President Trump ends the ICE surge in Minnesota. Is that a win or a loss for Republicans? Democrats, of course, see blood in the water and now are going totally radical, with Bernie Sanders making insane proposals, but also taking over his party.
00:00:00.000President Trump ends the ice surge in Minnesota.
00:00:02.000Is that a win or a loss for Republicans?
00:00:04.000Democrats, of course, see blood in the water and now are going totally radical Bernie Sanders making insane proposals, but also taking over his party.
00:00:12.000First, it's not often the Daily Wire gives you a Valentine's weekend watch recommendation.
00:00:16.000Tonight, you're about to see just why that is.
00:00:46.000Savvy did her lifelong dream of meeting B. Rad G from Malibu's Most Wanted.
00:00:50.000That is only one of the myriad surprises that Savvy has experienced this season and you will experience with us together.
00:00:56.000Join us for the season two premiere, Ben After Dark tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern, streaming on Daily Wire Plus.
00:01:02.000So yesterday, the president of the United States announced that the ice surge to Minnesota would be ending.
00:01:08.000According to the Wall Street Journal, President Trump's Borders Are said the administration is ending its crackdown in Minnesota, wrapping up an operation that sparked outrage after the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens and prompted Democrats in Congress to block funding for the DHS.
00:01:21.000Tom Homan, the responsible adult in the room, spoke about this yesterday.
00:01:24.000Here's what it sounded like: the QRF deployments have dropped dramatically because we have less of that occurring, less of the agitator that crossed that line.
00:01:36.000That is a win for everybody, not just for the safety of law enforcement officers, it's a win for this community.
00:01:45.000With that, and success that has been made arresting public safety threats and other priorities since this surge operation began, as well as the unprecedented levels of coordination we have obtained from state officials and local law enforcement, I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude.
00:02:05.000Okay, now, on a factual level, was the surge a success?
00:02:09.000Well, it sort of depends on what you're looking at.
00:02:10.000If you're looking at the statistics in terms of arrests, then sure, it was a success.
00:02:14.000If you're looking at maybe some concessions obtained, as Homan says, sure, it was a success.
00:02:23.000In a PR way, it was pretty bad for the Trump administration.
00:02:26.000According to the Associated Press, brand new poll from APNORC, about six in 10 American adults say President Trump has gone too far in sending federal immigration agents into American cities.
00:02:37.000So the views of Trump's handling of immigration remain steady over the past month.
00:02:43.000But apparently, the Republican Party advantage on immigration has shrunk pretty significantly since October.
00:02:49.000About three in 10 U.S. adults now trust Republicans to do a better job handling immigration.
00:02:54.000About a similar share say the same about Democrats.
00:02:57.000And about three in 10 say both parties do a terrible job.
00:02:59.000Now, that is a really bad statistic for the Trump administration.
00:03:03.000This has always been a strength for the Trump administration.
00:03:06.000Remember, if three in 10 Americans are saying that the party they trust on immigration more is the one that left the border wide open for four years under Joe Biden, that is a referendum on the handling of immigration by, in particular, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, who has been, I will say it, disastrous.
00:03:23.000Again, I think that the strength of the Trump administration when they came in is they came in with a hard-nosed plan to do things on executive orders.
00:03:31.000And yes, they broke some things, but it was concerted action.
00:03:34.000The first three months of the Trump administration was one of the most effective administrations I have ever seen in action.
00:03:39.000And then it turns out that if you take people who are good on TV and you just put them in cabinet positions, sometimes it works out okay.
00:03:46.000And sometimes it really, really does not.
00:03:48.000And the polling data suggests that based on the ICE operations in Minnesota, that has undercut Trump's popularity on an issue where Republicans ought to have extraordinarily high approval.
00:03:59.000According to this brand new APNORC poll, 62% of Americans say that President Trump has gone too far in sending federal immigration agents into U.S. cities.
00:04:11.00061% say that the administration has gone too far in using federal law enforcement at public protests in U.S. cities.
00:04:19.00054% say that the administration has gone too far in restricting legal immigration.
00:04:24.000And 52% say that the administration has gone too far in deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally.
00:04:33.000There is no excuse for this other than bad rollout, because this was the issue that, number one, promoted Trump to the presidency in 2016 and then did it again in 2024.
00:04:46.000And this is where, I will say it again, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Christine Noam, has been very bad at her job.
00:04:51.000Just as I said yesterday, that Attorney General Pam Bondi has not been a credit to the administration.
00:04:55.000Quiet, solid implementation of mainstream policy.
00:05:00.000That is the way that administrations maintain popularity, not by going on TV in full makeup in order to promote the most radical version of the policy.
00:05:11.000There is an extraordinary piece in the Wall Street Journal breaking down Christy Noam's tenure over at DHS.
00:05:16.000Suffice it to say, it has been problematic.
00:05:20.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Christy Noam has basically used DHS as a platform for her own political gratification.
