What do communist-run grocery stores look like? What does the rise of Mom Dani mean for what is coming next in this country mean for Bitcoin? Mark Halperin joins us to talk about this and much more.
00:00:04.000What do communist-run grocery stores look like?
00:00:07.000Benny Johnson joins us as we remember what happened in Cuba when he visited there and what Mom Dani wants to bring to the Big Apple, the city so nice that you name it twice.
00:01:04.000We have Pete Hegseth coming, Christine Ohm, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Greg Gutfeld, Laura Ingram, Ross Ulbricht, Byron Donalds, Tom Homan, Ben Carson, Brett Cooper, Michael Knowles, Brandon Tatum, Benny Johnson, Jack Pesobic, Riley Gaines, James O'Keefe, and more.
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00:03:04.000So, Mark, I want to pick your brain here for a second and take a step back and talk about mandate first pieces of legislation.
00:03:11.000George W. Bush, he tried to get Medicare done.
00:03:15.000Obama, most famously, of course, he put all of his chips on health care and Obamacare right out of the gate.
00:03:22.000What can we learn historically about how popular these bills end up being and also how they end up taking a different final form than the original intent once they work through the Senate and the House?
00:04:18.000It's the first year and a couple of months.
00:04:21.000And these bills, the ones you talked about and President Trump reconciliation, there's no greater thing in life to which you can apply the expression, don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
00:04:35.000There's no one in Congress and probably no one in the administration who would write these bills exactly as they're written in the case of the previous presidents, in the case of President Trump.
00:05:01.000He's going to have decreasing power after the midterms, even if Republicans keep majority in the Congress.
00:05:06.000And so I think if you look at the fact that he's a lame duck and this is his second term, this is extraordinary to be able to have the oomph in a partisan way through reconciliation to get something this big passed.
00:07:42.000So a highly covered but undercovered story is the way Donald Trump has changed the Republican Party, Free Trade Party to protectionist party, party of military engagement overseas to a party that's about America first and no endless wars.
00:07:58.000A party that on some cultural issues was more conservative, has become more moderate or libertarian.
00:08:06.000Taxes and taxes on the wealthy is one that he hasn't changed.
00:08:11.000And in part, he hasn't changed it because he's got mixed feelings about it, right?
00:09:09.000You know, many of your audience will know Grover Norquist, the Republican who said, who's led a movement at his organization, Americans for Tax Reform, saying there can never be a net tax increase.
00:09:21.000Not no tax increases, but no net tax increase.
00:09:24.000Had they raised the top rate, it wouldn't have been a net tax increase.
00:09:28.000But that's how strongly the party's identity is still wedded to the notion of we don't raise taxes on anyone.
00:09:35.000We're in the business of cutting taxes.
00:09:36.000And Donald Trump's administration is divided.
00:09:49.000And that was my argument that, look, again, no one's going to be like, yay, celebrating it.
00:09:53.000But look, guys, if you want to try to make a deal, here's the one thing, that when you're at the top income, you pay your taxes.
00:09:59.000So you get a very, very high collection rate.
00:10:03.000So you don't have to spend a ton of money collection.
00:10:05.000Now, there'll be some scamming, but it's much higher than on the lower side.
00:10:09.000So therefore, when you raise every percentage, you're actually getting a higher return of revenue as per than you would if you're raising it on lower, which we shouldn't raise on lower.
00:10:17.000But if you would have said, hey, we're going to do more spending cuts, but hey, we're also going to just say we're going to go from 37 to 40.
00:10:24.000It conceivably could have raised hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.
00:10:28.000It would have been a deathblow political talking point against the Democrats, right?
00:13:41.000So, Mark, the Mom Dani story in New York is noteworthy.
00:13:44.000I do want to get your take on it, but I think this is largely driven by economics.
00:13:49.000And I think that if the Republican Party fails to understand that we're becoming more unequal, that things cost a lot more than they should.
00:13:55.000And I think President Trump is addressing it, and I think he's doing a great job of it, but we're still early in the administration.
00:14:01.000We are going to get more Mom Dani's if we do not address ownership economics.
00:14:06.000His kind of genre of politics is made possible when people cannot afford basic necessities.
00:14:45.000It's more identification with the frustration.
00:14:48.000And in that way, he's exactly like Trump.
00:14:50.000He's talking about the forgotten men and women, working class people who simply feel they're being left behind, that the system's rigged against them.
00:14:57.000President Trump's prescriptions for that are different, but the analysis of the issue and the connection with working class voters, I think is pretty much the same.
00:15:09.000I've said this before, I may have even said it to you.
00:15:11.000The only thing more disgraceful than the mismanagement of our cities by extreme liberals is the Republican parties and the conservative movement's failure to offer credible alternatives.
