Kaylee Means is a senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. working to implement the Maha, Make America Healthy Again agenda and completely shake up the system. He's on the front lines, and he's here to tell us exactly what's going on.
00:06:32.000And honestly, the swamp inside our food, our medicine, and our health might be the deepest and most dangerous of them all.
00:06:40.000For decades, they've gotten us addicted to processed junk, relying on foreign entities for essential medicines, medicines that are often riddled with chronic disease-causing things.
00:06:54.000All while major food giants and companies and their rich lobbyists just keep getting richer.
00:07:02.000But now, the Maha movement is changing all of that.
00:07:05.000And today, we'll be joined by Kaylee Means.
00:07:08.000He's the founder of TrueMed, co-author of Good Energy, and now, crucially, he's a senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:07:22.000Kaylee's working to implement the Maha, Make America Healthy Again agenda, and completely shake up the system.
00:07:31.000Kaylee's on the front lines, and he's here to tell us exactly what's going on.
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00:10:57.000A little bit more formal than I sometimes see, which is, you know, I'm not that formal, so I like to keep it chill.
00:11:03.000But now that you're working with HSS, I'd love to just get a general inside look on like where things have gone as we really near this sort of first hundred days, specifically when it comes to ending the childhood chronic disease crisis.
00:11:18.000What are the key Maha aligned actions being pushed with within HHS and across the government right now?
00:11:27.000Yeah, we're all wearing suits here, but there are so many warriors in this building working to fight.
00:11:32.000And I think it's really about institutional change.
00:11:35.000I think Maha is part of what you're seeing in the first 100 days for a lot of institutions where we're talking about big things.
00:11:40.000We're talking about fundamentally changing the incentives of our military industrial complex, of our trade imbalances that have hauled out the middle class, of government efficiency and of health.
00:11:48.000And I think it really interestingly happened with Harvard.
00:11:51.000So they're they're pulling funding for Harvard and they're talking about the taxism status.
00:11:57.000So what does this actually mean and what does this mean for health?
00:12:22.000And they answered that they helped some marginal pharma R&D development.
00:12:26.000They've been an outsourced lab for pharma.
00:12:27.000That's literally, they sent a document with just drug help.
00:12:32.000No foundational research they could cite on why people are getting sick.
00:12:36.000So it's one example where all of these institutions, the $5 trillion we spent on health care, are really incentivized, 95 percent of it, until after we get sick.
00:12:45.000And that's why these battles with some of these institutions that have underlied that system are really, really important.
00:13:29.000We don't even know where that $2 trillion is going and whether that's benefiting American patients and American health.
00:13:37.000I think it's the trend of this administration so far.
00:13:40.000They're getting to the root cause of transparency.
00:13:43.000They just want to know the information so that we can ask, how can we spend that money in an effective way to actually spur health when right now we're the sickest country in the developed world?
00:14:06.000I mean, at least with the military, it's like, okay, well, we have a couple planes, but we're spending trillions of dollars and no accountability, no nothing.
00:14:14.000And of course, like everything else that we've done in MAGA, with MAHA, it's like, well...
00:14:18.000We have to show you what we're doing with your trillions of dollars?
00:14:57.000But what the lobbyists are fighting against is simple transparency.
00:15:01.000They are coming in and arguing that we can't see Medicare, Medicaid data where we're spending those trillions of dollars because it's going to confuse patients.
00:15:10.000That we can't see data on pesticides and food dyes and other food ingredients because that's going to scare.
00:15:18.000There's actually an all-out assault from lobbyists who don't even understand what they're saying, but actually saying the American patient isn't sophisticated enough to see the full data sets of the NIH studies, isn't sophisticated enough to see research on the COVID vaccine,
00:15:33.000isn't sophisticated enough to understand the FDA data sets, which we do not have access to.
00:15:55.000And there's a fight to prevent the American taxpayer from even getting that basic information.
00:16:01.000You know, again, this Maha agenda, what they're trying to do at its core, is institutional change, starting with transparency so patients can make the right decisions.
00:16:12.000And I think the message coming from HHS and Secretary Kennedy is there are big policy conversations to have, but we are not going to negotiate or take lobbyist input on transparency.
