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March 27, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson

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Democrats PANIC As Polling Hits RECORD LOW | Trump TRIUMPHS as HOAX Backfires, ARRESTS Terror Leader

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lucas tomlinson ▲ ● ▼		Well, good early morning, Todd, and happy opening day to your Yankees and my Nationals.
		Now, back to the news.
		President Trump says he will impose a 25% tariff on cars and parts imported into the U.S. on April 3rd, a move likely to raise prices for American consumers.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		This is the beginning of Liberation Day in America.
		We're going to take back just some of the money that has been taken from us by...
		People sitting behind this desk, we're going to charge countries for doing business in our country and taking our jobs, taking our wealth, taking a lot of things that they've been taking over the years.
		They've taken so much out of our country, friend and foe.
lucas tomlinson ▲ ● ▼		And in a post on True Social, President Trump threatened to turn the screws even tighter, saying, quote, If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large-scale tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had.
		Now, the Canadians were less than thrilled with this announcement.
		Here's the Prime Minister.
unidentified		We will defend our workers.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		We will defend our companies.
		We will defend our country.
		And we will defend it together.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		This will hurt us.
unidentified		But through this period by being together, we will emerge stronger.
lucas tomlinson ▲ ● ▼		And Ontario's premier posting on X, quote, President Trump is at it again.
		His 25% tariffs on cars and light trucks will do nothing more than increase costs for hardworking American families.
		I fully support the federal government preparing retaliatory tariffs to show that we'll never back down.
		Now, yesterday, Todd, we said Trump's DHS chief was headed to El Salvador to tour the prison where hundreds of illegal aliens, including alleged gang members, were sent.
		Kristi Noem issued the following warning from the cell block.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		I want everybody to know, if you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you could face.
		First of all, do not come to our country illegally.
		You will be removed and you will be prosecuted.
		But know that this facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people.
lucas tomlinson ▲ ● ▼		And later posted on X, today's El Salvador's Minister of Justice and I signed a memorandum of cooperation to update the Security Alliance for Fugitive Enforcement between our two nations.
		This agreement ensures fugitives' criminal records are shared between America and El Salvador so that criminals are not inadvertently released into American communities.
		And some Georgia lawmakers want Lake and Riley's killer to be sent to El Salvador.
		He was convicted to life in prison back in November time.
unidentified		What are you doing?
		Do you trust me?
		Ah!
		What the fuck?
		Oh!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I just love those memes.
		Sometimes they just hit your right in the heart, right in the hot wheels.
		Today, baby, we are locked in.
		It is Thursday, March 27th, 2025.
		Democrats in absolute disarray and panic as hoaxes are backfiring across the land.
		Meanwhile, the Trump administration rolls on, arresting terrorists and doing just absolutely badass things.
		Do you know the Marine Corps?
		Just cut a brand new ad using J.D. Vance as a voiceover?
		Kicking ass.
		We're going to play you that and many other massive W's and a legendary series of L's for Democrats.
		This is, again, a season where everything has changed.
		We're going to get into all of that on today's show with some of our special guests, including...
		Jasmine Crockett will be joining the program.
		Get ready for that.
		Steve Hilton and Eli Crane as well.
		It's going to be a rowdy one.
		My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
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		Okay, so, very interesting morning.
		There has been some real changes, tectonic plate shifts in the way that this country operates.
		I want to take a moment to appreciate it.
		Step back and look at the last 48 hours and say, hot damn!
		Man, everything's gotten so much better.
		In the start of the Obama era, there is this...
		Horrifying cringe video that didn't actually get the amount of attention that it deserved at the time because we didn't really have the ecosystem that we have built out now.
		I'm going to get into that ecosystem and why the latest hoax against Donald Trump has failed and failed disastrously, catastrophically for the Democrat Party.
		What an epic and complete L. Everything.
		About that hoax has fallen to pieces.
		And we covered it in the last couple of days.
		The signal chat and sharing of classified information.
		The lawsuits right afterward.
		Of course it goes to Judge Boasberg.
		It's all a setup.
		And it's all fallen to pieces.
		And it's such a change in the war landscape of modern day American politics.
		So here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
		We have the Hillary Clinton.
		Clip from her first meeting as Secretary of State.
		I think this is really important to sort of give you the understanding of the landscape of what we've come out of, what we've built, and what a muscular and important moment that we're all living in.
		We should really like take a second to appreciate.
		Okay, here we go.
		Hillary Clinton meeting with Sergei Lavrov, who is the Russian foreign minister, the longest serving foreign minister, very important guy.
		Longest serving, like, head of state in the entire world.
		She meets with him for the first time.
		And she does one of the most humiliating things ever captured on camera.
		Here we go.
unidentified		You know, Sergey, in anticipation of this important meeting and our...
		Our time here together, I wanted to present you with a little gift which represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying.
		And that is, we want to reset our relationship.
		Let's do it together.
		So we will do it together, okay?
		Thank you very much.
		You are very welcome.
		We worked hard to get the right Russian word.
		Do you think we got it?
		You got it wrong.
		I got it wrong.
		It should be peresagruzka.
		And this says peregruzka, which means overcharge.
		Well, we won't let you do that to us.
		I promise.
		Okay.
		Thank you very much.
		Thank you so much.
		Put me on my desk.
		Well, we mean it and we look forward to it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Someone died that night, you could tell.
		You could tell somebody in the Hillary Clinton orbit died.
		Hillary Clinton.
		We couldn't even get the word right?
		It means overcharged.
		This is like the last thing that you want to hand over to the Russians.
		It was a humiliating moment then.
		It didn't get the type of viral and mimatic.
		We have this clip to sort of prove to us what the Obama administration was trying to do with the Russians.
		And the only reason I'm digging into the archives to show you this is to explain where we've come from and where we are now.
		Because the same people that giggled and tee-hee-heeed at Hillary Clinton...
		We're the same people that when they needed to weaponize Russia, went after the Trump administration, were able to get Jeff Sessions to recuse himself simply for shaking hands with a Russian ambassador.
unidentified		This is how weak we were just a few years ago.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Jeff Sessions just shook hands once with a Russian ambassador and now was forced to recuse himself.
		For the Russia hoax.
		Please, articles up.
		Thank you.
		Jeff Sessions had himself an official and very serious meeting with a head of state.
		He was the attorney general for Donald Trump.
		He was the guy who could have put the entire Russia hoax, all of it to bed.
		And this corporate media ecosystem was able to pressure So heavily on the Trump, was able to manipulate, bend, break, and to humiliate the Trump administration in the first term so effectively that they got the recusal of Jeff Sessions for nothing.
		He did nothing wrong.
		This is just open manipulation of the justice system.
		Open destruction of the American people choosing their own government.
		This was a play in order to take a player off the field.
		That was the goal of this.
		Remove a player.
		Take away Trump's attorney general.
		And then what do they do?
		They set up a special counsel.
		They go after Trump.
		And if you speak with people who have been on this program, like Stephen Miller, who's just the architect of every policy that you liked in the Trump administration, Stephen Miller straight up tells you, That this Russia hoax was such a hand tie for them in the first administration.
		It was locked in.
		They couldn't order Russian salad dressing.
		If you got a martini at a bar, it better not be Russian vodka.
		Because you saw what happened to the attorney general, and it could happen to you.
		This was the full force of the deep state, of their media apparatchiks, of...
		The entire culture that they had created in Washington, D.C. there to break Trump.
		And they did, actually.
		This was successful.
		Just a few years after Hillary Clinton is handing Sergey Lavrov a button with a Russian word misspelled on it, that same media that praised that moment was sitting there using a handshake to gut the Trump administration and his defense against the Russiagate hoax.
		And it was successful.
		That's why they run these hoaxes.
		They run them because they've been successful in the past.
		And it's what was run on President Trump this past week.
		In the last 48 hours, there was a hoax run on the Trump administration.
		And it was run by the same people, the same operators.
		It's run by this goblin named Jeff Goldberg at the Atlantic.
		Jeff Goldberg is somebody.
		Who has ramped up hoaxes against Trump before, the suckers and losers hoax, the 51 Intel experts hoax, the Russiagate hoax.
		He was part of this.
		Sessions did not disclose meeting with Russian ambassador during Trump campaign.
		Oh, he didn't have to.
		He was a senator.
		It doesn't matter.
		They got their result.
		That's how much power that they had.
		And this was the same operation with the signal chat.
		And we've talked about it at length.
		But the same ecosystem and structure exists, right?
		You try and capture the Trump campaign, the Trump administration officials, in something embarrassing.
		You splash it up on screen.
		Even though you were literally handing these people buttons.
		With misspelled Russian words and like hugging them and kissing them just a couple of years ago.
		Now when Trump administration does it, it's totally evil.
		It's all an op.
		It's an op to destroy Trump's team from the inside.
		And that's what you just saw with Hegseth, J.D. Vance, the Signal Chat leak, Ratcliffe.
		But there's one distinct difference.
		It didn't work.
		It hasn't worked.
		This entire op, which would have...
		The first Trump administration has fallen flat completely on his face.
		It's been utterly decimated.
		It's been destroyed.
		Nobody cares.
		Outside of the Beltway, go talk to somebody in Walmart today.
	Go to Lowe's or Home Depot parking lot and ask anybody what they think about the leaked signal chat.
	The Trump administration feels like, what?
	Don't care.
	What are you talking about?
	What's gas prices?
	What's eggs prices?
