JC, you bring up 1938, you bring up the Nobel Peace Prize.
Cal Thomas in his column today in the Washington Times bringing up both those things as well.
He writes that Wall Street Journal columnist Will McGurn was right when he asked the question, will Ukraine be Trump's VP?
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Now we take you to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference near the nation's capital, where House Speaker Mike Johnson is participating in a fireside chat.
We're going to defy history, and we're going to grow the House majority in two years and not lose the majority.
I think everybody recognizes President Trump needs four years and not two.
And if they took the majority back, they would try to impeach him.
They would open the border wide.
They would create all sorts of chaos.
So we have to win, and we will.
And let me tell you why.
Because we have a very favorable landscape.
Right now, as we're sitting here today, 13 House Democrats are sitting in districts that President Trump won pretty handily.
That's right.
There's more than 20 districts that President Trump came within five points of winning.
So we've got a great landscape to go out and play offense, not defense, but offense, to flip those seats into our column.
And on top of that, we had an historic demographic shift in the election cycle.
We all saw it happening.
We had a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters, black and African-American voters, Jewish voters, union workers, all these groups that had not traditionally been in the Republican Party, but on the sheer force of Donald Trump's persona, they came into the party and they're going to be with us for quite some time because now we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity, Rob, to demonstrate for these people that it truly is our conservative policies that are better for them, that leads to human flourishing.
It's better for individuals, families, communities, states, and the nation as a whole.
They're exposing this massive fraud, waste, and abuse that we have not been able to uncover because the deep state has hidden it from us.
This is a revolutionary kind of moment.
It really is.
And I told Elon in his office Monday before last, I said, you think of this like a scientist and a data analyst, and I think of it like a constitutional law attorney and a historian.
Elon, what we're going to do here is bring back the founders' original intent for the federal government, right?
I mean, Rob, you know, you're a student of history as well.
The founders wanted a lean, small federal government.
They wanted most of the power pushed down to the states, as you know, and they wanted the federal government to be closely monitored by the duly elected representatives of the people in Congress.
The problem is, Congress has not been able to do that job because they've been hiding the evidence, hiding the ball.
Elon's on the inside, and that's why the Democrats are so nervous.
It's been remarkable to see the Department of Government Efficiency.
That's what Doge stands for.
Department of government efficiency.
And Democrats are almost in this un-American position right now of being against their primary mission, which is to save the American taxpayer money, which to me doesn't make any sense.
And what I've explained, I've done two panels at two different events this morning.
I started at the Republican Governors Association.
They asked me about this, and I went to the big business leaders, Fortune 500 executives there.
They all want to know the same thing.
What is President Trump doing there?
I said, you've got to give him room to operate and do what he does.
He's doing a level set, right?
You've got to get both parties to come and bring about an end to this conflict, which will serve America's interest and everybody's interest around the world.
But I think of it very much like a mediation or arbitration.
If you're a lawyer, you know, I'm a recovering lawyer.
Forgive me if I think of those terms.
But when you start a mediation, you start an arbitration between two parties, you don't bring them into the room for that first meeting.
You do it separately.
So I think Zelensky complaining that he wasn't invited to the first meeting with Saudi Arabia and Russia is misplaced.
I mean, what Trump's trying to do is do a level set, put the conditions in place for that real negotiation to happen, and we've got to allow him to do what he does.
So the beauty of reconciliation, and I don't want to get too deep in the weeds on the procedure, but normally you need a 60-vote threshold in the Senate to do anything of substance, but budget reconciliation is the one exception in the process where you only need 51 votes in the Senate, a bare majority.
So we're going to use this reconciliation process to achieve most of the priorities that we ran on in the election cycle and that President Trump, that's right, committed to.
So I could be here a long time listing all those things, but clearly it's the most important interest of the country.
We're going to secure that border once and for all.
We're going to do that.
We're going to get the economy going again, American economy going, make sure that we don't have the largest tax increase in U.S. history, which is what would happen by default at the end of this year if we fail in this mission because the TCJA, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act extensions expire, the cuts expire.
We're going to get the economy going.
We're going to get back to American energy dominance in this bill.
What is your working dynamic like with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who for the first time in a long time, the Senate's got a bigger majority than the House right now?
The Republican majority in the Senate has a larger margin than we do in the House.
And so by necessity, the two chambers have to work very closely together.
And that's kind of an innovation.
It doesn't really happen in Washington.
It hasn't, so long as I've been there.
But as soon as I became Speaker of the House in October 23, the first instinct I had was, go meet with the Senate Republicans and let's align the two chambers.
It just makes sense.
It's common sense.
So we're doing that.
And you're going to see no daylight between the Republicans in the House and Senate.
Well, he wasn't the leader for the last four years.
They really are in a real bind.
They don't have a leader.
They don't have a vision.
They don't have a platform they can run on.
They have to do a whole cloth reinvention of the party.
But they're very divided right now because they're in the blame game as they do the autopsy of what happened in the election cycle.
So it's an interesting time.
Look, our party's in great shape right now.
We are very unified.
We have a broadened coalition.
That's exactly right.
And we have the principles and the policies that truly are better for the American people.
I think they've recognized that.
You know what happened in the last four years, Rob, is that the woke progressive left tried so hard, they moved so aggressively, so quickly, to swing that pendulum to the left, and it went all the way to the left and it clicked.
Elon Musk tweeted yesterday, quote, the real reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements is that they're using taxpayer money to attract and retain illegal immigrants, their future voters.
Is that what you think the last four years at both our borders has been all about?
Can I ask you, now that the horse is out of the barn, Joe Biden is in Rehoboth Beach, retired, how did he seem during those moments where you were with him in person?
I talked to him on the phone a few more times than that.
They didn't allow me to meet with him one-on-one for probably most obvious reasons now.
But there's a now widely reported story of something that happened, I think it was in early February of last year, when I was in the Oval Office and I asked him why he paused LNG exports.
Like, Mr. President, why would you pause liquefied natural gas exports to our European allies?
Because they're going to have to go to Vladimir Putin to get their needs met.
And he tried to argue with me and tell me that he didn't do that.
And it occurred to me in this dialogue that he genuinely did not know what he had signed.
That they had put this executive order in front of him, and he didn't understand what it was.
And that was a very alarming moment of realization for me.
And I think the whole country knows now.
But it was a dangerous time, a very perilous time for us, particularly in that last year of his administration.
But thank God, thank God, that President Trump is back in the White House and we can restore that.
Well, he's bigger than his father, if that's any kind of.
He's doing great.
He made it to the semifinals in the brigade championship last Friday and lost in a one-point split decision to a young man that was three years older than him and had been boxing about six years longer, I think.
First of all, I want to thank Matt Schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and boss, Mercedes, who have been fantastic friends and supporters and so great when I watch them on television defending me, nobody has a chance.
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The American adventure has only just begun.
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This next video, does this look like London to you?
The pro-Hamas protests making for a very interesting political moment at Harvard, a university recently ranked the worst school for free speech in America.
What would Harvard do in a moment like this, we all wondered, a school that will expel you for using the wrong pronoun and making a pink-haired trans girl cry?
Well, in this moment, Harvard just miraculously transformed into free speech absolution.
Apparently at Harvard, there's nothing offensive at all, even though everything's offensive at Harvard.
There's nothing fenced at all about celebrating the murder of 1,000 people, including a whole bunch of kids.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome from Florida, Senator Rick Scott.
Bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci at the expense of the American people.
Washington was always about protecting the status quo because the politicians in Washington made money off of it.
Washington was about a radical social and environmental agenda.
About forever wars, open borders, lies and no accountability.
Washington was about Washington.
It wasn't about the American people who simply want to lead their lives without bureaucrats telling them what the hell to do.
All of that is changing.
It's changing fast because of one person, Donald J. Trump in the White House.
Now President Trump is bringing common sense back to Washington.
He's bringing transparency and accountability back to Washington.
He's working with great leaders like Elon Musk to bring efficiency back to Washington.