00:05:30.000Given the incoming fire that she was taking politically, apparently, two days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Predi, Noam's top advisor and alleged lover, Corey Lewandowski.
00:05:42.000And that is important because that has been widely alleged.
00:05:45.000Apparently, it's not even being very well hidden.
00:05:47.000Lewandowski, both of them are married, by the way.
00:06:18.000According to the Wall Street Journal, throughout her tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, a sprawling agency charged with carrying out Trump's central campaign promise of a mass deportation.
00:06:27.000Noam has attempted to burnish her personal stardom at every turn.
00:06:30.000With Lewandowski, Trump's former campaign manager at her side just staged a headline-grabbing immigration crackdown while sidelining rivals and dissenters.
00:06:38.000She's carried out confrontational operations over the objections of longtime immigration officials who warned that such flashy displays would discredit the department's ultimate mission.
00:06:47.000She's been in constant fights with Tom Homan, again, the adult in the room.
00:06:51.000Apparently, within DHS, Noam and Lewandowski frequently berate senior-level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don't trust, and have fired employees.
00:06:59.000In one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noam's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.
00:07:06.000This would not surprise anybody who's familiar with the work of Corey Lewandowski historically.
00:07:10.000By the way, I'm not even sure why Lewandowski has the power to fire people working with Christy Noam.
00:07:19.000When you read down in the article, what you find is that days after Predty's shooting, Lewandowski and Noam were spotted sitting together at the Mar-a-Lago wedding of Dan Scavino.
00:07:31.000A DHS spokeswoman said Noam serves at the pleasure of the president and has successfully clamped down on inefficiencies to save billions of dollars.
00:07:38.000She said that all the officials are on the same page.
00:07:40.000But apparently, Noam and Lewandowski's close relationship had already made Trump and his top advisors uncomfortable.
00:07:45.000Lewandowski had initially wanted to formally serve as Noam's chief of staff.
00:07:49.000Trump rejected the idea due to reports of a romantic relationship between the two.
00:07:54.000After tabloid photos of Lewandowski showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noam's across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington that is provided to the leader of the U.S. Coast Guard.
00:08:06.000The Coast Guard falls under Noam's purview at DHS during peacetime.
00:08:11.000Apparently, the DHS spokeswoman said Noam moved to the house for increased security and pays rent as well.
00:08:16.000And Lewandowski spends time at the house.
00:08:20.000Lewandowski and Noam are both married, publicly denied reports that they are sleeping together.
00:08:26.000But again, let's just say the rumors are extremely strong.
00:08:30.000The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet with a private cabin and back for their travel around the country.
00:08:39.000They want to buy the plane, but the purchase would be double the cost of each of seven other commercial planes the department is also buying at the pair's discretion to carry out deportations.
00:08:50.000Apparently, behind the scenes, Noam and Lewandowski have been attempting to box out Tom Holman, who again is the responsible person, L State of Bank.
00:08:58.000You need responsible people in the room working for the president of the United States.
00:09:05.000More than a week after Pretty's shooting, apparently Noam and Lewandowski berated Todd Lyons, the acting ICE director, for videos that emerged in Minnesota showing federal officers continuing to tangle with protesters.
00:09:16.000They said the president hated the continued stream of videos and they pinned the blame on Lions.
00:09:21.000And then they demanded that Lions draw up a new plan for ICE to carry out targeted enforcement, which is the approach Lions wanted, but apparently Noam had rejected.
00:09:32.000Lewandowski took Noam to functions with Republican Kingmakers starting in 2019, introducing her as a rising star in the party.
00:09:40.000He suggested her as a possible VP candidate in 2024, and then he pushed her for DHS.
00:09:48.000Again, the spending inside the department is fascinating.
00:09:55.000Lewandowski, for one, who is working under a sort of Gen Temp contract because he has taken a position that allows him to maintain pay in the private sector, he has urged officials to move away from continuing long-term contracts with companies toward new ones.
00:10:10.000Some say allies of Noam and Lewandowski instructed high-level staff to meet with particular companies for services that other contractors have previously carried out.
00:10:19.000DHS says that Lewandowski is in full compliance with the Office of Government Ethics forms.
00:10:25.000We will have to find out because, again, all of this is suspicious to say the least.
00:10:28.000And the bottom line is, does it help Trump?
00:10:34.000Now, Republicans doing a terrible job typically leads to Democrats stepping too far.
00:10:40.000And that is what is happening right now.
00:10:41.000Well, Christy Noam has been taking very expensive jets with, you know, like private bedrooms all over the country.
00:10:46.000So traveling isn't that stressful for her, but it is for pretty much everybody else, especially because when you're going all over the world, the real stress comes when you go online.
00:10:53.000You don't know who's on your network, if the Wi-Fi is secure, or if the government is watching your data.
00:10:57.000That's why I take privacy pretty seriously and why I use our sponsor, ExpressVPN.
00:11:03.000ExpressVPN is the app I trust to protect my privacy online, period.
