The Ben Shapiro Show - January 27, 2025


Trump Goes FULL FAFO!


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Colombia agreed to take back all of the illegal immigrants deported from the United States, but only after President Trump threatened them with 25% tariffs on all of their exports to the U.S. and threatened to increase them to 50% next week.

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00:00:00.000 Well, over the weekend, President Trump was golfing, and then he decided it was time for Columbia, the country, not the university, to F around and find out.
00:00:07.000 So here's how it all went down.
00:00:09.000 It was pretty incredible.
00:00:10.000 So, Columbia had announced that they were not going to accept plane flights filled with deportees.
00:00:18.000 So, the Trump administration had moved very quickly when it came into office to start.
00:00:25.000 And the president of Colombia then suggested that he was not going to actually accept any of those deportees.
00:00:36.000 He announced that while President Trump was in the middle of a round of golf, apparently, and he decided to take a break on the front nine, just step off the green for a moment, and issue the following post on Truth Social.
00:00:48.000 I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the United States with a large number of illegal criminals were not allowed to land in Colombia.
00:00:54.000 This order was given by Colombia's socialist president Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people.
00:00:59.000 Petro's denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public safety of the United States.
00:01:04.000 Trump then added that he had directed his administration to, quote, immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures.
00:01:11.000 Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States in one week.
00:01:15.000 Those 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.
00:01:17.000 A travel ban and immediate visa revocation on Colombian government officials and all allies and supporters.
00:01:23.000 Visa sanctions on all party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government.
00:01:27.000 Enhanced customs and border protection inspections of all Colombian nationals and cargo on national security grounds.
00:01:33.000 IEPA treasury, banking, and financial sanctions to be fully imposed.
00:01:37.000 And then Trump continued.
00:01:38.000 These measures are just the beginning.
00:01:40.000 We'll not allow the Colombian government to violate its legal obligation with regard to the acceptance and return of the criminals they forced into the United States.
00:01:47.000 Now, Colombian President Petro had suggested on Sunday, quote, I cannot make migrants stay in a country that does not want them, but if that country sends them back, it should be with dignity and respect for them and for our country.
00:01:56.000 A migrant is not a criminal.
00:01:58.000 And while President Trump had had about enough of that, and within literal minutes, I'm not even kidding, within about 10 minutes of President Trump putting out a statement that he'd be increasing the tariffs on Colombian products.
00:02:09.000 225% this week, followed by 50% next week, the government of Colombia immediately caved, like totally caved.
00:02:16.000 Here's a statement from the White House Press Secretary, quote, The government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay.
00:02:30.000 Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement.
00:02:37.000 The visa sanctions issued by the State Department and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection will remain in effect until the first plane load of Colombian deportees is successfully returned.
00:02:45.000 Today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again.
00:02:49.000 President 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.
00:02:58.000 Ultimate FAFO. Absolutely incredible.
00:03:04.000 Now, Petro on X, Gustavo Petro, the leader of Colombia, who is, in fact, a socialist, a big fan of Nicolas Maduro, a bigger fan of Hugo Chavez, a person who was elected by a very slim majority in the last presidential election in Colombia in 2022, and who has gradually attempted to accrete power despite his deep radicalism.
00:03:23.000 He is wildly unpopular in his own country.
00:03:26.000 He had sought to cast Trump's tariff threat as an affront to his country's freedom.
00:03:29.000 Quote, you don't like our freedom?
00:03:30.000 Fine.
00:03:30.000 I do not shake hands with white slaveholders.
00:03:33.000 He had said, adding later, you will never dominate us.
00:03:36.000 Well, there's only one problem.
00:03:37.000 They got pretty well dominated.
00:03:39.000 So Petro put out a big statement, like a long rambling statement.
00:03:43.000 And it demonstrates, by the way, how psychotic the far left is when they are in power and when they are out of power.
00:03:49.000 Here was Gustavo Petro's statement.
00:03:51.000 And again, this is after he had lost.
00:03:52.000 He had lost.
00:03:53.000 He basically said, we're not going to take the people you're deporting.
00:03:56.000 And Trump said, well, if you don't, I'm going to completely destroy your economy because you represent.
00:04:02.000 Like 1% of our market in terms of, you know, things like flowers or coffee or whatever.
00:04:08.000 And we can all handle that.
00:04:09.000 But we represent 25% of your entire market.
00:04:12.000 So if you want to play this game, we'll just wreck your economy.
00:04:14.000 And Petro back down almost immediately.
00:04:16.000 Well, he put out a full statement.
00:04:18.000 Here it is via Google Translate.
00:04:20.000 Quote, Trump, I don't really like traveling to the U.S. It's a bit boring.
00:04:23.000 But I confess, there are some commendable things.
00:04:25.000 I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the U.S. Capitol between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me because they should join together.
00:04:33.000 I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky, there's a shock, and Miller.
00:04:38.000 I confess that Sackle and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA, and I follow them.
00:04:43.000 Sackle and Vanzetti were convicted anarchist murderers who were put to death.
00:04:49.000 In the Woodrow Wilson administration, so going pretty far back here, they were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my own country.
00:04:58.000 I don't like your oil, Trump.
00:04:59.000 You're going to wipe out the human species because of greed.
00:05:01.000 Maybe one day over a glass of whiskey, which I accept despite my gastritis.
00:05:07.000 What the?
00:05:08.000 We can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.
00:05:13.000 So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period.
00:05:16.000 You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance like they did with Allende.
00:05:19.000 But I will die in my law.
00:05:20.000 I resisted torture, and I resist you.
00:05:23.000 I don't want slavers next to Colombia. 0.93
00:05:24.000 We already had many.
00:05:25.000 We freed ourselves.
00:05:26.000 But I want next to Colombia our lovers of freedom.
00:05:28.000 If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere.
00:05:30.000 Colombia is the heart of the world, and you didn't understand that.
00:05:32.000 This is the land of yellow butterflies, of the beauties of Remedios, but also of the colonels, of which I am one, perhaps the last.
00:05:40.000 You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours in the Americas. 0.98
00:05:44.000 We are people of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and of freedom.
