Feb. 5, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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| President Trump promised he would eliminate Washington waste and reform the unchecked federal bureaucracy. | ||
| And he is delivering on his promise made to the American people. | ||
| Over the past few days, we've heard wild claims from Democrats that we are, quote, at the beginning of a dictatorship, end quote, and we are in a constitutional crisis. | ||
| This kind of theatrical rhetoric is exactly what the American people rejected in November. | ||
| Well, part of President Trump's government cuts will include Elon Musk's plan to restructure USAID. | ||
| And that's the humanitarian and development arm of the government. | ||
| Critics are arguing USAID is a slush fund for wasteful projects. | ||
| Democrats and the liberal media are on the attack already, but not very focused on the economy of it all. | ||
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All of those accesses are cut off. | |
| So we might actually see somebody get killed. | ||
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We have to fight this in the courts. | |
| We have to fight this in the Congress. | ||
| We have to fight this in the streets. | ||
| What's happening right now is a hostile takeover of the U.S. government. | ||
| Shut down the city! | ||
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We are at war! | |
| I tell you right now. | ||
| People are going to die in very large numbers around the world who are expecting the United States to live up to our promises to get them medicine, to get them help. | ||
| We have got to tell Elon Musk, nobody elected you. | ||
| What we're in the face of right now is an authoritarian takeover of our country, and we say hell no! | ||
| If this were happening in any other country right now, I promise you, I'd be on the air calling it a coup. | ||
| I mean, everything from swear words to threats to declaration of war. | ||
| I wonder who's fighting whom there. | ||
| Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy. | ||
| Peter. | ||
| Yeah, Harris, that doesn't sound good. | ||
| But it appears that this morning at least one of those Democrats has walked back some of their tough talk about these budget cuts. | ||
| Chris Van Hollen yesterday was talking about fighting in the courts and fighting in the streets. | ||
| We just heard from him again, and he's only talking about... | ||
| The courts. | ||
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Courts are putting up a big red light to a lot of President Trump's proposals. | |
| The key now will be whether or not he actually supports and respects the court order. | ||
| If he doesn't, we're in a whole different world of problems. | ||
| J.D. Vance is saying, Higher. | ||
| And as it turns out, the small group of engineers helping Musk find fat in the federal budget are doing it here. | ||
| Have you met any of these guys? | ||
| No, I haven't seen them. | ||
| They work actually out of the White House. | ||
| Read off a list of 15 or 20 things that they found inside of the USAID. | ||
| It has to be corrupt. | ||
| Nobody could approve that. | ||
| They could only approve that if they were getting kickbacks. | ||
| You're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. | ||
| About $4 billion a day cut from the federal budget by this weekend, according to who else? | ||
| Elon Musk. | ||
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What? | |
| Wrong answer. | ||
| Be nice. | ||
| I'd hate to have to come back here. | ||
| Well done. | ||
| Well, good afternoon again, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| We are back in action, live right now. | ||
| The White House Press Briefing Room. | ||
| Caroline Levitt to be entering at any moment. | ||
| We like taking these things live. | ||
| We think it's a public service. | ||
| We enjoy providing you with non-fake news commentary. | ||
| We promise you we're not getting funded by USAID. | ||
| Please, let's go ahead and show you what the dais looks like today. | ||
| The anchors there in the front row who are doing stand-up shots inside of the room, they've all sat down. | ||
| This is obviously an indication that Carolyn Levitt will be back to continue the beatings of the fake news inside of that room. | ||
| It's been wall-to-wall, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Very exciting times. | ||
| A lot of entertainment value. | ||
| Now, there are so many things that have bubbled up in the news cycle since the last press briefing. | ||
| I expect Carolyn Levitt will be touching upon, and again, you were looking at a live shot here, Carolyn Levitt will be touching upon the total wholesale deletions of entire departments inside of the government, like the Department of Education. | ||
| Apparently, that's going to go the way of the dodo bird. | ||
| In just a matter of hours with an executive order. | ||
| We'll see. | ||
| That's what the rumblings are all about from inside the administration. | ||
| Also, the CIA and FBI scheduled for deletion, or at the very least, mass resignations, as the CIA got resignation letters sent to all employees at the CIA. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| It's going to be wild. | ||
| Doge, obviously, will be brought up. | ||
| As Doge has been storming into various government agencies, including agencies that commit mass fraud at scale, like USAID, and now the Medicaid and Medicare payment programs, which are the vast majority of the federal budget. | ||
| Did you know this? | ||
| They want universal health care here. | ||
| Medicaid and Medicare are more money than the Pentagon. | ||
| Gets. | ||
| Every single year. | ||
| That we pay for that. | ||
| How much fraud exists inside of those systems? | ||
| Speak to anybody who operates in those systems and you will know that probably one out of every two dollars is fraudulent inside of those systems. | ||
| There's so much mass fraud going on in our federal government and this is what Elon Musk is doing with Doge. | ||
| I have a report for you in front of me here that I'll just read to you as I don't want to miss Carolyn Levitt. | ||
| Again, imminently walking up to the press dais there. | ||
| And we have, man, a lot of fireworks also to cover inside of a House hearing where Democrats are literally having psychotic meltdowns. | ||
| Like frothing at the mouth, psychotic meltdowns. | ||
| But ladies and gentlemen, right here. | ||
| Over $4 billion has been sent to Haiti. | ||
| Via USAID. | ||
| 4 billion. | ||
| Think of what that could do for like your roads or your local infrastructure or just the local economy where you live. | ||
| Do you know how much it got to Haiti? | ||
| 2%. | ||
| 2% went to Haiti. | ||
| The rest of it went to DC firms and consultants and stayed right here in America. | ||
| This is the money laundering grift operation that is happening. | ||
| And it is being exposed at scale. | ||
| We spent the morning show talking about just narrowing in on the media. | ||
| Here's Carolyn Levitt, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Good to see you all. | ||
| Speaking of. | ||
| President Trump is in charge and America is back. | ||
| This week further demonstrated that the Trump effect is real. | ||
| Over the weekend, Americans celebrated the return of American Israeli citizen Keith Siegel and two Israelis who were held captive by Hamas terrorists since October 7, 2023. | ||
| President Trump and his administration worked diligently to secure their release and are committed to freeing all remaining hostages. | ||
| Yesterday, as you all know, President Trump held his first foreign meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | ||
| And as the president said, the bonds of friendship and affection between the American and Israeli people have endured for generations and are absolutely unbreakable. | ||
| The president is committed to eliminating Hamas and securing a lasting peace for the entire region. | ||
| The historic proposal for the United States to take over Gaza, announced by President Trump last night, underscores this commitment. | ||
| Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. | ||
| President Trump is an outside-of-the-box thinker and a visionary leader who solves problems that many others, especially in this city, claim are unsolvable. | ||
