The Great America Show - March 14, 2025


Trump’s Leadership： Shifting the Narrative on Ukraine


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Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire and a 30-day ceasefire. President Trump and his team are working on a plan to get Vladimir Putin to agree to the ceasefire, but what does that mean for the future of Ukraine and Russia?

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00:00:00.000 Today, we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire 0.98
00:00:07.460 and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and sustainable
00:00:13.040 and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability to prosper as a nation.
00:00:18.220 I want to personally thank, we both want to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Majesty
00:00:22.060 for hosting us, for making this possible.
00:00:23.940 They've been instrumental in this process and we're very grateful to them for hosting
00:00:27.240 us here today and hopefully we'll take this offer now to the Russians and we hope that
00:00:31.820 they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace.
00:00:33.680 The ball is now in their court.
00:00:35.760 But again, the President's objective here is, number one, above everything else, he wants
00:00:40.420 the war to end and I think today Ukraine has taken a concrete step in that regard.
00:00:44.600 We hope the Russians will reciprocate.
00:00:46.720 Just think about it.
00:00:48.740 We've gone from if the war is going to end to now how the war is going to end and this
00:00:54.200 was, this was an important first step and that was under President Trump's leadership.
00:00:57.940 He has literally moved the entire global conversation to where we had a very senior
00:01:02.660 Ukrainian delegation with us today.
00:01:04.800 We've had engagements with our Russian counterparts and now it's how the war is going to end and
00:01:10.860 that's under President Trump's leadership.
00:01:13.520 Well, everybody, welcome.
00:01:15.520 Rob, sorry, let's pick that up.
00:01:18.240 Well, hello, everybody and welcome to the Great America Show.
00:01:20.820 It's great to have you with us today.
00:01:22.280 Right there, you heard National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
00:01:27.000 negotiating what is now the news of the day, a ceasefire, a 30-day ceasefire between Russia
00:01:33.240 and Ukraine.
00:01:35.040 This is, of course, after the massive blowup between President Zelensky of Ukraine and
00:01:39.560 President Trump in the Oval Office just a few weeks ago.
00:01:42.600 After that meeting, President Trump halted all military aid and intelligence sharing with
00:01:48.380 Ukraine until they figured out a plan to move forward.
00:01:52.100 And that plan, President Trump, very honest about it from the beginning, had to include
00:01:58.200 some sort of peace deal and Ukraine had to come to the table.
00:02:01.620 President Trump had already negotiated with Vladimir Putin.
00:02:04.320 Putin was on board with this.
00:02:05.460 And then Zelensky came to America and had that little blow up in the Oval Office parading
00:02:11.260 and grandstanding since sending an apology to President Trump and an apology letter, which
00:02:17.060 was well warranted.
00:02:19.820 So that ceasefire now, 30 days ceasefire.
00:02:24.180 President Trump is saying today that he has to get Vladimir Putin, of course, to agree to
00:02:28.140 the ceasefire.
00:02:28.800 The U.S. is now also agreeing to continue to share intel with the Ukrainian government,
00:02:38.320 as was before that little Oval Office blow up.
00:02:44.180 So where we go from here, it's yet to be seen.
00:02:47.240 We'll see what Vladimir Putin has to say about this ceasefire and whether he agrees with the
00:02:52.840 ceasefire or not.
00:02:53.920 The ball is really in his court at this point.
00:02:58.800 But I just want to take a little bit of a break and go back and look at some history here.
00:03:05.520 Vladimir Putin, I think, gets a rep that he's the instigator in this war.
00:03:10.620 And he started this whole thing for absolutely no reason.
00:03:13.080 And I'm not going to sit here and defend any war because I'm not in favor of any wars.
00:03:17.440 The great Lou Dobbs was not in favor of any wars.
00:03:19.120 But I just want to take a look back at the history on where I think the inception point
00:03:25.140 was for where this started.
00:03:29.000 And this is post, obviously, 1990.
00:03:32.980 In 2007, at a Munich security conference, Vladimir Putin accused Western powers for violating
00:03:38.980 the pledge by continuing to enlarge NATO.
00:03:42.800 Now, NATO has not stopped expanding since the fall of the Soviet Union, growing from 17 countries
00:03:49.940 in 1990 to 30, where we're at today, several of which were once part of the Soviet-led Warsaw
00:03:56.460 PAC.
00:03:57.600 So let's take a look at just how much NATO has grown since that pledge that was made in the
00:04:05.400 90s.
00:04:06.260 Let's take a look.
00:04:07.240 So since then, where we're at, and now this pledge that was made, folks, that was made
00:04:15.820 in the 1990s, was that NATO would not move east of Germany.