00:05:47.000 You don't like our freedom?
00:05:48.000 Okay.
00:05:48.000 I don't shake hands with white slavers.
00:05:50.000 I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany after being saved from COVID. They are the United States and before my kneel, before no one else.
00:06:04.000 Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and all humanity will respond.
00:06:08.000 Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world.
00:06:10.000 Our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time. 0.96
00:06:14.000 Of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the Republic, democracy in Athens, our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. 0.57
00:06:22.000 And then it just keeps going, like on and on and on.
00:06:26.000 I'm in favor that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. 0.96
00:06:31.000 Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world.
00:06:34.000 What in the hell?
00:06:36.000 Well, let's just be clear about this.
00:06:38.000 He lost, and now he's mad that he lost.
00:06:40.000 But this is what happens when you screw around.
00:06:43.000 With the greatest economic powerhouse in the history of the world.
00:06:47.000 And you happen to be a much smaller country with a much less robust economy.
00:06:52.000 Genius level stuff there from the socialist Colombian president who in fact is going to be on his way out as soon as the next election cycle.
00:06:59.000 Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State, put out an excellent statement in a post on X in which he suggested, quote, President Trump has made it clear that under his administration, America will no longer be lied to nor taken advantage of.
00:07:10.000 It is the responsibility of each nation to take back their citizens who are legally present in the United States in a serious and expeditious manner. 0.98
00:07:16.000 Colombian President Petro had authorized flights and provided all needed authorizations and then canceled his authorization when the planes were in the air.
00:07:22.000 As demonstrated by today's actions, we are unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration and bolster America's border security.
00:07:29.000 Absolutely correct.
00:07:30.000 And President Trump, just for good measure, then put the following post up on Truth Social.
00:07:35.000 Just absolutely, what a troll master he is, my goodness.
00:07:38.000 It is a picture of President Trump.
00:07:40.000 In what looks like an Al Capone outfit.
00:07:42.000 And he's got like the Borsalino hat and the pinstripe suit and the red tie.
00:07:47.000 And in the background is a sign that says FAFO with a drawn happy face.
00:07:53.000 Yeah, well, here is the thing, folks.
00:07:56.000 The era of weak America is where President Trump pledged this in his second inaugural address.
00:08:00.000 He said we are no longer going to be weak.
00:08:01.000 We are going to be strong.
00:08:03.000 Here is how this normally would have gone under, say, President Joe Biden.
00:08:06.000 Colombia would have said no.
00:08:07.000 And then the State Department would have done an investigation.
00:08:09.000 And then the State Department investigation would have made several recommendations.
00:08:12.000 And then Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, would have suggested that they weren't sensitive enough, these particular recommendations.
00:08:18.000 They would have gone back to the drawing board.
00:08:19.000 Several weeks later, they would have come back with a series of recommendations, at which point there would have been a commission to do a study on what should be done.
00:08:27.000 And the end result would have been a deportation of like one quarter of the illegal immigrants, along with billions of dollars sent to Colombia.
00:08:34.000 Or you can have brutal, rude, nasty, arrogant President Trump.
00:08:39.000 Doing the thing that actually works, which is you screw with us and you get the sharp end of the stick.
00:08:44.000 It's not all that tough.
00:08:46.000 It's not all that tough.
00:08:47.000 Seriously.
00:08:48.000 Now, that doesn't mean there aren't thorny international issues.
00:08:50.000 China is a massive thorny international issue.
00:08:53.000 But Colombia is saying they're not going to accept plane loads of illegal immigrants back into their country.
00:08:57.000 That is not a thorny international issue.
00:08:59.000 That is one that President Trump could solve literally while tweeting from the golf course.
00:09:04.000 Because guess what?
00:09:05.000 This is something President Trump has always understood.
00:09:07.000 When you are the United States of America, the most powerful force in the history of the world, you don't need to play with the peons.
00:09:13.000 You don't.
00:09:14.000 Gustavo Petro is a peon.
00:09:16.000 He is a loser.
00:09:17.000 He is a representative of a failed ideology, and he doesn't have any power behind him.
00:09:21.000 There is no reason for the United States to screw around with him.
00:09:25.000 FAFO. That is the message.
00:09:27.000 And that message is being broadcast loud and clear by the entire administration.
00:09:32.000 Top to bottom, they're making clear that when it comes to illegal immigration, the buck stops here.
00:09:36.000 The day is over.
00:09:38.000 We are done.
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00:11:51.000 Tom Homan, our borders are.
00:11:53.000 He was asked about things like tariffs that have been placed on the United States or the additional cost of illegal immigration and tracking it down and all the rest.
00:12:01.000 And listen, what price do you put on national security?
00:12:03.000 Here he was on ABCs this week.
00:12:05.000 I think Congress has a mandate to give us money we need.
00:12:09.000 What price do you put on national security?
00:12:11.000 More detention centers.
00:12:12.000 What price do you put on all these young ladies that have been raped and murdered and burned alive? 0.90
00:12:17.000 What price do you put on that?
00:12:18.000 What price do you put on Lincoln Riley's life?
00:12:20.000 What price do you put on national security?
00:12:22.000 Like I just explained, when you have a surge like this, we don't secure that border.
00:12:26.000 That's when national security threats enter the country.
00:12:28.000 That's when sex trafficking goes up.
00:12:29.000 That's when, you know, that's when the fentanyl comes in and kills a quarter million Americans.
00:12:33.000 I don't put a price in that.
00:12:35.000 That is exactly right.
00:12:37.000 And most Americans do not.
00:12:38.000 Most Americans do not.
00:12:39.000 Well, J.D. Vance, the Vice President of the United States, who I think was created in a laboratory just to deal with idiots in the legacy media.
00:12:45.000 I mean, he is truly amazing at this.
00:12:46.000 Like, a unique skill.
00:12:48.000 So, he was on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, and he was talking about unvetted immigrants entering the United States.
00:12:55.000 And here is an exchange that went absolutely viral again.
00:12:58.000 One thing that J.D. does, better than pretty much anybody.
