00:02:47.560But, hey, if you're an illegal alien, you go to the airport and I suppose yet you can get arrested.
00:02:51.820Full stop. Neal McCabe. The White House. What happened?
00:02:56.140Well, I think another component of that, just to follow up on the ice at the airport, is that the TSA agents are now saying, well, wait a minute, we might be replaced.
00:03:05.880And so there are sick outs all over the country. Atlanta is at 40 percent. JFK is at 25. LaGuardia is 16.
00:03:14.040There's 20 airports that have no sick outs because they're run by contract screeners.
00:03:19.440And these are mostly, you know, Yellowstone Airport and Sarasota Airport, but also San Francisco International has contract screeners.
00:03:28.880So there's no sick outs. And those 20 airports are just cruising along like nothing's wrong.
00:03:34.020And I think TSA, those agents may find themselves out of a job if they continue to play the sick out.
00:03:39.480But going back to SAVE Act, John Thune said today that they are continuing to push on the SAVE Act.
00:03:46.480And I've been talking to people who say that Lisa Murkowski, the Republican from Alaska, who has been seen as a no, may become a yes.
00:03:59.080And she has some concerns about, you know, the verification if people have to fly or go great distances to say go to Anchorage to get their documentation.
00:04:09.220Maybe she wants an exemption for older voters, say over 65.
00:04:14.800And, you know, people might take those, you know, because over time those voters are going to age out and eventually everyone will be certified, you know, as it comes.
00:04:23.420So if Murkowski comes on board, that's actually a huge plus because that shows momentum on the SAVE Act side.
00:04:30.480You are going to see some sort of shuttling around.
00:04:34.720It's almost like a two-card Mountie with the Homeland Funding Bill because Thune is filing a bill.
00:04:41.160I don't know if he's filed it yet, but he said today at his press gaggle that he was going to be filing a bill that would basically fund, fully fund Homeland Security except for the deportation and law enforcement operations of ICE.
00:04:56.300And they'll just put that to the side and they're willing to compromise on, you know, body cams, but there'll be no compromise on masks or any kind of identification or name tags on the ICE agents.
00:05:09.340And so that's where Thune is right now. And, you know, he's he's trying to get something done because he's getting pressure from the president.
00:05:17.400but you know if if they don't move something if they don't move something on uh on the you know
00:05:23.440with ice or without ice they could go to what's called the reconciliation that's that's a simple
00:05:29.600majority bill that you can use once every fiscal year they may just use reconciliation to get
00:05:36.760homeland security done and if that they go that route because that you only get one bite at the
00:05:41.500Apple, they may load in the Epic Fury supplemental and a bunch of other supplementals. And so you'll
00:05:47.700see a lot of projects piling on if they do go to reconciliation, Steve. Yeah, I'm not so sure
00:05:54.200the reconciliation that easy. Caroline Rand just blew up Kennedy on Twitter a moment ago. I'll
00:05:58.740read that when Elizabeth Mitchell joins us. Here's the thing. Murkowski, I would say no deals.
00:06:38.860This is why Bovino, as Jack Posobiec and I used to talk about, Bovino, I loved him because we used to say, Posobiec and I used to talk and said, that's the type of guy that pacified Gaul under Julius Caesar.
00:06:53.180We need folks like that because that's what you need to do, and they should have had his back in Minneapolis.
00:06:58.020What he did in Minneapolis was magnificent in trying to get that crowd down there.
00:07:03.820That is nothing but Marxist, jihadist scum, okay?
00:07:07.860Marxist, jihadist scum, the same that's running New York City right now.
00:13:04.480That's always one of my favorite references.
00:13:06.580If you don't catch that, it's from Tale of Two Cities.
00:13:09.980And if you've ever had the opportunity to see the film, black and white film, I think from 1935.
00:13:15.780And I think Norma Shearer, and I think she played Marie Antoinette in Marie Antoinette.
00:13:19.540Anyway, in The Tale of Two Cities, Madame Dufage was mesmerizing.
00:13:25.980She was a revolutionary, but she basically worked in a wine shop with her husband and was, at the end, was the one that was singling them out to go cut this head off at the guillotine.
00:13:42.560We've got a cold open for Elizabeth Mitchell, who joins us.
00:13:45.340Let's go and play it. We'll bring her in. Would you be open? Are you hoping to see the Senate pursue reconciliation 2.0 to fund ice and pass the safe America? Well, we'll see about reconciliation. We're certainly talking about reconciliation. I think Mark Wayne, right? Do you want to talk about that for a second? Now that he's working, we can get him to do this.
00:14:07.100Lindsey Graham, the chairman where the reconciliation will funnel through, he is committed to making sure we get reconciliation through.