00:15:24.000Every American city should be electing a conservative to try something different because the record of failure for our kids on education, for our cities in terms of safety, for the economies of our cities and housing prices, et cetera, the record couldn't, it couldn't be more embarrassing, what the record of failure is.
00:15:41.000And yet this city is now almost certainly going to turn to a guy who's not just promising more of the same, but more extreme liberal policies.
00:15:51.000But he's in a position to do that for the reason you said, which is like Donald Trump, he's saying to people, you don't like the status quo.
00:16:26.000Privately, what is your reporting showing?
00:16:29.000Even people like leader Jeffries in the House, who have been terrified of the liberal base and largely danced to their tune, recognize that Donald Trump will make this guy the face of the Republic of the Democratic Party every day between now and the midterms.
00:16:45.000And some people around Jeffries say he thinks it will cost them the House, that literally they can't win the House if this guy's the mayor of New York City.
00:17:01.000But he's not going to be the mayor of the United States or the mayor of every city.
00:17:06.000And they've got some nominees like Spanberger and Cheryl in gubernatorial races who are more moderate, who have national security experience, et cetera.
00:18:25.000Is this a harbinger that the most radical elements of the Democrat base are going to consume all the way up to the Democrat nominee in 2028?
00:18:32.000I think there's no indication that there's anyone who's filling the vacuum, that the party has so far left.
00:19:21.000When I flip a container around and cannot pronounce nor recognize the ingredients, I put it back.
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00:20:29.000There's lots to discuss, but I was moved because one of my family members says, Charlie, do you remember that amazing documentary you did when you sent Benny down to Cuba?
00:20:39.000You should remind people about it with the rise of Mr. Mom Donnie.
00:20:43.000So Benny has done many, many projects with us.
00:20:47.000I want to play this piece of tape here, and I believe this is from the Benny Cuba documentary.
00:20:54.000But I'm going to play this, and then I'll allow you to kind of narrate it.
00:21:17.000Even people that weren't in line, that were just like in the area, just start sprinting in there because this is their only chance to get their essentials and necessities to feed their families.
00:21:38.000What did you learn about government-run grocery stores?
00:21:40.000Yeah, I mean, I understand why people would flee Cuba and risk being interned in Alligator Alcatraz because it is truly hell on earth.
00:21:52.000It's like a bizarro world video game, Charlie.
00:21:56.000It's like when you see a post-apocalyptic scene inside of a Hollywood movie where there was once a thriving society, there was once a functional people, a functional architecture of the city, but it's all been rotted and it's all been crumbled down to its lowest common criminal denominator.
00:22:21.000It's very sad to see these old, beautiful Spanish castles that have just decayed and are now truly just crumbling directly into the street.
00:22:31.000And the people there in the nation of Cuba are also eternally depressed.
00:24:32.000Well, they confiscated our drones when we got into Cuba.
00:24:36.000We had to sit there for six hours while they went through all of our bags.
00:24:41.000And then they eventually raided the Airbnb that we were staying at.
00:24:43.000Federal agents from the communist regime raided the Airbnb and tried to take our SD cards, tried to take the footage that we were filming there.
00:24:52.000So we had to actually flee the country.
00:24:54.000Thank God that President Trump was president.
00:24:56.000If Joe Biden were president, I assume that we would be potentially incarcerated to this day.
00:27:11.000Ever since she was an infant, before she could walk or talk, AOC has been raised in a leafy, clean, and beautiful suburb that is pristine and low on crime.
00:27:21.000That is one of those places that gets painted in American history by people like Norman Rockwell.
00:27:28.000It's a place called Yorktown Heights, the hamlet of Yorktown Heights.
00:27:32.000It's 120 minutes from downtown Manhattan.
00:27:35.000It's a far ways away from the hard scrabble working class Bronx girl persona that AOC tries to project onto the world.
00:27:45.000We went and traveled there and exposed AOC for the fraud that she is.
00:27:48.000You know, a lot of people in MAGA hats.
00:27:50.000And there's actually a Trump sign right across from AOC's home that she was raised in, Charlie.
00:27:55.000And it's not that she was just lived there for a little bit.
00:28:38.000And they even have a Christopher Columbus Society.
00:28:41.000I thought AOC got all those statues ripped down.
00:28:44.000Some structural racism right here in AOC's hometown.
00:28:48.000Today we're going to investigate the biggest lie in all of politics, the fraud of AOC.
00:28:54.000And so, Benny, what did you learn in that investigation?
00:28:58.000Well, me and the 40 million people who have actually seen that video learned that AOC has been lying and this is working class stolen valor.
00:29:08.000It's exactly what Kamala Harris tried to do when she said that she worked at McDonald's.
