Where does Bobby Kennedy stand in the confirmation fight? We sit down with Callie Means straight from Washington, D.C. to discuss. Callie was in the White House yesterday, and was actually with Bobby Kennedy for his hearings. She gives us a status report from the front lines on the hearings.
00:00:33.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:45.000They were acting like they cared about children's health, but they didn't say the words diabetes, obesity, or heart disease, the things that are really the scourge of childhood health right now.
00:01:52.000They didn't say those words one time in the hearing.
00:03:04.000So let me just ask, is there going to be some follow-up privately with Cassidy and Bobby?
00:03:09.000I imagine they can meet as much as they want.
00:03:11.000I mean, what happens publicly is somewhat performative.
00:03:14.000I want to talk to the Maha moms, because as we both know, Bobby Kennedy, more than maybe any other cabinet secretary, came in there with a great coalition behind him.
00:03:24.000I mean, thousands of Maha moms packing the halls.
00:03:27.000So I want to be really clear to everyone watching, because I know everyone's really fired up, and I think we understand the societal stakes of this nomination.
00:03:34.000Let's talk to Senator Cassidy with respect, as you did.
00:04:32.000Where companies are incentivized to reverse disease, to promote longevity.
00:04:37.000You know, I know me and you read a lot of health blogs and books.
00:04:41.000We can put that into medicine and incentivize and reward companies.
00:04:45.000Right now we have a crony capitalist system that profits when we're sick.
00:04:48.000So there's this positive vision forward that I think they're telling Cassidy behind closed doors.
00:04:54.000I'll say this, Charlie, and I believe this with all my heart.
00:04:56.000I believe a yes vote from Senator Cassidy and every Republican senator, I believe they will consider it one of the greatest votes of their career.
00:05:03.000In four years at the end of the Trump administration, I'm not joking about this.
00:05:07.000I think President Trump will be winning the Nobel Prize.
00:05:09.000I think science is so, we're so lost right now.
00:05:13.000We know the predetermined outcome before we do this study.
00:05:16.000We are going to get back to asking tough questions, and President Trump, he said it again and again, we're going to figure out why the hell our kids are so sick, and we're going to steer research to that.
00:06:33.000There's nothing more profitable than a sick child.
00:06:36.000Insurance industry, pharma industry, and hospitals make money when a child is sick with a chronic disease for a longer period of time, and they lose money when a child's healthy.
00:06:59.000But as a simple statement of economic fact, because of the crony capitalism, because of the rigging of our CMS department and our FDA, The standard of care if a kid has high cholesterol is a statin.
00:07:11.000The standard of care if they're a little bit sad is an SSRI. That's all because of the corruption in our agencies, the corporate capture.
00:07:18.000Doctors aren't talking to kids about...
00:07:20.000Healthy eating or functional medicine blood testing or getting outside.
00:07:24.000These things could be incentivized with our medical system.
00:08:15.000Play Cut 236. Let me tell you something just really quick.
00:08:20.000There are a lot of women in my life, including Jessica Krause, who were not Republicans five years ago, that because of Tulsi and RFK came to Trump.
00:08:32.000And I would love to see the data on it, particularly with moms post-COVID. If they screw these two people and they don't get confirmed, it is a flesh wound for the Trump administration.
00:08:42.000If Maha goes down and Tulsi goes down, there will be consequences.
00:09:34.000I mean, if you said eight years ago that the degree of young people, independence, and women were going to come to the Trump coalition, they'd think you were crazy.
00:10:56.000I believe that Cassidy sends a signal to potentially other wobbly ones, and I do believe, I don't want a mince word, as Cassidy goes, so does the vote.
00:15:18.000Yeah, they're camping out at his office.
00:15:20.000I mean, I just want to say, Charlie, I mean...
00:15:24.000I mean, channeled by Turning Point, you know, in the campaign and now here, this grassroots mobilization around so many issues, but around health.
00:15:55.000We're at a fork in the road for American health.
00:15:58.000I believe it's a societally destabilizing situation we're in where we are 4% of the world's population, 75% of worldwide pharmaceutical profits, and 60th in life.
00:16:09.000So we're 4% of the world's population and 75% of all worldwide pharmaceutical profits.