	We like Trump.
	He said something really funny the other day.
	They don't care.
	The op has failed for two reasons.
	One, because the corporate media ecosystem has no audience anymore and no power.
	And two, because there have been so many hoaxes run on Trump that the operation doesn't work anymore.
	Jeff Goldberg sitting there saying, it's so classified that I can't release the text.
	Then he releases the text 12 hours later.
	Which one is it?
	You're clearly lying.
	Then who's caught in another lie?
	Here's John Ratcliffe, CIA director, saying, yo, this dude is legitimately a propagandist.
	He's lying about me.
	He lied about me outing a CIA undercover.
	What do we know about people who lie to you if your wife says she's going to the grocery store and instead she goes somewhere else?
	Why'd you lie to me?
	Like, when people are lying, Right?
	Like, for seemingly no reason, you know that they're covering up something larger.
	You know there's a bigger problem there.
	Don't trust liars.
	The Trump administration's approach to this has been so refreshing.
	Instead of bending the knee, groveling, begging for forgiveness, like what was done in the first administration, and allowing this to gain the kinetic energy and the terminal velocity, they've just killed it in the cradle.
	Here's John Ratcliffe just nuking this story from space, which he has the right to do as CIA director.
unidentified		You know, there's so much talk about this Atlantic article and about things that were said and that could have happened instead of a focus on what did happen.
		So my responsibility as CIA director, one of its responsibilities, is to kill terrorists.
		And that's exactly what I did along with President Trump's excellent national security team.
		That's what we should be focused on.
		With regard to that article, I also would appreciate the opportunity to relay the fact that yesterday I spent four hours answering questions from senators as a result of that article that were intimating that I transmitted classified information because there were hidden messages.
		Those messages were revealed today and revealed that...
		I did not transmit classified information, and that the reporter, who I don't know, I think intentionally intended it to indicate that.
		That reporter also indicated that I had released the name of an undercover CIA operative in that signal chat.
		In fact, I had released the name of my chief of staff, who is not operating undercover.
		That was deliberately false and misleading.
		And I appreciate the opportunity to reflect that my answers haven't changed.
		I used an appropriate channel to communicate sensitive information.
		It was permissible to do so.
		I didn't transfer any classified information.
		And at the end of the day, what is most important is that the mission was a remarkable success, is what everyone should be focused on here, because that's what did happen, not what possibly could have happened.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's how you respond to a hoax.
		They're liars.
		They're lying.
		They're making things up.
		They're not in charge of what's classified and what's not.
		This was an app that was preloaded on my phone that's permissible to use.
		And it's not up to them.
		They don't control the narratives.
		They've literally changed the narratives.
		Here's the attack plan.
		Remember, it was war plans that were so classified and so sensitive Jeffrey Goldberg could never possibly release them.
		They've changed from war plans to attack plans, and then they've released them, and there's nothing in them.
		It was a hoax from the beginning.
		The CIA director outed CIA agents.
		No, dude, it's a lie.
		It was just his chief of staff.
		He's not an undercover.
		And so instead of cowering and bending to the pressure, The Trump administration has come out guns a-blazing, literally.
		A man who comes out like, smelling like roses with these text releases on the Signal chat is J.D. Vance.
		The texts show that J.D. Vance is the same man that he is on the stage, on the stump.
		J.D. Vance is out saying, listen, guys, I don't want to start more foreign wars.
		I don't like doing Europe's dirty work.
		We don't have any business in Yemen.
		I'm America first.
		This could increase gas prices for Americans.
		So F this.
		It's awesome.
		The real scandal here would have been if the administration was sabotaging the president and his vision.
		But instead, the entire text chain is every member of the administration sharp as a tack, tip of the spear.
		Figuring out what the best America First policy is.
		And it's a really thoughtful...
		I encourage you to go read them.
		Listen, if they were so damning and they're so hurtful, I wouldn't be doing this.
		I'd be like, yikes, man.
		That is really bad.
		Listen, I've said it before.
		It's really bad that a journalist got on there.
		The person who added the journalist should be fired.
		I've said that, and I'll continue to say it.
		But if you actually read the messages themselves...
		Instead of being humiliated or embarrassed by all of this, the Trump administration is proud of it because it shows the inner workings of America First, foreign policy.
		It's actually refreshing to see.
		It's wonderful.
		So J.D. Vance going out yesterday to a Marine Corps base and firing down rain.
		This is his response.
		J.D. Vance's response was, I'm going to go blow up his...
		Many things as I possibly can.
		Look as badass as I possibly can.
		Here we go.
unidentified		Hit!
		Hit shot.
		Awesome.
		Good shot.
		Nice one.
		Hit!
		Center chest.
		Wow.
		That's one for sure.
		I almost have been 16. Jesus.
		I'm not going to be doing it.
		Jesus.
		I'm not going to be doing it.
		Wow.
		That's a fun one for sure.
		I'm not going to be doing it.
		Jesus.
		Yes, sir.
		Next one.
		I got a thing worth of help, all right?
		Yes, sir.
		Of course.
		I'll give it to you.
		Thank you.
		Yes, sir.
		You're so good.
		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Then they go ahead and release a J.D. Vance Marine Corps ad.
		It's the first time, I think, in history that the vice president has voiced an ad for the Marines.
		But here's a new recruitment ad featuring J.D. Vance.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		We care about excellence and we care about patriotism.
		And if you are awesome and you are a patriotic Marine, then we are going to do everything that we can to make you the most lethal fighting force the world has ever seen.
		And that is what we're doing every single day.
		No more quotas.
		No more ridiculous.
		Mumbo-jumbo.
		No more diversity training.
		We believe the real strength and the real diversity in the United States Marine Corps is that you all come from every walk of life, come from every corner of America, and you have got the strength and the purpose to win the nation's wars.
		And that is what the Marine Corps is going to do, just like it's done for damn near 250 years.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's fucking badass.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's so badass.
unidentified		I was like...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Man, I'm living back in the 80s.
		We've taken it back, boys.
		We're back, boys.
		By the way, the boys were happy to see JD Vance yesterday.
		Listen to this welcome that JD got in Quantico at the Marine Corps base.
unidentified		Go.
		How are you doing?
		Go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We've got another angle of it here.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		Hurrah Marines, how we doing?
unidentified		This is great.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It'll get your blood going.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Let's go.
unidentified		Black coffee.
unidentified		I've seen nothing like this in four years.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		Hurrah Marines, how we doing?
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		It's great.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's just great to see.
		This is the response.
		It wasn't hunkering down.
		It wasn't hiding.
		It wasn't apologizing.
		It wasn't begging for forgiveness.
		It wasn't wilting and crying on cable news shows run by our enemies.
		It was just badassery.
		F-U energy.
		It's the energy that followed Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem this morning.
		It's almost like Trump said, like, Now rip their guts out.
		Do things that are going to piss them off so much that they won't know where to even attack.
		Because it's a strategy, right?
		You isolate your enemy.
		You attack them where they're weak.
		They're trying to peel off Pete Hegseth.
		Oh, I need that Pegseth clip that his initial response is just perfect.
unidentified		Do we?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		This is the way you respond.
		This is the way you respond.
		No more coddling people who hate you.
		No more going...
		Along with the hoaxes and the regime narratives.
		Like, what's the number one thing that Kristi Noem could do right now to piss off the left?
		And I love seeing the administration circle the wagons and say, we're not going to allow this to happen because, quite frankly, what they want are scalps.
		They want firings.
		They want to manipulate and psyop Trump into firing his best people.
		And Trump's right now working.
		With the best people.
		We have full confidence in Pete.
		Full confidence in Tulsi.
		They've all been on the program.
		They've all been on the show.
		Kash Patel was like a weekly regular on the program.
		Yes.
		And so the initial response here is pitch perfect by Pete.
unidentified		Go.
pete hegseth ▲ ● ▼		One question.
unidentified		Can you share how your...
unidentified		Your information about war plans against the Houthis in Yemen was shared with a journalist in the Atlantic, and were those details classified?
pete hegseth ▲ ● ▼		So you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia.
		Or the fine people on both sides hoax.
		Or suckers and losers hoax.
		So this is a guy that pedals in garbage.
		This is what he does.
		I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops.
		I've monitored it very closely from the beginning.
		And you see, we've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration.
unidentified		Our troops, our sailors were getting shot at as targets.
pete hegseth ▲ ● ▼		Our ships couldn't sail through.
		And when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen.
		President Trump said, no more.
		We will reestablish deterrence, we will open freedom of navigation, and we will ultimately decimate the Houthis, which is exactly what we're doing as we speak from the beginning, overwhelmingly.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is what it looks like to actually have a masculine response to something.
		You don't have to play the game.
		You can just say no.
		They're fake.
		We live in a ghost world.
		You turn on the lights, these people disappear.
		The New York Times, the Washington Post, they have no power.
		We have more viewers on every single show than any of them when they're live, than any of them when they're publishing.
		It's all fake.
		It's not real.
		How many times do we have to watch Rachel Ziegler fail or Michelle Obama fail when they try and launch a podcast or they try and launch a channel?
		Their audiences are manufactured and totally astroturfed.
		You turn on the lights, they go away.
		It's a really incredible time, and it's a really incredible strategy to see them all balkanize and then fight back and say, you're fake.
		It's all fake.
		Cash Patel and Pam Bondi out this morning arresting terrorist leaders in Virginia, of all places.
