The stock market hits a new all-time high, the Dow Jones and S&P 500 hit new records, and the Dow hits new highs. President Trump's approval rating hits 47%, the highest it has ever been for a president in his first term. A bizarre bishop at the National Prayer Service lectured the President about transgender children and why he should stop deporting illegal immigrants.
00:00:27.000Turns out that's like an 80-20 proposition in the United States of America.
00:00:31.000Further, 58% of respondents to a Reuters-Ipsos poll agreed with the statement the United States should, quote, dramatically reduce the number of migrants allowed to claim asylum at the border.
00:00:41.000And these are big numbers for President Trump.
00:00:44.000The less popular items on his agenda include some of the pardons that he's issuing, but he's burying that in all of the popular policies.
00:00:51.000And, by the way, The stock market is at a new all-time high.
00:00:55.000The S&P 500 is at a record high three days since President Trump took office.
00:01:08.000And look, it's been a really good week in terms of yields coming down, in terms of earnings, and then you get this announcement surrounding Stargate and the effect that you're seeing here, not just on the AI names that we already know, but it's really expanding beyond that.
00:02:12.000Because the founder mentality is back.
00:02:14.000And the left does not know what to do.
00:02:16.000The fact that there are two controversies over the past 48 hours have been a fake controversy surrounding Elon Musk not doing a Nazi salute.
00:02:28.000At the Episcopal Church, who apparently, allegedly, lived at one point with both her boyfriend and his girlfriend at one point.
00:02:37.000This person decided to lecture the President of the United States at the National Prayer Service about transgender children and why he should stop deporting illegal immigrants.
00:02:45.000President Trump did respond, quote, the so-called bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a radical left hardline Trump hater.
00:02:52.000She brought her church into a world of politics in a very ungracious way.
00:02:55.000She was nasty in tone and not compelling or smart.
00:02:58.000She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our country and killed people.
00:03:01.000Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions.
00:03:04.000It's a giant crime wave that is taking place in the United States.
00:03:07.000Apart from inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one.
00:03:55.000And by the way, whomever decided inside the administration to subject Donald Trump to that is like that person should definitely be on the outs.
00:04:04.000I will say that the footage, as I said at the time, of J.D. Vance doing Jim from the office, like, one of the best vibes of this administration is J.D.'s Jim from the office vibe, and it's constant.
00:04:14.000The constant reaction shots that he saw during his debates with Tim Walz.
00:04:17.000The reaction shots that you get when he's being lectured about transgender children where he looks like he just can't even believe what's happening.
00:04:25.000Well, now the left has decided to turn Bishop Marianne Buddy, who apparently is this no-name bishop who decided to lecture the president and vice president, into a resistance hero.
00:04:38.000Well, Bishop Buddy was on with Erin Burnett and decided to talk about her religious precepts, which include apparently transing the children.
00:05:22.000Some of the other comments I've received haven't been as kind or has been as muted, shall we say.
00:05:29.000And one of the things I was trying to get across is that we can actually have these conversations in a respectful way.
00:05:35.000Well, she did not have their conversation in a respectful way.
00:05:37.000She hijacked a national prayer service to throw a bunch of politics in there.
00:05:41.000She then appeared on The View because, again, time for new resistance.
00:05:44.000If this is the best you guys can bring, If Marianne Edgar, buddy, is your resistance hero, guys, you're going to have to do better than this.
00:05:52.000I mean, how could it not be politicized, right?
00:05:57.000One of the things I caution about is the culture of contempt in which we live that immediately rushes to the worst possible interpretations of what people are saying and to put them in categories.
00:06:10.000Such as the ones you've just described.
00:06:12.000That's part of the air we breathe now.
00:06:14.000And I was trying to speak a truth that I felt needed to be said, but to do it in as respectful and kind a way as I could.
00:06:22.000It was neither respectful nor kind, of course.
00:06:26.000The media, of course, are already arraying against President Trump.
00:06:32.000It's not helping their ratings, by the way.
00:06:34.000I think one of the sort of going theories about media...
00:06:37.000Is that left-wing media thrive when there is a right-winger in office?
00:06:40.000That might have been true during Trump 1. I do not think that's going to be true during Trump 2 because it's just boring.
00:06:44.000You know exactly what they're going to say before they say it.
00:06:47.000It's tiring, and it's annoying, and it's boring.
00:06:50.000Listening to CNN hosts gush over a decline in inauguration ratings.
00:06:54.000I'm sorry, this is not going to bring CNN's ratings back.
