The signal story continues. We read the actual new message chat, and we float out the idea, was Signal compromised by the CIA? It s worthy of some examination. We also have Speaker Newt Gingrich with us. Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code POWER10 for 10% off your first pack!
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00:01:35.000For those of you that have not been closely paying attention to the news, over the weekend there was a military strike against the Houthis in Yemen.
00:01:42.000It is part of the ongoing Yemeni civil war, a Saudi proxy war.
00:01:49.000President Donald Trump authorized a military strike.
00:01:52.000And now we have learned more and more about the background.
00:01:57.000This is an ongoing story and it gets more and more suspicious and urgent the deeper we dive into it.
00:02:05.000We have new signal text messages from The Atlantic.
00:02:08.000And of course, the big story is how did the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, the anti-Trump, hoax-peddling Atlantic magazine, how did he end up in a very private discussion with the Secretary of Defense, with the Director of National Intelligence?
00:03:11.000I'm going to say the obvious, that Jeffrey Goldberg being involved in this group chat, seeing this, had a little bit of a heads up that a military strike was going to happen.
00:03:23.000Thankfully, this could have been a lot worse.
00:03:27.000That it could have been somebody that would have live tweeted, And potentially thwarted a military operation.
00:04:01.000You should have a statement of conclusions with taskings per the President's guidance this morning in your high side inboxes.
00:04:08.000State and DOD, we developed suggested notification lists for regional allies and partners.
00:04:15.000Joint staff is sending this AM a more specific sequence of events in the coming days, and we will work with DOD to ensure Chief of Staff, the Office of the Vice President, and POTUS are briefed.
00:05:19.000Michael Waltz responds to J.D. Vance and says, the trade figures we have...
00:05:25.000are 15% of global and 30% of container.
00:05:28.000It's difficult to break down to the United States specifically because much of the container either going through the Red Sea still or around the Cape of Good Hope are components going to Europe that turns into manufactured goods for transatlantic trade to the United States.
00:05:42.000Whether we pull the plug or not today, European navies do not have the capacity capability to defend against the types of sophisticated anti-ship cruise missiles and drones the Houthis are now using.
00:05:54.000So whether it's now or several weeks from now, it'll have to be the United States that reopens these shipping lanes.
00:06:00.000Per the president's request, we are working with DOD and state to determine how to compile the costs associated and levy them on the Europeans.
00:06:07.000Michael Waltz then added Stephen Miller to the chat.
00:06:54.000I will send you the unclassified data we pulled on BAM shipping.
00:06:59.000John Ratcliffe then chimes in, Pete Hegseth says, Vice President J.D., I understand your concerns and fully support you raising, with POTUS, important considerations, most of which are tough to know, how they play out.
00:09:39.000Let's say Mike Davis, who I message a lot on Signal.
00:09:42.000Mike Davis comes up as the first contact.
00:09:45.000Meaning, when you type in a letter, whether it be J for Jeffrey Goldberg, you had to have had established contact with that person in order for that contact to come up first.
00:09:58.000In order for this to have been a mistake that Mike Waltz made, he would have to have...
00:10:05.000A lot of contact with Jeffrey Goldberg.
00:10:07.000Enough so much that it populated as the first contact to be added on Signal.
00:10:12.000And Mike Waltz is the admin of this chat.
00:10:16.000We're going to play a piece of tape, though, because either Mike Waltz is completely lying or Signal is compromised.
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00:14:46.000If Jeffrey Goldberg is not a contact, Mike Waltz could have deleted it, but then all of a sudden you have a real issue.
00:14:54.000All of a sudden you have a deeper intel operation that's going on here.
00:14:59.000And understand, you could then see, you could look at his call log, you could see has he called him.
00:15:09.000If Mike Waltz doesn't have any contact with Jeffrey Goldberg in his phone, if you assume control of it, Now you have potentially the intel agencies that Ratcliffe is supposed to be overseeing right now creating a backdoor into private government communications and then giving the Atlantic that information.
00:15:29.000I still give that a very low probability.
00:16:16.000Mike Waltz says he put the group chat together and then suggests that they are looking to see if Jeffrey Goldberg somehow hacked into his phone and replaced the contact label JG with his own number.
00:16:28.000Jeffrey Goldberg would not have done this.
00:18:20.000you Joining us now is Speaker Newt Gingrich.
00:18:24.000Mr. Speaker, thank you for taking the time.
00:18:26.000Mr. Speaker, how are you processing and thinking about this signal story and the strange and bizarre development that the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic found himself in a private military group chat?
00:18:40.000I think there are two different parts to that.
00:18:42.000One is, you said it just right, the strange and bizarre fact that of all the people who might have ended up in there, one of the most anti-Trump journalists from an anti-Trump magazine happened to be the guy there.
00:18:56.000I think that's so weird, you wouldn't have put it into a novel.
00:19:00.000The other fact is, they probably shouldn't have those kind of discussions on Signal.
00:19:07.000When I was speaker, we routinely used the most powerful security systems.
