00:04:55.860And we owe Ron DeSantis that. He got it passed before the Supreme Court, before the ink dried on Alito's proclamation. Caroline Wren.
00:05:06.940Look, the Democrats, the only reason why they hold any power is due to decades of a unconstitutional rigging of congressional districts based off of two things.
00:05:17.060VRA holding the South hostage on their maps. And the second is counting illegal aliens in the census.
00:05:23.160So if we, you know, VRA got handled yesterday, but if Donald Trump and his team could get on top of eliminating illegal immigrants being counted in the census, you would have a collapse of congressional districts in California, New York, Illinois, these different states.
00:05:41.420Now, honing in on the picture as to what can happen between now and November, Speaker Johnson just came out and said any state that is affected by VRA and now has an unconstitutional map can and must redistrict before the primaries.
00:05:56.400And I agree with him 100 percent. And there are a couple of states that I'm not sure how they would do that, seeing as the primary has already passed.
00:06:04.220That's Mississippi and North Carolina. However, the Mississippi governor came out and said, yeah, I'm calling a special session.
00:06:10.660I believe the special suggestion is the first week of May, and so we'll see how they deal with that.
00:06:16.020But again, just because your primary is passed, I mean, you're still proceeding with an unconstitutional map based on the Supreme Court's ruling.
00:06:23.400And so in North Carolina, it's the same.
00:06:25.180I have less confidence in that just because they have a Democrat governor.
00:06:29.920But however, there should be lawsuits being filed immediately, so I'm hoping we see that happen.
00:06:34.800I also don't know how this affects Virginia.
00:06:37.140The Virginia map is clearly now unconstitutional.
00:06:40.040They already there's an active lawsuit going on. That one is not based off of ERA, but the process as to which that map in the referendum happened.
00:06:48.280And so putting those three states aside, we are now looking at you've got Louisiana and Florida.
00:06:53.880Florida passed their map. So now we have Louisiana. And again, I don't understand why they would do a 5-1 map.
00:07:00.800It is a 6-0 map in Louisiana. I just put one out on my X speed of like, here's an example of what a 6-0 map looks like.
00:07:07.540congressional districts two and six in Louisiana are absolutely absurd and should not exist you
00:07:12.880move right down to Alabama they have a prime they need to deal with this immediately their
00:07:16.800primary is May 19th the Alabama attorney general came out yesterday and said we need to deal with
00:07:22.420this immediately we need to call a special session and fix this in our map it's now unconstitutional
00:07:27.280and an hour later the governor of Alabama comes out and says we are not calling a special session
00:07:32.340we can't because there's active court cases. I'm like, well, your attorney general just came out
00:07:37.640and said the opposite of what you just said. And if this is the premise of you can't because of
00:07:42.400active legal cases, I would defer to the attorney general. And I could go on and on about the
00:07:46.800governor of Alabama, who I think has the same cognitive function as Biden. So I'm going to go
00:07:52.840ahead and say that we should revisit this Alabama announcement by KID. Moving down to Georgia,
00:07:58.300Georgia is, they're actively voting right now.
00:08:01.180And so we'll see what Brian Kemp does with this.
00:08:04.320You've had every candidate who's running for governor come out and say,
00:08:54.280Missouri, their primary is not until August 4th.
00:08:56.300you plenty of time to get this done. We have a Republican governor there, and we can pick up
00:09:00.240one, potentially two more seats in Missouri. And then Tennessee, you had Marsha Blackburn is
00:09:06.320running for governor. Yesterday, she put out a statement that said, we should redistrict our,
00:09:11.520you know, this current map is unconstitutional. This is a great ruling. And when I am governor,
00:09:15.600we will get it done. And I came out and said, when you're governor, no, that is too late. We
00:09:20.800need to do it right now. And so she came out with a second statement that is calling for her
00:09:25.020governor. I don't understand this. The Democrats who try to shred the Constitution all the time
00:09:32.520always wave it in our face, particularly in this VRA situation. Now it's been deemed
00:09:39.220unconstitutional. It's been unconstitutional since the get go. We finally got the Democrats
00:09:44.200will be all over this. Why are these feckless, hapless Republicans not prepared and not prepared
00:09:49.140to fight, ma'am? I don't know. We've been talking about this for like I've been yelling about this
00:09:54.440for for years they just aren't they they want to look at indiana what a missed opportunity that was
00:10:00.020like because these republicans you know they claim oh democracy or um i don't know what they
00:10:07.680i can't even think of what the excuse could be because i can't put my like head into their their
00:10:12.580headspace in south carolina i was calling around i'm calling every governor attorney general state
00:10:17.480senator and state house member i have on my phone in any of these states that we are discussing
00:10:21.000And one of the pushbacks I got was, oh, well, the South Carolina legislature doesn't want to do a special session because a lot of them have vacations coming up this summer and their kids are out of school.