00:06:56.000They are firing, by the way, hundreds of people this week because they just have no ratings at all.
00:07:01.000They have no ratings, no revenue, nothing.
00:07:04.000On the subject of backwards looking at past grievances, some of the television ratings for the inauguration have come out.
00:07:11.000Fewer people watched than watched when President Biden was inaugurated four years ago.
00:07:15.000Fewer people watched than when Donald Trump was inaugurated the first time.
00:08:15.000They are shutting down, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
00:08:17.000Every single DEI office across the entirety of the federal government.
00:08:22.000According to this new memorandum, they're taking steps to close agency DEIA offices.
00:08:29.000Each should take prompt actions regarding the offices and agency subunits focused exclusively on DEI. Specifically, agency heads should, no later than 5 p.m.
00:08:40.000Eastern time, Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025, send an agency-wide notice to employees, informing them of the closure and asking employees if they know of any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language, a template agency-wide notice is attached as Appendix 1.
00:08:53.000So in other words, also let us know if you guys are going to try and hide your DEI employees under another rubric.
00:09:23.000The White House put a statement out at the time suggesting, quote, the Biden administration forced illegal and immoral discrimination programs going by the name diversity, equity, and inclusion into virtually all aspects of the federal government and areas ranging from airline safety to the military.
00:09:38.000This is a concerted effort stemming from President Biden's first day in office when he issued Executive Order 13958, advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities through the federal government.
00:09:48.000Pursuant to Executive Order 13958 and follow-on orders, nearly every federal agency and entity submitted equity action plans.
00:09:55.000The public release of these plans demonstrated immense public waste and shameful discrimination.
00:10:01.000Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect and to expanding precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.
00:10:12.000DEI is being killed by the Trump administration.
00:10:15.000I'll get to more on that in just one second.
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00:12:35.000He's a truly moral person who believes the right things.
00:12:40.000Here he was, pointing out that his agency had been spending millions of dollars on DEI. For the patriotic Americans, they feel like this sense of decline, the sense of malaise that's taken over the country over the last four years is ending.
00:12:53.000And the way President Trump is doing it is going right to the source of that decline, and he's getting rid of it root and branch, and DEI is part of it.
00:13:00.000To your point, people would be shocked if they learned how much DEI had been embedded in agencies.
00:13:05.000At the FCC alone, we were spending millions and millions of dollars promoting it.
00:13:09.000Thanks to President Trump's leadership, that's ending, and we're getting things turned around, focusing on our core.
00:13:15.000Yeah, there is a sort of international conservatism that is rising.
00:13:20.000And that international conservatism, again, it's being imitated everywhere.
00:13:24.000It includes Brendan Carr citing my favorite modern politician, Javier Mille, from Argentina, when he says, if you're not on board with killing DEI, afuera, get out of here.
00:13:36.000Look, anybody that is not on board with the agenda that we're going to be running, I have just one thing to say to them, which is afuera.
00:14:05.000That's the agenda that I'll be running at the FCC. And thankfully, we have a lot of actually really talented, dedicated career staff there.
00:14:12.000I'm confident that we're going to execute on that agenda.
00:14:15.000By the way, this includes doing the most obvious things.
00:14:17.000Like, for example, stop it with the DEI. When it comes to the Federal Aviation Administration, when you have a pilot, you do not care whether the pilot is white, black, green, brown, male, female.
00:14:29.000What you care about is whether the plane gets where it's supposed to go in the safest possible way.
00:14:33.000The notion that you are hiring pilots based on their intersectional credentials is one of the dumbest things anyone has ever pursued.
00:14:39.000And the White House has now put out an executive order on this, quote, illegal and discriminatory DEI hiring, including on the basis of race, sex, disability, or any other criteria.
00:14:49.000Other than the safety of airline passengers and overall job excellence, competency and qualification harms all Americans who deserve to fly with confidence.
00:14:56.000It also penalizes hardworking Americans who want to serve in the FAA but are unable to do so as they lack a requisite disability or skin color.
00:15:02.000FAA employees must hold the qualifications and have the ability to perform their jobs to the highest possible standard of excellence.
00:15:09.000This is obviously really, really good.
00:15:11.000The biggest action that was taken by President Trump yesterday was his move To destroy Executive Order 11246. Executive Order 11246 was an executive order that was originally signed by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. And it required affirmative action.
00:15:33.000In fact, it prohibited federal contractors and federally assisted construction contractors and subcontractors who do over $10,000 in government business in one year.
00:15:42.000From discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, which sounds fine, right?
