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Feb. 3, 2025 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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Mexico Sends Troops to Border, Plus USAid Scam Exposed, Live with Brooke Goldstein & Rep Brian Mast | TRIGGERED Ep.213
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Thank you.
Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
I'm just getting the last of the social media posted here for you guys right now.
There's so much happening right now.
Democrats are melting down more than usual.
There's actually so much going on.
I don't even know that they know what to be upset about at any given time.
But more than ever, they're really upset that their USAID scam is being totally exposed.
I've never seen a group of people be so upset that billions of dollars are no longer going to foreign countries when we're struggling in our own country, when we've had to deal with this crap for so long.
It's almost as though it was a big shell game.
We'll get into all of that.
Shortly, we're going to be talking about the details of all of that, the things that they've been funding, the backtrack to all of these NGOs that are functioning as non-governmental organizations.
Sure, they're not.
They're funded by the American taxpayer, and it's how the Democrats get their slush funds.
Off the official books so the American public don't see it.
That's why they're freaking out.
And we're going to have a lot of details coming up on that shortly.
We have lawyer Brooke Goldstein, who does this stuff internationally.
We also have Florida Congressman Brian Mast on here.
So we're going to get into the details, uncovering this insanity so that you understand why the liberals are so upset and just how badly your money has been wasted, probably for decades, but certainly over the last four years.
And we begin with some other interesting breaking news.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just announced that Canada will put thousands more agents on our northern border.
And they'll list cartels as terrorists and launch a new joint task force with the US to combat organized crime and drug trafficking.
And it will pause the tariffs.
For 30 days.
So remember, this is like the vicious cycle, right?
Trump wants to do something.
The left loses their mind.
Another country doesn't want to cooperate.
Trump threatens tariffs.
The left say they don't work.
The country capitulates in about 30 seconds.
Rinse and repeat.
We've seen this a few times already.
So far this week, it's been Panama, Mexico, and Canada.
And soon we will get to the rest of the world because my father understands how to exercise America's economic might.
Earlier, as I mentioned, we saw a similar story with Mexico.
They, too, are sending 10,000 troops to our border amid the tariff threat.
Call it the Trump effect, folks.
Call it America first.
It's finally happening.
Shockingly, we can actually put our country, our citizens, our children first again.
It's amazing.
Feels so nice.
I love drinking the liberal tears also.
It's particularly good.
Also, breaking news.
Senator Susan Collins says she will vote for Telsey Gabbard for DNI. That's Director of National Intelligence.
So the confirmations are looking better and better.
A couple more holdouts.
Hopefully they come to their senses.
But we are working this hard, and the American people gave them all a mandate.
So hopefully the Senate gives my father the cabinet that not only does he deserve and the American people want and voted for, but that he campaigned with.
So it's not like any of this is a shock.
I mean, he was out there campaigning with these people actively and they brought those votes.
So we're doing what we can to make good on those promises.
So meanwhile, guys, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in Washington, D.C. to meet with my father.
So we'll also preview what's in store for that.
Human rights lawyer Brooke Goldstein, along with Congressman from Florida, Brian Mast, will be here to get into all of the details.
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And now, guys, let's get into the top headlines.
Earlier today...
After my father spoke with the leader of Mexico, Mexico announced that they will help reinforce the U.S.-Mexico border with 10,000 troops in exchange for a one-month pause on the 25% tariffs that were due to go into effect tomorrow.
This is, of course, a huge win for America, and it shows why this tariff policy can be so effective.
Again, guys, we can call it the Trump effect.
The reality is these countries need America.
They need us badly.
They need our dollars.
They need our economic might.
If they're not going to help us, if they're going to help the Chinese or if they're going to be adversarial to us, we stop helping them.
It's not a difficult concept to understand.
It's only difficult for government bureaucrats and people like Joe Biden that wouldn't exactly know how to do these things, even if someone laid out the CliffsNotes version for them.
And American companies also seem to agree with all of this.
For example, the CEO of the largest steel producer in the United States just endorsed the Trump tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico, saying, and I quote, American manufacturing.
Because that's the big point, guys.
We do have trade laws.
There's international laws.
The problem is other countries just don't follow them.
They pretend they do.
If we do something, they go to the UN and they go to every organization and they say, look what America's doing.
Then they flagrantly violate them, right?
There's a reason you can't buy a Ford in China.
There's a reason you don't see Chevys driving down the streets of Shanghai, okay?
It's not because we don't make a better car.
It's because they have no chance of ever breaking into that market in any real way, shape, or form.
So whether it's official policy or it's just sort of done under the table like all things in these third world nations, that's what happens.
And that's why there is no such thing as fair trade.
The way even some in America would like to believe it exists, right?
In theory, maybe they'd be right.
In practice, it never works out that way.
And that's why you need someone who's not a professor.
You need someone who's actually done these things in the real world, like my father.
And even in Canada, guys, the CEO of the second largest publicly traded company is defending the Trump tariffs, writing in a statement that he wishes his leadership stood up for its citizens.
The way that President Trump stands up for Americans.
And if you've been watching Canada, that statement shouldn't surprise you.
Because they ain't standing up for their citizens.
That's a fact.
The other fact is, we're not going to stand by and allow foreign nations to continue flooding our country with fentanyl.
We've seen how that's going through China to Mexico and other places, and even some from Canada.
