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00:02:19.000Excited to be here, and there's lots of news to go over.
00:02:22.000Of course, over the weekend, it feels like there's always a lot of news, and then we catch up on it on the Monday.
00:02:28.000We are here at the Y Refi Studios in Phoenix, Arizona, and it's a beautiful thing.
00:02:32.000But over the weekend, Trump announced via True Social that he was going to start opening the straight, escorting.
00:02:42.000Countries that are, quote unquote, victims of circumstance.
00:02:46.000And he's calling it Operation Freedom, where they're going to be leading and guiding ships through the Strait of Hormuz to sort of ease maybe the economic fallout from the Strait being closed.
00:02:57.000Obviously, about 20 to 30 percent of the world's energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:03:03.000And just before the show began, we started hearing rumors that Iran was firing back after this announcement from the president.
00:03:47.000Are we about to see a return to kinetic hostilities led by the U.S. military in the region?
00:03:54.000We are told there are about 15,000 service members activated right now in this moment.
00:04:00.000There were also reports, unconfirmed, I believe, at this point, that a South Korean tanker was hit by a mine in the Strait.
00:04:10.000So we're looking for confirmation on that.
00:04:12.000But this then is, it seems like, a return to the storylines of about a month ago, Blake, or three weeks ago, where we could be at the precipice of active military strikes against Iran once more.
00:04:47.000If they do, then they might see strikes.
00:04:49.000You know, we're seeing why this has proven such an intractable and difficult conflict, which is it's been difficult for us to actually shut down Iran's ability to launch missiles.
00:05:08.000It's difficult to destroy a country by blockade, even when it's an island, as we've seen with Cuba.
00:05:13.000Yeah, well, so the major effect, I think, of the blockade is economic, right?
00:05:18.000The 40% of Iran's GDP has been wiped off the books in just the last two months.
00:05:25.000And there is an issue when you stop oil production.
00:05:28.000So essentially, what is happening in Iran is that they are still pumping, because if you stop pumping, you can cause permanent damage to the wells.
00:05:36.000They might not ever come back, actually, in the same way that they were.
00:05:40.000So either you lose them altogether or Future production is greatly degraded.
00:05:44.000So, what they have to now do, since they're not able to get any of their oil out, is they're trying to find storage in Iran.
00:05:51.000So, you're trying to find places where you can actually store the oil.
00:05:55.000And once you run out of that, then you have to stop production.
00:05:58.000And there's another issue is that when the oil is going out, obviously you're getting revenue in.
00:06:03.000Well, if you stop getting revenue in, and this represents the vast majority of the Iranian economy, then essentially you're going to run out of the ability to pay your troops.
00:06:12.000So, they are looking at about 20 days out.
00:06:15.000From running out of money, according to estimates, to be able to pay their troops.
00:06:18.000The question is, will that stop the IRGC?
00:06:24.000Will they just kind of tough it out, grin and bear it?
00:06:27.000The line that everybody likes to use is that they have a high pain threshold and can tolerate a long term, drawn out, painful situation.
00:06:35.000What I will say is, I think we've seen a lot of very optimistic estimates that they can't last another day, they can't last another week, and we're.
00:06:48.000Almost two and a half months into this and hasn't fallen yet.
00:06:53.000So I think we're seeing why it was, we're frankly seeing why Charlie issued so many warnings about a conflict like this.
00:07:00.000Yeah, I mean, this was the great white whale of the neocon establishment as they wanted to take out the Iranian regime.
00:07:07.000This is why we are always skeptical about it.
00:07:09.000This is why we didn't, you know, beat the drums of war over at the Charlie Kirk show.
00:07:15.000It's because this is a, A very, as you say, intractable potential problem.
00:07:21.000How do you finish this off if they're willing to just sort of grin and bear it and lose their economy in order to not lose face and to maintain their dignity and their sovereignty?
00:07:31.000And remember that they control the vast majority of the shoreline of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:08:39.000This was obviously first and foremost the discussion about nuclear weapons, but now it becomes obviously it would be in their best interest to get a truce, to get a peace just for economic reasons.
00:08:54.000I'm not so sure that they're going to behave rationally when it comes to this because they believe that they have the leverage.
00:09:00.000And we talk about leverage, they think they have the leverage because they can stand this.
00:09:06.000This conflict is longer potentially than the patience of the American people.
00:09:09.000And what we'll say is also there's going to be, because we've been around this for several months, there's going to be people, I think, adjacent to the White House, maybe in the White House, who will tell the president if you do this one thing, if you take this one step that's more aggressive, put boots on the ground, seize Karg Island, you'll be able to end the war.
00:10:14.000No, this is, you know, absolutely from far left progressive groups.
00:10:20.000And basically, what happened was it was a Workers Over Billionaires coalition called for a nationwide day of action with the slogan, No School.
00:10:45.000But this made a lot of news because over 20 school districts, mostly the largest ones in the country, participated in this walkout.
00:10:54.000They claimed it was because there were not going to be teachers and administrators there to take care of the students.
00:11:01.000But then you find out a lot of these students are getting busts to the protests directly.
00:11:06.000So there was a full effort to get young people, high schoolers that don't know what the heck they're talking about.
00:11:13.000Candidly about most of these issues, to hold up anti Trump signs, anti ICE signs, and to just basically take a day off of school.