00:13:01.000 He refuses to accept the premise of the question being asked by the questioner, which is the key to doing legacy media interviews.
00:13:07.000 Again, I've done it professionally for years.
00:13:08.000 J.D. is as good as he gets at this.
00:13:10.000 Here he was, Vice President of the United States, with Margaret Brennan.
00:13:14.000 When you talked to us in August, you said, I don't think we should abandon anybody who's been properly vetted and helped us.
00:13:20.000 Do you stand by that?
00:13:21.000 Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. 1.00
00:13:26.000 In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country.
00:13:34.000 That happened during the campaign, if you may remember.
00:13:36.000 So clearly not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted.
00:13:38.000 No, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline.
00:13:41.000 Afghan refugees.
00:13:42.000 But my primary concern as the Vice President, Margaret, is to look after the American people.
00:13:46.000 And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. 1.00
00:13:56.000 It's not good.
00:13:57.000 These people are vetted.
00:13:58.000 Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted.
00:14:02.000 And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted.
00:14:06.000 Clearly, he wasn't.
00:14:10.000 Okay, well, Margaret Brennan, she had suggested, well, they are vetted.
00:14:13.000 And he said, I don't care what you say.
00:14:16.000 I don't want those people in my country.
00:14:19.000 Why exactly is it that we should have any people who are unvetted in the United States? 0.99
00:14:23.000 This is a correct perspective on illegal immigration.
00:14:27.000 Again, the way that immigration in this country has changed over time is really, really significant.
00:14:32.000 When you have a United States, a vast welfare bureaucracy in which we have made it possible to accept people from all over the globe without screening them ideologically and in which the system does not naturally screen ideologically.
00:14:45.000 What you end up with are a lot of people here to take advantage of the system and who bring terrible cultures with them. 0.99
00:14:51.000 Not all cultures are equivalent and pretending they are is a massive mistake.
00:14:55.000 Well, Margot Brennan wasn't going to leave it at that. 1.00
00:14:58.000 She started bringing out the nostrums and the slogans.
00:15:00.000 She said, well, this is a country founded by immigrants.
00:15:02.000 And Vance was like, well, it's a little more complicated than that.
00:15:06.000 Well, this is a country founded by immigrants.
00:15:08.000 Well, this is a country founded by...
00:15:10.000 This is a unique country.
00:15:10.000 This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers.
00:15:15.000 But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.
00:15:23.000 Correct.
00:15:24.000 Correct.
00:15:24.000 By the way, he's making a really excellent distinction here.
00:15:27.000 Immigrants and settlers are not quite the same thing. 1.00
00:15:29.000 So an immigrant is somebody who comes into an established system of law.
00:15:32.000 And follows the laws in order to enter that established system of law.
00:15:35.000 A settler is a person who comes to a place where there is no law and then proceeds to settle.
00:15:40.000 So the original Puritans, for example, who arrived in the United States, Plymouth Rock, those people were not, in fact, immigrants.
00:15:47.000 Those people were settlers.
00:15:48.000 People who moved over the Appalachians and then settled were settlers.
00:15:52.000 They were moving into an area where there was no law and they were establishing law.
00:15:55.000 That is not quite the same thing as immigrants. 1.00
00:15:57.000 Now, of course, immigrants have had a heavy share of what it means to be American because so many amazing things in the United States have been created by immigrants.
00:16:05.000 But equating all of these particular categories is foolish.
00:16:08.000 And then adding on top of that, illegal immigrants is ridiculous. 1.00
00:16:11.000 Illegal immigrants are not even the same as legal immigrants and not all legal immigrants are created the same in terms of the systems that drew them there in the first place. 0.98
00:16:19.000 And immigrants aren't even the same as settlers. 0.98
00:16:21.000 So these are all a little bit more complex.
00:16:23.000 But the point that he's making is, regardless of how you think about that, there is no reason.
00:16:27.000 Why the United States ought to be an open borders country makes no sense at all.
00:16:30.000 Now, good for JD. Also going after the Conference of Catholic Bishops.
00:16:35.000 So, the Conference of Catholic Bishops came out.
00:16:36.000 The Catholic Church has been notoriously open border for generations at this point.
00:16:42.000 When I went down, I visited the southern border last year.
00:16:44.000 I went down to Arizona and visited the Mexican-Arizona border.
00:16:47.000 There were literal signs that were put up by the Catholic Church directing illegal immigrants where to find resources.
00:16:54.000 So, the Catholic Church and many of their subsidized groups, Let me ask this question, Margaret.
00:17:13.000 Let's separate the immigration issue.
00:17:15.000 If you had a violent murderer in a school, of course I want law enforcement to go and get that person out.
00:17:20.000 So what's the point of the question?
00:17:22.000 You changed the regulation this week.
00:17:24.000 That's the point of the question.
00:17:25.000 Exactly.
00:17:26.000 Giving the authority to go into churches and go into schools.
00:17:29.000 We empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere to protect Americans.
00:17:34.000 But that also has a knock-on effect, a chilling effect, arguably, to people to not send their kids to school.
00:17:38.000 I desperately hope it has a chilling effect on illegal immigrants coming into our country. 1.00
00:17:43.000 You think the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals?
00:17:47.000 I think the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has frankly not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for.
00:17:57.000 He's absolutely 100% right about this.
00:18:01.000 Absolutely 100% correct on this particular issue.
00:18:05.000 Let's be clear.
00:18:06.000 The Catholic Church is wonderful on many issues.
00:18:08.000 On this issue, the Catholic Church is a disaster area on the American southern border.
00:18:12.000 Great on pro-life issues.
00:18:13.000 Terrific on traditional marriage.
00:18:15.000 Awful.
00:18:16.000 On borders.
00:18:17.000 And ironically, doesn't apply those same rules to, say, Vatican City.
00:18:21.000 Speaking of which, the chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Mark Seitz, he ripped the Trump administration's immigration policy on Sunday.
00:18:32.000 Is the Catholic Church in the United States taking a formal position on President Trump's immigration policies in recent days?
00:18:41.000 We are.
00:18:42.000 We think we have to speak to many of these policies, which we see as going against some of the basic tenets of our faith, frankly.