Too many Americans are dying.
Just so we're clear, 100,000 deaths a year.
That's two Vietnams.
A year.
Dying.
And no one wanted to do anything about it.
No one even tried stopping it.
They just let it go.
You know, what's 100,000 people?
Who cares?
That's disgusting.
And it ends now.
And for China to come out and say it's an American problem, which they did this week, is an absolute...
China is the one flooding our country with these drugs.
They're working with the cartels, and that's how it happens.
That's how it works.
These problems don't happen in China because if someone gets caught doing drugs or telling them in China, they just execute them pretty much on the spot.
I believe it's called a quick trial.
That's according to Xi in conversations with my father in the first term.
They don't have that problem.
They're just happy to send that problem here because they understand the devastation.
The PSYOP, that it's something like fentanyl that just kills indiscriminately across there.
Everyone knows someone that's died of it.
Everyone has a friend.
Everyone has a loved one.
It's got to stop.
They've been waging this war for too long, and there has to be consequences.
The rhinos and the phonies at the Wall Street Journal editorial board are opposing these tariffs.
Shocker.
Shocker that they'd oppose these things.
They want to take away the best negotiating tool my father has to force these countries to finally stop allowing this poison into our country.
This shouldn't surprise us, guys, because they're all beholden to China and all these things.
If they can save 0.2 cents on a widget, they're going to do that.
American lives be damned seems to be their mentality.
So it shouldn't surprise us.
It's not going to change my father's mind.
Luckily, he would rather listen to the American people than the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.
Functioning as the shill of China comms.
But anyway, it's time to get tough and save American lives.
But of course, again, the Dem Rhino globalists responsible for gutting American manufacturing, your American dream, and turning communist China into a superpower in the first place, they're the ones that oppose my father's tariffs.
Again, we shouldn't be surprised because literally everything they do is America last and China first.
We've been watching this, and not just over the last four years, but for as long as certainly I have been paying attention.
They want America weak and economically dependent.
They've been wrong for decades, and they're, of course, wrong again here and now.
But those days are over, folks.
We are putting America first, once and for all.
Here is Senator Eric Schmidt.
He was on the show last week, recently, laying it all out so that you actually see exactly what's going on.
And when they have a porous border and they don't seem very concerned at all, and by the way, I heard the clip earlier, Justin Trudeau sort of lecturing Americans.
My advice to him is he probably ought to talk to the Canadian people who are about ready to throw him out of office because he's been a total disaster.
So I think we've got a president that wants to put America first and protect people.
We have 100,000 people a year.
Kristen, dying from fentanyl.
He ran on this.
This is not a surprise.
He talked about getting operational control of our border.
He talked about tariffs and improving our standing in the world.
He's doing all those things.
And look no further.
The best evidence of this was last week.
Columbia came to the table after that threat and agreed to take criminals back into their country and illegal immigrants.
So the fact of the matter is it works.
It worked the first time when he was in office.
We didn't see inflation.
We saw wage growth.
And we saw more on-shoring of jobs back here in the United States.
And there's no slowing down, guys.
My father is moving rapidly to send a message that business as usual is over.
And that includes the Panama Canal, where the country of Panama is now backing away from its relationship with China.
And here's my father and how he summed it up over the weekend.
Take a look.
The agreement is not allowed to violate the agreement.
China's running the Panama Canal.
That was not given to China, that was given to Panama foolishly, but they violated the agreement and we're going to take it back or something very powerful is going to happen.
And guys, we'll get into all of this much later in the show, but right now we turn to the massive left-wing meltdown over the Trump administration's move to clean out the rot inside the USAID office and put it under the purview of the State Department.
Now, don't be fooled by the name USAID, USAID.
We're aiding other people.
It isn't really about giving aid to you.
It's about laundering your taxpayer dollars to a country that hates your guts.
It's about dishing out lavish contracts to left-wing lunatics and...
And spending money on bizarre projects and funneling it all back to Democrats.
That's why the Democrats are losing their mind, right?
This isn't doing great stuff for people in desperate need.
This is the way the US government and the Democrats in charge of the various institutions therein are able to give Democrats money.
For their operations, for their trans garbage, for every little shady, nonsense, woke thing that they want to do.
And because it's given to an NGO or otherwise, it's no longer on the books.
Oh, it's USAID, did all these great things, but now we can no longer track it and we can't see where it's going.
It's about coordinating shady, clandestine operations through left-wing NGOs, all to the tune of $50 billion.
That's their budget, guys.
$50 billion of your money has been going to fund woke crap under the guise of America doing good.
And like the Democrats always do, they're not good at much, but they're good at marketing.
USAID. I mean, who wouldn't want to give aid to people, right?
Guys, that's what it's about, right?
It's not a shell game where we give it back to ourselves and funnel it to our friends and lunatics in Washington, D.C. Elon Musk is heading up this effort.
And the current staffers were ordered to stay at home.
And even the USAID website was shut down, okay?
So I know there's some people that don't like Musk.
I like him a lot.
I think what he's doing is great.
I think he's one of the great geniuses over time.
So there's people that may be skeptical, whatever it is, because you don't agree with him on everything.
I don't care, man.
This is a guy that can get to the bottom of these things.
He's more than happy to expose it, to show it, what's out there.
This is important.
So what does it all mean?
