On today's episode of Triggered, host John Rocha breaks down the latest breaking news and takes a deep dive into the upcoming Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, including an exclusive on how China is using shady tactics to take aim at our farmers and agriculture.
00:06:32.000So we're doing a special Wednesday edition of the show.
00:06:35.000I don't need to regurgitate what's going on after you've seen it everywhere else, so we'd rather get on top of it and give it to you right when it's happening.
00:06:41.000So we'll do the show today instead of tomorrow.
00:06:45.000So my father ordered that all the documents related to Crossfire Hurricane, Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, Be declassified.
00:06:56.000Doge is now finding even more fraud, including hundreds of millions in SBA loans that were given to literal children.
00:07:05.000Children, like way under the age of 18. They're getting Small Business Administration loans.
00:07:12.000And the media and the Democrats are trying to jump on headline after headline over the use of signal by cabinet secretaries.
00:07:21.000Plus... We're going to dive into the incredibly important state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, including a triggered exclusive on how China is using shady tactics to take aim at our farmers and agriculture.
00:07:35.000We can't be complacent in these special elections.
00:07:40.000This election could even affect who controls the House of Representatives.
00:07:44.000We've seen what can happen when you have out-of-control judges, so this race matters.
00:07:56.000You have the same thing going on in Florida.
00:07:58.000Florida 1, Florida 6, the old Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz seats, their special elections are also on April 1, and it doesn't seem like a lot of people know that.
00:08:06.000So if you know people in Wisconsin, make sure they vote.
00:08:19.000Make sure we put the conservatives in those respective seats or the Democrats could take control of the House and effectively hold the administration hostage from doing all the common sense that they're getting done.
00:08:32.000So we're going to get into all of that, plus Senators Ron Johnson of the great state of Wisconsin and Rick Scott of the state of Florida.
00:08:40.000They're going to stop by, so it's going to be a jam-packed show.
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00:11:05.000And now, guys, let's get into some of the top headlines.
00:11:09.000By now, I'm sure you're very familiar with perhaps the most famous signal group chat in history, where a writer for The Atlantic was on a group chat about a recent and successful mission.
00:11:23.000But now, it appears that the Atlantic and Jeffrey Goldberg are changing their original story.
00:11:32.000First, it was war plans were being discussed.
00:11:37.000But based on what we know, that doesn't even remotely seem to be the case.
00:11:41.000In fact, the Atlantic has a new story that no longer even uses the phrase war plans.
00:11:48.000And DOD spokesman Sean Parnell wrote, there were no targets, no locations, no units, no routes, no sources, no methods, and no classified information.
00:12:01.000Huh. Seems like there was no anything.
00:12:04.000It doesn't appear that Jeff Goldberg has even seen a war plan.
00:12:10.000And I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you, that the perpetrator of the suckers and losers hoax, the one and only Jeffrey Goldberg, Would also exaggerate and lie about what was in these messages.
00:12:26.000And as the White House said this week, no classified material was sent to the thread, and the White House Counsel's Office has provided guidance on a number of different platforms for President Trump's top officials to communicate as a safety and efficient way as possible.
00:12:46.000Using Signal is literally nothing new.
00:12:49.000Many Democrats have been using Signal.
00:12:51.000Many of them were caught using it, and it was never a problem then, but apparently now it's a problem.
00:12:56.000And according to the National Security Council, the White House is looking into just how Goldberg's number was added to the thread, and what steps could be taken to ensure that this never happens again.
00:13:50.000After four years of having Biden, who didn't even know what day it was, and having nonstop incompetence on foreign policy, it's refreshing to actually have a cabinet that is sophisticated and engaged.
00:14:04.000On these issues, that they're willing to talk, that they're willing to descend, and ultimately, once a decision is made, that they're all willing to actually be on board, rather than try to sabotage it from the outside.
00:14:15.000And this wasn't the disastrous Afghan withdrawal.
00:14:19.000This mission was against Houthi militia, and it was successful.
00:14:56.000I looked at attack plans this morning.
00:14:58.000You know who does attack plans and war plans?
00:15:01.000Men like that Admiral right there, Papara from the Indo-Pacific, or Eric Carilla, our general in CENTCOM, they do attack plans and war plans.