00:11:20.000And there you can see them right there.
00:11:23.000Blake, you find out there's student groups like the Sunrise Movement and labor coalitions, and then you find out the teachers' unions, which we talked about recently, the NAE affiliates were behind all of this.
00:11:37.000Instead of training your kids in reading, writing, and arithmetic, they're teaching them how to hate Trump.
00:11:44.000Well, yeah, I mean, that's the chief goal of a huge number of public school teachers, well, I should say private school ones across the country as well.
00:11:52.000But that for a lot of teachers, the chief role of their profession is ideological training, ideological inculcation, and they're manifestly allowed to do this.
00:12:04.000We were just discussing in the break how Harmony Dillon's DOJ, they're investigating, I think, at least a couple dozen Illinois school districts over gender ideology.
00:12:14.000And it's just, it's pretty simple, which is just, did they allow.
00:12:17.000Parents to have their children opt out of hearing pro LGBT, pro trans propaganda in their classrooms.
00:12:26.000And apparently, they just, a lot of them weren't.
00:12:28.000It wouldn't shock me at all if they weren't.
00:12:30.000That if you're in public schools, if you're in the school system, you're constantly bombarded with propaganda about race stuff, gender stuff, anti Trump stuff, anti capitalism stuff.
00:12:43.000And they're weaponizing this more and more to just literally just say, oh, we're going to get kids to leave school because it's important to.
00:12:55.000And it's really just, we want to use children as ideological foot soldiers.
00:13:00.000And before we move on, I should just point out not only is May Day a commie holiday, it's specifically a commie holiday to commemorate a left wing bombing in Chicago, the Haymarket bombing.
00:13:12.000They started a series of marches on the 1st, and on today, May 4th, they blew up some police officers.
00:13:17.000And that is what they wanted to commemorate with May Day.
00:13:23.000I think it's a really cool way for us to show our students that they can take their power back and feel empowered for the day.
00:13:29.000We are organizing our school so that the K-6 students are also going to be able to march.
00:13:33.000We're going to be doing sign making, art projects, maybe a banner build with the students.
00:13:39.000And my students are learning, this land is your land.
00:13:41.000They're going to sing that along the way and some other chance.
00:13:44.000Our seventh and eighth graders are going to be going on a field trip downtown to the Union Park rally at 1 o'clock.
00:13:49.000It's really important that we build our power as workers.
00:13:51.000I'm excited to share that with my students so they can see workers building their own power.
00:13:57.000Kept talking about taking your power back and building your own power, and which is funny kindergartners, which is funny because these left wingers hate electricity, so they're actually making the power go out.
00:14:08.000Yeah, well, it's just very interesting that they're using school time to make protest signs, which is very indoctrinating, very wrong on multiple levels.
00:14:18.000This is a street journalist, Nate Friedman.
00:14:21.000I followed his work a little bit, and he does some fantastic street interviews.
00:14:46.000All the signs professionally printed here by the PSL, which is funded by Soros through, you know, you've got Progress Unity Fund, you've got the Justice and Education Fund through Singham.
00:15:03.000Are being used to bust kids to a protest.
00:15:06.000Do a day of action, a civic day of action for students so students can learn about their civil rights and unfortunately that are currently being eroded by our current U.S. government.
00:15:17.000Yeah, so, you know, Nate does a good job of identifying the financing that goes into this.
00:15:23.000Neville Singham, obviously, who is a billionaire that lives in China, he's funding a bunch of this stuff.
00:15:29.000You do have the Soros funding, professionally made signs.
00:15:32.000You've got young people getting indoctrinated.
00:15:34.000You hear that Mexican music in the background.
00:16:01.000And the second you think you're making progress in the country in any way, shape, or form, you've got these people that will continually pump millions, if not more, tens of millions into indoctrinating people.
00:16:15.000Young kids to go protest what they don't even know.
00:16:18.000I mean, for a lot of you out there, the easiest comparison if someone told you you can't go to church anymore, you can't be Christian anymore, how would you react to it?
00:16:27.000That is the frame you need to think of for a lot of these people in terms of doing left wing marches, doing left wing politics.
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00:17:54.000Man, you've been on fire lately and really been fun to watch some of what you've been doing, whether it's the congressional testimony on abortion, which we're going to play that clip in a second, talking about immigration, talking about domestic issues.
00:18:09.000In the segment before, we were talking about these May Day protests where you got 20 plus school districts, major school districts in the biggest metropolitan areas of the country walking out.
00:18:19.000And one of the things you've been talking about as well, Congressman, is this scourge of political violence, the rise of political violence.
00:19:03.000Congressman, what do you think when you see just that level of vitriol in our country?
00:19:08.000I mean, first of all, it's kind of amazing how deranged you have to be to start shouting at college students about somebody who's already been assassinated.
00:19:18.000I think that's a level of kind of darkness that most Americans aren't used to in our political system.
00:19:25.000But there is a Scourge of political violence and it is rising in the United States and it is predominantly coming from the left.
00:19:33.000Multiple shows, polls have shown that.
00:19:35.000Multiple polls have shown that more leftists, people who identify as very liberal, have an affinity for political violence than those who identify as very conservative.
00:19:49.000It's about 25% of very liberal versus about 3% of people who identify as very conservative.
