00:09:21.620If you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.
00:09:30.320And she's charging three people for their alleged involvement in attacks against Tesla properties in Salem, Oregon, Loveland, Colorado, and Charleston, South Carolina.
00:10:21.280Hashtag Tesla takedown, a, quote, mass mobilizing call on Wednesday to express his opinion about Elon Musk, whom the actor claimed is, quote, literally killing people.
00:10:33.860The 58-year-old also hit Musk with a string of other insults during the call.
00:10:39.380So this goes back to what you and I have talked about before, whether it's Act Blue, whether it's Black Lives Matter, whether it's, you know, the summer of takedown that the Occupy Wall Street.
00:10:48.720This is all coming from organized groups that are being funded.
00:11:13.000We talked with Elon in the interview about indications that Act Blue was being used to fund this.
00:11:19.080I have to admit, I actually hope that is the case because Act Blue is the principal fundraising mechanism for the left and for the Democrats.
00:11:26.200And if Act Blue is being used, Act Blue will be shut down.
00:11:29.840And I don't know if the Soros network is involved, but if the Soros network is involved, I believe this Department of Justice is going to follow the money.
00:11:37.420And anyone who is funding domestic terrorism, they're going to face the consequences of their action.
00:11:43.060That is important for the rule of law.
00:11:47.840Look, there are Democrat members of Congress participating.
00:11:52.140Jasmine Crockett from Texas participated in one of these Tesla takedown calls targeting a major U.S. company,
00:12:00.360wanting to bankrupt a major U.S. company, wanting to have all of its American workers lose their jobs.
00:12:06.500By the way, they don't care if they were to remove America's leading manufacturer of electric vehicles.
00:12:13.020The next time they prattle on about the climate crisis, know that they're complete and utter hypocrites because they don't care about that.
00:12:20.180They only care about it if you happen to be on their team, if you happen to be supporting their side.
00:12:24.640And every one of these people knows they're not just talking about declining to purchase this product.
00:12:31.300They are talking about and celebrating as the crowd at The Daily Show demonstrating.
00:12:37.120They are cheering on Molotov cocktails, violent firebombing and firing guns.
00:12:44.460And I'll tell you, somebody is going to be killed.
00:14:27.180And I mean those terms very precisely because who else would use his own child as a sympathy prop while literally taking starving aid away from people all over the world?
00:14:40.260Now, he goes on for another four minutes just on this.
00:14:44.720But this is a man that is advocating and supporting people to take up, in essence, arms against Tesla.
00:15:15.240And what they are doing, it, and let me ask you something.
00:15:19.420Have you heard a single Democrat, have you heard one, denounce the domestic terrorism against Tesla dealerships, against the cars, the fire bombings?
00:15:45.580Well, as you said earlier, Senator, thank goodness that the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, announcing these charges for that Tesla attack and warning against domestic terrorism,
00:15:53.760saying, if you join in this, we're coming after you and we're going to put you behind bars.
00:15:57.940Thank goodness we have law and order restored at the Department of Justice with her in charge and others at the FBI.
00:16:04.320I want to move to the story number two, and it's also a really big story.
00:16:08.580And I want to look at this from a issue of hope and excitement.
00:16:13.220There are a lot of parents that are listening and grandparents right now who know just how screwed up the public education system is in this country.
00:16:21.540They understand the data that the K-12 schools are spending $857 billion annually.
00:16:29.400That's $17,277 on average per student.
00:16:34.740And what we're getting for that is not very much.
00:16:37.640We're at the bottom of the list in many categories.
00:16:39.800And the president came out with a very big announcement, and that is that his goal is to dismantle the Department of Education, sending this back to the states.
00:16:50.860Now, where parents get excited, this brings up the issue of school choice now.
00:16:55.400It's something that you are actually in Austin talking about today as we're recording this.
00:17:01.820And you've been a champion of school choice for quite some time.
00:17:06.340So on Thursday, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the Department of Education to be abolished and calling for the money and the authority to be sent back to the states and sent back to the local districts.
00:17:20.700Now, the corrupt corporate media being what it is, whenever you hear the words abolish the Department of Education, what they transmute that into is abolish education.
