On this episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, Meghan talks about the first full day of the Trump administration, including the addition of Pete Hexeth, the new defense secretary nominee, and the latest in the fight against the left.
00:05:57.980The ICE agents were not allowed into the school. Our students and staff are safe.
00:06:05.940That CPS will continue to protect our students and their families. We will not coordinate with immigration and custom enforcement agents.
00:06:15.580Okay, so good for you. Cloaking herself in sanctimony. We are not going to cooperate. We're going to protect the children.
00:06:23.880You had the Chicago Tribune reporting that ICE showed up at this school at 11.15 a.m.
00:06:28.300The immigration action appears to be the first at a Chicago school after Trump took office.
00:06:33.960It makes me so sad, said Eva Chavez, a 37-year-old who lives in the neighborhood and came out after she heard about it.
00:06:39.160Immigration groups arrived. Parents panicked. Some took their kids out of the school.
00:06:45.000Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker spread the lie on X, saying the first reports of raids in Chicago are at an elementary school targeting children, separating families.
00:06:55.960It just—the only problem is it wasn't true.
00:06:58.040It turns out that it was Secret Service investigating a threat.
00:07:04.080Bill Malusian of Fox reporting that Chicago public schools falsely claimed they block ICE officers from entering a school.
00:07:08.880The narrative took off. Apparently, nobody bothered to check with DHS or ICE, both of which denied the claim.
00:07:15.060It turns out it was Secret Service agents.
00:07:17.140Once the Secret Service leader identified themselves or, at the time, identified themselves and left business cards, they were looking for a student who made a threat to a government official,
00:07:27.240and then Chicago public schools admitted it, releasing a long statement saying it was just a—it was a misunderstanding.
00:07:35.780Misunderstanding, Steve. I don't know.
00:07:37.640I mean, the media ran with it. The governor ran with it.
00:07:40.360They couldn't get to cameras fast enough, and it was all a lie.
00:07:43.580Look, Pritzker's running 28. I think Tom Homan, I think it'll happen this afternoon.
00:07:50.060Call their bluff. We're in Chicago for a reason, because Eric Adams has already said he made a mistake, a grievous mistake.
00:07:55.480That's why the Southern District indicted him when he saw the light.
00:07:59.220Los Angeles, you see, they're going to drop the sanctuary city.
00:08:04.700I think they ought to go in this afternoon and call the bluff of the mayor.
00:08:07.840If he does not allow the ICE agents in the city jail to pick up the bad hombres that are there, which they haven't done today, arrest him.
00:08:16.560If Pritzker doesn't let him go into the prisons, the state prisons, arrest Pritzker.
00:08:21.540If you do have to go into a school and the principal, you've got to arrest him.
00:08:26.640This is just not about the illegal alien invaders.
00:08:29.140Remember, these people are essentially, besides the criminals, they're essentially, I would say, innocent for the fact of they were invited in here by a radical government that hates the United States of America.
00:08:39.320It's now time to take the torch to the enemy, and that is the mayor of Chicago and the governor.
00:08:44.600If Pritzker wants to run in 2028, if he wants to run in 2028 in the Democratic primary, let him do it from a federal prison cell, because right now he's obstructing justice.
00:08:55.920If they can't, if Homan can't, look, Homan's doing great, but to go to the projects and get guys they've released or get them in onesies, twosies is so expensive, so cumbersome, and quite frankly, dangerous.
00:09:06.760It's now time to go to the jails, go to the prisons, and make them turn them over.
00:09:10.620If they don't turn it over, arrest the officials in charge.
00:09:14.620They're the ones blocking this, and this gets to the heart of this wasn't chaos at the border.
00:09:18.760This was a well-thought-through plan to allow 12 to 15 million illegal alien invaders to invade our country, and they have to go home, right, on military transport.
00:09:29.780And we've got to cut deals with all the frontline nations, I believe, not do this onesies, twosies, you know, cut deals.
00:13:25.420I think they have to be much more systematic.
00:13:27.140And the way you're going to do that is start arresting officials.
00:13:31.380Start arresting, like, for instance, the Catholic Church.
