Learn English with Donald Trump. President Donald J. Trump delivers a message of hope and hope to the American people on the eve of the July 4th recess, as the Senate votes on a Republican health care bill that could lead to millions losing their health care coverage.
00:00:00.000Late on Saturday, the Republican-led Senate advanced the package following a dramatic drawn-out process that spanned hours, bringing it one step closer to passage.
00:00:10.800It narrowly advanced after Majority Leader John Thune and Vice President J.D. Vance struck a deal with the holdouts.
00:00:17.580Trump also stayed in Washington over the weekend to engage in the whip effort, calling senators and hosting meetings.
00:00:24.380Ultimately, the vote was 51-49, with two Republicans, Senator Tom Tillis, who you heard earlier, and Rand Paul, joining all the Democrats in opposition.
00:00:35.220Yesterday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office published its analysis of the bill, saying it would increase the national debt by $3.3 trillion over the next 10 years.
00:00:45.840It's also projected that the proposed legislation would lead to more than 11 million people losing their health insurance by the year 2034.
00:00:56.260Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke on the Senate floor on Sunday, accusing Republicans of falsifying the math to get the bill across the finish line.
00:01:11.620This piece of legislation is a rotten racket.
00:01:20.980This place feels to me today like a crime scene.
00:01:25.320Get some of that yellow tape and put it around this chamber.
00:01:32.600The midnight transfer of wealth in this bill is disgusting.
00:01:40.140On health care and betraying a promise, it is inescapable that this bill in its current form will betray the very promise that Donald J. Trump made in the Oval Office or in the Cabinet Room when I was there with finance, where he said,
00:01:58.940we can go after waste, we can go after waste, fraud, and abuse, on any programs.
00:02:04.920Now, those amateurs that are advising him, not Dr. Oz, I'm talking about White House health care experts,
00:02:13.100refuse to tell him that those instructions that were to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse,
00:02:20.340all of a sudden eliminates a government program that's called the provider tax.
00:02:26.720We have morphed a legal construct that admittedly has been abused and should be eliminated into waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:02:35.700There's still a lot of work that needs to be done in the Senate.
00:02:38.500They can only afford to lose three Republican votes.
00:02:40.780And then there's still all the work that would need to happen in the House,
00:02:43.600as they would also need to clear conservatives, moderate Republicans,
00:02:47.740all across the spectrum to try to get this bill passed by that July 4th deadline that the president has set.
00:02:52.600In deciding whether to vote for the big, not-so-beautiful bill, I've asked a very specific question.
00:03:00.080Will the deficit be more or less next year?
00:03:03.860The answer, without question, is this bill will grow the deficit.
00:03:08.100The federal government has fancy formulas and hundreds of wonky accountants
00:03:13.500who inform us of their projections over 10 years.
00:03:17.460But you often can't trust these projections.
00:03:21.020In an excellent piece written by the Foundation for Economics and Education entitled,
00:03:26.700The CBO's Projections Are Worse Than Useless,
00:08:27.640You saw all the even beginning of the speeches over the weekend.
00:08:33.040And there's this question of are they cutting too much in certain areas that will affect not just the country but the Trump voters, on the other hand?
00:08:40.680Have they cut enough and we have the deficits?
00:08:42.660All I know is that the CBO forecasts over 10 years I think are meaningless.
00:08:47.700But the administration hasn't really come back.
00:08:49.480They've put out something, but they're not – I don't think being forceful enough of putting forward their program of growth.
00:08:55.800President Trump just put out a true social last night that said, hey, look, it basically implies not cutting as much as he would like.
00:09:05.640But he says we've got to get it through and we're going to grow our way out of here.
00:09:09.540I think that they've got Secretary of Treasury, Bassett, and head of the National Economic Council over at the White House, Hassett, have to come forward and have to start putting out.
00:09:21.560Because this bill, the Senate bill, has a $5 trillion increase to the debt ceiling that slid in in just a couple of paragraphs.
