Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - February 03, 2025


Mexico Sends Troops to Border, Plus USAid Scam Exposed, Live with Brooke Goldstein & Rep Brian Mast | TRIGGERED Ep.213


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The Democratic Party is totally out of control, and they know exactly what to do about it. They don t even know what to complain about. They ve been wasting our money for years, and now it s time to pay the price. We re here to tell you why.

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00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:05:29.000 Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:05:32.000 I'm just getting the last of the social media posted here for you guys right now.
00:05:35.000 There's so much happening right now.
00:05:38.000 Democrats are melting down more than usual.
00:05:42.000 There's actually so much going on.
00:05:44.000 I don't even know that they know what to be upset about at any given time.
00:05:48.000 But more than ever, they're really upset that their USAID scam is being totally exposed. 0.95
00:05:56.000 I've never seen a group of people be so upset that billions of dollars are no longer going to foreign countries when we're struggling in our own country, when we've had to deal with this crap for so long. 0.92
00:06:08.000 It's almost as though it was a big shell game. 0.65
00:06:12.000 We'll get into all of that.
00:06:15.000 Shortly, we're going to be talking about the details of all of that, the things that they've been funding, the backtrack to all of these NGOs that are functioning as non-governmental organizations.
00:06:24.000 Sure, they're not.
00:06:25.000 They're funded by the American taxpayer, and it's how the Democrats get their slush funds.
00:06:29.000 Off the official books so the American public don't see it.
00:06:32.000 That's why they're freaking out.
00:06:34.000 And we're going to have a lot of details coming up on that shortly.
00:06:38.000 We have lawyer Brooke Goldstein, who does this stuff internationally. 0.88
00:06:42.000 We also have Florida Congressman Brian Mast on here.
00:06:45.000 So we're going to get into the details, uncovering this insanity so that you understand why the liberals are so upset and just how badly your money has been wasted, probably for decades, but certainly over the last four years.
00:06:58.000 And we begin with some other interesting breaking news.
00:07:01.000 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just announced that Canada will put thousands more agents on our northern border.
00:07:09.000 And they'll list cartels as terrorists and launch a new joint task force with the US to combat organized crime and drug trafficking.
00:07:19.000 And it will pause the tariffs.
00:07:22.000 For 30 days.
00:07:23.000 So remember, this is like the vicious cycle, right?
00:07:26.000 Trump wants to do something.
00:07:27.000 The left loses their mind.
00:07:28.000 Another country doesn't want to cooperate.
00:07:30.000 Trump threatens tariffs.
00:07:31.000 The left say they don't work.
00:07:32.000 The country capitulates in about 30 seconds.
00:07:37.000 Rinse and repeat.
00:07:38.000 We've seen this a few times already.
00:07:41.000 So far this week, it's been Panama, Mexico, and Canada.
00:07:45.000 And soon we will get to the rest of the world because my father understands how to exercise America's economic might.
00:07:52.000 Earlier, as I mentioned, we saw a similar story with Mexico.
00:07:56.000 They, too, are sending 10,000 troops to our border amid the tariff threat.
00:08:02.000 Call it the Trump effect, folks.
00:08:04.000 Call it America first. 0.84
00:08:06.000 It's finally happening.
00:08:09.000 Shockingly, we can actually put our country, our citizens, our children first again.
00:08:16.000 It's amazing.
00:08:17.000 Feels so nice.
00:08:19.000 I love drinking the liberal tears also.
00:08:21.000 It's particularly good.
00:08:23.000 Also, breaking news.
00:08:25.000 Senator Susan Collins says she will vote for Telsey Gabbard for DNI. That's Director of National Intelligence.
00:08:33.000 So the confirmations are looking better and better.
00:08:37.000 A couple more holdouts.
00:08:38.000 Hopefully they come to their senses.
00:08:40.000 But we are working this hard, and the American people gave them all a mandate.
00:08:45.000 So hopefully the Senate gives my father the cabinet that not only does he deserve and the American people want and voted for, but that he campaigned with.
00:08:56.000 So it's not like any of this is a shock.
00:08:57.000 I mean, he was out there campaigning with these people actively and they brought those votes.
00:09:02.000 So we're doing what we can to make good on those promises.
00:09:05.000 So meanwhile, guys, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Washington, D.C. to meet with my father.
00:09:14.000 So we'll also preview what's in store for that.
00:09:18.000 Human rights lawyer Brooke Goldstein, along with Congressman from Florida, Brian Mast, will be here to get into all of the details.
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00:11:32.000 And now, guys, let's get into the top headlines.
00:11:35.000 Earlier today...
00:11:37.000 After my father spoke with the leader of Mexico, Mexico announced that they will help reinforce the U.S.-Mexico border with 10,000 troops in exchange for a one-month pause on the 25% tariffs that were due to go into effect tomorrow.
00:11:52.000 This is, of course, a huge win for America, and it shows why this tariff policy can be so effective.
00:12:00.000 Again, guys, we can call it the Trump effect.
00:12:03.000 The reality is these countries need America.
00:12:07.000 They need us badly.
00:12:08.000 They need our dollars.
00:12:09.000 They need our economic might.
00:12:11.000 If they're not going to help us, if they're going to help the Chinese or if they're going to be adversarial to us, we stop helping them. 0.98
00:12:20.000 It's not a difficult concept to understand.
00:12:22.000 It's only difficult for government bureaucrats and people like Joe Biden that wouldn't exactly know how to do these things, even if someone laid out the CliffsNotes version for them.
00:12:33.000 And American companies also seem to agree with all of this.
00:12:36.000 For example, the CEO of the largest steel producer in the United States just endorsed the Trump tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, saying, and I quote, American manufacturing.
00:12:53.000 Because that's the big point, guys.
00:12:55.000 We do have trade laws.
00:12:56.000 There's international laws.
00:12:58.000 The problem is other countries just don't follow them.
00:13:01.000 They pretend they do.
00:13:02.000 If we do something, they go to the UN and they go to every organization and they say, look what America's doing.
00:13:07.000 Then they flagrantly violate them, right?
00:13:10.000 There's a reason you can't buy a Ford in China.
00:13:13.000 There's a reason you don't see Chevys driving down the streets of Shanghai, okay?
00:13:18.000 It's not because we don't make a better car.
00:13:19.000 It's because they have no chance of ever breaking into that market in any real way, shape, or form.
00:13:25.000 So whether it's official policy or it's just sort of done under the table like all things in these third world nations, that's what happens.
00:13:33.000 And that's why there is no such thing as fair trade.
00:13:36.000 The way even some in America would like to believe it exists, right?
00:13:42.000 In theory, maybe they'd be right.
00:13:44.000 In practice, it never works out that way.
00:13:47.000 And that's why you need someone who's not a professor.
00:13:49.000 You need someone who's actually done these things in the real world, like my father.
00:13:53.000 And even in Canada, guys, the CEO of the second largest publicly traded company is defending the Trump tariffs, writing in a statement that he wishes his leadership stood up for its citizens.
00:14:06.000 The way that President Trump stands up for Americans.
