Verdict with Ted Cruz - Democrats Crazed as Trump Breaks Their Toys, Social Security for 150yr Olds & USAID Funding Hamas Week In Review

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00:00:05.360 Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.440 Weekend Review, Ben Ferguson with you.

00:00:09.220 And if it sounds like I'm under the weather,

00:00:10.660 I have the flu right now,

00:00:12.200 but the show, as they say, must go on.

00:00:14.280 So here are the three stories that you may have missed

00:00:16.100 that we talked about this week.

00:00:17.580 First up, Democrats not in charge

00:00:20.120 and don't mind shutting down the government

00:00:21.960 to hurt Donald Trump.

00:00:23.380 So will it work?

00:00:24.220 We'll explain that in a moment.

00:00:25.820 Also, social security checks are going out

00:00:28.060 to people that are 150 years old.

00:00:30.880 That's right, Doge is uncovering more waste, fraud, and abuse.

00:00:34.280 It's incredible what we found in the first three weeks

00:00:36.380 and we'll have the list for you as well.

00:00:38.820 And finally, USAID money going directly

00:00:41.480 to terrorist organizations and charities

00:00:43.580 and the government knew it the entire time.

00:00:45.960 It's the Weekend Review and it starts right now.

00:00:48.800 Democrats now trying to figure out their footing.

00:00:51.940 They had Alam Omar who went on TV today

00:00:55.140 saying that Trump has decided

00:00:57.720 he will not abide by the Constitution,

00:00:59.860 just throwing it out there.

00:01:01.260 And then she says, by the way,

00:01:02.640 every executive order that's been to court now

00:01:04.720 has been shut down by the court.

00:01:06.380 That's a lie, not true.

00:01:08.120 But it even Face the Nation tried to softly correct her

00:01:12.560 because they want this to be true, right?

00:01:15.760 And then there's this new threat of like,

00:01:18.380 all right, we'll just shut down the government.

00:01:20.020 I kind of laugh because for many conservatives,

00:01:23.800 they're like, great, let's shut it down

00:01:24.940 and save some money for a while.

00:01:26.000 I wish it worked that way.

00:01:27.120 I wish it was that simple.

00:01:28.120 It's obviously not.

00:01:29.360 But this is the new temper tantrum of the left.

00:01:32.840 They're saying if we aren't in charge,

00:01:35.000 then we want to destroy what the government does well.

00:01:38.340 We want to hurt people

00:01:39.360 and we want to shut down the government to hurt people

00:01:41.260 so you'll blame Donald Trump.

00:01:42.680 That's what this is really all about.

00:01:44.180 Am I wrong?

00:01:45.760 Well, look, understand there's a battle going back and forth.

00:01:49.360 And at some level,

00:01:50.400 this battle is inherent in the structure of our government.

00:01:52.860 It's inherent in the Constitution.

00:01:55.260 Congress, under Article I,

00:01:57.040 all legislative power is vested

00:01:58.920 in the Congress of the United States.

00:02:01.140 Congress passes the laws

00:02:02.720 that the president signs into law

00:02:05.040 and that are then binding federal law.

00:02:08.960 The executive, all executive power

00:02:11.720 is vested in the president of the United States.

00:02:13.840 That's under Article II of the Constitution.

00:02:16.260 And the president is charged with,

00:02:18.600 has given the authority to

00:02:19.880 and also the responsibility to,

00:02:22.560 quote, take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

00:02:26.940 That's the Constitution's language.

00:02:29.180 And so a lot of, you know,

00:02:30.800 it's interesting as I travel around

00:02:32.400 and talk to people back home in Texas

00:02:34.420 or around the country,

00:02:36.140 they ask, okay, so is what Elon's doing,

00:02:39.740 is what Trump is doing,

00:02:41.300 cutting off funding at USAID,

00:02:43.720 pausing other funding,

00:02:44.780 is that going to stick?

00:02:46.900 And this is a battle back and forth

00:02:49.540 between the executive and legislature

00:02:51.780 that has occurred since the very first days of the Republic.

00:02:55.540 And one of the things right at the heart of this battle

00:02:58.180 is about something called impoundment.

00:03:02.400 Now, what does impoundment mean?

00:03:04.720 Impoundment is when the president of the United States

00:03:07.160 decides not to spend money

00:03:09.380 that has been appropriated by the U.S. Congress.

00:03:12.760 Now, you might ask,

00:03:14.740 okay, is impoundment some crazy theory

00:03:16.980 that Donald Trump cooked up

00:03:18.360 or Elon Musk cooked up?

00:03:20.120 Well, no.

00:03:21.200 No, impoundment has been around

00:03:22.620 for more than 200 years.

00:03:24.200 The first president to exercise impoundment

00:03:26.760 was Thomas Jefferson,

00:03:28.340 and he did so in 1801.

00:03:29.840 And if you look at what Thomas Jefferson did,

00:03:35.420 the first use of impoundment

00:03:37.580 involved a refusal to spend $50,000,

00:03:41.220 which $50,000 in 2023 dollars

00:03:44.400 is about $1.24 million,

00:03:46.740 in funds that were appropriated

00:03:48.480 for the acquisition of gunboats

00:03:50.340 for the United States Navy.

00:03:52.860 And Thomas Jefferson said in 1803

00:03:55.060 that, quote,

00:03:56.280 the sum of $50,000 appropriated by Congress

00:03:58.800 for providing gunboats

00:04:00.360 remains unexpended.

00:04:02.680 The favorable and peaceful turn of affairs

00:04:04.900 on the Mississippi

00:04:05.700 rendered an immediate execution

00:04:07.820 of that law unnecessary.

00:04:10.640 Now, Jefferson did so,

00:04:12.600 and in the years that went on,

00:04:14.920 presidents did so for 200 years.

00:04:17.120 Now, what happened?

00:04:19.100 Well, in the 1970s,

00:04:21.180 Richard Nixon had a battle with Congress,

00:04:24.740 and Congress got angry with Richard Nixon

00:04:27.420 and felt he was using impoundment

00:04:29.320 too aggressively.

00:04:31.540 And Congress passed a law

00:04:33.480 called the Congressional Budget

00:04:36.160 and Impoundment Control Act

00:04:37.940 of 1974

00:04:39.620 that purported

00:04:40.940 to remove the power of impoundment,

00:04:44.600 or at least to severely curtail it.

00:04:46.960 And the Supreme Court

00:04:49.120 heard a decision,

00:04:51.340 it was a decision called

00:04:52.340 Train v. City of New York,

00:04:54.740 where the Supreme Court

00:04:56.420 upheld the Impoundment Control Act

00:05:00.580 and significantly reduced

00:05:03.720 the president's power

00:05:05.060 to exercise impoundment.

00:05:07.240 Now, by the way,

00:05:08.900 there was a subsequent wrinkle in this,

00:05:11.880 in that Congress came back afterwards

00:05:15.800 and passed a bill

00:05:17.440 called the Line Item Veto Act

00:05:19.000 of 1996.

00:05:20.740 This happened after

00:05:22.000 the Republican takeover of Congress,

00:05:24.780 Newt Gingrich came in,

00:05:26.180 and the Line Item Veto Act

00:05:27.800 gave the president

00:05:28.660 the power of line item veto,

00:05:30.620 which Bill Clinton

00:05:31.700 used on the federal budget

00:05:34.040 82 times.

00:05:36.060 However,

00:05:37.000 that law was struck down

00:05:39.180 in 1998

00:05:39.960 by the Supreme Court.

00:05:41.380 It was a 5-4 vote.

00:05:43.000 Actually,

00:05:43.420 my former boss

00:05:44.340 and very good friend,

00:05:45.360 Chuck Cooper,

00:05:46.020 the man who taught me

00:05:47.040 how to be a lawyer,

00:05:48.400 argued that case.

00:05:49.460 Unfortunately,

00:05:50.100 he was on the losing side

00:05:51.300 of that case

00:05:51.880 and lost 5-4.

00:05:54.080 The point,

00:05:55.920 what Elon is doing

00:05:57.240 and what Trump is doing,

00:05:59.140 there's a long history

00:06:00.360 of presidents saying,

00:06:01.520 I don't want to spend money

00:06:03.240 that is wasteful

00:06:04.100 and I'm not going to.

00:06:05.880 Now,

00:06:06.020 there's also a history

00:06:06.760 of Congress pushing back.

00:06:09.960 What's likely to happen?

00:06:11.640 There is already,

00:06:13.140 and there will be more,

00:06:15.540 a crap ton of litigation

00:06:18.240 challenging these actions.

00:06:21.260 We're seeing Democrat 0.87

00:06:23.000 attorneys general

00:06:24.100 bringing lawsuits.

00:06:25.300 We're going to see

00:06:25.880 Democrat interest groups

00:06:27.160 bringing lawsuits.

00:06:29.200 We're going to see

00:06:29.660 activist judges

00:06:30.640 striking down

00:06:32.340 actions,

00:06:34.700 executive orders,

00:06:35.640 and this is going

00:06:37.420 to test the legal boundaries.

00:06:39.060 At the end of the day,

00:06:40.760 part of what is going on

00:06:42.520 is this is designed

00:06:43.760 to go to the Supreme Court

00:06:46.020 and to restore

00:06:47.740 the power of impoundment

00:06:49.420 to the president.

00:06:50.240 I think that would be

00:06:51.100 a very good thing.

00:06:51.960 I think it is consistent.

00:06:53.600 It is an inherent authority

00:06:55.360 of the president

00:06:56.140 to exercise the authority

00:06:57.580 of impoundment,

00:06:58.840 but understand

00:07:00.640 we're going to see

00:07:02.180 a litigation

00:07:03.920 battle royale

00:07:06.300 and it'll take

00:07:07.520 in all likelihood.

00:07:09.020 So this is,

00:07:09.520 you're saying

00:07:09.920 this is a fight

00:07:10.540 that we want

00:07:11.400 to go to the Supreme Court

00:07:12.520 and if it does go

00:07:14.020 to the Supreme Court

00:07:14.700 and it plays

00:07:15.980 to our advantage

00:07:16.720 the way that you're

00:07:17.220 describing it

00:07:17.820 with the law,

00:07:18.580 how long is it going

00:07:19.460 to take us

00:07:19.820 to get it there?