00:04:23.380 They would stop continuing moving east of Germany.
00:04:26.880 And that's where they drew the line.
00:04:29.440 But as you see in this map, for those of you who are joining us on video, that's not exactly
00:04:34.440 what happened.
00:04:34.940 Now, these assurances were made at the time by the U.S. Secretary of State, James Baker,
00:04:39.440 that were made to Mikhail Gorbachev during a meeting in February of 1990 in a discussion
00:04:45.020 that would reunite Germany.
00:04:47.000 The two men agreed that NATO would not, like I said, extend past eastern Germany, a speech
00:04:52.100 that this was, again, reiterated by NATO's Secretary General in a speech on May 17th of
00:04:59.540 that year.
00:05:00.320 Now, as I said, they've continued to move east.
00:05:05.220 So let's take a look at where they've gone.
00:05:07.920 You've got the Czech Republic, Chechnya at the time, being added on.
00:05:13.660 You've got Poland.
00:05:15.660 Now, this is 1999 after that meeting in 1990.
00:05:19.420 You've got Hungary.
00:05:21.200 You've got Croatia. 0.54
00:05:22.540 You've got Romania.
00:05:25.580 You've got Bulgaria. 0.98
00:05:28.180 You've got Lithuania.
00:05:30.540 You've got Latvia.
00:05:32.240 You've got Estonia.
00:05:35.100 Moving, continuing to move up north.
00:05:37.440 You've got Finland, which was just added in in 2023.
00:05:41.040 You've got Sweden, which was added in 2024.
00:05:43.600 So you have now all these bordering countries of Ukraine.
00:05:51.400 So the deal was, was they don't move further west.
00:05:56.020 They don't.
00:05:56.860 I'm sorry.
00:05:57.340 They don't move further east.
00:05:58.640 But that's all they've continued to do since making this deal in 1990.
00:06:05.140 So who's to blame here?
00:06:07.000 Is it Vladimir Putin for Ukraine coming out, saying they wanted to be part of NATO and Joe Biden completely entertaining it?
00:06:16.620 So who is to blame?
00:06:18.160 Is it Putin for worrying about the security of his country as NATO continues to move further east, putting weapons on the border of Russia?
00:06:28.540 Because they're on every other bordering country.
00:06:31.520 So Ukraine's the next one. 0.98
00:06:32.720 What's next, Belarus?
00:06:35.100 Who's to blame?
00:06:36.920 So, like I said, I don't, I'm not going to sit here and try to justify a war, but I wanted to take a look at just where the mindset is for where we are, how we got to where we are, and how we get out from where we are.
00:06:58.140 Who's the bad guy here?
00:06:59.820 Is it NATO?
00:07:00.400 And the other thing, too, I think that we have to start looking at is I have this very odd feeling that one day the Band-Aid is going to come off of NATO, and it's going to look something awfully like what we're seeing USAID be used as.
00:07:16.760 It's a money funneling operation that's used to enrich the global elites, funnel money into the pockets of bad, bad folks.
00:07:25.680 You look at how much money we've given the Ukrainian Zelensky.
00:07:27.840 The man says he can't account for half of it, yet we're supposed to continue to hand over and continue to keep lining this man's pockets with billions of dollars.
00:07:40.640 The world is supposed to continue to keep lining this man's pockets with billions of dollars.
00:07:45.680 Who's the bad guy here?
00:07:47.540 I'm just asking you to look at this objectively, look at it from a view of Vladimir Putin.
00:07:55.460 Is it a betrayal on behalf of NATO?
00:07:58.860 A deal was made.
00:08:00.440 The deal was you stop moving east of Germany.
00:08:03.060 You broke that deal, not one, not two, not three, not four, not two.
00:08:08.480 You continued to break it over the course of years, nine years after, now 25 years after, 30 years after, with no repercussions.
00:08:18.740 And Vladimir Putin sits there and says, okay, well, you've continued to break it, you've continued to break it.
00:08:23.340 And then Ukraine comes out and says, well, now we want in, direct border of the country, of Russia.
00:08:35.040 It would almost be like Canada and Mexico being some sort of allegiance with China.
00:08:40.540 And they decided to join this allegiance, start putting weapons on the border of Canada, start putting weapons on the border and troops on the border between Canada and the United States and Mexico and the United States.
00:08:54.780 How would the United States react?
00:08:57.440 Are we supposed to just sit there and not do anything about it?
00:09:01.120 Are we supposed to prepare for what can possibly happen when you've got world power?
