Stephen K. Bamb is joined by Hakeem Jeffery Epstein and Laura Logan to discuss the deportation of a 2-year-old girl who was taken into custody by ICE on a routine check-in at a New Orleans immigration office with her mother.
00:04:07.380Laura, why is this such, and everything that we're working on, why is this such a big victory?
00:04:11.380And what do people need to know about this?
00:04:13.380Because one of the concerns I have that we're not spending enough time on, we have not directed a special, we're not, President Trump has not designated a special counsel to go after the deep state.
00:04:24.380And we see in the CIA report yesterday about what happened on the nullification project.
00:04:31.380That was completely cooked up, right, and went after people like Reince Priebus, myself, many others in the administration with millions and millions of dollars of legal bill paid out of our own pocket to basically get somebody to flip on President Trump.
00:04:59.380And you know, Steve, there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation that has gone on that has been reported about what exactly happened with Doge, what exactly happened with USAID.
00:05:10.380And I think what what a lot of people don't realize is that when Doge came in with Elon Musk, one of the things they did working with people like Pete Morocco, who Trump appointed as director of foreign assistance at the State Department, is they stopped the grants.
00:05:38.380The rescission bill is what is is being is what is so important to these cuts.
00:05:42.380If you want to make these cuts permanent than this, you know, or going forward for any length of time, then you have to pass the rescission bill.
00:05:50.380And what is happening is that, you know, the the president has a very serious problem at agencies like the State Department.
00:05:57.380And from what I understand, it's not exclusive to the State Department in that he doesn't have enough people there.
00:06:03.380I mean, there, you know, for the first few months, I think for three months, the only political appointee at the State Department was Marco Rubio, that none of the the people underneath him.
00:06:13.380You know, you have two under secretaries underneath him and then you have assistant secretaries.
00:06:17.380I mean, these and then you have regional secretaries, the regional secretaries.
00:06:24.380None of these are Trump political appointees.
00:06:26.380And so all of your people in charge of regions that are giving you advice that are reporting in these are the people that are there are directly in line to block whatever it is the president is trying to do.
00:06:37.380And, you know, the president put out several executive orders regarding foreign assistance that have not been met that were very, very clear.
00:06:45.380There was supposed to be a 90 day review on foreign assistance.
00:06:47.380There was supposed to be a 90 day will a review of the foreign service manual.
00:06:52.380There was supposed to be a review of the foreign service itself.
00:06:55.380And why do these things matter so much?
00:08:00.380And the very disappointing part of this, Steve, is, you know, when you have something like the big, beautiful bill, what happens is you do all this, you know, you put all this time and effort into writing it, getting rid of all this stuff that the American people don't want, getting rid of the things that they voted against.
00:08:14.380And then this horse trading happens, right?
00:08:17.380And where does this really, if you want to look at where this really happens, look at the Senate Appropriations Committee and the subcommittee.
00:08:24.380Look at the people on that committee, because they're the ones who are fighting for, oh, you know, you've got to have this in there, you've got to have that in there.
00:08:31.380They've got all, they're doing all the dirty work for their cronies and their lobbyists.
00:08:35.380And unfortunately, this is on both sides of the aisle, right?
00:08:38.380This is the Mitch McConnells and the Lindsey Grahams and, you know, and all these people just as much as it is on the other side of the aisle.
00:08:46.380And so these people are now horse trading, right?
00:08:48.380Because at this point, the president, you know, he just wants to get the bill passed.
00:08:52.380There's a lot of things that are being held up.
00:08:54.380So there's a there's a pressure to get the bill passed and they exploit that pressure and it just grows and grows and grows at the last minute.
00:09:01.380They throw everything in there that the American people do not want to fund.
00:09:05.380They undo all the work, because let me explain to you what happens with these grants.
00:09:10.380What they basically do is they they dictate foreign policy for the United States of America, because some of these grants are not just a year out or two years out.
00:09:20.380Some of them can even go five years out and they don't specifically, you know, they're not always so specific that they say we're going to fund, you know, this person, this organization doing this.
00:09:29.380Sometimes they'll say we'll fund this issue or we're worried about who's going to win the election coming up in this country.
