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Jan. 28, 2025 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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First White House Press Briefing, Plus Behind the Scenes on Capitol Hill w/ Rep Vince Fong & Sen Eric Schmitt | TRIGGERED Ep.211
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Thank you.
this special Tuesday edition of Triggered.
I got stuck in the tarmac last week, missed this Thursday show, so we're making it up this week, so it's a little bit of a random one.
Hopefully people catch it on, so make sure you're liking, sharing, subscribing, passing it on to your friends who you know watch or maybe you're just starting to watch so they can see it, because again, most people usually expect me on Mondays and Thursdays, but super psyched to be with you guys here tonight, because I know that you guys still Aren't tired of all the winnings.
So I figured we'd give you an extra show this week to cover all of the big things that are happening each and every minute.
It was sort of awesome watching James Carville, the other freaking out, just telling everyone in the Democrat side, don't worry, let him punch himself out.
Let him just keep going.
No one can keep this kind of pace because they're in utter panic.
And they should be because America is finally seeing what real leadership In fact, a couple pieces of breaking news are just coming in.
My father just signed an executive order aimed at ending gender transition for minors.
Winning!
Winning!
I know that, honestly, even a bunch of fairly crazy liberals, maybe not the most insane of them, realize how insane that is.
But for you, for me, for the people who've been on this topic, for me since it's like 2016, 2017, That's a huge win.
An executive order aimed at ending gender transition surgeries for minors.
Seems like a no-brainer.
It wasn't.
But now, that's where we are.
The order directs federally run insurance programs, including TRICARE for military families and Medicaid, to exclude coverage for such procedures.
And calls on the Department of Justice to pursue litigation and legislation to oppose the practice.
Seems like a no-brainer, kids.
If a kid can't buy a tin of Zinn until they're 18, they probably shouldn't be able to mutilate their bodies permanently.
I don't know.
Seems logical.
If you can't get a tattoo, you probably shouldn't be able to chop off your body parts.
I don't know.
Seems logical.
Not so much for the left.
Also, the Trump administration is offering a buyout to federal workers if they agree to quit.
By February 6th.
They would get paid through September if they leave now.
Honestly, that's a pretty good deal.
They haven't been really working anyway, so they can definitely not work for, you know, nine months or so.
And you could clean out some of the rot inside the federal bureaucracy.
Obviously, that's backed by the whole, you have to get back to work.
So I imagine a lot of people who have been working from home, let's use that word very loosely, walking their dogs, probably doing other jobs, all that stuff, We also had our first White House press briefing today.
So we'll play you the best sights and sounds from that shortly.
Plus, California Congressman Vince Fong will stop by to unveil a new piece of fire prevention and water legislation for California.
Things that...
Definitely should have happened under some of the Democrats, but weren't going to.
Now, like so many other things, there seems to be a mandate.
Then, Missouri Senator Eric Schmidt, the former AG there, will preview the major confirmation hearings this week.
You know what's going on tomorrow.
These are some big ones.
For Maha, for intelligence, for the entire team that made this victory.
So possible.
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You know who they are, right?
I think the big ones, obviously, that are going to be controversial, even though they shouldn't be, Bobby Kennedy, Tulsi Gabbard, all that stuff coming up tomorrow and the rest of this week.
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Now, guys, for the top headlines today, The White House Press Secretary, Carol Ann Leavitt, held her first briefing and made it clear that business as usual is over.
She's the youngest person to ever hold that position.
And after the clown show we've witnessed for the last four years, I don't think that matters.
My toddler could probably do a great job of it back when they were still toddlers.
But I think she did an awesome job.
For example, she announced that the White House will restore 440...
Pass revoked by the Biden administration and invited new media to apply for credentials.
Remember when we talked about this a couple weeks ago?
I said we should open it up to podcasters.
We should open it up to alternative media, independent journalists.
And remember who went nuts?
The mainstream media.
But why should the mainstream media continue to hold these coveted seats if they're functioning as operatives for the Democrat Party?
If they've been demonstrably wrong about so many things for so long.
And the clout that they used to have and perhaps the credibility they used to have is gone.
Why should they maintain those things?
So, inviting new media to apply for credentials into the White House press briefing room, including opening up seats today for new media and non-establishment outlets like the Daily Wire and Breitbart, okay?
In fact, one of the first questions today was asked, By Breitbart, Matt Boyle, obviously a good friend of mine, a good friend of this show.
And it wasn't just the same roster of regime propagandists asking the questions.
The briefing room today was packed, and the legacy media outlets need to recognize that the status quo is no more.
It is gone, along with a bunch of criminal illegal aliens.
So just watch this exchange over illegal immigration.
Check this out.
We're no longer accepting the premise that Because you're here illegally, because you came over the border illegally, that you're somehow magically not a criminal.
That wouldn't fly in on any other sane nation in the world, and it no longer flies here.
And get this, in the first week of the Trump administration, ICE deported over 7,000 illegal aliens.
And like I told you yesterday, we are just getting started.
The best is yet to come, okay?
Earlier today, a vicious Trendeagua gang leader was arrested in New York City on a kidnapping warrant from Aurora, Colorado.
Remember, those are the gang members that were taking over apartment buildings that the media told us was made up.
And then once there was irrefutable evidence, they told us...
It wasn't that big a deal.
It's only a couple of apartment buildings that were taken over, guys.
Who cares?
I mean, criminal drug gangs in America deserve to take over other people's housing and take over apartment buildings, I guess.
I don't know.
It never made sense to me then.
Still doesn't now.
But that, too, is over.
It was all too real.
They just didn't care.
and look at your screen now guys where we have U.S. Marines at the southern border working to secure our safety and our security that's what real border security looks like folks that's what America first looks like it's all happening so quick guys I'm I'm almost tearing up it's so nice to actually have some control in our own country again
Also, something else we learned at today's briefing was that the Biden administration was lying to us about the mysterious drones in New Jersey.
This is another one we talked about a couple of times because it was nuts.
They wouldn't give us any basic information.
But it turns out the drones were literally authorized to be flown by the FAA for, quote, research.
Watch this because it's mind-boggling that they couldn't just tell us that.
