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July 17, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson

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EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Cell Mate Shares His Story LIVE! Trump Endorses Special Investigation FIRES Comey

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	Lucas Homlinson is live in Washington with all the details.
	Good morning, Lucas, as I guess we say good night to some of those senators who were working overtime to get this thing across the bank.
	That's right, Carly.
	Not everyone was asleep last night.
	Good morning, Todd.
	It's the first time a rescissions package has passed in over a quarter century.
	You have to go back to the Clinton administration for the last time.
	Here was Senator Mullen a few hours ago.
	This vote, the yays are 51, the nays are 48.
	And on this vote, the bill is amended as passed.
	Now, this $9.4 billion bill claws back unspent federal funds.
	As you mentioned, Carly focused heavily on foreign aid and public broadcasting, including NPR.
	It passed the Senate largely on a party line vote.
	Every Democrat voted against it, except one who was ill and had to go to the hospital.
	Mitch McConnell was a yes after voting against it in the first two procedural rounds.
	There were two Republican no votes.
	Here they are, Senators Collins and Murkowski from Maine and Alaska, respectively.
	Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson was busy as well yesterday, spending over 10 hours trying to unite his conference enough to push through a procedural vote to approve rules for crypto.
	The House voted to advance the bills after multiple House members flipped their votes following a meeting with President Trump, a big crypto supporter, of course.
	Democrats slammed the bill, calling it a crypto corruption scheme.
	But here's House Speaker Mike Johnson on the vote yesterday.
	Look, we built consensus.
	We had to answer questions and get everybody yes.
	And look, I think at the end of the day, we've got a great process and a good product, and I'm happy we got it done.
	Sometimes it just takes longer than other times.
	And that vote ran for nine hours and 45 minutes.
	It's the longest vote in the history of the House of Representatives.
	That's about 250 years of history there, Carlos.
	That's happening a lot these days, these long votes.
	That's right.
	Second time in like a week, yeah.
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	Just an absolute hard-boiled throwback to an era of Hollywood we no longer have, but that's not what this show is about.
	Today, Thursday, July 17th, 2025, we are winning.
	We're winning.
	It's wonderful to see, ladies and gentlemen, Senate passes $9 billion in Doge cuts.
	For the first time ever, we have defunded NPR and PBS.
	That happened just moments ago.
	And we should all cheer.
	Let's all cheer together.
	Yes, come on, roar with me.
	This is something that we've been promised our entire lives as Republicans, that Republicans would do.
	Why would Republicans fund media?
	The federal government doesn't give me billions of dollars.
	So why does it give my enemies billions of dollars?
	It doesn't make any sense.
	Our enemies.
	Maybe it should give me billions of dollars.
	It would be a better country.
	But lo and behold, ladies and gentlemen, promise made, promises kept.
	It's wonderful to see.
	A former mobster who shared a cell with Jeffrey Epstein will be on our program today telling us what's going on with that prison.
	Let's just put everything aside and look at the cold, hard facts of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide.
	In prison, why not?
	Advance the ball a little bit.
	That's what we're here for.
	Ladies and gentlemen, there's also massive news for President Trump announcing a special counsel to look into the corruption around the government's deal with Jeffrey Epstein.
	Now, that would be fantastic.
	And also firing another Comey from the FBI.
	We're going to cover all of that today.
	Senator Rick Scott will also join the program along with the mobster.
	We know that Rick Scott is an upstanding member of society, but we are going to have a rocking good time today.
	My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
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	Let's lock in.
	Senate Republicans ram through Trump's $9 billion clawback package of cuts, foreign aid, NPR, PBS.
	Hell yes.
	We learned that this week that Elmo is an evil racist extremist.
	Elmo got hacked this week.
	You can look it up.
	It's something, let me tell you.
	And so Elmo's crash out is happening because the federal government is cutting the funding to something that we don't need anymore.
	These are things like from a bygone era.
	Listen, when this stuff was all created in NPR and PBS, it's like 70 years ago.
	And the argument there was that poor people in the middle of nowhere can't get media and they need to know what's going on and boss shucks.
	Like it's important for the government to tell them what's going on.
	We got to have government-funded media.
	No, we don't.
	Maybe that like yokel garbage could have worked for a time gone by and for generations gone by, but not for us.
	We clearly don't need government propaganda.
	And if you need like a perfect example as to why this is important, please grab me.
	Do we, ah, perfect.
	Yes.
	Okay, Catherine Mayer.
	Thank you, ALX.
	Perfection.
	The head of NPR has like explained it spectacularly.
	Here's like one great example that I think was promoted yesterday by Elon Musk.
	That NPR refuses to post on X, but they post constantly on Blue Sky, which is of course like smooth brain, blue and on, bot farming, left-wing, psycho ecosystem.
	But they refuse to post on X, where billions of users break the world's news.
	It's not a news organization.
	It's a Democrat PR firm.
	Same with PBS.
	And it's incredible to actually see it defunded.
	It's something that Republicans have been talking about for a very long time, very fever, wet dream kind of thing.
	Like, oh, we'll defund NPR.
	No one's ever had the balls to even like try and do it.
	And now it's been done, ladies and gentlemen.
	The rescue package passed the Senate.
	It's heading back to the House.
	So here's Thune getting shouted down in the Senate.
	Here we go.
	You know, our country is $36 trillion in debt.
	We can't keep doing the things the way we're doing.
	Senate will be in order.
	$33 in debt.
	We can't keep doing the things the way we've been doing them.
	One-tenth of 1% of all federal spending.
	But it's a step in the right direction, and it's the first time we've done anything like this in 35 years.
	Ladies and gentlemen, they also defunded U.S. AID and made this permanent.
	Obviously, what President Trump can do from an executive order perspective is one thing.
	But what Congress actually does is tell the government how it can and cannot spend money.
	Executive orders can be undone by the pen.
	They can be tied up in legislation in trials and lawsuits.
	But bills from Congress are a totally different monster.
	It's actually how the government is supposed to run.
	The government is supposed to run by Congress writing, passing a bill, and having that bill signed into law through the presidency and then judicial review.
	When you just circumvent all that with executive orders, it's not the best way to do it.
	This is the best way to do it, and this is for real.
	So we're proud, very, very proud of the Republicans in Congress.
	Some of them were on our show this week when we were up in Congress just a day ago talking about this.
	And well done, Republicans.
	USAID fraud.
	USAID gave known conman $800 million contract to do Kamo's work on root causes of migration.
	Look at this.
	Just a couple of examples.
	$800 million to these scumbags.
	Have you gotten an $800 million check from federal government?
	Like, do you understand the level of absolute and total graft and corruption that's going on here?
	Let me tell you what happened.
	The $800 million, guys, here's $800 million.
	It's a lot of money.
	Let's just round it up to a billion dollars.
	They take $500 million of it and put it in their own bank accounts like immediately, right?
	That's just my fee.
	You're my fee.
	They take that, then they funnel that money through Act Blue in small dollar donations through an algorithm and an equation that they've worked out into the pockets of Democrats and maybe Republicans who will vote for more USAID funding.
	It's a self-licking ice cream cone.
	Do you understand how the fraud works?
	Yeah.
	Act Blue busted and they're cornered and nowhere to run.
	This is the DOJ investigation that I so desperately want to see.
	Obviously, along with President Trump endorsing a Jeffrey Epstein special counsel, we'll get to that in just a moment.
	This is obviously where the Republican Party needs to go next.
	And this is so easy to do, you know, because it's just identity theft.
	And there's such harsh federal protections for identity theft.
	And all you need is one case.
	And there's probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions of cases of identity theft through Act Blue.
	I personally know like 20 people who've had their identities stolen and then have donated as zombie donors for the Democrat Party.
	One guy lives on my block, has Parkinson's.
	And is this kindly old Republican who has Parkinson's and doesn't really do much of anything.
	And I checked, and that dude's like donating to Democrats in Maine and in Missouri.
	And that's not true.
	I've checked it myself.
	So all it needs is like a couple of attorney generals with some balls to actually go in and like fix this.
