WarRoom Battleground EP 702： Asleep At The Wheel While The Country Is Overrun
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Summary
USAID is ranked as the third best managed federal agency in the United States government. It s a nonpartisan agency, independent, on purely a technical basis. It doesn t run out and do whatever the White House wants it to do. And what they do keep doing, if you repeat a lie long enough, people will begin to believe it.
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Well, any agency or department of the federal government follows the lead of the White House.
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So the Fox News and other groups are attacking aid for having some social, cultural programs, the culture wars.
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We had conservative programs when I was administrator and when Mark Green was administrator in the Bush administration, the Trump administration, the first one.
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And when the Democrats take, they move it leftist center.
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And the career people didn't resist when I was there.
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And I'm probably the most conservative administrator in the history of the agency.
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And they said, if you do it this way, you're going to get into trouble.
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I reviewed every single program from the Clinton administration when I took over in 2001.
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The career people cost a lot of the Clinton programs dogs because they didn't work.
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But they quietly implemented what they, under the Clinton years, what they were told to do.
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And they do the same thing when I was in office.
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The notion that AID is not following the foreign policy, of course it isn't.
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They haven't appointed any people from the Republican Party to run AID under Trump.
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So, of course, it hasn't moved toward their foreign policy.
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It takes a few months, you know, to move any agency or department.
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The fact is that the State Department in the F office controls every single dollar AID spends.
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And I might add, who controls the appropriation?
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And OMB does, which is controlled by the White House.
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Every single dollar in the aid budget is already earmarked.
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And I might add, there's a federal index of how well-managed agencies are.
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It's a nonpartisan group, independent, on purely a technical basis.
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AID is ranked as the third best managed federal agency in the United States government.
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The notion that the agency are criminals and all that, that's a lot of garbage.
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And what they do keep doing, if you repeat a lie long enough, people will begin to believe it.
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I work as a vice president for World Vision, the largest evangelical NGO in the world.
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I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that.
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Thursday, 6 February, in the year of our Lord, 2025, right there, that's the problem.
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Guy sitting there, conservative, former Army officer, runs Evangelical Big Network, and saying how great USAID.
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They've supported the NGOs that had the invasion of the border.
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They supported all the nonsense coming out of Europe here and here to suppress conservative voices.
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I actually oppose putting it up into the Secretary of State.
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The people over there, many of them are criminals.
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You've seen the personification of the problem right there.
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Ask those people, the courageous few, the Andy Biggs of the world, that in the middle of the night would argue, as this audience saw, into the wee hours of the morning, these subcommittees on appropriations.
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And this was a classic one and couldn't get even close to 50% of the conference vote with them.
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I don't know if we have the tweet, if we can put it up, or if you can tell me we can put it up.
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There's a tweet out there from Elon Musk talking about there's billions of dollars in fraudulent payments still going from the Treasury.
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Senior officials at Treasury tell me that's a bald-faced lie.
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They've already kind of won this thing about having them read only.
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But they're telling me they're not billions of dollars going to fraudulent organizations.
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And President Trump and the people in the White House, I think, got to get on point here because the Secretary of Treasury,
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particularly what we're going to go into, folks, with all these cuts and all this turbulence and all of it,
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you know, the two people they're going to look to to be steady eddies are Russ Vogt,
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whose vote on confirmation is going to be later tonight.
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I think if my crack staff can tell me that, that we've pushed for.
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The number is 202-224-3-121, although I think, Russ, we got the votes.
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But last night they spent all night saying he was the most dangerous man in America.
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And Scott Besson, those two are kind of your steady eddies.
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And the fiduciary, you know, responsibility of the Secretary of Treasury should not be questioned by anybody in administration unless they have hard facts.
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And they had hard facts, they ought to go to the Secretary of Treasury.
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What I've been informed at the highest levels of Treasury is they have no earthly idea what this is.
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And to put that out there is grossly negligent and grossly irresponsible, particularly in the situation where Scott Besson's got to be a guy at Treasury.
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So, I don't know, $7 trillion of government securities?
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Well, Scott Besson gave an interview on Bloomberg and said, hey, President Trump's committed to a strong dollar.