| We've already seen the results from President Trump's bold Peace Through Strength diplomacy on the world stage. | ||
| In response to President Trump's tariffs this week, both Mexico and Canada took immediate steps to alleviate the illegal alien migration and flow of deadly drugs, particularly fentanyl, into our country. | ||
| Mexico's President Claudia Scheinbaum agreed to permanently supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers on the U.S. border who will be specifically designated to stopping fentanyl and criminal aliens from pouring into our country. | ||
| And Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to appoint a fentanyl czar, list cartels as terrorists, and increased resources to assist the 10,000 frontline personnel at our northern border with Canada. | ||
| In recognition of these steps, President Trump paused the implementation of tariffs for one month while negotiations continue and final deals can be structured. | ||
| Throughout the transition and during his inaugural address, President Trump made it known that the United States cannot And will not allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue with its effective and growing control over the Panama Canal. | ||
| Following Secretary Rubio's successful first trip and visit there over the weekend, Panama's president said he will allow its participation in the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| It will no longer allow the participation in the Belt and Road Initiative. | ||
| That participation will expire. | ||
| This is significant because Panama was the first Latin American nation to join Beltane Road and now becomes the first to back away from it because of President Trump. | ||
| And to assist with the ongoing mass deportation effort, El Salvador's president has agreed to the most unprecedented migratory agreement anywhere in the world. | ||
| Because President Trump is back in charge, El Salvador has offered for illegal aliens of any nationality Facing deportation in the U.S. to be booked in his country's prison system. | ||
| And finally, President Trump's envoy for special missions, Rick Grinnell, traveled to Venezuela and not only secured the release of six American hostages, but Venezuela also agreed to accept the return of illegal alien Trende Aragua gang members. | ||
| All of these incredible victories prove how well President Trump's peace through strength approach is working. | ||
| And the days of weak American leadership are over. | ||
| In another success story this week, efforts to seal the border, halt the invasion, and carry out the largest mass deportation campaign continue at lightning speed. | ||
| Customs and Border Protection has approximately 79 miles of new border wall projects already underway in various stages of construction and planning. | ||
| The first flights arrived to Guantanamo Bay yesterday afternoon out of El Paso. | ||
| And who were some of the passengers aboard, you may ask? | ||
| There were 10 members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua on this flight. | ||
| And overall, our heroic ICE agents continue to prioritize the removal of violent criminal illegal aliens in communities across the country. | ||
| On February 3rd, ICE Dallas arrested a citizen of Nicaragua who has been convicted of sexual assault, strong arm, and lewd acts with a minor and sentenced to 15 years in prison. | ||
| ICE Los Angeles arrested a Mexican citizen who has been convicted of lewd acts with a minor and sentenced to 364 days. | ||
| And ICE Atlanta arrested a citizen of Mexico who has been convicted of homicide by vehicle and hit and run and sentenced to six months confinement. | ||
| And ICE New York arrested a Venezuelan national and known TDA gang member who has a prior criminal conviction for assault in the third degree causing physical injury. | ||
| Americans are safer every single time one of these criminals is arrested and deported from our country. | ||
| On another important and ongoing topic, the Senate is working fast to confirm President Trump's exceptional cabinet nominees in the face of relentless media smear campaigns. | ||
| As of right now, 12 members of the president's cabinet have been confirmed. | ||
| Most recently, Pam Bondi, who, as you all know, I was just in the Oval Office for that swearing and ceremony surrounded by Pam's lovely family. | ||
| And we look forward to watching her serve as the Attorney General of the United States. | ||
| According to CNN, President Trump is getting more cabinet picks confirmed so far than the average president in the modern era. | ||
| Another success story. | ||
| And we believe it's critical that Republicans in the Senate majority stay tough. | ||
| And keep their foot on the gas to confirm all of the remaining nominees as quickly as possible so we can continue President Trump's important work here at the White House and across our entire federal government. | ||
| And lastly, throughout his historic campaign, President Trump pledged to restore common sense to our country. | ||
| And he is continuing to deliver on that with an executive order that he will sign later today. | ||
| The president will be signing an executive order keeping men Out of women's sports. | ||
| To defend the safety of athletes, protect competitive integrity, and uphold the promise of Title IX. | ||
| This common sense action from President Trump ends the disgusting betrayal of women and girls by the previous administration, who for years catered to radical activists who wanted biological males to be treated as women in workplace showers, competitive sports, prisons, and even rape shelters. | ||
| Gender, ideology, insanity is over. | ||
| Submissions from individuals across the country interested in participating in our new media seat at a future briefing continue to flood in. | ||
| We are at more than 12,000 and counting. | ||
| If you're watching right now and are interested, you can continue to apply on our new media website, whitehouse.gov slash newmedia. | ||
| And in the seat today, we have a longtime national television broadcaster. | ||
| I'm sure many of you recognized her when she came in, Sage Steele, who is now the host of an incredibly successful podcast, The Sage Steele Show, on YouTube and all podcast platforms. | ||
| And previously, Sage was a fixture at ESPN from 2007 to 2023, primarily hosting SportsCenter, which we all know well, before leaving the company to exercise her First Amendment rights more freely. | ||
| We are honored to welcome her to the briefing room today. | ||
| She will be joining the president at the big EO signing later this afternoon. | ||
| I know many of you will be there as well. | ||
| So Sage, why don't you kick us off on this very exciting day for women and girls across the Thank you for joining us. | ||
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It is exciting. | |
| And Caroline, thank you for welcoming people like me with a little bit of a different perspective, different background in this seat. | ||
| It really does mean a lot. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Obviously, the House already passed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which is a really big step for women and girls. | ||
| We all know executive orders can be overturned, so I'm wondering how important it is to the President to get Congress to pass legislation so there are no instances like the past administration that really tried to destroy Title IX. | ||
| It's incredibly important that Congress immediately acts on this priority. | ||
| I think the president is really setting the tone, making this a very immediate priority for this administration, just as he promised to do on the campaign trail. | ||
| And I'd like to get into the executive order a little bit, because it is the news of the day here at the White House, and talk about what this executive action will actually do. | ||
| So the executive order that the president will be signing later this afternoon, as I said, upholds the promise of Title IX. | ||
| It also will require the DOJ to abide by the nationwide previous administration's illegal Title IX rewrite that would have dissolved single-sex spaces and opportunities. | ||
| It also requires immediate action, including enforcement actions against schools and athletic associations comprised of schools that deny women single-sex sports in single-sex locker rooms. | ||
