Letitia James faces massive fraud accusations for allegedly inflating Mar-a-Lago asset values to secure mortgages, a tactic she previously accused Donald Trump of employing. Concurrently, Trump revoked federal security clearances for James, Alvin Bragg, and officials like Antony Blinken while Elon Musk's Doge investigates FEMA's $59 million luxury hotel payments. As Trump plans to dismantle the Department of Education and Attorney General Pam Bondi threatens funding cuts to sanctuary cities, these revelations suggest a sweeping political purge targeting perceived enemies of the administration. [Automatically generated summary]
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Leticia James Seizes Assets00:15:18
Leticia James, she's in more trouble than she could have ever possibly have known she'd be in, in part because of, well, a new development that the president actually tweeted out.
Apparently she's guilty of doing the exact same thing that she accused him of doing.
Of course, we don't really think that what he did was in any way, shape, or form a crime.
But, you know, so long as we're settling scores here, we're going to talk all about Leticia James.
Plus, Donald Trump's got a new approval rating out.
And I got to tell you guys, this must just kill CBS News.
To have to report this.
It's their poll and hey, how do you like this?
For Sweet Justice, if you would.
They're reporting that his approval rating is through the roof.
We're going to get into the actual numbers and on top of that he's coming back doubling the lawsuit again 60 minutes.
He's doubling it.
He's totally going to put him out to out of business like bye bye, bye CBS, if this thing all comes to being.
We're going to talk a little bit about the Super Bowl.
Taylor Swift got booed.
Boy, did Donald Trump really, really really like that?
And big news, Doge is going after FEMA.
Yeah, FEMA.
Because apparently they're sending billions of dollars to big hotels in New York City while not really bothering with the poor people that have been left destitute because of the storms down in North Carolina.
All important information to get to today.
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Letitia James is in a whole lot of trouble, more than you could have ever imagined.
I know, I know.
You know, this is a woman who campaigned on one thing and one thing only.
He's called me venomous.
We will fight back to your attempt to bring Trumpism to New York City.
He's called me disgraceful.
Okay, I'm not going to torture you.
I know.
You know how bad she is.
I just wanted to remind you.
A little sampling there.
Well, anyway, it's just come out now that apparently she might have done something rather fraudulent with her own real estate holdings.
This is Roger Stone who sent this out.
Now, it's Roger Stone who likes to disturb a bit.
Shall we say, what do you call him?
You know what's disturber?
Anyway, Donald Trump sending it out, retweeting this.
A careful examination of New York Attorney General Letitia James' financial disclosures, Roger writes, shows she inflated the value of her assets.
In order to get mortgages on various commercial properties, exactly what she accused president Trump of doing falsely accused, he adds, president Trump of doing so.
Whoa, wait a second, remember how this all went down.
Donald Trump went to Deutsche BANK, said, hey, I want a loan.
Deutsche BANK said, sure, what do you get as collateral?
He said, I got these commercial properties, including one Mar-a-la-go, and it's valued at whatever he valued at Leticia.
James then goes back after the fact and says, no, I don't think Mar-a-la-go was actually worth what you think it's worth.
I think it's only worth $18 million, despite the fact that it makes $57 a year.
Anyway, she's coming in as the attorney general of the state of New York saying, no, I don't think you can do this deal with Deutsche Bank because I think you inflated the value of Mar-a-Lago.
Of course, values in the eye of the beholder, shall we say.
I mean, I'd buy it for $18 million.
We can get a few people together, do a deal, and buy that puppy for $18 million.
I mean, it's bonkers.
The whole thing is bonkers.
And then he winds up with a $500.
Million dollar, nearly 500 million dollar.
Fine, it is absolutely the most insane thing i've ever seen and to me this is the most egregious one.
You know that and maybe it's because i've been a business reporter my entire career, but I really and i'm a capitalist, red-blooded American capitalist at heart I don't like the idea of Leticia James coming in between me and my bank.
But you know, don't forget, this is the woman that wanted to seize his assets.
She was trying to seize his assets.
If he couldn't come up with the 500 million dollars she's like, why doesn't he have it like?
Anybody has that laying around jump change.
Yeah, let me go up to the bedroom and get it.
It's under my mattress.
