00:00:00.000This is obvious. I think there's a lot of questions about whether or not these exchange of attacks overnight could lead to further military escalation.
00:00:09.240Because as you said, Sarah, really the focus from the Trump administration's point of view has shifted completely from a military war to an economic war.
00:00:17.520But U.S. officials had said that the military struck these Iranian military targets to prevent the deployment of mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:00:26.140U.S. Central Command said that U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Iran's Larak Island after IRG forces were observed preparing to launch rockets carrying sea mines into the strait.
00:00:38.080Now, Tasneem News Agency, which we know is affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that a drone conducted the strait and that two people have been killed and two others were injured.
00:00:48.640Iran then said that they had fired missiles toward U.S. military targets in both Jordan and the UAE in retaliation.0.70
00:00:58.560They say that their air defense systems intercepted and destroyed eight missiles that entered the country's airspace.
00:01:05.020Now, again, this is a break with where we've really seen Washington's focus in recent weeks.
00:01:10.960Obviously, the president and his team, their goal at this point in the war is to end and really cease at this point any sort of negotiations on the broader nuclear deal and focus instead on inflicting as much economic pain on Iran as possible.
00:01:26.580We have heard the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, come out and announce what they're now calling Operation Economic Outcast, really trying to isolate Iran from the rest of the world.
00:01:34.740But the key question, again, is whether or not this could lead to further escalation in military action.
00:01:41.300I do want to read for you what we heard from U.S. Central Command.
00:01:44.220They issued a statement on this saying that U.S. forces took limited, precise action against IRGC,
00:01:49.640mine-laying forces posing an imminent threat in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:01:52.860In essence, Iran created the threat and the U.S. military eliminated it to protect civilian mariners,0.91
00:01:59.700commercial shipping, and the free flow of global commerce.0.92
00:02:03.860Now, what I also think is notable about this, obviously, this was about targeting any ability for Iran to try and lay mines in the strait.0.61
00:02:11.860This comes just days after the president had declared that they had completely, the U.S. military, cleared the Strait of Hormuz from laying mines.0.59
00:02:21.060So a shift here, obviously, as we're seeing.
00:02:23.420We know that the president had said last week that Iran had been notified that any ship or boat placing new mines will be immediately and systematically destroyed.
00:02:30.040to U.S. officials, pointing to that for the reasoning behind some of these new strikes, Sarah.
00:02:34.500President Trump is touting what he calls the biggest oil deal in world history with Venezuela.
00:02:40.300The U.S. will now control the majority of the South American country's oil supply.
00:02:45.000The president announced this deal on social media, writing in part, quote,
00:02:49.060this historic transition more than doubles American oil reserves, greatly increases our oil supply,
00:02:54.760and will substantially lower gas prices for all Americans long into the future.
00:02:59.480Americans would welcome any relief at the pump.
00:03:01.980You're looking at gas prices, which have spiked largely due to the war with Iran.
00:03:06.180You see here the national average for a gallon of regular is up about 90 cents from a year ago and more than a dollar since the war began.
00:03:13.680Venezuela's interim president, Delce Rodriguez, also celebrated this deal.
00:03:17.820In an address, she said a country retains ownership of its resources and will make billions.
00:03:23.040I'm taking the sanctions seriously enough and they don't seem fazed by them.
00:03:27.320Well, they're taking it very seriously.
00:03:30.540If you look back at what the Iranian political leadership has said over the past 10 days,
00:03:36.280they're in shock at the state of their economy.
00:06:35.140And one of the reasons that we are seeing the low-income workers, the bottom 25 percent, do better than the top 25 is because these are private sector jobs.
00:06:46.680And our goal here today is to reiterate that our message of growth, the world is awash in debt post-GFC, post-COVID.
00:06:58.960And the only way for us to get out of this is to grow our way out of this.
00:07:03.940And, you know, I'm confident that a lot of the leaders are very receptive to this.
00:07:09.880Mr. Besson, on the bond market, yields are at a fresh high this morning.
00:07:15.260This is the primal scream of a dying regime.
00:07:20.340Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
00:07:25.460You've just not got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
00:07:29.720The people have had a belly full of it.
00:11:02.840I mean, we're going to have Natalie on.