00:15:11.000And thank God we have those leaders who do it and do it well and our enemies know it.
00:15:17.000My job, as it's set atop of that, everybody's seen it now, team update is to provide updates in real time.
00:15:26.000General updates in real time, keep everybody informed.
00:15:32.000The warfighters will take the fight to the enemy, and I love what they do.
00:15:36.000And with President Trump's leadership, our enemies are on notice.
00:15:39.000We will have peace through strength, and we'll keep putting our troops first.
00:15:44.000Now, Democrats, like the House Minority Leader Jeffries and Senator Mark Warner and others, are trying to turn this into another Russia, Russia, Russia, calling for more endless investigations, trying to fuel as much hysteria as possible.
00:15:58.000I just don't think the American people are buying any of this nonsense anymore.
00:16:02.000I watched today as they grilled Tulsi Gabbard for hours, who basically only responded once in the chat, saying this is the point person to deal with the issue.
00:16:09.000Because it seems like the Democrats weaponized this to try to get all of the people that they didn't like in the administration and get them out.
00:16:20.000Because, as Michael Walz and others have said, the bottom line is that President Trump is protecting America's interests around the world.
00:16:27.000And we're operating from a position of strength.
00:16:30.000And that's at the core of the America First mission.
00:16:33.000Protecting, strengthening American institutions, American workers, and American families.
00:16:40.000And that coalition and movement is broader and stronger than ever before.
00:16:45.000Which brings us to a triggered exclusive investigation that I'm sure most of the media will ignore.
00:16:53.000Shouldn't surprise any of you, but as we've told you, A major theme of this show is making America healthy again.
00:17:00.000A key tenant of that is protecting critical supply chains from foreign adversaries, bolstering our domestic food production, and keeping it in the hands of American workers, American families, and American companies.
00:17:14.000You've heard me talk about it again and again.
00:17:16.000And tonight we have an exclusive report on the growing evidence of how China is using...
00:17:21.000Foreign companies in places like Europe as proxies to try to carry out their dirty work here on American soil.
00:17:28.000Because get this, the CEO of French food conglomerate, Danone, just this week appeared on CCP media outlet called the People's Daily, the Communist Party, the Chinese Communist Party, where he lavishes praise on the CCP.
00:17:45.000Claims that the world's growth depends on China and suggests that we use China as a quote export base for things like health and medical products to bring into America and across the West.
00:18:05.000Everybody forgets, but 5% on a very large base is the size of some European economies every year.
00:18:11.000The growth is sustainable, the growth is continuous, and we are very impressed with the growth of China.
00:18:16.000The best proof of the confidence is we keep investing into China.
00:18:20.000We invest in research and innovation in China.
00:18:23.000We invest in production in China, not only for China, by the way, but for China and for the rest of the world.
00:18:29.000China is a place where we source some of our best innovation when it comes to artificial intelligence and the way artificial intelligence is applying to all kinds of topics.
00:18:37.000Those are areas where we leverage China and where we invest in China.
00:18:40.000We will keep producing more in China and we use China for a production base as an export base for some of our more sophisticated medical products.
00:18:58.000Like the People's Daily and China Daily, which are literally owned and operated by the CCP.
00:19:04.000And by the way, China Daily was just banned from distribution inside the House of Representatives, where I'm sure it's a popular read amongst Democrats in the House.
00:19:16.000Here is the same CEO claiming that the world's growth depends on the success of China.
00:19:24.000China is absolutely critical for the world growth.
00:19:27.000I mean, if China doesn't grow, the world is not growing.
00:19:30.000The second thing is, well, the commitment of the government, which is keep growing China at a 5% rate on a base that is now extremely large, doing it in a way that is sustainable, doing it by unleashing our new productive forces.
00:19:47.000gives me huge confidence in the market and huge confidence that growth will continue in China, but also that China will contribute to the growth of the world.
00:20:01.000Well, we did a little digging and spoke to multiple sources inside HHS and other agencies and uncovered that this company, Danone, is actually in the process of trying to orchestrate a hostile takeover of a Midwestern American health foods company called Lifeway, which makes probiotic dairy products.
00:20:22.000Now, the major company has major operations in key agricultural states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
00:20:30.000And from what we're told, this giant conglomerate wants to take over operations and overhaul the company, slash jobs, hurt farmers, and perhaps even resource ingredients, presumably from China.