00:19:15.000We had somebody who would come to me, wherever I was, carrying a secure phone so I could talk to the president on a line that the Chinese and the Russians couldn't possibly hack.
00:19:27.000So at one level, I would say there's an underlying lesson here that's important, and that is that they need to tighten up their own security provisions.
00:19:36.000Just in general, not because of the Atlantic Monthly, but because of the Chinese and the Russians and the North Koreans, all of whom are very good at hacking into things.
00:19:46.000The other is, my advice to them is get on, just get it over with.
00:19:50.000This is not an issue that helps Donald Trump at all to sit around and wallow in it.
00:20:23.000And then each contradiction will become its own story.
00:20:27.000And the left would like to do nothing more than hide from the underlying realities of what Trump is doing to fundamentally get America back on track.
00:20:36.000And if they can find some story, any story, that lets them avoid covering the successful things, they're going to go.
00:21:54.000They should methodically, seriously understand what happened, share with the American people what they're going to do to fix it in the future, and move on.
00:22:02.000But wallowing in it and getting involved in who said what to who, did you really put it on?
00:22:12.000The media loves, gives them something to talk about that doesn't help Trump.
00:22:16.000But first of all, the average American will get tired of it pretty quickly.
00:22:21.000And I think the things that Trump is doing and the things that the House and Senate Republicans are doing are so big, so historic, that we want to get back to communicating those.
00:22:42.000Speak about that, because the president is best on offense, not taking the terms of the media.
00:22:48.000Right. And Trump understands this instinctively.
00:22:51.000That's why he said it was a glitch, and he was going back on offense.
00:22:54.000And then, unfortunately, several of his team went up and testified in the Hill and didn't quite have their act together.
00:23:02.000I think that's where you want to have a single sentence or two-sentence answer that basically explains why you're not explaining until you know what you're going to say, which they clearly don't currently know.
00:23:36.000People around the world figured out they're not going to get in.
00:23:40.000Illegal immigration has literally collapsed.
00:23:43.000The amount of investments being announced in the United States are breathtaking.
00:23:49.000So you have a lot of good things happening.
00:23:51.000And frankly, the fight over the shape and structure of the federal bureaucracy is a fight that people know we have to have.
00:24:00.000In our project that you know about, Charlie, the America's New Majority Project, our polling last month indicated that 82% of the country think that Washington is corrupt, and they think that it makes it harder to solve things because it's corrupt.
00:24:15.000So if the president will go out there and be the advocate of honest, clear reform, and if that's the basic theme that Elon Musk and Doge take...
00:24:26.000They're going to have huge popular support for fixing this thing, and people are going to accept that there's going to be some turmoil, there's going to be some confusion, but that unbalance is really a good thing.
00:24:38.000And there is widespread popular support.
00:24:43.000Ezra Klein sitting down with David Shore from the New York Times.
00:24:47.000Ezra Klein is like the chief explainer of data for the left.
00:24:52.000A smart guy, but terribly wrong on the issues.
00:24:55.000And he's trying to understand how is it, and I would love to get your take on this, white men over 75 actually supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than white men who are 20 years old.
00:25:08.000This is a generational realignment that we're living through.
00:25:13.000One of the things you can see here is if you just look at 18-year-olds, 18-year-old women of color are the only of the four that actually voted that Harris won.
00:25:26.000So I do find this part of this chart shocking.
00:25:30.000I sometimes talk about narrative violations, and I think if we knew anything about Donald Trump eight years ago, it's that young people did not like him.
00:25:37.000But if you look at this chart among white men who were 75 years old, supported Kamala Harris at a significantly higher rate than white men who are 20 years old.
00:25:54.000This is the thing I am the most shocked by, I think, in the last four years, is that young people have gone from being the most progressive generation since the baby boomers, and maybe in some ways more so, to becoming potentially the most conservative.
00:26:26.000Do I think the future is going to get better?
00:26:28.000And under Biden and Harris, every signal to young people was that their lives were going to be poorer.
00:26:37.000I think there's a common sense view among younger Americans that this is just stupid.
00:26:54.000Why would you, in fact, even think that this makes any sense?
00:26:58.000And so they haven't been brainwashed enough to believe in things that aren't believable.
00:27:04.000And they're faced with a Bernie Sanders, AOC Democratic Party, which is still moving to the left, despite all the election evidence and everything else we've seen.
00:27:15.000And I think that that means that younger people, plus I think younger people have a deeper sense of how really corrupt and out of touch the government is, and that it really needs profound change.
00:27:26.000And where the Democrat Party does not seem to want to moderate themselves, they seem to want to double and even triple down on their wildly unpopular views.
00:27:41.000I'm just going to say, I actually think there are two wings of the Democratic Party, and I think you're likely to see the beginning of sort of a civil war between those two wings.
00:27:54.000If you watch what happened with Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, he finally decided as a practical matter.
00:28:01.000That he didn't believe the Democrats ought to be the party that closed government.