00:09:06.900 Let's say you throw South Korea and you throw North Korea and you throw, you know, five or 10 other countries in there and you go over to Europe and you throw five or 10 countries in there.
00:09:17.060 Now, all of a sudden, you've got a slew of 20 something countries who are in allegiance with Canada and Mexico and they're on our border.
00:09:26.080 How are we supposed to react?
00:09:28.180 So, as I said, folks, I don't want to sway you one way or another.
00:09:31.980 I'm just asking you all to look at it objectively.
00:09:34.260 And that's what we try to do here on the show.
00:09:36.340 And that's what I've tried to do from the beginning of the war.
00:09:39.420 Look at it from both sides.
00:09:41.580 See who wants peace.
00:09:42.620 See who doesn't want peace.
00:09:44.140 Look at it from the viewpoint of how it started and how it's going to end.
00:09:49.320 And up until today, it was pretty clear that Zelensky didn't want this thing to end.
00:09:56.200 So where do we go from here?
00:09:58.240 I want to take a quick break here, folks.
00:10:00.060 There's so much more news to get to today.
00:10:01.840 Today, President Trump hosting a half hour press conference, completely ad-libbed outside the White House today with Elon Musk.
00:10:09.860 No questions predetermined given to him.
00:10:13.520 Didn't have no cards.
00:10:14.660 He had actually a note card he pulled out of his pocket, told the pool reporters he didn't need it.
00:10:20.060 He offered to give it to them because he's not Joe Biden.
00:10:23.280 So, so much news to talk about.
00:10:24.680 Pam Bondi and Cash Patel.
00:10:26.200 Is there a rift between the folks, between the two folks?
00:10:29.940 Egg prices are down.
00:10:32.660 Auto pangate.
00:10:34.240 President Joe Biden's being accused of maybe some sort of forgery of his signature.
00:10:40.220 Hmm.
00:10:41.120 Interesting.
00:10:42.060 We're going to take a quick break here, folks.
00:10:43.320 We're coming right back.
00:10:44.180 The Great America Show continues in one moment.
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00:11:54.180 Well, I'm going to buy.
00:11:55.960 And I'm going to buy because, number one, it's a great product, as good as it gets.
00:12:00.900 And number two, because this man has devoted his energy and his life to doing this.
00:12:05.960 So I think he's been treated very unfairly by a very small group of people.
00:12:10.060 And I just want people to know that you can't be penalized for being a patriot.
00:12:16.240 And he's a great patriot.
00:12:18.220 And he's also done an incredible job with Tesla.
00:12:21.380 And I mean, nobody else has a car company started up in the last 30 years that's been successful.
00:12:26.820 I don't think so.
00:12:27.660 And not only successful, but super successful.
00:12:30.840 And because he's able to find billions and billions and billions of dollars of fraud and waste and all of the things.
00:12:39.200 I mean, our country is going to be very strong very soon because of a lot of the things that he's done and a lot of the things that I'm doing.
00:12:45.620 And there's no better team, but there's no better for what we're doing.
00:12:50.880 There's nobody like this.
00:12:51.920 And he shouldn't be penalized.
00:12:53.720 And when I watched the other day, I said, I can't believe it.
00:12:57.360 It should be the opposite.
00:12:58.880 People should be going wild.
00:13:00.120 And they love the product.
00:13:02.100 But because he's finding all sorts of terrible things that have taken place against our country, they want to penalize him in an economic sense.
00:13:11.340 And I just think that's very unfair.
00:13:12.900 So I just wanted to make a statement.
00:13:15.560 I'm going to buy one.
00:13:16.300 Now, here's the bad news.
00:13:17.680 I'm not allowed to drive because I haven't driven a car in a long time.
00:13:21.360 And I love to drive cars.
00:13:23.240 But I'm going to have it at the White House.
00:13:25.280 And I'm going to let my staff use it.
00:13:26.940 I'm going to let people at the place use it.
00:13:29.400 And they all are all excited about that.
00:13:31.960 I'm not allowed to use it.
00:13:33.040 Can you believe it?
00:13:34.820 One of my great things in life is that I can, you know, I like to drive cars, but I'm not allowed to.
00:13:40.620 You heard President Trump there.
00:13:43.600 And that was that 30-plus minute press conference that I told you he hosted outside the White House.
00:13:49.160 Totally ad-libbed with Elon Musk.
00:13:51.160 President Trump telling Elon and the country that he's going to go ahead and buy himself a Tesla.
00:13:56.480 You heard the man there himself.
00:13:57.620 He's not allowed to drive it, but it's free for the staff to use.
00:14:01.160 So if any of you folks are around the White House, maybe, you know, check on in on President Trump and give his Tesla a little ride.
