Did China just drink our milkshake? China has a brand new AI model. It s called DeepSeek. And some people are comparing this technical advancement from China to the launch of the first artificial intelligence satellite into orbit in 1957.
00:00:04.000And some people are comparing this technical advancement from China to Russia's Sputnik moment back in 1957 when they launched a satellite into orbit, shocking America's technological cadre.
00:00:15.000What exactly are we talking about here?
00:00:17.000Apparently, China has now released a brand new AI. It's called DeepSeek.
00:00:21.000This is an AI that was trained on chips that are way less sophisticated than the NVIDIA chips that have been sort of the...
00:00:31.000So, to review for just a second, for those of us who haven't been following AI very closely, artificial intelligence has progressed tremendously over the course of the last three to four years.
00:00:40.000If you've been following ChatGPT, it is so good at this point at pretty much everything, and it is only one step removed from being able to do many things in the real world.
00:00:49.000So, for example, if you use ChatGPT to put together a travel itinerary for any location on the globe, You can give it a prompt.
00:01:09.000Well, because AI, working as it does, of incredible levels of data, just reams and reams of data, has to use very sophisticated microchips.
00:01:18.000Typically created by NVIDIA and then produced at TSMC, which is an actual semiconductor factory over in Taiwan.
00:01:26.000And firms like Meta that have been investing billions of dollars into AI or OpenAI or Google.
00:01:31.000All of these various companies have been pouring billions of dollars into buying these NVIDIA microchips that are designed in order to be able to process these huge quantities of data because that's how AI actually works.
00:01:41.000The way that AI works is it crunches as much data as humanly possible.
00:01:44.000It works it through a matrix where it can actually determine.
00:01:47.000Which words in any given sentence are the most important?
00:01:50.000And then it predicts, essentially, this is how LLMs work, large language models.
00:01:54.000It then predicts what the next word in a sentence is going to be.
00:01:58.000This is why you can prompt ChatGPT to write you a joke about a duck in the style of Charles Dickens, and it will do that, simply based off cramming extraordinary amounts of data.
00:02:06.000Takes huge energy, takes huge number of sophisticated microchips, or at least that's what everybody thought until a little bit earlier this week.
00:02:19.000DeepSeek is apparently just as sophisticated as ChatGPT, but it cost a fraction of the cost to produce.
00:02:25.000Instead of using NVIDIA sophisticated microchips, apparently they were using less sophisticated microchips.
00:02:30.000That's the reason why NVIDIA, which had been moved up to a trillion dollar market cap, it had grown massively.
00:02:35.000It's a 30-year-old company, but only in the last three, four years has it spiked.
00:02:39.000To that trillion-dollar valuation, it dropped almost 20% in the stock market because suddenly it appears the barrier to entry in AI has dropped precipitously as well.
00:02:47.000It is less expensive than thought to develop a very sophisticated AI. China was able to do it apparently based off chips that were not from NVIDIA, which is why NVIDIA's stock dropped.
00:02:56.000It's also why a huge number of stocks that were tied into American AI dropped as well.
00:03:00.000The idea is now there's a much more competitive sphere.
00:03:04.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Technology stocks tumbled Monday on news that China's DeepSeek had trained a sophisticated artificial intelligence model at a fraction of the cost of its Silicon Valley rivals, triggering a sudden reversal of the recent AI rally.
00:03:16.000NVIDIA, whose chips have been used to power many of the leading AI models, sank 17%.
00:03:20.000The move wiped out more than $590 billion from the company's market value and tarnished one of the stock market's brightest stars.
00:03:27.000The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composites led 3.1%.
00:03:29.000The S&P 500 sank 1.5% after reaching a record last week.
00:03:34.000Now again, It's quite possible that AI was being overvalued, that all of these various companies were being overvalued, that it's sort of like the tech bubble in the late 90s, that a huge amount of money is being invested into AI, but it's not clear how much revenue is actually going to be generated by AI in the real world.
00:03:50.000So tons of money is now chasing a couple of sort of big hits.
00:03:54.000This happens very often when you have a speculative bubble that's created by a new technology, and then the market tends to wipe out a lot of the speculation, and what you end up with...