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And, you know, that brings certain elements to it.
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It obviously makes your exports tougher, makes them more expensive.
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But we're strong, you know, we've always been a strong dollar country, so he's dedicated to a strong dollar.
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Talked about this situation with Doge and talked about these guys that have read-only.
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But when the Secretary of Treasury goes up there, you can't put out something that says they have, knowingly have billions of dollars of fraudulent payments and haven't done anything about it.
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But I'm just, Treasury's telling me that that's not the case.
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We have to, you know, are we going to have another CR?
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Or what you're telling me, Capitol Hill, is that we're going to kick the can down the road and have a one-year CR.
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And that one CR is going to be Joe Biden's numbers.
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It was created back in the summer of last year.
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It kind of was, it got us through, you know, as Joe Biden's numbers got us through the last crisis, the end of September, got into another crisis in December this year.
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Is that we're going to have the first year of President Trump's presidency?
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Is it going to be off of Biden's budget, Biden's spending?
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And so to get down to it, and I think, Doge, I like what they're doing.
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They're trying to get the engineering diagram of where it cash is.
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But look, you don't need to go over the National Oceanographic Institute, right?
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I'm sure Woods Hole or whatever they manage may be not efficient, and we're going to get some efficiencies.
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That's like, in the summer, get across the Potomac.
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They can get enough clearances, and they get people to get some clearances.
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Right now, we're not having an adult conversation.
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Well, first off, we were promised two trillion dollars in cuts.
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Two trillion dollars on a 6.5 trillion dollar budget.
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We cannot continue to spend, we cannot continue to look away, we cannot keep kicking the can
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And to be able to have a conversation where you're, because you're not going to get to
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entitlements, and I don't include Medicaid in that, and I don't include any of the waste,
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fraud, and abuse can we find in Medicare, because I'm sure there's a lot.
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But the type of numbers we're talking about, two trillion dollars, and or, because you're
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going to add to what President Trump said today, populist tax cuts of no tax on tips,
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no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security are going to add bigger to the deficit.
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President Trump should be a hat tip to him, because nobody else in the past has ever thought
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But into discretionary spending, you're going to have a firestorm.
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You had a firestorm last week, and kind of quasi-blinked a little bit, let's be honest,
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blinked a tad, tad, pulled back the memo, but not the content of the memo.
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The guys in Doral, all the Republican Congressmen are freaking out, because the constituents are
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That's just to find out where the money is in the system.
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You cannot cut a penny from federal spending unless you start in the Defense Department.
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Unless you start in the Defense Department, you cannot have any cuts.
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So the Doge team, you're up to the National Oceanographic, wherever the hell you are, it's
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But until you cross the Potomac, it's not real.
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Until you cross the Potomac, this is like McClellan's Army, right?
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Until you cross the Potomac and go over into Northern Virginia, to the Pentagon, and put
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a team, and hey, we'll get them as much, you know, they don't need classifications and
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high security clearances to go through most of the budget.
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There are black programs, they're all that, yes, and you can get them, they should have
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Let's get into the Pentagon is rife with incompetence.
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The defense industry is up to the eyeballs of corruption.
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Next to the biopharmac medical industry in D.C., it's the most corrupt.
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You're telling me we're just going to sit here?
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We're just going to sit here and not avoid that?
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And people that are putting out these, oh, Pete Hex is the government.
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Pete Hex has got to run the building right now.
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If you're not prepared to do it, just say you're not prepared to do it.
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If you're not prepared to do it because you've got a conflict of interest, and that conflict
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And if the reason you don't want to do it is the financing you're doing on SpaceX,
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and I'd like to know the status of that financing.
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And was that financing around numbers that are in the NDAA of $900 billion?
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We're not going to cut the budget until we address the Pentagon.
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And if you think we are, you're kidding yourselves.
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And I come at it from somebody that served their country.
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And my daughter went to West Point and served her country.
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That country was the United States of America because that's her real country.
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I'm not floating around on kind of some, you know, tourist visa and picking a country every
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Because all I see when you ratchet down and look at that performance line, also, are we
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not, if we're not going to have any cuts by March 14th, any recommended cuts, please
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Let's get a CR and have a CR for the year and work off Biden's numbers.
