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00:21:37.000The president wants Doge not just to have open runway.
00:21:41.540The president wants Doge to find a trillion dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:21:45.820We'll get to some clips later of Elon talking about entitlements and some other issues.
00:21:50.140But the federal court system, these radical judges, they're all over Elon and all over Doge.
00:21:56.020They either want to have them put their pencils down and or they want full disclosure of all the information.
00:22:01.920Why don't you pick up on the great reporting and investigation you've done of this radical Obama appointee man?
00:22:07.300Yeah, well, this district judge's decision is essentially going to give the norm-eisens of the world and the shady left-wing nonprofits the ability to look through every single thing that Doge has done.
00:22:20.800And we're all for transparency, right?
00:22:22.440The American people deserve to see what's going on.
00:22:24.520But it's just sort of ideologically inconsistent, right, because the people that they're now letting examine Doge at the same time,
00:22:30.680they don't want Doge to be able to do the same exact thing to the United States government.
00:22:35.120But this judge, Christopher Cooper, who was responsible for that decision, again, I use the term judge lightly.
00:22:41.500He's clearly an activist, like I was saying.
00:22:44.160The Obama appointee is the least radical thing about him.
00:22:47.180This is someone who has a clear conflict of interest just when you look at his resume.
00:22:50.800The guy used to be a partner at Covington and Burling, the law firm that President Trump revoked the government contract and security clearances from just two weeks ago.
00:22:59.660But when you dig into his wife, I'm getting kind of, I guess, a Jack Smith deja vu situation.
00:23:12.380She used to be an attorney representing Lisa Page during the House Republicans' inquiry into her efforts to smear President Trump as a Russian agent.
00:23:24.000Put it this way, Merrick Garland married the two of them.
00:23:27.140So if you have any questions about where the allegiance lies, I just point you there.
00:23:30.900But bringing you up to current date, to the current time, this individual, Amy Jeffries, the spouse of the judge who's now neutering Doge, no pun intended,
00:23:40.100she is currently at the law firm she now works at representing Hampton Dellinger in the special counsel case where they're actively suing the Trump administration.
00:23:49.320And that same law firm has also represented a lot of other people in their current lawsuits, not the first administration, but this term, under President Trump.
00:23:58.580So if you want to talk about clear conflicts of interest, whether it's him, her, or who knows what else, probably the kids, too,
00:24:04.960this is a clear example of how these judges that are blocking and interrupting and really subverting President Trump's agenda are clear, clear partisan, far-left activists.
00:24:15.040Well, this is also why President Trump has taken on the law firms and all of this, the establishment.
00:24:22.520You've called it a judicial insurrection, and you're seeing all the conflicts.
00:24:26.280Do you know, off of your reporting, is the White House going to call and make some inquiries here about conflicts of interest, ma'am?
00:24:32.420Well, we've seen congressional Republicans step up and at least file some impeachment articles against a lot of other judges.
00:25:06.260The very fact that we have DOGE, right, is essentially James Comer and Jim Jordan admitting that their House Oversight Committee is so insufficient, ineffective, and inadequate to actually do a damn thing in terms of meaningful oversight and cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:25:21.480That they have to outsource it to Elon Musk and his 19-year-old computer whiz kids, right?
00:25:28.640That shows you the issue that plagues House Republicans in Washington, D.C.
00:25:34.500Now, to this point, yesterday on Act Blue, this was very special.
00:25:38.260It was one of the longest threads you did, but it's got over 30 million views so far.
00:25:43.420Why was it this Act Blue seemed to light a fire under people, ma'am?
00:25:47.660Well, part of it is confirming, I think, something that we've all known, not just that the Democratic Party is the party of open borders, but that this idea that the mass migration, and that's way too nice a term to describe it, that we saw not just under Joe Biden, but that we've seen for decades into this country, is not spontaneous, right?
00:26:07.040It's coordinated, it's coordinated, and it's planned, really from cradle to grave, from start to finish, right?
00:26:12.320These NGOs that we identified that are using Act Blue, that are very, very intertwined with the Democratic Party, these are groups that are supplying wannabe illegal aliens with water to make it so they can actually accomplish their trek to the southern border.
00:26:26.060These are people who, once they actually are flown into the interior of the country through groups like Catholic Charities or their Lutheran counterparts, which also use Act Blue, the legal aid, the pro bono legal aid that they get to obtain their citizenship or avoid deportation, all those law firms, you want to talk about lawfare, they're funded by Act Blue, the groups that are now opposing President Trump's deportation agenda, whether through lawsuits, doxing ICE agents, establishing ICE raid response kits and hotlines.
00:26:55.060From every aspect, whether it's the illegal alien invasion, trying to keep them here, getting them on public assistance, Act Blue, which is the financial cornerstone and backbone of the Democratic Party, is solely responsible for funding that and materializing it.
00:27:12.380So the Democratic Party owns fully the open border movement, but it shows you that this is so coordinated and very, very, very well funded.
00:27:21.620And frankly, Steve, you want to tie it all together? That's why they fear DOGE.