00:11:07.000It reroutes your internet connection so nobody, not your Wi-Fi admin, not your service provider, not even government agencies can actually spy on what you are doing.
00:11:40.000My listeners can get an additional four months of service when you use my link at expressvpn.com slash ben.
00:11:46.000That's expresvpn.com slash ben for four additional months of service with expressvpn.
00:11:52.000Also, you know what holiday our sponsor at PeerTalk celebrates?
00:11:55.000President's Day, because they believe that wireless service should only cost you a couple of presidents, you know, like a Jackson and a Lincoln, which is $25 a month.
00:12:01.000For those unfamiliar with what's on the dollar bill, I know we're all digital now, but you get unlimited talk text, plenty of data for just $25 a month.
00:12:09.000That's like the cost of one or two meals out versus the hundreds that big wireless charges families every single month.
00:12:14.000No reason wireless service needs to be that expensive.
00:12:16.000What makes PeerTalk different goes beyond just price.
00:12:19.000They're an American wireless company that actively supports our veterans and they invest in a U.S.-based customer service team.
00:12:24.000So when you call, you're speaking with somebody right here at home who can actually help you.
00:12:28.000I use PeerTalk all the time, obviously.
00:12:30.000You know, my wife and I have been planning the daughter's bot mitzvah, which is to say she's been planning the bot mitzvah, but I've been taking a lot of calls.
00:12:36.000Peer talk is what makes that happen for me.
00:12:38.000Peer talk uses the same towers as the big carriers, so enjoy superior 5G coverage without the inflated price.
00:12:43.000Just $25 a month for talk, text, plenty of data, no contract, no cancellation fee.
00:12:48.000Head on over to peertalk.com/slash Shapiro.
00:12:50.000You'll get 50% off your very first month of coverage.
00:12:52.000Again, that's peartalk.com slash Shapiro to make the switch to PeerTalk.
00:12:56.000So it is, in fact, the right political move.
00:13:00.000Whether it is in fact the right policy move, it is the right political move for the administration to go back to status quo ante in Minnesota because it takes the bat out of the hands of Democrats.
00:13:09.000But Democrats, apparently, are not letting the pedal off the metal, even though they already seem to have achieved what they wanted to achieve, which is ICE no longer doing massive raid operations in Minnesota.
00:13:21.000Even Politico, which is far from a right-wing outlet, is recognizing pretty openly that this undercuts Democrats' messaging that the administration is being overweening in its pursuit of illegal immigrants.
00:13:32.000Quote, by pulling out of Minneapolis, says Politico, the epicenter of the left's fight to overhaul federal immigration enforcement after federal agents killed two American citizens.
00:13:40.000Administration officials and allies argue that Democrats will lose political steam as attention gradually fades from the administration's aggressive enforcement actions.
00:13:48.000By the way, this is one of the rules of politics.
00:13:50.000You know when you can get things done when people aren't generally talking about it, when it's on the front pages, very difficult to get things done.
00:13:57.000Nevertheless, Democrats continue to pursue a DHS shutdown.
00:14:01.000According to Axios, lawmakers are departing Washington as of yesterday without a deal to fund the DHS, all but ensuring a partial government shutdown at the end of Day Friday.
00:14:11.000This would be the third shutdown of President Trump's second term.
00:14:15.000Despite two weeks of negotiations, Democrats said on Thursday they were no closer to a deal with Republicans to avert that shutdown.
00:14:23.000Democrats continue to tout the idea that DHS needs to be defunded or major changes need to happen inside of DHS.
00:14:33.000They saw political blood in the water with the mishandling of people like Chris Steenome and Corey Lewandowski.
00:14:38.000And now, predictably, they are moving too far in the opposite direction.
00:14:41.000Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, says that they will cut funding to ICE.
00:14:47.000The Republican bill on the floor allows ICE to smash indoors without warrants, to wear masks and not be identified, to use children as bait for their parents.
00:15:10.000Again, Trump, by putting a professional in charge, is already on the path toward a more professional implementation of policy.
00:15:17.000And now I think Americans are going to turn and say, okay, well, why don't you just work with the responsible agents to go after criminal illegal immigrants?
00:15:23.000That is the policy everyone wants to see implemented.
00:15:27.000But as always, Democrats can't stop themselves.
00:15:29.000Alex Padilla, who is the senator from California, is out there on point defending sanctuary cities.
00:15:40.000As I was listening to my colleague, he's tried to paint a picture of sanctuary states or sanctuary cities as nothing but lawless.
00:15:53.000And I get that's maybe a favorite soundbite for right-wing media, but the fact of the matter is it's not true.
00:16:02.000Sanctuary policies do not mean that there are no laws or that the federal government can no longer enforce federal law in those jurisdictions.
00:16:16.000What sanctuary policies are is simply an affirmation that immigration enforcement is the job of the federal government and that state and local authorities cannot be co-opted or forced into performing inherently federal responsibilities.
