: was still there. They just had to share the room
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  Speaker 1: with others who actually are influential in public discourse. And
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  Speaker 1: they did indeed ask some brain-dead questions, the corporate media,
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  Speaker 1: some gotcha questions. But White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt
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  Speaker 1: shut them down immediately. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Of the 3,500 arrests ICE has made so far since
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  Speaker 3: President Trump came back into office, can you just tell
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  Speaker 3: us the numbers? How many have a criminal record versus
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  Speaker 3: those who are just in the country illegally?
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  Speaker 4: All of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws
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  Speaker 4: and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes.
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  Speaker 4: I know the last administration didn't see it that way.
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  Speaker 4: So it's a big culture shift in our nation to
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  Speaker 4: view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal.
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  Speaker 4: But that's exactly what they are. If they broke our
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  Speaker 4: nation's laws, yes, they are criminal.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. She's so good. And she's so young, too.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's like 26, 27. Exactly right response. They
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  Speaker 1: broke the law. They did something illegal. So we call
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  Speaker 1: them illegals. It's a brilliant response. Really well put. Caroline
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  Speaker 1: also revealed that the government will no longer be funding
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  Speaker 1: Catholic charities, which is supposed to be a Catholic organization
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  Speaker 1: that aids in really the open border crisis by shuttling
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  Speaker 1: illegals all across the country. They are a terrible organization.
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  Speaker 1: They're partly why I don't like giving money in the
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  Speaker 1: communion basket. I like to give directly to certain causes,
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  Speaker 1: to a parish who I know isn't going to give
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  Speaker 1: to Catholic. I don't know. We just don't know. These
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  Speaker 1: organizations say they're Catholic. They're run by the U.S. Catholic
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  Speaker 1: Conference of Bishops, and they do terrible, evil things. So,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, this question I'm going to play for
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  Speaker 1: you guys, it was asked by Daily Caller reporter Reagan Reese,
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  Speaker 1: or Reese Reagan, I forget her name, but nice girl,
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  Speaker 1: does good reporting. And again, she's from the Daily Caller.
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  Speaker 1: New media is finally being included, which is so important.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Reagan, since you're in the back row, I hear the
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  Speaker 4: back row hasn't gotten much attention in the last four years.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm happy to answer your question. Does the president
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  Speaker 4: intend to permanently cut off funding to NGOs that are
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  Speaker 4: bringing illegal foreign nationals to the country, such as Catholic charities?
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  Speaker 4: I am actually quite certain that the president signed an
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  Speaker 4: executive order that did just that, and I can point
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  Speaker 4: you to that.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. Amazing. Thank you. Finally, somebody's doing what right in
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  Speaker 1: this country. Catholic Charities, again, left-wing NGO, hides behind the
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  Speaker 1: name of Catholic, and it's actively aiding and encouraging the
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  Speaker 1: mass violation of U.S. immigration laws. Absolutely, 100%, they should
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  Speaker 1: be defunded, and finally, Trump is taking some action and
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  Speaker 1: doing it, unlike every other president that we've had before.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of the border, Tom Holman... had the most perfect response, again,
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  Speaker 1: to old guard media Joy Reid, who was attacking him
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  Speaker 1: and Kristi Noem for videoing the arrest of illegal rapist murderers, traffickers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why this is controversial to the left,
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  Speaker 1: but apparently it is. Here is Tom Homan shutting her down.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Who's confirmed as a Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 1: And it says she's cosplaying.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost a game where she seems to be cosplaying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what she thinks that she's portraying here.
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  Speaker 1: She might as well be at Comic-Con.
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  Speaker 5: James and Joyce say you're reckless and you're just role-playing
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  Speaker 5: for fun.
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  Speaker 1: She's dumber than a box of rocks. It's awesome. I'm
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  Speaker 1: loving these interviews. I'm loving that Trump is allowing his
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  Speaker 1: team to be transparent, to correct the record in real time.
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  Speaker 1: It's hilarious. It's badass. It's exactly what I voted for.
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  Speaker 1: The propaganda press is trying to smear Trump and his
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  Speaker 1: mandate as cruel or as silly. And Trump's team has
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  Speaker 1: responded to the media by treating them like the idiots
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  Speaker 1: that they are. Finally, not toe-tipping around these people who
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  Speaker 1: are total hacks and liars. Joy Reid can scream and
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  Speaker 1: cry all she wants, but a segment screaming about racism
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  Speaker 1: or belittling ISIS efforts means nothing anymore. It's utterly lost
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  Speaker 1: its power, their power, over this admin, over the minds
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  Speaker 1: of the public. And we don't have time for their
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  Speaker 1: shenanigans because things are serious. American Southern border is essentially
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  Speaker 1: a multi-front war against drug cartels and illegal immigration. The
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  Speaker 1: satanic cartels wield terror to control violence. illegal border crossings,
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  Speaker 1: which is why Trump has rightfully designated them terrorist organizations.