00:20:45.000To be being done, at least in part, at the implicit or perhaps explicit direction of the Chinese Communist Party.
00:20:53.000And very likely could lead to the loss of American control of vital dairy products and supply chains.
00:21:00.000Now guys, under the leadership of RSK Jr., Scott Besson, and across my father's administration, it's been made clear that these types of deals are bad for Americans and bad for making America healthy again.
00:21:44.000So just like China with buying up farmland, we'll be keeping an eye out on all of this as the story develops, because America First also includes, specifically, American farmers and American companies.
00:21:57.000They will not be forgotten, and we're going to be watching this very carefully.
00:22:05.000According to an investigation by the National Pulse, a network of fake companies attempting to recruit laid-off federal workers has now been identified as a front for a Chinese tech firm, exposing yet another way in which China is trying to spy on Americans here at home.
00:22:25.000And again, I'll take this moment to remind you, if you're in Wisconsin, guys, you must get out there and vote for Brad Schimmel this Tuesday, April 1st.
00:22:36.000This race determines control of the state Supreme Court and will determine whether Wisconsin actually has a court committed to protecting the rule of law and America's interests.
00:22:48.000And all the stuff we're talking about.
00:24:05.000Because there are gerrymandered congressional lines right now in Wisconsin.
00:24:11.000Wisconsin's a 50-50 state, as I mentioned, but there are six Republicans and only two Democrats out of an eight-person delegation because the lines are broken.
00:24:21.000And as soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that and have fair lines.
00:24:29.000the only way for that to be even significant possibility is if you have an enlightened Supreme Court.
00:24:37.000And so, you know, I think that's an incredibly Guys, again, when someone tells you what they're going to do, pay attention.
00:24:47.000This is not the time to be complacent.
00:24:50.000I mean, just imagine if Jasmine Crockett ends up in Democrat leadership, in a theoretical House Democrat majority.
00:24:59.000Crockett has recently been spending her time taxing Texas Governor Greg Abbott in the most disgusting ways imaginable.
00:25:10.000Watch. Because we in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey.
00:25:18.000Y'all know we got Governor High Wheels down there.
00:27:10.000And she was a little bit funny, but crude.
00:27:15.000And now I find that she's actually a politician.
00:27:18.000The Democrats are going to suffer with this one.
00:27:21.000Guys, Democrats have demonstrated time and time again that they are not fit to govern and that they have a big point of delusion about not being able to fulfill their most basic obligations to their constituents, right? They're just not able to do it.
00:28:05.000Residents at this city council committee hearing held on the west side were here to discuss how to move forward.
00:28:11.000The blessing here is that we have been given an opportunity to show the world how you do disaster relief and rebuilding effectively.
00:28:20.000But the Department of Building and Safety told the committee so far it has approved just four permits.
00:28:25.000Councilmember Tracy Park, who represents the Palisades, says that's not acceptable.
00:28:30.000You know, when I hear in a committee meeting like we had today that only four permits have been issued and we're on day 75 post-fire, that is concerning to me.
00:28:38.000And I don't think it is necessarily a lack of interest in rebuilding.
00:28:42.000I suspect it is indicative of systemic issues that we need to continue to focus on.
00:28:49.000And if you're wondering why insurance is such a mess in California and why companies are pulling out of the state, it turns out...
00:28:56.000That the state insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, has been jet-setting across the world on taxpayer dime, sort of like the other California politicians who were not there when the fires were imminent and happening.
00:29:10.000Not showing up to meetings, he's spending his time doing pretty much anything and everything but actually handling insurance.
00:29:18.000According to local media reports, his taxpayer-funded travel included a trip to New York's Pride Fest, Sure, that has a lot to do with insurance.
00:29:26.000Where the itinerary including attending a rooftop party featuring DJ Kitty Glitter.
00:29:49.000Lada made at least 46 trips across the country and all over the world.
00:29:54.000But as we found out, a significant chunk of the records are missing and the state has been unable to provide them, including work-related trips where he is pictured or listed as a speaker in Singapore, Cape Town, South Africa, Dublin, Costa Rica, Chile, Egypt, Tokyo, Glasgow, and Dubai.