00:13:34.400If the Catholic Church bishops are going to come here and throw down and say that, hey, start rolling up the bishops.
00:13:40.180If it's going to be Catholic Charities, which to me is a criminal organization, and this weekend she's putting out videos about how to deport it, go and arrest them and throw them in the who's gal.
00:13:49.120It shouldn't be – the people that are kind of innocent here are the folks that came.
00:13:52.740Now, we have to work it out that they have to go home, and we've got to be empathetic and charitable about that.
00:13:58.400We don't have to be empathetic, and we do not have to be charitable about the people that made money on basically human trafficking to get these people here and destroy the country.
00:14:21.280I was like, why – all the money that we donate every Sunday when we go to mass that you think is helping the poor, that you think is helping the underprivileged, it's going to the, what, the hundreds of millions that the Catholic Church has been raking in trying to get these illegals into the country and settled here?
00:14:46.740We've actually shown this over the last couple of years.
00:14:49.620But the Catholic Charities is getting – they get billion-dollar programs from the federal government.
00:14:53.920Remember, the federal government uses the NGOs to basically expedite this.
00:14:58.180And working, that's the whole CPB1 app and all of it.
00:15:01.340So Catholic Charities may be the worst, but they're getting billions from the government.
00:15:05.120Plus, you know, the decent Catholics that go to mass every week, that second collection, you have no earthly idea where that second collection is going.
00:16:25.160You know, Steve, last week we were critical of that Episcopalian minister who was lecturing to Trump and J.D. Vance when they did her to the courtesy of going by National Cathedral.
00:16:35.240I mean, that the Catholic Church is doing exactly what that Episcopal minister did, trying to lecture Trump to be more humane when it comes to immigration policy without any acknowledgement of the rape trees and the fentanyl and the murders that are happening to Americans because of it.
00:16:51.280I'd actually say the Catholic Church is worse.
00:16:54.260The Episcopal is just some bishop up there, you know, yammering like they all yammer on the left.
00:17:02.380I mean, definitively, you could actually say, Brother Holman, I think their business model, this guy got it with Dolan years ago.
00:17:08.520The business model, as you know, the churches have been emptied from traditional parishioners because of the pedophilia crisis and other things.
00:17:19.060They filled it up with illegal aliens.
00:17:20.940They have a business model that supports this.
00:17:23.540On top of all that, they just appointed the most open borders cardinal in America.
00:17:28.760I think it's McElroy to be the cardinal over at the Basilica here in Washington, D.C., basically be the cardinal for one of the most powerful, not the most powerful archdiocese in the country, Washington, D.C.
00:17:40.300And then he speaks for the pope here, and he's going to be in the president's grill.
00:17:43.640He's an open borders guy which says no deportation.
00:17:46.520So there are many institutions, Soros-backed, philanthropy, religious, that were all part of this.
00:18:15.760Bottom line, if we're a constitutional republic, you can't be invaded.
00:18:19.700We have – this is about our sovereignty.
00:18:21.340They all must go home, and I believe you have to have a massive investigation, a criminal investigation with a grand jury and a special prosecutor about how this happened, how this happened.
00:18:32.080And people have to be held accountable.
00:18:33.880If we cannot hold those that are responsible accountable, then we're going to lose our sovereignty that way.
00:18:40.700The idea of an investigation is really interesting because just today it hit that among those Joe Biden pardoned with his massive wave of a wand was a killer of two people in Connecticut, a mother and child.
00:18:55.600And Dick Blumenthal, the Democrat senator from Connecticut, is out there saying this was a massive mistake, that he doesn't believe Biden intended to do this, that this person, this killer, was represented by the ACLU to Biden to be a nonviolent drug offender.
00:20:11.240And these pardons, all of the pardons, including for Cheney and all of them, actually had to be executed by the Justice Department because Biden waited too late.
00:20:19.740And so I think that all of those ought to be in play.
00:20:24.560Tom Fenton doesn't think any of these pardons – we've got to look at these ones.
00:20:27.520The pardon process is so detailed and takes so many years, it is impossible in this situation in Connecticut for that to happen, right?
