Tim Tompkins and Rex Jones dissect the Middle East chaos, analyzing how Iran's sinking of an Indian ship and satellite destruction threaten global oil markets while neoconservatives frame it as a holy war. They argue the conflict serves a financial industrial complex, benefiting donors like Elon Musk through weapon demonstrations and strait closures that cook Europe economically. Simultaneously, they detail Kristi Noem's firing over $220 million in wasteful political ads and ethics violations, concluding that these events reveal a systemic transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich via manufactured crises. [Automatically generated summary]
Like, starting out, the thing that's hard about media, like, especially just getting started or trying to get initial motion, is you hear yourself talk, and then you're like, oh, I don't feel like that was good.
So it's like when you're on air, guys, it's like you, like he's talking about, you catch all the little nuances, like the awkward air time in between, the pauses, those types of things.
But then the camera almost sucks all of that away.
And then it doesn't feel like that to you guys on camera.
So like things that feel awkward, like I was like, oh, am I being awkward around Alex?
And it's like, like, Alex was totally chilly.
It was just cool.
So like those things don't actually come across on camera.
So I'm very excited.
I'm so glad that you guys had a chance.
Anyone who's a new follower from that, we appreciate you guys.
It's very important because you're like, huh, like, I think winning is getting like a first place trophy or getting married or buying a house, you know, winning at life or something.
Actually, no.
You know, it's important when the Dow is over 50,000.
If that goes on for longer than I think they said, like eight days or so, or even two weeks, it's going to be catastrophic for the rest of the world for one.
Because again, you're already kind of you, you guys probably are seeing your gas prices go up.
Everything that requires transportation requires fuel.
Those costs get passed down to you on a trickle-down effect.
So the amount of effort that it takes for whatever resource to reach America in its shipping route, as well as all of the different layers that are stacking on each other as far as the energy cost, those get passed down as well.
And we've seen anytime there's a crisis, remember we did the Cal Main Egg situation where the bird flu happened?
The government, not the government, sorry, the companies use a crisis as a justification to increase prices on products at home.
So what I want to express to people is like, we are in a time now that is reminding me of the time of World War I and World War II where these gross overreaches of nationalistic power are going to reflect in further international law being developed after there's some sort of resolution to all of this because of things like this, because of the bombing campaigns, because of the sinking of the ships and then not helping the survivors.
I mean, that's what the Germans did to us.
That's what the Germans and Japanese did.
The Japanese would sink a ship and then they would gun the people down.
Everyone needs to know the extent of what the U.S. did.
An unarmed Iranian ship invited to a joint Indian naval exercise paraded its sailors before the president alongside other participants, including the U.S. At the last minute.
The U.S. withdrew from the exercise and torpedoed the Iranian vessel, then reportedly refused to rescue the survivors, leaving the Sri Lanka Navy to recover the bodies from the water.
Of course, this is Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense for George.
You know, my name is George W. Bush, and I'm a good man.
Fool me once.
I can't get fooled again.
We'll go ahead and play this because here's the thing: it's just everything we're seeing now, especially with like the neocon political attitude.
It's all the stuff that I thought was dead in the Republican Party, but it's literally just waiting there, like latent, like the venom symbiote, waiting to just take over the thing at any moment.
And then it's the black Spider-Man costume.
Like that, that's what this is.
That's a good analogy.
Watch it.
This has been going on for a long time.
And look, they always tell you it's going to be over quickly.
This wasn't over for years and years and years.
9 trillion Iraq and Afghanistan.
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It is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last.
Okay, sorry, this is this thing as of three hours ago, but the U.S. House has overwhelmingly voted to officially declare Iran as the largest state sponsor of terrorism, 372 to 53.
House turns back bid to restrict Trump's war powers in Iran.
A handful of Democrats joined Republicans to defeat an effort to force President Trump to go to Congress for approval to continue using force against Iran, while two GOP lawmakers backed it.