00:04:02.000are the long-lasting gains from the technology.
00:04:04.000The dot-com bubble, of course, did not end dot-com.
00:04:07.000The dot-com bubble did not end the internet.
00:04:09.000Instead, the dot-com bubble was created by enthusiasm for an entire new wave of products, and it turns out that a lot of that enthusiasm was put in the wrong places, but it didn't mean the internet didn't transform life.
00:04:19.000The same thing is going to be true of AI. So a lot of these stocks that are currently highly valued may be overvalued at this point, and the fact that China was able to develop DeepSeq without using NVIDIA chips means, again, That many of these companies that were assumed to have essentially an oligopoly, that they were going to have enormous power in the AI market, maybe they don't have as much power as they thought they did because it turns out the barrier to entry is now much lower.
00:04:43.000All in all, Monday's market bloodbath wiped out some $1 trillion from the stock market's value according to the Dow Jones market data.
00:04:49.000Now, as I said, some people, like Marc Andreessen, the investor, have been comparing this to the Sputnik moment.
00:04:54.000Sputnik, of course, is when the Soviet Union launched a satellite that orbited the Earth and shocked the Americans out of their complacence about their technological superiority.
00:05:05.000America had assumed that we were way ahead in the world of AI, and that was particularly because of our control over the microchip sector via TSMC and NVIDIA. And it turns out, not so much.
00:05:16.000According to the New York Times, this new chatbot created by DeepSeek is the talk of the AI world.
00:05:21.000Apparently, it works basically as well as ChatGPT.
00:05:24.000One columnist said, I spent the morning playing with the chatbot, asking it, along with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropics Claude, all the questions I could think of after some initial toying, I was impressed.
00:05:32.000It was able to solve complex math, physics, and reasoning problems.
00:05:38.000When I asked it questions about computer programming that's hypes a job applicant might be faced with in a technical interview, its responses were as in-depth and speedy as its competitors.
00:05:47.000There are some problems with DeepSeek, and this is one of the reasons why America needs to win the battle for AI. DeepSeek monitors all your data.
00:05:55.000If you use DeepSeek, it is doing the same thing that all other various Chinese companies do.
00:06:01.000It is mining your data to an extraordinary extent.
00:06:03.000In the same way that TikTok is a Chinese psyop that is designed to draw enormous amounts of American data to it, the same thing is true of DeepSeek.
00:06:11.000According to their user agreement, We automatically collect certain information from you when you use the services, including internet or other network activity information, such as your IP address, unique device identifiers, and cookies.
00:06:21.000We collect certain device and network connection information when you access the service.
00:06:48.000Here's President Trump saying it's a wake-up call.
00:06:49.000He was speaking at the Congressional Institute yesterday.
00:06:53.000The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win because we have the greatest scientists in the world.
00:07:28.000That could be very much a positive development.
00:07:30.000Instead of spending billions and billions, you'll spend less and you'll come up with hopefully the same solution.
00:07:37.000Under the Trump administration, we're going to unleash our tech companies and we're going to dominate the future like never before.
00:07:45.000OK, he's right about all of that, right?
00:07:48.000When the cost goes down of actually being able to participate in this market, that means more innovation and more competition, and that's good.
00:07:54.000As the Wall Street Journal points out, DeepSeek is challenging assumptions about the computing power and spending needed for AI advances.
00:07:59.000OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank last week made headlines.
00:08:02.000When they announced a joint venture, Stargate, to invest up to $500 billion in building out AI infrastructure, Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion on AI data centers this year.
00:08:10.000CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said Meta would spend $65 billion on AI projects and build a data center so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan.
00:08:18.000Meta expected to have 1.3 million advanced trips by the end of the year, but DeepSeek's model reportedly required as to $10,000 to develop, which means a radical reduction in the cost to actually develop a...
00:08:35.000Well, number one, President Trump had rescinded a Biden executive order that gave government far too much control over AI. Companies developing AI models that pose a serious risk to national security, economic security, or public health and safety would have had to notify regulators when training their models and share the results of red team safety tests.
