USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, is being gutted. Why is this happening? And why do the Democrats want to stop it? To find out, we talk to Ryan Metta, an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, and Catherine O'Neill, CEO of Merri Farms, a beef company, and Lindsay Pinnamanen, a former State Department employee.
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00:01:23.760Over the past week, Democrats have been apoplectic.
00:01:38.200They're outraged that USAID, which they call USAID, is being gutted.
00:01:44.680They're reporting that as of today, there's only going to be about 290 people actually working there because somewhere around 12,700 people will be placed on leave.
00:01:55.260We don't know for sure exactly how it's going to go down, but apparently, according to NPR and a few other outlets, Marco Rubio was like,
00:02:02.240nah, we're not going to keep these people around, and Trump and Elon, they're saying it should be shut down completely.
00:02:08.640Now, depending on what you read, if you watch The Daily Show, for instance, they're going to tell you that USAID, they call it, is foreign aid.
00:02:15.580Why would Trump want to stop foreign aid, and there are actually people outside in the streets protesting, saying, we want foreign aid.
00:02:22.700And then if you actually read what's going on from people who are in the know, yeah, this is more likely to be some kind of money laundering scheme, perhaps.
00:02:31.820Maybe it wasn't always, but you take a look at how some nonprofits that are doing, I think, what were they doing, a transgender puppet show?
00:02:39.640No, no, a transgender opera in Ireland. People are wondering, $1.5 million, why are we spending that money?
00:02:47.600Well, many people are pointing out that this money will go to nonprofits.
00:02:51.100The nonprofits then basically fund the extravagant livelihoods of people who live in the D.C. area, who then dump tons of money into Democrat campaigns.
00:02:59.380I don't think it's all just Democrats. I think it was largely deep state, neocons, you know, Democratic establishment.
00:03:05.220But since Trump came in, the Republican Party has been kind of different.
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00:03:22.620We've got a bunch of really amazing guests. Let's start right over here. Sir, who are you and what do you do?
00:04:39.040Yeah. So USAID goes into third world countries over a 10, 20, 30 year period, and they use NGO structures like you would use offshore bank accounts.
00:05:00.840And I think one of the reasons that Elon is so adamant to go after them, especially one of the first things for Doge to attack, is because they were the ones that were funding the censorship industrial complex.
00:05:10.920And, you know, they went to war with Elon, with the advertiser boycott ban.
00:05:15.580And that was literally funded by USAID.
00:05:27.800Out of the top 10 recipients, number two on the list of USAID was Pfizer.
00:05:34.140So it's insane that our U.S. tax dollars are going to not only funding these overthrowing of governments in other countries, but it's also funding now NGOs and having them do the work that they themselves cannot do.
00:05:47.780When you have a non-governmental agency that comes in to censor people, but it's being funded by a CIA cutout, it's because the CIA can't do that.
00:05:55.600It would violate the Constitution, the First Amendment rights.
00:05:58.820But when an NGO does it and you have all these other universities and institutions that are joining together to collude and come up with a scheme and plan to censor the American people.
00:06:11.260It wasn't just during COVID, it wasn't just during COVID, but it was also during the 2020 election where they started to form a plan to censor anything about mail-in ballots before mail-in ballots was even talked about by anybody and no one even knew anything about it.
00:06:25.200So they were already putting together a scheme of academics and these NGOs and all of these former CIA directors on these boards were forming a plan before it was even a known issue for the American people of how they were going to censor them and how they were going to keep them quiet when all these mail-in ballots became an issue.
00:06:46.700So it's a scandal of the century for sure.
00:06:49.860So when you were there, what were they doing and what did you know about?
00:06:54.540Yeah, so I spent most of my time at the State Department.
00:07:02.800So I spent most of my time at the State Department.
00:07:06.200But in 2016, I was on the transition team.
00:07:09.820So I was responsible for combing through all of the congressional budget certifications and going through the line items and identifying kind of some of these issues that we've realized now.
00:07:21.100But, you know, the momentum from the outside of pressuring these agencies or cutting them wasn't there.
00:07:30.260So here I was, you know, 23-year-old looking through all these numbers, but there was no one in the administration at the time that was really willing to cut them.
00:07:40.540So I spent three years at the State Department in kind of the humanitarian area.
00:07:46.640And then I went back to the campaign in 2020.
00:07:50.480And then John McEntee, I don't know if you guys have heard about him, he called me when I was on the campaign.
00:07:55.380He's like, Catherine, you've got to come back to USAID.
00:08:05.240So because I had spent three years at the State Department, so I had a lot of experience there.
00:08:09.300And he was assembling a team for the second term because, you know, the first term there were a lot of issues with personnel.
00:08:16.540Unfortunately, Trump didn't know who to trust.
00:08:18.620So he brought in a lot of people that he thought were good but ended up not being good.
00:08:23.220So John called me and asked me to come back and be the White House liaison and staff the agency with people that were actually going to execute Trump's agenda.
