July 16, 2026 • 30 mins
1. Government Fraud and Congressional Hearing
A Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing focused on alleged fraud involving taxpayer funds. Democratic members did not attend the hearing and claims that government oversight failures have resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in fraudulent payments. The discussion references:
- Minnesota childcare fraud allegations.
- The "Feeding Our Future" fraud case.
- Senator Joni Ernst's proposals for stronger anti-fraud measures.
- Claims that Democrats are unwilling to address fraud.
Fraud is a systemic government problem and Democratic lawmakers are indifferent or complicit.
2. Trump Interview on Iran
An exclusive Fox News interview with President Donald Trump regarding military action against Iran. In the interview:
- Trump discusses ongoing U.S. strikes against Iran.
- He states that military pressure is intended to stop Iranian nuclear ambitions.
- He suggests strikes could expand to include additional infrastructure targets if negotiations fail.
- He emphasizes a policy of "strength" in dealing with Iran.
3. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
A newly released platform from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The platform is advocating:
- Major constitutional reforms.
- Replacing or restructuring existing government institutions.
- Eliminating the Electoral College.
- Limiting the Supreme Court's power.
- Expanding social welfare programs and economic redistribution.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Typically in Washington, DC, you've got shouting matches on the
Senate floor, on the House for right. But well, something
else happened in Washington yesterday and it involved something much
quieter and arguably more telling. The Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee held a major hearing.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You did not hear about this at all.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm guessing it was an important hearing, by the way,
examining fraud against you, the American taxpayer. According to committee republicans,
not a single Democratic member attended the hearing that involved
taxpayers being defrauded. The hearing focused not on how millions,
(00:44):
but how tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been
lost to fraud and what Congress can do to stop it. Translation,
Democrats don't want to stop it at all, because many
of the fraudsters are the ones paying them to look
the other way. Americans are paying taxes at every level.
(01:04):
You have your federal taxes, you got your state taxes,
you got your local taxes, and families have been dealing
with inflation, they've been dealing with higher interest rates and
obviously rising costs. So you would think the Democrats would
want to expose fraud against taxpayers and also make sure
that your dollars are going to people that actually need
(01:25):
the money unless you're on the take. And Democrats, well,
they were completely empty. None of them showed up. Now,
one of the reasons they didn't show up is because
one of the star witnesses was that independent journalist Nick Shirley.
His investigation into the Minnesota Childcare Network showed massive fraud,
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including the Quality Leering Center, which helped draw attention to
allegations that the organization received roughly ten million in taxpayer
dollars despite having no children in attendance. That is what
exploded into a much bigger story of fraud. Senator Jenny
Arst used the hearing to argue that this case demonstrates
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how easily bad actors are exploiting government programs when oversight
is virtually nonexistent, especially when Democrats look the other way,
and literally they were looking so far the other way
they would even show up to the hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
About the fraud.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now, according to Center Earns, the federal government lost up
to five hundred and twenty one billion dollars every year.
I'm going to say that again, federal government, meaning your
tax dollars, your tax dollars they're wasting through fraud five
hundred and twenty one billion every year to various programs.
(02:48):
That's not just waste, it's money that could otherwise go
towards legitimate services, or give you a massive tax break,
or also pay down our national debt.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The hearing also revisited the broader series of fraud scandals
in Minnesota. Republicans pointed to investigations alleging that more than
nine billion a loan in fraud had been uncovered across
some multiple state administer programs in recent years.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Those figures include the well known Feeding our Future case,
the pandemic related fraud, childcare fraud allegations, and other investigations
that have led to numerous criminal charges and arrests. Senator
Ernst argued that these cases exposed as systemic failure and
it's not just isolated criminal acts. She also discussed legislation
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she has introduced that would require stronger verification before tax
payer money is distributed, require reimbursements only after services are
actually provided, and then strengthen the record keeping requirements as
well as expand auditing authority. Her argument was straightforward, don't
just spend money faster, verify where it's going before writing
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the check at all. And the broader hearing also looked
at how fraud is evolving nationwide. Again, the Democrats weren't
in the room for any of this, and the media
is not reporting on it either, but witnesses discussed increasingly
sophisticated identity theft, digital fraud schemes, and weakness and government
verification systems where there have been.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Warnings but no changes.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Experts, by the way, also testified that we need much
stronger identity verification and also we should be using modern
anti fraud technology that the private sector uses. They say
just that alone could help stop billions in fraudulent payments
before the money leaves the government coffers. Again, all of
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you may say they just don't care, Well, Democrats may
have had reasons for not attending beyond that. They of
course claimed it was scheduling conflicts or disagreement about the
committee's focus that was some of their big lines. But
(07:01):
what you really have to look at is the Democratic Party.
Many of the members receive money connected to many of
the fraud abusers.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So this isn't just about politics.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This is about optics, and they didn't want to have
to answer questions about the money that's come into their
own campaigns. Now, Republicans, they are furious, and this is
exactly what Donald Trump had been talking about for months
on end. He believes that every dollar's town through fraud
is a dollar that hard working Americans have earned and
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then sent to Washington expecting it to be used responsibly.
But when criminals exploit the government programs, the taxpayers don't
just pay once, they now pay twice. Not only they
lose the money, but they're often asked to pay even
more taxes to keep those same programs funded. And that
is why the President said he's had enough now. This
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hearing also comes as Washington continues debating deficit government spending
in the national debt, which is clearly out of control.
