00:06:23.960You know, that's fine. That's your prerogative. I mean, it's not really fine at the end of the day because you're NATO. You have a commitment, right, to help America just as you beg and cry and plead for us to help you.
00:06:40.340So President Trump, again, has a decision to make on that.
00:06:46.920So here's what he had to say when asked about NATO.
00:06:50.700Are further troop drawdowns in Europe likely? And are you satisfied with the progress that NATO allies have made?
00:06:55.660Well, we're going to see. I was very disappointed with NATO.
00:06:58.900And frankly, if it weren't held in Turkey, where my friend happens to be a very strong leader, a very strong person, it's possible that I wouldn't have attended.
00:07:12.300I felt I had to attend because of the fact that, you know, I know he's gone all out.
00:07:16.440It was a big thing to have NATO come to Turkey or anyplace else. It's a big thing.
00:07:21.340But we weren't treated well because we did something in Iran.
00:07:26.400We don't need anybody's help. I didn't even want the help.
00:07:30.060But before I asked, they said they wouldn't be there.
00:07:33.600And we've invested trillions of dollars in NATO.
00:07:38.240Why? To protect European countries and others, Canada, etc.
00:07:44.540But to protect people, countries from, generally speaking, it used to be the Soviet Union, now it's Russia.
00:07:51.900And I say that's fine, but you would think that they'd be very willing to do something to help us.
00:08:20.220I was testing to see whether or not they'd be there, because I've long said that we help them, but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us.
00:08:26.920And Italy turned us down and Germany turned us down and France turned us down.
00:13:24.920I don't want him to waste his time answering that question because we're working very closely with Marco Rubio, a very famous man, great secretary of state.
00:13:35.260And with Scott Bassett and with Pete and everybody else, we're going to be taking the sanctions off.
00:13:49.520There's plenty of people we can sanction and we are saying we don't want to sanction friends.
00:13:54.320And because of the president, you know, we have a very good relationship with the new leader of Syria.
00:14:01.820And he's done an amazing job in a year and a half. He's pulled the whole country together.
00:14:06.000And I have a very great relationship with him. And somebody said, well, he's pretty rough to put him there.
00:14:11.440I approved him along with the president. We were the two that really wanted him.
00:14:15.760And he's done a great job. He's done a great job. He's pulled it together. Not an easy job.
00:14:21.320So now the sanctions President Trump was talking about there were actually sanctions that his administration had imposed back in December of 2020.
00:14:31.800The reason, pretty straightforward, Turkey bought some Russian air national defense missile systems from Russia's main arms exporter.
00:14:40.860The U.S. argued that buying these compromised sensitive NATO technology, especially the F-35 stealth fighter jet and the purchase financially benefited the Russian defense industry as President Trump was trying to wrap up a war with Russia and Ukraine.
00:19:34.780A federal judge this afternoon rejecting the DOJ's attempt to subpoena 2020 Fulton County election workers.
00:19:42.960Early this year, the FBI raid a Fulton County election office.
00:19:46.920The Justice Department also issued subpoenas for information on all 2020 election workers from Fulton County.
00:19:53.480The records include those who are performing the following duties, individuals who are assigned to review mail-in ballots,
00:19:59.660which was, of course, a big issue, potential fraud, a little bit of fraud, possibly individuals assigned to voter review panel slash the board, individuals assigned to mobile voting locations, individuals who were assigned to the transfer results to media or transport ballots, ballot stock or media individuals employed or contracted by the Fulton County Board of Registrations and elections, individuals who worked or volunteered for risk limiting audits.
00:20:28.780people who volunteered for the recount, or anybody who served as a precinct manager or assistant managers.
00:20:35.040But this afternoon, U.S. District Judge William Ray, a Trump appointee, quashing those subpoenas.
00:20:41.060He said that the grand jury subpoena was unreasonable?
00:20:46.200To find out what took place in the 2020 election?
00:21:49.360It shows that, you know, it's John Thune is incompetent.
00:21:58.060You know, John Thune is clearly either incompetent or compromised, unable to do his job.
00:22:08.680I don't understand why President Trump has not put more pressure on him to do his job.
00:22:15.260You know, President Trump puts pressure on people who are not doing their job, who are not doing a good job, world leaders, congressmen, so on and so forth.
00:22:26.560Why is he not leveling John Thune, who's been nothing but a rhino hack?
00:23:16.820Now, over on the House side, Mike Johnson's doing a little bit of a better job,
00:23:20.400To his credit, keeping his minions in check.
00:23:27.900Mike Johnson making it clear that Republicans are not backing down after the Supreme Court's 5-4 betrayal last week with the whole birthright citizenship.
00:23:39.520let's take a listen into mike johnson and what he had to say regarding that and what the house
00:23:48.560is going to do about it talked to you about the supreme court's decision this week on birthright
00:23:54.600citizenship the president tweeting afterwards excuse me true social he said we can easily
00:23:59.000make it up in congress through legislation no long and unwieldy constitutional amendment is
00:24:03.260necessary a lot of conservative voices did not read the opinion that way including
00:24:07.040Governor Ron DeSantis, Harvard Law grad, not exactly a slouch.
00:24:10.340In this department, he says it's a substantive decision that says the 14th Amendment requires
00:24:15.080citizenship for those born to, among others, birth tourists or those unlawfully present
00:24:20.120in the country will need either a constitutional amendment or a future court to overrule this.
00:24:25.160Mike Lee joining in with that as well.
00:24:26.680Senator saying it's going to be a long fight to a constitutional amendment.
00:24:29.700You, I knew before Congress as a constitutional attorney and scholar,
00:24:33.420What say you about how this gets done, if there's a change to be made?
00:24:36.960Well, I used to litigate constitutional law cases, so I really enjoyed Justice Clarence Thomas' dissent.
00:24:42.580It's everybody should read that, must read.
00:24:44.820And he explained that the 14th Amendment, the original intent, was to enhance and really value citizenship,
00:24:50.940and it's been devalued because of birthright tourism, which is what we have now.
00:24:54.660It's a threat to the rule of law and national security.
00:24:57.040We do need to address it. We're looking at all angles.
00:24:59.200If there's some legislative fix, we'll advance that immediately.
00:25:02.020if it's a constitutional amendment, as you know, it takes a little more time, but we've got to
00:25:06.040address this. It's, it really is a serious, serious issue. Time for folks to brush up on
00:25:09.720schoolhouse rock. It is quite a process. Um, and it isn't often done. All right, speaker. Good to
00:25:14.660see you. Thank you. Great to see you. There's literally businesses of people that bring people
00:30:32.620compartmentalized information facility, or a SCIP.
00:30:36.540At the J. Edgar Hoover Building, give the administration's commitment to transparency.
00:30:40.820I strongly urge the full release of these records as permitted by law, doing so to address longstanding questions and demonstrate the administration's continued support for upholding public trust.