00:07:20.820 Probably a couple of years,

00:07:21.840 two to three years.

00:07:22.880 So in the next

00:07:23.780 two to three years,

00:07:24.580 we're going to be

00:07:25.340 just dealing with

00:07:26.180 pure fights

00:07:27.100 with the media,

00:07:29.260 Democrats coming after

00:07:30.620 and trying to stop

00:07:31.200 everything that they're

00:07:32.340 trying to cut

00:07:32.780 with waste,

00:07:33.240 fraud,

00:07:33.400 and abuse.

00:07:34.040 Yes,

00:07:34.520 and understand

00:07:35.640 Elon and Doge,

00:07:37.660 they're embodying

00:07:38.940 right now

00:07:39.500 the Silicon Valley

00:07:40.520 mantra

00:07:41.080 of move fast

00:07:42.300 and break things.

00:07:43.500 I mean,

00:07:43.880 that's what they're doing.

00:07:45.100 Not everything

00:07:45.920 that they do

00:07:47.440 is going to be upheld.

00:07:48.760 There will be

00:07:49.440 injunctions issued

00:07:50.600 and I think

00:07:51.680 they understand that

00:07:52.560 and I think

00:07:53.040 they're trying to

00:07:54.160 they're trying

00:07:55.940 to implement

00:07:56.780 the mandate

00:07:57.860 that came from

00:07:58.660 the voters

00:07:59.200 as rapidly

00:08:00.560 and effectively

00:08:01.280 as possible.

00:08:02.700 Listen,

00:08:03.140 I for one

00:08:03.600 am excited about that

00:08:04.760 and I think

00:08:06.200 if you look

00:08:06.760 at some of

00:08:07.740 the egregious abuses

00:08:08.700 that have been

00:08:09.220 uncovered so far,

00:08:11.140 it gives an illustration

00:08:12.440 of just how important

00:08:13.480 this is.

00:08:14.520 Before we move on

00:08:15.480 to the federal

00:08:16.140 financial watchdog

00:08:17.120 order to cease activity

00:08:18.220 and that's important,

00:08:18.980 we're going to deal

00:08:19.260 with that in a second.

00:08:19.900 One final question

00:08:21.120 on this.

00:08:22.480 We could go back,

00:08:23.380 I think,

00:08:23.840 whenever the sale was,

00:08:25.400 a year and a half,

00:08:26.040 whatever it was,

00:08:27.060 when Elon Musk

00:08:28.300 took over Twitter

00:08:30.340 and we saw

00:08:31.520 the Twitter files

00:08:32.440 and then we saw

00:08:33.120 the corruption,

00:08:34.480 I actually think

00:08:35.300 you can trace this

00:08:36.160 all the way back

00:08:36.960 to there

00:08:37.520 when people

00:08:38.700 really started

00:08:39.260 paying attention

00:08:39.860 to saying,

00:08:40.560 I don't trust

00:08:40.960 the government.

00:08:41.380 You add COVID

00:08:42.060 in there

00:08:42.500 and the lies

00:08:43.440 of the vaccine

00:08:44.120 and the two weeks

00:08:45.080 stopped the spread

00:08:45.800 and the Wuhan

00:08:46.280 Institute of Virology

00:08:47.240 and then the lies

00:08:48.380 over the Hunter Biden

00:08:49.160 laptop and there

00:08:50.480 started to be

00:08:51.160 these moments

00:08:52.020 that were big

00:08:52.920 where people were like,

00:08:53.460 okay,

00:08:54.260 maybe I shouldn't

00:08:55.480 be so trusting

00:08:56.240 of the news,

00:08:57.240 maybe I shouldn't

00:08:57.780 be trusting

00:08:58.200 of the government,

00:08:58.960 the deep state,

00:08:59.820 the president

00:09:00.360 and then you have

00:09:02.440 him take over

00:09:03.540 X, right?

00:09:04.560 Twitter now X.

00:09:05.900 Part of the reason

00:09:06.760 why I think

00:09:07.260 Donald Trump's

00:09:07.760 having so much success

00:09:08.560 now is because

00:09:09.660 we're getting

00:09:10.380 the word out

00:09:11.200 about the waste

00:09:12.400 and the fraud

00:09:13.080 and getting the line

00:09:14.440 out of it

00:09:14.840 and people are seeing it

00:09:16.160 because before,

00:09:17.980 you go back

00:09:18.340 to 2016,

00:09:19.200 center,

00:09:19.780 big tree falls

00:09:20.560 in the forest,

00:09:21.100 no one's around,

00:09:21.800 does it make a sound,

00:09:22.820 right?

00:09:23.280 The answer is no

00:09:24.480 but now what we're

00:09:25.860 getting in the info

00:09:27.080 that we're getting

00:09:27.700 and it's getting out

00:09:28.920 because big tech

00:09:29.720 can't suppress it

00:09:30.580 on X,

00:09:31.500 how valuable is that

00:09:32.760 to saving our democracy?

00:09:34.520 Look,

00:09:34.700 I think it's

00:09:35.320 incredibly valuable.

00:09:36.680 I believe Elon Musk

00:09:38.400 buying Twitter

00:09:39.260 was the most important

00:09:41.260 development for free speech

00:09:43.100 in modern times

00:09:44.060 because it turned around

00:09:45.960 the rampant censorship

00:09:47.980 from big tech,

00:09:49.640 it put positive pressure

00:09:51.060 on the rest of big tech

00:09:52.920 and it created a vehicle

00:09:54.560 for the truth to get out

00:09:56.740 so,

00:09:57.200 you know,

00:09:57.440 we've gone through

00:09:58.100 in previous podcasts

00:09:59.160 all the examples

00:10:00.520 or not all the examples

00:10:01.800 but a number of examples

00:10:02.960 of abusive spending

00:10:04.480 two million dollars

00:10:06.640 for sex changes

00:10:08.220 in Guatemala.

00:10:09.680 Now, 0.80

00:10:10.120 who the hell

00:10:10.740 can defend that?

00:10:11.860 Why U.S. taxpayers

00:10:13.100 are paying for sex changes

00:10:15.160 in Guatemala?

00:10:16.240 Money to the BBC,

00:10:17.620 the British Broadcasting Corporation,

00:10:19.640 By the way,

00:10:20.660 why the hell

00:10:22.080 are American taxpayers

00:10:23.560 paying for the BBC?

00:10:25.300 The last I checked,

00:10:26.240 the United Kingdom

00:10:26.920 is a major developed country.

00:10:28.140 They can pay for their own 1.00

00:10:29.000 damn television station. 1.00

00:10:30.660 What do we need 1.00

00:10:31.400 to pay for that?

00:10:33.300 And what's amazing

00:10:34.180 is the Democrats

00:10:34.940 are just digging in.

00:10:36.140 Give a listen

00:10:36.640 to Senator Chris Coons

00:10:38.340 defending

00:10:39.240 spending 20 million dollars

00:10:41.940 on American taxpayer money

00:10:43.320 for Sesame Street

00:10:44.460 in Iraq.

00:10:45.600 Give a listen.

00:10:46.040 Is funding Sesame Street

00:10:48.520 a judicious use

00:10:50.300 of soft power?

00:10:51.420 Well, Michael,

00:10:52.300 the way you put it

00:10:53.260 is the way I hope

00:10:54.440 folks considering

00:10:55.340 your poll today

00:10:56.360 will think about it.

00:10:57.840 This isn't just funding

00:10:58.980 a kid show

00:10:59.840 for children,

00:11:01.100 millions of children

00:11:02.020 in countries like Iraq.

00:11:03.600 It's a show

00:11:04.680 that helps teach values,

00:11:06.700 helps teach public health,

00:11:08.640 helps prevent kids

00:11:09.620 from dying

00:11:10.340 from dysentery

00:11:11.600 and disease,

00:11:12.480 and helps push values

00:11:14.280 like collaboration,

00:11:16.220 peacefulness,

00:11:17.180 cooperation

00:11:17.660 in a society

00:11:19.120 where the alternative

00:11:20.020 is ISIS,

00:11:21.540 extremism,

00:11:22.380 and terrorism.

00:11:23.740 And to your point,

00:11:24.880 it's pennies

00:11:25.660 on the dollar.

00:11:26.780 The U.S.

00:11:27.440 Department of Defense

00:11:28.540 has an annual budget

00:11:29.740 of about $850 billion.

00:11:33.960 USAID was spending

00:11:35.160 about $30 billion.

00:11:37.300 It is a small proportion

00:11:39.000 of our total federal spending,

00:11:41.100 and as Joe Nye

00:11:41.880 would often say,

00:11:43.080 it's not just soft power,

00:11:44.820 it's smart power.

00:11:46.280 Let me leave you 0.94

00:11:46.900 with one other quote,

00:11:47.880 Michael, if I could.

00:11:49.180 Jim Mattis,

00:11:49.840 who was a four-star

00:11:50.760 Marine Corps general

00:11:51.760 and Trump's Secretary of Defense

00:11:54.080 in his first term,

00:11:55.540 in a hearing back then,

00:11:56.960 said,

00:11:57.240 if you slash development

00:11:59.320 and aid spending,

00:12:00.640 then I'm going to need 0.92

00:12:02.020 more bullets 0.90

00:12:03.040 for our troops.

00:12:04.220 I mean,

00:12:04.820 you want to talk

00:12:05.620 about stretching.

00:12:06.440 He's saying

00:12:06.880 Sesame Street's going to

00:12:07.780 save us from extremism.

00:12:08.960 Are we kidding ourselves?

00:12:10.360 Well, look,

00:12:11.240 the Democrats are dug in

00:12:12.980 to defending everything,

00:12:14.580 to defending

00:12:15.180 all of the money

00:12:16.640 that was just

00:12:17.400 flowing out

00:12:18.520 with no checks

00:12:19.640 whatsoever.

00:12:20.760 And I think

00:12:21.840 these examples

00:12:22.620 are having a real effect

00:12:23.700 of pissing people off, 0.75

00:12:24.900 saying,

00:12:25.220 why is my money

00:12:26.380 going to that?

