J.D. Vance and Josh Feierstein talk about how to deal with the media and the left, and the right, and how to be unapologetic about your point of view. Plus, a look at Colombia.
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00:04:02.000You guys notice the difference in tone?
00:04:04.000We are at such a different point than 2016. And again, having been here since 2009, Republicans kind of had to soften it and libertarian present it.
00:04:18.000J.D. Vance showed you how you deal with the media.
00:04:21.000You need to articulate the average American's point of view.
00:04:25.000I do not believe that the average American is stupid.
00:04:27.000The average working, tax-paying American.
00:04:29.000I believe that they are fundamentally, you, fundamentally intelligent.
00:04:33.000In other words, you could have a rocket scientist, you could have a doctor, you could have an engineer who just doesn't have time to watch all of the news shows, all the news mag shows.
00:04:59.000Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted.
00:05:03.000I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted, and because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizen's kids to do that either.
00:05:13.000No, and that was a very particular case.
00:05:15.000It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living there.
00:05:50.000If they got here and they were vetted, but technically, or they were vetted before they got here, or they were vetted, I guess, after they got here, it doesn't matter.
00:05:56.000Is this person a terrorist sympathizer?
00:06:39.000He was admitted to the United States in September 2021. Days after the catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal.
00:06:46.000He was approved for a special immigrant visa, previously worked for the CIA in Afghanistan, and he admitted that he wanted to carry out Election Day attacks and be martyred.
00:07:06.000The left, this is what they want to argue.
00:07:08.000They want to argue technicalities to tell you that you are wrong.
00:07:11.000Well, okay, lab leak maybe, but at that time we didn't know it was a lab leak, so we banned you and told everyone that you were a conspiracy theorist.
00:07:18.000You were lying then, and you're lying now.
00:07:21.000This happened, remember, under the Biden administration, they were confronted regarding this man, and they kept going back to, well, he was vetted.
00:07:28.000Well, I don't care, but he was vetted.
00:07:30.000What I can say is every Afghan national who entered the U.S. was screened and vetted by intelligence, law enforcement, counterterrorism professionals.
00:07:39.000Okay, let me give you my opinion here, and you can let me know if you think I'm out of line.
00:07:43.000The percentage of Afghan immigrants or refugees who we should be taking here should be close to zero.
00:07:52.000Should be close to zero with the rare exception.
00:07:54.000I know we hung some people out to dry, the withdrawal, but outside of that, the general, the set point should be no.
00:08:26.000It should be no for anybody, but especially a place where, you know, they don't even have, you say it's 2024 there, you say that all the time, but they don't even have TV there.
00:08:34.000It's like, you guys, I mean, fundamentally behind on everything, and their ideals, everything.
00:08:40.000You gotta make a really strong case to be able to come to this country, period, but if it's Afghanistan, it's gotta be like, I'm sorry, just like three times.
00:08:47.000The whole time, I'm kind of laughing at this, because she's like, he's vetted, and Vance is like, I know.
00:11:02.000So, for the first time, Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tiebreaker in officially confirming the tarred and feathered, but very qualified and should be fun, Pete Hegseth as the Secretary of Defense.
00:11:19.000On this vote, the yeas are 50 and the nays are 50. The Senate being equally divided, the Vice President votes in the affirmative, and the nomination is confirmed.
00:11:32.000Oh, also, Billy, have the afuera ready.
00:11:36.000Vance, and here's the thing, he shouldn't have to, considering the amount of Republicans that we have there.
00:12:00.000All of these people voted yes on Lloyd Austin, but even worse for Mitch McConnell, where I don't even know what Republican means anymore for a guy like this.
00:12:10.000After the vote, he walked over to the baby-killing, soul-sucking Democrats to celebrate.
00:12:31.000Everybody else is celebrating on the other side, and he's like, I'm going to waddle over here and talk to these guys.
00:12:36.000When your only contributive skill is to bump elbows, shake hands, and make deals and compromise and politic, you really shouldn't be representing anybody.
00:13:16.000And you can comment what you think of it.
00:13:19.000We've talked about Hegseth, but I'm very convinced that the attacks are entirely fabricated now, because if there were any other substantial reasons to oppose it, you'd hear about them.