| The executive order also calls for the convening of private sporting bodies in the White House. | ||
| I encourage all of you in the media to actually talk to them, to hear their stories. | ||
| And I would also just add one more thing. | ||
| This is a wildly popular position with the American people. | ||
| In fact, there was a new poll recently that showed The overwhelming majority of Democrats also support keeping biological men out of women's sports. | ||
| And so I know the president is very excited about the bill signing that will take place at three o 'clock this afternoon. | ||
| You will hear from him more on that later. | ||
| And we look forward to seeing you there, Sage. | ||
| So thank you very, very much. | ||
| Garrett, great to see you here today. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| On Gaza, the president has spent basically his entire public career criticizing. | ||
| Foreign entanglements, nation building, sending American troops to fight abroad, particularly in the Middle East. | ||
| This plan seems like it could ultimately involve all of those things. | ||
| Can you explain this reversal and how building and owning Gaza squares with America First foreign policy? | ||
| I would reject the premise of your question that this forces the United States to be entangled in conflicts abroad. | ||
| The president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza. | ||
| He has also said that the United States is not going to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza. | ||
| His administration is going to work with our partners in the region to reconstruct this region. | ||
| And let me just take a... | ||
| Let's step back here because this is an out of the box idea. | ||
| That's who President Trump is. | ||
| That's why the American people elected him. | ||
| And his goal is lasting peace in the Middle East for all people in the region. | ||
| And as I said in my opening remarks, we've had the same people pushing the same solutions to this problem for decades. | ||
| And it's been made very clear to the president that the United States needs to be involved in this rebuilding effort to ensure stability in the region for all people. | ||
| That does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza. | ||
| It does not mean American taxpayers will be funding this effort. | ||
| It means Donald Trump, who is the best dealmaker on the planet, is going to strike a deal with He did not rule out American troops in Gaza last night. | ||
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Are you doing that now? | |
| I am saying that the president has not committed to that just yet. | ||
| He has not made that commitment, and you know that. | ||
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And on the foreign partners, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the Saudis have already panned this plan. | |
| What foreign partners, if any, have expressed any interest in being part of it? | ||
| Well, the president has said he's been socialing this idea for quite some time. | ||
| He's been thinking about this. | ||
| He said in his remarks last night this was not a decision or an announcement that he takes lightly. | ||
| And the president has already spoken to the president, al-Sisi. | ||
| In fact, that was his first foreign leader call. | ||
| He's meeting with the king of Jordan, King Abdullah, next week. | ||
| He spoke with the king of Bahrain. | ||
| He spoke with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. | ||
| And he has made it very clear. | ||
| He's been very vocal that he expects our partners in the region, particularly Egypt and Jordan, to accept Palestinian refugees temporarily so that we can rebuild their home. | ||
| I'd like to show you some images of Gaza that were taken. | ||
| Fox News aired this. | ||
| I mean, that is, as they put it, an apocalyptic scene in Gaza. | ||
| This is an unhabitable place for human beings. | ||
| Do you really think that families can live their dream in a region that looks like this, with no running water, no electricity? | ||
| And the special envoy to the president, Steve Whitcoff, recently traveled to Gaza, as you all know. | ||
| And he came back with images that he showed the president of the dire situation here. | ||
| And the president made this decision with a humanitarian heart for all people in the region. | ||
| Thank you, Caroline. | ||
| Are any officials here preparing to fight Democratic lawmakers in the streets? | ||
| Absolutely not. | ||
| And thanks for the question. | ||
| Some elected Democrats are so steamed about Doge. | ||
| Congresswoman LaMonica MacGyver says we are at war. | ||
| Ilhan Omar says we might actually see somebody get killed. | ||
| And Chris Van Hollen says we have to fight this in the Congress. | ||
| We have to fight this in the streets. | ||
| So what now? | ||
| And may I just point out... | ||
| If you heard that type of violent, enticing rhetoric from our side of the aisle, from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, I think there would be a lot more outrage in this room today. | ||
| It's unacceptable, the comments that have been made by these Democrat leaders, and frankly... | ||
| They don't even know what they're talking about. | ||
| Because President Trump was elected with a mandate from the American people to make this government more efficient. | ||
| He campaigned across this country with Elon Musk vowing that Elon was going to head up the Department of Government Efficiency and the two of them, with a great team around them, were going to look at the receipts of this federal government and ensure it's accountable to American taxpayers. | ||
| That's all that is happening here. | ||
| And for Democrat officials to incite violence and encourage Americans to... | ||
| Take to the streets is incredibly alarming, and they should be held accountable for that rhetoric. | ||
| It sounds like something that they're most concerned about is Doge engineers with access to treasury systems. | ||
| Can you clarify? | ||
| Do the Doge engineers have read-only access in these systems? | ||
| So they are not allowed to write new code. | ||
| They are not. | ||
| No. | ||
| And then one more thing. | ||
| NBC is reporting that some of the illegal immigrants that we've seen rounded up and arrested are not being deported. | ||
| They're being released. | ||
| with ankle or wrist monitoring devices or they have to check in on the phone. | ||
| So is the administration arresting more people than you have room for? | ||
| I have seen the reports and I'm glad you brought it up because we want to address it. | ||
| There have been a total of 461 illegal aliens, this is of this morning when I got this information from DHS, that have been released from custody of the more than 8,000 that have been arrested since President Trump was inaugurated. | ||
| It's less than 6%. | ||
| And there are reasons for their release. | ||
| Some of the factors include a lack of significant likelihood of removal in the foreseeable future, lack of detention availability, which is something this president and this administration has been incredibly vocal about. | ||
| We are doing everything we can to deport and detain illegal immigrants, but we need Congress's help to increase funding for Border Patrol and for ICE, to increase detention capability in our facilities. | ||
| And then other serious medical conditions have also been the reasons for some of the release of these individuals. | ||
| But none of them have final deportation orders. | ||
| Many of them are probably contesting their immigration status. | ||
| I'd refer you to DHS for more details, but I did get that information because I knew it would be a question. | ||
| So thank you. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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The president, and you here again today, they're given the devastation you think Palestinians have no choice but to leave Gaza and go elsewhere. | |
| But Palestinians say this is their home. | ||
| They don't want to go. | ||
| The president last night said he's willing to use the military if necessary. | ||
| Is the U.S. prepared to remove Palestinians from Gaza by force? | ||