00:10:31.620And I just I have no patience for those type of answers.
00:10:38.100And so, you know, it's different state by state as to why.
00:10:41.700But all I know is we have got to put pressure on these folks.
00:10:45.200We need to get the war room posse calling over to them.
00:10:47.840The White House, I think, is all over this.
00:10:49.980But also, you know, the White House, they have a lot going on right now.
00:10:53.200Like we need to step up and be helpful to them and also be voices and say, like, especially if you live in any of these states, like you're living in a state where your representation is not is not abiding by the Constitution.
00:11:06.320So you should be very loud and vocal about this.
00:11:11.800Caroline, where do people go on your social media?
00:11:13.900You're putting stuff up on this nonstop.
00:11:15.860You're like the you like the town crier.
00:11:17.540So where do people go to stay current with this?
00:11:19.180We're going to get more organized, have people's phone numbers up and go to Bill Blaster, et cetera.
00:11:24.680But where do people go right now to follow you to get all the current data on this?
00:11:29.220It is at Caroline Wren on X and True Social and Getter.
00:18:31.540So once again, tell me the organizing principle of the Democratic left, sir.
00:18:35.800It's to get as many illegal aliens in here as possible and to artificially inflate their democratic power through fake districts, fake populations, fake voting systems so they can, you know, then go forth with their evil Marxist plan.
00:18:51.400And this is why we got to confront it at every step of the way.
00:18:54.420Now, this article the other day, President Trump, this was the central, as you said, what knits not just border security, but the deportations is what knits together and connects every part of the MAGA movement.
00:19:09.460DHS has got a very different take on things right now, sir.
00:19:14.500Yeah, it's no secret post-Minneapolis, there was some buckling, both in the rhetoric and the policies and the operations.
00:19:21.300That's why the mass deportation coalition formed, said, no, now's not the time to pump the brakes just because some rioters got out there and got an ISIS face.
00:19:30.860The deportations haven't been high enough.
00:19:32.620They need to be much higher to get to mass deportation levels.
00:19:35.980And so, you know, with the change in leadership and new Secretary Mullen coming in, everyone's giving him a little grace period.
00:19:41.800But in this grace period, a lot has been said and a lot has been done that I think weighs counter to the cause of mass deportation.
00:19:49.800And things like giving away the store on judicial warrants or, you know, some of the statements about going about things quieter or even agreeing with Democrat senators for cooperation if an ICE facility is going to be built in their state.
00:20:03.100And so you have those things happening on one hand.
00:20:05.460The numbers are still low, way too low, about a couple hundred thousand last year.
00:20:10.360There needs to be at least a million this year.
00:20:15.200But not a lot has been done to re-embrace what we all fell in love with to send Trump back to the White House, the cause of mass deportation, which remains popular.
00:20:25.540And so this was had out in the rag of the Washington Post a couple of days ago where they pointed to some of these issues.
00:20:32.260And a lot of people who want to see mass deportations were, you know, charting a path towards getting back on track.
00:20:37.840And that's a path that I hope Secretary Mullen decides to take instead of trying to take one that will somehow fail to convince some liberals that things are quieter and OK.
00:20:47.720Now we're just going to do what the Democrats have done previously by not deporting people at scale.