00:09:35.380So we're going to fund, you know, democracy programs in in this place.
00:09:40.380And when this happens, you know, that the president of the United States is not just the commander in chief.
00:09:45.380He is also the chief diplomat. The the Constitution is very simple and very clear on this point that it is the president and the executive branch who set foreign policy for the United States of America.
00:10:00.380So what you have now is you have all of these organizations and, you know, whether it's USAID or the National Endowment for Democracy and so on.
00:10:09.380These are the organizations. These are the people and the bureaucrats and the congressional leaders who are dictating foreign policy for the United States.
00:10:17.380And here's the worst part, Steve. You know, shutting down USAID is one part of it. Right.
00:10:22.380Bringing that into the State Department is one part of it. What about organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy, who when you look into it, I've spoken to a number of people who are working directly on these issues right now up to this very minute.
00:10:37.380And what have they found that these organizations are funding people all over the world?
00:10:42.380The very worst, most sort of vindictive, most prolific criticism of the president of the United States of America.
00:10:51.380They're funding the organizations that are putting this out. They're funding the social media sites, the media sites, the papers, the radio stations, the bloggers, the influences.
00:11:00.380They're funding all of it. And they're using the tax dollars of the people who voted this president into power in order to do so.
00:11:08.380And then this is one of the worst parts, right, that people may not find.
00:11:12.380So it may not be the sexiest thing, but let me tell you, it's effective. Right.
00:11:17.380They're funding the search engines. They're funding the fact checkers.
00:11:21.380They're funding people like the Poynter Institute that funds two of the biggest fact checkers in the United States, like PolitiFact.
00:11:28.380But they're also funding these organizations. There's a there's a tool that they use to identify anything that they find offensive. Right.
00:11:37.380So that can be you questioning whether a 12 year old child should have the right to mutilate their body for, you know, gender surgery without the permission of their parents.
00:11:46.380They're shutting all of that down globally. So what you have really is U.S. taxpayer money.
00:11:52.380USAID was one arm of it, but it's not the only arm.
00:11:57.380And the National Endowment for Democracy and these other organizations, they're not included in the rescission bill.
00:12:02.380They're not included in much of what is happening here.
00:12:05.380And while Doge was criticized heavily in the beginning. And yeah, you can you can say, look, they identified the cuts, but it didn't make it permanent.
00:12:12.380They did this. They didn't do that. But what happened was the deep state marshaled against having this kind of interference in their agencies.
00:12:19.380And sure, you know, no doubt that they made enemies along the way or did things wrong along the way.
00:12:24.380I'm not you know this. I'm not doing a dissertation on the behavior or posts or comment of every Doge person.
00:12:31.380The reality is I look at the facts. Right. As a journalist, my job is to get to the facts.
00:12:36.380And so what happened? Well, they wanted these people out as fast as they could. Right.
00:12:40.380Right. Because what you're doing is you're cutting off the funding of our enemies.
00:12:44.380And you will hear a lot of people will say, well, you know, if you get rid of USAID, you're getting rid of our soft power.
00:12:50.380All these people are going to die. You do not need USAID to carry out soft power for the United States of America, because they are.
00:12:59.380Hang on. We got two minutes. We got two minutes.
00:13:04.380We got we got two minutes to this side in about 90 seconds.
00:13:08.380And I'm going to hold you for a few minutes because I've got E.J. Antonio that I got to get to.
00:13:12.380They're saying right now they got a report that 14 from the Watson School of Brown University that the cuts that you were talking about.
00:13:19.380Laura, the heartless Laura Logan are going to kill 14 million people, including 50 percent of those are children.
00:13:29.380This is how they argue to keep the funding of America's enemies alive.
00:13:33.380We have many other agencies that can do these programs.
00:13:36.380We have civil affairs units, there's cyber units, there's Department of Defense.
00:13:40.380I mean, when I was on the front line of the Ebola epidemic, it was not the Department of State that was right there.
00:13:45.380It was the Department of Defense that sent people to the front line forward.