00:08:51.000Biden had suggested that that was necessary in order to eliminate bias and limitation and errors, but...
00:08:56.000Deep Seek is an open source model, meaning anyone can see the code.
00:09:00.000And that is designed to basically wipe out all competitors.
00:09:03.000Because if you have the most advanced version, and you just release the advanced version, everybody ends up using your code.
00:09:12.000One thing is clear, however, and that is we do have to out-compete China.
00:09:15.000That is why I'm so much puzzled by President Trump in that same speech, suggesting that he's going to be putting tariffs on Taiwan.
00:09:21.000I understand President Trump wants to reshore a lot of this production.
00:09:24.000President Trump seems to be of the belief system that if we reshore semiconductor production in the United States away from Taiwan, that that effectively means that the United States doesn't have to get involved if China decides to make a play for Taiwan, because an American key national interest will no longer be at stake.
00:09:42.000One is TSMC is leagues ahead of anything that's being produced inside the United States right now.
00:09:47.000And two is, it appears that DeepSeek was just able to...
00:09:52.000Radically increase its capability without using sophisticated semiconductors like from TSMC. So it might be a moot point anyway.
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00:12:21.000Here's President Trump announcing his tariffs on Taiwan, which again, is a strange move since, again, Taiwan is in fact an American ally.
00:12:28.000In particular, in the very near future, we're going to be placing tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals to return production of these essential goods to the United States of America.
00:12:41.000They left us and they went to Taiwan, which is about 98 percent of the chip business, by the way.
00:13:51.000That's a pretty good deal when it comes to free trade.
00:13:54.000And it lowers the cost, and it's going to be necessary to lower the cost, given the fact that China is now much more competitive.
00:13:59.000And this does play into concerns over the way that the Trump administration so far is dealing with China.
00:14:04.000Obviously, when it comes to TikTok, my hope, and I think this is true, is that President Trump has been using carrots and sticks with regard to Chinese outfits like TikTok.
00:14:13.000He has delayed, for example, the implementation of the shutdown of TikTok in order to negotiate presumably a sale of TikTok that will end without TikTok being controlled by the Chinese.
00:14:23.000If we are in fact in competition with China, which we certainly are, then we need to be using every resource at our disposal and not hamstringing our ability to compete with the Chinese by putting tariffs on semiconductors, which of course drives up prices for precisely the companies we need to actually out-compete the Chinese on this basis.
00:14:40.000Now, with all of this said, President Trump has been pairing his call for tariffs more broadly with a call for tax decreases.
00:14:47.000So, for example, President Trump the other day suggested funding the government solely through tariffs.
00:14:52.000If the question was, can we substitute tariffs for income tax?
00:14:57.000Really, if you're going to lower the cost on business in the United States by giving giant tax cuts and at the same time increase government revenues through tariffs, that seems like a worthwhile tradeoff.
00:15:08.000If, however, the idea is tariffs without any sort of concomitant deregulation or tax cuts, that just raises prices in the United States.
00:15:25.000You know, if the tariffs work out like I think, a thing like that could happen if you want to know the truth.
00:15:31.000You know, years ago, 1870 to 1913, we didn't have an income tax.
00:15:38.000We had, what we had is tariffs where foreign countries came in and they stole our jobs, they stole our companies, they stole our product, they ripped us off.
00:15:46.000And, you know, they used to do numbers and then we went to tariff, a tariff system.
00:15:53.000Now, again, if he's using tariffs as a trade-off for a relatively small government, if he's using it as a trade-off for lowering taxes, I agree and I'm in.
00:16:02.000And that seems to be the pattern that he would like to follow ideologically.
00:16:05.000That was, in fact, the plan of William McKinley, who he sort of modeled himself after.
00:16:09.000William McKinley, for those who don't know, was a twice-elected president of the United States, assassinated, and the person who took over for him was Teddy Roosevelt.
00:16:15.000As the Wall Street Journal points out in a piece by David Uberte, Trump tries to forge a golden age economy of self-reliance and defiance.
00:16:22.000A potentially leaner, meaner government at the center of it all is already throwing the country's weight around even against longtime allies in the hope of bending global trade to America's will.