00:08:32.680Unfortunately, you know, I showed up November, what was it, 6th of 2020, the day after the election.
00:08:39.960And there were so many people already there in place that just didn't want to change, didn't want to leave.
00:08:46.220And we just didn't have the top cover we needed, unfortunately.
00:08:49.320So we weren't able to accomplish what we wanted to accomplish.
00:08:52.700So there was an effort in 2020 to dismantle USAID?
00:09:16.060So that says to me that when Elon started talking with Trump, Elon Vivek about Doge, which I can't believe he actually got that name through.
00:09:25.060It sounds like Trump already had this intention with the funding of, I did read that there was this coordinated, excuse me, coordinated advertiser boycott against Axe, where they were trying, they were trying, they were literally pressuring all these companies to drop their ads.
00:09:41.340And USAID was funding some of those NGOs that were pushing for that.
00:09:45.580Sounds like Elon got pissed, talked to Trump.
00:09:48.140Trump said, we're trying to get rid of it.
00:11:14.680So I was actually at the State Department yesterday visiting some of my former colleagues, one of whom is running the whole reorganization.
00:11:21.700And so Secretary Rubio issued some waivers, you know, because there was a stop order on all foreign aid going out the building, right?
00:11:29.880But he issued some waivers saying that if this is life-saving medicines or if this is mission critical or totally in line with our national priorities, then, you know, we'll review them and keep them going per the review.
00:11:43.840And there's been so much insubordination that some of these employees are actually refusing shipments and deliveries of the goods that we're sending just in spite of whatever's going on.
00:12:00.040So here they are crying, oh, Trump's shutting off all of our funding and blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:12:04.140But at the same time, my friend Pete was like, no, actually, they're not doing their job now.
00:12:09.040So we can't get these things to wherever they're going.
00:12:44.200He still issued in order to celebrate Black History Month on February 1st.
00:12:48.860So, you know, but there wasn't anything said about that when it actually happened by the mainstream media.
00:12:54.940But the fear mongering was there, just like there's fear mongering going on for anyone taking the buyout from Trump to quit and get paid for eight months.
00:13:04.200You hear Senate Democrats and the on CNN today about how there's no guarantee that these people actually get paid on the eight months if they take it now.
00:13:13.380And if they if they accept the resignation and the payout, the buyout by the Trump administration, that they're on their own.
00:13:19.740And so although 40,000 people have accepted it so far, there's still 60,000 now, which is good.
00:13:26.620But there's still a big fear mongering campaign that you have no way, no legal recourse to collect your money if he doesn't follow through and pay it, which is absolutely ridiculous.
00:13:44.060What they are saying is we intend to shut the government down in March once we have the ability to block a continuing resolution and we will block your pay if you take this deal.
00:13:56.000So on the surface, once again, they play.
00:14:23.500No, and that's what it's really going to come down to.
00:14:26.020I mean, this is another issue that we had the last time around.
00:14:30.420So when we were finally in office, right, I was at the State Department, you know, reviewing these, the budget that we made.
00:14:39.220Because you make it internally and then it goes through OMB, Office of Management Budget, and then OMB officially sends it to the Congress.
00:14:45.900And at the time, Bob Corker, Senator Bob Corker was the Senate, the chairman for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and he hated Trump.
00:14:56.620So every time that we wanted to cut something, he would just plus it up again.
00:15:02.480So this, I think, is going to be another issue that we're going to see because obviously the Congress is, you know, in charge of funding things.
00:15:09.980So it's going to be interesting to see how Trump's team handles this issue this time around, because I think they're a lot more seasoned.
00:15:19.020The momentum is there, like I was saying, and I think the pressure needs to continue because these members of Congress, at the end of the day, they want to be popular.
00:16:04.720Well, you'd think, too, that they would go to some of these countries that all this money is going to and get some spokesmen from these countries.
00:16:10.700Because you go into these countries that USAID operates in their country, and they are literally begging us.
00:16:15.640I was just in Guatemala, just in El Salvador.
00:16:18.280El Salvador, over what, like 60 or 70 years that USAID was in their country, El Salvador has turned into the deadliest country in Latin America.
00:16:27.740Guatemala, over the last four years, has had 190,052 children have been kidnapped out of Guatemala, trafficked through Mexico, and processed into our border, at our Texas border.
00:16:39.280Those are children age 0 to 17 that our government has taken custody of over the last four years that are just from Guatemala alone.
00:16:45.840How do you move that many children out of Guatemala?
00:16:47.820You don't, but five NGOs were just raided on April 25th of 2025 for trafficking children.
00:16:53.600And these are the same NGOs that are getting funded by USAID and are operating both in Guatemala and in Texas.
00:17:00.640When you go to their website right now, it just says on Friday, February 7th, 2025, at 11.59 p.m. Eastern,
00:17:07.720all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions.
00:17:15.940The reporting last night was that it's going to be 290 people from 13,000.
