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| Good morning, Dana. | ||
| President Trump is promising retaliation for that ISIS attack that killed three Americans in Syria. | ||
| Officials say a gunman stormed a meeting between American and Syrian officials near the town of Palmyra. | ||
| He killed two U.S. service members and an American civilian, an interpreter. | ||
| The Associated Press reports the shooter had joined Syria's internal security forces as a guard two months ago and was recently reassigned because of suspicions he might be affiliated with ISIS. | ||
| We had three great patriots terminated by bad people and not the Syrian government. | ||
| It was ISIS. | ||
| Syrian government fought by our side. | ||
| The new president fought by our side. | ||
| But I just want to pay my respects to the families. | ||
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It was a rough, it was a rough day. | |
| State Department says Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Syria's foreign minister and he, quote, offered condolences and reiterated the commitment of the Syrian government to degrade and destroy the shared threat of ISIS. | ||
| The United States will hold all who hurt and threaten Americans accountable. | ||
| Yesterday afternoon, the president hosted a Christmas reception at the White House where he opened by offering condolences to those killed and injured in shootings at Brown University and Bondi Beach in Australia, which he called a purely anti-Semitic attack. | ||
| The president also praised Ahmed Al Ahmed, who snuck up behind one of the shooters in Australia and wrestled his weapon away. | ||
| Very, very brave person, actually, who went and attacked frontally one of the shooters and saved a lot of lives. | ||
| So very brave person is right now in the hospital, pretty seriously wounded. | ||
| So great respect to that man that did that. | ||
| Australian media says a family member said Ahmed was shot twice and needed surgery. | ||
| Yo, what's up team? | ||
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We are... | |
| We are back in the saddle. | ||
| Right now, Candace Owens may not be live today because she's meeting with Erica Kirk. | ||
| Fascinating stuff. | ||
| We're going to cover it in this later than usual live, where Donald Trump will also be talking about the grisly murders and terrorism across the nation. | ||
| Three different acts of terrorism occurred. | ||
| Were they connected? | ||
| Well, yeah, actually, because we have a spiritual problem in this country, and the nature of Satan is to steal, kill, and destroy. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, today is Monday, December 15th, 2025. | ||
| President Trump will be live soon. | ||
| This was a live with the Department of War. | ||
| He's going to be talking about illegal immigration that does have to do with some of the horrible terroristic attacks in our nation. | ||
| Obviously, we're grieving over the loss of life from National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C. Also, our show exclusively broke footage of another Afghan national promising to create a car bomb in his taxi and blow up buildings in Dallas, Texas. | ||
| Obviously, World Trade Center 1 had car bombs and bombs that nearly took the towers down in 1992. | ||
| Don't sleep on guys who want to build a car bomb. | ||
| And geez, and thankfully, that guy was arrested before that even happened. | ||
| So that's what Donald Trump's going to talk about today. | ||
| President Trump has obviously created a little bit of controversy with his reaction to Rob Reiner getting killed by his own son. | ||
| And I guess we can say that now because his kid's been arrested. | ||
| We'll cover all this off the top. | ||
| Dark days, man. | ||
| Also, a college Republican leader, evangelical, Christian, conservative, actually, I think Catholic, but nonetheless, Christian crusader killed at Brown University. | ||
| And there's obviously a cover-up going on because they have thousands of cameras at that school and they haven't released any of the footage of what happened. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because it shows this was another political targeting. | ||
| I'm going to get into it today. | ||
| My name is Benny Johnson. | ||
| And this is the Benny show just a little bit later. | ||
| Actually, it's going to be the Trump show today. | ||
| We just got back from traveling. | ||
| Thank you for obviously being flexible with us. | ||
| We were on the road. | ||
| I was traveling with my family. | ||
| We did a bunch of stuff over the weekend. | ||
| We were in New York and we were in D.C. and we were supposed to be there with President Trump yesterday when he made all these comments about all these killings. | ||
| We're supposed to be there at the White House at what was called the Children's Christmas Party, but they literally canceled all the flights out of New York back to DC. | ||
| So we weren't able to make it. | ||
| But we were able to bring our kids to the White House this morning and had a great time. | ||
| I have plenty of photos I'll be happy to share with you taken from my Patriot Mobile device. | ||
| Obviously, Patriot Mobile, the company that keeps us connected, all the interesting things that we do to fight for freedom. | ||
| Some of them are very glamorous. | ||
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| That's patriotmobile.com slash Benny today. | ||
| And I would be remiss if I didn't mention, we got to do it. | ||
| We got it. | ||
| We got to do it. | ||
| We got to do it. | ||
| Look at the size. | ||
| Look at the size of the mug today. | ||
| It's a Trump mug. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| It's a Trump mug. | ||
| But look at the size of the mug today. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| That's because pretty much didn't sleep today. | ||
| Didn't sleep. | ||
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| Let's go to President Trump. | ||
| The Netherlands. | ||
| We had very long and very good talks. | ||
| And again, I think things are going along pretty well. | ||
| 27,000 soldiers were killed last month. | ||
| Shouldn't happen. | ||
| Should have never happened. | ||
| Should have never started. | ||
| That war should have never ever started. | ||
| But it did. | ||
| And we're trying to get it solved. | ||
| It was Biden's situation. | ||
| We're trying to get it done. | ||
| And I think we're closer now, and they will tell you that they're closer now. | ||
| We had numerous conversations with President Putin of Russia. | ||
| And I think we're closer now than we have been ever. | ||
| And we'll see what we can do. | ||
| We want to save a lot of lives. | ||
| We sell equipment to NATO. | ||
| We don't spend any money, but we do want to see if we can save a lot of lives when you're losing 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers, mostly soldiers, other people too, from towns, like places like Kiev, various other places throughout Ukraine. | ||
| It's pretty bad. | ||
| Nobody's seen anything like it, actually, since World War II. | ||
| But we're getting closer. | ||
| We're having tremendous support from European leaders. | ||
| They want to get it ended also. | ||
| And at this moment, Russia wants to get it. | ||
| And the problem is they'll want to get it ended, and then all of a sudden they won't. | ||
| And Ukraine will want to get it ended, and all of a sudden they won't. | ||
| So we have to get them on the same page. | ||
| But I think that's working alone. | ||
| Very good talk. | ||
| On day one of my administration, I signed an executive order making it core mission of the United States military to protect and defend their homeland. | ||
| And today, we're here to honor our military men and women for their central role in the protection of our border, something that I campaigned very, very strongly on. | ||
| And they made me look really good. | ||
| They're unbelievable. | ||
| They made us all look good. | ||
| I mean, we went from having millions of people pouring over our border to having none in the last eight months, none. | ||
| In a few moments, we'll officially recognize their service by awarding them the Mexican Border Defense Medal, which is a big deal. | ||
| We're joined for this occasion by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan Kane, Commander of U.S. Northern Command, General Gregory Giel, | ||
| Commander of the Southern Border Task Force, Major General Scott Nolman, Command Sergeant Major Brett Johnson of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Terry Cole, and many other members of our administration who have done an incredible job on the border. | ||
| You know, people forget now that the border has been secure for actually seven months, think of it, more. | ||
| They don't mention the border anymore. | ||
| Nobody talks about the border. | ||
| They talk about affordability, and we're the ones that are bringing the prices down. | ||
| We were given the worst inflation in our country's history, and we're bringing the prices down. | ||
| But the affordability is on the Democrats because they have made it unaffordable to be in this country. | ||
| But we're bringing those prices down, and they're coming down quickly. | ||
| Energy is coming way down, and if you look, gasoline prices are hitting in many locations $1.99 a gallon. | ||
| Nobody thought they'd see that. | ||
| There were $4, $5, and $6 a gallon under Biden. | ||
| In the four years before I took office, our southern border was surrendered to criminals, drug cartels, human traffickers, and child smugglers. | ||
| Our entire southwest border on the Mexican side is under the physical control of cartels that are among the most violent entities. | ||
| Nobody's ever seen, anywhere on the planet, the most violent people on the planet. | ||