00:16:24.000A lot of people may not be sophisticated enough, but I'm sure there's plenty of scientists who aren't on the dole, who aren't on the payroll, who could look at this and be like, wow, that's really bad.
00:16:36.000If it's going to scare a customer, maybe there's a reason it should scare a customer.
00:16:39.000Because again, if you look at the results of what has happened to our health...
00:16:42.000You mentioned sort of being the least healthy of the developed world.
00:16:46.000I'm sure we spend more than any other country on these things.
00:17:01.000We only try to fix it once we already know you're sick, which I imagine is a lot more expensive than preventing people from getting sick in the first place.
00:17:11.000What was sworn in, which you, Don, had an amazing, huge impact on doing.
00:17:16.000People don't even know how much we were working behind the scenes.
00:17:19.000But the American people really pushed him in there, and it was an incredible victory.
00:17:23.000President Trump signed an executive order, and it said in 100 days, so this is going to be May 22nd, it would be great to have you there, but President Trump, Bobby Kennedy, and a lot of the cabinet are going to be releasing a report on the trends in American health.
00:17:34.000We spend three times more per capita than any European country, and we are living seven years less than the Italians.
00:18:17.000I think the Maha moms are right when they say something's not quite right.
00:18:21.000Right now, you know, when I talk about that $2 trillion we spend from CMS, the medical standard of care when a kid is sad is to give them an SSRI, an antidepressant.
00:18:31.000They've doubled in prescription rates among teens.
00:18:48.000That the American people, and we can open source this data, our friends, Elon's friends who run the data and great scientists can run that data.
00:18:58.000Is the spend on SSRIs working for us and lowering rates of depression?
00:19:02.000Is the fact that 40% of men over 40 on a statin, is that the right intervention all the time when you have high cholesterol?
00:19:12.000Hundreds of billions were spending a year on cancer therapeutics, lowering cancer rates.
00:19:17.000We actually, Don, this is one of the most shocking stats from this report.
00:19:20.000There's 212 countries they measure cancer rates for.
00:21:11.000Well, maybe we actually take some of that money that we're funneling to fake science and actually put it into real science, and maybe we figure this out, because we should know.
00:21:18.000Or maybe we get the data that we already have showing the autism diagnosis, and we're blocked from seeing this data on what the other factors are.
00:21:24.000Clearly, Don, the fact that 1 in 20 boys now—and this was released this week—1 in 20 boys in the United States have autism.
00:21:32.000Could this be related to the— Rapid rise of obesity, which they say autism is a diagnosis issue.
00:21:39.000Well, is the rise of obesity a diagnosis issue?
00:21:41.000Because I'm seeing a lot more obese kids.
00:22:46.000So we ask them, okay, if atrazine is so safe, would you sign your kid up for a study at the NIH where we give half the group, maybe your kids, an atrazine pill every day for two years and half the group a placebo and see what happens?
00:23:01.000So you literally have these folks, including the pharma industry, saying we don't have enough research to take this poison out of the food.
00:23:09.000And then when you suggest the research, which would clearly be a placebo-randomized control study where half the group takes an atrazine pill or a titanium dioxide pill or a BHT pill or a food coloring pill, all these ingredients that are banned in every other country, let's test it.
00:23:22.000The message from this administration is let's start with transparency.
00:23:26.000But I think it is a very interesting sign if we...
00:23:30.000Submit a study to the NIH to test an ingredient that is in 60% of kids' food, and it's considered unethical by the scientific community to even test this ingredient that's already in the food.
00:23:44.000I mean, isn't the sort of evidence that it's banned in every other country?
00:23:47.000Meaning, you know, for a change, it'd be nice if, like, we just take other people's information rather than spending trillions of dollars to figure out the obvious.
00:23:54.000They didn't just ban it for no reason.
00:23:56.000I'm sure they did studies, and if they found that it was bad...
00:24:04.000I don't like giving Europe any credit.
00:24:05.000I don't like giving Europe any credit.
00:24:06.000But if every other country, literally in the world, is doing something, and we're the outlier, and then our health outcomes are total outliers and our health costs, you know, when we talk about government efficiency, it's health care costs.