00:14:10.000 And if you've been watching Canada, that statement shouldn't surprise you.
00:14:14.000 Because they ain't standing up for their citizens.
00:14:16.000 That's a fact.
00:14:17.000 The other fact is, we're not going to stand by and allow foreign nations to continue flooding our country with fentanyl. 0.85
00:14:24.000 We've seen how that's going through China to Mexico and other places, and even some from Canada.
00:14:29.000 Too many Americans are dying. 0.83
00:14:31.000 Just so we're clear, 100,000 deaths a year.
00:14:34.000 That's two Vietnams. 1.00
00:14:36.000 A year.
00:14:37.000 Dying.
00:14:38.000 And no one wanted to do anything about it.
00:14:40.000 No one even tried stopping it.
00:14:41.000 They just let it go.
00:14:42.000 You know, what's 100,000 people?
00:14:44.000 Who cares? 0.84
00:14:45.000 That's disgusting. 0.81
00:14:45.000 And it ends now. 0.81
00:14:47.000 And for China to come out and say it's an American problem, which they did this week, is an absolute...
00:14:54.000 China is the one flooding our country with these drugs. 1.00
00:14:59.000 They're working with the cartels, and that's how it happens.
00:15:02.000 That's how it works.
00:15:04.000 These problems don't happen in China because if someone gets caught doing drugs or telling them in China, they just execute them pretty much on the spot.
00:15:10.000 I believe it's called a quick trial.
00:15:12.000 That's according to Xi in conversations with my father in the first term.
00:15:16.000 They don't have that problem.
00:15:17.000 They're just happy to send that problem here because they understand the devastation.
00:15:23.000 The PSYOP, that it's something like fentanyl that just kills indiscriminately across there.
00:15:28.000 Everyone knows someone that's died of it.
00:15:30.000 Everyone has a friend.
00:15:31.000 Everyone has a loved one.
00:15:33.000 It's got to stop.
00:15:34.000 They've been waging this war for too long, and there has to be consequences.
00:15:39.000 The rhinos and the phonies at the Wall Street Journal editorial board are opposing these tariffs.
00:15:45.000 Shocker.
00:15:46.000 Shocker that they'd oppose these things.
00:15:49.000 They want to take away the best negotiating tool my father has to force these countries to finally stop allowing this poison into our country. 0.74
00:15:59.000 This shouldn't surprise us, guys, because they're all beholden to China and all these things. 0.92
00:16:03.000 If they can save 0.2 cents on a widget, they're going to do that.
00:16:06.000 American lives be damned seems to be their mentality. 0.80
00:16:10.000 So it shouldn't surprise us.
00:16:11.000 It's not going to change my father's mind.
00:16:13.000 Luckily, he would rather listen to the American people than the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.
00:16:17.000 Functioning as the shill of China comms.
00:16:21.000 But anyway, it's time to get tough and save American lives.
00:16:27.000 But of course, again, the Dem Rhino globalists responsible for gutting American manufacturing, your American dream, and turning communist China into a superpower in the first place, they're the ones that oppose my father's tariffs. 0.90
00:16:42.000 Again, we shouldn't be surprised because literally everything they do is America last and China first. 1.00
00:16:48.000 We've been watching this, and not just over the last four years, but for as long as certainly I have been paying attention.
00:16:54.000 They want America weak and economically dependent.
00:16:57.000 They've been wrong for decades, and they're, of course, wrong again here and now.
00:17:03.000 But those days are over, folks.
00:17:05.000 We are putting America first, once and for all.
00:17:09.000 Here is Senator Eric Schmidt.
00:17:11.000 He was on the show last week, recently, laying it all out so that you actually see exactly what's going on.
00:17:19.000 And when they have a porous border and they don't seem very concerned at all, and by the way, I heard the clip earlier, Justin Trudeau sort of lecturing Americans.
00:17:26.000 My advice to him is he probably ought to talk to the Canadian people who are about ready to throw him out of office because he's been a total disaster.
00:17:32.000 So I think we've got a president that wants to put America first and protect people.
00:17:36.000 We have 100,000 people a year.
00:17:41.000 Kristen, dying from fentanyl.
00:17:42.000 He ran on this.
00:17:44.000 This is not a surprise.
00:17:45.000 He talked about getting operational control of our border.
00:17:48.000 He talked about tariffs and improving our standing in the world.
00:17:51.000 He's doing all those things.
00:17:52.000 And look no further.
00:17:53.000 The best evidence of this was last week.
00:17:55.000 Columbia came to the table after that threat and agreed to take criminals back into their country and illegal immigrants. 0.90
00:18:01.000 So the fact of the matter is it works.
00:18:02.000 It worked the first time when he was in office.
00:18:04.000 We didn't see inflation.
00:18:05.000 We saw wage growth.
00:18:06.000 And we saw more on-shoring of jobs back here in the United States.
00:18:11.000 And there's no slowing down, guys.
00:18:13.000 My father is moving rapidly to send a message that business as usual is over.
00:18:20.000 And that includes the Panama Canal, where the country of Panama is now backing away from its relationship with China.
00:18:26.000 And here's my father and how he summed it up over the weekend.
00:18:30.000 Take a look.
00:18:31.000 The agreement is not allowed to violate the agreement.
00:18:35.000 China's running the Panama Canal.
00:18:38.000 That was not given to China, that was given to Panama foolishly, but they violated the agreement and we're going to take it back or something very powerful is going to happen. 0.59
00:18:49.000 And guys, we'll get into all of this much later in the show, but right now we turn to the massive left-wing meltdown over the Trump administration's move to clean out the rot inside the USAID office and put it under the purview of the State Department.
00:19:06.000 Now, don't be fooled by the name USAID, USAID.
00:19:11.000 We're aiding other people.
00:19:13.000 It isn't really about giving aid to you.
00:19:16.000 It's about laundering your taxpayer dollars to a country that hates your guts. 0.99
00:19:22.000 It's about dishing out lavish contracts to left-wing lunatics and... 0.94
00:19:27.000 And spending money on bizarre projects and funneling it all back to Democrats. 0.99
00:19:33.000 That's why the Democrats are losing their mind, right?
00:19:36.000 This isn't doing great stuff for people in desperate need.
00:19:39.000 This is the way the US government and the Democrats in charge of the various institutions therein are able to give Democrats money. 0.97
00:19:50.000 For their operations, for their trans garbage, for every little shady, nonsense, woke thing that they want to do. 1.00
00:19:57.000 And because it's given to an NGO or otherwise, it's no longer on the books. 0.95
00:20:02.000 Oh, it's USAID, did all these great things, but now we can no longer track it and we can't see where it's going.
00:20:07.000 It's about coordinating shady, clandestine operations through left-wing NGOs, all to the tune of $50 billion.
00:20:18.000 That's their budget, guys. 0.97
00:20:20.000 $50 billion of your money has been going to fund woke crap under the guise of America doing good. 0.98
00:20:28.000 And like the Democrats always do, they're not good at much, but they're good at marketing. 0.98
00:20:31.000 USAID. I mean, who wouldn't want to give aid to people, right?