		The top MS-13 leader arrested by U.S. authorities, and Pam and Cash were there in person.
		Let's go.
pam bondi ▲ ● ▼		First reaction is all of our law enforcement officers are safe.
		That was the number one thing.
		They're safe.
		They executed a clean, safe operation and the bad guys in custody.
		And thanks to the FBI, we got one of the worst of the worst of MS-13 off the streets this morning.
unidentified		We were able to be out here in force to show the American people to be here in person that this means a lot to her and the mission.
unidentified		Safety is our primary concern of these communities, and we effectuated that today.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Unfazed.
unidentified		Unfazed.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Just bulldoze through it.
		It's great.
		This was supposed to become a news cycle.
		This was supposed to become a special counsel investigation.
		All of this was supposed to mean the scalping of multiple Trump administration officials, including, if they could get him, J.D. Vance.
		That was the purpose of this op.
		Instead, what they got was Kristi Noem flying down to El Salvador.
		Saying if you're in this country illegally, we're going to send you to terrorist prison.
		Let's go.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		We're at Seacott today and visiting this facility.
		And first of all, I want to thank El Salvador and their president for their partnership with the United States of America to bring our terrorists here and to incarcerate them and have consequences for the violence that they have perpetuated in our communities.
		I also want everybody to know if you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you could face.
		First of all, do not come to our country illegally.
		You will be removed and you will be prosecuted.
		But know that this facility is one of the tools in our country.
unidentified		the American people.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That and Gitmo.
		What a timeline.
		What an incredible reaction.
		Final thing, Donald Trump, does this man look fazed to you?
		Does this man look worried to you?
		President Trump just roasting.
		Libs and maskers inside of the Oval Office yesterday, along with the time.
		There's so many good Trump clips from yesterday.
		He's so comfortable in his own skin.
		He's not prickly.
		He's not upset about the questions.
		He's rolling with it.
		He's calling them fake news again.
		And he's like in flow state.
		Check this out.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		You know, I haven't seen a mask in so long.
		You're wearing a mask.
		So nice of you.
		I haven't seen anybody wearing a mask in a long time.
		It's good.
		You feel more comfortable, right?
		Good.
		That's good.
		So go ahead.
unidentified		You said you want to return education control to the states.
unidentified		How would you handle it if a state like California were to put in place education policies you disagree with?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼		Well, I think that California is going to be tougher because they are doing badly on everything they do.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You're wearing a mask.
		I haven't seen that in a while.
		You feel safe?
		Do you feel like you're in charge?
		Right.
		Yes, that's right.
		And it's like, we'll get to it later in the show.
		We got to keep moving.
		But like, there's so many hysterical Trump clips from yesterday.
		The guy was just on a roll.
		He's having the best time.
		He's like in peak golden era Trump mode.
		So no, it didn't work.
		And now my entire look, what should have been, again, a special counsel and a scalping of Trump's best people has turned into a balkanization.
		A war cry for the administration about the true scum that they are up against.
		It's so awesome to see.
		It's just so great to see.
		You gotta know, man, if you know people from the first Trump administration, you'll know how damaging Russiagate was, how many people they were able to get on their knees, to force to embarrass themselves, to publicly apologize.
		That's what all the lawsuits were against Trump.
		Remember Jenna Ellis crying to Fannie Willis?
		Mascara running down her face.
		It's all a humiliation ritual.
		They're trying to break people.
		And Trump didn't break.
		In fact, it's the Trump administration that's going to break people.
		Look at this image.
		It's like the image that...
		So they decided to put this image out, and then J.D. Vance launched them downrange.
		This is...
		It's Chrissy Noam saying, come into our country illegally, here's where you're going to end up.
		It's a beautiful thing.
		And why is it all happening?
		Like, why did the op happen in the first place?
		Well, because they're desperate.
		They got, like, they're in extinction zone right now.
		They must have something.
		Democrats have to get something.
		Their actions betray exactly how dire the situation is.
		There are a number of reasons why the current state of the Democrat Party is collapsing.
		But I'm going to let...
		Democrats, explain it.
		Here's CNN walking us through exactly how popular President Trump is right now on the heels of this current hoax that's being run against him.
harry enten ▲ ● ▼		I think sometimes it's important to do a little bit of reality check and take a little different spin at the numbers I'm gonna do that right here because all we talk about is how unpopular Donald Trump is but in reality He's basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one and more popular than he was when he won election back in November of 2024.
		What are we talking about?
		His net favorable rating right now comes in at minus four points.
		Compare that to where he was when he won in November of 2024 when he was at minus 7 points or March of 2017 when he was at minus 10 points.
		So when you compare Trump against himself, he's actually closer to the apex than he is to the bottom of the trough.
		And, of course, that's so important because Donald Trump, historically speaking, has had his numbers underestimated.
		So I think it's very important to compare him to himself to understand he's actually more popular now than he was when he won.
		Or, certainly where he was at this point back in his first term, the bottom line is Trump is more towards the ceiling than he is towards the floor.
unidentified		So when you do that, it makes my knees hurt.
unidentified		So when you look at this compared to sort of historically, what does it tell you about the percentage of folks that think the country itself, with him at the helm, is on the right track?
harry enten ▲ ● ▼		This, I think, is rather important because, again, if the polls have historically underestimated Donald Trump, what is a metric that might get at understanding at how popular he may be?
		So let's take a look at the percentage of the country who say that we're on the right track.
		It's actually a very high percentage when you compare it to some historical numbers.
		What are we talking about?
		According to Marist, 45% say that we're on the right track.
		That's the second highest that Marist has measured since 2009.
		How about NBC News?
unidentified		44%.
harry enten ▲ ● ▼		That's the highest since 2004.
		The bottom line is the percentage of Americans who say we're on the right track is through the roof.
		And if you were to compare it to when presidents have historically been reelected, of course, Trump is not constitutionally eligible to run for re-election, but I think it sort of puts it in perspective.
		42% of the country says the country is on the right track when the incumbent party is reelected.
		And also keep in mind, back when Kamala Harris lost and the Democrats were turned out of power, only about 27% to 28% of the country said the country was on the right track.
		The bottom line is right now a much higher percentage of the country says we're on the right track.
		And finally...
unidentified		sniff
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So Trump's more popular than he's ever been after the...
		Ops that have been run against him and the hoaxes.
		More Americans think the country's on the right track than have ever thought that in the last two decades.
		And the Democrat Party, on the other hand, is hitting historic lows in popularity.
		Democrat Party hits new polling low.
		The lowest, in fact, that it's ever been.
		Just a quarter of registered voters, 27%, say they have a positive view of the party.
		Party's lowest positive rating since dating back to 1990.
		George H.W. Bush years.
		Just 7% say that their view of the Democrat Party is very positive and it's going to get worse.
		Here's the apportionment forecast for the electoral vote for the national vote.
		You can hear that Texas and Florida are going to gain four votes and that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, and California will all be losing votes.
		Ladies and gentlemen.
		There you go.
		This is meaning something very important, which is that Republicans won't need to win the blue wall any longer.
		They can win the National Electoral College.
		They don't need the popular vote.
		Who cares about that?
		But they can win it without Pennsylvania or Wisconsin or Michigan.
		It's nightmare time for Democrats, and it's starting to show.
		It's a totally different country.
		And, more importantly, the people who Democrats are putting up to be their spokespeople are, I don't know, Not sure they're sending their best towards President Trump.
		Jasmine Crockett is the rising star of the Democratic Party.
		And there's so many exciting videos to play of Jasmine acting up in Congress.
		But let's just go quickly to some of the greatest hits from this week.
		Jasmine Crockett calling the governor of her state.
		She's from a Dallas suburb.
		Governor Hot Wheels.
		He's, of course, in a wheelchair and has been since the 80s in a horrible accident that left him paralyzed.
		His name's Greg Abbott.
		And Jasmine Crockett speaking at the Human Rights Council, making fun of handicapped people.
unidentified		Because we in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey.
		Y 'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there.
		Come on now.
		And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-ass mess, honey.
katherine maher ▲ ● ▼		So, yes.
unidentified		Yes, yes, yes.
unidentified		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Got it.
		Has any Democrat disavowed it?
		I guess we'll find out.
		Jasmine will be joining us soon.
		I'd love to ask Jasmine.
		The reason why we're doing this interview remote, by the way, is because Jasmine attacked a reporter this week, a reporter who works for Laura Loomer.
		Asking questions inside of the United States Capitol, which is his right.
		Try being a Republican for a single day on Capitol Hill.
		You are barraged and savaged by reporters.
		How many times did you kill your wife?
		Like, that's the life of a Republican on Capitol Hill.
		Jasmine Crockett couldn't handle one question, and so she attacked the reporter.
unidentified		Hello, Congresswoman.
		Well, that sounds like fun.
		Wait, Congresswoman Crockett.
		Congresswoman Crockett, you were recently on a Tesla takedown call calling for violence on the 29th.
		Would you like to clarify your comments?
		Congresswoman, will you condone violence at the Tesla?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, well, the rules are that if Marjorie Taylor Greene had smashed a camera of a reporter, she'd be kicked out of Congress by that evening.
		That's how it goes.
		And we love Marjorie.
		So why are there different rules for Jasmine Crockett?
		And also, more importantly, if Jasmine Crockett had been a Republican doing that, She'd probably catch a case.
		Instead, she has the police protecting her.
		Check it out.
		Here's Jasmine Crockett with her new police escort in Capitol Hill.