00:13:49.380So this idea that if you don't fund our enemies, if you don't fund the CIA's program to destabilize governments all over the world and to interfere,
00:13:57.380they use these programs as a cover, Steve, just the same way they used, you know, decent human beings as a cover to invade this country across the southern border.
00:14:05.380They use the race issue and, you know, and black people in, you know, in poor areas across America, they use them as a cover for Marxism.
00:14:13.380They take the most, you know, the things that tug at your heartstrings.
00:14:16.380They use the emotion. They exploit that. They're completely and utterly ruthless.
00:14:21.380They line their own pockets and they finance our adversaries and they undermine us at every turn.
00:14:26.380These people need to be shut down and they need to be shut down permanently.
00:14:31.380They're in violation of the law. They're in violation of the Constitution.
00:14:35.380And they are working against the president of the United States, which means against the will of the American people.
00:14:42.380Laura, hang on for one second. I'm gonna hold you to this break.
00:14:45.380Laura Logan on a complete beat down of USAID. Short break. Back in the warm in a moment.
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00:17:39.380I've asked Laura to stick around. I've got a couple more questions.
00:17:42.380She's all over this as only her unique investigative reporting can, but we've got E.J. and Tony for a couple of minutes on this labor report.
00:17:49.380So, E.J., yesterday you said, hey, look, it looks like it may be softening. Give me your analysis of the report that came out this morning, sir.
00:17:56.380A million times better than what came out yesterday, Steve. That's for sure.
00:18:01.380The ADP report that we talked about yesterday showing those private payrolls were declining.
00:18:07.380Instead, the BLS this morning shows us that we had a better than expected increase with, drumroll please, the last two months being revised upwards.
00:18:17.380And I bring that up because that was one of the questions you had asked, Steve. Are we continuing to see these crazy revisions?
00:18:24.380Well, now under Trump, for the first time this year, actually, we see the last two months of revisions going in the right direction, meaning we're adding even more jobs than we thought because the last two months the estimate was under.
00:18:37.380Full stop. Yeah, yeah. But full stop. Full stop. This is Trump's government.
00:18:42.920And, man, I don't know why we haven't put you in charge of Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:18:47.920For the entire four years of Biden, brother, I'd have you on here, and we'd come to the labor report and go, oh, the revision was down.
00:18:55.920They'd always have a flash that was great or quasi-great or better, and then they revised down, sometimes significantly.
00:19:01.920Now in Trump's the first two months that he gets it, they give it to you low and they revise up.
00:19:05.920Come on, man. This is the administrative state at work, right? This is clearly – it can't be random.
00:19:12.920You can't give me those years of Biden when it was the exact opposite, and you would come on here and hammer it.
00:19:17.920And now we're in Trump, and they give it to you late, and they revise up.
00:19:22.920This thing – the Bureau of Labor Statistics is rigged against MAGA and it's rigged against President Trump. Prove me wrong, sir.
00:19:30.920Steve, I can't say I have any proof for you either way.
00:19:36.920But what I can tell you is when we look at the internals of the report, yes, there was a good headline number.
00:19:43.920But when we look at the internals of the report, that was also an area of improvement compared to the previous month.
00:19:49.920I can give you a couple examples of that. If we look at the quality of jobs that were added, all – literally all of the net job growth were full-time jobs, not part-time.
00:20:09.920And again, to your point earlier, it stands in stark contrast to what we saw under Biden where you would constantly get these months where the only jobs being added was part-time work because folks had to get an additional job in order to make ends meet because the Bidenflation was so terrible, right?
00:20:27.920So we're seeing exactly the opposite now under Trump.
00:20:30.920We're seeing wages, wage growth outpace the increase in prices, outpace inflation.
00:20:37.920And it's not just the quality of jobs, but also, Steve, who is getting the jobs?
00:20:42.920And this is something that we've talked about for several years now on your show on War Room where we have seen under Biden only on net only foreign-born workers getting jobs while native-born Americans weren't getting any jobs, at least on net, okay?
00:20:59.920Now we're seeing exactly the opposite.
00:21:02.920So what we've seen just this year has been a surge in the number of native-born Americans who are working.
00:21:10.920In fact, last month was the best June on record for native-born American employment.