| Remember when the Democrats and others, the radical left, used to say that the people they're allowing into our country, immigrants, are nice people. | ||
| They're not violent like our people. | ||
| Well, they make our people look like babies. | ||
| These are some of the most violent criminals anywhere on earth from many countries, not just Venezuela. | ||
| Venezuela emptied their jails into our country. | ||
| But others have also. | ||
| The Congo has. | ||
| So many other countries have. | ||
| And we don't put up with it. | ||
| I have to say the drugs coming in by sea are down 94%. | ||
| And we're trying to figure out who the other 6% are. | ||
| But they're down 94%, and we're going to start hitting them on land, which is a lot easier to do, frankly. | ||
| But these are a direct military threat to the United States of America. | ||
| They're trying to drug out our country. | ||
| And you can look throughout history. | ||
| Look at China when they were loaded up with drugs. | ||
| They were suffering greatly, and others were able to take them over. | ||
| And other countries also. | ||
| They're trying to drug out our country. | ||
| And we're reversing it rapidly, actually. | ||
| But with the help of our great service members, we've stopped the invasion and its tracks. | ||
| And we're dismantling the cartels very rapidly. | ||
| And they are being declared enemies of the United States of America. | ||
| They have been so declared, legally declared. | ||
| More than 25,000 warriors have served in this historic operation. | ||
| It is indeed an incredible and historic operation. | ||
| And we've never done anything so effectively. | ||
| And we've had a lot of victories. | ||
| They've spent night and day enduring scorching hot and bitter cold, and they've given up their holidays and their weekends working with the officers of customs and border protection. | ||
| Our armed forces have already conducted nearly 13,000 patrols along the border. | ||
| And today we give these great warriors the recognition that they have earned, and they have really earned it. | ||
| The military component of our border security efforts is just the beginning. | ||
| We're also designating the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a big deal from a legal standpoint and military standpoint. | ||
| We've ended catch and release and we endured and ensured that anyone who sets foot across our border illegally is intercepted, arrested, and immediately deported. | ||
| Or if they're really bad, they're put into prison because we don't want to ever take a chance if they come back. | ||
| As a result, illegal border crossings have plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded in the history of our country. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| In the history of our country, you can all be very proud. | ||
| For the past seven months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States of America. | ||
| We inherited the worst border in the history of our country, one of the worst borders, I would say, in the world. | ||
| I can't imagine any border in the world being worse when they allowed 25 million people to come in. | ||
| And again, many of these people are gang members from prisons and jails, from mental institutions and insane asylums. | ||
| And some of the worst people on earth they're allowed to come into our country. | ||
| We're getting a lot of them out. | ||
| We've made a big dent. | ||
| And the self-deportation is something nobody talks about, but literally millions of people are self-deporting because they don't want to be captured. | ||
| Once they're captured, they don't have the chance to self-deport. | ||
| They never have the chance to come back into our country. | ||
| We inherited that border from an incompetent administration and turned it into the strongest border in the history of our country. | ||
| So we took the worst border in the history of our country, and in a period of two months, we turned it into the strongest border in the history of our country. | ||
| During this time, we've also achieved a 50% drop in the amount of fentanyl coming across the border, and China is working with us very closely and bringing down the number and the amount of fentanyl that's being shipped. | ||
| You know, fentanyl is very bad when you mix it with certain ingredients, but it also is very important for medicine, for anesthesias, various other things. | ||
| I want people to understand that it's not made necessarily for bad. | ||
| When it's mixed with certain things, it becomes bad. | ||
| And that's what's taking place in Mexico. | ||
| And we've got it down to a much lower number, not satisfactory, but it will be satisfactory soon. | ||
| In May, we executed the largest fentanyl bust in the history of the U.S., seizing 3 million fentanyl pills all at one time. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| 3 million pills. | ||
| It amounted to billions of dollars worth of drugs. | ||
| And last month we seized another 1.7 million fentanyl pills in the state of Colorado, the poorly run state of Colorado, with a governor who's incompetent, and frankly with a governor that won't allow our wonderful Tina to come out of a jail, in a high-intensity jail, because she caught people cheating on an election and they said she was cheating. | ||
| She wasn't cheating. | ||
| She went over, she looked at one of the election scams going on. | ||
| And because she did that, they put her in jail for nine years. | ||
| The governor of Colorado is a weak and pathetic man who was run by Trende Aragua, the criminals from Venezuela, took over sections of Colorado. | ||
| And he was afraid to do anything. | ||
| But he puts Tina in jail for nine years because she caught people cheating. | ||
| And when she walked over and got involved in it, they said she was cheating. | ||
| She wasn't cheating. | ||
| She caught people cheating on the election, 2020, along with a lot of other people that cheated on that election. | ||
| You'll see that coming out more and more. | ||
| But there's no doubt that America's adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States in part because they want to kill Americans. | ||
| If this were a war, that would be one of the worst wars. | ||
| I believe they killed over the last five or six years per year 200,000 to 300,000 people. | ||
| You hear about 100,000, which is a lot of people, but the number is much higher than that. | ||
| That's been proven. | ||
| And they've destroyed a lot of families. | ||
| Because when they lose a child, or even if their child is heavily addicted, you lose that family. | ||
| The family will never be the same. | ||
| That's why today I'm taking one more step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl flooding into our country. | ||
| With this historic executive order I will sign today, we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is. | ||
| No bomb does what this is doing. | ||
| 200 to 300,000 people die every year that we know of. | ||
| So we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. | ||
| But before I sign the fentanyl order, we will pin these great service members with their medals. | ||
| And here today are the first 13 warriors who will receive the Mexican Border Defense Medal, which is a big deal. | ||
| First, I'd like to ask Secretary Pegseth and Chairman Kane to say a few words. | ||
| I'd like to have Tom Homan come up, please, if you would, say a few words. | ||
| And I want to thank all of the people, Pam and everybody, Stephen Miller, great Stephen Miller, what a job he's doing for being here. | ||
| Thank you both. | ||
| Appreciate it very much. | ||
| We have so many great people here. | ||
| But I do want to ask Tom to say a few words also. | ||
| So Pete, why don't you start it off, please? | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. President, thank you. | ||
| I would echo what you said. | ||
| This has been a team effort from the beginning. | ||
| Tom Holman, Terry Cole, Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi, Christy Noam, Customs and Border Patrol Protection. | ||
| It has been one team, one mission, to get 100% operational control of the southern border. | ||
| You want to talk about America First, peace through strength and common sense? | ||
| It all manifests in one basic phrase down there. | ||
| Border security is national security. | ||
| And we had the task of 100% control, and because of these men and women back here, we've achieved that. | ||
| Nobody is crossing the southern border. | ||
| And I want to give a big shout out to our Northern Command, General Guillot. | ||
| From day one, our department didn't look at the border this way before, before you. | ||
| Joe Biden allowed an invasion of this country. | ||
| Tens of millions of people, drugs, gangs, violence, and the military jumped to it on day one with our partners. | ||
| Ultimately, it was incredible Americans. | ||
| There's 13 up here with us today. | ||
| They all represent about 2,000 people who've served at the border so far. | ||
| So 25,000 Americans qualify for this Mexican national defense border medal that we're announcing today. | ||
| And what's cool about this medal, it was actually first given out in 1918. | ||
| So we're reviving an old medal that existed, was given to men and women who defended the southern border. | ||
| We found out about it. | ||
| We used the exact same foundry with the exact same imagery, same color, same metal, same everything. | ||
| So our men and women will be wearing that very same medal as Americans 100 years before who were asked to defend the sovereignty of our country. | ||
| President Trump was elected to do that. | ||
| You have done that, Mr. President. | ||
| We're proud of this mission. | ||
| We're proud to defend the American people. | ||
| And pinning these medals on is an example of how important it is to us. | ||
| So thank you, Mr. President. | ||
