Biden appointee Ammar al-Ali blocks President Trump from cutting billions of dollars of foreign aid that Congress had authorized. Trump says he'll appeal. Mitch McConnell says it's the most dangerous time since before World War II. President Trump nominates Tulsi Gabbard to be New York City mayor.
00:01:19.280They cannot choose to not spend the roughly $4 billion of the nearly $12 billion appropriated in 2024 that's set to expire at the end of this month.
00:01:31.440Rogue judges thinking they're going to now do appropriations.
00:02:48.280Mitch McConnell doesn't really know where he is, barely knows he's alive,
00:02:52.940and he's dealing with his own health issues right now.
00:02:57.160Yet, he's out here to criticize President Trump.
00:03:00.700What has Mitch McConnell ever done in his tenure as a senator?
00:03:04.680He hasn't done a half, a quarter, a tenth, a one hundredth of what President Trump has done in his first term or this last seven months or so.
00:14:17.000But what Trump should not do in any way is help somebody who's been accused by many of being a serial killer and also probably, you know, accused of allegations of sexual assault.
00:14:59.240He put people on the ship who were sick when they weren't supposed to be on there, put the people who were sick in the Javits Center who weren't supposed to be in there.
00:17:59.120These are petty tyrants, narcissists with God complexes.
00:18:03.220These are people who, when they're in charge, will bend any rule and do anything like no scruples in order to maintain their political power.
00:18:11.060We saw that under the Biden administration.
00:18:29.100And the problem is, is that they're not in power.
00:18:31.020But all of those, you know, governors with God complexes still are.
00:18:35.780You got Murphy still in office for a little bit.
00:18:38.540You know, you're going to you got Pritzker.
00:18:41.780And what I think is, you know, Newsom, obviously, I think what we see now is that they've learned that they can get a presence, virtue signal like this, stand up, resist Trump.
00:18:51.960But what we have is an unstoppable force hitting an immovable object here.
00:18:56.540Like if Trump says he's going to bring the National Guard in, he's going to do it.
00:19:00.060And you have Pritzker out there saying some really strong language about how he is going to resist that happening in Chicago.
00:19:07.000And so the reason I'm watching this very closely is because, as we've talked about many times before, I'm concerned with the level of violent rhetoric, what it's done to Americans and how afraid they are of a future civil war.
00:26:45.940Primary rhinos does not fix anything because the people that make the decisions, like Rana, who allocate the donor capital, that is the core of the Republican Party.
00:26:55.880And they have a nice, comfy little gig for themselves.
00:29:35.040Oh, we got to figure they can't talk like that.
00:29:37.440And it's like, OK, well, if you are in the Republican Party and you want to play ball with the big national organizations, not have them fight you.
00:29:44.020You got to look, act, feel and talk like all the other candidates.
00:29:59.160And then what's the voters, the person watching TV at home?
00:30:02.740They really don't care what you think.
00:30:04.060They just expect you to buy whatever product they shill and they push.
00:30:08.680And so any any way you've heard like, oh, what is primary rhinos means?
00:30:14.720That means you, dear viewer on TV, are going to run around and try and get a new candidate on the show only to have it sunk by these people who are out for themselves and not at all for any principles.
00:30:49.860Somebody that came from like one of the other investors like that's, you know, it's it was not an outsider.
00:30:55.760So maybe that's a black pill for people.
00:30:59.120But I think there's some provisions you could put into place that that may change things up a little bit.
00:31:05.240That can go along with, you know, if primarying people is the right outlet, you know, it's expensive and it's very difficult to primary somebody who's sat there for years.
00:31:17.120And it's very, very, very unsuccessful most of the time.
00:31:20.520I mean, we did see, you know, Eric Cantor lose his seat, one of the most powerful men in Washington, D.C., too.
00:31:26.160But it's very, very, very, very hard to do.
00:32:00.100If you take you ban stock trading for all members of Congress, I think if you put provisions in like that, Mark, it'll make this job a lot less desirable for some of these scumbags who are in there right now, who are making crap tons of money on the backs of the American people.