00:19:55.000So it's incredibly skewed towards the left.
00:19:59.000But this is something, this is becoming kind of the new political environment that conservatives.
00:20:04.000Or operating under one where, whenever you go to a college campus, you expect from the very beginning that you're going to have not only protesters, but people coming to disrupt you and at times engage in just blatant acts of violence.
00:20:19.000It's sad that we've gotten to this point, but this is something that is coming from the left.
00:20:38.000It's very much, and actually, we were saying just before you came on these May Day protests established to commemorate a day where left wing anarchists threw bombs at police in Charlie's hometown in Chicago.
00:20:50.000There's this long history of left wing street violence, left wing agitation, let's just say left wing hate.
00:20:58.000And it's bubbling up and it's getting a lot of endorsement from their movement leaders and from their political leaders.
00:21:06.000And, you know, I think that it's something that there is a long history there.
00:21:10.000I mean, think about the political left in the United States, they are the inheritors of an ideological movement who has roots in the violence and bloodshed of the French Revolution that then developed throughout revolutions in Europe over the 19th century that was given further sort of political movement in the Russian Revolution.
00:21:38.000For most of its history, at least as its intellectual inheritance, has been rooted in violence and has been violently manifested over time.
00:21:49.000For so long in the United States, though, we've been able to sort of operate against a left wing movement that did stay away from acts of political violence.
00:22:01.000I mean, that is something that is somewhat novel as part of the American experiment, at least in modern history.
00:22:08.000But that is something that the left has embraced over the past several hundred years as a political movement.
00:22:18.000I mean, this is what most countries deal with, and we're getting to deal with it here in the United States as well.
00:22:24.000Yeah, Congressman, something we talk about on the show is the Brazilification, if you will, of the United States from the increased immigration from the third world.
00:22:32.000It seems like we're losing our moorings, our connections to the founding documents and our founding creeds.
00:22:39.000The values that have made America great for so long.
00:22:42.000And you've been on top of this topic as well.
00:22:45.000It's hard not to see a connection between the changing demographics, the fraying at the edges of the social contract.
00:22:58.000How connected do you see those two things being?
00:23:01.000Just the mass invasion level of immigration since especially the 1990s.
00:23:07.000And now you're starting to, those chickens are coming home to roost, it seems like, in some sense.
00:23:19.000You know, there's something that I know you guys have talked about, and conservatives are now starting to talk quite a bit about, and it's called social trust.
00:23:26.000And it's the idea that you can have some basic level of trust with people within a society that you don't even know, that you have no real connection to other than that you share certain cultural bonds.
00:23:39.000And that's something that we've enjoyed for so long in the United States.
00:23:43.000And that's because we've had a similar heritage and we share a similar conception of American history and a shared vision of where America is to go in the future, that we have shared basic moral and religious principles.
00:23:57.000With each other, and that creates a cohesive society where you don't typically have to deal with either political violence or issues like Somalis defrauding you because we all have a basic agreement that we don't do that to one another, even if we don't know each other.
00:24:13.000And I think that social trust is something that's really easy to take for granted because it's not something that you see or you don't see the opposite in daily life, it's something that's just kind of there.
00:24:26.000But it's one of those intangible building blocks of civilization.
00:24:33.000Whenever you bring people in from low trust civilization, low trust societies, where, for take Somalia as an example, where the common method of dealing with government to the extent government exists in Somalia is to try and get as much as you possibly can,
00:24:50.000where there's very little reciprocal agreement between the people of Somalia and the government of Somalia, where there isn't really a body politic that believes that it owes anything to anybody else.
00:25:04.000Whenever you bring those people into the United States and they bring those third world low trust customs, you should expect to see that to happen in the United States.
00:25:12.000And that's one of the key reasons why you see the Somali community in Minnesota that has a massively high welfare usage while at the same time defrauding taxpayers to just an absurd degree.
00:25:25.000And I think that that's a lot more common.
00:25:27.000And there was a Daily Wire story this morning.
00:25:29.000And then I think we're going to find out that behavior is a lot more common in the United States.
00:25:34.000We actually have the reporter Luke is going to be joining the show tomorrow.
00:25:38.000Uh, at 1 p.m. Eastern, so if you guys want to hear a deep, deep dive on that story, we're going to be covering it tomorrow.
00:25:45.000It used to be the discussion was that among the left, they would complain, Oh, the United States doesn't have a strong radical labor movement, doesn't have a strong Antifa left wing street violence.
00:25:58.000And one of the things they also complained about was Americans were too self reliant.
00:26:02.000It was in the past, it was difficult to get them to sign up for programs.
00:26:14.000And it's a stark reflection of decline.
00:26:17.000But we are very glad to have congressmen like yourself who will speak honestly about it because for a long time it was difficult to have that as well.
00:27:21.000Well, so we have a massive problem, I think, on multiple issues here, Congressman, but we have a radicalization problem with young women.
00:27:31.000A lot of them do tend to be white, but non white as well.
00:27:35.000And then you have a young cohort that has been brought into this country that's finding political common cause with this radical fraction.
00:27:44.000And so you get about 25 to 30% of the population that's truly radicalized or giving permission to the radicals.
