00:06:01.000Glad to be with you guys live and in studio with my schedule these days and getting married and all that kind of craziness.
00:06:08.000I've been remote a lot, so it's good to be here.
00:06:11.000And if there's time at the end of the show and you guys are in the chat, I think I'll be able to even get to some of your questions.
00:06:17.000We haven't done that in a little while.
00:06:19.000I'll keep an eye on it during the show.
00:06:21.000Maybe we'll just make it random and interrupt, but usually it's a little bit easier once I get through the news of the week, then ask your questions.
00:10:04.000The sucking pool is eight acres, it's the size of seven football fields.
00:10:08.000It's taller than the Empire State Building, it's like the length of five Washington Monuments.
00:10:13.000You get into that, there's two and a half miles of expansion joints.
00:10:16.000The amount of things that they've uncovered that are extra cost, and then every time there's a rain, there's a rain delay.
00:10:22.000They had to bring labor in for a lot of things.
00:10:23.000Well, cost is one thing, profit is another.
00:10:25.000Yeah, but if their costs are going up because of trying to get this project done, that's a theoretical number that somebody said they might make that much money.
00:10:32.000It doesn't mean they're going to make that much money.
00:10:35.000But what we are doing is we are getting the things fixed because this is the New York Times also wrote 12 years ago that the Obama administration spent more money.
00:10:44.000The reflecting pool was closed for two years.
00:10:48.000That thing, even right now, when we took this project over, was.
00:10:51.000Leaking 45,000 gallons of water a day, 16 million gallons a year, because the thing never worked.
00:10:59.000And they spent more money and it was closed for two years.
00:11:01.000So everybody should be celebrating President Trump getting a project done in one tenth of time, so 10 times faster at a fraction of the cost of a previous administration.
00:11:30.000We got to fix all of our infrastructure, okay?
00:11:33.000And we're working on all of those things.
00:11:35.000So, yes, but leaking 45,000 gallons of water a day at really the, let's call it the marketing department of the United States, our capital city, that's kind of a problem.
00:11:45.000Let's get these things fixed up and cleaned out.
00:11:47.000And what you just heard from Secretary Bergen's sort of important.
00:11:50.000That's sort of like the whole theme for tonight.
00:11:53.000Fix the leak, stop pretending the breakdown is normal, stop paying more for less, stop listening to the people who created the problem explain why the problem can never actually be solved, and maybe start making the country work again.
00:12:07.000Start making things nice and clean and safe again.
00:12:11.000Improve your quality of life rather than letting prestigious monuments decline.
00:12:16.000That sounds so obvious, but in Washington, obvious is actually revolutionary because the permanent class does not really want solutions, it wants process.
00:13:17.000And we saw the same thing when the National Guard came into D.C., cleaning up the streets, restoring order, and making people's lives better.
00:13:24.000Find the problem, name the problem, fix the problem.
00:13:28.000That's at the core of the MAGA mission.
00:13:31.000Things like Trump accounts, a direct investment in American families, the fraud crackdown, border security, taking down predators and standing up for cops.
00:13:43.000And these are real measurable benefits.
00:13:47.000For example, just look at the math on the Trump accounts and what it means to invest in America's next generation right now.
00:13:55.000People on your show all the time who have no savings or who spend their money on silly stuff or the wrong stuff.
00:14:01.000Do these Trump accounts, like the Treasury Secretary was saying, do you think that they have the ability to change the way that a huge chunk of the country sees money?
00:14:11.000You can see the importance of investing now.
00:14:14.000Just that $1,000 being put in, even if they don't contribute up to that $5,000 a year max, In the SP 500, that $1,000 over that 18 years just left alone will be $6,000.
00:14:28.000If they contribute all the way up to the $5,000 max, which $2,500 can come from employers, that'll get up to $233,000 by 18, which is world changing.
00:14:40.000That gets you into a house, that gets you paid for college, that gets you everything.
00:14:44.000It gets these kids into the United States stock market, understanding where our economy is going, having a stake in it.
00:14:53.000And honestly, It could be a teaching lesson for what Congress should have done with the Social Security Fund.
00:15:49.000Here's Texas decorations Senate candidate James Tallarico.
00:15:58.000Corner of Texas over the course of this campaign, from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarillo to Brownsville, and everywhere in between.
00:16:06.000And I can't tell you the number of people who come up to me at the end of these events and whisper, I'm not a Democrat, like they're in the witness protection program.
00:16:21.000Play that again, guys, because it's pretty amazing.
