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00:06:47.000We just have to be out there because Even if we're 18 months out, it's going on now, and we have to make sure we codify these things into law.
00:06:58.000Plus, guys, the State Department is taking historic steps to stop global censorship.
00:07:06.000Also, the Department of Justice just opened a Title IX investigation into the state of Oregon for allowing men to compete in women's sports.
00:07:17.000So we're going to get into all of that shortly.
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00:10:51.000And now, let's get into the top headlines.
00:10:54.000We're going to begin with the State Department, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues delivering win after win.
00:11:02.000Yesterday, he announced a new visa policy restriction that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans in general and abroad.
00:11:16.000As the Secretary wrote on X yesterday, Watch Rubio on visas yesterday.
00:11:41.000When you come to the United States as a visitor, which is what a visa is, which is how this individual entered this country, as a visitor's visa.
00:11:53.000If you tell us when you apply, "Hi, I'm trying to get into the United States on a student visa.
00:11:58.000I am a big supporter of Hamas, a murderous, barbaric group that kidnaps children, that rapes teenage girls, that takes hostages, that allows them to die in captivity, that returns more bodies than live hostages." If you tell us that you are in favor of a group like this, and if you tell us when you apply for your visa, and by the way, I intend to come to your country as a student.
00:12:18.000And rile up all kinds of anti-Jewish student, anti-Semitic activities.
00:12:22.000I intend to shut down your universities.
00:12:24.000If you told us all these things when you applied for a visa, we would deny your visa.
00:12:29.000If you actually end up doing that once you're in this country on such a visa, we will revoke it.
00:12:34.000And if you end up having a green card, not citizenship, but a green card as a result of that visa while you're here and those activities, we're gonna kick you out.
00:12:44.000The department also announced that the U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party, or studying in critical fields.
00:12:57.000This, of course, guys, should have been done years ago.
00:13:00.000There are hundreds of thousands of Chinese students at American universities on student visas.
00:13:06.000But in China, it's a tiny fraction of that, around 1,000 Americans.
00:13:14.000Reports in the Economic Times point out Chinese nationals working and studying at these institutions have been repeatedly, repeatedly caught transferring sensitive data, proprietary algorithms, and advanced research back to China.
00:13:33.000No one's ever done anything about it until now.
00:13:37.000Specifically, guys, the Trump administration is investigating The Confucius Institute, a CCP arm on American campuses across the country which are directly linked to Chinese espionage.
00:13:51.000They're playing hardball while we're playing t-ball.
00:13:55.000But the big moves on education don't stop there because the Trump Department of Justice and the Education Department are now opening a Title IX investigation against the states of Oregon and California for allowing men to participate in women's sports.
00:14:59.000And I think the attorney general is right to open this investigation.
00:15:02.000And it just shows that all of the agencies are working together to make sure that life on campus for all students is safe and universities are following the law.
00:15:13.000Remember, the whole reason Title IX was put into place in the first place was actually to protect women and provide more opportunities in sports.
00:15:23.000Democrats flipped this whole thing on its head.
00:15:29.000We're getting back to the true purpose of the law and making sure that states that get out of line suffer the consequences.
00:15:38.000That could mean losing federal funding.
00:15:40.000Losing their ability to even apply for some types of funding and possibly even threatening accreditation.
00:15:48.000Some schools from kindergarten through college do seem to be getting the message.
00:15:53.000For example, MIT this week scrapped their DEI office.
00:15:58.000Now remember guys, back in March, the Trump administration expanded a civil rights probe into the school over alleged racial discrimination.
00:16:22.000Now, we'll never understand why they're getting $3 billion in federal funding when they have a $60 billion endowment that they don't pay tax on, but that's a story for another day.
00:16:30.000But they're likely to lose a lot more, even as courts try to stand in the way.
00:16:36.000Because today, Yet again, a federal judge put in place an injunction blocking the Trump administration's effort to prevent Harvard University from enrolling foreign students, despite overwhelming evidence that Harvard is refusing to comply with measures under the Federal Student Exchange Visitor Program.
00:16:56.000and they still don't want to disclose data on foreign students and perhaps more importantly, on foreign funding.
00:17:03.000But remember, guys, Here's Senator John Kennedy laying out more of the red flags inside Harvard that need to be addressed.
00:17:19.000Here's what I hear President Trump saying.
00:17:23.000Harvard is an overpriced indoctrination mill.
00:17:28.000There are other schools, but Harvard...
00:17:34.000The purpose of higher education is to make you think, not make you feel comfortable.