| The president is prepared to rebuild Gaza for Palestinians and all people in the region, peace-loving people who want real economic development and opportunity in the region. | ||
| This is a region that has been controlled by Iranian-backed terrorists, Hamas, who have brutalized not just Israelis but Palestinians too. | ||
| It is because of Hamas that you see those images on that screen, that Gaza has become a demolition site because Hamas launched that brutal attack on Israel on October the 7th. | ||
| And so again, I would stress, President Trump wants to ensure that this can be a place where all people can live in peace. | ||
| He is a peacemaker-in-chief. | ||
| He made that very clear in his first term. | ||
| And as for how that will be accomplished, the president and his team are talking with our allies in the region to consider next steps. | ||
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But should the American people be prepared to see U.S. military on the ground fighting a ground war against Hamas? | |
| Again, the president has not committed to U.S. troops in the region. | ||
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But it is an option. | |
| I have said that the president has not committed to that yet. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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If you just follow up on that, though, why not rule out the idea of committing U.S. troops? | |
| This has been a longstanding argument that the president... | ||
| Because I think the president is very good when he's making deals and negotiating not to rule out anything because he wants to preserve that leverage and negotiations. | ||
| And so I think that's what he's doing here. | ||
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He also said that everyone loves this plan. | |
| He said that in the Oval Office this morning. | ||
| In fact, the Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan called it the declaration of war on the Arab people. | ||
| So, how does he square the fact that even some Republicans on the Hill Well, King Abdullah of Jordan will be here next week, so I can provide you more context on the conversations he will have directly with the President of the United States after that meeting. | ||
| And I would just point out that there's been a lot of leaders and officials all around the world who have doubted, I suppose, the deal-making ability of President Trump. | ||
| You said you heard the Panama leader saying that he would not agree to some of the concessions that he has now made because of Secretary Rubio's visit. | ||
| You had the Colombian president saying he wouldn't accept flights of Colombian illegal nationals who have entered into our country illegally. | ||
| And those flights are underway. | ||
| So actions speak louder than words. | ||
| Dasha. | ||
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Caroline, you said the president has been working on this idea for a while behind the scenes now. | |
| Is there a written plan based on the president's proposal for Gaza? | ||
| And if so, when was it drafted and who had handed that? | ||
| The plan was written in the president's remarks last night as he revealed it to the world and to the American people, and his team are continuing to be engaged on this effort. | ||
| I saw the National Security Advisor this morning. | ||
| He has a very busy day of calls, and they will, again, continue to engage with our partners. | ||
| That includes Steve Whitcoff as well. | ||
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Mary. | |
| Two questions for you on the news of the day. | ||
| So how is today's executive order going to impact the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles? | ||
| For example, would a man who thinks that he's a transgender woman be allowed to compete as a female on U.S. soil? | ||
| It's a very good question. | ||
| And the president has actually mentioned this, that he does expect the Olympic Committee... | ||
| I think the president, with the signing of his pen, starts a very public pressure campaign on these organizations to do the right thing for women and for girls across the country. | ||
| Again, this is an incredibly popular position. | ||
| There have been many notable female athletes who have had the courage to speak out against some very powerful institutions in this country. | ||
| They deserve to have a voice and a say. | ||
| The president is Bringing their voice to the highest level at the White House this afternoon, and he expects these organizations to comply with this federal executive order that he'll be signing today. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And one more. | ||
| On media coverage of this executive order and the topic in general, what's the White House's view of framing that calls men transgender females or similar rhetoric coming from organizations like the ACLU and GLAAD? | ||
| Well, it's been very clear. | ||
| The policy of this administration is that there are only two sexes, male And female. | ||
| Pretty simple. | ||
| Ryan Glenn. | ||
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Yes. | |
| USAID has gotten a lot of attention in the last couple of days with some of these bizarre things that taxpayers have been funding. | ||
| Now it looks like there are a couple media outlets that have been dragged into this conversation as far as USAID funding as well. | ||
| Does the President have any comment on that? | ||
| So upon Coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room. | ||
| And I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayers' dime will no longer be happening. | ||
| The Doge team is working on canceling those payments now. | ||
| Again, this is a whole-of-government effort to ensure that We are going line by line when it comes to the federal government's books. | ||
| And this president and his team are making decisions across the board on do these receipts serve the interests of the American people? | ||
| Is this a good use of the American taxpayers' money? | ||
| If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad and American taxpayers will see significant savings because of that effort. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I'd like to give some love to the back row. | ||
| I've heard that, unfortunately, they haven't been called on in years past. | ||
| So, Reagan, why don't you go ahead? | ||
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Thanks, Caroline. | |
| The WHCA announced that comedian Amber Ruffin, who has called the president a toddler with his pants pulled down, will be the entertainment for this year's correspondence dinner. | ||
| Does the White House have a reaction to this choice, and will the president be attending the dinner this year? | ||
| Certainly an interesting choice. | ||
| I have the president's invitation on my desk. | ||
| I have the invitation for myself on my desk as well. | ||
| Haven't talked to the president about it. | ||
| When he makes his decision, I will let you all know. | ||
| But definitely an interesting choice of the comedian. | ||
| I'll talk to the boss about it and see what we decide. | ||
| Sure. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| Yes. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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On the executive order set to be signed today, you said that this will be enforced. | |
| Can you spell out for schools and the public how exactly the administration plans to force this? | ||
| Even at a local level. | ||
| And on top of that, there are human rights groups who say that this could expose kids to discrimination. | ||
| What is your response to that? | ||
| I think kids have already been exposed to discrimination, especially young women and girls, who have been forced to shower in locker rooms with biological men, who have been forced to compete on playing fields with biological men, which is incredibly unfair and unsafe, and again, an incredibly unpopular policy with the American people. | ||
| As for the actions that this... | ||
| They should, because it's going to be federal law in about an hour and a half. | ||
| So your colleague to your right, to my left. | ||
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Taylor at Spectrum News. | |
| You talked a bit about Doge. | ||
