There's a lot going on in the world today, and we're here to break it all down. The New York Times broke a story about an argument between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio, and how Trump handled it. Plus, Steve Bannon and his new role as head of the conservative wing of the White House.
00:01:09.800The Times cites five people with knowledge of the confrontation.
00:01:13.780Reports this about an argument between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio.
00:01:17.900Quote, you fired nobody, Musk told Rubio, then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from his Department of Government efficiency.
00:01:28.780Rubio had been privately furious with Musk for weeks, ever since his Doge team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Rubio's control.
00:01:37.780The United States Agency for International Development.
00:01:41.500Musk was not being truthful, Rubio said.
00:01:44.000What about the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts?
00:01:48.800Didn't they count as layoffs, he asked sarcastically, whether Musk wanted him to rehire all those people just so he could make a show of firing them again.
00:01:56.540Then he laid out his detailed plans for reorganizing the State Department.
00:02:51.940Rev, I have been watching the Bannon-Musk power struggle with keen interest since it first emerged during the campaign.
00:03:01.480And I think I said on television, do not ever bet against the guy who was willing to go to jail to not testify before Congress.
00:03:10.980And the guy who sort of in, I don't know if his life, I don't know enough about his life, but who seems to understand the base and the most powerful elements of the Trump base better than anybody in Trump land.
00:03:25.100And I don't have any idea if Bannon has any role in all this, but it does seem like Musk has stumbled, not by taking more attention from Trump, which is how most people stumble, but by dirtying him up politically.
00:03:38.020The things that Musk is doing are not popular among Republican voters in Republican districts.
00:03:43.540This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:03:51.320Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:03:56.540You're just not going to get a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:04:00.840The people have had a belly full of it.
00:05:22.300It may be the most contentious cabinet meeting.
00:05:26.520I guess it was an official cabinet meeting, but it did take place, I believe, in the cabinet room and not the Roosevelt Room, which is right across the small hall from it.
00:05:34.780They're all basically connected to the Oval Office.
00:05:37.200It may be the most contentious meeting ever held there, even more contentious than a couple times they almost had fistfights during the Cuban Missile Crisis with some of the joint chiefs.
00:05:49.200But very, very, very fascinating about what's going on, particularly when we think we started the show this morning, how did we start at the White House with Chip Roy?
00:06:00.660And Chip had just come to the meeting with the president talking about, guess what, the CR, the financing.
00:06:06.420You know, it's all industry linked with this financial plan and economic plan that Scott Besson's talking about, that markets are reacting to, all of it.
00:06:14.000This is all kind of, you know, geopolitics, geoeconomics, capital markets, what President Trump's trying to do.
00:06:20.960And Chip, I think for the first time we got kind of the official, a little bit of official bad news that the White House and the president and everybody are talking about a clean CR, which this audience is not going to be thrilled with, not going to be happy with.
00:06:36.060Right now, with no Democrats that are going to vote for the president in the House, that means, because Tom Massey's probably going to be a hard no, as he always is, that means that essentially with what we got, I think you might be able to lose one other.
00:06:50.860That means all the Freedom Caucus, all this audience's congressmen are going to have to vote for it.
00:07:41.320Charlie Kumar is here to talk about Scott Besson, tariffs, all of it.
00:07:46.080And he's saying, hey, the ability to bring back millions of jobs back here to the United States is really the key.
00:07:52.480And Terry Schilling is going to join us.
00:07:53.520So we're packed for the next couple of hours.
00:07:56.340Let's go ahead and play the Perkins Coie thing.
00:07:59.060And I'm going to bring in I'm going to bring in the Mike Davis.
00:08:01.360In the latest chapter of Donald Trump's promised retribution, he has signed an executive order against a law firm called Perkins Coie.
00:08:12.060The executive order is a sweeping directive.
00:08:14.360It bans the federal government from hiring this one firm or from using contractors who work with this one firm, except in very limited circumstances.
00:08:23.220The executive order also bars this firm, Perkins Coie, employees from entering any federal building and suspends all of their security clearances.
00:08:32.960It is a direct hit against one of Trump's perceived political enemies in the private sector.
00:08:40.600The Washington law firm has, among many clients, represented Hillary Clinton and the DNC during the 2016 presidential race.
00:08:49.360Perkins Coie also handled the 65 lawsuits that the Trump campaign filed in their efforts to overturn his defeat in 2020 when he ran against Joe Biden.
00:09:01.040That firm won all but one of those cases in excess of 60 cases against Team Trump, thanks in large part to a friend of this program, Mark Elias, who once worked at the firm.