	It's a wonderful thing, ladies and gentlemen.
	USAID official and three corporate executives pled guilty to decades-long bribery scheme over $550 million in contracts.
	How is this defensible?
	It's not defensible.
	It is indefensible.
	You know, Politico, we're talking about like the funding of Democrat media.
	Politico received an insane amount of money from the federal government in the form of subscriptions.
	Oh, okay, got it.
	You know, well, we sell keychains, right, and coffee mugs around here.
	And so why can't the Trump administration just go buy hundreds of thousands of Benny Brigade subscriptions or memberships?
	Like, do you see the corruption here?
	Look at this.
	This is insane.
	This is when Politico is carrying water.
	Look at the level of government spending on Politico subscriptions.
	That's when Politico was carrying water for the Biden regime.
	Tell me that is not payola.
	Tell me that is not pay-for-play.
	This is when that spike, Politico ran the Hunter Biden laptop, All the hallmarks of Russian disinformation campaign.
	As soon as they ran that up for the deep state, look at that.
	Well, that's a little payoff there, isn't it?
	It's being defunded.
	It's a beautiful thing, and it's more important than ever.
	We really don't need any more government-funded media.
	There are so many media outlets.
	There's so much disbursement of information.
	There's so much out there.
	There's so many people that are doing great work.
	We're doing our very best, level-headed best, to deliver for you every single day.
	That's why we'll be having one of Epstein's cellmates.
	I mean, what took us a second to track this guy down.
	We're having a mobster and an Epstein cellmate on the show to just like explain what's going on.
	We're tired of speculating.
	Let's just do the real work, right?
	These people don't do real work.
	Just a reminder on the Hunter Biden laptop thing.
	Was it NPR, ALX, that put up a tweet that's like, we won't be covering the Hunter Biden laptop because we only cover real news.
	Yeah, that was NPR.
	Here is the head of NPR, somebody named Catherine Mayer, who literally said that the First Amendment is the biggest challenge in America because we don't actually want any more truth.
	It seems like that's just like a slander from me against her.
	That's just like something I'm making up.
	Like it's a meme, right?
	The head of NPR doesn't want truth in America.
	She hates the First Amendment.
	But it's on tape.
	Okay, it's on tape.
	Here we 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.
	It's really not about, it's really not about truth.
	It's really not about the First Amendment.
	Okay?
	It's really tricky because we shouldn't really be seeking truth, says Catherine Mayer in her TED Talk.
	Here we go.
	And 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 on to 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...
	Mmm.
	You know how much money I get from the federal government?
	I get a gun to my head saying pay your taxes, otherwise we'll shut you down every year.
	That's what I get.
	I get nothing.
	Nobody gets anything.
	Did Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Steve Bannon?
	None of these guys that I roll with get anything.
	Dan Bongino, back when he was podcasting, he gets nothing.
	Instead, we all get like a target on us.
	Say if we don't pay every cent and more in taxes, then we're all going to prison.
	And trust me, they're excited to send us.
	So yeah, I mean, the lady that says there is no truth, that we're not trying to find truth, and that our biggest problem is the First Amendment, she gets billions of dollars from a federal government run by Republicans is insanity.
	It's suicidal, actually.
	You want to talk about a suicide mission, metaphorically?
	Brandon Gill, who's a friend of our program, an excellent member of Congress, had Catherine Mayer in front of him in Congress.
	I've never seen it gutting like this, and it's worth playing a slightly longer clip for it because this is the greatest humiliation I've seen in the history of Congress.
	And we've watched hundreds of thousands of hours of congressional testimony.
	This is the worst.
	Here we go.
	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.
	I apologize.
	I don't recall that I did.
	I'd 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.
	Yes, on this day.
	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, it's just for everybody else.
	I'm not asking anyone to do it.
	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 for the power of the people.
	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 prosecuted.
	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.
	I tweeted that you read that book, but.
	I don't believe that I did read that.
	Seriously, Brandon Gill.
	What am I doing, Brandon Gill?
	This is exactly how you gut these swamp creatures.
	This is exactly how you gut a fish.
	I mean, in a congressional testimony.
	You just take their words and you shove their nose in it.
	You just, you do it like a dog.
	You just take their face and you shove it.
	And it's perfect.
	It's just, I mean, if there's anything that got NPR defunded, it was actually that testimony.
	The lady who says she doesn't believe in truth and the lady who says she hates the First Amendment, having to answer her own tweets saying, oh, I don't recall.
	I don't recall.
	I don't remember.
	I don't remember saying that.
	White people are evil.
	America's evil.
	We're giving these people billions of dollars.
	It's a slush fund for the people who hate us.
	And it's being cut off.
	And thank God.
	I mean, it should be the lowest possible rung.
	And I'm so proud of Congressional Republicans for finally freaking doing it.
	Okay.
	So proud of the DOJ for doing this.
	Finally, something that we have been raging about for a very long time.
	They fired Maureen Comey.
	Good.
	Can we do another chance?
	I like another chance.
	Yes, finally.
	Mr. Speaker.
	Maureen Comey.
	This is, of course, James Comey's daughter.
	James Comey's calling for the assassination of President Trump.
	James Comey is the deep state dark lord architect of so many of the hoaxes and frauds against President Trump.
	And James Comey's daughter, actually multiple family members of James Comey, including Maureen Comey's husband, James Comey's son-in-law, they all work for the DOJ, which is an obscenity, in fact.
	And you shouldn't get rewarded for insurrection.
	And that's what this family's done against the country.
	And you can just go find work somewhere else.
	Now, Maureen Comey has blown the Diddy case.
	Diddy's probably not going to do any time in jail, actually.
	Maureen Comey blew the Epstein case.
	She was on that.
	And then she, of course, just blew the Maxwell case.
	What do I mean by that?
	Probably the reason why we have no Epstein evidence is because of people like Maureen Comey and because they were able to protect Democrat dona.
	Let's remember, like, this is a cover-up and a wrap-up racket.
	And we've said it from day one.
	Like, why should the Trump administration have to suffer for the crimes of people that operated and protected this pederist ring for years, decades, actually, before they assumed power?
	They shouldn't.
	It's indefensible.
	It makes my blood boil.
	And it's why I want them all exposed.
	Maureen Comey's been fired.
	I think that's a great start.
	Maureen Comey, again, is somebody who just botched the Diddy case.
	She's not good at her job.
	Maybe you should take her to the casino because, boy, she sure is lucky.
	She gets all the high-profile cases, Sam Bankmanfried.
	Boy, what does Sam Bankmanfried, Diddy, Epstein, Jelaine Maxwell?
	What do they all have in common?
	Well, every single one of them was a Democrat mega donor.
	Every single one of them carried water for the deep state.
	Many of them were alleged operatives for intelligence agencies.
	And so the wrap-up operation needs to be completed by James Comey's emissary.
	I mean, this is just James Comey's proxy.
	James Comey might as well just still be the FBI director.
	If you have his like little children burrowed like rats throughout the entire federal infrastructure of law enforcement.
	So good.
	Thank God.
	I wish that it happened on day one.
	Maybe Diddy would be in prison or maybe Diddy would have been charged correctly.
	He was overcharged is what happened here.
	Something that the federal government does regularly.
	And of course, it leads to a humiliation for the federal government.
	We had multiple federal prosecutors on the program talking about that humiliation.
	How it's like, it's extremely embarrassing when the feds bring a case and then they lose, you know, the full resources of the federal government and the taxpayer resources being put against Diddy, being charged again, being muscled against Diddy.
	And then to lose, it's a humiliation.
	And the federal government doesn't typically do that.
	Federal government has like a 99% like win rate on all cases.
	So this was an embarrassment for the feds.
	And it, of course, begs the question, was this a wrap-up operation for Diddy?
	Notice that, just like with Epstein, nobody else was charged with Diddy.
	Nobody else caught a case.
	They were charging him with a grand criminal conspiracy theory, yet they charged no one else.
	The whole thing was an op.
	How can you charge him with a RICO charge?
	How can you charge him with racketeering?
	I can't wait to talk to our next guest about this, because I believe he was caught up in a RICO charge.