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  Speaker 1: It's why Pete Hexeth has pledged full military support to
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  Speaker 1: secure the border. Trump is treating this crisis like a war,
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  Speaker 1: and it's about time that a president did. Remember how
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  Speaker 1: I said there's a massive assault against all the high-profile
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  Speaker 1: Trump nominees? We talked to Callie Means yesterday about RFK Jr.
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  Speaker 1: 's confirmation. The vote is apparently... or the decision is
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  Speaker 1: apparently going to happen today. Now, we expect roadblocks from
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  Speaker 1: rhinos and left-wing dark money groups and traitors like Mike Pence.
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  Speaker 1: But how about your own family? Yes, RFK Jr. 's
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  Speaker 1: own family is attacking him again. His cousin, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy,
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  Speaker 1: sent a critical letter to the U.S. Senate. And in
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: this letter, Caroline labeled RFK Jr. a predator with dangerous
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  Speaker 1: anti-vaccine views and questionable ethics. She also released this video
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  Speaker 1: to the public.
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  Speaker 2: I've known Bobby my whole life. We grew up together.
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  Speaker 2: It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as
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  Speaker 2: pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He's always been charismatic,
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  Speaker 2: able to attract others through the strength of his personality,
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  Speaker 2: his willingness to take risks and break the rules. I
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  Speaker 2: watched his younger brothers and cousins follow him down the
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  Speaker 2: path of drug addiction. His basement, his garage, his dorm
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  Speaker 2: room were always the center of the action, where drugs
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: were available and he enjoyed showing off how he put
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: baby chickens and mice in a blender to feed to
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  Speaker 2: his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair
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  Speaker 2: and violence. That was a long time ago and people
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  Speaker 2: can change. Through his own strength and the many second
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  Speaker 2: chances he was given by people who felt sorry for
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  Speaker 2: the boy who lost his father, Bobby was able to
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  Speaker 2: pull himself out of illness and disease. I admire the
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  Speaker 2: discipline that took and the continuing commitment it requires. But
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  Speaker 2: siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of
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  Speaker 2: substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death, while Bobby has
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  Speaker 2: gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life. Today,
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  Speaker 2: while he may encourage a younger generation to attend AA meetings.
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  Speaker 2: Bobby is addicted to attention and power.
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  Speaker 1: It's just awful. It's just disgusting. And then she goes
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  Speaker 1: on to talk about vaccines and how RFK Jr., he's
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  Speaker 1: a conspiracy theorist. It was really quite nasty. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to correct the record. I think I said that
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  Speaker 1: his vote is today. No, his hearing is today. So
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  Speaker 1: they're going to question him. It's going to be really gross.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably going to be almost as dramatic
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  Speaker 1: as Pete Hegg says, just get ready for some real
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  Speaker 1: nasty back and forth from these senators. But I think
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be very damaging when you have
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  Speaker 1: your own family coming out against you, skewing, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just the pressure campaign to get rid of this man
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  Speaker 1: is so intense. And what makes it so gross is
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it's family. There are mixed political views
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  Speaker 1: in my family. I've talked about it. Like my grandparents,
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  Speaker 1: my grandmother is now deceased, but my grandfather is still alive.
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  Speaker 1: And the two of them, Bernie bros, like just full-on socialists.
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  Speaker 1: They're just crazy. CNN's on all the time. MSNBC. Some
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  Speaker 1: of my dad's siblings, pretty liberal in mind. And none
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  Speaker 1: of us attack each other publicly over politics because that'd
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  Speaker 1: be weird and disordered and wrong. We're family. Caroline Kennedy
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  Speaker 1: is posturing for her liberal friends, putting political contacts over
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  Speaker 1: her own flesh and blood, and it's transparently nasty. No
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  Speaker 1: one normal thinks that what Caroline Kennedy just did is
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  Speaker 1: inspiring or cool. No one. What is cool, I'll say,
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  Speaker 1: is Google's announcement that it will be changing the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Gulf of Mexico on all their maps to
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  Speaker 1: the Gulf of America after President Trump issued his Restoring
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  Speaker 1: the Names Act. that honor American greatness executive order. Google
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  Speaker 1: also said that it will be using the new name
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  Speaker 1: Mount McKinley instead of Denali. Mount McKinley, of course, was
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  Speaker 1: the original name of this mountain. Obama decided to change
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  Speaker 1: it to some indigenous name, which was very silly. Google
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  Speaker 1: wrote on X, we've received a few questions about naming
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  Speaker 1: within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying
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  Speaker 1: name changes when they have been updated to official government sources.