They got a photo of Massey there, articles by a man named Robin Jimson.
The House voted down an effort on Thursday to halt the war against Iran and to force President Trump to go to Congress for authorization as a small block of Democrats join nearly all Republicans in delivering an early sign of support for the war in the Middle East.
Everyone knows it's a war.
I'm not trying to interrupt the article.
I'm going to keep reading the article, but literally, it's targeted straggled 1973 War Powers Act.
It's literally how the president, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, everyone calls it a freaking war.
The vote was 219 to 212 to block consideration of a bipartisan resolution that would end offensive military operations in Iran that had not been approved by Congress.
The vote fell almost entirely along party lines, but it also highlighted splinters in both parties.
Four Democrats crossed party lines to oppose resolution, while two Republicans broke from their party to support it, citing concerns of executive overreach and a disregard for the legislative branch.
The Constitution is clear.
Our Constitution provides Congress initiatory powers of war.
Representative Thomas Massey, Republican in Kentucky, and the lead speaker of the resolution said during debate on the House floor, directly challenging members of his own party.
Mr. Massey, who co-sponsored the measure of Representative Roquan, I really liked them together.
Democratic California noted that the War Powers Resolution Act of 1973 allows the president to go around Congress and exercise unilateral authority.
Maybe this is unconstitutional, huh?
Maybe I've ever thought about that to use force only if there has been a declaration of war, specific statutory authorization, or a national emergency created by an attack on the United States.
I'll never vote for Gavin Newsom because I trust that guy.
I do not trust him at all.
Literally, American Psycho.
But at the end of the day, you're creating an environment where are people going to support JD Vance and Rubio, who basically tell them that, like, hey, yeah, we lied to you, but we're at war and it's good for the country.
So one thing you need to know about Saudi Arabia is Saudi Arabia does not have any like real food sources.
I'm not even talking about just Saudi Arabia, the Gulf countries in general don't really have a lot of natural food sources because it's a desert and they don't have a lot of natural water.
So they rely on two things.
One for the water, desalinization, right?
So desalinization plants are basically they take the salt water out of the out of the ocean and they basically provide clean water for the people.
Well, the thing is, like, do you remember the video of Netanyahu like four or five months ago where he was like holding a glass of water and he's like mocking them.
He's like, if you want our help, if you want to get the clean water, then we can send Israeli engineers to help you out.
So like we know about the water crisis and I see Ranger in there.
So the strata harmony that you see right there, technically a good swimmer can actually swim across that, which is going to give you context to how small it is.
I think it's like 33 kilometers or something like that.
It's not that far, right?
All they need to do is block off that, which they're already currently doing.
And they also choke the food supplies.
I think it's between 60 to 80% of their food flows through that pass by itself.
So again, that is a very big thing that they can do to these Gulf countries to start strangling them in terms of like water.
And that's if they want to do that.
But Iran is also, they're in the same boat when it comes to their water.
They don't have access to water in the same capacity.
So, like, this could get out of hand very quickly if people decide that they just start wanting to squeeze the governments themselves to bend the knee.
That's why I know that we're in an age of technology now and there's a bunch of passwords and KYC verification and all that stuff.
And we're like, oh, a lot of things are heavily regulated.
We are still in the wild west and the Trump administration is maintaining that wild west online for the gambling, for the sports betting, all of it the same.
Theory has to do with something called the control grid and power over the flow of money.
So with that said, let me explain who this benefits, how this affects investors, and what the heck is happening.
Let's get into it.
Hi, my name is Andre Jick.
Hope you're doing well.
Come for the finance and stay for the geopolitical rabbit holes that keep me up at night.
So let's talk about why this is happening beyond the official narrative that we're told about.
There are four major theories that explain it.
There's four interest groups, all with credible evidence.
And let me just start with the elephant in the room, which is Israel.
Okay, so why do people think Israel forced the U.S. to go to war?
Evidence number one is a video of Marco Rubio explaining why this happened.
