May 19, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
54:48
Participants
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| Anthony is doing great. | ||
| He's a fantastic leader. | ||
| You know all about the fantastic, the great Arnaud family. | ||
| And the fact that you came for this is very meaningful, actually. | ||
| It's really incredible. | ||
| But for crafting this beautiful medal, and I know he looked at it, and he worked on it, and he had his best people working on it, and people are loving it. | ||
| And this will go on for a long time. | ||
| You'll be making that medal for a long time, unfortunately. | ||
| In one way, it's very sad, but we properly respect the ones that have lost their lives. | ||
| Today, we also remember three remarkable heroes who will become the medal's first-ever recipients. | ||
| It's a big honor. | ||
| Corporal Luis Piaz Jr., Deputy Sheriff Ralph Butch Waller Jr., and Deputy Sheriff Ignacio Dan Diaz. | ||
| And thank you very much. | ||
| You're represented by family members who are... | ||
| I was there with them. | ||
| That was devastation. | ||
| They were devastated. | ||
| We're profoundly grateful to be joined by their loved ones. | ||
| Corporal Piazza's former wife, Doris. | ||
| Thank you, Doris, for being with us. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And his son, Cameron. | ||
| Good-looking son, too. | ||
| Deputy Waller's wife, Denise. | ||
| Thank you, Denise, very much. | ||
| And Deputy Diaz's daughter, Alexandria. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I want to thank you all. | ||
| And the three officers we recognize today were close friends. | ||
| They were really close friends and colleagues. | ||
| And together they dedicated their lives to protecting the people of Palm Beach County and well beyond. | ||
| And they were beloved by everyone and respected by all. | ||
| Really, really top of the line. | ||
| Countless times when I was in Florida, they proudly saved. | ||
| And they saved a lot of lives. | ||
| They were going around saving a lot of lives. | ||
| Their reputation was incredible. | ||
| They served in motorcades for presidents called presidential motorcades. | ||
| A very dangerous job, actually. | ||
| And I was deeply honored to attend their memorial service last year. | ||
| In a horrific accident in November, the three officers were working to restart one of their motorcycles on the shoulder of a road when they were struck by a SUV, struck dead center, and all three perished from their injuries. | ||
| Essentially, they perished immediately. | ||
| This was a terrible tragedy. | ||
| It shook the entire Palm Beach community like very, very few events I've ever seen. | ||
| All of Florida mourned their loss, and today our entire nation joins in honoring these three incredible patriots taken from us much too soon, much, much too soon. | ||
| To Doris Cameron, Denise, Alexandria, and to all of those who love these brave men, we are deeply sorry for your loss and eternally grateful for their sacrifice, their great, great sacrifice, just respected by everybody. | ||
| We'll never forget their legacy, and we will never forget the debt we owe all of these great law enforcement heroes who have given their lives to keep our community safe and make America strong again. | ||
| We have so many unbelievable people in the police department and other departments, first responders, firemen, a lot of brave, incredible people. | ||
| And I'd now like to ask my son, Eric Trump, to say a few words, followed by Congressman Brian Mast. | ||
| Alexander Arnaud is going to be giving out the medals. | ||
| Then I'll present the medals of sacrifice. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
| Thank you for being here, too. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Please. | |
| Mr. President, thank you very much. | ||
| My father and I attended that funeral that day, and I can't tell you how moving that experience was. | ||
| And one simple question was asked. | ||
| Why is there no medal, medal of valor, medal of sacrifice, that commemorates Law enforcement officers, first responders who have fallen in the line of duty. | ||
| And Congressman Mast, he was there with me that day. | ||
| He was with my father, and we said, we're going to take care of this problem. | ||
| We're going to get involved. | ||
| And the first call that was made was to the great Arnault family who owns Tiffany's, and they said, without hesitation, that they'd be honored to design something absolutely beautiful that's a tribute to these incredible officers, these incredible EMS responders. | ||
| And here we are, roughly six months later, with something that's truly beautiful. | ||
| I want to thank the Tiffany's family. | ||
| They are no family for all the work they've put into their entire team. | ||
| I can tell you this has been a non-stop effort. | ||
| I want to thank the Congressman. | ||
| Without the Congressman and his staff, we would not be here today. | ||
| I want to thank the President for allowing us to do this. | ||
| It's such an important mission. | ||
| This medal is going to be given for hundreds and hundreds of years to come. | ||
| And last but not least, I want to send, on behalf of this entire nation, on behalf of our entire family, The incredible families of the Palm Beach Sheriff's office and your incredible families. | ||
| They made the ultimate sacrifice and know that we all appreciate their dedication. | ||
| Many of us knew them, have met them, and we love them very much, and I'm sure they're missed. | ||
| But today, hopefully, this is a great tribute to them, and I know because of our wonderful president that this medal will be given out for many years to come. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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I would just start by thanking all of our law enforcement officers. | |
| The job is always dangerous, and you do it still every single day. | ||
| And I would thank the families, because the job, as you are a reminder of, is often deadly. | ||
| And I would thank you, Mr. President, because for the first time in our nation's history, you're willing to say to all of our first responders, all of our law enforcement, all of our firefighters, We're going to recognize that sacrifice from the office of the presidency for each and every one of them. | ||
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And that's never taken place before, that recognition. | |
| That it's a job that's always dangerous and often deadly, and there's a debt that can never be repaid, but you're willing to recognize that debt. | ||
| So thank you, Mr. President, for recognizing the debt. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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unidentified
