President Trump threatens to withdraw the U.S. from NATO, calling it a "paper tiger" while criticizing UK readiness and demanding allies pay more. He opposes trans men in women's sports, citing Title IX erosion, and attacks Democrats over immigration fraud and Gavin Newsom's alleged ties to Chinese spies. The episode also covers NBA commissioner Adam Silver firing Jaden Ivey for opposing Pride Month, suggesting Chinese pressure, before celebrating NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission. Ultimately, these segments highlight a polarized administration prioritizing isolationist foreign policy, aggressive domestic investigations, and cultural conflicts over traditional alliances and inclusivity. [Automatically generated summary]
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Europe Does Its Own Thing00:14:56
Bye-bye, NATO.
It's been nice.
But we don't need you.
I mean, you may need us, but we don't need you.
And that's becoming increasingly clear every single day.
Now the President of the United States telling the Europeans, a European newspaper over there, that would be the Telegraph, hey, sorry, I'm thinking about getting out because I've had pretty much just about enough at this point.
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Boy, oh boy, the Europeans don't know what has hit.
them.
I mean, you ought to see the papers overseas right now.
Trump's telling Europe to basically shove it as only he can.
Okay, here he is saying, I strongly am considering pulling out of NATO.
This is the headline in the Telegraph paper today, widely read in the UK.
And you know what?
It's all because they don't want to do squad.
And by the way, even if they want to, it turns out they can't.
They don't even have any boats.
I mean, what kind of NATO partner is this?
They're not even keeping up their end of the deal.
They're not even keeping up their lousy military.
And then when we say, hey, can you help a little?
They tell us this is our problem?
That's really how it's going to go down?
Okay, well, guess what?
Ukraine's not our problem.
That's your problem.
So we don't need to do anything, right?
Because it's not our problem.
I mean, frankly, if we straighten things out for you over there, that's going to be quite beneficial to all of Europe, don't you think?
Because after all, we weren't in range for having a nuclear weapon sent on us.
No, no, that was you guys.
We're helping you.
If you haven't realized it, here's another paper, Daily Express, saying Trump tells UK to get your own oil.
He did.
He did just yesterday.
He's like, go get your own effing oil.
That's my editorializing.
He didn't actually say effing, but if you heard the tone of his voice, you could just feel it, right?
When you're reading these true social moments, you could just hear it.
If you're reading between the lines, he's basically saying, Europe, eff off.
You've shown your true stripes.
Again, another paper.
Here's the Telegraph, the Washington correspondent there writing in the Trump interview.
Quote, I am strongly considering pulling out of NATO.
This was their exclusive.
They had the president citing NATO as a paper tiger.
Well, he's done that before.
We've heard him say that before.
So, you know, I know they're very proud of this.
This is their little exclusive.
They got their moment in the sun with the president of the United States, and they're going to run it for all it's worth.
But this is something that he's been communicating over and over and over again.
It just hits a little harder, right?
When it's front page of The Telegraph.
And so the Europeans are trying to figure out how to deal with this.
And they're reeling right now as we speak.
Again, The Telegraph.
Exclusive Trump, I am strongly considering pulling out of the UN.
The US is going to say sayonara.
Arriva, Gerti.
And all the other possible ways.
Avina Sein.
You could say goodbye in any of those European languages.
It is the strongest sign yet, writes the Telegraph, that the White House no longer regards Europe as a reliable defense partner following the rejection of Mr. Trump's demand that Allies send warships to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Mr. Trump was asked if he would reconsider the U.S.'s membership of NATO after the conflict.
He replied, oh yes, I would say it's beyond.
Reconsideration.
I was never swayed by NATO.
I always knew they were a paper tiger.
And Putin knows that too, by the way.
NATO partners have been reluctant to help reopen the strait, the paper writes and admits, though 20% of the world's oil typically travels through that strait.
Tehran has effectively closed the strait for weeks, sending global oil and gas prices spiraling while threatening a global recession.
Yeah, you know what?
It's not that big a deal.
Just the markets today and oil prices are coming down.
And guess what?
We get a whole load of that stuff out down.
In Venezuela, in the Orinoco region, I mean, the proven reserves there, I know it's hard to get out of the ground.
It's really thick and tar-like, but we got the technology and the proven reserves.
They're actually bigger than that of Saudi Arabia.
Oh, and then we have the pipeline, plus the pipeline they're building, which would just bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
And then we got, well, Gavin doesn't like this very much, and neither would Eric Schwalwell, should he ever become governor.
But he probably won't, because I'm going to talk about that, too.
Those Fang Fang files are coming out, and let's just say, I don't think he's going to be governor of California when that's all said and done.
the Chinese spy, remember?
I digress.
Anyway, they're going to be drilling off the coast of California for this stuff too.
So we got oil coming up the wazoo.
We got more oil than we know what to do with.
So we'll just sell it everywhere.
Trump's like, hey, just buy it from us.
Forget about buying it from the Middle East.
I want to go on with this article because this is important.
He said to the reporter from the Telegraph, we've been there automatically, including Ukraine.
Ukraine was not our problem, he tells them.
It was a test.
And we were there for them.
And we would have always been there for them.
They weren't there.
for us.
Yeah, you see, this is supposed to work two ways.
It's like a contract where we're there for you, you're there for us.
We all contribute a certain amount.
You guys, by the way, haven't been contributing your amount.
You haven't been there for us.
We have been there for you.
So we're thinking, what good is this?
Who the heck needs this?
It just complicates everything, and then you're not going to be there when push comes to shove.
Singling out the UK, the president rebuked Sir Keir Starmer for refusing to get involved in the American-Israeli war against Iran.
Notice how the Telegraph is writing that.
the American-Israeli war against Iran, suggesting that the Royal Navy was not up to task.
Well, it's not.
It's really not.
He said, you don't even have a navy.
You're too old and you've had aircraft carriers that didn't work.
He said, referring to Britain's fleet of warships, asked whether the prime minister should spend more on defense.
Mr. Trump said, look, I'm not going to tell him what he has to do.
He can do whatever he wants.
It doesn't matter.
All Stormer wants to do is build those costly windmills.
That are driving up your energy prices right through the roof.
Okay, so this is like what you call tough love.
The president has a little bit of tough love for those heads up there, you know what, Europeans, that can't quite get their act together because they haven't figured out the windmills are not helping them.
They haven't figured out that, you know, they maybe shouldn't be importing all those people that don't want to merge with their culture, that don't want to learn their language, that do not want to respect women, that do not want to live by anything other than Sharia law.
Hey, I'm sorry, I'm just going to say it.
Europe has a problem on that front, right?
And that's in part why they're not willing to step up and do what is necessary right now against Iran.
He goes on, or the article, I should say, goes on because the Telegraph points out with some bit of glee here that after speaking with the Telegraph, according to the Wall Street Journal, he went back to the Oval Office and he said to his aides, hey, what's it going to take to get out of NATO?
He's serious, okay, guys?
Like, I'm not kidding on this, and I know him well enough.
He's serious.
He does not like NATO.
He's never thought it's been a good thing for us to be in NATO.
He's always faulted NATO for never being willing to contribute its quote-unquote fair share.
They don't.
We do.
We are the ones that shelter or shoulder, I should say, all of the burden.
Why is that?
Why is it on us?
We need a different system.
And so what they're saying is we've got to come up with something that's a little bit better because this just isn't working for any of us right about now.