00:19:59.020Because Open Society Foundations, which is the George Sorogroos, receives grants from USAID and the State Department.
00:20:06.440And so what happens is that you have all these former employees of these agencies that know the system, that know the inner workings, that know how to write this special language to get the grants.
00:20:19.900And then they spend a few years in the agency and then they go back out to the NGO and then they have their friends, you know, pulling the strings to get their money.
00:20:31.100So they know exactly how to work the system.
00:20:35.740It's this huge, massive network of hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of people that just are gaming the American taxpayer dollar.
00:20:45.800I even saw yesterday there was actually a grant given to teach people how to write grants to get them approved for the USAID.
00:21:00.820I mean, it's like it's an octopus with tentacles that keep going and keep going.
00:21:04.000And they've got their tentacles in every area around the world that hasn't banned them yet because multiple countries have actually kicked out USAID because they didn't want them involving themselves in their policy.
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00:22:30.700You know, I'm just going to say this for ChatGPT.
00:22:46.700I don't know if anyone has the full list of that, but it's growing.
00:22:51.320I asked Grok because ChatGPT has become unusable.
00:22:54.580I don't know if anybody's tried using it recently.
00:22:56.500It, you know, I'm just going to say this for ChatGPT.
00:22:59.840I don't know if it's a setting or whatever.
00:23:32.620There were reports suggesting that USAID provided approximately $260 million to organizations linked to George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
00:23:39.160The figure was highlighted in discussions like the funding of various projects, particularly in regions like Albania and Macedonia.
00:23:45.420Another source indicates that East-West Management Institute, partly backed by Open Society Foundation, received more than $260 million over the years from USAID for projects in countries like Georgia, Uganda, and Serbia.
00:23:56.100However, these figures might not represent the total or precise amounts given to OSF as funding can be routed through various intermediaries or for specific projects under broader initiatives.
00:24:06.720Also, there might be discrepancies or different interpretations.
00:24:10.080When you do a Google search for how much money USAID may have given to Soros' NGO, it's not immediately clear.
00:24:20.000I'm sure if you dig up the documents, you can probably get a better answer than I could just by simply Google searching it right now.
00:24:23.940If it is true, regardless, we know for a fact that Open Society Foundation funds NGOs that operate in the United States.
00:24:31.580We know that Soros funded many prosecutors, district attorneys across the country.
00:24:36.220And that would imply, and I'm going to say this with some legal liability shields, if it is true that USAID was funding Open Society Foundations, that would mean that USAID was indirectly funding political overhaul in the United States, which some would describe as a coup or a civil war or just outright simply corrupt.
00:25:01.540If you want to see something fun, search USAID regime changes, top 10 USAID regime changes in the last 10 years in Grok and see what you pull up.
00:25:31.540The exact number of countries where the United States Agency for International Development has been implicated in overthrowing governments is highly debated and often shredded in controversy.
00:25:39.700According to various posts on X and some news articles, there are claims that USAID has been involved in regime change operations in numerous countries.
00:25:46.760Some users on X mention specific countries like Thailand, Burma, Pakistan, Serbia, Ukraine, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and others.
00:25:53.420Another claim from Expo says that USAID has been involved in overthrowing 83 governments over 50 years, though this is not backed by official documentation or universally accepted sources.
00:26:03.260Specific historical cases involve Iran in 1953.
00:26:07.840The CIA, with covert funding possibly through mechanisms like those used by USAID, was involved in the coup against Prime Minister Mohamed, how do you pronounce that, Mossadegh?
00:26:16.560Guatemala in 1954, Chile in 1973, Salvador Allende.
00:26:21.480However, while USAID has been accused of supporting regime changes, often under the guise of promoting democracy or through humanitarian aid, these operations are typically covert and intertwined with broader U.S. foreign policy efforts.
00:26:33.780They say, important point, there is no official USAID documentation admitting to such activities directly.
00:26:40.460Many of these claims come from sources critical of U.S. foreign policy, which can introduce bias, and their involvement in these events is often part of a larger strategy involving multiple U.S. agencies like the CIA.
00:26:51.560The simple argument that people have made is that what USAID does is fund insurgent groups, I'm sorry, activist groups in various countries.
00:27:02.360So, have you guys ever heard about the Tales of an Economic Hitman, what is it, Tales from an Economic Hitman?
00:27:13.080You can watch the interview or read the book.
00:27:15.720Basically, this guy says, what we would do is, we'd go to a country and we'd say, hey, we're going to give you international aid, we're going to give you development.
00:27:21.800We're going to put billions of dollars into your infrastructure, roads, stores, we're going to bring in McDonald's, we're going to bring in Starbucks, whatever.
00:27:27.780Not specifically those, but that's, you know, if the country said no, they would then say, okay, you want to play it the hard way, we'll play it the hard way.
00:27:36.280They would then try to fund opposition politicians to change or overthrow the government.
00:27:42.640If that did not work, invasion or assassination.