00:16:26.000I had the notes up in there, the decorations, and it's Democrat, but hey, it's.
00:16:32.000It's been a long week, so I'm a little bit like Ron Burgundy.
00:16:34.000If it's in the prompter, I'll just read it.
00:16:37.000But play it again because it's so absurd.
00:16:40.000Every corner of Texas over the course of this campaign, from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarillo to Brownsville, and everywhere in between.
00:16:49.000And I can't tell you the number of people who come up to me at the end of these events and whisper, I'm not a Democrat, like they're in the witness protection program.
00:16:58.000I just saw one of the comments, actually pretty funny.
00:17:01.000I missed the handle because it was a complicated one, but basically called it. Talafriko, which is actually much more accurate.
00:17:11.000It's completely manufactured because Democrats keep finding new ways to make basic common sense sound controversial somehow.
00:17:19.000Just look at this press conference that happened last week.
00:17:23.000Democrat lawmakers stood behind microphones holding signs that said things like, her agenda, health, equity, and rights.
00:17:31.000And the pitch was that employers not paying women to stay at home from work when they are menstruating is, and you guessed it, folks, a form of economic violence.
00:17:49.000It's why during Women's History Month, I've introduced legislation to give workers up to 12 days of paid leave a year for reproductive health.0.99
00:17:57.000This would cover period pain, yes, but also menopause symptoms, IVF, miscarriages, endometriosis flare ups, and more.
00:18:04.000I'm here to speak to the thousands of women in southern Arizona who are tired of being ignored.
00:18:10.000They are tired of having their pain minimized.0.99
00:18:12.000They are tired of a health care system that treats women's bodies like an afterthought.0.91
00:18:17.000Forcing a worker to choose between Paying her rent or losing a day pay to recover from a grueling gynecological procedure is not a choice.1.00
00:19:03.000But now, as Dr. Naomi Wolf pointed out, there goes 40 years of feminism in which we argued that treating women as impaired because they menstruate is actually discriminatory.1.00
00:19:15.000It's like all those things, everyone wanted equality.
00:19:18.000It's like, well, we want equality, but we want an extra 12 days a month off or 12 days a year off.
00:19:22.000Whatever it may be, by the time they get done with it, they'll have 365 days a year off.
00:19:27.000This is what the left does it takes a serious subject, it runs it through the activist language machine, and somehow it comes out sounding like an HR seminar written by a parody account.
00:19:56.000Violence, again, it all comes back to violence.
00:19:57.000Everything that they don't like is violence, which brings us again to New Jersey.
00:20:02.000We covered this last week, but New Jersey is back because over the weekend, anti ICE rioters gathered around Delaney Hall facility, which is an ICE facility there, where DHS officers were bitten, they were assaulted, and they were threatened.
00:20:19.000So while ICE is trying to remove criminals from American communities, the activists show up to fight ICE, not the criminals, ICE.
00:20:27.000The officers, the people trying to enforce the law, okay?
00:20:32.000Apparently, anything we say, you know, words are violence, everything's violence, not letting people take, you know, extra weeks off a year for menstrual pains is economic violence, everything's violence except for actual violence perpetrated against law enforcement.
00:22:43.000For our neighborhoods, and the FBI is leading the charge.
00:22:47.000By backing local cops and launching massive joint task forces, they're leading an all out assault on the thugs tearing our communities apart.
00:22:54.000Working hand in hand, they've hunted down and locked up more than 45,000 violent criminals.
00:22:59.000Because of that relentless push, violent crime arrests are up 185%, and the national murder rate just hit its lowest level since 1937.
00:23:44.000We're trouncing the Biden administration's best years.
00:23:47.000People can argue all they want, but the numbers don't lie.
00:23:50.000With the FBI leading the charge, our streets are being reclaimed and our families are finally protected.
00:23:59.000And, guys, that should not be controversial.
00:24:03.000The fact that it feels controversial tells you how insane things got.
00:24:07.000For years, Americans watched violent people get treated like symbols, they watched prosecutors downgrade cases, they watched politicians apologize for chaos.
00:24:16.000Backing the police is not embarrassing.
00:24:18.000Protecting the citizen is not embarrassing.
00:24:21.000It's literally the first job of government.
00:24:29.000Find the predator, rescue the child, take down the violent criminal, catch the fraudster, protect the officer, protect the victim, protect the country.
00:24:39.000Not treating parents at school board meetings like national security threats.
00:26:28.000They published articles at the direction of the Chinese government.
00:26:33.000Here's an example from Wang's plea agreement in which she instructed to share a story denying the existence of genocide and forced labor camps inside China.