00:14:10.000 President Trump also mentioning later on in that press conference, we're going to roll for you, that this fight,
00:14:16.280 this fight between the tariffs and these countries who have taken advantage of America is a fight that is needed to be had.
00:14:23.140 Take a listen.
00:14:23.620 And what is your message, President Trump, buying a new car while there are some folks who will see this flip at home
00:14:29.300 and they are struggling with their retirement accounts down at the moment, uncertainty about work ahead?
00:14:36.400 Well, I think they're going to do great.
00:14:38.220 I think we're our country had to do this.
00:14:40.740 We had to go and do this.
00:14:42.000 They've taken away other countries.
00:14:44.340 They've taken away our business.
00:14:45.720 They've taken away our jobs.
00:14:47.100 I did it initially very strongly against, as you know, China and some others in the first term. 0.60
00:14:54.900 And it was a very successful term.
00:14:56.740 We had no inflation.
00:14:57.740 We had the greatest economy in the history of our country.
00:15:01.060 And then we had COVID, which we had to straighten out.
00:15:03.780 So I didn't want to be doing anything with respect to other countries at that time.
00:15:07.720 And we did a great job with it.
00:15:09.300 We handed the stock market over.
00:15:10.800 It was higher than it ever was.
00:15:12.640 And think of that higher than it ever was to that point before.
00:15:16.020 And nobody thought that was even possible.
00:15:18.740 We did a great job.
00:15:20.060 But we had the greatest economy in history.
00:15:22.720 This economy, in my opinion, is going to blow it away.
00:15:25.780 But what I have to do is I have to get the workers back.
00:15:28.640 I have to get the factories open.
00:15:30.100 We have 90,000 factories and plants are closed from what you had just prior to NAFTA,
00:15:37.100 which is not very long ago.
00:15:39.460 90,000.
00:15:40.460 Think of it.
00:15:40.840 90,000 factories and plants are closed from what it was.
00:15:46.540 And it's just not right.
00:15:48.620 And we gave it away.
00:15:51.060 Presidents before me gave it away.
00:15:52.960 And I can name every one of them.
00:15:54.800 But they gave it away.
00:15:55.780 And we're taking it back.
00:15:56.820 We're taking our jobs back.
00:15:58.180 President Trump speaking clear and concise, as he usually does.
00:16:06.200 You know, why are we going to continue to allow these nations to take advantage of us?
00:16:09.940 They've done it for years.
00:16:11.640 They have tariffs on us.
00:16:12.680 They have taxes on us.
00:16:14.300 And we're supposed to just sit back and let that continue to happen.
00:16:17.040 Let our American farmer fail.
00:16:18.900 Our American manufacturing fail.
00:16:20.280 I mean, you look at what we've shipped overseas.
00:16:23.600 Pharmaceuticals.
00:16:24.460 I often say on the show, masks and gowns that we couldn't get during COVID.
00:16:28.300 Because they're produced in China.
00:16:30.980 Chips.
00:16:31.880 We can't make them.
00:16:32.660 I'm not talking about Doritos and Lays.
00:16:34.500 We have plenty of those here in America.
00:16:36.380 But chips for cars.
00:16:37.780 Chips for, you remember, car prices.
00:16:39.900 Used car prices through the roof.
00:16:41.060 Because we couldn't get chips that are put into the cars for the computers.
00:16:45.720 Couldn't get them.
00:16:46.760 All made overseas.
00:16:49.600 Integral things like that.
00:16:50.960 That we've managed to rely on other nations for for a very long time.
00:16:54.740 And I think President Trump has the absolute right mindset.
00:16:58.360 What happens when World War III starts or the world wars after that?
00:17:03.360 And we're totally reliant on these other countries for critical needs like things like that.
00:17:08.940 Chips or cars or even foods.
00:17:12.000 You look at China.
00:17:15.120 China's dependent on their entire surrounding nations for coal and for food.
00:17:22.120 They can't do it themselves.
00:17:23.800 So China goes to war.
00:17:25.420 They're a little bit of trouble.
00:17:26.900 And I think President Trump is trying to prepare us for that.
00:17:31.120 So that when the eventual day does come and we are entered into a world war, that America can self-sustain.
00:17:37.660 That we're not reliant on China.
00:17:39.540 That we're not reliant on Canada.
00:17:40.960 And that we're not reliant on Mexico.
00:17:42.900 How does the greatest country in the world, how is the greatest country in the world so reliant on everybody else for critical things?
00:17:50.220 Our pharmaceuticals, over 85, most of 90% of our pharmaceuticals are made overseas, in India, in China.