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  Speaker 1: And just to remind you guys that while Google Maps
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  Speaker 1: is doing this, they're abiding by the Trump executive order,
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  Speaker 1: going with the new name, the UK has refused to
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  Speaker 1: update in response to this name change. So there are
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  Speaker 1: many indications that the UK is not an ally of America.
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  Speaker 1: This to me is one of them. It's just a
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  Speaker 1: brazen middle finger to President Trump. I think it's really
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  Speaker 1: gross considering the amount of times we bailed them out,
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  Speaker 1: saved them from financial ruin, fought wars for them, been
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  Speaker 1: allies to them, and all they do is interfere in
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  Speaker 1: our elections. Apparently- give middle fingers internationally to our president
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  Speaker 1: via just a simple name change. So screw the UK.
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  Speaker 1: Another enemy of America is Crooked Hillary, who laughed at
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  Speaker 1: the idea of the Gulf of America during Trump's inaugural address.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look.
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  Speaker 3: A short time from now, we are going to be
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  Speaker 3: changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
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  Speaker 5: To the Gulf of America, and we will restore the.
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  Speaker 6: Name of the Gulf of.
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  Speaker 1: America. It's kind of crazy that she laughs like that. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she thinks that, what, she's still relevant in
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  Speaker 1: this country? Like, it's almost kind of pitiful that she
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  Speaker 1: would turn her nose up at Trump. Like, oh, look
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  Speaker 1: at him. He's so silly. He wants to change the
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  Speaker 1: name to the Gulf of America. But, like, meanwhile, she's
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  Speaker 1: lost the election, completely irrelevant in this country, tried to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, help stage the Russia collusion hoax. Didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: Trump came back. He won again. Like, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: almost sad. The way that she just sits there and
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  Speaker 1: laughs at this man who's beaten her round after round.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I think a lot of these guys in
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  Speaker 1: that room, they think Trump's joking, that he's absurd, that
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  Speaker 1: he's just a crazy man who probably isn't going to
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  Speaker 1: do those things. Then he goes ahead and he does it.
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  Speaker 1: He renames the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what happened with Colombia. F around and find out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if this had been laid out normally by
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  Speaker 1: the State Department... would have been weeks in the making,
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  Speaker 1: and all this back and forth, all these considerations about
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: how to deal with the president of Colombia. And President
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Trump just sends off this crazy tweet. He says, we're
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: going to tariff you. We're going to destroy your economy
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  Speaker 1: if you don't let your citizens, who are illegals in
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: this country, land in Colombia. And he just acquiesces. He's like, OK, fine.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: This is Trump foreign policy. This is what happens. And
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know. These guys just haven't gotten the memo.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Still have that cough. But it's getting better. The cough
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: is getting better. Now, the last week has been intense.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Trump 2.0 feels better than his first term already. He's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: in the driver's seat. He's not learning the ropes anymore.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: He got it down. He's carrying out his agenda.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: And Trump is an ambitious guy. This week, he called
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: for the abolition of the federal income tax, advocating for
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a tariff-based economic system similar to what Trump describes as
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: America's most prosperous period. That would be from 1870 to 1913.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And Trump believes that.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Sorry. He believes that a tariff-backed system would enrich American
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: citizens by taxing foreign nationals instead. People on social media
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: have responded pretty hilariously to this. Somebody on X said,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: this is what my bathroom will look like once income
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: tax is abolished. And you see just this gorgeous... art
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: deco emerald bathroom with this copper showerhead. It's just beautiful.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: And then obviously it's probably AI created. It's kind of
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: a joke. This person says, this is what my bedroom
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: will look like once the income tax is abolished. And
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: it's an image of Rivendell, the elf palace in Lord
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: of the Rings. Basically people are saying they're going to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: have a lot of extra cash. And if this happens,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: they're right. Now the 16th amendment, is what grants Congress
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the authority to issue an income tax. And repealing a
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: constitutional amendment is not easy. And if Trump pulls this off,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: it would be incredible. He'd have to strongly urge Congress
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to introduce a joint resolution to repeal the existing amendment,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to make it a priority. But if he succeeds, if
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: he gets this done, it'd be huge. And I think, frankly,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Michael and I were talking about this, I think it's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: outrageous that the American people accepted the idea of a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: federal income tax in the first place. But that's what
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: this admin is doing. Trump is just turning the tables.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: He's rewriting the playbook. Status quo is out the window.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: And that's why Trump is not only attracting a lot