I don't think so Leticia.
Not even Elon, wealthiest guy in the world, has that.
Here she is saying she's going to go after every asset.
Four days after a judge ordered Donald Trump to pay 355 million dollars for a decade of fraud, New York attorney general Leticia James says she's prepared to do everything she can to make sure the former president pays his fine including, she told us, seizing the buildings that bear his name.
If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court and we will ask the judge to seize his assets.
Ah, you see, that's what she wanted to do.
That's what she wanted to do all along spirit filled.
Thank you so much for your generosity.
I'll get to your comment in just a second, but that's the problem here.
Okay, you get these uber political people that are trying to go after Donald Trump, that have no business going after him for lawful transactions, and now, what do you know, turns out she might have done something quite similar, indeed quite similar.
Leave it to Roger to under uncover this.
So she's kind of, you know, in a bit of a pickle here.
She's trying to act all victorious because, you know, Doge, they've been moving full force ahead with USAID.
They're closing down buildings.
I'm going to show you some of this video because it's really, really remarkable.
It's just great.
You got Maxine Waters outside the Department of Education screaming at the security guard.
I mean, it is amazing, all the things that are happening and will continue to happen.
So Letitia's kind of angry about that.
Very angry about that.
I mean, maybe she's angry.
Maybe she's getting some kind of kickback.
I don't know.
$57 million that Doge just figured out.
was going from FEMA to the hotels in New York City to cover the migrants when we can't even pay for people in Florida or North Carolina.
Like that makes sense?
Letitia James was trying to seize his assets.
Letitia James thinks that she can still go after this president.
Letitia James is trying to go after Elon Musk and Doge under the pretense that somehow Elon's getting access to your social security numbers.
Sorry, he's not interested in those.
He's interested in what you are spending your money on, one Letitia.
In the past week, Elon Musk and his so called Department of Government Efficiency have accessed the personal private information of tens of millions of Americans and sensitive data about public and private entities, social security numbers, addresses, tax returns, and more.
This unelected group, led by the world's richest man, is not authorized to have this information, and they explicitly sought this unauthorized access.
To illegally block payments that millions of Americans rely on, payments for health care, child whoa whoa whoa, payments like um, the 57 million going to the fancy hotels?
Or how about the 200 million that's going to the Pakistani group that runs that one Roosevelt hotel?
No no no, no.
Look, you got this all wrong.
And leticia, you know you better get with the program because if you don't, Mike Davis, the attorney for Donald Trump, had a rather interesting.
I love the soundbite.
I know some of you guys have seen it before, but you know what I need, a good laugh.
I just had to watch Leticia try and say all that, you know what.
So let's watch Mike, who says, you know where you're heading, honey.
Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General.
I dare you.
I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term.
Because listen here, sweetheart.
We're not messing around this time.
And we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights.
And I promise you that.
So think long and hard, he says.
Way to go.
You know what?
We're going to put your fat ass in you know where.
So Letitia's already running up against it because Letitia's losing her credentials.
You see, that's kind of important, I guess, sort of, at least symbolically for one Letitia James.
If you're so full of yourself as she is, you need to have all those federal clearances.
Well, they're gone.
Poof.
Gonzo.
Donald Trump stripping Leticia James, also the DA Alvin Bragg of their clearances because, well, he doesn't really trust them.
Would you?
I mean, the woman's trying to bankrupt you.
She's made that abundantly clear.
Alvin Bragg is so proud he's got these criminal counts against you.
That whole thing, by the way, is going to get tossed out in court, as is Leticia's case, for goodness sakes.
I wish these guys would get moving.
You know what?
They don't move like Trump moves.
Trump's moving at lightning speed, getting everything exposed with Doge.
You get Letitia losing her access.
Also, Andrew Weissman.
Remember, he was the lead prosecutor in the special counsel Robert Mueller case.
Then you have, and he hates Trump.
I mean, he's always on MSNBC telling us how much he hates Trump.
And then you have the guy who represented the CIA analyst identified as the whistleblower in Trump's impeachment in 2019 over that phone call with Zelensky.
That would be Mark Zaid.
You also have one, Antony Blinken, who's no longer got his security clearance.
That's a big deal.