00:16:30.000In discussing possible tariffs that could upend some U.S. companies' supply chains and other countries' entire economies, Trump has likened his approach to that of President William McKinley, Republican leader during an era known as the Gilded Age, a period of rapid industrialization after the Civil War that created tremendous wealth for America but was marked by rampant inequality.
00:16:46.000President Trump said, quote, President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.
00:17:44.000Now, one of the things that he is also doing is he's taking executive action in order to radically reduce spending inside the federal government.
00:17:49.000So, according to Politico, tens of billions of dollars in federal grants and loans to organizations across America will be halted today after yet another bombshell order from the White House.
00:17:58.000A brief two-page memo, first published by Marisa Cabas, a New York-based journalist, and swiftly matched by Washington Post, revealed the next step in Trump's warp speed overhaul of the U.S. state.
00:18:06.000An immediate freeze on all federal grants and loans to outside bodies, which may not align with the president's worldview.
00:18:12.000While Social Security, Medicare, and payment to individuals will not be affected, this does include grants and loans issued to research bodies, charities, universities, and community projects.
00:18:21.000The scale of the order is so broad it cites federal spending totaling $3 trillion that people are freaking out about all of this, of course.
00:18:29.000The memo issued by the Acting Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
00:18:33.000Matthew Vaith said all federal spending must be aligned with presidential priorities.
00:18:36.000That includes immigration, foreign aid, DEI programs, and the environment.
00:18:40.000One of the things you're going to see here is something called malicious compliance, in which you see lower-down deep staters attempt to apply these rules to clearly meritorious projects.
00:18:48.000So there's a grant for cancer research, for example, and you will see some low-down deep stater basically say, we can't give the grant to the cancer project.
00:18:57.000The point is not to enact Trump's will.
00:18:58.000The point, of course, is to thwart his will by doing something that earns a bad headline.
00:19:03.000You saw the same sort of thing happen just the other day with Pete Hegseth.
00:19:05.000Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, put out a memo saying no DEI inside the DOD, and everybody freaked out because somebody low down in the DOD said we can't teach the Tuskegee Airmen anymore.
00:19:16.000And Hegseth's like, that's not what I meant at all.
00:19:18.000You're going to see much of the same thing applied to, for example, cancer research, but it will be quickly corrected.
00:19:24.000Now, Trump does have the power to pause spending subject to review, and the president did have the power.
00:19:31.000to withhold congressional spending prior to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. So it'll be interesting to see what the Supreme Court has to say about all this if we get a meaner, leaner government with lower taxes and lower regulations that gets paid for by tariffs.
00:19:45.000And he really does mean to sort of redo the McKinley policy.
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00:20:54.000We are like a week into the Trump administration, part two, and he's talking about egg prices.
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00:23:14.000And he's going to need to because he's been left with a really fragmentary world thanks to Joe Biden's If you see what the president said last week in his executive orders,
00:23:47.000There's an emergency at the southern border, that the protection of the sovereign territory of the United States is the job of the Defense Department, and the cartels are foreign terrorist organizations.
00:23:58.000As a result, this Pentagon snapped, too, last week.
00:24:01.000We helped move forward troops, put in more barriers, and also to ensure mass deportation, support of mass deportations in support of the president's objective.
00:24:13.000Tom Holman, the border czar, is saying similar things.
00:24:16.000He says, President Trump is going to be happy with the level of deportations that we are now pushing.
00:24:20.000First up, is the president happy with this progress?
00:24:25.000No, I think the president's happy, but we're going to make him a lot happier.
00:24:34.000We'll put our foot on the gas, and we're going to go.
00:24:36.000And as I explained to several stations yesterday, the aperture is going to continue to grow.
00:24:41.000Right now, we're concentrating on public safety threats and national security threats, but as we open up the aperture, look for fugitives, those who had due process at great taxpayer expense.
00:24:50.000There's over a million of them, 1.4 million.
00:26:56.000Honduras is trying to lead a revolt of left-wing states from Latin and South America against the U.S. move to deport illegal immigrants.