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of energy, but he's attracting a lot of young energy.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And this is really scary, really scary to the left,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: which is why New York Magazine decided to write this
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: article titled The Cruel Kids Table. Among the young, confident,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington and have
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: their sights set on America. That is the subheading here.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And this whole article is really long. It's a smear, essentially,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: on hot, young, politically incorrect Trump supporters who were partying
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: at the inauguration, who the author in the article is
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: fear-mongering over, and then, of course, dubs cruel and racist.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And the crazy part, this event was hosted by C.J. Pearson,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: who is a black man. And the article doesn't mention
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: that at all. And not only... does it not mention
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: CJ Pearson, the black people in the room appear to
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: have been intentionally cropped out of this photo. Let me
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: show that picture, Michael. You can see there's like three
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: black people and they're just out of the picture. You can't,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: in the full New York Times view, you can't see them.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I wonder like, is that on purpose? Like, why would
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you guys, and it kind of means if you're trying
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: to make this argument that all of young MAGA people
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: are racist, but then you have the cover photo with
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a bunch of black people, kind of undermines your point,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't it? and that the event was hosted by a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: black man. Now, throughout this article, the author quotes a
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: lot of MAGA young people. And I'm going to read
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a couple excerpts for you guys as sort of what
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the New York Magazine's evidence is for why all these
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: people are cruel and racist and evil. So it says, quote,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: recounting her time at one of the balls, a woman
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: tells me, She jumped the velvet rope into a VIP section, quote,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: like a little Mexican, and then she lets out a cackle.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And this was a very deeply disturbing comment that the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: reporter heard from this unnamed woman. He also, the reporter says,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: a former Bernie supporter told me he wanted the freedom
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to say faggot and retarded. This was also horrifying to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the reporter. And here are a couple more quotes that
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: really upset this woman. quote, I think pronouns are retarded.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: And then tomorrow we're going to have images of them
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: rounding up illegals and deporting them. That's exciting. So again,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the argument is that these young people, they're evil and
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: cruel because they are not politically correct. They don't abide
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: by the liberal elite's speech codes. But let's just get
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to what this is really about. What is it really about? Beautiful, cool,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and successful young people flocking to MAGA and threatening the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: left's relevancy. In New York Magazine, desperately wanted to get
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: ahead of this issue by smearing them. And it has
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: incredibly backfired. First of all, people can't stop talking about
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: how beautiful one woman is on the front cover. Let's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: throw that out there, Mikey, if we can. And she
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: is beautiful, right? Her face is iconic, like a Hollywood starlet.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: The entire photo, this woman, everybody in the picture, it's aspirational.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: It's a type of group that you want to be
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: a part of. The entire article reads like someone jealous
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: they aren't in the club, and they should be. There's
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: nothing fun and aspirational about leptism. It's depressing and it's ugly.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Ugly is important, right? I talk about this all the time.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: For some reason, that ideology produces ugly buildings, ugly spaces. It,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, influences people to make themselves ugly on
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: purpose almost. Conservatism is now a driving culture. Matt Walsh
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: writes that a picture of young, successful, happy people in
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a trendy cocktail party reads as right wing. A picture
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of a dad in flannel drinking beer at Texas Roadhouse
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: also reads as right wing. Right wing is both cool,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: hip and metropolitan and down to earth, older, mature and
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: working class. This is how you know that conservatism is
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: culturally ascendant. The only pictures that read as left-wing are
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: those of ugly, fat, mentally ill, dysfunctional, friendless weirdos. I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: think he's really right. Conservatives are driving culture, whether institutions
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: like it or not. A couple days ago, Selena Gomez
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: decided to post a video of herself sobbing over Trump
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: deporting illegal criminals. What happened afterward is really important, but first,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I want you to listen to her video.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I just wanted to say that I'm so sorry.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: All my people are getting attacked.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: The children.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: I don't understand.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: I wish I could do something, but I can't.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know what to do.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I'll try everything I've got. Okay, so Ben Shapiro actually said,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it's pretty funny, that this was her best performance. Selena Gomez,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: she's very cute. She's very pretty. She's not that great