00:27:46.460Or, I'm sorry, if, what was it, yeah, if that didn't work, they would try to take the politician out in one way or another, and then it would ultimately lead to invasion.
00:27:54.680So, that's like Iraq's and I'm saying, and Libya with Gaddafi.
00:27:58.140I'm not saying that's true, that's what's been alleged.
00:28:03.480We would have, so we would have, and again, this was when I was at the State Department, but, you know, just being in the foreign aid agencies.
00:28:13.800So, we would have people coming to our office that would allege that, especially, I remember one guy from Macedonia.
00:28:21.940He would come in, he was, I can't remember where he was in their government, but he was some elected official.
00:28:28.100And he's like, please, please stop your government.
00:30:34.020And super tall, typical, like, Eastern European, you know.
00:30:39.160And he was just so, so upset by what our government was doing to his country.
00:30:46.880You know, a democratically elected government that we were coming in and funding the opposition and essentially overthrowing their government.
00:30:57.940Well, I just got back from Guatemala, and I believe in 2017, Todd Robinson, with the backing of USAID and the State Department, tried to get Guatemala to pass a law that made abortion legal.
00:31:10.960And their country is, like, 80% or 90% Christian nation.
00:31:14.860And that sparked the largest mass protest.
00:31:17.700I mean, Guatemalans from all across the country, even indigenous people from the tribes in the jungles, came out in March in solidarity and shut it down.
00:31:39.920It was even covered openly and referred to as a population control program in the 90s to control third world population birth rates and to curtail them so that it did not impact our resources here in the United States and hurt our country.
00:31:55.140So it's – somebody said, you shouldn't call it that.
00:32:05.320And it was really – there was a fire lit under it when Henry Kissinger was secretary of state.
00:32:13.100And he had a mission in place and installed the president of the population program under the U.S. government that would go and try to incentivize, especially in countries like India.
00:32:25.260They would go to poor villages and use cash to incentivize the men to get vasectomies or even incentivize the women to sterilize themselves so that – and pay them to do so.
00:32:38.360So it's absolutely just horrendous thing to know that our country was involved in that and this organization that supported it and propped it up.
00:32:51.720And this newspaper, the Detroit Free Press, actually, in 1992 was giving the USAID accolades for the decrease in the birth rate in these third world countries and for the work all credited to USAID.
00:33:18.540Wasn't he the president of this program?
00:33:20.620No, he was – so it's an amendment restricting any of our foreign aid dollars to be used – I'm reading it right here – be used to lobby for or against abortion.
00:33:39.840But it's all still for the same goal to prioritize the American empire and so that we do not have to worry about our resources being hindered by a population boom in a third world country.
00:33:53.520Yeah, but if the U.S. banned abortion and was advocating for family policy and putting on TV like moms with seven kids and they were going like, wow, look at the greatest thing ever.
00:34:28.600I mean it's just – it's cheering on your own demise.
00:34:31.520I don't know why anybody would want to do that.
00:34:33.020But we definitely were encouraging it – we weren't encouraging it as much at home during the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but we were definitely encouraging it abroad in these third world countries and incentivizing people who were hungry and wanted to put food on their table for them to sterilize themselves.
00:35:24.040But, you know, because this was eight years ago, and I – you know, they're just – every day was something.
00:35:31.960One of the things that does come to mind – so I was – our undersecretariat oversaw the Refugee Bureau, PRM, Population Refugees and Migration, which is a very corrupt bureau also.
00:35:48.300And one of the things that I think that needs to be reformed is the classification system.
00:36:23.680And so they use the classified system to kind of protect information, to hide things from the American taxpayer because we should be accountable for the people paying our bills.
00:36:33.600So there was one instance where there was a foreign national from Iraq who came through our refugee program.
00:36:49.460And so when you come to our soil, you have two years to –
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00:37:50.340On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz comes an unprecedented exhibition about one of history's darkest moments.
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00:38:20.800You're given legal status, and then you have to apply to become a legal permanent resident.
00:38:28.140And then after that, you can apply to become a citizen.
00:38:30.440But his legal permanent resident status was denied because they found out that there was a warrant out for his arrest for assaulting a police officer in Iraq and having ties to a terrorist group there.
00:38:49.220But they did everything they could to hide that they did not want, because this was obviously during the Trump administration, so people didn't want refugees in the country, and they did not want that getting out.
00:39:01.360And so they did everything they could to try to hide that.
00:39:05.620Finally, it was, you know, it was in the DOJ revealed his name and everything, but it was kind of brushed under the rug because they didn't want to counter their narrative, right?
00:39:16.160Um, so, but there were lots of instances like that where, you know, the American taxpayer should know what's going on with our tax dollars.
00:39:27.460It's, um, and so, um, I think that by bringing a lot of this funding into one place, um, because all of it runs out of one office of the State Department.
00:39:38.500It's called the Office of Foreign Assistance.
00:39:40.000The acronym is F, and everything should be through there.
