00:00:24.120We have more factories being built, and I mean car factories, AI factories, factories of every type than we've ever had.
00:00:33.160President Trump returning to Pennsylvania, touting his agenda, promoting economic achievements, and shoring up support for a Republican incumbent ahead of the midterms.
00:00:43.460A threat like that, it's really hard to defend against that.
00:00:46.460A U.S. fighter pilot's account of a mysterious drone formation over Iran,
00:00:51.720raising new concerns about the regime's military capabilities.
00:00:55.640The DOJ announcing a record health care fraud crackdown,
00:00:59.520charging hundreds of defendants in cases involving $6.5 billion worth of alleged false claims.
00:01:06.680And Major League Baseball acknowledging it warned Giants players over Bible verses
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00:02:28.860near Allentown yesterday, his fifth trip to the state since returning to office last year,
00:02:33.720as Republicans look to build momentum in a critical battleground ahead of the midterms.
00:02:39.660Prior to the speech, the president touring a Mack trucks facility,
00:02:43.040then taking the stage for roughly 90 minutes, surrounded by workers in yellow reflective vests.
00:02:48.440The event marking the president's first rally since signing the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.
00:02:54.000In an unscripted moment toward the start of the event,
00:03:01.460Making trucks right here in eastern Pennsylvania, building the heavy-duty machinery that keeps our economy rolling, our factories moving.
00:03:10.200The president ignoring the outburst, the remarks covering a wide range of topics beginning with a familiar America First message.
00:03:17.660For decades, the workers of this Commonwealth watched globalist politicians, let other countries rip you off and close your factories, rob your jobs, take them away to foreign lands.
00:03:28.060Then I came along. We stopped it very quickly. They put China first. They put illegal aliens
00:03:33.900first and everybody else first but you. But we put you first by a lot. But at long last,
00:03:41.200you finally have a president who is putting workers first, putting Pennsylvania first,
00:03:46.420and putting America first. The president also making the case for his
00:03:50.760tariff strategy from the factory floor. Right now, we have more factories being built,
00:03:55.960and I mean car factories, AI factories, factories of every type that we've ever had in the history
00:04:03.000of our country by three times. That's because they didn't want to pay the tariff. How don't
00:04:11.440you pay a tariff? You build your factory here and you hire American workers. It's quite simple
00:04:16.820actually. But as you know, I placed a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles and very importantly,
00:04:23.540opposed a 25 percent tariff on medium and heavy duty trucks so that Mack Truck could do very well
00:04:29.920with this factory in Pennsylvania. But all American roads will be filled with American
00:04:35.220trucks very shortly. Mr. Trump pointing to signs of economic stabilization following the Iran
00:04:40.680agreement, announcing that 19 million barrels of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday
00:04:45.940and describing its impact on the market as a whole. The stock market hit a new high today again
00:04:51.460And oil, for the first time in months, hit, think of it, $70 a barrel.
00:05:06.400The average price of gasoline nationwide is down 60 cents a gallon just from a short while ago.
00:05:12.640President Trump then bringing the economic pitch closer to home,
00:05:16.240rattling off a string of new investments and factory expansions
00:05:19.620he says are already delivering for Pennsylvania.
00:05:22.600And in the last few months alone, we've added 2,600 Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs,
00:05:29.940and that number is going to go much, much higher as the factories start to open.
00:05:34.780Because right here in Lehigh Valley, Eli Lilly has just announced, great company by the way,
00:05:40.200drug company, a $3.5 billion investment in a brand new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility
00:05:46.560right down the road. That's going to create over a thousand jobs, just that one.
00:05:51.900Nokia is investing $30 million to expand its semiconductor testing and packaging operations,
00:05:58.700thousands of jobs. And B. Braun has announced a $20 million expansion of its medical device
00:06:05.780manufacturing operation in Allentown. The president later turning to the political
00:06:11.940stakes of the trip, throwing his support behind incumbent Congressman Ryan McKenzie,
00:06:16.560Congressman McKenzie now running for re-election against Democrat Bob Brooks, a firefighter union president in Pennsylvania's closely divided 7th District, a race the Cook Political Report currently rates a toss-up.
00:06:30.560Mr. Trump inviting McKenzie to the stage in a way only he can.
00:06:34.800We gotta get Ryan McKenzie elected. We gotta get Ryan. I'm not here for them, I'm here for him.