00:24:18.000I mean, these are the biggest drivers of U.S. inflation, U.S. spending.
00:24:25.000Yes, Don, that's absolutely an argument we're making.
00:24:28.000It's not a veto on our policy, but we should certainly take note.
00:24:32.000And I will say something that's heartening.
00:24:34.000While lobbyists, and we can talk about the soda industry too, which has been very interesting, they obviously are there to protect their interests.
00:24:42.000They, as humans, do understand that there's a crisis, and that's what we're going to talk about on May 22nd.
00:24:49.000President Trump and Secretary Kennedy are doing is they're starting to change the conversation.
00:24:53.000I know you as a parent and many parents are looking at the labels a little bit more.
00:24:57.000I was recently reading the Wall Street Journal of the food industry.
00:25:00.000The number one threat they said to junk food is not Ozempic or anything else.
00:25:05.000It is that Americans, because of President Trump, because of Bobby Kennedy, because of this totally unlikely alliance, they're culturally waking up to caring about what they're feeding their kids.
00:26:45.000I mean, I think punches should be thrown and it's politics.
00:26:48.000But we are at the dawn of AI and we all want a robust pharmaceutical industry that's creating therapeutics to help reverse and prevent disease and promote longevity.
00:27:03.000And let me just take it to this case study.
00:27:05.000If you want to talk about Maha victories, just look at what's happening with soda and snap.
00:27:09.000So the food industry, and this is where I started my career.
00:27:12.00015, 17 years ago, when I was in D.C., I helped the American Beverage Association pay off the NAACP, and the NAACP started saying it was racist to take the subsidy for soda off SNAP.
00:27:42.000So right now, there is a $10 billion plus subsidy going from the federal treasury to soda companies for a program that is supposed to supplement nutrition food.
00:27:52.000There is nothing, you know, nobody's banning Coke.
00:28:12.000It is impossible to argue against that.
00:28:14.000That is a material part of Coca-Cola and Pepsi and these companies' revenue.
00:28:17.000I mean, you do the math, you know, it's 10, 20 percent of their revenue is coming from the federal government to give soda to lower-income people.
00:28:24.000But this has been something they fought.
00:28:26.000This is something nobody ever thought would change.
00:28:27.000But because the momentum for Secretary Kennedy, President Trump and the Maha agenda, governors started requesting SNAP waivers.
00:28:33.000So governors have control of SNAP and they can request to take soda off.
00:28:37.000And the Biden administration refused to accept those waivers.
00:28:40.000There are actually a couple already inspired by Secretary Kennedy.
00:28:43.000Secretary Rollins and Secretary Kennedy said, we're open for business.
00:29:08.000They've never in their history of the big food industry have seen a bigger grassroots uprising and been more caught off guard than what's happening right now.
00:29:15.000States around the country are taking soda off SNAP and saying that the SNAP dollars should go to American farmers, not soda companies.
00:29:22.000This is going to have a demonstrable impact in child's health.
00:29:59.000I'll give a couple shout-outs to blue states.
00:30:01.000But I will say, I've learned something in this health issue, that the most serious disease in the country right now is TDS, Trump derangement syndrome.
00:30:10.000And it has reached stage four for many on the left and in the media.
00:30:14.000And it's created this incredible dynamic where you have states around the country.
00:30:20.000These clips have gone viral where you have Democratic lawmakers passionately arguing for why we need to keep government's funding for soda.
00:30:29.000This is something the left used to you know, this was reversed, right?
00:31:41.000I mean, there was no better example than when President Trump called out that 13-year-old boy who recovered from brain cancer at the joint session to Congress.
00:31:49.000And he mentioned that he was most likely got the cancer from some toxins in our environment.
00:31:55.000And the Democrats refused to clap for that.
00:32:08.000Covering this a lot on the show, specifically big food and how they try to undermine some of the important Maha goals.
00:32:15.000Could you talk about the danger as it relates to our over health of how powerful these guys are and just how difficult it is to get across?