00:27:52.000And that's why you have Hassan Piker, who has called for political violence against conservatives, being interviewed in the illustrious pages of the New York Times.
00:28:00.000All right, just a couple quick updates on the strikes that we mentioned earlier.
00:28:06.000UAE is reporting a fifth missile strike or attempted strike on them, and they're telling their population to bunker in, stay in safe places.
00:28:16.000And there's a couple news reports that the IDF is preparing for a rapid transition to a full state of war.
00:28:23.000Thousands of American soldiers and security officials are on standby in Israel as well.
00:28:28.000So, hopefully, this all doesn't materialize and we get back to a state of detente and stay with the blockade.
00:28:38.000And as the show goes on, we'll keep a lookout to see how much of an escalation we see.
00:28:43.000We are joined by Congressman Brandon Gill out of the great state of Texas.
00:28:47.000Congressman, you went viral for this incredible.
00:28:53.000I guess you were questioning a witness on the Hill, and you asked a very simple question, which I can't remember anybody ever asking, and it was brilliant.
00:29:04.000And you asked, What is your favorite form of abortion?
00:29:07.000Like, you prefer the suction, the dismemberment, all this.
00:29:10.000And man, it was, I think, the single most powerful pro life video that I have seen in some time.
00:29:18.000So we're going to play it for the audience here and get your response on the other side.
00:29:22.000You're an advocate for abortion, for abortion policy.
00:29:25.000What's your favorite type of abortion?
00:29:27.000Read through a couple different methods, and I want to get your take on how much you like these.
00:29:33.000The first type is called a suction abortion.
00:29:36.000This is when the cervix is dilated, and a strong suction, 29 times the power of a household vacuum cleaner, tears the baby's body apart and sucks it through the hose into a container.
00:30:30.000Most people don't want to talk about it.
00:30:31.000And that gets at something very important.
00:30:33.000They don't want to talk about it because it is ghastly, it's horrifying, and most importantly, it's evil.
00:30:37.000Yeah, it is barbaric and cruel and gruesome and evil.
00:30:42.000And, you know, if you look at the left's movement on abortion, I mean, not that long ago, the leftist mantra was abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.
00:30:51.000Even then, they admitted by saying it should be rare that there's something wrong with abortion, there's something off about it.
00:30:58.000But we've gotten to the point really in the last probably five or 10 years where the left's view of abortion is that this is now a positive good, this is something that should be celebrated, that we should be shouting our abortions.
00:31:10.000I think we ought to ask them and we ought to approach abortion advocates very, very clearly and ask them if you do think that abortion is such a great thing, why don't you tell me about it?
00:31:20.000Explain to me how this procedure, where we're crushing a little baby's skull in the womb and sucking it out with an extremely powerful vacuum cleaner, is a good thing.
00:31:29.000Why don't you tell me about that process?
00:31:32.000And I think if you ask them about it in a straightforward way, most of them get really uncomfortable because it's disgusting, it's sick, and it's evil, just like that lady did.
00:31:42.000She did not want to talk about abortion as a procedure because I think even she realizes there's something wrong with it.
00:31:51.000And this is something Charlie and I would talk about actually a lot is connecting these two concepts.
00:31:56.000We don't necessarily think of immigration and abortion as connected.
00:32:00.000But when you consider that some estimates have it that a third of Gen Z was aborted, and you think about the fact that since the passage of Roe, we're talking 60 million plus babies, Americans.
00:32:14.000And over that time, we've probably imported about, I don't know, about a similar number.
00:32:24.000And you just think, you know, did we abort an entire American generation and replace them with foreigners?
00:32:29.000And this, you know, the fraying of the social compact and of our social trust and social cohesion.
00:32:37.000I don't want to make this too spiritual because sometimes we go there and sometimes we're not, but it does feel like we are sort of, we've done this to ourselves.
00:32:46.000It's a judgment that happens to a country when you allow the scourge of something so evil and diabolical to take root the way it has.
00:32:55.000I think we certainly haven't, and the numbers you just laid out show that we did in many ways slaughter our own people and replace them with foreigners who are now having control over our elections, have control over the social contract in the United States, and we are bearing the brunt of that.
00:33:14.000You know, abortion is one of those things that is, you know, I believe in God, and I believe that our tolerance for abortion is something that the United States is going to have to pay for.
00:33:28.000That this is a spiritual war that we're in, that this is not, that there's something uniquely evil about butchering little babies in the womb who are entirely innocent babies that we have an obligation, not only as parents, of course, but also as a society to protect and nurture and raise in our country.
00:33:52.000And to perversely turn that obligation on its head and so grotesquely slaughter them, I think is something the country is.
00:34:46.000Well, it absolutely is about focusing on domestic issues, which, by the way, were the issues that catapulted the president to the presidency last election cycle that brought together kind of a new coalition of Republican voters.
00:35:00.000It's because they were focused on things that impact the day to day life of the American people, like mass migration.
00:35:07.000Like inflation, which is driven by runaway government spending, like the price of oil and the cost of living, health care, fraud.
00:35:17.000I mean, these are something that you can see in your daily life.
00:35:20.000And those are the issues that I think the American people are begging us to focus on in Washington.
00:36:37.000Anyways, I'm going to give you guys an update.
00:36:39.000And, Sean, I think it's going to roll into our first topic here.