00:28:04.000So from the standpoint of the left, he sold out.
00:28:08.000Now, he took about 10 senators with him.
00:28:11.000And they're now facing really angry crowds back home.
00:28:15.000And so what you have is the people who are trying to accommodate reality are being isolated from, if you look at the AOC Bernie Sanders Roadshow, they're getting huge crowds.
00:28:30.000The hard left, which is doubling and tripling down, is growing, while the people in the middle who know that this is not going to work.
00:28:39.000Are finding themselves squeezed by the reality that the energy and the money and the drive in the Democratic Party is all on the hard left.
00:28:48.000And that if you try to be rational and moderate, you're almost certainly going to risk a primary campaign and may well get defeated in the primary because you'll be seen as a sellout.
00:28:59.000That's exactly what happened to the Republicans under Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.
00:29:04.000And that's part of why the New Deal became the dominant coalition for 90 years, because the Republicans just shattered and couldn't figure out what to do.
00:29:13.000And Trump has done everything right to be a coalition builder in the tradition of Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt.
00:29:21.000And he continues to both deliver things people want.
00:29:26.000And to define his opponents and to set up the kind of fights where his opponents rush in to just be mildly crazy.
00:29:33.000And he started to mention the woman who I hope they're going to censure this week because as a congresswoman, she has said things.
00:29:43.000I mean, the things she's been saying are so vicious.
00:29:47.000And we do have this problem right now that you have a very substantial militant group on the left who are willing to burn cars, firebomb dealerships, talk about getting Elon Musk, talk about other kind of things that involve violence.
00:30:03.000I mean, the real threat to violence in America right now is from bitter left-wing extremists who just can't cope with what's happening.
00:30:14.000Making America Great Again starts with making America healthy again.
00:31:16.000Mr. Speaker, please plug your upcoming projects the way that our audience can support you, please.
00:31:22.000Well, listen, the biggest project we've got is the America's New Majority Project, which they can see at that title.
00:31:28.000And then I have a new book coming out this summer called Trump's Triumph, which lays out both how he won, but also what it means for the future of America and the great things we can accomplish.
00:31:38.000And as always, Charlie, it's great to be with you.
00:31:40.000You were a major factor in the victory last year, and you're going to be a major factor in winning this cultural fight over the future of America.
00:31:49.000I deeply appreciate that, and we appreciate it.
00:31:52.000And that is the most important thing we're focusing on, is the cultural fight.
00:31:55.000We've seen a movement with young people, and if we can give some permanency to that, boy, things are not going to be very hopeful for the Democrat Party.
00:32:21.000Immigrant voters in the battleground states, something that completely blows the mind of Democrat strategists.
00:32:28.000How do you explain that, that Donald Trump, who's been positioned as anti-immigrant and xenophobic and all that, won the immigrant vote in the seven battleground states, Mr. Speaker?
00:32:41.000Documentary that was on PBS called Journey to America.
00:32:45.000And we took nine people who came here legally and who made America a better country.
00:32:50.000Because we want to make the point that while we're against illegal immigration, that legal immigration often makes America stronger.
00:32:57.000I think everybody I talk to who's a legal immigrant is really angry at the idea that people just plain broke the law.
00:33:13.000Furthermore, a lot of people who came here from countries that have dangerous gangs, like Venezuela and El Salvador, really don't want the gangs here.
00:33:22.000That's part of why they were attracted to America.
00:33:25.000So I think the left has always misunderstood the nature of legal immigration in America and the fact that, for example, When you deal with most Latinos, you're dealing with people who are very often devout Christians or Catholics or Pentecostals or fundamentalists, but very Christian, believe in very traditional values.
00:33:46.000You go talk to them about having boys.
00:33:58.000And we've done a ton of polling at the America's New Majority Project.
00:34:02.000And every time we poll it, people believe that everybody who gets money from the federal government should work, unless you have a severe disability.
00:34:11.000And they believe that people who are able-bodied and take money without working are committing fraud.
00:34:19.000Nobody on the left understands these things.
00:34:21.000That's why Trump going to McDonald's was an active genius.
00:34:26.000Because 87% of Americans go to McDonald's every year.
00:34:31.00040 million people have worked at McDonald's, including Jeff Bezos.
00:34:35.000And on the left, of course, they used to say, you don't want to take some hamburger flipping job.
00:34:39.000And of course, on the left, they don't serve Chablis at McDonald's.
00:35:34.000Number two, you have to pass the tax cut bill and the deregulation bill.
00:35:41.000Ideally by May, no later than mid-June, because it has to be in effect in time for the economy next year to be taking off and for people to say, you know, Trump's delivered.
00:36:02.000If they decide it is working, and certainly we have right now one of the highest right-track numbers on polling that we've seen in decades.
00:36:10.000If they decide this is all working, they're going to re-elect the Republicans.
00:36:14.000The Democrats are going to shrink to being a tiny minority.
00:36:18.000And we have a real chance, I think, to make America great again and to create that golden age that Trump has talked about.