And the Democrats are complaining like crazy, but he's changing Washington in record time.
He's bringing the voice of the American people back to Washington.
President Trump is making America great again.
Now, what's he deserve?
He deserves our thanks and our respect.
But what's he get instead?
He gets lies and obstruction for the Democrats, the mainstream media, and even some establishment Washington Republicans desperately clinging to relevance.
Mitch McConnell supports Merrick Garland's nomination for Attorney General.
He's already voted against three of President Trump's cabinet nominees.
AOC, she's the only level of fascism.
CNN is blasting, blaring that the Trump administration is a threat to democracy and ushering a constitutional crisis.
Guess what?
Here's the good news.
They're the past.
Their voices no longer matter.
Their shadow can no longer hang over politics.
They lost.
The American people won.
What happened last fall?
President Trump and an army of supporters like you all across this great country started a movement.
One that changed the country and reset our future for a golden era.
The future is about you and your hopes and your dreams.
It's about us.
It's about amplifying the voices of the American people and finally, finally, finally giving the government they're paying for and that they deserve.
Now, a couple years ago, in the midst of Joe Biden's disastrous presidency, or whoever was in charge, I put out a plan with some ideas to rescue this country from the radical Democrats who were trying to destroy our values and bankrupt us in the process.
Now, the way the Democrats and establishment Republicans responded, you would have thought I broke the law.
And the craziest part of it, I couldn't tell who hated it more, Joe Biden or Mitch McConnell.
Now think about it.
I propose some really crazy ideas.
So just think about these.
Teach your students about the U.S. Constitution.
That's a hard one.
The Bill of Rights, our founding fathers.
Having our kids recite the Pledge of Allegiance and salute the flag.
eliminating the Department of Education, banning the federal government from asking American citizens to disclose their race or skin color on government forums.
Start growing the American economy, not the Washington economy.
Enacting term limits for member Congress and federal bureaucrats.
Protecting the integrity of the American election.
Protecting, defending, promoting the American family at all cost.
Believing in science.
Guess what?
Men are men.
Women are women.
Unborn babies, they're babies.
Sorry, Democrats.
I was tarred and feathered for proposing such crazy ideas, but it was worth it because it was time for Republicans, at least the true, honest Conservative Republicans, to stand up and fight the hell back.
Now, here in Washington, we're seeing what truly fighting back gets us.
The bureaucrats are scared that their lives are being exposed.
The muddy spigot is being turned off.
NGOs across the world and liberal think tax around the world are scrambling because their golden goose has finally laid its last egg.
Corporate America is tripping over itself to reverse racist DEI programs that seek to divide us by race, gender, and creed.
Now, fighting back gets us a government that's listening.
An administration that's focused on a stronger future, a president that really cares, who truly fights for us, and will not accept the status quo any longer.
Now, let me say what I said a few years ago when I introduced my plan to rescue our country.
Failure is not an option.
The future of this country depends on each and every one of us and the actions we take today, tomorrow, and the months to come.
Now, I've got great kids.
Many of you in this room and watching on TV, you've got kids and grandkids as well.
In America, we used to believe we had a duty, a sacred duty, to leave things better for our children and our grandchildren than we found them.
$2 trillion deficits, $36 trillion in debt, Medicare and Social Security going bankrupt, failing schools, high crime rates means that hasn't happened.
Instead, our political and cultural rot has made things harder for our kids and our grandkids than they were for each of us.
It's harder to get a good education now than it was when I was growing up.
It's harder to buy a home.
It's harder to start a business.
It's harder to get a good, full-paying job.
It's harder to live the American dream.
That's wrong.
that cannot be our legacy those of us fighting side by side in the conservative movement have faced significant obstacles even unfortunately inside our own party But you and we have kept fighting.
We have to fight harder now.
We have the opportunity, but it takes our fight.
Now, we all watched what happened in Butler.
We all saw President Trump stand up and raise his fists.
What did he do?
Fight, fight, fight.
Even in the face of unimaginable obstacles, he kept fighting.
Now, we know he's going to keep fighting.
I know I'm going to keep fighting, and I know everybody in this room is going to keep fighting with us.
Thank you for what you're doing.
God bless every one of you.
God bless the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and God bless this great country.
Have a great day.
Bye-bye.
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Every institution today is under attack.
The home, the church, the government, and many people asking, what is the truth?
As I think it was President Reagan said, we're from the government.
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We're here to help.
I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
We're from the government.
We're here to help.
Sources out there that are saying that Iran, their goal is to draw the U.S. into this broader conflict.
There's no question that not only did the Iranian parliament come out and start saying death to Israel, you know that they've chanted death to America, they hate us.
They hate our culture.
They hate what we stand for, which is that of freedom and religious freedom.
And for them, they want to take us down.
And the mere fact is you have a commander-in-chief right now who is hiding in the basement that needs to be out there every single day answering the tough questions.
Instead, they basically say that climate change remains the most important national security crisis that we're facing.
They have caved in time and time again to Iran while knowing that they are funding Hezbollah.
They sent over $100 million, that is, Iran, to Hamas and over $700 million to Hezbollah.
Clearly, it is about sponsoring terrorism.
Clearly, it is about destroying our strongest ally, Israel, and then America.
Ladies and gentlemen, up next, Nowhere to Hide.
The Tady Down of Left Tech.
Please welcome, from Missouri, Senator Eric Schmidt, and founder and president, Article III Project, Mike Davis.
We're going to talk about big tech, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, and what we need to do to end their gatekeeping power over information and commerce.
And this started under the Trump 45 administration, where we saw our 100-year-old antitrust laws get dusted off, and we ended big tech's antitrust amnesty, where we want to use antitrust, which is law enforcement, to go after these trillion-dollar big tech monopolists who they have too much power and they use that power for bad things.
And they're anti-competitive.
And we saw that the Trump 45 Justice Department started this.
I always said that the only thing that the Biden administration did right was they continued President Trump's antitrust enforcement under the Biden antitrust division.
And we're seeing with President Trump that he is fully committed to finishing the job with antitrust.
You see this with his appointment of Andrew Ferguson to chair the Federal Trade Commission.
And we're seeing this with President Trump's pick of Gail Slater to lead the antitrust division.
And it's critically important because these trillion-dollar big tech monopolists, they crush competition, they shutter small businesses, and they cancel conservatives and others with whom they disagree.
And I'll tell you, the tip of the spear in this fight has been Senator Schmidt from Missouri.
He has been a warrior against big tech.
And so I'm very pleased to talk to him today about these issues.
And I just want to start this off, Senator, to just get your thoughts on antitrust and big tech generally and what you think needs to happen.
Well, I think great to be with you and great to be back at CPAC.
What a great crowd.
And this feels a lot different now that we won in November than it did just a couple years ago, doesn't it?
There's a new sheriff in town.
So, yeah, I think that for most people, especially people in this room and conservatives, they have seen, like, over the last four years in particular, what happens when you have these massive concentrations of power.
And you see that sort of collide with this fundamental belief that we have as conservatives that when we're born, we're born with certain rights.
And those rights come from God.
And the first one that's mentioned in our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, is the right to speak your mind.
This idea of fundamental human expression, right?
And government's only role is to make sure it protects those rights.
That's like the foundation of the country.
And we believe that.
So when you have these massive companies then that infringe upon that right, and sometimes with the behest, at the behest of the federal government, it's a scary situation.
In my previous job, before this one, I was attorney general for the free state of Missouri.
It was a great gig.
I loved it.
And we launched the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit, which turned into Murphy versus Missouri.
But you've got to remember, so I think it's important to sort of go back in time.
In 2021, 2022, really before Elon Musk had bought Twitter, before Jim Jordan was holding hearings, we filed this lawsuit.
And it's interesting, Jen Saki, you got to go back.
This is COVID, forced masking, forced vaccinations.
The real raw power of the federal government was on display.
And Jen Saki was standing there up at the podium saying, yeah, we're flagging this for Facebook.
They need to take this down.