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| Well, Mr. President, Mr. Secretary, I want to echo your thanks and gratitude for the joint force. | ||
| I also want to highlight General Guillot, General Nauman, and Command Sergeant Major Johnson, but also leaders at every level that came together, not just in our joint force, but in the interagency. | ||
| And I want to specifically highlight our Border Patrol teammates and our Office of Air and Marine teammates, who when I went down to the southern border and visited were right there next to the joint force. | ||
| I also want to thank not just these 13 individuals, but the joint force that was also down there and your families who poured in to make this deployment possible on the southern border. | ||
| And of course, this time of the year, I'm always thinking about our currently deployed forces who are out there around the world doing our nation's business. | ||
| And of course, our fallen and their families who show us what courage and tenacity really are as they move forward after the loss of a service member. | ||
| So thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Secretary. | ||
| You know, it's always an honor for me to be in the Oval Office with the greatest president of my lifetime. | ||
| Yes, I said it, and I meant it. | ||
| You know, I was just, I just got home last night. | ||
| I toured the border of Taliban, Texas. | ||
| I did it through the ground. | ||
| I did it on the river. | ||
| I did it from the air. | ||
| Hundreds upon hundreds of miles of border. | ||
| I didn't see one illegal alien. | ||
| Not a single one. | ||
| I've done this since 1984. | ||
| I worked for six different presidents. | ||
| No one has done more than President Trump. | ||
| What he has done is gave us the most secure border in the history of this nation. | ||
| Hard stop. | ||
| I went to hundreds of miles of border and didn't see one illegal alien. | ||
| Incredible. | ||
| Considering the Biden administration, we had 10,000, 12,000 a day, most released in the United States. | ||
| I'm proud to be with these patriots behind me. | ||
| I'm already proud to be in the Oval Office of the President, but being with these heroes, I met some of these soldiers down on the border. | ||
| And actually, a shout out to Fort Gumm, New York. | ||
| We got some 10th Mountain Division here, so Elise Stefanic, Claudia Tenny, we all love Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain. | ||
| So look, this is a game changer. | ||
| I want to make something perfectly clear. | ||
| We get attacked all the time being inhumane. | ||
| The Biden administration is much more humane. | ||
| It's just a bunch of crap. | ||
| Because there's been studies done that 31% of women that make that journey through the cartels get sexually assaulted. | ||
| They get raped. | ||
| And not just the women, children too. | ||
| I've done numerous investigations in that. | ||
| Sex trafficking was historic highs with the open border. | ||
| Fentanyl, historic highs that killed a quarter million Americans. | ||
| No inspector terrorists that came across the border. | ||
| Record historic. | ||
| What happened under the Biden administration was the most inhumane thing I've seen in my lifetime. | ||
| Now that the border is 96% declined, 96% less people are coming. | ||
| How many women aren't being raped? | ||
| How many children aren't dying making that journey? | ||
| How many women and children aren't being sex trafficked into this country every day? | ||
| How many known suspected terrorists aren't just walking across that border? | ||
| President Trump in this administration is saving thousands of lives every month. | ||
| Hard stop. | ||
| That's just a stone cold fact. | ||
| I'm just proud to be a part of this. | ||
| I work with Steve Miller every day. | ||
| Steve Miller is one of the most brilliant people I met in my entire life. | ||
| President Trump brought together one hell of a team here, and the success proved. | ||
| We all working together, one team, one fight. | ||
| We're not done yet. | ||
| We're going to keep going. | ||
| And I guarantee you, we're going to continue saving thousands and thousands of lives. | ||
| Secure border means strong national security. | ||
| Secure border saves lives. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Tim. | ||
| Okay, let's do the medals, and I'll be signing this. | ||
| Maybe you'll do the medals first and then I'll sign, okay? | ||
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It's not bad, great | |
| job. | ||
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No | |
| None ever. | ||
| We don't like auto pens, right? | ||
| We don't, sir. | ||
| We don't like auto pens. | ||
| How about gathering around me and we'll hold this up? | ||
| Congratulations. | ||
| That's an amazing job. | ||
| Come on around. | ||
| Come on around. | ||
| Let's take a good picture. | ||
| Fantastic job. | ||
| You guys, fantastic job. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| What you've done is unprecedented. | ||
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How about holding that up? | |
| You guys hold it up. | ||
| Hold it up, you deserve it more than me. | ||
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So I'm going to give you another medal, though, that may be more beautiful. | |
| I'm not sure it means as much, but it's really good. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| This is gun metal. | ||
| This is the one the military loves. | ||
| So we're going to start. | ||
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Okay? | |
| Thank you. | ||
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Here you go. | |
| It's pretty nice. | ||
| Want to compare it? | ||
| Let me see. | ||
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Compare it. | |
| Let me see how that looks. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| That looks pretty good. | ||
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| That means something very special. | ||
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Thanks, Mr. President. | |
| Thank you very much, General. | ||
| Look at what you can do tight around your neck. | ||
| It's very nice ribbon. | ||
| I think you'll like it. | ||
| It's special. | ||
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We don't give them to many people. | |
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Come on, Alvin. | ||
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Come here. | |
| That's four. | ||
| Besides that big, that means a lot of people. | ||
| General, come on over here, even though you have one. | ||
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I gave him one note. | |
| This is General Randy. | ||
| A general raising case. | ||
| He's a great general. | ||
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Thank you very much. | |
| Well, thank you very much, everybody. | ||
| It's an honor. | ||
| This is a fantastic moment. | ||
| I haven't done this before. | ||
| And the job they've done on the border is unthinkable. | ||
| What they left us with, that they would have open borders with millions of people, 25 million people, probably more than that, pouring into our border, totally unchecked and unvetted. | ||
| Now we have the opposite. | ||
| And we want people in our country, but they have to come in legally. | ||
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And they know that, and they know they're not getting through, so now they don't even try. | |
| So all of the death that Tom Hallman talked about, the rape and the death and all the problem, doesn't really happen because the caravans, the name I think I came up with, maybe, maybe not, but the caravans are very small. | ||
| In fact, for the most part, they don't even exist anymore because they know they're not going to get through. | ||
| In a little while, you'll be seeing I'm suing the BBC for putting words in my mouth, literally. | ||
| They put words in my mouth. | ||
| They had me saying things that I never said. | ||
| Coming out, I guess they used AI or something. | ||
| So we'll be bringing that lawsuit. | ||
| A lot of people are asking, when are you bringing that lawsuit? | ||
| Even the media can't believe that one. | ||
| They actually put terrible words in my mouth having to do with January 6th that I didn't say. | ||
| And they're beautiful words that I said, right? | ||
| They're beautiful words. | ||
| Talking about patriotism and all of the good things that I said, they didn't say that. | ||
| But they put terrible words. | ||
| They actually have me speaking with words that I never said. | ||
| And they got caught because I believe somebody at BBC said this is so bad, it has to be reported. | ||
| That's all fake news. | ||
| So we'll be filing that suit probably this afternoon or tomorrow morning. | ||
| I want to thank all of you for being here. | ||
| If you have any questions, I guess you could ask. | ||
| But this is really a day of celebration for these people. | ||
| The job they've done is really unprecedented. | ||
| So go ahead. | ||
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I'm from the university, Mr. President. | |
| Do you know what the motive of the shooter was? | ||
| Is it one of the things that's moving along now? | ||
| And we dug, and we're going to see what happens. | ||
| Hopefully they're going to capture this animal. | ||
| Hopefully they're going to capture it. | ||
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Has Cash Matel told you why it's been so difficult for the FBI to identify who the shooter is? | |
| Well, it's always difficult. | ||
| So far, we've done a very good job of doing it with Charlie, with the various times this has happened. | ||
| They've done it in pretty much record time. | ||
| But you'd really have to ask the school a little bit more about that because this was a school problem. | ||