00:17:59.620 You don't believe me?
00:18:01.020 Go look at the back of a prescription bottle or one of your prescriptions you're taking.
00:18:07.620 I have a prescription that I take for a face cream.
00:18:12.480 And I looked at it the other day in India.
00:18:16.580 So things like that, we can't be dependent on these other nations, folks.
00:18:21.220 We go to war.
00:18:22.760 Are we supposed to stop the war to beg them to release pharmaceuticals to us?
00:18:27.580 And that's just one example.
00:18:29.440 There's plenty.
00:18:30.180 Computers.
00:18:31.400 Tim Cook makes all those Apple computers over in China.
00:18:35.580 I told someone, a guest on our show yesterday, I just recently bought a brand new computer from Apple.
00:18:40.480 They're not even trying to hide the fact that things shipped right from the factory in China.
00:18:46.020 They didn't ship it to America first, to Cupertino, to at least try to sell it off that these things are, you know, semi-made in America, that Americans' hands are semi-touching these things.
00:18:57.380 No, it came right through DHL from China.
00:19:00.440 I think Guangzhou, right to my house.
00:19:03.580 Right to my house from China. 1.00
00:19:05.760 So that's where President Trump is at on this, I think.
00:19:09.280 That's where his frustration is, is that America's reliability on other countries needs to end.
00:19:17.000 Now, it's probably not going to be graceful.
00:19:20.380 It's not going to be a graceful, smooth transition.
00:19:23.240 But that's what it is.
00:19:24.800 The other thing people aren't talking about, if you guys joined us yesterday for my interview with John Lonsky,
00:19:28.940 they're not talking about the fact of the markets and the economy reacting to cutting a trillion dollars out of the deficit without it causing some sort of recessionary or correction,
00:19:42.660 as John Lonsky told us, because the government spending is measured in GDP.
00:19:46.800 So I don't know if the markets are 100% reacting to the tariffs or if they're reacting to Doge and Elon Musk continuing to find the billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:20:01.540 But this is a fight, as President Trump says, that we need to have.
00:20:05.520 It's a fight that we need to have for our entitlements.
00:20:08.300 It's a fight we need to have for the future of our country.
00:20:12.920 As I said, will there be some bumps in the road?
00:20:15.320 Will there be some sweet bumps?
00:20:17.000 Almost certain that there will be.
00:20:19.560 But you know what?
00:20:20.140 Along the way, will be the renewal of corporate tax cuts, more tax cuts for the middle class.
00:20:26.680 So I think it probably balances out.
00:20:29.640 Also along the way, maybe a cut in the interest rates from Jerome Powell.
00:20:34.880 So in my opinion, I think this thing will balance out one way or another.
00:20:38.320 And as President Trump said, we'll be more robust in the end.
00:20:42.880 It's a marathon.
00:20:44.120 It's not a sprint.
00:20:44.880 So I think we all need to just hang in, hang tight, put our seatbelts on.
00:20:51.080 And whether it's a one-month bumpy road, whether it's a two-month bumpy road or a three-month bumpy road,
00:20:56.200 in the long run, I think we'll all be better off, like I said, for entitlements, for our portfolios,
00:21:02.040 our stock portfolios, our 401ks, our pension plans.
00:21:05.860 We need to trust President Trump.
00:21:07.500 He did this once before.
00:21:08.980 He built an amazing business, built it up from nothing,
00:21:12.740 whether it be a $2 million loan that he was giving.
00:21:15.640 He turned it into billions of dollars.
00:21:17.200 So we need to trust this man.
00:21:19.140 He brought us through COVID, brought us out of COVID, and was on his way to a beautiful recovery
00:21:24.900 until the 2020 election was stolen.
00:21:26.940 So all I ask is to the naysayers and to the people who don't believe, just give the man a chance.
00:21:33.320 It's only been less than two months.
00:21:36.480 Give the man a chance.
00:21:37.380 And this whole terror fight and everything has only been, I think, the last 12 days or 14 days or so,
00:21:44.080 so the last two weeks.
00:21:45.080 Give the man a chance.
00:21:47.140 Give him a few months.
00:21:48.340 Give him a few weeks to iron out the kinks, iron out the wrinkles, pave the road smooth.
00:21:55.020 And I assure you, I'm going to go on the limb here and say it, that everything will be okay in the end.
00:22:02.120 And as I said, whether it be three months or six months or a year, I don't think it'll be a year,
00:22:06.420 but whatever the timeline may be, we will end up better on top and better off than we were in the beginning.
00:22:13.800 So hang tight.
00:22:15.240 Folks, we're going to take a quick break here.