They wanted to start a disinformation governance board.
Remember Mary Poppins, who was singing, what was her name?
But she's singing about how great it is.
And this misinformation, disinformation must be taken down by the government.
So you saw this, when we filed the lawsuit, we got discovery before the temporary restraining order that ultimately went to the Supreme Court.
And what we found was shocking.
We had an idea what was happening, but could have never been prepared for what we found, which was high-level government officials working directly through a secret portal with the big tech companies at Facebook, at Twitter, saying, take this down.
This is misinformation.
You need to take this down.
And them saying, okay, what else can we do?
They were also threatening, threatening to take away Section 230 protections if they didn't do more censorship.
So as this unfolded, it really, I think, showed to the world and to this country the real risk of these concentrations of power with the federal government working directly with big tech giants to censor speech.
And I think this is the fight.
This is the fight long term for us.
The Democrats, the liberals even, have ceded this ground, the high ground of defending your right to speak your mind.
And so as conservatives, I think we should own this issue.
It's the right thing to do.
And clearly, American people, I think, watched all this the last four years, and they sent back President Trump to fix it.
I think people need to understand the whole point of antitrust is to protect the free market, right?
When you have these trillion-dollar monopolists using their market power to crush competition, you no longer have a functioning market.
You no longer have a free market.
And that's why antitrust laws that have been on the books are so critically important to break up this power.
Because if you're a free market conservative like we both are, you should strongly support antitrust law enforcement.
You are targeting the anti-competitive tumors on the free market so you don't need industry-wide regulation.
Facebook is calling for regulation.
Of course they are because they're a big company and they can afford to pay for the lawyers and the lobbyists and the PR people to navigate those regulations.
Those are entry barriers to startup competitors.
And I would say this, remember this about Google and YouTube.
If Google competed against YouTube instead of acquired YouTube, there's no chance that Google would be censoring half of America based upon their political viewpoints.
They would try to be, they would be competing.
Google would be competing with YouTube for conservative users, not trying to censor them.
I think in Google in particular, like there's been a lot of attention.
I mean, thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter and X, and it really is a platform.
It really is a platform.
But Google is really the ultimate black box.
That algorithm, like if you're a business or whatever, or you're a political candidate, there's a huge difference between you being on page one of the search and page 12 of the search, right?
And nobody gets to see the wizard right now.
Nobody gets to see it.
So I think some of these, the litigation as it relates to Google is really important to sort of bust that up so you have real competition.
There are two major antitrust lawsuits working their way through the courts right now.
And Google is the worst of the worst.
They're the worst actor.
And one is on Google's search monopoly.
When you go on Google and look for things online, that's their search monopoly.
The bigger problem is Google has an online advertising monopoly, right?
They use the money they make with their online advertising monopoly to fund their censorship, all their woke nonsense that they do is because they have this online advertising monopoly.
And you're seeing lawsuits right now, again, started under Trump, to Biden's credit, continued under Biden.
We need to finish the job with Trump's antitrust law enforcers like Gail Slater at the Antitrust Division.
Another problem you're seeing with these big tech platforms is something like NewsGuard, right, where they have, they rate news services in schools like libraries and classrooms.
And of course, they give conservative news organizations like Newsmax or Fox News or Breitbart, they give them lower grades, and so kids don't have access to conservative news sites.
They get the liberal news sites like CNN and MSNBC, and that needs to end as well, because again, they're trying to control information and commerce in this country, and we just cannot let this happen.
Well, and I think the other thing that's happening too, and we saw it, which is why, you know, it's such a great opportunity for us now with having President Trump in the White House, having a Republican House, having a Republican Senate, because we can actually put some structural safeguards in place too.
For example, Section 230 protections, what is that?
Back in the 90s when the internet was sort of becoming a thing, what Congress said was, okay, you're going to be sort of immune from liability because you're a platform, right?
People can go on there.
As long as it's an open platform, you can't be sued for what somebody else says.
And the idea was to have this democratization of information, right?
What it didn't ever contemplate was that they would then be themselves sort of the censors, right?
And so I think, you know, by way of legislation, you got to pick.
You're either going to be an open platform or you're going to be a publisher who can get sued like 60 Minutes ought to get sued for the nonsense that they did of President Trump and the enemies.
So they've got to pick a team.
And also, if you're a bureaucrat and you work to censor Americans, you ought to be able to be sued individually by a citizen, so it doesn't take an attorney general to have to go do that.
You as an army of Americans can sue the censors.
That would change, I think that would really change the incentive structure, which would be really important.
And I can't miss the opportunity to point out just how exciting, as Mike and I and all of you believe, you know, the founders believed in this system of checks and balances where we have, you know, power is spread out among the branches, you have federalism.
The whole intent was so that no one branch or no one person could get so powerful to take your liberty away, right?
That's the whole idea.
The whole point is to protect individual liberty.
They could have never contemplated the administrative state as it currently is right now.
This army of bureaucrats in buildings, by the way, they don't even show up to work anymore.
About 6% of people are actually in the offices here in Washington, D.C. on any given day.
But they have immense power over your lives, right?
Over your lives.
They can take away your liberty in some cases.
They could take away your livelihood.
And so what President Trump is embarking on, and you see just the histrionics every day, the Democrats are losing their minds because of Doge and these efforts to strip away that power.
And they should.
They should, because the people of this country elected one person to run the executive branch.
And he gets to make decisions on personnel and on policy.
And you don't get to send millions of dollars to Guatemala for sex changes and think you're immune from having that money stripped away.
Yeah, and I think one other, with the time we have left, I just mentioned one other thing to kind of look out for.
On the Judiciary Committee, I was telling Mike, I chair the Constitution Subcommittee.
So we have jurisdiction over the First Amendment, the Second Amendment.
So get ready.
We're going to have some fun hearings and bring people in and hold people to account for trying to take away your right to speak your mind.
So whoever's watching this to engage in activity, stay tuned.
But also, what's happening with Doge right now, and it was so smart to start with these, with USAID, right, where you had all of this money flowing to DEI programming in Burma and LGBTQIA plays in Europe and, you know, LGBTQ Sesame Street in Iraq.
I mean, this is like totally insane, but that's where this money was going.
But it was funneled effectively through these NGOs, right?
The Biden administration was also using these NGOs to bring mass migration into this country, to break up our sovereignty as a country, and they were also using it to help flag things for their vast censorship enterprise.
And so I think we're going to do some investigating on who these NGOs are.
And if you want to know why the Democrats to this, there is a lot of corruption that's going to be exposed.
You know, 13 years ago, I was the only foreign speaker and now CPAC is a global brand.
Congratulations to Matt and Mercedes-Schlapp for making it happen.
And what a time it is to cross the pond.
My country.
You can't say anything or you might get put in prison.
We're getting poorer.
Everybody's miserable.
We're governed by a left-wing, awful government.
Suddenly, post-November the 5th, America is optimistic.
It's upbeat.
It's the beginning of the golden age in America.
And it is all because of one totally extraordinary individual.
You know, I can tell you that if you take on the establishment, they do not come out with a tray of drinks.
The whole of the British establishment wanted us to be members of the globalist European Union.
All the parties, all the big businesses, all the trade unions.
And it was almost me alone saying, this is a crazy idea.
We want control of our sovereignty, our borders and our identity back with the British people.
And for daring to say that, they made my life hell.
But the tough times I went through are as nothing compared to what they put Donald J. Trump through.
It went on for year after year after year.
Endless court cases, mainstream media abuse, harassment of his family, debanking from some of the worst financial institutions, assassination attempts.
And yet this man has come through it braver, stronger, wiser than at any point.
He is simply the bravest man that I know and we should all applaud him.
We really should.
We really should.
And what a pick.
What a pick for vice president.
You know, very often, around the world, very often vice presidents, American vice presidents, are not particularly noticed, not taken that seriously.
But after the speech at the Munich Security Conference, I think we can say with some confidence that the American VP is going to be a major part of global politics.
And I loved it.
I loved it.