| They had their own guards, they had their own police, they had their own everything, but you'd have to ask that question really to the school, not to the FBI. | ||
| We came in after the fact. | ||
| And the FBI will do a good job, but they came in after the fact. | ||
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Do you know that it was targeted, Mr. President? | |
| No, they don't know that yet. | ||
| No. | ||
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Sir, on the issue of drugs, is it accurate that you are considering an executive order to reclassify marijuana to the government? | |
| We are considering that, yeah. | ||
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Are you planning to do that? | |
| Because a lot of people want to see it, the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can't be done unless you reclassify. | ||
| So we are looking at that very strongly. | ||
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Mr. President, Mr. President, is it true that the reports that you rebuked the Israeli Prime Minister, are the reports that you rebuked the Israeli prime minister for the hit on the Hamas general true? | |
| And is Israel undermining your efforts to be a peacemaker? | ||
| No, Israel and I have gotten along very well. | ||
| My relationship with BB Netanyahu has been obviously a very good one. | ||
| Look, we took out Iran. | ||
| We wiped out with that plane right there, we wiped out the B-2 bomber, we wiped out the Iran nuclear threat, and because of that, we were able to make peace in the Middle East. | ||
| No, we've had a very good relationship with Israel. | ||
| We actually have a very good relationship with just about everybody in the Middle East. | ||
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But was that a violation of the ceasefire, the Surekhana General? | |
| We're going to have to see, we're looking into that. | ||
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Mr. President, I'm the Syria ambush of armed forces. | |
| Do you still have confidence in the Syrian president? | ||
| I do. | ||
| I mean, this had nothing to do with him. | ||
| This is a part of Syria that they really don't have much control over. | ||
| And it was a surprise. | ||
| He feels very badly about it. | ||
| He's working on it. | ||
| He's a strong man. | ||
| And no, this had nothing to do with the Syrian government. | ||
| This had to do with ISIS. | ||
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What will they do as a response, Paige? | |
| As a response? | ||
| They'll be hit hard. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| The Comunishaz los Chile, the pro-Trump candidate, Josanteno Cas won the elections. | ||
| Do you think this right-wing wave in the Spanish world is due to your influence? | ||
| Well, we just had a good one in Honduras, as you know. | ||
| We had a great election there. | ||
| I endorsed somebody that was not leading, and he won the election. | ||
| And we had a good one just a little couple of hours ago. | ||
| I found out in Chile, the person I endorsed who was not leading ended up winning quite easily. | ||
| So I look forward to paying my respects to him. | ||
| I hear he's a very good person. | ||
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Mr. President, thank you, Mr. President. | |
| This year you fired Democrats from a number of federal agencies, and now going into 2026, there are some key regulators like the SEC, the CFTC that are going to have zero Democrats. | ||
| Do you plan to appoint Democrats to fill those empty spots? | ||
| Or do you think that federal agencies shouldn't have Democrat commissioners? | ||
| Well, do you think they would be appointing Republicans if it were up to them? | ||
| So, you know, we'll look at it. | ||
| Look, we want to be fair. | ||
| But typically, they're not appointing Republicans. | ||
| So you're asking me the question whether or not I'd appoint Democrats. | ||
| But there are certain areas that we do look at, and there are certain areas that we do share, and share power. | ||
| And I'm open to that. | ||
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Mr. President, a number of Republicans have denounced your statement on true social after the murder of Rob Reiner. | |
| Do you stand by that post? | ||
| Well, I wasn't a fan of his at all. | ||
| He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. | ||
| He said he liked, he knew it was false. | ||
| In fact, it's the exact opposite, that I was a friend of Russia controlled by Russia. | ||
| You know, it was the Russia hooks. | ||
| He was one of the people behind it. | ||
| I think he hurt himself career-wise. | ||
| He became like a deranged person, Trump derangement syndrome. | ||
| So I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape, or form. | ||
| I thought he was very bad for our country. | ||
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On blue slips, Mr. President, Leader Kuhn doesn't seem like he wants to get rid of blue slips. | |
| Will there be consequences for the Senate if they are? | ||
| Well, I think they should get rid of blue slips because as a Republican president, I am unable to put anybody in office having to do with U.S. attorneys or having to do with judges. | ||
| In other words, if you have one, not two, you don't need two, just one. | ||
| If you have one Democrat senator, well, we have a lot of them. | ||
| You have one Democrat senator in a state, it is not possible to appoint, because of blue slips, a judge. | ||
| It's not possible to appoint a U.S. attorney. | ||
| You see that happening. | ||
| And I think it's a disgrace. | ||
| I think blue slips are a disgrace. | ||
| They've long since, I mean, they should not be relevant anymore. | ||
| This is a different world than it was 15, 20 years ago. | ||
| You know, that was a gentleman and gentlewoman world. | ||
| This is a little bit different, unfortunately. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
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Mr. President, what do you want to see Congress do this week as it relates to health care and the expiring HEA? | |
| That's a good question. | ||
| I'd like to see the people get the money. | ||
| I'd like to see all of the money that's going to the Democrat insurance companies. | ||
| You know, the insurance companies are making a fortune. | ||
| They're up 1,700% and more. | ||
| And they're taking in hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, even trillions of dollars. | ||
| And Obamacare gives you terrible health care. | ||
| Just so you understand, Obamacare was set up, and I said it right from the beginning, for the benefit of the health insurance. | ||
| insurance companies, of the insurance companies. | ||
| They're making billions and billions of dollars. | ||
| Their stock is through the roof. | ||
| I don't want to give them anything. | ||
| I want all money going to the people and let the people buy their own health care. | ||
| It'll be unbelievable. | ||
| They'll do a great job. | ||
| They'll get much better health care at a much lower cost. | ||
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Would you like Republicans next year to just use reconciliation to do with health care exactly what you laid out? | |
| They wouldn't have to worry about the internet votes. | ||
| Well, that or knock out the filibuster. | ||
| If you knocked out the filibuster, it would all go away. | ||
| But we have a few people that wouldn't do that. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| Look, we should knock out the filibuster. | ||
| And if you did that, we'd get a voter ID. | ||
| You'd have no mail-in voting. | ||
| All things that make our elections dishonest. | ||
| And you'd get a lot of other things having not even to do with voting. | ||
| But Republicans should knock out the filibuster, and we should approve a lot of things. | ||
| You wouldn't have January 30th looming, because, you know, you have the 30th of January looming. | ||
| You know that. | ||
| And if we knocked out the filibuster, it would be just a simple approval. | ||
| But you have some Republicans that they're unable to explain why. | ||
| If you ask them why, they're unable to explain it. | ||
| They cannot win the debate. | ||
| But they should knock out the filibuster. | ||
| And frankly, they should get rid of the blue slips, too. | ||
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Mr. President, the Democrats won Miami where you won the election one year ago. | |
| Do you think it's because of Hispanic media like Telemundo that are publishing fake news about the ICE operations? | ||
| How do you plan to win back those votes for midterms? | ||
| Yeah, well, I won that whole election. | ||
| And, you know, it's interesting. | ||
| When I'm not running, we don't do as well. | ||
| And I'm going to try and get that changed for the midterms. | ||
| But we did have a big win in Tennessee, as you know. | ||
| Matt Van Epps, Van Epps had a big win in Tennessee against a very strong candidate, attractive candidate, who a lot of people thought would do very well. | ||
| And Matt won by a lot. | ||
| And I won Tennessee by a real lot. | ||
| We had a great election. | ||
| We won every single swing state. | ||
| We won the popular vote. | ||
| We won everything. | ||
| And there's a thing that they have in our districts, which is a big deal. | ||
| I think in a way it's the most important stat from the standpoint of looking at numbers accurately. | ||
| So out of thousands of districts, I won 2,750 versus 525. | ||
| Think of that. | ||
| 2,750 versus 525. | ||
| It was great. | ||
| That's why the map, when you see a map of the election, it's all red, other than two little narrow lines on the other side. | ||
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Please. | |