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Mr. President, Congressman, thank you very much for Involving Tiffany in this process, we're very honored for having made these medals. | |
| Tiffany is a jeweler, as everyone knows it, but also a maker of American heritage. | ||
| We were making the Medal of Honor in the 19th and early 20th century, and it's only natural that we followed with this heritage, just as we work on other very important American heirlooms. | ||
| This medal was made in Providence, Rhode Island, in our largest factory in the U.S., out of silver, plated in 24-karat gold, just like the ceiling of this office, and represents the coat of arms of the United States. | ||
| Mr. President, thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Byron, would you like to say a few words? | ||
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unidentified
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First, to be brief, to the families, we are so sorry for your sacrifice. | |
| But your officer from your family represented not just Palm Beach County, but the United States with honor. | ||
| Mr. President, thank you for allowing us to go forward. | ||
| To my colleague, Congressman Mass, thank you for your leadership. | ||
| We will always honor first responders in the United States of America. | ||
| So, you want to help us out? | ||
| That's beautiful. | ||
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unidentified
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*Rain* | |
| So, can we ask the panelists to step forward, please? | ||
| Chair, would you like to help us? | ||
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unidentified
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Thank you very much. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| First, back to us. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Good boy. | ||
| Stand right up here. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You're not going to get me. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for your honor. | ||
| Would you like to say god? | ||
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I would like to thank you very much. | |
| I'm honorable that's an honor. | ||
| It's brothers and for what you do for the country. | ||
| I think it's so very special for them and for all the people to come. | ||
| It's a club you never want to be in, but you honor them and it just means the world. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you for everything. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Do you want me to go over there or here? | ||
| Come over there. | ||
| Come over there. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I, uh, I'm going to go over there. | ||
| I viewed my dad as Superman, someone my whole life you look up to. | ||
| He's an amazing guy, and it's horrible that this happened to all three families. | ||
| But I'm glad that something was done about it, and we got represented, and everyone in the future will be. | ||
| So, thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Be very proud of you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you so much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's a very tough thing to do. | ||
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unidentified
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Would you like to say something to this? | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Mr. President, on behalf of Sheriff Rick Bradshaw and every member of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, we can't thank you enough for taking the lead on this and recognizing the extreme sacrifice of our three brothers. | ||
| Words really can't express how thankful we are. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| And we have a fourth, and we're going to give this to you. | ||
| Hopefully it's maybe never going to be given out, so we'll give it to Sheriff Bradshaw, who's an incredible sheriff. | ||
| And you've done an amazing job, and we'll have it should something happen. | ||
| And that's right here. | ||
| Okay? | ||
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unidentified
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Thank you. | |
| And I hope it never has to be given up, frankly. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
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unidentified
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Thank you, Mr. President. | |
| Thank you very much, Mr. President. | ||
| Well, thank you. | ||
| Do you have any questions for what you just saw? | ||
| They're so important. | ||
| I mean, people have talked about it for years. | ||
| I want to thank Brian Mass for what he's done, Congressman. | ||
| He's been unbelievable. | ||
| He's a great representative. | ||
| And he worked hard. | ||
| He wanted to do it right. | ||
| And we wanted to go. | ||
| Somehow we could get him done pretty easily in one way, but we wouldn't get him done by Tiffany. | ||
| And the fact that the Arnaud family stepped up was absolutely incredible. | ||
| It means more. | ||
| When you get a name like that, I think it means something extra. | ||
| But these were incredible. | ||
| People, and they're looking down on you right now, and they're very, very proud. | ||
| Very, very proud of all of you. | ||
| It's too bad. | ||
| We had to be doing this, but I was there with you that day. | ||
| That was a rough day. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Would you have any questions? | ||
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unidentified
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Yeah. | |
| Do you have plans to give this award to any other families posthumously finding themselves in the same position as having made this sacrifice and then after the test, one question about your policy? | ||
| Having to do from previous? | ||
| We're looking at the possibility of that, yeah. | ||
| You had a lot of people. | ||
| A lot of people die in the line of duty when you think of it. | ||
| And we figured it was time to start. | ||
| We haven't had the situation arise. | ||
| This was a terrible situation. | ||
| We haven't had it arise yet, but we're looking at going back a little bit and see what we can do about that. | ||
| Yes, strongly. | ||
| Yeah, go ahead. | ||
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unidentified
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On your call with President Putin today, you'd mentioned that the Pope would like to take a role, potentially, in mediating these talks. | |
| Does that mean that the U.S. is taking a step back No, no, no. | ||
| I think it would be great to have it at the Vatican. | ||
| Maybe it would have some extra significance. | ||
| And I saw that it was discussed yesterday, so I thought... | ||
| And people told me that they'd be honored to do it. | ||
| I would imagine they would be. | ||
