It's a special Tuesday edition of Triggered, featuring an extra show this week to cover all of the big things happening each and every minute of the day. This week: President Trump signs an executive order aimed at ending gender-transition surgeries for minors, the White House offers a buyout to federal workers if they agree to quit, and more!
00:05:29.000this special Tuesday edition of Triggered.
00:05:33.000I 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.
00:05:39.000Hopefully 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.
00:06:00.000So 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.
00:06:08.000It 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.
00:07:07.000The order directs federally run insurance programs, including TRICARE for military families and Medicaid, to exclude coverage for such procedures.
00:07:18.000And calls on the Department of Justice to pursue litigation and legislation to oppose the practice.
00:08:01.000They haven't been really working anyway, so they can definitely not work for, you know, nine months or so.
00:08:06.000And you could clean out some of the rot inside the federal bureaucracy.
00:08:11.000Obviously, that's backed by the whole, you have to get back to work.
00:08:13.000So 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.
00:08:34.000So we'll play you the best sights and sounds from that shortly.
00:08:39.000Plus, California Congressman Vince Fong will stop by to unveil a new piece of fire prevention and water legislation for California.
00:09:30.000I think the big ones, obviously, that are going to be controversial, even though they shouldn't be, Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, all that stuff coming up tomorrow and the rest of this week.
00:10:11.000And for all of the top headlines that we spotlight here on the show, go over to my news app, MXM News, like minute by minute, MXM News, where you can get the mainstream news without the mainstream buyers.
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00:11:29.000Now, 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.
00:11:44.000She's the youngest person to ever hold that position.
00:11:47.000And after the clown show we've witnessed for the last four years, I don't think that matters.
00:11:50.000My toddler could probably do a great job of it back when they were still toddlers.
00:12:21.000But why should the mainstream media continue to hold these coveted seats if they're functioning as operatives for the Democrat Party?
00:12:31.000If they've been demonstrably wrong about so many things for so long.
00:12:35.000And the clout that they used to have and perhaps the credibility they used to have is gone.
00:12:40.000Why should they maintain those things?
00:12:42.000So, 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?
00:12:56.000In 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.
00:13:04.000And it wasn't just the same roster of regime propagandists asking the questions.
00:13:11.000The briefing room today was packed, and the legacy media outlets need to recognize that the status quo is no more.
00:13:19.000It is gone, along with a bunch of criminal illegal aliens.
00:13:23.000So just watch this exchange over illegal immigration.
00:13:56.000We'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.
00:14:06.000That wouldn't fly in on any other sane nation in the world, and it no longer flies here.
00:14:12.000And get this, in the first week of the Trump administration, ICE deported over 7,000 illegal aliens.
00:14:20.000And like I told you yesterday, we are just getting started.
00:15:12.000and 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
00:15:37.000Also, something else we learned at today's briefing was that the Biden administration was lying to us about the mysterious drones in New Jersey.
00:15:47.000This is another one we talked about a couple of times because it was nuts.
00:15:52.000They wouldn't give us any basic information.
00:15:54.000But it turns out the drones were literally authorized to be flown by the FAA for, quote, research.
00:16:03.000Watch this because it's mind-boggling that they couldn't just tell us that.
00:16:10.000I do have news directly from the President of the United States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office.
00:16:16.000From President Trump directly, an update on the New Jersey drones.
00:16:20.000After 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.
00:16:32.000Many of these drones were also hobbyists.
00:16:35.000Recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying Jones.
00:16:39.000In time, it got worse due to curiosity.
00:17:03.000And creating as much mystery as possible.
00:17:05.000I 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.
00:17:15.000Like, did they think that was going to, like, help them in an election?
00:17:18.000Like, do you really, like, hey, if we're being attacked by Russia, do we really want Joe Biden at the helm?
00:17:23.000Would you really want Kamala Harris at the wheel?
00:17:25.000I mean, seems like they should just tell us that, but...
00:17:48.000And what I love about this new Trump administration is how rapid and quickly things actually get done.
00:17:55.000We're actually getting action and getting answers, and it's only speeding up.
00:17:59.000I mean, people are just getting into their stride.
00:18:01.000They haven't even fully moved into their offices yet.
00:18:04.000We don't even have our full cabinet confirmed yet.
00:18:06.000And get this, we have some major breaking news coming in.
00:18:11.000Remember 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?