He revoked Biden's as well, as well as Jake Sullivan.
I mean, Lisa Monaco, who was the attorney general, Biden's attorney deputy general, I should say, who was involved in overseeing those lawfare investigations.
Listen, they're all losing it.
They're all losing their credentials.
And this is part of cleaning house.
Like cleaning house needs to happen right now.
And I'm telling you, Pam Bondi's coming for Letitia.
That's what's next.
You won't believe what Pam said just last night ahead of the Super Bowl.
I'm going to get to that.
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Pam is coming for Letitia.
You better believe it.
Pam Bondi's not messing around.
The new attorney general of the United States of America said that she's looking at all of this.
First of all, for starters, what is she doing?
She's stopping the funding to places like New York City, sanctuary cities that are going up against the law and order of this administration.
She's like, no, no, no.
We're not going to fund you.
You want to actually, you want to fight back against us and think you're your own little country?
So be it, but you're not going to get federal funding.
So this is a big deal.
The other thing that she's doing is she's looking at arresting individuals like one Letitia James if they're standing in the way of ICE doing its job.
In other words, you have a federal agency that is charged with controlling our border and charged with controlling who's in this country.
And when they go around the country and they try and round people up, known criminals, by the way, we've got 650,000 known criminals that are here illegally in the United States.
Well, they need to be able to go in and arrest them.
But it makes it really hard when you have some people in some particular places of power trying to tip off those in those communities, right?
So Pam's like, no, I'm not having it.
Listen to her here saying she's going after any and all leakers.
If you say that an ice raid is coming in and if you screw it up, that's actually going to come with a serious penalty.
You listening, Letitia?
There may be a leak inside the house.
As it relates to DHS and some of the operations that they are attempting to carry out.
What's your reaction to hearing about that and what, if anything, can be done to mitigate that?
Well, you know, if anyone leaks anything, people don't understand that jeopardizes the lives of our great men and women in law enforcement.
And if you leaked it, we will find out who you are and we will come after you.
And it's not going to stop our mission.
It's not going to stop the president's mission to make America safe again.
We were very clear with the lawsuit that we filed in Chicago. that if you don't follow the law, you will be prosecuted by the Department of Justice.
Boom!
Okay, so she's coming after you.
Letitia, again, I'd recommend you listen up.
I'd recommend you stop tipping off anybody that you're tipping off.
Here, if you're tipping off, here's Pam Bondi again saying she's stopping all federal funding.
Letitia James, on the other hand, says, well, New York has laws that protect immigrants and limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts.
Those laws should be followed by law enforcement and officials in our state.
I'll always uphold our laws and protect immigrant New Yorkers.
No, Let me be very clear on this.
I'm not a legal scholar, okay?
Like, I'm not a legal scholar, but I know enough about the law to know in this case, if there's one thing, if there's one thing the federal government has, it's the ability to control its borders.
That's why Governor Abbott ran up against it when Biden kept tearing down the walls he was trying to put up to keep the illegals out.
The Biden administration went back to, well, we're in charge because we're the feds and we control the borders.
And so, yeah, it kind of sucked for Texas, but the federal government's in charge.
And this is one, Leticia James, where you just don't have a leg to stand on.
And they're going to keep coming for you.
Tom Holman saying he's working closely with Pam Bondi to make sure they can put you in cuffs should you do such things.
When they come to the, they cross the line of impediment.
And that's why I'm working very close, starting this morning with the Department of Justice.
And where do they cross that line of impediment?
So they may find themselves in a pair of handcuffs very soon.
So working with DOJ on that, get some legal guidance on that.
I'm not an attorney.
I know what SecOps is about.
I know what crossing that line is.
But getting DOJ back up on that.
So it's something we're looking at right now, Harris.
We're not going to tolerate it anymore.
This is not a game.
When we show up at these sites, this is a dangerous job for the men and women of ICE and Border Patrol and all the DOJ agencies.
To have this type of interference puts our officers at great risk.
Not only the officers, it puts the aliens at great risk because anything can happen when we take our eyes off the goal here.
So we're addressing that immediately today.
I'm addressing OPSEC today.
Holding FEMA Accountable Now00:07:00
Operation security, how these leaks are happening.