00:22:16.720 We're coming right back.
00:22:18.300 We're going to take up Canada caving to President Trump.
00:22:21.640 We're also going to take up Thomas Massey, Congressman President Trump, not happy with him.
00:22:27.560 We're going to take up Pam Bonney and Kash Patel.
00:22:30.320 Well, we're also going to take up Joe Biden's auto pen, auto pen, folks, a pen that signs for you.
00:22:39.500 It's nice, right?
00:22:40.520 His auto pen scandal and how it relates to maybe some of the pardons he signed.
00:22:45.460 Stay with us, folks.
00:22:46.240 We're coming right back.
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00:23:48.160 I now recognize the representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
00:23:56.400 Thank you, Madam Chair.
00:23:58.180 Ranking Member Keating, also wonderful.
00:24:00.340 Mr. Chairman, could you repeat your introduction again, please?
00:24:03.920 Yes, it's a, it's a, we have set the standard on the floor of the House, and I'm simply.
00:24:11.460 What is that standard, Mr. Chairman?
00:24:13.060 Would you repeat what you just said when you introduced a duly elected representative from the United States of America, please?
00:24:21.680 I will.
00:24:22.940 The representative from Delaware, Mr. McBride.
00:24:26.360 Mr. Chairman, you are out of order.
00:24:30.560 Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?
00:24:33.340 I mean, I've come to know you a little bit, but this is not decent.
00:24:36.680 We will continue this.
00:24:37.860 You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.
00:24:45.340 This hearing is adjourned.
00:24:49.420 Right there, folks.
00:24:50.620 You're at Congressman Keith Self of Texas, referring to what she calls herself transgender, newly elected member of Congress, Sarah McBride, born, folks, Tim McBride as a male.
00:25:04.180 You heard Keith Self there refer to the House floor, and that was that there are only two genders. 0.97
00:25:11.820 So Congressman Keith Self, introducing him as his biological birth gender, Tim McBride, the right thing to do. 0.90
00:25:22.780 You heard the Marxist M ranking member there having a total, total meltdown over it.
00:25:27.820 You heard the member there, Mr. McBride, accepting for what it is.
00:25:32.980 He knows he's a man.
00:25:33.980 He knows he's a biological man.
00:25:36.260 And as we say here on The Great America Show, there is no such thing as transgender. 0.73
00:25:40.300 It's actually physically impossible, but people should know that.
00:25:46.220 USAID has ordered an immediate destruction of sensitive documents.
00:25:50.680 As the agency is on the brink of collapse, according to an internal email obtained by Politico acting executive director, Erica Carr, instructed remaining staff to spend this week shredding and burning classified safes and contents, personal records at the agency's former headquarters in Washington, D.C.
00:26:08.980 Quote, shred as many documents first and then reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break, Carr wrote, emphasizing that burn bags must be marked, quote, secret in dark Sharpie.
00:26:22.960 The email provided no explanation for the purge.
00:26:25.580 However, it comes amid sweeping layoffs and the transfer of USAID's office space to Customs and Border Protection, rightfully so. 1.00
00:26:33.720 So the destruction efforts underscores the aggressive push for dismantling USAID, once a powerful powerhouse, global development, $40 billion annual budget, and a staff of 10,000.
00:26:45.260 So what exactly are they burning?
00:26:47.940 What do they have to hide?
00:26:49.600 This is an agency that apparently does good for the world, does good for America on the world stage.
00:26:55.400 What kind of top secret information are they harboring?
00:26:58.420 And why are they so quick to burn it?
00:27:01.060 I think Elon Musk hit a very sensitive point with these folks, which is why you have the Marxist in Washington going crazy, which is why you have the Marxist Dems absolutely losing their minds, the mainstream media losing their minds.
00:27:18.680 But I don't think the burning of documents is really going to do much.
00:27:21.940 I think Elon Musk and his Doge team know a lot more than they've told us in the public domain, and they're leading these people to self-destruction.
00:27:32.140 By the way, it's a felony to burn or destroy federal documents.
00:27:38.280 So by Miss Erica Carr saying that, she's going to have to answer, I think, either to the FBI or Pam Bondi, or maybe Congress.
00:27:46.580 We'll see. Speaking of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
00:27:51.920 Now, before I report this to you, Ben Williamson, who's a spokesman for the FBI, is denying this and saying it's not true.
00:27:59.920 But the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct secure line from his home and his FBI office to the Oval Office, bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and cutting out the traditional chain of command to go through the attorney general.
00:28:18.360 Now, as I said, Ben Williamson is a spokesman for the FBI, is denying this happened.