Questions?
I do have news directly from the President of the United States that was just shared with me in the Oval Office.
From President Trump directly, an update on the New Jersey drones.
After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons.
Many of these drones were also hobbyists.
Recreational and private individuals that enjoy flying Jones.
In time, it got worse due to curiosity.
This was not the enemy.
A statement from the President of the United States to start this briefing with some news.
And with that, I will turn it over to- Huh.
I wonder, why was it so hard for the previous administration to tell us that?
Why were they so set on lying?
And creating as much mystery as possible.
I mean, if, you know, like some of the conspiracy theories that were out there, like, you know, it's alien invasion or it's China or it's Russia.
Like, did they think that was going to, like, help them in an election?
Like, do you really, like, hey, if we're being attacked by Russia, do we really want Joe Biden at the helm?
Would you really want Kamala Harris at the wheel?
I mean, seems like they should just tell us that, but...
They can't do that.
The Democrats don't want you to have any actual information.
It's why they wouldn't do anything on the Kennedy files or the MLK files or the RFK files or anything else.
And hopefully we'll be getting to the Epstein list rather soon.
But with all the winning, there's triage.
We've got to get to all of it.
It just takes a little bit of time.
And what I love about this new Trump administration is how rapid and quickly things actually get done.
We're actually getting action and getting answers, and it's only speeding up.
I mean, people are just getting into their stride.
They haven't even fully moved into their offices yet.
We don't even have our full cabinet confirmed yet.
And get this, we have some major breaking news coming in.
Remember last night when my father made it clear that if you're a foreign chip maker or foreign pharmaceutical company, you better start making your products in the US or suffer major consequences?
Well, we now have A major new findings from Florida Congressman Corey Mills, another friend of the show, that a shady Chinese pharmaceutical company called Kualun Biotech provides a significant number of medical supplies, including saline bags in American hospitals across the country, and that there's evidence that the company tried to force labor practices, among other massive red flags.
In a letter addressed to the company's chairman, Congressman Mills is demanding information about their ties to the CCP, a complete list of suppliers, a list of US hospital providers, and so much more.
This is just the first step, guys, in a broader investigation and actions into how China is infiltrating key American supply chains and infrastructure.
And we're going to keep following the story to bring you all of the latest news so that we can make sure everyone is aware that everyone makes us think and we stop these things from happening.
These are major findings, and I'm guessing this is just the start.
And meanwhile, we have major...
Confirmation hearings set for later this week.
Kash Patel at the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard as DNI, and RFK Jr. at HHS will sit before Senate committees.
And guys, the smears, the unnamed sources, the disgruntled people from 50 years ago, they're out in full force.
And it's very telling.
Because you can see which nominees the establishment fears the most by who the left-wing media and RINOs are targeting with their BS smears.
The good news is my father is taking action in every corner of the country to right all of the left-wing wrongs.
Just look at what he posted today about California.
I quote, The water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
The days of putting a fake environmental argument over the people are over.
Enjoy your water, California." I mean, I like it.
I like it.
Makes a lot of sense.
Trump delivers while Democrats simply ignore their own residents.
They ignore major problems that are affecting.
Tens of thousands, frankly, in many cases, millions of Americans.
But I do want to wrap up with historic moment in the state of California today, where the boom supersonic aircraft broke the sound barrier for the first time during a historic test flight in the Mojave Desert.
It's the first civilian aircraft to do so in decades.
Check this out.
We've got confirmation from the control room that she is supersonic.
What a wonderful achievement.
Geppetto and the whole team know what a really historic moment this is.
The first civil aircraft independently constructed that has ever flown supersonic, and Geppetto is the first pilot ever to do it.
Pretty amazing.
You know, you heard that.
Independent manufacturing, doing it a little differently, it's one of those things.
I mean, I guess the last one would have been the Concorde, which I actually got the privilege of flying on with my mom one time in like the early 80s.
I still had a bowl cut and I was probably about three feet tall.
But it was pretty awesome.
But technology abounds.
We have it in America.
We lead in innovation.
We have to unleash that juggernaut so more of this stuff happens.
So, guys, joining me now.
Congressman from California's 20th District, which is actually where the test flight happened, Vince Fong.
Congressman, how are you?
I'm hanging in there.
How are you?
I'm actually in Doral right now.
Very nice.
I know my father was...
How did he do today?
I know he had the Republican caucus down there.
You know, was he well behaved?
He spoke last night.
He was fantastic.
He laid out his agenda.
We're acting with a sense of urgency.
We just got a lot of work to do.
That's awesome.
Well, I'm glad you're there, but sorry you missed the flight then, but it seems pretty cool stuff going out in your state.
Absolutely.
There is so much aviation history being made in Mojave, but the first civil supersonic jet made in America, top speed Mach 1.12, flew over 34 minutes.
This will transform commercial space travel.
All of us, I heard you got to travel in the Concorde.
Maybe I'll get the opportunity to fly in the next supersonic.
Jet will cut travel times in half.
Did the sonic boom once it breaks that sound barrier?
I mean, that's sort of the loud noise that you hear for those who don't know from bullets or whatever it is when they crack that sound barrier.
Did that do any damage to California that's already been in a little bit of trouble as of late?
I don't think so.
We're used to the sonic booms out in Mojave, but the amazing thing with the new technology they're developing is they're going to make the sonic booms that travel with the jets going supersonic, they'll be like a car door slamming.
So we'll be able to travel across the country with this new technology that's being developed.
So you'll never know if a supersonic jet's flying overhead.
Oh, that's interesting because that's why the Concorde sort of worked.
It went from, you know, New York to London and New York to Paris, but nowhere else because they had to basically wait till they were over the ocean.
Otherwise, literally windows would shatter.
But so you're saying there's a technology that can actually mitigate the sound as they crack the sound barrier.
So, yeah, they're testing that technology at NASA Armstrong, which is right next to the Mojave Spaceport.
And their goal is to create a jet that can go supersonic and you'll never hear the sonic booms.
Wow, that'd be very cool.
I mean, as someone who does about two to three hundred thousand miles a year in commercial air travel, if I could shave half that time, that would be awesome.
