Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - First White House Press Briefing, Plus Behind the Scenes on Capitol Hill w- Rep Vince Fong & Sen Eric Schmitt | TRIGGERED Ep.211

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:05:29.000 this special Tuesday edition of Triggered.

00:05:33.000 I got stuck in the tarmac last week, missed this Thursday show, so we're making it up this week, so it's a little bit of a random one.

00:05:39.000 Hopefully people catch it on, so make sure you're liking, sharing, subscribing, passing it on to your friends who you know watch or maybe you're just starting to watch so they can see it, because again, most people usually expect me on Mondays and Thursdays, but super psyched to be with you guys here tonight, because I know that you guys still Aren't tired of all the winnings.

00:06:00.000 So I figured we'd give you an extra show this week to cover all of the big things that are happening each and every minute.

00:06:08.000 It was sort of awesome watching James Carville, the other freaking out, just telling everyone in the Democrat side, don't worry, let him punch himself out.

00:06:15.000 Let him just keep going.

00:06:16.000 No one can keep this kind of pace because they're in utter panic.

00:06:20.000 And they should be because America is finally seeing what real leadership In fact, a couple pieces of breaking news are just coming in.

00:06:31.000 My father just signed an executive order aimed at ending gender transition for minors.

00:06:38.000 Winning!

00:06:39.000 Winning! 0.96

00:06:40.000 I know that, honestly, even a bunch of fairly crazy liberals, maybe not the most insane of them, realize how insane that is.

00:06:49.000 But for you, for me, for the people who've been on this topic, for me since it's like 2016, 2017, That's a huge win.

00:06:57.000 An executive order aimed at ending gender transition surgeries for minors.

00:07:03.000 Seems like a no-brainer.

00:07:05.000 It wasn't.

00:07:05.000 But now, that's where we are.

00:07:07.000 The order directs federally run insurance programs, including TRICARE for military families and Medicaid, to exclude coverage for such procedures.

00:07:18.000 And calls on the Department of Justice to pursue litigation and legislation to oppose the practice.

00:07:26.000 Seems like a no-brainer, kids.

00:07:27.000 If a kid can't buy a tin of Zinn until they're 18, they probably shouldn't be able to mutilate their bodies permanently.

00:07:35.000 I don't know.

00:07:35.000 Seems logical.

00:07:37.000 If you can't get a tattoo, you probably shouldn't be able to chop off your body parts.

00:07:42.000 I don't know.

00:07:43.000 Seems logical.

00:07:44.000 Not so much for the left.

00:07:45.000 Also, the Trump administration is offering a buyout to federal workers if they agree to quit.

00:07:53.000 By February 6th.

00:07:54.000 They would get paid through September if they leave now.

00:07:58.000 Honestly, that's a pretty good deal.

00:08:01.000 They haven't been really working anyway, so they can definitely not work for, you know, nine months or so.

00:08:06.000 And you could clean out some of the rot inside the federal bureaucracy.

00:08:11.000 Obviously, that's backed by the whole, you have to get back to work.

00:08:13.000 So I imagine a lot of people who have been working from home, let's use that word very loosely, walking their dogs, probably doing other jobs, all that stuff, We also had our first White House press briefing today.

00:08:34.000 So we'll play you the best sights and sounds from that shortly.

00:08:39.000 Plus, California Congressman Vince Fong will stop by to unveil a new piece of fire prevention and water legislation for California.

00:08:49.000 Things that...

00:08:50.000 Definitely should have happened under some of the Democrats, but weren't going to.

00:08:54.000 Now, like so many other things, there seems to be a mandate.

00:08:58.000 Then, Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt, the former AG there, will preview the major confirmation hearings this week.

00:09:06.000 You know what's going on tomorrow.

00:09:08.000 These are some big ones.

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00:11:29.000 Now, guys, for the top headlines today, The White House Press Secretary, Carol Ann Leavitt, held her first briefing and made it clear that business as usual is over.

00:11:44.000 She's the youngest person to ever hold that position.

00:11:47.000 And after the clown show we've witnessed for the last four years, I don't think that matters.

00:11:50.000 My toddler could probably do a great job of it back when they were still toddlers.

00:11:54.000 But I think she did an awesome job.

00:11:56.000 For example, she announced that the White House will restore 440...

00:12:02.000 Pass revoked by the Biden administration and invited new media to apply for credentials.

00:12:10.000 Remember when we talked about this a couple weeks ago?

00:12:12.000 I said we should open it up to podcasters.

00:12:14.000 We should open it up to alternative media, independent journalists.

00:12:17.000 And remember who went nuts?

00:12:19.000 The mainstream media.

00:12:21.000 But why should the mainstream media continue to hold these coveted seats if they're functioning as operatives for the Democrat Party?

00:12:31.000 If they've been demonstrably wrong about so many things for so long.

00:12:35.000 And the clout that they used to have and perhaps the credibility they used to have is gone.

00:12:40.000 Why should they maintain those things?

00:12:42.000 So, inviting new media to apply for credentials into the White House press briefing room, including opening up seats today for new media and non-establishment outlets like the Daily Wire and Breitbart, okay?

00:12:56.000 In fact, one of the first questions today was asked, By Breitbart, Matt Boyle, obviously a good friend of mine, a good friend of this show.

00:13:04.000 And it wasn't just the same roster of regime propagandists asking the questions.

00:13:11.000 The briefing room today was packed, and the legacy media outlets need to recognize that the status quo is no more. 0.71

00:13:19.000 It is gone, along with a bunch of criminal illegal aliens. 0.95

00:13:23.000 So just watch this exchange over illegal immigration.

00:13:28.000 Check this out.

00:13:56.000 We're no longer accepting the premise that Because you're here illegally, because you came over the border illegally, that you're somehow magically not a criminal.

00:14:06.000 That wouldn't fly in on any other sane nation in the world, and it no longer flies here.

00:14:12.000 And get this, in the first week of the Trump administration, ICE deported over 7,000 illegal aliens.

00:14:20.000 And like I told you yesterday, we are just getting started.

00:14:25.000 The best is yet to come, okay?

00:14:29.000 Earlier today, a vicious Trendeagua gang leader was arrested in New York City on a kidnapping warrant from Aurora, Colorado.

00:14:38.000 Remember, those are the gang members that were taking over apartment buildings that the media told us was made up.

00:14:45.000 And then once there was irrefutable evidence, they told us...

00:14:48.000 It wasn't that big a deal.

00:14:50.000 It's only a couple of apartment buildings that were taken over, guys.

00:14:53.000 Who cares?

00:14:54.000 I mean, criminal drug gangs in America deserve to take over other people's housing and take over apartment buildings, I guess.

00:15:02.000 I don't know.

00:15:03.000 It never made sense to me then.

00:15:05.000 Still doesn't now.

00:15:06.000 But that, too, is over.

00:15:08.000 It was all too real.

00:15:10.000 They just didn't care.

00:15:12.000 and look at your screen now guys where we have U.S. Marines at the southern border working to secure our safety and our security that's what real border security looks like folks that's what America first looks like it's all happening so quick guys I'm I'm almost tearing up it's so nice to actually have some control in our own country again

00:15:37.000 Also, something else we learned at today's briefing was that the Biden administration was lying to us about the mysterious drones in New Jersey.

00:15:47.000 This is another one we talked about a couple of times because it was nuts.

00:15:52.000 They wouldn't give us any basic information.

00:15:54.000 But it turns out the drones were literally authorized to be flown by the FAA for, quote, research.

00:16:03.000 Watch this because it's mind-boggling that they couldn't just tell us that.

00:16:09.000 Questions?

00:16:10.000 I do have news directly from the President of the United States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office.

00:16:16.000 From President Trump directly, an update on the New Jersey drones.

00:16:20.000 After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons.

00:16:32.000 Many of these drones were also hobbyists.

00:16:35.000 Recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying Jones.

00:16:39.000 In time, it got worse due to curiosity.

00:16:43.000 This was not the enemy.

00:16:45.000 A statement from the President of the United States to start this briefing with some news.

00:16:51.000 And with that, I will turn it over to- Huh.