00:27:06.000According to Breitbart, far-left president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the community of Latin American and Caribbean states later this week to discuss President Trump's crackdown on illegal migrants in the United States.
00:27:18.000SEALAC is a 33-country bloc founded in Caracas in 2011, largely promoted by Venezuela's late socialist dictator, Hugo Chavez.
00:27:25.000As a U.S.-free alternative regional structure to the Organization of American States, of which the United States is, in fact, a member.
00:27:32.000So President Castro announced that Gustavo Petro, who is the idiot, socialist, unpopular president of Colombia, will travel to the Honduran capital city to participate in the meeting.
00:27:43.000The event will address migration, the environment, and Latin American and Caribbean unity as its three main subjects.
00:27:47.000Well, let's see what they have to say, because the reality is that, again, the United States...
00:27:52.000It represents a huge portion of the export market for all of these particular countries.
00:27:56.000They're going to have to take back their illegal immigrants.
00:27:59.000Brazil, by the way, is still trying its own routine.
00:28:03.000Lula da Silva, who is a dictatorial authoritarian left-winger, has told his foreign ministry to, quote, seek answers from Washington over what it called the degrading treatment of Brazilian migrants during a U.S. deportation flight on Friday.
00:28:16.000The official request for an explanation, according to the Washington Post, was issued after Brazilian officials interviewed many of the 88 migrants aboard the flight.
00:28:22.000Among the first deported by the Trump administration, many of the migrants described a harrowing experience during their transport to Brazil.
00:28:29.000The passengers said the plane operated by ice was in faulty condition.
00:28:32.000There was no air conditioning and a mechanical issue became apparent soon after takeoff, requiring multiple maintenance stops in Panama and then in Manoas, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
00:29:54.000And it's unconscionable that we see this from the White House, a president that should be called on actually addressing inflation, addressing so many of the issues on the ground, It is unconscionable that they are scapegoating and targeting immigrant communities and creating serious harm in our city.
00:30:10.000Okay, I mean, if this is the angle that Democrats take, good luck to them, politically speaking.
00:30:14.000Meanwhile, in Florida, controversy has broken out because Governor Ron DeSantis wants to immediately apply new laws to help out ICE and the federal government.
00:30:22.000And Florida Republicans, some of them, are bucking him.
00:30:25.000According to the Washington Post, the GOP-led Florida House and Senate, within 20 minutes, ended a special session that DeSantis had called to review several immigration proposals.
00:30:33.000Instead, they called their own special session.
00:30:35.000It was a remarkable turn of events in Tallahassee.
00:30:37.000The actions came as Republican lawmakers.
00:30:39.000Said they didn't want to do the special session.
00:30:42.000DeSantis had announced the special session before Trump took office saying it was necessary to get the state in line with plans to address illegal immigration and carry out mass deportations.
00:30:50.000What exactly was the purpose of the legislator's law?
00:30:54.000Well, they wanted to remove immigration enforcement from the governor's office and instead give it to the state's agriculture commission.
00:31:01.000Wilton Simpson, who is the Florida State Commissioner of Agriculture, happens to be pretty soft on illegal immigration.
00:31:08.000So is this an attempt to sort of end around Trump enforcement powers?
00:31:13.000Theoretically, it absolutely could be.
00:31:16.000And so I hope that the Trump administration takes note of precisely who is opposing attempts by Governor DeSantis to actually implement what Trump would like with regard to compliance with federal immigration law.
00:31:29.000Again, there are many differences between DeSantis' session proposal and the Florida legislature and what they are actually pushing, including, for example, Law enforcement compliance.
00:31:39.000The DeSantis proposal would have mandated maximum participation in the deportation with penalties for noncompliance.
00:31:44.000The Florida legislature instead failed to put an enforceable duty on state and local law enforcement to fully cooperate, for example.
00:31:52.000So Florida localities would be left to their own devices.
00:31:55.000There's some significant differences right there.
00:31:57.000And meanwhile, in other modes of resistance, President Trump has now signed an executive order barring people with gender dysphoria.
00:32:05.000From military service, which of course makes sense, because if you're joining up so the taxpayers can fund your hormone and genital mutilation, then you really should not be in the U.S. military.