00:29:14.000This is something that is going to be used against her if she tries to run in 2028.
00:29:18.000And Charlie, she is number two, according to some polls, in the Democrat positioning for 2028.
00:29:29.000I don't understand why Democrats can't just accept that America is a beautiful and wonderful country and to be from a place like Yorktown Heights is a major privilege and you should be thankful for it and not vengefully hate your country.
00:29:41.000But here's what we learned from some of the people that went to school with AOC Charlie.
00:29:44.000We learned that she was a big bully and that she was unhappy and that she was one of the people in high school that you just didn't want to be around.
00:29:50.000And so maybe she just took all that angst and that lack of fulfillment and that self-deprecation into politics, that self-loathing that you kind of see on the left so often.
00:30:03.000And she just channeled it into communism like they always do.
00:30:06.000And so Benny, kind of taking a step back here and covering socialism for quite some time, what is the driving force of Momdani and how do we defeat him?
00:30:14.000Yeah, well, Trump told me yesterday he's just going to put him in jail.
00:30:29.000And he doubled down on that, Charlie, in fact, this weekend, saying that white people in New York need to pay more taxes.
00:30:35.000That's something that obviously drew a rebuke from the Trump Justice Department.
00:30:40.000But President Trump told me yesterday when I asked him about Momdani that he's going to be facing serious federal threats for stopping ICE enforcement in the city of New York.
00:30:51.000This is what he promised to do when he won in his nomination speech last week.
00:32:32.000Benny, remind our audience how great these turning point USA events are.
00:32:35.000Yeah, it just makes you believe in your country and you can see the core of the energy where the nation is heading.
00:32:41.000And this moment that we're in right now wouldn't surprise you if you were going to these conferences four years ago and you could see that this was a movement that was durable, that was going to last, and you can't kill an idea.
00:32:56.000And this is an idea that this country isn't over yet and that we have God's providence here.
00:33:01.000And it's really wonderful to see it on display and in full motion.
00:33:04.000Man, we saw it yesterday at Alligator Alcatraz.
00:33:36.000But no, that was really meant as a joke, but a lot of people liked it.
00:33:39.000And a lot of people think we should do it, frankly.
00:33:43.000I mean, what people miss there, Charlie, what people miss there, Charlie, is that Donald Trump's open to putting African crocodiles in the Rio Grande.
00:33:51.000So while Joe Biden was putting African criminal aliens into small towns in Ohio, changing forever the culture of those towns and making them unrecognizable, Donald Trump is putting African crocodiles in the Rio Grande.
00:34:26.000And what did you see at Alligator Alcatraz you want our audience to know about?
00:34:29.000That it's the cleanest and most secure and most sanitary conditions I've seen in any prison.
00:34:35.000That is a higher standard than our federal prison system actually has for inmates and that it's right there on an airport.
00:34:42.000As soon as you arrive, as soon as a detainee arrives at Alligator Alcatraz, which is the most dangerous prison in America, not because of the conditions inside, but because of the conditions outside, because it is surrounded by a million alligators and is surrounded by hundreds of millions of mosquitoes about the size of hummingbirds and also pythons and other venomous snakes.
00:35:02.000You just can't escape from it, but there is an airstrip there, Charlie, and you can take a plane home.
00:35:07.000And that's the first thing that's offered the criminal aliens that are brought into Alligator Alcatraz.
00:35:11.000And this is going to shock you, Charlie.
00:35:28.000It was a slab of concrete and they have a fully functional federal prison in 72 hours.
00:35:34.000So it can happen with the right leadership.
00:35:37.000Government can actually work for the people.
00:35:40.000And the only way out and the best way out of Alligator Alcatraz is certainly not to try and escape, but to get on a plane and to go home.
00:35:46.000Benny Johnson, tell our audience about where they can find you, where they could support you.
00:35:51.000And what is the best part of the golden age that you are experiencing right now that you want that you think is not getting enough media attention?
00:35:58.000Well, I think this is the, given the past 24 hours, what I'd like to say on that is that we are the media now.
00:36:04.000And that shows like Charlie's and shows like mine, you can find me at Benny Johnson on all social media and the Benny show, that we are able to ask the questions that people actually care about.
00:36:16.000We were able to ask President Trump four questions.
00:36:18.000All four of them trended globally and worldwide and got major attention.
00:36:23.000And we were able to run circles around what is the corporate media.
00:36:27.000And that's because we answer to you, the American people.
00:36:49.000That is the Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida.
00:36:51.000Let me just remind you, Greg Gutfeld, Tucker Carlson, Chris Denome, Donald Trump Jr., the biggest speakers in the movement, an all-star lineup.