In a decisive display of strength and legislative skill, House Republicans blocked a Democratic-backed war powers resolution aimed at undermining President Donald Trump's critical military operations against Iran. By pulling the vote, Republican leadership bought critical time amid several absences that threatened to hand the opposition a short-term procedural victory.
00:02:12.220By pulling the vote, House Republicans bought critical time amid several absences
00:02:18.400that threatened to hand the opposition a short-term procedural victory.
00:02:23.100House Majority Leader Steve Scalise noted that the delay would allow absent lawmakers to return
00:02:28.680and participate once the House reconvenes after the Memorial Day resource.
00:02:34.060While understandably, some members are always away,
00:02:37.800this strategic move prevented the left from exploiting temporary absences
00:02:42.340to undermine the President of the United States.
00:02:45.880These absences do not reflect any weakening of support for the president's policy.
00:02:51.240In fact, far from signaling division, they underscore the practical challenges of scheduling,
00:02:56.080while the overwhelming majority of House Republicans continue to stand firmly behind the president's strong stance against the Iranian regime.
00:03:04.820House Democrats remain largely unified behind the resolution, framing it as a necessary check on executive power,
00:03:11.480something they never did during the time that Barack Obama was president, of course.
00:03:16.280Though their sudden constitutional concerns appear to be highly selective.
00:03:21.100Most have backed efforts to restrain the president, with only a handful of exceptions,
00:03:25.640such as Congressman Jared Golden, who previously dissented from the party line.
00:03:31.200Republicans stood mostly united in opposition, recognizing the resolution as a constitutionally
00:03:37.060dubious attempt to micromanage the commander-in-chief during a time of real threats from the Iranian
00:03:42.860regime. Defections were limited but notable. Of course, recently defeated Congressman Thomas
00:03:49.520Massey sided against the war efforts, joining Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania,
00:03:56.280who is a Democrat in Republican clothing and one of the great rhinos of all time, and Tom Barrett,
00:04:02.960who broke ranks and voted the Democrats as they usually do on related measures. In the Senate,
00:04:09.760Republicans such as Rand Paul, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins have shown some support for
00:04:15.340similar war power efforts in the past. On May 19th, the Senate advanced a companion resolution
00:04:21.080by a narrow 50 to 47 vote, with only four Republicans joining the Democrats. America's
00:04:28.80047th president continues to exert strong control over the Republican Party, as proven by this
00:04:34.300year's early primary results. Multiple incumbents who distanced themselves from his agenda have
00:04:40.020been defeated by Trump-backed challengers. Most notably, Senator and Dr. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
00:04:46.200lost his re-election bid after actually finishing third in the Republican primary, scoring, by the
00:04:53.020way at less than 25 percent, the all-time low level for an incumbent U.S. senator seeking
00:04:59.460re-election within the Republican Party. Also, of course, Congressman Tom Massey, who was defeated
00:05:05.200by a Trump-endorsed candidate only days ago. These outcomes serve as a very clear reminder
00:05:11.740that crossing the president carries significant political consequences. However, leadership's
00:05:17.420decision here to pause and regroup, transform these challenges into an opportunity to consolidate
00:05:23.380border support and prevent a damaging precedent during the time the president is working hard
00:05:30.180to bring this war to a conclusion. With precise military action, America has dismantled key
00:05:36.020components of Iran's nuclear program, their missile sites, and their terror network, proving0.96
00:05:40.880once again the effectiveness of the conservative doctrine of peace through strength. Launched in0.86
00:05:46.960response to Iranian aggression, these operations have already yielded significant results. They've
00:05:52.220damaged the regime's navy, they've disrupted its nuclear ambitions, and its exposure of its
00:05:58.240underlying faulty of their entire infrastructure. Trump made his position known on True Social when
00:06:03.760he said, we're applying maximum pressure while remaining open to serious negotiations. Far from
00:06:10.020the reckless, this approach prioritizes decisive action to confront the world's leading state
00:06:16.300sponsor of terrorism before threats metastasize, rather than retreating into endless congressional
00:06:22.300interference or isolationist weakness. Critics on the left chose to ignore this broader context.