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00:31:07.020But, you know, just penalizing Canada and Mexico willy-nilly, and particularly the Canadians, you know, a lot of people are just shaking their heads about that.
00:32:49.860Well, Steve, one of the things that's really important to remember right now when we look at the population of Wall Street is how low the average age is.
00:32:56.780And it's not that it's that low compared to the historical average.
00:32:59.640But think about what these folks, the traders, the brokers, the money managers, have seen over their lifetime.
00:33:05.220More importantly, what have they not seen?
00:33:07.460Folks are so young now that when we have been so long since we have seen a real bear market in this country that most of the folks on Wall Street weren't actually in their business careers yet the last time we had a real bad bear market.
00:33:21.260And so a lot of this is new territory.
00:33:23.540Likewise, they grew up on a steady diet of being fed this whole narrative on free trade, that there's never any good reason for tariffs, that they can't serve any good whatsoever.
00:33:33.680You can't use them as a negotiating tool in terms of reciprocity.
00:33:37.280Even if another country tariffs you or puts up non-tariff barriers, you still shouldn't tariff them, et cetera.
00:33:43.260And this has been strictly nonpartisan, right?
00:33:45.560It was both under Clinton as well as under Bush that you had these different essentially trade agreements signed with different parts of the world, all of which unnecessarily helped to hollow out what we now call the rust belt.
00:33:57.720But this is the mantra that so many of these people on Wall Street have lived by.
00:34:02.620And now that it's ending, they think they're going to die by it, too, when in fact neither is the case.
00:34:07.960And so these people don't know how to navigate stocks going down appreciably.
00:34:12.420They don't know how to navigate a bear market.
00:34:14.440They don't know how to navigate a president that's willing to put tariffs into place and that puts America first.
00:34:20.080This is all very much new territory, and that scares folks, and they are panicking, and they are getting out.
00:34:26.360This whole idea, though, that business can't plan, that there's uncertainty, I absolutely understand that.
00:34:32.400Reciprocal tariffs, by definition, are going to have uncertainty because what I do is dependent upon what you do.
00:34:39.420And since I don't know what you're going to do, I can't yet make a decision for myself.
00:34:43.980That's the quandary President Trump is in right now.
00:34:46.240As soon as we talk about reciprocal tariffs on another nation, we have to wait and see what that other nation is going to do.
00:34:51.840Are they going to drop their tariff and non-tariff barriers that prevent our exporters from having access to their consumer markets?
00:34:59.540That's a question that remains to be resolved.
00:35:01.620It will be resolved probably by April 2nd.
00:35:04.900But I think it's very unfair to put all of this blame at President Trump's feet.
00:35:10.320I mean, he is essentially simply saying, look, we are finally going to end the charade,
00:35:15.320and we're going to play according to the rules that you in other nations are setting.
00:35:20.880So, again, I fail to see how this all falls at President Trump's feet.
00:35:26.660But one last thing that, you know, Mr. Siegel, in his little rant there, he talked about all of these luxury goods and all of these luxury expenses like exotic cars or vacations to exotic places, whatever the case may be.
00:35:40.400I'm sorry, but these aren't the concerns of the middle class.
00:35:43.680One of the things that I think the current Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, has really put his finger on, really has his finger on the pulse here, is that Wall Street has done just fine over the last four years.
00:35:55.500The stock market has absolutely exploded because of all the inflationary policies of President Biden and the radical left.
00:36:03.220And finally, we have a Treasury Secretary.
00:36:06.960We have, more broadly speaking, an entire administration within the executive branch that wants to put the American middle class first.
00:36:15.340Right. They're talking about extending the Trump tax cut, not because of what it's going to do for for millionaires or billionaires.
00:36:21.380They're talking about extending it because if they don't, it's going to result in a tax hike on the middle class of over four trillion dollars, let alone what it's going to do to high income earners.
00:36:31.360That's not even part of the discussion for the moment.
00:36:33.460This is all about protecting and defending and prospering the American middle class before we worry about anybody else in the world, especially people in other countries running multinational corporations.
00:36:48.980Talk to me about Charlie Gasparino had a very good piece today in The New York Post.
00:36:54.120And he said part of the reason you're having these perturbations is Wall Street is addicted to us having massive federal spending and having this Keynesian stimulus nonstop to the fact that the CR that they're voting on here shortly has a it's it's it's Biden-Harris numbers.
00:37:13.360It's a two trillion dollar deficit and they don't even count the findings that Doge has got today.
00:37:19.160But we're prepared to do that because we know we got impoundments, rescissions, all that coming.
00:37:22.860What would it and Charlie brings to a good point Wall Street's having withdrawals like people cut off heroin because one of the key building blocks of President Trump besides the the pro-growth tax plan besides the tariffs besides other things that he's doing is that he wants to cut federal spending.
00:37:41.460He said he's going to cut it dramatically either through Doge waste fraud and abuse or then programmatically later which be in this summer and will be the fiscal 26 bill.
00:37:49.880If you took out because you talk about a bear market and that normally equates with the recession and President Trump said that if you took out massive federal spending in the Biden years wouldn't be wouldn't we be a negative real growth for the real economy not not the jacked up economy of this massive federal spending sir.