So if lawmakers are actually serious about fiscal responsibility, many
would argue that preventing fraud should be one of the
easiest places to start. You don't have to cut benefits
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to stop fraud. You don't have to raise taxes to
stop fraud. You simply have to make sure taxpayer dollars
actually reach the people and purposes they're intended for. Now,
whether today's hearing ultimately leads to biparison reforms, I can
promise you that ain't going to happen. But Republicans clearly
intend to make government fraud and the absence of the
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democratic participation in today's hearing a political issue ahead of
the midterms, as they should. It's also estimated that now
we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars that could
have been saved through stronger oversight. Democrats knew this, and
they chose to push fraud and make it bigger. They
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also knew we needed better verification and they were warned.
But what do they do? They made sure there wasn't
verification why so the fraudsters could continue to do their schemes.
And they also knew, of course I'm talking about the Democrats,
that we needed more effective enforcement when people broke the rules.
But instead what they do they made sure there was
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virtually no enforcement. So, for all of you taxpayers listening
right now, the question that we all should be asking
is this, If Congress can't agree on almost nothing else,
why can't they even agree on protecting the money that
American families have worked so hard to earn. The answer, unfortunately,
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is clear. Democrats would rather steal your money have it
come back from the fraudsters into their campaigns. That's what
they're really all about. President Donald Trumps set down for
an exclusive interview with Fox News Channel about the USA
strikes that will continue against Iran, and he says they
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will escalate even bigger throughout the week if Iran is
unwilling to make a deal. President Trump making it clear
now what America is foreign policy is towards Iran, and
it's very different than what it was even just a
week ago. The President now laying it out in a
very clear interview, and I want you to hear what
(10:24):
he had to say.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
In President Trump told Fox News that strikes against Iran
will continue tonight and expand next week if the Iranians
are unwilling to make a deal. Here's more of our
exclusive interview from the White House.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Mister President, thank you for speaking with Fox News.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
We have seen extensive US strikes against Iran for three
consecutive nights. Now this comes after the Iranians attacked vessels
in the Strait of Horn Moves. How would you describe
what is happening at this moment? Has the war resumed?
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Well, I guess you could define it any way you want,
but certainly we're beating them up really badly.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
They have to be beat up. We're hitting them very,
very hard.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
We're hitting every single thing that they have along the shore,
along the waterfront. You know, if you look at the
Straight of Hormos, it's now we're looking we're finding it
hard to find where they have anything. We have to
stop it, we have to keep it open. I was
going to charge your fee, but instead they'd rather spend
(11:27):
a lot of money in the United States, which frankly
is better because I don't like the idea of a fee.
It's got to remain free because otherwise others will do
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
But I think we've made tremendous progress.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
So your objectives are to ensure that Iron never has
a nuclear weapon, to keep the straight open, and to
degrade the Iranian military. Can those objectives be completed in
an air campaign alone or does this require a ground component?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Well, I think they're completed now. Honestly, if we left
right now, it would take them twenty years to rebuild
what they have. The only way you can negotiate with
these people is through's strength, and the only strength is
military strength.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
And that's what we've done.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
And I mean literally two days ago we had a
deal and then they broke it.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
At the last moment they broke it.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Will these strikes continue.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
They'll continue until I say it's enough. I mean they'll continue.
They've been there.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
The word the military likes to use is they've been
degraded to a very low level, and they have fight.
You know, it's like a great boxer. You think you
have them beat and then all of a sudden he
comes back and he gives you a shot. They have
some fight left, but they don't have much, and their
weapon degrading has been incredible at a level nobody thought
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it was possible.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
To do it this quickly.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
You posted today on true Social comments that you made
back in nineteen eighty eight about carg Island, and at
the time you said, one bullet shot at one of
our men or ships, and I do a number on
carg Island. I'd go in and take it. Yeah, do
you still intend to take cargo?
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I can't say that to you because if I did,
it would be foolish. It but if I make a
little headlines, but it would be foolish. But I'll tell
you about carg Island.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
So we've already.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Are you really not a ground campaign in a limited capacity?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
I don't want to say that either, but I would
say no if I thought it was appropriate. I'd sometimes
you need a ground campaign, but we have other people
that will do the ground campaign for us. But we
already hit carg Island, as you know, twice even three times,
I said, hit everything but the oil. Just leave that
little area from twenty five yards out, leave that a
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little area.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Don't touch you ill, because I don't want that.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
In terms of the world economy, it's a you know,
it's a chunk of the world economy.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
So we haven't hit that.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
At some point we could, but I think it's unlikely
as far as.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Taking it is concerned.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
If we degrade them far enough and deep enough back,
I would do that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Do you anticipate that the strikes were seen this week
against Iran will expand. Are you conser during hitting energy
targets or other locations.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I'll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we'll
hit energy targets. But we're going to hit them very
hard tonight, We're gonna hit them very hard. Tomorrow night,
we're gonna hit them very hard the night after. And
then next week it gets really bad for them because
next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges.
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We're going to knock out all their power plants. We're
going to knock out all their bridges unless they get
to the table and negotiate.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Do you believe the Iranians are serious about making a deal.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I think they have no choice.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Why haven't they yet?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I think if I didn't do the way I'm doing,
they would never make a deal. They would have never
made a deal with Obama. That deal with the worst.
What they did sign was a worthless piece of paper.
What they signed, what they signed with Obama was a
worthless piece of paper. That was a road to a
nuclear weapon. And what I have is a wall. There
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will be no newuclear weapon. I'll never sign. And when
you listed the three things, by far the most important.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Is they will not have a nuclear open.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Take me back to the moment before February twenty eighth,
when you made the decision to launch Operation Epic Fury.