We've already identified how this operation got leaked.
I'll deal with that today.
Yeah, he's not messing around.
He's angry.
He's referring to an operation in Colorado that got leaked.
Apparently one just got leaked in LA.
Listen, they are not messing around because to Pam Bondi's point, you're putting officers of the law in a tremendous amount of jeopardy when you're leaking these things.
And so they got to get rid of them, all of the leakers.
And they've got to prosecute right now.
In the meantime, they got to move forward with people like letitia James, who think that somehow they are little islands onto themselves.
I get that Manhattan's an island, right?
Like it's not its own country.
That's the thing.
Okay, so you don't have a leg to stand on, honey.
And let's go back to what Mike.
Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General.
I dare you.
I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term.
Because listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time.
And we will put your.
fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights.
And I promise you that.
So think twice.
Think hard, Letitia.
Meanwhile, FEMA ought to start thinking about just exactly what they've been doing over the years.
Donald Trump ordering an investigation into FEMA.
We're finding out where all the money went there and it didn't go to the people who needed it.
I mean, you can go all the way back.
Go all the way back to Hurricane Katrina.
I remember reporting on that back when I worked in mainstream media for CBS News.
I was stuck down there for what?
you know, a couple of months.
I mean, it was really horrible, the aftermath.
And what was so heartbreaking was that they had all these trailers and they couldn't get them to the people.
It was so messed up.
Remember that?
Well, it's continued to be messed up.
And why, you ask?
Why?
Well, Donald Trump has some thoughts.
Oh, before we get to that, guess what's happening to FEMA?
Exactly what you're looking at on the screen.
Do you see that?
Bye bye.
That's the USAID building.
They had their signage taken right off of them on Friday.
The Democrats are losing it.
And that's what's going to happen to FEMA as well.
John, an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA.
Frankly, FEMA is not good.
I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and, whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA.
And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area.
They've never been to the area.
And they want to give you rules that you've never heard about.
They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have.
And FEMA's turned out to be a disaster.
And you could go back a long way.
You could go back to Louisiana, you could go back to some of the things that took place in Texas.
It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work.
It just complicates it.
I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away and we pay directly.
We pay a percentage to the state.
But the state should fix this.
If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation.
I think you guys agree with that, right?
In other words, FEMA, good luck.
Steve Frischman, thank you for your generosity.
Another super chat.
That's great to see from both of you guys.
I want to get to those comments in a moment because he's wondering.
Again, about why we don't have John Radcliffe coming in to deal with Letitia, we can discuss.
But I will just say this.
There's a lot of fraud that needs to get uncovered, whether it be from USAID, whether it be from FEMA.
Take a look at this.
Elon tweeting out earlier today, the Doge team just discovered that FEMA sent $59 million last week to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.
This is like just last week.
Oh my gosh, sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the president's executive order.
That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals.
A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.
Think of this waste that they are uncovering and exposing in real time.
And Americans are with them.
They're with Doge.
They're with the president.
We're seeing it in the latest approval polls.
I've got more on that.
But it's gross.
When New York City hotels are converted into migrant shelters, I guess this tells us why you can't get a hotel room in New York anymore.
thousands of dollars it costs.
Why?
Because reduced supply.
They're all going to the migrants and they get these fancy contracts with FEMA.
Probably USAID is in there too, but FEMA, they raked in over a billion dollars in taxpayer funds, according to these internal documents.
This is disgusting.
This needs to stop.
Elon Trump demanding a clawback.
I mean, it's all happening as you look at this headline from a couple of weeks ago.
FEMA had to kick out hurricane survivors out of temporary housing.
Into snowstorms and freezing temperatures.
My gosh, Craigs Ellsworth.
Thank you, Craig Ellsworth.
I will get to your comment as well.
FEMA is kicking out the people, the Americans that need the housing, and they're sending billions of dollars to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants.
What is this, honestly?
What is this?
This guy's furious.
I want to introduce you to Cameron Hilton.
He's the interim head of FEMA right now.
Trump put him in the spot.
Gary Hammers, thank you as well.
I'm going to get to everybody's super chat, I promise you.
Gary Hammers, thank you for your generosity.
So Cameron's like, okay, what the heck?
