00:06:29.000Some massive stories over the weekend.
00:06:32.000That says a lot about the strength of America and where our country is right now.
00:06:39.000And about really never leaving a man behind.
00:06:43.000A U.S. service member was trapped behind enemy lines 200 miles into the border of Iran inside the mountains there.
00:06:52.000Being hunted by our enemies, and the United States military went in and got him out.
00:06:59.000Dozens of aircraft, the most lethal weapons in the world, deep behind enemy lines, and not one American killed.
00:07:08.000That's leadership, that's deterrence, that's a commander in chief and a military telling the world very clearly we don't leave our people behind.
00:07:18.000So, we're going to get into that rescue.
00:07:21.000We're going to talk about the Artemis mission and what it says about.
00:07:25.000Where this country can go when we actually have leadership with some vision.
00:07:29.000Because that's really the theme here, guys.
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00:10:31.000Now, let's get into all the top headlines.
00:10:35.000We have to start with the rescue operation out of Iran because this is one of those stories that really, man, it cuts through everything.
00:10:44.000Here's the latest from the White House earlier today on a historic rescue of one of our soldiers who survived in the mountains of Iran for days before being rescued.
00:10:55.000Late Thursday night, an American F 15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory in Iran while participating in Operation Epic Fury.
00:11:07.000Where we're doing unbelievably well, well at a level that nobody's ever seen before.
00:11:14.000The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.
00:11:20.000Both members of the crew ejected from the aircraft and landed alive on Iranian soil.
00:11:26.000I immediately was asked to make a decision.
00:11:32.000I ordered the U.S. Armed Forces to do whatever was necessary to bring our brave warriors back home, a risky decision.
00:11:40.000Because we could have ended up with 100 dead as opposed to one or two.
00:11:53.000Within hours, our armed forces deployed 21 military aircraft into hostile airspace, many flying at very low altitude, being shot by bullets.
00:12:04.000You bring rifles into play when you're going that low, but there are also certain advantages.
00:12:11.000And in broad daylight over Iran for seven hours at times facing very, very heavy enemy fire, we have a helicopter that's got a lot of bullets in it.
00:12:22.000We just realized how good those weapons are, our machines are.
00:12:29.000Nobody has the equipment that we have, and nobody has the military that we have, not even close.
00:12:34.000The most powerful military anywhere in the world by far.
00:12:38.000The flight crews and warfighters aboard those aircraft took extraordinary risks to rescue their fellow service members.
00:12:46.000This first wave of search and rescue forces successfully located the pilot of the F 15, and he was extracted from enemy territory by an HH 60 Jolly Green II helicopter.
00:13:00.000Fabulous machine as our warriors faced gunfire at very close range.
00:13:09.000When you look at the machinery, what happened that nobody was even injured?
00:13:14.000Meanwhile, the second crew member, a weapon system officer, a highly respected colonel, had landed a significant distance away from the pilot when you're going at those speeds.
00:13:25.000Even if you go out two or three seconds later, it's miles, it's miles and miles away because you're going fast.
00:13:33.000He was injured quite badly and stranded in an area teeming with terrorists from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rough group.
00:13:42.000As well as besieged militia and local authorities.
00:13:48.000Many, on top of everything else, they told the communities actually within Iran, the people of Iran, they were given a tremendous incentive to find this pilot.
00:14:04.000This was a remarkably courageous and brave man, and all of the people, frankly, who went in there to get him out, the same thing, from all corners of the military.
00:14:15.000We created a massive deception and misdirection campaign to thwart the Iranians, even took out some of our own planes because we didn't want to leave vulnerable technology behind.
00:14:26.000Just think about what it takes to do that.
00:14:29.000Like I said, dozens of aircraft, heavily armed, deep inside enemy territory, no hesitation, no apologizing, no asking permission from the regime media, no workshops, no committees, no weakness.
00:14:46.000According to the White House, This was the first time in military memory that two U.S. pilots have been rescued separately deep in enemy territory.
00:15:01.000That's what real deterrence looks like.
00:15:03.000And compare that to the years we just lived through.
00:15:07.000Under Biden, every adversary on earth thought America was soft, slow, confused, like Joe Biden, over lawyered, terrified of its own shadow.
00:15:17.000Now they're learning again that if you touch Americans, if you trap Americans, if you think geography is going to save you, you may be in for a very, very bad surprise.
00:16:46.000And I imagine they can't be thrilled that we were able to do that.
00:16:50.000And when people see that and their own military forces understand what they're up against, that we can pull off that kind of mission, I imagine that changes a lot of hearts and minds as well.
00:16:59.000Here's more from my father's press conference earlier today and where things go from here.
00:17:45.000So if that's the case, you're going to have to have more people.
00:17:48.000Guys, I know not everyone likes the profanity.
00:17:52.000Sometimes, you know, you're going to feel your way about it.
00:17:55.000But there is a really interesting George Patton quote that I think perhaps may have resonated with my father when he sometimes uses that stuff to really drive the message home.