| Elon Musk is currently a, quote, special government employee who also owns companies that have billions of dollars in federal contracts. | ||
| You said earlier this week that he has abided by all applicable federal laws, but what steps is the Trump administration taking to address that conflict of interest? | ||
| The president was already asked and answered this question this week, and he said if Elon Musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts, And the funding that Doge is overseeing, then Elon will excuse himself from those contracts. | ||
| And he has, again, abided by all applicable laws. | ||
| In the back left, go ahead. | ||
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Trade advisor Peter Navarro, when asked about the external revenue service today, said, quote, we're going to collect a lot of tariff revenues. | |
| We're going to get tax cuts out of it. | ||
| Is it the official position of the White House that tariffs will lower taxes for Americans? | ||
| The president has always been clear that he believes tariffs are a tax on foreign nations, and he's committed to cutting taxes for the American people here at home. | ||
| He also believes tariffs are a great revenue raiser for this country. | ||
| And that's exactly why he has committed to the creation of the external revenue service, which I think is a phenomenal idea. | ||
| We'll just go down the whole row. | ||
| Can you confirm that under the present plans for Gaza any and all the Palestinians who want to stay I can confirm that the president is committed to rebuilding Gaza and to temporarily relocating those who are there, because as I've showed you repeatedly, it is a demolition site. | ||
| There is no running water. | ||
| There is no electricity. | ||
| The president wants these individuals to live in peace. | ||
| He is committed to doing that with this very bold new plan, and we will continue to keep you apprised of updates as we receive them. | ||
| Ed Lawrence, go ahead. | ||
| Yes, go ahead, Ed. | ||
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I appreciate it. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| So now that the President Trump's policies are starting to take shape, how long will it take to cycle through and get some of the actual prices that Americans are paying to come down? | ||
| Prices at the store and at the grocery pump, across the board, sure. | ||
| Well, the president is doing everything he can, obviously, to reduce the cost of living crisis in this country as quickly as possible. | ||
| That's why he signed a litany of executive orders across the board in the first couple of weeks here. | ||
| He declared a national energy emergency. | ||
| He committed to cutting 10 regulations for every new one on the book. | ||
| As you know, working for a Fox business-related outlet, deregulation and energy independence are huge drivers of reducing inflation in this country. | ||
| And I think Americans can be assured by the results President Trump had in his first term, when again, inflation was 1.4% when he left office. | ||
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Is it months or is it a year? | |
| And will Americans have the patience I don't have a timeline, but the president is doing everything that he possibly can to reduce cost of living for Americans at home. | ||
| Phil Wegman. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Is it worth risking the life of a single U.S. Marine to turn the Gaza Strip into the Riviera of the Middle East? | ||
| Phil, I'm not sure why you're asking me that question, because I've already said the President has not committed to sending Marines or any boots on the ground in Gaza. | ||
| We'll bring it to the front row. | ||
| Ed O 'Keefe. | ||
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Two things. | |
| On today's announcement, Title IX. | ||
| If he scales back the Education Department or moves to shut it down entirely, what entity will enforce Title IX? | ||
| As of now, this will be enforced through education through Title IX. | ||
| If the abolishment of the Department of Education continues, which, as the President said yesterday, it's something his team is looking at and considering. | ||
| It's something he talked a lot about on the campaign trail. | ||
| Then, of course, we will look at... | ||
| Additional maneuvers to ensure that these very important policies can be implemented. | ||
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Okay, so the education abolishment thing is still on the table. | |
| The president talked about it yesterday in the Oval Office, and he has good reason to talk about it. | ||
| I mean, look, our education system is failing students in this country. | ||
| The Nation's Report card, I brought it up in my remarks last week, it shows that... | ||
| Fourth graders are not reading at the level they should. | ||
| I believe it was 40% of them are proficient in reading. | ||
| As the mother of a child, I want an education system that helps my child read and write, teaches him math, nothing else in the classroom. | ||
| And the president is wholeheartedly committed to we can make academia great again in this country. | ||
| Deanna. | ||
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Go ahead. | |
| Thanks, Caroline. | ||
| Does the president, is he looking at offering anything to these Arab countries that take Will he be willing to give them anything in return? | ||
| And secondly, when the president announced his taking over Gaza policy yesterday, was Netanyahu aware of this? | ||
| And what was his reaction when Trump presented that idea to him? | ||
| I won't get ahead of the president's discussions or negotiations on your first question about what would be offered. | ||
| I think the president's made it clear that he expects these nations in the region to step up and to accept Palestinian refugees who will be temporarily relocated for the rebuilding of Gaza. | ||
| As for whether Prime Minister Netanyahu was aware before the president's remarks, he was indeed. | ||
| I wasn't present for that reaction. | ||
| But again, this is something the president has been socializing. | ||
| I've been thinking about for quite some time. | ||
| Nick, good to see you. | ||
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Oh, Jordan. | |
| Jordan, sorry. | ||
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Thank you, Caroline. | |
| So, Secretary Hegseth announced yesterday that Army recruiting levels have reached 12-year highs in December, 15-year highs in January. | ||
| What is making young people want to serve the military under the Trump administration, and how does that contrast to Biden's failure consistently to meet recruiting average? | ||
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Does DEI play-- President Trump's anti-DEI agenda play a role in this? | |
| First of all, the recruitment level for all branches of our military are at crisis levels and it serves as a national security. | ||
| That our military branches are not fully staffed to where they need to be. | ||
| And I do believe it's a culture problem within these institutions that the president is very much committed to fixing, as emphasized by the executive orders he has signed to route DEI out of the military. | ||
| And I think when young men and women who are honorably signing up to serve in our nation's military see somebody like Pete Hegseth, the new Secretary of Defense, who is a proven warfighter who risked his life. | ||
| in battle for this country who understands what it means to deploy and to defend the Constitution and your nation abroad and to put your life on the line. | ||
| When they see a leader like that and a leader like President Trump who is committed to peace through strength, that's very inspiring. | ||
| And we look forward to seeing those recruitment numbers and retention I know Pete Hegseth is committed to increasing recruitment at all branches of the military. | ||
| I would defer you to the Department of Defense on exactly what he plans to implement. | ||
| Jeff. | ||
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Thanks very much. | |
| Two questions. | ||
| One, the president yesterday used the word "permanent" for permanently resettled Palestinians. | ||
| I hear you saying "temporarily" today. | ||
| Is that a shift or a specific change that you want to highlight? | ||
