00:03:31.500On Tuesday, the Supreme Court entered an order that upheld the Trump administration's order banning transgender military service members from serving.
00:03:40.360And the order that the Trump policy bars individuals with gender dysphoria or those who have undergone gender transition medical procedures from serving in the armed forces.
00:03:53.600And, of course, the instant the policy was put in place, there was a lawsuit, a lawsuit that was brought challenging it.
00:04:00.620And U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Defense's policy from taking effect nationally.
00:07:13.880We must set our sights higher and focus on intentional inclusivity because there are still far too many people out there, not just LGBTQ individuals, that feel marginalized, shut out, or discriminated against.
00:07:29.480So for all of you out there, I ask you to set out your symbols of pride, share your pronouns in your email, particularly if you're a person who doesn't think they need to.
00:07:39.800Initiate difficult conversations about racial and gender barriers, and share a bit of your vulnerability in a way that draws others in.
00:07:51.720You all have the power to take intentionally inclusive actions to ensure the multiple perspectives that we know make us stronger as we devise winning warfighting strategies get heard.
00:08:04.880Let me ask you, if you're a Russian general, if you're a Chinese general, if you are a North Korean general, if you're a Venezuelan general, if you're an Iranian terrorist, and you hear that, are you scared?
00:08:25.420No, go, like, train on weapons and get really badass in great shape and get really smart and learn to use weapons to defend America.
00:08:35.560That's the job of the military, to be so ready to kill our enemies that, frankly, they don't need to because our enemies are scared out of their mind.
00:08:44.080And I got to say, the fact that the Democrats not only lost sight of that, but didn't care about that, they viewed the most important thing to do in the military is let's all be transgender and have sex change surgeries.
00:08:59.020And by the way, Ben, there is a reason military enlistment plummeted because, you know what, the big old strapping dudes in Texas and Mississippi and Alabama and across the country who said, I want to defend America, they looked at that and said, okay, that ain't for me.
00:09:15.820If that's what serving in our military is, no thank you.
00:09:20.060And it is striking in the first three and a half months of the Trump administration, with Pete Hegseth there, Pete is a friend of yours, a friend of mine, he is someone who's focused on defending the warfighters, we're seeing military enlistment numbers skyrocketing because, once again, young men and women say, yes, damn it, I want to defend America, I just don't want to be on this social experiment for radical, woke, left-wing ideologues.
00:09:48.720You look at December of 2024, the Army reported its most productive month in 15 years, with an average of 346 enlistments per day.
00:10:00.800The momentum continued into January of this year with 6,531 new contracts signed, making it the highest January total since 2010.
00:10:12.940And you look at these gains, we had real challenges there.
00:10:16.900The Army reduced its recruitment goal from 65,000 in 2023 to 55,000 in 2024 because they knew they weren't going to hit their target because people did not want to serve under the Biden administration.
00:10:32.200If this is, and again, I go back to the audio we just played of you a second ago, if this is the military, right, the U.S. Air Force Academy hosting a transgender Pentagon official for a symposium on inclusion, you say, nah, maybe I don't want to serve in this level.
00:10:47.400You look at these recruitment numbers now, it goes back to what you mentioned earlier.
00:10:51.140The Trump administration has emphasized one simple thing.
00:10:56.080We want to have a military that's ready.
00:10:58.260We want to have a military that's ready to take on anybody that we need to in the world.
00:12:35.600And it's one that I think a lot of people are going to be upset about.
00:12:39.200A foreign aid official who resisted Doge, we now have learned, took secret payments after steering Africa money to a friend.
00:12:51.300Yes, this is a story Daily Wire broke.
00:12:53.440And actually the reporter there, Luke Rosiak, is someone, he was the one who broke the story about Loudoun County and the incredible, the shocking abuses in Loudoun County where you had a sexual predator, a boy dressed as a girl in a skirt who sexually assaulted a teenage girl and the school district covered it up.