00:28:23.120 But interesting, interesting, if you look at it from an outside perspective, where are those Epstein files?
00:28:32.320 Where are the JFK documents?
00:28:36.460 What's taking so long?
00:28:37.820 President Trump on day one says he wants them declassified.
00:28:40.920 What's Pam Bondi doing? 1.00
00:28:42.440 Is she dragging her feet? 1.00
00:28:43.560 What is she hiding?
00:28:44.660 Is she protecting somebody?
00:28:45.840 Now, according to my sources, Kash Patel is doing all he can.
00:28:52.200 This has nothing to do with Kash Patel not releasing documents, not allowing the release of documents.
00:28:58.200 This is solely on Attorney General Pam Bondi and her dragging her feet. 0.64
00:29:03.220 We're going to give you more information in the coming days on that from my sources.
00:29:06.940 But we're being told it's stonewalling at the Department of Justice through Pam Bondi.
00:29:11.640 So a little bit of nervousness there for me.
00:29:15.840 Just thinking back, Jeff Sessions, William Barr, and now Pam Bondi.
00:29:22.520 Hope to God, she's not one of them, but it's not looking awfully promising and good when she screwed the pooch this many times, this so early on. 0.88
00:29:33.700 Not a dumb woman. 0.98
00:29:34.660 So it makes you wonder, is it intentional or is it intentional?
00:29:39.180 So, as I said, we'll have some more on that in the coming weeks ahead, the coming days ahead, as we try to decipher and dissect where the disconnect is there and when we're going to get these Epstein files, Ms. Attorney General.
00:29:53.560 So, Canada finally folding.
00:29:58.240 Ontario Premier Doug Ford yesterday announced he was going to put a tariff on energy coming into America, going into states like New York and Vermont, among others.
00:30:10.740 That he was going to start tariffing us on that.
00:30:13.580 And that was his way of retaliating against President Trump.
00:30:16.820 But as everyone knows, President Trump always wins.
00:30:21.020 And he gets the last laugh.
00:30:22.280 So, President Trump woke up this morning and put out a tweet saying, quote, I've instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add additional 25% tariff to 50% on all steel and aluminum coming to the United States from Canada, one of the highest tariffing nations anywhere in the world.
00:30:40.160 It took Doug Ford a mere few hours to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and agree that he was not actually going to proceed with those tariffs on the energy coming into the United States.
00:30:55.880 Wasn't that easy?
00:30:57.940 All this fighting, all this fighting is so unnecessary.
00:31:02.260 Canada just has to come to the table with fair trade and secure the border and stop allowing illegal immigrants to come through the border. 0.96
00:31:09.140 That's not too much to ask for.
00:31:11.680 There's no reason for the fighting.
00:31:13.120 There's no reason for the grandsting.
00:31:15.000 There's no reason to act like a tough guy in a big shot.
00:31:18.080 You're going to lose.
00:31:19.240 Donald Trump doesn't lose.
00:31:21.140 Doesn't lose.
00:31:22.340 Defied all odds in 2016.
00:31:24.840 Had an election stolen from him in 2020.
00:31:27.700 Came back stronger than ever winning the popular vote in 2024.
00:31:32.980 Two failed assassination attempts.
00:31:35.520 Shot one time.
00:31:37.980 Coming back.
00:31:39.540 To the White House.
00:31:41.680 I mean, he defies all odds.
00:31:44.400 Going back to 2016.
00:31:46.360 All 16 of those rhinos off the stage. 1.00
00:31:48.660 Donald Trump came in, never a politician.
00:31:51.140 You're going to lose.
00:31:52.440 There's no beating this man.
00:31:54.140 Many have tried.
00:31:55.680 And it's like hitting a brick wall.
00:31:57.840 You can't defeat him.
00:31:59.080 It's better to just join on and join in the prosperous economy.
00:32:03.780 The robust economy that he's going to build here.
00:32:05.640 If Canada doesn't want to get on board, they're going to learn the hard way.
00:32:08.800 But it seems just based on what Ontario Premier Doug Ford did today, they know it's a losing proposition.
00:32:15.920 Just get on board and join the winning team.
00:32:20.240 Egg prices.
00:32:21.480 You heard the Marxist Dems talk about it since Election Day.
00:32:25.300 Well, we've got bad news.
00:32:28.000 Because up until last week, you heard the Marxist Dems.
00:32:30.860 When is he going to lower the egg prices?
00:32:32.740 When is Donald Trump single-handedly going to lower those egg prices?
00:32:35.760 He promised he was going to lower.
00:32:38.120 They're still not lower.