00:32:50.000And this was this is what I was so excited about with Secretary Kennedy coming on with with President Trump is that Maha is a sign of, I think, the MAGA real thesis, which is that it's not left right.
00:33:00.000It's just the American people are being brought down by the swamp, by crony capitalism, by corruption in many spheres.
00:33:05.000And when it comes to food, I always talk about the cigarette industry.
00:33:09.000They owned 50 percent of the U.S. food supply in the 1990s.
00:33:12.000Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds in the 1980s were two of the largest companies in the world.
00:34:01.000Some of these chemicals you can't pronounce that we're looking at, they soften the food because the less you chew, the less hunger you get.
00:34:07.000Right now, there was a Wall Street Journal article where there's hundreds of food scientists trying to study ozempic to actually understand the exact molecules of the drug so that they can create food to specifically out-hack the drug.
00:34:19.000So you come up with a cure for something that's, you know, and again, whether you, you know, I know people who've done it, who swear by it.
00:34:28.000I'm sure, you know, some of those, you know, things are great.
00:34:31.000You know, I do think we've gotten a little too accustomed to there's a pill for everything and it's easier than actually putting in the work.
00:34:37.000But, you know, I know plenty of guys that are hardworking guys that are guilty of it.
00:34:40.000So they're trying to get around the solutions for these things.
00:34:45.000There are hundreds of scientists at food companies studying Ozempic so that they can specifically formulate food to out-hack that drug so you eat more.
00:34:59.000This is actually what CEOs of food companies have admitted that they're doing to increase shareholder confidence that people are going to keep eating junk food.
00:35:07.000Yes, that is how the food industry thinks.
00:35:10.000And this is the legacy of the tobacco industry.
00:35:23.000One is that they've been able to buy off the nutrition guidelines and our scientific authorities to where to this day the nutrition guidelines, I mean, you probably won't believe this, but to this day the Biden era nutrition guidelines say beans are the best source of protein, limit meat.
00:35:37.000They say low-fat milk instead of whole milk, which is a disaster.
00:35:41.000They actually recommend added sugar as a healthy part of a two-year-old's diet.
00:35:46.000And they say, and they released a report last year, that a child's diet...
00:35:50.00093% of ultra-processed food can be healthy, and they don't take a stand on any type of food quality or ultra-processed food.
00:35:57.000Brooke Rollins and Secretary Kennedy are making a very clear point to the food industry.
00:36:11.000We should absolutely not be recommending added sugar to two-year-olds.
00:36:15.000There's going to be real common sense here.
00:36:17.000And I think that's a big way to solve this.
00:36:20.000Again, I cannot tell you how much lobbying there is.
00:36:24.000On just basic science, on basic transparency.
00:36:27.000You know, at the very least, the government does have a role to have accurate science.
00:36:32.000But a lot of the lessons we learned from COVID, I see in the food industry.
00:36:35.000There's just total weaponization of the NIH Research Department and our scientific departments.
00:36:40.000I don't think we need a lot of nutrition researchers.
00:36:42.000We need to tell the American people that they should be eating whole food and limiting ultra-processed food.
00:36:48.000I think that type of common sense is going to come through.
00:36:52.000And then really attacking the subsidies.
00:36:54.000Again, it's not banning, as Bobby said a million times, it's not banning the Twinkies or the Coca-Cola, but when you look at the food stamp program, and then when you look at federal school lunches, we're poisoning our kids with school lunches.
00:37:06.000I'm a conservative, I'm a libertarian, but you can have an opinion on what food you are buying if we're spending money to provide nutritious food for children.
00:38:24.000We talk about the D.C. swamp affecting the DOJ and the Pentagon, but you focus on health.
00:38:30.000The fact that they're doing the same thing there is insane.
00:38:33.000How does the devastating rise in chronic disease, along with our dangerous over-reliance on foreign entities for essential medicines and supplies, how does that represent one of the most critical, yet probably I guess most often overlooked threats to America's well-being and security.
00:38:51.000Because, I mean, I can't think of anything that's more national security than, A, the expense, the drain of trying to keep people healthy who've been poisoned for generations.
00:39:03.000Oh, it's a national security issue on many different fronts, Don.