So good luck.
I hope you guys are getting them whatever resources they need to make this actually happen in a reality in a mass scale.
That's right.
Well, this is the beauty of what President Trump is doing is fostering innovation, pushing the envelope.
I mean, he's basically turning his entire administration and kind of demanding that we act with a sense of urgency.
I mean, we're only seven days into his first administration, but there's so much happening.
It's amazing.
No, it's pretty amazing.
I guess, you know, in California, I know the administration is really apparently deploying some federal resources to address the longstanding water issues.
Obviously, it's something that's plagued Southern California, probably, I guess, quite a bit west of you guys.
But what can you tell us about California's failed water and fire policies?
And you have a new bill to support the Trump administration's agenda to actually fix these issues and not just let, I guess, the inmates run the asylum.
Absolutely.
It was said earlier today that California is blessed by many things that God has given us.
But then it's ruined by things that man has made.
And the Democrats have created all these problems.
But the president was here.
I mean, the fact that he, in his first five days, traveled to California, showed us hands-on leadership when it came to addressing the wildfire crisis, when it deals with water policy.
I mean, he...
Signed two executive orders in his first five days highlighting the need for better water management in our state.
I can't thank him enough.
You know, your father has traveled up and down the state, has seen our water challenges.
The fact that we now have someone in the Oval Office that understands our needs, that will actually maximize water flows, will prioritize humans over fish, that will actually build more water storage, that will coordinate the state and federal water systems to ensure more water flows, not only to the Central Valley, which I'm proud to represent, but also to Southern California as well.
It's a new day in California.
I love hearing that.
I know that you and your House Republican colleagues have been making it a point to sort of...
Bolster American supply chains and support my father's made-in-the-USA mission.
What can you tell us about that and what it could mean for the economy in the Central Valley of California, where you're at, and elsewhere?
I mean, it's one thing doing some of these things with executive action, executive orders, but I'd love to codify those into law by going through the House and Senate process so that it's in place.
Permanently.
Not something the Democrats can just simply revoke with a stroke of a pen in a couple years whenever they maybe take back office.
Although, I guess at the rate that they're going, their insanity shows maybe they'll never take office again.
Well, we're trying to build a movement.
Your father's leading it to govern for decades to come.
But exactly right.
A supply chain is critical.
Whether it's agriculture, whether it's aerospace, whether manufacturing, we need to bring all those jobs back to America.
And for someone in California, the policies of Gavin Newsom has pushed everything out of our state.
And so we're hoping to partner with President Trump and his administration to onshore all of that.
The threat from China is real.
I mean, just imagine someone had used this analogy.
During the Cold War, would we ever allow the Soviet Union to make more than 60 to 70 percent of the things that we need to function as an economy?
We would never allow that.
So now, moving forward to now, we are in competition with China.
How can we allow our essential goods, chemicals, products, parts, how can we ever allow 60 to 70 percent of the things that make our economy go?
Yeah, and I think that can be done so readily and so easily, frankly, just wielding some of America's economic might.
You saw sort of Panama fold real quickly this week.
We just utilized some of the assets that we actually have.
I mean, I've never seen a business basically handicap themselves to not be able to compete with what they actually have to compete with.
Although it seems like we've been doing that for so long, but apparently those days are over again.
Let's just get all the choke points out of the way.
I mean, when you talk about forest management, your father's leading the charge on that.
I mean, that's one of the clearest examples.
We have regulations.
We have litigation.
We have everything that's preventing us to actually clear the forest and remove the dead and dying trees and the vegetation that's allowing these forests to get so overgrown.
I mean...
I mean, look, take that one example and apply it to every single when it comes to energy.
You know, we're going to be energy dominant.
Let's remove all the barriers.
Let's build more pipelines.
Let's build more transmission lines.
I mean, we want to be leaders in AI. We're going to have to power it.
I mean, let's drill.
Let's produce more natural gas.
I mean, we could be dominant in everything if we just got rid of all the barriers and the regulations that are holding us back.
Yeah, I mean, obviously you see so much of that in California.
I mean, it sort of feels like it's the leader for the government, state, control of everything, slow processes.
Can you talk sort of a little bit more about the failed leadership in Sacramento and how we can actually help residents stand up, fight back, push back?
How do you create a sense of common sense?
Well, I think you hit the nail on the head.
It's all about common sense.
There's a movement forming in California.
I served in the state legislature for seven and a half years, butting heads against Gavin Newsom, and he fought us on everything.
Building more water storage, streamlining the processes to do forest management projects, to build fire bricks.
I mean, he put more regulations that drove businesses to Florida, to Texas.
You know, the technologies that are being developed in California, whether it's AI or commercial space, you look at manufacturing, it's developed in California, and all the factories and all the manufacturing and warehouses are all done in other states.
We've got to change the way that we do business in California.
We have to have a customer service mentality, and that means electing new people.
When President Trump came to Los Angeles and met with the residents, met with the first responders, met with his roundtable, the emotions that were there.
You could feel that everyone just wanted to see President Trump succeed, and he could feel the need to just streamline the process, get these people back in their homes, get the regulations out of the way, think differently, work with a sense of urgency.
So, you know, obviously you're with a lot of the Republican delegation in Florida this week.
Talk about where you see the GOP conference under the leadership of Speaker Johnson, and what do you think those top priorities are for him?
Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
As someone who served in the super minority in California, there was 18 Republicans out of 80 total people in the state assembly to be in the majority right now to have...
A House Republican majority, a Senate majority, and to have President Trump in office, I mean, we have no time to waste.
We've got to secure the border.
President Trump is doing that right now with his executive orders.
We've got to codify those actions into law.
We've got to revitalize the economy, deal with the affordability crisis in our country, and that means, like, lowering the cost of energy, allowing farmers to produce more food, lowering the cost of food and groceries.
Rebuild things in America.
Sean Duffy was just confirmed as Secretary of Transportation, excited that we're going to actually build things, bridges, highways, ports.
Let's secure our supply chain, invest in our rail, invest in our trucking.
I mean, what else can we...
There's a commercial space, AI, all the things that we can do to...