| So, no, I think it would be maybe helpful. | ||
| There's tremendous bitterness, anger, and I think maybe that could help some of that anger. | ||
| So having it at the Vatican would be, in Rome, would be a very, I think it would be a great idea. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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unidentified
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Mr. President, as you know, two and a half months ago, Ukraine, President Zelensky agreed to that 30-day ceasefire that's been on the table all of that time. | |
| What was the extent of your conversation with President Putin today about having him agree to that same 30-day ceasefire proposal that you, Mr. President, put on the table? | ||
| Well, what we've done, and very strongly, is we said, let's get this thing going. | ||
| You know, I had many of the leaders of European nations on the line with me right after the call. | ||
| And we have to get that thing solved. | ||
| 5,000 young people. | ||
| Every single week on average. | ||
| And I've seen satellite pictures. | ||
| You don't want to see these pictures. | ||
| We'll have to see what happens. | ||
| This was not my war. | ||
| This is not a war that would have happened if I were president. | ||
| This is not my war. | ||
| I'm just here to try and help. | ||
| We've spent hundreds of billions of dollars on this war. | ||
| And yet that's not... | ||
| Frankly, we made much more than that just in four days. | ||
| The Middle East, it's a lot of money, but we do much. | ||
| This is about thousands of people dying every single week. | ||
| 5,000, 6,000 people dying every single week. | ||
| And just like you have the relatives here, wives and children and everything, you have these soldiers, they say goodbye in Ukraine and in Russia, and then their parents never see them again, except maybe in pictures of... | ||
| Horrible scenes, because I've seen some scenes. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| So we're going to see if we can get it taken care of. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
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First of all, thanks to the members of law enforcement who are here, and our condolences to the families. | |
| We're very sorry for your loss. | ||
| Mr. President, on Ukraine and on your call today that you had with President Putin, you said last week that you thought nothing was going to happen, no advances would be made until you and Putin got together. | ||
| Do you still feel that way? | ||
| I think something's going to happen. | ||
| It's a very... | ||
| Big egos involved, I tell you. | ||
| Big egos involved. | ||
| But I think something's going to happen. | ||
| And if it doesn't, I just back away and they're going to have to keep going. | ||
| Again, this was a European situation. | ||
| It should have remained a European situation. | ||
| Should have remained. | ||
| But we have... | ||
| Because the past administration felt very strongly that we should be involved. | ||
| We got involved much more than Europe did in terms of the money and all of the things that we gave. | ||
| We gave massive amounts, I think record-setting amounts given to a foreign... | ||
| There's never been anything like this. | ||
| Both weaponry and money. | ||
| And Europe gave a lot also, but they didn't give anywhere near what we gave. | ||
| We gave probably almost three times the amount. | ||
| And it's just a shame. | ||
| The whole thing is a shame. | ||
| The level of death is just a shame. | ||
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unidentified
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Did you ask President Putin to meet with you? | |
| About what? | ||
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unidentified
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About Ukraine. | |
| Of course I did. | ||
| I talked to him about it. | ||
| I said, when are we going to end this, Vladimir? | ||
| I've known him for a long time now. | ||
| I said, when are we going to end this bloodshed, this bloodbath? | ||
| It's a bloodbath. | ||
| And I do believe he wants to end it. | ||
| When I made the call, I told the people last night, I spoke to the heads of the different countries, Germany and Finland. | ||
| We had Italy, as you know, and the UK was on the line today and a couple of others. | ||
| And then they were in turn calling everyone. | ||
| Ursula was there from the European Union. | ||
| She was terrific. | ||
| And we, you know, we spoke for a long time about it. | ||
| They got a problem. | ||
| It's a big, big problem. | ||
| It's a terrible war. | ||
| It's very hard to extradite themselves away from what's taking place over there. | ||
| The amount of anger, the amount of hate, and the amount of death. | ||
| It's very hard. | ||
| Very tough situation. | ||
| But I said to him, we've got to get going. | ||
| And I did say also, if I thought that you couldn't do it, I'd step away, because what are you going to do? | ||
| We don't have boots on the ground. | ||
| We wouldn't have boots on the ground. | ||
| But we do have a big stake. | ||
| And the financial amount that was put up is just crazy. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| This isn't for us. | ||
| This is for somebody else. | ||
| The amount of money that we put up is record-setting. | ||
| There's never been anything like this. | ||
| And that includes weapons. | ||
| Never been anything like this. | ||
| Young, please. | ||
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unidentified
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Mr. President, on the medal, how far back do you intend to look to consider for the recipients? | |
| And then on your call today, if Putin ultimately proves to be the obstacle to peace, is further arming Ukraine on the table at that point? | ||
| Well, we'll look. | ||
| I mean, we're going to look. | ||
| I hope that I like to think positively, frankly. | ||
| I just can't believe that they allow this to continue. | ||
| This would have never happened of our president. | ||
| And most people admit that. | ||
| And it didn't happen for four years. | ||
| And October 7th would have never happened either. | ||
| That's the attack on Israel. | ||
| That would have never happened. | ||
| So sad. | ||
| A lot of things wouldn't have happened. | ||
| But so sad to see it. | ||
| Now, I think that there's a good chance we can get this done. | ||
| I believe Putin wants to do it. | ||
| Now, if I thought Putin didn't want, I mean, that's what I do. | ||
| My whole life is like deals. | ||
| One big deal. | ||
| President Putin did not want to get this over with. | ||
| I wouldn't even be talking about it because I'd just pull out. | ||
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What did you hear that gave you confidence that he does want peace versus buying time? | |