Did you enjoy his speech?
Well, I tell you what, they didn't, did they?
They absolutely hated it.
It rather reminded me of my times in the European Parliament a decade ago, getting up saying the bloke had the charisma of a damp rag, and that rather upset them.
But JD was right to have allowed millions of undocumented young males to come into Europe, many from war zones in which they took an active part,
to allow those people who come in and in many cases come from cultures and countries where women are not even treated as second-class citizens, to have seen the massive increases in crime, gang crime, dramatic increases in sexual crime against women.
And yet nobody in the European establishment is prepared to put their hands up, to recognise the depth of the problem, and to say sorry to their people.
And JD called them out in this speech, and he was right.
He was right.
He also mentioned free speech.
And I think there's a third figure in American public life now that is, well, I think he's a hero.
Because if you remember 2020, in November, you couldn't say anything about the conduct of the election in this country.
You then couldn't say anything about vaccines or about lockdowns without social media closing you down.
And then along came the hero of free speech, E. Lon Musk.
Fantastic.
And he's fighting for free speech.
And boy, if we don't have free speech, we're not living in a free, open, democratic society.
It matters that much.
And I believe that the talents of the world's most successful businessmen going into this amazing Doge project, I wish him all the luck in the world and Godspeed.
I really, really do.
And we now we very often follow you.
American trends we tend to follow.
You occasionally follow some of our trends.
I mean, you gave us woke.
And we gave you Prince Harry.
No, you keep him.
You keep him.
But in 2016 we delivered a political thunderbolt across the whole world and it was called Brexit.
And I believe that a wave crossed the Atlantic and helped Donald Trump win the presidency in November 2016.
Well, this time the Trump win has the ability not just to save your country, not just to make you freer and more prosperous than America has ever been, because undoubtedly that is what is going to happen.
But it's also producing a wave that is now coming the other way across the Atlantic.
I had been retired from politics for nearly four years, but I decided last June I'd get back into politics because I couldn't bear what was happening in my country.
And I am now leading, And in historical terms, this is incredible.
I am now leading Reforming UK, and we are now topping every opinion poll in Britain.
And we are.
And we are going to win the next general election and save our country.
We're going to do it.
We're going to do it.
And what you guys have done.
What CPAC, what the activists have done in helping President Trump win 85% of the counties in this great country of yours to win the House, the Senate, the majority vote, all those things you've done.
The confidence of this man surrounded by a great, great team.
This is all going to blow back and help us in our endeavours and across the rest of Europe too.
And I really believe that like you, British taxpayers have had enough of sending £100,000 to Bangladesh to study shrimp behaviour.
But we've had enough of free speech being cracked down upon.
We've had enough of two-tier policing, two-tier justice, different groups of people being treated differently by the law.
We've had enough of being told you can't say that.
To hell with it.
Within the limits of what free speech gives us, we should be allowed to say whatever the hell we want.
And we will.
And we will.
We will deport those who come into Britain by dinghy illegally.
We will make sure that those to come to Britain legally subscribe to our shared values.
In fact, in many ways, what we're fighting for is a very similar agenda to the one that you've just fought for and the one that you have just succeeded with.
I want to finish by saying, as a regular at CPAC and as somebody who has publicly supported President Trump and been a friend of his for a decade, this is a remarkable CPAC coming together.
Well, Pam, I will tell you that there is some good karma to being on this podcast at CPAC because the last guest we had at CPAC was someone named JD Vance.
Look, I spent four years hearing from AUSA's assistant U.S. attorneys, hearing from FBI agents, hearing from men and women who believe in the rule of law and were horrified at the politicization of the FBI and the DOJ.
And so I know for a lot of good, honorable men and women who've devoted their careers to defending the Constitution, there's a lot of gratitude that they can get back to doing their job.
And that's thanks to Donald J. Trump getting back in office.
And he gave us a clear directive, make America safe.
And that's what we're going to do.
You know, to start with the law enforcement agencies talking about cash, these men and women didn't go to Quantico.
They're not risking their lives to waste their time on all this politicization and raiding Mar-a-Lago, really.
Stopping.
All of that is stopping.
And we are returning them to their core function, fighting violent crime.
And that's what the great majority of men and women in law enforcement, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals, FBI, as well as the incredible legal team at the Justice Department, that's what they want to do.
So let's talk about one of the most lawless aspects of the last four years, which was the open borders that we saw and the 12 million illegal immigrants that have come into this country.
You've had just two weeks, but you've hit the ground running, going after the criminals, going after the murderers, going after the rapists, going after the child molesters, going after the Venezuelan gang members.
Tell us, number one, what you're doing as Attorney General that is making a real difference, that is already making America safer.
And number two, I understand you have some breaking news concerning my home state of Texas, which I'm particularly proud to hear.
Well, Stephen Miller is doing a great job as Leon Ri leading this effort with all of us, Mike Waltz at DOD.
We all work so, Pete Hegseth, we all work so well together.
And it gives us the ability, it gives, they are a terrorist group, and it gives us the ability to go after them more ability anywhere in the world and treat them as terrorists.
They are terrorists.
If you're bringing fentanyl into this country and killing our kids, you're a terrorist, and we're coming after you.
You know, I was a state AG before I became United States Attorney General.
And fentanyl was really just coming on the market.
And now with this horrible open border policy just flowing, flowing across our borders and killing kids, killing adults every single day.
And it's criminal that no one was doing anything to stop it.
I can't comprehend how any administration, progressive nor conservative, how any administration could tolerate that and let that happen.
And it ended day one with Donald Trump when he shut that border.
I was at the border back in September.
I went with Laura Trump and Morgan Ortegas.
And we were in Yuma, Arizona.
And I saw firsthand there is nothing humanitarian that was happening at that border.
Nothing, nothing.
They have a rape tree where they're raping women as they're coming into this country.
I saw firsthand piles and piles of passports just thrown from every country you can imagine because the Biden administration was letting you walk right in the country.
If you didn't have a passport, they said they saw Asian Chinese individuals saying, oh, we're from Cuba.
So they wrote down there from Cuba and had to let them legally walk right in under that administration.
But the drugs, the trafficking, I learned a new term, disposable child.
The customs, the border, I mean, the border patrol agents told me that they saw a little boy and they kept recognizing the same little boy over and over and over coming in.
Because if you came into our country as a family unit, they just let you walk right in.
Well, this little child was being trafficked.
Now, how they were getting him back to Mexico is beyond me, but they were bringing him time and time again.
He wasn't their family, so who knows what happened to his parents?
Well, and I will say a number of people in the room gasp at a term you use, which unfortunately is a real term, rape tree.
And it's something that we're seeing.
We've been seeing for the last four years in Texas.
We've seen it in Arizona that the cartels will go and violently rape women.
They'll violently rape teenage girls, young girls, and then they will hang their underwear in the tree.
And you'll find a tree down on the southern border with 10, 20 pairs of underwear as they're mocking law enforcement, saying we can do whatever we want.
And for four years, the Biden Justice Department, they just turned a blind eye and they facilitated it.
You know, you talked about the kids, so they had a policy.
If you arrive with a kid, it's essentially a get-out-of-jail free card.
And so you started seeing a phenomenon that we've never seen in immigration before, which is single young men showing up with little kids.
Now, that's not a normal pattern of migration, but we started seeing military-age men showing up with little boys and little girls, many of whom are physically and sexually assaulted in transit.
And the same kid, the cartels would recycle over and over and over again to bring in gang members, to bring in criminals.
Now, let me ask this: what is most effective stopping the invasion at the southern border?
How concerned are you right now about the 12 million illegal aliens who came in under Joe Biden and about the risk of terrorism of Hamas, of Hezbollah, of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the risk of terrorism targeting Americans across this country?
It's a huge risk, and we all know how bad it is now.
And that's what Donald Trump is committed to do: to take these people out of our country, to prosecute them, to deport them, to get them off our streets.
And that's what all of these law enforcement agencies are doing.
