00:06:27.000So, Saturday is America's 250th birthday.
00:06:30.000It's the 250th birthday of the United States of America.
00:06:33.000And yesterday, you probably saw my father out in the Badlands of North Dakota doing something presidents should actually do celebrating an American hero instead of apologizing for one.
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00:06:55.000He ran communications for the 2020 Trump campaign, the senior advisor in 2024.
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00:09:33.000And I want to start in Medora, North Dakota, a town of about 120 people because Yesterday, that little town hosted something this country very much needed to see.
00:09:46.000My father rode in to Freedom 250 train and opened the brand new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library on 93 acres, carved into the same badlands where Theodore Roosevelt lived, in the same house, and rebuilt himself into the man who built the American century.
00:10:08.000The doors opened to the public on July 4th on America's 250th birthday.
00:10:29.000Today, 107 years after he passed into eternity, Theodore Roosevelt's Presidential Library opens its doors, and the small town, but very great town, and today it's a very famous town because that's all they're talking about.
00:10:45.000Of Medora opens its arms to the entire world.
00:12:38.000And here we are in 2026 with that exact ideology winning primaries in the biggest city in America, actually, Theodore Roosevelt's original home in New York, and calling itself somehow the future.
00:12:53.000A nation, like an individual, either rises or falls.
00:12:59.000And that was the theme in Medora yesterday.
00:13:02.000And keep that line in your head today, and really every day, because every story on this show is one side building and the other side decaying and somehow calling it progress.
00:13:15.000Oh, and because it's America's birthday week, we're allowed to have a little fun.
00:14:14.000The border got funded like we actually intend to defend it.
00:14:18.000And you've seen those numbers on this show all year long.
00:14:23.000And here's the piece that no one talks about the United States Coast Guard just got the single largest investment since World War II new cutters, new aircraft, new icebreakers.
00:14:35.000The people interdicting the drug boats and pulling Americans out of the water now have the tools to do what they do best.
00:14:45.000It's a great day, not just because we're celebrating America's 250th anniversary, but it's also a great day to see the investment that President Trump and his administration is making into the Coast Guard.
00:15:00.000The largest investment since World War II, but dollar amounts is the largest in history with investing almost $25 billion.
00:15:12.000And it all started with a year ago when I was still in the Senate.
00:15:17.000And we voted on the one big, beautiful bill, which was the most consequential bill, definitely in President Trump's tenure, but also I think possibly in the recent history.
00:15:30.000When you see the investment, it's what good government actually looks like.
00:15:38.000At the same time, we were able to cut taxes for no tax on tips.
00:15:43.00085% of the individuals that are on Social Security have no tax on Social Security.
00:15:50.000No tax on overtime for the people that are working out there every single day, trying to do their best to provide a living.
00:15:58.000We put no tax on you for working hard.
00:16:02.000At the same time, we're able to make the investments, right?
00:16:05.000We're investing in investments on securing our southern border with new technology, fighting hard against the drug cartels, going after the narco boats, bringing law and order and restoring law and order back to our streets.
00:16:19.000And the wins didn't stop in Medora, guys.
00:16:22.000On Tuesday, the Supreme Court handed down one of the biggest common sense rulings in years, even if some of their other rulings, you know, aren't exactly all that much common sense.
00:16:35.000The court upheld West Virginia and Idaho's laws protecting girls' sports and said what every parent in America already knows school can keep girls' sports for girls.
00:16:48.000Title IX does not force your daughter to line up against a biological male.
00:16:52.000States are actually allowed to protect her.
00:16:56.000But think about how far gone, really, how far gone things were that they needed the Supreme Court to actually weigh in on this.
00:17:05.000I was talking about this years ago, before it was even on anyone's radar.
00:17:10.000My father signed the executive order banning men from women's sports back in 2025.
00:17:15.000The left called it hateful, but reality won.
00:17:19.000And that ruling is about protecting kids, which brings me to the story I really need you to hear today.
00:17:26.000Because while the Supreme Court was protecting little girls, the governor of Minnesota was protecting the man who abused one.
00:17:35.000And I want to walk through this slowly because I promise it's worse than you think.
00:17:42.000There's a man named Liu Vang, 42 years old, a citizen of Laos.
00:17:47.000In 2026, he was convicted of repeatedly, repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10 year old girl.
00:18:06.000He was supposed to be gone within a week.
00:18:09.000And then the Minnesota Board of Pardon stepped in.
00:18:13.000And you should know who sits on that board.
00:18:16.000The governor, Tim Waltz, almost VP, the Democrat nominee for the vice president in the last election, his attorney general, the chief justice of their Supreme Court.
