Ronna DeRita DeRosa is back with a new segment called "Common Sense Vs. Communism" where she explains the difference between socialism and common sense. President Trump continues to pound Iran for the 12th straight night in a row and says he hasn't even begun to hit them hard yet. Plus, Speaker Mike Johnson says some big announcements including a newly passed bill that has members of Congress frustrated and wouldn't you know it, every Democrat voted against it.
00:01:50.500Politico writes Democrats have a massive outside cash problem.
00:01:54.500The three main GOP party committees in their two caucus aligned super PACs have nearly twice as much cash on hand as their Democratic equivalents.
00:02:03.060Give me a quick answer on that. I'm going to get to another topic.
00:02:05.760Well, listen, the Supreme Court just wrote in coordinated campaign limits, which makes that number even bigger.
00:02:10.480Because, yes, we have one hundred and twenty million, the most cash we've ever had in the Republican Party.
00:02:15.400We have the president, we have the vice president out there working hard every day.
00:02:18.840We're raising lots of money because we know what's at stake.
00:02:21.680We have no option other than to win in November.
00:03:12.740Now, in a bizarre twist of news, as Democrat socialists continue to win elections around the country, the latest presidential poll for Democrats shows Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom are out.
00:03:26.820AOC is the new de facto leader of the Democrat Party and the leader of the upcoming presidential top position.
00:04:24.780He wanted to make the first primary, South Carolina, where he turned it around because James Clyburn gave him the power vested in him, gave him the blessing.
00:04:31.880So now they now the Democratic Party's got to decide where to start.
00:04:35.880So here's something interesting that that is what that voters, viewers need to watch.0.79
00:04:40.280So AOC, she's, of course, loved by the DSA, at least half of the DSA.0.78
00:04:44.280I mean, I knew AOC was probably going to rise.
00:06:29.080Well, now the vendor's comments raise the very strong possibility that one of the blue states in America may have acceded to allowing non-citizens to vote.
00:06:37.040We're going to keep a close eye on that. Hope to get Armie Dillon on the show the next couple of days to describe what is going on.
00:06:42.940But that is a big thing. With that, I'm going to turn things back to Washington, where my amazing co-host Amanda Head is.
00:06:48.340Amanda, another Democratic election story that has fallen apart in the last week.
00:06:54.540Indeed, indeed. Conspiracy theories, right, John? They just keep falling by the wayside.
00:06:58.620I know you know all about that, though. All right, everybody.
00:07:03.720All right. So you have the software company saying, hey, we're not taking the fall because you guys purposely allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to register.0.94
00:07:13.440Even after cleaning up the voter rolls, there's still thousands of them.0.92
00:07:17.220And now you guys have knowingly and purposely allowed illegals to vote in our elections.0.94
00:07:52.560the House just took a major step to clean up one of Washington's biggest credibility problems,
00:07:58.760members of U.S. Congress trading stocks while writing the rules for everyone else.
00:08:04.040The bill would ban lawmakers, their spouses, and dependent children from buying individual stocks,
00:08:11.600which is exactly why so many Americans are excited about this newly passed bill.
00:08:17.060Senator Bernie Moreno has been forceful on this issue, saying Congress has no business profiting from insider information the public does not have.
00:08:29.120People don't trust members of Congress to police themselves, and they've grown tired of wondering whether politicians are making money off insider information while the rest of us try to figure out how to get ahead.
00:08:43.680Now, supporters say this is a simple trust test.
00:08:47.780If you want to serve in Congress, you should serve the public, not your stock portfolio.
00:08:53.400By including spouses and dependent children, the bill closes the easiest loophole politicians could use in order to get ahead.
00:09:02.760Now, think about this. Nancy Pelosi swears up and down.1.00
00:09:07.200She has never done insider trading, yet her husband, who she goes to bed with regularly,0.96
00:09:13.300who she talks with regularly, has somehow turned them into hundred thousandaires to
00:09:36.040as somebody in the stock market, I don't think that they should be trading off of insider
00:09:40.440information. Speaker Mike Johnson said the GOP has gotten so much done in a non-presidential
00:09:47.980election year. He said they are going to try to push the Save America Act, but might have to delay
00:09:54.760and use it as a bargaining chip now that they've just learned that Democrats are planning to shut
00:10:01.380down the government right before the election in order to hurt Trump and the GOP. Speaker Johnson
00:10:07.560also said that they were able to unlock a third budget reconciliation vote that might allow them
00:10:14.360to pass key pieces of the Save America Act and then bring in Vice President J.D. Vance as the
00:10:20.860tiebreaker. Listen to what he shared this morning. And the budget resolution that unlocks our third
00:10:25.720reconciliation bill, which, of course, is Republicans' best shot to get as much of the
00:10:29.880Save America Act into law as possible, in addition to funding our national defense and our farmers.