| I think he's had enough. | ||
| I think he's had enough. | ||
| This has been a long time. | ||
| This has been going on for more than three years. | ||
| When you think, right? | ||
| It's been going on for a long time. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
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unidentified
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When you implored him to stop previously, Vladimir Stop, on social media, and he didn't. | |
| He just continued. | ||
| I'm curious, did you bring that up with him in your phone call today? | ||
| I think we have to talk about it. | ||
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unidentified
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Sorry. | |
| You previously, on Truth Social, implored President Putin to stop. | ||
| You wrote Vladimir Stop, and he didn't stop. | ||
| Quite the contrary. | ||
| I'm curious, did you bring that up on your call with him today? | ||
| No. | ||
| No, I didn't bring that up. | ||
| But I did say, it's time. | ||
| You've got to stop this thing. | ||
| And I believe he wants to stop. | ||
| Look, I would be, I think, very able to tell whether or not he wanted to or would. | ||
| I thought there was a very good chance, like a 50-50 chance, that he would say, I want to take the whole thing. | ||
| I didn't know what he was going to say. | ||
| And then they have a different kind of a problem. | ||
| But I believe he wants to stop. | ||
| Are you sure? | ||
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unidentified
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Can you say a voice just now about backing away or walking away, if it looks like it's going to be an intractable problem? | |
| Yeah, in my head, but not something I'm going to announce. | ||
| But yeah, definitely in my head I do. | ||
| Because this is in our war. | ||
| This is not my war. | ||
| This is not the war. | ||
| I mean, we got ourselves entangled in something that we shouldn't have been involved in. | ||
| And we would have been a lot better off. | ||
| And maybe the whole thing would have been better off because it can't be much worse. | ||
| It's a real mess. | ||
| It's a death trap. | ||
| So I think that, yeah, I would say I do have a certain line, but I don't want to say what that line is because I think it makes the negotiation even more difficult than it is. | ||
| Yes, please. | ||
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unidentified
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Mr. President, thank you all for your sacrifice. | |
| I'm so sorry for your loss. | ||
| You mentioned the bloodbath you want to see end in Ukraine. | ||
| You mentioned that you believe Putin wants peace, but he just attacked Ukraine yesterday. | ||
| So what makes you think that he wants peace? | ||
| Well, he's in a war. | ||
| You know, I mean, nobody said don't. | ||
| They're fighting. | ||
| They're attacking. | ||
| They're attacking each other. | ||
| And people are dying all the time. | ||
| He's in a war. | ||
| He's fighting a war. | ||
| Nobody said he was going to stop. | ||
| I think. | ||
| Is it terrible? | ||
| Yeah, it's terrible. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I think it's terrible. | ||
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Can you wait until President Biden was diagnosed on the cancer before and then I'm going to ask you about reconciliation. | |
| Well, because I think there's a chance of getting something done. | ||
| And if you do that, you can also make it much worse. | ||
| But there could be a time when that's going to happen. | ||
| Yep. | ||
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unidentified
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Mr. President. | |
| Mr. President, with the ratings down Go ahead. | ||
| Do you want to respond to President Biden being diagnosed with cancer? | ||
| Are you going to call your predecessor? | ||
| I think it's very sad, actually. | ||
| I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago, because to get to stage nine, that's a long time. | ||
| I just had my physical. | ||
| You saw that. | ||
| You saw the results of that particular test. | ||
| I think that test is standard to pretty much anybody getting a physical, good physical. | ||
| We had the doctors at the White House and over at Walter Reed, which is a fantastic hospital. | ||
| I do it. | ||
| I did a very complete physical, including cognitive tests, I'm proud to announce. | ||
| I aced it. | ||
| I got them all right. | ||
| You proud of me? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Your husband would be proud of me for getting them all right. | ||
| It's a little risk. | ||
| If I didn't get them all right, these people would be after me. | ||
| It would be not a good situation. | ||
| But I think, frankly, anybody running for president should take a cognitive test. | ||
| They say it's unconstitutional, but I would say in that particular case, having a cognitive test wouldn't be so bad. | ||
| When you take tests, medical, as a male, that test is very standard. | ||
| I don't know if it's given to everybody, but it's given just about. | ||
| And it takes a long time to get to that situation. | ||
| Now, I think, you know, to get to stage nine, I think that if you take a look, it's the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine. | ||
| There was nothing wrong with him. | ||
| Well, he said, if it's the same doctor, he said there was nothing wrong there. | ||
| And that's being proven to be a sad situation. | ||
| And the auto pen is becoming a very big deal. | ||
| You know, the auto pen is becoming a big deal because it seems like that maybe was the president who ever operated the auto pen. | ||
| But when they say that that was not good, they also, you know, you have to look and you have to say that the test was not so good either. | ||
| In other words, there are things going on that the public wasn't informed. | ||
| And I think somebody is going to have to speak to his doctor if it's the same or even if it's two separate doctors. | ||
| Why wasn't the cognitive ability, why wasn't that discussed? | ||
| And I think the doctor said he's just fine, and it's turned out that's not so. | ||
| It's very dangerous. | ||
| Look, this is no longer politically correct. | ||
| This is dangerous for our country. | ||
| Look at the mess we're in. | ||
| You're talking about all these questions on Ukraine and Russia that would have never happened. | ||
| As an example, if I were president, it would have never happened. | ||
| The other thing is you have to say, why did it take so long? | ||
| This takes a long time. | ||
| It can take years to get to this level of danger. | ||
| So, look, it's a very, very sad situation. | ||
| I feel very badly about it. | ||
| And I think people should try and find out what happened. | ||