00:32:39.100 Well, we can report to you today that since President Trump took office on January 20th, that egg prices are down over a dollar a dozen.
00:32:50.260 So Marxist Dems are running out of talking points.
00:32:54.660 Now, Joe Biden did all he could before he left office to grandstand on that one issue and to try to raise prices as much as possible, killing millions of chickens that lay eggs.
00:33:06.280 So I did a little bit of a deeper dive myself because I wanted to see what was going on.
00:33:11.760 Just so found out, coincidentally, that Moderna was awarded a $590 million grant to help develop an mRNA-based bird flu vaccine.
00:33:24.880 Just 67 human confirmed cases of the bird flu since April of 2014.
00:33:30.240 Now, if you're reading ABC News, you'd make it seem like that this was a grant that was just given last week.
00:33:35.420 But that's not entirely true.
00:33:38.800 The U.S. government previously awarded the vaccine manufacturer $176 million in July of 2024 to help expedite the development of an mRNA vaccine that could be used for the bird flu.
00:33:50.320 So now you fast forward a few months and you've got Joe Biden killing reportedly over a million, a few hundred million egg-laying birds, driving prices through the roof for eggs.
00:34:08.360 And you've got Moderna working on yet another vaccine.
00:34:12.200 Interesting, right?
00:34:15.140 As if the COVID vaccine hysteria wasn't enough.
00:34:19.800 They've got another one and they're working on a bird flu vaccine.
00:34:24.020 Before we wrap up here today, folks, here on The Great America Show, I want to get to our final story of the day.
00:34:29.580 It's an interesting one that I told you about earlier.
00:34:32.560 Joe Biden and his auto pen.
00:34:35.220 What's an auto pen, you ask?
00:34:36.460 It's literally a contraption that you can buy.
00:34:40.640 And for someone who signs a lot of signatures, you put a pen in it and it signs your signature exactly the way it was.
00:34:46.720 Now, why is that so interesting?
00:34:49.260 What is so interesting about an auto pen and how it relates to Joe Biden?
00:34:56.060 And I'm going to tell you right now, because in 2022, when Joe Biden was on vacation in St. Croix, he signed some pardons.
00:35:08.320 He's vacationing in St. Croix on a golf trip.
00:35:10.880 He signed a slew of pardons, six pardons, in fact, for some bad dudes.
00:35:15.960 Gary Parker Davis, one year imprisonment, six months imprisonment, suspended two years probation.
00:35:21.300 The offense, illegal use of a communication facility to facilitate unlawful cocaine transaction.
00:35:27.720 Okay.
00:35:28.540 Edward Lincoln, 30 months imprisonment, four-year supervisor released in 1999, conspiracy to distribute marijuana.
00:35:36.680 Vincent Ray Flores, wrongfully using 3-4 meth underage drinking.
00:35:43.440 So, scheduled substance using meth.
00:35:47.080 Beverly Ann Thomas, second-degree murder while armed.
00:35:52.160 Charlie Byrne Jackson, possession to sell 12 gallons of distilled spirits without tax stamps.
00:36:00.080 Okay.
00:36:00.720 A little bit of a crazy crime.
00:36:02.660 John Dick's Knock, renting and making use for an owner in a place of purpose in manufacturing marijuana plants.
00:36:10.040 Now, these orders, these pardons say they were done at the city of Washington on the 30th day of December, the year of our Lord, 2022.
00:36:20.540 Interesting, because Joe Biden was not in Washington, D.C. on that date.
00:36:25.860 Joe Biden was in St. Croix, as I said, playing golf.
00:36:29.120 So, how did this story all come about?
00:36:32.880 Attorney General, great friend of ours, Andrew Bailey of Missouri, came across this and now wants some answers.
00:36:39.720 Who signed these pardons for these five folks that were allegedly done in the District of Columbia while Joe Biden was out golfing in St. Croix with an auto pen?
00:36:49.800 And what else were they signing throughout the administration?
00:36:53.280 Was it just these few pardons?
00:36:56.380 Because as far as I'm concerned, the only man who could sign a pardon for somebody is the President of the United States himself.
00:37:02.680 So, who was signing the pardons?
00:37:04.100 Who's responsible for this?
00:37:05.320 And what else were they signing during the course of President Biden's administration?
00:37:10.720 I think these are all questions that need to be answered.
00:37:14.340 And Andrew Bailey and a slew of other people are investigating just that.
00:37:18.620 So, we'll keep you posted on that investigation and where that ends.
00:37:22.520 But not good.
00:37:24.960 Biden administration, we learn it's just a little bit more corrupt than we originally had thought.
00:37:31.400 Who would have ever thought?
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