00:14:16.400If that is in some form with funding ICE, possibly backfilling from the one big beautiful bill, but also more importantly the Save American Act.
00:14:26.620There's a framework that we can do through reconciliation, paying for it, put some of the policies that cost money in.
00:14:33.540because there's nothing more important than the Save American Act.
00:14:36.320I mean, that's what the American people want.
00:14:38.440There's 80 percent of the population say they want only Americans voting,
00:14:43.960citizens that are registered to vote, citizens that have done it the right way.
00:14:49.280And I believe that everybody wants an election in charity.
00:14:52.600So fortunately, Lindsey Graham has said through reconciliation,
00:14:56.580he's willing to put the framework out for that.
00:14:58.300now there's a little controversy about senator kennedy i think went on fox afternoon and
00:15:05.400caroline wren somehow lightened him up we'll get more detail on that later elizabeth troutman
00:15:10.880mitchell first of all i have a question that the audience once answered how do you write these
00:15:15.680amazing exclusive stories about artificial intelligence all the complexity and and uh
00:15:22.040bluey's got you you have the white house beat too so you're in the oval sitting for that and
00:15:26.540asking questions. I mean, Bluey's got to up your pay or get you some help, ma'am. How can you do
00:15:31.360both? Thanks for asking. I don't know. Just really enjoy, really enjoy this work.
00:15:41.260Great. Great question. Give me a SAVE Act Reconciliation DHS, because it's kind of a,
00:15:48.500it's one of these ones that inside baseball in D.C., it gets so complicated and the grassroots
00:15:53.280just wants to kind of say like what is going on here we don't really see the energy in the save
00:15:57.880the act save america act except for the mike lees and the in the in the uh and uh eric schmidt and
00:16:03.920a handful of others that are pushing and try to get to a legislative process the others are kind
00:16:07.980of like kabuki theater then you've got this whole situation with the funding bill and now we're
00:16:12.820hearing that they may to get a deal may pull ice out which is you know ice is the beloved entity
00:16:19.620of the war room and the war on posse because they're the guys, the internal, they're the
00:16:23.700people that actually send people home, which is kind of the purpose of the exercise is to
00:16:29.940somehow deport, I don't know, 10, 15, 20 million people somehow. So Elizabeth, make it make sense
00:16:37.240for us, ma'am. So there's two kind of big things going on right now. Congress, one needs to pass
00:16:44.940a funding bill to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security so that the airport lines
00:16:50.880aren't so long, TSA gets paid, et cetera. Secondly, they need to pass the Save America Act,
00:16:56.180which President Trump has said is his number one priority. And so a plan has been put together to
00:17:02.640actually combine these two things. So what this plan is, is Democrats do not want to fund ICE at
00:17:09.400all. So the plan that's going around is that the Senate would vote to fund DHS, but separate ICE
00:17:16.880funding from that. ICE would continue to remain funded because it was funded by the one big
00:17:21.360beautiful bill. And then later on, a reconciliation bill, which requires 50 votes instead of 60 to
00:17:27.320pass the Senate, making it a lot easier to pass because it doesn't require any Democrat support.
00:17:32.420Reconciliation bill would then fund ICE later on for the next year. But what the proposal is,
00:17:38.840adding the Save America Act onto that reconciliation bill because it would help to only require those
00:17:45.88050 votes because Democrats are not going to vote once again to pass the Save America Act.
00:17:50.700So I asked President Trump today after he swore in Mark Wayne Mullen to lead the Department of
00:17:55.760Homeland Security if he wants to see Reconciliation 2.0 and if he wants to see that being the vessel
00:18:01.580to pass the Save America Act. And he said he's looking at reconciliation and then passed the
00:18:06.320mic over to Mullen, who said that this is, in fact, the plan that Lindsey Graham is going to
00:18:11.720lead the way on passing the Save America Act through reconciliation. However, there are some
00:18:17.640potential issues that could arise with this, which we can break down as well. Well, I want to break
00:18:24.560it down because if Lindsey Graham's involved, that means the $200 billion, the supplemental for
00:18:29.620the war in Iran, this is what Lindsey Graham cares about. Lindsey Graham could care less
00:18:34.840about Save America. He can actually care less about DHS funding and ICE deportations. He's
00:18:42.320kind of an amnesty guy. He damn well cares about that $200 billion because he's frothing at the
00:18:47.600mouth every night on Fox. In this reconciliation, these things are quite complicated. That's why
00:18:54.160you can pass them with a majority other than the 60. I think you have to, the parliamentarian
00:18:59.420really gets involved here. You have to have pay-fors. This can't increase anything. And if
00:19:05.500they're going to do it, I guess it means, Elizabeth, the $200 billion is going to have to get carved out
00:19:10.400of somewhere. Am I correct? Because clearly reconciliation, Lindsey Graham, means somehow
00:19:16.780the $200 billion is going to show up here in this process over the next couple of days.