| Because I'll tell you, I don't know if it had anything to do with the hospital. | ||
| Walter Reed is really good. | ||
| They're some of the best doctors I've ever seen. | ||
| I don't even know if they were involved. | ||
| But a doctor was involved in each case. | ||
| Maybe it was the same doctor. | ||
| And somebody is not telling the facts. | ||
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That's a big problem. | |
| I'd rather tell you in about two weeks from now, because I can't say yes or no. | ||
| I think, look, he's a strong person. | ||
| Zelensky is a strong guy. | ||
| And he's not the easiest person to deal with. | ||
| But I think that he wants to stop. | ||
| It's a very bad thing that's happening over there. | ||
| I think he wants to stop. | ||
| But I could answer that question better in two weeks or four weeks from now. | ||
| I hope the answer is that he wants to get it solved. | ||
| I want to thank everybody very much. | ||
| And on behalf of the United States of America, we greatly honor your family. | ||
| Friends and everybody that had to suffer so much. | ||
| But you have some-- three great men that are looking down on you, and they're-- they're very proud right now. | ||
| They're very proud. | ||
| This is the Oval Office, and they're a big part of it now. | ||
| They're a part of the Oval Office, the White House. | ||
| And thank you all very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Sheriff, for coming. | ||
| Thank you very much, everybody. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| That is President of the United States. | ||
| Eric Trump and some others came up with for first responders there in the line of duty. | ||
| Very, very moving. | ||
| The families were there and President Trump said he's going to look at these posthumously too. | ||
| We've got a great cold open. | ||
| I think I'm going to hold that for right now. | ||
| Do I have Mike Howell? | ||
| Okay, do I have Mike Davis? | ||
| Let's go ahead and play the cold open. | ||
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| We just heard the President of the United States take a press avail. | ||
| Let's go to the cold open for the war room. | ||
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And breaking news to bring you right now, the Supreme Court giving the Trump administration the green light to terminate temporary protected status for about 350,000 Venezuelans. | |
| That means no more protection from deportation and allowing them to work legally in the U.S. Lawyers representing the government argue a lower court decision undermined the executive branch and its authority over immigration and foreign affairs, and the conservative majority on the court agreed. | ||
| Our immigration reporter and producer. | ||
| Armando Garcia joining me now. | ||
| So these protections, they're over. | ||
| So what comes next? | ||
| Can they still appeal? | ||
| Or are deportations coming now? | ||
| Look, that's exactly what 350,000 Venezuelans are asking themselves right at this moment. | ||
| They're asking, whether or not am I still here in this country legally, and perhaps most importantly for their families, am I still able to work legally in this country and provide for my family? | ||
| They don't know. | ||
| We've got to remember that on the way out the door, the Biden administration chose to extend TPS protections for Venezuelans. | ||
| When the Trump administration came into office, they eliminated that extension. | ||
| That meant suddenly that hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who thought they were going to be protected, So you had a chance to speak with a lawyer representing TPS holders in the case. | ||
| What did they tell you? | ||
| And look, this is moving on so quickly. | ||
| We're actually expecting to hear from the lawyers any minute now in a press conference. | ||
| I did speak with one of the main litigators representing TPS holders in this case. | ||
| And here's what he said. | ||
| I thought this was a very stunning quote. | ||
| He said, this is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history. | ||
| That the Supreme Court authorizes action in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking. | ||
| And I think we have to remember also that not only is TPS Venezuela. | ||
| TPS, Haiti, Cameroon and other countries are sure to follow. | ||
| So this is major implications for them. | ||
| They're wondering if the Trump administration can on a whim abruptly end protections for Venezuelans. | ||
| What does that mean for me? | ||
| Armando Garcia, appreciate you bringing us the breaking news. | ||
| We are following breaking news just coming into the newsroom right now. | ||
| A federal judge found the Trump administration's takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace is null and void after determining that Doge's actions were unlawful. | ||
| So let's bring in CBS News Department of Justice correspondent Scott McFarlane. | ||
| This just coming in just a few moments ago, can you break it down for us? | ||
| What did the judge say? | ||
| A 100-page ruling from Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., and one page is more blistering and scathing than the previous one. | ||
| She says that this whole takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace, the firing of board members, the takeover of the building space, is null and void. | ||
| She calls it an overreach, a usurpation of federal authorities, and a misuse of power. | ||
| By the Trump administration, this is an institute that helps exert soft power across the world using means to diplomatically or, and through other means, secure peace, to end war, to end strife. | ||
| But this is also something the Trump administration has had on its Department of Government Efficiency hit list to downsize or reduce to save money. | ||
| As of now, Judge Beryl Howell says the plans are off and the reorganization is no more. | ||
| So, Scott, the outcome of this particular ruling, I mean, this isn't the only department that DOGE has, frankly, come in and just cleaned house and cut so much of the program. | ||
| Is this going to have an impact on other potential cases involving DOGE and its cuts? | ||
| Oh, it sure could. | ||
| You can see these other institutions, these other organizations and agencies making the same argument, that Congress shares or has more jurisdiction over the agency than the president or the administration do. | ||
| And therefore, this doge effort to cut costs or cut agencies is unlawful. | ||
| And as I'm reading from the opinion here, this lengthy opinion from Judge Howell, she uses the word unlawful a couple dozen times. | ||
| Perhaps the most telling excerpt of this ruling. | ||
| She says this not only represents a misuse of power and a way of conducting government affairs, but was unnecessarily traumatizing to the committed leadership and employees of the Institute of Peace, who she says deserve better. | ||