Not at all.
I mean, he's been making the point over and over and over again.
He's making it in true social posts.
He's making it out in the media.
He's making it there in the telegraph interview that's communicated all over.
Across the UK.
Boy, Kearsley flipping out.
We're going to get to him because the Allies don't know what to make of this.
But first, remember what the President said just last week.
All of the NATO Allies agreed with us, but they don't want to, you know, despite the fact that we help them so much.
We have thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the world, and they don't want to help us.
We don't need help.
You know, that war has been long prosecuted, as far as I'm concerned.
Almost from day one, we knocked out many of these things.
We knocked out the Navy essentially in a couple of days.
But I was surprised to see that NATO, while they agreed that it was a very important thing to do, they agree fully.
Nobody said, oh, you shouldn't do it.
They would have had a nuclear weapon within one month of when we had the B-2 bombers bomb the nuclear potential.
I call it the nuclear dust.
NATO's making a very foolish mistake.
And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us.
So this was a great test because we don't need them, but they should have been there.
And they weren't.
They absolutely weren't.
So what good are they?
They're They're like a ball and chain, right?
We got to agree with them on everything.
And then all of a sudden they're like, hand out.
We want some money, More Mula.
You know, Ukraine defense minister.
He's got to have his set up in his private account in Dubai.
You know, more, more money, So it's not going so well for us.
And Keir Starmer, I mean, gosh darn it.
He's digging his own grave here.
He just keeps saying it's not our problem.
It's not our problem.
Problem.
Hello, we're not the ones that made you sign on to NATO, for goodness sakes.
Let's just tear it up and move on.
Call a spade a spade cure.
It is now clear that the impact of this war will affect the future of our country.
So today I want to reassure the British people that no matter how fierce this storm, we are well placed to weather it and that we have a long term plan to emerge from it a stronger.
A more secure nation.
First, let me say once again this is not our war.
We will not be drawn into the conflict.
That is not in our national interest.
And the most effective way we can support the cost of living in Britain is to push for de escalation in the Middle East and a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which is such a vital route for energy.
To that end, we're exploring each and every diplomatic avenue that is available to us.
This will not be easy.
No, it won't be easy.
You might actually have to get that Navy up and running, right?
The Navy that's been dormant.
And I mean dormant.
Let's go to Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War and my former colleague on Fox.
Watch.
I think the President was clear this morning in his truth that there are countries around the world who ought to be prepared.
To step up on this critical waterway as well.
It's not just the United States Navy.
Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big bad Royal Navy that could be prepared to do things like that as well.
So he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most, in fact, dramatically less than most.
So the world ought to pay attention to be prepared to stand up.
President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world to address this threat of Iran.
It's not just our problem set going forward, even though we have done the lion's share of preparation to ensure that that strait will be open, which is an outcome the president's been very clear on.
I mean, they're supposed to have a Navy.
John, 9652, thank you for the generosity.
He's saying, hey, remember when France denied us the use of their airspace?
Well, they're doing that again, by the way.
And remember when people started saying freedom fries instead of french fries?
Europe being uncooperative is not new.
I know.
I know it's not new.
And it's like we're the adult, right?
We're like the parent with the spoiled, rotten kids that just want to take all your money and keep spending it and spending it and never work for a living, never do anything.
And they're all on their path to nothingness because there's no destiny.
There's no destination whatsoever.
And they think they just come back to mom and dad, the United States of America and us taxpayers, and we're going to foot the bill.
Well, we've had it, okay?
This is when you call, this is what you call, you know, we're going to push them out of the nest.
They've had a total failure to launch.
It is time for Europe to do its own thing.
Just like you would say to any adult child that can't get its act together.
And you know who can't get its act together?
The UK.
France too.
But yeah, take a look at the UK.
This blew me away.
You know, just yesterday we found out from the first sea lord, okay, that's like their Navy guy, admitting that the Royal Navy was not ready for war, making him the most senior serving military figure to warn of the perilous state of the armed forces at the start of the conflict in Iran.
This is unbelievable.
Four of Britain's six destroyers were out of service.
They're under repair.
Four out of six, they get six of them and they got four out of service.
I mean, unbelievable.
The UK has been forced to borrow a warship from Germany to fill its NATO obligations in the North Atlantic.
I mean, it's like we're saying to the kids, make your bed, make your bed, make your bed.
please make your bed, put your snacks away, do your dishes.
And they're like, yeah, no.
So at some point you say, okay, well, you're not going to get an allowance anymore.
And at some point, as a fully grown young adult, I'm being generous, Europe, you should be out on your own.
And you don't need to come to mommy and daddy anymore begging for cash, begging for help.
NATO.
Grow up.
Europe, grow up.
Do your own thing, okay?
And this is what the president, I mean, I'm sorry, it's tough love.
You got to do it some way or another because we just can't be on the hook for this indefinitely.
Look at what we just did over there in Iran to take out the nuclear threat.
And you know, we don't need our oil from the Strait of Hormuz.
Thank you very much.
We just don't, okay?
We got plenty here and you guys can buy it from us.
Forget about Iran.
You don't need any oil from there.
Just deal with it.
NATO Must Grow Up00:07:33
We'll find other sources, okay?
The prices will level out and Iran can just be, you know, off in its own little corner doing its own thing.
It sounds like they're actually making progress there.
I don't know about the Strait.
But hey, the president said all along it'll work itself out.
You know how it'll work itself out?
Because everybody else that wants oil from there is going to figure out a way to make it work out.
In fact, the United Arab Emirates, the UAE, just said last night, hey, we're willing to do something.
We're willing to get involved.
We're willing to send ships.
We're willing to patrol there because we'd like to make sure that that pathway is open for us to be able to send oil out too.
Okay, so there you go.
You're going to get more people, more pressure, more countries.
And Europe is probably going to still sit on its you know what all day.
But gosh, okay, the White House is increasingly frustrated, it says, with longtime partners over their position on the war.
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, has said, hey, this is a one-way street, right?
You know, you hit out at U.S. allies for, he's hitting out at U.S. allies for not allowing access to their military bases.
The fact that France is not allowing us to fly over, not even the bases, okay, guys, not even the bases.
We just want to fly through France's airspace to get to Israel and France is saying no?
What kind of relationship again, I ask, is this?
Here's the president saying at 7.19 a.m. yesterday morning, the country of France wouldn't let planes headed to Israel loaded up with military supplies fly over French territory.
France has been very unhelpful with respect to the butcher of Iran, who has been successfully eliminated.
We got butcher number one, we got butcher number two, and now we're on to the third.
And he's apparently heavily injured and it's questionable as to whether he's even made it.
The USA will remember.
Three exclamation points, okay?
We will remember!
Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point, President DJT.
I mean, how can we forget?
You've made it really clear.
You don't give a rat's you know what about us.
So why should we care about Ukraine and your causes over there?
I don't think we do.
And I think this is going to mean, da-da-da, no more money.
You're cut off.
Deal with it.
Deal with it on your own, yourselves.
Donald Trump also sending this one out directed at the U.K., all those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the U.K., which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran.
I have a suggestion for you.
Number one.
Buy from the US.
We have plenty.
I just told you we did, right?
We got tons of it.
And number two, build up some delayed courage.
Go to the straight and just take it, okay?
He said you'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself.
The USA was not going to be there to help you anymore.
What'd I tell you?
You know, we got to just push them out of the nest.
We got to get them to launch.