00:13:15.120And it was a great example where Daily Wire, which is not the New York Times, it's not the Washington Post, it's not ABC, NBC, CBS.
00:14:04.820Let me just read you the beginning of it.
00:14:06.820A foreign aid official who refused the Department of Government Efficiency access to his agency's financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out.
00:14:16.240He steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments according to a law enforcement affidavit obtained by the Daily Wire.
00:14:26.340Matthew Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation refused to grant DOGE access to its books and told the White House that the agency would not acknowledge President Donald Trump's appointee as chairman of the board.
00:14:42.860After a dramatic showdown in March, DOGE physically took over the building with U.S. Marshals.
00:14:48.500But control of the agency is now subject to a lawsuit objecting to swooping in with DOGE staff, demanding access to sensitive information systems.
00:14:58.380For years, workers at the small USAID adjacent federal agency focused on Africa have told oversight bodies about allegations of self-dealing, procurement violations, and mysterious offshore bank accounts, many of them involving Zahui.
00:15:20.820But little was done about it, several told the Daily Wire.
00:15:24.620One action that raised eyebrows was Zahui's insistence on directing both grants and contracts to a company in Kenya called Ganyam Limited.
00:15:36.720According to spending records, it was awarded nearly $800,000 in contracts without competition.
00:15:44.020For example, a one-year, $350,000 contract for, quote, travel, transport, and relocation services was executed in March of 2020, when few people were traveling or holding conferences because of coronavirus.
00:16:00.220According to a search warrant application uncovered by the Daily Wire, USAID's inspector general established by August of 2024 that the company's owner had secretly wired money to Zahui's personal bank account at times to match up with the federal contracts.
00:16:21.500To date, the Department of Justice has not charged either man with a crime.
00:16:25.560I want to repeat that sentence again because it's stunning.
00:16:27.900According to a search warrant application uncovered by the Daily Wire, USAID's inspector general established by August 2024, before the election, that the company's owner had secretly wired money to Zahui's personal bank accounts at times that matched up with the federal contract.
00:16:51.040So this guy is sending federal taxpayer monies, hundreds of thousands of dollars to his buddy, and his buddy is wiring money back to him.
00:17:00.460And when Doe shows up, he blocks them and says, no, you can have no access to our records.
00:17:09.760It certainly appears to be massive corruption, which is why the media won't cover it.
00:17:14.640So the question everybody that's listening now, Senator, is asking themselves, like, all right, well, is there actually going to be accountability here?
00:17:22.180Will this individual be prosecuted or is this just somebody that's just going to get fired and we move down the road or maybe doesn't even get fired, right?
00:17:28.480They'll just maybe move them around somewhere.
00:17:30.800When is there going to be hell to pay for this type of corruption?
00:17:34.500Look, if this was corruption, this person should be fired, number one, but number two, prosecuted.
00:17:39.480We don't know that for sure, but the allegations on the face of it are deeply concerning.
00:17:46.980If you're giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to a buddy of yours, and by the way, the person who got these contracts, I'll read a little more from the article.
00:17:55.440Ganyum Limited is owned by Maina Gakur, whom Zahui has known for decades.
00:18:03.180Both worked at the Department of Veterans Affairs in San Diego and later moved to Fairfax, Virginia.
00:18:11.000Gakuri had been in charge of awarding contracts to the VA and then created his own company designed to get government construction contracts by taking advantage of minority preference programs.
00:18:22.880It was called Ganyum LLC and was based out of a house in Virginia.
00:18:27.520Gakuri similarly created a company based in Kenya called Gakuri Limited.
00:18:34.120The African Development Foundation is permitted by law to give grants only to African entities.
00:18:41.300In January 2024, Inspector General Agents interviewed Zahui about the Ganyum contracts, and he acknowledged having known Gakuri personally since 1999 and having been to his apartment.
00:18:55.280He, quote, could not explain why the contract with Ganyum was sole-sourced instead of being competitively bid, the agents wrote.