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So they don't have some big drama at the end and, oh, we're going to shut the government
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But still, the fact remains, and the wealthy should understand this, if you don't want
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your taxes raised to close the gap to get to Scott Besson, not my number, it's Scott Besson,
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He said to get down to 3% of GDP as your deficit.
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This is why the Front National guys are even there.
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They turfed out a government trying to get down and put it on the backs of the people
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instead of all the foreign aid, and they threw that government out.
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Getting down from 6.5% to 3% is not an easy task.
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And the supply-side tax cuts aren't going to kick in.
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The growth is going to be there, just like it was in President Trump's first term.
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Tremendous growth, up to 3%, 3.5%, I think, in 19.
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And if you don't cross the Potomac, and you don't go to that big building
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that's right next to Arlington National Cemetery, you're kidding yourself.
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And so if we're kidding ourselves, let's just have a conversation and say,
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oh, it's okay, we're going to find some waste, fraud, and abuse
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in the boats they're commissioning at the National Oceanographic Society,
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and we're going to shut down USAID, which I think is amazing,
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and that's $40 or $50 billion a year, and that's a start.
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We'll find waste, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid and Medicare.
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I'm sure there's tons of waste and fraud over there.
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But programmatically, programmatically is where you're going to get cuts.
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And we have to have this conversation on this $900 billion defense bill
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that's got pork all in it, it's got corruption all in it,
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Good God, folks, we didn't win two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
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spend $9 trillion or net present value from also the care of the wounded
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So it's not like we're sitting here and it's the Royal Navy in the 17th century, right?
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Or it's not the victorious American Army signing the surrender documents
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Hell, that's the reason Pete Hex is over there.
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But if you want to stop the financial crisis, if you want to stop it as an adult,
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you've got to cross the Potomac and tell me what's going to happen in the Pentagon.
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Because you're going to leave it at $900 billion.
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You ain't going to get one penny of cuts socially.
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If you looked at this crowd, that's what's going to stand up to the firestorm that's going to come?
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They went down to the conference and they came up with $318 billion over 10 years.
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I don't have time, nor do I have interest in anything in the third year beyond.
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And if you're not prepared to cut, then it's not serious.
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We should tell the President of the United States it's not serious.
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And then somebody should have a conversation about whose taxes we're going to raise to close the difference.
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Because you ain't going to grow your way out of here in the next two years.
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And if my math is wrong, then somebody show me.
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Because I've looked at every different version of it.
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And I'm the guy that called the two-train dollar deficit.
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When does that say if you lost your mind, it's going to be two-train a year.
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When Volcker and Reagan saved the country and choked out the debacle that was in inflation and what happened to the country in the late 1970s, early 1980s, when Reagan came in 80, 81, and choked it down, that took courage and guts and the ability to take a political firestorm.
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And a manufacturing superpower in a highly educated blue-collar workforce.
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And if we're not serious, then somebody should tell the president, no, it's not serious on the cuts.
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You tax the lords of easy money, the sociopathic overlords.
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All of a sudden, you'll start seeing cuts coming.
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I'm sure in his first couple of days there he saw it.
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Catherine, the Christian, the E on the Christians.
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Also the pressure and what happens in the White House.
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What are these folks going through right now in this intense period?
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And tell me about this Christian executive order.
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But, hey, it tells you where you're on the year of our Lord 2025.
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You got to put the head of the DOJ, the attorney general in charge, to wring out the anti-Christian
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and hating on Christians and Christianity out of a government that Christians pay for every day.
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And it's a great day in America today for Christians.
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And so I'm very happy to see all these wonderful EOs coming down the pike.
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On this issue, I was just at the State Department today visiting some old colleagues
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who are doing a phenomenal job over there wrangling foreign aid and taking a fine-tooth comb to every single penny that's going out the door.
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And as you saw probably today, they just cut 97% of the USAID workforce, which is a huge victory.
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I was the White House liaison there at the tail end of the first administration.
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I was brought in by John McEntee, and we were stymied the moment that we showed up after the election.
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So I wish this momentum was there the first time around.