What the heck indeed?
I want to thank the Doge team, he writes, for making me aware of this.
Effective yesterday, these payments have been suspended from FEMA.
Personnel will be held accountable.
He's telling Elon Musk, so you better believe it.
They got to be held accountable.
I mean, they know they're not supposed to do this, and yet they sent $59 million last week.
Last week, Donald Trump's in office.
This is happening while he's there.
Imagine that.
Imagine how much they were sending during the Biden time.
And we know $200 million went to a Pakistani hotel group or a hotel, I should say.
That would be the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
Once a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful hotel has been taken over by migrants.
And well, you know, it's like a payday for the Pakistani government because they're getting $200 million of taxpayer money for this.
I mean, this is unbelievable, you guys.
It's unbelievable.
It's disgusting.
It's wrong.
And this has to change.
And it's going to change.
I'm going to tell you how it's going to change.
Exposed Payday for Pakistan00:02:33
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Thank you again for Real Truth.
Thank you at Real Truth, who's just saying.
God bless me.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
It's very, very kind of you.
And then over to Craig Ellsworth.
I'm keeping up the fight.
You know it, Craig.
Thank you so much for your generosity as well.
I really, really, really do appreciate it.
And then let me see.
You know, we were talking about whether or not Radcliffe and the CIA should be going after.
I think the FBI is going to be able to do the job.
I really do, Steve.
And I think also that it's going to be good to have this exposure from Doge.
Like, I want to see the money.
You know, again, I go back to my business reporting.
And I really think it's critical to understand where all the money is flowing, where it's going.
I mean, one of the things that I was so perplexed by over the course of the last now eight years is all the money that, well, I didn't know this at the time.
I did not know that at the time.
Oh, Spirit Field, thank you so much.
He's trying to push for the independent creators.
We're not all going to be independent.
Did you see the story?
I'll get to that later.
We'll do a big thing on it tomorrow.
but I guess the company that sells Megyn Kelly, Bill O'Reilly and Tucker's show, it just got bought by Fox.
So they're coming full circle.
The whole gang's going back to Fox.
And it's kind of disappointing, right?
Because then you think to yourself, hey, who's really independent if Fox is realizing, gee, we really, really messed up.
We let these folks go.
And then what do you know?
Trump's back in power.
So we don't have the same kind of advertising pressure that we used to.
Maybe, maybe we ought to rethink this.
And so they're bringing them back into the fold.
They still own their shows, but Fox is going to sell their shows.
And let me just say, those that control the purse have an awful lot of control over everything else.
Steve Frischman, thank you so much.
Round Tripping USAID Funds00:05:00
It's really, it's great to have such a supportive bunch.
We can talk about that a little bit later.
But I'll tell you this.
You know what?
USAID, USAID is getting exposed.
And though they, you know, they got in order to like slow down for seven days.
It's getting exposed in a way that the American public really, really appreciates.
This is what resonates right now.
Do you see?
They're taking down the letters there at the U.S. Aid building.
This happened on Friday.
And Democrats are losing it.
Oh my gosh, they're losing it.
And I'm like, but why are you guys losing it?
Like, what is it that's really at stake?
I want to show you what David Sachs had to say.
David Sachs is the crypto czar.
He's really smart.
He started he's part of that Paythall Mafia with Peter Thiel and with Elon.
He's conservative and he's like, my gosh, you look at where this money was going and it, well, let's just say, explains a lot.
Okay, so we knew the US government runs a $2 trillion deficit every year.
We're in debt almost $40 trillion.
And we also knew that anytime anyone tries to cut anything in Washington, the whole city screams bloody murder.
Okay, so the question is just why?
Well, now we know the money is all going to them, it's like round tripping to them.
New York Times getting paid.
Politico getting paid.
Bill Crystal, perennial warmonger, getting paid.
Ukraine getting paid.
Like 11 out of 12 publications in Ukraine getting paid.
Incredible.
Viktor Orban, who's the prime minister of Hungary, was saying that he's very popular in Hungary.
His political opposition funded by USAID.
In Poland, the left wing political opposition funded by USAID.
And on and on and on it goes.
BBC.
BBC.
You wonder why everyone in the UK is so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like everyone.