00:38:06.720Well Steve we have to remember there's a lot of things you need to take out of that GDP number to get to that that real figure you're talking about there.
00:38:15.200So obviously you have to get rid of inflation because just because prices are going up and up and up doesn't mean we're actually trading more it doesn't mean that there's actually more economic activity.
00:38:23.900It's just the same economic activity is getting priced higher.
00:38:26.580So first of all take out all the inflation also take out all of the government spending but what we call government spending in terms of the GDP report is really just government direct purchases.
00:38:39.720So let's say the government wants to pave a road and they go out and they buy concrete or asphalt that gets marked up as a government purchase.
00:38:47.000But what about all the other government spending like when they take a dollar from you and give it to me and then I go out and spend it in the real economy we don't actually don't count that as government spending we count that as private consumer spending and so a huge portion of the growth in consumer spending has simply just been an increase in transfer payments.
00:39:06.060And so Gasparino is absolutely right here what we've seen over the last several years has been a massive amount of spending from government that doesn't always operate under the guise of government spending but has helped fuel all of these consumption figures on which Wall Street has been relying to meet earnings estimates.
00:39:24.440And so as you start to take all of these investments and so as you start to take all of that away whether it's those transfer payments or the direct payments by government what you quickly realize is that the real the inflation adjusted economy the actual private sector the productive part of the economy hasn't been growing at all.
00:39:43.280This is the key point just give me that in 60 seconds the productive the real economy the productive side of the economy has flatlined to down and all we've been living off of is printed money.
00:39:54.440That's pet in this massive the six and a half trillion dollars of federal spending that leads to a two trillion dollar deficit sir.
00:40:02.280Exactly Steve the government has basically been borrowing trillions upon trillions of dollars for year after year either spending it directly or indirectly by handing it out to people who then turn around and spend that money.
00:40:15.040But all of this this whole charade this whole merry-go-round of debt it cannot last forever.
00:40:20.500We have been essentially on on a kind of drug addiction with this economy where we move from high to high.
00:40:27.220It's like an alcoholic who every time they start to sober up just goes back to the bottle.
00:40:31.500This is why the administration is talking about a detox period.
00:40:37.200Nobody likes to wake up the day after you've drank too much the night before and you have a headache and you want to just do hair of the dog so it goes away.
00:40:44.400That's not how you get back to long-term health that's not how you get back to long-term economic health and actual economic growth.
00:41:38.420And part of the reason for this volatility, going back to what we started with in Wall Street, is everyone is beginning to realize that.
00:41:45.060Whether it's the folks on Wall Street, whether it's these business leaders, whether it's the – what is it, the premier or whatever the heck his title is up in Ontario where he's finally realizing, uh-oh, I shouldn't have messed around with this guy and threatened these electricity tariffs.
00:41:59.000Because now it turns out that he's backing down as soon as Trump threatened to slap even more tariffs on the output of his little province.
00:42:07.500And so as everyone realizes, not only is Trump not kidding, but they're also realizing they can't afford to go toe-to-toe with him and toe-to-toe with this country.
00:45:07.060I think what they're going to say is that as soon as this is over tonight or late this afternoon, early evening, they're going to call a recess, and they're going to go home.
00:45:18.420And the strategy is just to flip it to the Democrats and call the bluff of the Senate Democrats.
00:45:24.020You guys always want to keep the government open.
00:46:20.720All the nonsense and all the games basically was taken out.
00:46:23.940But we have kind of assurances from Russ Vogt.
00:46:30.000We talked to a bunch of the congressmen that talked to him because President Trump had to whip this.
00:46:34.020Remember, with everything that's going on, including guys going to Riyadh and guys doing this, President Trump actually had, when I say whip, he had to make phone calls and talk to people and say, hey, here's what we're going to do.
00:46:42.920And part of that, I think, is the credibility of some of the leadership is shot on this.
00:46:47.480I know in the audience, in the different chat rooms, you've kind of heard enough.
00:46:50.840But here was the obligation, the commitment was made, is that get this, move it down the road, because if you put in too much of, if you put in Doge, put in too much of other things, the Senate Democrats will never vote for it.
00:47:03.060Therefore, they'll shut down Trump's government.
00:47:08.600Everything, including working on, besides the reconciliation, just the appropriations process that's going to take place this summer where the real cuts are going to come.
00:47:15.900So just bear with us, and you're either going to have through impoundment or you're going to have through rescissions.
00:47:22.060These are two different ways rescissions really come from the House and the Senate.
00:47:26.120That's where they rescind part of the appropriations they have approved after a while.
00:47:31.460The impoundments where actually OMB and others, Treasury, go to the president and say, hey, either programmatically or for whatever reason, we don't need to spend this money.
00:47:40.320The theory of the case is that the appropriations bill is a ceiling, and in a ceiling, then the president as an executive can make a decision, and that decision will be to impound basically the money and not spend it.
00:47:55.800These are all going to lead to huge fights.
00:47:58.300The Democrats are looking to the courts, particularly that first line of federal judges who are still making, putting injunctions and TROs throughout the whole country, even though they may even be for a region of the country.
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