00:18:53.000They pardoned him so ICE could not deport him because I guess the Democrats would really love a bunch of child molesters running around the country.
00:19:05.000This is the same Minnesota that let a quarter of a billion dollars get stolen from a program meant to feed hungry kids, the state where the fraud never ends and the accountability never starts or ever existed.
00:19:18.000And with all of that going on, the thing Tim Walsh found time for to make sure that happened was to make sure a man who abused a 10 year old girl gets to stay in the United States.
00:19:30.000Where's the mercy for the victim, Tim?
00:19:34.000You go out of your way to protect the abuser.
00:19:37.000There's no version of this that's compassion.
00:19:40.000Sanctuary policy started with we won't help ICE, then it became we'll obstruct ICE.
00:19:46.000Now it's we'll use The pardon power of the state of Minnesota to disarm federal immigration law, one predator at a time.
00:19:54.000That's not just a policy disagreement anymore.
00:19:57.000That's absolute and total moral collapse.
00:20:01.000And here's the contrast because, guys, there's always a contrast.
00:20:05.000The exact same week in Minnesota where they were pardoning a child predator to keep him in the country, look at what the federal government was actually doing.
00:20:15.000ICE flew out a plane load of what DHS calls the worst of the worst a convicted murderer from El Salvador.
00:21:14.000I got to say, it's been the honor of my entire life and career to have worked on two presidential campaigns for your father, the two most recent ones.
00:21:22.000It was a great experience, and I really am grateful for being let to be part of the team there.
00:21:39.000My father was opening the Teddy Roosevelt Library in the Badlands yesterday.
00:21:43.000I got to go there on the inaugural ride of the new Air Force One, which, let's just say, was absolutely spectacular.
00:21:51.000From where you sit right now, what's the mood of the country heading into this milestone birthday?
00:21:57.000Well, I think as Americans prepare for the 250th.
00:22:00.000Don, I think the mood in the country is very high.
00:22:03.000And I think if you actually, it's on TV every night.
00:22:06.000If you actually turn on and watch the World Cup, yeah, there are a lot of foreign fans there, but the United States front and center, boy, are Americans proud of their country.
00:22:15.000And it's, I think we've seen an amazing thing that happens to be with the coinciding of the World Cup with the 250th.
00:22:23.000This is a culture and, you know, the experiment in freedom that is worth defending and honoring.
00:22:29.000And that's what Americans are getting ready to do.
00:22:31.000But if you see the Europeans, Don, that have been traveling throughout our country, They're just loving it on social media, posting amazing things like when they discovered a Bucky's.
00:22:40.000But it's not just the giant truck stops that we have and the giant convenience stores that we have.
00:22:45.000It's also our natural beauty, people taking in the great West and the things in the rural parts of our country.
00:22:52.000Because most of the time, Europeans would come and they would meet leftists in our big cities, and all they'd hear about America is how awful it is from those leftists in New York.
00:23:02.000I think you actually make a really good point, Tim.
00:23:05.000You mentioned the tourists going to Bucky's, but you also see You know, Japanese tourists going to a gun store and they're really appreciating American culture.
00:23:14.000I mean, all these things that, you know, frankly, you know, the left in America wants to hate on everyone in the world, you know, who watches CNN International has sort of been biased and I think led to believe and led to a story that doesn't actually exist.
00:23:27.000When they experience it for themselves, they're loving it.
00:23:33.000And it's crazy that the European tourists seem to love America a lot more than Democrats in Congress seem to love America, Don, because as you know, you know, they were all holding press conversations.
00:23:42.000And stuff, and predicting failure for the World Cup here just because they dislike your father so much.
00:23:48.000They were rooting against America for political reasons domestically, which is ridiculous.
00:24:05.000And, you know, again, I think that's sort of indicative of everything else you've seen from them, really, since, you know, probably even before Trump.
00:24:13.000But, you know, Trump derangement syndrome brought them out to actually say these things out loud for the first time.
00:24:21.000And it's a shame because they're doing it on the world stage.
00:24:23.000And I know that they think that they're somehow gaining, I don't know what, political points with their leftist friends across the ocean there.
00:24:32.000How many other nations can you look around the world and do a quick scan and see elected leaders in those nations on purpose saying they're running down their own country, insulting their own country?
00:24:47.000And I can't see any other leaders in any other countries disparaging their own nation the way the Democrats do routinely, daily, simply because they do not like the current president of the United States.
00:25:03.000And I guess as it relates to policy, we're seeing this administration take on fraud, hate on, where, you know, and everywhere we look, we're finding it.
00:25:15.000Last week on this show, we dug into the 340B program.