Well, first...
It means no more funding dumb projects that have nothing to do with America's interest.
Number one, here's just a small sample of what the USAID office has been funding, just so we're clear.
$20 million on a Sesame Street show in Iraq.
I'm sure that's going to go well, especially when they get to the Trans Muppets.
$56 million to boast Egyptian and Tunisia.
Tourism.
Whatever that means.
I mean, hey, I've been to Egypt.
It's beautiful.
It's wonderful.
Why are we spending $56 million on tourism there?
Why don't we spend $56 million on tourism to America?
Have other people spend their money here rather than we send our money to help them earn money.
It doesn't make much sense to me.
But it shouldn't because it's ridiculous.
$11 million on an effort to tell Vietnam to stop burning so much trash.
I mean, why don't you just tell them to stop burning so much stress?
Why do you need $11 million to do that?
I mean, I'm sure we give them other aid.
Why don't we just say, well, stop giving you that aid if you don't stop burning the garbage.
I mean, it doesn't seem that hard, but I'm a person with more than one brain cell.
So apparently the people at USAID and the government and people who've been skimming all of this money off the top don't.
$2 million to deliver gender-affirming health care in Guatemala.
I'm sure that's a big one over there, folks.
I'm sure that's not a ripoff.
Gender-affirming healthcare in Guatemala, a very big topic in Guatemala, obviously.
$45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma, okay?
I guarantee you 99% of people can't find Burma on a map, and we're spending $45 million for DEI scholarships.
Not just scholarships, not like educating their best talent or figuring out how to get them to rise above, but DEI scholarships in Burma.
$1.5 million to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities.
Now, I like Serbia a lot.
I've been there.
Great place.
Tough, smart, Eastern European people.
I really don't think they give a crap about diversity, equity, inclusion.
I'm just telling you.
That's us pushing our crap to the tune of $1.5 million of your money.
Hundreds of thousands of meals.
That went to Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria.
So hundreds of thousands of meals at a couple bucks a meal turns out to be millions of dollars to Al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria.
Think about that.
Funding to print personalized contraceptive birth control devices in developing countries.
So I guess you get a condom with your name on it in a developing country because that's important.
We need to monogram them.
You know, I do occasionally on some of my suits, I'll get my initials monogrammed on them.
Apparently, I guess they're monogramming condoms for people in third world nations.
Again, probably not the best use of your funds.
And millions, if not more, in aid for the Palestinian territories, which I'm sure flows right into the hands of Hamas.
Okay?
Guys, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
So, one might ask, why are Democrats losing their minds over this?
Is it because this will expose corruption on levels once thought perhaps unimaginable?
Hawaii Democrat Senator Brian Schwartz now says he's putting a hold on all of Trump's State Department nominees until USAID is reinstated.
It's almost like the Democrats know this is a shell game for Democrats.
Huh.
Why?
Why is he so scared?
What is he afraid of?
Americans are fed up with funding corrupt, woke nonsense.
They made that abundantly clear in November, and yet they want it to continue.
Here is Secretary of State Marco Rubio explaining just what a scam USAID really is.
Look, I mean, my frustration with USAID goes back to my time in Congress.
It's a completely unresponsive agency.
It's supposed to respond to policy directives of the State Department, and it refuses to do so.
So the functions of USAID, there are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are going to be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy.
I said very clearly, during my confirmation hearing, that every dollar we spend and every program we fund, We'll be aligned with the national interest of the United States.
And USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that they're somehow a global charity separate from the national interest.
These are taxpayer dollars.
And so I'm very troubled by these reports that they've been unwilling to cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what does this program do?
Who gets the money?
Who are our contractors?
Who's funded?
And that sort of level of insubordination makes it impossible to conduct a sort of mature and serious review that I think I agree.
Amy555 on here had a good idea.
Take the $50 billion and use it towards deportations, right?
Because everyone's saying, the deportations, it's too expensive, it's too expensive.
You know what's really expensive?
Allowing An illegal dependent or a criminal to be here, to feed them, to clothe them, to school them, to health care, everything.
You want to know expense?
Letting them stay, especially since they didn't exactly send their best.
So maybe we take that $50 billion, hand it over to Tom Homan, and get the deportations going even faster.
And my father's administration continues to flood the zone on every front.
He'll be signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the scandal-plagued U.N. Human Rights Council.
Remember, I think this is the council.
Didn't they let Iran on there?
And they had the biggest human rights offenders in the world sat on that council.
And then there's the Council for Women's Rights, also Iran, and other regimes that don't exactly treat women all that well.
So we're going to now withdraw from the U.N. Human Rights Council, which, again, it sounds like a great thing, but it's just a fraud.
It's all BS, folks.
Which has time and time again, we're talking about the UN Human Rights Council, has time and time again undermined America's interests while also spewing anti-Semitism and propping up terror and evil regimes.
It seems obvious, but our taxpayer dollars should never be used to fund terror.
I don't know.
Again, these are all novel concepts.
It's hard to believe that it's a novel concept, but they are.
And it ends now.
Also this week in Washington, my father will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu where discussions will center around long-term solutions for peace in the region.
Stopping Hamas terror, rescuing more hostages, and I'm sure much, much more.
Guys, it all goes to show you what it means to have actual leadership.
Real leadership back in Washington.