		She now has cops interceding and pushing reporters back.
		You want to talk about an attack on the free press?
		Check this out from the Daily Bar.
unidentified		Hey, Congresswoman, do you remember your earlier comments you made about Governor Greg Abbott?
unidentified		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You ever seen anything like that before?
		Have you ever seen a member of Congress get a police escort now wandering around Capitol Hill after attacking a reporter?
		Democrats are crashing out, man.
		They're crashing out.
		And then a final one here.
		Jasmine cries.
		Somebody actually did get a chance to ask Jasmine in the hallways about her recent behavior and it didn't go great.
		Here we go.
unidentified		I put out a statement regarding that.
		You didn't apologize.
		Why would I apologize when I put out a statement?
		My statement was clear.
		I don't understand how that's offensive to people.
		You have a disability?
pam bondi ▲ ● ▼		You need me to repeat this to you.
pam bondi ▲ ● ▼		Right, but why won't you apologize?
unidentified		I put out a statement.
		They did not have an apology.
		So read my statement.
		I did read it.
		Did not have an apology.
		Okay, well, I'm done with this.
		You don't feel bad about making fun of someone who is in a wheelchair calling from Governor Hot Wheels?
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I know people who are in wheelchairs.
		Madison Cawthorn doesn't live too far from me, actually.
		Remember Madison Cawthorn?
		Good dude.
		On every level, this is incredibly offensive.
		She never apologized for it.
		I'm not one to be offended by much.
		And I like a good joke here and there.
		Calling a guy who's been paralyzed for 30 years because of a horrific accident.
		Governor Hot Wheels at the Human Rights Council, then attacking a reporter, then saying that you hope that Elon Musk, something terrible happens to Elon Musk on your birthday, which she said this weekend, it's my birthday.
		I hope something awful, what I want for my birthday present is something terrible to happen to Elon Musk.
		That's an actual hot mess.
		So I don't know how there hasn't been a single reporter who's been able to get a Democrat to disavow this behavior.
		It's our job and our obligation to you to go directly to the source.
		Again, if a Republican was behaving like this, I would disavow it.
		You'd have to.
		You'd have to.
		I don't want people to attack reporters.
		I don't want people to make fun of individuals in wheelchairs.
		You have to disavow it.
		Well, ladies and gentlemen, we reached out to try and get Democrats to come on our show, and little did we know that the power of this audience and the force majeure of this chat was able to reach into the real heart of the Democrat Party and the real soul of this story so deep that we were able to get Jasmine Crockett herself to come on the program.
		And to answer for all of this, And so with respect and humbly, we give to you live now, Jasmine Crockett.
unidentified		Thank you.
unidentified		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you Congresswoman, it is, I guess I can say, we're happy to have you.
		We're proud that you took an opportunity to reach across the aisle and to Answer questions from people who don't agree with what you're doing on Capitol Hill.
		So I suppose let's just start here.
		Our profession is journalism and commentating.
		And why did you attack that reporter this week, snatch his phone, and scratch him with what looks to be some pretty aggressive nails there.
		Looks like you got some real claws on you.
unidentified		Child.
		Benny, first of all, first of all, Benny, okay?
		Let me tell you something, okay?
		Okay?
		See, that reporter ran up on me, okay?
		Okay?
		And y 'all, y 'all, and first of all, I don't even like the introduction, okay?
		You didn't even mention that I was a lawyer, okay?
		I went to law school.
		See, when these white guests come on here, Benny, when these white folks come on here, uh-huh, see y 'all little white selves?
		Yeah, you talk about their accomplishments, but you didn't even bring up mine, okay?
		See, this is how y 'all do black people.
		This is how y 'all do black women.
		See, I shouldn't even came over here on your white show, okay?
		Because it ain't nothing but racist over here anyway, okay?
		Okay, so that reporter was rolling up on me.
		After what happened on January 6th, how was I supposed to know what the reporter was going to do to me, okay?
		So, I mean, I'm done with this, like I said.
		Like I said.
		Like I said.
		Like I said, I'm done.
		Like I said, okay?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Can I see those acrylic nails?
		Have you registered those?
		Those do look like weapons.
		Please keep the clip up.
		Put the clip back up.
unidentified		Why are you trying to be funny, honey?
		Okay.
		I just got these done.
		I just got these done.
		Yes.
		Uh-huh.
		So while y 'all think Jasmine is, so like y 'all think y 'all bothering me, I'm out getting my nails done.
		Okay?
		Yeah, that's what I'm out here doing.
		I'm out here getting my nails done.
		Uh-huh.
		And I'm hitting the streets after this interview.
		I gotta hit the streets, child.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So you were talking about the hot-ass streets and calling your governor, Governor Hot Wheels.
		That is...
		Quite offensive to people who are in wheelchairs.
		I know a few people in wheelchairs.
		Would you like to apologize for calling your governor, Governor Hot Wheels?
unidentified		Child, I said what I said.
		I said what I said.
		I called him Governor Hot Wheels, okay?
		Because he's trying to roll up and take people's food stamps from them.
		He's trying to roll up and take people's food stamps, Benny.
		Okay?
		See, y 'all want to talk about...
		Y 'all want to talk about me calling him Governor Hot Wheels, but you don't even want to talk about how he's trying to roll up and take people's food stamps, okay?
		And also, he's trying to take cars from black people, so they won't even have no Hot Wheels to even drive on if Governor Abbott keeps doing what he's doing, taking black people's rights in Texas, taking their food stamps, and taking their Hot Wheels from them.
		But see, y 'all don't want to talk about that.
		See, that's...
		Y 'all Republicans love to leave that out.
		Y 'all talk about what y 'all want to talk about.
		And Benny, if you was in front of me right now, I would have pushed you away too.
		Because for far too long in America, white people been running up on black people.
		For far too long in America, Benny.
		We are terrified of y 'all.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Y 'all have a racist Is that what you meant when you danced to They Not Like Us in the halls of Congress?
		No one's ever seen anything like this, Representative.
		This was quite a shock to the Internet.
		You were doing this when President Trump was giving his State of the State address.
unidentified		Child.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Is that what you meant?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You meant they not like us?
unidentified		Child.
		Do you post other videos of people dancing?
		I don't think so, Benny.
		I don't even think so, okay?
		Ain't no wrong with me dancing as a black woman.
		First of all, they not like us, okay?
		They not like us.
		And see, Benny, it's the reason why you got a black woman on your show right now.
		Because y 'all white folks cannot survive without us black women in this country.
		Y 'all need black women, okay?
		Black women run everything in this country.
		White people can't do nothing without black women, okay?
		Because we powerful and we strong, okay?
		And y 'all mad over a little dance, okay?
		But y 'all missed the whole message, Vinny.
		Y 'all not like us.
		And that's why y 'all mad.
		Because y 'all not like us.
		Y 'all just not like us.
		Y 'all not.
		Uh-uh.
		Uh-uh.
		And just because y 'all got a little tech guy on y 'all's side, a little, some guy who, this Elon Musk guy, whatever he is, you know, this tech guy who just happens to be allegedly a billionaire, okay?
		Anybody can be a billionaire if you know people who have, listen, if you know a billionaire, somebody with money, you can easily be a billionaire.
		All you gotta do is ask them for money.
		He just happened to know other billionaires.
		But, yeah.
		But y 'all want to talk about dancing.
		But y 'all want to talk about what this tech guy is doing over there in the White House.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Let's do that.
		So, a belated happy birthday to you.
		This weekend, you said for your birthday, you'd like to end Elon Musk.
		What did you mean by that, Congresswoman?
unidentified		Well, I put out a statement.
		I put out a statement.
		Y 'all see y 'all.
		That's what y 'all do.
		Uh-huh.
		That is what y 'all do.
		Y 'all trying to twist what I said.
		Listen.
		Listen.
		All I said.
		Listen.
		I mean in the stuff that he's doing to us.
		Okay?
		In the stuff that he's doing to us.
		Elon Musk, okay, is stealing our private data.
		He is stealing our food stamps.
		He is stealing our social security.
		As we speak right now, Elon Musk is stealing people's food stamps.
		Uh-huh.
		And he's using them to feed the people at Doge.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		The people at Doge are eating food stamps?
unidentified		Our food stamps.
		Okay?
		And being in this country was built off of black people.
		Okay?
		It was built off of black people.
		And to have this tech guy, this tech guy, who, he didn't even build Tesla.
		Okay?
		He didn't build that company.
		We built that.
		Black people built this country.
		We built Tesla.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You built Tesla?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Congresswoman?
unidentified		Black people built everything in America, honey.
unidentified		Black people built everything in America, honey.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Respectfully, Congresswoman, if you built Tesla, why are you burning Tesla dealerships to the ground and attacking Tesla vehicles?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Why would you destroy what you built?
unidentified		Because you know why, Benny?
		White people stole it from us.
		So we're going to burn it all down, like I said, okay?
		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So maybe, perhaps, and again, respectfully, I just want to get your response to something that's made its round on the internet.
		It's a video of you using two very different accents.
		There's one accent before...
		You got to Congress where you're very polite and I would guess, say, prim and proper.
		People are calling out that you actually went to a very privileged school.
		You come from a wealthy family.
unidentified		Don't do that!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And then changing, if you would, respectfully, Congresswoman, changing your accent once you get to Congress.
		If you just would allow me to play 10 seconds here.
		Here we go.
unidentified		Now it looks like a little bit over a year ago that I would be running for Congress.