00:16:54.000 I wonder, why was it so hard for the previous administration to tell us that?

00:17:01.000 Why were they so set on lying?

00:17:03.000 And creating as much mystery as possible.

00:17:05.000 I mean, if, you know, like some of the conspiracy theories that were out there, like, you know, it's alien invasion or it's China or it's Russia.

00:17:15.000 Like, did they think that was going to, like, help them in an election?

00:17:18.000 Like, do you really, like, hey, if we're being attacked by Russia, do we really want Joe Biden at the helm?

00:17:23.000 Would you really want Kamala Harris at the wheel? 0.98

00:17:25.000 I mean, seems like they should just tell us that, but...

00:17:29.000 They can't do that.

00:17:30.000 The Democrats don't want you to have any actual information.

00:17:34.000 It's why they wouldn't do anything on the Kennedy files or the MLK files or the RFK files or anything else.

00:17:39.000 And hopefully we'll be getting to the Epstein list rather soon.

00:17:42.000 But with all the winning, there's triage.

00:17:45.000 We've got to get to all of it.

00:17:46.000 It just takes a little bit of time.

00:17:48.000 And what I love about this new Trump administration is how rapid and quickly things actually get done.

00:17:55.000 We're actually getting action and getting answers, and it's only speeding up.

00:17:59.000 I mean, people are just getting into their stride.

00:18:01.000 They haven't even fully moved into their offices yet.

00:18:04.000 We don't even have our full cabinet confirmed yet.

00:18:06.000 And get this, we have some major breaking news coming in.

00:18:11.000 Remember last night when my father made it clear that if you're a foreign chip maker or foreign pharmaceutical company, you better start making your products in the US or suffer major consequences?

00:18:22.000 Well, we now have A major new findings from Florida Congressman Corey Mills, another friend of the show, that a shady Chinese pharmaceutical company called Kualun Biotech provides a significant number of medical supplies, including saline bags in American hospitals across the country, and that there's evidence that the company tried to force labor practices, among other massive red flags.

00:18:51.000 In a letter addressed to the company's chairman, Congressman Mills is demanding information about their ties to the CCP, a complete list of suppliers, a list of US hospital providers, and so much more.

00:19:03.000 This is just the first step, guys, in a broader investigation and actions into how China is infiltrating key American supply chains and infrastructure.

00:19:14.000 And we're going to keep following the story to bring you all of the latest news so that we can make sure everyone is aware that everyone makes us think and we stop these things from happening.

00:19:24.000 These are major findings, and I'm guessing this is just the start.

00:19:29.000 And meanwhile, we have major...

00:19:32.000 Confirmation hearings set for later this week.

00:19:36.000 Kash Patel at the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard as DNI, and RFK Jr. at HHS will sit before Senate committees.

00:19:46.000 And guys, the smears, the unnamed sources, the disgruntled people from 50 years ago, they're out in full force.

00:19:59.000 And it's very telling.

00:20:01.000 Because you can see which nominees the establishment fears the most by who the left-wing media and RINOs are targeting with their BS smears.

00:20:11.000 The good news is my father is taking action in every corner of the country to right all of the left-wing wrongs.

00:20:20.000 Just look at what he posted today about California.

00:20:23.000 I quote, The water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

00:20:36.000 The days of putting a fake environmental argument over the people are over.

00:20:42.000 Enjoy your water, California." I mean, I like it.

00:20:47.000 I like it.

00:20:48.000 Makes a lot of sense.

00:20:50.000 Trump delivers while Democrats simply ignore their own residents.

00:20:55.000 They ignore major problems that are affecting.

00:20:58.000 Tens of thousands, frankly, in many cases, millions of Americans.

00:21:02.000 But I do want to wrap up with historic moment in the state of California today, where the boom supersonic aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time during a historic test flight in the Mojave Desert.

00:21:18.000 It's the first civilian aircraft to do so in decades.

00:21:22.000 Check this out.

00:21:37.000 We've got confirmation from the control room that she is supersonic.

00:21:40.000 What a wonderful achievement.

00:21:42.000 Geppetto and the whole team know what a really historic moment this is.

00:21:46.000 The first civil aircraft independently constructed that has ever flown supersonic, and Geppetto is the first pilot ever to do it.

00:21:55.000 Pretty amazing.

00:21:56.000 You know, you heard that.

00:21:57.000 Independent manufacturing, doing it a little differently, it's one of those things.

00:22:00.000 I mean, I guess the last one would have been the Concorde, which I actually got the privilege of flying on with my mom one time in like the early 80s.

00:22:06.000 I still had a bowl cut and I was probably about three feet tall.

00:22:09.000 But it was pretty awesome.

00:22:11.000 But technology abounds.

00:22:14.000 We have it in America.

00:22:16.000 We lead in innovation.

00:22:18.000 We have to unleash that juggernaut so more of this stuff happens.

00:22:22.000 So, guys, joining me now.

00:22:25.000 Congressman from California's 20th District, which is actually where the test flight happened, Vince Fong.

00:22:31.000 Congressman, how are you?

00:22:33.000 I'm hanging in there.

00:22:33.000 How are you?

00:22:35.000 I'm actually in Doral right now.

00:22:38.000 Very nice.

00:22:38.000 I know my father was...

00:22:39.000 How did he do today?

00:22:40.000 I know he had the Republican caucus down there.

00:22:43.000 You know, was he well behaved?

00:22:46.000 He spoke last night.

00:22:47.000 He was fantastic.

00:22:48.000 He laid out his agenda.

00:22:51.000 We're acting with a sense of urgency.

00:22:52.000 We just got a lot of work to do.

00:22:54.000 That's awesome.

00:22:55.000 Well, I'm glad you're there, but sorry you missed the flight then, but it seems pretty cool stuff going out in your state.

00:23:02.000 Absolutely.

00:23:02.000 There is so much aviation history being made in Mojave, but the first civil supersonic jet made in America, top speed Mach 1.12, flew over 34 minutes.

00:23:13.000 This will transform commercial space travel.

00:23:16.000 All of us, I heard you got to travel in the Concorde.

00:23:19.000 Maybe I'll get the opportunity to fly in the next supersonic.

00:23:23.000 Jet will cut travel times in half.

00:23:26.000 Did the sonic boom once it breaks that sound barrier?

00:23:29.000 I mean, that's sort of the loud noise that you hear for those who don't know from bullets or whatever it is when they crack that sound barrier.

00:23:36.000 Did that do any damage to California that's already been in a little bit of trouble as of late?

00:23:41.000 I don't think so.

00:23:42.000 We're used to the sonic booms out in Mojave, but the amazing thing with the new technology they're developing is they're going to make the sonic booms that travel with the jets going supersonic, they'll be like a car door slamming.

00:23:56.000 So we'll be able to travel across the country with this new technology that's being developed.

00:24:00.000 So you'll never know if a supersonic jet's flying overhead.

00:24:03.000 Oh, that's interesting because that's why the Concorde sort of worked.

00:24:05.000 It went from, you know, New York to London and New York to Paris, but nowhere else because they had to basically wait till they were over the ocean.

00:24:11.000 Otherwise, literally windows would shatter.

00:24:13.000 But so you're saying there's a technology that can actually mitigate the sound as they crack the sound barrier.

00:24:18.000 So, yeah, they're testing that technology at NASA Armstrong, which is right next to the Mojave Spaceport.

00:24:23.000 And their goal is to create a jet that can go supersonic and you'll never hear the sonic booms.

00:24:30.000 Wow, that'd be very cool.

00:24:32.000 I mean, as someone who does about two to three hundred thousand miles a year in commercial air travel, if I could shave half that time, that would be awesome.

00:24:43.000 So good luck.

00:24:45.000 I hope you guys are getting them whatever resources they need to make this actually happen in a reality in a mass scale.

00:24:50.000 That's right.

00:24:51.000 Well, this is the beauty of what President Trump is doing is fostering innovation, pushing the envelope.

00:24:58.000 I mean, he's basically turning his entire administration and kind of demanding that we act with a sense of urgency.

00:25:05.000 I mean, we're only seven days into his first administration, but there's so much happening.

00:25:09.000 It's amazing.