00:26:44.000A 2023 report looked into the scope of Chinese espionage in the United States.
00:26:50.000It found more than 200 incidents since 2000, with a significant spike in recent years.
00:26:56.000Last month, the FBI also gave insight into China's nefarious tactics.
00:27:02.000They do these very overt things to.0.62
00:27:06.000To scare the rest of the community, and they recruit people to report within the community.
00:27:13.000So they're creating this Orwellian climate of fear where everyone is afraid.
00:28:47.000Everything is too hard, everything is too complicated, or everything has some sort of nuance that you just have to let it go and accept it.
00:28:54.000Everything takes 10 years and costs 10 times more than anyone promised.
00:28:59.000That's the mentality we're getting rid of.
00:30:01.000Well, you know, Dana always talks about the fact that when UFC was just at its beginning, you gave him an opportunity when a lot of people didn't.
00:30:08.000And I think it really forged a friendship for you guys.
00:31:00.000Because their whole political model depends on convincing you.
00:31:03.000That the country is a source of shame.
00:31:06.000Trump's model is the opposite fix what's broken, defend what matters, celebrate what's great, and never apologize for putting America first.
00:31:19.000Politics is not just another argument on television, it is whether the place works, it is whether the streets are safe, it is whether the law means something or not, it is whether your tax dollars get treated with the respect they deserve.
00:31:36.000It is whether the next generation is taught to build or taught to resent or taught to love America.
00:31:42.000It is whether America walks into a room apologizing or walks into the room knowing exactly what it wants.
00:32:25.000Hopefully, they go slow enough that I can actually read some of the longer ones.0.89
00:32:29.000You know, if you keep typing the same thing over and over again, it's the ridiculous drivel that sometimes, you know, the trolls get in there.0.79
00:32:34.000You know, don't bother, but you know, you're going to do what you're going to do.0.95
00:32:39.000Sounds like we have a big thunderstorm outside right now.
00:34:25.000Hopefully, we can get out of that thing, get back to normalcy.0.90
00:34:29.000But I think we also can't forget the countless American service members that were killed or maimed by the IRGC and their IED warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the amount of damage that they did as the world leading state sponsor of terror.0.78
00:34:46.000That's a problem that we've got to deal with.0.51
00:34:49.000But I definitely don't want to get sucked into a quagmire.
00:34:52.000And I trust the people who are in that negotiating room trying to do the best thing.
00:35:02.000It's not really the season for it right now.
00:35:04.000I mean, there's some decent spring stuff, but, you know, between getting married and all that stuff.
00:35:07.000But I did go spearfishing and fly fishing in the Bahamas while I was getting married.
00:35:13.000So I managed to get some fishing in, managed to get some free diving in and spearing while we're there.
00:35:19.000So, you know, I always try to, if I can, no matter where I am, no matter what it is, if I can get some of that in there, I'm always trying to do that.
00:35:48.000Is it true you fight over the window seat with your brother Eric on flights?
00:35:53.000I mean, I usually prefer the window seat just because, you know, you don't have people bumping into you all the time and you don't have that person that has to go to the bathroom 12 times, like sort of, you know, Nudging you to get out there because I fly a lot of commercial, as most of you know.
00:37:38.000Right now, I guess my focus is on just trying to help my father and this administration, you know, break through the narrative, the media, you know, fight for what's right.
00:37:46.000So my focus has been entirely on just trying to, you know, get them the credit that they deserve.
00:37:52.000Highlight the things that are actually happening that the media will obviously never cover.
00:37:58.000If and when the time is right down the road, and if I was the only guy that could do it, or you needed that person, whatever it may be, who knows?
00:38:07.000Maybe, but my focus has really been entirely on just making sure that this administration gets whatever air cover I can give it, as well as those who are supportive of that.
00:38:32.000If you lose the House in November, and that's what historically happens, hopefully people wake up and realize that Democrats are a disaster for our country.
00:38:39.000But, you know, that's what they're going to do it again.
00:38:40.000And they'll come up with their next Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:38:44.000But after a while, you just get desensitized to it.
00:38:48.000I guess I figured out in the first term, perhaps, you know, what I, one of the things I guess I inherited from my father is just our fight.
00:38:55.000And, you know, you didn't know you had it until you're actually backed in the corner.
00:39:06.000We shouldn't have to get accustomed to this stuff because, you know, unfortunately the left fights differently than we do.