00:10:36.020Republicans support our troops, our farmers, and election security. We're the only team in
00:10:42.260Washington that does. Many of you doubted our success. Many of you standing around me in this
00:10:46.560gaggle right now said, let me read you a sample of the headlines. Quote, House Republicans face
00:10:51.320final week gauntlet. Another said, Johnson's rocky sprint to recess. Another said it was
00:10:57.080johnson's make or break week despite nearly every democrat voting against everything i just read
00:11:03.100you house republicans delivered now many of you like to say that major legislating can't happen
00:11:08.880in an election year we just proved you wrong this week we we continue to deliver for the people and
00:11:14.380we're going to continue that streak all the way through the end of this year and into the next
00:11:17.860congress we're increasingly confident that we will hold and grow this majority in the house we must
00:11:23.900because you're seeing a demonstration of the two sides, the divergent views for America.
00:11:29.360All right. They really are getting a lot done. The news hardly covers any of it, but it's amazing.
00:11:35.380Now, Speaker Johnson also said the GOP is in a good position. Democrats are not. When they go
00:11:42.040home on their summer break and they start campaigning for the upcoming election, they will
00:11:47.520be forced to answer to their voters, right? As they do these gatherings, you saw what happened
00:11:54.400in the last election cycle. They went home from Kamala Harris and from Joe Biden, and they were
00:12:01.420just getting bombarded. That same thing is about to happen here. They're going to be forced to
00:12:07.120answer why they voted against the military, why they voted against voter ID, and why they voted
00:12:13.720against members of Congress being able to use insider trading information to become multimillionaires.
00:12:19.980So it looks really bad. But listen to this. New legislative victories. Democrats, on the other
00:12:25.160hand, have to go home. They have to answer for quite a bit. They have to answer for why they
00:12:29.300voted against funding our troops, against funding the government, against common sense policies like
00:12:36.320voter ID and proof of citizenship, and against a popular ban on members of Congress purchasing
00:12:42.200individual stocks. We have three and a half months to go until this election. We are going to run
00:12:46.720through the tape. We're going to continue to demonstrate here every day as we did this week.
00:12:51.480The Republicans are on the side of the American people, on the side of common sense, on the side
00:12:55.980of America. The Democrats simply are not. That's a sad reality of where we are. And everybody gets
00:13:00.920to make a choice in the upcoming election. We're very much looking forward to that. Thank you.
00:13:05.220All right. And even more good news. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan has formally referred former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, accusing him of making false statements during congressional testimony.
00:13:24.880The referral comes after Senate Republicans released records showing Jack Smith's team obtained and reviewed messages and text messages from 44 sitting members of Congress during the Trump investigation, including lawmakers communicating with White House officials.
00:13:44.020Republicans say those records raise serious questions about whether Smith's office followed required filter team procedures designed to protect privileged material. That is why the new documents have become such a flashpoint on Capitol Hill.
00:14:01.000GOP lawmakers argue that if Smith testified one way and the record shows something different,
00:14:07.360then Congress has to treat that as a lying under oath situation and not just a paperwork issue.
00:14:15.360There are also broader political concerns about the special counsel operation itself.
00:14:20.980House Republicans have already pointed to meetings between Smith's team, the Biden White House,
00:14:26.340as evidence that the probe may have been politically coordinated rather than fully
00:14:31.500independent. Jack Smith's defenders dispute that framing, but the new reference shows how
00:14:38.120aggressively Republicans are now pushing back. For Trump allies, this is about more than one
00:14:43.360prosecutor. They see it as a bigger effort to expose what they call the get Trump machine
00:14:49.740and make sure federal law enforcement is never used that way again.
00:14:55.620Yesterday's development showed just how fast the Iran war is widening.
00:15:03.560Everyone is praying that this thing will end very quickly.1.00
00:15:06.360The biggest headline was President Trump's warning that the U.S. will destroy a bridge
00:15:11.620for every Iranian attack on ships in the Strait of Hormuz,
00:15:15.500a stark signal that Washington is trying to deter, further strikes on global shipping.
00:15:22.860Trump's message came as Iran continued to frame the conflict as fighting against U.S. aggression,
00:15:28.940while U.S. and allied forces kept pressure on the Iranian military.
00:15:33.320At the same time, there was a rare human note.
00:15:36.820Iran released an American hostage, Dina Karari, who had been detained since 2024.
00:15:43.500Trump called it an act of goodwill, and her release briefly raised hopes that diplomacy could still open a narrow hatch from the fighting.
00:15:53.360But those hopes are fragile because the war is now directly tied to the oil market and the most important shipping lane in the ocean.
00:16:02.200Oil prices remain under pressure from the risk that attacks on tankers or choke points could disrupt supply chain.
00:16:08.900And this is why investors, motorists and government are watching every missile launch and naval threat so closely.
00:16:16.440Reuters also reported that Iran has told the Houthis to be ready to close the Red Sea gateway if the U.S. strikes Iranian power structures.
00:16:25.940Now, President Trump said striking power plants is his last move.
00:16:30.000It's not something that he wants to do.1.00
00:16:32.340But if they are going to play games, they're going to get, if you're going to play stupid games, you're going to win stupid prizes, right?0.99
00:16:39.920He's not messing around, and I hope that they will take this threat seriously.0.98