00:11:04.400First of all, we've got Pickering coming on talking about
00:11:06.420we're still fighting the textbook issue in Texas.
00:11:10.160Natalie's coming on with more updates.
00:11:11.860The Saudis have put in, I think, $100 million investment in the Boy Scouts for the Islamization of the Boy Scouts.
00:11:17.880She's got all kind of new reporting about the Girl Scouts, about the Islamic takeover of the Girl Scouts.
00:11:23.300There's a lot of money in back of this, and there's a lot of money in back of these candidates, and they are getting traction.
00:11:29.940And they're particularly getting traction in what has been a core group among the conservative movement and about the MAGA movement.
00:11:37.100So how are they—if this is obvious, and St. Paul warned us about this in Corinth, how are we having this problem in the 21st century, sir?
00:11:49.920The problem is that we fail to heed these lessons of the past, and we allow ourselves to be duped.
00:11:57.760It's really easy to take religious language and use it as a gloss for otherwise evil things, just a subtle twist.
00:12:05.280You know, the idea that we would be kind to others.
00:12:08.060Okay, the idea that diversity is a good thing.
00:12:19.560But to use that and to twist it and to say that God, for example, is non-binary in the way that James Tallarico has said.
00:12:27.640Or Adam Hamilton, this pastor from Kansas who's running for the Senate, whose church actually sponsored Pride Fest in Kansas City, including drag queen story times for kids.
00:12:41.980There's a lot of teaching in the Bible about what happens to people who want to chemically castrate children, and it involves millstones being tied around their neck.
00:12:50.180We have to go back to the fount of our faith, to the source, and read what the Bible actually says about these concepts.
00:12:57.640And if you just inform yourself, you will find, one, that we have to be wise.
00:13:03.460We have to be perspicacious in understanding who is this person, what is their agenda.
00:13:09.480And then we have to filter what they're saying through the Word of God.
00:13:13.020And it will be very clear with just a little bit of work that none of this is consistent with the Christian faith.
00:13:19.980It is a co-opting of our faith in service of a political agenda.
00:13:24.760And the Bible also makes clear what happens to people who try to do that.
00:16:19.160Welcome back. We're going to go to Asheville, North Carolina, where the G20 finance ministers are meeting right now. The Assistant Secretary of Treasury, Chris Pilkerton, joins us. Mr. Secretary, why are we having a finance G20 meeting, I guess, 100 days before the actual heads of state meet? What is going on? Why are we having it? And what does Treasury Secretary Scott Besant hope to get out of this?
00:17:35.760We have a growth story here and obviously trying to keep hands on inflation.
00:17:39.400Kevin Walsh, the Fed chair, I think is there also.
00:17:42.360He gave a speech. Peter Navarro has just written a big piece. It's up in the Washington Times.
00:17:46.360I have Navarro either this evening or tomorrow morning to break that down about about kind of the hawkish elements of his talk.
00:17:53.860I want to go to Operation Economic Outcast.
00:17:59.140Is part of the discussions here going to be getting more nations on board on the economic war against the Persians, sir?0.73
00:18:06.060Yeah, absolutely. So the president's been clear and Secretary Besson has been taking his direction and really implementing economic outcasts. And so we've gotten a lot of good feedback from countries across the board here. And look, Iran has had its time and it's now time to sever ties.
00:18:25.200The president has taken an unprecedented move and really focusing on the economic components of what's happening here.
00:18:32.500And this war is really taking it to the pocketbook.
00:18:35.560And we're excited about implementing this strategy.
00:27:04.000I'm not kidding you, to pass the CR so that we can kick the can down to December.
00:27:09.100My theory of the case, hey, you got a $2 trillion deficit this year,
00:27:12.620as we said you were going to have at the beginning of the fiscal year.
00:27:15.900You're not going to cut spending, which you're going to have to do because you're not going to be able to raise revenues that much, particularly when the court has ruled against some of President Trump's most brilliant moves in tariffs.
00:27:29.040So we're not going to get to a trillion dollars of tariff revenue.
00:27:31.900We've had to give that back to the companies.
00:27:34.160It's one of the reasons the Wall Street Journal reports their profits are reaching all-time highs
00:27:39.100because we had to kick back the tariff money to them instead of paying down the debt and decreasing the deficits.