Was there a specific piece of intelligence that made you
decide to launch this operation?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Well, specific in the sense that it just never stops
and they're going to go forward. And they wanted a
nuclear weapon. We knew they wanted a nuclear weapon. If
they have a nuclear weapon, Issia wouldn't be here.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Look, they said they didn't want a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Now they say that everything they say is a lie.
They lie and never seen anything like it. They also
come out and they'll tell you we never discussed nuclear
and we're in a room.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
For five hours.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
That's all we discussed, and they'll walk out and say
nuclear was not discussed.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Everything was discussed at nauseum.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
They were going to have a nuclear weapon within two weeks,
had we not done the b two bombers, had we
not bombed their nuclear sides, the three nuclear sides, and
there's another one we're looking at right now as you know. Yeah,
we're looking at Pickats because somebody said there's a little activity.
You know, we have cameras Space Force. We have cameras
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that are they can read the badge. They can read
your name, probably Muhammad. They can read your name on
a badge from space and every area of Pickaxe, but
the other three are covered.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But specifically, if they make any move.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
They make any move, we immediately go and do whatever
we have to do.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
But they haven't. On the other they were so decimated somewhat.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
That's to say that the United States doesn't have the
ability to strike deep enough with these bunker buster bombs.
At Pickaxe Mountain.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
They can go deep. We have good, good stuff. Nobody
knows about pick Axe. By the way, nobody knows if
they even are doing anything in Pickaxe, it's just something
that comes up.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
We have cameras on it. There's very little activity there.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
But if is even just a small amount, we'll hit it,
and we'll hit it hard.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I want to ask you about the Telegon facility. It's
outside of Tehran and it was hit in US strikes previously.
These are satellite images from June and July. And on
June twenty second, you can see activity at this site.
And then on July seventh, there is movement. There are
trucks and cranes and that image freshly pored concrete. Right,
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what do these images well say to you?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
What I'm hearing is that they put and what they've
watched it that they poured concrete to close up the
entrances so we couldn't get into it. So that's what
they're saying. But we can hit that one very easily.
You know, it only takes a matter of minutes for
us to do it and do major damage, major damage,
and when they know it's coming, they disappear.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm seeing here.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
And sir, on Monday, you announced that the United States
is reimposing the US blockade of Iranian ports started to know.
Shipping data trackers indicate that just ten vessels passed through
the straight upfore moves on Monday, less than ten percent
of what normally goes through this critical waterway. When you
say the strait is open, what do you mean.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
It's open if people want to go through it. We're
not opening it for I Ran. That's the only one
that's closed for it SLOs for I Ran both.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
In and out.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But it's open now. A lot of things have happened
try in the last few months. Pipelines are being built,
We're coming up with great alternatives, including Texas, including Alaska.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You've called the new leadership in Iran a changed regime.
Do you still believe that?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Well, I knew the first group for a little while,
and they were evil, and they're no longer with us.
I knew the second group also a little bit better,
and they were evil and they're no longer with us.
And the third group they have some bad ones in there,
some very bad ones in there, just and I think
they're the ones that are stopping a deal.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
So are you negotiating with the wrong people?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Well, now I don't want to negotiate now, I said
let's not negotiate. Three days ago, we had a deal.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
When was the last time you spoke with an Iranian official?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Well, not me, but let's say my representatives. I have
spoken to him, but my representatives over the course of.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Well actually an hour ago, and what message was delivered.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
They want to make a deal. But every time they
make a deal, they break it. They don't want to die.
People don't want to die. Yeah, about an hour.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Ago, and what message was delivered.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
You better make a deal. You're not going to have
any You're not going to have anybody left. We're being
very careful with the civilian population, as you know. But
I said, you better make a deal. You're not going
to have anything left.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
And you think they will.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
They should, I don't know if they will or not.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Sir, thank you for speaking with Fox News.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
One of the most clear and concise interviews from the
President of United States of America there with Fox News Channel,
making it clear that his policy has changed efficantly. This
obviously was a major moment for the President to tell
the country exactly where his mindset is and it is
very different than it was just a week ago. Ladies
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and gentlemen, if you want to understand how dramatically the
far left wants to transform America, well it's now in writing.
You have to look no further than the newly unveiled
platform from the Democratic Socialists of America known as the DSA.
Now this isn't simply another policy paper that's calling for,
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you know, higher taxes and bigger government, which they love.
This is now a document that envisions fundamentally restructuring the
American system of government itself.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Now, let me be very clear what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The DSA is an activist political organization. They are not
a governing body, and its platform has no legal force.
But they're running for office and now they become incredibly
influential in the Democratic coalition as a whole. Many of
the races right now are running Democratic Socialist candidates in
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the Democratic primaries, and a growing number of candidates not
only identifying, but also receiving support and winning. So what
exactly are they proposing? Well, Kayleie Mcananny explained it as
she got the platform notes, and here's what it said.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Well, the DSA debuted their new Workers Deserve More program
yesterday with a set of radical new policies that would
gut the Constitution radically transform life in the United States.
The document pitches an idyllic future under socialism. Quote, imagine
taking a day off from work. In a future without capitalism,
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you work as much as you are able, and no
more than needed, and you would control your own labor
and see it going to good use. It's not just
a job to pay the bills. Speaking of bills, you
don't really have them anymore. You have no debt, you
don't need health insurance, you don't pay a mortgage or
have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right.
Just because it isn't easy to imagine now doesn't mean
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we shouldn't try to make it happen. Wow, The problem
is it's failed everywhere it's been tried.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You got to be clear.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
What they're asking for is replacing America our constitutional structure
with a socialist, communist Marxist system. The platform, by the way,
calls for replacing the electoral College with a national popular vote,
expanding the House of Representatives so that they have the edge,
ending the Senate filipbuster, reducing the Supreme Court's power of
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judicial review, meaning they're basically meaningless, and moving towards a
quote new constitutional framework that's centered on a single federal legislature.