To make sure America is a leader in technology.
I mean, Speaker Johnson's got a laundry list of things to do, and I'm just honored to be a partner in this effort with President Trump to deliver on his promises.
Well, I really appreciate it, Congressman.
Thank you very much, everyone.
Vince Fong from the great state of California.
Really appreciate you being here, and we'll talk to you again soon.
Thanks for having me.
Be well.
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So this week, guys, on Capitol Hill, Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and RFK Jr. will appear before Senate committees for their confirmation hearings.
Now, like I said, you can see which nominees the establishment fears the most by the left-wing media targeting them with their BS smears.
We also saw this week with Pete Hegseth, the MAGA movement stayed strong and sent a very powerful message.
Joining me now from the great state of Missouri, former Attorney General over there who did some incredible stuff saving us against some of the tech journalists, but now Senate Judiciary Committee member, Senator Eric Schmidt.
Eric, good to see you again, buddy.
How are you?
I'm good, Don.
How are you doing?
I'm doing well, man.
I keep running into you everywhere, so it's good.
I know.
Well, you know, the vibe shift is real.
We're coming strong, right?
So it's good.
Well, I really appreciate you being here.
I mean, this week, you'll be one of the senators questioning Kash Patel.
Can you give us a roadmap for the structure and the parameters of the hearing and what you expect the committee to focus on?
Yeah, so there'll be two rounds of questioning.
We found that out today.
So basically, there'll be introductory statements from Chairman Grassley, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, and you got Dick Durbin, and then Kash will be...
There to give his sort of opening statement, and then it'll open it up for questions, and it alternates Republican, Democrat, Republican, Democrat, members of that committee, and I would imagine this one's going to be pretty electric.
I think they gave, the Democrats gave some indication or a bit of a tell during Pam Bondi's hearing.
Pam did great.
She's going to be a great AG, but a lot of their questions were related to actually Kash Patel, so I think they're coming loaded for bear.
This is going to be must-see TV, but he's going to do great.
And I think one of the things that's pretty consistent with all these picks is your father, President Trump, picked reformers.
This election cycle was disruptors versus the establishment, and he's, you know...
Fulfilling that promise he made to voters and he got the mandate to go do it.
So from my point of view, President Trump deserves his team.
Cash for Tell is going to be a very important person in this administration because we've seen the weaponization of the FBI going after Catholics, going after parents who showed up to school board meetings, all this nonsense we've seen the last four years.
He's a reformer who's going to come in and hopefully restore some credibility to an agency that's been, quite frankly, discredited.
Yeah, I mean, they've targeted people showing up at PTA meetings, but it doesn't seem like they've caught a single terrorist who was on their radar before they actually committed some heinous acts.
So I think it makes a lot of sense.
From what I've been told, Cash's meetings on the Hill actually have been great.
Why do you think he's the right guy and fit for the FBI? Well, I just think you've seen, you know, and this is a lot of my questioning with Pam Bondi.
I used my time to sort of point out the fact that the weaponization at DOJ, we've never seen anything like this, this lawfare.
And as a former attorney general, I mean, this is really tough to watch because essentially they wanted to take out their chief political opponent, which was President Trump.
Right.
And they did.
And Joe Biden gave a speech in the fall of 2022 when he knew President Trump was going to run again.
He talked about half of America being a threat to democracy.
He talked about how President Trump was never going to get back in the Oval Office.
He was going to do everything he could to stop it.
And then guess what?
We saw all these zombie cases resurrected, whether it was this bogus case by the New York Attorney General, this bogus case by Alvin Bragg in Manhattan.
And I was there.
You were there, of course, a lot, but I was there to support President Trump in that courtroom.
I've been a professional witness for the last nine years, Eric, so I'm quite familiar.
I'm not a lawyer, but I've basically played one on the witness stand at this point.
Yeah, and then you had Jack Smith.
Jack Smith is the guy.
He was a henchman.
He was the guy they called up out of the bullpen to take President Trump out, and it didn't work.
The Supreme Court finally stopped him, but the arc of this story, of course, was all of this lawfare, and they tried to...
Bankrupt President Trump, your family, they tried to throw him in jail for the rest of his life.
He stared all that down and won.
And more popular than ever, I think because of that grit and that defiance.
And so the FBI played a very important role in this.
You mentioned my time as AG. I filed the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit that sort of, even before Twitter files and Elon Musk had bought Twitter, thank God he did, but exposed in discovery the extent to which The Biden administration went to censor Americans.
It also exposed, not only did we get the chance to take the deposition of Anthony Fauci in that case, we took the deposition of Elvis Chan.
Who's Elvis Chan?
Elvis Chan was the FBI agent.
Who was pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story before the election, telling these big tech companies, this is a Russian hack and leak operation.
And they knew it was real.
They had it in their possession in November of 2019. So the FBI, the corruption is real there.
And you really need a reformer, I think, who's going to change the culture from the inside.
And that's why these picks are so important, whether it's Kash Patel, whether it's Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whether it's Tulsi Gabbard.
We need people who are going to come in and change that culture.
And that's why this week's really important.
Well, that culture has been missing a lot from the United States Senate.
So I'm glad you're there.
And I'm glad you mentioned that.
I was going to bring it up.
I know you work with my friend Jeff Landry on that one as well.
Former AG at Louisiana, now governor over there.
But yeah, you took on big tech exposing.
You know, the Biden administration and the U.S. government literally working to censor one half of a conversation.
And you did that before it was popular when many people, maybe you guys like me, were probably out there screaming about it obviously happening, but not everyone even fully recognized the problem.
And you did that and actually won.
So it's good to have some guys that have those kind of guts back in the Senate right now.
Well, that's what we need.
We need fighters right now.
And I do think one of the differences between, you know, maybe President Trump's first term and his term he's in now, he's got a lot of reinforcements here who want to see this movement be successful.
And so, you know, it was that Missouri versus Biden case.
We also had the vaccine mandate case.
We had the student loan debt forgiveness.
You need people who are going to stand up and fight, even when people are saying, you know what, I don't know, maybe set this one out.
This country needs saving right now.
The left has been on the march, but I do think in November of this past year, of November 2024, the fever broke.