00:06:44.940We got to get Ryan elected. Run up here, Ryan, fast. Nobody wants to hear you. Come on,
00:06:49.480just run up. Nobody wants to hear you, Ryan. Well, Mr. President, I can't thank you enough
00:06:54.560for coming here to the Lehigh Valley, highlighting the great men and women of Mack Trucks,
00:07:00.120doing all the work that you do in Washington, D.C. for our veterans, our first responders,
00:07:04.880and everybody across this country to continue to maintain America as the greatest country in the
00:07:11.760world. You are the president that is fighting for all Americans. Thank you for being here, sir.
00:07:17.640Wow, that's great. He learned something from you, David. That's great.
00:07:24.220A U.S. fighter pilot rescued by special forces after ejecting over Iran,
00:07:29.680describing an alarming sight in an exclusive report from CNN, quote,
00:07:34.120multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one in a formation that resembled
00:07:40.440a jellyfish, end quote. The outlet, citing four sources familiar with the matter,
00:07:46.120reporting the pilot shared those details with intel officials in a debriefing that followed
00:07:50.780his rescue, an account that, if accurate, could point to a significant leap in Iran's drone
00:07:56.460warfare capabilities. The encounter, unfolding on April 3rd, shortly before the pilot and his
00:08:02.140weapons system officer, were forced to eject from their F-15 over Iran. The shoot-down marking the
00:08:08.660first time an American aircraft was brought down over Iranian territory during the conflict,
00:08:14.480triggering an immediate search and rescue operation. The pilot recovered by U.S. forces
00:08:19.260shortly afterward, while his fellow airmen remained stranded behind enemy lines for more than a day
00:08:25.320before eventually being rescued. Investigators yet to determine exactly what brought down the
00:08:30.640fighter jet. CNN, however, reporting initial assessments raised the possibility that the
00:08:36.020mysterious drone formation may have helped Iranian forces target the aircraft. One source
00:08:42.280telling the network the pilot described a, quote, minefield of drones in the air. Another
00:08:48.140recounting the pilot's description as, quote, multiple drones interconnected and moving as one
00:08:53.420with smaller drones below the bigger drones like legs, real alien shit. The sources say the
00:08:59.880technical term for the capability described by the pilot is, quote, one-to-many meshed networking.
00:09:06.020which generally allows an operator to command several drones at once.
00:09:10.740The pilot's account reportedly setting off intense debate inside the intel community
00:09:14.460because previous U.S. assessments had not concluded that Iran possessed that level of drone technology.
00:09:21.080Complicating that assessment, the pilot reportedly suffered a concussion in the crash,
00:09:25.740raising questions among intel officials about how well he could recall the encounter.
00:09:30.800It remains unclear whether the weapons systems officer who ejected alongside this pilot
00:09:35.800also witnessed the alleged drone formation. If the pilot's account is accurate, CNN reports,
00:09:42.960Iran may have developed the capability with help from Russia or China, both of which have
00:09:47.920previously provided drone technology to Tehran. Retired Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton
00:09:53.640describing to CNN the serious challenge that kind of coordinated formation could pose to
00:09:58.960American pilots and aircraft defenses. So that's going to be a real challenge for
00:10:04.300the air force and and really all flying entities out there because a formation like this first of
00:10:10.060all it was a surprise to the pilot i when he saw something like this and then the other part of it
00:10:15.500is is that the the whole effort behind this is to create something that overwhelms the natural
00:10:22.300defenses that the pilot has as well as the electronic defenses that the aircraft would have
00:10:27.620for example an aircraft has something known as a radar warning receiver and it's designed to
00:10:32.820really take a look at all the radar inputs that are coming that are possible threats to the aircraft
00:10:37.380when you have multiple inputs or no input at all but a threat like that it's really hard to defend
00:10:42.680against that so there is going to have to be you know probably an integration of artificial
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00:13:16.980As alleged in the various indictments,
00:13:20.020These individuals participated in health care fraud schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care programs.
00:13:32.900In total, our indictment charges 11 defendants for over $2 billion in fraudulent claims in connection to alleged wound care schemes.
00:13:42.800The indictment also alleges that these individuals then used the taxpayer money to bankroll multimillion-dollar homes, luxury vehicles like a $135,000 Maserati, jewelry like an $865,000 Bulgari necklace, and to top it all off, to fund the construction of a $4.6 million hotel at a beach resort in the Philippines.
00:14:07.220The bust marks the largest health care fraud takedown by number of defendants in DOJ history, with a $6.5 billion in alleged false claims representing the second largest dollar amount ever charged in a single enforcement action.
00:14:22.000Under the Trump administration, Secretary RFKJ says HHS adopted a new approach to identifying and stopping fraud before it happens.
00:14:29.940During the Biden administration, my predecessor implemented the so-called pay and chase system.