| Sir, Jimmy Lyle was convicted today in Hong Kong. | ||
| Do you have any reactions? | ||
| I feel so badly. | ||
| I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release. | ||
| He's not well. | ||
| He's an older man, and he's not well. | ||
| So I did put that request out. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
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Okay? | |
| Yeah, please, Kate. | ||
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Question about Ukraine. | |
| Now that the meetings in Berlin have wrapped up with Philanthropy, is there a timetable for going to Moscow, the delegation going? | ||
| Well, I think that the delegation is largely there right now, actually. | ||
| They're in Europe. | ||
| And they met with those people that I called out before the various countries, plus some others. | ||
| They want to see it end, Katie. | ||
| They want to see it end. | ||
| I want to see it end. | ||
| They want to see it end. | ||
| I actually think that President Putin wants to see it end. | ||
| I've had good talks. | ||
| We've had good talks with Russia. | ||
| And I think they'd like to get back to a more normal way of life. | ||
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Just about to follow up there. | |
| An Article 5-like deal seems to be emerging without NATO membership for Ukraine. | ||
| If such a security guarantee is offered, what incentive is there for Ukraine to give up any sort of territory? | ||
| Well, look, you have, well, they've already lost the territory, to be honest. | ||
| I mean, the territory is lost. | ||
| But in terms of security guarantee, we're working with Europe on it. | ||
| Europe would be a big part of that. | ||
| And we're working on the security guarantees so the war doesn't start up again. | ||
| We don't want to have a war start up again. | ||
| You know, as I said, with Thailand and Cambodia, two people I get along with great. | ||
| And I dealt with them and I called them and I said, look, fellas, you've got to relax. | ||
| You've got to take it easy. | ||
| They lost. | ||
| You know, they started the war again. | ||
| I got it ended. | ||
| And things like that are going to happen. | ||
| War. | ||
| There's nothing pretty about war, nothing good. | ||
| And there's nothing you can do to predict what's going to happen. | ||
| But I think we've made a lot of progress with respect to Russia and Ukraine. | ||
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I hope. | |
| I hope. | ||
| You know, last month it was close to 27,000 soldiers were killed, mostly soldiers, but 27,000 people, but mostly soldiers, were killed last month in Russia versus Ukraine. | ||
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Is there a time limit on security guarantees? | |
| Well, there's no time limit. | ||
| The time limit is whenever we get it done. | ||
| We're going to try to get it done. | ||
| We're making progress. | ||
| It's more difficult than anybody could have thought. | ||
| I would have said that half of the wars that I got settled, some were going for over 30 years, that half of them should have been more difficult, and they actually haven't been. | ||
| There's a lot of dislike between the two leaders, you know, and so it probably makes it a little bit tough. | ||
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Have you inferred and spoken directly to Putin? | |
| Yeah, I have. | ||
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On Syria, Mr. President, on the U.S. troops killed in Syria over the weekend, why do we have troops in Syria? | |
| Because we're trying to make sure that there's going to be and remain peace in the Middle East, and Syria is a big part of it. | ||
| The new leader is a strong person, and that's what you need. | ||
| This is a rough part of the world. | ||
| And it's been amazing what's taken place in Syria. | ||
| We got rid of Assad. | ||
| We got rid of other people that were really bad people and that were in the way of peace in the Middle East. | ||
| You know, we have legitimate peace in the Middle East, first time in 3,000 years. | ||
| And we have 59 countries backing it. | ||
| And we'll see what happens with Hamas. | ||
| We'll see what happens with Hezbollah. | ||
| But regardless, I mean, we have countries that want to go in and clean that out if we want them to do it. | ||
| But they said, in the case of Hamas, they said that they're going to disarm, and we're going to find out whether or not that's true. | ||
| Hezbollah in Lebanon has been a problem. | ||
| We'll see what happens there. | ||
| But there is legitimate large-scale peace in the Middle East. | ||
| And if there weren't, we wouldn't have been able to make all of those deals that we've made with the various countries. | ||
| They would have never been able to do that. | ||
| If, for instance, if Iran, if we didn't, with that B-2 bomber right there on the desk, if we didn't, of which we just ordered a lot more of the newer version, totally stealth, they could not see it. | ||
| They knew it was coming. | ||
| They had no idea where it was. | ||
| It was pretty amazing, actually. | ||
| Every bomb hit its mark perfectly, despite CNN trying to say differently. | ||
| They didn't know. | ||
| They just, you know, hoped. | ||
| They hoped that we didn't, but it turned out that they did. | ||
| Atomic Energy Commission confirmed it. | ||
| So did, actually, so did Iran confirm it. | ||
| They got knocked to hell. | ||
| But if we didn't knock out their nuclear capability, we would have never had peace in the Middle East because you would have had a dark cloud hanging over Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and all the other countries, and they would have never, ever been able to sign an agreement. | ||
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How soon do you expect that international stabilization force to be up and running in Gaza? | |
| I think that it's in a form it's already running, in a very strong form, it's already. | ||
| But it'll get stronger and stronger, and more and more countries are coming into it. | ||
| They're already in, but they'll send any number of troops that I ask them to send. | ||
| They want to see peace. | ||
| We have more than 59 countries. | ||
| We have many countries that aren't even in the Middle East, but they're fairly close to the Middle East. | ||
| They want to be involved. | ||
| So it's been pretty amazing. | ||
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Mr. President, this week a man named Keone Rodriguez is going to federal prison for creating crypto privacy software. | |
| The case was started under the Biden administration, but your DOG, DOJ, kept it going and secured the conviction. | ||
| A lot of people in crypto are saying that this man should be pardoned. | ||
| Are you familiar with the case at all, or would you be interested in that? | ||
| I've heard about it. | ||
| I'll look at it. | ||
| Well, you think he should be pardoned? | ||
| Sounds like it. | ||
| Sounds like, based on your question. | ||
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Many people on the bank. | |
| Rodriguez, we'll look at that, Pam. | ||
| Okay, let's take a look at it. | ||
| You'll have to tell me. | ||
| I don't know anything about it, but we'll take a look. | ||
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On Friday. | |
| Yeah, please. | ||
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Mr. President, market analysts are calling for a Santa rally. | |
| Typically, it's five trading days going into Christmas. | ||
| The first two trading days in January, that's a sign of market optimism. | ||
| Do you anticipate, along with the historical low gas prices, that continuing into the first quarter of the year? | ||
| Well, we've had the greatest stock market in history, Brian. | ||
| We have a stock market that's gone up 52 times to new highs during a 10-month period, my 10 months. | ||
| My first 10 months, we set a record. | ||
| 52 days, we had the highest stock market in history, including a day ago. | ||
| And I didn't look today. | ||
| Maybe it's up to that. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But we had 52 altogether, and there's never been anything like it. | ||
| And the reason are the tariffs have brought vast amounts of wealth into our country. | ||
| That countries that have taken our car companies, those car companies, are all coming back. | ||
| The AI is coming at levels that nobody's ever seen before. | ||
| That's going to be a massive industry. | ||
| Without the tariffs, we wouldn't have that. | ||
| Chips are coming in. | ||
| The chip companies are coming in from Taiwan and other places, but mostly from Taiwan, which has almost 100% of the market. | ||
| And we're now making chips. | ||
| And we're not paying anything. | ||
| It's not the CHIPS Act where they give billions of dollars to companies and then they just take the money and they run. | ||
| That was under Biden. | ||
| The fact that I set tariffs up and that if they don't make their chips here, they have to pay a big tariff. | ||
| In order to send them into the U.S., they have to be here. | ||
| You know, tariffs really work, in my opinion, almost only in the United States. | ||
| They've been used against us successfully because we had presidents that had no clue. | ||
| But tariffs really work. | ||
| We have taken in hundreds of billions of dollars with tariffs. | ||
| And more importantly, we've taken in countries and companies where, and even countries have sent their car-making people into the United States in order to avoid paying tariffs. | ||
| And they'll build a plant and they'll hire our people to make the cars. | ||
| But we now have, as you know, Toyota just approved $10 billion in manufacturing plants in the United States using our people. | ||
| Without tariffs, none of that would have happened. | ||