00:27:46.780Anyway, they're back today for the CR, and guess what? No cuts in spending.
00:27:51.220Anyway, short commercial break. Natalie's with us. We're going to go to Texas.
00:27:54.520We're going to talk about the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts, Islam, the rise of Islam in the country,0.99
00:28:00.380and the takeover of our most core institutions,0.97
00:28:04.680including public education, next in the war room.
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00:29:42.480okay we're gonna get julie pickerings down to meeting in texas about this whole issue
00:29:51.180of islam in high schools we're gonna get to her momentarily uh from austin and then we're going
00:29:57.000to um we got poso we got garland fabrita from georgia a ton uh natalie winters wow you uh you
00:30:07.060you you you triggered some folks this week in daily mail massive story we're gonna get to this
00:30:12.680in a second care the terrorist organization and i keep asking the question my my kid brother keeps
00:30:19.060asked me, he says, hey, how does some organization that's designated a terrorist organization in
00:30:25.040Florida, in Texas, in UAE, how can they have a spokesman like in Texas hammering poor Natalie
00:30:31.260Winters? Anyway, we'll get to the minute. You're an expert also on investments coming into the
00:30:37.040country. Talk to me about CFIUS. You've got some reporting on that, ma'am? Yes. I just put up a
00:30:43.440story this morning piecing together records that due to the way the disclosure laws are written now
00:30:50.120essentially impossible to piece these together right on one central government database obviously
00:30:56.460this transaction should have been flagged um but uh a huge naval air station base up in california
00:31:04.240nas lemore people may know it it is the hub of it's one of the largest bases that we have for
00:31:11.560these F-35s, particularly the F-35Cs, the Super Hornets. They train a lot of people. They're
00:31:18.680basically the kind of linchpin in what would become Indo-Pacific fighting Taiwan, China,
00:31:24.580right? China obviously has a vested interest in this base. And there is a group, a company called
00:31:30.560Long Feng International. It is a anonymous, unknown, unlisted, unnamed buyer who this entity,
00:31:39.080This corporation was created just six months before it purchased, at first, 1,500 acres of land, now 1,800 acres of land in total, just 16 miles away from this base for $21.2 million.
00:31:54.940The USDA had some compartmentalized information showing that an earlier transaction by this group, which was then marked as the same purchaser, though not of Chinese origin, of the additional parcels that got them up to that 16-mile radius away from Lemoore.
00:32:11.700But like I said, this is the largest master jet base.
00:32:15.260It is a West Coast strike fighter hub.
00:32:19.080um like i said they have the largest amount of more than half of the navy's super hornets extremely
00:32:24.520advanced especially when it comes to indo-pacom but steve why this relates to syphius and is so
00:32:30.600important and interesting that we reform that obviously purchases like this should never be
00:32:36.080allowed even if it wasn't close to lemur you shouldn't allow the prc to control our food
00:32:40.500supply. But because this particular entity, this naval entity was not listed under CFIUS as
00:32:51.340something that would trigger a review, this purchase was able to basically just skate by,
00:32:57.520right? It stayed in the purview of USDA. It was totally okay. It was as if any, it was as if I
00:33:03.200was buying a house, right? So this shows you how there are very key military and naval installations
00:33:08.440that are not included in CFIUS, why that is, I don't know.
00:33:31.160I thought the purpose is that CFIUS reviews every foreign investment in the country.
00:33:38.440They should, but because this particular naval air station is not listed in CFIUS, it didn't trigger a review, which really questions if it's incompetence or not capable.
00:33:53.780This is not a Trump administration designation. This is something that I don't even know how long it goes back to.
00:33:59.140But the shadiness comes from the PRC side, right? This is a Longfing International Incorporated, an entity.
00:34:06.440It is not affiliated with anyone publicly. You cannot figure out through any records who owns this corporation. It was created six months before this transaction. And the final additional 300 acres to bring this up to the 1800 acre total and push them as close as possible to, like I said, this, you know, very China relevant base.
00:34:28.900it literally was created six months ago nobody knows who it is and it was able to skate by and
00:34:36.340it's only buried tucked away through being able to piece together certain small data points that
00:34:41.660you can see that this is the same transaction that usda flagged back in 2024 but now a 2026
00:34:48.100um edition and we have a picture if denver wants to put up on screen you can see the map
00:34:52.960both of the parcel, but also of how close it is.