00:16:32.000And this gets into the positive vision we can all paint.
00:16:35.000Let's get into what Bobby can actually do.
00:16:38.000So how are drug prices 10 times more expensive?
00:16:41.000How are the United States is on more drugs?
00:16:43.000Well, it's because you first rigged the NIH research.
00:16:46.000The NIH research is 85% pharmaceutical R&D, basically saying not what causes Alzheimer's, but to find little Band-Aids for Alzheimer's.
00:16:54.000Then the FDA approval process is totally dominated by Big Pharma.
00:16:57.000They pay 75% of the budget, and it costs $3 billion to get a therapeutic through, which only necessitates large pharma.
00:17:05.000So you have this CMS situation where...
00:17:21.000Outside groups, literally lobbying organizations, make logic that underlie our entire healthcare paradigm, which basically wait for people to get sick and then jab a drug around our throat.
00:17:29.000There's no reason, Charlie, we don't have more codes in Medicare-Medicaid to be more preventative or to have more root cause interventions.
00:17:36.000The goal of healthcare obviously should be the most efficacious way to prevent a reverse disease.
00:17:41.000As a statement of fact, the Medicare-Medicaid system right now is waiting for people to get sick and then drugging them and managing disease.
00:17:47.000That's by design and it's through corruption.
00:17:49.000through rigging every single step of the value chain.
00:17:51.000That's why Bobby has told Senator Cassidy, and he means this, the place you need to start is the NIH.
00:17:57.000You need to get the research on why we're getting diabetes epidemic rates, why we're so much sicker than Europe, whether the food dyes are healthy, which the FDA currently says they are, whether all these atrazine, which Alex Jones was right about, it's true.
00:20:23.000There's a lot of excitement in Washington, D.C. as we start the year, but I wanted to talk to you about something just as exciting happening outside the D.C. Beltway, a revolution in the States.
00:20:35.000It's growing and growing because some states, as they should, are putting parents in charge of the education of their kids.
00:20:42.000Everyone knows education has the power to change a kid's life, and anyone who raised a child knows each has different needs, learning styles, and God-given talents.
00:20:52.000The fact is parents know their own children best, knows what's best for their development and future.
00:20:58.000Education freedom legislation puts parents, not zip codes and politicians, in charge of these important family decisions.
00:21:06.000It's why I strongly support making universal education freedom a reality for every parent in every state.
00:21:12.000To find out where your state legislature stands and to make sure your voice is heard, go to educationfreedomusa.com now.
00:21:25.000To White House Press Secretary, 27 years old, Caroline Levitt, let's listen in.
00:21:30.000...protocols made during the prior four years and to take all necessary corrective actions to achieve uncompromised aviation safety.
00:21:39.000The review will include a comprehensive assessment and reversal of any deterioration in hiring standards and aviation safety standards and protocols during the previous administration.
00:21:51.000Aviation safety was addressed by President Trump before this tragic collision even took place.
00:21:56.000On his second day in office, the president signed a memorandum to immediately stop Biden-DEI hiring programs and return to non-discriminatory, merit-based hiring.
00:22:10.000And in 2018, during President Trump's first term, the Department of Transportation announced it would put an end at that time to use the biological questionnaire that was introduced by the Obama administration, which punished skilled applicants.
00:22:26.000President Trump has long led on the issue of aviation safety, and he will continue to do so.
00:22:32.000He will continue to deliver on the promises he made to the American people at record speed.
00:22:36.000The Senate has already confirmed eight of President Trump's exceptional cabinet nominees, including most recently Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, as you of course know, EPA Secretary Lee Zeldin, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is scheduled to be sworn in later today.
00:22:53.000We expect the Senate to continue quickly confirming the remainder of President Trump's well-qualified nominees in the days ahead.
00:23:00.000Earlier this week in the East Room, the President proudly signed the Lakin-Riley Act into law, surrounded by Lakin's loving parents and sister.
00:23:09.000This common-sense bipartisan law mandates the federal detention of illegal aliens who are accused of theft, burgeoning, assaulting a law enforcement officer, and any crime that causes death or serious bodily injury, like the animal who murdered Lakin-Riley in cold blood.