00:12:27.820 By the way,

00:12:28.420 if Democrats think

00:12:30.400 that's such a good idea,

00:12:31.520 let them give their own money

00:12:32.480 for that.

00:12:32.900 But what right do they have

00:12:33.980 to take your money

00:12:35.200 that you're working hard

00:12:36.340 to provide for your kids

00:12:37.440 and your family

00:12:38.200 to take it

00:12:39.140 and spend it

00:12:39.820 on every radical agenda item

00:12:42.240 they want to push?

00:12:43.340 That's what's been happening.

00:12:44.600 It happened

00:12:45.080 at egregious levels

00:12:46.840 under the Biden administration,

00:12:47.960 and I think that's what

00:12:49.120 Trump's working very hard

00:12:50.260 to turn around.

00:12:51.800 Yeah, great point.

00:12:52.980 Finally,

00:12:53.280 I want to ask you

00:12:54.040 about this

00:12:54.640 because I think

00:12:55.220 it should be on listeners'

00:12:56.440 radar screen.

00:12:57.000 It's an important issue.

00:12:58.740 The New York Times

00:12:59.360 is coming out

00:12:59.880 talking about this.

00:13:00.740 The federal financial watchdog

00:13:02.640 has been ordered

00:13:04.460 to cease activity

00:13:05.800 known as the Consumer

00:13:07.260 Financial Protection Bureau.

00:13:09.460 Why is this happening

00:13:10.600 and what does this mean?

00:13:12.260 Well, the CFPB,

00:13:14.020 the Consumer Financial

00:13:15.160 Protection Bureau,

00:13:16.180 was created

00:13:17.080 by the Dodd-Frank law.

00:13:18.420 This is a creation

00:13:19.860 of Elizabeth Warren,

00:13:20.940 and it has descended

00:13:25.420 like locusts,

00:13:26.720 putting all sorts

00:13:28.160 of regulations

00:13:28.920 and costs.

00:13:30.400 It brings abusive litigation.

00:13:32.720 It is an avenue

00:13:35.260 for left-wing bureaucrats

00:13:39.380 to try to control

00:13:40.880 community banks,

00:13:42.940 smaller financial institutions,

00:13:44.520 and to drive up costs.

00:13:46.200 And the CFPB,

00:13:48.260 I've introduced repeatedly

00:13:50.220 legislation to eliminate

00:13:51.660 the CFPB.

00:13:53.560 What happened this week

00:13:55.360 is Russ Vogt

00:13:56.660 was confirmed

00:13:57.780 to leave the Office

00:13:58.780 of Management and Budget.

00:13:59.920 And Russ is a good friend.

00:14:01.520 He's a good guy.

00:14:03.040 He ran OMB

00:14:04.900 under Trump

00:14:05.580 during the first term.

00:14:07.260 And Russ was just confirmed.

00:14:08.720 We just confirmed him

00:14:09.540 this past week

00:14:10.260 to run OMB again.

00:14:11.940 And on Friday,

00:14:13.400 he was also named

00:14:14.420 the acting director

00:14:15.660 of the Consumer

00:14:17.380 Financial Protection Bureau,

00:14:19.420 the CFPB.

00:14:20.760 And as a result,

00:14:23.480 he issued an order

00:14:24.560 for them to halt

00:14:25.920 what they're doing.

00:14:27.920 So one chunk of it.

00:14:28.900 So the way

00:14:29.340 Elizabeth Warren

00:14:30.060 structured it.

00:14:32.280 Congress does not

00:14:33.300 appropriate money

00:14:34.080 to the CFPB,

00:14:35.060 which is weird,

00:14:35.660 by the way.

00:14:36.140 If you look at

00:14:36.860 virtually every federal agency,

00:14:38.700 Congress appropriates

00:14:39.580 money for them.

00:14:40.220 That's part of the

00:14:41.220 checks and balances

00:14:42.120 of how the federal

00:14:44.040 government is set up.

00:14:45.280 Well,

00:14:46.520 Dodd-Frank instead

00:14:48.340 has the CFPB

00:14:49.960 funded

00:14:50.440 with money

00:14:52.060 from the Federal Reserve

00:14:53.280 that flows automatically

00:14:54.780 so Congress

00:14:55.560 doesn't get

00:14:56.240 to appropriate

00:14:57.260 and engage

00:14:57.960 in the oversight

00:14:58.520 that comes with that.

00:15:00.500 So as a result,

00:15:02.580 on Saturday,

00:15:04.040 Russ Vogt

00:15:04.740 wrote that he had

00:15:08.020 notified the Federal Reserve

00:15:09.620 that the CFPB,

00:15:10.860 will not be taking

00:15:13.180 its next draw

00:15:14.180 of unappropriated

00:15:15.980 funding

00:15:16.500 because it is

00:15:17.940 not reasonably

00:15:19.040 necessary

00:15:19.600 to carry out

00:15:20.660 its duties.

00:15:22.380 The Bureau's

00:15:23.060 current balance

00:15:23.820 of $711.6 million

00:15:26.000 is in fact

00:15:27.640 excessive

00:15:28.260 in the current

00:15:28.900 fiscal environment.

00:15:30.900 This spigot,

00:15:31.780 long contributing

00:15:32.540 to CFPB's

00:15:33.560 unaccountability,

00:15:34.680 is now being

00:15:36.060 turned off.

00:15:37.200 That is fantastic,

00:15:38.760 and I'll tell you

00:15:39.340 what,

00:15:39.920 I've introduced

00:15:40.780 legislation

00:15:41.580 that will

00:15:43.140 zero out

00:15:43.960 the CFPB,

00:15:44.860 that will shut 0.91

00:15:45.480 it down

00:15:46.060 permanently.

00:15:47.060 I believe

00:15:47.900 we will get

00:15:48.500 that done

00:15:49.120 as part

00:15:51.320 of budget

00:15:52.520 reconciliation.

00:15:54.660 And so

00:15:55.080 eliminating

00:15:55.780 the CFP

00:15:56.780 would be

00:15:57.220 a major

00:15:57.960 victory

00:15:58.560 for lowering

00:15:59.860 inflation,

00:16:00.700 for lowering

00:16:01.280 burdensome

00:16:01.920 regulation,

00:16:02.760 for lowering

00:16:03.440 the nanny

00:16:04.420 state control

00:16:05.380 of big government,

00:16:06.160 and if we

00:16:06.640 get that

00:16:07.060 done,

00:16:07.420 that's a

00:16:07.880 huge

00:16:08.240 victory.

00:16:09.180 I'll tell

00:16:09.500 you,

00:16:09.680 Russ Vogt

00:16:10.700 taking over

00:16:11.700 as acting

00:16:12.200 director

00:16:12.640 in the past

00:16:13.160 few days

00:16:13.660 was a major

00:16:14.180 step forward

00:16:14.800 in that regard.

00:16:16.020 Now,

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00:16:54.680 story number

00:16:55.260 two.

00:16:56.140 Let's move

00:16:56.980 to another

00:16:57.860 aspect of

00:16:59.100 just an

00:17:00.040 incredible

00:17:00.700 three weeks

00:17:02.160 where Elon

00:17:03.020 Musk and

00:17:03.700 Donald Trump

00:17:04.500 are doing

00:17:05.540 exactly what

00:17:06.560 they said

00:17:06.960 they were

00:17:07.200 going to

00:17:07.400 do.

00:17:08.240 And they

00:17:08.480 are,

00:17:08.800 I think,

00:17:09.400 using the

00:17:10.380 media,

00:17:11.200 the bully

00:17:11.680 pulpit,

00:17:12.500 the microphone

00:17:13.820 that they've

00:17:14.520 been given

00:17:15.060 in the Oval

00:17:16.480 Office to

00:17:17.600 inform the

00:17:18.420 American people,

00:17:19.960 those that

00:17:20.460 voted for

00:17:21.100 him and

00:17:21.900 others that

00:17:22.400 maybe didn't

00:17:23.100 that,

00:17:23.640 hey,

00:17:23.980 we're finding

00:17:25.140 some of the 0.95

00:17:25.680 most ridiculous, 0.99

00:17:27.020 egregious 1.00

00:17:28.240 waste of your

00:17:29.740 tax dollars.

00:17:30.460 And one of the

00:17:31.200 stories I talked

00:17:31.840 about was people

00:17:32.840 that are still

00:17:33.380 getting Social

00:17:33.820 Security checks

00:17:34.480 when they're

00:17:34.920 quote,

00:17:35.260 150 years

00:17:36.320 old.

00:17:37.120 Yeah,

00:17:37.660 it was really

00:17:38.160 powerful.

00:17:38.800 So President

00:17:39.180 Trump and

00:17:39.620 Elon Musk

00:17:40.180 did a press

00:17:41.220 conference from

00:17:41.900 the Oval

00:17:42.320 Office on

00:17:42.960 Thursday.

00:17:44.080 Earlier this

00:17:44.660 week,

00:17:44.960 President Trump

00:17:45.540 signed an

00:17:45.960 executive order

00:17:46.800 instructing Doge

00:17:48.320 to coordinate

00:17:48.840 with federal

00:17:49.320 agencies and

00:17:50.660 to execute

00:17:51.380 massive cuts

00:17:52.240 in federal

00:17:52.900 government

00:17:53.220 staffing numbers.

00:17:54.300 And the

00:17:54.680 order instructs

00:17:56.000 federal agencies

00:17:56.800 and Doge to

00:17:57.620 significantly

00:17:58.200 shrink the

00:17:58.780 size of the

00:17:59.200 federal government

00:17:59.800 and to limit

00:18:00.420 the hiring

00:18:01.060 of new

00:18:01.980 employees.

00:18:02.860 And I've

00:18:03.200 got to say,

00:18:04.100 Elon Musk

00:18:04.760 laid out

00:18:05.660 several of

00:18:06.580 the egregious

00:18:07.900 examples of

00:18:08.840 abuse.

00:18:09.640 Listen to

00:18:10.240 this first

00:18:11.260 one.