Honestly, I think people have had enough of this.
You've seen it.
It's a cultural shift.
You know, even in their hit pieces, I saw the, you know, in the New Yorker or whatever, the hit pieces.
I mean, Republicans are cool now and the Democrats are searching not only for a leader but even a message because they've gone after everyday normal Americans.
They've tried to demonize half the country and people have had enough.
Yeah, I don't know if we even have the screenshot, but you mentioned that New Yorker article.
It was truly disgusting.
It was like, basically, they wrote an article about some of these, you know, young MAGA movement, you know, balls at the inauguration.
I was at a bunch of them and they're like, it's just, you know, good looking white people.
And there's no, and they literally cropped the photo.
But if you look at the expanded photo, it's literally like.
Half and half.
I mean, the room, it's like, they just moved the photo where they could find, here's just, you know, a white homogenous room.
And if you look, there's, like, there's seven friends of mine, guys I know, like, that are Black or, you know, other ethnicities, right there on the side, and they crop it out, and they write an entire article about how it's disgusting that these people were left out of it.
It was like, no, you just left them out of the picture and the article.
I mean, however much you hate the media, Eric, it is not enough.
That is for sure at this point.
That's true.
No, they cropped them out.
But this is why they're losing.
People aren't getting their media in the same way.
They're not getting information in the same way.
You know, you do this.
It's more dispersed now.
That's good for us.
That's good for us because now I think, you know, your father has ushered in of the broadest.
The most diverse coalition the Republican Party has ever had.
It's a huge opportunity for us.
We've got to be able to deliver on that.
Now, you know, one of the challenges that we're going to deal with long term is because of that, we've got more lower propensity voters, maybe people who haven't traditionally voted in every single election.
We've got to make sure people turn out and vote.
But if we do that, if we capitalize on this moment that, you know, President Trump has given us by building that, you know, multi-ethnic working class party, that's how I grew up.
You know, I grew up in a pretty blue collar neighborhood.
They're with us now.
So I think we've got to deliver.
And I also think, you know, each one of these nominees that are up this week, whether it's Tulsi or RFK Jr., and spent a lot of time on the campaign trail with him, and then, you know, with Cash, they represent this broad coalition that, you know, President Trump put together that allowed us to have 53 Republican senators.
To be perfectly honest.
And so I think it's time for us to deliver.
Though you may want to remind Mitch McConnell and Murkowski and Susan Collins of that, because they seem to be much more happy to vote with the Democrats on these things.
And, you know, these are the same clowns that voted for Mayorkas.
They voted for, you know, the vast majority of the Biden cabinet.
Uh, who've proven to be total disasters, but they won't give the people who they actually want because it wasn't like we surprised them.
I mean, these are people that we campaigned with for the last three months of the election that we were out there there.
And I know this because I, you know, I was the guy that sort of back channeled the Bobby endorsement and the Intel C endorsement.
No, you were, listen, you were instrumental in that.
And I think it's so smart because people are wondering what was the secret sauce.
It wasn't just the podcast.
It wasn't just, it was all of that, right?
It was, it was a Republican party that was open to having more voices in.
That it wasn't these traditional lines.
It really was about people who saw the corruption in a lot of these institutions and who wanted to change it.
So we are now the party of reform.
We should embrace that.
And it takes a bunch of different forms, but we're the disruptors.
We got to take on the establishment.
And these confirmation picks are part and parcel of that.
And I also think people can see, it feels like that inauguration, I'm sure you can speak to this, was like a month ago.
It was just like last week.
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's actually incredible.
I was watching, you know, I guess it was an interview with like James Carvell where he's like, okay, guys, calm down.
He's going to punch himself out.
No one can do this and sustain this kind of thing for so long.
It's just going to go away.
Just sit back and relax because he's basically in response to the Democrats just losing their mind about everything.
You know, I think this administration, I've been talking about what I thought was going to happen for months, which is like, hey, it's different now.
We're starting with a new team.
Everyone is actually on board.
They're not just telling you they're on board and then doing whatever they want.
They're not just waiting out the clock.
They're on board with Trump.
We now have, you know, I look at some of the incoming class in the Senate.
I look at, obviously, J.D. Vance.
Like, not only that.
But we actually have a bench.
So I put out a tweet that went pretty viral the other day.
All the Democrats had to do was let 2020 be.
If they didn't play those games, we wouldn't have been exposed to this stuff.
We would have never known.
Trump would have been not nearly as effective just rolling over the original, the first-term team.
And you'd probably have a Democrat president right now that you could go back to destroying our country and drive through abortions, whatever it is that you need.
And they blew it.
So I want to thank them for that, because we really owe it all to them that we have this.
100%.
And I also think that they, in that four-year period, they really exposed who they were too, right?
Like they really showed the American people who they were and we're now providing this.
You know, very different alternative, which I think is more in line.
It's the common sense.
I mean, President Trump mentioned it in his second inaugural, right?
Yeah.
Common sense.
Now we're sort of bringing that back and nobody should be surprised by any of this stuff.
And that's why I think his poll numbers are still, you know, really, really strong.
Maybe the highest they've ever been, because he said, look, this is what we're going to do on immigration.
This is what we're going to do on energy.
This is what we're going to do, you know, in our world standing and look no further than what happened this weekend.
I mean, this is not how Washington typically works with this Columbia president kind of situation where he's like.
Yeah, we're not going to take it.
And then President Trump gets off the golf course and is like, yeah, actually, you are going to do it.
And if you don't, there's going to be a 25% tariff.
We're going to cancel meetings in the consulate and you're not going to have visa applications.
And like 45 minutes later, he's like, you know what?
We were just kidding.
Use my plane.
Use my plane now.
By the way, Trump got more done in like four holes of golf than Joe Biden did in an entire four, you know, four year presidency.
I mean, it's amazing.
It's shocking.
So, Senator, another thing that you've been sounding the alarm about that I think is incredibly important is the growing threat of China, especially in the Panama Canal, but obviously in America, farmland, especially strategic farmland around our military bases, but also obviously just the ability to feed ourselves.
You know, what have you found and what more can you tell us about what's really going on out there?