00:20:34.000 Guys, that's what it's about, right?
00:20:35.000 It's not a shell game where we give it back to ourselves and funnel it to our friends and lunatics in Washington, D.C. Elon Musk is heading up this effort.
00:20:46.000 And the current staffers were ordered to stay at home.
00:20:49.000 And even the USAID website was shut down, okay?
00:20:55.000 So I know there's some people that don't like Musk.
00:20:57.000 I like him a lot.
00:20:58.000 I think what he's doing is great.
00:20:59.000 I think he's one of the great geniuses over time.
00:21:01.000 So there's people that may be skeptical, whatever it is, because you don't agree with him on everything.
00:21:05.000 I don't care, man.
00:21:06.000 This is a guy that can get to the bottom of these things.
00:21:08.000 He's more than happy to expose it, to show it, what's out there.
00:21:11.000 This is important.
00:21:13.000 So what does it all mean?
00:21:14.000 Well, first...
00:21:15.000 It means no more funding dumb projects that have nothing to do with America's interest.
00:21:21.000 Number one, here's just a small sample of what the USAID office has been funding, just so we're clear.
00:21:29.000 $20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq.
00:21:35.000 I'm sure that's going to go well, especially when they get to the Trans Muppets.
00:21:39.000 $56 million to boast Egyptian and Tunisia.
00:21:45.000 Tourism.
00:21:46.000 Whatever that means.
00:21:47.000 I mean, hey, I've been to Egypt.
00:21:48.000 It's beautiful.
00:21:49.000 It's wonderful.
00:21:50.000 Why are we spending $56 million on tourism there?
00:21:53.000 Why don't we spend $56 million on tourism to America?
00:21:56.000 Have other people spend their money here rather than we send our money to help them earn money.
00:22:01.000 It doesn't make much sense to me. 0.93
00:22:03.000 But it shouldn't because it's ridiculous. 0.97
00:22:05.000 $11 million on an effort to tell Vietnam to stop burning so much trash. 0.93
00:22:12.000 I mean, why don't you just tell them to stop burning so much stress?
00:22:15.000 Why do you need $11 million to do that?
00:22:16.000 I mean, I'm sure we give them other aid.
00:22:18.000 Why don't we just say, well, stop giving you that aid if you don't stop burning the garbage.
00:22:21.000 I mean, it doesn't seem that hard, but I'm a person with more than one brain cell. 0.73
00:22:26.000 So apparently the people at USAID and the government and people who've been skimming all of this money off the top don't.
00:22:33.000 $2 million to deliver gender-affirming health care in Guatemala.
00:22:36.000 I'm sure that's a big one over there, folks.
00:22:38.000 I'm sure that's not a ripoff.
00:22:40.000 Gender-affirming healthcare in Guatemala, a very big topic in Guatemala, obviously.
00:22:45.000 $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma, okay?
00:22:51.000 I guarantee you 99% of people can't find Burma on a map, and we're spending $45 million for DEI scholarships.
00:22:58.000 Not just scholarships, not like educating their best talent or figuring out how to get them to rise above, but DEI scholarships in Burma.
00:23:07.000 $1.5 million to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities.
00:23:15.000 Now, I like Serbia a lot.
00:23:17.000 I've been there.
00:23:18.000 Great place.
00:23:19.000 Tough, smart, Eastern European people. 1.00
00:23:22.000 I really don't think they give a crap about diversity, equity, inclusion. 0.89
00:23:27.000 I'm just telling you. 0.98
00:23:28.000 That's us pushing our crap to the tune of $1.5 million of your money. 0.98
00:23:34.000 Hundreds of thousands of meals. 0.98
00:23:36.000 That went to Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria.
00:23:39.000 So hundreds of thousands of meals at a couple bucks a meal turns out to be millions of dollars to Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria.
00:23:49.000 Think about that.
00:23:50.000 Funding to print personalized contraceptive birth control devices in developing countries.
00:23:58.000 So I guess you get a condom with your name on it in a developing country because that's important.
00:24:04.000 We need to monogram them.
00:24:06.000 You know, I do occasionally on some of my suits, I'll get my initials monogrammed on them.
00:24:10.000 Apparently, I guess they're monogramming condoms for people in third world nations.
00:24:15.000 Again, probably not the best use of your funds.
00:24:18.000 And millions, if not more, in aid for the Palestinian territories, which I'm sure flows right into the hands of Hamas. 0.79
00:24:29.000 Okay?
00:24:30.000 Guys, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
00:24:34.000 So, one might ask, why are Democrats losing their minds over this?
00:24:40.000 Is it because this will expose corruption on levels once thought perhaps unimaginable?
00:24:46.000 Hawaii Democrat Senator Brian Schwartz now says he's putting a hold on all of Trump's State Department nominees until USAID is reinstated.
00:24:55.000 It's almost like the Democrats know this is a shell game for Democrats.
00:25:00.000 Huh.
00:25:01.000 Why?
00:25:02.000 Why is he so scared?
00:25:04.000 What is he afraid of? 0.97
00:25:06.000 Americans are fed up with funding corrupt, woke nonsense.
00:25:11.000 They made that abundantly clear in November, and yet they want it to continue. 0.51
00:25:16.000 Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio explaining just what a scam USAID really is.
00:25:27.000 Look, I mean, my frustration with USAID goes back to my time in Congress.
00:25:31.000 It's a completely unresponsive agency.
00:25:33.000 It's supposed to respond to policy directives of the State Department, and it refuses to do so.
00:25:40.000 So the functions of USAID, there are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy.
00:25:49.000 I said very clearly, during my confirmation hearing, that every dollar we spend and every program we fund, We'll be aligned with the national interest of the United States.
00:26:00.000 And USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that they're somehow a global charity separate from the national interest.
00:26:07.000 These are taxpayer dollars.
00:26:08.000 And so I'm very troubled by these reports that they've been unwilling to cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what does this program do?
00:26:16.000 Who gets the money?
00:26:17.000 Who are our contractors?
00:26:18.000 Who's funded?
00:26:19.000 And that sort of level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct a sort of mature and serious review that I think I agree.
00:26:45.000 Amy555 on here had a good idea.
00:26:46.000 Take the $50 billion and use it towards deportations, right?
00:26:50.000 Because everyone's saying, the deportations, it's too expensive, it's too expensive.
00:26:53.000 You know what's really expensive?
00:26:55.000 Allowing An illegal dependent or a criminal to be here, to feed them, to clothe them, to school them, to health care, everything.
00:27:05.000 You want to know expense?
00:27:06.000 Letting them stay, especially since they didn't exactly send their best.
00:27:11.000 So maybe we take that $50 billion, hand it over to Tom Homan, and get the deportations going even faster.
00:27:18.000 And my father's administration continues to flood the zone on every front.
00:27:22.000 He'll be signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the scandal-plagued U.N. Human Rights Council.
00:27:29.000 Remember, I think this is the council.
00:27:31.000 Didn't they let Iran on there?
00:27:33.000 And they had the biggest human rights offenders in the world sat on that council.