This is again all in writing. Now if you think
about what this proposal means, the United States of America
was deliberately designed with three co equal branches of government,
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the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. Now Communists understand that,
and they understand that's a problem. So what they said
was no, no, no, We're done with that and forget
to legislative chambers in the House and Senate.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Right, No, that's gone as well.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The DSA is now telling Americans that all of these
institutions are undemocratic and they should be fundamentally restructured. Now
they say these changes would make quote government more representative,
and they argue that this is a dismantling of the
core of the problems we have in this country. Constitutional
checks that we don't need, balances that we don't need.
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They want none of those things to exist. Now, how
did we get to this point. I'm going to play
for you part of that history. Well, okay, in a
good friend of mine at Fox actually put it together
talking about how the Democratic Party has now allowed and
it's it's really interesting to watch the communists and socialists
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to virtually completely take over and.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
As socialism takes root. Now in the Democrat Party, are
voters taking to socialism? We may not have an answer yet,
but we are getting a pretty clear picture of what
Democratic Socialists have in mind for America. Total fundamental, radical
change to pretty much every area of government. The DSA
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underscoring that plan for a people in a new platform
just released. Let's walk through it together. We have it
up on the wall. It's no less radical than starting
with replacing the president and the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
But we're just now getting started.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Because the DSA would also abolish the United States Senate,
expand the House of Representatives, and move to rank choice voting,
the likes of which you see in California, still working
to transform America. The DSA proposes, like many Democrats, to
make Washington, d C. A state, to defund the Department
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of War, end ice attention and deportation, and grant amnesty
to all illegal immigrants. Now, these are the radical transformational
things proposed by the Democratic Socialist of America. Some of
these we've heard already from establishment Democrats. They've opened the door,
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and the DSA has simply walked through the door.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
Would you like to abolish the Senate? That's part of
our platform, And we don't think that's extreme.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
We think it's a change that would help make this
country more democratic.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
We need that illegal aliens in the country, don't. They
need to be removed.
Speaker 11 (25:46):
We believe that demilitarizing the border, that violent oppression of
working class immigrants who come here, is not something that
most Americans want.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Democrats are left scrambling. America may be left scrambling. It's
like running for class president high school and someone that
promises free ice scheme for everybody every day at lunch.
I mean, take a look. These are the types of
things being said by the DSA. Imagine taking a day
off from work. In the future without capitalism, you work
as much as you are able, and no more than needed,
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and it's always accompanied by the friendly little fist deal
not sweet enough for you?
Speaker 10 (26:21):
There's more. How about this from the DSA.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
You won't have any bills, no debt, no need for
health insurance, no mortgage, no landlords, retirement publicly funded. Sounds
too good to be true. That's because, of course you're
not a SAP. But for now, all of this is
too much for traditional Democrats, it's too hard to compete.
(26:45):
So you're looking at traditional establishment democrats say don't look here,
look over here, Like for a President Biden who has
a book he'd like to talk about, but not until
after the midterms.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
There's about to challenge we face as an issue.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
How about the decisions I made?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Why I made them?
Speaker 12 (27:08):
Leading in the country through COVID, rebuilding our economy and
restoring our democracy after the attack on January sixth, any
our nation's longest war in Afghanestan, Strengthening data is supporting Ukraine.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
As Biden slurs his way through the past, the far
left full stream ahead into the future, knocking the Democrat
establishment off.
Speaker 10 (27:32):
Its feet in the process.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
So the big tent we've heard about, well, it's hard
to really know if they're winning the hearts and minds
the DSA. Are they winning the hearts and minds of Democrats.
It's hard to know. Just know they're running against this.
Speaker 11 (27:46):
I request thirty more seconds because I rise before you,
adorning these for personal tension, not for personal attention, but
to encourage you to take.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
I am going to be.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
Working on our behalf. I am going to be telling
the stories on our behalf, and you better believe I'm
going to be doing it with a little bit of joy,
a little bit of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy,
and a little bit of sicket to them, because that's
the Michigan way.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
That is Democratic establishment candidate Haley Stevens, who's running against
socialist candidate Abdul Lsi, ed for Senate in Michigan. Somebody
clever on X said, the Democrats said, we need new voices,
and here's Haley Stevens to offer you a nineteen thirties
baseball manager. But can't we say it's something we've seen before.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
You better thank a union member.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
On the five day work week. You better thank a
union member for sickly.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
You better thank a union.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Member for paid leave.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
You better thank a union member for vacation time.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Listen, all right, listen, listen, Okay, listen.
Speaker 13 (29:00):
I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far
from where I started from. Nobody told me that the
road would be easy.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Hayley Stevens doesn't even take the gold for changing accents
in front of her audience, and not least among Democrats.
But the problem, see for Democrats isn't how they're speaking,
it's what they're speaking about that's the problem.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Legitimately, when the campaign consultants told me, hey, we're gonna
hit this line because Kamala Harris came out in favor
of taxpayer funded sex changes for illegal aliens, and I
remember thing myself, Come on, you guys, like, she didn't
really say that. It's taken out of context. And then
I go and look at it and I'm like, holy,
she actually said that, and she was she really was,
(29:50):
like the very worst version of what the Democrats were
producing in twenty twenty. The thing is it was they
were all doing it because that was the incentives of
it party.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You listen there by the way to the Vice president
and what he's saying, this is the incentives of the party.