| Tariffs have given us great national security. | ||
| There's nothing like what's happened in the last 10 months. | ||
| Tariffs have given us tremendous national security and tremendous wealth. | ||
| Thank you all very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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All right. | |
| Ladies, that was abrupt. | ||
| That's a little abrupt, Klein. | ||
| Give it a second, please, for heaven's sake. | ||
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| Okay. | ||
| A wrap-up of President Trump. | ||
| And then we do actually have breaking news. | ||
| Klein hitting the nicotine pouches a little hard there. | ||
| Well, President Trump out off the dome saying that he plans on potentially launching land strikes in Venezuela. | ||
| Not sure anybody asked for that. | ||
| Says that the shooting at Brown University looks like terrorism and looks like it may well be targeted. | ||
| Not backing down on how badly he dislikes Rob Reiner. | ||
| Not going to get into that. | ||
| Honestly, who cares? | ||
| Seriously, don't get psyoped into that. | ||
| And then Donald Trump talking about declass, reclassifying marijuana, something I'm 100% against. | ||
| But we don't have enough time to talk about it right now. | ||
| Donald Trump is saying it could be used for research. | ||
| Hopefully smarter heads prevail. | ||
| You don't want a nation of potheads. | ||
| You want a nation that still has moral standards, especially around marijuana. | ||
| Pot culture is the worst culture. | ||
| Go travel to places with pot culture. | ||
| It's awful. | ||
| Not good for the soul, not good for the brain, not good for the body. | ||
| And then Donald Trump having Tom Homan and P. Hegseth speak, giving awards to members of the military who defended the southern border. | ||
| Tom Homan saying he didn't see one criminal alien traveling hundreds of miles along the border. | ||
| So all very, very good and interesting things. | ||
| We haven't done live reaction to President Trump taking questions in a while. | ||
| So why not? | ||
| We are rounding out the end of the year here. | ||
| And we do now, Klein. | ||
| We do now. | ||
| I love Klein. | ||
| Klein's out of the Klein's. | ||
| Klein's a little under the weather and out of the studio today. | ||
| So typically our timing is a little better when Klein's in the studio. | ||
| So here we go, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Massive breaking news that broke that does have to do with Donald Trump, but didn't get covered in the presser right there. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| Okay, this is going to be very, very interesting, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Dan Bongino, allegedly planning on leaving the FBI within weeks, potentially, according to sources, Dan Bongino is the deputy director of the FBI. | ||
| That makes him one of the key leaders in the organization. | ||
| Many people who've worked for the FBI have told us that the deputy director position is the most powerful position at the FBI. | ||
| It's the one that actually gets things done. | ||
| Now, whatever you think of Dan Bongino, his visibility on major issues at the FBI, everything from the pipe bomber to Charlie Kirk's assassination Been a force during press conferences on television. | ||
| Dan Bongino obviously had one of the most successful podcasts in the world, the Dan Bongino show, and was doing record numbers of live stream concurrent viewers on Rumble right before he decided to join the administration at President Trump's urging. | ||
| The most recent commentary that Bongino had on social media was about the crime statistics. | ||
| We'll get into all of that here. | ||
| Let's read the article, Dan Bongino out at the FBI. | ||
| Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino will make a decision about his future with the Bureau within the next few weeks. | ||
| Sources familiar with his considerations tell Fox News. | ||
| The sources deny recent reports that Bongino's office at the FBI is empty, but they say his departure is a possibility in the near future. | ||
| A source familiar with the situation told Fox News Digital that Bongino has not made any decisions about his future at the agency. | ||
| Bongino's tenure at the FBI has come under fire in recent weeks alongside FBI Director Kash Patel. | ||
| Earlier in the month, a report from an alliance of active duty and retired FBI personnel portrayed the Bureau as directionless and rudderless under its new leadership. | ||
| Bongino and Patel pushed back on the report, however, defending sweeping reforms as they have delivered major gains and accountability and public safety. | ||
| When the director and I moved forward with these reforms, we expected some noise from a small circle of disgruntled former agents still loyal to the old Comey Ray model, Bongino told Fox News at the time. | ||
| It was never our audience, our responsibility as the American people, and under new leadership team, the Bureau is delivering results the country hasn't seen in decades. | ||
| Tighter accountability, tougher performance standards, billions saved, and mission-first culture. | ||
| That's how you restore trust. | ||
| New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor Miranda Devine said last week in an internal 115-page memo that FBI active duty and retired agents and analysts heavily criticized Patel and Bongino since they took their respective jobs. | ||
| I didn't give any real credence to this report. | ||
| Of course, the deep state is going to deep state. | ||
| Of course, they're going to criticize these guys. | ||
| As you well know, Kash Patel has been on this program before, so has Dan Bongino. | ||
| I've been on Dan Bongino's show. | ||
| I consider Dan Bongino a friend. | ||
| This is going to be totally up to him. | ||
| I haven't reached out to him about this because this is breaking news as of this hour. | ||
| Bongino hit back a report saying that Devine loves attacking our reform agenda with gossipy anecdotes from disgruntled former employees. | ||
| In this, you know, I read through the FBI report that Miranda Devine cites here. | ||
| A damning report labels FBI rudderless ship under Kash Patel. | ||
| Dan Bongino more concerned with building personal resumes. | ||
| I read through it. | ||
| You can see it. | ||
| it's listed right here. | ||
| None of this can be referenced directly to agents that are currently at the FBI. | ||
| This is something that was a real problem for me. | ||
| So all of this is just completely anonymous. | ||
| So we're just going to believe like garbage that was written by just anyone. | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| Who wrote it? | ||
| Nobody knows. | ||
| It is totally gossipy. | ||
| It is very like bitchy and anecdotal. | ||
| And I don't see like a huge problem with this report. | ||
| I don't see this as damning or career ending because it is just a bunch of former agents. | ||
| Presumably, James Comey's best friends that are all sitting there in early retirement, most likely been fired by Bongino and Patel, and are they got sour grapes. | ||
| This is exactly, I mean, that's the way that I take this. | ||
| So I really, really hope that this is not Dan Bongino's undoing at the FBI. | ||
| Dan Bongino has done, I think, quite well. | ||
| protect the homeland and crush violent crime. | ||
| This is Dan Bongino's last tweet. | ||
| These words are not slogans. | ||
| They are investigative pillars of the FBI, as stated Director Patel. | ||
| Over the weekend, the FBI disrupted a credible, imminent terrorist threat and arrested four individuals in connection with the Los Angeles area. | ||
| If you read the reports on this, this is the legit big-time arrests. | ||
| There was a left-wing terrorist group that was building pipe bombs and were detonating them out in the desert. | ||
| And they were going to plan on blowing up a bunch of businesses and presumably harming a bunch of people in the California, Southern California area. | ||
| And the FBI foiled that plot. | ||
| This happened from today. | ||
| That's just good work. | ||
| This is one that I thought, though, when I read this tweet, I thought, maybe Bongino is actually moving out. | ||
| When I read this post, I thought, hmm, this seems introspective for Bongino. | ||
| Seems like something that Bongino is giving sort of careful consideration and looking back on his time at the FBI. | ||
| This is from his personal account that has 7 million followers. | ||
| And he posted this just a week ago. | ||
| Watching the endless series of media fairy tales about the administration's public safety and national security successes from the inside has been a relevatory experience. | ||
| Despite historically strong border, drug runners in a state of redline panic, a historic low murder rate, record-breaking arrests and seizures statistics, our military being rebuilt, fortified, peace deals being signed all over the world. | ||
| The Lemmings in the media continue to repeat their same mantras, insisting that we should believe three plus three equals nine. | ||
| It's really illuminating to watch from this position. | ||
| If any other president more ideologically aligned with the sheep in the middle did what President Trump has done, our public safety and national security, there would be nonstop celebration, nightly news stories, documentaries. | ||
| They'd be prepping a rock on Mount Rushmore. | ||
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| So Dan Bongino there defending, obviously, his record and talking about like the relevatory experience to see it all from the inside. | ||
| I mean, for me, this struck me as being very personal and almost like he's looking back on the work as though he's maybe ready to shift out of that work. | ||
| Andrew Bailey, a friend of the show, would most likely take his position were Dan Bongino to shift out of the deputy director role. | ||
