00:03:59.900But certainly this gets to the point of where while Democrats may not be able to push back
00:04:04.520in terms of a vote on confirming Pulte,
00:04:06.560They're looking at these different avenues and certainly putting pressure on the administration.
00:04:10.700This feels like a very personal appointment.
00:04:13.980It's been pushed by people close to the president who have a lot of influence.
00:04:19.480And just to step back for a minute, Bill Pulte is someone who even earlier in this administration,
00:04:26.100a lot of or at least some of the president's top advisers were very frustrated with him.
00:04:31.100they said he would come in, he would feed the president a lot of ideas that were either not
00:04:37.400true or conspiracy theories or that they viewed as simply bad ideas. But he would get in the
00:04:43.940president's ear in a way that made it harder for his team to control the president. And so now you
00:04:50.260are just elevating this person who in certain ways functions as, you know, President Trump's
00:04:56.960And it's worth noting that Trump himself is already pretty much your id to begin with into an incredibly powerful position.
00:05:06.280It shows you that Trump wants his people, his loyalists who are willing to do his bidding in a way that could potentially be quite political.
00:05:16.220Well, on that underlying concern, David, what are what are the stakes here?
00:05:20.220I mean, he's already been accused of heavily politicizing the housing agency that he leads.
00:05:25.440And my understanding is that he actually is going to continue holding on to that job as he steps into this acting role as well.
00:05:31.660So if we see the same patterns of, you know, behavior there applied, however, in a space as sensitive as intelligence,
00:05:39.560I mean, he's going to be overseeing something like 18 different agencies here.
00:05:53.580There's the director of national intelligence is supposed to be a political, but all these things that have happened in the past seem to be coming back now.
00:06:01.380And then the specific concern is in terms of the election that Pulte can on Election Day say we have intelligence that China is hacking into these machines and he could do it after Election Day and call into question the vote totals from those areas.
00:06:15.940And then a worst case scenario is that Pulte might say we have intelligence that, you know, the Chinese or some foreign adversary has hacked into the Fulton County election machines, a heavily Democratic area.
00:06:29.940And this is a worst case scenario, but I just think it's our responsibility to air it and try to shut down voting in Fulton County, Georgia.
00:06:38.240That could change the outcome of the Senate race there.
00:06:41.200They could try to do it in a heavily Democratic part of Georgia, and that could decide—I'm sorry, a heavily Democratic part of Texas, and that could decide another crucial Senate race there.
00:06:52.720Again, these are worst-case scenarios, but Pulte's track record is taking housing information from his job at that federal agency you mentioned and giving it to federal prosecutors to prosecute Trump's rivals.
00:07:05.080So the concern is he'll do anything to please President Trump.
00:07:08.760Some of the people close to the president say that he is the president of the United States and that it is his right to demand absolute loyalty.
00:07:18.160But you talk to the majority of people, Democratic, good government experts, Republicans, if they're being honest and they're not, for instance, up for reelection.
00:07:27.280And there is just tremendous, tremendous concern.
00:07:30.460I mean, you asked if this is what draining the swamp looks like.
00:07:32.960The view is that this is a brain drain where you are losing, you know, tremendous, tremendous expertise.
00:07:39.300And as Tim pointed out, the concern is, yes, something potentially catastrophic could happen tomorrow.
00:07:46.920Fine. But the real concern is that this institutional knowledge and expertise and know-how and years of nonpartisan bureaucrats,
00:07:57.300their knowledge is being lost in a way where the catastrophe may be something we can't predict
00:08:04.260right now and will happen in five years or 10 years or 20 years down the line. And it's very
00:08:10.820easy, as we've seen, to lose these people, but incredibly difficult to build back up. Just to
00:08:15.580give one brief example, we're not talking about this now, but if you just look back to the
00:08:19.220beginning of this administration, the president and Elon Musk gutted USAID, right? We are now
00:08:25.480seen. There was the Hanta virus outbreak. There is still the ongoing concerns about an Ebola
00:08:30.720outbreak. And those are ramifications that in many ways can be directly pinpointed back to
00:08:37.420shuttering or gutting a government agency that is responsible for helping with some of these
00:08:42.940things in a way that affects the entire planet. Wednesday, 3, June, year of the Lord, 2026. Just
00:08:49.420let World Health Organization, that's their mandate, let them figure it out. Are you kidding
00:08:53.060me. That's the excuse for shutting down USAID, and we haven't shut it all down. A CIA front.