00:16:39.000Well, I mean, that is not exactly what sanctuary cities and jurisdictions are.
00:16:43.000What they are instructions for state and local officials not to cooperate with federal law enforcement, meaning that they could voluntarily help out ICE by, for example, calling in jail detainees to ICE for immigration violations, and they won't do that.
00:16:58.000No one is saying that the feds can force states to do that, but states can voluntarily do it.
00:17:03.000And of course, when they don't, what do you think is the natural result?
00:17:06.000The natural result, of course, is to put more ICE agents in the streets.
00:17:09.000This, by the way, is the Democrats game.
00:17:10.000What Democrats want is more chaos in the streets because they think that it's a political winner for them.
00:17:16.000Now, it doesn't have to be a political winner for Democrats.
00:17:18.000The reason this turned into a political winner, at least in the moment, the reason the Democrats won the battle in the moment in Minnesota and the left won the battle in the moment, again, is because of the bad PR rollout done by top members of the Trump administration, by people like Greg Bovino, by people like Christine Ohm.
00:17:36.000You just don't see this kind of mess being made in other parts of the administration.
00:17:39.000In a little while, we'll get to the EPA under Lee Zeldon.
00:17:58.000Okay, but as I say, Democrats can go too far here.
00:18:01.000Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is a disgrace to his profession, he was testifying in front of Congress yesterday, and he was asked a question by Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio.
00:18:12.000And Ellison said, I'm not sure that if you're in the country illegally, you should be deported.
00:18:17.000If you enter the country illegally or you overstay a visa, should you be deported?
00:19:01.000No, they should have due process that is associated with their petition.
00:19:06.000So for example, the act of entering the country illegally, you think we should say, well, did you really do it or not do it?
00:19:13.000It's pretty obvious that they did, right?
00:19:15.000Well, I mean, it would depend on the facts of the situation.
00:19:20.000Again, it should not depend on the facts of the situation.
00:19:22.000You can say that every illegal immigrant in the country should be deported, but you have to prioritize because of resource shortages.
00:19:30.000You can talk about extenuating circumstances, people who have natural-born American citizen children, for example, but they themselves are illegal immigrants.
00:20:28.000Now we can investigate, but I can't imagine being a law enforcement official where I know my colleagues have been shot at, their vehicles rammed, that they're trained activists deployed.
00:20:45.000And by the way, we know at least one of those activists had a semi-automatic pistol with extra clips.
00:21:17.000Obviously, again, when it comes to these hearings, it is televised moments, but he is obviously correct on the merits here.
00:21:23.000And again, you're seeing this bleed across the entire Democratic Party.
00:21:26.000So one Georgia state representative named Marvin Lim appeared in an anti-ICE rally where he appealed specifically to illegal immigrants.
00:21:36.000Immigrants and families of immigrants, we see you.
00:21:40.000Whether you are a citizen, whether you have no documentation on an asylee, TPS, any of those, we see you, we hear you, and that's why we are speaking out for you who cannot be here today because we love you and we are fighting for you.
00:22:00.000And Cardi B, a much more popular figure at her concert the other night, suggested that if ICE agents were in the crowd, they should be physically assaulted.
00:22:14.000If ICE come in here, we're going to joke that.
00:22:45.000But this speaks to the radicalism of Democrats.
00:22:47.000So CNN's Harry Enton points out that Americans may not be in love with all the things that President Trump is doing, but you know what they really hate?
00:22:58.000It is truly an amazing thing how reactionary American politics is.
00:23:01.000People believe, for example, that because Joe Biden was a bad president, this means that you can now run up the score on every extraordinary wish list item you have on the reactionary right.
00:23:10.000And then similarly, if Democrats smell any blood in the water with regard to Minnesota, for example, they can now swing as radically to the left as they could possibly want.
00:23:19.000And it turns out most Americans are not into any of this.
00:23:22.000Most Americans just want responsible governance.
00:24:01.000And there could be some electoral repercussions because what we see right now is voters, the clear majority, say that they are too liberal.
00:24:10.000And this is really the story of what Democrats are doing.
00:24:12.000They continue to swivel ever out to the left.
00:24:25.000Bernie Sanders, according to Axios, who, again, it will never stop amazing me that Bernie Sanders, a career useless person, a leech on the ass of American society for all of his eight decades, that that human somehow has become the ideological thought leader of an entire major party in the United States.
00:24:42.000It is totally psychotic, totally crazy.
00:24:44.000The dude has produced zero things of value.
00:24:47.000He has the political mentality of a seven-year-old, literally a seven-year-old.
00:24:52.000You know, there are a lot of bad things in the world.
00:24:54.000Some bad things happen to people, and those bad things can only be cured.
00:24:58.000They can only be cured by the government.
00:25:01.000You know, some people are rich and some people are poor, and that's bad.
00:25:07.000Everything he says is along the lines of a fortune cookie idiocy that is only replicated in small children, truly.
00:25:16.000And somehow this has gained all sorts of credibility inside the Democratic Party base.
