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.
00:00:00.000Well, 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.
00:00:10.000So, Columbia had announced that they were not going to accept plane flights filled with deportees.
00:00:18.000So, the Trump administration had moved very quickly when it came into office to start.
00:00:25.000And the president of Colombia then suggested that he was not going to actually accept any of those deportees.
00:00:36.000He 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.
00:00:48.000I 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.
00:00:54.000This order was given by Colombia's socialist president Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his people.
00:00:59.000Petro's denial of these flights has jeopardized the national security and public safety of the United States.
00:01:04.000Trump then added that he had directed his administration to, quote, immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures.
00:01:11.000Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States in one week.
00:01:15.000Those 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.
00:01:17.000A travel ban and immediate visa revocation on Colombian government officials and all allies and supporters.
00:01:23.000Visa sanctions on all party members, family members, and supporters of the Colombian government.
00:01:27.000Enhanced customs and border protection inspections of all Colombian nationals and cargo on national security grounds.
00:01:33.000IEPA treasury, banking, and financial sanctions to be fully imposed.
00:01:38.000These measures are just the beginning.
00:01:40.000We'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.
00:01:47.000Now, 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.
00:01:58.000And 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.
00:02:09.000225% this week, followed by 50% next week, the government of Colombia immediately caved, like totally caved.
00:02:16.000Here'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.
00:02:30.000Based 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.
00:02:37.000The 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.
00:02:45.000Today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again.
00:02:49.000President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation's sovereignty and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States.
00:03:04.000Now, 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.
00:03:23.000He is wildly unpopular in his own country.
00:03:26.000He had sought to cast Trump's tariff threat as an affront to his country's freedom.
00:04:20.000Quote, Trump, I don't really like traveling to the U.S. It's a bit boring.
00:04:23.000But I confess, there are some commendable things.
00:04:25.000I 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.
00:04:33.000I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky, there's a shock, and Miller.
00:04:38.000I confess that Sackle and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA, and I follow them.
00:04:43.000Sackle and Vanzetti were convicted anarchist murderers who were put to death.
00:04:49.000In 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.
00:05:48.000I don't shake hands with white slavers.
00:05:50.000I 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.
00:06:04.000Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and all humanity will respond.
00:06:08.000Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world.
00:06:10.000Our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time.
00:06:14.000Of 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.
00:06:22.000And then it just keeps going, like on and on and on.
00:06:26.000I'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.
00:06:31.000Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world.
00:06:38.000He lost, and now he's mad that he lost.
00:06:40.000But this is what happens when you screw around.
00:06:43.000With the greatest economic powerhouse in the history of the world.
00:06:47.000And you happen to be a much smaller country with a much less robust economy.
00:06:52.000Genius 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.
00:06:59.000Marco 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.
00:07:10.000It 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.
00:07:16.000Colombian President Petro had authorized flights and provided all needed authorizations and then canceled his authorization when the planes were in the air.
00:07:22.000As demonstrated by today's actions, we are unwavering in our commitment to end illegal immigration and bolster America's border security.
00:08:07.000And then the State Department would have done an investigation.
00:08:09.000And then the State Department investigation would have made several recommendations.
00:08:12.000And then Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, would have suggested that they weren't sensitive enough, these particular recommendations.
00:08:18.000They would have gone back to the drawing board.
00:08:19.000Several 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.
00:08:27.000And the end result would have been a deportation of like one quarter of the illegal immigrants, along with billions of dollars sent to Colombia.
00:08:34.000Or you can have brutal, rude, nasty, arrogant President Trump.
00:08:39.000Doing the thing that actually works, which is you screw with us and you get the sharp end of the stick.
00:09:38.000Well, President Trump is certainly bringing a different approach to our foreign and domestic policy, but uncertainty still looms.
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00:11:53.000He 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.
00:12:01.000And listen, what price do you put on national security?
00:12:39.000Well, 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.
00:13:21.000Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted.
00:13:26.000In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country.
00:13:34.000That happened during the campaign, if you may remember.
00:13:36.000So clearly not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted.
00:13:38.000No, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline.
00:13:42.000But my primary concern as the Vice President, Margaret, is to look after the American people.
00:13:46.000And 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.
00:14:10.000Okay, well, Margaret Brennan, she had suggested, well, they are vetted.
00:14:13.000And he said, I don't care what you say.
00:14:16.000I don't want those people in my country.
00:14:19.000Why exactly is it that we should have any people who are unvetted in the United States?