		It's just not what my plan was.
		But what I've always decided is that I would step up when there was a need.
		Listen, he up there, he's doing all kinds of nonsense and bullshit.
		Let me just be real.
		We ain't gonna sit for that shit.
		We wouldn't, you know.
		But when she called me and said...
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, can you explain the difference?
		It's like a pretty alarming code...
		It's called code switching.
		It's pretty alarming.
unidentified		Ciao.
		I'm not finna play with you.
		I'm not finna play with you, child.
		Okay?
		Okay?
		Listen.
		This is what y 'all do.
		This is what y 'all did with Michelle Obama.
		This is what y 'all did with our black queen, Kamala Harris.
		This is what y 'all did with our black queen.
		Okay?
		We'll see.
		What you not gonna do, Benny?
		What you not gonna do is you not gonna play us in our faces like that.
		Okay?
		This day, That you talking about?
		Okay?
		I didn't do no...
		I don't...
		First of all, I don't do...
		Benny, I'm not finna explain myself to you.
		I'm just not.
		I'm not finna do it, Benny.
		Okay?
		Okay, Benny, first of all, it was early in the morning.
		Okay?
		It was early in the morning.
		I didn't have my coffee at the moment.
		Okay?
		Okay?
		So I was cool, calm, and collect.
		Okay?
		Yeah, you know what?
		No, no, no, no.
		I'll tell you why I switched up.
		That's the old jazz.
		See, that's the nice Jasmine.
		You got the hood Jasmine, okay?
		You know what I'm saying?
		You got the hood Jasmine.
		This Jasmine Crockett right here, the new Jasmine.
		So you know what, Benny?
		You sure right.
		I switched up.
		Because you know what?
		I had to step up, okay?
		And show y 'all that we not playing no more.
		That y 'all not like us, okay?
		So yeah, you got it.
		You got it right, Benny.
		I am the new Jasmine Crockett.
		Yes, I switched up.
		And you know what?
		And I ain't switching up no damn more.
		At all, okay?
		Because I'm not going to play with y 'all in my country, okay?
		Okay.
		I mean, you tried, but you tried, though.
		But you tried, though.
		But you tried that.
		Yeah, yeah, yeah.
		You ate that.
		You ate that.
		But that's fine.
	That's fine.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	That's fine.
	But I'll tell you this right now.
	I won't be coming back on here no more.
	I'll tell you that right now.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, then allow me to just ask a final question if you really are.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		If you're blacklisting our show.
unidentified		Ask yourself why y 'all got a racist man in office and why y 'all got a billionaire, okay?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Why y 'all got a tech guy trying to clean up fraud?
		If the polling plays out, it seems like you may be one of the top choices for Democrats running for president.
		In the year 2028.
		You just mentioned Kamala, but would you run for president for the Democrat Party?
unidentified		I sure would.
		I sure would run for president.
		I sure would.
		Uh-huh.
		And I'd make P. Diddy my vice president.
		Mm-hmm.
		P. Diddy.
		Crockett and Diddy.
		Okay?
		Crockett and P. Diddy.
		They need to free him.
		He ain't do nothing.
		Okay, I was at the parties with Diddy.
		He didn't even do nothing, okay?
		I was at Diddy and Crockett and Diddy.
		I will run.
		And, Benny, let me tell you something else, okay?
		Y 'all look, that little black boy that y 'all be parading around that maggot hat, Terrence K. Williams, tell him to stop impersonating me.
		Tell him to stop impersonating me, Benny, okay?
		And then this fool gonna anonymously send some damn stupid His stupid cousin T's pancakes to my house.
		Child, look at this crap.
		He gonna send this racist some damn Trump victory pancake box.
		Okay?
		This tastes just like Trump's bullshit.
		Excuse my language.
		It tastes like racism.
		Okay?
		I don't want no black people, nobody buying this stupid pancake mix.
		Then talking about, you know, he started this company talking about hunting your mama.
		Girl, don't make crap I don't hunt your mama.
		Okay?
		Okay?
		Don't nobody care about all that.
		All these little stupid pancakes talking about he got he, he, he, he, he, he started this because of hunting your mama.
		No, you started it because you want to feed racist people, okay?
		You started it because you wanted to defeat racist people.
		That's why the man started, okay?
		But he needs to stop impersonating me, and that's all I'm going to say, okay?
		I don't give a damn what he's doing with his little stupid company with that MAGA hat on, okay?
		Talking about they're going to send me another box, some protein pancake mix.
		He got keto.
		Don't make a damn what you got.
		Because let me tell you, okay?
		Let me tell you.
		All you're doing is feeding those white people.
		Okay?
		Feeding those white people when they always look at my footsteps.
		I'm done.
		I'm done.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, I'm cutting you off.
		I'm cutting you off, Jasmine.
		Enough races.
		In fact, while you're on here, I'm going to tell everyone to follow Terrence Williams.
		Everyone go follow.
		Take that, Jasmine.
		How do you like that?
		Everyone should go follow Terrence.
		2.2 million people.
		Follow Terrence Williams.
		And you should be one of them.
		And maybe you could be eating Terrence Williams' racist magic pancakes as he uncancels Aunt Jemima.
		And we cancel Jasmine Crockett on our show.
		Jasmine, respectfully, thank you for taking the time to reach across the aisle.
		I'm not sure that you built any bridges here, but we appreciate it.
		And we...
		Are just gonna say, you're welcome back anytime, alright?
		We like having an open conversation with people, even when they call us racist for 15 straight minutes.
unidentified		Deuces, Vinny.
unidentified		Deuces.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you Ladies and gentlemen, they not like us.
		You can still have fun, right?
		We're still allowed to have fun.
		It's still legal to have fun.
		And we're going to do that on this program, right?
		Everyone's suddenly taking themselves so seriously now.
		When the entire Democrat Party is in a total state of parody and collapse, then you just got to parody them.
		This is the only way.
		I would argue that it would be really smart for Jasmine Crockett to actually come on shows like this, and we'd be happy to interview her.
		Right?
		There's a preview of all the questions that I would have asked.
		Ladies and gentlemen, we have a colleague of Jasmine Crockett who is queued up and ready to rock.
		One of our favorites.
		The most badass member of Congress, who I'm sure enjoyed that.
		The great Eli Crane, the most badass member of Congress.
		He's a Navy SEAL.
		He's also one of the very serious members of Congress who wants to cut government spending and won't take no for an answer.
		And, well, Straight Killer joins us now.
unidentified		Straight Killer.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I just got to tell you, Congressman, we could potentially get someone to play you during the interview.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Find a handsome man with a goatee.
unidentified		Benny, it was good to see Terrence.
		I mean, Jasmine on your show.
		Terrence is always doing great work.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so Congressman, getting back on track here.
		Since we just did, we thought that what she's done this week has been very much a SNL skit.
		SNL would never dare parody it.
		So we're going to do our best humble job of doing that.
		However, you shouldn't like you shouldn't like attack reporters in the halls of Congress.
		Right.
		You shouldn't call people in wheelchairs, you know, hot wheels.
		And you shouldn't like issue death threats to Elon Musk.
		Can we can we like can we like establish that?
		Do you think that Republicans who are in control of the House should like potentially do something about that?
unidentified		Yeah, well, you know, it's unfortunate to see, Benny.
		But the bottom line is, I think, you know, it's desperation.
		They don't control the House.
		They don't control the Senate.
		They don't control the presidency.
		And so you're seeing them lash out like little toddlers.
		And in a way, I think it's great to have, you know, voices like Jasmine Crockett become the, you know, the front runners for the Democrat Party, because it just goes to show America that this is what this is what they're really like.
		This is what they're about.
		You know, they're not about policies that make it easier for Americans, make it safer for Americans.
		And so I wish they would figure it out.
		I wish they would put Americans first.
		But politically, it's great for us.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So politically, what's not great for the Republican Party and what seems to be the only bulwark against the President Trump's administration since...
		We have unified control of government, is the D.C. court system.
		And you've been very public.
		Many of your colleagues have shied away, but you've been very public about either defunding it, impeaching judges, and pushing back since Congress, well, it's a co-equal branch, and you have oversight.
		So can you talk me through the, one, the probability of Judge Bosberg getting every single Trump case, which is really unique and special, and two...
		What is Congress going to do about it to measure that weight and balance?
unidentified		Well, it's interesting, Benny, because we do have constitutional authorities to impeach judges.
		I was the first member of Congress to call for the impeachment of Judge Engelmeyer when I saw the play call.
		The play call was obviously, like I said, they don't control anything right now, so they're going to use these radical left-wing judges to try and stop the Trump agenda.
		And, you know, it's interesting, Benny, because I've heard Republicans for a long time, you know, many of them are my colleagues who said if we lost this election, the country was over, it was done, because they were watching the trajectory, they were watching the lawfare, you know, they were watching the authoritarian nature of the Democrat Party and what it's turned into.
		So you have an eminence there, right?
		And many of my colleagues also talked about if the Democrats get in power, you know, they're going to...
		You know, completely change the system to benefit themselves.
		But here we are.
		The Trump administration is absolutely crushing it.
		We have the Congress.
		We have the Senate.
		And a lot of my colleagues aren't acting like they understand the situation, how imminent and how just unbelievably, you know, historical this opportunity is for us to start turning this country back around.
		And, you know, our friend Steve Bannon says to delay is to deny, and that's what they're trying to do right now.