00:25:20.000Well, now, according to Axios, Senator Sanders is feeling emboldened by the progressives' shock victory in a New Jersey special House primary last week.
00:25:30.000He has endorsed over a dozen progressive House and Senate candidates who are aiming to reshape the Democratic Party.
00:25:35.000Asked in a phone interview where Elsie thinks the lefts can win upside victories, Sanders pointed to a fighting oligarchy rally he is doing on Friday with a person called Nita Alam, who is challenging Representative Valerie Fouchy, is in North Carolina.
00:25:49.000Brad Lander, who is challenging Representative Dan Goldman, and Lander is a nut job.
00:25:55.000He is a full-on Zorin Mantani socialist.
00:25:57.000He also has a strong chance to win, says Bernie Sanders.
00:26:00.000All of this is following the victory of progressive Analilia Mejia in a special primary election last week to succeed now Governor Mikey Sherrill.
00:26:11.000She finished narrowly ahead of former Representative Tom Malinowski.
00:26:16.000Majia will have to win in April general election to get seated, and then another primary in June to keep her seat for another two years.
00:26:22.000But naturally, the Democrats have decided to coalesce around her because this is the way that it works.
00:26:26.000Neither party apparently has the stomach to simply say to its most extreme actors, no, you don't get to hang out with us.
00:26:34.000Sanders told Axios that she ran on a strong progressive agenda and she's going to stand up to oligarchs.
00:26:40.000And then he compared her to Zoran Mandani.
00:26:45.000Sanders has also endorsed House candidates in Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, California, Utah, and Montana.
00:26:51.000And he is backing radical Senate candidates Abdul El-Syed in Michigan, Graham Plattner in Maine.
00:26:56.000That's the dude who had the SS logo carved into his chest and then had to pretend that's not what it was.
00:27:02.000And Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota, as well as Maine gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson.
00:27:07.000The Democratic Party is swiveling out to the Bernie Sanders left.
00:27:12.000And let us never forget Bernie Sanders' ideas have been tried and they fail everywhere they've ever been tried.
00:27:17.000They are garbage ideas, true trash ideas.
00:27:19.000His latest trash idea, by the way, is that he wants a moratorium on data center construction.
00:27:35.000You'll recall that AOC, bartender, turned congresswoman, turned media sensation because of her fresh-facedness.
00:27:41.000You'll remember that when Amazon was thinking of relocating to her district, she killed that, thus thrusting tens of thousands of jobs out of her own district, a major win for her constituents, clearly.
00:27:53.000Well, now Sanders wants to destroy data center construction.
00:27:58.000On MS Now, he said, we have not a clue.
00:28:00.000We are totally unprepared for what is coming.
00:28:33.000President Trump's economy is working and it is working really well right now.
00:28:37.000Brand new CPI report out this morning.
00:28:39.000Consumer prices rose 2.4% in January from one year earlier.
00:28:43.000That is cooler than the 2.7% recorded in December.
00:28:46.000That is lower than expected inflation.
00:28:48.000Again, it's higher than 2%, but it is way down from the 9%, 10% we were seeing on an annualized basis, some quarters from the Biden administration.
00:28:56.000Core prices rose 2.5% in January from a year earlier.
00:29:01.000The latest annual number had some help since a high inflation reading from January 2025, according to the journal, has now dropped out of the past 12 months of data.
00:29:08.000Month over month from December, consumer prices in January rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2%.
00:29:14.000Core prices rose at 0.3%, but wages are now outpacing inflation.
00:29:19.000Wage increases are outpacing inflation under the Trump economy.
00:29:36.000And it is not going to upset the apple cart or be unpopular.
00:29:41.000So according to the Washington Post, nearly 17 years after the EPA declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten the public health and welfare, the agency on Thursday rescinded the landmark legal opinion underpinning a wave of federal policies aimed at climate change.
00:29:56.000Under Barack Obama, the agency issued a so-called endangerment finding suggesting that greenhouse gases could be regulated without congressional legislation.
00:30:04.000Like the Clean Air Act, which was passed in the 1970s, somehow covered greenhouse gases, which, of course, is ridiculous.
00:30:12.000And the question here isn't whether greenhouse gases should be legislated, it is whether you should unilaterally be able to regulate those from the executive branch of the government.
00:30:21.000If Congress wants to pass a big bill putting caps on greenhouse gases, they have the power to do that, presumably.
00:30:31.000Basically, the Obama administration created a fake legal finding that the Clean Air Act, which never contemplated carbon dioxide being actually covered by the Clean Air Act, they said that somehow the Clean Air Act covered that.
00:30:44.000It was evolving in its meaning or something.
00:30:46.000And therefore, the EPA could simply regulate every company in America under its auspices.
00:30:55.000At an event at the White House on Thursday afternoon, President Trump suggested that this was the biggest deregulatory action in American history.
00:31:07.000Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers.
00:31:25.000Prices went up incredibly for a worse product.