00:30:12.000Plus a handful of trips to these states.
00:30:15.000With that said, the trip receipts we do have are not cheap.
00:30:18.000For context, records show Illinois' insurance commissioner spent $680 for the entire year of 2022.
00:30:26.000Meanwhile, during the first six months of Lada's term, his cross-country and international trips cost taxpayers more than $33,000.
00:30:35.000This includes an all-expenses-paid week-long trip at a luxury five-star hotel in Bogota, Colombia, for an LGBTI political leaders' conference, and another flight and five-star hotel stay in New York City for Pride Fest, where his schedule listed a VIP rooftop event with DJ Kitty Glitter.
00:30:54.000We should note the four-day trip did not list any insurance-related meetings on his schedule.
00:30:59.000This is what Democrats have to offer, guys.
00:31:16.000And Senator Ron Johnson is coming up in just moments.
00:31:19.000We're going to be talking about Wisconsin.
00:31:21.000We'll then have Senator Rick Scott talking about Florida and what's going on in the Senate.
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00:32:44.000I just want to make sure we keep our eyes on the ball with everything that's going on right now.
00:32:48.000So first off, I'd love to get your reaction to what we're seeing sort of in the media hysteria surrounding this signal chat thing, right?
00:32:58.000Democrats seem to be using it as a pretext for endless investigations.
00:33:02.000What do you see just in the Senate and as someone who's done this for a while?
00:33:06.000Well, I think you described it well, media hysteria.
00:33:09.000Listen, I think they are freaking out by what your dad, Elon Musk, is revealing in terms of what they've set up here.
00:33:20.000This massive government that gives them all the power, all the control, funds all their extreme radical ideology, and your dad has just come in here and busted that up.
00:33:45.000I was watching, you know, today, you know, the cabinet.
00:33:48.000It seems like they're focusing on Tulsi Gabbard, who I don't think actually participated even in the conversation beyond saying, hey, this is the point person for the issue right in the beginning.
00:33:55.000It seems almost like a way to target those that they always just wanted to target as opposed to there being any...
00:34:23.000If they can get a scalp out of this administration, that's what they're going to try and do.
00:34:26.000They'll do anything they can to slow down the momentum.
00:34:30.000Yeah, so I guess speaking of scalps, I was actually recently in your state to campaign for Brad Schimmel in this special election that's happening on April 1st.
00:34:40.000That's going to literally decide the Supreme Court in the state of Wisconsin.
00:34:45.000That'll help decide whether men are allowed to play in women's sports, what they do with endless migration, etc.
00:34:52.000What is the nexus between sort of my father's...
00:34:55.000America First agenda, your mission in the Senate representing Wisconsin, and what's going on at the state level in Wisconsin, specifically in this Supreme Court race?
00:35:05.000First of all, thank you for all of your efforts in supporting Brad because this is crucial.
00:35:10.000The radical left took over our Supreme Court two years ago when Dan Kelly lost.
00:35:16.000The Supreme Court race, he only got 800,000 votes.
00:35:35.000If we don't, what the radical left court did initially when they had the time to do it is they completely redistricted our state assembly and our state senate maps and we lost a lot of members and reduced our majorities in both bodies.
00:35:47.000If they have more time, they will definitely redistrict the congressional seats.
00:36:21.000You know, the highest spending in any judicial race in the history of this nation, and they're probably going to double the spending in this one.
00:36:28.000They realize how important it is, again, it's not just the fact that we can redistrict and then lose a couple House seats, which could cost the House the majority and make your dad's second, you know, the last two years of his term a real you-know-what ride, okay?
00:36:43.000But in addition to that, they would probably overturn voter ID.
00:36:46.000They could turn any kind of election integrity.
00:36:49.000Process or laws we have in Wisconsin, overturn that, make it almost impossible for a Republican to win the 10 electoral votes like your dad did last time.
00:36:56.000So this has major national implications.
00:36:59.000Plus, they would just, again, they would love this scalp, right?
00:37:02.000They would just love to say, oh, you know, Donald Trump is not that, you know, he doesn't have a momentum.
00:37:50.000You've always done incredibly well in them for a very long time, even when it was a left-leaning state.