00:32:17.000While everyone else suffers, like we watched during COVID, everyone lost money except for members of Congress in the broad sense.
00:32:24.940I think if you start to put provisions in like this, it'll take more people like Joni Ernst.
00:32:30.640It'll take more people like Mike Gallagher and say, you know what?
00:32:33.260Now is my time to go be a scumbag in the private sector.
00:33:22.180And there are certainly people like that.
00:33:24.800And there are also people that go through the whole process and get to D.C. and actually keep their scruples.
00:33:29.740But I think the vast majority of them, they just get to the town and there's a certain operating manual.
00:33:34.100There's a certain way that these products are supposed to look and run.
00:33:38.680And what you're asking for is to change the rules so the products operate differently.
00:33:42.980And, you know, I like imagine you are a MAGA candidate.
00:33:47.180You get this backing from the National Party somehow and you get there and it's like, OK, well, this isn't like I'm begging for five million from Pfizer that's going to a pack that I'm not supposed to coordinate.
00:34:00.100This is like John Thune, literally the CEO of Pfizer personally donated him, wrote a check.
00:34:06.160And a lot of other CEOs did it as well.
00:34:08.800So you can't even say keep the corporate money out of politics.
00:34:22.620And yet at the same time, it's like, like, look at what we're seeing.
00:34:25.900We're seeing one individual potentially being tried for mortgage fraud.
00:34:31.180But I bet you every single person down there in Washington, D.C. has multiple products that are multiple properties that are all primary residents.
00:34:38.620It's like they literally get a handbook when they show up.
00:34:42.320This is how you survive in Washington, D.C.
00:34:45.240And I just like I don't have a lot of hope that those rules can change.
00:34:48.740And again, I don't want to be a doomer, but I'm just saying, like, all of the solutions I've heard, like, you know, term limits aren't going to work either.
00:34:57.700That just means that the products have an expiry date and they got to find a new one faster.
00:35:04.560And so the only the only working theory I have is that somebody there needs to be basically a billionaire who doesn't want to use their money for leverage.
00:35:20.560They've got to build Shark Tank, too, on another network and build a shadow R&C that does things right.
00:35:26.480Because we all know Ronna McDaniel was like, what did she do with that?
00:35:30.600Two hundred and fifty million dollars.
00:35:32.620All these scumbags down in D.C., this consultant class took their little sacks of cash and were laughing at all those people that donated that money because of election integrity.
00:35:52.620I played this clip yesterday on yesterday's show of Rand Paul absolutely pissed off that Donald Trump would blow up a ship full of Venezuelan drug lords transporting drugs to this country.
00:37:54.160I don't know how many go uncounted for a no autopsy.
00:37:57.920Then you've got guys like Rand Paul saying, comparing pretty much Donald Trump blowing up drug lords to us invading Iraq, saying we're the world police.
00:38:08.060This is protecting our homeland, our children, our loved ones from potentially snorting fentanyl instead of cocaine by accident.
00:38:17.640Not saying you should be doing cocaine, but that seems to be the trend of what happens with some of these people who get it with fentanyl or heroin or whatever.
00:40:06.660Well, we had to make a decision, and we were going to kill people.
00:40:09.700And, you know, so sometimes those rights conflict.
00:40:13.200But in this particular situation, I think that one of the burdens you bear is somebody who's going to be the salient person arguing for certain principles.
00:40:21.860And this is, like, okay, well, everybody on earth has a right to due process.
00:40:40.560But the problem is, is I don't think he's even right here.
00:40:42.980I think that this was a flagless, stateless vessel in international waters that under certain circumstances, you're actually, like, maybe even compelled to destroy.
00:40:57.340And so here's the funny part about it.
00:40:59.720He didn't even know where he was coming from.
00:41:01.280And then I guess maybe Marco Rubio, who's, I think, perhaps the hardest, not perhaps, is the hardest working man in this cabinet right now, second to Donald Trump, obviously, the president, went out to clarify the statements over down in South America.
00:41:17.340Let's take a listen to what he had to say.
00:41:18.960The United States has long, for many, many years, established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drug boats.