We're not putting up with being pushed around anymore.
Those days are over.
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So with that, guys, joining me now, human rights attorney and Middle East expert, Brooke Goldstein.
Brooke, great to have you on the show.
How are you?
Brooke, are you muted?
It happens all the time, Brooke.
Don't worry about it.
I remember my first time on a podcast.
It's really great to be here with you.
I'm really thrilled and honored, Don.
Thank you so much.
Well, thank you for having us or being here.
And first off, you know, obviously so much breaking news right now.
My father's withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Again, people are very good at branding these things.
I usually find whatever they call something, the actual effect tends to usually be the opposite of the nomenclature used to describe it.
What do we really need to know about the UN Human Rights Council and what withdrawing from it actually means?
First of all, I want to congratulate your father, President Trump, for taking this bold stance.
He has said time and time again that we're going to get out of these institutions.
They're really just, you know, democracies of a bunch of totalitarian dictatorships.
They're Orwellian.
Like you said, it's the mirror effect.
Whatever they accuse us of doing, the members themselves are guilty of.
You know, there's no due process.
There's no accountability.
You have China.
You have Iran.
You have Russia ruling these UN commissions and groups is just totally insane and for some reason they're seen as some type of international legal authority and really what emanates from the United Nations and its organs is lawfare, right?
The use of these international legal systems and institutions that were meant to do good pervert human rights, right?
Engage in historical revisionism and then accuse us and our allies of being the human rights violators and therefore setting We're setting the stage for what they call justifiable revolutions and spreading global jihadi ideologies against us.
So it's an incredible revolutionary thing that I support wholeheartedly.
Yeah, listen, I think I listed some of them.
I don't know if you heard sort of my opening monologue, but can you tell me, if I remember correctly, I mean, there's some real winners on the UN Human Rights Council, you know, countries that have been either on it, maybe currently still on it, or on there over the last, you know, let's call it decade or so.
Can you list some of those names?
Because I think our viewers, just hearing the names of the people that actually are on there, will find probably some great irony that some of these countries probably have Zero human rights.
Don't even espouse any virtues of human rights.
Once you hear the names, I think people will probably realize just how much of a scam it all is.
Yeah, I mean, you just have to look just recently in 2023, for example, I don't have the whole list, you know, at the top of my head.
But, you know, I remember Iran was appointed to chair this so-called Asia Pacific group.
And the fact that you are giving Iran any type of authority, they're appointing themselves.
I think at one point they were also on the commission for the status of women and women's rights.
I found that one to always be incredibly ironic, given that, you know, human rights, you know, from a regime that throws homosexuals.
I don't know.
Maybe they don't belong on that council.
Well, it's so ironic, but it's also so sad because what we're really witnessing is the degradation of the international legal system.
And as a human rights attorney, as a civil rights attorney, we look to these organs that we are funding for some sort of moral clarity and authority.
And we had this great vision after the Holocaust.
After World War II, we signed the conventions and the genocide convention.
Even the term genocide is now being perverted and manipulated.
The result is you have the greatest human rights violators of all time operating with total impunity.
And then you have Western democracies, you have Israel and our greatest ally in the Middle East engaging on an asymmetric battlefield where terrorists are literally using their own civilians as human shields, recruiting their own children for suicide homicide attacks.
And these grave, grave human rights violations are ignored or at worst, they're justified.
And when you have Israel, the only country, which, by the way, is on the front lines of the war against terror, and we must support the defeat of the radical ideology that is spreading throughout the Middle East and now is being globalized here.
When you have Israel as the only country, time and time again, that's on the agenda of the Human Rights Council, the only country that has been consistently condemned, you are setting precedents in international law that ultimately are going to be used against us, other Western democracies.
When we're fighting on these asymmetric battlefields, when we're fighting against the same terrorist entities, the Al-Qaeda's, the ISIS's, the Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the Al-Aqsa-Manda Brigades, the one thing that unites them all is their violation of the laws of armed conflict.
And so you set a precedent, a whole body of law, this lawfare attack that President Trump speaks about so much against Western democracies.
Then there's no reason to be a member of these groups and we have to totally reevaluate as a legal community what enforcement of international law really looks like and who has the authority to do that.
Yeah, Brooke, you know, as we learn more about how our money is being spent, again, USAID, you know, funding all sorts of things that frankly don't have anything to do with aid and certainly don't have any benefit to Americans.
We're seeing a tremendous flow of federal dollars ending up literally in the hands of terror groups like Hamas and other bad actors.
Whether it's at the UN, whether it's at USAID, there's more and more just terrifying findings that we're uncovering each and every day.
What else do you think we're going to find out in the coming weeks as more of this stuff gets exposed and as we actually run proper audits on where this money is being spent?
Well, you know, I have to say, even just scratching the surface, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the proper audit, because since 2021, what I have found is over $2.7 billion going directly to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.
We built these terror entities through USAID.
And I'm so happy we're not calling it USAID because the strategic purpose, the original purpose of this entity was never just to dole out aid with unaccountability and become this independent pseudo State Department, you know, ideological propaganda machine, which is basically what it is, but it was to pursue our ideological propaganda machine, which is basically what it is, but it was And I guess the procedural flaw there is that it pursues entirely what the State Department's goals are, as it should.