00:20:52.960so mike make this make sense to me we don't need they pass fisa that you don't need a warrant
00:20:59.560to to go to fisa court but you you you uh need a judicial warrant you need a judicial warrant
00:21:08.640to basically go and get any of these illegal aliens out of the country sir how does that make sense
00:21:14.300well of course it doesn't i mean that's not how it's worked in practice that's why it's become a
00:21:19.140negotiable item, right? It's a concession that has been provided by DHS to the, you know,
00:21:25.740anti-American forces that want to keep illegals here. And that's not right. It shouldn't have
00:21:31.620been made that way. What its overall scope on the impact remains to be seen. But I'll tell you this,
00:21:37.080like the one thing that people should look at if you want the numbers to go up is whether or not
00:21:41.760DHS and ICE will focus at work sites. That is where illegals are geographically concentrated
00:21:48.000at any given time it's common sense it's how eisenhower got the numbers through the roof in
00:21:53.3001954 and it's why trump said he's going to beat eisenhower but he can't beat eisenhower if he
00:21:58.160doesn't go to the work sites the hospitality the agriculture the leisure you name it all those
00:22:03.900places with deep-pocketed lobbyists who have friends in the white house and throughout the
00:22:07.780administration and campaign consultants who are telling republicans if you do this we will pull
00:22:12.560your funding and we don't care that the voters want it but the money doesn't want it to happen
00:22:17.400And that's what's at play right now. That's why the mass deportation coalition is ascendant.
00:22:22.040It is the counterweight to those corrupt lobbying forces who would rather see a cheap buck than a country that can sustain itself.
00:22:30.800Mike, talk to me. There's a big article on Daily Signal today about Keith, the great congressman down in Texas, about a report that you guys did.
00:22:38.600Walk me through this report and the action that's being taken from it.
00:22:43.160right so islamists across the country are basically creating cities you know uh new
00:22:48.860jurisdictions to be sharia law compliant uh it's a takeover the united states and one place where
00:22:54.360this is happening at scale as you know is down in texas and they're picking texas because they
00:22:58.840know if they could tilt texas away from red and away from an american crown jewel then the rest
00:23:04.240of the country falls shortly thereafter well one prime example of this is a place called epic city
00:23:09.500They now call it the meadow after they did a little brand shift. And it's this huge development that's got a lot of scrutiny. And we did a report. We did came out from all angles, including, you know, getting some new materials and looked into the failure of the Texas Workforce Commission's investigation into it, which was basically shut down in a very odd way.
00:23:30.600And then some of the IRS issues that the federal government can pick up on, where basically we think they're in flagrant violation of IRS law as it relates to a nonprofit because it's a nonprofit overseeing basically a private business which funnels all the money back up to the nonprofit.
00:23:47.700And I'll tell you this, you know, I spoke to Harmeet Dillon about this, you know, over the holidays at Christmas time.
00:23:54.120And she told me that if Texas wasn't doing the job, the feds would step back in.
00:23:58.740And so I think we found evidence that Texas is indeed, you know, demonstrably not doing the job but for Ken Paxton down there.
00:24:06.700This thing would be soaring if it weren't for Ken Paxton, you know, standing up new litigation that has slowed it down.
00:24:13.200But this thing can end. And if we can end it in an epic city, we've got a lot more to do.
00:24:17.240As you know, this is a civilizational fight. It's been happening for hundreds and hundreds of thousands of years.
00:24:22.260But we got to stop some of these things in their tracks to show we can build off this, get some momentum, retake our country.
00:24:29.460And of course, mass deportation also makes all this a lot easier.
00:24:33.520This is America. It's not an Islamist republic.
00:24:37.140The Oversight Project is not going to stand by and let Texas become an Islamist republic.
00:24:42.040And so we took the fight to Epic City.
00:24:44.360Keith South and the Sharia Free Caucus, Chip Roy, those guys, they're all standing up with us.
00:24:48.620Let's get some points on the board and stop the citizens' tracks.
00:24:52.260Just help me out here. Tell me, go back to the Texas, because Texas is a Republican state.
00:24:57.260You've got a Republican executive branch. You've got Republicans in the House and Senate down there.
00:25:02.900Give me the Texas Labor Board. What did you guys find out in your report, sir?
00:25:07.580So basically, Texas kicked the investigation to this entity called the Texas Workforce Commission.
00:25:13.340You know, there's a lot of public outcry about it. People have been upset.
00:25:15.820And so the Republican, quote unquote, officials there are like, all right, let's do something about it to quiet this down.
00:25:20.820But it wasn't really a real something. They launched what they called an investigation. They got back these basically no records returned on it, which makes no sense.