00:39:11.000Maybe if we fought back the way they did and you had all of the Republicans actually doing that, maybe it would stop because if they realized there's consequences to their actions when things change, maybe they wouldn't be so glib about it.
00:39:21.000But, you know, that's just not, unfortunately, it's not the way we do things.
00:39:25.000And I'd love for neither party to have to do those things.
00:39:29.000But I think until we start playing the game that Democrats play and they feel they can get away with those things untouched, they're going to keep doing it.
00:39:34.000So we'll have to deal with it accordingly.
00:39:43.000The Trump family are proper fighters, proper Westmen.
00:41:41.000I guess he dragged us into this political thing, and because we're fighters, we fight.
00:41:46.000But, you know, I sort of feel that's probably his thing.
00:41:49.000So even if asked, I don't know that I'd actually want to do it.
00:41:54.000It's sort of funny because it's certainly an interesting moment in our time.
00:41:57.000I think it sort of launched at least a component of his political career, just put him in a different light because you could relate to him, whether it's the humor, whether it's the way he looked at a real world situation, came up with sort of a brass tacks response quickly and on the fly.
00:42:14.000You're like, oh, this guy's just perhaps a little bit different than a lot of those others.
00:42:17.000So, Ace Grunt 0311, are you into equestrian and horses?
00:42:34.000Generally speaking, I'd probably usually rather hike because when you're hunting and you have to, you know, climb over a mountain, sometimes the horses can't actually get to those places.
00:42:40.000So if you go up and over the mountain, then you got to come back to the horses rather than just continuing on to find out what you're looking for.
00:42:47.000But, you know, so I'm capable of riding.
00:42:50.000I can, you know, I can do some of that relatively well, but like I'm not a jumper or that kind of stuff.
00:42:56.000Bettina is, she grew up doing a lot of that.
00:42:59.000So, you know, she would, we have to have her on.1.00
00:43:03.000She could be the equestrian expert on these kind of things.0.96
00:43:07.000She's frankly much better at it than I am.
00:43:41.000But, you know, I'd like to see the actual evidence.
00:43:45.000I'd like to know the level of sophistication.
00:43:47.000I like, you know, if they can get here, they're probably pretty freaking sophisticated.
00:43:50.000But so I sort of assumed all these things did way before we even got into politics, just because, again, statistics say that it'd be sort of hard to believe we'd be the only thing in a universe as large as ours is.
00:44:09.000I've probably posted her doing it.0.74
00:44:12.000Doesn't do too much of it these days, but now, just for fun, every once in a while, she'll get out.
00:44:16.000And even after not doing it for a long time, she can get up and jump some stuff that I'd probably fall off and break my neck, which would probably please a lot of people on the left.
00:44:23.000But also, why I probably don't do too much of it.
00:45:19.000I don't know that it's what everyone was looking for, but they've shown a bunch of other stuff and disclosed a bunch of things that basically proves that they're out there.
00:45:24.000I guess there's so much other crazy shit going on in the world that even when they basically acknowledge that there is stuff out there, it was sort of like, well, I don't know.
00:45:34.000We got bigger things to worry about, which is interesting.0.96
00:45:36.000I'm upset about the targeting of Ivanka, your sister, through the IRGC stuff.
00:45:42.000And we've dealt with that, phones getting hacked.
00:45:46.000All the threats and attempted other things, whether it's, you know, Ivanka or myself or other members of our family and my daughter.
00:45:52.000It's, you know, there's, they're always playing the game.
00:45:56.000Uh, it sort of sucks, but you know, like I said, hopefully we get through that, come up with a deal that works well for everyone in the world.
00:46:03.000And, uh, that's, uh, you know, that's what I'd love to see.
00:46:22.000I mean, she seems to be running pretty well in the Democrat Party.1.00
00:46:24.000And when you think about, like, just sort of the race politics of this, which is obviously a very real thing, you know, I can get in trouble for saying these kinds of things, but they're true.0.69
00:46:35.000You know, the way the Democrat primary is structured, it sort of heavily relies on, you know, the racial component of those things early on, you know, South Carolina being a very early state and all of the politics there.1.00
00:47:27.000I don't, you know, I. Again, that has nothing to do with even the stuff that's out there.
00:47:31.000It seems like they've posted a lot of video in the last couple of months that seems to be stuff that, unless we're really far behind in technology, which I don't think we are, that they're real.
00:47:44.000But I sort of didn't need those videos to just, again, statistically assume that, of course, we're not alone in the world or in the universe.
00:48:07.000Listen, man, seems like he has a lot of common sense in there.