00:18:53.000 The fundamental right of every human person that needs to be respected, no matter their origin, no matter their situation.
00:19:05.000 Okay, well, respecting people does not mean accepting them into your country, regardless of their violation of law. 0.97
00:19:11.000 That's ridiculous.
00:19:12.000 That's ridiculous.
00:19:13.000 But again, this is the perspective of so many members of the left.
00:19:16.000 Now, they are claiming that they are fine with the deportation of criminal illegal immigrants.
00:19:20.000 I really don't think that that is correct.
00:19:23.000 So Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan, she purports to be a moderate Democrat. 1.00
00:19:27.000 So she says, listen, if you want to deport criminals, I'm fine with that.
00:19:31.000 It's if you want to deport, you know, just kind of your normal run-of-the-mill non-criminal illegal immigrant. 0.71
00:19:35.000 And meaning a person who crossed the border illegally, which is a crime, but hasn't committed some sort of a...
00:19:39.000 Other crime?
00:19:40.000 Well, then she's upset with it.
00:19:42.000 Here is Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan, supposedly a blue dog Democrat of some sort. 0.95
00:19:47.000 I mean, I just don't understand, you know, if the focus and the priority is on criminals, I'm not sure going after an 11-year-old is where you start.
00:19:55.000 And this is, again, the inconsistency between what they're saying and then what we saw happen in this past week, right?
00:20:01.000 Going after places that were not sanctuary cities, kind of in this sort of, what felt sort of arbitrary way.
00:20:07.000 So I think to me, you know, the idea of going into children and terrorizing children, I just don't believe in supporting that kind of action.
00:20:17.000 And I don't believe it that most Americans think that 11 and 12 year olds are the ones who are the hardened criminals that need to go back to their country.
00:20:24.000 OK, again, this is going to be the line.
00:20:29.000 How could you be so cruel?
00:20:30.000 Well, I mean, if you deport their parents, then the child might have to go with them because it's better that families stay together.
00:20:37.000 J.B. Pritzker, the rotund governor of Illinois, who has to be lowered into the Capitol building by Crane each morning, and who also has presidential aspirations based on the fact that his family is uber wealthy.
00:20:48.000 He is, in fact, the scion of a billionaire family.
00:20:50.000 But that's OK as long as you're a Democrat.
00:20:52.000 Inherited wealth.
00:20:53.000 In any case, here he was suggesting that he would help support illegal immigrant criminals, but not the quote unquote undocumented.
00:20:59.000 Those are just normal illegal immigrants.
00:21:02.000 You have a law in the books in your state that that requires maybe local law enforcement to rule.
00:21:10.000 Protect people that the federal law enforcement agents are coming in to try to deport.
00:21:16.000 That sounds like a recipe for a big problem.
00:21:21.000 No, what it requires is that our local officials will Not coordinate with federal officials on the arrest of people when they don't have a warrant associated with them.
00:21:34.000 Look, again, we want to get violent criminals off the street just like everybody else does and we're going to coordinate in that.
00:21:40.000 And if someone's breaking the law and they're in the process of breaking the law or we know they've broken the law, we want help from federal officials to arrest them.
00:21:49.000 Our local officials are not just going to say, well, that person seems like they're undocumented, so we're going to hand them over to you and you can figure it out.
00:21:59.000 Okay, now, there's one problem.
00:22:01.000 This is the claim that they're making, that they will cooperate with regard to criminal illegal immigrants, but when it comes to, quote-unquote, the normal undocumented, they won't help out. 0.97
00:22:10.000 I don't believe you.
00:22:11.000 I don't believe you.
00:22:12.000 I think that you are fine with criminal illegal immigrants. 1.00
00:22:14.000 It only becomes embarrassing to you on occasion.
00:22:16.000 I base this on the fact that the Biden administration left the border wide the hell open for four long years and you had nothing to say about it, nothing, until it bit you on the ass politically.
00:22:27.000 Plus, the fact that the new appointed senator for California, Adam Schiff, who's an awful, awful senator, who's an awful congressperson, he says that deporting people who steal toothpaste is an overreach.
00:22:37.000 So apparently some kinds of criminals it's okay to keep in the country.
00:22:41.000 Look, the administration already has the authority to detain people that have committed violent crimes for deportation, and they should. 1.00
00:22:49.000 But this bill is so broad that if you're a dreamer and you take a tube of toothpaste from the store, you can be detained for deportation.
00:23:00.000 That, to me, is a terrible overreach.
00:23:05.000 Okay, that's a terrible...
00:23:06.000 So, actual criminal shoplifting?
00:23:08.000 Apparently not enough to get you deported.
00:23:09.000 So this is why I don't believe you when you say that you only want to help out with criminal illegal immigrants. 0.99
00:23:13.000 I don't believe you.
00:23:14.000 I think that you're totally fine with mass illegal immigration. 0.90
00:23:17.000 And this is why President Trump was re-elected.
00:23:19.000 Because it turns out he pledged common sense.
00:23:21.000 And you guys are so off the beaten track on common sense.
00:23:23.000 It is absolutely insane.
00:23:25.000 So, I don't really trust Democrats when it comes to illegal immigration or pretty much anything else.
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00:25:36.000 Do not let the IRS take advantage of you if the help you need with Tax Network USA. President Trump made a visit out to California on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times, in a somber scene lighted by an orange LA sunset.
00:25:48.000 President Trump walked through the ruins of Pacific Palisades on Friday, shaking hands with firefighters, speaking to a handful of residents as he took in the devastation wrought by firestorms that swept through L.A. County this month.
00:25:57.000 Trump said he was stunned by the devastation and vowed to partner with local officials to help victims.
00:26:00.000 So Gavin Newsom, who's been totally embarrassed by his own incompetence during this scandalous crisis in the Los Angeles area and throughout Southern California, he actually sort of hijacked President Trump arriving to show up on the tarmac to try and pretend that he and Trump were friends or that he's going to leverage Trump.
00:26:15.000 Yeah, good luck with that, Governor.
00:26:18.000 There's from both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans.