We got to get them to do their own thing because we cannot be there at every single turn.
We're not going to be there to help you anymore, he writes, just like you weren't there for us.
The hard part is done.
Go get your own oil.
I love that line.
Go get your own oil.
And I have a feeling we're going to hear a lot about this tonight.
Anyway, Marco Rubio talking about NATO.
He's got no use for these guys.
And I've been a big supporter of NATO.
And one of the reasons why I've been a supporter of NATO is because I believe that these basing rights give us leverage and give us flexibility and operational capability all over the world.
But if NATO is just about us defending Europe, if they're attacked, But them denying us basing rights when we need them, that's not a very good arrangement.
That's a hard one to stay engaged in and say this is good for the United States.
So all of that is going to have to be reexamined.
All of it is going to have to be reexamined.
Reexamined being the key word, meaning we want out.
The president is making it really clear we don't want to be involved in this anymore.
And hey, here's the good news.
The UAE is stepping in.
I told you about that.
They want to join the fight.
They're going to get over there and start doing some patrolling of their own.
So great.
We can look to the Middle East.
Hey, let the Middle East patrol the Middle East, all right?
You know, why do you need us?
As for Europe, you're the ones using the oil.
Okay, so it seems to me you have a vested interest.
Our only interest is keeping ourselves and the world safe, as safe as we can, right?
The president has said over and over and over again, he is not going to have a nuclear Iran under his watch.
And when he learned they were at 60% enrichment, we couldn't allow for that.
So in some ways, it is mission accomplished.
It really is.
I mean, we don't need to be there any longer.
We can just let everybody else figure it out.
You know what?
Took out the big threat, so we move on.
And moving on is exactly what we're going to do.
The president had a field day torching some of these lib reporters, though, because they were just filled with questions.
Well, what do you mean?
What do you mean?
And oh, it got heated.
It got good.
They said, We have a present for you, Mr. President, out of respect.
And they said, Wait a minute.
Do you want me to answer the question?
You're a fresh person.
You know, we've had a lot of problems with you, haven't we?
No, they don't.
Yes, me a question.
No, they don't have.
Is she from ABC or CNN?
Anyway, he has very little tolerance for it.
I guess the moral of the story is you do not interrupt the President of the United States.
You ask him a question, you wait for him to answer, and then you ask your follow up.
It's called, oh, I don't know, manners?
Here's another one.
This guy came so unprepared, and I mean unprepared, to this little Oval Office press briefing that he started asking the President something that he didn't know anything about.
I mean, I've always told you these reporters are not so smart.
The business reporters tend to be a little bit better, but most of these reporters, especially the political ones, just don't have a lot going on upstairs.
And they parrot stuff.
They're fed stuff.
They get talking points, and that's what they regurgitate.
And this little guy doesn't even know his, you know what, from his elbow, because here he is asking the president, what?
Mr. President, the Iranian government threatened a bunch of U.S. companies today in the region, including Google.
Apple.
With what?
What did they threaten them with?
PB guns?
They don't have much threat to threaten.
My question for you is are you.
I don't know.
I mean, what are they.
You made a segue.
What did they threaten them with?
I don't know.
Tell me, how did they threaten them?
Well, all I know is that they threatened them, sir.
What does that mean?
Fair enough.
He said something nasty.
Fair enough.
Is the government in touch with these companies?
Are you helping to backstop them?
You don't even know what the threat was.
What was the threat?
I haven't heard it.
What was the threat?
Did they say they're going to blow them up?
They're going to hit them?
You know what they're not going to do?
They're not going to hit him with a nuclear weapon.
Is it something you're concerned about, sir?
That's good, right?
So this guy goes into the press conference.
He's hearing that there are threats against Google or Apple, or maybe somebody told him, hey, you got to ask about the threats against Google and Apple.
And it never occurred to him to maybe go online and see what the threats against Apple and Google might be.
And so instead he poses the question to the president, who's like, I don't know what you're talking about.
What threats?
I mean, what are they going to do?
Hit him with a BB gun?
And then like the killer one, right?
The singer was, well, I can tell you what they're not going to hit him with.
And that would be a nuclear weapon, right?
New Regime Deal Potential00:11:54
Because we have taken care of that as a result.
The president now saying it's just going to be a little bit longer.
We're in the final stages.
And this is driving the left-wing media nuts, right?
They hated the fact that he went into this, and they hate the fact that he's going to get out of it.
I mean, they hated him for going in and getting Venezuela, right?
And getting the bad guy out of Venezuela, the bad guy and the bad guy's wife, who was apparently just as bad as the bad guy.
So Maduro and his wife get taken out in that lovely little extraction.
We put in Dulcie.
Dulcie's doing a decent job from everything I'm hearing.
And we're going to be able to have access to, again, that wonderful source of oil rather than turning it over to the Chinese, the Russians, and the Iranians.
So mission accomplished.
The left was furious about that, even though Biden had a giant bounty on Maduro's head.
And now they're furious that he went into a run.
And now they're furious that he's getting out of a run.
Like he cannot win with these people, for goodness sakes.
But here, look, this is what he's predicting.
This is what he sees as the future.
He did say it would take five to six weeks.
We're in that zone right now.
And now he says this.
We have nothing to do with that.
What happens in the strait, we're not going to have anything to do with because these countries, China, will go up and they'll fuel up their beautiful ships and they'll leave and they'll take care of themselves.
There's no reason for us to do it.
We hit them hard.
We got rid of a lot of the radicalized lunatics along the strait.
But if they want something, but I would say that within two weeks, maybe two weeks, maybe three, we're hitting them very hard.
Last night we knocked out tremendous amounts of.
Missile making facilities, as you probably read or wrote.
We knocked out.
Excuse me?
Pardon me interrupting.
The U.S. will be gone or done with the war in two or three weeks.
We'll leave.
There's no reason for us to do this.
Look, the problem with the strait a guy can take a mine, drop it in the water, and say, oh, it's unsafe.
It's not like you're taking out an army or you're taking out a country.
He can drop it.
Or he can take a machine gun from the shore and shoot a few bullets at a ship.
Or maybe an over the shoulder missile, small missiles.
That's not for us.
That'll be for France.
That'll be for whoever's using the strain.
But I think when we leave, probably that's all cleared up.
Today, I heard tremendous numbers of ships were sailing through.
Wow.
You heard that.
It's going to be for France.
Here he is this morning, April 1st, 8 44 a.m., saying Iran's new regime president, much less radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a ceasefire in all caps.
followed by an exclamation point.
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We will consider, he writes, when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear.
Until Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion, or as they say, back to the Stone Ages.
I mean, he kind of makes it fun, right?
If you're going to talk about international policy and war and oil markets, y'all might as well have a little fun doing it.
We're going to blast them right back into the Stone Ages, okay?
So take that, Iran.
You either open the straight for everybody else or.
We're going to continue so.
So this is an interesting um position.
We're in, it were they don't know what to make of him.
By the way, the Iranians are like huh, they have no idea what to think of this guy.
But I can tell you, you know what he?
He's very serious about making sure that this is not our problem any more than it has to be.
And I I tell you this as somebody who's known him for a long time, who's had this discussion with him at various times.
He really does not.
He's got kind of an isolationalist principle to him, except that he doesn't want Iran to have nuclear weapons.
So that's what this one is about.
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
When he is fully satisfied that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, and that may in fact be the case right now, then guess what?