00:48:11.000Okay, probably not what you would have thought from, you know, a reality TV star from, you know, whatever it was two decades ago.
00:48:20.000And yet, you probably wouldn't have thought that a reality star from two decades ago would be the president of the United States.
00:48:25.000So I think, again, his videos are great.
00:48:28.000They have no answer for them other than, you know, having the leftist media try to, you know, shame this guy for speaking the truth and being right about.
00:48:35.000At least the stuff I've seen so far, basically everything.
00:48:42.000There's a lot of very active leftist people that are even saying, okay, like, yeah, California's turned into a shithole.
00:48:47.000Like, we got to actually change these things, Los Angeles, especially.
00:48:52.000So, you know, I think he'll do what's right.
00:48:54.000I don't think he cares about conforming to those things.
00:48:57.000And so, if we can get some change that's for the better of our citizens and the people of those cities, I think that's a really big deal and, you know, would be awesome.
00:50:10.000Again, you know, some of the most patriotic Americans I know are like those people who are not necessarily born here, but they went through the process.
00:50:17.000They did so legally, they're vested, you know.
00:50:50.000Listen, if I make it out to California, I've been invited out to San Diego to mostly do the spearfishing, actually.
00:50:55.000The guys I know that we do a lot of free diving and spearfishing with said to come out there for that, like, you know, the tuna bite and do the spearing for that, which is super fun and intense.
00:51:04.000I've not done it in California, but I've done it elsewhere.
00:51:07.000So, you know, that could be a lot of fun.
00:51:10.000And, you know, one day would love to do that.
00:52:14.000If you're going to go out there and you're going to kill these things, whether it's hunting or fishing or something like that, that meat, the fish, they're going to get it eaten, and it's sort of how it's done.
00:52:30.000If you're in the Bahamas, for example, it's only pole spear or Hawaiian sling.
00:52:33.000Hawaiian sling is basically like an underwater bow and arrow.
00:52:35.000You have a spear, a little flipper, you go out, there's a wooden tube, you put it through, there's a rubber band like a slingshot, and you literally go down, aim this spear, shoot it through a fish, grab the spear, or you have a pole spear, which is basically a longer spear that has the rubber band attached to it, and you go and you sort of grip down.
00:52:54.000And so when you hold it, you release, and the thing shoots forward a couple feet, so you have to dive down, hold your breath, get close, find where these fish are, oftentimes up under rocks and everything like that.
00:53:04.000Then for the bigger stuff like bluefin, you can't do this in the Bahamas because it's illegal, but you have like a spear gun, which is basically, again, I think of it like an underwater crossbow, just rubber bands down a gun, trigger mechanism releases the shaft, it shoots forward like, again, cross between archery and shooting.
00:53:22.000All of it's a very close proximity game, at least for the most part.
00:53:25.000It's done, and the only way I do it is free diving.
00:53:28.000So you hold your breath, you dive down 50, even some of the stuff I do.
00:53:34.000Some of the guys I go with are really good.
00:53:35.000I mean, they hunt at 150 feet, 200 feet, holding their breath.
00:53:38.000For me, I can get down to about 100 and hunt there.
00:55:23.000Happy wife, happy life, and she is worth it.
00:55:28.000And so I will put up with it for as long as I possibly can unless I lose my mind, in which case I'm sure I'll be sleeping on the couch for a couple days.
00:56:32.000But if I'm going to escape somewhere, I love going there, and I don't have to fly halfway around the world to do that, which is really nice.
00:56:43.000What's the most exciting part of the wedding reception for you?
00:56:46.000Well, there were a couple of exciting parts, actually.
00:56:48.000Bettina did a great job planning all this stuff, so she made it fun.
00:56:50.000So, literally, everyone there was like, that was the most fun wedding we've ever been to because it wasn't stuffy.
00:56:56.000It was like, I mean, we had the guys had guy days, and we'd go off and go spearfishing and fishing, and they had Beer pong tournaments and stuff like that.
00:57:23.000And like I said, just so happy to, you know, be married with Bettina and start our lives together.
00:57:31.000So much nonsense, you know, just went on, you know, before that and people getting and trying to do their thing.
00:57:37.000And, you know, you've, Probably read half of it in the press and half of it they can't even write because it's so ridiculous that it's sort of hard to prove it.0.92
00:57:44.000But you deal with that nonsense all the time.
00:58:09.000It was that's the first time I've ever had that happen where it seemed like the unanimous thing that people volunteered to me, not saying it, and it was like that was actually the most fun wedding we've ever been to.