00:39:49.360Snopes and all the fact checkers, you know, went out and did the whole song and dance.
00:39:53.860Although ironically, they marked my story not as false, but as a mixture.
00:39:59.520so you know in fact checker speak that means it's true we just don't want to admit it
00:40:04.380but the argument here is basically like I said the euphemistic way of describing it is what
00:40:10.200aboutism but what it really is is it's civilizational specifically America ending
00:40:15.760cultural relativism right it's very like 2016 core these sort of culture war debates
00:40:21.340where we have to pretend that frankly not just these inferior cultures but it doesn't even matter
00:40:26.860about that it's not how they treat you know their women how they you know set up their societies at0.62
00:40:31.140the end of the day they're just not American and to pretend like you know a Christian badge is the
00:40:36.240same as a badge for participating in the Hajj or sharing and spreading Islam with a friend or you0.99
00:40:43.800know learning about Ramadan and converting non-Muslims into Muslims it's absolutely ridiculous0.95
00:40:49.700and this is the animating factor behind so much of the modern left and Steve I think it's so1.00
00:40:53.800interesting, right, when you see people like El-Sayed, now all of a sudden, right, they're so
00:40:58.660normal, they're so fun, all they want is, you know, they just want health care, right, they just want,
00:41:03.780you know, oh, basic human rights, well, it's really funny, because just a few years ago, to them, basic
00:41:08.500human rights was basically destroying this country, toppling it from within, he's literally on the
00:41:13.520record saying that anybody who opposes the institutionalization of Sharia law, that you're
00:41:19.580actually just a white supremacist for thinking that um and it's the same thing that animated
00:41:24.620the trail of tears the burning of black wall street all these woke examples so these are the
00:41:29.740people like the woke 2.0 right when they laugh what they got away with with woke one that doesn't
00:41:34.960mean that they're softening up or lessening up no it is like a communist revolution except the
00:41:40.160unfortunate fact for these people and you can see it on display with these white liberals defending
00:41:45.080this Girl Scout stuff, the people who are in charge of the new vanguard of revolution,0.67
00:41:50.200right, the DSA types, who all happen to be basically non-white, the issue is that the0.52
00:41:55.380American working class, they hate them, and the feeling is mutual, because at the end0.96
00:42:00.040of the day, they hate white people, they hate Christians, this story's a perfect example0.99
00:42:04.460about it, they think it's okay to give Muslim badges, but they have an aneurysm with Christian0.98
00:42:08.680badges, so they've had to foment and create, right, wokeness to divide us by basically0.67
00:42:15.020every other thing because the unfortunate thing about socialist revolution here is you're never0.77
00:42:20.240going to get it from the working class because those are that's the war room posse right those
00:42:24.220are the red-blooded americans whose sons and daughters are being sent off to fight in the wars
00:42:27.760and the people who pay into the system so it's stories like these that i think really show that
00:42:32.880alliance right they're in lockstep but also this perverse woke ideology whereby it's not even about
00:42:40.140the working class it's not capitalist it's not seizing the means of productions it's sticking0.70
00:42:44.400it to white Christians. And you have to call it out because if not, you're going to get this like0.95
00:42:49.560race communist version of Mao or Ho Chi Minh. Who knows? Take your pick.0.68
00:42:57.060No, this is exactly what's happened. Natalie, you can hang on for a moment. You got more in
00:43:01.040your sub stack. I want to get to momentarily. We're also going to go to Texas, still a fight
00:43:05.500down there of the same type of thing. They try to slide in on cat's paws. Now they're trying to
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00:45:24.840okay we're gonna get back to natalie winters in a moment we got garland fevere down georgia let's
00:45:31.880go to texas though uh julie pickering uh julie i thought we put to bed this whole issue of the
00:45:38.160islamification of the texas public school system including the texas school books which will go out
00:45:45.100to 20 states. I take it we have not, ma'am? No, sir, we have not. Actually, this week is the week0.89
00:45:52.980that I'm praying to God that we do take this victory and take public education back for Texas0.67
00:45:59.180and go back to our Judeo-Christian values and our patriotism. Because this week at the Texas State
00:46:03.980Board of Education, we are voting on and deciding the standards for all of our high school courses.