00:26:22.000 Mayor Bass is also going to be part of those discussions.
00:26:25.000 You see Governor Newsom there, that exchange that we were anticipating because of early reports saying that the governor wouldn't be there, then his office clarifying he would.
00:26:35.000 So it seems as if right now it's cordial, a handshake.
00:26:39.000 I'm not sure what they're discussing, but there's a lot on the table with all of the damage and all of the requests for federal aid that California is asking for.
00:26:48.000 Okay, some interesting body language there as he now greets the First Lady, and again, they will now head into the airport.
00:26:56.000 The body language there, by the way, is hilarious.
00:26:58.000 For those who can't watch, it's Gavin Newsom trying to play like he's the alpha in that particular relationship, and it doesn't work at all.
00:27:04.000 He's trying to lecture Trump.
00:27:05.000 He's making hand motions, and Trump is just solid as a rock, just standing there like, okay, whatever, Gavin, all right.
00:27:12.000 So, President Trump had many things to say about the handling of California.
00:27:16.000 During this crisis, one of the things that he said is, hey, you know, FEMA, which is always looked to as sort of the first line of defense here, maybe you guys should handle your own crap in the state of California.
00:27:26.000 By the way, this was the way the disasters were handled in the United States for a very, very long time.
00:27:31.000 It is a bizarre thing that area-specific crises ought to be thrust on the federal government.
00:27:37.000 Why is it that people in Kansas ought to be paying the bills of the rich people in Pacific Palisades when those people in Pacific Palisades...
00:27:43.000 They've been paying millions and billions of dollars over the years in order to protect themselves.
00:27:47.000 Why can't the state of California, you know, take care of its own residents?
00:27:50.000 This is President Trump's point.
00:27:53.000 Can you say more about signing the executive order to get rid of FEMA, please?
00:27:57.000 FEMA has been a very big disappointment.
00:28:00.000 They cost a tremendous amount of money.
00:28:02.000 It's very bureaucratic.
00:28:04.000 And it's very slow.
00:28:06.000 Other than that, we're very happy with them.
00:28:09.000 Okay?
00:28:10.000 And I think it's, I think...
00:28:12.000 When there's a problem with a state, I think that that problem should be taken care of by the state.
00:28:19.000 That's what we have states for. 0.97
00:28:20.000 They take care of problems.
00:28:22.000 I mean, yes, yes, but it didn't end there.
00:28:26.000 President Trump did this whole sort of roundtable discussion with a wide variety of Democrats because, of course, Republicans are an endangered species in the state of California.
00:28:33.000 One of the people who showed up was Congressman Brad Sherman, who actually represents the district that I used to live in, in California.
00:28:40.000 And here he was, absolutely blasting Brad Sherman, saying, you know, one of the reasons this happened is because you all made it impossible for people to buy fire insurance in the state of California.
00:28:50.000 Mr. President, without your help, they're only going to get $43,000 from the federal government, even if they have a half-million dollar in insurance.
00:28:57.000 Well, you know, you did something, Brad, where every insurance company in the country left California.
00:29:02.000 That's why you have no insurance, because you made it so impossible.
00:29:05.000 People that think like you made it so impossible.
00:29:09.000 And Brad, every insurance company, I don't know what you know about my thinking.
00:29:15.000 I've never seen a state where almost nobody has insurance.
00:29:19.000 And I said, what happened?
00:29:20.000 And they said like six months ago they all left.
00:29:22.000 And two years ago they had different, you know, quadrants, but they left.
00:29:27.000 And you have very little insurance here.
00:29:29.000 I mean, I've never seen anything like it.
00:29:31.000 We had a lot of insurance companies pull out, but I have no idea.
00:29:34.000 And the insurance companies actually have been warning you.
00:29:38.000 He is right about this.
00:29:40.000 The state of California made it nearly impossible for fire insurance to be bought in the state of California because they put price caps on what the fire insurance companies could actually offer to their customers.
00:29:51.000 And so many of those companies left because I can't insure a house if the cost of insuring the house is greater than the actual premiums I'm going to take in.
00:30:02.000 That's not insurance anymore.
00:30:03.000 That's just a subsidy.
00:30:04.000 Then he wrecked Brad Sherman over water usage in the state of California as well.
00:30:09.000 Here's the thing.
00:30:10.000 What he's saying here is so commonsensical, but Democrats are so alienated from common sense at this point that they're making Republicans look absolutely normal.
00:30:19.000 So you're going to see us proposing both of those.
00:30:23.000 Like water.
00:30:26.000 Little things like water.
00:30:28.000 You know, the party of common sense.
00:30:29.000 See, Brad, we're the party of common sense.
00:30:31.000 You're not, in all fairness.
00:30:33.000 Yes, sir.
00:30:34.000 We like water to put out fires.
00:30:36.000 It's really quite efficient.
00:30:38.000 Again, again, all common sense.
00:30:41.000 President Trump also had a very entertaining exchange with the awful mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who, you'll recall, was at one point considered for Joe Biden's possible vice presidential pick.
00:30:51.000 This human.
00:30:52.000 Here was Donald Trump versus Karen Bass.
00:30:55.000 But we are going to move as fast.
00:30:58.000 As we can, but we want you to be safe.
00:31:01.000 We want you to be back in your homes immediately.
00:31:04.000 But the people are willing to clean out their own debris.
00:31:07.000 It doesn't cost a lot.
00:31:08.000 Yes, and they can.
00:31:08.000 You should let them do it because by the time you hire contractors, it's going to be two years.
00:31:13.000 If a family...
00:31:15.000 The people are willing to get a dumpster and do it themselves and clean it out.
00:31:20.000 And they can do that.
00:31:21.000 There's not that much left.
00:31:22.000 It's all incinerated.
00:31:23.000 That's right.
00:31:24.000 And, you know, it's just going to take a long time if you do.
00:31:27.000 You can do some of it, but a lot of these people, I know that guy right there that's talking.
00:31:31.000 I know my people.
00:31:32.000 You'll be on that thing tonight, throwing the stuff away and your site will be, it'll look perfect within 24 hours.