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This is some of the things that we wanted to do the first time around,
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but I'm just really, really happy to see them being done now, and it's a really great day.
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What it's like when you're there, you're at State, you came back to help us.
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Just being in the administration, the scrutiny, the pressure, and how tough it is to get anything done, ma'am.
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Well, you know, I remember, I could count on my two hands how many of us really were there to execute President Trump's agenda that he won on in 2016.
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As you know, the personnel issues were very strong in the last administration.
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This time around, I'm not seeing those problems.
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I mean, there may be nuances, you know, policy nuances within staff,
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but in terms of getting things done and delivering on the campaign promises,
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Trump has the team to do that, and I'm so impressed, and I'm so happy.
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I mean, we were just in the trenches, and we had no top cover, no top cover.
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I would have loved to have this drumbeat that we have on X and on all these alternative social media channels.
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We've been asking for this for decades, the radical transparency on where our tax dollars are going.
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We cannot let up, but compared to what it was last time around, it's just so much better.
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At the start, you saw that, and I want to thank you.
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You saw at the top the head of the World Vision of the Evangelical,
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but sitting there and defending USAID, USAID, I mean, and this is the problem.
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You have these, quote-unquote, conservative republicans that are really not, that are controlled opposition.
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This is one of the reasons the USAID thing is a rat's nest.
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Yeah, well, this is the thing, Steve, is that, you know, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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I mean, you see every 10 minutes I see, you know, a new revelation of where the taxpayer dollars have gone.
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But the problem is that, you know, he made the argument, well, okay, well, we earmark for X, Y, and Z.
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But the problem is that through USAID, they would give to NGOs, and then NGOs would then further distribute those funds,
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and then those funds would be distributed even further.
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So it was this huge gravy train that was totally untraceable and unaccountable.
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That's all we're asking, and they can't prove it.
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I support you guys where you should be supported.
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I don't like the fact that maybe a treasury, you're blaming people who are not there.
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You know, we got Natalie and Grace and Moe, Jane Zirkle.
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Plus, the production team, a couple of our producers already over at the White House and the agencies.
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Of course, we're proud of Russ Vogt and Payaletta and Bassett and all of them.
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What I'm trying to avoid and tell people, hey, we either make these cuts or it's going to get more turbulent.
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You're going to have the convergence of the deportations meet the cuts.
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You're going to have to think this thing through.
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Going after the worst of the worst in criminals.
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The individuals that are looking to pick up today.
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We are just trying to make the community safer.
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You've put yourself in harm's way in Central, in the Darien Gap and in Mexico.
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Ben's going to be here to talk about the kinetic activity.
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We understand the guys on the front line are incredibly courageous.
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Well, that's the biggest problem right now, Steve.
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Every single person that we've caught that I've been a part of these operations with ICE.
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We reported from New Jersey, from that Elizabeth Detention Center.
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And then yesterday in Baltimore, every single one of these guys had been previously incarcerated,
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had been in a detention center, had an ICE hold on them, and was released by a sanctuary community back out into the community.
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One of the biggest problems is even if you pick them up, you know, the guys you saw yesterday that we got,
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they aren't immediately sent out of the country.
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Most of the time, if they get sent out, they get deported, it'll take about 60 days.
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But we even have judges that'll protect these guys, known MS-13 members, known Tren de Aragua members,
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and they're protecting them, saying, well, if we send them back, they might be mistreated in their home country.
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Bukele might mistreat this MS-13 member if he gets sent back.
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And so, I mean, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the tens of millions of illegals we have right now.
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God bless everybody who goes out there every single day.
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It's not enough to stop the bleeding, stop the self-destruction of our own country,
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the suicide that the Democrats have put us on until we get the Justice Department to go after the sanctuary communities,
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prosecute some of their sanctuary jurisdictions, and defund them, and then start mass deportations.
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It's, you know, four years from now, it'll look like nothing happened.
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Let me get Benzman in here with Ben, because you've got people, this is expensive.
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You've got people putting themselves in harm's way.
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I think we need to highlight more of these judges.
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Look, the resistance, they're hitting us on every side, right?
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We see this on everything President Trump's trying to effectuate,
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everything that Elon Musk and the team at Doge are trying to effectuate.