00:37:56.000How do we overcome that bridge to get those people to understand, you know, just because you or Trump isn't at the top of the ticket, it's still fundamentally critical for the entire agenda?
00:39:10.000But, again, the left is ginned up as well.
00:39:12.000I mean, this is the only way they can fight back.
00:39:15.000Yeah, so again, if you're in Wisconsin, if you know someone in Wisconsin between now and April 1st, go vote for Brad Schimmel.
00:39:21.000The lady running against him, this is going to be essentially a tiebreaker on the Supreme Court, is a radical leftist lunatic.
00:39:29.000Just look at the things that she said, whether it's men and women's sports, whether it's the stuff on migrants, whether it's the stuff on the deporting criminal, murderous drug gangs, etc.
00:39:38.000This is not a moderate left voice, which they'll try to paint her, I'm sure, in the ads.
00:39:45.000Make sure you guys get involved in this race.
00:39:47.000It's fundamentally critical, not just for Wisconsin, but for the future of our country, for midterms, etc.
00:39:59.000Well, Senator, while I have you, I guess on spending specifically, you've said that Congress needs to rigorously scrutinize spending like private sector businesses do.
00:40:11.000Even remotely popular in Washington right now.
00:40:14.000Why are they so vehemently against even a modicum of oversight?
00:40:21.000Well, the good news is I was with your dad in the White House two Thursdays ago before we went on recess, and I was able to lay out these pre-pandemic spending options for him, and he liked it.
00:40:34.000He loved the concept, so I think he'll get behind this.
00:40:37.000We've set this process up for massive spending without any oversight.
00:40:41.000So today, only 24% of total federal spending is actually appropriated.
00:40:47.000The other 76% is what they call mandatory spending.
00:40:51.000And most people think of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
00:40:54.000There's $1.3 trillion of other mandatory spending other than those programs.
00:40:59.000And what I've shown, I showed this to you, Dad, you can exempt Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, take 2019 total outlays, increase them by population inflation, We'd be spending $6.5 trillion this year versus the 7.3.
00:41:15.000And, you know, unfortunately, the House, their budget resolution, they would cut that by $150 billion, where that's an $800 billion difference between what we're spending and the maximum we should be spending based on 2019 spending levels.
00:42:08.000It's only real relative to the last four years.
00:42:11.000After that, it's pretty benign and gets us back to a place of sanity that we can actually cover and not just continue to increase the deficit.
00:42:19.000What would happen if we went from 4.4 in 2019 before the pandemic to 6.5 and never looked back.
00:42:26.000You know, no family I know of that had an illness had to borrow $50,000, spend that on medical bills if that family member got well.
00:42:35.000We'd keep borrowing $50,000 and keep spending that level.
00:42:38.000That would be insane, but that's basically what Joe Biden and the Democrats did after the pandemic.
00:42:43.000So again, there's a way to return to a reasonable level.
00:42:46.000It's going back, look at Clinton, look at Obama, look at Trump in 2019.
00:42:52.000That gives you a range somewhere between 5.5 and 6.5, and then go through the 2,400 individual line items in those outlay budgets and scrutinize it.
00:43:29.000You know, the media will run with it as though it's the gospel.
00:43:32.000You know, I guess that's the problem that you're dealing with when they're the ones actually damaging Social Security through inflation, frankly, utilizing a lot of those funds for their little pork projects that actually have nothing to do with Social Security.
00:43:43.000We saw Joe Biden do that very, very aggressively to the tune of billions of dollars.
00:43:47.000You know, how do you break through that messaging aspect of it that we still, you know, I think we've made some progress with X and other places, but we're still way behind in that ability to message.
00:43:58.000And, you know, the older generation who's most impacted by Social Security right now, they just view it as even if it's totally made up, even if it's totally fictitious, that's a grave threat to them, understandably.
00:44:11.000To complement what Elon Musk and your dad are doing with Doge, where they're exposing these grotesque examples of waste, fraud, and abuse, set up a panel of senators, of House members, and the White House.
00:45:22.000And if you do that, you combine that with the revelations of the Doge unit, which, by the way, we can reduce discretionary spending using rescission.
00:45:32.000And I'd encourage you to encourage your dad, send us a rescission package every month.