00:36:42.000Trump vows Iran will be blown off the face of the earth if they intervene in Project Freedom.
00:36:48.000Obviously, President Trump of the weekend said, Project Freedom, we're going to be escorting ships through the strait.
00:36:53.000You know, countries that have nothing to do with the conflict, that are victims of circumstance.
00:36:58.000Iran has now, it seems, responded with strikes over at the UAE, apparently five missiles at this point.
00:37:06.000I don't think anything's landed, but a drone did cause a fire at one facility.
00:37:13.000Now we're getting told by CENTCOM that U.S. forces have sunk six Iranian small boats near the Strait of Hormuz.
00:37:23.000Directly in trying to challenge Operation Freedom.
00:37:28.000It says, CENTCON commander Admiral Brad Cooper said on the call that Iran historically has deployed between 20 and 40 small boats when harassing vessels in the strait.
00:37:37.000Today we saw just six and eliminated them quickly.
00:37:41.000The question is, you know, I guess more of a political one because you're a political animal here, Sean.
00:37:48.000It's what does this mean for the president's aspirations here in Iran if we're trying to escort ships through the strait?
00:37:58.000That are, you know, third party, neutral third party country vessels.
00:38:02.000And Iran is still trying to act like they have military control of the strait.
00:38:07.000Yeah, it's a real problem because we're in this kind of like, seems like we're at war, but kind of not really at war.
00:38:16.000I would liken it to you're in the backseat with a sibling on a road trip playing the not touching, can't get mad game.
00:38:23.000So it's enough to tick your parents off, but like not enough for them to go back there and stop the car and turn this thing around.
00:38:28.000It's just like a very low level of annoying and really unhelpful.
00:38:36.000And so it, but it creates this situation where we can't really say the war's over, the war's done, because the ramifications of the straight being completely jacked up is that gas is still ridiculously unaffordable.
00:38:51.000You know, where I am, it's north of $4 a gallon.
00:38:54.000And that's at Sam's Club, by the way, which is usually 10% to 20% cheaper than everywhere else.
00:39:01.000It's a real, real problem for the midterms, especially when, number one, you ran on lowering gas prices and making things affordable.
00:39:09.000And then, two, you ran on getting the economy back up and running.
00:39:11.000And the thing about really high fuel and energy prices is that it flows through everything.
00:39:28.000And so, you know, my view is the sooner we get this thing wrapped up, the better.
00:39:32.000The problem is starting wars is easy and ending them is really difficult because the enemy gets a vote.
00:39:38.000And when it's over, and Iran has apparently just decided it's going to play the not touching can't get mad game for as long as it feels like it can sustain it.
00:39:46.000And hope that maybe they'll get a new Congress or maybe they'll get a new president in a couple years and then they'll get everything they wanted in the first place, probably including nukes.
00:39:55.000So we're in this weird, like, stalemate waiting game of, you know, fake chicken going on.
00:40:01.000And I honestly, at this point, I just don't see how it ends.
00:40:05.000So, do you think, in terms of the political costs that it's exacting, do you think what's worse, what's bigger, the sense of the direct costs, which is that?
00:40:23.000And if it started to go great or if it ended, it would recede.
00:40:27.000Versus another trend that I think we've seen, which is people who just feel, I voted for Trump because I thought he would not go to war with Iran.
00:40:35.000I thought he was a peace president who would avoid conflict.
00:40:38.000And they feel let down over this, betrayed over this.
00:40:42.000And those people conceivably might not come back even if the regime collapsed tomorrow.
00:40:48.000Yeah, I feel like those are like kind of two different groups.
00:40:51.000I think you definitely had people who were ideologically motivated or who maybe hadn't been politically involved, but they thought that Trump was going to be the guy to come in to be different and clean stuff up, whether it's Epstein, no more wars, whatever.
00:41:04.000I think this has done significant damage, perhaps irreparable damage for Trump among that group of, I would say, probably under 30 men, not particularly that involved in politics, who were super jacked up for him.
00:41:18.000They were probably more excited to vote for him than anyone.
00:41:21.000They thought things were going to be different.
00:41:24.000Now, I think that group is totally disillusioned.
00:41:26.000I don't think they're going to go vote for Democrats.
00:41:28.000I think they're just going to go back to not caring anymore.
00:41:31.000So I think that was very damaging there.
00:41:34.000I think the other group of voters you talked about, I think they can come back.
00:41:39.000Now, I don't think the war is suddenly going to get more popular.
00:41:42.000That's generally not how these things work.
00:41:45.000They start out super popular, everyone rallies around the flag.
00:42:46.000They voted for President Trump thinking that things were going to be vastly different, that there was going to be this economic revival and golden age.
00:43:01.000You have healthcare costs remain high, affordability, housing, all these things.
00:43:06.000Ultimately, I think that is the silver bullet here is if you could get the economy back rip roaring, and it seems like that becomes then this albatross across the neck of the United States and across the Republican Party is that the Strait of Hormuz being closed is simply going to be a drag on everything.
00:43:30.000So, can you have one without the other?
00:43:42.000Now, obviously, over time, if we do a lot more development here, we take the handcuffs off energy developers and let them go to town in America.
00:43:52.000Over time, I think the Strait of Hormuz will probably end up being economically irrelevant for the United States.