00:17:31.060And they try to say that means that Republicans are opposed to education.
00:17:43.520Do you want the money going to parents and kids and teachers to have excellent education?
00:17:48.640Or do you want the money going to woke radical bureaucrats in Washington who are putting red tape and strangling our schools and our education?
00:17:58.780That's the choice, because the Department of Education, there ain't nobody at the Federal Department of Education that is teaching your kids.
00:18:05.780There ain't nobody that is in Mrs. Smith's sixth grade class that is teaching reading or writing arithmetic.
00:18:14.340But what there are is a bunch of bureaucrats that are putting paperwork in place, that are putting burdens in place.
00:18:20.380And it is, particularly under Joe Biden, the Department of Education was weaponized.
00:18:27.120It was weaponized to push an extreme woke agenda.
00:18:32.760It was weaponized to push boys and girls sports.
00:18:35.740It was weaponized to push their extreme transgender ideology.
00:18:40.100And the president is following through.
00:18:43.840So the executive order directs the secretary of education to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and to return education authority to the states while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs and benefits on which Americans rely.
00:19:05.280So, again, the corrupt corporate media will say, well, this will halt funding for low-income kids.
00:19:11.920This will halt funding for kids with disabilities.
00:19:14.020When you hear that on CNN, know that they're lying to you.
00:19:18.860Know that they're deliberately lying to you.
00:19:24.220This is designed to keep the funding there, but have the decision-making at the state and local level.
00:19:30.000And a huge part of that is to facilitate school choice.
00:19:34.720And we're going to do a deeper dive into school choice in a moment.
00:19:37.200But I've got to say this executive order is a big, big deal from the president.
00:19:42.500He announced it surrounded by governors because it's going to be the governors now who are going to be in charge and the states in charge of the education policies in their states.
00:19:51.380Yeah, and I want to play just a little bit of what Donald Trump had to say at this announcement, as you mentioned, with those governors signing this executive order, shutting down the education department.
00:20:01.620President Carter created the Federal Education Department in 1979.
00:20:06.600It was opposed by members of his own cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times editorial board, and the famed Democrat Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
00:20:18.940And history has proven them right, absolutely right.
00:20:23.380After 45 years, the United States spends more money on education by far than any other country and spends, likewise, by far more money per pupil than any country.
00:20:53.120You listen to him talk about the more money per pupil than any other place.
00:20:59.200And this kind of goes back to Doge mentality.
00:21:02.560If we're wasting money, then let's stop wasting money.
00:21:05.620And we can do a better job with your tax dollars if it's at the state level, and if you have the ability to choose the best place for your child to get an education, it's your tax dollars.
00:21:15.760You know what to do with them better than we do.
00:23:19.380You are graduating students who can't read.
00:23:22.920You're graduating students who are not proficient in math.
00:23:26.620And what is happening, the Democrats, they have a basic choice.
00:23:31.460Do you care about the kids or do you care about money from the teachers unions?
00:23:35.840Now, as you mentioned, I'm in Austin today.
00:23:37.380I went to the state capitol and I went on to the floor of the house.
00:23:42.380And I'll tell you, the floor of the house, they actually read a commendation thanking me for my leadership in school choice.
00:23:48.360School choice for me has been a passion for 30 years.
00:23:52.420I've spent 30 years fighting for school choice.
00:23:54.720I believe school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
00:23:58.920I think there is no other domestic policy that matters more.
00:24:02.000And I believe every child in Texas and every child in America deserves access to an excellent education, regardless of their race, regardless of their ethnicity, regardless of their wealth or their zip code.
00:24:15.500And Texas is on the verge of passing the largest school choice program in America.
00:25:12.960Every cycle, I have my team make an Excel spreadsheet of every vote a state legislator has cast on school choice.
00:25:19.500And if you're a Republican state rep or state senator and you voted in favor of school choice and you're otherwise relatively conservative, you are very likely to get my support.
00:25:32.060But if you haven't, if you voted against choice, the chance of my supporting you is zero.
00:25:38.540And if you have at all a credible primary challenger, it is very likely I'm going to endorse your primary challenger.
00:25:44.820And when I do it, I don't do so gently.