00:18:12.020 You know,

00:18:12.600 there's crazy

00:18:13.120 things like

00:18:13.520 just cross

00:18:14.840 re-examination

00:18:15.480 of Social

00:18:16.100 Security,

00:18:17.040 and we've

00:18:17.320 got people

00:18:17.640 in there

00:18:17.900 that are

00:18:18.100 150 years

00:18:18.860 old.

00:18:20.180 Now,

00:18:20.360 do you know

00:18:20.820 anyone who

00:18:21.660 is 150?

00:18:22.440 I don't know.

00:18:22.960 Okay.

00:18:24.260 They should be

00:18:25.020 on the

00:18:25.180 Guinness Book

00:18:25.480 of World

00:18:25.720 Records.

00:18:26.440 They're

00:18:26.600 missing out.

00:18:27.020 So,

00:18:29.400 you know,

00:18:30.260 that's the

00:18:30.520 case where

00:18:30.840 I think

00:18:31.240 they're

00:18:31.400 probably 0.90

00:18:31.620 dead.

00:18:32.160 It's my

00:18:32.440 guess.

00:18:33.640 Or they

00:18:34.420 should be

00:18:34.620 very famous.

00:18:35.140 One of the

00:18:35.420 two.

00:18:36.160 I mean,

00:18:36.540 I want to

00:18:36.900 meet them.

00:18:37.340 Elon wants

00:18:37.920 to meet

00:18:38.060 them.

00:18:38.180 The president

00:18:38.640 wants to

00:18:39.000 meet them.

00:18:39.200 You want

00:18:39.600 to meet

00:18:39.800 them,

00:18:39.920 right?

00:18:40.140 If you're

00:18:40.440 150 and

00:18:41.240 you're still

00:18:41.560 cashing

00:18:41.920 that check.

00:18:42.280 Ben,

00:18:42.720 I got to

00:18:43.460 say,

00:18:43.840 you don't

00:18:44.380 look a day

00:18:44.860 over 140.

00:18:47.060 I mean,

00:18:47.660 and this is

00:18:48.160 the stuff

00:18:48.540 that you just

00:18:49.480 can't even

00:18:50.000 make it up.

00:18:50.660 Of course,

00:18:51.220 they would be

00:18:51.620 sending a

00:18:52.040 check to

00:18:52.880 somebody that

00:18:53.520 we assume

00:18:54.220 is committing

00:18:55.300 fraud here,

00:18:56.100 right?

00:18:56.360 Like,

00:18:56.660 the checks

00:18:57.140 never stopped

00:18:57.800 and they're

00:18:58.020 like,

00:18:58.160 well,

00:18:58.240 just keep

00:18:58.640 cashing

00:18:59.120 them.

00:18:59.400 Of course,

00:19:00.600 it's fraud.

00:19:01.540 Of course,

00:19:02.160 it's fraud.

00:19:02.900 And the

00:19:03.260 Biden

00:19:03.560 administration

00:19:04.300 had no

00:19:05.280 interest in

00:19:05.880 uncovering

00:19:06.620 that fraud.

00:19:07.240 And take a

00:19:07.880 listen to what

00:19:08.260 President Trump

00:19:08.840 said about

00:19:09.280 the magnitude

00:19:10.020 of the

00:19:10.880 waste,

00:19:11.200 fraud,

00:19:11.400 and abuse

00:19:11.740 that they're

00:19:12.020 finding.

00:19:13.200 Billions and

00:19:13.840 billions of

00:19:14.400 dollars in

00:19:15.040 waste,

00:19:15.780 fraud,

00:19:16.200 and abuse.

00:19:17.720 And I

00:19:19.060 think it's

00:19:19.300 very important.

00:19:19.920 And that's

00:19:20.160 one of the

00:19:20.740 reasons I got

00:19:21.320 elected.

00:19:21.780 I say,

00:19:22.040 we're going

00:19:22.320 to do

00:19:22.540 that.

00:19:23.360 Nobody had

00:19:24.020 any idea

00:19:24.460 it was that

00:19:24.880 bad,

00:19:25.280 that sick, 0.93

00:19:25.880 and that 1.00

00:19:26.280 corrupt. 0.99

00:19:27.480 And it 0.74

00:19:27.820 seems hard

00:19:28.260 to believe

00:19:28.700 that judges

00:19:29.520 want to try

00:19:30.080 and stop

00:19:30.560 us from

00:19:31.060 looking for

00:19:31.700 corruption,

00:19:32.360 especially

00:19:32.780 when we

00:19:33.220 found hundreds

00:19:34.680 of millions

00:19:35.220 of dollars

00:19:35.840 worth,

00:19:36.360 much more

00:19:36.760 than that,

00:19:37.820 in just a

00:19:38.400 short period

00:19:38.860 of time.

00:19:39.520 We want to

00:19:39.980 weed out

00:19:40.320 the corruption.

00:19:41.680 And it

00:19:42.020 seems hard

00:19:42.440 to believe

00:19:42.820 that a judge

00:19:43.420 could say,

00:19:44.040 we don't

00:19:44.540 want you

00:19:44.860 to do

00:19:45.140 that.

00:19:46.620 So maybe

00:19:47.360 we have

00:19:47.620 to look

00:19:48.460 at the

00:19:48.740 judges,

00:19:49.200 because that's

00:19:49.760 a very

00:19:50.160 serious,

00:19:50.680 I think it's

00:19:51.100 a very

00:19:52.040 violation.

00:19:52.900 He mentions

00:19:53.560 the judges

00:19:53.980 there,

00:19:54.200 by the way,

00:19:54.540 there's a lot

00:19:55.120 of activist

00:19:55.760 judges that

00:19:56.520 were put

00:19:57.000 in by

00:19:57.720 liberals who

00:19:58.740 are like,

00:19:59.220 all right,

00:19:59.560 we're the

00:19:59.860 last defense

00:20:00.660 here,

00:20:01.000 so let's

00:20:01.440 try to

00:20:01.780 stop him

00:20:02.880 at all

00:20:03.160 costs,

00:20:04.260 because he's

00:20:05.560 too successful

00:20:06.320 at giving

00:20:06.960 the American

00:20:07.500 people transparency

00:20:08.720 and their

00:20:09.780 money back.

00:20:10.760 Look,

00:20:11.240 Barack Obama

00:20:11.940 and Joe

00:20:12.360 Biden put a

00:20:13.040 lot of

00:20:13.280 radicals on

00:20:14.080 the federal

00:20:14.480 bench,

00:20:14.940 and right

00:20:15.600 now you've

00:20:16.120 got Democrat

00:20:16.780 attorneys

00:20:17.220 general going

00:20:18.680 and seeking

00:20:19.140 out these

00:20:19.640 radicals to

00:20:20.300 file lawsuits.

00:20:21.100 You've also

00:20:21.440 got left

00:20:21.920 wing special

00:20:23.040 interest groups

00:20:23.780 seeking out

00:20:24.660 these radical

00:20:25.200 judges.

00:20:25.840 We're going

00:20:26.280 to see a lot

00:20:26.960 of lawsuits,

00:20:27.580 we're going

00:20:27.740 to see a lot

00:20:28.200 of lawfare

00:20:28.740 over the

00:20:29.060 next four

00:20:29.520 years,

00:20:30.020 but I've

00:20:30.780 got to say,

00:20:31.400 watching Democrats

00:20:32.760 in the media

00:20:33.300 melt down,

00:20:33.960 number one,

00:20:34.420 they've always

00:20:34.840 melted down over

00:20:35.620 Trump,

00:20:35.960 they have

00:20:36.200 Trump derangement 0.94

00:20:36.980 syndrome,

00:20:37.720 but they also

00:20:38.200 have Elon

00:20:38.680 derangement

00:20:39.280 syndrome,

00:20:39.580 and they

00:20:39.960 scream, 0.99

00:20:40.980 well,

00:20:41.080 Elon Musk

00:20:41.780 was not

00:20:42.200 elected to

00:20:42.760 anything.

00:20:43.900 Well,

00:20:44.320 yeah,

00:20:44.500 that's true,

00:20:45.200 but Donald

00:20:45.900 Trump was

00:20:47.320 elected to

00:20:48.080 something,

00:20:48.460 he was elected

00:20:48.940 to President

00:20:49.460 of the United

00:20:49.940 States,

00:20:50.340 and he was

00:20:50.940 elected on

00:20:51.480 a mandate,

00:20:52.320 and this is

00:20:52.980 actually a point

00:20:53.720 that Elon

00:20:54.960 made quite

00:20:56.320 effectively in

00:20:57.020 the Oval,

00:20:57.580 give a listen.

00:20:58.300 The people

00:20:58.900 voted for

00:21:00.500 major government

00:21:01.400 reform,

00:21:02.600 there should be

00:21:03.220 no doubt

00:21:03.600 about that,

00:21:04.160 that was on

00:21:05.200 the campaign,

00:21:06.200 the president

00:21:06.620 spoke about

00:21:07.160 that at

00:21:07.860 every rally,

00:21:08.680 the people

00:21:09.040 voted for

00:21:09.500 major government

00:21:10.400 reform,

00:21:11.320 and that's

00:21:11.720 what people

00:21:12.040 are going

00:21:12.220 to get,

00:21:12.560 they're going

00:21:12.760 to get what

00:21:13.180 they voted

00:21:13.540 for,

00:21:14.840 and a lot

00:21:15.280 of times

00:21:15.580 people don't

00:21:16.460 get what

00:21:17.580 they voted

00:21:17.900 for,

00:21:18.380 but in

00:21:18.760 this presidency

00:21:19.400 they are

00:21:20.200 going to

00:21:20.420 get what

00:21:20.700 they voted

00:21:21.020 for,

00:21:21.400 and that's

00:21:22.040 what democracy

00:21:22.640 is all

00:21:22.900 about.