So I think you put this in the broadest possible context to begin, which is...
China's playing the long game here.
They have designs on world domination.
And in many ways, I think the 21st century is going to be defined by who wins this really big competition between the United States of America and China.
And I'll give your father a lot of credit on this.
When he started talking about these issues and trade issues, this was not orthodoxy, even in the Republican Party, to talk about this.
This issue to the forefront about what a threat that they really are and how unfair they are as it relates to trade.
So that's one issue.
But as it relates specifically to the Panama Canal, I filed a resolution last week calling on the Panamanians to expel all the Chinese influence that exists at that canal because the truth of the matter is they have operational control of the Panama Canal.
They control both ports on either side.
And so the one thing was a terrible idea.
It was a terrible deal by Jimmy Carter in 1977, but they essentially gave it away, a multi-trillion dollar asset that, you know, our ships go from here to there, container ships and military ships.
And the one thing we got out of it, the one thing we got out of it was an assurance that it would be neutral, that no foreign country other than Panama would control that and we That's no longer the case.
They've given these Chinese companies a sweetheart deal.
And what's really scary about it, Don, is that it's part of this one belt, one road initiative that they have, which is they're gobbling up these ports, including in the Suez Canal.
They've built airports in some countries.
And when you criticize the CCP, guess what happens?
You don't have any flights anymore.
They're building these energy grids and they can turn them off and they can turn them off.
And we're being naive if we don't think that if we get in a real scrap or something happens or they want to manipulate the situation, all of a sudden there might be technical difficulties at the Panama Canal and we can't go from here to there.
We cannot let that happen.
And so Panama needs to make a decision here.
We should not allow under no circumstances for the Chinese government to effectively control the Panama Canal.
And that's really what's going on right now.
So we just broke a big story here on the show from Congressman Corey Mills about our hospital supplies and even hospital saline bags being made in China.
My father seems as committed as ever to fixing that, but that whole supply chain, it's not just the Panama Canal, it's them pressuring Taiwan, which is all of our microchips.
They have their own there, and then it's all of our medical supply.
And what is it, 93% of our antibiotics.
It doesn't just stop at these little things where you say, oh, what's a port or two here and there?
They do that.
They control all the rare earth minerals.
That prevents us from being able to get batteries.
They go in there, and it's not like they're negotiating fair.
They're going into, you know, Third World Banana Republics.
They show up with a briefcase of cash.
They sign it off.
They promise they're going to put the country's people to work, and then they ship in their own, you know.
Obviously heavily overpopulated with men because of the one-child policy.
People didn't want girls, so they have a lot of men, and they just send their own people to these places.
So no one gets anything.
They get all the benefit.
I guess one guy gets a briefcase of cash, and they control a region for perhaps eternity.
Yeah, and I think one of the things that we measure kind of success with GDP growth, I think one of the things to always look out for with China is that their youth unemployment rate.
It's through the roof.
They don't even publish it anymore.
So they got real challenges at home when you have an overly male population and they're unemployed.
For a communist regime, that's a real problem.
So through this One Belt Road, you're right, they're shipping them to Africa and other places where they think they're going to get jobs, they don't.
They create this sort of debt trap.
You have all these kind of supply chain issues that exist.
It's a real risk for us.
One of the things that I really appreciate about President Trump and what he's done to kind of reset America's worldview, I think this age of Wilsonian adventurism that we can be everywhere all at once, all the time, it's not realistic.
And this is one of the things that, you know, on the Ukraine thing, and JD and I were in the same place in the Senate and there's others.
I think the newer members that have come in see this a little bit differently.
We do not have the ability to do everything everywhere around the world all the time.
We don't.
We don't have We've got to fix that.
But the truth is, the $200 billion that goes to Ukraine, I mean, that would build a lot of highways here in the United States.
It would take care of a lot of homeless veterans right here in the United States.
It would prepare us for a potential conflict with China in the Indo-Pacific.
So, whether you're talking about Greenland, or as I like to refer to as Magadonia, when you're talking about Greenland, or...
I call it MAGA-Fest Destiny.
I mean, you know, we're just reaching out.
Just MAGA-Fest Destiny.
A little play on manifest...
But that's sort of what made America what it was.
So between Panama, Greenland, you know, I'm sure there's some other places we could take over.
You know, hey, I bet we can do it for a lot less than we spent in Ukraine for nothing, for absolutely nothing.
What it does, yeah, no, what it does is it gets, what I think the really smart thing about it is it gets us re-centered on, okay, what are the core American interests?
What are our core American interests, right?
Clearly having critical minerals and being able to access them in the Arctic sea lanes.
That's really important.
That's what Greenland possesses.
Panama Canal.
I mean, everybody learns.
I mean, at least in grade school, I think they still teach about Panama Canal.
Well, they will again.
They were probably too busy learning the 4,376 genders for the last four years, Eric.
We can bring back actual like education, maybe some civics, maybe.
I don't know.
I don't want to go out on a limb here, but like math, English.
It'd be nice.
You know, minor details.
It'd be nice instead of the CRT nonsense that's been shoved down everybody's throat.
But yeah, this is a core national interest in the United States of America.
There's no debate of that.
So anyway, I think we are entering a golden age.
We're entering a new age of American realism where I think our foreign policy more reflects the views of the American people.
That's been the one really great frustration I've had in my first couple of years here in D.C. is the conversations you have here are very different than the ones you have in Missouri back home.
There's nobody, nobody, not one person that's ever come up to me in Missouri and said, you know what, Eric, you know what I really want you to do?
I want you to send another $60 billion to Ukraine.
No one's ever said that to me.
I think you've heard my spiel somewhere along the way where, like, you know, every time I spoke for the last three years, like, you know, in front of, you know, 300 to 3,000, 15,000 opening up for my father, it was like, I've literally, I think I've hit like 175,000 people and exactly zero.
Raise your hand if it's a top 10 issue.
Like, I got three people.
One happened to be from Ukraine, so I gave him a pass.
The other guy misunderstood the question, so he actually wasn't.
And one guy worked for, like, Raytheon.