00:42:43.240I actually pulled up the Rob Schmidt interview with Rand Paul just because I wanted to see Rob Schmidt's face after Rand Paul said that stuff.
00:43:28.940We had I think we had 80 percent of people who thought it was important that violent crime crime members be sent back to their countries of origin.
00:43:36.620So, yeah, like, I think that Trump should do a lot more of this stuff.
00:43:41.360Listen, if Congress isn't going to act, make the Democrats defend narco terrorists like it is.
00:45:54.000And as far as I know, it's like, OK, benevolent billionaires, a messy fourth turning crisis, maybe a civil war revolution or end times like that's the list.
00:46:06.180Like, that's what's going to bail us out of our situation of institutional trust.
00:46:11.480You know, my favorite thing about these people, Mark, someone like Tillis will take a vote like that or they'll they'll they'll stifle somebody.
00:48:39.280A lot of people were against Trump, changed their mind, came out with valid reasons why they changed their mind, and are now on board.
00:48:47.040But it's like, okay, well, if you're just going to drift with the wind and make decisions and do performative stuff, like, ultimately, it comes down to if you've sold your integrity, like, you can't really get that back.
00:49:48.820But before we move on to that, I just had to pull up here because I wanted to pull up some of these people about, you know, righting the wrong.
00:49:55.960I mean, J.D. Vance came out in 20 whatever year it was.
00:50:36.000Ben Carson, around the first time, absolutely adored by President Trump.
00:50:41.180Jeb Bush, you know, he had a little bit of a rough time.
00:50:44.820Rand Paul, another one we just spoke about, a little bit of a rough time.
00:50:47.640Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel right now.
00:50:51.220Chris Christie was another one who had a very tough time.
00:50:53.980Rick Santorum made amends with President Trump.
00:50:55.800So, you know, you go down the list of these people who have, you know, most of them have righted the wrong.
00:51:00.620Now, I guess we can't really hold people to account who said all these bad things about Donald Trump if he's not going to hold them to account.
00:51:07.320And, you know, just using, for example, some of these people who said this.
00:51:11.460Donald Trump is a very forgiving, forgiving, forgiving person to his own demise.
00:51:16.080I think in some instances, if you look at things like Mitt Romney and what he did to President Trump, I think he's still upset that Donald Trump trolled him about the Secretary of State job.
00:51:25.620Can you imagine how bad things would have been if he had him as Secretary of State?
00:51:28.920But he's made amends with, you know, with some of these people and they corrected some of them corrected, you know, beyond beyond belief, in my opinion.
00:51:42.080I think if you publicly don't support Trump at this point, then you probably can't for some reason.
00:51:48.240If you're a politician, I really like I think it played out like this.
00:51:51.380I don't care about the public support, Mark, so much when you've got these guys stabbing in the back behind closed doors.
00:51:57.060Uh, again, like I think everybody stabs everybody in the back in politics down in D.C.
00:52:05.500And I think that I think the public is going to be less tolerant of that.
00:52:11.900Let me frame Trump this way, is that, you know, Trump came on the scene with a different set of political promises, which was, hey, we're going to put America first.
00:52:22.780And I think a lot of people in politics didn't believe him.
00:52:28.340And that's why he got elected to be the president the first time.
00:52:31.220And it's like, I can understand if in 17, 18, 19 and 20, you were like, you know, I don't get Trump.
00:52:37.720I think he's he's probably doing what I do, which is just make a bunch of lies up, try and convince people to vote for you.
00:52:43.860But then it's like, OK, after COVID, after the border invasion, after January 6, Fed's direction, and then after people stuck with Donald Trump through all of that, and then they weaponized the Department of Justice after him.
00:53:01.840Yeah. If at that point you can't find your way to publicly understand that Donald Trump wasn't lying about caring about voters first and voters know it.
00:53:14.340And so if you are not supporting him, you probably should have a good reason if you're on the right.
00:53:20.160Yeah. And I think the people that don't, it can probably be assumed that they're owned by somebody.
00:53:30.220The guy who's running for, I guess, is he running for the senator?