00:45:37.000The top three or five examples of this grotesque waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:45:51.000I mean, when they're cutting, you know, $10 million for circumcision procedures in Mozambique, you know, probably not the best use of our funds.
00:45:59.000And yet they're still losing their minds because it's all one big kickback scheme to the Democrat Party through their NGOs, probably through AgBlue.
00:46:05.000So I hope you investigate all of that as well.
00:46:27.000I love that idea because, again, once you're voting on the line item, it's a lot harder to hide behind sort of the media cover that they're going to give you, and I think that would expose a lot.
00:46:37.000Well, it would help us in the midterms, quite honestly.
00:46:39.000If you can get these Democrats voting against cutting that spending on those grotesque examples, that's going to help us win the midterm as well.
00:46:53.000Exactly. Well, speaking of which, I mean, you've recently sort of praising RFK and the Maha movement, which I think is a really big deal and sort of one that's been neglected for a long time.
00:47:03.000You know, talk about what that means for your state.
00:47:06.000We actually have a story we just broke on the show about the efforts by China and their proxies to take control of food supply chains and take control of the entire health food companies, specifically in Wisconsin.
00:47:17.000You know, how big a threat is that actually?
00:47:24.000Listen, I think your dad did a great job of pointing out the economic threat that China poses to the rest of the world, their unfair trading and manufacturing processes, techniques.
00:47:35.000So, no doubt about it, they're a threat.
00:47:39.000In terms of the Maha movement, The American people want to understand what is causing this explosion in chronic illness.
00:47:46.000They want to know what is causing autism.
00:47:48.000They haven't even been able to ask that question.
00:47:50.000People like Bobby Kennedy would be vilified.
00:47:52.000They'd be attacked for just answering those legitimate questions.
00:47:55.000This is where I give, again, your dad and Bobby so much credit, laying their political differences aside, coming together to solve a problem, but in doing so, demonstrating this is how you heal a horribly divided nation.
00:48:10.000So this is something American people want.
00:48:13.000Trust me, I think Big Pharma, Big Food, they wanted to kill that nomination, but your dad stood strong behind him.
00:48:19.000And Republican senators realized this is such a popular issue in a completely nonpartisan basis.
00:48:26.000Who doesn't want to know why autism rates are up 10 billion percent in the last 30 years?
00:48:32.000I mean, I never even heard of it when I was a kid, and now...
00:48:34.000You know, it's one in 30, it's crazy, and yet no one wants to even look at it, or people were actively campaigning against trying to figure it out.
00:48:43.000We're not saying that even one is the answer, but something has changed, and we should figure out what that is.
00:48:49.000Absolutely, and one thing we found out in an event I did with Bobby Kennedy and Casey Means is, we approve food ingredients by generally recognized as safe.
00:48:59.000So we have 10,000 ingredients in our foods.
00:49:20.000That's never happened in my, in my almost 70 years of life.
00:49:24.000I've never seen what your dad has assembled.
00:49:26.000And it's a powerful coalition of trying to fix all these problems.
00:49:31.000And you know, the massive number of problems, the big messes the Democrats left behind I just cannot believe how swiftly, decisively, boldly your dad is moving forward here and addressing all these things simultaneously.
00:51:33.000And it's the people that were voting for Democrats that kind of thought they were Democrats but didn't realize they were actually Republicans.
00:51:39.000They just sort of did it historically.
00:51:45.000You know, they can no longer rely on just the media telling you they're doing a great job.
00:51:49.000You actually hear what comes out of their mouth and realize that it does not align with your interests, especially, you know, in Miami-Dade, if you're from Cuba or Venezuela.
00:52:52.000You're also one of those guys that did really well in business before getting into government, so you don't have to do this job.
00:52:58.000So it's always nice to have some of that acumen being brought to D.C. That doesn't happen often.
00:53:04.000You have sort of career bureaucrats that...
00:53:06.000You would not have let run even a small division of one of your companies.
00:53:11.000And yet here they are making trillion-dollar decisions.
00:53:14.000So it's sort of nice to see real leadership.
00:53:17.000But, you know, if you look at what your dad's doing and look at what I'm trying to do, you're trying to make sure every American, whether you grew up rich or poor, has a chance to live the American dream.