We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.
So Marco told Congress we knew there was going to be an Israeli action.
So we struck preemptively.
He's saying Israel was going to do this no matter what.
And once Israel hit Iran, Iran was going to retaliate against the U.S. by attacking U.S. military bases.
And because Israel made this inevitable choice, the U.S. was forced into it as a preemptive action.
Now, another piece of evidence is an incredible interview with a former CIA officer, John Keriaku.
I'll leave a link down below to the podcast, but John claims that Israel essentially gave the U.S. an ultimatum.
His words, Israel said to the U.S., bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, or we will use our own weapons to do it.
The reason, though, I'm told, that Donald Trump decided to bomb Iran was that the Israelis said for the first time, if you don't bomb Iran to take out these deep bunkers, we're going to use nuclear weapons.
And I think that's the thing is like, if there's going to be this U.S.-Israel relationship, which I don't agree with, and I don't think it should exist.
But if theoretically, if it is to exist, then there's supposed to be the tail, not the tail wagging the dog.
And we see the opposite of that over and over again.
Iran, which was to prevent World War III or an all-out nuclear war from starting.
Right now, Israel has never officially acknowledged having nuclear weapons, but a lot of experts believe they do, even though they've never said it.
So if John Kiriaku's source is accurate, Israel threatened to use weapons it has never admitted to having, which forced the United States into a war to prevent a potentially much bigger one involving nuclear weapons from starting.
That's a huge claim.
It hasn't been independently verified, but it does have a lot of credible evidence.
Now, even if we discount him and we don't believe him, the third piece of evidence comes from the source, from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been pushing for an attack and a regime change in Iran since the mid-1990s.
And like, here's the thing: we should, if you're interested in watching more of these breakdowns, and just like go find what we were watching on the stream, watch it in your own time.
If you guys don't know who Warfronts is, Warfronts does a very good breakdown almost every day and kind of gives better context than what's just happening in the news.
And he just talks about everything war, especially with this Iran.
He's giving like the most up-to-date stuff.
So, if you guys want to watch him, go ahead and watch it.
Uh, yeah, guys, go ahead and repost the stream if you can.
If you're on X, I know there's a lot of people on YouTube, totally fine, but we appreciate anything that you guys do in order to get the stream out because the algorithm does like when you guys damage.
Talk about the second theory, which says the reason why all of this is happening has all to do with China.
Because the number one goal of the United States right now is to destabilize the rise of China's economy.
How do we know this?
We know this because this was documented in the Don Road Doctrine, like the Monroe Doctrine, but Donald Trump's first.
I am the chosen one.
Way to disrupt China's economy and get leverage is, for example, cutting China off the cheap oil they were getting from Venezuela and the cheap silver they were getting from Latin America, and now the cheap oil they were getting from Iran.
This is where something called the Strait of Hermuz comes in.
There's this body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula called the Strait of Hermuz.
It's very narrow, but about a quarter of the world's supply of oil passes through this tiny little point.
And as of right now, it's shut down.
Traffic has dropped 70%.
There's over 150 ships just sitting there waiting.
And insurance companies have suspended their coverage, which is basically a financial kill switch.
Because if you can't get insurance, they can't ship their oil to places like China.
So as a result, oil has gone up in price.
And analysts are saying if this close lasts more than a couple of weeks, we could see $100 or higher for a barrel of oil.
And then, you know, it's weird because the OPEC companies didn't like when the United States started drilling more because we started to stabilize the market a little bit.
But I don't, I know for a fact, maybe I don't know this for a fact.
We went in and attacked Venezuela, not just even for the reasons that he talked about, but also to keep ourselves hedged for the fact that we knew these things were going to come down the line.
That helps the change for software, electricity, equipment, helping the great switchers eventually get compensated once we really get the ball rolling.
Yes, everything you guys do.
Here's the thing: like we are literally sitting here in my dining room that we've turned into a studio.