00:53:32.920He's running for the governorship down in Georgia, who just came out and said behind closed doors, Donald Trump, there's no doubt in my mind, Donald Trump is in the Epstein files.
00:53:43.500If that's what you believe, be a man, come out and say it in the public domain.
00:53:49.720What you say behind closed doors, be a man and come out and say it to the domain.
00:53:54.220If that's what you believe, because if you believe that and Donald Trump is in the Epstein files and he's this terrible of a person, you could never support him because that would make him a horrible person.
00:54:02.880If he's implicated toward a bad things.
00:54:05.360So you're sitting here telling me, oh, well, this guy's a rapist.
00:54:09.400He's a pedophile, but I still want his support.
00:54:12.900Say what you mean and mean what you say is what Lou Dobbs used to tell me all the time.
00:54:17.340Say what you mean and mean what you say.
00:54:19.660And these guys are a bunch of cowards.
00:54:29.000But goes behind the scenes and has all this to say.
00:54:34.100And then he's probably the next week up Donald Trump's rear end.
00:54:38.240And this is what I meant to do when I said I'd rather them be Trump behind closed doors than out here cheerleading for pom poms, because that's the real person you get behind the scenes.
01:02:46.120If you follow the rules, if you are – if you believe in Judeo-Christian principles and follow the rules of America, you're the sucker.
01:02:53.980Because even – so then you have, like, people on visas or people here legally even, from what I understand, using earpieces and translators to pass the commercial driver's license exams so they can go out and kill Americans on the highways.
01:03:39.040Their profit margins on stuff, they probably lose money between their Amazon Prime shipping and their product margins being so slim because they have the cheapest price anywhere you can get on things.
01:04:18.580I don't know if they exist outside of New York.
01:04:20.200All of Amazon's returns, Amazon obviously probably takes them as a tax write-off, but they sell at a wholesale price in bulk to these stores.
01:04:34.820I mean, crazy, crazy, crazy stuff because they take everything back.
01:04:38.860Their customer service, from what I understand, is mostly here in America, and it is absolutely unmatched.
01:04:45.780Well, they immediately find if anything goes wrong, and they have a process to fix it.
01:04:50.140This is a perfect example of organizational design and systems thinking.
01:04:54.380And that's why Amazon succeeded because I actually saw Walmart hire a bunch of Amazon people to try and fix Walmart's crap, and they failed very rapidly.
01:05:03.000Everybody's like, oh, they work for Amazon.
01:05:10.420They have the right feedback loops into place.
01:05:12.460The right teams are connected and managed the right way so that if a problem gets found, it gets rapidly root cause and fixed.
01:05:20.820And so they design a system that doesn't need 6,000 people in the Philippines, to be frank with you.
01:05:27.540But here, again, is proof why I think libertarians are just dead wrong about everything, is because, look, Amazon has built a company that can't be competed with.
01:09:19.920Like, you know, Pfizer should probably not be multi-trillant.
01:09:22.880Like, however big Pfizer is, probably shouldn't have that sector of our economy be as big as it is because it all gets paid by the government and we can't afford it.
01:09:47.060Especially when we can't make our own Tylenol here in America or Advil in America or whatever, you know, sort of drug that you have to take.
01:09:55.020I get face cream from a dermatologist made in India, made in Canada.
01:11:06.620Tell that to the guy who went to Ellis Island.
01:11:08.980Tell that to the guy who came to this country and spent $100,000 to get papers, to have the open business, whatever you had to do to get papers.
01:11:14.840I have a friend who's going through the process right now.
01:13:22.060OK, so they're underreporting their taxes.
01:13:24.220And the reason I know this is because I have a boss who went to jail for it, a former congressman who went to jail for it, underreporting taxes, tax evasion.
01:13:31.520And they get you at wire fraud and mail fraud, however you paid them.
01:13:33.960If you paid them by a check, it's mail fraud.
01:13:35.880If you paid them by a wire, you know, whatever.
01:14:36.640And 76 percent of them agree that major industries like health care, energy and big tech should be nationalized to give more control and equity to the people.
01:14:45.520And so the problem is, is that we've built a society that has no room for these people.