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They're going to federal court, they're trying to chop blockers, they're trying to slow down,
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they're trying to stop momentum, they're trying to stop muzzle velocity, muzzle velocity,
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the kind of thing that drives, you know, you're able to get through and accomplish things and get things done.
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You can see this on the deportations right out of the box.
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Well, they just have to keep grinding on in those blue jurisdictions, just like they have,
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And they need to have intelligence and they need to access databases of local law enforcements
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and also DHS databases to figure out where people might be,
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because they're being released, as Ben just said.
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So you just need better intel, better strategy, better tactic, and more infrastructure.
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You know, some of these guys, they've had to release 300 or 400 of them
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just because they didn't have bed space where they were.
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If Pritzker – you talk about getting data and getting access.
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So, Burkwam, if Pritzker's – if Pritzker's – he's already out there.
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He's telling you – and he's running on 2028 on this.
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He says you're not touching a guy in a state prison in Illinois.
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Johnson's – Mayor Johnson's up in your grill of the sanctuary city of Chicago.
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Hell, the state legislature in California is passing a $50 million bill to fight Trump on anything.
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And the big thing is this – is the – and they want all this money to redo the Palisades,
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but they're going to remain a sanctuary city in L.A. and San Francisco.
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Burkwam, the attitude of people inside, when are we going to get tough and say,
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We're going to arrest Pritzker and Johnson and the guys at the prisons or wherever,
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you know, the authorities, whoever doesn't turn these people over, give us the data, guess what?
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Cuff them and take them off because then you'll send a signal, sir.
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Yeah, yeah, and you'll save millions and millions.
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You talk about saving money, USAID wasting all this money on inviting the invasion
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But you want to talk about saving some money, not having to go out and track these guys down
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in their home communities, not having to do what we're doing, you know,
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getting a dozen of these guys in an operation where you spend $20 million.
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You're going to save a ton of money if you can simply pick them up in the jails,
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To Todd's point, a lot of that information is there.
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So there is, constitutionally, there's federalism where the jails have to share some information
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But that doesn't mean that they have to cooperate with ICE detainers.
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And I think this is where Emil Bove comes in and says, we have to take this.
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This is a federal jurisdiction issue, and we have to take this and force their hand.
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And ultimately, it's Pam Bondi going in, and as you said, I don't know if they're going
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I don't know if they're going to arrest Johnson.
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But what I do think they can do is just simply go into the prisons and say, we're taking these
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And force those jurisdictions to fight them back in the federal courts.
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The bigger problem, though, is, again, we're talking about tens of millions of dollars
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The scale that we're talking about having to deal with, when the American people talk
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about mass deportations, you know, they think we're talking 10 million people.
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There's just no possible way under the current rules of engagement, under these current administrative
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warrants, the way they're being processed, you know, where you knock on a door and all
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of these guys have been coached by the Catholic charities and all of these other NGOs that are
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also paid for by USAID, that they simply don't have to open the doors.
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We've got to get away from these administrative warrants.
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And we've got to be able to pick these guys up in jail.
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So ultimately, it really does come down to the Justice Department saying, screw you guys.
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I mean, until we do that, it's, you know, again, it's good that we're doing what we're
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We're just wasting a hell of a lot of money doing it.
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Is this what has to do you agree with Ben Berkwam?
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This has to happen this way that we got to, you know, get back to justice and kind of rethink
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You know, it's not beyond the pale that there could be an arrest of an elected official
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It was interesting to me that there was an assistant attorney general present in, I believe
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it was Chicago, on some of the ICE raids, just kind of overviewing what was going on.
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You're not going to have an assistant AG out there for any other reason than to contemplate
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And also, we're already starting to see, you know, serious talk and probably to be followed
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soon by action of cutting government grants to these blue cities and making them pay for
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So I think there's a little bit more, you know, some more string to pull on those kind
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It's expensive the way they're making them do it, but it's got to be done.
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Like Hohman said one time, you know, what price do you put on national security?
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Well, speaking of national security, I know you're doing a summary and it's going to come
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Talk to me about the cartels, Mexico, kinetic activity.
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The audience was all jacked up yesterday about what you're talking about.