00:17:38.000The purpose of higher education is to teach you a variety of points of view.
00:18:20.000Now, they're entitled to believe what they want, but they're not entitled to break the law and still get taxpayer money.
00:18:28.000These rogue judges do not care what the law says.
00:18:31.000They seem to care about protecting their friends at Harvard.
00:18:35.000And speaking of rogue judges, guys, some of them are now apparently saying that the president can't set tariff policy despite statutory authority to do so.
00:18:44.000However, as we mentioned in the intro, just hours ago, the Fifth Circuit has now ruled and overruled the lower courts.
00:18:56.000Late last night, the Court of International Trade claimed that the president of the United States Can't use the 1977 International Economic Emergency Powers Act to impose his sweeping reciprocal, right?
00:19:09.000That means we do to them what they do to us.
00:19:12.000They can't he can't enact his sweeping reciprocal tariffs on the grounds of a national emergency.
00:19:18.000The White House then fired back in a statement, and I quote, the idea that the fentanyl crisis in America is not an emergency is so appalling to me that I'm sure.
00:19:33.000Here's more from the White House podium earlier today.
00:19:39.000Using his full and proper legal authority, President Trump imposed universal tariffs and reciprocal tariffs on Liberation Day to address the extraordinary threat to our national security and economy posed by large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits.
00:19:56.000The United States has run a trade deficit of goods every year since 1975.
00:20:01.000In 2024, our trade deficit in goods exceeded One trillion dollars.
00:20:08.000Everybody agrees this is unacceptable.
00:20:11.000President Trump is delivering on his promise to fix this problem, and he has taken a long overdue and much needed bold stance for American workers after decades of our manufacturing base being hollowed out.
00:20:25.000The president's rationale for imposing these powerful tariffs was legally sound and grounded in common sense.
00:20:32.000President Trump correctly believes that America cannot function safely long-term if we are unable to scale advanced domestic manufacturing capacity, have our own secure critical supply chains, and our defense industrial base is dependent on foreign adversaries.
00:20:47.000Three judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade disagreed and brazenly abused their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump to stop him from carrying out the mandate that the American people gave him.
00:20:59.000These judges failed to acknowledge that the President of the United States has core foreign affairs powers and authority given to him by Congress to protect the United States economy and national security.
00:21:10.000Congress had created the National Emergency Act to provide the congressional framework to strike down improper IEPA use.
00:21:17.000And any questions over whether President Trump improperly imposed these IEPA tariffs were already adjudicated in Congress following Liberation Day.
00:21:25.000Congress firmly rejected an effort led by Senator Rand Paul and Democrats to terminate the president's reciprocal tariffs.
00:21:33.000There is a troubling and dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision-making process.
00:21:39.000America cannot function if President Trump, or any other president for that matter, has their sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges.
00:21:49.000President Trump is in the process of rebalancing America's trading agreements with the entire world, bringing tens of billions of dollars in tariff revenues to our country, and finally ending the United States of America from being ripped off.
00:22:02.000These judges are threatening to undermine the credibility of the United States on the world stage.
00:22:07.000The administration has already filed an emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and an immediate administrative stay to strike down this egregious decision.
00:22:23.000And remember, the trade policy is working.
00:22:27.000Investment is coming back into America.
00:22:33.000Here's economic adviser Kevin Hassett on what the regime media doesn't want you to know.
00:22:39.000Well, actually, I think if President Trump had just a minute more, if you go back into the room behind the Oval, he's got all his hats and things over there.
00:22:47.000And he has a hat, which is the accurate response to what that person said, which is Trump always wins.
00:25:23.000What world are some of these federal judges living in?
00:25:27.000We have three co-equal branches of government, not one branch who gets to pretend they know what's best and know better than everyone else.
00:25:36.000They want to stop deportation of gang members, stop us revoking visas, stop us from combating fentanyl and the crisis that ensues from it, and stop Doge from even uncovering outright fraud.
00:25:57.000The rot runs deep, and it's why all of this matters more than ever, because there is an entrenched class of swamp creatures who have, for years and years, created abuse they do not want uncovered.
00:26:12.000And of course, that includes inside the FBI, because as Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealed this morning on Fox& Friends, they are finding more And more Russiagate documents that Comey wanted buried forever.
00:26:28.000Check him out on Fox and Friends this morning.
00:26:30.000Do you read the stuff that's coming out?
00:26:33.000But does he still have loyalists in the building?
00:26:35.000Because when I hear the FBI director saying, you guys are finding boxes that are hidden.