You know, Lake and Riley, of course, that beautiful young woman, University of Georgia, Lake and Riley, it's probably the most prominent name.
Worse, meaning, yeah, that that department had completely lost its mission of fighting violent crime.
Look what they did to President Trump.
Look at the weaponization.
And weaponization ended.
And the deep state is very real.
I think all of you in this room know that.
It's very real.
And people trying to undermine everything you're doing.
You know, three weeks into it, I went in one department and found huge 20 by 20 glosses of Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and Kamala Harris still hanging up in my office.
They're gone.
And guess what's replacing it?
A very handsome photo of a man named Donald Trump.
But I make light of that, but that's what's happening.
You know, he had been in office three weeks, and the deep state still had those pictures hanging.
And to me, that's defiant.
It's insubordination.
Not going to happen.
But what we said, most people, the majority of the people are great people who went to law school, became prosecutors, became law enforcement agents to fight crime.
And that the drug epidemic, you know, the fentanyl just flowing into our country now, the terrorists, the gangs, TDA, TransdAgua, MS-13, all of the gangs who are now terrorist organizations, we've got to stop them.
And that's why we do what we do.
And we all have to work together.
And working with Homeland Security has been great, too.
Tell me about the efforts you and Homeland Security and the Trump administration, the efforts you are doing to find those children and to get them out of harm's way.
Oh, my father points out that my dad is 85 and he said when he hears subscribe, he thinks it's a magazine subscription.
There's no charge.
It just magically appears in your phone early in the morning on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
And we bring in guests like the Attorney General of the United States, and we focus on what is happening, the victories that President Trump is winning, and the news that the corporate media won't cover.
Don't you find it very interesting that they attempted to prosecute the president for having documents in the most secure place in the world other than the White House, Mar-a-Laga, and he had the security clearance to take them.
Yet Joe Biden, who had no security clearance to take them at the time, had them in his garage with his drug addict son going in and out of his garage.
When you're filing cases like that to keep someone who criticized Joe Biden, who said they took away a security clearance so he could not get the details, so he could not help enforce the deportation efforts in New York.
And, you know, these people are going after him ride a subway in New York.
It's not safe.
Violent crime is at an all-time high, and that's what they're doing.
So it's not about weaponization.
It's about ending their weaponization of the government and fighting violent crime and enabling cities like New York and mayors like Eric Adams to enforce Donald Trump's immigration policies.
I want to ask you and go back to something you said a moment ago, we were talking about cartels and they have been able to set up networks and we see this coming up now more often, where they're controlling states and cities and states and the entire flow.
And it's been reported, look what they're doing at EPA.
Yeah, I'm changing the subject a little bit, but they're giving out billions of dollars after Joe Biden lost the election, trying to push this money out the door.
But it's because we all pick up the phone and we talk directly to each other.
So we're able to work together.
Talk to Marco Rubio and look at the men like Steve Witcoff out there, Rick Grinnell, what they're doing working with Marco and Mike Waltz and all the great people that they're saving around the world.
And I'll tell you, I have had great joy turning to my Democrat colleagues in the Senate and just deadpanning.
Well, three years and 11 months to go.
And they literally start twitching.
They have facial tics that they cannot suppress.
But Pam, one of the things that people like about this podcast that we try to do is we try to bring people behind the scenes to actually understand what's going on behind closed doors.
So tell us about your first day as Attorney General.
You're confirmed.
And like day one, when you get sworn in, just walk everyone through what day one of being Attorney General of the United States is like.
And I jokingly said it felt like 15 years because you're working seven days a week nonstop.
And we're all working with each other and everything we do.
It overlaps.
And especially with the Department of Justice, especially too with all this money going out, the USAID, all of these agencies, and we're going to be helping all these agencies.
But you just hit the ground running literally.
And don't look back.
I don't look at what time of day it is.
I don't think I've slept in 15 days, but you don't want to.
And then when you find out about this human trafficking ring that was just broken up, it's just, that's why we're all doing what we're doing.
And you just keep going forward.
And our directive, our directive from our boss is so easy, especially on my end, make America safe.
And so you just don't, Senator, you don't even, my hardest thing now is I forget to eat.
You forget what time it is.
And it's 6 o'clock at night.
Why do I have a headache?
Because I haven't eaten today.
But you're going nonstop.
And it's not me.
It's an entire team.
I've got Chad Meisel, I've got Amel, I've got Todd Blanche, thank goodness, coming in, and we've got Kash Patel now.
So they better look out.
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How nice is it to have a boss guy by the name of Donald J. Trump who just lets you do your job?
He has trusted all of us in all of our various capacities and all the different roles we have, whether it's education or agriculture, all the cabinet labor, all of the different cabinet secretaries, just to go out and do the best we can.
And, you know, we want to make all of you proud.
And we want to fulfill his directive to make our country great.
That man sure didn't need that job.
He's a good friend of mine.
And I love during my confirmation hearing when they get on me because they say I'm friends with Donald Trump.
Yes, I'm very proud.
No, I'm not friends with him.
I'm good friends with him and I'm very proud to work for him.
The violent protesters and rioters, many of whom are not students or not affiliated with the universities, and they are threatening students.
You look at Columbia University, the Orthodox rabbi there sent out an email to the Jewish students on campus and said, do not come to campus because the university cannot and will not keep you safe.
And the Biden Justice Department did nothing.
They investigated nobody.
They didn't follow the money.
They didn't indict anyone.
They didn't prosecute anyone.
And they did not enforce Title VI of the civil rights laws, which say that if you are tolerating harassment on the basis of ethnicity or religion, that you will have your federal funds cut off.
How is the Department of Justice different today?
And what will your approach be to anti-Semitism and threats of violence directed against Jewish students on campus or any other students on campus?
We have an October 7th task force that we started, and we will protect you.
When I was just a citizen before I had this job, what you said, I'm watching these, these aren't peaceful protests.
We all believe in peaceful protest.
Oh, I'm sorry, unless you're a liberal and you don't want a parent to quietly pray outside an abortion clinic or you're a Catholic or a parent at a school board, they're going to call you a domestic terrorist.
But I'm screaming at my TV watching these violent protests.
You know, the last, since October 7th, you're watching this happen, and all of our students deserve to be saved.
And first of all, these students who are here on visas, who are threatening our American students, need to be kicked out of this country.
Of course, everything we talked about-the drugs, the cartels, the great, maybe I'll get a little sleep tonight based on the arrests that were just made, the children that are being trafficked, things that have been so personal to me since I was a state prosecutor and then since I was state attorney general.
Now you just get to help people on a bigger level, which is pretty cool to get to do that.
But most recently, it's really been what Elon has been uncovering.
And the USAID, the waste at EPA, this money, trillions of dollars, they believe, just being handed out, which is most likely making a round trip and going to terrorist organizations.
And every day, we are seeing Democrat attorneys general and Democrat interest groups suing the president, suing Elon Musk, suing the federal government, and the Department of Justice is on the front lines.
And sadly, we're seeing left-wing activist judges, individual district court judges, issuing nationwide injunctions.
Tell us about what it's like defending against those lawsuits and give us your thoughts on the authority of one radical district judge to try to run the executive branch and issue a nationwide injunction.
But, yeah, so you've got one unelected district judge trying to tell President Trump, who was elected overwhelmingly by the American people, where federal funds can go.
We're winning.
Even in liberal courts, by the way, Senator, we're winning.
And if not, we're going to go all the way to the Supreme Court and keep winning.
A year ago, if someone had told you you'd be at CPAC and working with the president to absolutely shred the government, the swamp, whatever you want to call it, would you have ever believed that?
Yeah, I mean, I thought we were sort of heading for a point of no return, really.
Until that's why it was so essential that President Trump win the election and that there be a Republican majority in the House and Senate, which thanks to you, that has been accomplished.
I want to ask you, one of the biggest questions I have for you is, and you've been, you know, politically, you weren't really on one side or the other for a long time.
No, I mean, that whole cancel culture and, you know, it's trying to stuff freedom of speech and infringe upon, just in general, infringe upon people's personal freedoms.