00:25:59.900We brought in someone new who's going to stand for the kids of Texas.
00:26:03.580And so I was on the floor of the House, and then I went back to the speaker's office, and I was meeting one-on-one with a whole bunch of state reps and making the case what you're doing right now is a big deal.
00:26:13.720And I'll tell you, Ben, I announced today I'm spending a quarter million dollars, $250,000, running TV ads all across Texas, running them over the top, directly connecting with voters, also sending text, supporting 14 state reps, freshman state reps,
00:26:33.340Republicans, and thanking them for supporting school choice.
00:26:38.000Now, look, the teachers' unions are spending massive amounts of money attacking these Republicans, trying to scare them into voting the wrong way.
00:26:46.100And so I'm spending from my own political resources to say thank you to them, to support them, to buck them up, to give air support.
00:26:53.620Texas is going to get this done, and I'll tell you, I have been leading the fight for a long time.
00:26:58.680I've never been more excited about school choice in Texas than I am right now.
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00:31:38.120Like how do we beat Toyota and Honda and the Japanese companies coming in?
00:31:41.540Well, let's make better cars so the consumers want, and we saw quality improve dramatically.
00:31:49.220American cars are much better, and you now look at things like Suburbans and Escalades and all sorts of American cars that people like to buy.
00:32:46.520Now, I think it's a fight worth having.
00:32:47.880I also think one of the things that people may not understand about the strategy of the president is,
00:32:52.320the conversation, Senator, you and I are having right now is the conversation the president clearly is wanting the American people to have about their kids and grandkids and public education.
00:33:02.260This is part of this is you've got to start winning the hearts and minds of voters and people in this country, taxpayers.
00:33:09.640And one way to do it is to say, I'm getting rid of the Department of Education.
00:33:43.340Here's a point I made at the Texas legislature today.
00:33:45.800We had a press conference and I pointed out, I said, listen, I think the legislature is going to pass the biggest and boldest and most significant school choice program in America.
00:33:54.300When it comes time to a vote, most, if not every Democrat is going to vote no.
00:34:01.500And by the way, you want to talk about I had a reporter ask, why do you say school school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century?
00:34:08.540Well, if you look at the failing schools, at the schools where you have rampant violence, where you where you have high dropout rates, where you have incredibly low test scores, they're predominantly in low income areas and they're predominantly minority schools.
00:34:23.220They're predominantly African-American schools and Hispanic schools.
00:34:26.160You look at the kids who are disproportionately harmed by failing schools and they're disproportionately minority kids.
00:34:32.940There is a reason that every time a poll is done of African-American parents or Hispanic parents, you see overwhelming support for school choice, 60 percent, 70 percent, sometimes as high as 80 percent.
00:34:46.560Now, most elected Democrats claim they are fighting for minorities.
00:34:51.140Many of them are representing districts that are heavily minority.
00:34:54.360And yet almost every Democrat and maybe every Democrat intends to vote against school choice against those kids.
00:35:03.060And here's why I'm going to quote I'm going to quote Al Shanker, who was the longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers.
00:35:12.820And here's what what he said, quote, when school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interest of school children.
00:35:22.500Wow. You want to know what's going on with Democrats?
00:35:25.900They're interested in money and manpower and the teachers union are consistently among, if not their biggest funders and among, if not their biggest source of manpower.
00:35:34.940And every Democrat who makes the decision I'm voting against choice, what they're saying is I want the dollars from the union bosses more than I care about the kids in my district,
00:35:44.840more than I care about the African-American and Hispanic kids and the low income kids who are trapped in failing schools, who are not learning to read, who are not learning arithmetic, who are going to drop out.
00:35:55.280And by the way, if they drop out, we know just like night follows day.
00:36:00.340We know the odds of poverty are much, much higher.
00:36:02.780We know the odds of crime are much, much higher.
00:36:04.940We know the odds of substance abuse are much, much higher.
00:36:07.740We know the odds of serious health care issues are much, much higher.
00:36:10.560And so every Democrat who says, I want the money from the union bosses more than these kids is willing to essentially throw these children overboard and say, your future doesn't matter.
00:36:21.540That's why it's the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
00:36:24.360And it's why I've spent 30 years fighting for it.