00:25:10.000 No, it's pretty amazing.

00:25:12.000 I guess, you know, in California, I know the administration is really apparently deploying some federal resources to address the longstanding water issues.

00:25:20.000 Obviously, it's something that's plagued Southern California, probably, I guess, quite a bit west of you guys.

00:25:27.000 But what can you tell us about California's failed water and fire policies?

00:25:31.000 And you have a new bill to support the Trump administration's agenda to actually fix these issues and not just let, I guess, the inmates run the asylum.

00:25:40.000 Absolutely.

00:25:41.000 It was said earlier today that California is blessed by many things that God has given us.

00:25:47.000 But then it's ruined by things that man has made.

00:25:51.000 And the Democrats have created all these problems.

00:25:53.000 But the president was here.

00:25:55.000 I mean, the fact that he, in his first five days, traveled to California, showed us hands-on leadership when it came to addressing the wildfire crisis, when it deals with water policy.

00:26:08.000 I mean, he...

00:26:10.000 Signed two executive orders in his first five days highlighting the need for better water management in our state.

00:26:18.000 I can't thank him enough.

00:26:19.000 You know, your father has traveled up and down the state, has seen our water challenges.

00:26:24.000 The fact that we now have someone in the Oval Office that understands our needs, that will actually maximize water flows, will prioritize humans over fish, that will actually build more water storage, that will coordinate the state and federal water systems to ensure more water flows, not only to the Central Valley, which I'm proud to represent, but also to Southern California as well.

00:26:44.000 It's a new day in California.

00:26:46.000 I love hearing that.

00:26:48.000 I know that you and your House Republican colleagues have been making it a point to sort of...

00:26:51.000 Bolster American supply chains and support my father's made-in-the-USA mission.

00:26:57.000 What can you tell us about that and what it could mean for the economy in the Central Valley of California, where you're at, and elsewhere?

00:27:05.000 I mean, it's one thing doing some of these things with executive action, executive orders, but I'd love to codify those into law by going through the House and Senate process so that it's in place.

00:27:15.000 Permanently.

00:27:16.000 Not something the Democrats can just simply revoke with a stroke of a pen in a couple years whenever they maybe take back office.

00:27:21.000 Although, I guess at the rate that they're going, their insanity shows maybe they'll never take office again.

00:27:26.000 Well, we're trying to build a movement.

00:27:27.000 Your father's leading it to govern for decades to come.

00:27:32.000 But exactly right.

00:27:33.000 A supply chain is critical.

00:27:35.000 Whether it's agriculture, whether it's aerospace, whether manufacturing, we need to bring all those jobs back to America.

00:27:42.000 And for someone in California, the policies of Gavin Newsom has pushed everything out of our state.

00:27:49.000 And so we're hoping to partner with President Trump and his administration to onshore all of that.

00:27:56.000 The threat from China is real. 0.99

00:27:59.000 I mean, just imagine someone had used this analogy.

00:28:02.000 During the Cold War, would we ever allow the Soviet Union to make more than 60 to 70 percent of the things that we need to function as an economy?

00:28:10.000 We would never allow that.

00:28:11.000 So now, moving forward to now, we are in competition with China.

00:28:15.000 How can we allow our essential goods, chemicals, products, parts, how can we ever allow 60 to 70 percent of the things that make our economy go?

00:28:28.000 Yeah, and I think that can be done so readily and so easily, frankly, just wielding some of America's economic might.

00:28:41.000 You saw sort of Panama fold real quickly this week.

00:28:44.000 We just utilized some of the assets that we actually have.

00:28:47.000 I mean, I've never seen a business basically handicap themselves to not be able to compete with what they actually have to compete with.

00:28:55.000 Although it seems like we've been doing that for so long, but apparently those days are over again.

00:28:59.000 Let's just get all the choke points out of the way. 1.00

00:29:02.000 I mean, when you talk about forest management, your father's leading the charge on that.

00:29:06.000 I mean, that's one of the clearest examples.

00:29:09.000 We have regulations.

00:29:11.000 We have litigation.

00:29:12.000 We have everything that's preventing us to actually clear the forest and remove the dead and dying trees and the vegetation that's allowing these forests to get so overgrown.

00:29:21.000 I mean...

00:29:22.000 I mean, look, take that one example and apply it to every single when it comes to energy.

00:29:29.000 You know, we're going to be energy dominant.

00:29:30.000 Let's remove all the barriers. 0.93

00:29:33.000 Let's build more pipelines. 0.99

00:29:35.000 Let's build more transmission lines.

00:29:36.000 I mean, we want to be leaders in AI. We're going to have to power it.

00:29:40.000 I mean, let's drill.

00:29:42.000 Let's produce more natural gas.

00:29:44.000 I mean, we could be dominant in everything if we just got rid of all the barriers and the regulations that are holding us back.

00:29:51.000 Yeah, I mean, obviously you see so much of that in California.

00:29:55.000 I mean, it sort of feels like it's the leader for the government, state, control of everything, slow processes.

00:30:03.000 Can you talk sort of a little bit more about the failed leadership in Sacramento and how we can actually help residents stand up, fight back, push back?

00:30:11.000 How do you create a sense of common sense?

00:30:19.000 Well, I think you hit the nail on the head.

00:30:25.000 It's all about common sense.

00:30:26.000 There's a movement forming in California.

00:30:30.000 I served in the state legislature for seven and a half years, butting heads against Gavin Newsom, and he fought us on everything.

00:30:36.000 Building more water storage, streamlining the processes to do forest management projects, to build fire bricks.

00:30:44.000 I mean, he put more regulations that drove businesses to Florida, to Texas.

00:30:49.000 You know, the technologies that are being developed in California, whether it's AI or commercial space, you look at manufacturing, it's developed in California, and all the factories and all the manufacturing and warehouses are all done in other states.

00:31:05.000 We've got to change the way that we do business in California.

00:31:08.000 We have to have a customer service mentality, and that means electing new people.

00:31:14.000 When President Trump came to Los Angeles and met with the residents, met with the first responders, met with his roundtable, the emotions that were there.

00:31:26.000 You could feel that everyone just wanted to see President Trump succeed, and he could feel the need to just streamline the process, get these people back in their homes, get the regulations out of the way, think differently, work with a sense of urgency.

00:31:41.000 So, you know, obviously you're with a lot of the Republican delegation in Florida this week.

00:31:46.000 Talk about where you see the GOP conference under the leadership of Speaker Johnson, and what do you think those top priorities are for him?

00:31:55.000 Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

00:31:58.000 As someone who served in the super minority in California, there was 18 Republicans out of 80 total people in the state assembly to be in the majority right now to have...

00:32:08.000 A House Republican majority, a Senate majority, and to have President Trump in office, I mean, we have no time to waste.

00:32:14.000 We've got to secure the border.

00:32:16.000 President Trump is doing that right now with his executive orders.

00:32:18.000 We've got to codify those actions into law.

00:32:21.000 We've got to revitalize the economy, deal with the affordability crisis in our country, and that means, like, lowering the cost of energy, allowing farmers to produce more food, lowering the cost of food and groceries.

00:32:35.000 Rebuild things in America.

00:32:36.000 Sean Duffy was just confirmed as Secretary of Transportation, excited that we're going to actually build things, bridges, highways, ports.

00:32:45.000 Let's secure our supply chain, invest in our rail, invest in our trucking.

00:32:50.000 I mean, what else can we...

00:32:51.000 There's a commercial space, AI, all the things that we can do to...

00:32:58.000 To make sure America is a leader in technology.

00:33:01.000 I mean, Speaker Johnson's got a laundry list of things to do, and I'm just honored to be a partner in this effort with President Trump to deliver on his promises.

00:33:09.000 Well, I really appreciate it, Congressman.

00:33:11.000 Thank you very much, everyone.

00:33:13.000 Vince Fong from the great state of California.

00:33:15.000 Really appreciate you being here, and we'll talk to you again soon.

00:33:18.000 Thanks for having me.

00:33:20.000 Be well.

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00:34:16.000 So this week, guys, on Capitol Hill, Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and RFK Jr. will appear before Senate committees for their confirmation hearings.