00:08:59.180Caroline Wren, of course, we just found out that the Senate Republicans cratered to the Democrats
00:09:05.260today in committee. They both scratched out the anti-weaponization fund at President Trump,
00:09:12.280which is really $10 billion. He said, I'll walk away from $10 billion that government owes me
00:09:16.100on the irs suit uh or 10.9 billion to do this for people so it really wasn't their money it was the
00:09:23.560president's money he's waving uh and now they walked away from the ballroom the entire anything
00:09:28.880to do with the ballroom the uh senate in combination with the deep state are up in arms
00:09:35.080about bill pulte why is that man you might this is the same senate that had no problem having a
00:09:41.760weaponization fund that paid each of them $500,000 when the government over J6 targeted their phone
00:09:48.380records, even though, Steve, my phone records, your phone records were taken in the exact same
00:09:52.760way as these senators. And apparently, if any normal people outside of the Senate had access
00:09:57.880to a weaponization fund, as the senators allowed themselves to, then the meltdown starts. So
00:10:03.160it's really a joke. But what's really happening here is that these senators are saying if Bill
00:10:08.320is the director of national intelligence then they're going to block the fisa reauthorization
00:10:13.160which to me i'm like great sounds good to me yeah no no call call their bluff call their bluff right
00:10:19.460now screw the fisa reauthorization we don't want it if that's what you're going to do do it today
00:10:25.340to tell us don't wait for nine days do it today we don't want it this is another this is another0.79
00:10:31.740jackboot this is another jack this yes this is a jackboot on the american people's necks get rid0.59
00:10:37.740of it we don't care let it expire warner yeah they're all you know they're so wanted because
00:10:42.160they're all deep state they want to be able to spy on you american citizens caroline you have
00:10:47.380any problem with all if this this is what they're going to hold hostage is that we're supposed to be
00:10:51.260afraid of this these geniuses have given us what we wanted this is pulte's pulte's uh nomination
00:10:57.960or pulte act being named acting is worth this right just in and of itself i could not agree
00:11:06.360more. I'm like, this is amazing. Bill Pulte
00:12:36.680Great Cornyn, he wrote a piece about how to thwart another Trump program.
00:12:41.680Tom Tillis is running all over the Capitol.0.96
00:12:44.220These people are the worst people on earth.
00:12:46.160They were all supplicants to President Trump when they needed an endorsement.0.97
00:12:50.300As soon as President Trump said no, they've turned on him viciously.
00:12:53.580Isn't it time to call the bluff on FISA and then go to Thune and say, look, you're either going to do it my way, right, or you're going to hit the highway.
00:13:01.260We've got to have a forcing function here for a throwdown that leads to a showdown with Thune on Senate leadership, or we're just going to burn daylight through the election.
00:13:13.200And the executive branch doesn't just pause because the legislative branch can't get their **** together and would rather throw pity parties and dog parades than do any actual work.
00:13:23.260And so Trump should call them out today.
00:13:24.820I mean, you had Todd Blanche there, you know, telling the Senate, oh, we're not going to do this weaponization fund anymore, which clearly he was told by the Trump admin to go and do that.
00:13:33.780Right. I actually think Todd Blanche is doing a great job.
00:13:45.100Like what comes out of his word is the only thing that I'm listening to.
00:13:49.760And he is the best negotiator that I've ever seen in my life.
00:13:53.220He knows he has the cards. And so he needs to, you know, I don't know if it's staff or who is telling this, but like Trump should trust his instincts on this.
00:14:02.900Caroline, can you stick around for one minute on the other side, two minutes on the side?
00:14:06.460I just want to wrap this up because now it has to be a showdown.
00:14:10.460Here's the reason we're going to lose the Senate in the fall anyway.1.00
00:14:15.440No grassroots leader, none of the grassroots phalanx, the hoplites.
00:14:20.820nobody's excited about going door to door and doing voter engagement as caroline knows
00:14:26.300more than anybody the old way of putting a couple hundred million dollars in and buying tv ads
00:14:32.020on fox and cnn doesn't work anymore that's old school does not work there's been a new day and
00:14:40.200the senate's got to understand that or we're going to lose the senate there's no enthusiasm
00:14:44.560for going door to door, having voter engagements, canvassing to actually lead to victory.
00:14:50.440Those people are out there, and it can be done.
00:35:39.040The great fight against the Marxists and the communists.
00:35:41.920The fight is here because they've infiltrated the country.0.81
00:35:44.220that's the Red-Green Alliance. You see it all the time. Somebody that knows that, Colonel Wendy1.00
00:35:49.640Rogers, joins us from Arizona, the great state of Arizona. Colonel Rogers, have you seen it?
00:35:55.600You've dedicated your life to defense of your country. Is this fight, are we winning this fight
00:36:00.560against the Red-Green Alliance? Are we winning this fight now that we're going to celebrate or0.97
00:36:06.800commemorate the Tiananmen Square massacre as we do every year? Are we winning here in the United
00:36:13.500States' fight against radical Islam and Marxism, ma'am? Well, good to be with you, Steve, from
00:36:19.740Flagstaff. Yes, we are. We're here at the pointy tip of the sword in Arizona. We're still in the
00:36:27.460legislative session incredibly because we have a Marxist corrupt governor who's walked away from
00:36:34.500the negotiating table several times now on the budget, which is our last statutory commitment
00:36:42.180for the state constitution to get done.
00:36:46.480We hope to have that wrapped up here in the next week and a half.
00:36:51.440Andy Biggs has done yeoman work traveling the state.
00:36:55.760It's a vast state, of course, and I'm in constant touch with him.
00:37:00.520I've been helping him, especially here in the rural part of the state that I represent.
00:37:05.280But the people are very dissatisfied with the governor that we had, who was really not legally elected.
00:37:14.600And we know that she stole the election in 2022 from Carrie Lake.