00:21:20.920We've seen a total shift away from all of the jobs going to foreign-born workers, which includes illegal aliens, by the way, to now native-born Americans being the ones who are getting the jobs.
00:21:31.920And what is really, really astonishing now is, whereas before, under Biden, very often the number of native-born Americans with jobs was below pre-pandemic levels, now it's above.
00:22:08.920Well, Steve, you know, one of the things that really stood out in the report regarding the Fed was the fact that the unemployment rate did not go down, even though the latest forecast from the Fed said, oh, we're expecting higher unemployment rates.
00:23:25.920We're going to wrap up a call here with Putin in a moment.
00:23:28.920If you were in the Oval Office right after that call, what recommendation would Laura Logan make to the president of the United States if you had two or three minutes of his time to look him in the eye right there at the Resolute desk and tell him your recommendation of taking apart the deep state, ma'am?
00:23:46.920First and foremost, the Constitution is your refuge.
00:23:49.920Everything that President Trump needs, the extraordinary powers that he has as president are all defined in the Constitution.
00:23:56.920I would just encourage him to use the power and authority that he has because, as everybody knows, if you put a Band-Aid on a bleeding wound, you're still going to bleed out, and that's where we are right now.
00:24:09.920It's interesting you say Putin because Russia, Russia, Russia was really one of the largest seditious conspiracies in the history of the United States of America.
00:24:19.920I don't think we've ever seen anything like it, and the people who were responsible for that are responsible for all the things that have happened since.
00:24:26.920The campaigns against President Trump in 2016 and today run by the same people.
00:24:33.920The efforts to impeach him run by the same people.
00:24:36.920You know, we have to get the CIA out of politics.
00:24:39.920We have to get activist judges out of politics.
00:24:42.920The Constitution provides three separate powers, you know, of government, three separate parts of government.
00:24:49.920The president as the diplomat in chief, the commander in chief, he is in charge.
00:24:53.920These unelected judges are not in charge.
00:24:55.920In fact, if you go back, Steve, the only court that was created by the Constitution is the Supreme Court.
00:25:02.920All the others are created by an act of Congress.
00:25:05.920So actually, the president doesn't have to fund them.
00:25:07.920He doesn't have to pay the budgets, you know, and the salaries of these judges who are working against him.
00:25:13.920He also doesn't have to use to pay their rent.
00:25:16.920He doesn't have to pay for the buildings in which they're in.
00:25:19.920And so this is the kind of thing that Elon Musk and Doge exposed by stopping the rents, right?
00:25:24.920By shutting down the rents and stopping paying for these places to be around.
00:25:28.920And this helped shut down places like USAID, which, by the way, you know, was created by, you know, under Reagan in the Cold War, created to counter Soviet influence in the developing world.
00:25:38.920And, you know, the Republicans have been calling for 40 years to shut this down.
00:25:44.920But it's not going to mean anything if it's not permanent.
00:25:47.920So I would tell the president to use the extraordinary power he has that he doesn't, you know, they don't need to slow walk this anymore, where they're trying to, you know, you're saying, I would like to see this person in and get rid of, you know, the chairman of the Fed.
00:26:00.920I mean, if the president, if he's not serving the president's agenda, then why is he still in office?
00:26:05.920Why are we even having a conversation about this?
00:26:43.920And that's what has been discovered at, you know, National Endowment for Democracy, NED.
00:26:48.920But if you look at these people and you look at who is on their boards, it is Republicans and Democrats.
00:26:53.920So President Trump, with courage, which he has shown plenty of, he has no shortage of courage, he is going to have to take on the element within his own party, the establishment, rhino, traitor element, whatever you want to call them, who have lined their pockets for so long they have no desire to share the wealth of the American people with the American people who earned it.
00:27:18.920So that, you know, it's not that I'm so clever, Steve.
00:27:50.920Because I want to give fully your podcast, social media, everything.
00:27:53.920And I've got one more question to ask you on live television.
00:27:57.920Short commercial break, Laura Logan, who is bringing the heat and talking truth to power, talking absolute truth to power.
00:28:06.920If you don't believe that, Phil Wegman from RealClearPolitics is going to join us next and back up what she's saying about the intelligence community.