You know, they just want state control, state control of what you say.
They want to, you know, take away your guns.
And the reason they want to take away your guns, so like there's nothing you can do to oppose them.
So it's sort of like, you know, I just like, we just need to restore the fundamental elements of what made America great, which is freedom and opportunity.
unidentified
We're seeing a lot of these freedoms disappearing in the West.
It's not just about America.
We're all watching Europe and knowing that they're about 50, 100 years ahead of us, right?
I mean, when they're chanting for my death, I suppose that's a little bit like this song is not even that good.
And it's like, like, you call that a death chant?
That's nothing, please.
unidentified
They've been singing a lot lately.
There's a lot of music lately.
It's not good music either.
I would say that watching what you're doing with Doge is just people love it.
I mean, I've always looked at the government and I've always looked at the government.
I've seen this big machine that, and you just know that they waste because they don't care.
There's more money coming, they don't care.
You're cutting all this out.
Everybody in this country knows that the government is full of waste, fraud, and abuse.
And you're doing the work, and the Americans love it.
Watching their reaction politically to this, I can't believe how bad they are at responding to this.
I don't know how you're going to sit there and scream and complain because they're cutting waste out of the government and try to win another election.
Yeah, yeah, like literally, you see, like these sort of fake rallies where there's like hardly any people, and the media will frame it and get full six people in the frame, but there's like nobody else is there.
Like, just it's it doesn't have popular support.
But then you learn that like there's hundreds of billions of dollars going to these so-called NGOs and it's your tax dollars that are funding things that are fundamentally anti-American.
unidentified
And they're propping up their narrative.
Yeah, a lot of that government money has been propping up a left that I don't think is as strong as they made it seem.
Yeah, I got a lot of criticism, and people said, well, that proves he's a huge idiot from a, you know, like, look, you know, you voted for whatever, $44 billion, and now it's worth like $0.8.
But it was essentially to buy freedom of expression.
And once that's gone, it's all over.
Yeah, I mean, like, you know, all the sort of federal money going to media companies is what helps explain why the legacy media all says the same thing at the same time.
I talked to the president, and he's supportive of that.
And so it sounds like that's something we're going to do.
So as we're finding savings, that's going to translate directly to reductions in tax.
unidentified
Yeah.
I mean, I think they fired 6,000 people at the IRS today.
And I think Lutnick said last night that they're talking about shutting down the IRS.
And I think it's fair.
I think people should realize this is, I mean, the amount of money that we send Washington like five or six trillion a year, that is such an ungodly amount of money.
I mean, what do they do?
They say like a trillion seconds is like 30 years or something like that.
I mean, that's how much we send them, and they seem to never have enough.
People ask me, what's the most surprising thing that you've encountered when you go to D.C., you know, when you're in D.C.
And I said, well, the most surprising thing is the scale of the expenditures and actually how easy it is to, just when you add caring and competence where it was absent before, you can actually save billions of dollars, sometimes in an hour.
It's wild.
unidentified
And then they scoff at it and say, oh, a few billion here, there.
I mean, the way they're talking about it, you can see they don't care.
It's such little money compared to how much they're used to wasting.
But obviously, it just shows that they really lack empathy for the average taxpayer who's working hard, paying taxes, and then they say, oh, a million dollars doesn't matter.
I'm like, I think it matters a lot for people, you know?
So what are you talking about?
unidentified
I'd like to have it.
Let me ask you a question.
I know the president fairly well, watched him survive two assassination attempts.
Had the first one not happened, the second one would have gotten him.
Because without those extra guys, they would have never seen that gun poking through the fence at the golf course.
I was like, how did you put all those thugs in prison without dying?
Because it seems like that would have been not easy.
unidentified
Well, the president has, one of his top attorneys is now investigating, I guess, Chuck Schumer for threats against SCOTUS, a congressman on the Democrat side, who's saying, you know, basically saying we're going to bring a war to you, like a fight to you.
I mean, the rhetoric, you guys are screwing with things that are not supposed to be messed with.
That's like, I think, listen, if there's going to be fraud, it should at least be domestic.
So, you know.
But they managed to get $200 billion out of the country.
I'm like, what?
Didn't we notice that?
unidentified
Let me ask you, let's do immigration here for a second.
You know, there's this move now that Trump's latest thing is that he's going to cut funding any kind of money that ends up in the hands of illegal immigrants.
So if you're funding these sanctuary cities and states, that's how they thrive, right?
They're paying for these hotels.
That's all federal money.
If you've got a hotel in your city in New York, you've got all these hotels full of migrants.
That's not state money.
That's the feds are covering that.
He's going to cut all that.
It's really hard to deport 15 million people.
And it seems like the move now is, let's see if we, especially at the rate that we're going, it seems like the move now is let's make it so that they leave on their own.
If there's no longer a dole system for them, if they can't get their hands on hotel rooms and money, they're going to go back, especially if there's no work.
Well, I think it's really important for people to understand that the Biden administration sent any possible money that they could, if there was money they could send to facilitate and amplify illegal immigration, they sent it.
They took money from FEMA, meant for helping Americans in distress, and sent that money to luxury hotels for illegal immigrants in New York.
That is an outrage.
They actually did that.
And not only that, even after the president signed an executive order saying it has to stop, the FEMA, the sort of whatever, deep state bureaucrats still pressed send on $80 million last week to go to the Roosevelt Hotel in New York and other places last week.
And now they're mad that it got stuffed.
And they're like trying to sue to have it be restored.
It's like the gumption is a little bit more.
unidentified
You think they're creating a new voter class?
Do you think that was the goal when they opened up the borders for four years?
Create a new voter class, get them citizenship, get them in, free cards.
So if the incentives, fundamentally, if the probability that an illegal is going to vote Democrat at some point, whether it's cheating, but eventually they can become citizens.
But if the probability is like 80, 90%, just look at California, which is a supermajority dem, then the incentive is to maximize the number of illegals in the country.
That is why the Biden administration was pushing to get in as many illegals as possible and spend every dollar possible to get as many, because every one of them is a customer.
Everyone is a voter.
So the whole thing was a giant voter importation scam.
Yeah, and then we found that it was like a $100 million contract given to some guy in London, actually, oddly enough, for the CVP1 app.
So they're flying illegals into the swing states.
And if you've got like a margin of victory of maybe 20,000 people and you fly 200,000 illegals into that state, it's not going to be a swing state for long.
unidentified
Change the numbers.
Eventually.
Yeah.
Maybe in four or eight years, you're exactly the same.
I remember when they would do the electric car stuff, they would always try to box you out, even though you have the only electric car anybody wants.
Yeah.
You said, I think this week, that you think that Biden left these astronauts up in space because he didn't want to give you an opportunity to save them, make NASA look bad, make the private sector look better, make you look good.
The Biden administration was attacking the next level.
I mean, the Department of Justice or Injustice under the Biden administration was, I mean, they were suing SpaceX.
They were suing SpaceX for not hiring asylum seekers.
And we're like, but it's actually illegal for us to hire asylum seekers because we're rocket technology is covered under ITAR rules, which means it's an advanced weapons technology.
And so we can only hire permanent residents or orchestra citizens.
So we're damned if we do, damned if we don't.
So how can they sue us for not hiring asylum seekers when it's actually illegal for us to do so?
But nonetheless, there was a big Department of Justice or Injustice case about this against SpaceX.
So obviously it was an antagonistic situation.
And those astronauts were supposed to be up there for eight days and now they're up there for eight months.
Does that make any sense?
And we obviously could have brought them back sooner, but they didn't want anyone who supported President Trump to look good, basically.
That's the issue.
unidentified
A lot of them are saying right now that the reason that you want to get into Social Security, that you want to get into all of these different, into Treasury and things like that, is that you're looking for personal information and you're trying to make more money.
I've never met anybody as rich as you that cared less about money in my life.
Every time I hear a story about you, you're sleeping on a couch of some other guy in a city that you could buy the entire thing.