00:34:30.000 Now, like I said, you can see which nominees the establishment fears the most by the left-wing media targeting them with their BS smears.

00:34:40.000 We also saw this week with Pete Hegseth, the MAGA movement stayed strong and sent a very powerful message.

00:34:49.000 Joining me now from the great state of Missouri, former Attorney General over there who did some incredible stuff saving us against some of the tech journalists, but now Senate Judiciary Committee member, Senator Eric Schmidt.

00:35:03.000 Eric, good to see you again, buddy.

00:35:04.000 How are you?

00:35:05.000 I'm good, Don.

00:35:06.000 How are you doing?

00:35:06.000 I'm doing well, man.

00:35:07.000 I keep running into you everywhere, so it's good.

00:35:09.000 I know.

00:35:10.000 Well, you know, the vibe shift is real.

00:35:13.000 We're coming strong, right?

00:35:15.000 So it's good.

00:35:16.000 Well, I really appreciate you being here.

00:35:18.000 I mean, this week, you'll be one of the senators questioning Kash Patel.

00:35:22.000 Can you give us a roadmap for the structure and the parameters of the hearing and what you expect the committee to focus on?

00:35:30.000 Yeah, so there'll be two rounds of questioning.

00:35:33.000 We found that out today.

00:35:34.000 So basically, there'll be introductory statements from Chairman Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and you got Dick Durbin, and then Kash will be...

00:35:44.000 There to give his sort of opening statement, and then it'll open it up for questions, and it alternates Republican, Democrat, Republican, Democrat, members of that committee, and I would imagine this one's going to be pretty electric.

00:35:56.000 I think they gave, the Democrats gave some indication or a bit of a tell during Pam Bondi's hearing.

00:36:02.000 Pam did great. 1.00

00:36:03.000 She's going to be a great AG, but a lot of their questions were related to actually Kash Patel, so I think they're coming loaded for bear.

00:36:11.000 This is going to be must-see TV, but he's going to do great.

00:36:14.000 And I think one of the things that's pretty consistent with all these picks is your father, President Trump, picked reformers.

00:36:20.000 This election cycle was disruptors versus the establishment, and he's, you know...

00:36:24.000 Fulfilling that promise he made to voters and he got the mandate to go do it.

00:36:28.000 So from my point of view, President Trump deserves his team.

00:36:31.000 Cash for Tell is going to be a very important person in this administration because we've seen the weaponization of the FBI going after Catholics, going after parents who showed up to school board meetings, all this nonsense we've seen the last four years.

00:36:43.000 He's a reformer who's going to come in and hopefully restore some credibility to an agency that's been, quite frankly, discredited.

00:36:49.000 Yeah, I mean, they've targeted people showing up at PTA meetings, but it doesn't seem like they've caught a single terrorist who was on their radar before they actually committed some heinous acts.

00:37:01.000 So I think it makes a lot of sense.

00:37:02.000 From what I've been told, Cash's meetings on the Hill actually have been great.

00:37:07.000 Why do you think he's the right guy and fit for the FBI? Well, I just think you've seen, you know, and this is a lot of my questioning with Pam Bondi.

00:37:16.000 I used my time to sort of point out the fact that the weaponization at DOJ, we've never seen anything like this, this lawfare.

00:37:23.000 And as a former attorney general, I mean, this is really tough to watch because essentially they wanted to take out their chief political opponent, which was President Trump.

00:37:31.000 Right.

00:37:31.000 And they did.

00:37:32.000 And Joe Biden gave a speech in the fall of 2022 when he knew President Trump was going to run again.

00:37:39.000 He talked about half of America being a threat to democracy.

00:37:42.000 He talked about how President Trump was never going to get back in the Oval Office.

00:37:44.000 He was going to do everything he could to stop it.

00:37:46.000 And then guess what?

00:37:47.000 We saw all these zombie cases resurrected, whether it was this bogus case by the New York Attorney General, this bogus case by Alvin Bragg in Manhattan.

00:37:55.000 And I was there.

00:37:56.000 You were there, of course, a lot, but I was there to support President Trump in that courtroom.

00:38:00.000 I've been a professional witness for the last nine years, Eric, so I'm quite familiar.

00:38:04.000 I'm not a lawyer, but I've basically played one on the witness stand at this point.

00:38:08.000 Yeah, and then you had Jack Smith.

00:38:11.000 Jack Smith is the guy.

00:38:14.000 He was a henchman.

00:38:15.000 He was the guy they called up out of the bullpen to take President Trump out, and it didn't work.

00:38:21.000 The Supreme Court finally stopped him, but the arc of this story, of course, was all of this lawfare, and they tried to...

00:38:28.000 Bankrupt President Trump, your family, they tried to throw him in jail for the rest of his life.

00:38:33.000 He stared all that down and won.

00:38:36.000 And more popular than ever, I think because of that grit and that defiance.

00:38:41.000 And so the FBI played a very important role in this.

00:38:44.000 You mentioned my time as AG. I filed the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit that sort of, even before Twitter files and Elon Musk had bought Twitter, thank God he did, but exposed in discovery the extent to which The Biden administration went to censor Americans.

00:38:59.000 It also exposed, not only did we get the chance to take the deposition of Anthony Fauci in that case, we took the deposition of Elvis Chan.

00:39:06.000 Who's Elvis Chan?

00:39:07.000 Elvis Chan was the FBI agent.

00:39:09.000 Who was pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election, telling these big tech companies, this is a Russian hack and leak operation.

00:39:18.000 And they knew it was real.

00:39:19.000 They had it in their possession in November of 2019. So the FBI, the corruption is real there.

00:39:26.000 And you really need a reformer, I think, who's going to change the culture from the inside.

00:39:30.000 And that's why these picks are so important, whether it's Kash Patel, whether it's Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whether it's Tulsi Gabbard.

00:39:36.000 We need people who are going to come in and change that culture.

00:39:39.000 And that's why this week's really important.

00:39:41.000 Well, that culture has been missing a lot from the United States Senate.

00:39:45.000 So I'm glad you're there.

00:39:46.000 And I'm glad you mentioned that.

00:39:47.000 I was going to bring it up.

00:39:47.000 I know you work with my friend Jeff Landry on that one as well.

00:39:51.000 Former AG at Louisiana, now governor over there.

00:39:54.000 But yeah, you took on big tech exposing.

00:39:58.000 You know, the Biden administration and the U.S. government literally working to censor one half of a conversation.

00:40:04.000 And you did that before it was popular when many people, maybe you guys like me, were probably out there screaming about it obviously happening, but not everyone even fully recognized the problem.

00:40:13.000 And you did that and actually won.

00:40:14.000 So it's good to have some guys that have those kind of guts back in the Senate right now.

00:40:18.000 Well, that's what we need.

00:40:20.000 We need fighters right now.

00:40:21.000 And I do think one of the differences between, you know, maybe President Trump's first term and his term he's in now, he's got a lot of reinforcements here who want to see this movement be successful.

00:40:33.000 And so, you know, it was that Missouri versus Biden case.

00:40:36.000 We also had the vaccine mandate case.

00:40:37.000 We had the student loan debt forgiveness.

00:40:39.000 You need people who are going to stand up and fight, even when people are saying, you know what, I don't know, maybe set this one out.

00:40:45.000 This country needs saving right now.

00:40:47.000 The left has been on the march, but I do think in November of this past year, of November 2024, the fever broke.

00:40:55.000 Honestly, I think people have had enough of this.

00:40:57.000 You've seen it.

00:40:58.000 It's a cultural shift.

00:41:01.000 You know, even in their hit pieces, I saw the, you know, in the New Yorker or whatever, the hit pieces.

00:41:07.000 I mean, Republicans are cool now and the Democrats are searching not only for a leader but even a message because they've gone after everyday normal Americans.

00:41:19.000 They've tried to demonize half the country and people have had enough.

00:41:22.000 Yeah, I don't know if we even have the screenshot, but you mentioned that New Yorker article.

00:41:25.000 It was truly disgusting. 0.84

00:41:27.000 It was like, basically, they wrote an article about some of these, you know, young MAGA movement, you know, balls at the inauguration. 0.98

00:41:33.000 I was at a bunch of them and they're like, it's just, you know, good looking white people.