00:27:37.000 And then there's the Council for Women's Rights, also Iran, and other regimes that don't exactly treat women all that well. 0.94
00:27:44.000 So we're going to now withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council, which, again, it sounds like a great thing, but it's just a fraud.
00:27:52.000 It's all BS, folks.
00:27:54.000 Which has time and time again, we're talking about the UN Human Rights Council, has time and time again undermined America's interests while also spewing anti-Semitism and propping up terror and evil regimes.
00:28:09.000 It seems obvious, but our taxpayer dollars should never be used to fund terror.
00:28:16.000 I don't know.
00:28:17.000 Again, these are all novel concepts.
00:28:19.000 It's hard to believe that it's a novel concept, but they are.
00:28:22.000 And it ends now.
00:28:23.000 Also this week in Washington, my father will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu where discussions will center around long-term solutions for peace in the region.
00:28:33.000 Stopping Hamas terror, rescuing more hostages, and I'm sure much, much more. 0.91
00:28:40.000 Guys, it all goes to show you what it means to have actual leadership.
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00:28:49.000 We're not putting up with being pushed around anymore.
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00:30:07.000 So with that, guys, joining me now, human rights attorney and Middle East expert, Brooke Goldstein.
00:30:14.000 Brooke, great to have you on the show.
00:30:15.000 How are you?
00:30:16.000 Brooke, are you muted?
00:30:24.000 It happens all the time, Brooke.
00:30:25.000 Don't worry about it.
00:30:27.000 I remember my first time on a podcast.
00:30:30.000 It's really great to be here with you.
00:30:32.000 I'm really thrilled and honored, Don.
00:30:34.000 Thank you so much.
00:30:35.000 Well, thank you for having us or being here.
00:30:37.000 And first off, you know, obviously so much breaking news right now.
00:30:41.000 My father's withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council.
00:30:46.000 Again, people are very good at branding these things.
00:30:49.000 I usually find whatever they call something, the actual effect tends to usually be the opposite of the nomenclature used to describe it.
00:30:55.000 What do we really need to know about the UN Human Rights Council and what withdrawing from it actually means?
00:31:02.000 First of all, I want to congratulate your father, President Trump, for taking this bold stance.
00:31:07.000 He has said time and time again that we're going to get out of these institutions.
00:31:11.000 They're really just, you know, democracies of a bunch of totalitarian dictatorships.
00:31:16.000 They're Orwellian.
00:31:18.000 Like you said, it's the mirror effect.
00:31:20.000 Whatever they accuse us of doing, the members themselves are guilty of.
00:31:24.000 You know, there's no due process.
00:31:26.000 There's no accountability.
00:31:27.000 You have China. 0.71
00:31:28.000 You have Iran. 0.97
00:31:29.000 You have Russia ruling these UN commissions and groups is just totally insane and for some reason they're seen as some type of international legal authority and really what emanates from the United Nations and its organs is lawfare, right?
00:31:45.000 The use of these international legal systems and institutions that were meant to do good pervert human rights, right?
00:31:53.000 Engage in historical revisionism and then accuse us and our allies of being the human rights violators and therefore setting We're setting the stage for what they call justifiable revolutions and spreading global jihadi ideologies against us.
00:32:07.000 So it's an incredible revolutionary thing that I support wholeheartedly.
00:32:12.000 Yeah, listen, I think I listed some of them.
00:32:14.000 I don't know if you heard sort of my opening monologue, but can you tell me, if I remember correctly, I mean, there's some real winners on the UN Human Rights Council, you know, countries that have been either on it, maybe currently still on it, or on there over the last, you know, let's call it decade or so.
00:32:30.000 Can you list some of those names?
00:32:32.000 Because I think our viewers, just hearing the names of the people that actually are on there, will find probably some great irony that some of these countries probably have Zero human rights.
00:32:43.000 Don't even espouse any virtues of human rights.
00:32:48.000 Once you hear the names, I think people will probably realize just how much of a scam it all is.
00:32:53.000 Yeah, I mean, you just have to look just recently in 2023, for example, I don't have the whole list, you know, at the top of my head.
00:33:00.000 But, you know, I remember Iran was appointed to chair this so-called Asia Pacific group.
00:33:05.000 And the fact that you are giving Iran any type of authority, they're appointing themselves. 0.98
00:33:10.000 I think at one point they were also on the commission for the status of women and women's rights. 0.89
00:33:16.000 I found that one to always be incredibly ironic, given that, you know, human rights, you know, from a regime that throws homosexuals. 0.96
00:33:22.000 I don't know.
00:33:24.000 Maybe they don't belong on that council.
00:33:26.000 Well, it's so ironic, but it's also so sad because what we're really witnessing is the degradation of the international legal system.
00:33:35.000 And as a human rights attorney, as a civil rights attorney, we look to these organs that we are funding for some sort of moral clarity and authority.
00:33:43.000 And we had this great vision after the Holocaust. 0.96
00:33:45.000 After World War II, we signed the conventions and the genocide convention. 0.81
00:33:51.000 Even the term genocide is now being perverted and manipulated.
00:33:56.000 The result is you have the greatest human rights violators of all time operating with total impunity.
00:34:03.000 And then you have Western democracies, you have Israel and our greatest ally in the Middle East engaging on an asymmetric battlefield where terrorists are literally using their own civilians as human shields, recruiting their own children for suicide homicide attacks.
00:34:20.000 And these grave, grave human rights violations are ignored or at worst, they're justified. 0.86
00:34:26.000 And when you have Israel, the only country, which, by the way, is on the front lines of the war against terror, and we must support the defeat of the radical ideology that is spreading throughout the Middle East and now is being globalized here.
00:34:39.000 When you have Israel as the only country, time and time again, that's on the agenda of the Human Rights Council, the only country that has been consistently condemned, you are setting precedents in international law that ultimately are going to be used against us, other Western democracies. 0.55
00:34:55.000 When we're fighting on these asymmetric battlefields, when we're fighting against the same terrorist entities, the Al-Qaeda's, the ISIS's, the Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Al-Aqsa-Manda Brigades, the one thing that unites them all is their violation of the laws of armed conflict.
00:35:10.000 And so you set a precedent, a whole body of law, this lawfare attack that President Trump speaks about so much against Western democracies.
00:35:19.000 Then there's no reason to be a member of these groups and we have to totally reevaluate as a legal community what enforcement of international law really looks like and who has the authority to do that.
00:35:30.000 Yeah, Brooke, you know, as we learn more about how our money is being spent, again, USAID, you know, funding all sorts of things that frankly don't have anything to do with aid and certainly don't have any benefit to Americans.
00:35:41.000 We're seeing a tremendous flow of federal dollars ending up literally in the hands of terror groups like Hamas and other bad actors.
00:35:48.000 Whether it's at the UN, whether it's at USAID, there's more and more just terrifying findings that we're uncovering each and every day.
00:35:56.000 What else do you think we're going to find out in the coming weeks as more of this stuff gets exposed and as we actually run proper audits on where this money is being spent?
00:36:05.000 Well, you know, I have to say, even just scratching the surface, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the proper audit, because since 2021, what I have found is over $2.7 billion going directly to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
00:36:22.000 We built these terror entities through USAID.