| Kind of underscoring the overall issue here, which this is not just about agencies, but about the federal workers impacted by the downsides. | ||
| Scott McFarlane, thank you so much for that breaking news. | ||
| Traumatizing. | ||
| I don't want to say that's the point of the exercise. | ||
| Mike Davis, Beryl Howell, one of your favorites, Julie Kelly's definite favorite, on a rampage on the same day the Supreme Court backs the taking away the special status of Venezuelans. | ||
| I'm starting to get more and more confused about the, corn-fused about the Supreme Court. | ||
| So make this all make sense to me, sir. | ||
| Well, let's get this straight. | ||
| If the President of the United States... | ||
| Can't fire an executive branch employee because a judge says that an agency doesn't really report to the executive branch, reports to both. | ||
| No, no, no, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. | ||
| She says it's unlawful for the president and his chief executive to fire. | ||
| She uses unlawful, what, 50 times in a 100-page scathing opinion, sir? | ||
| And that's the point. | ||
| So if the president... | ||
| Can't fire this executive branch board, then it's not constitutional. | ||
| Because if this is set up where this board somehow kind of reports to the executive branch and kind of reports to the legislative branch and then kind of reports to nonprofit leaders and people on the outside, that's not constitutional. | ||
| That's not how our system works. | ||
| Congress can create these. | ||
| Federal agencies, but they report to the President of the United States. | ||
| He has the executive power under Article II of the Constitution. | ||
| That is all executive power. | ||
| And if the President does not have the power to fire executive branch agency heads, that agency is unconstitutional. | ||
| On this Barrow House, she's trying to get this to basically go into all these different departments. | ||
| What do you think this happens? | ||
| Do you think it goes immediately to the appellate court in D.C. who will rubber stamp it? | ||
| And then what happens? | ||
| I mean, it's going to go to the D.C. circuit. | ||
| You're going to see the D.C. circuits doing clownish things because it's the Obama-stacked and Biden-stacked D.C. circuit. | ||
| This is going to have to go to the Supreme Court. | ||
| Again, look, there is recourse. | ||
| A fired executive branch employee and you think that your firing was unlawful, you go to the Merit Systems Protection Board. | ||
| If you are a fired federal contractor, you go to the court of federal claims. | ||
| You don't go to a Democrat activist judge like Beryl Howell and have her order that the President of the United States can't fire you. | ||
| Or run the executive branch. | ||
| Remember, the executive order is very clear. | ||
| President Trump is saying to the Institute of Peace and these other agencies through Doge, he's saying, take this down to the bare bones which is required by statute. | ||
| President Trump understands he can't. | ||
| Just overturn a statute that says that something has to exist. | ||
| But just because the statute says something has to exist, it could be a lean organization. | ||
| It doesn't have to be an obese organization. | ||
| And so he's getting it down as lean as he can, as lean as required by the statute. | ||
| And that is absolutely within his Article II powers. | ||
| Supreme Court on the temporary status of the Venezuelans today, sir? | ||
| Yeah, so this was an 8-to-1 decision where the Supreme Court said that after Biden unilaterally gave these Venezuelans special protections, 350,000 of them, including Trendy Aragua foreign terrorist, President Trump can overturn that. | ||
| And these judges who are saying that the president... | ||
| did not have the power to do that who tried to stay the president just got beat eight to one at the supreme court maybe just maybe the supreme court is starting to understand That they're going to lose their legitimacy if they try to stop the President of the United States from carrying out his electoral mandates to secure our border, to deport these illegal aliens, all of whom are criminals, and in particular, expel trendy Aragua foreign terrorists. | ||
| You saw the Supreme Court punt. | ||
| The Trendy Aragua case back to the Fifth Circuit and just tell the Fifth Circuit 24 hours isn't enough and enough notice. | ||
| I think the Supreme Court understands that there is going to be an explosive political blowback if they try to stop the President of the United States from securing our border and getting these illegal aliens the hell out of our country. | ||
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| And thank you, Steve. | ||
| You're a human agency. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And thank you for sticking around. | ||
| A little convoluted today. | ||
| We went to the Oval Office to hear the president. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| And Mike Howell, from the president we heard, correct me if I'm wrong, I think he wants somebody to investigate this entire... | ||
| Biden's situation at Walter Reed, the cancer, the, you know, the thing about her tapes, all of it. | ||
| What say you, sir? | ||
| I think he's one of that for a long time. | ||
| When we first released the auto pen scandal, which has only grown and taken over, he reacted to it and said that the pardons that Schiff and company received were null and void. | ||
| So we're all sitting here waiting on the Department of Justice to prosecute those criminals and to, you know, fulfill the mandate of actual accountability. | ||
| I don't know how many more times President Trump can weigh in on one aspect or another of this. | ||
| And to have to see the other departments and agencies not take action is frustrating. | ||
| Hopefully they're building the case. | ||
| We know that part of the attorney, Ed Martin, that's publicly announced he'll do it. | ||
| And we hope others join him. | ||
| We've got to get the ball moving because the clock is ticking, particularly if President Biden is as sick as he says he is. | ||
| We need his testimony. | ||
| He needs to be interviewed about his role in this and who he allowed or didn't allow to basically run the White House into the ground for four years and destroy so many lives. | ||
| Mike Howe, as he often does, went there. | ||
| Exactly my point. | ||
| Hit rewind on that. | ||
| You're saying we understand the man has, you know, advanced cancer. | ||
| This is obviously a horrible situation for his family. | ||
| However, he needs to be deposed under oath about everything that went on. | ||
| Does he not, sir? | ||
| That's absolutely. | ||
| No one in this country wants President Biden to stay alive longer than I do in the Oversight Project because his testimony is required. | ||