00:39:43.920There shouldn't be accounts in all these different agencies and bureaus and departments.
00:39:53.240So there's no confusion on where it's going.
00:39:56.200But even when it goes out and it goes to all of these NGOs, then they funnel it to someone else, and then they funnel it to someone else.
00:40:02.660Then it, then it just, even if it all goes out in one place, which I agree with you, it should, there definitely needs to be more transparency.
00:40:09.080And now there's a huge spotlight on it, and hopefully it will get what's needed there.
00:40:13.300So, understanding what USAID does, and that there was an effort, at least to some degree in the first Trump administration, to break it apart.
00:40:24.500Now, put that in the context of Democrats saying he's going to dismantle our government.
00:40:30.980What they were talking about is this international operation of the U.S. overthrowing unfavorable governments to expand U.S.
00:40:51.800I mean, these people don't represent American interests.
00:40:53.620They don't represent the interests of France or Germany.
00:40:56.620They represent the interests of the World Bank and NATO.
00:41:00.100Those are the two things that they are tied to, and everything they do, their entire mission, is to align with the World Bank and NATO.
00:41:08.140Anything that does not align with that becomes enemy number one, and that's who they go after, and that's one reason they went after Trump.
00:41:13.160Trump was a number one enemy of NATO when he took office.
00:41:17.400The question is, if Trump won in 2020, would he have gone so hard against these organizations, or was it that he saw how they were weaponized even against him?
00:41:33.560I mean, I don't think, I think it would have happened, maybe not as quickly, but, um, you know, there were people like John McEntee who were ready to turn things around.
00:41:48.120However, I will say, I don't know if the external drumbeat would have been there to provide us with the top.
00:42:09.700I think everybody was hoping that was sitting on the sidelines going, what is going to happen this time?
00:42:13.200And then he hits the ground running and everybody's head spinning, even, uh, everyone in mainstream media can't even keep up with what's going on because it's one thing after another.
00:42:22.220And he knows where the bodies are buried this time.
00:42:24.580So it's, it's a different ball game altogether.
00:43:21.080That there's no way for them to respond.
00:43:23.580I would just say, you know, my, my advice and on a lawyer is I'm just like, Trump should instruct all of his administrators to start firing people individually for various reasons like that.
00:44:03.080And when they say you can't do that, they'll say, sue me.
00:44:05.320And then that's going to require 10,000 individual lawsuits, which is going to be nuts and impossible for them, for these people to actually deal with.
00:44:13.720I mean, forcing them all to come back to the office, I think was one strategy because a lot of people got so cozy working at home.
00:44:19.380They, and moved away and are working remote and not even close to where they need to be to continue to work and come into the office every day.
00:44:25.980So I think one thing I do think was a genius strategy on Trump's part is how he set up Doge.
00:44:43.660I think it was called the United States Digital Service Agency is what it was.
00:44:49.620And so, and knowing that he would need congressional approval to set up Doge, he went in and just took this thing that Obama set up and said, oh, okay, we're going to change this name.
00:44:59.520And you're going to come in and basically update and make our digital systems more efficient, along with a lot of other things.
00:45:06.640But I think that was genius move because a lot of senators are, Democratic senators especially, coming out saying he can't do this.
00:46:22.320And they're saying that they're going to sue them for giving a gift to government officials because that company said they were going to give them for free.
00:46:28.420I'm like, good Lord, everything that is good or seemingly good that they're trying to help is going to come under attack no matter what.
00:46:36.440What I really love is how all these Democrats and liberals are coming out and being like, it's a bunch of 20-year-olds that are working doge.
00:46:55.860Everyone complaining is either falling down the steps, having a stroke, or needing a walker in order to make it up to Capitol Hill.
00:47:02.400So we really, I think the fresh youth coming in is needed.
00:47:07.420A revolution was started by a bunch of 20-something-year-olds that wrote our Constitution in the first place.
00:47:12.920So what happens to the rest of the world now?
00:47:14.960Obviously, without the strong backbone of USAID, World War III will begin, right?
00:47:20.000Well, let's take a look at El Salvador.
00:47:21.000What happened when Bukele got into power?
00:47:23.140It took him about two and a half years of his first five-year term.
00:47:26.220And at that two and a half-year point, when the cartels finally retaliated back, that gave him the voting power that he needed in Congress to basically temporarily suspend the Constitution.
00:47:34.280Then he was able to arrest any gang members that had markings on their face that indicated how many people they've killed.
00:49:45.360And him and his family had to flee five years ago.
00:49:47.500And he had just moved back and started a business back in El Salvador.
00:49:50.020He was only gone because it was so dangerous that the gangs were coming to him.
00:49:53.160And he lived within, you know, like seeing distance of the police station.
00:49:56.960And his buddies from high school were asking him like, hey, we need to know how many cars are in that parking lot or, you know, X amount of cops working right now.
00:50:02.820That's like their initiation to try to get him to just do a little bit of work for the gangs and then kind of initiate him in.