00:20:36.640It's just because you have every piece of record that's there.
00:20:39.400You don't know what they're slipping into the deck to have Biden just sign off on.
00:20:43.400So this whole thing, the whole pardon thing but tied back to also illegal immigration has to be fully investigated, and we've got to get to the bottom of it.
00:20:52.320And I would tell Pam Bondi, do not execute on any of the pardons for anybody until we get to the bottom of it.
00:21:21.440I'm just trying to pull up the exact – yeah, the reporting on this.
00:21:25.180Relatives of an 8-year-old boy and his mother, who were murdered by a Connecticut drug gang, are outraged that a man convicted in the killings was one of nearly 2,500 people whose drug-related prison sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden in his last days in office.
00:21:39.820Adrian Peeler served a 20-year state prison sentence for murder conspiracy in the 1999 shootings of Leroy B.J. Brown and his mother, Karen Clark, in Bridgeport, killings that shocked the city and led to improvements in state witness protection.
00:21:52.580Prosecutors said Brown and his mother were assassinated to prevent the child from testifying in another murder case.
00:21:59.820In December 2021, Peeler finished his state sentence but began serving a 15-year term in federal prison for dealing large amounts of crack cocaine.
00:22:06.760The federal sentence would have kept him behind bars until 2033.
00:22:12.720And this is the one that Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, who was the state's attorney general when Brown and his mother were killed, said,
00:22:17.840someone dropped the ball, quote-unquote, in Peeler's clemency.
00:22:21.220He and other political leaders in Connecticut, including the Bridgeport mayor, criticized the commutation.
00:22:25.660This really was a vicious murder that changed our laws, said Blumenthal.
00:22:28.720It also highlights how we need to take a look at the pardon system to see how it can be improved.
00:22:32.660Well, why don't we first take a look to see whether it was even intended by this outgoing president?
00:22:40.520Forgive me for playing a soundbite to Steve Bannon of Selena Gomez, but she's got a lot of power.
00:22:46.280She's very popular with a large segment of the population, and she just posted this video and then deleted it after her fans went nuts on her.
00:23:31.960Steve, she's got 422 million followers on Instagram, and indeed, she's an actress.
00:23:38.460I mean, the good news is that people have common sense, because this is a revolution of common sense.
00:23:46.320That's why this movement, this progressive nationalist movement is expanding every day, because folks, African Americans, Hispanic families, and working class men and women understand that this is to protect them.
00:23:59.740And they understand that all the performers, like how phony is that, and they can see through it.
00:24:05.080And they understand how this has destroyed their communities, and they're not going to tolerate it anymore.
00:24:09.620And they're certainly not going to be backed off by her or by Martha Raddatz.
00:24:14.520Look at Martha Raddatz's behavior with Tom Homan.
00:24:17.760I mean, you understand now why the mainstream media is virtually powerless, because of her hectoring of Tom Homan, particularly hectoring.
00:24:26.400I remember about the military flights, so you're telling me every day, military, they didn't have, they weren't concerned when they were having flights bringing folks in here and taking them deep into the country, like up at the Westchester Airport.
00:24:37.300So you then could, you then could spread out the illegal aliens into New England, right, in upstate New York.
00:24:44.160So this just shows you, the mainstream media, this is why they're so powerless today.
00:24:50.160And I don't think we should be, you know, even paying much attention to them.
00:24:53.240We just got to report more information, get more facts out there, more stories out there.
00:24:58.400And just let the camera roll and see the heroes like Tom Homan, see the heroes of the military that have been sent to the southern border.
00:25:05.100See the heroes, you know, in every aspect of what we're trying to do to deconstruct the administrative state and take on the deep state.
00:25:11.820Just cut the cameras on and watch the Senate hearings last week where they had no, they had no punch back on any of the deep policy stuff that Senator Rubio brought up.
00:25:20.180Or the Pete Hexitt, Pete Hexitt talked about a revolution in military affairs and he had these heritans.
00:25:25.060All they're doing is going after his personal foibles, you know, every second.
00:25:29.920They didn't even get to the heart of the matter.