00:18:04.000Patton says, When I want my men to remember something important, I really need to make it stick.
00:18:57.000And if you look at the footage, if you look at what NASA is now doing right now, if you look at American astronauts pushing further than human beings have ever gone from Earth, you are looking at something we used to take for granted in this country.
00:20:14.000Traveling more than 1200 miles per hour.
00:20:22.000We used to assume America would build the future.
00:20:25.000We used to assume we would lead in science, in engineering, in ambition, and in national purpose.
00:20:31.000And then for a long time, it felt like all of that got replaced by bureaucracy, by declined management, by lectures, by slogans, by people who think national greatness is somehow embarrassing.
00:20:48.000But NASA Administrator Jarek Isaacman said something over the weekend that should have gotten a lot more attention.
00:20:54.000He said Artemis II would not be happening right now if it wasn't for President Trump.
00:21:02.000This administration is talking about moon bases, nuclear propulsion, Mars, long term American dominance in space.
00:21:12.000Not because it's some vanity project, but because serious countries think in generations, not in election cycles.
00:21:19.000That's what we do differently here because we have bureaucrats running the places, not people who were business guys, not people who played in the real world.
00:21:28.000Outside of the echo chambers of Washington, D.C. That's the difference.
00:21:32.000A weak government obsesses over the next cable hit, the next consultant memo, the next fake media narrative.
00:21:41.000A strong government asks, where is this country going to be 20 years from now, 50 years from now?
00:23:34.000Is pretending that the 14th Amendment was written so foreign nationals could industrialize American citizenship for the benefit of their country.
00:23:42.000What's radical is acting like citizenship is just some sort of convenience store product.
00:23:46.000You pick it up on your way out, drop by there, get that citizenship, move back to communist China, come back and vote in American elections to do China's bidding.
00:23:55.000I mean, that seems pretty radical to me.
00:23:58.000What's radical is pretending birth tourism doesn't exist.
00:24:02.000When Trump's team pointed directly to the fact that Chinese birth tourism companies have been operating at scale for years, 500 companies, 500 whose business model is basically come to America.
00:24:15.000Have the baby, go home, cash in later, and then we're told there's nothing to see here?
00:24:25.000500 companies doing this like a production unit?
00:24:30.000This isn't anti immigrant, it's anti scam, it's anti fraud, this isn't anti family, it's anti exploitation, this isn't anti American, it's pro American citizenship, meaning something again for a change.
00:24:46.000Because if citizenship can be gained by anyone with enough money, enough planning, enough lawfare support from the activist left, then citizenship stops being the inheritance of a nation and starts becoming a loophole.
00:25:09.000They don't want to define citizenship because when nothing means anything, everything becomes much easier to manipulate.
00:25:16.000Because there's Absolutely nothing unreasonable about asking whether American citizenship should go to people who are actually going through the process in good faith, not just to people who figured out how to exploit the system faster than Washington could stop them.
00:25:33.000Now, while we're on the subject of Homeland Security, this next piece tells a whole story of where we are right now.
00:25:41.000FBI Director Kash Patel is warning that the sleeper cell threat inside the United States is real.
00:25:48.000Not theoretical, not hypothetical, real.
00:25:52.000And Senator Dave McCormick tied that directly to the disaster at the border during the Biden years.
00:26:01.000This is what happens when you spend years being lied to about the border, years being told the real threat is the parents at the school board meetings, years being told that anyone who wants immigration enforcement is a bad person.
00:26:15.000And then all of a sudden, everyone wakes up and realizes, Wow, maybe letting in hundreds of people on terror watch lists just right into the country.
00:26:25.000I don't know, wasn't the smartest move in the world?
00:26:28.000Maybe catch and release wasn't just incompetent.
00:26:58.000In Colorado, lawyers reported that in order to access the state court e file system, they had to certify that they would not use or disclose information to assist federal immigration enforcement.
00:27:14.000At the exact same time, the country is being warned about terror threats, about criminal aliens, about all the downstream consequences of years of open border insanity.
00:27:24.000You have a state system basically saying, by the way, if you're trying to help federal immigration law, we want no part of it.
00:28:38.000And speaking of dangerous and disgusting, and what fraud actually looks like when it turns human suffering into a business model, federal prosecutors just expose a massive hospice fraud scheme in Los Angeles that is one of the most revolting things you'll see in a long time.
00:28:54.000We've been talking about this for a lot, and it always gets worse.
00:28:57.000Healthy patients allegedly recruited into hospice programs, cash kickbacks, fake care, and more than $50 million ripped off from taxpayers through Medicare.
00:29:12.000Just stop for a second and think about the moral depravity here.
00:29:16.000Hospice care is designed and supposed to be about dignity, comfort, compassion in the final chapter of a life, treated with seriousness, humanity, humility.
00:29:29.000And these animals allegedly turned it into a cash machine?
00:29:32.000Not for dying people, for healthy people.
00:29:35.000Sign them up, build a government, collect the money, move on, rinse and repeat.
00:29:39.000And it's the perfect symbol of what fraud looks like in a morally broken system.