00:36:26.000 And I'm so happy we're not calling it USAID because the strategic purpose, the original purpose of this entity was never just to dole out aid with unaccountability and become this independent pseudo State Department, you know, ideological propaganda machine, which is basically what it is, but it was to pursue our ideological propaganda machine, which is basically what it is, but it was And I guess the procedural flaw there is that it pursues entirely what the State Department's goals are, as it should.
00:36:54.000 But when you have a State Department that's been overrun with radical ideology, with Islamist sympathizers who can totally Without any accountability or oversight, use, I think it was $50 billion more than what the CIA and the State Department have combined to spread a subversive ideological campaign to other countries.
00:37:18.000 What we're engaged in, what we were engaged in with USAID is the destruction of other democracies.
00:37:24.000 So on the one hand, we're watching Qatar and we're watching foreign countries like Iran and we're watching China spend billions of dollars with subversive campaigns at our colleges and in our universities and undermining democracy.
00:37:38.000 Our own system, our own taxpayer dollars, USAID, is being used to do the same for our allies.
00:37:46.000 And that's pretty revolting.
00:37:48.000 And I think a lot of people don't really understand since President Trump has announced that he wants an audit, I mean, who would have a problem with that?
00:37:56.000 So there's a 90-day pause.
00:37:58.000 The amount of obstructionists who have literally prevented government officials from going into USAID offices.
00:38:09.000 They're not letting them in the building.
00:38:12.000 The executive branch has every authority to conduct an audit, and they are obstructionists about it.
00:38:18.000 So you have to wonder, what else do we not know?
00:38:21.000 I can only imagine beyond funding a Hamas-designated terrorist group.
00:38:25.000 What else are we doing?
00:38:27.000 Yeah, watching the left be totally outraged about audits.
00:38:31.000 The same people that are totally fine with the IRS auditing a $600 Venmo payment that you or I may make have no issue with a rampant politicized organization doling out $50 billion to terror organizations.
00:38:46.000 Leads me to believe that there's something in it for Democrats.
00:38:50.000 I mean, it's nuts.
00:38:52.000 Well, you know, they're ideologically aligned.
00:38:56.000 And it's not always rational and it doesn't always make sense when you have these subversive, harmful, radical ideologies.
00:39:05.000 And obviously we have it seeped and it's systemic now.
00:39:09.000 It is systemic within the U.S. government and it's the reason why your father was elected as president of the United States is to get rid of this.
00:39:19.000 Policy of this ideology.
00:39:21.000 And so the people who are opposing any type of oversight or control clearly want to see this ideology spread.
00:39:31.000 And, you know, I have to say I want to express my gratitude to the president for his executive orders that are also aimed at combating the radical ideology on campus of which the Jewish students and the Jewish professors and my community have been the greatest victims of.
00:39:48.000 The passing of the executive order that's requiring their reporting mechanisms and, frankly, requiring the enforcement of current law, which just isn't being done.
00:39:58.000 The laws are on the books.
00:39:59.000 We have Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:40:01.000 We have state anti-discrimination laws.
00:40:03.000 We have federal funding and reporting laws that aren't being filed.
00:40:08.000 We're very grateful for these next steps.
00:40:12.000 So, yeah, I mean, you touched on that.
00:40:14.000 My father recently signed an executive order, for those who don't know, to marshal all federal resources to combat the explosion of anti-Semitism on our campuses.
00:40:22.000 I saw it, you know, at my alma mater, at the University of Pennsylvania, which, you know, I think when I was there, it had like an undergraduate population.
00:40:28.000 It was like 60 percent Jewish of the, you know, Caucasian side, at least.
00:40:33.000 Amazing to see anti-Semitism there and everywhere else.
00:40:37.000 And, you know, I guess it's been in our streets since October 7th.
00:40:40.000 You know, what is the impact of that?
00:40:43.000 And what are the parameters of that executive order?
00:40:46.000 How do you see that, you know, going into effect?
00:40:50.000 And how do you codify this kind of insanity into law?
00:40:53.000 Because, you know, you got to get it.
00:40:56.000 You know, the executive order is nice, but if you ever get one of these radical leftists or Democrats back in there, that's gone again.
00:41:01.000 And we're back to funding the same insanity.
00:41:04.000 Exactly.
00:41:05.000 So that's why civil rights litigation and impact litigation, I believe, is so important because we saw even the executive orders that your father had put in place.
00:41:17.000 During his first term were just completely ignored or subverted by the Biden administration.
00:41:23.000 And so what this particular order does, and actually I think there's a lot of teeth there, is it focuses particularly on college campuses.
00:41:30.000 It requires, number one, federal agencies to report about what's going on on those campuses and to inform colleges if the visas of particular students that they know are supporting Hamas, they know exactly what's going on on their campuses, if they're revoked.
00:41:45.000 But most importantly, It is to enforce the existing law against terrorism supporters and to enforce the existing civil rights law.
00:41:55.000 Now, if I would be so bold as to make a recommendation for a second step, we need to understand why this is happening in the first place, right?
00:42:04.000 It didn't just all of a sudden after October the 7th, we have thousands of students and they're not just foreign students.
00:42:10.000 We're talking about Americans, American youth who have been going through a system for at least the last 15 years and being taught to hate themselves, to hate this country, not to have pride in their national identity, to hate Israel, to hate Jews.
00:42:29.000 They're being given a version of Islam and Marxism. 0.87
00:42:35.000 Pushing it down their throats to the point where they are so confused.
00:42:38.000 And we see this outburst after October the 7th.
00:42:40.000 But this is 15 years in the making.
00:42:42.000 So how is it that there is over $1 billion a year, $1 billion coming from Qatar funding our U.S. college campuses?
00:42:51.000 Now, there's no problem with foreign funding of college campuses.
00:42:54.000 It's what is that money being used for?
00:42:57.000 And is there a, not just correlation, but causation between the fact that the Campuses that have the highest rate of undocumented foreign funding, whether it comes from China, Russia, or Qatar, have a 300% more likelihood of anti-Jewish activity and anti-American activity, because that is really what it's about, or let's call it what it is.
00:43:20.000 Pro-terror activity.
00:43:22.000 So we need to get to the root cause of the problem.
00:43:25.000 And frankly, I think our entire curriculum has to be overhauled.
00:43:28.000 It has to do with everything from, you know, the DEI and the critical race theory and everything, Dawn, that you talk about every day.
00:43:35.000 So these executive orders are welcome.
00:43:37.000 They're an incredible first step, and we're so grateful for them.
00:43:39.000 But now we have to look at the root cause of the problem and how to root out the radicalization in our education system that's been here for over 10 years.
00:43:48.000 Well, thank you very much, Brooke.
00:43:50.000 I'm sure there'll be a lot more that we discover in the coming weeks.
00:43:53.000 Love to have you back on talking about that again.
00:43:56.000 So, Brooke Goldstein, thank you so much for being here.
00:43:58.000 We really appreciate it.
00:43:59.000 Thank you so much.