That is when, that is when we say mission accomplished.
So I'm very curious to see how he frames this tonight and going forward.
I'll tell you, the reporters better be careful though.
I got the full sound bite.
It's a new regime.
They are much more accessible.
They are right.
You know, they said, we have a present for you, Mr. President, out of respect.
And they said, wait a minute.
Do you want me to answer the question?
You're a fresh person.
You know, we've had a lot of problems with you, haven't we?
No, they don't.
Yes, me a question.
No, they don't have to make a deal with me.
When we feel that they are, for a long period of time, put into the Stone Ages and they won't be able to come up with a nuclear weapon.
Then we'll leave.
Whether we have a deal or not, it's irrelevant.
Now, it's possible that we'll have a deal because they want to make a deal.
They want to make a deal more than I want to make a deal.
But in a fairly short period of time, we'll be finished.
They will not be able to do a nuclear weapon for years.
And when they are ready, maybe in a long time from now, able to do a nuclear weapon, you'll have a president that will be like me and that he will go there and he'll knock the hell out of them again.
because they cannot have a nuclear weapon.
They are very radicalized people.
They're very sick leaderships.
And I will say, though, that the leadership we're dealing with now, with the new regime, because we have a new regime, and the new regime is much better than the past.
Yeah.
And in a way, again, how much does the Strait of Hormuz matter?
It matters in that you don't want elevated oil prices, right?
You just don't.
But at some point, if we say, look, we don't care about it, we're not going to get any of our oil from there, so you all figure it out together.
And maybe the Iranians don't hate everybody as much as they hate us, so maybe they're willing to let everybody else through.
Or maybe everybody else says, we kind of hate you too, Iran, and the UAE and Kuwait and the rest of them, and even China maybe, gang up and say, you got to do this.
It'll have a way of working itself out, as the president has said.
And by the way, I want to go to represent Brian Mass, Republican out of Florida, who's on the Foreign Affairs Committee, because he's convinced that this is solving itself as well.
Watch.
You have, of course, Gulf partners in the region that are unwilling to see the Straits of Hormuz be this toll road for Iran where they can simply charge for anything that goes in or out of there.
They're not going to allow that to take place.
And so there's conversations, debate, everything going on with that as well.
And if the United States accomplishes its mission of destroying every single piece of Iranian military hardware, the drones, the Navy, the Air Force, the ballistic missiles, everything that can reach out and touch us, as has been our goal, then we've essentially controlled the Straits in the way that we decided from the onset that we wanted to control this.
Okay, so winning, okay, winning, winning.
President Trump now outlining this end to the conflict in Iran, saying it's going to happen very, very soon, but we're going to keep on the pressure until we are certain that we have them where we want them.
Yes, I see Dom Baca in the chat going on about Artemis.
We'll talk about that a little bit, guys, too, because I'll tell you, there's some great stuff happening, but keep in mind.
This is front and center on everybody's radar right now.
And the big question is, how much longer do we stay in NATO under the circumstances?
I will say this.
The president, despite what the left says, despite what CNN says, despite what every single mainstream media publication and even the business trade publications, I mean, from Bloomberg to Reuters to Wall Street Journal, I'm a little stunned.
Barron's, the rest of them, they're like, and it's like, guys, we didn't really have a choice, okay?
And just give him a minute here because the country elected him.
They elected him for a reason.
And I know he doesn't want to go to war.
He's not itching to go to war.
But there is a reason, and Marco Rubio is explaining why.
Here on Fox with Hannity, he lays it all out.
Listen hard.
This is a regime led by people who believe that it is their calling and their purpose in life to usher in the end of the world.
These people want nuclear weapons.
Why do we know that?
Because they are assembling all the things you need for nuclear weapons.
They're assembling long range rockets that can eventually reach the United States, can already range Europe.
We saw them demonstrate two of them last week despite denying that they had them.
They enriched uranium to 60%.
As you pointed out a moment ago, from 60 to 90%, which is what you need for a bomb.
Takes 12 to 14 days.
They bragged about still having that.
They can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, which is what President Trump made very clear from the very first day of his presidency.
As president, he was not going to allow Iran to pose a threat to Americans now or future generations of Americans.
So we had to act with very clear purpose.
By the way, it's important to remember the Iranians kept saying that.
They kept saying that.
Even went on MSNBC and they said that we have 60%.
They said, well, we don't want to brag or anything.
Guys, it's not really bragging.
It's actually just guaranteeing your fate.
Okay, you knew what was gonna happen those fiery blasts are happening because you're out there saying 60% enrichment and we know as Marco Rubio just explained to get from 60% to 90% is like 14 days Okay, so they are two weeks away from having the ability and this is what CNN gets wrong.
This is what MSNBC gets wrong.
This is what the Wall Street Journal even which I'm surprised because it's a Murdoch company.
They own Fox of course.
They're all getting wrong Okay, like the oil markets will be fine once it's all said and done and we're making it clear with every single strike, and we've had nearly 13,000 of them at this point, that it is game over for Iran under this regime, and they have no chance of having a nuclear weapon ever, ever, ever, ever, okay?
And yeah, we'll get the Strait of Hormuz eventually, too.
Somebody will have to go in there and do it.
I love this.
I've got to play you this clip because somebody decided to go out into those, you know, no kings things over the weekend, and they asked somebody about the Strait of Hormuz.
And it just goes to show you how unbelievably stupid some of these libs are.
Some of these libs that try and talk a good game and sound all sophisticated, like they know what the straight of her moves is.
Guarantee you, this woman doesn't even know what it is she.
She walks into this trap.
She just walks straight on into it.
It's kind of funny, isn't it a little bit homophobic, that we're so focused on the straights of her moves and not the gays of her?
Yes, I agree yes, for sure.
Why do you think they're willing to leave the gays of her moves behind?
I think it's just um History, historically, like, you know, gays have always been very discriminated against, which is wrong on so many levels.
Even in war.
Yeah, even in war.
It just takes more reform in government, obviously, and then also educating society.
I just feel like if we're going to go in there, we can't leave the gay people behind.
I don't think we should go in there at all, but if we're going to, the gays of Hormuz, we could turn it into Fire Island.
For sure.
Fire Island is a very notoriously gay community in the Hamptons.
Anyway, that woman had no clue.
She doesn't know what the Strait of Hormuz is.
She's like, yeah, okay, we need to fight more for gays, too.
It's the Strait of Hormuz.
It's a particular body of water, okay?
Voter ID and LGBTQ Rights00:13:01
It's just, it cracks me up because they're up on their high horse.
They think they've got 50 degrees and God knows what transgender studies throw it in there.
By the way, that thing is coming to an end.
Just listen to what Bob Costa said the other day.
By the way, I got sound today.
I'm going to play from Rahm Emanuel.
Rahm Emanuel, you know, he's a former Obama chief of staff, and he's like, we lost the story, right?
We lost the whole plot.
Why?
because we went off on this stupid tangent about sports and transgenders in sports.
Yeah, it was stupid.
It didn't make any sense.
And yeah, these are the people that you're turning out of school right now.
And they just have to hit these like woke talking points and they have no clue what they're talking about.
Amazing.
All right.
By the way, we obviously know what we're talking about over at 76 Research.
Take a look at those model portfolios.
I love seeing that kind of thing on the screen.
And we got the market soaring.
Everybody's thinking that this thing is winding down and Donald Trump will look like a hero except to Rashida and Ilhan.