00:31:30.000This action will eliminate over $1.3 trillion of regulatory costs and help bring car prices tumbling down dramatically.
00:31:42.000And then he added, he hopes that we build no more windmills in the United States because, in his opinion, they are useless.
00:32:12.000As you know, it's gone to Europe isn't even recognizable anymore between immigration and because of environmental things like the windmills, which are taking over.
00:32:24.000The energy is by far the most expensive.
00:32:26.000And we're fighting very hard to make sure that they don't get built.
00:32:30.000I hope we don't have one built during my administration.
00:32:35.000Now, of course, the New York Times is fighting mad about all of this.
00:32:38.000A piece of reporting that really is just opinion masquerading is reporting by Lisa Friedman says, led by a president who refers to climate change as a hoax, the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be.
00:32:54.000It's a rejection of fact that has been accepted for decades by presidents of both parties, including Richard Nixon, whose top advisor warned of the dangers of climate change and the first president George Bush, who signs an international climate treaty.
00:33:05.000And it is a knockout punch in the years-long fight by a small group of conservative activists, as well as oil, gas, and coal interests to stop the country from transitioning away from fossil fuels and toward solar, wind, and other non-polluting energy.
00:33:16.000Believe it or not, that is not an opinion piece.
00:33:18.000That isn't a reported piece from the New York Times.
00:33:22.000You can hold that opinion for sure, but that is not the reason.
00:33:26.000You could totally hold that climate change is happening and even is anthropogenic and still believe that the EPA should not have the unilateral ability to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act, that that is a legal abomination, and that the administration is right to stop that.
00:33:40.000You can also hold that there are mitigation measures and adaptation measures that are significantly better than simply restricting usage of carbon when it comes to, for example, car emissions.
00:33:53.000And also that cars have gotten significantly more effective at using fossil fuels, which is true.
00:34:00.000Your miles per gallon have gone way, way, way up since they were back in the 1970s, for example.
00:34:07.000But of course, the New York Times is a gigantic opinion page masquerading as a reporting outlet.
00:34:15.000This is why, whenever people say, you know, the Trump administration, they violate legality all the time.
00:34:19.000The Trump administration, when they violate things legally, they usually do so in the most blatant fashion.
00:34:25.000The thing Democrats have done for decades is simply twisted and turned and violated the law by gutting the law and wearing it around.
00:34:34.000That's what happened again with the Clean Air Act.
00:34:36.000If you want Congress to pass this thing, if you want Congress to regulate greenhouse gases, Democrats, why don't you get elected to a majority in the House, Senate, and presidency, and then you can pass some sort of legislation?
00:34:46.000But the very notion that a regulatory agency should have this level of control over the economy based on something that no law ever gave them authority to do is totally insane.
00:34:56.000We should also mention here that Europe has made its entire economy subservient to the whims of environmental activists, which is why they've been one reason they've been under a state of heavy stagnation for legitimately decades at this point, and they will never let go.
00:35:09.000Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU, here she was claiming that actually the EU's carbon market, which regulates the building of power plants and prevents the dissemination of energy and has made the EU essentially irrelevant in the pursuit of AI, for example, it has cut them out of the next generation of economic growth.
00:35:28.000Here she was saying it's actually wonderful.
00:36:52.000And it is true, obviously, on social issues.
00:36:55.000Every Democratic major candidate refuses to divide off from the craziest idea of the last 50 years, and maybe of all time, that boys are girls or can become girls.
00:37:07.000You've seen it in everything from mass shootings to the actual damage that young people are doing to their own bodies.
00:37:12.000There's a fascinating and horrifying piece in today's Wall Street Journal from a Soren Aldaco called What I Suffered Being Transgender.
00:37:19.000Quote, when I was 11, I began identifying as transgender.
00:37:22.000I had gone down a rabbit hole of websites and niche online forums.
00:37:25.000There, I met a friend, an artist who was 14, whom I admired and looked up to.
00:37:29.000We both felt different, out of place in society.
00:37:31.000Born 10 years earlier, we would have been called tomboys.
00:37:33.000Instead, we writhed under the pressure of the female role.
00:37:36.000The internet told us the logical conclusion of that struggle was to identify as boys.
00:37:40.000This person writes, I come from a broken home.
00:37:42.000While my mother and stepfather always loved me, my stepfather became severely disabled when I was three, leaving me feeling as though I had to raise myself.
00:37:49.000I eventually reached out to my biological father around a decade later.
00:37:52.000When he and my stepmother saw my distress and were told by a psychiatrist that this distress was related to my transgender identity, they began to consider the benefits of affirming me in my transition.
00:38:01.000Too young to vote or drink, I became immersed in the idea that hormones and surgeries would fix me.
00:38:05.000At the transgender support group I attended, most of the focus was on who was starting hormones and how it was going for them.
00:38:11.000I wanted the same feelings of affirmation they had.
00:38:13.000Most of them were on hormones prescribed by a nurse practitioner who attended the group.