00:41:38.000 And there's no, and they literally cropped the photo.

00:41:40.000 But if you look at the expanded photo, it's literally like.

00:41:43.000 Half and half.

00:41:44.000 I mean, the room, it's like, they just moved the photo where they could find, here's just, you know, a white homogenous room.

00:41:50.000 And if you look, there's, like, there's seven friends of mine, guys I know, like, that are Black or, you know, other ethnicities, right there on the side, and they crop it out, and they write an entire article about how it's disgusting that these people were left out of it.

00:42:03.000 It was like, no, you just left them out of the picture and the article.

00:42:07.000 I mean, however much you hate the media, Eric, it is not enough.

00:42:10.000 That is for sure at this point.

00:42:11.000 That's true.

00:42:12.000 No, they cropped them out.

00:42:13.000 But this is why they're losing.

00:42:16.000 People aren't getting their media in the same way.

00:42:18.000 They're not getting information in the same way.

00:42:20.000 You know, you do this.

00:42:21.000 It's more dispersed now.

00:42:23.000 That's good for us.

00:42:24.000 That's good for us because now I think, you know, your father has ushered in of the broadest.

00:42:31.000 The most diverse coalition the Republican Party has ever had.

00:42:35.000 It's a huge opportunity for us.

00:42:37.000 We've got to be able to deliver on that.

00:42:38.000 Now, you know, one of the challenges that we're going to deal with long term is because of that, we've got more lower propensity voters, maybe people who haven't traditionally voted in every single election.

00:42:47.000 We've got to make sure people turn out and vote.

00:42:49.000 But if we do that, if we capitalize on this moment that, you know, President Trump has given us by building that, you know, multi-ethnic working class party, that's how I grew up.

00:42:58.000 You know, I grew up in a pretty blue collar neighborhood.

00:43:01.000 They're with us now.

00:43:02.000 So I think we've got to deliver.

00:43:04.000 And I also think, you know, each one of these nominees that are up this week, whether it's Tulsi or RFK Jr., and spent a lot of time on the campaign trail with him, and then, you know, with Cash, they represent this broad coalition that, you know, President Trump put together that allowed us to have 53 Republican senators.

00:43:24.000 To be perfectly honest.

00:43:25.000 And so I think it's time for us to deliver.

00:43:29.000 Though you may want to remind Mitch McConnell and Murkowski and Susan Collins of that, because they seem to be much more happy to vote with the Democrats on these things. 0.94

00:43:39.000 And, you know, these are the same clowns that voted for Mayorkas. 0.98

00:43:44.000 They voted for, you know, the vast majority of the Biden cabinet. 0.93

00:43:49.000 Uh, who've proven to be total disasters, but they won't give the people who they actually want because it wasn't like we surprised them.

00:43:55.000 I mean, these are people that we campaigned with for the last three months of the election that we were out there there.

00:43:59.000 And I know this because I, you know, I was the guy that sort of back channeled the Bobby endorsement and the Intel C endorsement.

00:44:05.000 No, you were, listen, you were instrumental in that.

00:44:07.000 And I think it's so smart because people are wondering what was the secret sauce.

00:44:11.000 It wasn't just the podcast.

00:44:13.000 It wasn't just, it was all of that, right?

00:44:14.000 It was, it was a Republican party that was open to having more voices in.

00:44:18.000 That it wasn't these traditional lines.

00:44:21.000 It really was about people who saw the corruption in a lot of these institutions and who wanted to change it.

00:44:27.000 So we are now the party of reform.

00:44:29.000 We should embrace that.

00:44:31.000 And it takes a bunch of different forms, but we're the disruptors.

00:44:34.000 We got to take on the establishment.

00:44:36.000 And these confirmation picks are part and parcel of that.

00:44:40.000 And I also think people can see, it feels like that inauguration, I'm sure you can speak to this, was like a month ago.

00:44:45.000 It was just like last week.

00:44:47.000 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:44:48.000 It's actually incredible.

00:44:50.000 I was watching, you know, I guess it was an interview with like James Carvell where he's like, okay, guys, calm down.

00:44:55.000 He's going to punch himself out.

00:44:56.000 No one can do this and sustain this kind of thing for so long.

00:45:00.000 It's just going to go away.

00:45:01.000 Just sit back and relax because he's basically in response to the Democrats just losing their mind about everything.

00:45:06.000 You know, I think this administration, I've been talking about what I thought was going to happen for months, which is like, hey, it's different now.

00:45:13.000 We're starting with a new team.

00:45:14.000 Everyone is actually on board.

00:45:16.000 They're not just telling you they're on board and then doing whatever they want.

00:45:19.000 They're not just waiting out the clock.

00:45:21.000 They're on board with Trump.

00:45:23.000 We now have, you know, I look at some of the incoming class in the Senate.

00:45:27.000 I look at, obviously, J.D. Vance.

00:45:29.000 Like, not only that.

00:45:31.000 But we actually have a bench.

00:45:32.000 So I put out a tweet that went pretty viral the other day.

00:45:34.000 All the Democrats had to do was let 2020 be.

00:45:37.000 If they didn't play those games, we wouldn't have been exposed to this stuff.

00:45:41.000 We would have never known.

00:45:42.000 Trump would have been not nearly as effective just rolling over the original, the first-term team.

00:45:47.000 And you'd probably have a Democrat president right now that you could go back to destroying our country and drive through abortions, whatever it is that you need. 1.00

00:45:55.000 And they blew it.

00:45:56.000 So I want to thank them for that, because we really owe it all to them that we have this.

00:46:00.000 100%.

00:46:01.000 And I also think that they, in that four-year period, they really exposed who they were too, right?

00:46:09.000 Like they really showed the American people who they were and we're now providing this.

00:46:13.000 You know, very different alternative, which I think is more in line.

00:46:17.000 It's the common sense.

00:46:18.000 I mean, President Trump mentioned it in his second inaugural, right?

00:46:20.000 Yeah.

00:46:21.000 Common sense.

00:46:21.000 Now we're sort of bringing that back and nobody should be surprised by any of this stuff.

00:46:25.000 And that's why I think his poll numbers are still, you know, really, really strong.

00:46:28.000 Maybe the highest they've ever been, because he said, look, this is what we're going to do on immigration.

00:46:32.000 This is what we're going to do on energy.

00:46:33.000 This is what we're going to do, you know, in our world standing and look no further than what happened this weekend.

00:46:37.000 I mean, this is not how Washington typically works with this Columbia president kind of situation where he's like.

00:46:43.000 Yeah, we're not going to take it.

00:46:44.000 And then President Trump gets off the golf course and is like, yeah, actually, you are going to do it.

00:46:48.000 And if you don't, there's going to be a 25% tariff.

00:46:50.000 We're going to cancel meetings in the consulate and you're not going to have visa applications.

00:46:53.000 And like 45 minutes later, he's like, you know what?

00:46:55.000 We were just kidding.

00:46:56.000 Use my plane.

00:46:57.000 Use my plane now.

00:46:59.000 By the way, Trump got more done in like four holes of golf than Joe Biden did in an entire four, you know, four year presidency.

00:47:06.000 I mean, it's amazing.

00:47:07.000 It's shocking.

00:47:08.000 So, Senator, another thing that you've been sounding the alarm about that I think is incredibly important is the growing threat of China, especially in the Panama Canal, but obviously in America, farmland, especially strategic farmland around our military bases, but also obviously just the ability to feed ourselves.

00:47:26.000 You know, what have you found and what more can you tell us about what's really going on out there?

00:47:31.000 So I think you put this in the broadest possible context to begin, which is...

00:47:36.000 China's playing the long game here. 0.92

00:47:38.000 They have designs on world domination.

00:47:40.000 And in many ways, I think the 21st century is going to be defined by who wins this really big competition between the United States of America and China.

00:47:49.000 And I'll give your father a lot of credit on this.

00:47:51.000 When he started talking about these issues and trade issues, this was not orthodoxy, even in the Republican Party, to talk about this.