00:25:31.480And now Pete Hexitt is Secretary of Defense and has to, you know, get on with it and start to execute on this.
00:25:35.900So I think our audiences grow every day and they grow the engagement and know that they blew her up after that phony, you know, C-level actress performance is to me encouraging.
00:25:47.420That's really encouraging because so should the American people in their decency.
00:25:50.820Remember, American people have tremendous common sense, tremendous grit, but they also have tremendous decency.
00:25:56.220It's the most decent group of people in world history, the most empathetic, they've given more, have freed more people, given their lives, freeing more people, given money everywhere.
00:26:04.640The American people are very decent and they understand what's going on here.
00:26:08.060And they fully back President Trump in this regard to clean this mess up.
00:26:11.760Yeah, she didn't look at the polls, which have between 55 and 60 percent of all of America completely on board with deporting all illegals, including the Democrats.
00:26:22.240The Democrats are now majority in favor of deporting all illegals, never mind the ones who have committed crimes, which is where Hohman's starting.
00:26:30.140But as you point out, not where he's going to end.
00:26:32.740Hohman with Martha Raddatz discussed some of this.
00:28:04.200These guys, and this is why, remember, the audience is only four and a half million.
00:28:07.440It's not that big an audience anymore.
00:28:09.540You were doing that at Fox, and you're bigger on your podcast, you know, when you count everything.
00:28:13.320So it shows you that the mainstream media, and they're going to be, they're going to have nothing but deportation porn, right, from here on in, because this is where they're going.
00:28:23.120But I think the American people have had a belly full of it, and they understand something has to be done.
00:28:26.920And I love the way that in a very professional, even-handed way that people like Homan and J.D. are kind of the tip of the spear.
00:28:33.500But I think you're going to see this across the board with everybody.
00:28:36.100I think you're going to see Secretary Rubio and Pete Hexeth and across the board, Pam Bondi.
00:28:41.960They just, we're not going to count to them.
00:28:44.300They're not looking to go to cocktail parties in Georgetown.
00:28:46.640They're there to save this country and return it to her greatness under President Trump's leadership, and I think that's what you're seeing.
00:44:29.900I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the U.S. Capitol between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me because they should join together.
00:46:14.220He was in prison, going to be in prison for 300 years on the phony charges of the insurrection.
00:46:20.160Emil Bovey was one of his great attorneys for many of those years.
00:46:23.400That's why Emil's out there and sees the madness that's going on right now of officials doing it.
00:46:28.280People, we don't care about the performance art of the left anymore.
00:46:32.820It's come very close to destroying this country and destroying the citizens of this country.
00:46:37.020And finally, finally, through divine providence, we have a leader with all his imperfections who is going to stand up for the American people and the American citizens.
00:46:46.980And quite frankly, the citizens that were invited in here by this illegitimate Biden regime that now have to go back.
00:46:54.320And President Trump, I think you've already seen, is in a way trying to do this with as much empathy as possible.
00:47:00.540So that's why I couldn't be proud of President Trump and how he's handling this entire thing.
00:47:03.860I got to ask you quickly about both Tulsi and RFKJ getting their confirmation hearings this week.
00:47:10.400Tulsi's will happen in front of us first, and then they'll go behind closed doors to do the classified cross-examination.
00:47:17.200So all the stuff that we're not allowed to hear.
00:47:19.260And then RFKJ, he starts on Wednesday.
00:47:21.940We expect it to continue over into Thursday.
00:47:24.720I've heard reports that both of those are, quote, potentially in trouble.
00:48:22.620And I think Tulsi is an issue, not for previous.
00:48:25.540I think they're all over her right now of her command of the material.
00:48:29.580And that's why I think the behind the scenes is going to be more important than the upfront.
00:48:33.240Remember, what they're trying to do, and this is why they had no pushback last week when we flooded the zone.
00:48:40.020You saw Marco Rubio talking about the end of the post-war rules-based order.
00:48:44.140Pete Heggs is talking about revolution and military affairs.
00:48:47.260Both Vought and Besant combined talking about a new kind of economic model for the country and also about how we're going to finance it.