00:43:58.000That's not something that's going to happen before November.
00:44:02.000That takes years and years and years to happen.
00:44:05.000And it takes a certain amount of consistency in government and political leadership.
00:44:09.000So I think the only solution at this point is that the Iran war just like.
00:44:14.000The straight needs to be fixed, and we need to be out there.
00:44:16.000And then Trump can be laser focused on the economy and making things affordable, which we know he can do because he did it during the first term.
00:44:23.000I did a quick scan, Sean, and everything I mean, everything from Citizen Free Press to Drudge to Breitbart to you guys it's all about the strikes that are happening.
00:44:34.000Everybody's fearing that this is going to really destabilize global markets.
00:44:38.000It's going to get us back into a war, a kinetic war.
00:44:45.000It feels like we've been waiting on this for a while, and nobody's.
00:44:48.000We haven't seen any big headlines for a couple weeks, really, since the blockade was announced.
00:44:53.000The question is politically do you think that there is a way to pivot this for the president to make a win out of this?
00:45:01.000I just want to give people hope, really, is kind of what I'm getting at, because right now the generic polling shows us down about five or six points.
00:46:15.000Their big guy right now, the guy they're really excited about, is a candidate in Maine.
00:46:19.000Who had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, which is just, you could, if you put that in a writer's room, they would make you leave because it's a little too on the nose.
00:46:28.000But we have Democrats just being super excited about a dude with a Nazi tattoo.
00:46:33.000They're not running on anything other than, hey, we're not Trump, we're not Republicans.
00:46:38.000So I think if Republicans in Congress, and I actually think they're the biggest impediment right now to Republicans in Congress getting returned to Congress, it's not Trump, it's Republicans.
00:46:49.000If they can get in there and get their acting gear and pass the Safe America Act, I think you will have a Ton of base enthusiasm.
00:47:09.000I think you're right about the Save America Act being an enthusiasm boost if we can get that over the line.
00:47:13.000I don't see a lot of hope for it outside of maybe a reconciliation pass if they can figure out how to get that through the Senate parliamentarian.
00:48:34.000So America does not belong to people who came here illegally, to people who are getting illegal benefits, to people who are driving up housing costs.
00:48:41.000To people who are driving up food costs, America does not belong to them.
00:48:44.000It belongs to Americans and their posterity.
00:48:46.000So I think whatever is required to get those numbers up, we in the Bay should be demanding.
00:48:51.000I mean, I remember watching that convention in 2024 and seeing the signs that said mass deportations now.
00:49:00.000The immigration stuff has always been kind of his North Star.
00:49:04.000Even going back to before 2015, before he was ever running for president, this was a guy who wanted better trade deals and he wanted the illegals out of America.
00:49:13.000And so I don't think the battle is over for that within the administration.
00:49:18.000I do think kind of the home in, let's focus on the worst of the worst.
00:49:22.000I think that side does have the upper hand at the moment.
00:49:27.000Do you get any indication on where Secretary Molin stands in this?
00:50:36.000So in state after state, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, there are far more illegal immigrants in those states than Trump's margin of victory.
00:50:45.000And if you want to see what their The Democrats' plans are in one single graph, that's the graph.
00:50:51.000Sean Davis from The Federalist, thank you, my friend.
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00:52:21.000There's been a little bit of a repeat theme on the show, Blake, about teachers' unions and what these public schools are doing, especially their unions.
00:52:28.000It's really like we have an activist, a well funded activist, communist basically, core of this country, and they're diverting tons of money.
00:52:39.000Here to help us explain that is Nikki Neely.
00:52:43.000She's The founder and I believe she's the founder and CEO.
00:52:59.000I saw this report on Fox, but if you add up, this is what you guys came up with: is that if you add up the NEA and the AFT, the two biggest teachers' unions in the country, then you look at their national spend as well as their local, state, Affiliates, they have been pumping over a billion dollars into political causes since 2015.
00:53:23.000So basically, in one decade, they've spent over a billion dollars trying to push this country to the left.
00:53:30.000Tell us what you discovered in this research.
00:53:32.000Yeah, we went through publicly available documents.
00:53:35.000All unions, which are basically a highly regulated industry, have to file these forms at the federal level, at the state level.
00:53:40.000And so the numbers speak for themselves.
00:53:42.000I mean, these are dues that have been taken out of the pockets, out of the salaries of hardworking teachers.
00:53:48.000Many of whom likely do not know that this is how their money is being spent, nor agree with some of the spending.
00:53:53.000I mean, but this is hundreds of millions of dollars, you know, 670, I think, at the federal level, about 340 at the local level, being spent on garbage priorities.
00:54:03.000I mean, some of these things that we found $106 million through the California Teachers Association PACs, $32 million to Senate Majority PAC.
00:54:12.000That's the left of center one, of course.
00:54:14.000$25 million to the House Majority PAC.
00:54:16.000And now that we're staring down the barrel of this highly contested, super important midterm, The fact that they are taking money out of the pockets of teachers to go and advance their priorities, elect their people, is something that's horrifying.
00:54:27.000I mean, Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood, it is a laundry list of the worst of the worst of the hard left progressive activists.
00:54:36.000So I just, I kind of have like a big overarching question where we know that these values don't align with, let's say, 50% of the country, probably more though.