00:06:29.320Withdrawing from the war now would embolden Iranian proxies, such as Hezbollah, the Houthis,
00:06:34.660and the Hamas, while handing the Mullahs breathing room to regroup and claim victory.
00:06:39.840The opposition's outrage over unconstitutional actions rings performative, especially given0.81
00:06:45.640their eager tolerance for expansive executive power under Joe Biden and Barack Obama, which,
00:06:51.300of course, resulted in billions of dollars of losses and massive loss of life. This resolution
00:06:58.040was never truly about oversight. It was about sure political theater designed to fracture the
00:07:04.080Republican majority in the House and portray the president as reckless. By blocking the measure,
00:07:09.960House Republicans did exactly what voters expected. They honored the clear mandate delivered
00:07:14.640by electing Donald Trump to restore American strength and put America first. I want to be
00:07:19.520very clear. President Trump has repeatedly denounced the 1974 War Powers Act as unconstitutional,
00:07:26.260insisting it improperly ties the hands of the commander-in-chief in the conduct of foreign
00:07:31.580policy, and has never been faithfully followed by any previous presidents. Abandoning this mission
00:07:37.300now would waste all of our progress against a regime already crippled by a struggling economy
00:07:42.500and a military quickly struggling to try to rebuild and regroup.0.96
00:07:47.320Moving forward, House Republicans must stay united behind the clear goals of neutralizing Iran's threats to America and our allies,0.51
00:07:56.360securing the hostages, and placing veritable limits on their nuclear program.0.65
00:08:01.620Rejecting this resolution halts dangerous congressional meddling in active operations.
00:08:06.680Staying the course, maintaining maximum pressure, and negotiating from strength is the only path to real, lasting peace, not the false peace of retreat and partisan games, as we saw in the Congress.
00:08:20.880Victory demands resolve, and Republicans in this case have shown it.
00:08:25.000In another news development, former FBI Director James Comey's federal trial has been delayed until October, giving him more time to fight charges tied to his infamous 8647 Instagram post in another disgraceful example of deep state hack evading justice within a system designed to protect them.
00:08:44.080Again, I ask this question. When I was charged, a federal judge gagged me so that I could not comment on the charges against me. In fact, I was not allowed to go on radio, television, cable, or social media to defend myself. Why is James Comey able to continue to proselytize against his prosecutors and go on outlets like MSNBC? Seems rather unfair to me, but then, well, that's the two-tier justice system.
00:09:10.900Prosecutors argue that the message amounted to a threat against President Donald Trump, the 47th president.
00:09:17.640Everybody in the law enforcement community knows what the term 86 means.
00:09:22.680It is a mob term. It means to terminate, to whack, to kill.0.94
00:09:27.560For Comey to say that he didn't know what it meant is absurd.
00:09:31.000Comey deleted the post after backlash.
00:09:33.140Remember, he claimed he was walking down the beach and he just happened to see this shell formation spelling out 86-47.
00:09:42.640He claimed he didn't know that 86 could be interpreted as a call for violence.
00:09:47.500His attorneys are now preparing multiple constitutional motions, arguing the case should be thrown out as protected political speech.
00:09:54.880The trial had been scheduled for July, but Judge Louise Wood Flanagan pushed it out to October 21st.
00:10:02.840Comey has spent years at the center of the Russiagate probe as he lied to Congress repeatedly
00:10:07.580and helped to launder lies that framed President Trump as a Russian agent in the hopes of railroading his presidency.
00:10:15.240You may recall that FBI Director Comey and I were charged with the exact same crime, lying to Congress.
00:10:21.960There is one major difference. He was guilty. I was not.
00:10:26.320In his case, he very specifically denied under oath that he ever shared sealed or classified information with a third party and directed them to leak it to the media.
00:10:38.940Yet prosecutors found an email in which he did exactly that, sharing sealed material with a Dan Richman, a law school associate of his, and directing him very specifically to leak it to the New York Times.
00:10:52.520That indictment was dismissed, not because of a flaw in the indictment, but because three federal judges interfered to claim that the prosecutor, Lindsay Halligan, was improperly appointed by the president.