00:09:28.760The House has got $4 trillion in that.
00:09:33.720I look at these deficits, unless somebody can show me otherwise, they're $2 trillion every year.
00:09:41.380Now, we may be growing our way out of there, but I think they've got to give some backup on that so people have it.
00:09:46.840Mike Davis joins us, Mike, after a huge Friday.
00:09:51.440And we're trying to get Josh Hammer up in the second hour if we can track him down.
00:09:55.300Huge – just Friday was, for the Trump agenda, absolutely massive at the Supreme Court.
00:10:01.660But now we're back into the legislative side.
00:10:03.540First of all, just give me your summary of Friday as you've thought about it over the weekend and how important it is, particularly as President Trump goes forth.
00:10:13.440Because this bill – one of the reasons Trump wants to get this bill done is he needs money to actually do the mass deportations.
00:10:19.760What Biden set up and the system they set up and taking apart ICE and the ability to have any logistics that can assist the mass deportations, that's what's in this bill is to get it.
00:10:33.920It's one of the reasons President Trump says it's got to be done now.
00:10:36.660Your sense of what Friday meant for us as a country and as a movement going forward to really take on this judicial insurrection, which is President Trump's executive power.
00:10:48.500I mean, until this bill's passed, or if it even is passed, because that's still an open question right now, President Trump's got his executive powers.
00:10:59.260The Supreme Court's rulings on Friday confirm what we've been talking about on your show for four years, Steve.
00:11:08.080And that is President Trump's biggest and most consequential accomplishment of his first term was the transformation of the left of center court to the six to three constitutionalist courts.
00:11:23.520These justices may disappoint us from time to time like they did on Good Friday when they made up due process rights for Trendy Aragua and MS-13.
00:11:34.580But I think they got the message, and we saw that on Friday with a whole series of six to three rulings.
00:11:42.720Earlier in the term, the Supreme Court ruled six to three that states, yes, states have the police power to regulate transgender surgeries on kids.
00:11:53.020We didn't fight a civil war, so can confuse kids, mentally disturbed kids, can get mutilated.
00:11:59.320The Supreme Court also ruled on Friday, six to three, that under a federal statute from 250 years ago, along with Article III of the Constitution,
00:12:11.340these 800 district court judges around the country do not have individual nationwide veto, nationwide injunctions over the president.
00:12:20.240They have Article III power, which is to decide cases and controversies of the parties properly before the court with redressable claims, nothing more, nothing less.
00:12:33.120Another six to three ruling, parents in these public schools, the public school monopoly, the government school monopoly,
00:12:39.500can opt out when these whack jobs are trying to groom these kids with LGBT indoctrination.
00:12:48.780I don't think most Trump supporters give a damn what consenting adults do in their private lives.
00:12:55.680But when you start going after the kids with transgender surgeries and grooming books and pedophiles and libraries,
00:13:02.900that's where I think it's the red line for most normal Americans, you have age verification, six to three,
00:13:10.360that these porn sites can require age verification to make sure you're not peddling porn to kids.
00:13:15.840It was a very good term, and it showed that the Supreme Court is on the side of Team America,
00:13:23.560as opposed to the three Democrat women justices who think there's a constitutional right to murder and mutilate kids and then feed them porn.
00:18:27.160And, and by the way, I think the people that do the jobs that nobody else wants to do, those are the people that we got to celebrate in this country.
00:18:36.200And so, so J.D. and I have this conversation.
00:19:20.840And Mitch has the nerve to go to Washington and vote against you and vote against your interests, your vote, and what you want to see with President Trump.
00:19:33.560And I started looking at the people that were going to get in this race, and I was appalled.
00:19:38.460Because I thought to myself, these guys, they're nothing but puppets for Mitch McConnell.
00:19:45.780And Mitch McConnell has been in the seat since 1985.
00:20:34.040So, Mike Davis, the reason I want to tee up with that, that's actually live happening in Kentucky right now, is people should understand what we're still dealing with in the Senate.