00:44:01.000 Guys, coming up, we'll have much more on this with Florida Congressman Brian Mass.
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00:44:55.000 And guys, joining me now, Congressman, just north of me, from Florida's 21st District, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Brian Mast.
00:45:06.000 How are you, buddy?
00:45:08.000 What's going on, my friend?
00:45:09.000 Well, you know, listen, last time I saw you was right after the, you know, face-to-face, at least, was that during the hurricanes and tornadoes that we were dealing with in Florida.
00:45:17.000 So we're dealing with other hurricanes and tornadoes all over the world right now, but at least we seem to be back in control, which is nice for a change.
00:45:25.000 That's right.
00:45:26.000 I think people love seeing you out there in Carhartt boots.
00:45:28.000 You know, they just assume, hey, you must be in a jacket and tie all the time, but you're always out there getting your hands dirty, doing real work.
00:45:34.000 That's the reality on you.
00:45:35.000 Yeah, you know, I probably have some redneck tendencies.
00:45:38.000 So, I mean, I know we were talking about that because we were going to go.
00:45:40.000 We were sort of mobilizing to go to the west coast of Florida to help with the hurricane.
00:45:44.000 It turns out the east coast sort of got hit harder because of all the tornadoes.
00:45:48.000 And so, honestly, it was an honor to be able to travel, you know.
00:45:53.000 You know, the county just north of where I actually live and, you know, areas that I, you know, where I have my cabin were affected by it and, you know, neighbors were wiped out.
00:46:01.000 And what was really cool about it, I said on the show, was we went into these areas, you know, when you joked about sort of, you know, we're going to go to hostile territory, there was an NAACP meeting up there.
00:46:10.000 And I was like, okay, like, you know, I'm game.
00:46:12.000 We walk out and some of your team, former law enforcement, they were on a first-name basis with all of these kids.
00:46:19.000 Everyone knew everyone.
00:46:20.000 I was like, wait, this is like the way America is actually supposed to be.
00:46:23.000 And it probably is much more so than it's not.
00:46:26.000 It's just not clickbait worthy.
00:46:27.000 So you'll never actually see that.
00:46:29.000 So that was a true eye-opening experience even for me.
00:46:32.000 And they knew you too.
00:46:34.000 Well, so first off, I got to get your reaction.
00:46:38.000 To Mexico, sending troops to our border to, you know, before the tariffs kick in or to stop the tariffs. 0.50
00:46:45.000 What message do you think that sends both to the cartels, to Americans, to those abroad watching, etc.?
00:46:54.000 Yeah, I think you got a lot going on here to unpack that when you have true leadership in the United States of America, President Trump.
00:47:01.000 Man, it's amazing what can happen when you have a leader that steps up and has hard lines, has clarity about what needs to happen for the safety of the nation that he is tasked with protecting, instead of a Joe Biden that's basically just going to invite people in and say, hey, any nation on any other border, any foreign leader, y'all do what you want, and we're going to pretend to our gaslighting media in our country that nothing can be done, and there's just absolutely nothing we can do about this.
00:47:28.000 But the truth of the matter is...
00:47:30.000 The president got this done in what, I don't know how many days we are out from inauguration here, but the list goes on of the accomplishments that are taking place.
00:47:38.000 Well, so you chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
00:47:41.000 Obviously, that's going to be a big part of all of the stuff that's going on right now, whether we're talking about Mexico, Panama, Canada, Colombia, all the other things that we've seen go on in just the first two weeks.
00:47:54.000 But on this USAID scandal, How much more is there to uncover and just how much more will we implicate the swamp and their failed forward policy over the last several decades with it?
00:48:10.000 I think you've really just seen the tip of the iceberg.
00:48:12.000 I chaired oversight of foreign affairs for the last couple of years before chairing the full committee.
00:48:17.000 And that's all I did was dig into the State Department and dig into USA and other arms.
00:48:21.000 So, you know, there's a little bit of a separation there.
00:48:23.000 We're talking about USAID right now.
00:48:24.000 I got papers in front of me, lists I could give you of, you know, just waste that was going on there.
00:48:29.000 Let's see, $425,000 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more gender friendly. 0.85
00:48:36.000 That's a real half a million dollars of your money.
00:48:39.000 Honestly, I think I'm going to write another book.
00:48:42.000 I just came up with it.
00:48:43.000 I just got to write a book about the waste and what it means to get rid of it and what it can do for America.
00:48:50.000 I mean, there's got to be a book here because it's insane.
00:48:54.000 You would think this is hyperbole, right?
00:48:56.000 So that's USAID. Let me give you a couple just from the State Department in general.
00:49:00.000 And the reason I say that is because it goes to the point that there's so many arms of State Department.
00:49:05.000 Don't just get focused on USAID.
00:49:07.000 There's other doors that need to be shut out there because they're doing, let's see, $39,000 to host seminars in Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity.
00:49:17.000 And $48,000 to help educate Polish youth on how to be LGBTQ.
00:49:24.000 And $70,000 to create a U.S.-Irish music to promote DEI in Ireland.
00:49:29.000 And just the list goes on and on and on.
00:49:31.000 I could read these to you for hours and that that I could read you for hours is the tip of the iceberg because there's so much that they just we had to find that stuff.
00:49:41.000 They wouldn't tell us about it.
00:49:42.000 Well, of course, you know, China is really at the center of all of this conversation.
00:49:47.000 Perhaps we haven't gotten there yet, but, you know, they've sort of been...
00:49:51.000 You know, the acting force behind so much of this, whether it's fentanyl or otherwise.
00:49:56.000 We've been doing investigations on the show on just how much they've infiltrated our supply chains and exporting products made with forced labor.
00:50:03.000 My father has basically said, you better move manufacturing here.
00:50:07.000 You know, agreed to oversight.
00:50:10.000 Or else you're going to face consequences.
00:50:12.000 We also see these cheap Chinese retailers like Timu and Shan who like to exploit the loopholes in our trade laws and en route their goods. 0.99
00:50:21.000 How do you view the China threat?
00:50:23.000 And beyond what we're doing right now, which is the short-term fix, what legislation can we implement to actually fix it permanently?
00:50:32.000 I see the China threat diminishing every single day because of the leadership in America.
00:50:37.000 And let me tell you how I equate those two things going on.
00:50:40.000 So number one, let's talk about where we have reliances upon China.
00:50:44.000 We know that they're far more reliant on wanting to sell their goods into the United States of America than we are them.
00:50:50.000 Sure, there's inputs on American businesses, but I have small, small companies.
00:50:55.000 To large corporations calling me right now saying, hey, what can we do to bring our manufacturing back to the United States of America?
00:51:03.000 How do we bring this back, this back, this back?
00:51:05.000 Is there some incentive to bring it back?
00:51:07.000 Is there some program to help us?
00:51:08.000 Because we're going to bring it back to America. 1.00
00:51:10.000 That's the change that President Trump is affecting.
00:51:13.000 All of these from large to small saying, well, we're going to come back here and we're going to help the American worker because we see exactly what's going to take place.
00:51:19.000 That means?
00:51:20.000 Less reliance on China.