00:48:01.000 This issue to the forefront about what a threat that they really are and how unfair they are as it relates to trade.

00:48:08.000 So that's one issue.

00:48:09.000 But as it relates specifically to the Panama Canal, I filed a resolution last week calling on the Panamanians to expel all the Chinese influence that exists at that canal because the truth of the matter is they have operational control of the Panama Canal. 0.59

00:48:24.000 They control both ports on either side.

00:48:27.000 And so the one thing was a terrible idea.

00:48:29.000 It was a terrible deal by Jimmy Carter in 1977, but they essentially gave it away, a multi-trillion dollar asset that, you know, our ships go from here to there, container ships and military ships.

00:48:41.000 And the one thing we got out of it, the one thing we got out of it was an assurance that it would be neutral, that no foreign country other than Panama would control that and we That's no longer the case.

00:48:56.000 They've given these Chinese companies a sweetheart deal.

00:48:59.000 And what's really scary about it, Don, is that it's part of this one belt, one road initiative that they have, which is they're gobbling up these ports, including in the Suez Canal.

00:49:09.000 They've built airports in some countries.

00:49:11.000 And when you criticize the CCP, guess what happens?

00:49:14.000 You don't have any flights anymore.

00:49:15.000 They're building these energy grids and they can turn them off and they can turn them off.

00:49:18.000 And we're being naive if we don't think that if we get in a real scrap or something happens or they want to manipulate the situation, all of a sudden there might be technical difficulties at the Panama Canal and we can't go from here to there.

00:49:29.000 We cannot let that happen.

00:49:31.000 And so Panama needs to make a decision here.

00:49:35.000 We should not allow under no circumstances for the Chinese government to effectively control the Panama Canal.

00:49:41.000 And that's really what's going on right now.

00:49:43.000 So we just broke a big story here on the show from Congressman Corey Mills about our hospital supplies and even hospital saline bags being made in China.

00:49:52.000 My father seems as committed as ever to fixing that, but that whole supply chain, it's not just the Panama Canal, it's them pressuring Taiwan, which is all of our microchips.

00:50:03.000 They have their own there, and then it's all of our medical supply.

00:50:06.000 And what is it, 93% of our antibiotics.

00:50:09.000 It doesn't just stop at these little things where you say, oh, what's a port or two here and there?

00:50:13.000 They do that.

00:50:14.000 They control all the rare earth minerals.

00:50:15.000 That prevents us from being able to get batteries.

00:50:17.000 They go in there, and it's not like they're negotiating fair.

00:50:20.000 They're going into, you know, Third World Banana Republics. 0.58

00:50:22.000 They show up with a briefcase of cash.

00:50:23.000 They sign it off.

00:50:24.000 They promise they're going to put the country's people to work, and then they ship in their own, you know. 0.98

00:50:29.000 Obviously heavily overpopulated with men because of the one-child policy.

00:50:32.000 People didn't want girls, so they have a lot of men, and they just send their own people to these places. 1.00

00:50:36.000 So no one gets anything.

00:50:38.000 They get all the benefit.

00:50:38.000 I guess one guy gets a briefcase of cash, and they control a region for perhaps eternity.

00:50:45.000 Yeah, and I think one of the things that we measure kind of success with GDP growth, I think one of the things to always look out for with China is that their youth unemployment rate. 0.89

00:50:53.000 It's through the roof.

00:50:54.000 They don't even publish it anymore.

00:50:56.000 So they got real challenges at home when you have an overly male population and they're unemployed.

00:51:02.000 For a communist regime, that's a real problem.

00:51:04.000 So through this One Belt Road, you're right, they're shipping them to Africa and other places where they think they're going to get jobs, they don't. 0.89

00:51:10.000 They create this sort of debt trap.

00:51:13.000 You have all these kind of supply chain issues that exist.

00:51:16.000 It's a real risk for us.

00:51:19.000 One of the things that I really appreciate about President Trump and what he's done to kind of reset America's worldview, I think this age of Wilsonian adventurism that we can be everywhere all at once, all the time, it's not realistic.

00:51:33.000 And this is one of the things that, you know, on the Ukraine thing, and JD and I were in the same place in the Senate and there's others.

00:51:39.000 I think the newer members that have come in see this a little bit differently.

00:51:43.000 We do not have the ability to do everything everywhere around the world all the time.

00:51:48.000 We don't.

00:51:48.000 We don't have We've got to fix that.

00:51:51.000 But the truth is, the $200 billion that goes to Ukraine, I mean, that would build a lot of highways here in the United States.

00:51:57.000 It would take care of a lot of homeless veterans right here in the United States.

00:52:00.000 It would prepare us for a potential conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific.

00:52:04.000 So, whether you're talking about Greenland, or as I like to refer to as Magadonia, when you're talking about Greenland, or...

00:52:11.000 I call it MAGA-Fest Destiny.

00:52:13.000 I mean, you know, we're just reaching out.

00:52:15.000 Just MAGA-Fest Destiny.

00:52:16.000 A little play on manifest...

00:52:18.000 But that's sort of what made America what it was.

00:52:20.000 So between Panama, Greenland, you know, I'm sure there's some other places we could take over.

00:52:24.000 You know, hey, I bet we can do it for a lot less than we spent in Ukraine for nothing, for absolutely nothing.

00:52:31.000 What it does, yeah, no, what it does is it gets, what I think the really smart thing about it is it gets us re-centered on, okay, what are the core American interests?

00:52:39.000 What are our core American interests, right?

00:52:43.000 Clearly having critical minerals and being able to access them in the Arctic sea lanes.

00:52:47.000 That's really important.

00:52:48.000 That's what Greenland possesses.

00:52:49.000 Panama Canal.

00:52:50.000 I mean, everybody learns.

00:52:51.000 I mean, at least in grade school, I think they still teach about Panama Canal.

00:52:55.000 Well, they will again.

00:52:56.000 They were probably too busy learning the 4,376 genders for the last four years, Eric.

00:53:01.000 We can bring back actual like education, maybe some civics, maybe.

00:53:05.000 I don't know.

00:53:06.000 I don't want to go out on a limb here, but like math, English.

00:53:09.000 It'd be nice.

00:53:10.000 You know, minor details.

00:53:11.000 It'd be nice instead of the CRT nonsense that's been shoved down everybody's throat.

00:53:15.000 But yeah, this is a core national interest in the United States of America.

00:53:18.000 There's no debate of that.

00:53:20.000 So anyway, I think we are entering a golden age.

00:53:23.000 We're entering a new age of American realism where I think our foreign policy more reflects the views of the American people.

00:53:28.000 That's been the one really great frustration I've had in my first couple of years here in D.C. is the conversations you have here are very different than the ones you have in Missouri back home.

00:53:38.000 There's nobody, nobody, not one person that's ever come up to me in Missouri and said, you know what, Eric, you know what I really want you to do?

00:53:44.000 I want you to send another $60 billion to Ukraine.

00:53:46.000 No one's ever said that to me.

00:53:48.000 I think you've heard my spiel somewhere along the way where, like, you know, every time I spoke for the last three years, like, you know, in front of, you know, 300 to 3,000, 15,000 opening up for my father, it was like, I've literally, I think I've hit like 175,000 people and exactly zero.

00:54:04.000 Raise your hand if it's a top 10 issue.

00:54:07.000 Like, I got three people.

00:54:09.000 One happened to be from Ukraine, so I gave him a pass. 1.00

00:54:12.000 The other guy misunderstood the question, so he actually wasn't.

00:54:14.000 And one guy worked for, like, Raytheon.

00:54:16.000 But like, you know, so it's like, hey, I don't make money if I don't sell missiles.

00:54:20.000 I was like, you know, I understand.

00:54:21.000 Not great for America.

00:54:22.000 But like, that's like an in-person survey of a, like, you know, polling, you know, for a Senate race, you know, they check 750 people and they can tell you where the whole world is.

00:54:31.000 You know, 175,000, that's the most statistically significant poll perhaps ever conducted in America.

00:54:37.000 And like, zero people cared.

00:54:39.000 Like, zero.

00:54:40.000 So...

00:54:41.000 Uh, yeah.