00:19:05.900Zahui was named Chief Financial Officer of the Federal Agency after he declared bankruptcy and had his house foreclosed on.
00:19:14.480He acknowledged to investigators that the travel contract was executed after COVID had already shut down travel.
00:19:21.780He told them the contract was actually used for IT services, but since Ganyum had no expertise in IT, it subcontracted to a different company.
00:19:33.220A Department of Treasury contracting official told the agents that was not allowed.
00:19:40.460Zahui continued to give more contracts to Ganyum without competition, which he justified by saying he was, quote, lazy.
00:19:48.780By the way, that's his defense, I'm lazy.
00:19:55.260Zahui stated he did not receive any direct or indirect benefits from Gakuri.
00:20:01.680But agents found text messages showing at least eight instances of wire transfers or electronic payments from Gakuri to Zahui's Bank of America account, totaling over $10,000.
00:20:19.000Those payments coincide with U.S. ADF's awarding of sole-sourced contracts to Ganyum.
00:20:26.740Look, I got to say, I don't know all the evidence, but on the face of it, this stinks.
00:20:32.340This looks like straight-out corruption.
00:20:35.100This looks like straight-out kickbacks, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:20:39.260I got to say, by the way, the guy is cheap.
00:20:41.300You're giving hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts and you're only getting $10,000 back.
00:20:46.260Like, it's one thing to be corrupt, but corrupt for, like, next to nothing is astonishing.
00:20:52.580My hope, we have a serious investigation, and if these allegations are true, this individual should be fired, should be prosecuted, and should go to jail.
00:21:01.900So how concerned should we all be that this is, in fact, not just an outlier, but that there's all sorts of corruption like this happening all within our government for years on end?
00:21:14.520And we're just now starting to find some of it, because if this is, like, how the government did it and no one was paying attention, I mean, part of this, like, how did this guy get away with this for so long?
00:21:25.440Well, look, I think he got away with it because the culture was nobody's going to look.
00:21:59.040You and I, on this podcast, we interviewed Lee Zeldin, the Permian Basin.
00:22:02.760And he talked about how the Biden administration EPA officials, after Trump won, in the couple of months between the election and the swearing in, they wanted to get rid of as much money as possible.
00:22:15.540And it was the Biden administration officials that referred to it as throwing gold bars out the windows.
00:23:19.440More to themselves, their businesses, their elected leaders and the world around them.
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00:23:46.540There may be accountability coming very, very soon when it comes to the issue of NPR.
00:23:55.280This is something that the president's talked about a lot.
00:24:00.580It's been pretty obvious that at NPR and PBS, there's a lot of our tax dollars are going to activists and to those in the far left that want to indoctrinate people through our tax dollars.
00:24:14.120And now accountability may be coming to NPR.
00:24:18.260So the president signed an executive order ending the taxpayer subsidy of NPR and PBS, both of which received millions from taxpayers.
00:24:27.500And they're just partisan propaganda outlets.
00:24:31.040The order reads as follows, by the authority vested in me as president, by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, it is hereby ordered, NPR and PBS, they will be shut down from cash.
00:27:03.860Ultimately, what are the chances that this sticks and that we actually say, hey, you're not getting the tax dollars for this radical agenda that you're pressing and trying to indoctrinate on so many people?
00:27:36.640The story quotes the U.S. Declaration of Independence, a document that contains offensive language about Native Americans, including a racial slur.
00:29:29.500This is, this is, all right, I'll give you another story.
00:29:32.540They routinely promote chemical and surgical mutilation of children, calling it, quote, gender-affirming care, without mentioning the irreversible damage caused by these procedures.
00:29:44.420And finally, in 2021, a PBS program aired a, quote, children's program.
00:29:49.980So this is what they're talking about to kids.
00:29:51.820Featuring a drag queen named Little Miss Hot Mess.
00:29:56.420And here's drag queen Little Miss Hot Mess sings, the hips on the drag queen go swish, swish, swish, to a virtual child audience on an episode of Let's Learn.