Ilhan Omar, she's really breaking down.
Rashida Tlaiba, buddy Rashida too.
I mean, they're freaking out.
I mean, understandably so, right?
when you're being investigated for money laundering, when you're being looked at as a potential possible leaker or spy.
Rashida, I'm looking at you.
I mean, allegations are flying and they're just so upset about everything.
They're upset about the fraud investigation.
They're upset that Donald Trump was born.
They're upset that, oh, he wants voter ID and he's going to get voter ID, the Save America Act as it is known.
So Rashida and Ilhan are both out.
speaking about this wherever and whenever they can.
And I guess Ilhan decided to take to some event there last night in Minneapolis in that area in her district.
And I guess forgot the makeup, but we'll leave that aside.
Here she is going on and on.
And she seems increasingly nervous.
And I just have to ask you this question.
She's going to say at some point, think about this, 50% of America is not going to be able to vote.
50% of America does not have an ID.
Excuse me, Ilhan?
I mean, who the heck is voting for you?
We are looking at in Washington, D.C., is the SAFE Act, which is a piece of legislation that is in regards to, they say, creating a safe election.
And we say it is a bill that disenfranchises half of the population in the United States.
Woo!
Half the population in the United States of America.
You're disenfranchised.
Half the population is not going to be able to vote.
I think that might just be a little teeny tiny bit of an exaggeration, a fraudulent claim.
We shall say no, Ilhan.
I'm sorry.
Like if you can't get an ID, I don't know what to tell you.
You need an ID literally for everything.
Every year when I register my kids for school, I need IDs, right?
You know, I have some kids in private school, some in public.
And in the public school, you got to, I got to show everything.
I got to show where I live.
I got to divulge it all, right?
Like all kinds of requirements just to go to school, just to go to school, for my kid to go to school.
So guess what?
If I walk into a doctor's office, I got to show an ID.
If I get on a Greyhound bus, I got to show an ID.
This is the world nowadays, okay?
IDs for everything.
And we want to go and see you speak at the Democratic National Convention.
Which sadly, some people do want to go to and see her speak at.
We'd need an ID.
Heck, if you want to shovel snow for Ma'am Dami, he wants two IDs.
So let's just say, when you say, Ilhan, that it's 50% of the population, I'm saying you're kind of losing me.
I'm getting sick and tired of all your damn lies.
It's a bill that requires for people to show a proof of citizenship.
We know that the majority of married people.
Women who have changed their names, who might not have access to their original birth certificates and all the documents that they need in time to be able to vote on any of the primaries that are happening in the next few weeks.
I'm sorry, that's a good one.
That's just flat out wrong.
Another example today, I had to call my city hall to get one of my kids in one of the community sports.
And there was an attendant that came on the line, and it was a recording.
And the first thing on it was, For copies of birth certificates, press one.
I'm like, all right, like you just go to your city hall, okay?
So wherever you were born, for anybody who's curious about this, if you need a copy of your birth certificate, and I've needed it at various times in my life, I was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and guess what?
I call up Portsmouth, New Hampshire, or I go into City Hall, and I ask for it, and they got it, okay?
It's not hard.
It's not hard.
And so they're trying to create all these obstacles, and you've got to ask yourself, why?
What is it they're so afraid of?
Is it all illegals voting for her?
I mean, they're all worked up about all this.
They're so upset.
Oh, gosh, Gavin Newsom's already said he's suing the president because the president put in by executive order that they're going to cut down on all that absentee ballot stuff because they want to prevent all these shenanigans.
Well, Rashida, who is, I'm just going to say, seemingly not so much on our side, but on the side of Iran and on the side of Gaza and on the side of the Palestinians and like not on our side, is saying this today.
And it's like a no makeup day, I mean, between Ilhan and Rashida who all right, I don't mean to be mean.
Maybe just a little.
I think she needs to shower.
No matter how Republicans try to spin it, the SAVE Act is voter suppression.
This isn't about election security, Mr. Speaker, it's about election takeover.
President Trump and Republicans know that their policies are deeply unpopular with the American people.
So, what are they doing?
They are trying to rig the elections.
They want to force Americans to produce a passport or a birth certificate just to register to vote.
They know full well that only about half of Americans have a passport.
They know it costs money.
They know it takes time.
That's the point.
They want to make it harder for many of our neighbors to be able to vote.
Nearly 70 million married women do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.
This bill is in a direct attack to our right to vote, and Republicans don't want people like us voting.
It would also increase purges of registered voters who literally are getting kicked off of these lists who are legally allowed to vote, and we must stop it.
And you must wash your hair.
tonight.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I know that was mean.
But you know what?
All's fair and love and war and this lady's mean.
This lady's really mean, okay?
So she's actually trying to get in the way of actually having voter ID.
I'm just going to point out the obvious and that's that everyone in the country supports it and everybody across all racial barriers.
I mean, you look at the black population even.
I think the latest number was 86% support it there.
Like who actually is not for it?
Just like, oh, dare I say.
Sports.
No one wants people that were born as boys competing against the naturally born females.
Nobody wants it.
And yet the Democrats keep pushing this junk on us over and over and over and over again.
And you're saying, what has happened to the party?
Well, Ram Emanuel knows what's happened to the party.
He's finally coming out and admitting it.
Hallelujah.
I mean, for goodness sakes, you got to kick them all out and kick them out fast because they're really going to mess you up for a lot of elections for years.
To come.
Rahm Emanuel, this is the guy who was the chief of staff for Obama and the former mayor of Chicago, admitting the unsayable is getting anti PC all of a sudden.
We lost the plot.
We, as Democrats nationally, from Latinx to defunding the police, to police organizations are all racist, to bringing a set of cultural wars to our schools.
We are on the losing side of those cultural wars.
Full stop.
You are worried about bathroom access and locker room access.
Why don't you focus on?
Classroom excellence.
You have 50% of our kids not reading at grade level.
Well, they can just say we can do both.
You've proven you can't because you've permitted a 30 year low in reading and math scores, and nobody seems to be calling the whistle on this.
We lost the plot.
Why?
Because the party got unanchored.
Every one of our most successful electoral presidents anchored themselves in what I call middle class values and values that are universal, at least in this country, ascribed to.
We went from acceptance to advocacy.
Big difference.
And I'll just take one on that I shouldn't.
Okay.
So here it goes.
I remember fighting for Title IX.
The reason we are champions in women's sports in the Olympics, in soccer, hockey, etc., is Title IX.
Why would you undercut the premise of Title IX with the ability of trans men playing in women's sports?
To me, it's insane.
It's baffling.
You're undermining one of the great accomplishments we as a country, but also spearheaded by the Democratic Party, Title IX.
and we're undercutting it.
Yeah.
So thank you for admitting that because we've been sitting here waiting for somebody to admit that for quite some time.
And now we're in a situation where the Trump administration is having to sue Maine because Maine is still allowing for boys, people that are, I guess, identifying as females, but they have all the body parts of a boy to compete against the girls.
Kind of outrageous.
And now finally you get a few brave people willing to speak up, but I think Ron sees the handwriting on the wall.
He's like, we're going to just keep losing and losing and losing and losing and losing because we just, we can't get behind this, right?
And yet you still have all these crazy nut job, like, I mean, what's the Michigan lady, right?
I always forget her name.
She's very witchy, very witchy looking lady.
Oh, Gretchen Whitmer.
You know, witchy Whitmer, you know, that's why that happens, okay?