| This is now breaking across my timeline. | ||
| No official announcement yet, but half a dozen sources at the FBI and DOJ indicated that Bongino's Washington, D.C. office is empty. | ||
| His chief of staff has taken a new leadership role in Baltimore. | ||
| FBI insiders expect his departure in January 2026, potentially with co-direct deputy director Andrew Bailey assuming full duties. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| According to Fox News, Bongino is going to decide his future. | ||
| Should he stay or go? | ||
| One of the other people who were attacking Bongino, or at the very least, the leadership of the FBI, was Tucker Carlson as of late. | ||
| Here's Tucker Carlson from Theo Vaughn's podcast last week. | ||
| And then also her claim that there were kind of a disproportionately large number of foreign registered cell phones at the event. | ||
| That's also true. | ||
| So what does that add up to? | ||
| I don't know, but it means that The FBI has a moral and legal obligation to look in every direction and to be open-minded as you would in any investigation in journalism and science. | ||
| It's all the same process. | ||
| I don't know the answer. | ||
| And I'm going to sift through everything as open-mindedly as I can, as honestly as I can, to get to what the truth is. | ||
| That's again, that's science. | ||
| That's law enforcement. | ||
| That's journalism. | ||
| It's all the same. | ||
| That's justice. | ||
| And I just want to make sure that is happening. | ||
| And I just don't have a ton of confidence in the FBI or the men who run it. | ||
| And I'm not saying that out of ignorance at all. | ||
| That's a scary part, too. | ||
| I'm not alleging anything. | ||
| I'm just saying I think it's really important that we have that. | ||
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| And also, I mean, I never wanted to do it. | ||
| I'm just shit like leaders of the FBI are on Twitter. | ||
| Like, what? | ||
| So Tucker Carlson going after his friend, Dan Bongino, there, or at least the way that Bongino has been running the FBI in a different era, it was Dan Bongino on Tucker Carlson's show live in front of thousands of people saying this. | ||
| Do you want this Dan Bongino back? | ||
| You go do it. | ||
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And then you start your own company. | |
| And then you get your own advertisers. | ||
| That's how you do it. | ||
| You pulled a Leo DiCaprio from Wolf of Wall Street. | ||
| Just don't defraud anyone. | ||
| I'm not leaving. | ||
| I'm not leaving. | ||
| You tell these liberals, I will haunt you, sons of bitches, for the rest of your lives on this planet. | ||
| YouTube decided to cancel me. | ||
| YouTube sends me a letter an email. | ||
| We're canceling you. | ||
| You said masks don't work. | ||
| They said, you got to pull this video down. | ||
| I said, I got a better idea. | ||
| I'm going to cancel you, idiots, and I'm going to go advocate for a platform. | ||
| And then Rumble wouldn't suit him later for screwing them up like this. | ||
| Screw these people. | ||
| Don't ever let them beat you down ever, ever. | ||
| Whatever they tell you not to do, you do times tense. | ||
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| All right. | ||
| Different timeline. | ||
| The timeline's been broken, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Last time I had our my producers pull the last time Dan Bongino was on Fox News. | ||
| It was obviously talking about the pipe bomber, saying that this is the biggest FBI cover-up in American history. | ||
| His prior leadership team was doing outside of targeting political opponents, weaponizing the FBI, destroying its reputation, embarrassing agents that are doing really good work out there, catching terrorists, CCP spies, and everyone else. | ||
| It's almost like they were intentionally trying to decimate faith in institutions. | ||
| It's horrifying. | ||
| I don't know what they were doing. | ||
| I can tell you what happened, though, when we got there, the director and I. My first meeting, my first meeting, I swore in, and I kid you not, probably 15 minutes later, and the people who are in the meeting know, I said, when I get in there, I want a full brief on this pipe bomber case on day one. | ||
| And I looked at the case agent after getting a full brief on what they'd done, and they had done some pretty extensive amount of work. | ||
| They had chased down, I think, thousands of leads, 6,000-plus interviews had been conducted, hundreds of tips, and it still was relatively stale, the case. | ||
| And I grabbed the case agent on the way out and I said, you're going to get me this guy. | ||
| You're going to track this guy down. | ||
| You're going to find him. | ||
| You're going to get me this guy. | ||
| I want him. | ||
| And that started what's been almost a nine-month operation right now to make sure that we could get full accountability and transparency to the American public and find this guy. | ||
| And today we did. | ||
| So Dan Magino, they were saying, obviously, that the Joe Biden FBI didn't want to find the pipe bomber. | ||
| I think there's a lot of theories about why that is. | ||
| Pretty self-evident. | ||
| And that all of it is a hoax. | ||
| What I'm missing there is some type of explanation as to why Brian Cole Jr. Was someone who went and did this. | ||
| It's like a loner autist who wasn't particularly political going and planting these pipe bombs or not. | ||
| It still doesn't seem like he's the guy that actually planted the bombs. | ||
| He might have been the dude in the backpack. | ||
| I mean, I guess that does make a lot of sense. | ||
| There's a lot of evidence, and he did admit to it, so there's that. | ||
| But did he actually plant the bombs? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I want that explanation. | ||
| It's like people still remain frustrated and probably will forever be frustrated with the FBI. | ||
| And what kind of Dan Bongino do you want? | ||
| I got to tell you. | ||
| I mean, this is something that was, you know, really great to do with Dan at the RNC convention. | ||
| He's just such a talented broadcaster. | ||
| And I, you know, whenever he decides to step back into the arena, we'll be happy to have Dan back. | ||
| His, his, his voice, I think, is sorely missed right now. | ||
| And he's just one of those guys that I've always really, really respected. | ||
| And his ability to sort of manifest and explain in simple terms what is actually going on. | ||
| And yeah, so that's my take on it, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| And let's go ahead and check the markets. | ||
| Who will be the first to leave the Trump cabinet in 2025? | ||
| Check the markets with Polymarket. | ||
| Well, this is probably going to change based on today's news. | ||
| But you can see here that Dan Bongino isn't even on there. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So, oh, the Trump cabinet. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Maybe ALX. | ||
| See if there's a Dan Bongino market on here. | ||
| I'm sure there is. | ||
| So cabinet secretaries, got it. | ||
| So none. | ||
| None is the winning at 95, 96%. | ||
| It says none. | ||
| Nobody is going to do it. | ||
| Chrissy Noam and Pete Hegseth pulling in just a couple pennies here and there. | ||
| Stephen Moran, Chrissy Noam, Pete Hegseth. | ||
| But pretty much everybody is below 1%. | ||
| So the betting markets, the prediction markets are saying no one's going to leave the cabinet. | ||
| That everyone's going to be sound and set, which is what I'd like, honestly. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| So on or before 2027. | ||
| Let's look here. | ||
| Ah, Dan Bongino. | ||
| Now, who will leave Trump administration before 2027? | ||
| Now Dan Bongino is up at 53%. | ||
| Zeldon, Pete Hegset, catch up his health. | ||
| What do you think about how these guys are doing at the FBI? | ||
| Let me know in the comments. | ||
| Obviously, we know that there is a considerable amount of criticism. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| That's just what happens when you're in the arena. | ||
| What do you think this is? | ||
| Do you think that society just gives you a free pass to find the J6 pipe bomber and to lock up a bunch of narco-terrorists and to fire all of the kneelers, the FBI kneelers? | ||
| This is a courier one. | ||
| The FBI kneelers. | ||
| There they are. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| I mean, they fired all them. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| These are FBI agents, female FBI agents getting down on their knees in order to pledge fealty to a terrorist organization that was occupying Washington, D.C., DLM. | ||
| This was your FBI. | ||
| So just doing that alone, and some of them obviously couldn't get down on their knees, and then you have this guy. | ||
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| Classic federal bureaucrat slob. | ||
| Listen. | ||
| That's good. | ||
| There's been major changes in culture at the FBI. | ||
| It's been good. | ||
| It hasn't all been good. | ||
| Damn Bon Gino threatened to quit during the Epstein saga famously because Danbond Junior understood what time it was. | ||
| Oh, I never noticed this, that her kneeling actually cracked the cement. | ||
| Goodness. | ||
| Woof. | ||
| Buzz. | ||
| Girlfriend. | ||
| But there we go. | ||
| They fired him. | ||
| And that's something to celebrate. | ||
| Let me know, ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of Bongino Patel and the job that they have done at the FBI? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| More news, ladies and gentlemen, on Rob Reiner. | ||
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It's horrifying. | |