00:51:22.000 But let's bring it to another place that we have in the foreign relations sphere.
00:51:25.000 If you have the appropriate support of allies like Israel, like what we have under your father instead of what we had under Joe Biden, you have an enabled Israel that goes out there and can do things like destroy Iranian energy infrastructure so that we don't have them sending four to six million barrels of oil from Iran to China a day. 0.57
00:51:45.000 That puts China in a pinch.
00:51:46.000 Or if you want to see how they can affect Europe, if they're out there destroying...
00:51:49.000 If they're destroying Iranian drone-making capabilities, well, that's where Russia's getting a lot of their drones from, is from Iran. 0.56
00:51:55.000 Or if they're out there just destroying any Iranian nuclear infrastructure, well, that's good for anybody across the globe, that they don't have the capability to produce nuclear weapons. 0.91
00:52:03.000 But that's the difference in how our president, your father, supports our allies and how he's working to bring business back to the United States of America, make us stronger, make us less reliant.
00:52:14.000 So, you mentioned Israel.
00:52:16.000 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington this week.
00:52:19.000 Last week, Senate Democrats lined up behind Hamas and their allies to block a bill expressing strong U.S. support for Israel.
00:52:28.000 What should we make of all of that?
00:52:29.000 Yeah, you know, that bill, there's a bill for myself and Representative Chip Roy out of Texas that we had both been working on that, related to the International Criminal Court, which we don't even recognize.
00:52:41.000 But what they lined up against on that bill was to say, listen, these people from the ICC court that are trying to put, you know, let's call it a bounty on the head of Netanyahu, put a warrant out for his arrest.
00:52:51.000 They're getting in the way, literally.
00:52:53.000 They're getting in the way.
00:52:54.000 Of the tip of the spear of bringing home Americans that are held by these terrorists.
00:52:59.000 And so my line is this.
00:53:00.000 If you're getting in the way of us getting Americans back to our shores, certainly why should we let you into the United States of America? 1.00
00:53:07.000 But we're going to get in your way in every single way that we can.
00:53:11.000 Senate Democrats, they don't have an interest in getting in their way.
00:53:14.000 They were interested in just acquiescing to the International Criminal Court and saying, hey, yeah, let's let those people into America. 0.98
00:53:21.000 Let's not deal with them.
00:53:22.000 That's just too mean to do to these people, so we can't do that.
00:53:26.000 But you look at another place where this is taking place right now, the Senate getting in the way.
00:53:30.000 Senate Democrats now are threatening to hold up any other appointments related to State Department or a number of other places if Secretary Rubio doesn't...
00:53:40.000 Open back up the doors of USAID. They're looking to make sure that all these programs that I just listed off to you and a hundred others beyond that, that if we don't turn those back on, that they're not going to allow through any more confirmations of people that your father wants to see through.
00:53:57.000 Yeah, sort of tells you everything you need to know about them and what these things really do.
00:54:01.000 I mean, they're basically a Democrat slush fund to fund, you know, woke stuff all over the world to push the nonsense.
00:54:08.000 That I think Americans are now, now that they've been exposed to it, are sick of it, but elsewhere.
00:54:13.000 Because when you list some of these things, it's mind-boggling that anyone could even imagine there's anything even remotely good for America in any of these things, let alone the rest of the world.
00:54:21.000 Here's another one.
00:54:22.000 This is Alex.
00:54:22.000 I was just reading about him from the LGBTQ comic book that you guys paid about $40,000 to publish in Peru.
00:54:30.000 So I was learning about the hero in that story.
00:54:33.000 And again, you cannot make this stuff up.
00:54:36.000 It should be a satirical article in the Babylon Bee, but it's actual reality for what the State Department has been out there doing that doesn't actually make America the partner of choice.
00:54:47.000 It actually pushes other countries away from the United States.
00:54:50.000 I was at this other place called the U.S. Institute of Peace.
00:54:54.000 They get $50 million a year of U.S. taxpayer money, of which they're going to have to explain what they're doing with it.
00:54:59.000 But they asked me to come by there and speak.
00:55:01.000 And I did, not largely to thunderous applause, telling them some of the changes that were going to take place underneath your father and Secretary Rubio and other things in State Department.
00:55:09.000 And after I told them where, you know, listen, if we have countries looking for chicken or fish, it's not likely we're going to be sending over LGBTQ trans. 0.92
00:55:18.000 There was an ambassador that stood up from Africa and she was like, yeah, please don't do that. 0.99
00:55:23.000 You know, you're not helping your situation when you put a pride flag over your embassy in our country. 0.89
00:55:29.000 That's not our values.
00:55:30.000 That's not what we want to see.
00:55:31.000 So don't do that.
00:55:32.000 And that was not to thunderous applause for her either.
00:55:35.000 That's the example of what's going on.
00:55:37.000 These people in State Department are bleeding heart liberals that are pushing America's allies away and not making us the partner of choice.
00:55:45.000 Yeah, when I hear about trans programs in Pakistan and all these things, I'm like, I don't know, man.
00:55:50.000 It doesn't feel like anyone there actually buys into this stuff.
00:55:52.000 I've spent plenty of time.
00:55:54.000 You know, in numerous countries all over Africa and all over Asia, those aren't the values that they're pushing.
00:56:00.000 So I think you're right.
00:56:01.000 It's not only a waste of American dollars, but it's also counterproductive to America's standing in the world because when people in those places who clearly don't understand the insanity or they look at it as though it is what it is, which is insanity, we lose our standing in the world.
00:56:16.000 We lose a lot of that power because they look at us like we're a big joke, which, frankly, we've functioned as for quite some time now.
00:56:22.000 Or we're just burning up dollars that come out of the American taxpayer pocket, out of their wallet.
00:56:27.000 We're just burning.
00:56:28.000 I can give you another one.
00:56:29.000 I think we spent roughly $15 million for condoms to the Taliban. 0.92
00:56:34.000 Contraception to the Taliban, $15 million of your money.
00:56:37.000 That's a real thing.
00:56:39.000 The Biden administration would have been better off just lighting your money on fire. 0.62
00:56:44.000 Man, it's crazy.
00:56:46.000 Brian, what is the dynamic like in Congress these days?
00:56:49.000 Obviously, we have slim majorities in the House and Senate, so that makes it harder.
00:56:55.000 We definitely have some weak Republicans we've got to deal with in that. 0.51
00:56:58.000 But what is that dynamic like?
00:56:59.000 What are some of the top focuses of your committee?
00:57:02.000 And also, you're also on transportation, so you've got sort of a double-edged sword there.
00:57:07.000 What will Congress have?
00:57:10.000 In investigating this recent crash to actually effectuate real reform.
00:57:15.000 So because we were talking about DEI, I'm going to stick on the DEI as it relates to transportation and the military and where this becomes just a more systemic problem.
00:57:25.000 Yes, absolutely errors in the air traffic control tower.
00:57:29.000 Absolutely errors in that helicopter.
00:57:31.000 It looks like they were at too high of an altitude.
00:57:33.000 And so there are very specific problems that need to be investigated on that.