00:32:16.000Again, there's not a question about patriotism.
00:32:18.000There are lots of patriotic people who can't serve in the American military.
00:32:20.000If you suffer, for example, from clinical depression, you're not supposed to be taken into the U.S. military.
00:32:24.000There are plenty of mental conditions that prevent you from serving in the U.S. military.
00:32:28.000It seems that gender dysphoria should be one of those conditions.
00:32:32.000President Trump signed executive orders on Monday barring trans people from enlisting and cracking down on DI initiatives in the military, according to NBC News.
00:32:40.000The order would update all DOD medical standards to ensure they prioritize readiness and lethality.
00:32:46.000It would also end the use of invented and identification-based pronouns in the military, prohibit people assigned male at birth from using women's sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities, and bar coverage of transition-related medical care for currently enlisted service members and their family.
00:32:57.000Again, all of this makes perfect sense.
00:33:00.000If the goal of the military is not to be a social engineering project, but to actually be the deadliest fighting force on planet Earth, there is no reason why you would, in fact, add to the mix of the U.S. military people who have significant DSM diagnosable conditions.
00:33:16.000This, of course, has led to the resistance.
00:33:18.000Again, one of the things that Trump is doing here is he's picking up 80-20 issues and he's clubbing Democrats with them and basically daring them to resist him.
00:34:32.000Speaking of which, the Biden administration policies with regard to spending on the military and on the State Department, totally insane.
00:34:39.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, the Biden administration quietly awarded $15 million in taxpayer funds to Taliban controlled Afghanistan to help distribute oral contraceptives and condoms, according to a non-public congressional funding notice reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
00:34:53.000I can't imagine why Donald Trump is now reviewing all foreign aid, including to the U.S. Agency for International Development.
00:34:58.000We'll get to more on that in just one second.
00:35:01.000First, it's no secret legacy media is collapsing.
00:35:29.000President Trump's action in the military when it comes to President Trump's action on the State Department level.
00:35:33.000This is all a response to the insanity that was the Biden administration policy.
00:35:37.000Whether you're talking about Biden administration giving $15 million to the Taliban for contraceptives, or whether you're talking about the insane amount of foreign aid that is poured out to these dictatorships all over the world that they used to just line their own pocketbooks and coffers.
00:35:50.000The Trump administration is now stopping all of this.
00:35:53.000According to Politico, the Trump administration's sudden halt on U.S. foreign aid is causing chaos inside groups ranging from health providers to landmine removers.
00:36:00.000Interrupting life-saving programs is official struggle to understand the scope of the directive.
00:36:04.000So there is an order on Friday from Secretary of State Marco Rubio to cut all of this.
00:36:10.000Leaders of aid organizations are looking at which programs to stop and whether to immediately cut staff or even shut down.
00:36:14.000As they seek waivers, aid groups are scrambling to adjust.
00:36:18.000An enormous amount of the coverage of this stuff is going to be that malicious compliance kind of stuff that I'm talking about.
00:36:23.000The United States is still going to give foreign aid to prevent, for example, HIV from spreading in high-risk areas.
00:36:29.000That's not going to go away in all likelihood.
00:36:31.000Anything that creates a bad headline is likely to remain on the books.
00:36:35.000But the goal for many people in the deep state is going to be to suggest that no cuts can ever be done because if you do any cuts, then bad things might happen.
00:36:43.000Well, yeah, anytime you cut, bad things could happen, and then you deal with it on a case-by-case basis.
00:36:47.000And some people have likened what Trump is doing to the federal government to chemotherapy for cancer.
00:36:57.000Among the aid groups that appear affected are ones that remove landmines from conflict zones, provide testing and treatment for people with HIV in African countries, through the president's emergency plans for aid, relief, tackling food security worldwide.
00:37:07.000But again, how much of that aid is actually necessary?
00:37:10.000How much of that aid is actually useful?
00:37:14.000Because it turns out we had some problems here at home, as well as many people have noted in the past.
00:37:19.000If it's not a core American interest, then us spending billions of dollars handing it to dictators all over the world seems like a very, very bad plan.