00:26:41.000Okay, how does that happen in the bureau?
00:26:44.000Well, we were there a couple of weeks, and luckily there are a lot of people up there Grabbed us by the arm the minute we came in and said, "Thank you for being here.
00:26:55.000You know, we need to talk." There are people there who are really horrified at what happened.
00:27:00.000And there was a room and we found stuff, a lot of stuff.
00:27:30.000Once that gets done and that gets out there and you read some of the stuff we found that, by the way, was not processed through the normal procedure, digitizing it, putting in FBI records.
00:27:39.000We found it in bags hiding under Jim Comey's FBI.
00:27:46.000Because according to Kash Patel, the FBI director, the J6 pipe bomb cover-up may run even deeper than we already knew, involving multiple agencies and several layers of cover-up.
00:28:01.000But more importantly, people have had questions about January 6th and whether or not there were FBI sources, not agents, sources on the ground during January 6th.
00:28:11.000And I told you I would get you the definitive answer to that.
00:28:22.000The answer to that question will surprise and shock people because of what past FBI leaders have said about it.
00:28:29.000Former FBI Director Chris Wray eventually admitted to Congress there were 26 FBI confidential human sources in around the Capitol, January 6th, but not actual agents.
00:28:46.000I can say that that is definitely a piece of the truth.
00:28:49.000Why it took A ton of time and questioning in Congress for the director to get that point is what I'm trying to eliminate from the FBI.
00:29:01.000If Congress asks you a question under oath, whether or not there were sources in around January 6th at the Capitol, you as the director of the FBI need to know that and not deflect and give a D.C. answer.
00:29:44.000Bowser and Pelosi rejected that offer.
00:29:47.000And instead of figuring out how to prevent security lapses like that ever again, the American public spent tens of millions of dollars and countless hours on TV listening to conspiracy theories because those in positions of leadership failed to tell the American public.
00:30:03.000Now, all of this is yet another reason why we need to codify as much into law as we can.
00:30:39.000We want to make sure that Congress passes its first rescissions bill, including the Doge, and we will send more if they pass it.
00:30:47.000And so this is the first one is foreign aid.
00:30:50.000USAID cuts, many of the waste and garbage that was funding, not only wasteful but hurting our foreign policy, but also the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR.
00:30:59.000We'll be sending that up and we'll be working with Congress.
00:31:02.000And we've had good conversations to make sure that they knew what was coming.
00:31:06.000They had some input as to changes that could be made to make it something that could pass the House.
00:31:10.000And we're excited for that to occur next week.
00:31:13.000And remember, Democrats are pretty much out of answers.
00:31:19.000They're relying on rogue judges to do the heavy lifting for them because every time these left-wing activists open their mouths about their strategy to win over young men, it sounds like a comedy skit.
00:31:30.000It sounds like something you'd see on South Park or Family Guy and maybe even Chappelle Show.
00:33:20.000And the ratio and the comments are incredible.
00:33:24.000One reads, so in five months not a single home is completed?
00:33:28.000Another says, as of May 22, 2025, fewer than 10 permits, fewer than 10 permits, thousands of homes burned down, but fewer of 10 permits have been approved by the city of Los Angeles for rebuilding homes in Pacific Palisades after the January 2025 wildfires.
00:33:45.000I mean, why do residents put up with this?
00:33:49.000Why will they keep voting for Democrats in California amidst this abject failure?
00:33:54.000This is one of many, but it's kind of a big one.
00:33:57.000And that's only one of several major problems, guys.
00:34:01.000Again, just look at this shocking video from L.A. on Saturday night showing a mob of literally hundreds of vandals attacking police officers and damaging vehicles.
00:34:14.000What was captured on video over the weekend, people targeting stores, metro trains, and police cars with graffiti and vandalism is just the latest act of chaos that's been going on for months.
00:34:25.000He says about 15 to 20 underground parties happen every weekend with police and businesses struggling to keep track.
00:34:35.000There's nothing positive that comes out of this.
00:34:37.000The LAPD says more than a thousand people spilled onto the streets after an underground party Saturday night.
00:34:47.000The police response was met with more vandalism and someone throwing a firework at a patrol unit.
00:34:55.000The LAPD says one officer required medical attention after getting hit with a bottle.
00:34:59.000I want to know how many of the individuals were identified.
00:35:02.000I want to know who will be arrested and when.
00:35:04.000No one was arrested at the scene, but LA Mayor Karen Bass says the LAPD and District Attorney's Office will be looking at the videos to find those responses.