00:23:28.000This was the first piece of legislation President Trump proudly signed as the 47th President of the United States, and it will guarantee that Lakin did not die in vain.
00:23:38.000As Lakin's mother, Allison, tearfully said during the signing event, President Trump said he would secure our borders and that he would never forget about Lakin, and he hasn't.
00:23:48.000He's a man of his word, and we trust that he will fight for the American people.
00:23:52.000Those are the words of Lakin's mother, and we will never forget them.
00:23:57.000So to help lock up even more criminal illegal aliens, President Trump signed a memorandum this week to detain them at Guantanamo Bay.
00:24:05.000This action will expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity to provide critical extra detention space for high-priority criminal illegals.
00:24:18.000Our brave ICE agents continue to arrest more and more of these types of individuals every day in communities across our country.
00:24:27.000On January 27, 2025, ICE Chicago arrested a citizen of Guatemala who has been convicted of solicitation to meet a child, disturbing, and sentenced to 24 months probation.
00:24:40.000On January 28th, 2025, ICE Atlanta arrested a citizen of South Korea who has been convicted of nine counts of possession or control of material depicting minors in sexually explicit conduct.
00:24:53.000On January 28th, ICE New York arrested a Mexican national previously charged by the state of New York for attempted murder in possession of a weapon and assault.
00:25:04.000And on January 28th, ICE Philly arrested a citizen of Mexico who has been convicted of possession of child pornography.
00:25:15.000If you are a criminal, illegal alien, you will be arrested and deported.
00:25:21.000On another important matter, the nation's report card was released this week, and the news is not good.
00:25:26.000It showed that U.S. students had record low reading comprehension scores last year.
00:25:32.000It's National School Choice Week, and in part of the president's commitment to education, he just left a roundtable in the Roosevelt Room focused on this issue with leaders from across the country.
00:25:44.000The national report card showed that 70% of 8th graders were below proficient in reading, and 40% of 4th graders did not even meet the basic reading levels.
00:25:53.000This is completely unacceptable to the president, and he continues to take aggressive actions to address This education problem in our country, he signed an executive order this week prohibiting federal funding of the indoctrination of our children, including radical gender ideology and critical race theory in the classroom.
00:26:12.000The president believes American education should focus on cultivating patriotic citizens who are ready for the workforce.
00:26:20.000And this action will help get schools back on track and defend fundamental parental rights and education.
00:26:27.000The president also signed a school choice executive order expanding educational freedom and opportunity for families.
00:26:34.000And in lighter news, but in exciting news, after announcing our briefing room changes on Wednesday, this White House has received more than 10,000 submissions from individuals across the country who are eager to join all of you.
00:26:48.000We might have to make this room a little bit bigger to do that.
00:26:51.000Who want to participate in our new media seat at a future briefing.
00:26:55.000So in this seat today, we have the Ruthless podcast.
00:26:58.000They humbly started by entertaining small audiences on Capitol Hill, but after four years, this program has become one of the most influential podcasts in America.
00:27:09.000They previously reached number one on the charts and earned over 25 million downloads as they deliver political news with a humorous touch.
00:27:17.000The hosts are Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, comfortably smug, and the man joining us today, John Ashbrook.
00:27:23.000So with that, I will take your questions.
00:27:28.000You know, Caroline, in your first briefing, the media...
00:27:32.000After this administration for deporting illegal immigrants, they claimed I think that's proven by a number of things, John.
00:27:42.000Number one, there was a New York Times poll that was released prior to President Trump's inauguration by the New York Times, which of course is a legacy media outlet, that showed that 83% of Americans support deporting the individuals that you mentioned, illegal immigrant criminals, especially those who have committed heinous crimes in the interior of our country.
00:28:03.000And I received a very actually interesting statistic on this front from ICE this week.
00:28:08.00097% of the deportations that this administration has made thus far are of individuals who had a removal order from the previous administration, but were never removed from the interior of our country.
00:28:24.000So this shows that the previous administration was actually defying our laws, and all this administration is doing is simply following the laws, the immigration laws of this great country.
00:28:39.000If President Trump is telling us that air traffic control towers are staffed with unqualified controllers, these DEI hires who never should have been brought on, then it's not safe to fly commercially, is it?