00:31:38.000 And that's what he wants to do.
00:31:40.000 He doesn't want to wait around for seven months till the city hires some demolition contract that's going to charge him $25,000 to do his lot.
00:31:49.000 I think you have to, you have emergency powers just like I do, and I'm exercising my emergency powers.
00:31:55.000 You have to exercise them also.
00:31:57.000 I did exercise them.
00:31:59.000 Because I looked, I mean, you have a very powerful emergency power, and you can do everything within 24 hours.
00:32:05.000 Yes.
00:32:07.000 Okay.
00:32:09.000 Again, it is because of democratic malfeasance and mishandling that all this came about, and Donald Trump is simply pointing that out.
00:32:16.000 This is the most successful launch of any administration in my lifetime.
00:32:20.000 There's just no question about it.
00:32:22.000 We are, what, eight days deep into this administration, and the president has already unleashed dozens of executive orders clearing out dead wood from a wide variety of agencies.
00:32:32.000 He has already made moves to intimidate opponents of the United States into, for example, taking illegal immigrants back.
00:32:39.000 That's what he did over the weekend.
00:32:41.000 He has directed his own administrative agencies to look.
00:32:45.000 At the cost of various boondoggle programs, he has decided to overturn DEI throughout his administration.
00:32:52.000 All these things are incredible.
00:32:53.000 One thing that President Trump knows this time, that he didn't last time, is that it is very important for him to clear out the obstacles to his ability to actually govern.
00:33:01.000 So, there's a big controversy that broke out over the weekend because President Trump fired something like 17 inspectors general.
00:33:10.000 He's supposedly in violation of the law.
00:33:12.000 I'm going to explain that in a moment.
00:33:13.000 According to the New York Times, For the removal.
00:33:44.000 The move was the latest wave of abrupt upheavals following the inauguration of Mr. Trump that put the government in increasing confusion.
00:33:51.000 Apparently, the watchdogs that were removed included the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor Transportation and Veterans Affairs, along with the EPA and the Small Business Administration.
00:34:03.000 Now, why exactly did they do this?
00:34:06.000 The answer is because the Trump administration in the first go-around was hamstrung by I personally know many members of Trump administration number one who were nearly bankrupted because of the legal costs they had to undergo thanks to, for example, the Robert Mueller report.
00:34:29.000 The number of hours that were dedicated to that stupid foray into mythical idiocy was exorbitant.
00:34:37.000 These inspector generals do not work for Congress.
00:34:40.000 They work for the executive branch.
00:34:41.000 It is probably unconstitutional for Congress to appoint inspectors general inside the executive branch that the president cannot fire.
00:34:49.000 The executive branch is its own branch of government.
00:34:51.000 It does not work for the legislature.
00:34:53.000 That is not how this works.
00:34:55.000 The president of the United States does not have...
00:34:57.000 The Congress has its own subpoena power.
00:34:59.000 The Congress has its own investigatory power.
00:35:01.000 The Congress has its own ability to dig into what's going on in the executive branch.
00:35:05.000 That's its oversight power.
00:35:07.000 Appointing independent inspectors general with a wide-ranging ability to dig and dig and dig and dig, not for the crime but for the man, is a massive problem, and President Trump knows that.
00:35:17.000 He saw it during his first administration.
00:35:20.000 Democrats, of course, are very upset about all of this.
00:35:22.000 They would not be nearly as upset if these inspectors general had spent their time deep-stating Joe Biden during the last administration.
00:35:30.000 They didn't, because these inspectors general tend to be democratic plans very often.
00:35:35.000 Here was the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ripping the firing of the inspectors general.
00:35:40.000 Quote, in the dark of night, President Trump fired at least 12 independent inspectors general at important federal agencies across the administration.
00:35:45.000 A chilling purge.
00:35:47.000 It's a preview of the lawless approach President Trump and his administration is taking to being president.
00:35:52.000 Okay, you know what was lawless?
00:35:53.000 The activation of the DOJ to go after Joe Biden's political opposition.
00:35:57.000 You know what else was lawless?
00:35:59.000 The activation.
00:36:00.000 of the intelligence apparatus of the United States government to go after the sitting president of the United States during Trump term number one.
00:36:05.000 You know what's not lawless?
00:36:06.000 The president of the United States firing people in the executive branch.
00:36:09.000 That is, in fact, not lawless.
00:36:11.000 And these inspectors general.
00:36:13.000 Now, there is a good case that there should never be independent inspectors general inside these agencies because independent of what?
00:36:20.000 To whom do they answer?
00:36:22.000 If Congress has its own investigative power, why are there executive branch agents who are not answerable to the president of the United States?
00:36:28.000 How do you fire them?
00:36:31.000 Precisely.
00:36:31.000 Now, of course, you have Adam Schiff.
00:36:33.000 Some of the most corrupt people in American government complaining about this.
00:36:36.000 Adam Schiff, who was a congressperson who went on air nearly every day during Trump number one and claimed that the Russians had bought and paid for Trump and that there would be evidence coming any moment that showed that Trump was basically a Russian agent.
00:36:48.000 Now, he is suggesting that the real reason that Trump is firing all these people, people that Adam Schiff helped sick on him in the first place, the reason he's firing all these people is because he wants rampant waste and fraud.
00:37:00.000 The American people, if we don't have good and independent inspector generals, are gonna see the swamp refill.
00:37:07.000 They're gonna see rampant waste fraud.
00:37:10.000 They're gonna see corruption.
00:37:12.000 It may be the president's goal here, when he's got a meme coin that's making him billions, is to remove anyone that's gonna call the public attention to his malfeasance.
00:37:24.000 Yeah.
00:37:25.000 Again, this sort of absolute hypocrisy.
00:37:28.000 is truly awful, and it's the reason why these people are getting fired today.
00:37:33.000 In just a minute, we'll get to other measures that are being taken by Trump Team 2 that they needed to take during Administration 1, but now they've learned.
00:37:40.000 First, President Trump hit the ground running in his first week, delivering on key promises, many of which were battles initiated and amplified by the Daily Wire.