| And my second question is, yesterday he spoke about the U.S. owning Gaza. | ||
| Who owns Gaza now and how would the U.S. acquire ownership? | ||
| Well, Gaza is currently run by Iranian-backed terrorists in the Middle East, Hamas, who we all agree, I think everybody in the region agrees, that can no longer stand. | ||
| Just look at the events of October 7th and the events since. | ||
| And the president, again, is committed to rebuilding the region for all people who want to return to it once it is no longer a demolition site. | ||
| And it's a place where people can actually live and thrive in harmony. | ||
| As he said last night, his words, not mine. | ||
| The President has made it clear that they need to be temporarily relocated out of Gaza for the rebuilding of this effort. | ||
| Again, it's a demolition site right now. | ||
| It's not a livable place for any human being. | ||
| And I think it's actually quite evil to suggest that people should live in such dire conditions. | ||
| Daniel. | ||
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Caroline, thank you so much. | |
| The daily guidance says that the president will be meeting with a pair of governors today, Governor Abbott of Texas and Governor Newsom of California. | ||
| The President took executive action to turn the water back on in California. | ||
| Billions of gallons are flowing out. | ||
| What can you tell us about the two meetings and the importance of President Trump's actions to help people in California? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Those meetings will be taking place shortly. | ||
| We try to be very transparent about what the president is doing in the Oval Office. | ||
| Perhaps he'll even call you in to join him. | ||
| We never know around here, as you all know. | ||
| But Governor Abbott is obviously a great friend and ally to the president. | ||
| He has been on the front lines of the border crisis in this country. | ||
| And as for Governor Gavin Newsom, well, the president is willing to work with anybody from blue states or red states to do what's best for the American people. | ||
| And he really is. | ||
| The president really enjoyed his trip to Pacific Palisades last week. | ||
| He felt very inspired by the frustration of the residents there. | ||
| And he has been wholeheartedly committed to ensuring that the water is flowing in California to prevent these wildfires and also that... | ||
| People have access to their properties, and he has continued to apply tremendous pressure to Gavin Newsom and also the Los Angeles mayor to allow private residents and property owners to access their property. | ||
| He believes that's their right to do so, and they should be able to do it. | ||
| And one more thing before I wrap up, because I do want to get to these meetings and I will see you all at the EO signing later this afternoon. | ||
| I would just say that you brought to mind California and North Carolina who continue to be on our hearts and the president and this administration are committed to ensuring that these individuals get the funding that they need. | ||
| And I would just say a strong message to Democrats who are out there pretending to be outraged about the long list of crap that this administration is cutting, federal waste and funding. | ||
| like $2 million for sex changes in Guatemala, $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt, $20 million on a new Sesame Street show in Iraq, $4.5 million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan, I could go on and on, and I'm happy to provide this list to every single one of you. | ||
| Democrats are outraged that the American people want their taxpayers going to good uses, not stuff like this. | ||
| But then they're very quiet about the fact that there are still North Carolinians. | ||
| And people in California who have lost everything, and in the last four years, this federal government did nothing to help them. | ||
| This president will continue to put Americans first, and I think the successes of this week so far speak to that, and it's only Wednesday. | ||
| So I'll see you guys later this week, and we'll see you this afternoon. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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You're on. | |
| You're on. | ||
| Oh, man! | ||
| We were part of the night! | ||
| News cycle! | ||
| I can tell you we've been in contact with the White House to take the char, as they say. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, we've been in contact with the White House. | ||
| We freaking love you. | ||
| Nothing but hearts from us out to you. | ||
| We love you. | ||
| And it's because of you and because of the power of what we're building here that we will be taking the chair inside of the White House in a very, very short period of time. | ||
| We'll be taking that new media chair. | ||
| Sage Steele asking the question today. | ||
| The new media chair is extremely important because some of us actually have real audiences. | ||
| Some of us don't have to depend on federal corruption dollars to line our pockets to keep broadcasting. | ||
| We built this channel on actual grit and telling the truth, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Well, our competitors were getting an unfair advantage. | ||
| Payola. | ||
| From the administration that ends now, according to Caroline Levitt, we are going to be cutting off all federal dollars to all corporate media outlets, a story that we broke today. | ||
| Let's go ahead and look at the actual post itself, shall we? | ||
| I want to just tell you exactly how excited we are, ladies and gentlemen, to be part of leading the news cycle. | ||
| This was one of the first questions asked. | ||
| It was about Politico specifically. | ||
| Biggest scandal in media history, we said. | ||
| Nobody at Politico got paid. | ||
| First time ever. | ||
| Now we learn that Politico, a news company that spent the last 10 years trying to destroy the MAGA movement, is being massively funded by the feds. | ||
| Trump and Elon deleted their funding, and now they're having a hard time paying their bills. | ||
| The corruption is endless good riddance. | ||
| This has done 4 million views, 4.8 thousand comments, 32 thousand likes, 113 thousand likes, 32 thousand reposts. | ||
| And now it's made the White House News Dias, the voice of the president, Carolyn Lovett, commenting on this story of which we have pumped into the mainstream, you and me together making history here. | ||
| Carolyn Lovett saying, the gravy train's over, baby! | ||
| Here we go. | ||
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USAID has gotten a lot of attention in the last couple of days with some of these bizarre things that taxpayers have been funding. | |
| Now it looks like there are a couple media outlets that have been dragged into this conversation as far as USAID funding as well. | ||
| Does the president have any comment on that? | ||
| So, upon coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room. | ||
| And I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayer's dime will no longer be happening. | ||
| The Doge team is working on canceling those payments now. | ||
| Again, this is a whole-of-government effort to ensure that We are going line by line when it comes to the federal government's books. | ||
| And this president and his team are making decisions across the board on do these receipts serve the interests of the American people? | ||
| Is this a good use of the American taxpayers' money? | ||
| If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad and American taxpayers will cease. | ||
| Not sure why that clip ended right there, but you know what, ladies and gentlemen? | ||
| We are breaking news. | ||
| Sometimes you just gotta let her rip. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt there saying, the fake news is now ending. | ||
| It's not just. | ||
| It's not just Politico. | ||
| I want to make this very clear here, ladies and gentlemen, that we have been tracking and are going to be releasing a large expose. | ||
| We've been doing our own research. | ||
| Large expose of the amount of corporate media that is funded by your federal government. | ||
| Just a crazy moment here. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Let's go through some of Elon's timeline here. | ||