But like, you know, so it's like, hey, I don't make money if I don't sell missiles.
I was like, you know, I understand.
Not great for America.
But like, that's like an in-person survey of a, like, you know, polling, you know, for a Senate race, you know, they check 750 people and they can tell you where the whole world is.
You know, 175,000, that's the most statistically significant poll perhaps ever conducted in America.
And like, zero people cared.
Like, zero.
So...
Uh, yeah.
But NATO wants us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year to protect them from Russia.
But, like, Denmark's gonna stop us from, like, working with Greenland and being a part of that and controlling those shipping lanes and, I don't know, being 3,500 miles closer to the enemy you want us to protect you from?
Like, I don't know.
It doesn't seem like they have a lot of likes to stand on.
Or we can just stop funding NATO, too.
I mean, you know, if they don't want to help us, why should we help them?
I think the American people are tired of, honestly, subsidizing these These liberal socialist governments in Europe who refuse to provide for their own defense.
And that's just the reality.
So I think that's a lot of truth-telling that's going to have to happen.
And I think, honestly, there was resistance to that in 2017 and 2018 when President Trump had his first term.
I think people, I think they get it now.
I really do.
There'll be resistance in D.C., but there's not actual resistance across the country because they're like, wait, I can't feed my family, but Germany won't.
Doesn't have operational warplanes or they signed on that they're going to commit, you know, what was it, 2% of GDP, 3% of GDP, and they've done none of it.
And, you know, and they're just like, well, why should we?
America just keeps doing it.
It's like, well, you know, we can stop.
Like, how about we will parry pursue.
We will match whatever percentage you do or whatever fraction of what you're supposed to do.
We'll do the fraction that you're doing so that, you know, we're all friends, but like with friends like these guys, who needs enemies?
Right.
And I think that the same conversations relates to tariffs.
Tariffs are not a four-letter word.
They're, in many ways, sort of a reciprocal tax.
And I think the American people are tired of getting ripped off and taken advantage of.
And what we saw with Columbia in, like, you know, a few short holes of golf, like 90 minutes, it's amazing what can change in literally just a few days of leadership if you actually have the guts to, like, use that bite, if you have the mandate from the people and you have the backing of the people in your party.
Yeah, that's right.
And amazing what can happen when you have a competent president who's willing to lead.
We've just not had that for four years, and it's been so obvious the last eight days.
I mean, it's just eight days, but just think of the sea change that's happened, and I think people are excited about it.
Yeah.
What else are you focused on in the Senate right now once you get through the confirmation stuff, Eric?
Well, I think, you know, we've got this reconciliation stuff, right?
We've got a four-year window and maybe a two-year window.
We'll see, right?
But I think there's got to be a sense of urgency to make sure that that...
That tax relief that working families got in 2017, that that doesn't expire.
I think those are important things to do.
I think that we've got an opportunity, whether it's DOGE or however you want to slice and dice it, to actually rein in government and excess and waste and abuse.
And then for me, you know, it's kind of harkens back to the AG days.
I think protecting free speech, but also taking on the broader administrative state.
I mean, we have to dismantle this beast that's been created and continues to grow and grow and grow because it really is antithetical to the founding of this country where people are supposed to be accountable.
You can send somebody there.
You can send me there.
You can send me home or you can send me back.
But, you know, you judge me on my votes.
If we ever had to vote on this ridiculous stuff like banning gas stoves, it would never pass.
But they hide behind these faceless bureaucrats that nobody's ever heard of and agencies they didn't know existed to get this agenda done.
So I think it's really important for the movement to take this opportunity to dismantle the administrative state.
So that's where a lot of my attention is at.
And then really just trying to help.
Yeah, by the way, speaking of that administrative state, you know, I read, you know, they want to have Tulsi Gabbard Senate hearing in the skiff.
That means everyone gets to vote, but no one gets to know how anyone voted.
So they can just be like, you're out rather than sort of facing the American people.
I mean, I think, you know, you know, whether it's Doge or otherwise, I think one thing is for certain is people just want some transparency.
So I would hope that we could figure out a way to make those votes public and just make sure that everyone understands.
Where their senators lie on some of these votes, because I think that's an important part of it.
You can't sort of pretend to be America first and then vote against the cabinet that the America first people voted for.
It doesn't seem to work that way.
Right, and I think one of the, you know, we've got a role to play in the legislative branch, but in the executive branch that is accountable to the people, but through the president, he deserves to have his team.
Historically, Before the Hexeth vote, but since Bill Clinton, there were only three negative votes on any nominee if the Senate was of the same party of the president.
Not three nominees that were spiked, but just three no votes.
So it's exceptionally rare.
To have a bunch of no votes, it would be more exceptionally rare to actually not confirm a nominee.
And I would argue that, again, President Trump has ushered in a broad, diverse coalition that is a winning formula for the future.
You know, you normally say permanent majorities, but opportunities to get things done.
And we ought to honor that with a team that's well-qualified, ready to roll, and to change the culture from the inside on these agencies that have really gone astray.
A hundred percent.
I mean, I think you're in a unique position being a former attorney general.
So you also understand all the branches of government very well, how they interact.
How does that guide you on your mission in the Senate to, you know, again, I love the stuff with executive order, but I want to codify some of this stuff into law so it can't just be, you know, washed away with the stroke of a pen in time.
I think it's a great way to get started, get it rolling.
How do we lock these things in?
How do you see that happening?
Well, I think, look, the reason why we had separation powers, the reason we had federalism, you wanted to broadly disperse power, right?
So you protected people's individual liberty.
And so you've got these executive orders play a very important role.
In many ways, President Trump is just a response to the craziness we saw by way of executive orders under the Biden administration.
Let's not forget, we had the most secure border we've had in 45 years at the end of 2020. Then, you know, 94 executive orders later in the first 100 days, Joe Biden undid all that, including suspending deportation.
So really what President Trump's doing is putting a lot of the policies that worked back in place and then actually deporting people which have been the policy of the United States of America forever except for the last four years.
But there are some things I think we need to make more permanent.
The RAINS Act is something that makes a lot of sense.