00:09:23.000The Washington Post describes Trump's retaliation like this, quote, the move could have a chilling effect on law firms' willingness to take on clients and cases that run counter to the Trump administration,
00:09:34.280challenging a fundamental tenet of the rule of law in the United States that everyone should have access to legal representation.
00:09:45.920The law firms run this town, and they are out of control.
00:09:50.220They run it with an iron grip, and President Trump is bound and determined to break that iron grip, and this is going to be flat-out warfare.
00:10:33.160So the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief under our Constitution, and as the Commander-in-Chief, the President and the President alone gets to decide who has access to classified information.
00:10:49.960And so if the President of the United States doesn't want Perkins Coie or any other law firm or person to have access to classified information, that is his absolute right.
00:11:01.000And I don't think it's reviewable by a court.
00:11:03.660And I would also say this, isn't this the same Perkins Coie that made up the Russian collusion hoax back in 2016 that ran to the FISA court and got an illegal spy warrant, lied to the FISA court, got an illegal spy warrant on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
00:11:23.700They continued to spy on President Donald Trump when he was the president of the United States.
00:11:29.380They colluded with intel agencies and law enforcement to make up Crossfire Hurricane.
00:11:34.100So this law firm has proven that it can't be trusted with our nation's most classified secrets because they politicized and weaponized Crossfire Hurricane, which is the biggest scandal in American history.
00:11:49.060They hobbled the president, and they continued the lawfare against President Trump after he left office.
00:11:54.840The four indictments for non-crimes, they tried to throw him off the ballot under a bogus theory under the Constitution.
00:12:02.900They underfunded Trump's Secret Service protection and tried to take off its head.
00:12:07.300They know that President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Cash Patel are going to get to the bottom of Crossfire Hurricane, and it's going to make a lot of heads roll in Washington, D.C.
00:12:24.840So if you – I think it was a Tom Cruise movie.
00:12:30.540I think I had Gene Hackman years ago called The Firm, right?
00:12:34.340And his kid gets out of law school, and he thinks he's working for a white shoe firm, and he finds out that there are all kind of criminal activities, and they're working with the mob, and they're working with bad guys.
00:12:45.560I mean, Perkins Coie and Covington & Burley, these are two big-time law firms, but they're edge players.
00:12:52.620And President Trump, there's a bigger thing here.
00:12:54.880I mean, he's using the classification.
00:13:00.260But his intention, I'm sure, is to cut him off from any government contract work or lobbying or anything.
00:13:04.320He wants to put him out of business because of Bob Bauer.
00:13:19.740And I would tell these big corporate clients who hire Perkins Coie and Covington, it might not be the best bet you're making from your corporation to hire either of those law firms for any matter that's before the federal government.
00:13:35.160I seriously doubt those clients are going to have the best representation with Covington & Burley and Perkins Coie.
00:13:42.220Mike Davis, can you hang on for a second?
00:13:47.120I've got a few more things to go through on this issue.
00:13:50.020I want to talk some overall legal because now, particularly with the CR, the theory of the case here is about impoundments.
00:13:59.780The theory of the case up on Capitol Hill with Lindsey Graham and those guys are rescissions.
00:14:03.960Either way, we're going to be headed to a court, a federal court.
00:14:10.040Also, Dan Bongino, they're really going after Dan Bongino today and the FBI.
00:32:33.240And so when I was young, 20 some years ago, I worked at HHS and I had to work with the Pope and these cardinals to fill their scientific advisory boards,
00:32:45.280to make sure that the money, the billions of dollars that NIH doles out to their buddies for grants isn't being misspent
00:32:55.040or isn't being used to fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab in China that led to COVID and the deaths of millions of people
00:33:05.480and the destruction of our economy for many years.
00:33:08.020And so I remember working with Francis Collins during that time in my life in 2001 and 2002 when he was a mere cardinal.
00:33:16.860He was a cardinal for one of the institutes before he got elevated to be a pope.
00:33:21.260But these people actually think that they really do think that they are the pope and the cardinal, that this is a separate, you know,
00:33:29.380that they're holy and they're not accountable to anyone, particularly not accountable to the president of the United States.
00:33:58.460And he's trying to be Pete Seeger, like in the anti-war movement back in the 60s.
00:34:03.840Mike, this, what's going to happen before Monday the 14th is, they're talking about CR.
00:34:10.720Johnson tells the day it'll probably be delivered Tuesday.
00:34:13.240He promises it's going to be close to clean as possible.
00:34:16.020So theoretically, it's not going to be 1,500 pages.