00:20:43.580The Senate is still an institution, the Republican Senate, and what we have today is still, even with all of President Trump's work, is still very much molded in the image and likeness of Mitch McConnell, is it not, sir?
00:20:59.320I mean, the Senate is the swamp within the swamp.
00:21:03.480It is the most swampy place on the planet.
00:21:06.980I was in the Senate as the chief counsel for nominations for the first two years of Trump's first term.
00:21:15.200I didn't really get along with the swamp way, so I broke every piece of China in the Senate to confirm a record number of President Trump's judges in his first two years.
00:21:29.900So I don't think there is a Hall of Fame in the Senate with Mike Davis in that Hall of Fame.
00:21:36.980And in that regard, if Mitch McConnell's to be known, and I've said this on the show forever, if he's been known for anything positive, it is the fact that his priority was judges.
00:21:50.200And in that regard, he really worked with President Trump.
00:21:52.800I mean, he was terrible about getting President Trump's confirmed on the first term, his guys confirmed into these spots in the government because he doesn't like MAGA, he doesn't like Trump.
00:22:02.540But on the judges where we came together, I mean, you saw as tough as that was, you actually saw the best of it, did you not?
00:22:09.580I went into the trenches with then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Kavanaugh confirmation in particular and on the lower court judges.
00:22:19.840I was then Chairman Chuck and now Chairman Chuck Grassley's chief counsel for nominations.
00:22:27.640I came to greatly respect Mitch McConnell on judges because I worked with him on judges.
00:22:33.880And I'll tell you, if we didn't have Trump, McConnell and Grassley, there is no way in hell we would have these six to three rulings that we're seeing last Friday.
00:22:43.440And as we sit here today, I want to talk – let's talk about the process because the swamp still reigns supreme as much as President Trump is trying to take it out.
00:22:55.940And this is – we're seeing this in the voterama, right?
00:22:58.340And people – this is why you're going to have to be on guard for the next 72 hours and even when it goes over to the House because there's a lot changing and shifting at every time.
00:23:08.160We know, and particularly the AI part of this, which is so important for so many different reasons, but it also is symbolic in the fact that it shows you what the swamp can do in just sliding in 940 pages, just a half a page, right, that can change literally the American economy and change how MAGA has an opportunity to benefit from the prosperity of that and also continue to get free information.
00:23:35.940So talk to me about the process because explain to people what this voterama is, what it means, how you always have to be on watch, how the lobbyists in the swamp are going to every time be slotting things in or coming back with phony compromises nonstop, sir.
00:23:50.420So in order to pass a budget, it has to pass both the House and the Senate.
00:23:56.620The resolutions in both the House and the Senate have to be identical word for word, and then it goes to the president for his signature veto.
00:24:05.020The House, you can pass a budget with a simple majority vote.
00:24:10.520In the Senate, it requires 60 votes to pass almost all legislation, except for under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, you can pass budget resolutions with a simple majority vote.
00:24:28.300But there are very strict rules on those budget resolutions when you go through reconciliation with the House.
00:24:36.980And so in order to pass with a simple majority in the Senate, like the House, it has to go through the Byrd rule.
00:24:44.260I think it was from like 1985 from Senator Bob Byrd from West Virginia, the legendary leader of the Senate and really the chief parliamentarian of the Senate for many years, the unofficial parliamentarian.
00:24:59.980I should say he was the Senate, I should say he was the Senate majority leader, but knew more about Senate procedures than anyone ever, probably.
00:25:06.540And so for these budget, for these budget provisions to get through the Senate on a simple majority vote, they have to go through the Byrd rule.
00:25:16.180And essentially the parliamentarian of the Senate will decide, looking at the rules of the Senate, the standing rules of the Senate, precedent, parliamentarian rules, whether these provisions – it's essentially whether these provisions increase or decrease revenue.