00:37:20.400So what Hobbs, this installed governor, is still trying to do is refuse to debate.0.58
00:37:28.940People are very incensed over the fact that she will not debate.0.99
00:37:32.760but hang on hang on before we even get to the debate of annie big she did steal the 2022 from
00:37:38.560from from uh carrie yeah hasn't with all the work that you guys have been doing right these patriots
00:37:46.420in the arizona house and senate tell the audience how many bills has uh hobbs the marxist how many
00:37:53.500is she vetoed? Over 450. So everything you've essentially, virtually everything you've passed,0.86
00:38:04.520she's vetoed? Yes. I'm chairman of the judiciary and the elections committee combined. It's the
00:38:12.060most contentious, spiciest committee at the Arizona Senate. They have to trespass people1.00
00:38:18.160because they become so unruly because of these bills that we try to pass to correct the elections.
00:38:26.680We have made some progress, for example, in primaries now, all 15 counties have to allow observers.
00:38:34.880My bill actually did move the primary up, which helps in the long run to ensure security.
00:38:43.020We've moved it up now to the 21st of July.
00:38:46.040And we have other stopgap measures in place, but we still worry. And I am working hard to make sure that people turn out and make it too big to rig for this off year cycle, because we're going to elect a governor and now he will have a lieutenant governor running May.
00:39:09.560This is a first for Arizona. We passed that law four years ago. We're going to be electing a
00:39:15.340secretary of state. We're going to be electing the treasurer. And of course, the very important
00:39:21.060job, attorney general, who my colleague, Senate President Warren Peterson is running for. And
00:39:26.720that and governor, if we can get those two, and I'm sure we'll get the treasurer's slot,
00:39:32.460even if we have a Democrat, Adrian Fontes and secretary of state, if that were to happen,
00:39:39.100And we could still sort of hem him in and make sure that things go properly.
00:39:57.640Essentially, you've been blocked in all the meaningful work that you're trying to accomplish
00:40:02.040for a conservative state because you have literally a Marxist that stole an election
00:40:08.700and happens to be installed as governor by the deep state is there to block it.
00:40:13.980Is the frustration of people in Arizona?
00:40:15.820I mean, Annie Biggs is fantastic, but what's the frustration like when people say,
00:40:19.660hey, we've kind of wasted four years here?
00:40:22.240Well, there are two ways to look at it.
00:40:24.500We have three branches of government, and if not for the legislature,
00:40:28.400even though we have just a two-vote majority in the Senate out of 30,
00:40:34.820What we've done is we've still sort of put our mark in the sand and we've gotten all these bills to her and she's vetoed them.
00:40:43.180But Andy Biggs has completely committed to signing all these bills once he takes the oath.
00:40:51.280And he well knows the mechanics of how to do that immediately because he was the president of our Arizona Senate before my time.
00:41:00.300And he knows how the state government machinery works.
00:41:04.380So my constituents ask me that question a lot. Rogers, why are you running these bills when you know she's going to veto them? And by the way, I had the most vetoed bills last cycle. She vetoed 12. I guess it's a badge of honor. And I have more that she will veto because 20 of mine are still poking over at the House.
00:41:24.740and so they asked me why do you run these and i say because you elected me to go to the capitol
00:41:31.020and stand for you and get these bills as far as possible so i get them to the house i get them
00:41:37.340to the senate and then she vetoes them but then i'm first in line with all of my constituents
00:41:43.740needs for when andy signs signs signs you've passed though two two big pieces of legislation
00:41:51.520got through we got a couple minutes here i'm holding through the break tell us about the rural
00:41:55.260let's start with the rural bill first tell us about that i we have little counties who can
00:42:01.080ill afford these people who trash their rural properties and then leave the state and just
00:42:06.880barely keep up with their property taxes so again this is one of many where i would not have known
00:42:12.300this had my rural constituents not come to me and they said rogers we we can't afford as these
00:42:19.400little counties to clean up these messes that met and trash and rats and everything. It should be
00:42:26.260up to the property owner who's probably back east somewhere, possibly unaware, but it should be up
00:42:32.120to him or her to make right and get the properties cleaned up. And I had a tough time actually
00:42:37.960getting that through the Senate and the House, but I did and she signed it. And, you know, the other
00:42:44.680bill that I got through, which was really sort of a watershed achievement, it took us three cycles,0.99
00:42:51.380is the squatter bill. We had model legislation from Florida. We learn a lot from Florida bills.0.77
00:42:57.620They had a checklist for law enforcement to be able to evict squatters. I still couldn't get it
00:43:02.960passed last year. So we finally got all the stakeholders together. And the constables,
00:43:08.960we have constables who do evictions here in Arizona. It's a little different than most states.
00:43:14.500And so we got everybody on board, and she signed it.
00:51:23.860This is what Minnesota has done before early voting was a thing before the China virus.
00:51:30.720Because Minnesota in 2014 said you vote 45 days early in the general, and our primary is August 11th, but you can vote on June 26th early all the way up to August 11th.
00:51:44.120So it's like they don't give you any time.
00:51:45.600You've got to hit the ground running, and you've got to get good sleep.