It is no shock that we now are at a
point where we have the Democratic Socialists of America who
really are running the agenda, who are pushing the future,
who are advocating for destroying this country. When they tell
(30:23):
you what they believe in, please believe them. They're not lying, folks.
This is what they believe, and it's only going to
get worse.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
We do this show every day, so make sure you
hit that subscribe or auto download button so you don't
miss any of the interviews we do, especially with members
of the administration. And I'll see you back here tomorrow morning.
Typically in Washington, DC, you've got shouting matches on the
Senate floor, on the House for right. But well, something
else happened in Washington yesterday and it involved something much
quieter and arguably more telling. The Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs Committee held a major hearing.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You did not hear about this at all.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm guessing it was an important hearing, by the way,
examining fraud against you, the American taxpayer. According to committee republicans,
not a single Democratic member attended the hearing that involved
taxpayers being defrauded. The hearing focused not on how millions,
(00:44):
but how tens of billions of taxpayer dollars have been
lost to fraud and what Congress can do to stop it. Translation,
Democrats don't want to stop it at all, because many
of the fraudsters are the ones paying them to look
the other way. Americans are paying taxes at every level.
(01:04):
You have your federal taxes, you got your state taxes,
you got your local taxes, and families have been dealing
with inflation, they've been dealing with higher interest rates and
obviously rising costs. So you would think the Democrats would
want to expose fraud against taxpayers and also make sure
that your dollars are going to people that actually need
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the money unless you're on the take. And Democrats, well,
they were completely empty. None of them showed up. Now,
one of the reasons they didn't show up is because
one of the star witnesses was that independent journalist Nick Shirley.
His investigation into the Minnesota Childcare Network showed massive fraud,
(01:48):
including the Quality Leering Center, which helped draw attention to
allegations that the organization received roughly ten million in taxpayer
dollars despite having no children in attendance. That is what
exploded into a much bigger story of fraud. Senator Jenny
Arst used the hearing to argue that this case demonstrates
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how easily bad actors are exploiting government programs when oversight
is virtually nonexistent, especially when Democrats look the other way,
and literally they were looking so far the other way
they would even show up to the hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
About the fraud.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now, according to Center Earns, the federal government lost up
to five hundred and twenty one billion dollars every year.
I'm going to say that again, federal government, meaning your
tax dollars, your tax dollars they're wasting through fraud five
hundred and twenty one billion every year to various programs.
(02:48):
That's not just waste, it's money that could otherwise go
towards legitimate services, or give you a massive tax break,
or also pay down our national debt.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The hearing also revisited the broader series of fraud scandals
in Minnesota. Republicans pointed to investigations alleging that more than
nine billion a loan in fraud had been uncovered across
some multiple state administer programs in recent years.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Those figures include the well known Feeding our Future case,
the pandemic related fraud, childcare fraud allegations, and other investigations
that have led to numerous criminal charges and arrests. Senator
Ernst argued that these cases exposed as systemic failure and
it's not just isolated criminal acts. She also discussed legislation
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she has introduced that would require stronger verification before tax
payer money is distributed, require reimbursements only after services are
actually provided, and then strengthen the record keeping requirements as
well as expand auditing authority. Her argument was straightforward, don't
just spend money faster, verify where it's going before writing
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the check at all. And the broader hearing also looked
at how fraud is evolving nationwide. Again, the Democrats weren't
in the room for any of this, and the media
is not reporting on it either, but witnesses discussed increasingly
sophisticated identity theft, digital fraud schemes, and weakness and government
verification systems where there have been.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Warnings but no changes.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Experts, by the way, also testified that we need much
stronger identity verification and also we should be using modern
anti fraud technology that the private sector uses. They say
just that alone could help stop billions in fraudulent payments
before the money leaves the government coffers. Again, all of
(04:48):
this was at the hearing that no Democrats showed up
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you may say they just don't care, Well, Democrats may
have had reasons for not attending beyond that. They of
course claimed it was scheduling conflicts or disagreement about the
committee's focus that was some of their big lines. But
(07:01):
what you really have to look at is the Democratic Party.
Many of the members receive money connected to many of
the fraud abusers.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
So this isn't just about politics.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
This is about optics, and they didn't want to have
to answer questions about the money that's come into their
own campaigns. Now, Republicans, they are furious, and this is
exactly what Donald Trump had been talking about for months
on end. He believes that every dollar's town through fraud
is a dollar that hard working Americans have earned and
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then sent to Washington expecting it to be used responsibly.
But when criminals exploit the government programs, the taxpayers don't
just pay once, they now pay twice. Not only they
lose the money, but they're often asked to pay even
more taxes to keep those same programs funded. And that
is why the President said he's had enough now. This
(07:56):
hearing also comes as Washington continues debating deficit government spending
in the national debt, which is clearly out of control.
So if lawmakers are actually serious about fiscal responsibility, many
would argue that preventing fraud should be one of the
easiest places to start. You don't have to cut benefits
(08:16):
to stop fraud. You don't have to raise taxes to
stop fraud. You simply have to make sure taxpayer dollars
actually reach the people and purposes they're intended for. Now,
whether today's hearing ultimately leads to biparison reforms, I can
promise you that ain't going to happen. But Republicans clearly
intend to make government fraud and the absence of the
(08:39):
democratic participation in today's hearing a political issue ahead of
the midterms, as they should. It's also estimated that now
we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars that could
have been saved through stronger oversight. Democrats knew this, and
they chose to push fraud and make it bigger. They
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also knew we needed better verification and they were warned.
But what do they do? They made sure there wasn't
verification why so the fraudsters could continue to do their schemes.
And they also knew, of course I'm talking about the Democrats,
that we needed more effective enforcement when people broke the rules.