But when you have a State Department that's been overrun with radical ideology, with Islamist sympathizers who can totally Without any accountability or oversight, use, I think it was $50 billion more than what the CIA and the State Department have combined to spread a subversive ideological campaign to other countries.
What we're engaged in, what we were engaged in with USAID is the destruction of other democracies.
So on the one hand, we're watching Qatar and we're watching foreign countries like Iran and we're watching China spend billions of dollars with subversive campaigns at our colleges and in our universities and undermining democracy.
Our own system, our own taxpayer dollars, USAID, is being used to do the same for our allies.
And that's pretty revolting.
And I think a lot of people don't really understand since President Trump has announced that he wants an audit, I mean, who would have a problem with that?
So there's a 90-day pause.
The amount of obstructionists who have literally prevented government officials from going into USAID offices.
They're not letting them in the building.
The executive branch has every authority to conduct an audit, and they are obstructionists about it.
So you have to wonder, what else do we not know?
I can only imagine beyond funding a Hamas-designated terrorist group.
What else are we doing?
Yeah, watching the left be totally outraged about audits.
The same people that are totally fine with the IRS auditing a $600 Venmo payment that you or I may make have no issue with a rampant politicized organization doling out $50 billion to terror organizations.
Leads me to believe that there's something in it for Democrats.
I mean, it's nuts.
Well, you know, they're ideologically aligned.
And it's not always rational and it doesn't always make sense when you have these subversive, harmful, radical ideologies.
And obviously we have it seeped and it's systemic now.
It is systemic within the U.S. government and it's the reason why your father was elected as president of the United States is to get rid of this.
Policy of this ideology.
And so the people who are opposing any type of oversight or control clearly want to see this ideology spread.
And, you know, I have to say I want to express my gratitude to the president for his executive orders that are also aimed at combating the radical ideology on campus of which the Jewish students and the Jewish professors and my community have been the greatest victims of.
The passing of the executive order that's requiring their reporting mechanisms and, frankly, requiring the enforcement of current law, which just isn't being done.
The laws are on the books.
We have Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
We have state anti-discrimination laws.
We have federal funding and reporting laws that aren't being filed.
We're very grateful for these next steps.
So, yeah, I mean, you touched on that.
My father recently signed an executive order, for those who don't know, to marshal all federal resources to combat the explosion of anti-Semitism on our campuses.
I saw it, you know, at my alma mater, at the University of Pennsylvania, which, you know, I think when I was there, it had like an undergraduate population.
It was like 60 percent Jewish of the, you know, Caucasian side, at least.
Amazing to see anti-Semitism there and everywhere else.
And, you know, I guess it's been in our streets since October 7th.
You know, what is the impact of that?
And what are the parameters of that executive order?
How do you see that, you know, going into effect?
And how do you codify this kind of insanity into law?
Because, you know, you got to get it.
You know, the executive order is nice, but if you ever get one of these radical leftists or Democrats back in there, that's gone again.
And we're back to funding the same insanity.
Exactly.
So that's why civil rights litigation and impact litigation, I believe, is so important because we saw even the executive orders that your father had put in place.
During his first term were just completely ignored or subverted by the Biden administration.
And so what this particular order does, and actually I think there's a lot of teeth there, is it focuses particularly on college campuses.
It requires, number one, federal agencies to report about what's going on on those campuses and to inform colleges if the visas of particular students that they know are supporting Hamas, they know exactly what's going on on their campuses, if they're revoked.
But most importantly, It is to enforce the existing law against terrorism supporters and to enforce the existing civil rights law.
Now, if I would be so bold as to make a recommendation for a second step, we need to understand why this is happening in the first place, right?
It didn't just all of a sudden after October the 7th, we have thousands of students and they're not just foreign students.
We're talking about Americans, American youth who have been going through a system for at least the last 15 years and being taught to hate themselves, to hate this country, not to have pride in their national identity, to hate Israel, to hate Jews.
They're being given a version of Islam and Marxism.
Pushing it down their throats to the point where they are so confused.
And we see this outburst after October the 7th.
But this is 15 years in the making.
So how is it that there is over $1 billion a year, $1 billion coming from Qatar funding our U.S. college campuses?
Now, there's no problem with foreign funding of college campuses.
It's what is that money being used for?
And is there a, not just correlation, but causation between the fact that the Campuses that have the highest rate of undocumented foreign funding, whether it comes from China, Russia, or Qatar, have a 300% more likelihood of anti-Jewish activity and anti-American activity, because that is really what it's about, or let's call it what it is.
Pro-terror activity.
So we need to get to the root cause of the problem.
And frankly, I think our entire curriculum has to be overhauled.
It has to do with everything from, you know, the DEI and the critical race theory and everything, Dawn, that you talk about every day.
So these executive orders are welcome.
They're an incredible first step, and we're so grateful for them.
But now we have to look at the root cause of the problem and how to root out the radicalization in our education system that's been here for over 10 years.
Well, thank you very much, Brooke.
I'm sure there'll be a lot more that we discover in the coming weeks.
Love to have you back on talking about that again.
So, Brooke Goldstein, thank you so much for being here.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you so much.
Guys, coming up, we'll have much more on this with Florida Congressman Brian Mass.
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And guys, joining me now, Congressman, just north of me, from Florida's 21st District, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Brian Mast.
How are you, buddy?
What's going on, my friend?