00:39:09.000One is that 77%, and this is from the DOD, 77% of military-aged youth aren't eligible to join the military almost predominantly because of mental health or chronic disease issues.
00:39:21.000We've got a serious, and thank God for Pete Hegseth.
00:39:24.000Who's now out there exercising with the troops and we've had record recruitment and we're getting back to being fighters again.
00:39:32.000And that's really important because we become really soft and our countries become soft.
00:39:36.000And you're going to hear Bobby talking a lot about that.
00:39:37.000But on the national security angle, yeah, about 40 percent of our food comes from other countries.
00:39:43.000China has infiltrated our agriculture system.
00:39:46.000Brooke Rollins has been talking about this a lot.
00:39:48.000They're a large owner of U.S. farmland.
00:39:50.000They actually own over 50 percent of our meatpacking facilities.
00:40:50.000The farther food travels, the nutrient content of that food exponentially decays.
00:40:56.000So we talk about having at schools local food from farmers in that area.
00:41:02.000That means actually it's much more nutritious.
00:41:04.000You know, a tomato, and this gets to the soil degradation, which we really need to look at, a tomato grown in the United States has 70% less nutrients in it than a tomato grown 60 years ago.
00:41:15.000So the distance food is traveling, what we're doing to our soil.
00:41:19.000I mean, again, these are really important things.
00:41:22.000Can you even solve the soil issue at this point?
00:41:34.000Well, this gets to where I think Maha right now is laying the stake in the ground on what is a 15-year journey to work with our farmers to harden up our agriculture system and harden up our health incentives.
00:42:18.000And actually the USDA and Bobby Kennedy are actually working not to do any command and control things on farmers, but to actually socialize and work with them on better procedures to rejuvenate the soil, which is happening.
00:42:30.000There is a movement on that to happen.
00:42:34.000We do, by estimates with our current system, have 40 crop suckers left or the soil will be dirt on the current trajectory.
00:42:41.000But there's a lot of focus in this administration on really important things like soil reduction.
00:42:46.000I actually think, Don, there's a world of just total abundance and total optimism here.
00:42:52.000People haven't talked about this, but Elon's robots, I mean, like literally one of the big problems with regenerative agriculture, you get great crop output, but there's a labor issue.
00:43:00.000You know, I think robotic technology, AI technology, we're going to have a lot of cool tools for our farmers to do better soil regeneration practices.
00:43:09.000But we just need to survive, you know, the interim.
00:43:12.000So the fact that we're even talking about it, the fact that President Trump, you know, and Bobby Kennedy and Secretary Rollins are using their microphone, the fact that we're talking about, you know, I don't know what the policy should be, but the food industry is out hacking Ozempic.
00:43:27.000You know, what I hope to see in the next two years, Don, and I think it's going to happen, is we're going to get quick wins like the food stamps, like the autism study, like SNAP, like FDA reform, like grass standard reform, and the food dies.
00:43:39.000But we're also going to drive a cultural awakening in this country.
00:43:43.000I think President Trump and Secretary Kennedy, I think you saw this, they hit on more of a, I think, almost spiritual issue that we don't have like a health policy issue where we're not prescribing our kids the right amount of drugs or we're not...
00:43:56.000We don't have quite the right Medicare reimbursement rate for things.
00:43:59.000We really have a spiritual issue that I think ties to the transing of children issues, to the boys and women's sports, to the education collapse we've had, to what we're feeding our kids, to the fact that 35% of teens are on a pharmaceutical product.
00:44:40.000I mean, I think everything here is through the lens of kids, and there's a cultural awakening happening there.
00:44:45.000Yeah, I guess, you know, speaking of which, you know, I guess regarding sort of securing our supply chains, how do you expect, you know, big pharma and potentially foreign entities, obviously the CCP being a big one of them, they've been benefiting from that status quo.
00:45:21.000Yeah, I think what's happening is everyone, all the lobbyists are so short-term and they're so embedded with the media that any move to correct these imbalances that have hauled out the middle class, and if you read any history of great power decline,
00:45:37.000it's because there's the growing inequality and issues that we're seeing in the country right now that these tariffs are trying to address.