She's out there again saying, oh, well, I just have to back.
Trans and I'm going to back it all day long.
And Rome Emmanuel's sitting there going, Guys, come on, you're killing me.
You're just killing me.
What?
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility, when we celebrate the strength, resilience, and contributions of our transgender family, friends, and neighbors.
In Michigan, everyone deserves to be seen, respected, and valued.
But for too many trans people, we still see discrimination and policies that threaten their safety and dignity.
You know, when I was elected in 2018, I made a promise to fight for all Michiganers, no matter who they are or who they love.
And since then, we have put in the work to build a state where everyone can live openly and authentically.
I'll keep fighting like hell to make sure every Michigander feels safe, secure, and supported.
Today and every day, we stand with our trans neighbors because trans rights are human rights.
Yippee, yippee, Gretchen.
I'm not so sure that's going to play so well for you anymore Because you're talking about like 0.01% of the population.
I mean, I know you're all trying to get it to be like 0.1% of the population, but it's a very, very small part of the population.
And when it's your daughter that's losing out on her opportunity, I don't think anybody's too happy.
And hey, you know what?
Look what the Olympics did.
The Olympics made the decision.
We're not going to do this anymore.
And it's like, I don't know, like people have lost their heads.
It's like NATO, right?
NATO.
It's like, NATO, you have a responsibility to back us up.
And they're suddenly like, well, we don't want this anymore.
We just want to go, you know, make nice food and drink nice wine and draw little art projects all day long and celebrate trans rights.
I'm sorry, you know, we're actually in a little war situation here.
And England's like, well, we don't have any boats.
It's like, what have you been doing?
Really, what have you been doing?
Well, I guess you've been working on everything.
except for the things that you should be working on, which is exactly the direction that this country has been going in until, thank you very much, we brought Donald Trump back into the White House and we start getting this normalcy.
And it's like, why is it so hard?
Why is it this push, push, push, push just because you want a little normalcy?
I'll tell you this, guys, Ilhan Omar is going to be in a whole lot of trouble.
California Fraud Investigation00:05:48
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So, as I said, you know, Ilhan Omar Um is increasingly looking like she's just got all kinds of problems.
I think we're seeing that she's Showing some signs of wear and tear.
This fraud ring is possibly coming down on her in ways that she would have never anticipated because, as we've discussed before, she's not that smart.
I'm worried about the immigration fraud.
I'm also worried about what did Elion Omar know about what was happening in the Somali community and why was nobody looking into it until, frankly, Donald Trump came along.
Yep.
Donald Trump came along and suddenly all these things that were getting passed over.
Including fraud.
You know, this is what it took, right?
Having a business person there.
Because once you have somebody that's used to looking at a balance sheet and looking at a business and trying to root out waste, they're going to look at something.
And this is what Elon was doing.
Don't forget, when he came in and started Doge, he's looking for that waste.
And what did they find?
Not only all this kind of waste, it just wasn't innocent waste, though.
It was actual fraud.
And so it's more than just waste, it's actual fraud.
And I think we've got to start to see some ramifications for all of this.
James Comer, as we speak, is zeroing in on California and the rampant fraud that has been alleged in the state of California.
I mean, it's pretty bad.
It's pretty bad.
When you have even the guy from, we talked about this recently, a couple of comedians, the guy from Just Shoot Me, David Spade, and then the guy from Wayne's World, they were talking about this.
They've turned on Gavin because they're like, how can you spend all this money on the homeless?
And then the homeless problem just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse.
Well, the allegation is because it was all going to fraud.
And so James Comer is spearheading an investigation on the House side of things looking into this.
We also have the Fraud Task Force, right, from JD Vance's office.
And you also have the Treasury Department and the IRS all looking at this simultaneously.
Watch.
Mr. Chairman, so where is your energy focused here?
We're focused solely on hospice fraud in California, specifically in Los Angeles County.
A state audit just came out and confirmed that there's at least $3.5 billion.
Billion dollars in hospice fraud, primarily in one county, Los Angeles County, in California.
That three and a half billion dollar price tag represents over 10% of the total bill for the federal government for hospice in all 50 states, in every city and every state in America.
So the red flags are there that there was rampant fraud.
There's a whistleblower that's come forward that alleges that Gavin knew something about this.
This is a very similar scenario to what we had in Minnesota.
So we're moving our investigation after Minnesota into California.
We believe this is the tip of the iceberg.
So we're going to be focused solely on fraud in California.
Hopefully we'll have more whistleblowers come forward and hopefully we can see some accountability.
Those are massive.
Amazing.
And we're going to see it, guys.
We're going to see it.
This accountability is happening in part because we have so many teams on the ground investigating it and in part because of those whistleblowers, the rewards that they're now going to be met with.
It's hard, right?
Coming forward.
and facing all of that disdain from your community, et cetera.
But this is where Besant has made the smart and wise calculation to be offering up to 30% of that money back.
So whatever they're able to recover, you get 30% of it.
And that's a big deal.
He made this announcement this week on CNBC.
It's very exciting.
I think it's going to be a great way to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse, starting in Minneapolis, which has been ground zero.
So we are encouraging whistleblowers who know about fraud, people who are stealing from the American taxpayer, to come forward.
At Treasury, we're setting up a website, and we will be giving rewards up to 10 to 30 percent of the fines that we levy.
Wow.
Okay.
So you know what that means?
In his words, not mine, the rats will turn on each other.
Quote again, the scorpion doesn't change its ways.
So they're going to get a lot of people coming out of the woodwork and saying, okay, well, you know, it's worth it.
And this is going to lead, I think, to a massive investigation.
It's going to take a little bit of time.
I want everybody to be a little bit patient on this one.
But the feds are in there.
The feds are working.
And I think we're going to start to see more and more activity.
FBI Power Abuse Exposed00:09:38
The U.S. Attorney's Office in California speaking about this yesterday on Fox saying, They are all in.
They are working with all authorities.
So again, I just want to point out you got DOJ, you got Treasury, you got the White House and the task force being led by JD Vance with the help of Stephen Miller.
You've got Besant, I think we mentioned that Treasury, which is also the IRS.
I mean, you got, oh, and you got the House, right, with Comer.
So you got full court press on this.
So good luck, Ilhan.
Good luck, any hospice fraudulent.
Players out there in California, we're coming for you.
And guess what?
We're gonna find you because Americans respond to incentives, and there's a big incentive to go after you.
Yeah, so this is gonna be a problem in California.
You know what else is a problem in California?
Have you heard of a guy named Swallow?
Maybe you heard of Fang Fang?
Eric Swallow wants to be the next governor of California, but you see, he's got a past.
And I mean a serious, allegedly quite lurid past.
He had a very close friend by the name of Fang Fang.
Yeah, really.
Christine Fang Fang.
So, you can make of that what you want.
Anyway, Miss Christine Fang Fang was apparently a Chinese spy.
And it's all coming out because Kash Patel is bringing out the files.
Get ready for the Fang Fang files.
He's flipping out.
He's so scared.
He's now suing.
He's going nuts.
He's got all these lawyers.
He's like, you can't do this.
You can't do this.
This is worse than Watergate.
What?
Are you kidding me?
You're the idiot that had the affair with the Chinese spy.
Oh, Nick Sater caught up with him a couple months ago.
This is kind of a funny clip.
So, Congressman, you referred to Elon Musk as a fascist at some point and alluded to him being a national security threat.