| You can see that the New York Times here has taken an enormous amount of funding. | ||
| Tens of millions of dollars have poured into the New York Times. | ||
| The entire fake news media apparatus, which has been so violently fixated against the MAGA movement and against Donald Trump, well, ladies and gentlemen, you can see why. | ||
| They get their funding from the federal government. | ||
| Oh, it's an exciting, exciting moment. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Not just Politico. | ||
| The Associated Press has been raking in millions of dollars in government money for years. | ||
| The AP's bias also makes perfect sense. | ||
| The AP and Reuters run something called the Newswire. | ||
| You have to understand how the news ecosystem is structured. | ||
| The AP and Reuters run something called the Newswire. | ||
| The Newswire is where everyone, including ABC, NBC, and CBS, but a ton of other news sites, get their news. | ||
| They take it from the wire, okay? | ||
| So when the federal government funds The Associated Press and funds Reuters, what they're doing is they're effectively able to control and gatekeep what hits the newswire. | ||
| If a story doesn't hit the newswire, NBC News will never cover it. | ||
| This is what's created this, what we're all doing here, because we can talk about things. | ||
| And here is a great receipt here for Reuters. | ||
| So here's a receipt for the Associated Press. | ||
| Here's for Reuters. | ||
| This is how they lock down. | ||
| And suffocate stories. | ||
| The federal government funds it. | ||
| They fund the fake news. | ||
| Literal propaganda, by definition. | ||
| Definitionally propaganda. | ||
| And so, inside of the system, this is how you are able to effectively kill the Hunter Biden lab stop story. | ||
| Or you're able to amplify Russiagate. | ||
| Same thing. | ||
| Same principles. | ||
| So, ladies and gentlemen, this is why this is so important. | ||
| And Carolyn Levitt saying, nope, it's all over. | ||
| Doge will be canceling these payments. | ||
| This will lead to an enormous bloodbath. | ||
| It's unacceptable, the comments that have been made by these Democrat leaders. | ||
| And frankly, they don't... | ||
| Let's mute that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| This is going to lead to an enormous metaphorical bloodbath. | ||
| Inside of the media industry where reporters will be fired, where entire media outlets will go collapse under their own weight without the federal government propping them up. | ||
| Oh, it's going to be just completely glorious. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt saying that the commentary about Doge and about the Doge team is utterly wholly and completely inappropriate and, I would argue, potentially criminal. | ||
| Because what you're doing is you're literally threatening Elon Musk's life here. | ||
| And Carolyn Levitt is saying, we're not going to do that here, all right? | ||
| This is a very different sheriff in town. | ||
| You better watch what you're saying. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| The comments that have been made by these Democrat leaders and frankly they don't even know what they're talking about because President Trump was an elected with a mandate from the American people to make this government more efficient. | ||
| He campaigned across this country with Elon Musk vowing that Elon was going to head up the Department of Government efficiency and the two of them with a great team around them were going to look at the receipts of this federal government and ensure it's accountable to American taxpayers. | ||
| That's all that is happening here and for For Democrat officials to incite violence and encourage Americans to take to the streets is incredibly alarming, and they should be held accountable for that rhetoric. | ||
| It sounds like something that they're most concerned about is Doge engineers with access to treasury systems. | ||
| Can you clarify, do the Doge engineers have read-only access in these systems? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So they are not allowed to write new code? | ||
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| Well, ladies and gentlemen, I've got to tell you, the effing around and the finding out time is officially here. | ||
| Pam Bondi, upon her first act as the Attorney General, Senate-confirmed Attorney General, wasn't even close, is to cut off all funding for sanctuary cities. | ||
| Pam Bondi had ordered the Department of Justice to cut all federal funds to sanctuary cities. | ||
| What an unbelievable, powerful first move. | ||
| Pam Bondi, the ice queen. | ||
| Coming through with ICE saying you will not be harboring criminals in your city. | ||
| Carolyn Levitt following up saying we will be building the border wall. | ||
| The border wall is going up. | ||
| Oh man, you just wake up and every single day it's like you're actually living a dream. | ||
| It's like you've woken up from a terrible, horrible nightmare over the last four years and now reality is back. | ||
| You're like, wow, it was all just a dream. | ||
| It wasn't, sadly. | ||
| But the Trump administration is fixing the wrongs quickly. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| In another success story this week, efforts to seal the border, halt the invasion, and carry out the largest mass deportation campaign continue at lightning speed. | ||
| Customs and Border Protection has approximately 79 miles of new border wall projects already underway in various stages of construction and planning. | ||
| The first flights arrived to Guantanamo Bay yesterday afternoon out of El Paso. | ||
| And who were some of the passengers aboard, you may ask? | ||
| There were 10 members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua on this flight. | ||
| And overall, our heroic ICE agents continue to prioritize the removal of violent criminal illegal aliens in communities across the country. | ||
| On February 3rd... | ||
| Ice Dallas arrested a citizen of Nicaragua who has been convicted of sexual assault, strong arm, and lewd acts with a minor and sentenced to 15 years in prison. | ||
| Ice Los Angeles arrested a Mexican citizen who has been convicted of lewd acts with a minor and sentenced to 364 days. | ||
| And Ice Atlanta arrested a citizen of Mexico who has been convicted of homicide by vehicle and hit and run and sentenced to six months confinement. | ||
| And ICE New York arrested a Venezuelan national and known TDA gang member who has a prior criminal conviction for assault in the third degree causing physical injury. | ||
| Americans are safer every single time one of these criminals is arrested into... | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, this, this is what strength looks like. | ||
| This is Pam Bondi cutting off all federal funding for sanctuary cities. | ||
| Oh yeah, baby. | ||
| Donald Trump knows. | ||
| And now Donald Trump is locked in with his team, our neighbor and friend, somebody who has personally worked with this program, somebody who we consider an ally, somebody who's a neighbor of us down here, ladies and gentlemen, in Tampa, Florida, where we broadcast the show proudly, is Pam Bondi. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| We're so freaking happy about this. | ||
| Pam Bondi has personally helped us on various issues. | ||
| She's so awesome. | ||
| She's like a heart of gold. | ||
| Perfect for the golden era. | ||
| And now she, in her first act, she shuts down all federal funding. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Here's the news. | ||
| Bondi day one direct is a fight weaponization of justice, eliminate cartels, lift the death penalty, ban Pam Bondi. | ||
| Do we have the Yes, I do. | ||
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| Amazing. | ||
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| Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Let's just read the top line here. | ||
| Attorney General Pam Bondi will issue several major directives as her first day leading into the Justice Department, including orders to combat weaponization of the legal system and make prosecutors seek the death penalty when appropriate and work with the Department of Homeland Security to completely eliminate cartels and transnational criminal organizations. | ||