But instead what they do they made sure there was
(09:22):
virtually no enforcement. So, for all of you taxpayers listening
right now, the question that we all should be asking
is this, If Congress can't agree on almost nothing else,
why can't they even agree on protecting the money that
American families have worked so hard to earn. The answer, unfortunately,
(09:42):
is clear. Democrats would rather steal your money have it
come back from the fraudsters into their campaigns. That's what
they're really all about. President Donald Trumps set down for
an exclusive interview with Fox News Channel about the USA
strikes that will continue against Iran, and he says they
(10:04):
will escalate even bigger throughout the week if Iran is
unwilling to make a deal. President Trump making it clear
now what America is foreign policy is towards Iran, and
it's very different than what it was even just a
week ago. The President now laying it out in a
very clear interview, and I want you to hear what
(10:24):
he had to say.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
In President Trump told Fox News that strikes against Iran
will continue tonight and expand next week if the Iranians
are unwilling to make a deal. Here's more of our
exclusive interview from the White House.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Mister President, thank you for speaking with Fox News.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
We have seen extensive US strikes against Iran for three
consecutive nights. Now this comes after the Iranians attacked vessels
in the Strait of Horn Moves. How would you describe
what is happening at this moment? Has the war resumed?
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Well, I guess you could define it any way you want,
but certainly we're beating them up really badly.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
They have to be beat up. We're hitting them very,
very hard.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
We're hitting every single thing that they have along the shore,
along the waterfront. You know, if you look at the
Straight of Hormos, it's now we're looking we're finding it
hard to find where they have anything. We have to
stop it, we have to keep it open. I was
going to charge your fee, but instead they'd rather spend
(11:27):
a lot of money in the United States, which frankly
is better because I don't like the idea of a fee.
It's got to remain free because otherwise others will do
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
But I think we've made tremendous progress.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
So your objectives are to ensure that Iron never has
a nuclear weapon, to keep the straight open, and to
degrade the Iranian military. Can those objectives be completed in
an air campaign alone or does this require a ground component?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Well, I think they're completed now. Honestly, if we left
right now, it would take them twenty years to rebuild
what they have. The only way you can negotiate with
these people is through's strength, and the only strength is
military strength.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
And that's what we've done.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
And I mean literally two days ago we had a
deal and then they broke it.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
At the last moment they broke it.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Will these strikes continue.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
They'll continue until I say it's enough. I mean they'll continue.
They've been there.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
You know.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
The word the military likes to use is they've been
degraded to a very low level, and they have fight.
You know, it's like a great boxer. You think you
have them beat and then all of a sudden he
comes back and he gives you a shot. They have
some fight left, but they don't have much, and their
weapon degrading has been incredible at a level nobody thought
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it was possible.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
To do it this quickly.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
You posted today on true Social comments that you made
back in nineteen eighty eight about carg Island, and at
the time you said, one bullet shot at one of
our men or ships, and I do a number on
carg Island. I'd go in and take it. Yeah, do
you still intend to take cargo?
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
I can't say that to you because if I did,
it would be foolish. It but if I make a
little headlines, but it would be foolish. But I'll tell
you about carg Island.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
So we've already.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Are you really not a ground campaign in a limited capacity?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
I don't want to say that either, but I would
say no if I thought it was appropriate. I'd sometimes
you need a ground campaign, but we have other people
that will do the ground campaign for us. But we
already hit carg Island, as you know, twice even three times,
I said, hit everything but the oil. Just leave that
little area from twenty five yards out, leave that a
(13:35):
little area.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Don't touch you ill, because I don't want that.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
In terms of the world economy, it's a you know,
it's a chunk of the world economy.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
So we haven't hit that.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
At some point we could, but I think it's unlikely
as far as.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Taking it is concerned.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
If we degrade them far enough and deep enough back,
I would do that.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Do you anticipate that the strikes were seen this week
against Iran will expand. Are you conser during hitting energy
targets or other locations.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I'll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we'll
hit energy targets. But we're going to hit them very
hard tonight, We're gonna hit them very hard. Tomorrow night,
we're gonna hit them very hard the night after. And
then next week it gets really bad for them because
next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges.
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We're going to knock out all their power plants. We're
going to knock out all their bridges unless they get
to the table and negotiate.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Do you believe the Iranians are serious about making a deal.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I think they have no choice.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Why haven't they yet?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
I think if I didn't do the way I'm doing,
they would never make a deal. They would have never
made a deal with Obama. That deal with the worst.
What they did sign was a worthless piece of paper.
What they signed, what they signed with Obama was a
worthless piece of paper. That was a road to a
nuclear weapon. And what I have is a wall. There
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will be no newuclear weapon. I'll never sign. And when
you listed the three things, by far the most important.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Is they will not have a nuclear open.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Take me back to the moment before February twenty eighth,
when you made the decision to launch Operation Epic Fury.
Was there a specific piece of intelligence that made you
decide to launch this operation?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
Well, specific in the sense that it just never stops
and they're going to go forward. And they wanted a
nuclear weapon. We knew they wanted a nuclear weapon. If
they have a nuclear weapon, Issia wouldn't be here.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Look, they said they didn't want a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Now they say that everything they say is a lie.
They lie and never seen anything like it. They also
come out and they'll tell you we never discussed nuclear
and we're in a room.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
For five hours.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
That's all we discussed, and they'll walk out and say
nuclear was not discussed.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Everything was discussed at nauseum.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
They were going to have a nuclear weapon within two weeks,
had we not done the b two bombers, had we
not bombed their nuclear sides, the three nuclear sides, and
there's another one we're looking at right now as you know. Yeah,
we're looking at Pickats because somebody said there's a little activity.