00:28:14.920A massive fight inside the intelligence community right now.
00:32:06.920Also now Phil Wegman, uh, white house correspondent for real clear politics.
00:32:10.920Phil, I'm going to thank you for changing around your holiday weekend to join us, but your story, quite frankly, I think it's too much for a blockbuster.
00:32:16.920Uh, and it's almost, I know you're the white house reporter.
00:32:20.920This is almost like an investigative report.
00:32:22.920If Grace and Mo can put it up in Cameron, the new MAGA turf war over national intelligence.
00:32:28.920Phil, take it from the top because this folks, you should understand is one of the biggest fights going on in Washington, DC.
00:32:35.920This is a, this is a war to the knife.
00:32:37.920Uh, explain exactly what's going on in your reporting, sir.
00:32:41.920So the office of the director of national intelligence, that's the agency that oversees and integrates all of the other 18 three letter intelligence agencies.
00:32:52.920Tulsi Gabbard has been on the job at the helm for a little more than five months.
00:32:57.920And there's broad Republican agreement that the ODNI needs to change.
00:33:02.920It needs to reform, but the fundamental questions here are how does it reform and who accrues more power as a result?
00:33:10.920Gabbard, she's already cut 25% of the staff there at ODNI.
00:33:15.920I'm told that there are more reforms coming, but, uh, Senator Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he's not waiting around for the ODNI to heal itself.
00:33:25.920He just dropped legislation this week, which would cap ODNI staff at 650.
00:33:31.920But more than that, and what's really significant here is in this legislation, it would take some of these core responsibilities from ODNI, um, and transfer them to the FBI and CIA.
00:33:46.920One of my intelligence sources balked at this proposed, uh, reform and said that it would essentially just give more power to the CIA.
00:33:55.920So this is absolutely, uh, the next turf war in MAGA over the intelligence community.
00:34:00.920And it's a fraught question because a lot of conservatives are already skeptical of an intelligence community that they think has been weaponized.
00:34:11.920The, the, the reason OD, the whole thing was set up is post nine 11.
00:34:16.920We had the greatest intelligence, both exterior intelligence failure, but also interior FBI failure in the history of the nation, or at least since Pearl Harbor.
00:34:26.920And some people actually argue maybe worse than Pearl Harbor.
00:34:31.920So that you would have somebody reported directly to the president that looked over all the intelligence service, including the CIA and make sure that you spoke with one voice, but also that these things didn't get weaponized.
00:34:42.920Now, what has happened is that when you, when you talk to the, and you tell me you're the expert, when I talked to the intelligence community, they said, the CIA doesn't feel like they report to DNI.
00:34:54.920They're going to do what they're going to do.
00:34:55.920And cotton, who's very close to the guy, Ratcliffe and the guys in CIA set essentially for the downsizing.
00:35:01.920They want to take half the downsizing and kind of actually get more resources for the CIA, get a more expansion inside the apparatus, and then give additional resources to the FBI, which I think is a tell that cash and maybe Dan Bongino are not.
00:35:18.920They're moving headquarters, but maybe not deconstructing this as quickly as the mega base wants your thoughts, sir.
00:35:24.920Well, you started with that history lesson and you're absolutely correct.
00:35:29.920After 9-11, there's this frustration that the CIA and FBI because of petty rivalries are not sharing information.
00:35:36.920The thought is if you have a director of national intelligence who oversees both of these agencies as well as all the others, they can coordinate.
00:35:44.920The problem is, according to the experts who have studied this for 20 years, is that the ODNI was never given statutory authority.
00:35:53.920They don't have budget authority over these agencies.
00:35:57.920They don't have hiring and firing authority over these agencies.
00:36:00.920And so the CIA, which is much more glamorous and has a lot of connections to Capitol Hill, they bigfoot the ODNI.
00:36:08.920Where this changed, though, for Republicans was during the previous Trump administration.
00:36:14.920John Ratcliffe, who was Trump's final director of national intelligence, he said, everyone before me was a director of national intelligence on paper only.
00:36:24.920That changed, though, when Donald Trump made clear to the rest of these agencies that everything had to come through the DNI.