00:18:22.000Well, 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.
00:18:51.000In 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.
00:19:03.000This is just the first step, guys, in a broader investigation and actions into how China is infiltrating key American supply chains and infrastructure.
00:19:14.000And 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.
00:19:24.000These are major findings, and I'm guessing this is just the start.
00:20:01.000Because you can see which nominees the establishment fears the most by who the left-wing media and RINOs are targeting with their BS smears.
00:20:11.000The good news is my father is taking action in every corner of the country to right all of the left-wing wrongs.
00:20:20.000Just look at what he posted today about California.
00:20:23.000I quote, The water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
00:20:36.000The days of putting a fake environmental argument over the people are over.
00:20:42.000Enjoy your water, California." I mean, I like it.
00:20:50.000Trump delivers while Democrats simply ignore their own residents.
00:20:55.000They ignore major problems that are affecting.
00:20:58.000Tens of thousands, frankly, in many cases, millions of Americans.
00:21:02.000But 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.
00:21:18.000It's the first civilian aircraft to do so in decades.
00:21:57.000Independent manufacturing, doing it a little differently, it's one of those things.
00:22:00.000I 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.
00:22:06.000I still had a bowl cut and I was probably about three feet tall.
00:23:02.000There 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.
00:23:13.000This will transform commercial space travel.
00:23:16.000All of us, I heard you got to travel in the Concorde.
00:23:19.000Maybe I'll get the opportunity to fly in the next supersonic.
00:23:26.000Did the sonic boom once it breaks that sound barrier?
00:23:29.000I 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.
00:23:36.000Did that do any damage to California that's already been in a little bit of trouble as of late?
00:23:42.000We'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.
00:23:56.000So we'll be able to travel across the country with this new technology that's being developed.
00:24:00.000So you'll never know if a supersonic jet's flying overhead.
00:24:03.000Oh, that's interesting because that's why the Concorde sort of worked.
00:24:05.000It 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.
00:24:11.000Otherwise, literally windows would shatter.
00:24:13.000But so you're saying there's a technology that can actually mitigate the sound as they crack the sound barrier.
00:24:18.000So, yeah, they're testing that technology at NASA Armstrong, which is right next to the Mojave Spaceport.
00:24:23.000And their goal is to create a jet that can go supersonic and you'll never hear the sonic booms.
00:24:32.000I 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.
00:25:12.000I guess, you know, in California, I know the administration is really apparently deploying some federal resources to address the longstanding water issues.
00:25:20.000Obviously, it's something that's plagued Southern California, probably, I guess, quite a bit west of you guys.
00:25:27.000But what can you tell us about California's failed water and fire policies?
00:25:31.000And 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.
00:25:55.000I 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.
00:26:19.000You know, your father has traveled up and down the state, has seen our water challenges.
00:26:24.000The 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.
00:26:48.000I know that you and your House Republican colleagues have been making it a point to sort of...
00:26:51.000Bolster American supply chains and support my father's made-in-the-USA mission.
00:26:57.000What 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?
00:27:05.000I 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.
00:27:59.000I mean, just imagine someone had used this analogy.
00:28:02.000During 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?
00:28:11.000So now, moving forward to now, we are in competition with China.
00:28:15.000How 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?
00:28:28.000Yeah, and I think that can be done so readily and so easily, frankly, just wielding some of America's economic might.
00:28:41.000You saw sort of Panama fold real quickly this week.
00:28:44.000We just utilized some of the assets that we actually have.
00:28:47.000I mean, I've never seen a business basically handicap themselves to not be able to compete with what they actually have to compete with.
00:28:55.000Although it seems like we've been doing that for so long, but apparently those days are over again.
00:28:59.000Let's just get all the choke points out of the way.
00:29:02.000I mean, when you talk about forest management, your father's leading the charge on that.
00:29:06.000I mean, that's one of the clearest examples.
00:29:12.000We 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.
00:29:44.000I mean, we could be dominant in everything if we just got rid of all the barriers and the regulations that are holding us back.
00:29:51.000Yeah, I mean, obviously you see so much of that in California.
00:29:55.000I mean, it sort of feels like it's the leader for the government, state, control of everything, slow processes.
00:30:03.000Can 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?
00:30:11.000How do you create a sense of common sense?
00:30:19.000Well, I think you hit the nail on the head.
00:30:26.000There's a movement forming in California.