00:21:23.860 I gotta say,

00:21:24.820 I love

00:21:25.280 listening to

00:21:25.760 Elon,

00:21:26.100 you spent a

00:21:26.720 lot of time

00:21:27.160 with him,

00:21:28.040 I think this

00:21:28.940 is a perfect

00:21:29.460 example of

00:21:30.080 just how

00:21:30.540 genuine his

00:21:31.400 heart is on

00:21:31.980 this,

00:21:32.740 he truly is

00:21:34.180 a believer

00:21:34.740 in this

00:21:35.260 country,

00:21:35.960 and giving

00:21:36.460 the American

00:21:37.020 people what

00:21:37.480 they voted

00:21:37.840 for,

00:21:38.520 and he is

00:21:39.120 an agent

00:21:39.760 to go find

00:21:40.820 the waste,

00:21:41.340 fraud,

00:21:41.520 and abuse,

00:21:42.040 and he's

00:21:42.980 incredibly focused

00:21:44.340 on it.

00:21:44.780 He is

00:21:45.480 incredibly

00:21:46.280 focused,

00:21:46.960 and he's

00:21:47.180 right,

00:21:47.480 this is

00:21:47.880 democracy,

00:21:49.000 and yet

00:21:49.540 it is

00:21:49.940 causing

00:21:50.360 the radical

00:21:50.940 left to

00:21:51.540 lose their

00:21:52.120 minds.

00:21:52.740 I gotta say,

00:21:53.880 I wanna play

00:21:55.360 this segment

00:21:56.380 from CNN

00:21:57.020 because it

00:21:57.660 really does

00:21:58.260 show how

00:21:58.760 the media,

00:21:59.800 their minds

00:22:01.160 are melting

00:22:01.600 down.

00:22:02.220 You had

00:22:02.800 former New

00:22:03.280 Hampshire

00:22:03.520 Governor

00:22:03.900 Chris Sununu

00:22:04.820 who's on

00:22:06.420 and he's on

00:22:06.880 with Anderson

00:22:07.400 Cooper,

00:22:07.860 and Anderson

00:22:08.220 Cooper

00:22:08.560 loses it,

00:22:09.240 and you've

00:22:09.420 also got

00:22:09.820 Jeffrey Toobin,

00:22:11.180 another left-wing

00:22:12.240 CNN contributor.

00:22:13.380 You're old

00:22:13.860 buddies,

00:22:14.140 these are

00:22:14.460 all the

00:22:14.760 folks you

00:22:15.140 piled around

00:22:15.640 with,

00:22:15.960 Ben.

00:22:17.220 I did my

00:22:17.760 seven years

00:22:18.380 in hell, 0.96

00:22:18.980 seven years 0.87

00:22:19.480 in hell. 0.66

00:22:20.120 Do you have 0.88

00:22:20.820 CNN tattooed

00:22:21.800 somewhere on

00:22:22.200 your body?

00:22:22.620 I do not,

00:22:23.700 I do not,

00:22:24.700 I'm sure,

00:22:25.020 just checking.

00:22:26.700 So,

00:22:26.940 so,

00:22:27.140 so,

00:22:27.280 so,

00:22:27.500 all right,

00:22:27.800 give a listen

00:22:28.340 to Chris Sununu

00:22:29.100 and,

00:22:29.480 and,

00:22:29.800 and,

00:22:29.960 and look how

00:22:30.540 he,

00:22:30.860 how he causes

00:22:31.660 the CNN

00:22:32.580 folks to

00:22:33.160 lose their 0.64

00:22:33.460 minds.

00:22:34.600 It was

00:22:35.380 surreal,

00:22:35.820 but I gotta

00:22:36.160 tell you,

00:22:36.640 I know what

00:22:37.240 you're not

00:22:37.520 showing here.

00:22:38.100 Musk gave 1.00

00:22:38.520 seven specific

00:22:39.600 examples off

00:22:40.520 the top of

00:22:41.060 his head

00:22:41.460 of where the

00:22:42.100 corruption and

00:22:42.660 fraud were.

00:22:43.240 I know you

00:22:43.500 don't,

00:22:43.720 you didn't play

00:22:44.020 the clips.

00:22:44.540 He was talking

00:22:44.900 about a

00:22:45.260 contractor that

00:22:45.980 had a three

00:22:46.400 month contract.

00:22:47.260 He was paid

00:22:47.700 for 20 years.

00:22:48.500 He was talking

00:22:48.900 about welfare

00:22:49.440 benefits that

00:22:49.980 were being

00:22:50.280 paid to

00:22:50.600 someone that

00:22:51.140 was technically

00:22:51.560 150 years old.

00:22:52.920 He was talking

00:22:53.240 about line items

00:22:54.320 that had no

00:22:55.400 justification.

00:22:55.780 He doesn't

00:22:57.160 present any

00:22:57.520 actual evidence.

00:22:58.100 He's standing

00:22:58.620 there in the

00:22:59.300 Oval Office.

00:22:59.880 Do you expect

00:23:00.180 him to come

00:23:00.520 in with

00:23:00.880 10,000 pages?

00:23:02.240 And I have

00:23:02.820 to be clear,

00:23:03.760 to complain

00:23:04.320 about this

00:23:04.800 administration

00:23:05.260 about transparency

00:23:06.120 when this

00:23:06.960 president takes

00:23:07.480 open questions

00:23:08.300 on a daily

00:23:08.980 basis,

00:23:09.780 yet Joe

00:23:10.120 Biden didn't

00:23:10.600 show up for

00:23:10.920 a press

00:23:11.200 conference

00:23:11.520 since six

00:23:11.920 months,

00:23:12.380 is insane.

00:23:13.320 These guys

00:23:13.740 are being

00:23:14.020 extremely

00:23:14.780 transparent.

00:23:15.660 They don't

00:23:15.900 have to sit

00:23:16.300 there and

00:23:16.540 take the

00:23:16.780 questions,

00:23:17.140 but they do.

00:23:17.860 It's all

00:23:18.380 on the

00:23:18.600 website.

00:23:19.040 It's all

00:23:19.320 out there.

00:23:19.860 It's not

00:23:20.300 transparency to

00:23:22.020 say things that

00:23:23.440 have no

00:23:24.040 factual background.

00:23:25.200 To say we're

00:23:26.100 cutting,

00:23:26.880 we've found

00:23:27.480 a billion dollars

00:23:28.300 or a trillion

00:23:28.960 dollars in waste

00:23:29.880 with no

00:23:30.640 specifics,

00:23:31.320 that's just

00:23:31.860 talk.

00:23:32.680 That's not

00:23:33.060 transparency.

00:23:33.900 It's 23 days

00:23:34.820 in here,

00:23:35.300 guys.

00:23:35.720 23 days.

00:23:36.520 You were

00:23:37.160 talking about

00:23:37.540 2.3 billion

00:23:38.540 that was saved

00:23:39.120 last year.

00:23:39.700 These guys are

00:23:40.180 saving 2.3

00:23:40.880 billion a day.

00:23:42.640 It's incredible.

00:23:43.640 That's what

00:23:43.900 they're saying.

00:23:45.400 But where's

00:23:46.000 the proof?

00:23:46.660 You're not

00:23:47.760 going to be

00:23:48.100 satisfied until

00:23:48.720 he shows up

00:23:49.160 with 10,000

00:23:49.680 pages.

00:23:52.620 He's giving

00:23:53.220 very specific

00:23:53.880 things,

00:23:54.500 but he's not

00:23:55.180 actually giving

00:23:55.720 any evidence

00:23:56.380 of that.

00:23:57.040 It's all

00:23:57.640 going to come

00:23:58.000 because what

00:23:58.440 they also said

00:23:59.120 was if we

00:23:59.800 have to go to

00:24:00.200 Congress,

00:24:00.520 we'll go to

00:24:00.800 Congress.

00:24:01.240 We'll show

00:24:01.860 where it is.

00:24:02.160 Some of the

00:24:02.520 details that

00:24:03.020 have come out,

00:24:03.920 like the $59

00:24:05.760 million spent on

00:24:07.340 luxury hotels,

00:24:08.800 it's actually

00:24:09.340 not...

00:24:10.360 You're talking

00:24:10.540 about the FEMA

00:24:11.000 money that was

00:24:11.500 abused for

00:24:11.980 migrants? 0.86

00:24:12.480 That was FEMA 0.94

00:24:13.820 money for

00:24:14.280 migrants? 0.86

00:24:14.660 That's okay

00:24:15.140 now?

00:24:15.420 No, I'm

00:24:15.900 not saying it's

00:24:17.520 okay.

00:24:17.860 Don't put words

00:24:18.300 in my mouth.

00:24:18.520 Would you stop

00:24:19.180 that?

00:24:19.520 Would you stop

00:24:20.140 that process?

00:24:20.960 Don't be a 1.00

00:24:21.520 dick. 1.00

00:24:21.680 What I'm 0.87

00:24:22.960 saying is the

00:24:23.620 portrayal by

00:24:24.960 him is...

00:24:26.020 I just got to

00:24:27.120 say, this is

00:24:28.540 from my seven

00:24:29.960 years in hell

00:24:30.640 at CNN.

00:24:31.640 When the hosts

00:24:32.620 start cursing at

00:24:33.720 you, Don

00:24:34.300 Lemon lost it

00:24:35.120 on me one

00:24:35.600 night, screaming

00:24:36.300 that is BS,

00:24:37.760 that is BS, but

00:24:38.440 saying the full

00:24:38.960 thing.

00:24:39.460 When you see

00:24:40.280 Anderson Cooper

00:24:41.020 get rattled like

00:24:41.920 this, this is

00:24:42.680 when you know

00:24:43.240 they're losing

00:24:44.260 America and

00:24:45.560 they feel it and

00:24:46.380 they're witnessing

00:24:46.940 it because they're

00:24:48.240 part of this

00:24:48.920 cover-up center

00:24:49.720 and now they

00:24:50.720 realize how 1.00

00:24:51.540 stupid their 1.00

00:24:52.300 argument is that 1.00

00:24:53.000 well, we didn't

00:24:53.620 see a piece of

00:24:54.240 paper with it on

00:24:54.900 there.

00:24:55.360 What, you think

00:24:55.960 Elon Musk is

00:24:56.600 sitting there

00:24:56.960 making this up

00:24:57.620 in the Oval

00:24:58.040 Office?

00:24:58.460 Like, what's

00:24:58.860 wrong with you

00:24:59.320 guys?