00:35:13.000Rodriguez says the city needs to go a step further and hold responsible those who are allowing the underground parties to happen.
00:35:20.000Not one party promoter, not any person granting access to a space to be used has been held accountable for these parties.
00:35:30.000If L.A. really wants to revitalize downtown L.A. and bring it back to what it was before the pandemic, this needs to be addressed.
00:35:36.000Rodriguez compares the parties to the street takeovers that have been happening throughout Southern California.
00:35:45.000Reporting live from downtown Los Angeles, Ted Jen, NBC4 News.
00:35:51.000Look at this footage out of Seattle, where a mob of left-wing activists surrounded a mom with her baby to block her from attending a Christian rally in Seattle, shouting threats, literally, to a baby.
00:36:06.000Give me some pretty day in the morning!
00:36:10.000Give me some pretty day in the morning!
00:37:31.000Where is the regime media outrage that claims to care about political Now, when it's left-wing activists, when it's left-wing radicals, they're silent.
00:37:46.000Why isn't every Democrat being asked to condemn this?
00:37:55.000Guys, I mentioned Bitcoin in the intro.
00:37:57.000We just got back from the big Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas.
00:38:02.000Obviously, my brother and I doing a lot in the space.
00:38:06.000You've seen what we've been doing with World Liberty Financial, taking on the conventional, traditional finance methods.
00:38:12.000We got USD1 out there as a stablecoin going great right now.
00:38:17.000You saw Truth Social literally investing $2.5 billion into a Bitcoin treasury.
00:38:26.000And then you have what we're doing with the great guys from Hut8, where we're launching American Bitcoin, where we're actually going to be out there mining.
00:39:53.000But the second we got into sort of that political spectrum.
00:39:57.000All of a sudden, the guy that I could have called two weeks prior in New York and gotten a loan for a building in about five minutes, all of a sudden, that guy wouldn't even take my calls.
00:40:16.000And I came to realize pretty quickly that I will say we were basically at the top of a Ponzi scheme, which was the conventional TradFi financial markets.
00:40:26.000I just didn't know it because I didn't know any difference.
00:40:29.000That aspect of finance was always easy to us.
00:40:38.000And so, like all things, once you're faced with that conundrum, you either just accept it and get pushed off into the darkness or you actually do something proactive about it.
00:40:51.000No different than when I was getting thrown off or my family was getting thrown off or conservatives or anyone who believed in freedom of speech were getting thrown off social platforms.
00:41:00.000We didn't just say, okay, well, you know, I guess we'll just pack up our stuff and go home.
00:41:06.000We're going to do something different.
00:41:07.000You know, with me, one of the first things I did was, you know, Dan Bongino linked us up and I think I was the third verified user on Rumble and we fought for that when,
00:41:29.000And so it was really a product of necessity once you realized, again, how fragile those ecosystems that you took for granted were.
00:41:38.000So, you know, now, I mean, we're in crypto.
00:42:17.000We're then working with the guys from HUD-8 on the crypto mining side, where we're doing American Bitcoin, forming a group to actually go after all of those things, to create those reserves on the, You have World Liberty Financial because that's going to, in my opinion, you know, DeFi is going to change so many aspects of the financial systems, create the efficiencies that we need that have been lacking.
00:42:48.000I mean, you know, again, coming from TradFi world, it was like, of course you pay points in and out, and of course you pay a point for, you know, title insurance and all these things that no one's doing anything special for.
00:43:00.000Like that can be handled with the blockchain.
00:43:11.000I think we're going to change with all of the support of the people in this room.
00:43:14.000You guys are on the leading edge of changing the financial markets.
00:43:19.000And with David Sachs speaking before that, you see people who know what they're actually talking about, creating the regulatory framework within government.
00:43:27.000I'm doing this stuff in the public markets and then the private sector.
00:43:31.000But guys that actually know what they're talking about as opposed to the usual way of DC is, you know, you've just been there longer, so you get to make all these decisions even though you don't know what you're talking about.
00:43:41.000We have such an incredible opportunity as a country to capture what I believe and truly believe will be the future of finance.
00:43:48.000and it's all the people in this room who were frankly probably believers before I ever was, you know, but it took...
00:44:02.000You know, having that pulled out from us in a system that we thought was pretty good and it worked for us for a long period of time.
00:45:24.000We have an incredible opportunity to change our country for the good over the next few years.
00:45:29.000We cannot squander that by sitting at home and letting apathy win.
00:45:33.000So guys, thanks so much for tuning in.
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