Well, you know, listen, last time I saw you was right after the, you know, face-to-face, at least, was that during the hurricanes and tornadoes that we were dealing with in Florida.
So we're dealing with other hurricanes and tornadoes all over the world right now, but at least we seem to be back in control, which is nice for a change.
That's right.
I think people love seeing you out there in Carhartt boots.
You know, they just assume, hey, you must be in a jacket and tie all the time, but you're always out there getting your hands dirty, doing real work.
That's the reality on you.
Yeah, you know, I probably have some redneck tendencies.
So, I mean, I know we were talking about that because we were going to go.
We were sort of mobilizing to go to the west coast of Florida to help with the hurricane.
It turns out the east coast sort of got hit harder because of all the tornadoes.
And so, honestly, it was an honor to be able to travel, you know.
You know, the county just north of where I actually live and, you know, areas that I, you know, where I have my cabin were affected by it and, you know, neighbors were wiped out.
And what was really cool about it, I said on the show, was we went into these areas, you know, when you joked about sort of, you know, we're going to go to hostile territory, there was an NAACP meeting up there.
And I was like, okay, like, you know, I'm game.
We walk out and some of your team, former law enforcement, they were on a first-name basis with all of these kids.
Everyone knew everyone.
I was like, wait, this is like the way America is actually supposed to be.
And it probably is much more so than it's not.
It's just not clickbait worthy.
So you'll never actually see that.
So that was a true eye-opening experience even for me.
And they knew you too.
Well, so first off, I got to get your reaction.
To Mexico, sending troops to our border to, you know, before the tariffs kick in or to stop the tariffs.
What message do you think that sends both to the cartels, to Americans, to those abroad watching, etc.?
Yeah, I think you got a lot going on here to unpack that when you have true leadership in the United States of America, President Trump.
Man, it's amazing what can happen when you have a leader that steps up and has hard lines, has clarity about what needs to happen for the safety of the nation that he is tasked with protecting, instead of a Joe Biden that's basically just going to invite people in and say, hey, any nation on any other border, any foreign leader, y'all do what you want, and we're going to pretend to our gaslighting media in our country that nothing can be done, and there's just absolutely nothing we can do about this.
But the truth of the matter is...
The president got this done in what, I don't know how many days we are out from inauguration here, but the list goes on of the accomplishments that are taking place.
Well, so you chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Obviously, that's going to be a big part of all of the stuff that's going on right now, whether we're talking about Mexico, Panama, Canada, Colombia, all the other things that we've seen go on in just the first two weeks.
But on this USAID scandal, How much more is there to uncover and just how much more will we implicate the swamp and their failed forward policy over the last several decades with it?
I think you've really just seen the tip of the iceberg.
I chaired oversight of foreign affairs for the last couple of years before chairing the full committee.
And that's all I did was dig into the State Department and dig into USA and other arms.
So, you know, there's a little bit of a separation there.
We're talking about USAID right now.
I got papers in front of me, lists I could give you of, you know, just waste that was going on there.
Let's see, $425,000 to help Indonesian coffee companies become more gender friendly.
That's a real half a million dollars of your money.
Honestly, I think I'm going to write another book.
I just came up with it.
I just got to write a book about the waste and what it means to get rid of it and what it can do for America.
I mean, there's got to be a book here because it's insane.
You would think this is hyperbole, right?
So that's USAID. Let me give you a couple just from the State Department in general.
And the reason I say that is because it goes to the point that there's so many arms of State Department.
Don't just get focused on USAID.
There's other doors that need to be shut out there because they're doing, let's see, $39,000 to host seminars in Edinburgh International Book Festival on gender identity.
And $48,000 to help educate Polish youth on how to be LGBTQ.
And $70,000 to create a U.S.-Irish music to promote DEI in Ireland.
And just the list goes on and on and on.
I could read these to you for hours and that that I could read you for hours is the tip of the iceberg because there's so much that they just we had to find that stuff.
They wouldn't tell us about it.
Well, of course, you know, China is really at the center of all of this conversation.
Perhaps we haven't gotten there yet, but, you know, they've sort of been...
You know, the acting force behind so much of this, whether it's fentanyl or otherwise.
We've been doing investigations on the show on just how much they've infiltrated our supply chains and exporting products made with forced labor.
My father has basically said, you better move manufacturing here.
You know, agreed to oversight.
Or else you're going to face consequences.
We also see these cheap Chinese retailers like Timu and Shan who like to exploit the loopholes in our trade laws and en route their goods.
How do you view the China threat?
And beyond what we're doing right now, which is the short-term fix, what legislation can we implement to actually fix it permanently?
I see the China threat diminishing every single day because of the leadership in America.
And let me tell you how I equate those two things going on.
So number one, let's talk about where we have reliances upon China.
We know that they're far more reliant on wanting to sell their goods into the United States of America than we are them.
Sure, there's inputs on American businesses, but I have small, small companies.
To large corporations calling me right now saying, hey, what can we do to bring our manufacturing back to the United States of America?
How do we bring this back, this back, this back?
Is there some incentive to bring it back?
Is there some program to help us?
Because we're going to bring it back to America.
That's the change that President Trump is affecting.
All of these from large to small saying, well, we're going to come back here and we're going to help the American worker because we see exactly what's going to take place.
That means?
Less reliance on China.