00:24:59.520 And by the

00:24:59.780 way, you

00:25:00.060 guys never

00:25:00.780 questioned

00:25:01.300 anything that

00:25:02.460 was shady with

00:25:03.300 the Biden

00:25:03.660 administration when

00:25:04.500 you knew it

00:25:04.880 was shady.

00:25:05.900 Yeah, look,

00:25:06.660 number one, you

00:25:07.360 see Jeffrey

00:25:07.820 Toobin jumping

00:25:08.460 in, screaming,

00:25:09.180 that's not

00:25:09.560 transparency.

00:25:10.720 Trump is

00:25:11.060 literally doing

00:25:11.560 a press

00:25:11.880 conference every

00:25:12.500 day.

00:25:12.800 They're putting

00:25:13.120 all of this

00:25:13.740 out for everyone

00:25:14.360 to see.

00:25:14.760 They're giving

00:25:15.340 chapter and

00:25:16.420 verse and

00:25:16.900 specifics.

00:25:17.780 And you see

00:25:19.220 Anderson Cooper

00:25:19.820 at the end

00:25:20.360 where he just

00:25:20.920 curses and

00:25:22.300 melts down and 0.97

00:25:24.120 insults a

00:25:26.340 former governor

00:25:26.860 by the way.

00:25:27.900 Yeah, I mean,

00:25:28.620 to be clear,

00:25:30.460 that is, the

00:25:32.600 reason Anderson

00:25:33.400 Cooper does that

00:25:34.220 is he realizes

00:25:35.080 he's in a

00:25:35.740 completely

00:25:36.240 indefensible

00:25:36.860 position.

00:25:37.480 He's defending

00:25:38.240 the prior

00:25:39.600 administration,

00:25:40.680 diverting funds

00:25:41.480 from FEMA.

00:25:42.100 By the way,

00:25:42.860 funds that FEMA

00:25:43.560 are supposed to

00:25:44.300 use to

00:25:44.740 deal with a

00:25:45.160 natural disaster,

00:25:46.240 whether wildfires

00:25:47.380 in California

00:25:48.200 or a hurricane

00:25:48.980 or tornadoes

00:25:49.720 or other

00:25:49.980 natural disaster.

00:25:51.440 And the

00:25:52.100 prior administration

00:25:53.200 took those

00:25:53.860 disaster funds

00:25:54.700 and instead

00:25:55.480 used them to

00:25:56.100 pay for hotel

00:25:56.820 rooms for

00:25:57.340 illegal aliens.

00:25:58.240 And Anderson

00:25:58.900 Cooper realized,

00:25:59.740 wait a second,

00:26:00.240 I'm defending

00:26:00.740 something that

00:26:01.300 is so absurd

00:26:02.280 that even the

00:26:04.400 four viewers

00:26:05.040 who are watching

00:26:05.620 CNN are going

00:26:06.440 to know it's

00:26:06.940 absurd, and 0.93

00:26:07.820 that's why he 0.96

00:26:08.400 melts down.

00:26:09.560 And I got to

00:26:10.360 say, the fact

00:26:12.120 that President

00:26:12.900 Trump is

00:26:13.620 standing up,

00:26:14.500 and delivering

00:26:15.600 real cuts

00:26:16.920 that is taking

00:26:18.020 on this waste

00:26:18.840 fraud and abuse,

00:26:20.140 the fact that

00:26:21.620 Anderson Cooper

00:26:22.360 is melting down,

00:26:23.280 that shows

00:26:23.760 President Trump

00:26:24.500 is winning,

00:26:25.640 that shows

00:26:26.180 Elon Musk

00:26:26.820 is winning,

00:26:27.540 and that shows

00:26:28.340 the American

00:26:28.740 people are

00:26:29.200 winning.

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00:27:09.860 I want to get

00:27:10.680 back to the

00:27:11.340 big story,

00:27:12.300 number three of

00:27:12.860 the week you

00:27:13.300 may have

00:27:13.580 missed.

00:27:14.280 I want to

00:27:14.640 move to

00:27:15.140 USAID and

00:27:17.560 some of the

00:27:18.620 big issues

00:27:19.520 that are now

00:27:20.040 coming out of

00:27:20.900 that.

00:27:21.760 And it deals

00:27:22.320 also with the

00:27:23.300 issue of

00:27:23.720 terrorism.

00:27:24.820 We got some

00:27:25.340 shocking

00:27:25.940 news that

00:27:26.740 has come

00:27:27.120 out.

00:27:27.500 It's

00:27:27.840 something,

00:27:28.240 by the

00:27:28.380 way,

00:27:28.660 that I

00:27:28.880 think we

00:27:29.280 need to

00:27:29.600 point out

00:27:30.120 very clearly.

00:27:30.860 You had

00:27:31.400 been talking

00:27:32.020 about this

00:27:32.640 now for

00:27:33.300 several years

00:27:34.120 in Congress

00:27:35.240 and on this

00:27:36.140 show.

00:27:37.040 And thank

00:27:37.840 goodness now

00:27:38.940 at least all

00:27:40.180 of it seems

00:27:40.820 to be being

00:27:41.340 exposed because

00:27:42.500 of the digging

00:27:43.180 with Doge and

00:27:43.900 the Trump

00:27:44.240 administration back

00:27:45.100 in office.

00:27:45.780 Well, there

00:27:46.440 was a lengthy

00:27:46.880 tweet that I

00:27:47.520 sent this week

00:27:48.260 that said the

00:27:49.140 following.

00:27:49.880 The full story

00:27:50.520 of USAID

00:27:51.420 funding Hamas

00:27:52.540 is vast and

00:27:54.080 much of it

00:27:54.660 was done in

00:27:55.500 secret.

00:27:56.520 Before and

00:27:57.000 after October

00:27:57.680 7th, the

00:27:58.320 USAID

00:27:59.040 flowed

00:27:59.660 unaccountable

00:28:00.400 hundreds of

00:28:01.200 millions of

00:28:01.660 dollars towards

00:28:02.340 Hamas that

00:28:03.580 enabled it to

00:28:04.400 launch the

00:28:04.900 attack and

00:28:05.600 keep battling

00:28:06.320 Israel afterwards.

00:28:08.020 They lied

00:28:08.780 about the

00:28:09.160 nature of

00:28:09.580 that aid in

00:28:10.140 public

00:28:10.420 databases,

00:28:11.920 refused to

00:28:12.680 disclose what

00:28:13.520 groups were

00:28:14.080 getting the

00:28:14.480 money, and

00:28:15.600 gave tens of

00:28:16.600 millions in

00:28:17.120 American cash

00:28:17.940 to be

00:28:18.220 distributed

00:28:18.740 without

00:28:19.720 American

00:28:20.420 supervision.

00:28:21.100 They

00:28:22.240 internally

00:28:22.840 admitted the

00:28:24.120 aid would

00:28:24.560 benefit Hamas 0.94

00:28:25.440 and even

00:28:26.700 exempted

00:28:27.380 themselves from

00:28:28.040 anti-terrorism

00:28:28.960 laws, but

00:28:30.220 in public

00:28:30.880 issued

00:28:31.880 denials.

00:28:33.040 For all

00:28:34.000 four years of

00:28:34.900 the Biden

00:28:35.240 administration, I

00:28:36.540 prevented them

00:28:37.320 from confirming a

00:28:38.320 Middle East

00:28:38.780 administrator because

00:28:40.400 they wouldn't

00:28:41.080 acknowledge what

00:28:41.800 they were doing

00:28:42.480 because continuing

00:28:44.160 their secret

00:28:45.120 pro-Hamas 0.85

00:28:45.840 programs was

00:28:47.380 more important

00:28:48.020 to them.

00:28:49.520 And I'll

00:28:50.220 tell you, there

00:28:50.720 was a major

00:28:52.160 article in the

00:28:52.880 Washington Free

00:28:53.540 Beacon that I

00:28:55.120 tweeted out as

00:28:55.860 well, and it's

00:28:56.680 an article my

00:28:57.320 team and I

00:28:57.980 provided a

00:28:59.040 significant amount

00:28:59.720 of the

00:28:59.940 information to

00:29:00.800 the Washington

00:29:01.320 Free Beacon,

00:29:02.080 but it's

00:29:02.620 entitled,

00:29:03.880 At USAID,

00:29:05.700 funding for

00:29:06.340 terror-tied

00:29:06.940 groups and

00:29:07.960 internal

00:29:08.440 hostility towards

00:29:09.540 Israel goes 1.00

00:29:10.980 back years.

00:29:12.700 One former

00:29:13.280 State Department

00:29:13.880 official described

00:29:15.040 a lack of

00:29:16.100 embarrassment

00:29:16.780 among some

00:29:18.380 USAID staffers

00:29:19.980 about being

00:29:21.100 associated with

00:29:22.460 terrorist

00:29:22.860 organizations.

00:29:24.060 And I'm

00:29:24.340 going to read

00:29:24.740 from the

00:29:25.100 beginning of

00:29:25.460 this article

00:29:25.940 because it's

00:29:26.440 an important

00:29:26.880 article and

00:29:27.400 the facts in

00:29:27.980 it are very

00:29:28.460 disturbing.

00:29:29.500 As the

00:29:29.840 Trump

00:29:30.060 administration

00:29:30.640 works to

00:29:31.220 shutter the

00:29:31.700 United States

00:29:33.240 Agency for

00:29:33.920 International

00:29:34.360 Development,

00:29:35.080 USAID,

00:29:36.500 current and

00:29:37.000 former U.S.

00:29:37.680 officials who

00:29:38.160 work closely

00:29:38.740 with the

00:29:39.080 embattled aid

00:29:39.720 group say

00:29:40.740 they watched

00:29:41.340 for years as

00:29:42.800 it funneled

00:29:43.460 millions of

00:29:44.160 dollars to

00:29:44.760 anti-Israel

00:29:45.600 advocacy groups

00:29:46.680 and entities

00:29:47.860 linked to

00:29:48.440 terrorism.

00:29:49.440 That funding

00:29:49.980 caused internal

00:29:50.780 friction across

00:29:51.560 multiple

00:29:52.040 administrations

00:29:52.920 according to

00:29:53.960 those who

00:29:54.400 spoke with

00:29:54.960 the Washington

00:29:55.460 Free Beacon.