BBC's getting paid.
Every left wing organization in the world seems to be getting paid by this slush fund at USAID, which disburses about $50 billion a year.
That's a billion dollars a week.
That's actually a lot of money.
And so it just makes you wonder you know, the left in general tries to portray itself as a movement of the people, that it's grassroots.
This is the exact opposite.
This is AstroTurf.
This is basically money coming from the top down out of Washington to fund all of these groups, maybe not even in the United States, like all over the world.
So It makes you wonder what is the real level of local support for these left wing policies all over the world.
Well, I think we just learned the lesson, they're the answer to that, right?
There's not a lot of support, there's not a lot of support, certainly not here in the United States of America, because otherwise, guess who would have been president would have been Kamala Harris.
And boy, that would have been bad, but just see what he said.
I mean, he even mentioned Bill Crystal, Bill Crystal, who's the like you know, conservative, never trumper.
That one kind of surprised me.
So I was like, wait a second, Bill Crystal was getting money too.
Apparently, he has an organization that was funded in part.
Through the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, which was funded by US Global AID the BBC my gosh, the BBC getting eight percent of its income eight percent of its income from us.
So we're pushing this and then it gets worse.
Politico, you guys, I I know i've showed you this before, but you got to see it again because this is just amazing to me 8.2 million dollars in subscriptions.
What kind of subscriptions were these?
Political pro subscriptions?
They cost ten thousand dollars a piece.
And you look at those numbers.
When did they start raking it in?
Oh 2020, that's when the yellow line goes up.
And then it goes up, up and away until you get to 2024 and wow, they're really, really raking it in 2024.
Hey, they were still paying them up until a couple weeks ago.
Take a look at the numbers from january.
So, thank goodness somebody figured this out.
These people have been all on the take.
And why do you think the NEW YORK Times and Politico and everybody else has been so worked up other than Oh, they stood to lose a ton of cash if U.S. Global aid and who knows what else, because I'm going to get into some more numbers.
You get the New York Times raking in some $50 million, $4 million in the month of August alone.
They got a lot of that money from HHS.
They got the money from the health department that you, no wonder, no wonder everybody loved Fauci.
For goodness sakes, that was bought and paid for journalism.
That's what you call that, bought and paid for journalism, right?
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Bought Journalism and HHS Cash00:03:56
So there will be no more Department of Education if Donald Trump has anything to say about it.
This is kind of upsetting to one, Maxine Waters, who got the news on Friday somehow and tried to demand a meeting. with Linda McMahon, who's now our new head of education, Department of Education.
Of course, her job, if she does it successfully, is to unwind the Department of Education, which has been there all since, what, the 1970s with none other than Jimmy Carter.
So Maxine heard about this, and she lost it.
And I just say, you know what?
This guy deserves an award.
This is the security guard putting up with Maxine Waters.
I can watch this.
Look them in the eye.
Look them in the eye.
Come on, hold your face Look at him.
Let him see you.
This is him.
Look at it.
What's your name?
Tell us your name.
Give me that ID again.
So, what?
I showed you the ID.
You do what?
I showed you the ID.
Could you let me see the ID again?
Huh?
No.
No?
Will someone else ask him for the ID?
Will you ask him for it?
He won't let me see it again.
You didn't see it.
I didn't see it.
They didn't see it.
I didn't.
What a good guy, right?
He's just like, nope.
No, you can't come in.
I've locked the building.
You don't have an appointment.
You can't come in.
And Maxine's losing it.
You see a lot of people are losing it right now.
They don't like the idea of the Department of Education going away.
But Donald Trump, once again, here he is trying to pare this down and say, you know what, maybe the states do a better job at this.
Just like with FEMA, maybe the states do a better job at allocating capital because they have a better sense of where it's needed.
Well, immediately where they're going with this is somehow that this is a racist thing.
Black students are going to be at a disadvantage if the education department is shuttered.
And let me give you their explanation for it here.
They say, Educators warn that the loss of the federal agency will exasperate racial disparities in schools across the nation, including in universities and colleges.
Quote, since 2020, there have been some true coordination and attacks on public education as we know it, and I think the current administration is challenging what it means for us to provide a public education for all students, says this one, Jaleesa Evans, founder and CEO of the Black Educator Advocates Network, to the Hill.