00:25:30.540Any reasonable investigator looking at a 40 million dollar entity would expect some board minutes, financial records, communications, et cetera, basically gave them a bill of clean health and then a forward looking agreement to be monitored by a left wing law firm.
00:25:46.280And it has all the elements of just a cover-up job to deal with public outcry.
00:25:53.480And so we're saying that that TWC investigation was facially insufficient
00:25:58.600and should give rise to the feds now getting involved on a number of grounds
00:26:03.880to include the constitutional issues, the IRS issues, and so forth.
00:26:08.600The House of Reps seems to agree with us of the Sharia Free Caucus.
00:26:12.260We hope the DOJ, per Harmeet Dillon, saying if new evidence emerged, they would look at it, agrees with us.
00:26:18.060But we're going to keep pushing here. But Paxton has slowed it down for now.
00:26:23.700Where do people go to get the report and where do people go to find out more about the mass deportation coalition and join if they're so inclined, sir?
00:26:33.720Yes. So for the report, go to itsyourgov.org or on X at itsyourgov. That's the Oversight Project.
00:26:40.000If you want to join the hottest ticket in town, the mass deportation coalition, it's easy.
00:26:45.340Go to mass deportation dot com. Sign up. Plug your email in. We'll come. We'll host events with you.
00:26:51.020This is a national movement. The college students, the youth, people, younger generations are involved.
00:26:56.320Other more established organizations are involved. But go to on X at phase two deport.
00:27:02.040You'll see all you need to see there, including our 100-page playbook that lays out how Trump could get easily to 1 million deportations this year, up from about 200,000 or so last year.
00:27:13.920So that's the train is moving down the tracks.
00:35:48.500Bold assurances of success are a disservice to both the Commander-in-Chief
00:35:52.580and the troops who risk their lives based on them.
00:35:55.620Our military has performed heroically, but military force without a signed strategy is a path to long-term defeat.
00:36:05.220I'd like to know what options you're considering now, given the course from this war and the stalemate President Trump has put us in.
00:36:13.520More broadly, Mr. Secretary, too often you have made dangerous statements that are counterproductive to the mission.0.94
00:36:21.200You boasted about, quote, no stupid rules of engagement.0.98
00:36:25.620just days after hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls were tragically killed in a missile strike.0.99
00:36:31.560You have made troubling statements about showing no mercy and no quarter to the Iranians,
00:36:37.860orders that would constitute war crimes.
00:36:40.400As importantly, while our men and women are fighting and dying overseas,
00:36:44.100you have focused unduly on your own personal agenda.
00:36:48.880In the past two months alone, you have taken it upon yourself to overhaul the chaplain corps,
00:36:53.360cancel flu vaccine requirements, repeal firearm restrictions on military posts, and bar service members from attending certain universities.
00:37:04.140Just this week, you brought performer Kid Rock to an army base to go for a joyride in an Apache helicopter
00:37:11.080after dismissing an earlier investigation into the pilots who recklessly chose to hover a bus at his home.
00:37:19.840That runs directly counter to the chain of command and maintaining good order and discipline.
00:37:25.980Most disturbingly, during your tenure, you have fired dozens of our most senior military leaders
00:37:31.200and personally intervened to block the promotions of many others.
00:37:35.800That is a betrayal of the merit-based system that forms the foundation of our military.
00:37:41.020You are hollering out the military's bench of experience and highest-performing senior officers
00:37:47.880while making young officers wonder if they should continue to serve.
00:37:52.780My colleagues and I have heard from countless service members throughout the ranks,
00:37:57.360many of whom will be watching right now, who are confused and disturbed by your actions.
00:40:15.880I'm honored to appear alongside General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
00:40:20.100and Jay Hurst, our Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller.
00:40:23.540I'd like to start by thanking this committee and Congress for your partnership in securing the investments needed for a stronger, prouder, and more secure military.
00:40:33.420Your focus on acquisitions, your focus on efficiency are the reflection in our department as well and in this budget.
00:40:42.280A nation's ability to build, to innovate, and to support the critical needs of its warfighters at speed and at scale is the foundation upon which its deterrence and survival rests.
00:40:53.540However, upon taking office on January 20th, 2025, President Trump inherited a defense industrial base that had been hollowed out by years of America last policies, resulting in a diminished capacity to project strength.
00:41:09.500Under the previous administration, we were offshoring, outsourcing, beset by cost overruns and degraded capabilities.