		So it's so important that we do everything possible to, you know, send a serious shot across these judges' bow so that they understand that they are not more powerful than the President of the United States.
		And we can do that in many ways.
		I'm just hoping that my colleagues understand the severity of the situation and that they rise to the occasion.
		Because if they stop President Trump from doing exactly what he told the American people that he would do, from doing exactly what they voted him in office to do, we're not going to get much done.
		And that's the bottom line.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Congressman, this morning, Chrissy Noem dropped a video from the depths of the terrorism detention center in El Salvador where Americans are now sending terrorists.
		Let's just call them what they are.
		If you're here to rape, pillage, murder and to run a drug cartel, you're a terrorist on our soil.
		These judges did nothing to stop those terrorists from coming into this country.
		In fact, we paid for most of them to come into this country, flew them in ourselves.
		They did nothing.
		Complete silence.
		But now that we're...
		Repatriating them, or worse in their eyes, putting them in prison where they belong, they're stopping those planes.
		This was, of course, the egregious ruling that Trump had to turn around military planes that were flying terrorists out of our country.
		That's the ruling.
		The ruling was turn the military planes around.
		If a judge is willing to do that, and I'm simply asking you this as a Navy SEAL who I know has gone on many missions Kill bad guys.
		As a Navy SEAL, what's the limiting principle here?
		When will one of these judges stop a military flight out to do a military mission to get bad guys?
		At what point do the judges say, I'm the commander-in-chief?
		Because it seems like, prima facie, what's happening here?
unidentified		Well, you're exactly right, Benny.
		I mean, many of these judges, and I think there's like 670 district judges in the country, that's what they're basically doing.
		They're trying to basically, in this case, they're trying to say that we're more powerful than the president of the United States, and we can, you know, usurp his authority as commander-in-chief to protect the national interests of the American citizens.
		And that's why this is so important, and that's why...
		You know, I hope that your audience continues to blow up members of Congress to help them understand how serious this is.
		You know, this isn't just some, you know, irrelevant ruling from these judges.
		This is very, very serious.
		Had those pilots actually listened to the judge, they might have run out of fuel.
		They might have brought these very dangerous terrorists back to...
		You know, an airport here in the United States that didn't have the security footprint that we had overseas to receive them.
		And it could have gotten really ugly really quickly.
		So I'm proud of the president for continuing to do what he knows is right, continuing to do what he promised the American people.
		And it is so important that members of Congress wake up and realize how serious this is and that we need to act.
		Because if we don't act, Benny, you know what's going to happen.
		They're going to continue to do this over and over and stall everything that the president of the United States is doing.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		There's no limiting principle, Eli.
		They could have stopped.
		Given the scenario here, when you were on one of your, I assume, dozens, hundreds of classified missions that you flew as a Navy SEAL, that a judge could have absolutely enjoined your flight and said, no, actually, given these powers, I'm going to command this military jet.
		I'm going to command your Navy SEAL group.
		Am I wrong in that assessment?
unidentified		No, I mean, it would have been extremely dangerous, and all of us operators on that helicopter or in that convoy would have been shaking our heads like, what the hell is this judge doing putting our lives at risk when we're trying to protect American citizens or protect our allies?
unidentified		And again, Benny, that's why this is so important, and I'm glad that you and other conservative commenters Yes.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so very quickly here, because I'm no congressman, right?
		I'm not an elected office.
		I'm not a lawyer.
		I wouldn't consider myself a scholar by any sense, but this article from The Federalist, that a third of D.C. district judges were not.
		Born in the United States of America?
		That they are foreigners by birth?
		Now, they might have been naturalized.
		I assume they were, or they have dual citizenship.
		But that was, this is shocking to me.
		It seems like, at the very least, you should ask that your judges not be dual citizens of a foreign power, or maybe at best, be born here, right?
		Be Americans by birth.
		I'm not sure if this is shocking to you.
		I would love to see a new rule put in place that says judges should be Americans.
		This just seems very dangerous.
unidentified		Yeah, well, you know, it's honestly not shocking to me, Benny.
		Here in Washington, D.C., it's kind of like being in the belly of the beast.
		For me, it's kind of like a political deployment where 95% of this town is Democrat.
		And I'm not surprised when I see laws on the books that don't protect citizens at all.
		I'm not surprised to see Washington, D.C. have some of the highest crime rates in the country.
		And quite frankly, I'm not surprised to see that a third of its judges weren't even born in the United States of America.
		But again, that's why it's so important that members of Congress understand what time it is, the unique opportunity that we have with a historic leader like President Trump, who is He's playing to win, Benny.
		He's playing like he's not trying to get elected.
		He's not playing politics.
		He's playing smash-mouth ball, and he's doing everything that he promised, and he's doing everything with common sense, Benny.
		All of this stuff is common sense.
		I mean, he's flying out radical, dangerous gang members and putting them in prisons overseas, and these judges are trying to stop him.
		And you mentioned on your show they didn't do a damn thing to try and stop these guys from coming into the country.
		And it just shows how partisan they are.
		And it's unbelievable to me that many of my colleagues are seemingly playing to get re-elected and they're playing politics and kind of putting their finger in their mouth, putting it in the air and trying to gauge which way winds are blowing instead of doing what's necessary to protect American citizens.
		And quite frankly...
		You know, to support the president of the United States, you know, who's doing a damn good job.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So very quickly, would you be in favor of an amendment that says you should be an American citizen, an American citizen only, if you're going to be ruling over our Constitution?
unidentified		Yeah, I would have no problem with that at all, Benny.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, it seems like, duh.
		We had that for the president, obviously, right?
		You can't have a foreigner as president.
		That would be a huge problem.
		So why would we allow...
		Constitutional branch of government to be foreigners.
		It makes no sense.
		It seems insane to me, actually.
		I couldn't believe it when I read that.
		Final question.
		Are Republicans going...
		Jasmine Crockett got a police escort.
		Is anything going to happen?
		Is it just like a sideshow?
		Is there going to be no slap on the wrist here for Jasmine Crockett?
		She's just going to get extra police escorts?
unidentified		If there's anything, Benny, I think it'll be a censorship vote.
		But like I said, in ways, I think it's actually working to our benefit.
		And I think we should never forget that, having, you know, voices like Jasmine Crockett, you know, elevated, because politically, it's great for us.
		For the country and for the people of this country, it's horrible that we have representatives like her, you know, but at the end of the day, politically, and you talked about it earlier in your show.
		This is one of the reasons it's it's I think it's great because of, you know, their their polling right now is at historic lows.
		And this is another example of why instead of having solutions that are common sense, you know, that protect and, you know, protect their safety and their prosperity.
		You know, these are the type of voices on the radical left and they're completely disconnected from American people who are out there just trying to make ends meet.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Congressman, we're always so happy to have you on this program because it just rings like a bell.
		There's just no bullshitting with you.
		It's just clean cut and you get the honest assessments and it's wonderful.
		There's no wordsmithing.
		Maybe you haven't been in Washington long enough to learn how to be a liar and a snake, but it's awesome.
		And we thank you for always being on with us, Representative Eli Crane.
		Such a total badass and an actual truth teller.
		Please follow him here on X. 136,000 Americans can't be wrong.
		Support the people who fight for us.
unidentified		Thanks, brother.
		Appreciate it.
		Godspeed.
		you Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Ladies and gentlemen, I just wanted to touch on further Democrat panic from Democrat corporate media.
		As NPR is facing defunding, I did want to read through Axios, and then we're going to jump into some of the NPR clips.
		Really fun.
		And Steve Hilton will be joining the program.
		It's going to be awesome.
		Behind the curtain, Dem's Dark Deep Hole.
		Again, I don't think that that is the name that they call Jasmine Crockett behind the scenes, but it's not up to me.
		I should have asked.
		I should have asked, and I'll be better next time.
		The party has the lowest favorability ever.
		No popular national leader to help improve it.
		Insufficient numbers to stop most legislation in Congress.
		A durable minority in the Supreme Court.
		Dwindling influence over the media ecosystem with right-leaning podcasters and social media accounts ascendant.
		This is why we're making fun of Jasmine Crockett today because we have to be the new SNL.
		We'll just take it all over, right?
		Dwindling influence, ladies and gentlemen, over the media ecosystem.
		This was on full display yesterday.
		When the chief of NPR, Catherine Meher, was before the Doge subcommittee trying to defend why taxpayers fork over hundreds of millions of dollars to her and the PBS for left-wing propaganda.
		Is Catherine Meher even able to defend her own tweets?
		Congressman Brandon Gill, who's a friend of the show, had an excellent exchange.
		Check this out.
unidentified		Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?
		I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.
		It has evolved.
		Why did you tweet that?
		I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't be able to say.
		Okay.
		Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy?
		I don't believe that, sir.
		You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations.
		I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.
		You tweeted about it.
		You said you took a day off to fully read the case for reparations.
		You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.
		Apologies, I don't recall that I did.
		Okay.
		I have no doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall that.
		Okay.
		Do you believe that white people inherently feel superior to other races?
		I do not.
		You don't?
		You tweeted something to that effect.
		You said, I grew up feeling superior.
		Ha, how white of me?
		Why did you tweet that?
		I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages.
		It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.
		I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir.
		I was just reflecting on my own experiences.
		Do you think that white people should pay reparations?
		I have never said that, sir.
		Yes, you did.
		You said it in January of 2020.
		You tweeted, "Yes, the North.