00:13:29.000Instead, you hear he got drunk and people had to carry him to his hotel room at a party, and some lady says he groped her even though there were no actual charges.
00:13:42.000We have a montage here on air about Hegseth.
00:13:46.000The things that Hegseth has done, regardless of his military service, outside of his military service, are what made him incredibly unqualified.
00:13:54.000I mean, just to be able to rely on Pete Hegseth's experience alone, on his qualifications alone, should scare the crap out of anybody.
00:14:02.000We've never had a less qualified Secretary of Defense than Pete Hegseth.
00:14:07.000He's unqualified because he's morally unqualified.
00:15:09.000He said, breaking, the Senate has just voted to confirm Pete Hegseth, a drunken, out-of-control abuser, as the weakest Secretary of Defense in history.
00:15:24.000Hit pieces, whether it's coming out in the New York Post, whether it's coming out in Newsweek, people saying, actually, at one point, he made me uncomfortable.
00:15:30.000That's all they have, which tells you that it's very likely made up.
00:17:09.000Hegseth has defended war, criminals, and rejected international law.
00:17:13.000He's a prominent advocate for privatizing the VA. First off, that's not true.
00:17:17.000Here's what they're talking about, privatizing.
00:17:20.000People like Hegseth, and myself included, we believe that if you're a veteran, it should be, like we've talked about school choice, a credit where the veterans can take it to any in-network hospital as opposed to designating them to one, where they can actually use this to pick their doctor, to choose their care.
00:18:41.000He was forced to step down from leading two advocacy groups after repeated allegations of financial mismanagement, sexual harassment, and alcohol abuse!
00:20:02.000If I happened to be RFK, and I'd be sitting there, and they'd talk about crazy conspiracy theories, I would answer everything with, red dye number three.
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00:22:27.000There's a different approach that we're talking about on CNN today because Donald Trump has the mandate of the masses, especially as it relates to immigration.
00:22:52.000And thank God, for the first time, if nothing else, in our lifetime, someone leading the United States is using the leverage that we have on behalf of the American people.
00:23:02.000So ICE raids, the deportations, they ramped up all over the country this weekend.
00:23:08.000And here's actually, well, to talk about that before we get to Colombia, here's a montage regarding that, starting with a lady who's really mad at the tip of her own nose.
00:23:15.000Immigration and customs enforcement reported nearly 1,000 arrests yesterday.
00:23:20.000The Drug Enforcement Agency says agents arrested nearly 50 undocumented migrants during a raid yesterday near Denver, Colorado.
00:23:59.000But the biggest controversy, of course, was surrounding...
00:24:02.000The United States military deporting people and flights going to Colombia.
00:24:08.000So let me give this to you in a timeline so that you aren't as uninformed as the left and you know exactly how it started and how everything kind of ended up shaking out.
00:24:19.000So on January 26th at 2.41 a.m., Colombian President Gustavo Petro said he was going to deny the deportation flight.
00:24:41.000No one else in the world has a moral high ground when either your country is so crappy that people are fleeing and don't want to be there, or number two, these people now are so crappy that your country doesn't want them back.
00:26:12.000Donald Trump announced a series of punishing actions against Colombia, including raising a 25% tariff to 50%, including revoking visas for government officials and a bunch of other financial sanctions.
00:26:25.000He posted this photo also to Truth Social, which is great.
00:27:36.000A statement from the White House Press Secretary, Carolyn Levitt, friend of the show, said, Today's events make clear to the world that America will be respected again.
00:27:42.000President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation's sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.
00:27:54.000This all went on for about 19 hours and 40 minutes.
00:28:20.000You're telling me the price of coffee is about to go up and I can either secure our cities and our border or pay a little bit more for coffee?
00:28:26.000I would take that deal every single day.
00:29:22.000This happened, but I wanted to give you a jumping-off point, because a lot of you don't know who this man is here in Colombia, President Petro.
00:29:30.000So he wrote this whole diatribe on X, and we're going to go through it in Acclaim Truth, and then a segment specifically.
00:29:37.000On why this man being angry with America is a good thing.
00:29:55.000If they don't like what you're doing and their justification is because something, something, something evil capitalism, we go, oh, okay, we get it, you're communist.
00:30:20.000So let me read you his pinned ex-post.