00:41:17.540But under the leadership of President Trump, our builder-in-chief,
00:41:21.680we are reversing this systemic decay and putting our defense industrial base back on a wartime footing.
00:41:46.660The $1.5 trillion budget put forward by the President will build upon a previous $1 trillion FY26 top line
00:41:54.220and will continue to reverse the four years of underinvestment and mismanagement of the Biden administration.
00:42:00.920The $1.5 trillion budget will ensure that the United States continues to maintain the world's most powerful and capable military
00:42:08.720as we grapple with a complex threat environment across multiple theaters.
00:42:13.640Not to mention, the budget also includes a historic troop pay increase, 7% for junior enlisted, and the budget eliminates all poor or failing barracks.
00:42:25.900Quality of life for our troops is front and center in this budget.
00:42:30.640By supercharging our defense industrial capacity and transforming how the department does business, we are restoring American commercial dominance at a pace unseen in generations, transforming the defense industrial base.
00:42:43.240$5 trillion defense budget. Of course, that's got to be tied to—it should be tied directly to
00:42:51.420the hemispheric defense and the major geoeconomic and geostrategic rebalancing and refocus of the
00:42:59.560United States national security. I'm not 100 percent sure that's occurring. We're still way
00:43:06.600too engaged in the Middle East and way too engaged in areas that I don't think—I think
00:43:12.640because the necessity of that geo strategically has lost its importance.
00:43:16.660But we're currently fighting a war to make sure we can extract ourselves,
00:43:20.160hopefully from that region, permanently.
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00:47:47.700And as we've emphasized at this department from the beginning, the only metric is merit.
00:47:54.260Members on this committee and the previous leadership of this department were focused on social engineering, race and gender,
00:48:02.000in ways that we think were unhealthy for the department.
00:48:04.300focusing on those things, making decisions based on those things.
00:48:07.900In President Trump's War Department, we make decisions based on only one thing, merit.
00:48:12.820And that's how we've made decisions going forward.
00:48:15.080That's how we've made them, and that's how we'll make them going forward.
00:48:16.760Well, let me go back to General George.
00:48:18.860What did he fail in terms of his lack of merit to continue serving?
00:48:25.720As I've said, I don't talk about the nature of dismissal out of respect for these officers.
00:48:31.440But ultimately, we want to take the department in a particular direction, certain services in a particular direction, and we want leadership that's running as fast in that direction as possible.
00:48:40.420And in some cases, we make changes accordingly, but do so out of respect to those officers.
00:48:45.000Well, I think that direction from your behavior is an intense interest in Christianity, in nationalism, and in not recognizing the talents of women and non-white gentlemen.
00:49:23.020I'm quite open in that, and our department allows for a multitude of faiths.
00:49:26.400So I don't know what you're suggesting.
00:49:28.160I've heard the likes of things that people like you suggest to try to smear my character, and I won't give in to it.
00:49:34.120Now, I'm sorry, Mr. Secretary, but broadcasting before the national religious broadcasters stressing the need for more Christianity in the military forces doesn't seem like a neutral position in which you tolerate and accept all religions.
00:49:54.180Let me move on. The strategic aspects of this operation in Iran. The president declared that we're going to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to the ground.
00:50:09.360And after more than 13,000 strikes, unclassified assessments conclude that Iran retains more than 40% of its drone arsenal and 60% of its ballistic missile launches compared with pre-war levels.
00:50:44.780And then one of his other things is the onset of the war, the president said,
00:50:49.460we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon.
00:50:53.320Military operations, Iran, have not achieved that goal yet.
00:50:56.780And it also seems to indicate that his pronouncements about Operation Midnight Hammer obliterating the nuclear policy and structure of the Iranians was false.
00:51:11.280So you have not achieved any of the objectives yet, as the president mentioned.
00:51:17.340Well, in this setting, I won't talk about the nature of metrics, which are classified, as you know, Senator.
00:51:22.920But I can say that looking at the objectives we set out to achieve from the beginning, some of which you laid out, our military objectives have been stunningly effective.
00:51:34.820Take, for example, their defense industrial base.
00:51:37.220They're completely incapable at scale at any level of reconstituting the capabilities you referred to, which is a devastating result for any country, especially one whose ambitions are as well.