		Yes, all of us.
		Yes, America.
		Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt.
		Yes, reparations.
		I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
		What kind of reparations was it a reference to?
		I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.
		That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.
		Okay, how much reparations have you personally paid?
		Sir, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations.
		Okay, just for everybody else.
		I'm not asking anyone to pay reparations.
		Seems to be what you're suggesting.
		Do you believe that looting is morally wrong?
		I believe that looting is illegal, and I refer to it as counterproductive.
		I think it should be prosecuted.
		Do you believe it's morally wrong, though?
		Of course.
		Of course.
		Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?
		It's a very different way to describe it.
		It is both morally wrong and counterproductive as well as being illegal.
		You tweeted, it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression.
		You didn't condemn the looting.
		You said that it was counterproductive.
		NPR also promoted a book called in defense of looting.
		Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
		I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir, and I don't believe that was at my time.
		You tweeted that you read that book, but I don't believe that I did read that.
		sad music Thank you.
		Our journalist classes, they're so impressive!
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
		Joining me now, the great Steve Hilton, who knows so very much about these elitist snobs.
		He has a brand new book about the destruction of California, where Catherine Maher is from.
		And, man, we can't wait to hear his take on this.
		Let's go.
unidentified		So you think...
		It's so perfect.
		It's perfect.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		So you hate white people?
		No, I don't.
		Here's a tweet saying you hate white people.
		So you want reparations?
		No, I don't.
		Here's a tweet saying you want reparations.
		She's in charge of fact-checking at NPR.
		She's the editorial head of NPR?
		Bro.
unidentified		Okay, it's all coming together.
		First of all, that guy's brilliant.
		I hadn't come across him before.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		He's so great.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		He's a star.
unidentified		Love him.
		I don't know which is my favourite bit.
		All these books that she claims to have read, you know, with her ridiculous virtue signalling.
		Oh yes, I'm with you.
		I didn't actually read it.
		I took a day off, but actually I was just sleeping.
		I wasn't really reading about reparation.
		It's just amazing.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's complete fraudulence.
		Would you be in favor of NPR being defunded, PBS being defunded?
		In what universe do you actually need these people anymore?
unidentified		Here's the thing I wanted to mention coming together because people are shocked when I say this.
		I've shared this in other forums, but I listen to NPR.
		I listen to NPR so you don't have to.
		I like to hear what the enemy's doing.
		What's really amazing about NPR, it's almost like a time capsule, and you can sort of see where this is all going, because when you listen to it, it's just like a parody of itself.
		Like, every story or everything that they do is one of two things.
		It's either...
		This insane identity politics, kind of woke nonsense, which just feels so old-fashioned now.
		It feels like ancient history.
		Because we've seen the backlash.
		It's all gone.
		It's ridiculous.
		It's laughable.
		But they are still doing it.
		And even their sort of non-political things about, I don't know, restaurants or whatever.
		It's always two lesbian chefs.
		You know what I mean?
		It's always something like that.
		So it's either the identity politics woke stuff still kind of clinging on when its time has passed, or, and this is actually in a way the more destructive, everything is about more money.
		We need more money for this or that.
		The local NPR in California, my goodness, like every story about the schools, about housing, about healthcare, transportation, the roads, whatever it may be.
		Well, we need more resources.
		They have people on there.
		You're always demanding more resources.
		Wait a minute.
		We pay the highest taxes already in the entire country.
		What are you talking about?
		More money.
		And so the sort of ingrained leftist...
		Big government mindset is just the whole institution is riddled with it.
		And so, of course, it shouldn't get any public money, but, you know, how else would it survive?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I always, when I go out to eat, ask, do you have lesbian chefs?
		Like, I always do that.
		If not, I walk out, right?
		That's what I do, Steve.
unidentified		I mean, that is, it's just a basic, it's a hygiene factor, as they say.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		My God.
		So it's a...
		Really exciting time.
		I think that NPR will get defunded.
		And more to the point of wokeness crashing and burning.
		Like, really buying in at the top, right?
		And cratering down.
		A very famous California company called Disney released Snow White.
		And it's the biggest bomb in the history, potentially, of Hollywood.
		Certainly in the history of live-action remakes.
		It was made probably not too far from where you do your show.
		And it's a real nightmare.
		I mean, this is like a real reckoning for this industry.
		And it's not just Rachel Ziegler.
		It is.
		But like the entire thing was a woke project to begin with.
		It just seems so dated now.
		And I just wonder if the industry is going to learn.
		Do you think or no?
unidentified		I don't know.
		I mean, I think the leadership, you know, in the end, they're businesses.
		They want to make money.
		And so I think they get it at the leadership level.
		But it's so deeply held within these companies.
		You know, it's just because the brainwashing and the ideological kind of one-way street has just been so powerful in the college.
		You know, you've talked about it a million times.
		And so it's very deep within them.
		And I think it's going to be very difficult, actually, to kind of deprogram everyone throughout these organizations.
		But in the end...
		If it's failing commercially, you know, that is a signal that they're going to have to pay attention to.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Running out of money.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Running out of money is a great way to deprogram people, actually.
unidentified		Exactly.
		Being poor is a wonderful motivator.
		The other aspect of the Snow White story, I love this.
		I don't even know what term to use, and I'll probably get in trouble for even talking about it, but the kind of, the sort of dwarf flopping, right?
		Flip flopping.
		First, no, you can't have dwarfs.
		That's terrible.
		No dwarfs.
		And then, oh, wait, we've gone too woke.
		We do need dwarves, but we've already shot the movie, so we can't have, like, actual actors who really are.
		So we have to kind of have fake dwarves.
		And then you've got the dwarves against you, the dwarf actor, because they're saying, you denied us work.
		It's just so hilarious.
		That whole kind of sequence was just brilliant.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		When you try and please everyone, you please no one, right?
		You end up pissing off everybody when you're trying to just please.
		If you try and like please everyone, it's always going to be somebody offended.
		Unless, of course, and they say ignorance is bliss, unless you're Rachel Ziegler who just posted a video of herself alone in a theater, in a completely empty theater, cheering herself on.
		Now, I'd like – you're kind of a master in clinical narcissism, Steve.
		as I follow your programming and what you reported on.
		Oh my goodness.
		So yeah, so here she is cheering herself on in an empty, there's not a single soul in the theater.
		And she's so giddy about it.
		And I guess ignorance is bliss.
		And on some level, you're like, oh, wow, you know, like, she doesn't know.
		And maybe that's good.
		But on another level, like, you have to eventually become an adult.
		And this clinical narcissism is going to have a very bad end.
unidentified		Yes.
		I mean, by the way, yes.
		But that's such a defining characteristic of the left.
		I mean, it is.
		I don't want to go on about...
		I want to tell a story, and then I've got a couple of...
		I just want to say one thing about my book, Caliphailia.
		The story I want to tell you, the empty theatre.
		It's got nothing to do with politics or anything.
		It's just a great story.
		I've never shared it.
		This is the moment.
		So years and years ago in London with my friend, we went to see that movie about Muhammad Ali, the fight, the rumble in the jungle, When We Were Kings.
		It's a great movie.
		And it was in the afternoon in London, and it was an empty theatre with one exception.
		As we walked in, just in front of us, was Piers Brosnan, the actor, like James Bond at the time, and he was with a friend, and I don't know, we were young, we were kind of, I don't know, put off by this, and maybe he's doing something special.
		So we walked back out, and Piers Brosnan came out of the empty theatre and said, hey guys, come in, don't worry about it, or something like that.
		So that I can claim that James Bond asked me to watch a movie with him.
		So that's my story about an empty movie theater.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Caliphail, we'll pop a book up here.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Tell us more about it.
unidentified		It's not just what everyone knows the disastrous, you know, failing on every front.
		That's the sort of simple, you know, we are the worst.
		On every measure that matters in California with this one party Democrat rule, especially the things that they claim to care about.
		We have the highest poverty rate, obviously the highest unemployment, lowest income growth, highest housing costs.
		Highest price, cost for everything.
		Gas, electricity, water, you name it.
		Worst business climate, highest tax, everything.
		It's worse, not just in the middle of the pack.
		But the question I wanted to answer was, how did this happen?
		So there's two parts to that.
		There's the kind of steps that happened in terms of the unions building up their control over their lock on state government and the Democratic Party, but also the way that they've ended up with this.
		A gerrymandered illegitimate supermajority in the state legislature that's enabled them to push through this far-left agenda without constraint.
		So there's a kind of practical set of stories about how that happened.
		But the more interesting one, I think, is the ideological.
		Like, what are the components of this?
		The way I describe what they've done to California is it's become the Wuhan lab of modern leftism.
		They've just run this experiment in ideological craziness, and the results are in.
		It's a disaster.
		But what are the components?
		So I go through the pathologies of this nonsense that they've been pushing out.
		Because it's not just enough to say it's left.
		It's other things.
		Narcissism, we were just talking about.
		That's a huge part of it.
		They're constantly puffing themselves up and saying, we're leading.
		You listen to Gavin Newsom in these general caps.
		We're leading on climate.
		We're leading on gender.
		It's constantly leading, leading.
		Meanwhile, the people that they actually represent are...
		Totally being crushed by this nonsense, especially working class people.
		Narcissism is a huge part of it.
		Elitism, cronyism.
		I talk about climatism that's making it impossible to build anything, you know, on and on.
		So it's the anatomy of the ideology.