00:25:19.000I know it's something that you're working on.
00:25:20.000And for anyone who perhaps missed the show last week, the one line version is it's a discount program built for poor patients that has quietly become essentially a money machine for hospital systems, for the bureaucrats.
00:25:33.000You've spent your career watching Washington Heights scandals behind acronyms and complicated numbers and NGOs.
00:25:41.000What do we have to know about this 340 program?
00:26:31.000The discounts and rebates they receive from the drug companies to the consumers, the patients, but they do not.
00:26:37.000They keep the difference between what their rebated price is or their discounted price and what they charge to the end patient or what they get reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid through.
00:26:48.000And they are raking in billions of dollars, Don.
00:26:52.000And let me tell you, there's one here out in Washington state called CMAR.
00:27:05.000That is a 10x markup to the patients, absolutely the opposite of what this drug pricing program is supposed to be.
00:27:13.000And this is an organization that pays its CEO a million and a half dollars.
00:27:18.000They own, for some reason, they founded and built a Latino museum in that market out in Washington state.
00:27:25.000They own two different radio stations.
00:27:27.000They own a for profit architecture firm and they own a bunch of condominiums.
00:27:33.000That's not a health insurance company.
00:27:34.000That's a multinational corporation, is what it sounds like.
00:27:38.000And they're supposed to be providing discounts and giving cheap drugs and cheap medicine and cheap medical care to poor people, and they do not.
00:27:47.000That's what this 340B program, which is rife with these FQHCs in it, driving up costs, ripping off people, marking up prices, and ripping off the taxpayers left and right to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, Don.
00:28:03.000I mean, how did those types of programs and fraud essentially become so entrenched?
00:28:07.000You know, and is there a clean way forward to fix this, you know, in Congress or something like that?
00:28:14.000I mean, it feels like you got to do something about it because it's, you know, again, they have the fancy acronyms, they sound really nice and good, and then they don't do even close to their stated purpose.
00:29:16.000I'll save you the trouble of guessing, Don.
00:29:18.000It was Ilhan Omar's brother husband that we've heard so much about helping Ilhan Omar's sister with her healthcare consulting firm.
00:29:26.000And by the way, that FQHC that was run by Ilhan Omar's sister, a grand total of $33 million of taxpayer money has been funneled to that organization in Minnesota.
00:29:38.000That is the sort of thing that we're trying to stop.
00:29:41.000This is not a policy that is meant to help poor people get medical care.
00:30:06.000Why did Washington Republicans essentially let it slide for so long?
00:30:10.000I mean, were they just in on part of the grift?
00:30:13.000Hey, they got 10% for their stuff, so they just got quiet and it was just leave well enough alone?
00:30:18.000Well, I'm sure as you and your family have discovered how clubby exactly Washington is, and there was this thing, your father helped destroy it.
00:30:28.000But this thing called the uniparty, where everyone wanted to go along to get along, you know, and you got Democrats and Republicans who are serving in Congress for 40 years, 45 years in some cases.
00:30:39.000They don't want to disrupt their own apple cart.
00:30:41.000And so they're not going to disrupt anybody else's apple cart.
00:32:34.000These are things that voters ought to get fired up about.
00:32:36.000In Chicago, there's a Howard Brown Health Clinic, and they are going to defy your father's administration policy.
00:32:43.000And they're going to use taxpayer money for hormone treatments for minors, for people who want to have their gender reassigned.
00:32:49.000They're going to be using that's an FQHC that's going to be doing gender reassignment surgeries using taxpayer dollars.
00:32:56.000A couple of other ones in New York and Oregon, Don, they are open about their idea to use taxpayer money to provide health care for illegal aliens.
00:33:04.000In fact, the one in Oregon has a page on its website that is titled, How to Be Prepared for an Immigration Raid.
00:33:12.000How much health care are you getting accomplished there when you're studying for what to do when ice shows up at your door?
00:33:17.000I mean, honest to God, that's not what a health clinic does.
00:33:20.000And so, you know, I think voters just need to be really aware of this, make sure you're paying attention to where your candidates stand.
00:33:27.000And again, sunlight is the best disinfected.
00:33:29.000Congress has the ability to change and tighten some of these rules and get rid of some of this stuff.
00:33:33.000This is just people taking advantage of loopholes in laws that Congress wrote.
00:33:43.000You wrote a column a couple of weeks back saying that the map favors Republicans on the issues the border, crime, the economy, men playing in women's sports.
00:33:53.000But history does tell us that the party in power loses seats.
00:33:58.000What do you think the state of play is right now?