00:11:04.980They're wrong about that. They will lose that on appeal.
00:11:08.360But by that time, of course, the statute of limitations will have run and Comey will not be able to be charged with that specific crime.
00:11:15.920Now, once again, James Comey is asking the legal system for every benefit of the doubt that Trump supporters like me were never granted when Biden was in office or when Obama was in office.
00:11:26.340Democrats claim the prosecution is political and it's retaliation.
00:11:32.520No one gets to threaten the president of the United States, not a random citizen and certainly not a former FBI director who believes that he's above the law or one who thinks we're stupid enough to believe that he doesn't know what the term 86 means.
00:11:46.780Equal justice means equal consequences.
00:11:49.340Comey should not get special treatment just because he's a former insider protected by Washington's ruling class.
00:11:55.580The fact is he's getting special treatment in a criminal justice system that is really, truly an embarrassment.
00:12:02.520In the meantime, federal agents moved within the last 48 hours to dismantle a makeshift autonomous zone
00:12:09.440set up in an anti-ice activist group outside the Delaney Hall Ice Facility in Newark, New Jersey.
00:12:17.220Protesters had established encampments and barricades aimed at blocking vehicles from entering or leaving this federal site.
00:12:24.600Authorities responded with tear gas and other less lethal measures after activists escalated the confrontation.
00:12:30.500The protests were organized in part by groups including the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, part of a broader network of immigration activist organizations that are essentially a leftist rebranding from Antifa.
00:12:43.880By the way, you notice that the names of these groups always have the exact opposite effect of what they're really doing.
00:12:50.300So the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice has nothing whatsoever to do with justice.
00:12:54.640It has to do with protecting people who are here in the country illegally, many of whom are violent criminals.
00:13:01.180Strategy, of course, is to provoke federal agents, disrupt lawful immigration enforcement, wait for officers to respond,
00:13:07.940then rely on friendly media and Democrat officials to portray ICE as the aggressors and the bad guys,
00:13:14.080when in fact all they're doing is upholding federal law and doing their jobs.
00:13:18.240Democrats continue to claim deportation efforts are supposedly focused only on illegal immigrants with additional criminal records.
00:13:26.020But the Trump administration has made it clear that immigration enforcement applies to illegal immigrants broadly,
00:13:32.200not merely those convicted of separate crimes after entering the country.0.74
00:13:36.400It's a fact that every illegal immigrant is, by definition, therefore, a criminal.0.77
00:13:40.840Despite protests, theatrics, and activist pressure campaigns, deportations are increasing as funding for ICE has increased.
00:13:49.640President Trump has also announced plans to expand enforcement through the end of the year, with large processing facilities and additional trained agents.
00:13:58.320The latest polls show that 80-plus percent of the American people favor the deportation of dangerous illegal criminals.
00:14:45.520Well, a disturbing new case is raising fresh concerns about Chinese Communist Party influence operations inside the United States
00:14:54.380and how deep it extends within both major political parties.
00:14:58.920Thomas Paukin II, an American media professional and son of former Texas Republican Party state chairman Tom Paukin,
00:15:07.260a supporter of Governor Ron DeSantis for president, was charged in February with acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese communist government,
00:15:15.160according to a newly surfaced court record.
00:15:17.680A Justice Department affidavit says that Palkin moved to China around 2010 and worked under the name Tom McGregor while calling himself a journalist for Chinese state propaganda outlets.
00:15:31.480Prosecutors allege that he prepared confidential documents for Chinese President Xi Jinping and helped connect a Chinese handler with an associate seeking a job in the Trump administration.
00:15:43.660Federal agents interviewed Palkin in January of 2025 after he arrived at Washington's Dulles International Airport from China.
00:15:51.680According to the affidavit, Palkin allegedly said his trip was partly intended to meet with the person seeking a role in the new Trump administration
00:15:59.240and to believe there was a strong chance that that person would provide classified information to China.
00:16:05.760That individual reportedly did not get the exact job sought,
00:16:09.400but prosecutors say the person now works for a U.S. government agency.