00:25:35.500And if they increase or decrease revenue, they can generally get through the Byrd bath and they can be voted on with a simple majority vote.
00:25:43.400But if they can't get through – if they're extraneous to the budget resolution, how the parliamentarian determines that, then it doesn't get through the Byrd bath and it requires 60 votes, which is very hard to do.
00:25:58.500So this Byrd bath is really, really important.
00:26:01.680It determines whether you're going to get provisions through, like, for example, cutting off Medicaid to illegal aliens.
00:26:09.280I don't know how that would not pass the Byrd bath, but that's for the parliamentarian to decide.
00:26:14.920She's apparently the god of the Senate and no one can question – or the pope, maybe.
00:26:19.980She's infallible and no one can question her, apparently.
00:26:22.420But then there are other provisions, like, for example, this AI bill where they're giving 10 years of amnesty to these trillion-dollar big tech companies like Meta and Google so they can run AI and harm kids and harm conservatives with censorship and harm content creators.
00:26:43.240And apparently that somehow got through the Byrd bath where it can pass with a simple majority.
00:26:47.420Hang on, because I want to spend more time on that and also – the parliamentarian has been taking a lot of shots.
00:26:55.280And what blows my mind is she's appointed by Harry Reid, the most partisan dealmaker in the – maybe in the history of the United States Senate when he was majority leader.
00:27:09.080But when we get back, I want to ask Mike Davis if, in fact, maybe too much blame is getting put on her as the swamp tries to do their business.
00:27:17.040Mike Davis – by the way, this shows you how important today is with the Voterama and particularly the AI bill.
00:27:22.900Mike Davis was going to go and do something very important today at one of the department – cabinet departments.
00:27:28.940But he's waived off of that to make sure that the posse is fully informed of what's going on.
00:32:34.600He would peel the bark off people to let them know, hey, you've got to be ready for the second, third, fourth, you know, in-depth answer when they come at you.
00:32:45.540And so, Mike, you were going to do a murder board today.
00:32:47.180But you believe it's so important what's happening in the Senate, and particularly in this AI provision,
00:32:53.420that you're actually going to be out throughout the day so that you can have access to the Senate floor, correct?
00:33:28.400I skipped a Pentagon murder board today because what's happening in the Senate today is so crucially important.
00:33:36.600These trillion-dollar big tech monopolists, particularly Google and Meta, definitely no friend of President Trump and MAGA, are trying to cut a deal where they're getting 10 years of amnesty so they can steal people's creative content.
00:33:58.940They want to be able to get away with this, and like they did with Section 230 immunity, like they did with antitrust amnesty.
00:34:06.940The reason that Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple has market power like they do, that they have gatekeeping power over information and commerce, is because we gave them a deadly combination of Section 230 immunity and antitrust amnesty starting under President Obama.
00:34:24.160So why the hell are Republicans going to do this again with AI amnesty?
00:34:31.240We're going to give AI companies five years or 10 years of amnesty so they can steal everyone's creative content for their AI machines and make a lot of money.
00:34:44.420Let me give you an example of what is coming out.
00:34:46.680These AI chats are telling kids that they should kill their family members and commit suicide, and kids are actually doing this.
00:34:57.860And these AI platforms like Google and Meta want to have amnesty, so there's no recourse for these family members whose kids kill themselves or kill other family members.
00:35:10.660There's no recourse under this five-year or 10-year amnesty that these Senate Republicans want to give to these trillion-dollar big tech companies.
00:35:23.660There's no recourse if these trillion-dollar big tech companies want to steal content, for example, steal Steve Bannon's content from the war room every day for their AI missions.
00:35:37.000They want to say that that's fair use under our copyright laws.
00:35:40.700They say that that's how we have to compete against China.
00:35:43.860We have to steal like China to compete against China.
00:35:47.320We have to have slave labor like China to compete against China.
00:35:51.280These are the big tech platforms like Meta, for example, that spent $400 million chasing President Trump out of office in 2020 and subjected him to four years of unrelenting republic-ending lawfare, where they tried to bankrupt him for non-fraud.