	How can you charge Diddy with a RICO charge, yet charge nobody else down the line or in his ecosystem?
	Like, how can you do that?
	The whole thing was a nightmare.
	And so thank God they're finally getting rid of this and taking out the trash.
	They're the DOJ.
	On this issue, some massive breaking news.
	President Trump supporting now a special counsel, a full FBI investigation into what I believe to be the greatest sin with the Epstein saga, which is this.
	And this is president.
	We're going to play you President Trump on Real America's Voice last night, John Solomon's show.
	Trump himself bringing up Epstein and Trump himself saying something went horribly wrong there.
	And there's one inflection point in this story that I can't get out of my skull.
	And Epstein never faced trial, right?
	He was dead before trial.
	Dead.
	I don't know.
	We're going to talk to our next guest about this.
	Megan Kelly says that Epstein's not dead.
	Luke Rodowski, who's been on this program, says Epstein's not dead.
	And there's like video of him on his island after his supposed death.
	I'll let the comment section debate that.
	But here is the one trial that Epstein.
	The one trial that Epstein did catch a case on was a diabetes type 2 sweetheart level deal that almost puts you in a sugar coma from the feds.
	In fact, it's why Jolene Maxwell is trying to get out of jail right now because she was granted protections by the federal government based on an agreement that they made with Jeffrey Epstein to do 13 months, not really in prison, with an ankle bracelet, being in his home for underage sex trafficking.
	And this was the case that he caught in 2008.
	And what happened in that deal?
	This is, of course, the famous Alex Acosta, He Belongs to Intel deal.
	In 2005, this is well documented inside of the FBI documents.
	In 2005, Jeffrey Epstein was being investigated for 50 counts of underage sex trafficking.
	The FBI let him go because he started giving info to the FBI.
	And who was the FBI director at that time?
	Got it.
	Robert Mueller.
	That's right.
	Who was working at the FBI at that time?
	Got it.
	James Comey.
	Yeah.
	So it all ties together, really.
	It's wild, man.
	So this is something that President Trump is now out saying, we got to investigate this.
	You want to talk about a real incident of federal government corruption that can tie this whole thing up and put a bow on it?
	Let's go investigate that.
	Republican support rolls in for legislation to release Epstein files.
	President Trump taking a muscular tone change here.
	And we have one little victory lap to do after this.
	Here's President Trump calling for a special counsel.
	All the things that have happened, there's the Russia collusion against you.
	There is Jack Smith against you.
	There's all the things that happened in 2020, not investigating China interference in the 2020 election.
	Where do you think, what are the things that are most important that you would like to see the FBI get to the bottom of?
	I think they could look at all of it.
	It's all the same scam.
	They could look at this Jeffrey Epstein hoax also, because that's the same stuff.
	That's all put out by Democrats.
	And, you know, some of the naive Republicans fall right into line like they always do.
	They just don't have the sustainability.
	They don't have something.
	They don't have that stick to blue.
	The Democrats, you know, they have bad policy.
	They have bad candidates.
	They have bad everything.
	But they stick together.
	The Republicans don't do that.
	But they've got to look into the Jeffrey Epstein folks.
	Epstein folks that's frankly put up by the Democrats.
	Pushing the Republicans and put up by the Democrats.
	They definitely set the Republicans up.
	One big prosecutor looked at it all.
	Would that make you feel good?
	Well, I think in the case of Epstein that we looked at it, I think all they have to do is put out anything credible.
	But that was run by the Biden administration for four years.
	I can imagine what they put into files, just like they did with the justice.
	I mean, the FCA was a total fake.
	It took two years to figure that out for the people.
	And the things that you mentioned were fake.
	So I would imagine that they were run by Chris Ray and they were run by Comey because it was actually even before that administration they've been running these files.
	And so much of the things that we found were fake with me, but especially if you look at that steel test here where they paid like 14 or 16 million, that's more than James Patterson gets paid to do a number one bestseller.
	And the thing turned out to be a total scam.
	So frankly, you know, I think I love that they're looking at all this stuff.
	If they are, I hope they are.
	Yeah, we've definitely confirmed it.
	Thank you.
	Good.
	This is what we said yesterday.
	But we want to just take a very quick victory lap here.
	Because what President Trump is saying is these are all hoaxes.
	The way to prove it is to release the evidence.
	That pleases everybody here, actually.
	And the way that we proved that everything from Russia Gate to Hunter Biden's laptop to the SEAL dossier, all of it was a hoax, January 6th, COVID.
	We have raged against those hoaxes till our voice cracked.
	Why?
	Not because we had all of the evidence in front of us at all times, but because we knew something was wrong.
	And we knew something was off.
	And there's something that has been off about this Epstein case for a long time.
	And people know it and they feel it in their bones.
	It's obviously a class warfare thing that animates so many people in this country.
	That's what polling shows.
	And so this is the way to do it.
	Out with it.
	Now that we have more information on the JSIX pipe bomber, on the steel dossier, now that we have that information, instead of just believing the official story, now that we have all the information, we can put a constellation together and people can think for themselves.
	And that's all we're asking for on Epstein, right?
	That's all we've been asking for on Epstein.
	We've been wildly consistent on that over the last decade.
	But we've also been consistent on this.
	And we've got blown up on Monday for saying this.
	On Monday, our reporting, based on conversations with top federal law enforcement, was that there's going to be a marked change in the administration.
	I mean, it's inconceivable that now the president is saying, let's do a special counsel and let's get to the very bottom of this corruption with Epstein.
	We predicted that on Monday.
	On Monday, we said, expect more disclosures.
	Very powerful people inside the administration are now pushing for a special counsel and a full press briefing on Epstein findings.
	And this is important because there are strong MAGA voices.
	Like it's wild to me that people are somehow saying that think about the people who are talking about this.
	Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, Charlie Kirk, Laurel Hoomer, and a phalanx of other people who have the president's back and who are as locked in with the MAGA Base.
	Steve Bannon's war room is the beating red heart of the MAGA base.
	And they see this simply as an opportunity to reinforce the agendas of this working class party.
	And that is the non-protectionism of elites and the full-throated attack on the predators.
	And those groups are one and the same.
	This is a working class issue.
	We spoke about at length, but I've reframed it like that in my head, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
	This is about class warfare.
	We in the working class watched pedophile elites cruise through trailer parks, find young broken women, which is how Jeffrey Epstein got his trafficked girls.
	That is well documented.
	It's well documented here in the state of Florida.
	You can go read the paperwork.
	Abuse them on an island with his billionaire friends or members of the royal family.
	Former presidents.
	And then those former presidents, like Bill Clinton, never even get asked a question about it.
	They never have to answer for it at all.
	They get away with it.
	And the working man says, I'm tired.
	And the working man says, I'm sick of this two tiers of justice.
	The working man says, for once in my life, I just want to see a little bit of justice to the elite pedophiles.
	I want to see somebody brought in and somebody suffer for their crimes against us, the people who make America run.
	And their crimes, by the way, against us, are so numerous, it is hard to count.
	But we've been taken advantage of by the elites, and it is President Trump who is our hammer.
	That is why that man, the forgotten man, votes for President Trump.
	President Trump built his political dynasty on attacking elite pedophiles.
	You can check the tape.
	Some of the first speeches Trump gave was, you should check in on Prince Andre and Epstein Island.
	These people are filthy animals and reptiles.
	President Trump's first commentaries on this was, Bill Clinton's got a lot of problems on that island.
	It's 10 years ago.
	Donald Trump started his political dynasty by being the voice to fight against these people from the working class.
	And that is why we love them.
	And this is on brand.
	And we simply say, President Trump, finish what you started here, right?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
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	Let's rock and roll here.
	We've been really proud of advancing the ball on this question and doing real reporting.
	I think that was the time for transparency.
	This is what the American people demand.
	And ladies and gentlemen, with that, please join me in welcoming former mobster, Michael Francis, who was jailed in Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell, who has a lot to say on this issue.
	Welcome, Michael.
	you you Thank you.
	Michael, welcome to the program.
	Thank you for being here.