Do you see that more of a national security threat?
You sleeping with a.
Chinese spy than transparency in the federal government.
What are your thoughts on that?
What are your thoughts on that?
What's Fang Fang think of that?
No comment, no comment.
What's fascistic about exposing government corruption?
I mean, I know you're just at dinner now with a bunch of lobbyists, you know, they're buying you a bunch of booze, and you know, that's awfully nice.
I know you were talking about, you know, maybe maybe finding somebody else.
So, what do you think about that?
Do you want to comment on any of it?
No, he definitely doesn't want to comment on that.
He definitely does not. want to comment on that at all?
You know, the irony of this.
Looks like guilty of charge.
So the irony of this is do not forget that Swalwell was like all over, okay, Donald Trump's a Russian spy.
Donald Trump's a Russian spy.
Donald Trump's a Manchurian candidate.
Oh, well, you know, he had some rather dubious things in his own past, namely this girl, Fang Fang, who.
She's cute, right?
She's kind of cute.
Too cute for him, I think.
But you know, that's usually how these honeypot things go.
And she got a job in his office and then she got another intern a job in his office.
And she got to like schmooze with all kinds of fancy people.
There you see her with Nancy Pelosi.
So she's kind of working her way in, until the FBI blew the lid on the whole thing.
And they said, Swalwell, you can't have a relationship with her.
And the next thing you know, boom, presto, she was gone.
She took off for China.
She apparently got in a flight accident.
I think that was the rumor they were floating out there.
This is like the Chinese version of the witness protection program.
Anyway, Swalwell is so upset.
He's so upset that they're going to reveal all the details about his relationship with the Chinese spy.
But if you think about it guys, he wants to be the next California governor, and California is kind of an important state.
Okay, I know we don't like it very much, we don't like to think so, but you know it's like the fifth largest economy in the world, and so it is something that matters.
I don't think we want somebody who has a past with a Chinese spy and obviously has no judgment because he's willing to be compromised by the Chinese spy.
Any other honeypot that comes along probably has a good shot with Eric Swalwell, and so that's a concern, and yet He's making this the Trump administration's problem, right?
Just because we're going to find out the truth.
Here he is on CNN last night losing it.
So we expect more will come, other nonsense from the administration, but we don't trust them one bit.
And it's also absurd, just absolutely absurd, as somebody who was on the Intelligence Committee, oversaw the CIA for eight years, that they're so out to interfere in the California gubernatorial race where we're leading that they would work with the Chinese, I mean, it's just absurd and probably the worst abuse that we've seen since the J. Edgar Hoover days.
I mean, which is obviously a significant statement, as you say, given your background of what you oversaw, you know, in multiple roles that you've had in Congress.
But it sounds like this is very clear to you how you see this, right?
That this is about the California gubernatorial primary.
Obviously, you're a leading contender there.
Fox News host is also a leading contender.
I mean, how much do you think this is about that, that election?
I see it as entirely about that.
We have a governor right now, Governor Newsom, who's been a fighter protector.
He does what I call show, not tell leadership.
When Texas took five seats in their redistricting process, we went to the voters within 90 days, and he's taken the president to court.
And as we have so many immigrants being deported in California, Californians are looking for who's going to continue that fighter protector spirit against this president.
And the president knows, and his FBI director knows, that that's what I've done.
Being a part of the Russia investigation, being a part of the impeachment, I have the only lawsuit that survived the january 6th, that the only the only lawsuit that survived this new presidency.
It's me and the january 6th officers and and so the president and his FBI director, it appears to us are certainly threatened by the prospect of me being governor.
The good news though, is they're scared of you.
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They're scared of you Eric, I get it?
No I, I don't think so.
I think that actually, what this comes down to is we cannot have somebody who is so easily compromised by a Pretty little thing, right?
As the next governor of California.
I mean, that's pretty simple.
And by the way, it would be great to see the former Fox News host, Steve Hilton.
Good guy, by the way.
Really, really good guy as the governor of California because he actually has a brain.
I mean, really.
He's smart and he gets policy.
And I don't think Eric Swallow, poor guy.
I know he doesn't.
By the way, he tried to hit up my former agent.
He's now deceased.
A few years back, he was like, Swallow was like, looking for his next gig and was trying to get a job anywhere he could like Msnbc, FOX.
And I remember my agent saying, what do you think about this Swallow guy?
I'm like loser, total loser.
I mean, I don't know, maybe you can get him a gig at Msnbc they hire a lot of losers over there, right?
Anyway Swallow, speaking of Msnbc, decided to go on that network.
Oh no, maybe this one's CNN.
You know they're easily interchangeable these days, i'm sorry.
And he went on to CNN and he's complaining again, saying i'm launching a lawsuit because I don't want Kash Patel Revealing all this stuff.
It's too sensitive.
Well, what's in it that's so sensitive I'd like to know?
Now, suddenly, I have to hear it.
Did nothing, there's nothing here.
The case is closed on this decade old file during Barack Obama's presidency.
I mean, that's how old this is.
And every finding was that when we were approached by the FBI, we helped them.
We cooperated.
We wanted them to be able to do their job.
And now, in who knows what way, they're accused now in this reporting of working with the Chinese government to try and have the individual that they thought was spying.
They want to.
Work with the government to try and smear a political opponent.
I mean, it's just absurd.
It's absolutely absurd.
But as my lawyer, one of our lawyers told me today, and this really kind of stops you right in your tracks, he said if they do this, it'll be the greatest abuse of power by an FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover.
And so those are the stories.
Okay, no, you know, you lost me there because I think we see Comey had the greatest abuse of FBI power.
I'm pretty darn sure.
And by the way, I do think, Eric, you participated in.
By the way, that's the lawsuit.
He's freaking out, guys.
He's actually scared.
And I imagine he has reason to be.
But don't forget all the things he said, completely fraudulent, about the president of the United States, who's now president again.
Remember, judiciary, do you believe the president right now has been an agent of the Russians?
Yes.
I think there's more evidence than he is.
Yes.
And I think all the arrows point in that direction.
And I haven't seen a single piece of evidence that he's not.
An agent like in the 1940s where he had people who were Reds to use in all time, like that.
In other words, working for a foreign power.
He's working on behalf of the Russians.
Adam Silver NBA Controversy00:09:32
Yeah, okay.
The question has shifted from whether the president is working with the Russians to what evidence exists that the president is not working with the Russians.
At what point do you draw the line and not accuse the president of the United States without any evidence of being an agent of Russia?
Yeah, he's betrayed our country, and I don't say that lightly.
I worked as a prosecutor for seven years, and I. Betraying the country, by the way, we want evidence before you say that, but you said an agent of Russia.
Yeah, he works on their behalf.
I'm not hearing the evidence that he's an agent of Russia.
Yeah, I think it's pretty clear.
It's almost hiding in plain sight.
Kind of like Fang Fang was.
Hiding in plain sight, you know?
Oh, gosh, this is going to be good.
I can't wait to read these files.
I mean, they also have them on alleged mortgage fraud, too.
So, bottom line here, Eric, I'd quit while you're still ahead.
You're not going to make it to be the governor of California.
And my money's on Steve Hilton.
Just saying.
Just saying.
The NBA does it again.
Do we have any basketball fans here?
I'll tell you, I'm not much of an Adam Silver fan.
I've never been much of an Adam Silver fan ever since Adam Silver decided to basically kowtow to China and Hong Kong.