00:14:37.140We know when billing, when invoices come into my agency, we can tell that some of them are fraudulent or probably fraudulent.
00:14:45.820And the new system said we're not going to stop those payments.
00:14:50.600We want everybody paid and then we'll claw them back at the end.
00:14:54.100Of course, we never claw back anything.
00:14:56.740They said that they were told to focus on enrollment and not fraud.
00:15:01.220HHS is replacing the old pay and chase system with a detect and prevent strategy that identifies
00:15:08.000suspicious claims before the taxpayer dollars ever leave the Treasury.
00:15:12.580We are deploying advanced artificial intelligence and data analytics to identify fraudulent
00:15:19.440billing patterns in real time, stop improper payments before they occur, and strengthen
00:15:25.460oversight across federal health programs. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson
00:15:30.580outlining one particularly grisly scheme. A nurse practitioner is accused of having
00:15:37.040bilked Medicaid for almost a billion dollars in skin substitute allografts. But this isn't just
00:15:43.500filing fake claims and trying to take money out of our pockets. She was performing these skin
00:15:49.500substitute procedures on vulnerable elderly Americans in hospices and in nursing homes,
00:15:56.060and then submitting those claims. She was using human beings, American citizens, as living
00:16:01.460piggy banks, and that she took the money she got from those living piggy banks, and she bought
00:16:06.460$865,000 necklaces that the department seized. She bought an almost half-million-dollar Ferrari
00:16:13.780that the department also seized. We've heard a lot about the numbers today. We've heard how many
00:16:18.560records have been broken by the Department of Justices and HHS's incredible efforts today.
00:16:23.360But the numbers shouldn't be treated as an abstraction. This doesn't just affect the
00:16:27.580whole country as taxpayers. Real human beings, American citizens, are physically maimed because
00:16:34.120of this fraud. Yesterday's announcement coming just two weeks after the FBI launched its
00:16:38.980Most Wanted Fraudsters list, modeled on the agency's traditional Most Wanted program,
00:16:44.240but focused specifically on fugitives accused of major financial crimes.
00:16:49.120Since then, the FBI announcing the arrest of two individuals on the list,
00:16:52.880including one man accused of turning TV and internet ads for orthotic braces
00:16:57.460into a pipeline for medically unnecessary prescriptions and fraudulent Medicare claims.
00:17:10.460He had been bilking, allegedly, the system against Medicaid for billions of dollars since 2014, $1.2 billion in telemedicine specifically alone.
00:17:19.360That individual was apprehended in the Philippines and transported back to the United States of America where he will now face justice.
00:17:25.700This is the reach of the United States government.
00:17:27.960This is the reach of this team, the interagency and state and local partners focused on one mission and one mission alone to combat fraud and make sure the American public's precious taxpayer dollars go where they're supposed to go.
00:17:39.120to the American people that need them the most, and not to these criminals who are stealing from us day in and day out.
00:17:46.500Those days are over, and this should showcase to the world the length that we will go as an interagency and as a task force
00:17:53.280to apprehend and arrest and bring to justice anyone who steals our dollars that are meant for our most vulnerable citizens.
00:18:01.400Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred acknowledging in a letter to Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
00:18:07.900that the league issued warnings to several San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses
00:18:12.760on their team-issued rainbow Pride Night caps before learning they had not been clearly told
00:18:18.620the Pride caps were optional. The controversy beginning June 12th when three Giants pitchers
00:18:24.380added Bible references beside the Pride emblem on caps issued for the team's annual Pride Night.
00:18:30.760Starting pitcher Landon Roop writing Genesis 9-12 through 16, citing the passage describing the
00:18:37.320rainbow as the sign of God's covenant with Noah. MLB initially warning the players that the
00:18:42.500additions violated its uniform policy, igniting accusations that the league was selectively
00:18:48.120punishing Christian expression. The league later clarifying that the warning was not disciplinary
00:18:53.440and had, quote, absolutely nothing to do with the content of the message, insisting players are
00:18:58.840prohibited from adding any writing to the team apparel. Oh, but the rainbow emblem is fine?
00:19:04.300Senator Hawley then demanding answers over what he called MLB's, quote,
00:19:08.520apparent pattern of discriminating against Christians while promoting left-wing ideologies.
00:19:14.440Mr. Hawley following the letter with a media blitz.
00:19:17.060Here, an appearance on KCMO Talk Radio last week.
00:19:20.760My view is if the commissioner persists in this and persists in violating these First Amendment
00:19:25.840rights that belong to the players, I'm going to invite him to come testify before Congress.