00:15:46.000No discrimination if you are going to contract with the federal government.
00:15:50.000It required contractors to discriminate, to, quote, take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.
00:16:01.000That affirmative action means racial discrimination.
00:16:06.000It means not anti-discrimination, but yes, discrimination.
00:16:11.000Has now rescinded that executive order.
00:16:15.000Okay, that EO, that LBJ EO, was notorious.
00:16:19.000It was notorious for having crammed affirmative action throughout the federal government.
00:16:31.000Meanwhile, when it comes to immigration, President Trump is moving.
00:16:35.000This was his key promise since 2015, and he is not letting up, according to the Associated Press.
00:16:40.000The Pentagon said on Wednesday it has begun deploying 1,500 active-duty troops to help secure the southern border, putting in motion plans that President Trump laid out in executive order shortly after he took office to crack down on immigration.
00:16:51.000Acting Defense Secretary Robert Solisus said the troops will fly helicopters to assist Border Patrol agents and help in the construction of barriers.
00:16:59.000The Pentagon is also going to provide military aircraft for DHS deportation flights for more than 5,000 detained migrants.
00:17:12.000Stilises said in a statement, quote, this is just the beginning.
00:17:15.000In short order, he said, the department will develop and execute additional missions in cooperation with DHS, federal agencies, and state partners to address the full range of threats outlined by the president at our nation's border.
00:17:26.000By the way, the department is preparing right now to send 2,000 more Marines to the border to help enforce the border.
00:17:34.000And President Trump, his team, they take this very, very seriously.
00:17:37.000Not only that, The DOJ has been instructed that if local officials actually obstruct the working of immigration law, they should be prosecuted.
00:17:46.000In the memo, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Booth, Trump's former defense attorney, outlines, quote, interim decisions and policy changes pending the confirmation of Trump's U.S. Attorney General nominee, Pam Bondi.
00:17:58.000He said that changes are necessary as an initial response regarding three of the most serious threats facing the American people.
00:18:06.000Those threats are cartels, He said the Justice Department must work to eradicate those threats, and that means they're not going to simply allow local authorities to obstruct what it is they are doing.
00:18:35.000Bove reiterated in this memo to the DOJ, quote, federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands.
00:18:45.000So, if you are a local politician who is seeking to impede the workings of ICE or Border Patrol, prepare to find yourself in the dock.
00:18:54.000That is what the DOJ is saying, and they are correct to do so, because if the plenary power of the federal government includes immigration, that means you can't obstruct it.
00:19:35.000They're killing people on both sides of the border, en masse.
00:19:38.000They basically control the Mexican government.
00:19:40.000They've been shipping tons of fentanyl over the border, which is killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.
00:19:45.000And it might hurt the economy to call them terrorists?
00:19:48.000The New York Times suggests that it could be bad because it could force some American companies to forego doing business in Mexico rather than risk American sanctions.
00:20:02.000That if the drug cartels are working with the Mexican government, that people can't work with the Mexican government anymore, or the federal government's going to prosecute them.
00:20:09.000Well, maybe the solution for that for the Mexican government would be to disentangle themselves from the drug cartels.
00:20:16.000According to the New York Times, these criminal organizations are now embedded in a wide swath of the legal economy, from avocado farming to the country's billion-dollar tourism industry, making it hard to be absolutely sure American companies are isolated from cartel activities.
00:20:30.000Now, again, I highly doubt the Trump administration is looking to shut down hotels in Mexico because they're part-owned by cartel members.
00:20:37.000However, it seems to me the more pressing issue is that the entire border on the Mexican side and parts of the American side is controlled by Mexican drug cartels.
00:20:47.000Now, meanwhile, by the way, Secretary of State Rubio, who was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Monday night and sworn in on Tuesday morning, he is pausing refugee operations and he is ramping up visa vetting, according to Fox News.
00:21:01.000Immediately after becoming the next secretary, Rubio directed the Department of State to halt refugee resettlement programs.
00:21:07.000Instead, he ordered the department to implement enhanced vetting for visa applications from dangerous regions.
00:21:12.000Which, by the way, seems like it would be a really good idea because it turns out that a refugee from Morocco, or at least a person from Morocco, who's on an American visa, went on a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv the other day.
00:21:24.000The person got into Israel by first going to the United States, having a visa, And then traveling to Israel to stab four people, including one with a serious condition with a knife wound to the neck.
00:21:39.000The attacker was shot dead at that point.
00:21:43.000Again, this person basically got in because this person was in America first.
00:21:49.000So yes, we should be vetting everybody who's claiming refugee status getting into the United States at this point.