00:45:45.000And the lobbyists, I'm struck by how short-term they are.
00:45:49.000So they're certainly using the media to say how this is crazy.
00:45:52.000But yeah, we have a situation right now where China controls our meatpacking and many areas of U.S. agriculture.
00:45:59.000And if China shut off pharmaceutical manufacturing, we'd only have several weeks of core pharmaceutical.
00:46:06.000So there is clearly a stake in the ground here where we need to harden up our core supply chains and semiconductors in pharmaceuticals.
00:46:14.000I think there's a really positive vision, Don, here.
00:46:17.000We're on the age of actually very exciting therapeutic innovations.
00:46:20.000We're going to deregulate at the FDA, really encourage great innovation in America.
00:46:26.000But it is an absolute national security issue right now.
00:46:29.000And China, the fact that they have so much leverage on us, the fact that we are so interconnected with them on our supply chain is the reason we need to be moving aggressively.
00:46:39.000But as you see this, and I just think highest level from being inside here, this is what every American needs to know.
00:46:45.000We cannot fall for the psyops from the media.
00:47:23.000This is what every American from all parties have been asking for for my entire life.
00:47:28.000And we need to hold strong and support Secretary Kennedy, President Trump, Secretary Besant in taking these moves to reassure some of these core issues that impact our nationality.
00:47:39.000Yeah, I mean, it is sort of interesting.
00:47:45.000Many Democrats back in the 90s talking about this as it relates to trade and tariffs and all these things.
00:47:50.000It was the right idea then, but 30 years later, it's only gotten worse.
00:47:54.000Eventually, you actually have to do these things.
00:47:56.000We touched on it a bit earlier, but promoting real food, questioning big pharma, that was painted as left-wing.
00:48:06.000How is the fight for food integrity and for...
00:48:10.000Crucial health sovereignty, ensuring that America controls its all-health destiny, actually now a deeply conservative and, frankly, essential America-first position.
00:48:21.000How did that happen just seemingly in a few years?
00:48:25.000I mean, I'm just going to be blunt with you.
00:48:28.000I think the answer to that is I think your dad, the reason he is, I think, the most important figure of our generation is because he...
00:48:36.000We zeroed focus into the core issue facing human civilization right now, which is institutional decline.
00:48:42.000The institutions that I grew up as a young conservative do not question.
00:48:46.000I grew up, you know, oh, you don't ask a question of the military.
00:49:02.000We are a thousand percent pro-business.
00:49:05.000I want to see in 10 years a pharmaceutical industry, a hospital industry, an insurance industry that is absolutely crushing it.
00:49:11.000But it is also an unmistakable fact that those industries have realized that chronic disease is extremely profitable, have realized that a patient who is sick, who gets on more medications, who has more hospital visits...
00:49:26.000We have created a system through corruption, not the free market, where hospitals make money when beds are full, not empty, where drug companies make money when more drugs are prescribed, not less, and even because of the disastrous Obamacare legislation that actually incentivized insurance companies to make more money when costs go up.
00:49:42.000Everyone thinks insurance companies want costs to go down.
00:49:45.000They have this 15% medical loss ratio where they can only make a 15% profit margin.
00:49:50.000But are able to raise premiums to get that 15%.
00:49:52.000So, of course, you want 15% of a larger pie.
00:49:55.000And since Obamacare, premiums have doubled.
00:49:57.000They've been the largest source of U.S. inflation.
00:49:59.000So every single source, every single lever of our medical system, not through the free market, has been rigged.
00:50:05.000And President Trump changed the political order by steering a movement who wants thriving institutions but realizes that there's been massive, swampy behavior.
00:50:19.000And we are trying to save the country.
00:50:21.000We are trying to save the health care system by correcting these broken incentives to let American industry thrive.
00:53:25.000These folks, when you talk about the science and talk about serious science, serious science in the current paradigm, and my sister writes about in this book from Stanford Med School, from researching at the NIH, from surgical residency, serious science is people getting sick and then cutting them open,
00:53:41.000prescribing a drug or some other medical intervention.
00:53:44.000Again, Don, that has been very helpful.