	Thanks for having me, Benny.
	I got to say, everything you just said, you're just so on point.
	You know, it was a delight to listen to you because you echo exactly what myself and so many other people are thinking right now.
	Please, the floor is yours.
	You know, we have you on here, obviously, as a subject matter expert.
	Part of the reason why everybody cares so much about this is that it just seemed too damn convenient that this living witness to so much of this corruption, whatever it ended up being, just dies in federal custody.
	On its face, Michael, and I'm not, please, I don't want to go on a rant here, but on its face, isn't that like possibly the biggest scandal that inside of the federal government's custody, inside of this maximum security prison, that he's able to kill himself?
	That alone is a horrible scandal, but has no answer.
	Well, yeah, Benny, and I don't believe that.
	You know, like you said in the opening here, I spent seven months on that tier in that cell.
	And I've said this since day one.
	I just don't see how he committed suicide.
	It's almost impossible.
	You'd have to work so hard for so long.
	And you just, number one, you don't have the time.
	You got cameras that are...
	Number two, the CEOs are constantly walking the tier.
	I've said there's the times when, you know, you're trying to use the toilet and they're opening up and looking in on you, especially when you had somebody like Epstein that was on suicide watch prior to that.
	They're going to watch them closely.
	And, you know, inside the interior of the cell, there's just no mechanism for you to hang yourself.
	You know, there's a low bunk.
	There's nothing on the ceiling.
	You'd have to be a midget, a little guy to try to really work real hard.
	It just, it's not possible.
	You know, I don't see it.
	And I don't see the guy committing suicide anyway.
	But, you know, Benny, it's really time.
	The federal government has just been so corrupt and lying to us about so many of these issues.
	You know, you only go back to COVID.
	You only want to go back five years to see all of these major issues that they just continue to cover up.
	You know, I mean, again, without jumping all over, if you go to the Diddy matter, I had three racketeering cases, three of them, three RICO cases, one of them out of the Southern District of New York, prosecuted by Rudy Giuliani.
	First of all, you don't have a RICO with one defendant.
	I had 15 co-defendants on my first RICO.
	I had nine on the second RICO, and I had 13 on the third RICO.
	You don't have one defendant in a RICO matter.
	You know, and I said again all along in that case, this was not a RICO indictment.
	I don't see the jury convicting them on RICO because it's just not there.
	And the jury got it right.
	They were smart.
	They got it right.
	Did the federal government plan to have them get it right?
	Did they overcharge like they usually do purposely this time?
	I don't know.
	I think with the feds, especially in the southern district, they think that they're so elite that they can just do anything and get away with it.
	That's the problem in some of these prosecutorial offices.
	But, you know, I don't want to jump all over.
	You direct me where you want to go.
	But, you know, I'm just so fed up with everything that they're doing.
	You know, really, it's, you know, and Trump is doing the right thing because now all the conspiracy theories is, well, Trump is on the, you know, the elite on the Epstein client list, and therefore that's why he's covering it up.
	It's time to stop.
	Just put everything out there.
	You know, the bottom line is, these are young girls that were trafficked.
	You know, I just recently had Paul Hutchinson.
	I don't know if you know who Paul is.
	You know, he's the fellow from Sound of Freedom.
	He was the guy that went over and rescued those 51 or 52 underage women, your girls, I should say.
	And it was highlighted in the movie.
	Some of the things that he told me, I don't scare very easy, but it made my hair stare on age.
	Elite people in power that are abusing young women, and they're doing it consistently, and it's happening not only here in the United States, but all over the world.
	How do you cover something like this up?
	I mean, I have five daughters.
	I have granddaughters.
	I would go back to my mom days if somebody ever tried to do that to one of my children.
	I'm going to be honest with you.
	How do we allow this to happen?
	It's just terrible.
	And it has to stop.
	These people need to be held accountable so that it doesn't continue to happen.
	Paul says it's happening every day.
	It's happening in neighborhoods.
	Young kids are being trafficked.
	Sometimes their own family are trafficking them because they're getting paid such money for it.
	And this guy was very credible.
	I'm going to have him on again.
	Might somebody you want to consider, Benny, because it's just, we have to put a stop to this.
	Bottom line.
	So, Michael, that actually gets to the heart of the issue here.
	And that's right.
	Jeffrey Epstein is a dead pedophile.
	And I don't understand why anybody would want to protect a dead pedophile or anybody who enabled him.
	And, you know, is he still operating today?
	No, there are people who are sex trafficking today.
	But he is the figurehead of a sex trafficking empire and a pederist empire.
	And so destroying at its very core what that empire was, who was facilitating it, and who was enabling it, will be a very strong sign for you to not do this, for anybody engaging in this, that it can happen to you.
	And I think that's why the issue is so important to a moral nation, if we still have that, that we don't pay taxes to Peterus protectors.
	I think that's just the lowest possible bar, Michael, that you could ask for.
	Okay, so let's talk about low bars.
	I would just like to get into, maybe just do real quickly a breakdown, if you would, of the details of that prison cell.
	So you said were you on the L tier block?
	You were in the same tier block as Epstein.
	Yes.
	So we have photos of the tier block, we have photos of the cell, and we're going to pop those up in no particular order.
	But maybe you could just explain what your experience was like in those cells and the perhaps physical impossibility of breaking, paying yourself so severely that you would break your own neck bones, which is what they allege Epstein did.
	Again, you know, normally, I mean, look, I never tried to commit suicide, but, you know, I'll tell you this.
	When I was in there, I didn't see this ladder.
	I didn't have, I had a single bunk.
	You know, I didn't have a double bunk like this because it was a single cell.
	But even there, I mean, it's just so difficult.
	You have to work hard to try to strangle yourself.
	This is not just an easy thing.
	That much I know.
	You got to work hard.
	I mean, you got to jump off something.
	You got to break your neckbone.
	You don't just hang there.
	And in that cell during my time, there was nothing to tie a sheet on that would enable you to do that.
	You just couldn't do it.
	You couldn't.
	And these are not high bunks.
	They're low bunks.
	They're not high.
	But, you know, and again, you got a camera on the cell.
	You got the CEO opening the door constantly to look in on you, especially in a case where I was a high-profile inmate.
	For some reason, they looked on me all the time.
	I don't know why.
	But especially in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, who tried to commit suicide prior.
	He was on suicide watch.
	You're going to watch this guy closely unless they were told not to, unless there was something else going on at that time.
	I understand there was a minute or two.
	Of course, you know, these things always seem to conveniently happen that the camera wasn't working.
	You know, I mean, Come on, you know.
	I mean, what are we back in fantasy land?
	These cameras work.
	You know, I heard somebody say, well, the Bureau of Prison is in such bad shape that things are not working.
	Those things are working.
	Surveillance issues are working all the time.
	You don't get away with much in there.
	And, you know, again, Benny, I just don't see it without getting into greater detail.
	And look, I have no horse from this race.
	If the guy committed suicide, hey, more power to him.
	Get rid of this guy.
	You know, he was, look, I'm doing a deep dive on him today.
	I really went into this guy.
	He was just a bad guy.
	I mean, basically, he was blackmailing people.
	That's it.
	That was his currency.
	His currency was blackmail.
	He had, you know, in his island, in every bedroom, he had cameras on the bedroom.
	They took thousands of tapes out of there.
	Who the heck knows who's on these tapes?
	But we know that they weren't poor people.
	There were people that went to that island for pleasure.
	It was Pleasure Island.
	That's what it was.
	And he was blackmailing all this.
	How did this guy become so wealthy?
	I mean, he was a school dropout.
	He wasn't even a smart guy.
	And all of a sudden, he's rolling with all of these people.
	You know, look, I can't get into this.
	There's this theory is that he was part of Mossad.
	And Benny, I want to tell you this too.
	You know, the CIA and the government, they will work with anybody, anybody that accomplishes their goals.
	They worked with us three times.
	And that's a fact.
	You know, they worked with Lucky Luciano.
	They worked with Myron Lansky.
	You know, they worked with us when they wanted to get to Castro in Cuba.
	You know, they work with anybody they can to accomplish their purposes.