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00:38:23.000 Speaking of President Trump making the changes that should have happened during administration number one, President Trump's DOJ is already cleaning house, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:38:31.000 They replaced a Biden-era memo telling prosecutors to show leniency to some drug offenders with a new policy calling for the pursuit of the most serious charges and the stiffest penalties for all crimes.
00:38:39.000 They halted much of the department's civil rights and environmental work, and they transferred more than 15 career employees to relatively marginal positions, part of a broader effort to ultimately thin the workforce.
00:38:49.000 That was just week number one.
00:38:50.000 Many department employees are on edge Senate confirmation of Pam Bondi, that's Trump AG, nominee.
00:38:57.000 Her chief of staff, Chad Mizell, is leading the department until then.
00:39:00.000 And they are already shaking up the DOJ in major ways.
00:39:03.000 This is good.
00:39:04.000 People should be living on edge.
00:39:05.000 The American people were living on edge.
00:39:07.000 When Joe Biden was president, career employees at the DOJ who are interested in pushing their own agenda should be living on edge.
00:39:13.000 Speaking of which, charges were dropped by federal prosecutors against a surgeon, Dr. Ethan Chaim.
00:39:19.000 We talked about this on the show a few months back.
00:39:21.000 He was indicted last May in U.S. District Court in Houston on four counts of obtaining under false pretenses personal medical information from the online system at Texas Children's Database.
00:39:30.000 He requested access to the hospital's record database in 2023, claiming he needed information to provide adult care services.
00:39:36.000 He then showed that this particular health care hospital was actually transing the children.
00:39:43.000 He disclosed the information to Chris Rufo, our friend.
00:39:47.000 Rufo then published an article saying the hospital was continuing to provide trans care to minors after it announced an end to the practice.
00:39:53.000 He said that he hadn't done anything wrong.
00:39:55.000 He was a whistleblower.
00:39:56.000 He had not actually revealed any patient information at all.
00:39:59.000 He just said, guys, this is still happening, which is sort of typical whistleblowing, right?
00:40:06.000 No private information was actually disclosed.
00:40:07.000 Just the information that Texas Children's Hospital was still doing the thing they said they were not actually doing.
00:40:13.000 Well, now the DOJ has dropped the charges as well they should have.
00:40:17.000 No crime was actually committed in the first place.
00:40:20.000 And a new day is dawning.
00:40:22.000 A new day is dawning.
00:40:23.000 And that new day was forwarded on Friday by the confirmation of Pete Hegseth as our new Secretary of Defense.
00:40:30.000 J.D. Vance had to break the tie.
00:40:31.000 Again, every vote mattered in the United States Senate.
00:40:34.000 That's why I went to six different states campaigning for a variety of Republican Senate candidates, a majority of whom ended up in the United States Senate.
00:40:41.000 The only Republican senators who did not vote for Hegseth.
00:40:43.000 We're Susan Collins.
00:40:44.000 And again, Susan Collins gets the majority of sort of the flack for this sort of stuff, which is always weird to me because she's in Maine.
00:40:50.000 So you're going to get a purplish senator in Maine.
00:40:52.000 Lisa Murkowski in Alaska is the one who should really be under the gun. 1.00
00:40:56.000 I mean, Lisa Murkowski represents a state that went for President Trump by one million points.
00:41:00.000 Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, who is, you know, on the retirement path, he voted against Pete Hegseth on the basis that Hegseth didn't have the experience to run a major department.
00:41:11.000 However...
00:41:12.000 That, of course, a bad decision.
00:41:13.000 J.D. Vance broke the tie.
00:41:15.000 Pete Hegseth was, in fact, sworn in.
00:41:16.000 Here was Pete making his statement after being sworn in as our new Secretary of Defense.
00:41:22.000 All praise and glory to God.
00:41:26.000 His will be done, and we're grateful to be here.
00:41:30.000 And as I said in my hearing, it was Jesus and Jenny.
00:41:33.000 I would not be here without you, sweetheart.
00:41:37.000 Thank you so much.
00:41:39.000 I want to thank the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump.
00:41:44.000 We could not have a better Commander-in-Chief than him.
00:41:47.000 It is the honor of a lifetime, sir, to serve under you.
00:41:51.000 We look forward to having the backs of our troops and having your back in executing peace through strength, in putting America first, and in rebuilding our military.
00:42:03.000 Hex has also pledged that the U.S. military will never back down.
00:42:07.000 Again, there's a reason why I so strongly supported Pete Hegseth for SecDef.
00:42:10.000 He's going to be an excellent Secretary of Defense.
00:42:14.000 You fight, you go do tough things in tough places on behalf of your country, and sometimes that changes you a little bit.
00:42:19.000 And by the grace of God and my Lord and Savior, I had an opportunity to come on up out of it and do great things with great veterans organizations that fought for vets, that fought for reform at the VA and for warfighters, and at the Fox News Channel to advocate for those very same causes.
00:42:36.000 And I'm proud of what I fought for.
00:42:37.000 I'm not going to back down from them one bit.
00:42:39.000 I will answer all of these senators' questions.
00:42:41.000 But this will not be a process tried in the media.
00:42:46.000 Okay.
00:42:46.000 Hegseth, of course, is exactly right about all this.
00:42:48.000 If you want more on Pete Hegseth's view on our warfighters, what they require, go check out the Sunday special I did with Pete several months ago, well before he was ever nominated.
00:42:57.000 He's terrific.
00:42:58.000 Deb Fischer, the senator from Nebraska, says, listen, Pete Hegseth is peace through strength.
00:43:02.000 That is correct.
00:43:05.000 You know, I'm really excited that the President and the new Secretary have embraced that Reagan term, you know, peace through strength.
00:43:14.000 The Secretary and I, we talked about the priority for our nuclear deterrent, our nuclear triad.
00:43:22.000 That is the bedrock of our entire national security.
00:43:25.000 It's for ourselves, but also for our allies.
00:43:28.000 They depend upon our nuclear umbrella as well.
00:43:31.000 So we're going through a modernization program of all three legs of that triad.