That is essentially that if any agency proposes a new rule that costs more than pick the number, 100 million bucks or 50 million bucks or whatever you want the number to be, that Congress actually have to vote on it before it goes into effect.
That would be an incredible check on the runaway executive branch.
I think that, you know, they ought to pull back five or ten, you know, rules before they can propose a new rule.
These are the kind of structural safeguards.
By the way, I figured if it was a $100 million thing, some agency would actually have to get congressional approval since that's the post, so to speak.
That's the checkbook.
But no wonder we're $35 trillion in debt.
I didn't even know that.
They just do it anyway.
They just do it anyway.
So you change the incentive structure.
And these are the kind of things, I think, to sustain the movement and the Make America Great Again, America First movement for the long term, right?
We've got a real gift.
That we've been given a huge opportunity in the short term.
But I think we want to have some lasting structural changes that will protect the country for years to come.
Well, I think you're 100% right.
I really appreciate it.
Senator Eric Schmidt, guys.
Eric, thank you very much.
Looking forward to all the hearings this week.
Hopefully you can knock some sense into some of your colleagues and let's just get this thing going.
But really appreciate everything that you're doing.
Great spending time with you over the last couple of weeks.
And I'm sure we'll talk soon.
All right, brother.
Thanks for all you do.
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Thoughts on Baron being the new favorite son?
I don't know.
I thought Elon was the new favorite son.
Everyone keeps telling me that too.
But either way, I'm good with it.
What's nice about me...
Surprisingly, and I know I'm a Trump, I don't have that much of an ego.
I just, I do my thing.
I get out there and I fight.
Yeah, so it's good.
I guess, I guess with the inauguration, my father called me either the vicious one or the whatever it was.
But, you know, in the grand scheme of the crap that we've been put through for the last nine years, I imagine the vicious one is probably exactly who you need because I think even he was good.
So I'm totally good with it, guys.
No issues whatsoever.
Let's see.
Thoughts on Don Jr. becoming UK PM? Probably hard.
Who knows?
With the UK's immigration policies, maybe you don't even have to be a resident.
They just let anyone do it.
But who knows?
Don Jr. for President 2028, for America 2021. Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Not sure I have the hubris to actually do that.
But you never know.
It's a great compliment.
Maybe one day.
Right now, focused on sort of the public sector side, trying to grow some of these businesses that are competing.
And I mentioned yesterday, literally taking a gun company public, taking a grab-a-gun public, doing that.
You can check that out on CLBR if you want to check out the stock ticker.
That will turn into Pew in a couple months once actually you finish the sort of SPAC merger.
But so we're doing all of these things, standing up for the stuff that we believe in, the things that you never thought could happen.
We did that with Public Square.
Obviously, you know how long I've been on Rumble.
I think I was the second verified user on the platform.
So, you know, putting my money where my mouth is and all the things that we believe as well.
One day, maybe we get in the government.
In the meantime, I think we have some great options, whether it's JD or others who are going to keep kicking ass.
You see him this weekend?
It was epic.
Just smacking around these people.
It was so good.
JD would be a good president too, but we love Doug Jr. Okay, well, I'll take both.
We'll take both.
That's fine.
Don't be president would be a pay cut and many headaches, although you do a great job.
Well, that's true, but trust me, getting into politics was probably a pretty, even though I didn't choose to necessarily do that at first, but when my father first ran in 2015, I imagine we took a pretty significant pay cut for a while on all of those things.
That's okay.
It's not all about that.
Sometimes you actually have to fight for what you believe in.
You have to fight for your family, your kids, and the next generation, and freedom, and the Constitution, and so many of the other things we believe in.
So, yeah, I know the chat's going pretty fast, but yeah, someone didn't like the closed-door policy on Tulsi's confirmation.
Yeah, I want to know who's not voting for, you know?
J6ers being thrown into jail in their home states.
That I wasn't aware of.
I heard, you know, a couple of lunatics trying to talk about doing that, but...
I don't know that that's actually happened yet.
I haven't seen it actually happen.
I know there was some talk about it.
But it shows you what you're up against, guys.
And that's why we have to stay engaged.
That's why we have to stay in the game and do all of that.
Taxes have gotten way out of hand.
This is rolling with Jadama TV. I think they should be paused for all Americans.
That would be something that I think would help.
For what the previous administration did, I think Americans need it.
I don't disagree with you.
I think my father talked about, you know, banning the federal income tax or, you know, getting rid of it.
You saw them coming up with an external revenue service, which is we get money through tariffs and others so that other people who are taking advantage of our economy and who are abusing, you know, free trade.
None of it's free trade.
They pretend it's free trade unless we do something they don't like and then they complain about free trade.
Until then, they milk it to their benefit.
So, you know, there could be ways to do this.
You know, a pause is hard.
There's still stuff we got to do, but you saw them pausing a lot of the, you know, the nonsense government programs.
You know, I'm sure there's some great ones in there too, but just sort of 90-day pause on all of this stuff while they assess how much money.
So we're not, you know, I don't know, giving, you know, $20 million to trans things in some obscure country that hates our guts for, like, it's just the insanity never stops.
So, yeah, hopefully get a lot of that stuff done.
Let's see.
Trades back in schools, I love that.
Yeah, let's see.
Is Trump time travel?
Not that I'm aware of, although, you know, you never know.
And if I knew, I probably couldn't tell you, because if I told you, I'd have to kill you.
It doesn't work.
What happened to Vivek Ramaswamy?
I think he was running for governor of Ohio.
I spoke to him last week.
Doing great, but, you know, I think he wants to do that now.
They're going to be termed out up there, and I think he could probably do a great job over there.
He'd been talking about that before the whole concept of Doge even came up, and then he wasn't sure where things were going or who would take that Senate seat or if he'd perhaps get appointed there.
So looking forward to seeing what he's going to be doing.
And let's see.
I think with that, guys, I got dinner with my boy, a little father-son dinner, so I'm going to run do that since this wasn't really planned until...
Last minute, but since I left you hanging on Thursday, I figured I'd be here, but I will be back on actual Thursday.
Do we know who our guest is yet?
We do not.
It's going to be a good one, though.
I can assure you that.
I guess.
We'll see.
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