We've done a lot of powerful, great things out of here.
We just want more people to get awareness of the show.
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It'll read it out text-to-speech.
Super cool.
It'll grab our attention sometimes.
We don't see the chat.
But it really, everything goes back into the show.
We do not make a single dime.
We pour into the show because we want to pour into you guys.
Every now and again, I'll see these videos on X and it's of like Europeans like demolishing their nuclear power plants and they're like smiling about it.
This is so wonderful.
This is so good for Germany.
And like, well, it would be nice to have now, wouldn't it?
The dollar, the U.S. corporations, and hurts adversaries like China and the European Union.
And that was planned a long time ago.
So that is the second theory.
The third theory is that this is all to benefit the financial industrial complex, which are the real powers behind the people who got the president elected.
So who am I talking about specifically?
This is the big money donors.
This is a list of Trump's top 20 donors.
There's $635 million in total.
Look at this as a map of every interest we just talked about.
For example, number one, Timothy Mellon, old banking and transportation dynasty, financial industrial complex.
Number two, Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, XAI.
His companies hold billions and billions in Pentagon contracts, and his AI company just entered a program to build autonomous drone swarms for the military.
That's the technological industrial complex and the military industrial complex in one person.
There's number three, Miriam Adelson.
She has spent decades as the single biggest pro-Israel donor in American politics.
She's been pushing for a regime change in Iran.
And that's $105 million towards the policy we just watched happen.
Number seven, Ike Perlmutter, former chairman of Marvel, served on Trump's informal defense advisory council.
There's number nine, Robert Bigelow, Bigelow Aerospace, Defense and Space.
These are military industrial complex adjacent donors.
There's number 10, Kelsey Warren runs energy transfer part.
Yeah, I was about to say $150 million for this guy is a drop in a bucket.
Like, if you're a billionaire, you can afford this easily.
And at the same time, $150 million, he's going to make more than that $150 million because of the favors and the policies that Trump and the administration will put in place.
Howard Luttnick, one of the biggest oil and gas pipeline companies in the country.
Higher oil prices from a Hermuz shutdown go straight to his bottom line.
That's the oil interest, right?
Number 15, Howard Lutnik, indirect ties to Canter Fitzgerald, has huge interests in Tether and whose company allegedly bet against the tariff policy while advising the president on the same policies, right?
He's now the commerce secretary.
Number 16, Paul Singer, runs one of the most powerful hedge funds on earth.
His fund's most recent public filings show hundreds of millions of dollars in defense and energy index funds, which all went up the moment the strike started.
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So here we have tech, defense, right?
Oil, finance, Israel, every interest group that is represented here.
This is their return on investment.
And this is only what we know publicly.
Now, some people also believe this has all been prearranged, right?
Like the deal was made a while ago, and what we're watching on TV and social media is all just theater.
Now, if you assume for a moment that this is true, maybe it is, maybe it isn't, I don't know.
But if it's true then, why bomb a whole country?
If this was pre-negotiated, why just not do it peacefully?
And the answer from the military-industrial complex perspective is that this operation was a live product demonstration.
What does that mean?
It means every weapon system just got used, right?
And I think we're going to see a lot more of that from the Chinese.
Okay, because here's the thing and the Russians too, it's been announced Zelensky has made an overture to Israel and he's like, let's get you Ukrainian interceptors.
Let's get in this.
Let's get involved.
And in response, we're seeing Russian components turn up on Iranian drones already.
And I watched Colonel Lawrence Wilgerson talk about this.
I believe it was the intelligence roundup on Dialogue Works on Nima Alakashid's channel.
The waters in that area are apparently the most permissible to submarine warfare of anywhere in the region.
But basically, they built a ton of these fast-moving ships with missiles to basically counteract the speaks to the whole thing of like really what's being fought here in the Ukraine conflict and now in the Iran conflict is like this is the new war.