00:16:14.040Palkin's attorney stressed that his client is not charged with spying
00:28:20.420Well, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is moving forward with a new federal plan to help Americans safely taper off antidepressants when patients and doctors decide it's appropriate.
00:28:34.800And of course, the backlash from Big Pharma was almost immediate.
00:28:38.660The initiative would provide new clinical guidance, provide better provider training, update prescribing data, and Medicare and Medicaid billing support for supplies tapering off of these drugs.
00:28:52.300Kennedy says too many Americans begin psychiatric medications without a clear understanding of the risks, the timelines, and how difficult it can be to stop.
00:29:01.220This notion should not be controversial, but of course Big Pharma has these drugs as a cash cow.
00:29:08.660HHS itself acknowledges that psychiatric drugs can play an important and sometimes essential role.
00:29:15.720No one denies that. They can sometimes have value.
00:29:18.760But Kennedy's approach has been more balanced.
00:29:21.260Medication when needed, informed consent always,
00:29:24.920and non-drug options like talk therapy, family support, and careful assessment should be given a fair chance first.
00:29:32.600Yet major psychiatric organizations and mental health advocates are already pushing back.
00:29:38.140Warning against blaming America's mental health crisis on overprescription.
00:29:43.640In other words, they're worried about no longer getting the cushy payouts and bonuses that Big Pharma gives doctors for prescribing so many of these mind-bending drugs.
00:29:55.040Some of them even concede that better tapering guidances and more evidence-based care are reasonable, but still they resist Secretary Kennedy's broader critique of overmedicalization.
00:30:07.100The real issue here is that Big Pharma is no longer operating with the same level of automatic deference
00:30:13.540inside the Health and Human Services Department and the Federal Drug Authority.
00:30:19.880These bureaucracies are no longer captured like they were in previous administrations.
00:30:24.560With RFK Jr. running the show, federal health agencies are taking their time to ask much tougher questions
00:30:31.080about long-term medications and their use, the side effects, and issues like informed consent,
00:30:38.380and whether patients have been pushed too quickly into what could be lifelong dependency.
00:30:44.300This is why the resistance is so fierce. RFK Jr. is not banning antidepressants. If you read that,
00:30:51.280that's disinformation. He is challenging a corrupted system that too often treats pills
00:30:57.240as the first answer and accountability as the last.
00:31:01.780Americans deserve transparency, choice, and health care that serves patients,
00:31:08.780Meanwhile, a Trump house owner was targeted in a vicious murder.
00:31:13.680In South California's Trump house owner was died after a brutal attack
00:31:17.820outside his Escondido home in San Diego County.
00:31:22.660Carrie Sherron, who was known locally for proudly covering his home with pro-Trump and MAGA flags,
00:31:29.860passed away Sunday evening after nearly a week in critical condition.
00:31:35.200Prosecutors say that 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler carried out what they described as an unprovoked assault on Sherron.
00:31:43.500Butler has pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted murder, elder abuse, and battery.
00:31:50.200Deputy District Attorney Ross Garcia said that Sharon was struck in the jaw, fell to the ground, and then was hit repeatedly in the head.
00:31:59.540Butler remains jailed without bail, and prosecutors may upgrade the charges following Sharon's death.
00:32:05.540Authorities have not determined a motive, but doesn't have to take a genius to figure out why an outspoken Trump supporter might be targeted and attacked in this way.
00:32:15.660Sharon's house had drawn complaints and vandalism over the years
00:32:19.540because of his outspoken patriotic and pro-Trump displays.
00:32:23.520His wife of 20 years says she believes the flags may have played a role in his death.
00:32:29.400Some liberal neighbors describe Butler as a troubled military veteran suffering from severe PTSD,
00:32:35.980while conservatives say he supported President Trump, was a registered Republican, and a dedicated patriot.
00:32:41.900This was a disgusting and depraved act of violence against an elderly man outside his own home.
00:32:49.580It's not a stretch to call this an act of terrorism, in my opinion.
00:32:53.640Fake news media and the Democrat Party have stoked the fires within their radicalized core of supporters for years,
00:33:00.640and now they're increasingly acting out their deranged fantasies.