00:30:24.000It says, Trump, I really don't like traveling to the U.S. It's a bit boring.
00:30:28.000But I confess that there are some commendable things.
00:30:31.000I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight on the U.S. Capitol between blacks, Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.
00:30:43.000Hey, why don't you let the United States care about our own race relations, okay?
00:30:49.000Well, we'll get to the claimed truth as far as I get the implication, crime.
00:31:10.000So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period.
00:31:14.000You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance like they did with Allende.
00:31:20.000For people who don't know, socialist, Marxist, man who was in charge of Chile and paved the way for a...
00:31:26.000Some people argue dictator, Pinochet, who turned it into the Great Chilean Experiment, which was economically prosperous beyond what anyone dreamed Chile could do.
00:32:47.000Pay-per-view free for Mr. He went on to say, maybe one day, I'm shortening this, by the way, maybe one day over a glass of whiskey, which I accept despite my gastritis.
00:35:09.000And we are their largest trade partner, just to be clear.
00:35:12.000And Colombia, by the way, receives somewhere around $740 million in direct financial aid from the United States because we are the world's biggest charity while this guy acts like he can take the moral high ground.
00:35:25.000Well, receives should be changed to received.
00:36:01.000None of these countries have ever gotten it right.
00:36:03.000How about now we stop importing from Colombia because we can probably get most of this from the United States if we open up our own energy reserves, and Colombia, you get nothing.
00:36:13.000Let's be clear about this, President Petro.
00:37:05.000Of all the crimes that could make me think less of somebody, like the least significant, tax evasion would be crimes 1 through 10. It's pillow talk for me.
00:39:10.000Let me give you some history on the Panama Canal, okay?
00:39:12.0001903. This is when the Colombian Senate rejected a treaty that would have given the United States rights to land around, at this point, the proposed canal.
00:39:25.000They were helped by the United States to succeed and create Panama, okay, to be clear.
00:39:30.000We sent warships to prevent Colombian troops from landing there.
00:39:33.000The United States financed the entire construction of the Panama Canal.
00:39:38.000In 1904, $500 million was the equivalent to $15.2 billion today.
00:39:44.000And so if the United States has invested, created, and financed, you can bet your ass that they're going to try and protect it from some guerrilla conscripts.
00:40:10.000Next claim that he makes when talking about Washington seeing some Latinos and blacks fight because your crime is out of control, that the United States is a dangerous place.
00:41:08.000Pretty careful in who he chooses to posture with.
00:41:10.000Hey, when it comes to dealing with communists and Marxists and people who are against everything the United States is meant to stand for, I'm okay with it.
00:41:19.000And that would, of course, include the man of the hour, Gustavo Gasoline.
00:41:24.000I'm sorry, Mr. President Gustavo Petro, which brings us to this week's What a Piece of Sh**.
00:42:42.000We're going to give you a lot of references today because it's important to understand who we should, well, use the, who we should be out of the dealing.
00:42:50.000Okay, socialist policies to start with.
00:42:54.000He stopped new permits for oil exploration and drilling.
00:42:57.000He established a progressive wealth tax, starting, I think, with anything over $600,000.
00:43:01.000He established a citizen's rent program, where he gives a monthly salary to vulnerable families, which I would imagine is almost everyone in Colombia, unless you're dealing coke.
00:43:09.000It's a form of UBI. Here's who he was.
00:43:14.000Okay, he was a criminal, and he spent time in jail.
00:43:18.000He was a member of the Marxist guerrilla militia group M19, 18 months in prison, for weapons possessions, which of course means that's what they could catch him on.
00:44:53.000You know, the man who plunged Venezuela into abject poverty and people were starving in the streets and, of course, paved the way for his successor, Maduro.
00:45:02.000In a country that is actually incredibly oil-rich and still unbelievably poor, it's almost a miracle to make that happen.
00:45:41.000And you would think maybe he learned his lesson considering the violations of human rights that happened with Chavez, where people had a little bit of egg on their face.
00:45:49.000But then in 2022, he actually re-established diplomatic ties with Venezuela and Maduro, getting quite cozy with this guy as well.
00:45:58.000It's almost like he just can't stop screwing up.
00:46:00.000here's actually the photo op that was used oh geez it's short no fella Maduro's a tank You were supposed to get me an Apple box.