00:54:45.000The Trevor Project, of course, like these are sexualizing young kids, they're pro trans, they're gender mutilation, all this stuff.
00:54:54.000Just force feeding LGBTQ propaganda down our throats.
00:55:02.000I mean, I think a lot of this is just that teachers don't know, right?
00:55:04.000The money is deducted and they assume that this is going to go towards negotiating with their district for better hours, for more support in the classroom, for more money to go towards classroom supplies.
00:55:14.000They don't know that this is how their money is being used against them.
00:55:17.000And this really is a weaponization of their dues.
00:55:20.000You know, a couple of years ago, we had that Supreme Court decision in Janice where union dues were no longer automatically deducted.
00:55:26.000But I think still a lot of union members don't know that they can opt out of some of these things.
00:55:30.000And, you know, would they spend their money better?
00:55:32.000Would they use it to support a candidate that they align with, a nonprofit?
00:55:37.000Do they expect that over a million and a half dollars would go towards Bill and Hillary Clinton through the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Victory Fund, and the Bill and Clinton Foundation?
00:55:51.000Like these are organizations that have been putting a false narrative about American parents and teachers and our country forward for the past decade.
00:56:28.000I think there has been a little bit of fear mongering going on.
00:56:31.000We also then saw in 2018, 2019, in the wake of the decision, unions make the decision to, all right, well, we can't automatically take the dues out.
00:56:38.000We'll just run union members in school board elections.
00:56:42.000So, that they will then approve the collective bargaining agreements that we want.
00:56:45.000And that's why my organization has tracked collective bargaining agreements in places like Minnesota and places like Colorado, California, where it's race based hiring, it's race based promotion.
00:56:58.000But when you have a bunch of yes men that you've elected and put a ton of money behind, I mean, I'm from Chicago originally.
00:57:03.000That's why we have Brandon Johnson right now, because the Chicago Teachers Union got out the vote the day of, and that made all the difference.
00:57:09.000They're not stupid, they're wickedly smart, and they are horrifyingly effective.
00:57:13.000It really is one of the most underappreciated sources of dysfunction in American life, which is a very large pool of employees.
00:57:23.000They're publicly unionized, they're public, they're negotiating with elected officials.
00:57:28.000And so in city after city, they can be the biggest political heft to get someone elected.
00:57:33.000And then they're not negotiating with an adversary, they're negotiating with someone who is dependent on them.
00:57:39.000And it's utterly wrecked city after city.
00:57:42.000And I think this got talked about by Republicans a bit more.
00:57:45.000A decade ago, but the problem never really went away.
00:57:50.000And, you know, while teachers' unions don't speak for all teachers, clearly, I mean, you look at sort of the number of actual teachers that are enrolled in these unions, that number has been declining.
00:57:59.000People have been neglecting to, you know, declining to join.
00:58:02.000They have been stepping away, but they have been able, the unions have been able to kind of maintain the size, the top level numbers, because they now encourage paraprofessionals to join.
00:58:39.000You know, I recently moved to Arizona where Governor Ducey passed the school choice bill, you know, before Hobbs was in.
00:58:49.000And I will tell you, I didn't appreciate this before I started putting my own kids through school, but it feels like, at least in Arizona, and I'm sure there's things I don't understand or I'm not aware about, but it feels like it has defanged the power of the public school teachers' unions in a pretty profound way because there is actual choice.
00:59:10.000You've got this spirit of entrepreneurialism in the private school area, right?
00:59:17.000There's a school voucher, $7,500 a year.
00:59:20.000So a lot of these schools charge around that.
00:59:30.000There's all kinds of new options bubbling up outside of the public school monopoly that used to be here.
00:59:39.000And I just can't help but think if you could somehow get that kind of a law passed nationwide, that you would absolutely defang the power that Randy Weingarten is exerting over our politics and our students.
00:59:53.000And you see this Mayday walkout, we covered it in hour one.
00:59:56.000Where they're encouraging activism and sign making from like kindergartners to go protest ice.
01:00:02.000Yeah, and I just want to flag this actually because this is an example.
01:00:06.000So they had a, they canceled schools in a bunch of cities in North Carolina last Friday because they were walking to Raleigh to protest.
01:00:12.000And their list of demands from the people, these unionized teachers who are marching, is spend $20,000 per student, which one has no connection to how strong education is.
01:00:39.000So they want to pass, they want to gerrymander the state in a more left wing direction, protect voting rights, restore checks and balances in state government.
01:00:48.000And so basically, they throw in, give us more money.
01:00:52.000We'll say it's for the kids, but then get rid of school choice and also elect more Democrats.
01:01:08.000We give a lot of attention to Soros and Neville Singham and all these guys that were behind some of this in some ways, but this is your tax dollars subsidizing the radicalization of a whole generation.
01:01:34.000It makes the public schools better because they know families will vote with their feet.
01:01:37.000They will be out and they will lose out on that per pupil funding if they are not sticking to the plot.
01:01:42.000And so I think this is the kind of thing, thank goodness for President Trump adding that federal school choice tax credit into the big beautiful bill, because this is going to put a lot of pressure on public schools.
01:01:51.000Get in line or you're going to lose everybody altogether.
01:01:53.000Nikki, I would love for your insights on this.