00:30:30.000I served in the state legislature for seven and a half years, butting heads against Gavin Newsom, and he fought us on everything.
00:30:36.000Building more water storage, streamlining the processes to do forest management projects, to build fire bricks.
00:30:44.000I mean, he put more regulations that drove businesses to Florida, to Texas.
00:30:49.000You 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.
00:31:05.000We've got to change the way that we do business in California.
00:31:08.000We have to have a customer service mentality, and that means electing new people.
00:31:14.000When 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.
00:31:26.000You 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.
00:31:41.000So, you know, obviously you're with a lot of the Republican delegation in Florida this week.
00:31:46.000Talk about where you see the GOP conference under the leadership of Speaker Johnson, and what do you think those top priorities are for him?
00:31:55.000Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
00:31:58.000As 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...
00:32:08.000A House Republican majority, a Senate majority, and to have President Trump in office, I mean, we have no time to waste.
00:32:16.000President Trump is doing that right now with his executive orders.
00:32:18.000We've got to codify those actions into law.
00:32:21.000We'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.
00:32:51.000There's a commercial space, AI, all the things that we can do to...
00:32:58.000To make sure America is a leader in technology.
00:33:01.000I 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.
00:33:09.000Well, I really appreciate it, Congressman.
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00:34:16.000So this week, guys, on Capitol Hill, Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and RFK Jr. will appear before Senate committees for their confirmation hearings.
00:34:30.000Now, like I said, you can see which nominees the establishment fears the most by the left-wing media targeting them with their BS smears.
00:34:40.000We also saw this week with Pete Hegseth, the MAGA movement stayed strong and sent a very powerful message.
00:34:49.000Joining 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.
00:35:34.000So basically, there'll be introductory statements from Chairman Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and you got Dick Durbin, and then Kash will be...
00:35:44.000There 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.
00:35:56.000I think they gave, the Democrats gave some indication or a bit of a tell during Pam Bondi's hearing.
00:36:03.000She'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.
00:36:11.000This is going to be must-see TV, but he's going to do great.
00:36:14.000And I think one of the things that's pretty consistent with all these picks is your father, President Trump, picked reformers.
00:36:20.000This election cycle was disruptors versus the establishment, and he's, you know...
00:36:24.000Fulfilling that promise he made to voters and he got the mandate to go do it.
00:36:28.000So from my point of view, President Trump deserves his team.
00:36:31.000Cash 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.
00:36:43.000He's a reformer who's going to come in and hopefully restore some credibility to an agency that's been, quite frankly, discredited.
00:36:49.000Yeah, 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.
00:37:02.000From what I've been told, Cash's meetings on the Hill actually have been great.
00:37:07.000Why 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.
00:37:16.000I used my time to sort of point out the fact that the weaponization at DOJ, we've never seen anything like this, this lawfare.
00:37:23.000And 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.
00:37:47.000We 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.
00:38:36.000And more popular than ever, I think because of that grit and that defiance.
00:38:41.000And so the FBI played a very important role in this.
00:38:44.000You 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.
00:38:59.000It 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.
00:39:09.000Who was pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election, telling these big tech companies, this is a Russian hack and leak operation.
00:39:47.000I know you work with my friend Jeff Landry on that one as well.
00:39:51.000Former AG at Louisiana, now governor over there.
00:39:54.000But yeah, you took on big tech exposing.
00:39:58.000You know, the Biden administration and the U.S. government literally working to censor one half of a conversation.
00:40:04.000And 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.
00:40:21.000And 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.
00:40:33.000And so, you know, it was that Missouri versus Biden case.
00:41:01.000You know, even in their hit pieces, I saw the, you know, in the New Yorker or whatever, the hit pieces.
00:41:07.000I 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.
00:41:19.000They've tried to demonize half the country and people have had enough.
00:41:22.000Yeah, I don't know if we even have the screenshot, but you mentioned that New Yorker article.
00:41:44.000I mean, the room, it's like, they just moved the photo where they could find, here's just, you know, a white homogenous room.
00:41:50.000And 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.
00:42:03.000It was like, no, you just left them out of the picture and the article.
00:42:07.000I mean, however much you hate the media, Eric, it is not enough.
00:42:37.000We've got to be able to deliver on that.
00:42:38.000Now, 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.
00:42:47.000We've got to make sure people turn out and vote.