00:48:55.340These were all to really the heart of the Trump America first restructuring in this country, and there was no pushback.
00:49:02.560Scott Besson did the best, and this is why I advise people like Cash and Pam and everybody when they go, is remember, the person Trump has selected likes to take a Besson or a vote.
00:49:12.560No, 10 times more than these Democratic senators are only there for – get these snarky things on video.
00:49:17.360The first time you do it, like when Wyden asked that wise guy question to Scott Besson, as soon as Scott adjusted his glasses, adjusted his glasses in the professional moment, I said, here it comes.
00:49:29.680He blew him up so badly, right, humiliated in a gentlemanly way, kind of a J.D. Vance, very gentlemanly way, very professional way.
00:49:36.920Scott humiliated Wyden that he was left bleeding.
00:49:39.900Oh, well, you know, that's – I don't understand about it.
00:49:45.200So my recommendation to Pam and to all of them, when they come after you, be a gentleman or a gentleman woman, but take them down right there on national and global TV, and you will see the others act like little lambs.
00:50:03.740I think Tulsi – and I've been a huge supporter.
00:50:05.580Remember, I brought Tulsi in in the first two weeks in 16 to see the president, and I advocated the time that she should be the U.N. ambassador instead of the governor, Nikki, because I thought Tulsi knew so much more, and she was so well-informed.
00:50:30.480Oh, this is like – we do have to buckle up this week because a lot is going down, and, you know, these nominees are in there fighting for all of us and fighting for themselves in the country.
00:50:45.780We'll do California with Batya when she comes on because you have got to see the exchanges between Trump and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass plus this other Democrat who tried to take him on.
00:52:28.320I'm just going to pick up on a couple of stories that I touched on with Steve, but we didn't get to fully get into,
00:52:33.100because with him, you know, it's truly like from a fire hose.
00:52:36.120He's got so much information on so many topics, so we banged through them.
00:52:39.080Going back to the Chicago lie about ICE busting up schools and dragging kids out and these teachers trying to paint themselves in sanctimony,
00:52:50.920like, ICE stood up, I didn't allow it.
00:52:52.600Meanwhile, it was the Secret Service trying to track down somebody who threatened a government official,
00:52:56.560which has happened under every administration.
00:52:58.320You have things like, take a listen to SOT24, which is a transgender Chicago high school teacher with some tough talk for ICE.
00:54:01.920You think I'd be scared of you trying to come up in my school?
00:54:06.200You don't think I already have a plan and a backup plan and 56 doors in the building and 17 routes on how to get to each one?
00:54:14.400I mean, no offense, the district can give us training on what we're supposed to do over and over and over again, and they have, by the way.
00:56:10.280I mean, the grunting and the acting and the laughing.
00:56:16.220Like, it's clear that this is some sort of sexual fantasy these people have of these ICE agents coming in and them getting into this brawl and this protection of their students.
00:56:27.880And I really want to ask them, why do you not care about the students of yours who have been totally shortchanged by the millions and millions of dollars that are going into ESL to educate students who are not American citizens?
00:56:43.780Where is the compassion and the empathy for the Black students who are paying the highest price?
00:56:51.240Because, of course, they always drop these kids in the worst performing, poorest neighborhoods.
00:56:56.960Where kids who are already getting shortchanged and short shrifted on education are forced to bear the burden of the pieties of these actors and performers.
00:57:24.580The elites have been lining their pockets with the proceeds of this mass migration because it is not them who have to pay for it.
00:57:33.700They, in fact, are the consumers of illegal labor.
00:57:36.840And so they show up as if they are the ones with the higher moral high ground and the pieties and the virtue when actually what they have done is wage class warfare on much poorer Americans
00:57:51.560And working class Americans who are struggling to give their children the American dream and can't because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Democrats writ large have imported 15 million people to jump the line and take that American dream from them.
00:58:07.140And it is just so unbelievably amazing to see a president show up and say, you don't have to live like this.
00:58:18.180And the fact that so many Americans are being represented by Donald Trump, that's really where his power comes from.