Remember that?
Because he had a big deal with the NBA in Hong Kong.
Well, the NBA is turning into the new Bud Light because they decided to go after a guy who plays for Chicago who didn't love that the NBA was promoting LGBTQ, whatever it is.
I get that.
Who can keep up with all the letters, right?
He didn't love that they were promoting that that month because he's a very, very strong Christian, like a born-again Christian.
And he made this statement and he's now fired.
I mean, wow.
Come on.
They said he was detrimental to his team.
Let me play you the statement.
We'll get to his reaction as well.
This is Jaden speaking here.
Jaden Ivey.
That the world can proclaim LGBTQ.
He's doing this like live and stuff.
They have, they have, they proclaim Pride Month and the NBA.
They proclaim it.
They, they show it to the world.
They say, come, come, come join us for Pride.
For Pride Month.
To celebrate unrighteousness.
They proclaim it.
They proclaim it.
They proclaim it on the billboards.
They proclaim it in the streets.
Unrighteousness.
So, how is it that one can't speak righteousness?
How is it one that.
How are they to say that you.
Man, this man is crazy.
They're saying he's crazy.
They're saying, how dare you.
And he's like, look, I fundamentally disagree with this.
It's not what I approve of.
I am a born-again Christian who does not believe in this.
And so Adam Silver, who runs the NBA, wow, he's getting just pummeled online.
And people are saying, like this account, JTC53, I'm not actually familiar with the account.
I probably should have looked at it before I threw it up on screen.
But he's saying Adam Silver should be ashamed of himself, this man owned by China.
See, that's what got me interested because don't forget, there was that situation with the player Maury, right, who made some comment about How we needed freedom in Hong Kong, and all of a sudden, the whole NBA completely freaked out.
And that was Adam Silver freaking out.
It was this PR disaster because he reprimanded the player, sort of.
So, Jaden Ivey now is what this guy is saying on Twitter, the final nail in the coffin, because it's just not fair, right?
So, Jaden, the player, he's reacting to this.
It's just not fair that he's suddenly losing his gig as a basketball player because.
He doesn't agree with the giant billboards and everything they're pushing for LGBTQ whatever by the NBA.
Let's go to him here.
Last time I text, by the way, it was a free country and you were allowed to have different views.
But apparently, you can only have the views of, like, say, the Colin Kaepernicks of the world or the Ilhan Omars of the world or the Rashida Tlaibs of the world.
If you have the views of this poor guy, Jaden Ivey, then you're persona non grata.
They said, my conduct is detrimental to the team, right?
Why didn't they just say, We don't agree with his stance on LGBTQ.
Why didn't they say that?
How is it conduct detrimental to the team?
What did I do to the team?
What did I do to the players?
I did nothing but practice with them, play with them, pass the ball to them, good teammate to them, said good job, good shot.
I said good job, good job, good pass, way to play, bro.
Right?
I said these things.
To my teammates was never detrimental to them.
So, why is it that the NBA and the Chicago Bulls say that I'm detrimental to the team?
How?
Because I believe in the truth?
Because I know Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life?
How?
How is my conduct detrimental to the team?
Because of what I believe.
Because of what the truth is.
This is a big deal.
This is going to be a big problem for Adam.
I just want to back up for a second.
Remember Adam Silver back?
This was a few years back.
I mean, like quite a few years ago.
I think like around, maybe it was 2019 or so, the Hong Kong incident.
Because there was a tweet from the Houston Rockets GM.
And the Houston Rockets GM, Daryl Morey, actually put out something that's.
It was very, very simple.
It said, quote, fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.
This is during the Hong Kong protests, and they were fighting for freedom.
And he said, fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.
And like, China went ballistic.
China was like oh, because you see, the NBA had a deal with China and they were trying to basically bring the NBA to China to make it a big, big deal.
It's kind of like the NFL is trying to like do a lot in Latin America.
That's one of the reasons why you saw Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl.
Okay, a method to the madness here.
So Adam Silver is like, oh my gosh, I'm gonna lose all this mega money because they suspended the broadcast there in China.
Yeah, TV blackout.
They had a state TV blackout.
You could not watch basketball.
They pulled all the sponsorships.
They pulled all the deals.
They canceled the events.
They threatened to cut business ties with the NBA altogether.
And don't forget, that business in China is worth billions of dollars.
So Adam Silver was like, oh, goodness.
And so he came out and said that that tweet was very regrettable.
And everybody's like, wow.
It was just, how is that regrettable?
Stand for freedom?
That's regrettable.
Fight for freedom.
Stand with Hong Kong.
That's regrettable.
So you can imagine the PR snafu that came out of that one.
And now here we are.
It's like the guy doesn't learn his lesson.
He decides to fire a guy who's like a super duper born-again Christian because he doesn't agree.
I mean, of course he's not going to agree with the LGBTQ thing.
Of course he's not.
And isn't he allowed to say that on his own private Instagram channel?
He doesn't agree with that and you're gonna fire him and say he's detrimental to the team because of it.
I mean that seems a little extreme.
Who are you worried about for sponsors now?
Oh Nike It just came to me Nike of course, right like Nike.
Oh, that would be a problem for Nike anyway.
Here's Jaden.
He's very very into his religion I'm not I'm not the the J. I used to be but the old J. I's dead I'm alive in Christ No matter what the basketball setting is.
I'm born again, the Holy Spirit, and I've been saved And I've been saved by Jesus Christ.
No matter how many DMPs I don't get to play or no matter how many points I score, those things are a temporary thing.
Okay.
So, you know, maybe you should have a little respect.
Just a little respect for a guy who's very, very religious.
And, you know, there's nothing wrong with being very, very religious.
And what you're going to now find, Adam Silver, is that a lot of people are going to be very, very mad at you because they don't like that the Chicago Bulls is dropping this guy for quote unquote detrimental conduct.
Because it's not like he was pushing members on the team.
It's not like he was shouting obscenities at them.
He just didn't really agree with the LGBTQ month-long Pride Month.
And by the way, there's a lot of people that don't agree with it.
Okay?
Like a lot.
Look at what happened at Target, for goodness sakes.
People just stopped shopping at Target because they were a little too into the LGBTQ Pride Month thing.
Target Pride Merch Decision00:01:36
And so they just wouldn't stop with it, right?
They had the rainbow onesies and the whole bit.
And people said, okay, well, I don't need to shop there anymore.
And so it was a business decision to kind of back off the pride merchandise.
I guess he's making a business decision to say, this guy's no good for our team.
I mean, it has nothing to do with how he plays.
I know that he actually has been out sick, I guess not sick, but like with injuries and that kind of thing.
So he's been very vocal on his Instagram channel.
And that got him in a lot of trouble.
Yeah, I thought we were like beyond the cancel culture, but apparently, apparently not.
Amazing stuff.
You saw that NASA just sent four people up to the moon, three Americans, one Canadian.
We haven't done this in 50 years, guys.
So fantastic.
Zoom, zoom, zoom.
We're going to the moon.
We used to sing that song with my kids when they were really little.
And here we are going all the way up.
We're not going to get there just right away, but this is this is in action as we speak.
It's Artemis that just was lifted off and really Artemis 2, I should say.
It's just a phenomenal thing to see.
It's actually the White House was broadcasting as well coming out of Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
So our prayers are with all the astronauts right now.
We're very excited.
Zoom, zoom, zoom.
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