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: of an actress. She's not that great of a singer.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: This truly was one of her best performances I've ever seen. Truly.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: As somebody who grew up in the Disney Channel era,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Selena Gomez was everywhere. This is the best I've seen
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: from her. And first of all, what does she mean
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: by my people? Trump is deporting illegal rapists, murderers, thieves,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and traffickers. Are those her people? Maybe murderers and rapists.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: That's the entertainment industry that she's a part of. Maybe.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But, I mean, this woman, she's born
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: in Texas. Her Mexican father wasn't in the picture. She
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: can't even speak Spanish well. She also lives in a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: $ 5 million mansion in Los Angeles with private security. I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: know that there were no tears for Lake and Riley. None.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: For any of the young women who have been raped
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and murdered by illegals. So Selena rightfully came off as
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: privileged and out of touch and an idiot. And she
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: was mercilessly mocked on social media, not just by right-wing influencers,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: but everyone. Here is one TikTok user and warning that
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: it's a little explicit, but I think it demonstrates the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: point pretty well.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Somebody got to beat Selena Gomez ass.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know who, somebody.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Bitch net worth is over a billy, over a billion.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: and you're boohoo crying on people's phone screens about deportation
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: and what can you do? I wish I could do something. Oh,
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: I got something you could do. Bitch, it's time to
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: sell that discography. Start paying for some citizenships.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: The fuck?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Alex Russo, get it the fuck together. Okay. I mean,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: she's right. What could I do? I don't know what
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to do. It's like, Selena, like, I don't know. How
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: about house them in your mansion? Pay for all their
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: legal fees. Like, she's not willing to do any of that, right?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: This is just posturing. It's just political. And the point
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: still stands that who is driving culture now? Certainly not
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the entertainment industry. Selena's also starring in a movie, musical,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that's been nominated for countless Oscars about a transgender drug
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: cartel leader. And the public hates it. We hate it.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Selena's irrelevant, and so is the industry that she's a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: part of. They're out of sync. Here's Andrew Schultz. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: don't know anybody. I don't know one man above 5'9
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: that says they're a Democrat. There's only one? Honestly, males
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: under 5'9 that identify as a Democrat. They're like, I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: am a Democrat. I'm a hundred percent.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I'm registered as an independent and I'm five, six, five,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: seven on a good day.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It's for, it's a, it's a shorter guy thing.
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: I don't know what it is.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: They just need protection.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: They need society.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a shorter guy thing.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Have you met one dude six, four with a job
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: who's just like, I'm a Democrat.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: No. I would argue it's a gayer guy thing.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Conservatism is not just politically relevant. It's becoming culturally dominant.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: That's what Andrew Schultz just demonstrated in that video. The
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: old institutions from mainstream media to Hollywood are out of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: touch and they're losing influence. Meanwhile, the right is setting
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the tone. Whether our institutions like it or not, for decades,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: progressives controlled the narrative, deciding what was cool, what was
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: acceptable to say, and who got to be in the spotlight.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: But that monopoly is crumbling. Social media has decentralized influence,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: allowing an unfiltered, unpolished, and undeniably compelling new right-wing counterculture
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: to emerge. The polished elites of Hollywood and legacy media,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: they can't keep up. The left used to be the
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: side of rebellion, but now it's conservatives who are the
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: ones breaking taboos and rejecting groupthink and living without fear
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of cancellation. They are the new counterculture, and people are
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: gravitating toward it. That's why New York Magazine is panicking.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: They see young people flocking to MAGA, not because they're
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: brainwashed or cruel, but because the left has become stale, bitter,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and authoritarian, and ugly. The media wants to ridicule and
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: isolate us, but instead, it only reinforced our growing influence.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Celebrities like Selena Gomez try to rally outrage only to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: be met with mockery and irrelevance. The left institutions are
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: no longer the tastemakers of our day. the relics of
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: an era that's slipping away. Meanwhile, conservatives are defining what's stylish, bold,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and aspirational, which makes me think that the culture war
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: isn't just shifting. Perhaps it's already been won. And that's
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: all I have for you guys today. Thank you so
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: much for tuning in here at the Rumble Studio. My
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: cough's getting a little better. Hopefully there'll be no interruptions tomorrow.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I'll see you all then. The Dan Boncino Show.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: That is it.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: This is not a football game. If you vote, we
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: will win. It is not complicated.
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