00:34:18.960Best case, we're going to talk about attaching or maybe Elon just gives us some directional where we stand with the Doge money right now, which could be 50 billion, 100 billion, who knows?
00:34:31.960And that that will then, the commitment will be, because they can't do it now, the commitment will be after you pass the CR that sometime relatively quickly, Russ, vote, pay a letter, and those guys would go to the president.
00:34:45.140And they will present to him, you know, items that they don't think either outside of programmatically or behind schedule, or he just doesn't see how they fit in.
00:34:54.880And they will go and challenge and basically impound the money and dare either Congress or the courts to say anything about it.
00:35:04.000But how sure are you of this theory of the case?
00:35:07.920Because the others, rescissions, which the White House doesn't want to use, because that's essentially going back to Capitol Hill and you have to jockey there and get another vote.
00:35:16.600They believe they have the right to do it.
00:35:18.440They believe that the appropriations bill, when they talk about the Constitution, that's a ceiling, not a floor.
00:35:23.820I mean, what odds do you put on this, given the fact that we're still hung up with the spending of the $2 billion, sir?
00:35:33.040Well, regardless of what you think about Russ Boat and Mark Payoletta's views on impoundment, which is that these appropriations by Congress are a ceiling, not a floor, which I agree with.
00:35:44.860But even if you don't agree with that, at a minimum, the president has the power under Article II of the Constitution as the chief executive officer for domestic spending, as the commander-in-chief especially for foreign spending for defense.
00:36:03.160The president has that power under the take care clause to make sure that there is not waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:36:10.040And if he's finding waste, fraud, and abuse, he can cut that out.
00:36:14.560He can make sure we're not spending money, for example, on transgender mice research that Congress never intended.
00:36:22.020Remember what we're doing with these appropriations.
00:36:24.440Congress is just doing big blocks of appropriations and delegating to the executive branch a huge amount of discretion on what they can spend this money on.
00:36:35.040And so President Trump and his team, like Russ Boat at OMB, Elon Musk, Mark Payoletta, they can just say, look, this is wasted money, and we want to take care that this money is not wasted, so we're going to send it back to the Treasury.
00:36:50.060And they can do the same thing, particularly as commander-in-chief.
00:36:53.360For example, let's say that Congress passes a law saying that we're going to appropriate $100 billion to Gaza for humanitarian relief, and then the president finds out that that money going to supposed humanitarian relief in Gaza is actually going to fund Hamas terrorism that's going to kill American citizens, right?
00:37:15.140Of course, the president, as commander-in-chief, can prevent that money from going to Gaza and then to Hamas terrorists.
00:37:22.920But remember, this is what they did to President Trump before when they impeached President Trump for impounding money for Ukraine.
00:37:29.760But the president absolutely has the power, at a minimum, to impound waste, fraud, and abuse or impound dollars that are against our national security interest.
00:37:39.600So how quickly do you think that we actually end up there, and how quickly do you think the Supreme Court acts on this?
00:37:52.040Let's say they go to the impoundment in 30 days.
00:37:56.320I think that you're going to have a Democrat activist judge do a temporary restraining order, probably ex parte, nationwide injunction immediately.
00:38:07.460They'll go to one of these whack job judges in D.C. or Sheldon Whitehouse's buddy up in Rhode Island or some other left-wing judge, and then it should get to the Supreme Court quickly.
00:38:18.520And it really depends on if the chief justice and Justice Amy Coney Barrett are actually going to follow the Constitution and allow the duly elected president of the United States to carry out his electoral mandates and go after waste, fraud, and abuse in our federal government, or if they're going to come up with excuses procedurally to prevent that from happening.
00:38:41.880If they're going to say, for example, if they're going to say, for example, that these bogus TROs that these activist judges are issuing, they're illegal, they're unconstitutional, and they're not even temporary restraining orders, they're not even TROs.
00:38:53.640They are preliminary injunctions with nationwide, you know, with nationwide effects.
00:39:00.600If the Supreme Court's going to say that those aren't appealable because they're TROs, they're going to be, they're going to allow these Democrat activist litigants and judges to play that game.
00:39:11.880Then they're going to hobble the presidency.
00:39:13.860And here's the bigger problem, and I mean this.
00:39:16.000You're already seeing the American people get very frustrated with these activist judges.
00:39:20.580If the Supreme Court does not stop this, if they don't step up and stop these activist judges from sabotaging the president of the United States exercising core Article 2 executive power to take care that our laws are faithfully executed, to make sure that our foreign aid under the commander-in-chief clause doesn't go to Hamas terrorists, when the court loses its legitimacy with the American people, it doesn't have an army.
00:39:47.800It does not have an enforcement mechanism.