00:54:42.000 But NATO wants us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year to protect them from Russia.

00:54:46.000 But, like, Denmark's gonna stop us from, like, working with Greenland and being a part of that and controlling those shipping lanes and, I don't know, being 3,500 miles closer to the enemy you want us to protect you from?

00:54:57.000 Like, I don't know.

00:54:58.000 It doesn't seem like they have a lot of likes to stand on.

00:55:01.000 Or we can just stop funding NATO, too.

00:55:02.000 I mean, you know, if they don't want to help us, why should we help them?

00:55:05.000 I think the American people are tired of, honestly, subsidizing these These liberal socialist governments in Europe who refuse to provide for their own defense.

00:55:15.000 And that's just the reality.

00:55:16.000 So I think that's a lot of truth-telling that's going to have to happen.

00:55:19.000 And I think, honestly, there was resistance to that in 2017 and 2018 when President Trump had his first term.

00:55:26.000 I think people, I think they get it now.

00:55:29.000 I really do.

00:55:30.000 There'll be resistance in D.C., but there's not actual resistance across the country because they're like, wait, I can't feed my family, but Germany won't. 0.95

00:55:38.000 Doesn't have operational warplanes or they signed on that they're going to commit, you know, what was it, 2% of GDP, 3% of GDP, and they've done none of it.

00:55:46.000 And, you know, and they're just like, well, why should we?

00:55:48.000 America just keeps doing it. 0.95

00:55:49.000 It's like, well, you know, we can stop.

00:55:51.000 Like, how about we will parry pursue.

00:55:53.000 We will match whatever percentage you do or whatever fraction of what you're supposed to do.

00:55:58.000 We'll do the fraction that you're doing so that, you know, we're all friends, but like with friends like these guys, who needs enemies?

00:56:03.000 Right.

00:56:04.000 And I think that the same conversations relates to tariffs.

00:56:07.000 Tariffs are not a four-letter word.

00:56:08.000 They're, in many ways, sort of a reciprocal tax.

00:56:11.000 And I think the American people are tired of getting ripped off and taken advantage of.

00:56:15.000 And what we saw with Columbia in, like, you know, a few short holes of golf, like 90 minutes, it's amazing what can change in literally just a few days of leadership if you actually have the guts to, like, use that bite, if you have the mandate from the people and you have the backing of the people in your party.

00:56:31.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:56:32.000 And amazing what can happen when you have a competent president who's willing to lead.

00:56:37.000 We've just not had that for four years, and it's been so obvious the last eight days.

00:56:45.000 I mean, it's just eight days, but just think of the sea change that's happened, and I think people are excited about it.

00:56:50.000 Yeah.

00:56:51.000 What else are you focused on in the Senate right now once you get through the confirmation stuff, Eric?

00:56:55.000 Well, I think, you know, we've got this reconciliation stuff, right?

00:56:57.000 We've got a four-year window and maybe a two-year window.

00:57:01.000 We'll see, right?

00:57:02.000 But I think there's got to be a sense of urgency to make sure that that...

00:57:05.000 That tax relief that working families got in 2017, that that doesn't expire.

00:57:10.000 I think those are important things to do.

00:57:11.000 I think that we've got an opportunity, whether it's DOGE or however you want to slice and dice it, to actually rein in government and excess and waste and abuse.

00:57:20.000 And then for me, you know, it's kind of harkens back to the AG days.

00:57:23.000 I think protecting free speech, but also taking on the broader administrative state.

00:57:28.000 I mean, we have to dismantle this beast that's been created and continues to grow and grow and grow because it really is antithetical to the founding of this country where people are supposed to be accountable.

00:57:39.000 You can send somebody there.

00:57:41.000 You can send me there.

00:57:41.000 You can send me home or you can send me back.

00:57:44.000 But, you know, you judge me on my votes.

00:57:46.000 If we ever had to vote on this ridiculous stuff like banning gas stoves, it would never pass.

00:57:51.000 But they hide behind these faceless bureaucrats that nobody's ever heard of and agencies they didn't know existed to get this agenda done.

00:57:58.000 So I think it's really important for the movement to take this opportunity to dismantle the administrative state.

00:58:03.000 So that's where a lot of my attention is at.

00:58:05.000 And then really just trying to help.

00:58:09.000 Yeah, by the way, speaking of that administrative state, you know, I read, you know, they want to have Tulsi Gabbard Senate hearing in the skiff.

00:58:16.000 That means everyone gets to vote, but no one gets to know how anyone voted.

00:58:19.000 So they can just be like, you're out rather than sort of facing the American people.

00:58:23.000 I mean, I think, you know, you know, whether it's Doge or otherwise, I think one thing is for certain is people just want some transparency.

00:58:29.000 So I would hope that we could figure out a way to make those votes public and just make sure that everyone understands.

00:58:35.000 Where their senators lie on some of these votes, because I think that's an important part of it.

00:58:40.000 You can't sort of pretend to be America first and then vote against the cabinet that the America first people voted for.

00:58:47.000 It doesn't seem to work that way.

00:58:49.000 Right, and I think one of the, you know, we've got a role to play in the legislative branch, but in the executive branch that is accountable to the people, but through the president, he deserves to have his team.

00:59:02.000 Historically, Before the Hexeth vote, but since Bill Clinton, there were only three negative votes on any nominee if the Senate was of the same party of the president.

00:59:11.000 Not three nominees that were spiked, but just three no votes.

00:59:16.000 So it's exceptionally rare.

00:59:18.000 To have a bunch of no votes, it would be more exceptionally rare to actually not confirm a nominee.

00:59:25.000 And I would argue that, again, President Trump has ushered in a broad, diverse coalition that is a winning formula for the future.

00:59:33.000 You know, you normally say permanent majorities, but opportunities to get things done.

00:59:38.000 And we ought to honor that with a team that's well-qualified, ready to roll, and to change the culture from the inside on these agencies that have really gone astray.

00:59:46.000 A hundred percent.

00:59:47.000 I mean, I think you're in a unique position being a former attorney general.

00:59:51.000 So you also understand all the branches of government very well, how they interact.

00:59:55.000 How does that guide you on your mission in the Senate to, you know, again, I love the stuff with executive order, but I want to codify some of this stuff into law so it can't just be, you know, washed away with the stroke of a pen in time.

01:00:05.000 I think it's a great way to get started, get it rolling.

01:00:07.000 How do we lock these things in?

01:00:08.000 How do you see that happening?

01:00:09.000 Well, I think, look, the reason why we had separation powers, the reason we had federalism, you wanted to broadly disperse power, right?

01:00:15.000 So you protected people's individual liberty.

01:00:17.000 And so you've got these executive orders play a very important role.

01:00:20.000 In many ways, President Trump is just a response to the craziness we saw by way of executive orders under the Biden administration.

01:00:27.000 Let's not forget, we had the most secure border we've had in 45 years at the end of 2020. Then, you know, 94 executive orders later in the first 100 days, Joe Biden undid all that, including suspending deportation.

01:00:40.000 So really what President Trump's doing is putting a lot of the policies that worked back in place and then actually deporting people which have been the policy of the United States of America forever except for the last four years.

01:00:53.000 But there are some things I think we need to make more permanent.

01:00:56.000 The RAINS Act is something that makes a lot of sense.

01:00:59.000 That is essentially that if any agency proposes a new rule that costs more than pick the number, 100 million bucks or 50 million bucks or whatever you want the number to be, that Congress actually have to vote on it before it goes into effect.

01:01:12.000 That would be an incredible check on the runaway executive branch. 0.90

01:01:16.000 I think that, you know, they ought to pull back five or ten, you know, rules before they can propose a new rule.

01:01:22.000 These are the kind of structural safeguards.

01:01:24.000 By the way, I figured if it was a $100 million thing, some agency would actually have to get congressional approval since that's the post, so to speak.

01:01:31.000 That's the checkbook.

01:01:32.000 But no wonder we're $35 trillion in debt.

01:01:35.000 I didn't even know that.

01:01:36.000 They just do it anyway.

01:01:37.000 They just do it anyway.

01:01:38.000 So you change the incentive structure.