But let's bring it to another place that we have in the foreign relations sphere.
If you have the appropriate support of allies like Israel, like what we have under your father instead of what we had under Joe Biden, you have an enabled Israel that goes out there and can do things like destroy Iranian energy infrastructure so that we don't have them sending four to six million barrels of oil from Iran to China a day.
That puts China in a pinch.
Or if you want to see how they can affect Europe, if they're out there destroying...
If they're destroying Iranian drone-making capabilities, well, that's where Russia's getting a lot of their drones from, is from Iran.
Or if they're out there just destroying any Iranian nuclear infrastructure, well, that's good for anybody across the globe, that they don't have the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
But that's the difference in how our president, your father, supports our allies and how he's working to bring business back to the United States of America, make us stronger, make us less reliant.
So, you mentioned Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington this week.
Last week, Senate Democrats lined up behind Hamas and their allies to block a bill expressing strong U.S. support for Israel.
What should we make of all of that?
Yeah, you know, that bill, there's a bill for myself and Representative Chip Roy out of Texas that we had both been working on that, related to the International Criminal Court, which we don't even recognize.
But what they lined up against on that bill was to say, listen, these people from the ICC court that are trying to put, you know, let's call it a bounty on the head of Netanyahu, put a warrant out for his arrest.
They're getting in the way, literally.
They're getting in the way.
Of the tip of the spear of bringing home Americans that are held by these terrorists.
And so my line is this.
If you're getting in the way of us getting Americans back to our shores, certainly why should we let you into the United States of America?
But we're going to get in your way in every single way that we can.
Senate Democrats, they don't have an interest in getting in their way.
They were interested in just acquiescing to the International Criminal Court and saying, hey, yeah, let's let those people into America.
Let's not deal with them.
That's just too mean to do to these people, so we can't do that.
But you look at another place where this is taking place right now, the Senate getting in the way.
Senate Democrats now are threatening to hold up any other appointments related to State Department or a number of other places if Secretary Rubio doesn't...
Open back up the doors of USAID. They're looking to make sure that all these programs that I just listed off to you and a hundred others beyond that, that if we don't turn those back on, that they're not going to allow through any more confirmations of people that your father wants to see through.
Yeah, sort of tells you everything you need to know about them and what these things really do.
I mean, they're basically a Democrat slush fund to fund, you know, woke stuff all over the world to push the nonsense.
That I think Americans are now, now that they've been exposed to it, are sick of it, but elsewhere.
Because when you list some of these things, it's mind-boggling that anyone could even imagine there's anything even remotely good for America in any of these things, let alone the rest of the world.
Here's another one.
This is Alex.
I was just reading about him from the LGBTQ comic book that you guys paid about $40,000 to publish in Peru.
So I was learning about the hero in that story.
And again, you cannot make this stuff up.
It should be a satirical article in the Babylon Bee, but it's actual reality for what the State Department has been out there doing that doesn't actually make America the partner of choice.
It actually pushes other countries away from the United States.
I was at this other place called the U.S. Institute of Peace.
They get $50 million a year of U.S. taxpayer money, of which they're going to have to explain what they're doing with it.
But they asked me to come by there and speak.
And I did, not largely to thunderous applause, telling them some of the changes that were going to take place underneath your father and Secretary Rubio and other things in State Department.
And after I told them where, you know, listen, if we have countries looking for chicken or fish, it's not likely we're going to be sending over LGBTQ trans.
There was an ambassador that stood up from Africa and she was like, yeah, please don't do that.
You know, you're not helping your situation when you put a pride flag over your embassy in our country.
That's not our values.
That's not what we want to see.
So don't do that.
And that was not to thunderous applause for her either.
That's the example of what's going on.
These people in State Department are bleeding heart liberals that are pushing America's allies away and not making us the partner of choice.
Yeah, when I hear about trans programs in Pakistan and all these things, I'm like, I don't know, man.
It doesn't feel like anyone there actually buys into this stuff.
I've spent plenty of time.
You know, in numerous countries all over Africa and all over Asia, those aren't the values that they're pushing.
So I think you're right.
It's not only a waste of American dollars, but it's also counterproductive to America's standing in the world because when people in those places who clearly don't understand the insanity or they look at it as though it is what it is, which is insanity, we lose our standing in the world.
We lose a lot of that power because they look at us like we're a big joke, which, frankly, we've functioned as for quite some time now.
Or we're just burning up dollars that come out of the American taxpayer pocket, out of their wallet.
We're just burning.
I can give you another one.
I think we spent roughly $15 million for condoms to the Taliban.
Contraception to the Taliban, $15 million of your money.
That's a real thing.
The Biden administration would have been better off just lighting your money on fire.
Man, it's crazy.
Brian, what is the dynamic like in Congress these days?
Obviously, we have slim majorities in the House and Senate, so that makes it harder.
We definitely have some weak Republicans we've got to deal with in that.
But what is that dynamic like?
What are some of the top focuses of your committee?
And also, you're also on transportation, so you've got sort of a double-edged sword there.
What will Congress have?
In investigating this recent crash to actually effectuate real reform.
So because we were talking about DEI, I'm going to stick on the DEI as it relates to transportation and the military and where this becomes just a more systemic problem.
Yes, absolutely errors in the air traffic control tower.
Absolutely errors in that helicopter.