00:28:51.000The President was asked and answered this yesterday and he believes that it is still indeed safe and Americans should feel safe traveling our skies.
00:29:00.000Two things can be true at the same time.
00:29:03.000And we certainly have seen the deterioration of federal hiring standards at the Federal Aviation Administration.
00:29:10.000And the President wants to increase those standards.
00:29:13.000He wants pilots in this country who have the great responsibility of flying American citizens by the tens of millions every single day to be chosen for that position based on their merit and their skills.
00:29:24.000And so the administration will continue to prioritize this.
00:29:28.000Was the air traffic controller in the DCA Tower on Wednesday night hired or not fired at some point because of his or her race?
00:29:38.000And so when we have updates on the exact individuals who were involved in the collision, including the air traffic controller, also the pilots of the helicopter and others, we will confirm those.
00:29:50.000I don't want to confirm names from this podium today.
00:29:53.000But I will say the president has still rightfully pointed out that there has been problems with the aviation industry over the past several years.
00:30:03.000And this started under Barack Obama in 2014. And when the president says on Truth Social, the Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high by a lot.
00:30:13.000That's not really too complicated to understand, is it?
00:30:16.000Is he suggesting a helicopter malfunction or a...
00:30:23.000No, the president is simply stating what he said in that true social post, which is that the helicopter was flying higher than it should have been, which is one of the reasons that led to this collision.
00:30:34.000And the other reasons for that are still being investigated, and I will let that investigation play out.
00:30:39.000Irreversible procedures on kids, such as a double mastectomy on a minor girl.
00:30:44.000Well, the President has already taken a very strong stance on this issue this week with the signing of his executive order, a few executive orders in this space.
00:30:52.000First, he made it the official policy of the federal government that there are only two sexes, male and female, and we have directed all federal agencies to comply with that policy.
00:31:02.000As for congressional legislation to support the President's agenda in this space, and certainly ending...
00:31:09.000The mutilation of young children, the chemical castration of young children, which is a barbaric practice that the vast majority of Americans do not support for young minor children.
00:31:18.000Certainly, the President would support Congress's efforts, as he has already made that very clear this week.
00:31:25.000On Rick Grinnell's trip to Venezuela to meet with Nicolas Maduro, is there anything you can share on timing on that, what his agenda is, what the mission of that trip is?
00:31:34.000So I can confirm that Rick Grinnell is in Venezuela today.
00:31:38.000I can confirm that Rick Grinnell is going to Venezuela or is in Venezuela with very two immediate directives from the President of the United States.
00:31:48.000Number one, Rick Grinnell has been instructed to identify a place and ensure that...
00:31:54.000That repatriation flights of Trente Aragua members, Venezuelan nationals who have broken our nation's laws, will land in Venezuela.
00:32:03.000As I said at this podium a few days ago, we expect every nation on this planet to cooperate with the repatriation of our citizens, and so Rick Grinnell is in Venezuela to ensure that can continue.
00:32:15.000And number two, Rick Grinnell is in Venezuela to ensure that all U.S. detainees in Venezuela are returned home.
00:32:59.000I was just with the President in the Oval Office, and I can confirm that tomorrow, the February 1st deadline that President Trump put into place at a statement several weeks ago continues.
00:33:09.000The President will be implementing tomorrow 25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans.
00:33:28.000These are promises made and promises kept by the President.
00:33:31.000The President yesterday said that last night he was planning to discuss whether an exemption would be made on oil imports.
00:33:38.000Do you have any information on what decisions you made there, or will there be exemptions at all offered under those?
00:33:43.000I don't have an update or readout for you on the exemptions, but those tariffs will be for public consumption in about 24 hours tomorrow, so you can read them then.
00:34:02.000On press freedom, on Tuesday, you announced plans to roll back the more restrictive press badge policy of the White House.
00:34:09.000But there's a different anti-press freedom policy I wanted to ask about.
00:34:13.000The White House adopted a mysterious pre-screening process for journalists allowed into large event spaces.
00:34:20.000That in the pre-pandemic phase, first Trump term were open to all journalists on campus.
00:34:25.000This effectively limited the diversity of reporters present and blocked the asking questions that large segments of the American public wanted answered.