01:01:55.000And you mentioned President Trump's executive order on this, but school choice, you said that parents will vote with their feet.
01:02:45.000They want a captured audience that they can siphon money out of.
01:02:48.000And frankly, I mean, clearly that they can adopt our children because schools have not.
01:02:53.000I mean, before the pandemic as well as after, they have our children, you know, your parents, you know, they have our kids for seven or eight hours a day.
01:02:59.000Are they spending that time making up the COVID inspired learning loss or the learning loss forced by school closures because of the unions?
01:03:07.000No, they are spending in identity politics.
01:03:08.000They're spending on big feelings and social emotional learning.
01:03:11.000And so our kids are not learning reading, writing, and arithmetic.
01:03:29.000And you said here that, you know, this should dispel the myth that, you know, unions basically have the best interests of the students in mind.
01:04:06.000So, the question then is, Nikki, what do we do about it?
01:04:09.000Yeah, I think the president's federal school choice tax credit is a great starting point.
01:04:14.000Right now, we're watching pressure being put on a lot of Democrat governors who have not signed into the program to actually join.
01:04:19.000I mean, they are leaving money on the table.
01:04:21.000We have children who will be able to attend private school more easily in states like Florida and Virginia.
01:04:26.000Where those governors have signed on, but not in New York, not in Illinois, not in California.
01:04:31.000Why would you do that to the poorest children who are most in need of a solid education?
01:04:35.000What are the details in that school choice?
01:04:38.000How does it work and how much money is available to parents if their governor signs on?
01:04:42.000Yeah, so the governor signs on, and then there will be scholarship granting organizations that will be approved by the states.
01:04:49.000Those rules are being sorted out by Treasury right now, but families will be able to go to a scholarship granting organization.
01:04:56.000And it is important also that families will be able to put money in.
01:05:00.000Even if they don't have children, other people will be able to put money in.
01:05:03.000If they say, you know what, I want kids in my state to be able to have a better opportunity, a better education.
01:05:08.000So we're going to look at having these scholarship granting organizations sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars, and being able to give those out to students who are most needy.
01:05:16.000And so I think, you know, the original plan that was passed in the big, beautiful bill was relatively modest.
01:05:22.000But as we have seen in states like Arizona, even when it's only a few thousand dollars, the school market adjusts accordingly.
01:05:28.000And so, you know, will it be easy to, will you have enough cash to send a kid to $60,000 a year or two?
01:05:35.000You know, a super Tony private school?
01:05:38.000No, but will you have $8,000 that will almost completely offset the cost of your Catholic school or Jewish day school tuition?
01:05:46.000And I think with that pressure, with knowing that families are going to be able to find other alternatives, it puts a huge amount of pressure on public schools to rein in their crazy a little bit, for principals to know what their teachers are teaching, for teachers to say, is this the kind of classroom lesson that would create a firestorm and make a lot of families step out of the program or leave the school altogether?
01:06:06.000So I think it really starts to impose significant discipline.
01:06:13.000The competition, just providing competition, will force public schools to get a little less crazy because they understand that they're going to create a PR nightmare, optics nightmare.
01:06:22.000Parents will leave, they'll vote with their feet, and then they lose money.
01:06:27.000And another thing, I think the key point of movement in obviously blue states, we're limited in what we can do, but in every red state, you can set a lot of policies.
01:06:36.000You can limit collective bargaining or entirely abolish it.
01:06:40.000You can also, and this is worth mentioning, a lot of these, if cities are being completely captured by these teacher cabals, you can just scale back the independence of cities.
01:06:51.000Red states can basically do whatever they want with their cities.
01:06:54.000And it's an underrated power for them to utilize.
01:06:56.000Yeah, I mean, you've seen Abbott do that a little bit.
01:07:00.000You want to, we view our red states as the laboratories for why our system of government works.
01:07:05.000We've really been laying that out over the past few years where we've seen endless people leave blue states.
01:07:11.000Move to red states, immediately start complaining that it's not a blue state.
01:07:14.000But they're making, they're voting with their feet, and we can really, we want the Trump administration to do what it can.
01:07:22.000We want what we can get in blue states.
01:07:24.000But the number one place to take action is a red state.
01:07:26.000You should be lobbying your legislatures, lobbying your governors to make sure we don't let this cabal take over and ruin things because they can kill a city.
01:07:35.000They can kill a state if they're left unchecked.
01:07:38.000Yeah, and I want to give a shout out to Turning Point Academy, Turning Point Education.
01:07:42.000Schools all across the country to help them, especially private schools, classical education schools, Christian schools, to fight back against this teacher cabal.
01:07:53.000I mean, Randy Weingartner, I mean, she's a total radical.
01:07:56.000These people that run this, I mean, and we had a guest on recently, Nikki, where they were talking about how the teachers' unions are basically working against teachers reporting sexual abuse in classrooms, the right to know they're fighting these things.
01:08:37.000I mean, you know, the problems that we're seeing on campus are not staying on campus, they're trickling down to K 12 schools, be it the bad curriculum, the critical race theory that we're seeing in colleges of education now is manifesting in K 12.
01:08:48.000But also at the same time, bad problems in K 12, lack of civics education, hatred of our country.
01:08:54.000That is showing up on college campuses, too.