	So who knows what this guy did?
	But it's not good.
	And he was covering up for a lot of people.
	And again, this is innocent young girls that are being trafficked.
	We should never, in a moral society, in a civilized country like this, never allow this, no matter who it is.
	Let the chips fall where they fall.
	Yes.
	So just a quick question on this photo that's pretty famous of Epstein's cell and all of the linens everywhere.
	Why would he be allowed?
	I mean, were you just given piles and piles and piles of linens like this every night?
	Is this normal?
	People have often said, like, wait, the guys on Suicide Watch, why does he have what looks like a laundromat in his cell?
	Benny, absolutely not.
	You had to hope to get a blanket because it was cold in there.
	You know, absolutely not.
	This is ridiculous.
	This is like a setup.
	What would he be doing with that?
	They only gave you one set of clothing.
	That's it.
	You had nothing in the cell.
	The cells were barren, basically.
	You had nothing in there.
	And remember, this is not prison.
	These are jails.
	You know, you're awaiting trial or awaiting something.
	This is a jail cell.
	It's not a prison cell.
	In a prison, you have a little bit more conveniences because that's going to be your home for a while.
	A jail cell, you can be moved around.
	They don't give you any of these conveniences.
	You're lucky you get a blanket.
	If you do, it's like this thin, you know, to cover yourself.
	You have nothing in there.
	These are barren cells.
	So when I saw that, I said, what the heck is all of that?
	You know, in there.
	This guy, nothing seems right.
	Nothing seems right here.
	According to my experience.
	Michael, they said he hung himself from that little rope right there.
	They said where they cut him down from, right there on the lower bunk, actually, not even on the top bunk, on the lower bunk, which I don't know.
	I've never been there, but it seems like it's only a couple feet off the ground.
	Based on your experience in a rough and tumble crime environment, and based on, I guess, what we've shown on this program, which is a lot of doctors saying that it's really hard to break your own neck, like under your own strength.
	Like it's really hard, unless you're jumping off a building to really break your own neck.
	I mean, do you think that's possible to like shatter bones in your own neck from inside of one of these cells?
	No.
	No, look, I would state definitely it's not.
	Especially, do you see who he's hanging from?
	What was he doing?
	Sitting down trying to choke himself?
	He wasn't that short of a guy.
	But how you do that?
	Yeah, in order to break that bone, you got to jump.
	You got to work hard.
	And I hate to say this, but look, I came from the street.
	I saw a lot of things happen.
	You know, you don't do it that easily.
	It's not easy, you know, to strangle.
	It's not easy to strangle somebody else.
	It's even more difficult to strangle yourself.
	This is a setup to have these clothes in there.
	It's absolutely ridiculous.
	Somebody needs to explain what they were doing in there.
	Yes.
	I'm telling you, Benny, you get one thing to wear.
	That's it.
	Nothing else.
	They don't give you anything else.
	So that's obviously very strange.
	Can you just, final question on this?
	And here's the outside of the cell and what it looks like on the actual tier block, the L tier block.
	Can you explain, like, what do you think happened then exactly, Michael?
	Like, do you think that another, do you think that another inmate was allowed into Jeffrey Epstein's cell?
	We have some questions about like a serial strangler who was a bodybuilder who was housed with Jeffrey Epstein.
	Seems like maybe we could just ask this guy a couple questions.
	But nobody's ever answered, we've never gotten a list of names of who he was with on the tier block.
	We've never gotten a list of people that he was bunked with that were inside the cell with him.
	We've gotten nothing.
	We don't even know the names of the guards, right?
	It's crazy.
	No, we don't know anything.
	And listen, they could have let somebody in there.
	Here's the guy.
	Here's the guy, by the way.
	He just happens to be a serial strangler who's being held with Epstein that night.
	I don't think he'd have too much trouble in taking care of Epstein, but who knows?
	Two minutes of the tape are gone.
	You know, again, everything is always so shady, Benny.
	Always.
	You never get proper answers.
	And, you know, I'm so happy because I was a little disappointed.
	Look, I'm a Trump supporter.
	I support his policies, no question about it.
	But I was a little disappointed, you know, when I saw the remark he made from his, when they were talking to him that day for that cabinet session that he had.
	And he said, why are we still talking about this creep?
	And I think just for a moment, he forgot because this creep, you know, is involved in the trafficking of young girls.
	And there are more people involved and they need to be held accountable for it.
	That's the bottom line.
	So the fact that he's calling for a special investigation is, you know, I'm so happy.
	I really am.
	You know, on all of these things.
	I mean, all of these things.
	We never get the right answers.
	We don't know about Kennedy, you know.
	And look, I don't want to get into another session on Kennedy, but you know, there was stuff that happened there that I know for a fact, you know, And it's being hidden for what, 50, 60 years now?
	We never get the right answers.
	But this one, more than anything else, we should.
	So Michael, since you brought up Kennedy, why not go there?
	Because we have some breaking news on Kennedy that happened over the last week that the CIA has finally clawed out of their cold, dead hands, begrudgingly admitted that they bumped Oswald, right?
	That the CIA was actively involved in surveilling and or interacting with Lee Harvey Oswald.
	And at that point, you just have to assume that Oswald was an asset for the CIA.
	And then, of course, lo and behold, we get this article that was dug up from 25 years ago where Jeffrey Epstein was bragging about being a CIA agent in the Weekly Standard here.
	And boy, man, it just seems that all roads tend to lead to dirty Intel ops.
	A question ago, you said that the intelligence agencies have contacted you and your criminal organization back in the day.
	Here's the Epstein article, by the way, in black and white.
	Epstein bragging about being a CIA agent.
	Of course, he later denied it, right?
	Okay.
	Maybe you could shed some light on this style of operations of the Intel community using organized crime.
	Well, I can tell you this, and this is something I've heard my entire life, and understand something.
	My father was there throughout all of this, and my father was a pretty important guy.
	He was the underboss of the Colombo family at that time.
	So from my father to the boss of the family to everybody that would have been in the know of an operation like this, I've heard consistently the same thing.
	And here's the thing.
	I've said from day one, those classified documents, I don't think they'll ever be released.
	And if they are, they're going to be highly redacted because we were involved in the assassination with JFK.
	And this government is never going to want the world to know that a sitting president was able to be assassinated in part by the mob.
	And I think they'll cover that up forever.
	And here's the key.
	You know, Jack Ruby, I read something from the commission report that they said he had no connections to organized crime.
	Jack Ruby was connected to us from the days of Al Capone.
	He was connected heavily in Chicago.
	He was connected heavily in New Orleans.
	He ran strip clubs and places for Carlos Marcelo in Dallas, Texas.
	He was very well connected with us, 100%.
	And that's how he got into that police station.
	Here's what happened.
	And I know people are going to deny this and they're going to say it's a conspiracy theory and it's not.
	This is what I've heard consistently all along.
	The Kennedy-Nixon campaign, Kennedy won that.
	It was razor-thin.
	They absolutely came towards Joe Kennedy, who was absolutely a bootlegger, no question about it.
	Frank Costello wanted to kill him at one time because of some things that he did that were nefarious.
	Okay.
	They came to us for Illinois to help Kennedy win in Illinois.
	That was the swing state.
	We did that.
	The deal was that they were supposed to back off of organized crime.
	Robert Kennedy, forget it, he doesn't do that.
	He comes on organized crime even heavier, heavier than the FBI did.
	Because remember, the FBI, for a while, they would never even admit that the mafia existed.
	J. Edgar Hoover didn't admit to it.
	All of a sudden, Kennedy goes on a rampage.
	So we hated the Kennedys because of that.
	They come to us, and here's the thing.
	I don't know what initially started why they wanted to kill John Kennedy.
	I can't talk about that.
	But I will say this.
	They absolutely came to us to have Ruby assassinate Oswald.
	And that's how it went down.
	Whose name?
	I believe it was the CIA because that's what I was told.
	And again, I don't like to repeat something unless I'm 100%, but I believe it was a CIA.
	It wasn't a name, but my father told me, look, the government's involved in this.