| It's really bad. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| We talk a lot about spiritual problems that this nation is having, and there are huge spiritual problems in our midst. | ||
| There is evil in our midst. | ||
| Here is the update on Hollywood legend. | ||
| Just is what he is. | ||
| Obviously, he was a far left-wing radical agitator, somebody who we don't and didn't disagree with, correction, agree with anything that he said. | ||
| But that doesn't mean that he had to die, his throat being slit by his own kid. | ||
| What the hell is going on with Rob Reiner and his wife, who were killed after an argument with their son, Rob Reiner, and Michelle Reiner's son, Nick, is in custody after being booked for felony murder after the director and his wife were found knifed to death in their home. | ||
| The couple had their throats slit after a heated argument with a relative, understood to be Nick, his son, turned deadly into their, in their $13 million Los Angeles mansion. | ||
| Detectives have been questioning their 32-year-old son who was arrested on Sunday night before being booked for felony murder. | ||
| He's being held on $4 million bail bond. | ||
| He should have no bond, obviously. | ||
| Los Angeles sheriff's records show Reiner made many of the best-known movies of the 80s and 90s. | ||
| Princess Bride, very much a classic. | ||
| The Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed it was called the couple's Brentwood home at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday as a man found 78 and 68 dead on the property. | ||
| Their daughter, Rami, who lives just across the street, is said to have made the grim discovery when she visited the sprawling six-bedroom estate yesterday afternoon. | ||
| The 28-year-old, who is Reiner's youngest child, told police that a family member should be a suspect because they are dangerous. | ||
| Nick had previously spoken out about his struggles with drug addiction in which he saw him first attend rehab around his 15th birthday. | ||
| Oh, goodness. | ||
| And experienced periods of homelessness. | ||
| In 2016, when he was 22, he's said to have gone to rehab 17 times, adding that he had been left homeless and refusing to get help on multiple occasions. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| Terrible. | ||
| And you get a kid that's a drug addict. | ||
| Parents, it's going to be hard, but you got to cut them loose. | ||
| Drug addicts are different. | ||
| There's something because of pop culture and because of Hollywood culture and because of the permissibility and the lack of any type of judgment in our modern era erosion of common sense, the drug user, the homeless person, has been put up on a pedestal as some type of victim. | ||
| When in reality, if you know any drug users, habitual drug users that refuse to get clean, they are some of the most vindictive, selfish, demonic, poisonous forces that you can possibly have in your life. | ||
| These are individuals who are truly dangerous and often desperate. | ||
| And you got to like be smart. | ||
| It looks like the Reiner family welcomed this junkie kid of theirs into their home. | ||
| Something went terribly wrong. | ||
| And then he went berserk and killed his dad and mom, slit their throats with a knife. | ||
| While they were sleeping, I guess? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| That's really bad. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| But also, there's a lot of hatred right now. | ||
| I mean, it says this in the scriptures that you'll see brother turning against brother, son turning against father, daughter turning against mother, and so on and so forth. | ||
| You're seeing a lot of this. | ||
| Like kids are turning against their moms and dads in really despicable and in really violent, horrible ways. | ||
| So, yeah, I'm praying for the Reiner family. | ||
| And I am sickened to see this. | ||
| Goodness. | ||
| The Reiner family has confirmed the death of the director and his wife saying this is with profound sorrow that we announce the tragic passing of Michelle and Rob Reiner. | ||
| And his son is now in custody and is facing charges of first-degree felony murder. | ||
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| It's going to be like an OJ situation. | ||
| I don't know what else to say about it, man. | ||
| It's horribly, horribly sad and dark. | ||
| So be smart. | ||
| Don't let your kids. | ||
| And I guess the major takeaway, what's the major takeaway moral here? | ||
| And this is not me like throwing stones at a dead man, you know, it's Rob Reiner. | ||
| It's like awful. | ||
| But the takeaway here is obviously that you got to be really sharp with who's raising your kids. | ||
| The most effed up kids are the ones from the most successful people. | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| Because they're so obsessed with their careers and they don't realize that the careers are going to come and go, right? | ||
| Rob Reiner doesn't get a lot of directors' gigs anymore or got virtually zero, became a full-time activist. | ||
| But your kids will be there forever. | ||
| Your kids are a part of you. | ||
| They're your flesh, your blood. | ||
| You'll always have a very soft spot for them. | ||
| And when your degenerate, junkie kid comes banging on the door, says he's homeless, you're going to welcome him in, get into a fight. | ||
| You got to make sure that you're raising your children to be godly, to be centered, to not be addicted to all of the poisons in society, and to be upstanding, and to not allow some of the worst elements of society to infect your children. | ||
| There's a reason why all these kids in the Hollywood Hills go off like this. | ||
| They're all like on, they're all junkies and they're all homeless and they're all addicted to drugs. | ||
| Get your kids the hell out of that culture. | ||
| I did that with my family. | ||
| I would have my family. | ||
| We moved down to Florida for this exact reason. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Too bad, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
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| We've covered the FBI thwarting the anti-ICE attack. | ||
| Man, that's terrifying. | ||
| And why don't we just touch on really quickly here? | ||
| Because I think a lot of it is speculation. | ||
| But the terrible news out of Brown University, there was a deadly killing at Brown University. | ||
| Two individuals killed. | ||
| Sophomore Ella Cook, ID as the first victim. | ||
| Ella Cook is a Republican. | ||
| She is a Republican leader on campus. | ||
| She is a Christian. | ||
| She is a crusader for Christ. | ||
| Brown University is the most left-wing, ideologically institution, arguably, in America. | ||
| They're famously left-wing. | ||
| Just 0.08% of the student population at Brown, which is like 10,000, identifies as conservative. | ||
| So the fact that a gunman goes in and is able to randomly just kill the leader of the conservatives on the campus. | ||
| No, man, this smells exactly like a political assassination to me. | ||
| Oh, and there are a bunch of other people in the library and Ella Cook is the only one who got killed along with somebody else in the exact vicinity. | ||
| There's no footage. | ||
| They refuse to give us any of the videos, any of the photos. | ||
| There's no footage of this happening at all. | ||
| They've got nothing. | ||
| They arrested one person. | ||
| Now they've sprung them from prison and said this ain't it. | ||
| Got an alibi. | ||
| We got the wrong suspect. | ||
| She just walk onto Brown University, an Ivy League institution, and kill someone in cold blood and then just walk away with nothing happening. | ||
| It's totally evil. | ||
| She was the vice president of Brown University Republican Club. | ||
| She, again, is somebody who was very well connected with her church, with her parish. | ||
| She was a tremendous leader. | ||
| Everybody who knew her loved her. | ||
| An absolute tragedy. | ||
| Nine others were injured in the shooting. | ||
| She was one of two students gunned down during a finals review session at Brown University. | ||
| And why exactly is Brown University not releasing all of the available evidence, footage, photos, and videos? | ||
| It's enough to make your blood boil. | ||
| It seems to me that they are trying to protect a narrative here and that you don't want to round out the year with another left-wing political assassination. | ||
| But it is overtly enraging and humiliating that law enforcement doesn't have more leads on this. | ||
| And we'll cover more in the morning show, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| All right. | ||
| I am going to let my voice rest. | ||
| We've obviously been traveling all day and we want to make sure we have a strong week. | ||
| We've got some exciting things lined up this week. | ||
| Also, obviously, America Fest. | ||
| Gonna be giving a speech at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow with General Flynn and Mike Tyson. | ||
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| So perhaps tomorrow morning, we will have more to report on that. | ||
| But for now, I have a verse of the day for you. | ||
| Come from Luke 2, 13 through 14. | ||
| And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly hosts praising God and saying glory to God in the highest. | ||
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| Things seem to be going wildly dark right now. | ||
| There's been four or five terrorist attacks or foiled terrorist attacks in just the last 48 hours. | ||
| If you're looking at Australia, if you're looking here in the States, dark times that we are living in. | ||
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| Stay locked in. | ||
| Read your Bible. | ||
| Remember what Christmas is all about. | ||
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