00:29:56.460 In some

00:29:56.800 cases USAID

00:29:58.660 fought to

00:29:59.240 conceal how

00:29:59.920 taxpayer funds

00:30:00.780 were spent.

00:30:01.660 And when it

00:30:01.920 came to

00:30:02.260 Israel officials

00:30:03.620 recalled battling

00:30:04.640 USAID over

00:30:05.960 funding for

00:30:06.620 groups that

00:30:07.680 worked to

00:30:08.300 undermine the

00:30:08.980 Jewish state

00:30:09.640 or maintain

00:30:10.560 ties to

00:30:11.360 terror

00:30:11.660 organizations.

00:30:12.940 Quote,

00:30:13.460 for those who

00:30:14.020 believe in a

00:30:14.540 strong U.S.-Israel

00:30:15.560 relationship,

00:30:16.880 elements of

00:30:17.440 USAID had

00:30:18.520 been problematic

00:30:19.120 for years,

00:30:20.120 said one

00:30:20.660 former State

00:30:21.280 Department

00:30:21.640 official who

00:30:22.740 worked with

00:30:23.220 USAID during

00:30:24.620 the Biden

00:30:25.100 administration.

00:30:26.060 Quote,

00:30:26.760 there was even

00:30:27.620 a lack of

00:30:28.240 embarrassment

00:30:28.740 among some

00:30:29.440 USAID

00:30:30.180 staffers about

00:30:31.560 being associated

00:30:32.540 with terrorist

00:30:33.260 organizations.

00:30:34.780 Some of the

00:30:35.200 terror-tied funding

00:30:36.080 initiatives are

00:30:36.760 publicly known.

00:30:37.960 In November

00:30:38.340 2022, for

00:30:39.400 instance,

00:30:40.500 USAID awarded

00:30:41.860 $100,000 to a

00:30:43.640 Palestinian activist

00:30:44.800 group whose

00:30:45.900 leaders hailed the

00:30:48.280 Popular Front for

00:30:49.500 the Liberation of

00:30:50.360 Palestine, a 0.97

00:30:51.940 designated terror

00:30:53.000 group.

00:30:53.760 Just six days

00:30:55.640 before Hamas' 0.96

00:30:57.320 October 7th

00:30:58.280 assault on

00:30:58.820 Israel, USAID

00:31:00.640 handed $900,000

00:31:02.540 to a terror

00:31:04.520 charity in

00:31:06.760 Gaza involved

00:31:08.640 with the son

00:31:09.560 of Hamas

00:31:10.160 leader Ismail

00:31:11.240 Hanaye.

00:31:11.740 USAID's

00:31:13.420 hostilities

00:31:13.980 towards the

00:31:14.500 Jewish state,

00:31:15.180 however, ran

00:31:16.480 deeper than

00:31:17.560 the agency's

00:31:18.260 grant-making.

00:31:19.260 Under Samantha

00:31:19.820 Power, former

00:31:20.600 President Joe

00:31:21.520 Biden's pick to

00:31:22.520 run USAID,

00:31:24.580 agency officials

00:31:25.460 fought pro-Israel

00:31:26.800 policymaking at

00:31:27.860 the State

00:31:28.220 Department, often

00:31:29.860 urging their

00:31:30.480 colleagues at

00:31:31.060 Foggy Bottom to

00:31:32.000 pare down

00:31:32.460 statements that

00:31:33.320 praised the

00:31:34.080 Jewish state,

00:31:35.380 former officials

00:31:36.000 said.

00:31:36.680 In 2021, during

00:31:38.100 a period of

00:31:38.680 conflict with

00:31:39.260 Hamas, Power

00:31:40.800 herself refused

00:31:42.020 to meet with

00:31:43.020 Israel's 0.75

00:31:43.580 ambassador unless

00:31:45.240 Israel reached a 0.78

00:31:46.460 ceasefire with

00:31:47.960 the Iran-backed

00:31:49.180 terror group.

00:31:50.180 The decision put

00:31:51.020 Power at odds

00:31:51.900 with the White

00:31:52.420 House National

00:31:53.020 Security Council,

00:31:54.740 which signed

00:31:55.620 off on the

00:31:56.300 meeting, emails

00:31:57.100 obtained by the

00:31:57.960 Free Beacon

00:31:58.460 show.

00:31:59.200 It is shocking

00:32:00.680 to hear you read

00:32:01.960 that, and yet

00:32:02.760 it's so well

00:32:03.860 documented.

00:32:05.160 It's something

00:32:05.780 that you've been

00:32:06.300 sounding the alarm

00:32:06.920 on for a while.

00:32:07.800 Now, because of a

00:32:08.660 new administration,

00:32:09.300 we're actually

00:32:09.780 getting some

00:32:10.280 movement on

00:32:10.900 this, but how

00:32:13.220 angry should

00:32:14.080 Americans be that

00:32:15.480 their tax dollars

00:32:16.420 have been going to

00:32:18.260 terrorist organizations

00:32:20.120 through these

00:32:20.880 funnel, through

00:32:21.700 these charities

00:32:22.700 and other groups,

00:32:24.380 and there were

00:32:25.140 warnings, meaning

00:32:25.960 that the

00:32:26.540 government, Biden

00:32:27.480 and Harris and

00:32:28.040 their team, they

00:32:29.340 knew the money was

00:32:30.320 ending up with

00:32:30.920 these people.

00:32:31.500 This wasn't a

00:32:32.120 one-off, this

00:32:32.760 wasn't an accident,

00:32:33.760 this was deliberate.

00:32:35.480 Well, they knew it

00:32:36.180 and they actively

00:32:36.960 hit it.

00:32:37.520 Let me read a

00:32:38.320 little more from

00:32:38.900 this Free Beacon

00:32:39.460 article.

00:32:40.160 A January memo

00:32:41.080 from Inspector

00:32:41.900 General Paul

00:32:42.600 Martin noted

00:32:44.020 that the agency

00:32:44.980 quote, does not

00:32:46.080 maintain a

00:32:46.900 comprehensive internal

00:32:47.980 database of

00:32:49.440 sub-awardees.

00:32:51.540 In other words,

00:32:52.300 the foreign 0.60

00:32:52.680 entities that

00:32:53.400 work with a

00:32:54.160 primary grantee

00:32:55.280 on a USAID

00:32:56.240 project often

00:32:57.840 go unreported,

00:32:59.620 impeding the

00:33:00.520 ability of the

00:33:01.240 agency investigators

00:33:02.400 to vet fraud

00:33:04.240 allegations,

00:33:05.080 according to the

00:33:05.640 memo.

00:33:05.860 such allegations

00:33:07.620 often include

00:33:08.740 the diversion

00:33:09.320 of taxpayer-funded

00:33:10.420 aid to

00:33:11.520 terrorist

00:33:11.940 organizations.

00:33:13.320 In a November

00:33:14.360 report, for

00:33:15.100 example, Martin

00:33:16.180 quote, identified

00:33:17.780 deliberate

00:33:18.320 interference and

00:33:19.420 efforts to

00:33:20.140 divert humanitarian

00:33:21.280 assistance by

00:33:22.820 foreign terrorist 0.52

00:33:23.880 organizations,

00:33:25.280 including systemic

00:33:27.200 coercion of aid

00:33:28.500 workers by FTOs, 0.74

00:33:30.500 foreign terrorist 0.52

00:33:31.040 organizations, and

00:33:32.160 FTO influence

00:33:34.560 over beneficiary

00:33:36.660 selection, these

00:33:38.220 diversion efforts

00:33:39.060 are particularly

00:33:39.740 pronounced in

00:33:40.980 Hamas-controlled

00:33:41.860 Gaza.

00:33:42.320 A February report

00:33:44.040 from the Middle

00:33:44.920 East Forum

00:33:45.600 think tank found

00:33:46.780 that the USAID

00:33:47.900 had awarded

00:33:49.480 millions of

00:33:50.700 dollars to

00:33:51.960 organizations directly

00:33:53.720 in Gaza

00:33:54.600 controlled by

00:33:55.940 Hamas. 0.73

00:33:56.660 Let me read that 0.84

00:33:57.500 again.

00:33:58.320 A February report

00:33:59.620 from the Middle

00:34:00.760 East Forum

00:34:01.380 think tank found

00:34:02.740 that USAID had

00:34:04.240 awarded millions

00:34:05.580 of federal

00:34:06.540 dollars to

00:34:07.840 organizations

00:34:08.680 directly in

00:34:09.800 Gaza controlled

00:34:11.100 by Hamas.

00:34:12.480 And it

00:34:12.720 continues, in

00:34:14.000 one Biden-eric

00:34:15.080 case, USAID

00:34:16.540 funded an

00:34:17.420 educational and

00:34:18.980 community center

00:34:20.100 in Gaza

00:34:21.140 controlled by

00:34:23.060 a local group

00:34:24.680 called the

00:34:25.940 Unlimited

00:34:26.600 Friends

00:34:27.200 Association.

00:34:28.000 The association

00:34:29.220 openly collaborated

00:34:30.640 with Hamas

00:34:31.340 inviting the

00:34:32.500 terror group's

00:34:33.260 officials to

00:34:33.900 its office

00:34:34.480 and boasting

00:34:36.040 of U.S.-funded

00:34:37.120 projects in

00:34:37.980 Hamas-controlled

00:34:39.100 newspapers.

00:34:40.480 In 2021,

00:34:42.220 its director

00:34:42.940 called for

00:34:43.720 Jerusalem to

00:34:44.640 be cleansed

00:34:45.960 quote,

00:34:47.060 from the

00:34:47.640 impurity

00:34:48.300 of the Jews. 0.99

00:34:50.560 This is who

00:34:51.780 Joe Biden

00:34:52.860 and the

00:34:53.160 Democrats

00:34:53.600 were sending

00:34:54.740 millions of

00:34:55.420 dollars to

00:34:56.120 and this is who

00:34:57.200 they were

00:34:57.480 covering it up.