	CIA came to us.
	You know, Persico told me this.
	They all said the same thing.
	They were very consistent.
	At different times, I've heard this.
	And I didn't inquire.
	It was just in conversation that came up.
	We talked about it.
	And look, what's his name from Chicago?
	It's on tape saying, we killed the wrong Kennedy.
	That's on tape.
	We killed the wrong Kennedy because Bobby came at us.
	They cover that up.
	They don't want to hear that.
	They killed the wrong, we killed the wrong Kennedy.
	It's on tape.
	So as the story goes and as the evidence points to Lee Harvey Oswald, who consistently claimed and screamed on camera that he was a Patsy and the near impossibility of JFK dying in the way that the official story portends.
	And again, it's kind of the same elements with Epstein, which is the official stories make no sense.
	The evidence certainly doesn't point to the official story being true.
	And so you have to just assume that somebody with power is trying to lie to you.
	And now we get all this evidence that has been released about JFK.
	The constellation is starting to come together.
	But who then do you think killed Kennedy?
	I mean, do you think that Kennedy was actually killed by the CIA?
	And then the mob was there to cover it up?
	Yes, that's what I was consistently told.
	Yes.
	Do you know that they lost Kennedy's brain?
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	They doctored his entire body.
	Yeah.
	His body's not real.
	Like the autopsy is not real.
	Yeah.
	So why do they do that?
	Why would you do something like that unless you're covering up something?
	I mean, it's just common sense.
	How could you lose the president's brain?
	And like you said, the whole body being doctored up.
	Why?
	What are you hiding?
	The doctor who did the autopsy is still alive.
	He's very old.
	And he was in Congress and he was testifying before Congress and said that there was a bullet wound that he saw in Dallas from the front.
	It's clearly like an entry wound and an exit wound in the back.
	And you can't get, you can't, a guy in the Texas school book depository can't shoot from the front.
	That's just pretty basic, like three-year-old can understand those physics.
	And so.
	So what does it say, Benny?
	It tells us that from going way back, as far as we go back in our generation, To Kennedy, to COVID, you just name it.
	We just never get the truth.
	Everything is covered up.
	And you don't cover things up unless there's elite people involved that you're covering for.
	They're not going to cover for me.
	They're not going to cover for you.
	They're going to cover for their own.
	Yes.
	And that's why I think this issue is so important because all these Kennedy guys, they're dead.
	And like the guys who did Kennedy, they're dead, right?
	And they can't be prosecuted or put in jail.
	They lived their lives out and got their pensions and their gold watches and they're done.
	You know, now 70 years later, their children are grandparents, right?
	You can't charge anyone.
	Right.
	But you could charge people still with Epstein.
	You know, Epstein was still, Epstein plotted only a couple of years ago.
	And you could still technically uncover some damaging things and destroy some very evil people.
	And that's what makes it so kinetic, I think.
	Well, listen, you know what?
	If they continue to cover this kind of stuff up, you know, I think every American citizen should be outraged at this.
	And we should just continue to put pressure on them and demand that there's accountability here.
	Because, you know, again, I was what Paul Hutchinson told me, the extent of human trafficking of young boys and girls, both.
	He said it's so out of control.
	And he had a lot of credibility when I spoke to him.
	He's dedicated his life to this for the last 10 years.
	Guy's got a lot of money.
	He's very wealthy.
	He's able to do this.
	And it's a cause that's really become so important to him.
	And the extent of things that he told me, it's just, this is, it's horrific.
	It's horrific, Benny.
	There's nothing worse than pedophilia.
	I mean, it's terrible.
	Do you know, Benny, do you know this?
	Do you know that when they have a menu, the people that are doing this human trafficking, they have a menu of sexual services that would be formed by these young girls and how much you would have to pay for each service.
	It's that disgusting.
	How do you cover this up?
	How do you cover an Epstein up?
	You can't.
	And it's not morally justifiable.
	And so you have to fight against it.
	And you have to live in a very simple binary.
	Luckily, I went to community college, Michael.
	So I'm not, you know, it's very easy for me to just see the simple binary and to say, you know, this is wrong.
	This is darkness versus light.
	This is good versus evil.
	And this is how we actually get to the bottom of it, right?
	By continuing to apply pressure.
	And I want to use Epstein as an example for people to not do this.
	And if we can destroy Epstein and his entire network and punish them, then that's a good warning sign, right?
	Like that's deterrence on some level.
	And I think that's morally justifiable.
	I can tell you this, Benny.
	I think, you know, a key person in here is that Delaine Maxwell.
	They got to bring her in front of Congress and they got to put her under oath and she's got to talk.
	You know what I believe?
	I'm going to go even further.
	I think they got a hold of her and told her, listen, you saw what happened to Epstein.
	You're going to do some time in prison.
	Keep your mouth shut.
	You'll get out of here and this will blow over.
	Don't put it past the government to talk to her like that and to scare her into keeping her quiet.
	They should bring her and they should put pressure on her because she knows a lot.
	Well, she was involved.
	She had the row of honor at Bill Clinton's daughter's wedding.
	Very curious there.
	She's photographed on the throne of the king and queen of England with Kevin Spacey, which is so strange.
	And we'd sure like to hear like why exactly.
	And she's a living piece of evidence.
	And I think that scares a lot of people.
	We hope that that happens.
	Michael, we hope that you join the program.
	Again, you can follow Michael, of course, here.
	100,000 plus Americans follow Michael.
	He also has a great wine company.
	Michael, I look forward to trying some of your products one of these days.
	But freeze wine.
	I'm going to make sure we send you a case.
	You're going to enjoy it for sure.
	All right.
	All right, my man.
	Everybody follow Michael right here.
	And one day, man, I'm going to have your chain game, okay?
	One of these days.
	Be a slightly different look for the show, but I'm going to go.
	Well, Benny, there's significance.
	You know, people think I don't wear bling, but there's significance to each one of these, and they're very dear to me.
	So that's the only reason I put them on.
	I promised I'd wear them, and that's it.
	My man.
	We'll cover that one.
	We'll do a full Michael Francais bling segment soon.
	But we're out of time for the day.
	Godspeed, man.
	Thank you for illuminating for our audience some of this darkness.
	Well, thanks for having me.
	And Benny, please keep it up, man.
	We love your voice out there, and just keep it up.
	We need you.
	My man.
	Godspeed.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Ladies and gentlemen, a very unique series of events here today and a wild breakdown there from Michael Francais, who's been in the same cell as Jeffrey Epstein.
	Very interesting times.
	The Senate, of course, as we started off the top of the show, has delivered a massive victory for President Trump.
	Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida, who's here to do a victory lap, a touchdown dance, and explain what happens next.
	Let's rock and roll.
	Senator, good morning to you.
	Congratulations.
	I hear you might have been up through the night.
	Maybe you haven't had any sleep at all.
	Give us the lay of the land.
	Well, I got to bed about 2.30 in the morning this morning, got up about 6.30.
	So didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
	I'd like to get to bed early and get about seven hours sleep.
	But we got something done last night.
	For the first time in forever, we did a rescission package to rescind some of the wasteful spending.
	Here's what we've been doing up here.
	I've been up here six and a half years now.
	We don't do budgets.
	What we've done is they'll say, oh, we worked really hard.
	We have to do a continuing resolution on September 30th.
	Then they have a spending bill about three months later that nobody's ever read.
	So what Trump is trying to do as part of balancing the budget with Russell Vote is they can send a package to us and say, you can get rid of this.
	And it just takes a majority vote.
	So we didn't need any Democrats last night.
	So we got 51 Republicans to vote for it.
	We got rid of wasteful spending out of the Department of State.
	We got wasteful spending with regard to NPR, things like that.
	So we got a lot of work to do, but this is a big, big, big start.
	We haven't done this.
	I'm not sure.
	I think they last time was Reagan or something like that.
	Genius move.
	So NPR, you could say, officially defunded once the House passes this.
	In the next 10 hours, the House has to pass it, but that will happen.
	We hear from our sources in the House.
	And so the Republicans in Congress have officially defunded NPR.
	Absolutely.