00:14:23.000This is a correct perspective on illegal immigration.
00:14:27.000Again, the way that immigration in this country has changed over time is really, really significant.
00:14:32.000When 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.
00:14:45.000What you end up with are a lot of people here to take advantage of the system and who bring terrible cultures with them.
00:14:51.000Not all cultures are equivalent and pretending they are is a massive mistake.
00:14:55.000Well, Margot Brennan wasn't going to leave it at that.
00:14:58.000She started bringing out the nostrums and the slogans.
00:15:00.000She said, well, this is a country founded by immigrants.
00:15:02.000And Vance was like, well, it's a little more complicated than that.
00:15:06.000Well, this is a country founded by immigrants.
00:15:10.000This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers.
00:15:15.000But 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.
00:15:48.000People who moved over the Appalachians and then settled were settlers.
00:15:52.000They were moving into an area where there was no law and they were establishing law.
00:15:55.000That is not quite the same thing as immigrants.
00:15:57.000Now, 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.
00:16:05.000But equating all of these particular categories is foolish.
00:16:08.000And then adding on top of that, illegal immigrants is ridiculous.
00:16:11.000Illegal 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.
00:16:19.000And immigrants aren't even the same as settlers.
00:16:21.000So these are all a little bit more complex.
00:16:23.000But the point that he's making is, regardless of how you think about that, there is no reason.
00:16:27.000Why the United States ought to be an open borders country makes no sense at all.
00:16:30.000Now, good for JD. Also going after the Conference of Catholic Bishops.
00:16:35.000So, the Conference of Catholic Bishops came out.
00:16:36.000The Catholic Church has been notoriously open border for generations at this point.
00:16:42.000When I went down, I visited the southern border last year.
00:16:44.000I went down to Arizona and visited the Mexican-Arizona border.
00:16:47.000There were literal signs that were put up by the Catholic Church directing illegal immigrants where to find resources.
00:16:54.000So, the Catholic Church and many of their subsidized groups, Let me ask this question, Margaret.
00:17:26.000Giving the authority to go into churches and go into schools.
00:17:29.000We empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere to protect Americans.
00:17:34.000But that also has a knock-on effect, a chilling effect, arguably, to people to not send their kids to school.
00:17:38.000I desperately hope it has a chilling effect on illegal immigrants coming into our country.
00:17:43.000You think the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are actively hiding criminals?
00:17:47.000I 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.
00:17:57.000He's absolutely 100% right about this.
00:18:01.000Absolutely 100% correct on this particular issue.
00:18:17.000And ironically, doesn't apply those same rules to, say, Vatican City.
00:18:21.000Speaking of which, the chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Mark Seitz, he ripped the Trump administration's immigration policy on Sunday.
00:18:32.000Is the Catholic Church in the United States taking a formal position on President Trump's immigration policies in recent days?
00:19:42.000Here is Senator Alyssa Slotkin of Michigan, supposedly a blue dog Democrat of some sort.
00:19:47.000I 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.
00:19:55.000And this is, again, the inconsistency between what they're saying and then what we saw happen in this past week, right?
00:20:01.000Going after places that were not sanctuary cities, kind of in this sort of, what felt sort of arbitrary way.
00:20:07.000So 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.
00:20:17.000And 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.
00:20:24.000OK, again, this is going to be the line.
00:20:30.000Well, I mean, if you deport their parents, then the child might have to go with them because it's better that families stay together.
00:20:37.000J.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.
00:20:48.000He is, in fact, the scion of a billionaire family.
00:20:50.000But that's OK as long as you're a Democrat.
00:20:53.000In any case, here he was suggesting that he would help support illegal immigrant criminals, but not the quote unquote undocumented.
00:20:59.000Those are just normal illegal immigrants.
00:21:02.000You have a law in the books in your state that that requires maybe local law enforcement to rule.
00:21:10.000Protect people that the federal law enforcement agents are coming in to try to deport.
00:21:16.000That sounds like a recipe for a big problem.
00:21:21.000No, 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.
00:21:34.000Look, again, we want to get violent criminals off the street just like everybody else does and we're going to coordinate in that.
00:21:40.000And 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.
00:21:49.000Our 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.
00:22:01.000This 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.
00:22:12.000I think that you are fine with criminal illegal immigrants.
00:22:14.000It only becomes embarrassing to you on occasion.
00:22:16.000I 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.
00:22:27.000Plus, 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.
00:22:37.000So apparently some kinds of criminals it's okay to keep in the country.