00:21:54.000There are just too many people with quote-unquote refugee status, and we have no idea who they are, and they may have terrorist affiliations.
00:21:59.000It turns out that enforcing immigration law is actually just commonsensical.
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00:24:19.000He said that in the first 48 hours, there are about 700-plus total apprehensions.
00:24:25.000Look, the greatest president in my lifetime, he's back.
00:24:28.000Because in two days, the last 24 hours, total apprehensions on the southwest border, 766. Compare that to the 10,000 to 12,000 Biden had at one time.
00:26:03.000What is happening as we speak is limited to those with criminal records?
00:26:09.000That's a target of this operation, but like I said many times, in places like Sanctuary Cities where we can't arrest a bad person in the jail, we would like to have access to the jail to arrest a criminal alien in the safety and security of a county jail, which is safer for the community, safer for the officers, and safer for the alien.
00:26:25.000But when you release a public safety threat of a sanctuary jail and won't give us access to them, that means we've got to go to the neighborhood and find them.
00:26:43.000And this is the difference between the last administration and this administration.
00:26:46.000ISIS is going to enforce the immigration law.
00:26:48.000There's nothing in the INA, the Immigration Nationality Act, that says you've got to be convicted of a serious crime in order to be removed from this country.
00:26:54.000So there's going to be more collateral arrests in sanctuary cities because they forced us to go in the community and find the guy we're looking for.
00:27:01.000Let me just make sure that I understand what you're saying, because at first you said that the first targets are those with criminal records, but you are also saying that those who are undocumented in the U.S. also who don't have criminal records, people who are working in their communities, maybe even have spouses who are American citizens, they could be swept up with ICE today as well?
00:27:27.000What I'm telling you is when we go find our priority target, which is a criminal alien, If he's with others in the United States illegally, we're going to take enforcement action against him.
00:27:35.000We're going to enforce the immigration law.
00:27:37.000Again, this is such common sense, and the fact that she is shocked by this is really the shocking thing.
00:27:43.000Well, meanwhile, President Trump isn't just moving on immigration.
00:27:47.000So, a couple days ago, President Trump announced that there would be a massive investment in AI databases.
00:27:52.000This is the infrastructure that is necessary in order to power AI. So, AI relies on crunching extraordinary amounts of data.
00:28:00.000When ChatGPT takes in what you are asking it, and then it pumps out an answer, it is analyzing pretty much everything it can get its hands on.
00:28:08.000We're talking about essentially the entire publicly available internet.
00:28:12.000And then it is predicting the most likely response that you're looking for based on your question.
00:28:17.000It's doing so via keywords, essentially.
00:28:21.000That's a very, very short and dirty version of how AI works.
00:28:25.000What that means is that the amount of data that goes into one of those answers is huge.
00:28:29.000The amount of energy that it takes to crunch that data is huge.
00:28:42.000You can't just build it in a place where people don't know about it.
00:28:45.000Not a random person can build an AI database or any database for that matter.
00:28:50.000And three, They do require climate that is somewhat friendly because they expend extraordinary amounts of heat.
00:28:55.000And while the United States has been generally a little bit underpowered in this area, China is leading the way when it comes to the development of a lot of these AI capabilities.
00:29:05.000The United States must lead the way because these capabilities are going to be scarily effective, not only doing things like curing diseases, but also doing everything from booking your vacations for you to helping you do the most basic tasks in your life.
00:29:20.000The power of AI is, I think, if anything, underrated at this point.
00:29:26.000It is the equivalent of how the internet changed the world, but more so.
00:29:31.000And honestly, the best thing you can probably say about AI in terms of an analogy is the Industrial Revolution, just in the terms of the massive, society-wide changes that are about to occur that most people aren't thinking about.
00:29:44.000And that requires, again, enormous expenditure of resources to keep that sort of stuff at home.
00:29:49.000Here's President Trump announcing, A $500 billion investment in precisely this sort of infrastructure.
00:29:56.000Together, these world-leading technology giants are announcing the formation of Stargate.
00:30:03.000So put that name down in your books because I think you're going to hear a lot about it in the future.
00:30:09.000A new American company that will invest $500 billion at least in AI infrastructure in the United States and very...
00:30:18.000Very quickly, moving very rapidly, creating over 100,000 American jobs almost immediately.
00:30:41.000If the Industrial Revolution made it so that everyone, weak and strong, had the capacity to do extraordinary amounts of work because of machines, Well, the AI revolution makes everybody a lot smarter, a lot smarter.