00:58:24.740The fact that this is wildly popular proposals and policies that have purchased not just with Republicans, but also with the vast majority of Democrats.
00:58:35.820I'll just say one more thing, Megan, I have never seen a person like Tom Homan show up so ready and eager to do the job, so qualified from day one with a smile on his face because he doesn't care about the lies they're going to throw at him and the pieties and the garbage that they're going to spout.
00:58:59.080He knows that he knows that he, like President Trump, is representing the best interests of this country and he's going to do it with a smile no matter what they throw at him.
00:59:09.380That man is a hero and he is so the perfect person for the job, just like President Trump.
00:59:17.300I don't know if you've seen it, but Selena Gomez is a great example of it.
00:59:20.480422 followers on Instagram, 422 million followers on Instagram.
00:59:25.780And first of all, she's the one who starred in that Emilia Perez, which is up for 13 Academy Awards, who's pushing the trans nonsense on Americans and American youth.
00:59:36.520I mean, I wonder if she's got a thought for what happens to American youth who gets pushed into this when really all they had was like some family dysfunction and absolutely no gender confusion.
00:59:45.540But they get caught in this cult that has taken over, especially with young girls.
01:00:36.000I, it's, she deleted it after her fans taught her that the majority of the country stands behind these policies, Bhatia, but I'm sure she was shocked to get any blowback whatsoever.
01:00:53.120This, who is she weeping for the rapists and murderers who are being deported because that's all they've come for so far.
01:01:11.040Why are her people not the victims of the murderers and the rapists, be they migrant victims of murderers and rapists or American victims of murderers and rapists?
01:01:23.580What is wrong with this person that she can look at the scum of the earth that Donald Trump is getting out of this country and repatriating where they came from and say, everything is going poorly for my people.
01:01:54.480This woman is the victim of, on the one hand, mass misinformation.
01:01:59.100By the way, the only people left watching the mainstream media, reading the New York Times and watching MSNBC and CNN are rich people like her who are totally out of touch
01:02:07.860and don't have a single working class person to tell them, actually, no, those are not our people.
01:02:14.300But OK, you know, it's the mass information and then a mental health crisis that is like really, really, really deeply, deeply embedded.
01:02:23.160I saw a tweet the other day about some guy who's tweeting, if my MAGA family comes to me for help, if they're starving in the street, I won't help them.
01:02:30.660That's the combination of mass psychosis from misinformation, from the mainstream liberal media and a mental health crisis where people are so embedded in these narratives that they cannot tell right from wrong.
01:02:58.600There's been, you know, some stories about that kind of thing.
01:03:01.440And by the way, anybody, anybody who takes their phone, works up the tears and posts a video of themselves crying into their phone is sick.
01:03:27.960I know I have hundreds of millions, but I hate this country.
01:03:32.100You mentioned the crazy liberal media and J.D. Vance sat down with Margaret Brennan at CBS News, among other many failed avenues of attack that led to,
01:03:44.220I don't care, Margaret, the now famous line by J.D. Vance, they had this attack on why we haven't solved all the economic problems of the country in Trump's first five days.
01:05:10.620I mean, first of all, drill, baby, drill is going to bring down the price of groceries.
01:05:14.120It's not going to be immediate, but it's going to happen soon because, of course, energy is a huge component.
01:05:19.100When it comes to the cost of groceries, you have the energy that it costs to grow things, to harvest them, to take care of livestock, and then to transport stuff.
01:05:30.800You know, God willing, there will be an end to the war in Ukraine soon.
01:05:34.500That, too, will help bring down the cost of groceries undeniably.
01:05:37.780Yeah, he didn't accomplish it in the first week, but it will happen.
01:05:40.320You know, the thing that J.D. Vance said that was the most important thing is about wages.
01:05:45.320Inflation is terrible, but it is absolutely crushing the working class most of all because their wages have not kept up with inflation, which means that their money that they work so hard for is not equal to the task of feeding their families anymore.
01:06:03.140Every single one of Donald Trump's economic executive orders was targeted specifically at raising the wages of working class people, which will put more money in their pockets to buy those groceries.