00:38:17.000When I was 17, says this person, I went with my stepmother to see that nurse practitioner who prescribed testosterone and estrogen blockers 30 minutes later.
00:38:25.000These hormones were one of the many medical interventions I pursued in my teens.
00:38:28.000At 19, I had top surgery, a euphemism for elective double mastectomy.
00:38:32.000My surgeon made sure to facilitate my physical transition as much as possible, spoon feeding me talking points for insurance coverage.
00:38:38.000I donned rainbow hair, medical knee braces, and prescription compression socks to my surgery date.
00:38:42.000I was on more than 10 different medications when I went under the knife.
00:38:45.000After the surgery, I suffered major complications.
00:38:48.000I had severe bruising all down my rib cage, along my sides and on my chest.
00:38:51.000My surgeons repeatedly dismissed me when I came to them with these problems.
00:38:54.000Eventually, I sought care at a local emergency room where hospital personnel told me only breast oncology would see me.
00:39:00.000These doctors were kind, used to working with vulnerable women.
00:39:03.000The realization I had been gaslit sunk in as I watched them cut my scars back open, empty out nearly three cups of blood, and sew in Penrose drains.
00:39:11.000I made the decision to face who I really was without the medicine, without the hormones or additional surgery six months after this experience.
00:39:17.000While taking classes at the University of Texas at Austin, I began to make sense of my transgender identity through the lens of human development.
00:39:25.000Piecing together my turbulent family life in adolescent internet habits, among other things, it dawned on me.
00:39:29.000I had never been born in the wrong body.
00:39:31.000There was no way to be born in the wrong body at all.
00:39:34.000And this person sued the medical providers.
00:39:37.000As a seventh generation Texas, going before the Supreme Court of Texas was never something I saw myself doing, says this person, let alone doing because I listened to my doctors.
00:39:52.000Not only that, we've been informed by the Democratic Party that to even discuss such issues demonstrates hatred of trans people, transphobia.
00:40:01.000If Democrats continue to pursue this insanity, they will reap the electoral worldwide.
00:40:05.000Meanwhile, abroad, Democrats continue to push their own bizarre world version of how politics ought to work.
00:40:13.000According to the Washington Post, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Representative Alexander Ocasio-Cortez are going to the Munich Security Conference.
00:40:23.000Rubio is widely seen as the good cop in the Trump administration's ever-widening conflict with Europe.
00:40:28.000Ocasio-Cortez is expected to decry the influence of billionaires and corporate interests on international policies she views as hostile to the working class.
00:40:38.000She's expected, of course, to rip into Israel.
00:40:40.000So her perspective is going to be that America's role in the world should be joining left-wing agitators all around the world to appeal to Hamasniks and their allies.
00:40:51.000We'll see how that works out for, again, Democrats.
00:40:54.000If they decide to go radical and if their foreign policy is side with the worst people on planet Earth, then we will see how that works for them.
00:41:00.000Hamas is not exactly a potential ally.
00:41:05.000Meanwhile, if Republicans continue to pursue a realist interventionism, then that will be the style of politics that does work.
00:41:14.000When Democrats sense blood in the water, they always make the mistake of going all the way all the time.
00:41:18.000And Democrats are also pursuing a bizarre world version of reality that's being rejected across Europe itself.
00:41:25.000As the New York Times now reports, Switzerland is about to hold a referendum in June on whether to cap its population at 10 million until 2050 by limiting immigration.
00:41:35.000Supporters of the initiative say measures should include making it harder for foreigners to gain permanent residency once the population passes 9.5 million and revising the country's agreement with the EU that allows for free movement between Switzerland and the rest of the continent.
00:41:50.000Both the government and parliament voted to oppose the initiative, but the referendum was triggered automatically because over 100,000 citizens signed a petition in support of the vote.
00:41:58.000The petition was promoted by the Swiss People's Party, a right-wing party that currently holds roughly a third of seats in the Swiss parliament.
00:42:07.000Amazing, amazing that this is happening all across Europe, but predicted by the writer Mark Stein many years ago, that eventually Europe would wake up and have to face reality.
00:42:18.000I think that that is a reality that many in the left in the United States have refused to acknowledge.
00:42:25.000The migration patterns that the West has undertaken over the course of the last 60 years have not exactly been a gigantic boon culturally.
00:42:35.000And the left wanting to continue to promote that is going to backfire.
00:42:40.000All right, the other big story, of course, in the United States continues to unfold.
00:42:44.000That is the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie.
00:42:46.000We are now almost two weeks into the kidnapping.
00:42:51.000Harvey Levin over at TMZ apparently received a new email from a tipster suggesting a bleak picture for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old woman who's the mother of Savannah Guthrie and was kidnapped nearly two weeks ago.
00:43:05.000Again, this is the same person who sent us something yesterday.
00:43:09.000And this one, well, it is more ominous, and we can talk about that in a minute.
00:43:15.000But this person says, you got to take me seriously.