00:50:07.380And he's like, when they started to contact him, he's like, I knew I was going to be forced to join the gang.
00:50:12.320So the question then becomes, is USAID intentionally destabilizing nations like El Salvador, expanding crime, making things worse?
00:50:23.920Or is it a product of corrupt individuals in the United States are funneling money to themselves under the guise of helping third world countries?
00:51:31.720So they say Mike Cernovich was saying that he wouldn't be surprised if like half of the economy of the D.C. area is just money laundering, government funds being sent to these NGOs where these executive staff pay themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:51:45.980And you wonder, let me tell you, what's the industry of Loudoun County?
00:51:49.840Loudoun County is the highest median income in the country and potentially even the world.
00:51:55.620Because, I mean, how do you beat the United States' highest median income county?
00:56:23.640But basically, they say that USAID comes in and over a 10, 20, 30 year period, the first thing that they want to do is they build out this network of NGOs.
00:56:31.540And then they use those NGOs to basically try to take over failing media outlets.
00:56:35.340And they also use organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy as like their recruiting and staffing arm.
00:56:41.660And then they basically make job postings for specific Guatemalan nationals that fit specific characteristics.
00:56:46.460And then they take those people and they go to the failing media outlet and say, hey, we'll donate $10,000 in subscriptions a month.
00:56:51.680But we're going to put this person as the primetime host.
00:56:53.940Then once they have control of the media, they use that media outlet to amplify the politicians that will do their bidding.
00:56:58.860And they use it to undermine the politicians that won't do their bidding.
00:57:01.360And then over a 5, 10, 20 year period, they basically installed your entire Supreme Court, your entire electoral college.
00:57:07.040They've taken over your justice system.
00:57:08.140They've taken over a majority of your Congress.
00:57:10.140And the only thing left standing right now in Guatemala, including the president and vice president, USA played a major role in getting them elected, if you even call it that.
00:57:18.440The last thing standing in their way is their attorney general.
00:57:20.720Now, you see, USAID has spent the last year spending millions and millions of dollars to try to attack and discredit this attorney general.
00:57:28.400And she's the only one right now who's standing in the way.
00:57:30.560She's also getting respected by Tom Holman.
00:57:32.860And the Trump administration is working with this attorney general right now.
00:57:36.140She's the only one that can investigate the election fraud.
00:57:38.220And she's the only one that can investigate the child trafficking that's going on.
00:57:41.280She raided five NGOs that were accused of child trafficking.
00:57:44.360And for the first time in recorded history, and that's going back all the way to 2012, the amount of children coming from Guatemala to America has decreased by 23% in one year.
00:57:52.780She raided them in April of 2025, and the numbers come out in October of 2024.
00:57:57.260Sorry, she raided them in April of 2024.
00:57:59.600The numbers come out in October of 2024.
00:58:10.000Of course, they show up and they unleash their unlimited funds of NGOs to come in and start censoring him because he was a threat to NATO.
00:58:21.700He was a threat to what they wanted for their agenda for Brazil.
00:58:25.340So the real censorship that was happening during COVID and everything else, everyone was focused on that here, I think, in the U.S. more than they should have also been focused on Brazil.
00:58:36.520He actually was even banned recently from attending Trump's inauguration by the current sitting president.
00:58:42.640They banned him from traveling to the U.S. to attend Trump's inauguration.
00:58:47.760It was, according to Mike Benz, it was William Burns, right, the director of the CIA, who flies to Brazil with 50 of his CIA homies and basically holds a meeting with Bolsonaro where he tells Bolsonaro that you need to stop questioning these Dominion voting machines.
00:59:02.200And that was when they started to divert our government.
00:59:05.480Our State Department was diverting semiconductors during a semiconductor shortage so that they could create more voting machines than Brazil has ever had in any election in Brazil.
00:59:13.680And then wasn't it Mark Milley who flies over there like two weeks prior to the election and starts arresting some of his military generals?
00:59:20.640If I'm not mistaken, quote, fact check me on that.
01:23:57.160Of course, Russia has a naval base in Tartus.
01:23:59.260So the U.S. got angry and said, okay, fine, I guess, but we're upset because Gazprom controls about a quarter of natural gas flung into Europe,
01:24:08.520meaning that Russia has an outsized ability to control the market prices.
01:24:12.500So what ends up happening next is Syria, Russia, and Iran have a discussion, and Iran says,
01:24:17.800look, we can tap the same gas field, send the pipeline through Iraq into Syria, Turkey, and then Russia doubles its control.
01:24:25.020The U.S. then said, yeah, if you do that, we will wipe you out.
01:24:28.340And back in, I think this was like 2009, the CIA had basically been discussing ways to get Assad out of power because of this problem.
01:24:37.560And then The Guardian reported, I think it was in 2012, the intention to overthrow the Assad regime was now apparent in the Beltway.
01:25:31.480The argument is, and I don't know if they believe it, NATO wants to get energy prices down to allow rapid expansion in Europe to compete with the Chinese economic bloc.