00:46:23.000Again, a country of complete and total poverty and no basic human rights.
00:46:27.000during a Twitter beef with the previous president of Colombia.
00:46:31.000So he wanted to differentiate himself from the previous president of Colombia by letting know that he supports and stands with self-avowed communists.
00:46:36.000He wrote, "The Castros made sure that the children had food, health, and education, but you, Duke, bombed them." The only problem there is that people in Cuba don't have food, health, or education.
00:47:53.000You mean President Petro is blaming us for sending back their own people and people like him blame the United States for communism failing in Cuba and they blame the United States for communism failing in Venezuela?
00:48:44.000Communism just becomes more and more irrelevant.
00:48:45.000The only relevance that communism or Marxism or socialism has is when brought up by privileged Americans who have the luxury of never having experienced it.
00:50:29.000It just doesn't make any sense to me, but I'll go back to AOC. The AOCs of the world, and I'm so glad they're not in charge of negotiations.
00:50:36.000This is how the United States gets taken advantage of.
00:50:38.000The first sign of pushback and the weeping and gnashing of teeth starts happening.
00:51:29.000All these leftists yesterday, I mean, within that span of what, I mean, you said 19 hours total, but I mean, the span of the discussion was probably six hours.
00:52:03.000The net gain, it'll be a net positive even if some countries don't play ball and these tariffs are implemented because the leverage has been used with enough other trading partners that they have to get in line.
00:52:13.000And it comes down to what approach do you believe is morally right?
00:52:16.000I am telling you this, and I hate, we have a lot of Non-denominational, namby-pamby Christians.
00:52:21.000That's like, well, actually, no, we want to be compassionate.
00:52:23.000What is compassionate about continuing to engage in trade with basically, I mean, communist guerrilla militiamen?
00:53:04.000But the issue here is if you have a child who has a problem and is actually harming other, hitting kids in class, running out into the street where you could get hit by a car, and you haven't disciplined them, is it compassionate to never discipline them?
00:53:20.000No, the compassionate thing to do is to start disciplining them as harshly as necessary in order to improve their life, to improve their outcome, or at least the possibility.
00:53:33.000You can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
00:53:36.000Just like people out there, you can't keep using YouTube and expect...
00:54:16.000We'll take upwards of a year to figure out if this is even going to be possible.
00:54:21.000And in the meantime, it's going to expose trans folks.
00:54:24.000That's what's called the not-even-barely-passable.
00:54:28.000I'm a feminist, and I gotta say both of them are tens.
00:54:31.000basically this order to direct the DOD to figure out the readiness of transgender service members in response to the question of what's going to happen to them, the thousands.
00:54:39.000And in this order, it talked about, you know, it talked about that.
00:54:44.000That, you know, raises the question of whether transgender service members have the readiness or whether they should be banned from the military.
00:54:52.000I can hear the hostages yelling from the base.
00:56:42.000The fact that in your state, they're allowing abortions up until nine months.
00:56:46.000And, for example, you have the governor of Virginia saying that if a baby survives an abortion, it will be kept comfortable, and then the decision will be made.
00:56:52.000Wouldn't you say that maybe that's extreme?
00:56:54.000I will answer that that decision is best left between a doctor and a patient.
00:57:31.000They just mentioned surgeries, recovery time, pills, consequences like bones becoming brittle if you put men on estrogen, for example, or women potentially at greater risk of cancer when you're altering their hormones.
01:01:39.000I think every advancement, as far as if it's monitored by a doctor, that can lead to performance enhancements and can lead to healthful outcomes should be exploited in the military.
01:02:04.000Once you discharge them, they can have a crippling painkiller addiction, but you can't actually give them something that we know works so well.
01:02:10.000We have to monitor, test, and ban it in sport.
01:02:13.000The good news is we shouldn't be playing by rules.
01:02:15.000When it's war, let's get an unfair advantage!
01:02:40.000This weekend, Trump went to the West Coast, the Lesser Coast, to talk to the people directly after the Los Angeles fires and the aftermath.
01:02:51.000President Trump arrived in Southern California this afternoon, greeted by one of his most vocal critics, Governor Gavin Newsom.
01:02:58.000Both leaders say they are looking ahead now to the recovery following those devastating fires.