00:53:25.000I tell people when I grew up, I grew up in a very poor family.
00:53:28.000But whether you're rich or poor back then, your parents told you the same thing.
00:53:31.000You got to go get an education and you got to go work your butt off.
00:53:34.000Right? But the Democrats will tell you the opposite.
00:53:36.000Oh, no, we're going to take care of you, which you know they can't.
00:54:03.000By the way, thank you for caring so much about Latin America.
00:54:06.000Your interest in Venezuela and Nicaragua and Cuba and Colombia and all of Latin America is really important.
00:54:14.000As you know, it's really important to Floridians.
00:54:16.000About 20% of the population in Florida speak Spanish.
00:54:20.000Many of them, some came from Puerto Rico, some came from Cuba.
00:54:24.000Any place where they've had problems, our safe haven is Florida.
00:54:28.000Yeah, well, but it's also a doorstep to America, right?
00:54:32.000We spend, you know, what would be endless sums in Ukraine.
00:54:35.000Most people couldn't find it on a map.
00:54:37.000My father called it pretty well when saying there's an entire ocean between us.
00:54:42.000You know, here, if you can come here, quite literally in some cases, on a raft, like, that seems like it's a little bit more on our doorstep, you know, than some of these other places that we're able to spend trillions.
00:54:54.000Yeah. And by the way, thank you for doing the podcast with Maria Karina Machado.
00:55:01.000You really have to really respect and admire her.
00:55:05.000As you know, she's in hiding now because Maduro wants to kill her.
00:55:10.000Your dad saved her life when he was vocal when she was captured.
00:55:17.000So the fight for freedom in Cuba is really important, and it's important to our national security.
00:55:24.000What Maduro is doing with the drugs and sending criminals here and things like that, I mean, we all have to understand this is happening right now in our country because of bad prior policy, and especially what Biden did for his four years.
00:55:41.000Maybe that's why I'd start off is that, you know, we're seeing, you know, my father's taking historic steps to actually hold our adversaries accountable.
00:55:55.000Today, the administration blacklisted over 50 Chinese companies relating to AI technology and harming U.S. national security interests earlier this week.
00:56:04.000My father also slapped secondary 25% tariffs on any country buying oil from Venezuela, obviously.
00:56:12.000You know, not exactly what we'd say a good actor if they're sending, you know, violent, criminal, drug-dealing murderers to our shores while simultaneously emptying out their prisons.
00:58:06.000I don't care about how dangerous it is.
00:58:08.000So if you just look at what he's done just with Venezuela, everybody around the world needs to wake up to say, if President Trump's going to do this to Venezuela, what are we doing?
00:58:48.000A lot of them from Florida, Marco Rubio, Michael Walton, Pam Bondi, and others.
00:58:52.000He's putting together a great team of people that are really focused on doing the right things.
00:58:56.000Yeah, let's get into the Venezuela stuff a little bit, because we recently learned that the Biden administration, for those who may not know, we're talking because this is what we do all day long, so we understand the details.
00:59:07.000But the Biden administration basically had a secret deal to let Chevron pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the Maduro regime, a regime that we didn't even legally recognize before.
00:59:18.000And, you know, again, despite it being totally illegal, you know, just how corrupt.
00:59:26.000And do we think there's other existing, you know, federal contractors involved?
00:59:32.000I mean, it doesn't, you know, given, you know, what we know about 10% for the big guy and, you know, maybe hunters on the board of Chevron, who knows, whatever it may be, you know, how deep does all of this really go?
00:59:42.000Because I can't imagine it's just face value that you'd let a dictatorial regime that you didn't recognize basically siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:59:49.000It doesn't seem like there's any interest.
00:59:51.000For the U.S. in that, and as lost as the Democrats may be, you know, I don't take anything like that at face value anymore.
01:01:03.000There's no rationale that you know of for that.
01:01:06.000And why don't they care about the people of Venezuela?
01:01:09.000Don't they care about the people of Cuba?
01:01:11.000They don't care about any of this stuff.
01:01:14.000So something was wrong in the whole thing.
01:01:17.000The other thing you really have to admire, Marie and Karina Machado, what she did was to prove she won the election, how they went and they got the little tickets from each of the polling stations to show how the votes came out.