00:22:41.000Look, the administration already has the authority to detain people that have committed violent crimes for deportation, and they should.
00:22:49.000But 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.
00:23:25.000So, I don't really trust Democrats when it comes to illegal immigration or pretty much anything else.
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00:25:36.000Do 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.
00:25:48.000President 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.
00:25:57.000Trump said he was stunned by the devastation and vowed to partner with local officials to help victims.
00:26:00.000So 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.
00:26:18.000There's from both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans.
00:26:22.000Mayor Bass is also going to be part of those discussions.
00:26:25.000You 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.
00:26:35.000So it seems as if right now it's cordial, a handshake.
00:26:39.000I'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.
00:26:48.000Okay, some interesting body language there as he now greets the First Lady, and again, they will now head into the airport.
00:26:56.000The body language there, by the way, is hilarious.
00:26:58.000For 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.
00:27:05.000He's making hand motions, and Trump is just solid as a rock, just standing there like, okay, whatever, Gavin, all right.
00:27:12.000So, President Trump had many things to say about the handling of California.
00:27:16.000During 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.
00:27:26.000By the way, this was the way the disasters were handled in the United States for a very, very long time.
00:27:31.000It is a bizarre thing that area-specific crises ought to be thrust on the federal government.
00:27:37.000Why 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...
00:27:43.000They've been paying millions and billions of dollars over the years in order to protect themselves.
00:27:47.000Why can't the state of California, you know, take care of its own residents?
00:28:22.000I mean, yes, yes, but it didn't end there.
00:28:26.000President 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.
00:28:33.000One of the people who showed up was Congressman Brad Sherman, who actually represents the district that I used to live in, in California.
00:28:40.000And 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.
00:28:50.000Mr. 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.
00:28:57.000Well, you know, you did something, Brad, where every insurance company in the country left California.
00:29:02.000That's why you have no insurance, because you made it so impossible.
00:29:05.000People that think like you made it so impossible.
00:29:09.000And Brad, every insurance company, I don't know what you know about my thinking.
00:29:15.000I've never seen a state where almost nobody has insurance.
00:29:40.000The 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.
00:29:51.000And 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.
00:30:10.000What 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.
00:30:19.000So you're going to see us proposing both of those.
00:30:41.000President 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.
00:31:40.000He 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.
00:31:49.000I think you have to, you have emergency powers just like I do, and I'm exercising my emergency powers.
00:32:22.000We 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.
00:32:32.000He has already made moves to intimidate opponents of the United States into, for example, taking illegal immigrants back.
00:32:53.000One 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.
00:33:01.000So, there's a big controversy that broke out over the weekend because President Trump fired something like 17 inspectors general.
00:33:10.000He's supposedly in violation of the law.
00:33:12.000I'm going to explain that in a moment.
00:33:13.000According to the New York Times, For the removal.
00:33:44.000The move was the latest wave of abrupt upheavals following the inauguration of Mr. Trump that put the government in increasing confusion.
00:33:51.000Apparently, 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.
00:34:06.000The 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.
00:34:29.000The number of hours that were dedicated to that stupid foray into mythical idiocy was exorbitant.
00:34:37.000These inspector generals do not work for Congress.
00:35:07.000Appointing 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.
00:35:17.000He saw it during his first administration.
00:35:20.000Democrats, of course, are very upset about all of this.
00:35:22.000They would not be nearly as upset if these inspectors general had spent their time deep-stating Joe Biden during the last administration.
00:35:30.000They didn't, because these inspectors general tend to be democratic plans very often.
00:35:35.000Here was the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ripping the firing of the inspectors general.
00:35:40.000Quote, in the dark of night, President Trump fired at least 12 independent inspectors general at important federal agencies across the administration.
00:36:00.000of the intelligence apparatus of the United States government to go after the sitting president of the United States during Trump term number one.
00:36:22.000If Congress has its own investigative power, why are there executive branch agents who are not answerable to the president of the United States?
00:36:33.000Some of the most corrupt people in American government complaining about this.
00:36:36.000Adam 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.
00:36:48.000Now, 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.
00:37:00.000The American people, if we don't have good and independent inspector generals, are gonna see the swamp refill.
00:37:07.000They're gonna see rampant waste fraud.
00:37:12.000It 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.
00:37:25.000Again, this sort of absolute hypocrisy.
00:37:28.000is truly awful, and it's the reason why these people are getting fired today.
00:37:33.000In 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.
00:37:40.000First, 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.