01:06:18.980Now, to rich people in the mainstream liberal media, this is invisible to them because they don't know working class people and they themselves make so much money that they don't understand what it would mean for your wages to not keep up with inflation.
01:06:32.140They don't understand how tariffs are the most beautiful word in the English language, not just to Donald Trump, but to working class people who know that what a tariff does is it makes their labor more competitive to an employer because we're not in a race to the bottom against Chinese slaves.
01:06:51.220They know that controlling the border and the face of Tom Homan means that there's going to be less competition for their job in the marketplace, which is immediately going to give them more power to ask for higher wages from their employer.
01:07:06.580This is all stuff that is invisible to rich people and is unbelievably important to working class people.
01:07:13.820And it is literally the only thing Donald Trump cares about is he wants a strong economy which will make working class people have access once again to the American dream.
01:07:24.200And it is so clear how everything from the tariffs to the trade to the immigration to the giving is telling any company you bring your company back here to America.
01:07:34.060You're going to get 15 percent corporate tax rate, the lowest in the world.
01:07:37.560This is all designed to raise the wages of working class people, people who work with their hands for a living, people who work in agriculture, people who work in the service industry.
01:07:49.920He's going to get rid of the foreign competition from illegal migrants.
01:07:53.820He's going to get rid of the foreign competition from China and its slave labor.
01:07:57.880And this is going to make them have more power in the marketplace.
01:08:02.480This is how you restore the American dream.
01:08:05.300And to the leftist elites, it's utterly invisible.
01:08:08.780And they do not matter, Megan, because the people who matter are the American people.
01:10:13.820And they're all difficult or just the one particular one?
01:10:17.900I've heard different stories from others.
01:10:19.540It's amazing, Bhatia, because Trump easily could have gotten all that information from his team.
01:10:26.140There was a reason he was having these people come up to the microphone and tell their stories personally.
01:10:33.060And, you know, I look at these folks and I see a ton of folks just like those in the neighborhoods that I grew up in.
01:10:39.800And that I see when I go back home, even now, you know, people who are not highfalutin, they're not fancy.
01:10:47.200You know, they got the baseball cap on and the old guy with the long gray hair.
01:10:51.920And the one guy holding his little daughter or son, couldn't tell the gender of the kid.
01:10:56.060He was bouncing as he was trying to tell his story.
01:10:58.580And this is salt of the earth America.
01:11:00.780And Trump does not have to inject himself into this neighborhood at all.
01:11:04.980He is trying to call attention to the plight of these Americans who are still suffering, even though, with all due respect to our friends in California, they're not from the Pacific Palisades or Malibu.
01:11:20.980I'm going to try not to go Selena Gomez on you because I, like many of my followers, got very emotional watching that press conference to see a president decide that what he's going to do with the power of his office.
01:11:34.980Is show up and give his platform to the forgotten, literally the forgotten men and women of America, the backbone of this country, the hardest working people who have been utterly, utterly forgotten by both parties.
01:11:48.620And then to name and shame the insurance companies that are stiffing them.
01:11:55.760There is not another politician who I could think of who would do this.
01:12:01.680This is a person whose heart just bleeds for the American people.
01:12:06.740This was one of the most astonishing things I've ever seen in my entire life as a journalist, as an American.
01:12:18.040You could see the love that went back and forth between the president and these people.
01:12:22.280These are the people that he was elected to serve.
01:12:24.960And this was his first stop on his way, as you say, Megan, to go and speak to and help the much more affluent people in California.
01:12:33.280This is a man who intends to be the president of every American, whether you're a broke person in Appalachia or ripped rich person in California.
01:12:42.000He's going to show up and simply demand better for you, telegraph the singular message.
01:12:54.560I never thought I would see something like this.
01:12:57.340There's something about it that is just unbelievably humbling and pure and godly.
01:13:03.840And it just it really it brings tears to my eyes.
01:13:06.480I don't quite know how to process what we are seeing here, because I don't think it's something any of us expected to see and pay close attention to which Democrats recognize this, that there is something happening here to us as a nation.
01:13:22.420We are coming together in a way that Donald Trump promised we would.