00:46:10.140So kindergarten through eighth grade, great victory. We won that. We put the Bible back in.
00:46:14.480We put patriotism back in. We put virtue, Western civilization. All of that's in there. That's signed, sealed, and delivered to the great people of Texas. But now we need to finish up high school. So this is every high school course that we're offering U.S. government, U.S. history, world geography, world history, personal financial literacy. This is all social studies courses for high school in Texas.
00:46:36.840And let me tell you, CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations, as Governor Abbott has designated the Foreign Terrorist Organization, as the FBI has said, is the face of the Muslim Brotherhood, the face of terrorists in America.0.57
00:46:53.440They're following me around the building.
00:46:55.140They have set aside a war room, okay, a war room inside where they have a building set up with laptops set up where they're connected with who knows who in the world.
00:47:03.900because as you know steve if you follow my social media this weekend you can hold it hang on hang
00:47:08.200on but hang on yo hold it hang on slow down i just asked natalie this because they're attacking her
00:47:14.320over the weekend for her reporting on the boy girl scouts and the boy scouts if they're designated
00:47:19.400a terrorist organization how can they be wandering around the halls and how can they have a war room
00:47:24.000with a bunch of people how did do you go up to any authorities and say why are these people even
00:47:27.940here why are they not turfed out of there or better arrested how can you be a terrorist designate a
00:47:33.360terrorist organization by Abbott's government and be sitting there, uh, harassing, uh, people that0.83
00:47:39.680want to, uh, want to get rid of, want to get Islam out of the school systems and particularly get it
00:47:44.580out of the textbooks, ma'am. You know, Steve, that's a good question. And I've asked that1.00
00:47:48.760question to, uh, of our lawmakers and of our attorney general's office. That's my understanding
00:47:53.380is that we don't have a law in Texas to ban them for participating in their first amendment rights,
00:47:57.480even though they have been designated a foreign terrorist organization. However, it's my
00:48:01.960understanding that if President Trump will designate them at the federal level a terrorist
00:48:05.860organization, then they can be blocked from testifying and from showing up in our buildings.
00:48:09.920But right now, this is our reality. My reality right now is I have people who are supporting
00:48:14.140and who are part of this terrorist organization literally following me up and down the hallways
00:48:18.340and couple that with last week on my social media. I had terrorist supporters out of the
00:48:23.280Middle East, out of Egypt, trolling me all over my social media last week. So this is a very real
00:48:27.780situation for us right now at the Texas State Board of Education because this is their last
00:48:31.740chance. Once we sign, seal, deliver these social study standards for Texas, like you said, will
00:48:37.720affect half the states in America, will educate half the children in America. This subject does
00:48:42.240not reopen again for 14 years. So these are the standards that will educate our children on U.S.
00:48:47.440history, Texas history, world history, world geography. These are the standards that will
00:48:51.520educate our children for an entire generation. And so they know that this is their last chance
00:48:56.260and they they're acting like it's their last chance they know it hang on that's just i want
00:49:02.360to make sure they've told you the the attorney general paxton's office has said he has no
00:49:09.320authority to take somebody that the governor has designated a terrorist organization from being
00:49:15.460harassing officials like yourself and having a war room set up to try to coordinate to make sure
00:49:21.120that they get the false teachings of Islam into textbooks and into the classrooms of public high
00:49:28.520schools in the state of Texas? Is that what you're telling me? Yes, sir. Attorney General's office
00:49:33.400told us they have First Amendment rights to testify unless the federal government, unless
00:49:37.900the president designates them as a foreign terrorist organization. That's why they've been0.67
00:49:41.340showing up now for a year at our Texas State Board of Education to testify, you know, in favor of
00:49:46.860Islam. They want us to teach that the Alamo was built and designed to honor Islam, that everything
00:49:50.520that makes America great came from Islam and Muhammad.
00:49:54.420So yes, they've been here for a year now.
00:49:56.200And you know, the day that they showed up to testify,
00:49:58.280the Texas State Board of Education last year
00:50:00.260is the day that Governor Abbott designated them