| We need to understand who he allowed or didn't allow to run the White House for those four years because those are also the people that need to be held accountable. | ||
| And it's for a variety of crimes. | ||
| The mass deprivation of civil rights that was underway, the flooding of this border with criminal illegals and others who killed Americans, the people they put in jail, people with cancer. | ||
| We need that information, and so we hope President Biden stays healthy long enough to be able to answer those questions we all need answered. | ||
| So some people are saying the House ought to do it, but that rules out the House. | ||
| What are you specifically recommending, since this goes above and beyond Congress? | ||
| Are you recommending DOJ, the D.C. attorney, the D.C. attorney? | ||
| Do you recommend Ed Martin in the Working Task Force, FBI, Kash Patel, Dan Bergino? | ||
| Who would you actually recommend? | ||
| So it'd be the Department of Justice prosecuting someone. | ||
| That's likely Judge Jeanine here in D.C. Or depending, if you go after Jim Biden, who I think makes the best case and is the legally strongest one because he got a fake pardon. | ||
| That might be Delaware, wherever Jim Biden's located. | ||
| I do not know. | ||
| But Ed Martin can do a great job reviewing what happened in the pardon office. | ||
| Congress can do a great job getting factual testimony out there. | ||
| But ultimately, someone needs to be prosecuted. | ||
| Adam Schiff is another one. | ||
| And I told that to Adam Schiff's face right before he ran out of the... | ||
| But we need these people to be prosecuted. | ||
| Enough talking about it. | ||
| The president has asked, has said publicly over and over and over again, it's time for people to do what he's laid out. | ||
| And the facts are clear. | ||
| I mean, these people committed crimes. | ||
| They accepted bogus pardons. | ||
| Let's charge them and let's try to see them defend these bogus pardons. | ||
| And in doing so, figure out who actually was running the White House, because it certainly wasn't Joe Biden. | ||
| You think the cover-up all comes from that. | ||
| Go to the pardons first. | ||
| That sounds like it would be Judge Jeanine Pirro. | ||
| So the pardons come first. | ||
| And in the pardons you find out both the cover-up on his mental acuity and also the cover-up of this cancer. | ||
| Because you've got to get to Walter. | ||
| You've got to find out why. | ||
| So your angle of attack would be that. | ||
| Yeah, that's the primary one, but there's so many others that need to be underway. | ||
| Republicans have, you know, been played for fools like they always are. | ||
| They're out here celebrating special counsel her and saying that special counsel her was correct, just like they did when he first, you know... | ||
| He made public his report where he said the obvious that Biden wasn't in command. | ||
| Her needs to be under investigation for his cover-up. | ||
| If you listen to the audio, it is very clear he wasn't even considering prosecuting Biden. | ||
| It was about letting him off the hook. | ||
| He didn't get the birder phones and emails to figure out what Biden and Hunter and others were doing with the classified information. | ||
| He basically issued a report that basically said, we found boxes of things. | ||
| Here's where they are. | ||
| Biden's old case is closed. | ||
| So, no. | ||
| A cover-up by her needs to be investigated. | ||
| But again, Republicans don't seem to understand that. | ||
| They also don't seem to understand that they're doing Jake Tapper and his business partner at Axios, Alex Thompson, a huge favor by letting them monetize their cover-up via the promotion of their book. | ||
| Axios and CNN are part of the problem. | ||
| They need to be held accountable. | ||
| We're opening an investigation to make sure that Axios is shut out of any communication with press officers across the country because those people... | ||
| We're part of the cover-up. | ||
| Hey, Mike. | ||
| Mike Howell, Dave Brad here. | ||
| Great job on this. | ||
| You just kind of went where I was going. | ||
| The New York Times has a piece out today on the cohorts, the fighting cohorts within the Republican budget brawl. | ||
| But if you were going to categorize all the feuding cohorts within the Biden regime, I mean, there was Jill and Junior grabbing money, $10 million from China in their hands. | ||
| Who were the other major cohorts or major groups? | ||
| That you would call attention to, you know, that are just, when there's no adult in the room, everyone's just grabbing cash from the cash jar. | ||
| Yeah, I think Obama world weighed heavy. | ||
| We've seen Eric Holder and Susan Rice amass tremendous power. | ||
| They're kind of the connective tissue between corporate America and the globalists. | ||
| And that's, I imagine, where those interests were expressed. | ||
| A lot of things that relates to the Ukraine war, which essentially is a giant money laundering scheme, and people have gotten rich off it. | ||
| I think there's also elements of the progressive wing trying to pick up their scraps there. | ||
| And so we're going to come to find that it may not be a singular... | ||
| Mike, where do people go? | ||
| Social media and where do they go to your investigative site, sir? | ||
| We're at It's Your Gov. | ||
| That's because it's your government, and people forget that the government works for us. | ||
| Our website's itsyourgov.org. | ||
| X handles It's Your Gov. | ||
| If you want to support our work, we would love it. | ||
| We've got a lot of people to sue, a lot of documents to get out, and we could certainly use your help as a brand-new organization. | ||
| Mike Howell, thank you. | ||
| Great angle of attack. | ||
| So, Brett, in the Oval Office, the President of the United States... | ||
| Essentially said we've got to have an investigation here, right? | ||
| Did I mishear that? | ||
| No, I love it. | ||
| You've been calling for it. | ||
| You know how the place works, and I've been asking the same question. | ||
| Where's the president on all the other folks? | ||
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The CIA, the FBI, the other day Comey. | |
| I wish, and he has been. | ||
| Trump's been calling him out, and it's just a dereliction of duty within the House of Representatives and the Senate. | ||
| The Senate, we forget to criticize as well, right? | ||
| The Senate just hides constantly under their desks. | ||
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Hides, yes. | |
| But oversight, judiciary, they're all my friends. | ||
| But this is so far beyond Comer and those guys, right? | ||
| We can't go back down that road. | ||
| Yeah, well, I... | ||
| We went there for three years, and what did we get? | ||
| We got a crummy t-shirt. | ||
| I still want to put pressure on them. | ||