00:30:52.000Like, you don't have to be a genius anymore.
00:30:54.000In order to process a lot of data and get it out, you just type it into ChatGPT.
00:30:58.000Okay, so here is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talking about how AI can impact medicine at this event.
00:31:05.000How will AI help us with the fight against the various problems, diseases, etc.?
00:31:13.000These guys can maybe share more about some of the work they're doing there.
00:31:16.000I think they'll jointly be some of the leaders about driving progress here.
00:31:20.000But I believe that as this technology progresses, we will see diseases get cured at an unprecedented rate.
00:31:26.000We will be amazed at how quickly we're curing this cancer and that one and heart disease.
00:31:31.000And what this will do for the ability to deliver very high-quality healthcare, the costs, but really to cure the diseases at a rapid, rapid rate, I think will be...
00:31:44.000Yeah, well, Elon Musk somehow kind of got crossways of the president on this announcement.
00:34:56.000President Trump said that he wants to usher in a golden age for the United States.
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00:36:23.000When it comes to leverage, President Trump isn't just leveraging Canada.
00:36:25.000He is, in fact, leveraging the Russians.
00:36:27.000So President Trump has now threatened sanctions and tariffs on Russia if Vladimir Putin does not reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
00:36:33.000I said this is what he was going to do.
00:36:35.000Remember, I told you he wasn't just going to cut off aid to Ukraine and hand the country over to the Russians the way that Democrats and the media kept saying.
00:36:43.000He put out a statement on Truth Social that if the government, quote, "cannot make a deal and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States and various other participating countries." This is, again, he wants the end of the war.
00:37:06.000It is clear that President Trump is not simply going to unilaterally let his foot off the gas when it comes to sanctions on Vladimir Putin.
00:37:14.000And it is also clear that Trump has no interest in allowing Russia to simply walk through Ukraine.
00:37:20.000I'm going to do Russia, whose economy is failing, and President Putin a very big favor.
00:37:24.000Settle now and stop this ridiculous war.
00:37:36.000Meanwhile, speaking of peace through strength, Pete Hegseth has been moved out of committee.
00:37:41.000Apparently, there are three Republican senators who plan not to vote for him, meaning J.D. Vance will break the tie and he'll be confirmed.
00:38:02.000Maybe he's on his way out and this is kind of a twist in the nose of President Trump.
00:38:06.000In any case, Susan Collins told reporters on Wednesday she found troubling information had been admitted from Pete Hegseth's FBI background check.
00:38:13.000And this seems like such a cheap shot.
00:38:24.000It really is a blue state with a couple purple leanings.
00:38:28.000With that said, the reports that are being discussed right now about Hegseth focus in on his supposed treatment of his ex-wife.
00:38:38.000Senators received an affidavit containing new allegations against Hegseth, according to NBC News.
00:38:45.000The receipt of the affidavit came after Senate Armed Services Committee staffers were in contact with Hegseth's former sister-in-law for several days.
00:38:51.000That former sister-in-law submitted the affidavit, and apparently she was asked to detail what she knew of instances of abuse or threats of abuse perpetrated against any other person and, quote, mistreatment of a spouse, former spouse, or other members of his family, among other requests.
00:39:07.000Jack Reed, the senator from Rhode Island, he said, quote, as I said for months, the reports of Hegseth's history of alleged sexual assault Alcohol abuse and public misconduct necessitate an exhaustive background investigation.
00:39:18.000Danielle apparently describes in the affidavit allegations of volatile and threatening conduct by Hegseth and made his second wife, Samantha Hegseth, fear for her safety.
00:39:26.000Among her allegations are that Samantha hid in a closet once from Hegseth and that she developed escape plans for use if she felt she needed to get away from Hegseth that would be activated with a code word and that she did once put the escape plans into action.
00:39:41.000The ex-wife denied it, and the entire media ran with it, and so did Democrats.
00:39:44.000Quote, First and foremost, I have not and will not comment on my marriage to beat Hexeth.
00:39:49.000I do not have representatives speaking on my behalf, nor have I ever asked anyone to share or speak about the details of my marriage on my behalf, whether it be a reporter, a committee member, a transition team member, etc.
00:39:58.000I do not believe your information to be accurate.
00:40:13.000So if this is the basis for Susan Collins opposing, that is ridiculous and insane.
00:40:19.000In any case, these sorts of spurious allegations, unsupportable by the actual available evidence, have become stock in trade for Democrats from Clarence Thomas to Brett Kavanaugh, and it is not going to kill nominations any longer.