It looks like they were at too high of an altitude.
And so there are very specific problems that need to be investigated on that.
But we're not setting up any of these agencies, air traffic controllers, the whole of the FAA, you name it, to be the absolute best at their job.
Because in all of these agencies, and I mean this literally, it wasn't the exception, it was the rule.
In all of these agencies, DEI became the focus.
How are you advancing?
DEI became how you get promoted and how you advance in your seniority and your rank within these agencies.
And those are things that I can prove as well.
We have testimony from chief diversity officers across the government saying, listen, you know, number one, the basket of people has to first look a certain way.
And then merit will be taken into account after that.
That's not how you get the best and the brightest.
And these are problems that we will be looking into, certainly as it relates to the crash and those that are being hired on to air traffic control and other places and every other agency out there.
That's the big deal that the Democrats made under their four years in power, if we could call it that.
And all of that's going to change so that it's back to making sure that people get hired on or hired on.
In advance because of their performance, because of their work ethic, because of what they've been doing on the job, not because of their lifestyle choices and their gender or how they identify or anything else.
Yeah.
How do you feel, you know, sort of morale is within the Republican Congress and amongst your colleagues?
Do you feel like they're getting it?
I mean, you know, the stuff I see from people, you know, whether it's comments on my social, whether it's just people that run into me at airports or at a restaurant where I'm at, I mean.
People genuinely seem excited about this opportunity.
I think Trump 2.0 certainly understands that dynamic of, you know, what we can do.
He understands what's been hidden from us for too long, the things they weren't telling him.
You know, they'd give him, you know, enough to do something, but not everything he needed to understand just how rampant these problems were.
You know, are some of your colleagues getting that now, the ones that aren't sort of the traditional people that are all in?
I think there's a getting of it, definitely.
And the more sunlight that gets put on all of these things, the more of that snowball that just keeps rolling and building and gaining momentum.
That's a true thing.
But you still have folks that are going to have to be just drug along to say, guess what?
You know what?
There's a timeline on some of the things that we didn't talk about.
Doing this budget reconciliation, getting some of these big benefits through that we want to help the American people.
There's a timeline and a fuse to getting those things done.
And it's not four years of a Donald Trump presidency.
And it's not even the two years of a House term.
We learned back during the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in your father's first term that if you don't get these things through soon enough, the American people don't get to realize the benefit of what's going on with these programs before they hit another election cycle.
So if we don't get some of these things out the door before, let's say, June, it's tougher for them to realize the benefit by the time they get to the next election cycle in a year and a half after that.
I think that's right.
I think as much as I love what they're doing at Doge, half of it is really going to be...
Just exposure.
People, if there's just transparency with where your money's going, how much has been wasted, you know, I think that's enough because you're right.
People get worn out.
You see the media onslaught.
They're all going crazy right now.
And, you know, that's designed to sway elections.
And you come out to a midterm cycle.
Historically, the party in power doesn't maintain or, you know, they usually make losses.
And when you're dealing with slim margins, people need to understand just how bad it is.
They need to understand what's at stake and they need to see real action.
To actually effectuate any of that kind of change.
Otherwise, you get to a midterm cycle and people are just bored and they move on and they try to do something different.
Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
And so, you know, there has to be a fire lit under my colleagues to say, listen, we got to come together.
We got to get this done.
You know, no action is certainly far worse than taking this action, this action, or this action.
And in the end, they're conservative.
They're reducing government.
They're reducing regulation.
They're putting sunlight on all the problems that are taking place.
They're moving what our team captain, your father, wants to move.
And we have the assistance of all of those things that they're doing.
So let's do that.
Let's get those things written into law.
Let's do even more.
And let's be able to make sure that we have another bite at the apple for the second two years of President Trump's presidency in this cycle.
And not just the first two years because we were so busy squabbling that we ended up making it that he has divided government.
Yeah, I think a big one that the American people will feel.
Obviously, these are all great things.
It's all exposure.
But what do you think the timeline is on tax cuts?
What do you think that same timeline is on no tax on tips?
How does that all play out?
Because these are promises we made.
We want to keep.
Obviously, you're going to see a lot of Democrats trying to block that.
I want to see how that works out for them in the midterms if they do.
But what do you think the timeline on all of that is?
Because I think that's going to be important to a lot of people.
Yeah, so let's layer a few things that you have going on.
You have the appropriations still from what should have been done last October.
Then you have the appropriations we should be working on right now.
A lot less of those, thanks to the things that are going on with the executive branch.
Then you have debt ceiling, something that we're going to have to deal with in the upcoming months.
Then you have what we're talking about right now, the tax cuts, dealing with the border and these things under budget reconciliation.
Again, my hope would be that we can move these things before summertime.
Because if we move them before summer, then the American people could hopefully feel the benefit of what we move in taxes in this year's tax cycle.
That would be my personal goal.
Make the things that we move in that, things that they can feel in this tax cycle when they're doing their taxes next, not this coming April, but the following April.
Because if we don't get it done for them, then what?
You have to wait all the way to a whole other tax cycle, which is after the election cycle, which means...
They didn't get to feel the benefit of what we worked on.
Oh, I really appreciate it.
Congressman Brian Mass, thank you very much.
Look forward to seeing you soon, man.
Let me know when you're back down in the area.
You got it, brother.
Always good to see you.
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