00:39:49.440It has to rely on the executive branch to enforce its orders.
00:39:54.920And so if it loses its legitimacy, it's going to lose everything.
00:39:59.420So I hope that Chief Justice and Justice Amy Coney Barrett understand how grave this is if they don't stop these activist judges from sabotaging the president's Article 2 executive powers.
00:40:12.080Trump is not stealing legislative power under Article 1 from Congress.
00:40:16.500He's not stealing judicial power from the Supreme Court under Article 3.
00:40:21.100These federal judges are sabotaging the president of the United States over policy and political disagreements, and this is unacceptable.
00:40:29.560This is a red line, and the chief justice needs to stop it.
00:40:33.340How serious is this crisis that's brewing on a 1 to 10 scale, 10 being DEFCON 1, being as high as we could get?
00:40:48.600I'm hearing from a lot of Chamber of Commerce type lawyers that they're even getting very blackpilled on this issue.
00:40:56.280Like, for example, the federal judiciary has about a $10 billion annual budget.
00:41:02.060And I've proposed that Congress take that $2 billion, that this radical Canadian citizen Obama judge in D.C., Judge Ali, has said that the president has to piss away with USAID funding and get it out the door immediately.
00:41:18.860I have proposed that because the Supreme Court may allow this to happen, that Congress just takes that $2 billion right out of the federal judiciary's budget, 20 percent cut right away to the federal judiciary's budget.
00:41:31.660And I'm actually surprisingly hearing, even from the Chamber of Commerce Fedsoc wing of the Republican Party, the WEMPs, they're actually pretty excited about that idea.
00:41:46.660So I hope the chief justice understands that by allowing these activist judges to sabotage the presidency, they're creating a constitutional crisis, and the federal judiciary is going to lose and lose badly in this process.
00:42:01.660Watch this space, Mike Davis, Article 3, where do people go, sir?
00:42:07.860Article 3project.org, Article 3project.org, follow us on social media, donate, but only as much as you can afford, and then take action.
00:42:18.180That's the most important thing you can do is when the war room posse gives the Senate or whoever we're targeting an attitude adjustment, it's the most powerful force in politics.
00:43:01.100I've noticed what Mike Davis, the chamber, really pretty down the middle straight, conservative, limited government lawyers starting to write really amazing pieces about the judiciary and about the ability to enforce some of these things.
00:43:19.060We're heading somewhere very quickly that the country's never been before.
00:45:02.980One semaphore has a pretty important article.
00:45:05.660Mark Andreessen has a big conference in the nation's capital next week with many of the big tech oligarchs coming together.
00:45:14.400And Andreessen's an interesting character.
00:45:16.980He's had behind the scenes quite a role in staffing, particularly with the Defense Department.
00:45:21.440I'll talk more about that maybe tomorrow morning if I get some time.
00:45:26.000His views, I'm told, on transhumanism are not as far away from yours as you think.
00:45:31.820Andreessen, this article in Semaphore, it's kind of a blockbuster if you're working this problem.
00:45:37.760Tech leaders pivot away from H-1B visa program after populist revolt.
00:45:42.540And it talks about Roe Kahana, Mark Andreessen, more of these tech folks, Bernie Sanders, others that are working on major reforms to H-1Bs.
00:45:54.000Now, I have called for – I'd say the program is a total and complete sham.
00:50:05.600President Trump, every now and again, will walk out from the doors of the residents.
00:50:10.520If you're looking right here, the Oval Office is to your right in the West Wing.
00:50:15.160The residents, the main part of the White House, is to your left.
00:50:18.860Every now and again, the president will come out of the residents and normally stop to the press and take a few questions and then head to Marine One.
00:50:25.840He will head out to Andrews Air Force Base where Air Force One awaits for a several-hour flight down to Palm Beach.
00:50:44.920And another February, March, and April, as people know, is, I think, prime time in Palm Beach.
00:51:01.780We're very honored today, Brian Glenda, and got to ask another question.
00:51:06.480Real America's Voice and I have been a big advocate.
00:51:08.440We want to take as much of this live as possible with the first, I think, streaming service.
00:51:12.400Although Right Side Broadcasting had some exclusive stream this afternoon.
00:51:15.940I really want to thank Tara Botowich and Stephen Chung and Caroline Leavitt and, of course, Susie Wiles for, I think, you know, the people diving for balls.
00:51:27.540If I use a basketball analogy, the people that are really being very scrappy and giving coverage.
00:51:32.120They're giving not just access, but they're also giving us, you know, real access.
00:51:37.320Okay, guys, let's, I think we can kill the music, can't we?
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