01:13:26.880He kept saying they kept accusing him.
01:13:40.520It's extraordinary to see this happening, especially between a Republican and the working class of America, which is, you know, traditionally not the group that would run in to vote for a Republican.
01:26:02.580Some of the stuff will spoil if it managed to survive.
01:26:04.980And the 18 months that they were arguing over, that's on camera too.
01:26:08.560It is, I'll just show you this soundbite quickly.
01:26:10.520The LA Director of Public Works, Mark Pastrella, told Karen Bass and council members within the past week that it's going to take 18 months to clear the debris.
01:26:23.180Now she sits there at that meeting with Trump and says it's not true.
01:26:26.280That her Director of Public Works says it is.
01:27:28.380It's like Big Brother tries to control everything.
01:27:31.780They can do what my friend did, which is actually put on like a safety suit and a mask and risk it if it's really important to them.
01:27:40.080But Big Sister thinks she knows better.
01:27:43.180And the whole town is saying two years before you get your property back.
01:27:47.220I honestly, watching Donald Trump sitting there and just calling her on her BS, I did not realize that a president could just do that, could just show up and say, that is not true.
01:29:17.980So then, Bacia, he gets in into a back and forth with this California lawmaker named Brad Sherman, a dem who'd been giving him a hard time because Trump said, you know what?
01:29:29.120We want to give you federal relief, but I want two conditions met before you get it.
01:29:33.440And that is, number one, allow the water to flow to Southern California, like I've been saying for years, so we can be ensured that this this isn't going to happen again.
01:29:42.580And number two, you should require voter I.D. in this state where they seem to have an allergy to voter I.D.
01:29:48.460So he's getting all this blowback, like, how can you condition, you know, the aid on voter I.D.?
01:29:54.200And Brad gave him some guff about that earlier in the meeting.
01:29:56.860And then this exchange happens where Trump had thoughts for Brad on the insurance situation out in California, SOT 7.
01:30:07.360Mr. President, without your help, they're only going to get forty three thousand dollars from the federal government, even if they have a half.
01:30:14.240Well, you know, you did something, Brad, with every insurance company in the country left California.
01:30:19.740That's why you have no insurance, because you made it so impossible.
01:30:22.700People that think like you made it so impossible.
01:31:33.520Like, Trump's leaning into this, and he's 100% right, which is why he's got majority support on the immigration policies, on the trans policies.
01:31:41.960Who the hell would disagree with, we need water to fight fires?
01:31:48.860The common sense theme is such an important one here in terms of understanding where Trump is coming from.
01:31:55.660I will disagree with that tweet just a little bit.
01:31:57.640I don't think he's, he's governing like he has no F's to give.
01:32:01.400I think he's governing like an assassin who spent the last four years developing a perfect plan and now is executing it executive order by executive order by executive order with a kind of confidence and a kind of sort of happy warrior attitude, knowing that he has the American people behind him.
01:32:25.520You look at the polling and where Donald Trump is at, and whether it's immigration or tariffs or gender issues or even abortion, this is where most Americans are at.
01:32:38.320The vast majority of Americans are in the sort of radical moderate middle.
01:33:13.380Yes, come here legally if you have something to contribute that we cannot get from somebody who's native born, sure.
01:33:20.520But if there is a person being left in Appalachia, a brilliant child who's not getting an opportunity, or a kid in the inner city who's not getting access to that opportunity, how dare you?
01:33:30.740The presumption that you're going to come and benefit from the glory of this nation when we haven't lifted up our own neighbors, forget about that.
01:34:14.940I noticed it during the campaign when that hyena was on the other side with her very strange laugh at everything, the cackle, so bad that they had to reel it in, selling her never laugh.
01:34:23.440Trump just naturally, he's not a laugher.
01:34:26.360He's got a sense of humor, but he's just not, like, prone to laughter.
01:34:29.220Well, it happened, and it actually was funny.
01:34:31.640He was doing a bit on how he's returning phone calls of world leaders like that or calling or picking up the phone when they call, unlike Joe Biden.
01:34:38.980And all these leaders are shocked that they've gotten him on the phone.