00:57:37.000 But we're not setting up any of these agencies, air traffic controllers, the whole of the FAA, you name it, to be the absolute best at their job.
00:57:45.000 Because in all of these agencies, and I mean this literally, it wasn't the exception, it was the rule.
00:57:51.000 In all of these agencies, DEI became the focus.
00:57:56.000 How are you advancing?
00:57:57.000 DEI became how you get promoted and how you advance in your seniority and your rank within these agencies.
00:58:04.000 And those are things that I can prove as well.
00:58:06.000 We have testimony from chief diversity officers across the government saying, listen, you know, number one, the basket of people has to first look a certain way.
00:58:15.000 And then merit will be taken into account after that.
00:58:18.000 That's not how you get the best and the brightest.
00:58:20.000 And these are problems that we will be looking into, certainly as it relates to the crash and those that are being hired on to air traffic control and other places and every other agency out there.
00:58:31.000 That's the big deal that the Democrats made under their four years in power, if we could call it that.
00:58:39.000 And all of that's going to change so that it's back to making sure that people get hired on or hired on.
00:58:44.000 In advance because of their performance, because of their work ethic, because of what they've been doing on the job, not because of their lifestyle choices and their gender or how they identify or anything else.
00:58:55.000 Yeah.
00:58:56.000 How do you feel, you know, sort of morale is within the Republican Congress and amongst your colleagues?
00:59:00.000 Do you feel like they're getting it?
00:59:02.000 I mean, you know, the stuff I see from people, you know, whether it's comments on my social, whether it's just people that run into me at airports or at a restaurant where I'm at, I mean.
00:59:10.000 People genuinely seem excited about this opportunity.
00:59:14.000 I think Trump 2.0 certainly understands that dynamic of, you know, what we can do.
00:59:19.000 He understands what's been hidden from us for too long, the things they weren't telling him.
00:59:23.000 You know, they'd give him, you know, enough to do something, but not everything he needed to understand just how rampant these problems were.
00:59:30.000 You know, are some of your colleagues getting that now, the ones that aren't sort of the traditional people that are all in?
00:59:36.000 I think there's a getting of it, definitely.
00:59:38.000 And the more sunlight that gets put on all of these things, the more of that snowball that just keeps rolling and building and gaining momentum.
00:59:45.000 That's a true thing.
00:59:45.000 But you still have folks that are going to have to be just drug along to say, guess what?
00:59:51.000 You know what?
00:59:52.000 There's a timeline on some of the things that we didn't talk about.
00:59:54.000 Doing this budget reconciliation, getting some of these big benefits through that we want to help the American people.
01:00:00.000 There's a timeline and a fuse to getting those things done.
01:00:03.000 And it's not four years of a Donald Trump presidency.
01:00:06.000 And it's not even the two years of a House term.
01:00:08.000 We learned back during the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in your father's first term that if you don't get these things through soon enough, the American people don't get to realize the benefit of what's going on with these programs before they hit another election cycle.
01:00:22.000 So if we don't get some of these things out the door before, let's say, June, it's tougher for them to realize the benefit by the time they get to the next election cycle in a year and a half after that.
01:00:32.000 I think that's right.
01:00:33.000 I think as much as I love what they're doing at Doge, half of it is really going to be...
01:00:39.000 Just exposure.
01:00:39.000 People, if there's just transparency with where your money's going, how much has been wasted, you know, I think that's enough because you're right.
01:00:46.000 People get worn out.
01:00:47.000 You see the media onslaught.
01:00:48.000 They're all going crazy right now.
01:00:50.000 And, you know, that's designed to sway elections. 1.00
01:00:52.000 And you come out to a midterm cycle.
01:00:53.000 Historically, the party in power doesn't maintain or, you know, they usually make losses.
01:00:57.000 And when you're dealing with slim margins, people need to understand just how bad it is.
01:01:01.000 They need to understand what's at stake and they need to see real action.
01:01:04.000 To actually effectuate any of that kind of change.
01:01:07.000 Otherwise, you get to a midterm cycle and people are just bored and they move on and they try to do something different.
01:01:11.000 Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
01:01:13.000 And so, you know, there has to be a fire lit under my colleagues to say, listen, we got to come together.
01:01:17.000 We got to get this done.
01:01:19.000 You know, no action is certainly far worse than taking this action, this action, or this action.
01:01:24.000 And in the end, they're conservative.
01:01:26.000 They're reducing government.
01:01:28.000 They're reducing regulation.
01:01:29.000 They're putting sunlight on all the problems that are taking place.
01:01:31.000 They're moving what our team captain, your father, wants to move.
01:01:36.000 And we have the assistance of all of those things that they're doing.
01:01:39.000 So let's do that.
01:01:40.000 Let's get those things written into law.
01:01:41.000 Let's do even more.
01:01:42.000 And let's be able to make sure that we have another bite at the apple for the second two years of President Trump's presidency in this cycle.
01:01:50.000 And not just the first two years because we were so busy squabbling that we ended up making it that he has divided government.
01:01:57.000 Yeah, I think a big one that the American people will feel.
01:02:00.000 Obviously, these are all great things.
01:02:02.000 It's all exposure.
01:02:03.000 But what do you think the timeline is on tax cuts?
01:02:07.000 What do you think that same timeline is on no tax on tips?
01:02:11.000 How does that all play out?
01:02:12.000 Because these are promises we made.
01:02:14.000 We want to keep.
01:02:15.000 Obviously, you're going to see a lot of Democrats trying to block that.
01:02:18.000 I want to see how that works out for them in the midterms if they do.
01:02:20.000 But what do you think the timeline on all of that is?
01:02:22.000 Because I think that's going to be important to a lot of people.
01:02:24.000 Yeah, so let's layer a few things that you have going on.
01:02:27.000 You have the appropriations still from what should have been done last October.
01:02:31.000 Then you have the appropriations we should be working on right now.
01:02:34.000 A lot less of those, thanks to the things that are going on with the executive branch.
01:02:38.000 Then you have debt ceiling, something that we're going to have to deal with in the upcoming months.
01:02:42.000 Then you have what we're talking about right now, the tax cuts, dealing with the border and these things under budget reconciliation.
01:02:49.000 Again, my hope would be that we can move these things before summertime.
01:02:54.000 Because if we move them before summer, then the American people could hopefully feel the benefit of what we move in taxes in this year's tax cycle.
01:03:04.000 That would be my personal goal.
01:03:06.000 Make the things that we move in that, things that they can feel in this tax cycle when they're doing their taxes next, not this coming April, but the following April.
01:03:15.000 Because if we don't get it done for them, then what?
01:03:17.000 You have to wait all the way to a whole other tax cycle, which is after the election cycle, which means...
01:03:23.000 They didn't get to feel the benefit of what we worked on.
01:03:26.000 Oh, I really appreciate it.
01:03:27.000 Congressman Brian Mass, thank you very much.
01:03:29.000 Look forward to seeing you soon, man.
01:03:30.000 Let me know when you're back down in the area.
01:03:32.000 You got it, brother.
01:03:33.000 Always good to see you.
01:03:34.000 Likewise.
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