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Is this going to be real or are we going to take the fight?
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Are we going to take the torch to the enemy down there?
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You have the Mexican, the 10,000 troops that Trump leveraged out of his tariff threat that
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are deploying right now in places like Tijuana and Juarez, and they're going to be deploying
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And the purpose of this is to stop the drug smuggling and officially to dismantle the drug
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That is unlike any other Mexican deployment that I've seen, and I've seen a few of them
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They're putting them right in the smuggling lanes, right in the middle between the cartels
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And remember, those cartels have been, you know, cashing in and that cash cow is dead now
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because on the human smuggling, there's hardly anybody coming across there.
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You know, we've got the border pretty well hermetically sealed, got to keep the pressure
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But that really hit those cartels in the pocketbook like you wouldn't believe.
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They were making sometimes more money than they were on drugs out of that.
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The only thing they have left now is fentanyl and drugs.
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And now you've got Mexican military guys getting right in between them.
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And back of them are the U.S. Marines with, you know, Reapers and all kinds of surveillance
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It's telling me that there is tabletop planning right now for the immediate future to using
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U.S. intelligence and certain Mexican units to go kinetic on narcotics depots, on fentanyl
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They're incredibly well armed from, you know, making billions and billions of dollars on
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They invested it in arms and they are armed up to the teeth.
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And they're not going to just sit back there and let and lose their drug business.
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This is I want to make sure our staff pulls this.
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The source is telling you there were preparations are underway to potentially go kinetic and
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If it goes kinetic with the Mexican military, the Mexican Marines, all that, and maybe a little
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help by guys like us north of the border, how huge is that going to be in northern Mexico,
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Obviously, you know, some of these guys are their headquarters are all over, but it'll
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I mean, I do a lot of traveling to Mexico and I'll probably avoid that for a little while
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unless we're in an armed entourage, because these guys, as Todd said, they're not going
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And, you know, it'll be the soft targets that'll be real easy for these two guys to go after.
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Wait till they start picking off civilians and and taking advantage of the soft targets.
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And then the other side of that is on the U.S. side.
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You know, every one of these cartels we're talking about has U.S. operations as well.
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So this is going to be not if they go kinetic in Mexico, it's going to be kinetic in the
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And there's going to be repercussions all over the place.
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So this is a lot of fight that's a long time coming.
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And I think we're just we've barely scratched the surface of how bad it and how violent
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And again, all preventable, all 100 percent preventable and all driven by leftists who
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And and unfortunately, people on our side who were just asleep at the wheel until President
00:45:59.040
Ben, where do people go to get your new special?
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All that you're reporting, it's been incredible.
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America's Voice, everything has been releasing.
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We're doing a lot of editing to protect people's identities as we're doing this.
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But everything's on social media at America's Voice on X on Instagram.
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And then our next episodes of Law and Border will be on America's Voice dot news.
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We're working on those as we speak in the next few weeks.
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We'll be getting those out in my social media at Ben Burkwam as well.
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Burkwam just said, hey, look, don't think it's going to stay in Mexico or northern Mexico.
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It'll blow back across here because the cartels are deeply embedded from the Rio Grande Valley to South Texas, Arizona, up to Chicago, Dallas, all over.
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My first experience covering the border was from 2006 to 2009, and that was Calderon's war on the cartel.
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That's the last time we had a real war in Mexico, and it did spill across the border.
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I covered it for three years straight on both sides of the border, and it was nasty, ugly, horrible.
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The cartels were fighting the Mexican Marines and each other, and they were spilling over onto the U.S. side.
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They were killing people on this side that thought were snitches.
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All sorts of that kind of stuff can happen on this side as well.
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He was asked, I think it was ABC News, said, you know, what's going to be the American reaction if, you know, those cartels try to attack Americans?
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And, you know, Homan said, you know, he's a madman.
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I don't know if that's actually going to happen, but I think there's a reason why he's messaging.
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I wouldn't cross Homan, and I wouldn't cross Miller, and I certainly would not cross a guy named Donald J. Trump.
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Benzman, I know you're working on this big story.
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We want to have you back on when it's up because you've got a massive scoop there, sir.
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