00:33:04.380We saw this at the White House Correspondents' Dinner only weeks ago.
00:33:09.140There's never been a more important time to exercise our First Amendment rights, but also recognize the importance of our Second Amendment rights than this very moment.
00:33:19.740Meanwhile, this past Memorial Day weekend, a request from a gold star widow turned into a powerful reminder of what patriotism is all about.
00:33:30.300On Sunday, an ex-unit called Cheryl Ann posted that she lived in Arkansas and could not make it to Arlington National Cemetery.
00:33:40.880She asked whether anyone visiting Washington, D.C. might take a fresh photo of her late husband's grave,
00:33:47.980which was located in Section 60 of Arlington's Rolling Hills at the Memorial Cemetery.
00:33:53.700Her husband, Staff Sergeant Alan W. Shaw, died in 2007 in the service of his country.
00:34:01.620Section 60 is among the most sacred grounds in America, serving as the final resting place for many service members who were killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the War on Terror.
00:34:13.180The post was viewed nearly two million times.
00:34:15.920Among those who saw it was the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
00:34:20.980herself, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, and an Iraq War veteran. So Tulsi Gabbard,
00:34:29.040private citizen in this instance, visited the grave, paid her respects, and posted a photo for
00:34:34.760Shaw's widow. She wrote that it was an honor to visit on the family's behalf, adding that the
00:34:39.940nation owns a debt of gratitude to those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and to the loved ones they
00:34:46.240left behind. Other Americans also visited, leaving flowers, taking photos, and saying Shaw's name.
00:34:54.380The widow later said the response restored part of her faith in humanity and made her even prouder
00:34:59.520to be an American. Gabbard's heartfelt gestures showed that in our country, the fallen are not
00:35:06.760forgotten. Their families are not alone. So we honor their sacrifices. Tulsi Gabbard has done
00:35:13.080everything in her power throughout her career in public service to make sure that the troops are
00:35:17.440not put in harm's way abroad unless absolutely necessary. She'll soon be departing from her role
00:35:23.180as the director of national intelligence as her husband Abraham has been diagnosed
00:35:28.340with a very rare and dangerous bone cancer. Gabbard will be greatly missed as she is the
00:35:34.500rare public servant with the courage to stand up to the deep state and the military industrial
00:35:39.760complex and tell them no when they demanded more power for themselves at the expense of the heroic
00:35:46.360troops who put in harm's way needlessly due to the Washington, D.C. bureaucrats who view them not as
00:35:52.560human beings, but as pawns for foreign policy. As I commented in the show over the weekend and
00:36:00.140yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard is among the most rare public servants that I have come across. She1.00
00:36:06.560leaves behind an extraordinary record. First of all, she declassified all of the documents
00:36:11.880that proved that the Russian collusion claims were indeed a hoax. Even worse, she proved by
00:36:19.500the declassification of documents that this was a seditious conspiracy, that Barack Obama and his
00:36:26.720cabal of criminal cohorts knew from the very beginning that there was no Russian collusion,
00:36:32.680There was no Russian interference in our 2016 elections, and they put together a complicated narrative with John Brennan shoving the so-called Steele dossier into the president's intelligence community report on any given day in order to rationalize the entire two-and-a-half-year Russian collusion hoax, which virtually crippled President Donald Trump in his first term.
00:36:59.220Thanks to the courage of Tulsi Gabbard, who declassified those documents, as well as declassifying the documents that prove that the fake impeachment in which they claim that Donald Trump had threatened the president of Ukraine, when in fact it was Joe Biden who withheld $1 billion in American aid from Ukraine, unless they closed down the investigation into his corrupt son, Hunter Biden.
00:37:27.320So it was Tulsi Gabbard who declassified those documents as well.
00:37:32.520On top of that, of course, she fired 37 leakers, people who continued to have security clearances under Donald Trump,
00:37:40.780many of whom were the signers of the famous letter in which multiple former and current intelligence officers
00:37:49.700signed a letter saying that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.
00:37:54.180No, the country owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Tulsi Gabbard, and I respect her for walking away from a powerful job in order to take care of her sick husband.