01:25:40.940And Russia is basically blocking that because they're the ones who are dominant with energy.
01:25:47.080So when the U.S. tried going to Syria and say, we'll build our own pipeline then, Syria blocked them saying, no, because we're friends with Russia.
01:25:53.660The U.S. was then like, well, then we have no choice because there's no, or I should say NATO again, or the U.S., whatever.
01:25:58.640We have no means of actually controlling prices and expanding the European economic bloc because you're barring our access.
01:26:03.820And you're now going to try and undercut us by going to Iran and having them tap our gas field, war.
01:26:10.980Syria's collapsed and Ukraine isn't war.
01:26:13.400And that's completely obvious to anybody who's been tracking what's been going on with this stuff going back 12 years or longer.
01:26:18.700I remember back when it was, I think it was General, was it Wesley Clark?
01:26:22.360He said there's seven countries we're going to overthrow, and he started listing them off, Libya and, you know, I think Syria is one of them.
01:26:28.600And there's, Iran was one of them, I think.
01:26:30.160So I don't know how many of them have eventually collapsed.
01:26:34.660But it is fascinating to me, going back to 2012, during the Arab Spring, I think it was 2012 when The Guardian reported this.
01:26:42.200And all of my friends, I had friends who were doing field reporting in Syria and Turkey on the issue.
01:26:47.720And they were basically saying, like, here's what's playing out.
01:26:51.320Russia controls a quarter of the gas through Gazprom.
01:26:53.980It's a pipeline that travels through Ukraine.
01:26:55.840The West wants to control either Ukraine or get a pipeline in, because then they can basically force Russia to drop their prices.
01:27:03.780Sure enough, we get the Maidan movement.
01:27:07.380Sure enough, we end up in, what was it, 2021 when the war started?
01:27:23.040Biden comes in, everything starts falling apart once again.
01:27:26.980War erupts exactly where tons of people had predicted based on this energy issue.
01:27:32.280Now, a lot of people don't believe it's true that they're trying to offset prices to compete with China because the West is particularly deferential to China.
01:27:40.020And so it doesn't quite make sense that we need to compete with China when we've given over so much of our manufacturing and economic stability to China in the first place.
01:27:49.680Then the question is, what exactly are they are these these powerful governmental and corporate institutions actually doing?
01:28:27.280Well, according to, I think, Germany, they filed a lawsuit against a Ukrainian guy for blowing up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
01:28:32.240When that happened, the Western media was claiming Russia blew up their own gas pipeline by dropping a bomb in it, which made no sense.
01:28:40.240And then the working theory among people propped up Ukrainian that blew exactly people believe that it was actually CIA frogmen who went and blew up the Russian gas pipeline to limit Russia's ability to sell gas into Europe, which was strengthening their control and boosting their economy as what they were for.
01:28:59.760Why did the U.S. want to want to secure Ukraine?
01:29:02.580Shut down Russia and Crimea because it's their only warm water port, which gives them access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, where they deliver oil.
01:29:10.380They have the Sevastopol Naval Station, where their fleet is stationed.
01:29:15.220The U.S., asking a Ukrainian guy to press the button, the U.S. gave the weapons and the intel to blow up the Russian flagship.
01:29:22.200Then you get these Democrats going, oh, come on.
01:29:24.800Russia has access to the Black Sea from other areas, not in Sevastopol.
01:29:27.380It's like, sure, if they want to spend another $5 billion building a naval base.
01:29:52.520They just say things like, oh, he's like Hitler and he wants to steal the land.
01:29:55.300That's the main narrative that they stick to.
01:29:58.480One thing that whenever we helped install Zelensky and after we removed the democratically elected president before Zelensky in Ukraine.
01:30:07.520One thing that USAID money used their power to enforce with all of these new media agencies that are now funded by USAID in Ukraine, 9 out of 10, was that they are not allowed to air any Russian talking people.
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01:31:50.820On the TVs in Ukraine, which is insane because a large percentage of the people in Ukraine speak Russian just as much as they speak Ukrainian.
01:32:01.600So that was one of the rules for them when they took over their media and told them how they could do it.
01:32:07.480They used their money and power, USAID money, to tell them you cannot speak Russian on television.
01:32:14.300When I was in Kiev, everyone I met spoke Ukrainian and Russian.
01:32:41.260But most of the people I met spoke Russian and a handful spoke Ukrainian, Russian and Polish.
01:32:48.260I mean, my understanding is the languages are relatively similar.
01:32:51.380But in this area, you're bumping into a lot of these people.
01:32:54.880But the Russian thing was interesting because what I was told that in the East, particularly like the Donbass region, everyone there spoke Russian primarily.
01:33:02.380Though they could speak Ukrainian, their first language was Russian.
01:33:05.080And they interacted quite a bit across the border.
01:33:29.020So if the U.S. is basically saying we are going to fund special interests and Russia is getting mad about it and they're losing that fight, that's the fight I would prefer to have over people blowing each other up and Ukraine being turned into nuclear sludge.