00:36:32.920It's a question of whether or not the president has confidence in that individual.
00:36:36.920Today, all these years later, John Ratcliffe, he's at the CIA.
00:36:42.920And certainly it seems that she is having her moment in the sun as her sort of anti-interventionism maybe put her on the outs with a White House that is becoming more hawkish after these strikes on Iran.
00:36:59.920Well, let's talk about that. I think this is the question.
00:37:03.920And this is why this is such an important piece.
00:37:05.920This piece is so important because it's in the moment.
00:37:08.920People would say or a number of people would say the reason the president was interventionist.
00:37:12.920And that was still just for a massive bomb in the take at the new program.
00:37:15.920He fought and did not get involved and would not get involved in a regime change war.
00:37:20.920And, in fact, he told the Israelis yesterday the Gaza war is over, guys.
00:37:31.920People would say Greenwald – and I realize Glenn Greenwald is Glenn Greenwald.
00:37:35.920He's saying Ratcliffe, who was a good man and was Trump's pick because he did such a good job at DNI, has been – he and Ellis have been overwhelmed at the agency.
00:37:44.920As you know how all-encompassing the CIA is to try to get – to try to make changes.
00:37:49.920Mike Pompeo admitted in the first couple of weeks he wanted to leave because he couldn't make changes that the CIA is giving a very different intelligence read and maybe tied to foreign intelligence services, maybe with their information.
00:38:04.920Whereas Tulsi is trying to give it the broad scope and what the intelligence community said.
00:38:08.920This war is bubbling up and actually affecting national security policy on a day-to-day basis, including in the Ukraine war, in the South China Sea, and particularly in the Middle East.
00:38:19.920Is that what's brewing behind it, that Ratcliffe is really now more of a CIA guy than he was?
00:38:31.920He wants those additional resources, sir.
00:38:34.920What I can say thus far about Ratcliffe over at CIA is that the White House is well-pleased with him.
00:38:41.920It's been consistent that this administration has said the president has confidence in his entire national security team.
00:38:48.920But what is interesting about this current argument here is when I reached out to the White House for comment about this cotton bill,
00:38:57.920I was told by a White House official that not only does the president have confidence in his team and Gabbard, but ODNI will not be subsumed by CIA.
00:39:07.920The fact of the matter, though, is this is not just a question of executive action.
00:39:12.920Certainly, the president has a tremendous amount of influence on Capitol Hill.
00:39:16.920Well, we're seeing that today with the one big, beautiful bill.
00:39:19.920But what cotton has put forward is a legislative change.
00:39:23.920And if he gets a majority in Congress and this eventually makes its way to the president's desk, I mean, I think he'd be hard pressed not to sign it.
00:39:32.920More broadly, though, taking a step further, even back earlier in this year, I spoke to Amarlis Fox Kennedy, who is now over at the Office of Management and Budget, looking into some of the dark budgets of these intelligence agencies.
00:39:46.920And the reason she was so eager for this job to really get into the plumbing of these intel agencies is she's a CIA veteran herself.
00:39:57.920And she told me about how when she was an officer back in the early 2000s, there was this attitude at CIA that they were just going to outweigh the politicians, that they were going to outweigh what they called the temps.
00:40:13.920So certainly, you know, both Republican and Democratic administrations, they've been frustrated by an agency that sees itself as, you know, sometimes unaccountable.
00:40:26.520Phil, where do you think your reporting is going to go on this?
00:40:29.440I know you're kind of the lead sled dog now on this, this brilliant story you got up in Real Clear Politics.
00:40:33.940Where do you anticipate your reporting is going to – I know you're going to stay on this because I think it's one of the top two or three most important stories in town.
00:40:40.780Where do you think directionally this is going to take you?
00:40:43.920Well, I'm fascinated by this argument that came immediately after the reelection of Trump when you had Trump's pollster, John McLaughlin, say Republicans have to make a decision about these independents, these moderates and disaffected Democrats who joined the Trump fold.
00:41:01.000Are Republicans going to, you know, bring them into the GOP permanently because right now they're just renting them?