00:37:27.000Meanwhile, the State Department has been urged to observe the spirit of President Trump's anti-DEI order during Black History Month, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:37:35.000The State Department should observe the spirit of the Trump administration's elimination of DEI in its public messaging, according to a Monday directive viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
00:37:44.000Apparently, public diplomacy staff should highlight the valuable contribution of individual Americans throughout U.S. history while ensuring our public communications maintain the spirit of the directive eliminating DEI programs.
00:37:54.000There'd be no restrictions on content or programming related to accessibility or people with disabilities.
00:37:58.000The goal, of course, was to stop, for example, the propagandizing of Black History Month in the State Department because, again, the idea is that when you divide Americans by group and then you promote Americans by group, that is generally a bad thing.
00:38:12.000Marco Rubio sent cables last week to staff.
00:38:15.000There's great talent in the department, but, quote, upholding strict meritocracy is essential to securing our nation's future.
00:38:22.000And he even opened an email account, deiatruth at opm.gov, to monitor the possibility of people trying to shift DEI programs into sort of old wine into new bottles, so to speak.
00:38:35.000Meanwhile, President Trump is making strong moves inside the DOJ and with regard to inspectors in general.
00:38:41.000Apparently, according to the Associated Press, the Justice Department said Monday it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecutions of President Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations.
00:39:12.000The abrupt termination targeted career prosecutors who worked on Jack Smith's team, which of course makes perfect sense because if you believe that Jack Smith was a political player, then you could have simply recused yourself from engaging in those particular investigations.
00:39:26.000Nonetheless, the sort of self-righteousness of so many of the people in the federal government, their weird belief that the world rests on their shoulders and their shoulders alone is pretty amazing.
00:39:36.000Here, for example, Is it one inspector general fired by President Trump named Mark Greenblatt who's talking about the email that he received from the Trump administration?
00:39:45.000You were appointed by Donald Trump or named to this position by Donald Trump back in 2019. Do you have any sense of why he would...
00:39:56.000And all that was stated was the changing priorities in that email, which I understand the other IGs who were removed, the 17 or 18 of us, were still sifting through the rubble, frankly, to find out how many IGs were removed.
00:40:09.000But as far as I know, all of us got essentially the same email that said changing priorities.
00:40:17.000The real arrogance was shown by one inspector general named Michael Ware.
00:40:21.000Who suggested, hey, we did wonders for the company.
00:41:25.000He has expressed support for policies that I think are really troubling, including, apparently, according to Politico, openness to adopting a key progressive proposal for lowering drug prices in a closed-door meeting with Senate.
00:41:39.000He indicated that he would consider authorizing the government to seize the patents of high-priced medicines from manufacturers and sharing them with other drug makers as a way to force down costs.
00:41:47.000That is a great way to destroy research and investment in the medical industry.
00:41:53.000If you just seize patents, which are actual private property, and then you just distribute them out there, who is going to put the money into research and development, into R&D, to develop a drug knowing it could be seized at any moment by the federal government and just redistributed?
00:42:05.000to a bunch of people who never produced the drug in the first place.
00:42:07.000Again, that approach was long supported by progressive Democrats.
00:42:10.000It was supported a little bit by Joe Biden, who used executive authority to take certain drug patents developed using taxpayer money and license them to other manufacturers they might make and sell them for less.
00:42:22.000You know, that is going to generate some pretty significant pushback from Republicans, you would imagine.
00:42:26.000Big backers of that policy include Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
00:42:30.000And then, of course, RFK Jr. is going to have to face down questions about his So,
00:42:55.000you know, apparently, I hope that's right, because I like RFK Jr. a lot on a personal level, and I hope that he did not back.
00:43:04.000One truly egregious nominee, and this is a really bad nominee, is Lori Chavez de Remer for Labor Secretary.
00:43:09.000She is just a stand-in for union-based labor for these very, very corrupt private and public sector unions who should presumably use government power in order to cram down on private industry a wide variety of bad regulations.
00:43:24.000Senator Rand Paul, who's a libertarian, said he's a no on Lori Chavez de Remer.
00:43:28.000It'd be kind of surprising if she got through.