No, actually, I mean, listen, like, if I steal some Social Security, I can finally buy nice things.
unidentified
And on that same question, they're also talking about you guys are going to end Social Security, you're going to end Medicare, you're going to end these things.
I don't imagine that conversation has been had with the President, and that's the plan.
No, in fact, the actions that we're taking with the support of the president and the support of the agencies is what will save Medicare, what will save Social Security.
They say like, you know, I'm a bought asset of Putin.
I'm like, he can't afford me.
unidentified
Yeah.
I think you're worth more than Russia.
Think about it.
So you're trying to end a war.
Ending a war always means you have to compromise, you have to negotiate with an enemy or an adversary.
That's just what it is.
And right now, they are lambasting the president for trying a different method to a war that they haven't been able to end for three and a half years or three years.
They're saying Trump's blaming Zelensky for the invasion.
How do you process all of the negativity toward him for trying to end this war?
Like, you didn't ask the question, but I think it's worth nonetheless, maybe just elaborating on something, which is, you know, I grew up in South Africa, but my morality was informed by America.
I read comic books, you know, played Dungeons and Dragons.
And I watched American TV shows.
And it seemed like America cared about being the good guys, you know?
I want to go on the record and say I'm for moms, I'm for America, and I'm especially for Moms for America.
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I talked to Ambassador Rick Rinnell last night, and the J6ers, I think, the J6 choir is going to play the Kennedy Center for a night in honor of their families.
In fact, I got an idea.
The night that they play, the J6 choir plays and opens the new, you know, the new, the new, with Rick Rinnell and President Trump as chairman.
We have the J6 choir, right?
And we invite all the families they try to destroy, the J6ers, and they get to sit in the boxes where the elite's sick, right?
And we take the elite for just one night, and we take them down to the DC Gulag, right?
unidentified
for one night think they can handle think they can handle that I don't think so either.
You had Trump's back in those dark days of 2021, did you not?
Remember, he went to Mar-a-Lago, and it was like a lion in winter, and they all abandoned him except for you.
And the schlaps had enough guts and courage to taking the seat back in Orlando and march 47 days after he had gone into exile because guess what?
They stole the 2020 election.
Is there any doubt in your mind that they stole the 2020 election?
They stole it.
And they know they stole it.
They thought you were finished.
They were going to de-bank you.
They were going to de-platform you.
You are nothing but trash.
You're nothing but garbage.
You're nothing but deplorables.
Right?
You surprised them with Hillary Clinton in 2016.
And guess what?
11 more, 74 million, 11 more than we had in 2016 voted when you won the 2020 election.
And the reason the J6ers are here and they're patriots is because that was a Fed surrection totally set up by the FBI, by the Justice Department, by D.A., all of them.
And we're going to show the receipts.
We're going to show the receipts.
And they thought Trump's finished and you're finished.
I want you to look within yourself right now of that journey.
Go back to 2021.
Go back to your life.
Go back to the anxiety.
Man, Trump won, but they stole it.
The system's so big, so corrupt, so powerful.
Remember that?
Back on our heels, right?
You didn't quit, just like in any military contest.
We got a rally point.
We dug the guide on in and say, you know what?
Regroup.
Dust ourselves off.
Fix bayonets.
We're charging again.
That is why Kash Patel is the director of the FBI.
That is why Bobby Kennedy is the head of HHS.
That is why Tulsi Gavin is a DNI.
That is why Pete Hedzeth is across the river in the Pentagon.
Fix baynets.
Fix bayonets.
You're not going to stop.
You know why they fear you in Riyadh.
You know why they fear you in Beijing.
You know why they fear you in Berlin and the city of London?
Because they know you're not stoppable.
Right?
This time won almost 80 million votes.
40% of black men in this country came and voted with you and supported you.
Majority of Hispanics, Hispanic families voted with you.
Every Asian, every Asian American in this country, come.
This is your home is MAGA, right?
Every member, everybody from India that's here in the United States as a citizen, come, this is your home, MAGA, right?
Make America healthy again.
Do it like that.
We're going to hard weld Maha to MAGA.
You're unstoppable.
You're unstoppable.
And they know that.
You don't think in Riyadh they know that.
You don't think in Rome they know that.
You don't think in Berlin they know that?
The righteous indignation of the American people, just like every patriot grave, just like the revolution, the Civil War, and World War II, they understand when the American people, with its common sense, isn't what President Trump says a revolution of common sense?
The decency, the grit, the determination, the courage of the American people is unparalleled in world history.
This is why we have our best and brightest on every battlefield all throughout the world, from the South Pacific to Europe to North Africa.
What other nation on earth has ever done that?
What other people have ever done that?
None.
Only you.
And you rose up.
And you rose up and you said, you know what?
Trump is our guy.
Is President Trump perfect?
No, he's far from perfect.
He's an imperfect instrument.
But I will tell you, George General Washington was an imperfect instrument.
Abraham Lincoln was an imperfect instrument.
And he's the third.
These come along about every hundred years.
Leaders that take us in a new direction.
And that's what Trump has done.
It was divine providence that won 16, and it was divine providence hand that let them steal 2020.
Because we had to see how depraved they were.
We had to see how demonic they were.
We had to see what they were prepared to do to this country.
And what did you do?
Did you ever falter?
No, you did not.
Did you ever doubt?
No, you did not.
Did you ever question?
No, you did not.
And you know what it brought us?
glorious glorious glorious victory the reason these phonies in the mainstream media for nothing but the propaganda department for the ruling class in this world right They fear you.
They fear you because they understand you're not beatable.
You're not beatable.
They've had every shot and right now, and I want people to celebrate and to come together.
We're going to do it the next couple of days.
But understand the toughest part of this war is ahead of us.
I've never promised you anything.
I've never promised you sunlit uplands.
I said it's ahead of us, maybe decades.
But at times in American history that people have to lay it all down.
You're expendable to get to bridge to the other side.
The hardest, toughest days are ahead, folks, but you know what?
Riyadh, Berlin, Beijing, Moscow, the city of London, right here, this is not beatable.
You can't, the only way we lose is if we quit.
The only way we don't have victory, if we surrender.
The only way that they win is if we retreat.
And we're not going to retreat.
We're not going to surrender.
We're not going to quit.
Fight, fight, fight.
Amen.
God bless you.
You are amazing.
You've honored every patriot in this country, every patriot grave.
You've honored them through your agency.
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for America's families with the stroke of a pen.
President Trump is shutting down radical gender ideology and racist indoctrination in our schools, protecting children from dangerous, irreversible transgender surgeries, defending the truth that there are only two genders and saving women's sports.
They'll do anything to stop President Trump, but he's not backing down, and neither are we.
Who's AARP really watching out for these days?
They've made billions partnering with big health insurance corporations while opposing reforms seniors want, like applying big discounts to medicines directly at the pharmacy counter.
Instead, AARP supports liberal price-setting schemes, giving politicians, not seniors, control over any so-called Medicare savings with no guarantees.
Funds won't be spent on unrelated programs or pad big insurance profits.
If AARP and Congress believe America's seniors aren't watching, think again.
First of all, I want to thank Matt Schlapp and his very, very incredible wife and boss, Mercedes, who have been fantastic friends and supporters and so great when I watch them on television defending me.
Nobody has a chance.
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I love this place.
Love you people.
You never stop fighting for America and I will never ever stop fighting for you.
We know that there are still more records to be shattered, new summits to be scaled, more triumphs to be realized, and more amazing history just waiting to be written.
The American adventure has only just begun.
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God bless America and we will see you next year.
Thank you, Burke.
You never stop fighting for America, and I will never, ever stop fighting for you.
Well, folks, you know, I'm not famous for being a particularly optimistic sort.
If you've ever listened to my show, let's say morosity, depression, that may be a feeling that's come over you once in a while listening to my show where I describe what's going on in the country.
But I can safely say I have never felt more optimistic about the United States than I do right now.
And that is thanks to President Donald J. Trump.