They, they, they, like, I'm talking like between 500 and 5,000 is the estimate from what I understand, which it is a big number, but it is a lot of those.
And so they have missiles that can just maneuver around.
They're hard for like our battleships to hit, but they can sink, you know, they can sink one of our ships.
And the alliance is stronger than what you would see probably with World War II, where the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese.
But you're really seeing that every single time the United States is going in and knocking out one of those allies one by one, and Russia's not stepping up to the plate.
Now, I'm telling you, there's going to be like a younger version of Joe Biden that's going to run, you know, someone that's just friendly, and they're going to win because people are just like, What the fuck is this?
At this point, I'm not saying I agree with that, but like that, that's what's going to happen.
Let's go to Gulf states move away from USA.
This is a big deal.
This is a text post.
I'm going to read this out quickly.
Click on it so I can read it.
Yeah, we're going to rapid-fire some of this news for you real quick, and then we're going to go into the deep dive on Christy.
You know, give me about 15 minutes here.
Just in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar are discussing withdrawing from contracts with the U.S. and canceling future investment commitments to the U.S. to alleviate some of the economic strain imposed on them by the Iran war.
Isn't that a great excuse?
We know we promised you what $10 trillion over 15 years, we ain't going to be able to do that no more.
That's what this is.
I won't read the whole thing, but the official said three of the four big Gulf economies, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar-have jointly discussed the strains being put on their budgets.
They declined to name the states.
A number of Gulf countries have begun an internal review to determine whether forced majeure clauses can be invoked in current contracts while also reviewing current and future investment commitments in order to alleviate some of the anticipated economic strain from the current war.
That's a tongue twister, the official said, especially if the war and related expenses continue at the same place or at the same pace.
They added that the move was a precautionary measure that was the result of the budget strains these countries are facing due to the reduced income from energy due to the slowdown in output or the inability to ship like you're talking about.
And from no more tourism, bombs going off that Dubai.
He's actually right now, he got hit in the detention center in Saudi Arabia while he's trying, and he's trying to catch a bus into Dubai just to seem tough.
They are also big backers of sporting events around the world, like UFC, forget that, and have been investing heavily domestically to develop their nations and diversify their economies.
Matt, you're trying to be modern.
You're trying to make money.
You're trying to work with the U.S. Fucking war, dude.
I'll give this example really quick before we play the video or cut back to me real quick.
This will be real short.
This will be two minutes.
So I'm going to give this example of a story.
And I've met a lot of people that are like, or have been very active in like deployment, have seen combat, special forces people, you name it, a lot of those people in the private security world.
And I was talking to this guy, really good friend of mine.
And he said, look, I was a javelin missile operator.
And there was a situation where we saw these guys down there.
And we were like, hey, do we need to drive down there and just, you know, put a couple of bullets in their head and eliminate the problem.
And they go, well, we do need them eliminated, but you're going to launch one of the missiles at them.
So he said, look, I get it.
We're at war.
It's my job to kill people.
I'm a soldier.
At the end of the day, taking them out the conventional way would have cost about like three or four cents.
Whereas we can spend millions of dollars to just kill people for no reason.
And he's like, I don't like, it's not even efficient.
Man, I wish I got to tell him I loved him one more time.
And ultimately, when those caskets start coming home, when those bodies start coming home, when Americans start getting the call and I don't want this to happen, God forbid it.
So like, I can't even blame the person that's working at the plant or even some of the managers that are there because you're so far removed from the conflict itself.
Like when I go and I do an inspection on an engine, I'm not imagining that this piece of equipment is getting flown thousands of miles away to blow up a family inside of a hut.
And so like the only people that I can really throw complicitness to are the ones at the very top that, you know, they're just looking at their numbers.
And I even think that they don't even understand because they don't have the missiles hitting their homes.
They don't have their missiles hitting anyone near them.
And they're so far removed.
The only people that live through the experience itself are the soldiers and the people that are on the ground.