You know, we have cameras Space Force. We have cameras
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that are they can read the badge. They can read
your name, probably Muhammad. They can read your name on
a badge from space and every area of Pickaxe, but
the other three are covered.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
But specifically, if they make any move.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
They make any move, we immediately go and do whatever
we have to do.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
But they haven't. On the other they were so decimated somewhat.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
That's to say that the United States doesn't have the
ability to strike deep enough with these bunker buster bombs.
At Pickaxe Mountain.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
They can go deep. We have good, good stuff. Nobody
knows about pick Axe. By the way, nobody knows if
they even are doing anything in Pickaxe, it's just something
that comes up.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
We have cameras on it. There's very little activity there.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
But if is even just a small amount, we'll hit it,
and we'll hit it hard.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I want to ask you about the Telegon facility. It's
outside of Tehran and it was hit in US strikes previously.
These are satellite images from June and July. And on
June twenty second, you can see activity at this site.
And then on July seventh, there is movement. There are
trucks and cranes and that image freshly pored concrete. Right,
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what do these images well say to you?
Speaker 6 (17:26):
What I'm hearing is that they put and what they've
watched it that they poured concrete to close up the
entrances so we couldn't get into it. So that's what
they're saying. But we can hit that one very easily.
You know, it only takes a matter of minutes for
us to do it and do major damage, major damage,
and when they know it's coming, they disappear.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm seeing here.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
And sir, on Monday, you announced that the United States
is reimposing the US blockade of Iranian ports started to know.
Shipping data trackers indicate that just ten vessels passed through
the straight upfore moves on Monday, less than ten percent
of what normally goes through this critical waterway. When you
say the strait is open, what do you mean.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
It's open if people want to go through it. We're
not opening it for I Ran. That's the only one
that's closed for it SLOs for I Ran both.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
In and out.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
But it's open now. A lot of things have happened
try in the last few months. Pipelines are being built,
We're coming up with great alternatives, including Texas, including Alaska.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You've called the new leadership in Iran a changed regime.
Do you still believe that?
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Well, I knew the first group for a little while,
and they were evil, and they're no longer with us.
I knew the second group also a little bit better,
and they were evil and they're no longer with us.
And the third group they have some bad ones in there,
some very bad ones in there, just and I think
they're the ones that are stopping a deal.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
So are you negotiating with the wrong people?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Well, now I don't want to negotiate now, I said
let's not negotiate. Three days ago, we had a deal.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
When was the last time you spoke with an Iranian official?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Well, not me, but let's say my representatives. I have
spoken to him, but my representatives over the course of.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Well actually an hour ago, and what message was delivered.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
They want to make a deal. But every time they
make a deal, they break it. They don't want to die.
People don't want to die. Yeah, about an hour.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Ago, and what message was delivered.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
You better make a deal. You're not going to have
any You're not going to have anybody left. We're being
very careful with the civilian population, as you know. But
I said, you better make a deal. You're not going
to have anything left.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
And you think they will.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
They should, I don't know if they will or not.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Sir, thank you for speaking with Fox News.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
One of the most clear and concise interviews from the
President of United States of America there with Fox News Channel,
making it clear that his policy has changed efficantly. This
obviously was a major moment for the President to tell
the country exactly where his mindset is and it is
very different than it was just a week ago. Ladies
(20:11):
and gentlemen, if you want to understand how dramatically the
far left wants to transform America, well it's now in writing.
You have to look no further than the newly unveiled
platform from the Democratic Socialists of America known as the DSA.
Now this isn't simply another policy paper that's calling for,
(20:33):
you know, higher taxes and bigger government, which they love.
This is now a document that envisions fundamentally restructuring the
American system of government itself.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Now, let me be very clear what we're talking about.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The DSA is an activist political organization. They are not
a governing body, and its platform has no legal force.
But they're running for office and now they become incredibly
influential in the Democratic coalition as a whole. Many of
the races right now are running Democratic Socialist candidates in
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the Democratic primaries, and a growing number of candidates not
only identifying, but also receiving support and winning. So what
exactly are they proposing? Well, Kayleie Mcananny explained it as
she got the platform notes, and here's what it said.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Well, the DSA debuted their new Workers Deserve More program
yesterday with a set of radical new policies that would
gut the Constitution radically transform life in the United States.
The document pitches an idyllic future under socialism. Quote, imagine
taking a day off from work. In a future without capitalism,
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you work as much as you are able, and no
more than needed, and you would control your own labor
and see it going to good use. It's not just
a job to pay the bills. Speaking of bills, you
don't really have them anymore. You have no debt, you
don't need health insurance, you don't pay a mortgage or
have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right.
Just because it isn't easy to imagine now doesn't mean
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we shouldn't try to make it happen. Wow, The problem
is it's failed everywhere it's been tried.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
You got to be clear.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
What they're asking for is replacing America our constitutional structure
with a socialist, communist Marxist system. The platform, by the way,
calls for replacing the electoral College with a national popular vote,
expanding the House of Representatives so that they have the edge,
ending the Senate filipbuster, reducing the Supreme Court's power of
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judicial review, meaning they're basically meaningless, and moving towards a
quote new constitutional framework that's centered on a single federal legislature.
This is again all in writing. Now if you think
about what this proposal means, the United States of America
was deliberately designed with three co equal branches of government,
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the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. Now Communists understand that,
and they understand that's a problem. So what they said
was no, no, no, We're done with that and forget
to legislative chambers in the House and Senate.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Right, No, that's gone as well.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The DSA is now telling Americans that all of these
institutions are undemocratic and they should be fundamentally restructured. Now
they say these changes would make quote government more representative,
and they argue that this is a dismantling of the
core of the problems we have in this country. Constitutional
checks that we don't need, balances that we don't need.