01:01:29.000That was gutsy on her part, and it was not easy.
01:01:33.000And Maduro's gone after all those people that were part of that.
01:01:38.000When she was on, she was talking, I mean, you know, if she went and got lunch while driving from one place to the other, because they wouldn't let her fly, they wouldn't let her do anything, so she drove around the country.
01:01:45.000I mean, if they served her or her team lunch at a restaurant that she paid for, they'd shut down the business.
01:01:52.000I mean, you'd think they'd have a problem with that, but apparently not.
01:01:56.000No. And, you know, I called Blinken and people like that, and they didn't care.
01:07:05.000I mean, I would say it's multiples every year.
01:07:08.000And the down channel on that, you watch these things, you see some of the videos, you know, the cartels taking on the military and winning because they have better equipment, they're more heavily funded, better training.
01:07:19.000You know, I mean, they're basically a well-trained state actor.
01:07:23.000Yeah, and yeah, who knows where they're getting all their information, but I imagine it's across the board.
01:07:28.000So here's what we have to think about.
01:07:30.000Number one thing you as a consumer can do...
01:07:33.000Okay, is understand the government of China wants to demolish your way of life, and they're doing it.
01:08:29.000So, you know, speaking of not having much help from the Democrats, you know, on spending, I know, you know, obviously that's a big deal right now.
01:08:36.000You know, is there a path to actually, you know, balancing the budget?
01:08:41.000It feels like, you know, what we're spending now relative to 2019, it's an extra $2 trillion, and we've just made it.
01:08:58.000Is it just literally exposing each and every line item and making people vote on the pork, the graft, the insanity?
01:09:06.000I'd love to see anyone with a straight face try to support some of the things they found at USAID and or I'm sure everywhere else once Doge gets into it.
01:12:15.000He says, if we went back to Clinton, his last budget where we balanced the budget, and we raise spending by population and by inflation, and take today's Social Security, today's Medicare money, we'd balance the budget.
01:13:26.000We also have these key special elections coming up in Florida 1 and Florida 6, right?
01:13:31.000The Matt Gaetz seat as well as the Mike Wall seat.
01:13:34.000You know, it does feel like our people are actually pretty happy with what's going on, but they're not necessarily paying attention to those details that, like, you could lose control of the House, not because they wouldn't be involved, but because the Democrats are frantically trying to stop them from having a success, and the Republicans are just sort of sitting on their laurels being like, hey, we're getting everything we want.
01:14:25.000Everybody in Florida says, this is better for me if I have a president that is going to focus on making sure my kids go to education, make sure decisions are made local on education, make sure I can get a good job, make sure I can stay safe.
01:15:32.000We have got to get out to vote in both of these elections.
01:15:35.000Yeah, so if you're watching, if you're from Florida, if you live in one or six, or you know friends that do, or if you're anywhere in the country and you have friends that live in Matt Gaetz's old district or Mike Walt's old district, understand, in literally about a week, next Tuesday, you have an election that could decide, essentially, control of Congress.
01:17:50.000Senator, while I have you, what else can you preview about what you're working on in the Senate and what we should keep our eyes out for over there?
01:18:32.000So that's why we worked really hard to get your dad's nominees done.
01:18:37.000Now all the lower levels, like the assistant secretaries, the ambassadors, U.S. attorneys, those are two hours.
01:18:44.000So basically every three hours we can do a nominee because the Democrats won't let us do them as a group or anything like that, even though they know they're going to pass.
01:19:43.000Not one Democrat is going to help us with this.
01:19:46.000And then we've got to focus on doing what your dad and all of his agency heads are doing, and Elon Musk is get rid of the wasteful spending.
01:19:54.000So that's what we're working on right now.
01:20:01.000I'm very optimistic that we're going to get done.
01:20:05.000One thing I forgot to bring up when we're talking about Venezuela is, when I was governor of Florida, I passed legislation that said, if you do business with Maduro, you don't do business with the state of Florida.
01:20:15.000I have a bill I'm going to be filing today or this week.
01:20:18.000It's called the Bolivar Act, which will do the same thing with the federal government.
01:20:21.000You're not going to do business with the U.S. government if you want to go do business with Maduro.
01:20:26.000So that's the types of things we have to keep doing.