And like it just comes, it comes to territory of being an American, man, because we are so compartmentalized and so far away from all these other countries where all these other countries, they have borders, they have wars, they fight, they die.
For us, like really, you look at Afghanistan and Iraq, it's horrible.
But at the end of the day, our deaths come from suicide.
And there are military people on the civilian side.
They come in there.
They also just do their job.
They're not also going out there.
Like I watched uniform guys come in all the time and they basically are just designed there to like turn the wheel, make sure the money gets popped out, make sure that you get guys paid, make sure we have the equipment that we need.
And it's just one big organism.
I think, you know, the person that has the most access to information would be the president himself.
He gets to watch the most gruesome videos.
How are these things not impacting him enough to stop these things?
Like humans just have a natural tendency to compete.
Like if the United States were to step away from the Middle East and know that China and Russia weren't going to do anything and all those, there could be a possibility, but we're in this negative feedback loop where like no one's willing to give up the power.
Some people in this country lost faith in the military and the capacity to use that military to defend us is because we had a woke Pentagon.
Because we had a military who at the very highest levels, not the warfighters, was forced to fight a less than full fight.
What you're seeing now, Sean, is a military that is unleashed in all of its lethal prowess to go out and seek, destroy, and kill the enemy, which is what militaries are for.
It's like, well, you know, you know what is kind of woke to me in like the bad way is death.
And the death is continuing and the number is going up.
And now it's Americans that are dying.
And you know what?
I care about other people around the world.
Everyone's human.
Everyone's made in the image of God.
I believe that being an American citizen should be like being a Roman citizen and that we should have special rights and that we should be able to go to another country and feel safe anywhere around the world.
At the end of the day, like we have more than enough resources.
And I might sound super flowery and white pill.
This is a reality.
We have enough resources.
We have enough capability to allow there to be a baseline standard for everybody across the world.
But the problem is, is competition and it requires cooperation.
But it's very hard to get different groups to cooperate when they have their own interest, as well as when you have a completely different background.
The way a Chinese person grows up is completely different than the morals of an American.
So how do you get these two groups to actually agree on something?
Religion is also a very big thing.
I mean, dude, we did a deep dive showing the difference between Sunni and Shia.
And there was an entire conflict that lasted for thousands of years based off of a death where they didn't know who was supposed to come into power next.
And people forgot the real reason why they're fighting.
So like religion, you know, it's one of those things that can either bring you together or it can divide you.
And that is the hard part about society right now is there's not enough people who are trying to be on the right side of history.
And we got to stop putting our hands on the Bible.
Yeah, but Tim, you have to understand we have to initiate biblical Armageddon in order to build the third temple and bring Jesus back.
And that's literally, I played on the show that I did last night.
Not played, I showed this complaint where there's some like military religious board or whatever, some like 501c3 organization that's like a civil rights thing.
And I believe the number is like eight soldiers or like a like a big group of people have reported that they're getting reports from their commanders that like you were fighting a biblical war for Armageddon to bring Jesus back.
They will use the aspect of religion to galvanize you to follow a command because they know your faith is so strong in that creator and you just want to do right by God.
That's what they do.
They play on that fear of God and they make you go and do things that you wouldn't normally do.
So what they do, and I'll give an example, Trump doing the thing, talking about, and they make all the IDs, Iranians, all the Americans murdered by IEDs.
That's why we had to go and that's why we had to do it.
They take a genuine emotion you have of like, I'm not saying positive in the sense of it's positive or responsible.
Like you have a human reaction to something where you're like, I'm morally outraged about this.
This is wrong.
We have to do something about this.
And they marry that to a parasitic attitude of we're going to kill everybody responsible.
Anybody we kill is somebody that was responsible.
Anyone that we kill is the person that's guilty of the crime because the crime happened.
They said in Vietnam, I'll clarify this a little bit.
Not going to take too long.
In Vietnam, they designated areas because the North Vietnamese were pretty much ingrained within the forest and these countrysides.