00:43:18.000And he's saying the reason he wants this Bitcoin is because he is going to have to go underground because he says he fears retaliation.
00:44:00.000That, of course, is a ridiculous excuse.
00:44:02.000If you know about somebody who was kidnapped and your excuse is, I need Bitcoin to take care of me, just in case people get mad at me for having show of hands in America.
00:44:12.000How many people believe that a person who tells the cops where Nancy Guthrie is will be seen as a rat?
00:44:25.000The FBI's Phoenix office posted on X yesterday, quote, today the FBI is increasing its reward up to $100,000 for information leading to the location of Nancy Guthrie and or the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in her disappearance.
00:44:38.000The description of the attacker, the kidnapper, is a male approximately 5'9 to 5'10 with an average build.
00:44:46.000Well, I mean, good luck with that description.
00:44:52.000He was also wearing a black 25-liter Ozark trail hiker pack backpack in the doorbell video, according to authorities.
00:44:59.000The FBI has collected over 13,000 tips from the public related to the case.
00:45:02.000It just shows how much the FBI has to track down in every case that they have to handle.
00:45:08.000So again, the FBI is now grasping at straws.
00:45:11.000Apparently, according to the New York Post, investigators erected a white tent over the entryway of Nancy Guthrie's house yesterday, and they removed the remaining doorbell camera equipment from her door.
00:45:25.000It's unclear what else they recovered.
00:45:28.000In a statement, authorities confirmed they'd recovered several potentially key pieces of evidence, including a pair of black gloves, one of which the post saw the feds recover from the side of a nearby road on Wednesday.
00:45:38.000Again, unclear whether those gloves have been linked to the attacker.
00:45:41.000Our Dailyware investigative reporter Lyndon Blake joins us on the line right now.
00:45:44.000Episode nine comes out today in her series, Finding Nancy Guthrie.
00:46:18.000Or is this basically at this point a search for a body?
00:46:21.000I mean, the longer this lasts, the closer, the more likely it is, it seems to me that she has passed away.
00:46:27.000I mean, I think you can tell by the way the searches are kind of doing like the grid search and stuff and the places that they're searching.
00:46:34.000I mean, there's that possibility that they're looking for a body.
00:46:37.000I mean, it is day 13 since she's been missing.
00:46:41.000But I must say when the video came out, the footage from Nancy Sorbal camera, you know, everything kind of went up a notch and you obviously get more leads, the 4,000 tips and stuff.
00:46:53.000But Ben, I must say, knowing about what's going on between Pima County Sheriff and FBI and just the tension that's happening on the ground.
00:47:04.000So this friction right now between Pima County Sheriff's Department and the FBI is bringing up an investigation that the FBI did back in 2016 with the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
00:47:13.000At that time, Chris Nanos was the appointed sheriff, and they're being investigated for misuse of funds.
00:47:20.000And Nanos is never indicted because of this, but the second in command, the second in command chief deputy was.
00:47:26.000And so a lot of people are thinking that this current tension, this current just not willingness to work together goes back to Nanos and his feelings toward the FBI from a situation that happened a decade ago.
00:47:38.000It makes you think that they're not close to zoning in on this thing because they're dealing with their own drama.
00:47:45.000I mean, the latest report is Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos sent a glove, a glove off to a lab in Florida and said the FBI lab in Virginia.
00:47:57.000And so that evidence could have to potentially be retested.
00:48:01.000A federal source told us that they weren't really able to take hold of this case until a few days ago.
00:48:08.000And I think that's where you started to see, you know, yesterday with this white tent going up.
00:48:13.000And you're like, why wasn't that done days ago?
00:48:16.000And we've had Amazon packages and pizza all being delivered to Nancy's front door since blood has been just on her front steps and she's been missing.
00:48:27.000And but that's because the FBI was met with such pushback from local authorities.
00:48:34.000And you can go down the rabbit hole and the FBI and Nanos have a pass from 10 years ago.
00:48:41.000But it just has to be frustrating for the Guthrie family, especially seeing all these reports.
00:48:46.000And you're like, can we just let the FBI help?
00:48:56.000Instead of being prideful and being like, no, like we know this territory.
00:49:01.000Yes, Pima County knows the local territory.
00:49:04.000They have their strength too, but let the FBI use their technology.
00:49:08.000But again, I mean, it just seems like with all this drama happening, no, it doesn't make me feel like there's someone that's going to be captured today.
00:50:46.000And, you know, it just made it seem like they were the best of friends.
00:50:50.000And, but that's not the case when you have investigators on the ground walking around deputies and FBI and they're asking, we don't really know who's in charge.
00:51:02.000You don't want to be thinking about who's in charge when you're looking for a person, potentially looking for a body, and for sure, I mean, 100% trying to find out who did this.
00:52:18.000And the world's most famous millionaire matchmaker, Patty Stanger, who stops by to help us find that special someone on the year's most intimate day.
00:52:28.000Guys, did anyone even try to clear this with me?