00:36:09.340They tried to throw him in prison for life four times for non-crimes.
00:36:12.780They tried to throw him off the ballot unconstitutionally.
00:36:15.920Trump's opponents tried to take off his head when they underfunded his Secret Service and said to put a bullseye on him from Joe Biden.
00:36:46.340Number one, what they're telling President Trump and what they're – when you talk to these guys up in the Senate and all the consultants up there, they're saying, hey, Bannon, you and the Warren Posse are all about taking down the CCP and you're about – you back Laobai Jing.
00:37:00.420And you guys are the first to identify China and the CCP as the existential threat not just to the Chinese people, not just to the American people, but to the whole world.
00:37:10.120And if you let rubes in Missouri and Tennessee and Kentucky and Idaho and Montana and Michigan and bib overalls actually be able to control the advance of artificial intelligence when there's already been a Sputnik moment and we're trying to catch up to the Chinese Communist Party, you're putting national security.
00:37:29.900You're putting the fate of the nation and the world in jeopardy because you guys are whining a little bit about they're going to take President Trump's The Art of the Deal or one of Steve Bannon's great classic documentary films and use it for free to make sure that the machine learning – that the machine learns faster.
00:38:20.660It's dry and dry because Google is dry because Google is a monopolist, right?
00:38:22.920And so they had to – our American military and intel agencies had to scramble to make up for Google pulling out of America's drone program under Project Maven.
00:38:34.900At the same time, what is Google doing?
00:38:37.560Project Dragonfly, where Google is doing the CCP censorship program.
00:38:44.080So Google will not do Project Maven for America, but it will censor for the CCP under Project Dragonfly.
00:39:17.740Because of Mike Davis and Joe Allen and the other folks we had on here and Josh Hawley and the Warren Posse and making calls, it's just been announced – Axios is breaking – that Marsha Blackburn, that's been on our side of this issue, and Ted Cruz, who is not on our side of the issue and doing the bidding of big tech, have come to a compromise of only five years.
00:39:43.580Isn't it in the first five years they'll get all their dirty work done?
00:39:47.340The other five, that the whole 10-year was just a misdirection play in the beginning because they just want the first couple of years after three, four, five, they'll actually have this locked in and everybody will be locked out.
00:39:59.560So the five is not really – it's a compromise just been announced.
00:40:02.980That's what they want everybody to agree to.
00:40:07.220The compromise goes from 10 years to five years, and it adds protections for content creators and kids.
00:40:14.600But the problem is then there is a semi-truck-sized loophole in this bill where it talks about if these states try to protect kids, if these states try to protect content creators – and this – the language they use is undue burden or disproportionate burden.
00:40:32.880If the states create a disproportionate burden on these AI big tech monopolies like Meta and Google when they're ripping off – when Google and Meta are ripping off people's creative content for their AI or where they're harming kids, if that creates a disproportionate burden on Google and Meta, then this – then the states can't do anything about it.
00:40:58.520That's unacceptable language in this compromise.
00:41:03.300There should be no giveaway to these AI platforms.
00:41:07.700If you need government – if you need to be a government-sponsored monopoly and coddled like this in order to compete, then you're on the wrong line of business.
00:41:16.160Do they think this is like NPR that they're running, that they have to have a government-sponsored monopoly in order to compete against China?
00:41:23.200It's complete nonsense, but if they're going to have a compromise here, you need to have it where you can protect content creators, kids, and conservatives from censorship.
00:41:38.840Mike, you're going to be up on social media all day long putting up observations of what's going on over in the Senate?
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00:46:05.860And the Democrats and some Republicans have perverted what good looks like.
00:46:14.540And they've put us on a path that we can't even recognize.
00:46:18.320I mean, Charlie, I think the biggest applause you got was men and women's sports.
00:46:23.220I mean, did you ever think, would we ever think 10 years ago we would be having a conversation about, you know, the big guy that swims for Pennsylvania?