| I want their constituents to put pressure on them to explain why couldn't you do it. | ||
| Maybe they got a reason. | ||
| I don't know what it could be. | ||
| But please explain where the process stands from all you guys, right? | ||
| We've got to prosecute people and put them... | ||
| In economics, if you incentivize something, we've incentivized crime and war, and we're getting more of it. | ||
| If Ed Martin's gone, this is... | ||
| Yeah, and that's great. | ||
| That's great news. | ||
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Hear you and we'll address more of these concerns. | |
| So like, I guess the question is, was it a final deal or was it like a deal to get through step one, step two? | ||
| And they keep thinking at some point you're going to go higher on the cuts. | ||
| And, you know, make it tighter in terms of how much you're going to add to the deficit. | ||
| Well, a couple things. | ||
| First of all, does the Freedom Caucus get rolled a lot? | ||
| Sometimes they're forced to swallow things they don't like, they didn't run on, their constituents don't like. | ||
| It's part of Congress, and I get that. | ||
| And myself, Mike Johnson, others who are on the right always want more spending cuts because we want our government to be balanced. | ||
| We get that. | ||
| This, however, is a situation where early on in these committees, there were 11 committees that came up with their individual sections, chapters of a book, if you will, and eight of those chapters were written until the first of last week, where the last three had to be written, and they were written as well. | ||
| So this entire thing has kind of been very transparent. | ||
| And in those meetings, to answer your question, no, we came to, it has to be here at least, or we're not going to vote for it. | ||
| We beat or exceeded those expectations in pretty much every category. | ||
| The deficit still rises, but I'll let you respond. | ||
| By the way, President of the United States, 9 o 'clock tomorrow morning, he's going to be on Capitol Hill to address the conference. | ||
| I'm sure they'll have an open mic there. | ||
| So for Andy Harris, anybody who disagrees with him, it's, hey, I'm here to say, you got any questions, he'll toss it out there. | ||
| We'll see who goes to the mic. | ||
| They say at the beginning, the Freedom Caucus gets rolled all the time. | ||
| They want to have these cuts, but eventually the pressure comes to get something passed, does it not? | ||
| Yeah, and that guy missed a couple details, right? | ||
| The House Freedom Caucus does actually play team ball most of the time, and they're too differential sometimes to this gross runaway spending, right? | ||
| We got $86 trillion in spending. | ||
| Is Mike Johnson a conservative when it comes to spending? | ||
| It doesn't look like any of them are right now. | ||
| Nothing personal, right? | ||
| It doesn't look like anyone's cutting it. | ||
| I'm not going to go there. | ||
| When President Trump goes there tomorrow, I hope the House Freedom Caucus and all the leaders have a chance to make one point really clear. | ||
| President Trump's the only person on the planet who has the ability to message in this way. | ||
| All the deals from the past are over, right? | ||
| The Speaker said, hey, we got to negotiate, right, these Medicaid deals, these Green New Deals with the six senators, and that's going to take five or six years? | ||
| I don't see how that can be, right? | ||
| Maybe three, six months. | ||
| So that's off. | ||
| But we have addictions to a lot. | ||
| We have addictions to the Greenspan put to the Federal Reserve low interest rate regime that's blown up our financial markets for decades now. | ||
| We're still paying the price for that. | ||
| We have addictions to China. | ||
| If business folks haven't learned their lesson right now, okay, I get it. | ||
| There's a transition period. | ||
| But if you've got supply chain problems in a year or two, well, then, you know, seek out some young entrepreneurs to help you solve that problem. | ||
| We have addictions to green deals. | ||
| We got six Republican senators. | ||
| They're all out on energy committees or out west with solar panel deals running all over the place. | ||
| Those are hugely expensive, Dave Walsh shown, so they don't work. | ||
| There's no economic cost for it. | ||
| We're spending billions and billions on that. | ||
| We're addicted to Medicaid spending. | ||
| We have kids that are getting checks at home. | ||
| There are folks getting Medicaid checks, and we want to check the addresses to make sure they're not going to illegal limits. | ||
| The Democrats, right, I'm giving my own side a little hard time here, but the Democrats are never called to the carpet, right? | ||
| So I just, I hope President Trump makes that point as well. | ||
| We got an in-house battle because we care about the soul of this country and the spending patterns and going broke. | ||
| Trump's going there at 9 o 'clock tomorrow. | ||
| He's got to whip votes. | ||
| What is going to be his response to say, hey, we're with you, but we don't like the fact that these structural cuts are in the second five years and the deficits increase in the first five years? | ||
| What's President Trump's response going to be? | ||
| Well, I mean, President Trump's been going around the world, ending wars and doing great work in the Middle East, etc., across other regions. | ||
| And so I don't think he's got time. | ||
| I don't think he's probably been perfectly informed about the details in this bill. | ||
| So, like, I got a PhD in economics, and I still get confused on the basic terminology, right? | ||
| When someone tells me there's a $1.5 trillion cut, I think it's a cut. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Just common sense. | ||
| You would be incorrect. | ||
| I'd be incorrect. | ||
| Yeah, I know. | ||
| The terminology is very... | ||
| That's where you try to break down the odds. | ||
| Don't believe anything in your first year. | ||
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| And the American people, they got the same gut feel, right? | ||
| If the Congress or your leaders tell you there's cuts, that means spending is going to go down. | ||
| There's cuts. | ||
| So it's true. | ||
| But then there's a tax bill and the scoring, and that gets all complex. | ||
| But the basic thing is we're going to spend $86 trillion in 10 years. | ||
| You're here as my wingman tomorrow. | ||
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| The president's there at 9. We're going to have live coverage. | ||
| It's going to be great. | ||
| What's your social media between now and then? | ||
| Yeah, just Brad Economics. | ||
| I posted all the recent stuff from the War Room. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
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