And one of the things that's sort of mysterious about President Trump is the fact that he isn't really an ideological conservative.
Now, people like me, I grew up in the movement.
I grew up reading Thomas Sowell and Frederick Hayek and reading Russell Kirk.
I don't think President Trump has ever sat around reading those people.
I don't think he sits around at night and browses Edmund Burke or anything.
And so the question is, why is it that this man who's not truly an ideological conservative is the most successful conservative president of my lifetime, Barnan?
It's a real question.
And I think to understand that, the thing that we need to understand about President Trump is that more than anything else, more than anything else, and in this era, needed more than anything else, President Trump lives in the world of reality.
President Trump has been slandered by the media as somebody who creates fictions of his own and sort of lives within those fictions and says a lot of words that don't always match up with the truth and all that kind of stuff.
The reality is that President Trump, in his gut, lives in the real world, which is why President Trump wins so often, because if you are going to win, you have to acknowledge reality because reality always wins.
And this is what makes President Trump conservative.
Conservatism lines up really, really well with reality.
The reason that President Trump won the last election cycle is because the Democratic Party, the left, completely disconnected themselves from reality, completely disconnected themselves from reality in every possible way.
They ran screaming with their hair on fire, their blue hair on fire, away from reality.
President Trump embraces reality with both arms.
When it comes to the world of economics, for example, President Trump only cares about success.
He cares about economic dynamism.
He cares about American businesses being able to build and succeed.
And he understands that in order for all those things to happen, you have to free American business from the shackle of regulation and government.
You have to allow businesses to innovate.
That you have to allow people to rise and fall on their own merit.
Meritocracy has to be valued more than, say, identity politics and DEI.
President Trump knows that in his guts because he's a business person.
President Trump has had to make payroll.
Unlike literally every leader of the Democratic Party over the course of my lifetime, he is not a career politician, which means he's always been answerable to reality.
And that means that when he unleashes another businessman, Elon Musk, inside the government, and says, go in there with a meat axe and start taking out programs, that is what a businessman would do.
If you came into a business as a business person and it was rife with waste, fraud, and abuse, you wouldn't sit around and run a commission on it.
You would start firing people.
You would go in and you start making changes.
You start breaking things and moving quickly.
And President Trump is doing precisely that.
You can see business optimism in the country is skyrocketing specifically because of that.
Meanwhile, the Democrats don't know what to do because their cherished blue pipeline, which is what the federal government is.
It is a permanent payment program for the left, the federal government.
They have permanent institutions that exist outside the government.
They take literally trillions of your taxpayer dollars and then they funnel all that money out to their political allies inside and outside the government.
And Donald Trump came in and he broke the pipeline.
When we're talking about foreign policy, President Trump lives in the world of reality.
When President Trump looks at the situation in Ukraine, he doesn't say, well, you know what, we're not going to set an endpoint.
We're not really going to set a goal.
We're just going to wing it.
We're just going to go along with this for years.
He says, listen, here's the reality.
The reality is that there is a grinding trench warfare situation in Ukraine.
There is very little shot that Ukraine is going to be able to win back Donbass and Crimea.
And we don't want Ukraine to actually fall to the Russians.
And so we know what an off-ramp looks like.
Now it's just a question of how do we get to that off-ramp.
That is what a practical person does.
That is a person who lives in reality.
That's not a person who wants to speak airy fairy nonsense and nostrums about democracy and tyranny.
All that stuff sounds nice, but does it get the job done is the question that President Trump is always asking.
Does it get the job done?
When it comes to the Middle East, President Trump has completely broken the mold.
The sort of ancient wisdom of the State Department, which has been wrong for 80 years in the Middle East, is that the only way that you actually achieve peace in the Middle East is to make the Palestinian issue front and center.
President Trump in his first term totally turned that on his head.
He ignored it, and peace broke out in the Middle East.
President Trump has now thrown onto the table a solution with regard to the Gaza Strip that is breaking people's brains and also happens to be the only plausible solution anyone has proposed in about a century in this particular area.
Because it turns out that when you have a population group that literally held today a celebration of dead babies in the Gaza Strip, babies they had murdered in the Gaza Strip, it turns out that a two-state solution in which one of those states is actually run by those people is a really bad idea.
And President Trump knows that, and he says it, because he lives in the world of reality.
And this is how you chalk up victories.
When it comes to China, President Trump is a realist.
He understands that China is globally an opponent of the United States and that we need to stand up to Chinese predations, stealing our IP, buying American land, funneling fentanyl precursors through Mexico.
He understands on immigration that a realistic nation cannot have an open border.
You cannot have a welfare state and an open border and pretend that that's workable.
President Trump understands that.
Now, all of this sounds commonsensical to all of us, right?
Because it is commonsensical.
But in Washington, D.C., commonsensical is not the way things have been run.
Instead, people have been so wedded not to victory, not to winning, not to achieving things, but to saying things properly in just the right way to get the right coverage in the New York Times or in the Wall Street Journal or in whatever media outlet they're pandering to, that they never actually think about what wins and what loses.
And then there's the matter of the reality of our daily lives.
President Trump understands that what most Americans want is not identity politics.
What most Americans want is not some bizarre notion about androgyny where men can be women and women can be men.
And that we are sort of free-floating sets of feelings existing within the meat suits that we wear around.
President Trump understands basic things that the left has completely abandoned and that he was willing to say.
Stuff that was uncontroversial, you know, five minutes ago.
Like boys are not girls.
These are controversial statements to make, but President Trump understands that that actually has some pretty deep ramifications when you say things like boys are not girls, such as perhaps men have a role to play that is different from women's role.
That does not mean that women shouldn't be in the workplace, obviously, and it doesn't mean that men shouldn't help take care of the kids, but it does mean that men being masculine is a good thing, and it means that women being wives and mothers is a good thing too.
And that no country that ignores these basic truths can survive and grow and thrive.
President Trump acknowledges and knows that the things that most Americans want, whether they are Hispanics living down on the border of Texas or whether they're white Americans living up on the border of Canada, those things are basically the same.
They want to be able to live in safety, free of crime, with prosperity, being able to hold down a job in a growing, innovative, dynamic economy.
They want to be able to go to their church and worship God and share that with their community without the government getting in their way.
These are all things that, again, sound so easy.
They sound so easy.
But the way that President Trump measures whether a thing is true or not is whether it works.
And that is why he has been so unbelievably successful.
Now, when it comes to us, what can we do?
This does say something to the rest of us.
I think that I talk for a living, which is a really fun way to make a living.
But the reality is that people come to me all the time and say, how do I make a difference in politics?
And obviously there are things that we all can do.
I spent the last election cycle campaigning with a variety of Senate candidates and with President Trump.
I went out and I did things.
But the things that most of us can do, aside from all the normal political fighting that Steve was talking about earlier, which is really important, the thing that is most important is to live a reality-based life, to be a model to our children, to be a model to our community, to build the social fabric that actually makes this country work, to create the businesses that make the country function, to engage in everyday common virtue.
Because the truth is the country is not just built by President Trump.
We love President Trump.
He's doing an amazing job.
He should continue to be healthy and well and continue to succeed day in and day out.
We're all praying for him.
But the country also runs because of the people who are doing the everyday things, whose names we don't know.
You, people I know, all the people out there who are just living with their families and bringing up their kids in the correct fashion in a country that is growing and thriving, building those building blocks, taking those building blocks and actually making the country work on a day-to-day level, President Trump is clearing the field for you.
And that's what we should be focused on, not just on politics over the next four years or eight years or 20 years.
We should be focused on the building because that project, that's the project that never ends.
The political fight will always be there.
There's no such thing as permanent victory.
There will be losses in the future.
But the one thing that we can do every single day is continue to build.
And thank God, President Trump, the reason I'm optimistic, President Trump has brought us back to a world of reality where that building is possible and we should all build together.
Thank you so much.
And now.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
And now, I want to take the opportunity to welcome out my buddies from The Daily Wire for an episode of Backstage Live.