And it was very hard for them to distinguish who was supposed to be a Viet Cong, which is a derogatory word, but that's the way I'll describe it.
North Vietnamese versus North Vietnamese versus just a civilian.
So what they said was, well, these are regions that are where all the enemy is at, right?
And you can just kill anything that you see and destroy it.
And the soldiers just blindly followed because they thought, well, someone had to clearly, you know, say that, you know, these are enemies and they verified it, right?
I had a caller call in and talked to you about Operation Linebacker, which was Nixon doing what you're talking about, just blowing up stuff because they were going to blow up.
How do you square that concern For waste, which I share, with the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements that feature you prominently.
Sir, the president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and to other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from with putting commercials out that told them that if they were in this country illegally, that they needed to leave or we would detain them and remove them and they'd not get the chance to come back to America the right way.
So in 20, I didn't know she had another hearing in December 11th, 2025.
News just happened so often, but basically, Noam was testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee, and she got grilled over the DHS's enforcement tactics.
And then she basically left early saying that she had to attend a FEMA review council.
And then it turned out the FEMA review that she was saying she had to go to got canceled, which poured gas on the fire.
But basically, they were just kind of what they were pressing her about was like her aggressive immigration enforcement and alleged wrongful detentions that happened with the ICE situation, high-profile deportation cases and the due processes that weren't happening during that and the criticisms.
And then also the FEMA reform and the direction of the delays that came with that.
So, I mean, the Democrats were basically like, hey, we got to get rid of this.
And so now we're in March 2026 and now there's the oversight committee and she's testifying, right?
And you can go ahead and play this video real quick and we can kind of show what's going on here.
President Trump has removed Christy Noam as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Noam has spent the past two days on Capitol Hill as she has faced growing backlash over her job and handling of the Department of Homeland Security and particularly Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
The president announced she would be transitioning to a new position, given the title Special Envoy for the Shield of Americas, which will apparently head up a new security initiative focusing on the Western Hemisphere that the president will give more information on this weekend.
We should mention that Secretary Noam is delivering the keynote address at the Sergeant Benevolent Association Major Cities Conference.
In a post on Truth Social, the president thanked Noam for her time leading DHS and announced he is nominating Oklahoma's Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen as the next DHS secretary.
So let's bring back Nancy Cordez, CBS News Chief White House correspondent.
And Nancy, you were talking about this with Major, but let's go ahead and go into a little bit more detail here about really maybe what was the straw on the camel's back.
And that was in one of the days of testimony, Republican Senator John Kenny of Kennedy of Louisiana asking Noam, how do you square cuts to DHS and contracts with the fact that you have spent $220 million running TV advertisements that feature you prominently in it?
So yeah, that should be that was the video that we saw.
And we'll get right into your content.
I just want to cover a little bit more about this.
So there's several things and other scandals that fed into her hearing.
So one, I didn't know about this, but her daughter had a license controversy at the state level.
South Dakota lawmakers basically approved a report finding Noam's daughter got preferential treatment in a real estate appraisals licensing process, which is like way beyond the usual process.
And this became a big ethics thing.
So it's like they're having like, does the government power have the ability to help family?
Which, of course, no, that shouldn't be a thing, but we know it happens.
Because Patel's like, okay, I'm going to griff whatever.
I'm going to go to the Olympics.
Pretty cool.
And I'm going to hang out.
He's not spending $200 million on TV yet.
So shout out to Cash.
Actually, kind of a W from Kash Patel.
He's maneuvering around.
It's called Enrichment from Straight Smoke from Samantha.
But then there's the argument that that's stooping to your enemy's level.
Not sure what that's responding to.
And then we got Chuck.
Homeland Security is probably too busy spying on right wingers.
LOL.
From Roger, in politics, you often set everyone up.
You often set everyone up you can for leverage or get rid of them when you don't need them anymore, especially if her replacement can do what she can't.