01:33:42.380That being said, I don't know the structure by which anything else could happen.
01:33:49.420I don't think that there's one guy who's sitting there twirling his mustache and then, you know, doing the pinky thing saying, we're going to take Ukraine.
01:34:19.980And that's what I'm trying to say is probabilistically what was happening in Ukraine with soft power was going to happen no matter what, whether the U.S. wanted it to or not, because all the business interests, political interests of the West were aligned towards getting cheaper energy and were pissed off at Russia.
01:34:57.600Russia is going to secure a land bridge to Crimea.
01:34:59.780The fact that Ukraine could join NATO means that the only real way that this stops is—well, there's a couple ways.
01:35:07.800Russia is flattened and Putin is wiped out in hellfire.
01:35:12.360Or the land bridge through the Donbass region down through, like, Mary Pole and everything to Crimea is maintained and secured and becomes Russian.
01:35:25.680But this means that Russia has no interest in moving beyond those borders because Crimea, where they have the Sevastopol port, which is like a near-billion-dollar port, is now firmly under their control.
01:35:37.280If they don't—the simple explanation for why they invaded is that it looks at—or first, let's go back to the seizure of Crimea.
01:37:01.140So I think the most likely scenario is the fighting just stops where it is and the current drawn borders stay where they are.
01:37:08.400But again, it means very little coming for me and I have no idea.
01:37:11.240There's one aspect, though, that aside from the energy aspect, you have the bioweapons research labs that are in Ukraine that Victoria Nuland admitted to,
01:37:20.280probably inadvertently accidentally in a hearing, and Putin did not want that USAID-funded bioweapon research lab coming into his country
01:37:31.580and leaking viruses in the middle of over two years into COVID when he finally invades Ukraine.
01:37:37.000And he's brought this up several times when he's addressed why he's invaded Ukraine, and that was one of them.
01:37:43.700Have you interviewed Jeffrey Sachs yet?
01:42:43.260Because Russia's concerned that Trump is insane and Ukraine's concerned that funding gets cut off.
01:42:52.100So Ukraine's going to want to shore up their defensive positions as opposed to offensive.
01:42:55.580However, I think the issue is it's, you know, the concern we had just before the election that I did, I did, I said this as well,
01:43:06.460that Biden has escalated the conflict so far intentionally so that Trump would have no means of negotiating an end of the conflict.
01:43:14.640Like the attack on Russia, the invasion, the attack on Russia's missile strikes into Bryansk and Kursk would put Russia in a position where they cannot allow anything other than conflict in those areas.
01:43:54.860And they needed to make sure that they created so much damage that Putin would be forced to say, I'm sorry, Trump, but unless we get massive gains to accommodate what they've done, there's no end to this war.
01:44:06.240Something that Trump can't necessarily negotiate.
01:44:35.780They're using their elderly men and women to fight a war for American interests.
01:44:41.000Now, to be fair, there's a lot of people, when I went there, the surface level conflict for a lot of the protesters, and I'll stress this too.
01:44:49.080If you want to say USAID was funding the protests and all that stuff, maybe whatever.
01:44:53.460But the people there genuinely wanted to join the EU, it was money, the Schengen zone.
01:44:59.360The people I had talked to were not paid by the government or anything like that, although activist organizations that do organizing, giving people like that money allows them not to work on other things, and they could spend all their time making flyers and telling people where to be.
01:45:12.680The average person that I met, they were basically saying, we have an opportunity to stay in the free trade with Russia, Russia Trade Federation, or join the EU, NATO, and the Schengen zone.
01:45:23.600And if we join the Schengen zone, it means that a poor Ukrainian who makes $400 a month on average can move to the UK and make $4,000 a month on average.
01:45:33.560The EU was concerned that if we open up our borders to Ukraine, they'll all just leave the country because their economy sucks.
01:45:41.740So they told Ukraine, you have to develop your economy to a certain degree where people are making a certain amount of money before we can open the door.
01:45:47.400There was a split in the East for people who supported Russia and didn't want to join the EU or NATO.
01:45:52.300But a lot of the people that I met in Kiev were saying, we remember what Russia did to us and were terrified of being a part of whatever it is they want to do.
01:45:59.380Russia was saying, we have free trade with Ukraine.
01:46:03.420Our products flow to and from your borders.
01:46:06.360If you open up trade to the European Union, that means European goods will flood Ukraine and then flood Russia, and it will displace our economy and our manufacturing.
01:46:16.300So they said to Ukraine, you have to decide, do you want to get cut off from the trade you already have right now to join the EU or will you just say no to the EU deal?
01:46:27.140Yanukovych, the president, was basically like, I think I can play this game.
01:46:30.260The EU offered billions in loan guarantees.
01:46:32.520Russia was saying, we'll give you guarantees.
01:46:34.380And then finally, the U.S. was like, we're done negotiating.