00:34:02.000You would be foolish not to take a look at history and understand that really, when you are the party in power, the party that controls the White House, that you are going to historically lose seats.
00:34:12.000But I think that your dad and the Republicans in Congress have a chance to defy that.
00:34:17.000If you look at just look at the differences in 2018, during the first midterm and the first Trump term, The Cook Political Report heading into the midterms handicapped this way, and they regarded safe seats here 210 Democrat safe seats, only 195 Republican safe seats.
00:34:36.000So the Democrats had a 15 seat lead going into the midterms with 30 seats at toss ups.
00:34:41.000So now, you know, you understand you have to get to 218 in the House to get to a majority.
00:34:45.000Right now, according to the same Cook Political Report, Republicans are ahead in the safe seats, Don.
00:34:50.000Quite a change from being trailing by 15 seats.
00:34:53.000They're now ahead by two in safe seats 209.
00:34:57.000To 207, and of the 19 toss ups, Republicans need to win less than half, only nine toss ups.
00:35:04.000So, I think holding on to the Senate is definitely going to happen, and keeping the House is eminently doable.
00:35:11.000And I think it's largely because of the issues.
00:35:13.000The issue set lines up to favor Republicans because of the Trump policies.
00:35:18.000You're going to have the economy hitting on all cylinders, gas prices are going to be down because the situation with Iran will likely be cleared up well in time for the midterms.
00:35:27.000The issue of immigration and the sealed border versus the Democrats in their open border, the idea of boys playing in girls' sports, all of these issues are the very same issues that got your father reelected in 2024.
00:37:08.000And, you know, they talk about there's this one House candidate who knocked off a 15 term incumbent, a Democrat in Colorado.
00:37:16.000She deleted a bunch of old tweets, but one of her tweets said, seize the means of production, which is like number one on the Marxist playbook, right?
00:37:24.000So these people are literally, it is number one.
00:37:55.000The Democrat base is moving towards communism, and guys like Hakeem Jeffries are just standing there hoping that the communists eat him last.
00:38:04.000That's basically what's going on in the Democratic Party.
00:39:00.000What's the thought behind this one, even?
00:39:02.000Well, I mean, it doesn't make any sense, but the thought behind it is maybe it's not even a thought as much as a reflex for them now is that everything that involves Donald Trump, they have to oppose.
00:40:07.000Well, you know, your book is called Swing Hard in Case You Hit It.
00:40:10.000You know, for the young person watching who wants to get into this fight, you know, campaigns, media, communications, you know, what's one of the best pieces of advice that you'd give them right now?
00:41:35.000And, you know, and when people say, Oh, I don't want to do that job, I don't want to have to move, then we say, Well, we're glad you told us that because you quite obviously would probably be a pretty bad campaign worker if you couldn't be bothered to, you know, pick up and move.
00:41:48.000You're not that invested in it if you think that's too far to go.
00:42:00.000What's the story that decides November that no one in Washington is talking about just yet?
00:42:05.000I think that there might end up being a perfect storm to help Republicans and push them across the finish line to keep control of both chambers.
00:42:12.000And I do believe that's what's going to happen the Republicans retain control of Congress.
00:42:16.000The issue set lines up it's going to be the economy and crime, and I think redistricting.
00:42:22.000Has really helped, and your father's push to ensure that Republicans were aggressive in that has really helped.
00:42:27.000But here's the buried thing that I think people aren't even really noticing the fact that the Democrat base, their young voters, and a significant portion of Democrat voters, their base, they actively distrust and do not like the Democrat leadership, the Democrat establishment.
00:42:45.000The Democrat base hates the people who lead the party.
00:42:50.000And that is going to hurt Democrat establishment candidates in states all across this country.
00:42:55.000If you have a Senate candidate that the base hates, it's going to hurt that Senate candidate, and that will be good for the Republican no matter what state it's in.
00:43:02.000Well, thank you very much, Tim Murtaugh.
00:43:04.000Everyone, check out his column at the Washington Times.
00:43:30.000I hope you get to enjoy it with your family and celebrate this incredible nation.
00:43:34.000I know I'm going to be in Washington, D.C. Like I said, I got to go on the inaugural flight of the new Air Force One, which was, let's just say, pretty spectacular.
00:43:42.000And I'm a reasonably spoiled individual.
00:43:43.000I've been blessed to see a lot of interesting stuff.
00:43:46.000It was amazing going out to Theodore Roosevelt.
00:43:48.000Tomorrow I'm going out to Mount Rushmore to see the incredible fireworks display there.
00:43:55.000And then to spend 4th of July at the White House, at the People's House.
00:44:00.000With the president, happens to also be my dad.