00:42:49.000But 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.
00:42:58.000You know, I grew up in a pretty blue collar neighborhood.
00:43:04.000And 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.
00:43:25.000And so I think it's time for us to deliver.
00:43:29.000Though 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.
00:43:39.000And, you know, these are the same clowns that voted for Mayorkas.
00:43:44.000They voted for, you know, the vast majority of the Biden cabinet.
00:43:49.000Uh, 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.
00:43:55.000I mean, these are people that we campaigned with for the last three months of the election that we were out there there.
00:43:59.000And I know this because I, you know, I was the guy that sort of back channeled the Bobby endorsement and the Intel C endorsement.
00:44:05.000No, you were, listen, you were instrumental in that.
00:44:07.000And I think it's so smart because people are wondering what was the secret sauce.
00:45:01.000Just sit back and relax because he's basically in response to the Democrats just losing their mind about everything.
00:45:06.000You 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.
00:45:42.000Trump would have been not nearly as effective just rolling over the original, the first-term team.
00:45:47.000And 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.
00:47:08.000So, 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.
00:47:26.000You know, what have you found and what more can you tell us about what's really going on out there?
00:47:31.000So I think you put this in the broadest possible context to begin, which is...
00:47:38.000They have designs on world domination.
00:47:40.000And 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.
00:47:49.000And I'll give your father a lot of credit on this.
00:47:51.000When he started talking about these issues and trade issues, this was not orthodoxy, even in the Republican Party, to talk about this.
00:48:01.000This issue to the forefront about what a threat that they really are and how unfair they are as it relates to trade.
00:48:09.000But 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.
00:48:24.000They control both ports on either side.
00:48:27.000And so the one thing was a terrible idea.
00:48:29.000It 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.
00:48:41.000And 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.
00:48:56.000They've given these Chinese companies a sweetheart deal.
00:48:59.000And 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.
00:49:09.000They've built airports in some countries.
00:49:11.000And when you criticize the CCP, guess what happens?
00:49:15.000They're building these energy grids and they can turn them off and they can turn them off.
00:49:18.000And 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.
00:49:31.000And so Panama needs to make a decision here.
00:49:35.000We should not allow under no circumstances for the Chinese government to effectively control the Panama Canal.
00:49:41.000And that's really what's going on right now.
00:49:43.000So 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.
00:49:52.000My 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.
00:50:03.000They have their own there, and then it's all of our medical supply.
00:50:06.000And what is it, 93% of our antibiotics.
00:50:09.000It doesn't just stop at these little things where you say, oh, what's a port or two here and there?
00:50:38.000I guess one guy gets a briefcase of cash, and they control a region for perhaps eternity.
00:50:45.000Yeah, 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.
00:50:56.000So they got real challenges at home when you have an overly male population and they're unemployed.
00:51:02.000For a communist regime, that's a real problem.
00:51:04.000So 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.
00:51:19.000One 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.
00:51:33.000And 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.
00:51:39.000I think the newer members that have come in see this a little bit differently.
00:51:43.000We do not have the ability to do everything everywhere around the world all the time.
00:52:18.000But that's sort of what made America what it was.
00:52:20.000So between Panama, Greenland, you know, I'm sure there's some other places we could take over.
00:52:24.000You know, hey, I bet we can do it for a lot less than we spent in Ukraine for nothing, for absolutely nothing.
00:52:31.000What 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?
00:52:39.000What are our core American interests, right?
00:52:43.000Clearly having critical minerals and being able to access them in the Arctic sea lanes.
00:53:20.000So anyway, I think we are entering a golden age.
00:53:23.000We're entering a new age of American realism where I think our foreign policy more reflects the views of the American people.
00:53:28.000That'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.
00:53:38.000There'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?
00:53:44.000I want you to send another $60 billion to Ukraine.
00:53:48.000I 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.
00:54:04.000Raise your hand if it's a top 10 issue.
00:54:22.000But 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.
00:54:31.000You know, 175,000, that's the most statistically significant poll perhaps ever conducted in America.
00:54:42.000But NATO wants us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year to protect them from Russia.
00:54:46.000But, 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?
00:54:58.000It doesn't seem like they have a lot of likes to stand on.
00:55:01.000Or we can just stop funding NATO, too.
00:55:02.000I mean, you know, if they don't want to help us, why should we help them?