00:46:34.040Riley Gaines is from this great state.
00:46:50.380So, look, I think, Charlie, I'm very fortunate that I'm grounded in faith.
00:46:54.660And I pray about every big decision, everything that I did.
00:47:01.440Before I went on here, I said a prayer before I came up.
00:47:03.340That's Nate Morris there with a Q&A by Charlie Kickoff, the great Charlie Kirk, to kick off his campaign.
00:47:12.300The reason I want to juxtapose that, I want to juxtapose Nate and what they're talking about out in Kentucky.
00:47:17.040Hey, because last time it was announced, Tillis is not going to run for re-election, about what you're going to see over the next couple of days in Washington.
00:47:25.500For as hard as you fought and even for President Trump's beliefs, the games that are going to be played, and hopefully we're going to cover it and give you insights so you can make your calls.
00:47:34.520The games that are going to be played are going to shock you.
00:47:37.240And the parliamentarian, don't get me wrong, the parliamentarian is, I think, bad news.
00:47:47.020Now, they tell us the more you criticize her on right-wing media, the more she digs her heels.
00:47:50.580Well, first of all, the question is how the hell do we have a Harry Reid appointee as parliamentarian?
00:47:55.840That should tell you everything you want to know about what a fixed deal it is, right, about how the Republican Party has only been controlled opposition and Fox has just controlled opposition.
00:48:04.980How now, on the last day of June, in the year of our Lord, 2025, with all these monumental issues facing us and having won an incredible victory, and it's even bigger if you look at the Pew analysis that they always do six months after it, that we'll get to over the next couple of days.
00:48:23.840The victory is even bigger when you see all the demographic shifts that President Trump had.
00:48:29.360How are we in the situation on this bill?
00:48:32.920Like, you think Planned Parenthood is going to be defunded, then you see they only want to do it for one year.
00:48:38.440The illegal aliens, get them off Medicaid, which is absurd, how they're even on Medicaid, how that gets taken out, but then they blame it on the parliamentarian.
00:48:50.240She's got to be, by definition, she's Harry Reid's person and has not been replaced all through McConnell's time and now even in John Thune's time, was not replaced immediately.
00:49:01.080But they're also, in the game plan that's going on, don't think that they're not hiding behind her on a lot of this, and that's why over the next couple of days, and already you have people in the house that are on fire about some of these cuts are going on or not cuts are going on and games are being played.
00:49:17.080So the big, beautiful bill, at least another day or two, is going to be pretty intense.
00:49:20.980We're going to, up on the streaming site, Grace and Moe, we have it nonstop.
00:49:25.100I really love the commentary from over the weekend that people saw what had to happen even to get it to the floor, right, which was a whole, the bill stayed open, I think, for two and a half or three hours.
00:49:35.880The vice president, J.D., had to come up.
00:49:37.580Now, his vote wasn't needed, but he had to come up kind of with the backing of the vice, with a message kind of from the president to Thune saying,
00:49:44.660if we've got to make some deals here and compromise, we've got to get this thing actually into the process.
00:49:50.380If we don't get into the process, that will be a monumental defeat.
00:50:12.120And you look at this AI bill, and Joe Allen's going to get up here.
00:50:15.140As much as Meta and Google, who are two demons, and President Trump's Justice Department and FTC have them in federal court to start to break them up right now,
00:50:27.480Palantir is, I think, really the villain in the AI.
00:50:33.640And Palantir, there's all kind of questions about Palantir.
00:50:36.000Supposedly now it's gone MAGA, right, from being guys that were founded by liberal Democrats, progressive Democrats.
00:50:44.300Once again, it's one of these things that's gone totally MAGA.
00:50:47.960But we'll have to get into that with Joe Allen because all these guys had this amazing transformation to become MAGA.
00:50:57.800But then you see what they want to do.
00:50:59.980The surveillance system, what is the surveillance system they're working on?