00:41:07.740And his argument during those early days of confirmation hearings were that people like RFK Jr., people like Tulsi Gabbard, they were the ones who were going to solidify this realignment.
00:41:18.560I think that what I've been learning, though, is that at the end of the day – and we saw this in President Trump's interview with The Atlantic – he determines what America first means.
00:41:29.720And so some of these folks, like Tulsi Gabbard, who I think were attracted to this administration because they thought that the non-interventionism sort of lined up, you know, that relationship may be framed.
00:41:42.520So I'm watching this very closely because I think it's going to tell us something.
00:41:45.580You know, we'll see if Tulsi Gabbard can, you know, can repair that relationship, but it's going to be fascinating to watch no matter what.
00:42:21.200Folks, this is – Phil Wegman has nailed it, as only RealClearPolitics can do, and this behind the scenes is one of the biggest fights in town and quite a nasty fight because it's upon the intelligence you actually make the decisions of what you're going to do in action.
00:42:37.420And remember, the kinetic part – we're in the kinetic part of the Third World War.
00:42:43.100We started the show today at 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time by going to the House and seeing Hakeem Jeffries, Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader.
00:43:24.900He basically made the decision not – and I repeat, not to get involved in a regime change war where he's being sucked into it by the CIA and the Mossad.
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00:46:17.220It's about breakout sessions, community.
00:46:20.100It's about getting activated and also figuring out where we stand on some of these major issues.
00:46:25.360There's been a lot of, let's just say, heated salvos thrown around online the last couple of weeks.
00:46:31.040And I find that once you're in physical dimension with one another, things change a little bit.
00:46:36.480So, look, we need to make sure that, as you say, Steve, on our terms, we're going to make sure this movement is recalibrated correctly.
00:46:44.060And, look, this is primarily a student event.
00:46:45.880It's not only a student event, but we're also going to be reminding the media.
00:46:50.760We have an incredible media portfolio that's coming, roster, I should say.
00:46:54.060We have over, like, 150 media that's coming from every major news source.
00:46:58.300We are reminding them that President Trump won the youth vote.
00:47:00.460And he won the youth vote on an optimistic, patriotic, positive vision of homeownership, getting married, having children, creating an ownership economy, not a renting economy.
00:47:11.380And I'm going to be saying at the Student Action Summit and also to all of your audience, the reason why Mamdani is so dangerous, look, of course, Muslim, you know, third world or all that.
00:47:21.820But the real reason is that he focuses on economics.
00:47:24.080And, Steve, to your credit, you've been talking about this for quite some time.
00:47:27.280Young Gen Zers and young people, they'll dismiss all the radical elements because they are so upset they can't own stuff.
00:47:34.520I think President Trump is well on his way to fixing that through the big, beautiful bill and many other economic measures.
00:47:39.700But you're going to get 100 Zoran Mamdani's, and you're going to get them quickly if you do not address the fundamental lack of ownership in this economy.
00:47:48.520We're going to be talking about that at the Student Action Summit.
00:48:30.900It's a great midsummer break for everybody to pull people together and talk about, put all the issues up on the table that we need to talk about.
00:48:36.800Remember, this group, MAGA is born fighting, right?
00:50:05.660Well, I had a bunch of meetings yesterday, but I've been having a lot of fun because I've been out here doing interviews, too.
00:50:12.000I never thought, Steve, I'd be doing both.
00:50:13.740Today, I'll be meeting with the president, but here out doing interviews.
00:50:17.180We got Tom Holman yesterday coming down the thing because I know all these people.
00:50:22.060And I think you got Fox News and a lot of other ones getting a little jealous here going,
00:50:27.160why is Lindell TV doing all these interviews?
00:50:30.780But here we are, and yesterday was a great day, and I know today's even going to be better.
00:50:40.280And I've added for the War Room Posse, too, in celebration of this.
00:50:45.600We have the 50% off sale, Steve, but everybody's been asking if they could get the per kill sheets for the wholesale prices again that came in last week.
00:50:54.480We're going to do that for the War Room Posse live from the White House.
00:50:58.440You guys get them for $29.88, any size, any color.
00:51:03.180I'm going to let you get as many as you want.