00:43:36.000 And in my conversations with the secretary, we have really, really focused on the need to stay up on schedule on all three of those legs and make sure we have not just the weapons needed, but that those platforms are all ready to go to.
00:43:53.000 We cannot afford to fall behind on this.
00:43:58.000 That is true deterrence.
00:44:00.000 And it's deterrence to be able to show the strength, to show the commitment.
00:44:04.000 And I think we have this administration now that has stepped up, and they are going to do that.
00:44:11.000 Okay, again, this is all excellent.
00:44:13.000 Now, just to show you how deeply embedded the deep state is.
00:44:16.000 One of the first things that Hegseth did when he entered as Secretary of Defense is he announced that DEI initiatives, as President Trump said, would be wiped out from the military.
00:44:23.000 So what did the deep state do?
00:44:25.000 Deep staters immediately announced that they would be removing teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen from the Department of Defense.
00:44:32.000 And that was not a decision made by Pete Hegseth.
00:44:35.000 Far from it.
00:44:36.000 That was somebody lowdown trying to undermine the order to get rid of DEI by removing something that everybody basically agrees on in order to create a fake controversy.
00:44:45.000 So Hegseth immediately suggested that that had been immediately reversed.
00:44:49.000 He posted the comment in response to concerns from U.S. Senator Katie Britt of Alabama about the malicious compliance we've seen in recent days.
00:44:55.000 Malicious compliance is exactly right.
00:44:57.000 They're members of the deep state, and these are people who are career appointees in a wide variety of administrative roles who are taking deliberately, literally, And to the extreme, many of the executive orders that are being put down simply in order to do humiliating things that then have to be identified and reversed by the actual appointees.
00:45:15.000 Hegseth said, we're all over it, Senator.
00:45:16.000 This will not stand.
00:45:17.000 Now, again, it is absolutely ridiculous that somebody tried to do this.
00:45:22.000 In the notion that somehow people on the right are against the Tuskegee Airmen is insane.
00:45:26.000 A few years ago, on this show, I interviewed Harry Stewart, who's one of the Tuskegee Airmen on the show.
00:45:32.000 Tuskegee Airmen are heroes to all Americans.
00:45:34.000 This notion that if you want to ban DEI, you have to get rid of this, it's just ridiculous.
00:45:38.000 But again, the goal of so many people in the federal government, career employees, is to undermine what Trump is trying to do.
00:45:43.000 That is why he is taking the measures that he is taking.
00:45:47.000 Now, speaking of this, Tulsi Gabbard is the nominee for Director of National Intelligence.
00:45:51.000 She has a bit of a checkered history when it comes to some of the foreign policy positions ranging from Syria to Russia.
00:45:57.000 All of these will be asked about, I assume, in the hearings that will take place this week.
00:46:02.000 The left's opposition to Tulsi Gabbard, however, is too rich.
00:46:05.000 It's just too rich.
00:46:06.000 So former CIA Director John Brennan, who probably, probably should be in jail for perjury, he claims that Tulsi Gabbard should not be DNI. Why?
00:46:16.000 Because she will violate the law and withhold intelligence from Donald Trump. 1.00
00:46:21.000 When there are National Security Council meetings that the president chairs in the White House Situation Room...
00:46:26.000 Usually, the first person to speak would be the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of CIA. They lay down the intelligence basis for any type of policy discussion that ensues.
00:46:36.000 And so if that intelligence basis, that briefing, is going to be skewed or is going to be lacking some very important critical information, the policy decision that ultimately comes out of it is also going to be...
00:46:49.000 Baseless.
00:46:51.000 And also, you know, it's going to be potentially threatening to our national security.
00:46:55.000 So, again, it's the President's Daily Brief, but also the role that the Director of National Intelligence, Director of CIA, play in order to ensure that the people who have to make those decisions in the National Security Council are fully informed about what the reality is, what the intelligence is, what our intelligence gaps are.
00:47:12.000 And if they withhold things or if they skew things, it really is going to be detrimental.
00:47:19.000 Real quick before we...
00:47:20.000 Now again, I might accept that from somebody else.
00:47:23.000 From John Brennan, I'm not going to take this.
00:47:24.000 Here was John Brennan in 2018 claiming that the Steele dossier, which of course was a compendium of nonsense, originally created at the behest of the Hillary Clinton campaign and then laundered into our intel community, which was run by people like John Brennan.
00:47:38.000 This is unbelievable.
00:47:39.000 Here was...
00:47:41.000 John Brennan, in 2018, claiming that the Steele dossier had no role in the early intelligence assessment with regard to the Russian collusion nonsense, which is a lie.
00:47:51.000 It's not true.
00:47:51.000 The Steele dossier was the original impetus for the launching of so much of the Mueller report.
00:47:59.000 I did not know what was in there.
00:48:01.000 I did not see it until later in that year.
00:48:04.000 I think it was in December.
00:48:05.000 But I was unaware of the providence of it as well as what was in it.
00:48:10.000 And it did not play any role whatsoever in the intelligence community assessment that was done that was presented to then-President Obama and then-President-elect Trump.
00:48:20.000 Liar, liar, pants on fire.
00:48:22.000 And then this guy said the same thing in front of Congress, and it caused a lot of Republicans to think maybe this guy should be brought up on perjury charges.
00:48:28.000 And the same people in the intelligence agencies who spent years claiming that it was insane to suggest that the lab leak theory about the origins of COVID was real, those same people are now claiming that Tulsi Gabbard is a threat to the free flow of information in intelligence.
00:48:45.000 And I would take any critique I'm willing to hear, but I'm not willing to hear it from you.
00:48:50.000 If you're one of the people who covered up the lab leak theory, Then I'm not willing to hear from you that Tulsi Gabbard might cover up information.
00:48:57.000 That's a weird take.
00:48:58.000 By the way, the CIA has now concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely arose from a lab leak.
00:49:04.000 It only killed 1.2 million Americans and 7 million people worldwide, and China reaped zero of the actual consequences for that. 0.51
00:49:12.000 So now the CIA is finally saying it.
00:49:14.000 It only took them a few years to get there.
00:49:16.000 All righty, in just one moment, we'll get into more American foreign policy, including...