00:29:57.000We've seen the same thing in unemployment fraud, in Medicaid fraud, in some health scams, in nonprofit grifts, in housing, in education, in immigration.
00:30:10.000Everywhere Democrats build giant unaccountable bureaucracies, the parasites move in and they take over.
00:30:16.000Everywhere they replace standards with slogans, the scammers show up immediately and take advantage of it.
00:30:23.000Everywhere they decide compassion means zero scrutiny, criminals hear one thing free money, baby.
00:31:55.000Instead, it vanishes into fake claims, shell companies, organized crime.
00:32:00.000Bureaucratic indifference and political cowardice.
00:32:04.000And then these same people look you in the eye and tell you they need even more money to continue their work.
00:32:11.000That's the punchline with the Democrats, guys, always.
00:32:14.000The money is never the problem, the ideology is the problem.
00:32:19.000Because when your worldview says enforcement is mean, scrutiny is oppressive, and every safeguard is somehow exclusionary, this is what you get fraud, more fraud, and then even more fraud.
00:32:33.000And it gets worse because last night, 60 Minutes even did a full investigation into the California high speed rail to nowhere, chronicling literally decades of waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:32:45.000In 2008, California voters approved a ballot measure for a train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco.
00:32:52.000In less than three hours, they got it done.
00:32:55.000The estimated price tag was $33 billion.
00:33:11.000And a cost that has kept skyrocketing to north of $120 billion.
00:33:18.000Not exactly on time, definitely not on budget.
00:33:21.000And as it turns out, the whole project began as more of a marketing campaign than a project with financing and, you know, I don't know, a plan.
00:33:30.000It was all a big scam against taxpayers.
00:33:40.000America's hopes for its first high-speed rail were kindled in 2008 when California voters approved a ballot measure for a train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours.
00:34:14.000Instead of LA to San Francisco, it will run one third of that distance, connecting, wait for it, the metropolis of Bakersfield and Merced, population 96,000.
00:34:32.000And the craziest part is they still want to export this model nationally.
00:34:37.000They still want Gavin Newsom treated like some serious future presidential contender.
00:34:42.000A guy who can't stop his own state from getting robbed blind should be president of the United States because then they can do that across all 50 states, not just California.
00:34:50.000A guy under whose watch government became a slot machine for criminals.
00:34:55.000A guy whose political brand is basically expensive hair gel over total administrative collapse.
00:35:03.000That is what the Democrat bench looks right now.
00:35:16.000Congressman Vince Fong, a Republican from Bakersfield, sits on the House Transportation Committee.
00:35:21.000He says that when California voters first approved high speed rail, the promise and price tag were more marketing campaign than realistic projection.
00:37:27.000Because the modern Democrat Party doesn't survive without the machine the money machine, the ballot harvesting machine, the lawfare machine, the media machine.
00:37:36.000And once you start pulling on one thread, guys, you realize how much of it depends.
00:38:00.000Americans understand now that when Democrats say democracy is under threat, what they usually mean is their infrastructure of control is actually under threat.
00:38:11.000When they say norms are collapsing, What they mean is their monopoly on unaccountability and unaccountable power is collapsing.
00:38:20.000When they say this system is being weaponized, what they mean is for the first time in a long time, someone might actually investigate them too.
00:38:32.000Because if your own lawyers are telling you there may be criminal exposure over foreign money flowing into American elections, maybe the problem isn't the people asking the questions.
00:38:44.000Maybe the problem is the people who built the machine in the first place.
00:38:49.000Now, I want to close with something that really matters to everyday families because this one cuts across politics in a way that a lot of stories don't.
00:38:58.000RFK Jr. and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced new action on microplastics.
00:39:05.000This is the kind of thing governments should be doing.
00:39:09.000We're talking about contaminants in drinking water, plastics in the human body, possible links to inflammation, fertility problems, neurological issues, things that affect your children, your food, your home, and your health.
00:39:23.000And for once, instead of being told to shut up and trust some faceless bureaucracy, the government is acknowledging the problem and starting to move on it.
00:39:32.000That's what serious governance looks like.
00:39:35.000Protect the border, punish fraud, build the future, and make sure families aren't being poisoned by the basic systems they're supposed to rely on.
00:39:46.000It's not really complicated, folks, but Washington made it complicated because for too long it stopped serving normal Americans and started serving.
00:39:55.000Every weird ideology hobby, every NGO racket, every consultant class scam, every global abstraction, except the people who actually live here.
00:40:08.000So when you step back and look at everything we covered today, the pattern is pretty clear.
00:40:12.000When leaderships get stronger, the rot gets exposed.
00:40:16.000When enforcement comes back, the sabotage becomes obvious.
00:40:20.000When national confidence returns, the people who built careers on weakness start panicking because they can feel the shift.
00:40:28.000They can feel that Americans are done being lectured by failure.
00:40:45.000A serious country can protect its people, defend its sovereignty, pursue greatness, punish corruption, and still care deeply about families and the future.
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