00:55:05.000I think the American people are tired of, honestly, subsidizing these These liberal socialist governments in Europe who refuse to provide for their own defense.
00:55:30.000There'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.
00:55:38.000Doesn'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.
00:55:46.000And, you know, and they're just like, well, why should we?
00:56:08.000They're, in many ways, sort of a reciprocal tax.
00:56:11.000And I think the American people are tired of getting ripped off and taken advantage of.
00:56:15.000And 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.
00:57:02.000But I think there's got to be a sense of urgency to make sure that that...
00:57:05.000That tax relief that working families got in 2017, that that doesn't expire.
00:57:10.000I think those are important things to do.
00:57:11.000I 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.
00:57:20.000And then for me, you know, it's kind of harkens back to the AG days.
00:57:23.000I think protecting free speech, but also taking on the broader administrative state.
00:57:28.000I 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.
00:58:09.000Yeah, 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.
00:58:16.000That means everyone gets to vote, but no one gets to know how anyone voted.
00:58:19.000So they can just be like, you're out rather than sort of facing the American people.
00:58:23.000I 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.
00:58:29.000So I would hope that we could figure out a way to make those votes public and just make sure that everyone understands.
00:58:35.000Where their senators lie on some of these votes, because I think that's an important part of it.
00:58:40.000You can't sort of pretend to be America first and then vote against the cabinet that the America first people voted for.
00:58:49.000Right, 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.
00:59:02.000Historically, 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.
00:59:11.000Not three nominees that were spiked, but just three no votes.
00:59:18.000To have a bunch of no votes, it would be more exceptionally rare to actually not confirm a nominee.
00:59:25.000And I would argue that, again, President Trump has ushered in a broad, diverse coalition that is a winning formula for the future.
00:59:33.000You know, you normally say permanent majorities, but opportunities to get things done.
00:59:38.000And 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.
00:59:47.000I mean, I think you're in a unique position being a former attorney general.
00:59:51.000So you also understand all the branches of government very well, how they interact.
00:59:55.000How 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.
01:00:05.000I think it's a great way to get started, get it rolling.
01:00:09.000Well, I think, look, the reason why we had separation powers, the reason we had federalism, you wanted to broadly disperse power, right?
01:00:15.000So you protected people's individual liberty.
01:00:17.000And so you've got these executive orders play a very important role.
01:00:20.000In many ways, President Trump is just a response to the craziness we saw by way of executive orders under the Biden administration.
01:00:27.000Let'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.
01:00:40.000So 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.
01:00:53.000But there are some things I think we need to make more permanent.
01:00:56.000The RAINS Act is something that makes a lot of sense.
01:00:59.000That 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.
01:01:12.000That would be an incredible check on the runaway executive branch.
01:01:16.000I think that, you know, they ought to pull back five or ten, you know, rules before they can propose a new rule.
01:01:22.000These are the kind of structural safeguards.
01:01:24.000By 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.
01:01:38.000So you change the incentive structure.
01:01:40.000And 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?
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01:03:57.000I guess, I guess with the inauguration, my father called me either the vicious one or the whatever it was.
01:04:03.000But, 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.
01:05:52.000Don't be president would be a pay cut and many headaches, although you do a great job.
01:05:55.000Well, 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.
01:06:12.000Sometimes you actually have to fight for what you believe in.
01:06:14.000You 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.
01:06:21.000So, yeah, I know the chat's going pretty fast, but yeah, someone didn't like the closed-door policy on Tulsi's confirmation.
01:06:28.000Yeah, I want to know who's not voting for, you know?
01:06:33.000J6ers being thrown into jail in their home states.
01:07:08.000I think my father talked about, you know, banning the federal income tax or, you know, getting rid of it.
01:07:12.000You 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.
01:07:34.000There's still stuff we got to do, but you saw them pausing a lot of the, you know, the nonsense government programs.
01:07:39.000You 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.
01:07:44.000So 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.
01:07:55.000So, yeah, hopefully get a lot of that stuff done.
01:08:26.000Doing great, but, you know, I think he wants to do that now.
01:08:31.000They're going to be termed out up there, and I think he could probably do a great job over there.
01:08:36.000He'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.
01:08:44.000So looking forward to seeing what he's going to be doing.
01:08:51.000I 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...
01:09:00.000Last minute, but since I left you hanging on Thursday, I figured I'd be here, but I will be back on actual Thursday.