00:37:46.000Our hit comedy film, Lady Ballers, hilariously tackled the absurdity and dangers of men competing in women's sports.
00:37:51.000A conversation now at the forefront of national policy debates thanks to new executive orders.
00:37:56.000The number one documentary of the decade exposed the grifters and race hustlers driving DEI initiatives.
00:38:01.000Following recent executive orders, DEI programs have been significantly dismantled at the federal level and scaled back by major corporations.
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00:38:23.000Speaking 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.
00:38:31.000They 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.
00:38:39.000They 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.
00:39:05.000The American people were living on edge.
00:39:07.000When Joe Biden was president, career employees at the DOJ who are interested in pushing their own agenda should be living on edge.
00:39:13.000Speaking of which, charges were dropped by federal prosecutors against a surgeon, Dr. Ethan Chaim.
00:39:19.000We talked about this on the show a few months back.
00:39:21.000He 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.
00:39:30.000He requested access to the hospital's record database in 2023, claiming he needed information to provide adult care services.
00:39:36.000He then showed that this particular health care hospital was actually transing the children.
00:39:43.000He disclosed the information to Chris Rufo, our friend.
00:39:47.000Rufo then published an article saying the hospital was continuing to provide trans care to minors after it announced an end to the practice.
00:39:53.000He said that he hadn't done anything wrong.
00:40:31.000Again, every vote mattered in the United States Senate.
00:40:34.000That'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.
00:40:41.000The only Republican senators who did not vote for Hegseth.
00:40:44.000And 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.
00:40:50.000So you're going to get a purplish senator in Maine.
00:40:52.000Lisa Murkowski in Alaska is the one who should really be under the gun.
00:40:56.000I mean, Lisa Murkowski represents a state that went for President Trump by one million points.
00:41:00.000Mitch 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.
00:41:39.000I want to thank the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump.
00:41:44.000We could not have a better Commander-in-Chief than him.
00:41:47.000It is the honor of a lifetime, sir, to serve under you.
00:41:51.000We 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.
00:42:03.000Hex has also pledged that the U.S. military will never back down.
00:42:07.000Again, there's a reason why I so strongly supported Pete Hegseth for SecDef.
00:42:10.000He's going to be an excellent Secretary of Defense.
00:42:14.000You fight, you go do tough things in tough places on behalf of your country, and sometimes that changes you a little bit.
00:42:19.000And 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.
00:42:46.000Hegseth, of course, is exactly right about all this.
00:42:48.000If 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.
00:43:05.000You know, I'm really excited that the President and the new Secretary have embraced that Reagan term, you know, peace through strength.
00:43:14.000The Secretary and I, we talked about the priority for our nuclear deterrent, our nuclear triad.
00:43:22.000That is the bedrock of our entire national security.
00:43:25.000It's for ourselves, but also for our allies.
00:43:28.000They depend upon our nuclear umbrella as well.
00:43:31.000So we're going through a modernization program of all three legs of that triad.
00:43:36.000And 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.
00:43:53.000We cannot afford to fall behind on this.
00:44:13.000Now, just to show you how deeply embedded the deep state is.
00:44:16.000One 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.
00:44:36.000That 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.
00:44:45.000So Hegseth immediately suggested that that had been immediately reversed.
00:44:49.000He 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.
00:44:55.000Malicious compliance is exactly right.
00:44:57.000They'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.
00:45:15.000Hegseth said, we're all over it, Senator.
00:46:06.000So former CIA Director John Brennan, who probably, probably should be in jail for perjury, he claims that Tulsi Gabbard should not be DNI. Why?
00:46:16.000Because she will violate the law and withhold intelligence from Donald Trump.
00:46:21.000When there are National Security Council meetings that the president chairs in the White House Situation Room...
00:46:26.000Usually, 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.
00:46:36.000And 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...
00:46:51.000And also, you know, it's going to be potentially threatening to our national security.
00:46:55.000So, 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.
00:47:12.000And if they withhold things or if they skew things, it really is going to be detrimental.
00:47:20.000Now again, I might accept that from somebody else.
00:47:23.000From John Brennan, I'm not going to take this.
00:47:24.000Here 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.
00:47:41.000John 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.
00:48:05.000But I was unaware of the providence of it as well as what was in it.
00:48:10.000And 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.
00:48:22.000And 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.
00:48:28.000And 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.
00:48:45.000And I would take any critique I'm willing to hear, but I'm not willing to hear it from you.
00:48:50.000If 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.