		And the reason I think people should care about it is this is where the energy is now in the Democratic Party.
		You look at their response to the election.
		It's all, yeah, we want more.
		Bernie, AOC, huge crowds.
		We already have.
		The AOC-Burney agenda implemented in America.
		That's what we have in California.
		So this is a warning, this book, to the whole country.
		That's why I think even if you don't live in California, get Caliphailia and learn what's going on and how you can stop it coming to your state.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You have no water in your fire hydrants.
		Your homes are burning to the ground.
		There are homeless encampments everywhere.
		And your governor started a podcast.
		You see, that's the most important thing.
		The governor has a new podcast, so get ready.
		That's going to fix everything.
		Steve, it's an honor to have you on the program.
unidentified		It's real fun.
unidentified		Great to see you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Pop on over and get Steve's book and follow him on X. Godspeed, sir.
unidentified		Thank you, Benny.
		See you soon.
		See you soon.
		See you soon.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Steve Hilton, what a kick-ass dude.
		You know who's also a kick-ass dude?
		Our dear friend Tim Burchett.
		Tim Burchett yesterday going absolute savage mode on the head of NPR.
		We needed to get to all of our exciting guests today, so let's pop back over.
		NPR had been dragged in front of the Doge Committee, and the Doge Committee was on fire.
		I mean, MTG, Brandon Gill, and Tim Burchett were...
		I don't know how they keep their funding.
		There's no way they can keep their funding after this.
		It was a humiliation ritual.
		Burchett, take it away.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		...to do that.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Let me ask you, why did you call President Trump a fascist and a deranged racist sociopath in 2020?
unidentified		Congressman, I appreciate the opportunity to address this.
		I regret those tweets.
		I would not tweet them again today.
		They represented a time where I was reflecting on something that I believe that the president had said rather than who he is.
		I don't presume that anyone is a racist.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You don't believe anyone is a racist?
unidentified		I don't start by presuming anyone is a racist.
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We're paying these people money.
		These are just, it's just like USAID.
		It's just a retirement fund.
		For people with no actual skill or talent.
		For people that couldn't cut it in the private sector.
		That's what the entire federal government has become.
		It's a cancer on our nation.
		And it needs to be cut out.
		MTG doing the cutting right here.
marjorie taylor greene ▲ ● ▼		Ms. Marr, your public statements and social media posts reflect left-wing ideology and blatant opposition to free speech.
		After all, you were the head of Wikipedia for many years.
		Which is a platform that doesn't tell the truth.
		Let's walk through some of the public, some of your statements, so the public can understand your personal views.
		You said your fellow Americans just selected Donald Trump as president again this past November.
		You called him a deranged racist and sociopath.
		You posted on X that...
		America is addicted to white supremacy.
		It's appalling.
		You've publicly chastised using the phrase boy and girl, which you said erases the language for non-binary people.
		There's only two genders, by the way.
		Ms. Marr, the federal funding that your outlet receives comes from all American taxpayer dollars, not just From your viewers who support such statements as these, let me inform you so that your federal funding is also paid for by the other half of the country.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They hate you.
		They hate the truth.
		They hate having fun.
		They hate our show.
		And they hate competition, which is why they steal from all of us.
		We do our best to run a tight business around here.
		We hit our pay periods on time.
		We treat our employees well.
		And we try and provide lives for creators and people.
		And we do our best at that, right?
		And it's tough because the government takes such a big, fat bite out of what we're doing and creating here.
		We could be twice as powerful.
		If we didn't have to pay the obscene amount of taxes that we pay, and you, of course, know this.
		As a business owner, obviously, it is cataclysmic, especially if you're a startup.
		It really puts a dent in what you're able to do, and we're trying to build a media business here to have our wages stolen.
		And then hand it over to these goblins who hate us to artificially prop up other media sites and other media companies to compete with us with the garnishing of our wages is such a on-its-face insult to every employee at this company, to everyone who's trying to cut it and create new in this ecosystem.
		They're trying to strangle us.
		Understand that's what's at stake.
		It's not just that they want to compete with us and that they've been around for 70 years and they have these massive buildings and they have all this staff and they have all this infrastructure.
		It's that they want to steal our money, what little we make on this show, and try and do everything we can to bootstrap and provide careers for people to work here.
		They try and steal that profit.
		To fund their left-wing activism and then use that money to demonetize us, to attack our programming, to strangle, to choke us out in the crib.
		This is what happens to all creators that are independent.
		And so it's time to put this entire Black Sabbath, this entire insult to the actual media profession to rest, to totally defund it.
		If you can stand on your own two feet, Do it.
		If you can't do it without stealing from the American taxpayer, then you deserve to go completely out of business.
		Nobody needs an NPR.
		Nobody needs their program.
		And if their programming can't stand up on its own in a free market, then it should be destroyed.
		Ladies and gentlemen, I can explain exactly how biased they are.
		87 members of their editorial board.
		100% Democrat, not a single Republican at NPR.
unidentified		You're a rabid progressive.
		Do you not think it's a problem that your political leanings make it seem to the American people that you're not biased and you're not doing your job?
		Because you agree that your job is to have journalistic integrity, right?
		Absolutely, but there is a strong firewall between the newsroom and anything that I do.
		Let's talk about the newsroom.
		You have 87 registered Democrats, not a single Republican in your editor board.
		How does that work to give us the perception that you're doing your job of actually delivering unbiased information?
		I would agree with you that that number is a concern if it is accurate.
		I do believe that we need to have journalists who represent the full breadth of the American society so that we can report well for all Americans.
		I think that you are failing.
		I realize you've only been there for a year, but I just really think that while it is a small portion of your budget, you very much should expect to restructure your revenue streams because I don't think that NPR is necessarily worth saving.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They're going to defund them.
		Man, they're going to defund them.
		We've been talking with members of Congress who are our friends.
		We've been talking with people who are telling us exactly how they're going to do it.
		There's a number of ways to skin this cat, as they say.
		What they've done by putting this wretched individual in charge of NPR is give people like us a wonderful punching bag, metaphorically, to go after this individual.
		Her name's Catherine Mayer.
		She's on camera saying that she doesn't believe in the First Amendment.
		The First Amendment is very challenging to her.
unidentified		Go.
		The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States is a fairly robust protection of rights.
		And that is a protection of rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very important that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind of content they want on their sites.
		But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.
		Ugh, ugh, grotesque.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		The challenge for us is the First Amendment.
		What is she talking about there?
		She's talking about her work to de-platform shows like ours.
		This is what the entire ecosystem was.
		This is what all the USAID money, all that USAID money being forked over to media companies that run hoaxes on President Trump.
		What do you think they're buying?
		Amazing the amount of federal dollars being spent with corporate media.
		That run hoax after hoax after hoax on Donald Trump.
		Now those hoaxes don't work.
		Sort of the start of the show.
		Those hoaxes are failing because they've lost the full faith of the American people.
		They've run too many hoaxes.
		They've broken the machine.
		But it doesn't get more broken than this.
		The witch in charge of NPR saying there's no such thing as truth.
		Oh, okay.
		Here we go.
katherine maher ▲ ● ▼		But one of the most significant differences, critical for moving from polarization to productivity, is that the Wikipedians who write these articles aren't actually focused on finding the truth.
		They're working for something that's a little bit more attainable, which is the best of what we can know right now.
		And after seven years there, I actually believe that they're onto something, that for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth, Isn't necessarily the best place to start.
		In fact, I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's a perfect setup for our verse of the day.
		The truth.
		This is why we do the verse of the day every day on this program.
		Because there's a lot of opinion.
		There's a lot of jokes and memes on the show.
		And sometimes we get things wrong.
		Sometimes we have tough shows to do where it's nothing but bad news.
		But ladies and gentlemen, we will always give you the truth.
		We're not ashamed of the gospel of God, and we're not ashamed of our faith.
		And we're not going to apologize or try and find consensus with evil.
		Those days are over.
		The hoaxes don't work anymore.
		The lies no longer work.
		This is a time for light and strength, not for darkness and deceit.
		And so, our verse of the day today.
		I hope Catherine Maher is watching.
		1 Peter 4.8 Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other.
		Love covers a multitude of sins.
		I think that...
		The real way that you create a society that you'd want to live in is to say, my fellow American has a right, not the criminal alien, not somebody who wasn't born here and doesn't want to be an American, but somebody who is an American, either naturalized or native-born, that they have a right to dignity, peaceful life, a right to life, but also a right to peace.
		This is something that creates a high-trust society.
		If you love one another, if you're able to kind of shuck off the abrasiveness and frictions with other people, this is something that President Trump does actually shockingly well.
		He's about to have dinner with Bill Maher.
		Bill Maher, like the biggest Trump hater in the media ecosystem, is about to go to the White House and have...
		Dinner with Trump, you may like it or you may lump it.
		But that's an act of love.
		That's an act of, like, getting over something.
		All these guys that were at Trump's inauguration, these tech leaders, they'd all banned Trump.
		They had deplatformed him, tried to destroy his ability to even speak.
		Talk about something that the head of NPR would just love.
		She just loved it.
		She's probably behind it.
		No.
		There is a way to create a high-trust society.
		It's what we should seek in this country.
		And ladies and gentlemen, doing that covers a multitude of sins.
		That's how we win the day.
		God will always have our back, and we thank you for having our back.
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unidentified		See ya.
		See ya.
		What are you doing?
		Do you trust me?
		Ah!
		What the fuck?
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