(23:43):
They want none of those things to exist. Now, how
did we get to this point. I'm going to play
for you part of that history. Well, okay, in a
good friend of mine at Fox actually put it together
talking about how the Democratic Party has now allowed and
it's it's really interesting to watch the communists and socialists
(24:03):
to virtually completely take over and.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
As socialism takes root. Now in the Democrat Party, are
voters taking to socialism? We may not have an answer yet,
but we are getting a pretty clear picture of what
Democratic Socialists have in mind for America. Total fundamental, radical
change to pretty much every area of government. The DSA
(24:26):
underscoring that plan for a people in a new platform
just released. Let's walk through it together. We have it
up on the wall. It's no less radical than starting
with replacing the president and the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
But we're just now getting started.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Because the DSA would also abolish the United States Senate,
expand the House of Representatives, and move to rank choice voting,
the likes of which you see in California, still working
to transform America. The DSA proposes, like many Democrats, to
make Washington, d C. A state, to defund the Department
(25:04):
of War, end ice attention and deportation, and grant amnesty
to all illegal immigrants. Now, these are the radical transformational
things proposed by the Democratic Socialist of America. Some of
these we've heard already from establishment Democrats. They've opened the door,
(25:27):
and the DSA has simply walked through the door.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
Would you like to abolish the Senate? That's part of
our platform, And we don't think that's extreme.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
We think it's a change that would help make this
country more democratic.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
We need that illegal aliens in the country, don't. They
need to be removed.
Speaker 11 (25:46):
We believe that demilitarizing the border, that violent oppression of
working class immigrants who come here, is not something that
most Americans want.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Democrats are left scrambling. America may be left scrambling. It's
like running for class president high school and someone that
promises free ice scheme for everybody every day at lunch.
I mean, take a look. These are the types of
things being said by the DSA. Imagine taking a day
off from work. In the future without capitalism, you work
as much as you are able, and no more than needed,
(26:16):
and it's always accompanied by the friendly little fist deal
not sweet enough for you?
Speaker 10 (26:21):
There's more. How about this from the DSA.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
You won't have any bills, no debt, no need for
health insurance, no mortgage, no landlords, retirement publicly funded. Sounds
too good to be true. That's because, of course you're
not a SAP. But for now, all of this is
too much for traditional Democrats, it's too hard to compete.
(26:45):
So you're looking at traditional establishment democrats say don't look here,
look over here, Like for a President Biden who has
a book he'd like to talk about, but not until
after the midterms.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
There's about to challenge we face as an issue.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
How about the decisions I made?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
Why I made them?
Speaker 12 (27:08):
Leading in the country through COVID, rebuilding our economy and
restoring our democracy after the attack on January sixth, any
our nation's longest war in Afghanestan, Strengthening data is supporting Ukraine.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
As Biden slurs his way through the past, the far
left full stream ahead into the future, knocking the Democrat
establishment off.
Speaker 10 (27:32):
Its feet in the process.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
So the big tent we've heard about, well, it's hard
to really know if they're winning the hearts and minds
the DSA. Are they winning the hearts and minds of Democrats.
It's hard to know. Just know they're running against this.
Speaker 11 (27:46):
I request thirty more seconds because I rise before you,
adorning these for personal tension, not for personal attention, but
to encourage you to take.
Speaker 10 (28:00):
I am going to be.
Speaker 11 (28:01):
Working on our behalf. I am going to be telling
the stories on our behalf, and you better believe I'm
going to be doing it with a little bit of joy,
a little bit of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy,
and a little bit of sicket to them, because that's
the Michigan way.
Speaker 9 (28:19):
That is Democratic establishment candidate Haley Stevens, who's running against
socialist candidate Abdul Lsi, ed for Senate in Michigan. Somebody
clever on X said, the Democrats said, we need new voices,
and here's Haley Stevens to offer you a nineteen thirties
baseball manager. But can't we say it's something we've seen before.
Speaker 10 (28:38):
You better thank a union member.
Speaker 13 (28:42):
On the five day work week. You better thank a
union member for sickly.
Speaker 10 (28:48):
You better thank a union.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Member for paid leave.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
You better thank a union member for vacation time.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Listen, all right, listen, listen, Okay, listen.
Speaker 13 (29:00):
I don't feel no ways tired. I come too far
from where I started from. Nobody told me that the
road would be easy.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Hayley Stevens doesn't even take the gold for changing accents
in front of her audience, and not least among Democrats.
But the problem, see for Democrats isn't how they're speaking,
it's what they're speaking about that's the problem.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
Legitimately, when the campaign consultants told me, hey, we're gonna
hit this line because Kamala Harris came out in favor
of taxpayer funded sex changes for illegal aliens, and I
remember thing myself, Come on, you guys, like, she didn't
really say that. It's taken out of context. And then
I go and look at it and I'm like, holy,
she actually said that, and she was she really was,
(29:50):
like the very worst version of what the Democrats were
producing in twenty twenty. The thing is it was they
were all doing it because that was the incentives of
it party.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You listen there by the way to the Vice president
and what he's saying, this is the incentives of the party.
It is no shock that we now are at a
point where we have the Democratic Socialists of America who
really are running the agenda, who are pushing the future,
who are advocating for destroying this country. When they tell
(30:23):
you what they believe in, please believe them. They're not lying, folks.
This is what they believe, and it's only going to
get worse.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
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