	It has to be done by Friday because that's the 45th day of when the White House sent it to us.
	I was with the House members last night for a little bit.
	They're going to get it done today.
	They've got a lot of stuff on their plate, but they're going to get this accomplished today.
	That's a huge success.
	Senator, I've been hearing about this defunding NPR for, I don't know, decades as a Republican activist or somebody who's been following politics, and nobody's ever had the guts to even advance anything on it.
	It's just always been a talking point with nothing behind it.
	And so this is a massive win.
	There's plenty of news out there, right?
	Why do we have government-funded news?
	First off, does it make you feel good when it says it's government-funded news?
	That won't be biased, right?
	No.
	But it makes, you know, it's also like, it's also picking winners and losers because there are tons of shows, and I know you go on a lot of them, whether it's shows on Fox or whether it's Steve Bannon and War Room or whether it's Charlie Kirk or Tucker or Megan Kelly.
	There's tons of people out there who have shows or this show and who have shows.
	And if we don't pay our taxes, if we don't pay our taxes, of course, we all get put in prison.
	And all of our taxes, our taxes go to fund our competition, which is insane, actually, and insulting.
	And it's government-funded, so it's biased by the government.
	Yes.
	Yeah, so yes, awesome.
	And thank you.
	Can you please explain what else was defunded?
	The State Department.
	Is that fair to say it's USAID defunding?
	USAID defunding?
	A bunch of, well, contributions to international organizations.
	We've got international peacekeeping activities, contributions to international, the USAID global health programs.
	Now, a lot of this stuff, it's not that it is none of us funded, but what they did was Marco Rubio went through and found these are the things where there's waste, where we shouldn't be doing it.
	We're still going to be helping the right people, but some of this stuff, some economic support fund, oh, you like this one, contributions to the clean technology fund.
	That's what we should be doing, right?
	So, I mean, there's just transition initiatives.
	I mean, there's a bunch of it.
	But we're still doing good things.
	Marco Rubio went through this with a fine truth comb and said, these are the good things we should do.
	These are things we shouldn't do.
	So it totaled, I think, right at $9 billion.
	I mean, that's a good start, right?
	And what you're saying is that this is a system...
	That's a start, right?
	So it's $37 trillion in debt.
	We know that you yourself have run very successful businesses.
	Of course, you would have been out of business and in debtors' prison if you'd run your businesses the way the federal government runs.
	What's the next step?
	I mean, it's a start, but there's $37 trillion left.
	Yeah.
	So first, here's why I want to tell you how big a problem we have.
	How much would every American's income taxes have to go up just to pay this year's deficit?
	What percentage?
	I have no idea.
	80%.
	That's insane.
	Now, okay, how about this?
	Then the Democrats say, let's just tax the rich, right?
	So at what income level, what if we took all the money that people make more than $10 million, just take their income, all that, would that be able to pay off this year's deficit of $2 trillion?
	No.
	You know what we have to get down to?
	All the income of anybody making more than $100,000 a year.
	That's how big a problem we have.
	So think about this.
	We've had a 53% increase in spending since pandemic.
	We've only had a 2% increase in population.
	So we've got a lot of work to do.
	So we can do another reconciliation package.
	We've got the budget that's going to come up at the end of September.
	So we'll have a continuing resolution.
	So those are opportunities.
	And then Russ Vote is committed to sending us more rescission packages.
	He was at lunch on Tuesday, and he said, look, let's make sure we can start with this, and then we'll do more.
	So those are opportunities to get this spending under control.
	Trump's committed to it.
	I'm clearly committed to it.
	I balanced the budget when I was governor.
	Every year, Florida had not balanced its budget.
	Most states don't.
	They borrow money.
	So we're going to get there.
	It's just, we got to keep doing it.
	So you're telling me that there are unlimited rescission packages that can be sent?
	No, there's one more this year, and there'll be one more next year.
	You can only do recision when you have the same party control as the House, the White House, and the Senate.
	And that point only takes a majority in the Senate, which is the big deal.
	Yes.
	So we can do one more this year, and the recision could only be mandatory spending.
	But then the budget can be everything.
	So you could actually make some headway in fixing this.
	Like there are the tools, right?
	There are the tools if you have the willpower.
	It's all willpower.
	What you have to do is you have to let your House members and Senate members know that balancing the budget is a big deal.
	Now, why is it a big deal?
	One, interest rates are not going to come down.
	We have to refinance just this year another $9 trillion of treasuries and sell another $2 trillion to who?
	You.
	Are you going to say, oh, I want interest rates?
	I'm going to do it at lower or higher interest rates.
	That's number one.
	Number two is inflation cannot ultimately be controlled.
	Trump's doing everything he can to get this economy going.
	He's doing everything he can to get inflation down.
	But if interest rates go up, it's going to be hard to get inflation down.
	We have to balance the budget.
	Yes.
	Correct.
	Well, I mean, we have unified control of the government.
	I know there's slim margins, but it's just, it's encouraging to see something happen.
	I didn't know that Republicans could write laws anymore.
	I don't think it's happened in my lifetime.
	I didn't think Republicans could write laws.
	So it's remarkable to see, actually, Senator.
	But Benny, we have to do it every day.
	And you, as a voter, you as a citizen, have to demand it.
	You have to say, we elected you.
	We have expectations for you.
	Live up to what you told us you were going to do when you ran.
	You're also on the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.
	You must be, by the way, thrilled with the big, beautiful bill and the amount of funding that it has for ICE and federal law enforcement.
	I want to bring up a member of the Senate who did something really peculiar, strange, sad, and embarrassing.
	His name is Alex Padilla.
	He's from California, and he bumrushed Christy Noam a couple weeks ago and started screaming and flailing his arms like a lunatic and got himself detained, I think.
	I don't think it's actually an arrest, but he got himself detained.
	As somebody who's on the Homeland Security Committee, this seems like a wildly inappropriate way to act.
	Then he went on the Senate floor and started weeping about himself.
	What's your take on all this?
	It's wrong.
	So first off, right now, it's dangerous to be a public official, right?
	We're all at more risk.
	And so when somebody does that, when you're at a press conference and you don't know, people don't know who this person is and they rush a public official.
	Thank God there's law enforcement there that stop them.
	When I'm out publicly, I want to make sure there's law enforcement there to stop somebody that wants to do harm to me or anybody else that I'm with.
	And so this was completely wrong what he did.
	If you want to ask questions, Christy Noam comes to our committee.
	She'll come to our committee and answer any question he has.
	So he has every opportunity to write letters, has every opportunity.
	I mean, my experience with Christy Noam and with the Trump administration, they return phone calls, they respond to questions, they come and testify.
	That's how you do it.
	That's the appropriate way of doing it.
	I just don't, I don't understand how you get, I don't understand how you get away with it.
	Like, maybe this is my last question to you, Senator, and this is something that has frustrated me, is we watch people like Lamonica MacIver in the House assault ICE.
	We watch a senator do what we just showed you.
	And I tell you what, man, if a regular American did this and rushed at Christy Noam screaming and yelling and fought with her security, boy, you'd have some charges, you know?
	You'd be arrested.
	You'd clearly be arrested.
	It seems like privilege.
	It seems like federal, it seems like elected privilege that's been granted to members of the, you know, to psychotic members of the Senate.
	Now we have Axios reporting that like they're being asked to do that.
	You know, that Democrats are trying to foment this, you know, and get arrested and get bloodied.
	That's according to Axios.
	You know, it just seemed, I would like to, I would love to see some type of internal mechanism to hold them accountable.
	Like Lamonica McIvor kicked off for committees or whatever.
	It just seems like an insane thing we shouldn't be allowing our federal officials to do.
	I mean, you should have higher standards for yourself.
	I have every opportunity to ask people questions.
	People have the opportunity to ask me questions.
	I travel to the state.
	I meet with people.
	But be appropriate.
	You know what I always think about it is what would my mom think?
	My mom would think, what in the 11 days are you doing?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, seriously.
	It's humiliating.
	Yeah, it really makes you wonder how some of these members of Congress, because they are acting like petulant children.