00:34:32.000As Press Secretary, can you commit to abolishing this mysterious pre-screening process?
00:34:37.000There were a lot of mysterious processes that my team and I have had to unravel over the past two weeks that were implemented by the previous White House, and in particular, the previous press shop here.
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00:36:13.000The Press: In New York City, Governor Vogel's congestion pricing went into effect this month.
00:36:19.000Vehicles that drive through parts of Manhattan have to pay a $9 toll.
00:36:23.000President Trump has made clear his opposition.
00:36:25.000He said that it's, quote, "the most progressive tax known to womankind." Will the administration be trying to block this?
00:36:31.000And the second question is millions and maybe tens of millions of Americans voted for President Trump.
00:36:38.000We're excited about his plans to do away with taxes on tips, overtime, Social Security benefits.
00:36:43.000But there's uncertainty about the timing of this.
00:36:45.000So can you clarify for them when this is going to happen?
00:36:48.000Does President Trump want to see all three of those in the first batch of legislation early this year?
00:36:53.000Well, to answer your question in one swoop, I will say that President Trump is committed to lowering taxes for Americans, cutting taxes for Americans.
00:37:01.000As for congestion pricing in New York, I do know that the President spoke with Governor Hochul about that.
00:37:07.000I don't have any, you know, actions, so to speak, to read out for you on that issue today.
00:37:11.000Number two, when it comes to no taxes on tips and Social Security, the president has made it very clear to our allies on Capitol Hill that is a critical piece of this reconciliation package, and he expects that his tax cuts from 2017, which put a lot more money back into the American people's pockets, those must be implemented, and no tax on tips.
00:37:33.000The president is intent on delivering on that promise, and he will get it done.
00:37:36.000Overtime also as part of reconciliation?
00:37:41.000Can you guarantee that those tariffs won't increase prices for Americans, including at the gas pump in the grocery store?
00:37:47.000I think Americans who are concerned about increased prices should look at what President Trump did in his first term.
00:37:52.000He effectively implemented tariffs, and the average inflation rate during the first Trump administration was 1.9 percent.
00:37:59.000In fact, when President Trump left office, it was 1.4 percent.
00:38:02.000So President Trump is going to do everything he possibly can to cut the inflation crisis that the previous administration That's a hypothetical question.
00:38:19.000And the president is intent on ensuring that he effectively implements tariffs while cutting inflation and costs for the American people.
00:38:27.000And, you know, the media has this way of just looking at everything in a microscope rather than looking at the whole-of-government economic approach that this president is taking.
00:38:35.000He will effectively implement tariffs.
00:38:37.000He's also, as I just said, He's also clearly committed, as evidenced by his executive orders, to unleashing the might of our energy industry, which we know will eventually drive down inflation.
00:38:51.000And all the other economic measures that this president has made will have a Trump incoming economic boom, just like we saw in our first term.
00:39:04.000Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, said today that if the U.S. imposes tariffs, he will respond and he will not relent until the tariffs are removed.
00:39:13.000Are we seeing the start of the trade war?
00:39:25.000What does the administration need to see in order to avoid those tariffs?
00:39:28.000Well, the tariffs are incoming tomorrow on Canada, and the reason for that is because both Canada and Mexico have allowed an unprecedented invasion of illegal fentanyl that is killing American citizens and also illegal immigrants into our country.
00:39:44.000In fact, I have more language for you right here.
00:39:46.000Canada, Mexico, and China, which, as I mentioned, President Trump will implement a 10% tariff on China, have all enabled illegal drugs to pour into America.
00:39:55.000The amount of fentanyl that has been seized at the southern border in the last two years alone has the potential to kill tens of millions of Americans.
00:40:03.000And so the president is intent on doing this.
00:40:05.000And I think Justin Trudeau would be wise to talk to President Trump directly before pushing outlandish comments like that to the media.
00:40:11.000If I may go back to the plane crash for one second.
00:40:17.000You're interrupting your calling, but sure.
00:40:21.000The President this morning said the Black Hawk helicopter was flying too high.
00:40:24.000I'm wondering if he's basing that on what he learned from investigators, and if you could offer a little bit more of a window into how he is keeping abreast of this investigation.