| Bondi was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday night as Attorney General, sworn in on Wednesday. | ||
| This was her commentary from her swearing in right here. | ||
| I will restore integrity to the Justice Department and I will fight violent crime throughout this country and throughout this world and make America safe again. | ||
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| Then she gets a publisher's clearinghouse check from Trump. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Great. | ||
| It's great! | ||
| Bondi issues a directive regarding zealous advocacy. | ||
| Bondi... | ||
| The DOJ attorneys responsible include aggressively enforcing criminal charges passed by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges. | ||
| The discretion afforded to Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities do not include latitude or substitute for their personal political views or judgments that prevailed in the election. | ||
| This is great. | ||
| When the Justice Department attorneys refuse to faithfully carry out their role, for example, by refusing to advance good faith arguments and declining to sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the president of the benefit of his lawyers, the memo continues. | ||
| Ooh, man, an absolute flame fest here. | ||
| Bondi, in the memo, states any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief refuses to advance good faith arguments on behalf of Trump administration or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department mission. | ||
| is subject to discipline and termination. | ||
| She will establish a weaponization working group, which will review the activities of law enforcement agencies in the past four years. | ||
| Identify instances of politicized justice. | ||
| Working with the groups first will review, include prosecutions against Trump led by Jack Smith and Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| Dude, they're all going to... | ||
| They're all going to Guantanamo. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| All of them. | ||
| You're all going to Gitmo. | ||
| The working group will review any potential prosecutorial abuse regarding January 6th. | ||
| The FBI's targeting of Catholic Americans and Justice Department's targeting of parents at school board meetings. | ||
| Whew, man. | ||
| Or pro-lifers with the FACE Act. | ||
| Bondi will end the moratorium on federal executions and order federal prosecutors, the permanent justice, including U.S. Attorney's Office, to seek the death penalty when appropriate. | ||
| A good example of where Pam Bondi comes from, the state of Florida, where she was the Attorney General. | ||
| Pam Bondi helped fight for the death penalty for child pederasts. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, if you come to Florida and you F around, this state has the right to ensure that you are dispatched directly to hell where you belong. | ||
| It's the kind of state that we live in. | ||
| That's the kind of state I raise my children in. | ||
| And for good measure. | ||
| Also, castle law, right? | ||
| For instance, parents can protect their family, protect their children. | ||
| It's a beautiful, beautiful place. | ||
| And this is the state, create the law, laws of these states. | ||
| This state was created in part by Pam Bondi, who became very, very famous in the state as Attorney General. | ||
| So just a sign of things to come here. | ||
| Bondi ordered that the Justice Department re-evaluate instances, prior administration, electing not to seek the death penalty. | ||
| You know what this is about? | ||
| Lake and Riley. | ||
| This is about Lake and Riley. | ||
| Lake and Riley's killer is getting life in prison. | ||
| Lake and Riley's killer is a criminal alien who belongs in the electric chair. | ||
| But he's getting life in prison. | ||
| He's going to get three square meals a day, a bunch of exercise, sunshine, reading, internet access. | ||
| Have a good time. | ||
| Have a good life. | ||
| This monster deserves far worse. | ||
| And here he is, right here. | ||
| So this son of a bitch is probably going to get now a reassessment from the feds as to whether you had undercharging. | ||
| Bring the death penalty. | ||
| The view represents a major reversal of the Department of Justice's view of the death penalty under the Biden administration. | ||
| In 2021, Biden allowed the DOJ to issue a moratorium on federal executions. | ||
| Man. | ||
| For cartels, the bond is directing the Justice Department to work closely with Homeland Security and other federal partners to completely eliminate the threats of cartels and transnational criminal organizations. | ||
| She's reimagining charging priorities relating to those cases in order to ensure that law enforcement resources are focused on dismantling the foundational operational capacity of cartels. | ||
| It's like reading a dream. | ||
| It's like reading fan fiction. | ||
| A year ago, I would have written this as the fan fiction, right? | ||
| Like my own personal Viagra to keep me up at night. | ||
| This is what I would have written for our country. | ||
| And here we are. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| The Justice Department suspended bureaucratic approvals and review in order to prioritize speedy prosecution for all cartel members. | ||
| Capital crimes, terrorism, aiding or operating of the cartels. | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| States that have criminal alien gangs in them. | ||
| Like the entire country, half the country. | ||
| Pam Bondi is directing the DOJ Office of Legal Policy to find legislative reforms for targeting equipment designed to make fentanyl pills. | ||
| Like xylozine, a new deadly drug. | ||
| Controlled Substances Act. | ||
| Dude, this was amazing. | ||
| Just amazing. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| Bondi told lawmakers in January that partisanship and weaponization in the Department of Justice will be gone. | ||
| America will have a one tier of justice for all. | ||
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| Makes me so happy. | ||
| Makes me so happy. | ||
| That's what strength looks like. | ||
| This is what weakness looks like. | ||
| Mitch McConnell fell again. | ||
| Mitch McConnell fell down the stairs once again inside of the Senate. | ||
| Mitch McConnell, who regularly has massive bruises all over his body from falls, who fell just the other day. | ||
| Mitch McConnell has now fallen down the stairs. | ||
| As we have said a million, hundred, gajillion times on this show, we don't wish Mitch McConnell pain. | ||
| We want him to... | ||
| We're his best friend in the world. | ||
| Retire! | ||
| Get out of the Senate! | ||
| Retire! | ||
| You come from a dark red Kentucky state that deserves to actually have somebody representing them. | ||
| Retire! | ||
| Now! | ||
| Mitch McConnell, who's seen here spacing out, seen here in a wheelchair in Reagan National Airport, has effectively fallen again. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Yeah, that's fine. | ||
| Just the top line here. | ||
| Here's Mitch McConnell following this clip from, I think, 2016. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| 2014, 2016. | ||
| This is an older clip of Mitch McConnell following. | ||
| How many times has this guy fallen? | ||
| How gone is his brain? | ||
| Senators tell us that Mitch McConnell is a cancer on the institution and that he can barely, barely operate physically and mentally. | ||
| He's got to go. | ||
| He's got to go. | ||
| He was helped up by Steve Daines and Mark Wayne Mullen, two people who've been on our program recently, two senators, and he fell. | ||
| He stumbled as he was leaving the Senate floor and fell down the stairs. | ||
| Again, this is during the vote for the Housing and Urban Development Secretary, something also that needs to be totally deleted. | ||
| HUD needs to be completely deleted. | ||
| It's time to retire, said conservative commentator Benny Johnson. | ||
| Well, it's true. | ||
| I'm the best friend you got in the world. | ||
| I'm the best friend you got in the world, Mitch. | ||
| Leave. | ||
| Leave the Senate. | ||
| I'm just making news all day today. | ||
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