But, you know, Trump's saying, wait a second, like we're not doing a very good job at this.
Clearly, the Department of Education doesn't seem to know what it's doing because we rank really poorly every year.
Like we get worse and worse and worse.
It's gotten worse since COVID.
And so maybe there's a better way to think about this.
Maybe it shouldn't be all top down.
Maybe you shouldn't have a big bloated government.
Maybe you find a way for the states to take more responsibility in terms of educating their kids.
Wouldn't that make sense to you?
Makes sense to me.
Well, they're furious.
They're furious and they're saying, you know what?
We're going to shut down the government over this.
Which I find kind of ironic because I think Donald Trump and Elon Musk, by the way, and Doge would be just delighted if they shut down the government for a little bit and save some money.
My next question, because your colleague Jeff Merkley basically said he's prepared to try to shut down the government over some of these sledgehammer actions that he's seeing by Elon Musk.
Are you prepared to shut down the government to join Democratic colleagues who want to stand in the way of keeping the government open?
Well, you have to look at what the Trump administration is doing right now.
They are simply trying to.
They are simply trying to.
They are simply trying to dismantle the government.
So, yes, look, if we have to take steps to be able to hold them accountable, use the leverage that we have to force it, I cannot support efforts that will continue this lawlessness that we're seeing when it comes to this administration's actions.
And for us to be able to support government funding in that way, only for them to turn it around to dismantle the government, that is not something that should be allowed.
So, just to be clear, Senator, you are open to voting yes to shut down the government, to make this point.
Dismantling The Government00:02:57
This is on them.
This is about whether or not they can get the votes.
They are the majority.
And if they cannot govern, then that's for the American people to see.
But I worked in government.
I've worked through multiple government shutdowns.
I would be the last person to want to get to that stage.
But we are at a point where we are basically on the cusp of a constitutional crisis, seeing this administration taking steps that are so clearly illegal.
And until we see a change in that behavior, we should not allow and condone that, nor should we assist in that.
Senator.
I hate to break it to you, Senator.
And that's the junior senator from New Jersey that replaced the super corrupt one.
Remember Menendez?
I hate to break it to you.
But you know what?
People appreciate this right now.
I'm going to get to his approval ratings in a second, but they appreciate this because you know what?
They're sick and tired of their hard earned money going nowhere.
We've got a mess of a society right now.
We got nothing to show for all those taxpayer dollars that are being spent.
Just look at, you can go back to the Department of Education, where we stand in the world and the lousy rankings.
Listen, it's got to change.
And the media has to change.
I mean, I cannot believe, I'm still like, I'm just stunned by this, okay, guys?
Because look, I worked in mainstream media my whole career.
They definitely keep the sales department separate from the editorial department.
So you don't know, right, what they're selling, how they're selling, or where the money comes in.
You just collect a paycheck every week.
I'm learning this now.
Thanks to Doge, how much money these organizations were collecting.
And it's really, really, really disgusting.
I mean, the whole kit and caboodle, right?
They were all in on it.
Again, going back to what David Sacks, crypto chief, said.
Okay, so we knew the U.S. government runs a $2 trillion deficit every year.
We're in debt almost $40 trillion.
And we also knew that anytime anyone tries to cut anything in Washington, the whole city screams bloody murder.
Okay, so the question is just why?
Well, now we know the money is all going to them.
It's like round tripping to them.
New York Times, getting paid.
Politico, getting paid.
Bill Crystal, perennial warmonger, getting paid.
Ukraine, getting paid.
I mean, that's the crazy thing, right?
All this money, whether it be the Politico subscriptions at $10,000 a year for a total of $8.2 million across 236 subscriptions.
You know, this was like robo stuff.
Nobody even asked for these subscriptions.
Apparently, nobody even used them.
Here's the guy, Sam Lyman, who used to work in the Senate.
He's like, okay, when I worked in the Senate, we had Politico by default.
Never signed up for it.
So I can only assume it was a blanket deal Politico had worked out with the federal government.
I never used it, not even once.
Got zero value out of it.
And yet it was costing you and me and everybody else in this country $10,000 for that one terminal.