00:19:22.540Yeah. So the issue here is that the parliamentarian, like you said, is very likely to
00:19:28.980strike down any provision of reconciliation, which doesn't directly relate to the budget.
00:19:33.840Save America Act does not relate to the budget very directly at all. So she will likely strike
00:19:39.020this down immediately before it even goes to a vote. So while this strategy will get everyone,
00:19:47.020every Republican and every Democrat on the record about voter ID, which of course is extremely
00:19:51.280popular with Americans, it's unlikely that this could actually succeed in passing the bill.
00:19:57.420However, Senator Kennedy, as you mentioned earlier, has said maybe they could get the Congress's smartest lawyers to write this in a way that the parliamentarian wouldn't be able to do the birdbath on and strike down.
00:20:10.820So we'll see if that's that's a possibility.
00:20:15.160Now, so we're going to have you back on because this is enormously complicated.
00:20:18.240And President Trump, I mean, he's trying to fight a war.
00:20:20.220He's got everything in the world on his mind.
00:20:22.200He doesn't have the Senate rules are so arcane for a reason.
00:20:26.920So only a couple of senators know how it really works. So we'll follow this closely. But remember, it's you've got to fund a war. He's trying to get the Save America Act. They're trying to fund the DHS and the Democrats sitting there blocking everything. And as long as the lines are long and President Trump's getting blamed, they'll keep it out. They'll keep it out forever.
00:20:45.140Now, I want to pivot to your—and by the way, we just announced that I think out in New Mexico, the jury found Meta guilty, I guess, of child exploitation in this case brought by some parents.
00:20:58.580I think we're going to clip here in a minute.
00:21:01.540And you just wrote this amazing piece on AI, which I'm going to get to in a minute.
00:25:13.720These state senators are showing you that this is a burning hot issue at the state level.
00:25:19.900And I'm not quite sure that even the administration understands, particularly after this situation in in New Mexico.
00:25:28.120And I realize they're not exactly the same things, but they're close enough for government work.
00:25:32.940It's going to put even more heat on people at the state and the state representative level.
00:25:37.760This is a big deal for people in Texas.
00:25:40.060Do you think it's this letter and your article that's finally going to get through and say, hey, look, we just can't shine on these states.
00:25:46.000We've really got to work this out together because there's massive political pressure here.
00:25:50.800There's definitely a lot of pressure mounting on child safety from around the country.
00:25:56.560Yesterday was the launch of a pro-family coalition called the Alliance for a Better Future.
00:26:01.680And they launched with some powerful new polling showing that 83 percent, I believe, of Americans support guardrails to protect kids on AI.
00:26:10.760We know that this is a wildly popular issue.
00:26:13.140the vast majority of Americans do want state laws which protect kids from potential AI abuses to
00:26:19.180remain on the books. And so I think that pressure will definitely play a role in this upcoming fight
00:26:23.900to pass this national framework on AI. In fact, just 24 hours ago, at this very moment, he was
00:26:32.080on the show, the new chairman or the new head of it. We've got about 30 seconds. Where do people
00:26:36.780go to get your writing and to put pressure on Rob Bleu to get your raise? You can read my work
00:38:29.420And as really we can prove they've been stolen over the country, he wants to prove in California.
00:38:33.520I remember on an absolute basis, there's more MAGA voters in California probably than any other state, maybe even Texas and Florida because it's such a massive state with over 40 million people.
00:38:44.840I've heard so many people say this is what we need.
00:38:47.600We need people not to forget about California.
00:38:49.660The sheriff out there, I think, just he just took 650,000 ballots from the 25 election that he's saying there's something wrong with it.
00:38:58.780It seems like California, since it's kind of fallen off the map of MAGA being so intense, although there's so many MAGA voters, that this stuff is just kind of brazen.
00:39:07.640Is this why you're now making of all the other things you could do?
00:39:11.100You're making such a big show of force from O'Keefe Media Group in California?
00:39:17.580Yeah, and it's not just O'Keefe Media Group.
00:39:19.700It's we're calling it the Justice League, which is the Knights of the Round Table, the Citizen Journalist Justice League.
00:45:00.900Citizen journalism folks what they do is very dangerous
00:45:03.880Okay I've got a couple things I got George Papadopoulos
00:45:07.100I have a couple of things. One, we had that clip from the White House. We can play it in a moment. But George, you just got back. You were in Russia a couple of weeks ago. I want people to understand over St. Petersburg, I think on I want to say on Saturday or Sunday night, there were 70 to 100 of these drones that were identified by the Russian military as they weren't theirs.