00:53:46.000A lot of those interventions are miracles, but we've lost our way.
00:53:50.000And what I said to that room, and I got to be honest, while there was some lobbyist booing, There's been a lot of good dialogue privately after this, because as humans, everyone does agree we have an unsustainable situation.
00:54:03.000But my point to them, and I'll just speak directly to the pharmaceutical industry, to the healthcare experts and researchers.
00:54:26.000So from the interests of those industries, I would urge them to show a little bit of humility for why millions and millions of people voted for President Trump.
00:54:39.000Because of this issue of childhood chronic disease.
00:54:51.000And I think it's in the best interest of everyone to acknowledge, even if they disagree with some policies, that President Trump and Bobby Kennedy have harnessed something's true, which is that we need more humility.
00:55:08.000And saying that potentially freezing their tax exemption status or reviewing some of the billions of dollars of federal grants they get is an attack on academia.
00:55:52.000And I don't think Harvard has a birthright to billions of dollars of funds.
00:55:55.000I don't think specific pharmaceutical interests or whatever interests have a birthright to this continued gravy train, which is the largest part of the federal budget.
00:56:03.000the American voters demanded that these incentives are looked at.
00:56:09.000And again, that was my message, that if they think moms are gonna wanna go back
00:56:42.000The amount of people that came out, you know, honestly, especially, you know, for Bobby, because of the health thing, that would not have otherwise been conservative, would not have otherwise been on our side.
00:56:55.000How do you show enough results, you know, in the time we have left that...
00:57:00.000This does become a major political issue and something that, frankly, both sides are going to have to start agreeing on.
00:57:06.000My purpose on this earth is to transform health care incentives so people are healthier.
00:57:11.000In order to do that, I think we have a policy window right now, thanks to President Trump, to move bolder on many issues than we've ever been able to in my lifetime.
00:57:20.000So we need to continue delivering wins for the American people, which is happening.
00:57:25.000With the things I mentioned, the food stamps, the autism study, the SNAP soda announcement, the baby formula announcement, you're going to see constant announcements and constant wins.
00:57:33.000Again, we need to get all our allies there on May 22nd.
00:57:37.000We're going to have this big report launch.
00:57:38.000So you're going to see unrelenting wins.
00:57:42.000My main focus is I want to keep this voter coalition together, keep them excited.
00:57:48.000We're going to help Republicans in the midterms.
00:57:50.000And I'll be honest with you, Don, you know, these issues we're talking about from changing our health and agriculture systems in a better direction, you know, to government efficiency, you know, and many other issues the administration's taking, these are civilizational issues.
00:58:04.000And the health and agriculture case will take many years.
00:58:07.000My goal and what I think about every day is in the history books in 50 years, we look at the Trump administration right now as the time the trend line started getting better, the time children started getting healthier, and that we've solidified a political movement by driving these wins that outlast this administration.
00:58:23.000But again, I don't think this is a flash in the pan, Don.
00:58:26.000I don't think that moms are going to want to go back to their kids getting sicker.
00:58:29.000I don't think we're going to want to go back to more conflicts of interest.
00:58:54.000And there was many factors, obviously, for this.
00:58:57.000Obviously, Maha contributed to the – nobody would have expected 50-50 on young voters for President Trump, 50-50 on independents.
00:59:05.000I mean, the coalition that emerged during 2024, if that holds, will fully change American politics.
00:59:12.000And if that coalition – that coalition then is the impetus to change.
00:59:19.000The power that Bobby has and President Trump has when they meet with stakeholders, it's more powerful than the money.
00:59:27.000So every single day here, we are working to drive wins and deliver for the voters that helped make this movement possible so they maintain excitement.
00:59:38.000Well, Kelly Means, thank you very much for everything that you're doing.
00:59:42.000Definitely have to have you back on as you get some of those wins.
00:59:44.000I'm going to try to make it up there on May 22nd because, like I said, I was a big believer in the movement.
00:59:49.000The second I heard Bobby start to talk, I was like, hey, we've got to band together on this thing.
00:59:53.000I don't think there could be a single thing that we're doing that's more important for our children and our future than what you guys are doing.