01:01:40.000 And these are the kind of things, I think, to sustain the movement and the Make America Great Again, America First movement for the long term, right?

01:01:50.000 We've got a real gift.

01:01:52.000 That we've been given a huge opportunity in the short term.

01:01:54.000 But I think we want to have some lasting structural changes that will protect the country for years to come.

01:02:00.000 Well, I think you're 100% right.

01:02:01.000 I really appreciate it.

01:02:02.000 Senator Eric Schmidt, guys.

01:02:04.000 Eric, thank you very much.

01:02:06.000 Looking forward to all the hearings this week.

01:02:08.000 Hopefully you can knock some sense into some of your colleagues and let's just get this thing going.

01:02:12.000 But really appreciate everything that you're doing.

01:02:14.000 Great spending time with you over the last couple of weeks.

01:02:16.000 And I'm sure we'll talk soon.

01:02:18.000 All right, brother.

01:02:19.000 Thanks for all you do.

01:02:21.000 Guys, maybe I'll take a couple questions.

01:02:23.000 We'll do a little bit of the live, see what you guys think about everything that's going on.

01:02:28.000 I think we covered a lot tonight, but you never know.

01:02:32.000 I'll give you guys a chance.

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01:03:38.000 Thoughts on Baron being the new favorite son?

01:03:41.000 I don't know.

01:03:42.000 I thought Elon was the new favorite son.

01:03:43.000 Everyone keeps telling me that too.

01:03:45.000 But either way, I'm good with it.

01:03:46.000 What's nice about me...

01:03:48.000 Surprisingly, and I know I'm a Trump, I don't have that much of an ego.

01:03:51.000 I just, I do my thing.

01:03:52.000 I get out there and I fight.

01:03:55.000 Yeah, so it's good.

01:03:57.000 I guess, I guess with the inauguration, my father called me either the vicious one or the whatever it was.

01:04:03.000 But, you know, in the grand scheme of the crap that we've been put through for the last nine years, I imagine the vicious one is probably exactly who you need because I think even he was good.

01:04:13.000 So I'm totally good with it, guys. 0.65

01:04:15.000 No issues whatsoever.

01:04:18.000 Let's see.

01:04:22.000 Thoughts on Don Jr. becoming UK PM? Probably hard.

01:04:27.000 Who knows?

01:04:27.000 With the UK's immigration policies, maybe you don't even have to be a resident.

01:04:32.000 They just let anyone do it.

01:04:34.000 But who knows?

01:04:36.000 Don Jr. for President 2028, for America 2021. Thank you.

01:04:40.000 I appreciate it.

01:04:43.000 Not sure I have the hubris to actually do that.

01:04:47.000 But you never know.

01:04:49.000 It's a great compliment.

01:04:50.000 Maybe one day.

01:04:52.000 Right now, focused on sort of the public sector side, trying to grow some of these businesses that are competing.

01:04:56.000 And I mentioned yesterday, literally taking a gun company public, taking a grab-a-gun public, doing that.

01:05:04.000 You can check that out on CLBR if you want to check out the stock ticker.

01:05:07.000 That will turn into Pew in a couple months once actually you finish the sort of SPAC merger.

01:05:12.000 But so we're doing all of these things, standing up for the stuff that we believe in, the things that you never thought could happen.

01:05:17.000 We did that with Public Square.

01:05:19.000 Obviously, you know how long I've been on Rumble.

01:05:21.000 I think I was the second verified user on the platform.

01:05:24.000 So, you know, putting my money where my mouth is and all the things that we believe as well.

01:05:28.000 One day, maybe we get in the government. 0.99

01:05:30.000 In the meantime, I think we have some great options, whether it's JD or others who are going to keep kicking ass. 0.98

01:05:36.000 You see him this weekend? 0.97

01:05:38.000 It was epic.

01:05:40.000 Just smacking around these people.

01:05:42.000 It was so good.

01:05:45.000 JD would be a good president too, but we love Doug Jr. Okay, well, I'll take both.

01:05:49.000 We'll take both.

01:05:50.000 That's fine.

01:05:52.000 Don't be president would be a pay cut and many headaches, although you do a great job.

01:05:55.000 Well, that's true, but trust me, getting into politics was probably a pretty, even though I didn't choose to necessarily do that at first, but when my father first ran in 2015, I imagine we took a pretty significant pay cut for a while on all of those things.

01:06:10.000 That's okay.

01:06:11.000 It's not all about that.

01:06:12.000 Sometimes you actually have to fight for what you believe in.

01:06:14.000 You have to fight for your family, your kids, and the next generation, and freedom, and the Constitution, and so many of the other things we believe in.

01:06:21.000 So, yeah, I know the chat's going pretty fast, but yeah, someone didn't like the closed-door policy on Tulsi's confirmation.

01:06:28.000 Yeah, I want to know who's not voting for, you know?

01:06:33.000 J6ers being thrown into jail in their home states. 1.00

01:06:35.000 That I wasn't aware of.

01:06:35.000 I heard, you know, a couple of lunatics trying to talk about doing that, but...

01:06:39.000 I don't know that that's actually happened yet.

01:06:41.000 I haven't seen it actually happen.

01:06:42.000 I know there was some talk about it.

01:06:45.000 But it shows you what you're up against, guys.

01:06:47.000 And that's why we have to stay engaged.

01:06:49.000 That's why we have to stay in the game and do all of that.

01:06:54.000 Taxes have gotten way out of hand.

01:06:56.000 This is rolling with Jadama TV. I think they should be paused for all Americans.

01:07:02.000 That would be something that I think would help.

01:07:04.000 For what the previous administration did, I think Americans need it.

01:07:07.000 I don't disagree with you.

01:07:08.000 I think my father talked about, you know, banning the federal income tax or, you know, getting rid of it.

01:07:12.000 You saw them coming up with an external revenue service, which is we get money through tariffs and others so that other people who are taking advantage of our economy and who are abusing, you know, free trade.

01:07:22.000 None of it's free trade.

01:07:23.000 They pretend it's free trade unless we do something they don't like and then they complain about free trade.

01:07:27.000 Until then, they milk it to their benefit.

01:07:29.000 So, you know, there could be ways to do this.

01:07:33.000 You know, a pause is hard.

01:07:34.000 There's still stuff we got to do, but you saw them pausing a lot of the, you know, the nonsense government programs.

01:07:39.000 You know, I'm sure there's some great ones in there too, but just sort of 90-day pause on all of this stuff while they assess how much money.

01:07:44.000 So we're not, you know, I don't know, giving, you know, $20 million to trans things in some obscure country that hates our guts for, like, it's just the insanity never stops.

01:07:55.000 So, yeah, hopefully get a lot of that stuff done.

01:08:00.000 Let's see.

01:08:05.000 Trades back in schools, I love that.

01:08:09.000 Yeah, let's see.

01:08:11.000 Is Trump time travel?

01:08:13.000 Not that I'm aware of, although, you know, you never know. 0.99

01:08:15.000 And if I knew, I probably couldn't tell you, because if I told you, I'd have to kill you. 0.99

01:08:18.000 It doesn't work. 0.65

01:08:20.000 What happened to Vivek Ramaswamy?

01:08:22.000 I think he was running for governor of Ohio.

01:08:25.000 I spoke to him last week.

01:08:26.000 Doing great, but, you know, I think he wants to do that now.

01:08:31.000 They're going to be termed out up there, and I think he could probably do a great job over there.

01:08:36.000 He'd been talking about that before the whole concept of Doge even came up, and then he wasn't sure where things were going or who would take that Senate seat or if he'd perhaps get appointed there.

01:08:44.000 So looking forward to seeing what he's going to be doing.

01:08:49.000 And let's see.

01:08:51.000 I think with that, guys, I got dinner with my boy, a little father-son dinner, so I'm going to run do that since this wasn't really planned until...

01:09:00.000 Last minute, but since I left you hanging on Thursday, I figured I'd be here, but I will be back on actual Thursday.

01:09:07.000 Do we know who our guest is yet?

01:09:09.000 We do not.

01:09:10.000 It's going to be a good one, though.

01:09:12.000 I can assure you that.

01:09:13.000 I guess.

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