00:45:30.740and so they shot them down now we've got footage i think in ukraine where they're hitting that
00:45:37.420they're coming back and hitting ukraine i i want people and then mcmaster said today we play in
00:45:42.880the morning show that the israelis have taken and not sunk but hit two russian cargo ships
00:45:49.860bringing drones to the iranians he said that this kinetic war in the middle east i mean people
00:45:56.920should understand this thing in the ukraine is not over by a long shot it's kind of gone the
00:46:01.140back burner as we have a shooting war a bigger shooting where we're involved and so now everybody's
00:46:05.840focused on that 24 hours a day but just give us a a couple of minutes on the dangers we have of
00:46:11.960this thing in ukraine uh becoming kind of merged into this and then baby you got the third world
00:46:17.820war sir yes steve so ukraine is uh literally the most corrupt uh government on the european
00:46:25.080continents. And what they've actually become is a liability to U.S. foreign policy priorities and
00:46:31.840goals throughout not only Eurasia, but Eastern Europe. What the U.S. has been attempting to do
00:46:38.240under President Trump is to project power, promote energy security, and really sustain
00:46:42.840the cohesiveness of our various alliance structures in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe and in
00:46:49.220NATO. And what Ukraine is doing by escalating the conflict and the tension with Russia,
00:46:55.140it's really affected all three of these priorities. What the Ukrainians are doing
00:46:59.280when it comes to energy security is they're trying to block Russian oil exports to Europe,
00:47:05.520which Hungary and Slovakia are basically begging for. And they're willing to sanction Ukraine
00:47:11.080because Ukraine is holding them in an energy hostage type of situation. That is resulting in
00:47:17.820rising oil prices and it's affecting the European economies. You have people like Matteo Salvini
00:47:23.380in Italy, who's a deputy prime minister, who's saying that we have to drop sanctions and start
00:47:27.360buying Russian oil because the European crisis has been caused by this situation with Ukraine
00:47:32.420is affecting our own livelihoods. Then you have this escalation in the Middle East now,
00:47:37.060where you have the Israelis targeting Russian ships in the Caspian Sea, along with Ukrainian
00:47:43.680drones, it really shows you that the United States is not really dealing with equal partners
00:47:48.920who want to de-escalate the situation, but escalate it at a time when the president is
00:47:54.480trying to prioritize geoeconomics over geopolitics and to slow this thing down.
00:48:02.760George, also, while we're on it, in fact, I'm going to have you back tomorrow. We'll do the
00:48:06.120other part that we talked about the other day, but I want to get your thoughts on
00:48:09.060Viktor Orban, who is beloved in the global MAGA movement, right, and a real nationalist,
00:48:17.180has saved this country, has been such a hero. The sprint to this election, which I think is in a
00:48:23.880couple of weeks in Hungary, he's actually put Zelensky on the ballot. I mean, he's really
00:48:28.740turned to the Hungarian people and say, hey, look, this is the most corrupt guy on earth.
00:48:33.540He's put our nation in jeopardy and we're not going to stand for it. Walk me through what
00:48:38.740Viktor Orban has done in Hungary to really point out that Zelensky is a big, as we've said here in
00:48:45.400the war room, a big part of the problem what the United States has to deal with internationally.
00:48:50.740Well, that's really exhibit A of the issue and the liability that Zelensky and the Ukrainians
00:48:56.480have actually become for U.S. foreign policy and really sustaining our alliances in Eastern Europe
00:49:02.700with conservative governments that really have same ideological perspectives and movements as MAGA
00:49:09.940in the United States, like Orbán. What Zelensky has really done here is he's cut off a significant
00:49:15.000pipeline that linked Russian oil to Eastern Europe through Ukraine into Hungary and Slovakia
00:49:20.920in order to create an economic crisis and to precipitate an even larger economic crisis
00:49:26.340in Hungary to affect Viktor Orban's election prospects. Now, this goes diametrically against
00:49:32.860U.S. interests to have a man or leader like Orban and others in Eastern Europe and in the European
00:49:39.380Union so that we do have equal partners and a more sustainable and cohesive NATO. That is really
00:49:46.800what Orban is talking about here and why this issue in Hungary is so important and people aren't
00:49:52.500talking about it enough. The president and others have obviously outright supported Orban as a
00:49:57.840partner for the United States, while Zelensky is doing everything in his power to jeopardize not
00:50:03.220only Orban, but the U.S. bilateral relationship with Hungary. And that's something that the
00:50:07.940United States cannot continue to allow to happen. George, I think one of the most important things
00:50:14.680that's happened in this war in Iran, when he got to the Hormuz Straits and President Trump said,
00:50:19.140hey, look, we're going to need some naval support here from our NATO allies, and nobody stood up.
00:50:23.720The British didn't stand up with the Royal Navy.
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