	It'd be nice to see some of them kicked off committees or whatever.
	Would you be in favor of that for Alex Padilla?
	So, yeah, I think that makes some sense.
	I mean, why would he be able to do this?
	Benny, you bring up a good point.
	I mean, he has every opportunity to do this when she comes to testify.
	She comes and testifies.
	Right.
	Benny, think about it.
	My Orchestra came and testified.
	He completely lied to me.
	Did I rush him?
	Yes.
	I was about to say that, Senator.
	We're big fans of Senator Rick Scott.
	Massive fans.
	He's done such a great job for the state.
	He's like a hero down here in Florida.
	Senator, I'd have to disavow you if I saw footage of you bum rushing Kamala Harris like that, right?
	If you were like flailing your arms and fighting with federal law enforcement and like attacking a member of the Biden administration physically, then I'd be like, this guy's, I mean, what happened to the guy?
	Is he on fentanyl?
	Like, what the hell's wrong with him?
	You know?
	Yeah.
	But you know what?
	It'd just be nice to see.
	Who raised these people?
	I don't know.
	Parents don't teach their kids to do this stuff.
	It'd just be nice to see.
	Yeah.
	My producer saying maybe we should put him on the UFC card for the White House.
	Alex Padilla versus Lamonica MacIver.
	All right.
	Well, whatever.
	We'll wait and see.
	You know, if it was a Republican doing that, they'd be in prison at this point.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Okay.
	Well, thank you, Senator, for your update.
	Thank you.
	Yes, and here's, ladies and gentlemen, Senator Rick Scott's social media.
	He has 700,000.
	Actually, he's just a few hundred away from 700,000.
	So let's get him there right now.
	Everybody pile in and fight with the people who fight for us.
	The great Senator Rick Scott.
	I see you, Benny.
	Have a great day.
	Bye-bye.
	See you soon.
	Ladies and gentlemen, time to get our financial house in order, right?
	Time to make sure that we are managing our finances and the treasure that God has given to us.
	And perhaps that would mean the federal government not funding transgender sex change operations in Guatemala, like that was part of USAID.
	Okay, that's insane.
	It's a horrible way to manage your fiscal house.
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	Okay, ladies and gentlemen, as we continue to rock on and own culture, I can't believe it, but there is an Epstein joke that was said at the ESPE Awards last night by Shane Gillis, of all people, who's a fantastic comedian, and told some great jokes.
	And it's just great to see comedy back, right?
	Shane Gillis is the guy who does a better Trump impression, like as good of a Trump impression as any human being on the planet.
	He's famous for it.
	And he gave a monologue that was pitch perfect.
	It went viral in my feed.
	Not only did he call out Jeffrey Epstein, but he also called out January 6th, which is crazy.
	He called January 6th a stunt.
	He called January 6th staged and then made a Jeffrey Epstein suicide murder joke, right?
	On stage.
	Here we go.
	Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn.
	The last time he staged a fight in D.C., Mike Pence almost died.
	All right.
	You don't have to do that.
	It was fine.
	I didn't write it.
	Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but I just got deleted.
	Must have probably deleted itself, right?
	Probably never existed, actually.
	Let's move on as a country and ignore that.
	Uh...
	The New...
	sniff
	We own culture, man.
	We own culture.
	It's been good.
	It's been positive energy.
	I don't know if you follow sort of the Caitlin Clark.
	We do videos on Caitlin Clark here and there.
	Sometimes they hit, most times they don't.
	I think most people don't care about the WNBA.
	In fact, the funniest thing that happened last night was, you got to grab me that, with Shane Gillis making up a fake WNBA player and everybody applauded in order to prove that the WNBA isn't real.
	Guys, grab me that right away, please.
	But Shane Gillis's joke on Caitlin Clark is probably the most single, most viral joke last night.
	Here we go.
	When Caitlin Clark retires from the WNBA, she's going to work at a Waffle House so she can continue doing what she loves most: fist-fighting black women.
	laughter sniff
	This is, I mean, this is similar to the Ricky Gervais roast, who also, by the way, went hard at Jeffrey Epstein.
	Let's play that just for old time's sake, ladies and gentlemen.
	Give us all a little bit of a laugh.
	Let me know when you have the WNBA joke, though, loaded up.
	You got that?
	Okay, is that ready?
	This one's perfect.
	So this is Shane Gillis making up a fake WNBA player and announcing her and honoring her, but it actually just is his buddy's wife.
	And everybody applauds because they don't know what the hell is going on.
	This is like, great.
	Here we go.
	Max Crosby is here.
	Max, I hope you had a good Juneteenth, brother.
	Why guys weird?
	Four-time WNBA all-star Britney Hicks is here.
	Give it up for Brittany, everybody.
	I'm joking around.
	That's my friend's wife.
	I knew none of you knew WNBA players.
	That's crazy.
	You clap for the.
	As the co-host of his podcast.
	That's perfect.
	It's the co-host of his podcast.
	There you go.
	Okay.
	There you go.
	Look, this is like the, like, nobody's really laughing.
	That was like the funniest part of last night.
	It was just like Ricky Gervais.
	Nobody laughed.
	The actual, the funniest part was the reactions of the Hollywood elite when they got roasted for Epstein, for being friends with Epstein.
	It's very interesting.
	Kevin Spacey calling for the release of everything.
	You know, Kevin Spacey like traveled with Epstein and so on.
	Kevin Spacey's calling for the release of all the Epstein files.
	Very interesting.
	Ladies and gentlemen, here's this, I mean, just a throwback.
	This is like in the vein of Ricky Gervais.
	This is when, of course, you knew that this Epstein issue wasn't going away, was when you could get this type of reaction in the year 2020.
	That's when this monologue was given.
	And it's just one of the best things that's ever happened.
	It's without question the best monologue ever given at any ward show in human history.
	And I don't think that it'll ever be top tier go.
	That's a show about a man who wants to kill himself because his wife dies of cancer.
	And it's still more fun than this.
	Okay?
	Spoiler alert, season two is on the way.
	So in the end, he obviously didn't kill himself.
	Just like Jeffrey Epstein.
	I know he's your friend, but I don't care.
	You liked to make your own way here in your own plane, didn't you?
	Oh man, there's been a lot of darkness.
	Been a lot of darkness.
	We're doing our very best to provide salt and light.
	Sometimes that comes in the form of simply covering these things when there's a lot of yeah, when there's a lot of energy in both directions, right?
	And you're trying your very best to thread the needle.
	And the way that we're approaching this is the way we've always approached it.
	We've been rock-ribbed consistent on this issue for a decade, actually.
	And for our entire lives, but since Jeffrey Epstein was sort of vaulted into the public consciousness by President Trump in some of his earliest political speeches.
	That is evil.
	The predators need to be exposed and put away.
	And that we don't want to pay taxes to pedophile networks.
	And that's not what we should be in the business of doing.
	It's pretty obvious.
	And that is class warfare.
	Ultimately, in its bones, it's class warfare.
	And that's a worthwhile fight to have.
	These people have abused us and have insulted us over and over and over again.
	And it's a challenging fight, but it's worth fighting, ladies and gentlemen.
	We'll have a press conference at 1 p.m.
	I think we'll be covering that.
	I think we'll probably be going live for that again.
	But for now, our verse of the day.
	God is our refuge in our strength and ever-present help in trouble, says Psalms 46.
	What a beautiful psalm.
	One that perhaps you've memorized.
	I certainly have.
	Our refuge in our strength and an ever-present help in trouble.
	Our nation has always needed to seek God.
	It's always been in trouble because this is a nation that, to the lowly and most humble efforts of man, has tried in its inception to be a moral and honest nation of good people who are searching and living in the light.
	It's carved into the faces of our monuments.
	In God we trust.
	It's on our money.
	And ladies and gentlemen, can a nation like ours long endure is the question, right, of Lincoln at Gettysburg?
	And that's our challenge.
	Only with God's help is the answer.
	So that is why we do a verse of the day, ladies and gentlemen.
	And in the end, no matter what, remember this, we win.
	It's your boy Benny.
	See ya.
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