00:34:58.580 Not only were

00:34:59.080 they covering

00:34:59.620 it up, but

00:35:00.340 this has a

00:35:01.180 USAID has a

00:35:02.800 long history

00:35:03.620 that's now

00:35:04.260 well documented

00:35:05.220 of them

00:35:06.500 helping

00:35:07.780 radicals.

00:35:08.900 And one of

00:35:09.540 the things you

00:35:10.020 and I talked

00:35:10.520 about before

00:35:11.020 the show

00:35:11.580 was another

00:35:12.800 just totally

00:35:13.640 insane aspect

00:35:14.900 of this and

00:35:15.480 that included

00:35:16.080 paying for

00:35:16.920 terrorist

00:35:17.520 college funds.

00:35:19.600 Well, that

00:35:20.080 is exactly

00:35:20.960 right and it

00:35:21.700 is a stunning

00:35:22.720 story.

00:35:23.620 So this is

00:35:24.340 something that's

00:35:24.880 been reported

00:35:25.440 in Fox News

00:35:26.240 and the New

00:35:27.120 York Post.

00:35:27.740 Here's what

00:35:27.980 the New York

00:35:28.300 Post said.

00:35:29.080 USAID

00:35:29.920 reportedly

00:35:30.580 bankrolled

00:35:31.240 Al-Qaeda

00:35:31.820 terrorist

00:35:32.460 college

00:35:33.260 tuition.

00:35:34.700 Unearthed

00:35:35.180 records

00:35:35.560 showed.

00:35:37.400 USAID

00:35:38.320 American

00:35:38.900 board

00:35:39.340 jihadist

00:35:40.120 Anwar

00:35:41.200 Al-Awlaki 0.97

00:35:42.000 received

00:35:43.440 full funding

00:35:44.980 to attend

00:35:46.300 Colorado State

00:35:47.260 University

00:35:47.920 in 1990.

00:35:49.540 USAID

00:35:50.200 documents

00:35:50.800 obtained

00:35:51.100 by Fox

00:35:51.620 News

00:35:51.880 showed.

00:35:53.020 Now who

00:35:53.560 is Anwar

00:35:54.080 Al-Awlaki? 0.99

00:35:54.980 He is a

00:35:55.680 notorious 1.00

00:35:56.280 terrorist,

00:35:57.060 so notorious 0.97

00:35:57.740 that President

00:35:58.980 Barack Obama

00:35:59.840 ordered him 0.99

00:36:00.500 killed in 0.99

00:36:01.960 a U.S.

00:36:02.540 airstrike in

00:36:03.360 Yemen 20

00:36:04.020 years later.

00:36:05.520 The documents

00:36:06.180 revealed that

00:36:06.900 Al-Awlaki,

00:36:08.180 who was born

00:36:08.780 in Las Cruces,

00:36:09.660 New Mexico,

00:36:10.940 lied on his

00:36:11.720 application and

00:36:12.620 claimed that he

00:36:13.280 was born in

00:36:13.880 Yemen,

00:36:14.900 apparently so he

00:36:15.920 would be eligible

00:36:16.720 for the federal

00:36:17.580 tuition funding

00:36:18.720 worth more than

00:36:20.320 $27,000 at the

00:36:22.340 time.

00:36:22.660 That was 1990.

00:36:23.440 tuition and

00:36:24.180 fees for an

00:36:25.180 international

00:36:25.660 student at

00:36:27.380 the university

00:36:28.500 today would be

00:36:29.500 nearly 10

00:36:30.240 times that.

00:36:31.800 Using the

00:36:32.340 education USAID

00:36:33.660 provided him,

00:36:34.980 he earned a

00:36:35.540 bachelor's in

00:36:36.180 civil engineering

00:36:36.940 in 1994.

00:36:38.760 Al-Awlaki would 1.00

00:36:39.480 go on to teach

00:36:40.160 Islam at mosques

00:36:41.220 across the country

00:36:42.140 from Denver to

00:36:42.940 San Diego and

00:36:43.620 Virginia, where

00:36:45.360 U.S.

00:36:45.720 officials believe

00:36:46.780 he used his

00:36:47.500 platform to

00:36:48.760 radicalize and

00:36:49.940 recruit terrorists.

00:36:51.060 And understand,

00:36:51.840 Al-Awlaki is 1.00

00:36:53.220 directly implicated

00:36:54.580 in, number

00:36:56.300 one, at the

00:36:56.920 San Diego

00:36:57.380 mosque.

00:36:57.900 He met the

00:36:58.520 9-11 hijackers

00:36:59.900 Nawaf al-Hazmi

00:37:01.600 and Khalid al-Midhar,

00:37:04.080 two of the men

00:37:04.660 who flew flight

00:37:05.460 77 into the

00:37:06.640 Pentagon on

00:37:08.800 9-11.

00:37:10.020 And he was

00:37:11.080 arrested in

00:37:12.200 2006 for his

00:37:14.420 terrorist ties in

00:37:15.440 Yemen.

00:37:16.540 And three years

00:37:17.420 later, Anwal al-Awlaki

00:37:18.880 communicated with

00:37:20.600 Nadal Hassan, who

00:37:21.900 murdered 14

00:37:23.000 innocent souls at

00:37:24.800 Fort Hood.

00:37:26.040 Anwal al-Awlaki was 0.98

00:37:27.280 also tied to the

00:37:28.280 underwear bomber,

00:37:29.800 Umar Farouk

00:37:31.120 Abdal-Mittalab, who

00:37:33.340 tried to blow up a

00:37:34.700 Detroit-bound

00:37:35.620 Northwest Airlines

00:37:36.820 flight on Christmas

00:37:37.860 Day 2009 with

00:37:40.100 bombs hidden in his

00:37:41.600 shorts.

00:37:42.240 This is who USAID

00:37:44.540 said, you know

00:37:45.200 what, we're going to

00:37:46.600 pay for you to get a

00:37:47.600 college degree. 0.94

00:37:48.440 What in the hell are 0.97

00:37:49.880 these people doing?

00:37:50.980 So the question that

00:37:52.040 I got to ask finally

00:37:53.080 on this to wrap it

00:37:54.800 up and people that

00:37:55.680 are listening are

00:37:56.160 going to say, number

00:37:56.860 one, how did this

00:37:59.620 A, happen, but even

00:38:01.060 more so, how are

00:38:02.780 people not going to

00:38:04.080 jail for knowingly

00:38:06.100 giving American

00:38:07.040 taxpayer dollars to

00:38:09.040 terrorists?

00:38:09.820 I mean, if you are

00:38:10.780 working in our

00:38:11.460 government, even if

00:38:12.860 it's under the

00:38:13.400 direction of the

00:38:14.060 Biden-Harris regime

00:38:15.140 at the time, and

00:38:16.580 you're sending out

00:38:17.300 money that you know

00:38:18.120 is going to

00:38:18.680 terrorists around

00:38:19.420 the world, is

00:38:20.760 that not like

00:38:21.620 breaking some law,

00:38:23.040 Senator?

00:38:23.760 Well, look, that's a

00:38:24.560 question that I think

00:38:25.260 is going to have to

00:38:25.760 be investigated and

00:38:26.840 examined.

00:38:27.640 You know, I will say

00:38:28.640 U.S.

00:38:29.040 anti-terrorism laws

00:38:30.220 prohibit sending money

00:38:31.380 that goes to

00:38:31.960 terrorism.

00:38:32.340 And in fact, the

00:38:34.140 Biden administration

00:38:35.040 made a formal

00:38:35.860 assessment and they

00:38:36.780 concluded that sending

00:38:37.700 the money to Gaza,

00:38:39.320 that it was very

00:38:41.040 likely that money 0.73

00:38:42.240 would be used by

00:38:43.120 Hamas for

00:38:43.720 terrorism.

00:38:44.220 Now, ordinarily,

00:38:45.320 when you make that

00:38:45.980 determination, under

00:38:47.900 American anti-terrorism

00:38:49.560 law, you don't send

00:38:50.260 the money.

00:38:50.620 You can't send the

00:38:51.240 money once you

00:38:51.820 determine that it's

00:38:52.520 likely it'll go to

00:38:53.260 terrorism.

00:38:54.280 However, the way the

00:38:55.400 law is written, the

00:38:56.860 president has the

00:38:57.780 authority to waive that

00:38:59.420 provision, and that's

00:39:00.280 exactly what they did

00:39:01.360 because they made a

00:39:02.160 determination that

00:39:03.840 their radical politics

00:39:05.640 were more important

00:39:07.220 than stopping

00:39:08.560 terrorists from

00:39:09.640 murdering American 1.00

00:39:10.540 citizens and 1.00

00:39:11.320 murdering Israeli 1.00

00:39:12.060 citizens. 0.96

00:39:12.580 And tragically, the

00:39:14.160 entire world saw the

00:39:15.280 consequences of that

00:39:16.400 radicalism on October

00:39:18.040 7th.

00:39:19.040 Do you think there

00:39:20.180 will be any

00:39:20.740 accountability for this

00:39:21.900 or is this going to be

00:39:22.580 another one of those

00:39:23.280 where, hey, we were in

00:39:24.380 charge, so we got

00:39:25.260 away with it?

00:39:26.880 Look, I certainly hope

00:39:27.820 there will be

00:39:28.220 accountability, but at a

00:39:29.300 minimum, we're seeing

00:39:30.000 accountability in

00:39:31.420 President Trump and

00:39:32.340 Elon Musk shutting

00:39:34.080 down these programs at

00:39:35.740 USAID.

00:39:36.640 I think that is very

00:39:37.460 good, and my hope and

00:39:38.440 expectations is that

00:39:40.020 Congress will come

00:39:40.920 along and we will pass

00:39:42.220 legislation, presumably

00:39:43.500 as a part of budget

00:39:45.000 reconciliation later

00:39:46.220 this year, to codify

00:39:48.160 these cuts and

00:39:49.200 eliminate the waste

00:39:50.460 fraud and abuse.

00:39:51.460 And Senator, you

00:39:52.440 mentioned, you know,

00:39:53.420 the corruption and

00:39:54.780 what the president's

00:39:56.200 doing to clean it up.

00:39:57.160 As always, thank you

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