00:40:38.000Yeah, the President based that statement on truth, because it is truth and it's fact, and it was relayed to him by the authorities who are overseeing the investigation into this horrific plane collision.
00:40:48.000And the President, as I said in my opening remarks, continues to be briefed on the collision by everybody across his Cabinet, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Defense, the NTSB, who the Commissioner there was in the Oval Office with him yesterday.
00:41:43.000What did the conversations look like with President Trump on that?
00:41:46.000The president of Panama says it is, quote, impossible to negotiate over the canal.
00:41:50.000So what are you expecting from this visit?
00:41:53.000So I have not been present for Secretary Rubio's conversations with President Trump about the Panama Canal.
00:42:00.000I have been present for President Trump's own thoughts on the Panama Canal, and you've all seen them as well in his public statements that he has shown.
00:42:08.000He believes it's unacceptable that the canal is essentially run by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:42:13.000If you look at both ends of the canal, massive Chinese Communist Party-linked companies run the canal.
00:42:20.000That's unfair to the American people, many of whom lost their lives many years ago building this canal.
00:42:25.000The American taxpayers are paying millions of dollars for the canal, and the president believes it's in our national interest as a nation for Secretary Rubio to go there and begin these discussions, and that's exactly why he's doing that.
00:42:39.000Is the United States in the process of pulling out of Syria militarily?
00:42:43.000Because the President wanted to do that in his first term as well, and he had a lot of pushback from the Pentagon and Congress.
00:42:49.000And based on what he said yesterday, is he considering doing that in a short time?
00:42:54.000The President was asked and answered this question yesterday, and he, as the Commander-in-Chief of the United States military, reserves the right to review troop deployments overseas at any point in time.
00:43:08.000So we now know that the staffing was not normal at the air traffic tower, and so with the government increasing the hiring of new federal workers and offering buyouts, are you not afraid that more incidents of different kinds could happen with less staffing in different agencies?
00:43:24.000Well, the President is intent on ensuring that we are increasing staffing at these agencies, and that's why he signed a very strong executive order on his second day in office, immediately terminating.
00:43:36.000DEI hiring practices at the FAA. He also, following the tragic crash, as you all know, in the Oval Office yesterday, signed a memorandum directing an immediate assessment of the FAA to ensure the federal government is maintaining the highest personnel and aviation safety standards.
00:43:52.000And I would also just say there's a cultural piece to this as well.
00:43:56.000If you are an American who has spent many years studying aviation and you graduate from school and you're an I think that deteriorates the morale of people in this industry.
00:44:21.000And if you talk to people in this industry, they'll tell you that.
00:44:24.000In fact, many of them filed a lawsuit against the FAA a couple of years ago under Joe Biden's administration because they were denied positions.
00:44:34.000Because of this DEI hiring practice that was putting identity politics over merit and skills.
00:44:42.000And I think just to put a fine point on this, because this is the third or fourth question I've answered on this subject.
00:44:48.000When you are flying on an airplane with your loved ones, which every one of us in this room has, do you pray that your plane lands safely and gets you to your destination, or do you pray that the pilot has a certain skin colour?
00:44:59.000I think we all know the answer to that question, and as President Trump said yesterday, it's common sense.
00:45:04.000Yeah, I'd just like to follow up on that last question.
00:45:06.000Has there been any sort of assurance from the FAA that they will immediately improve staffing levels, given the reports of not normal staffing levels?
00:46:01.000Detainees of Cuban and Haitian descent were both detained at Guantanamo.
00:46:05.000Are you looking at that model in setting up this detention facility?
00:46:09.000Secretary Hegseth, I believe, was on television this morning answering this question, and he said that the Department of Defense is already on it.
00:46:16.000He has directed his agency to ensure that Gitmo is increasing their capacity for beds.
00:46:22.000And that's exactly what President Trump's executive order did.
00:46:25.000It directed Secretary Hegseth and also Secretary Noem to expand the migrant operations center at the naval station to provide for this extra detention space.
00:46:35.000And as Secretary Hegseth confirmed this morning, that operation is underway.
00:46:39.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:46:41.000Email us, as always, at freedom at charliekirk.com.