July 3, 2025 • 33 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, with guest host Brian Mudd, delivers a dynamic breakdown of the latest political developments, economic trends, and national security updates as the country heads into Independence Day. The hour opens with sharp commentary on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ extended “magic minute” speech, a procedural move delaying the final vote on the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act." Mudd humorously critiques Jeffries’ filibuster-style tactics, drawing comparisons to Cory Booker’s past Senate performance and highlighting the strategic implications for House Republicans.
The show dives deep into the legislative showdown in Congress, emphasizing the GOP’s push to pass President Trump’s signature bill before July 4th. Mudd explores the political theater surrounding the vote, including reactions from figures like AOC and Chuck Schumer, and the broader implications for Trump’s second-term agenda.
A major focus of the hour is the economic impact of the BBB Act, with Mudd previewing upcoming segments that will detail tax cuts, job growth, and inflation trends. He notes that the U.S. inflation rate has dropped to 2.4%, the lowest since Trump’s previous term, while wage growth has outpaced inflation, leading to a 2% improvement in household purchasing power. The stock market, 401(k) balances, and savings rates are all reportedly at record highs, reinforcing the administration’s economic messaging.
Mudd also highlights the dramatic drop in illegal immigration and crime rates, attributing these changes to the Lincoln Riley Act and enhanced border enforcement. He cites statistics showing 93% fewer attempted border crossings, 53% increase in ICE detentions, and significant reductions in homicides, robberies, and property crimes. The discussion includes controversial claims about the correlation between non-citizen populations and crime rates, framing it as a key issue in the administration’s immigration policy.
The hour transitions into foreign policy, where Mudd and guest Jon Decker, iHeartRadio’s White House correspondent, analyze Trump’s recent NATO summit success, the crippling of Iran’s nuclear program, and new trade deals with the UK and Vietnam. Decker praises Trump’s strategic use of executive power and legislative influence, noting his rapid pace of executive orders and legislative wins compared to his first term.
The segment closes with legal analysis of the Diddy trial verdict, where Decker discusses the implications of the not-guilty ruling on major charges, the high bond amount, and the possibility of a presidential pardon.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Vice President Jade Vance is now lifting the veil on
the mindset of Republican lawmakers who are stuck sitting there
in the House chamber listening to Hakim Jeffries talk before
they are allowed to vote. Vance posted this GOP congressman
just texted me. I was undecided on the bill, but
then I watched Hakem Jeffries' performance, and now I am
a firm Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, well that probably didn't go quite as planned, and
it's still not really going quite as planned. Fox's Peter
Doosey on the State of Affairs as I've got to
hand it to Hakim. Now, I could stand up there
for over seven hours at this point and you know,
(00:42):
throw out my arms and rant and ravee a little bit,
and I do all that. The real challenge, the real
skill in this type of situation comes in with the uh,
the bathroom situation. That is the real challenge. You know,
there's no way that I'm seven hours. I'm throwing my
arms and I'm shouting and doing the ranting and raving
(01:04):
without needing a pit stop or two, maybe three. And
so that is the real scheme, the real skill of HIKEM.
Jeffries here as he is continuing to use his magic
minute to hold up the final vote on President Trump's
One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or at least it's kind
(01:25):
of like the legislative version of print, because it's the
act that was formerly known as the One Big Beautiful
Bill Act. You have good old Chuck Schumer to thank
for that maneuver. This is obviously not Clay or Buck.
Brian Mudd, It's a pleasure to be here with you.
I am broadcasting from my home station w J and
(01:47):
O in West Palm Beach. It is always a pleasure
to be here with you. And we have maybe a
celebration that'll be on our hands before the end of
the show today. As we take a look what's going
going on right now in the house, I do wonder
the one thing that has gotten me with the King
Jeffries and his house version of a filibuster. Did he
(02:10):
take a cue from Sparty and you know, you take
a look. Sparty was able to go twenty five hours.
If you remember earlier this year in the Senate Corey
Booker and what we learned from him, and speaking of
the bathroom situation as well, I'm not sold on the
idea that he didn't like walk into the chamber. You know,
(02:33):
some depends handy. But nevertheless, the one thing that we
did end up learning from Corey Booker was that he
fasted in advance and then only did two glasses of
water during the thing. So did hit King Jeffries take
aque from Sparty? Is he going to try to extend
his Magic minute? I don't know into Independence Day to
(02:54):
try to hold out. There was a lot of gamesmanship
with this. The first thing to know, like in this deal.
Around four o'clock this morning, we were giving the heads
up that he's got a speech. It's about forty five minutes,
maybe an hour, and coming out of that yet House
Speaker Mike Johnson who said, yeah, you know what, by
eight thirty this morning, we think we're gonna have a vote.
We think we are going to pass the One Big
(03:16):
Beautiful Bill Act over to President Trump's desk. So we
will be on the Act formerly known as the BBB
Watch all throughout the course of the show as we
are monitoring Keen Jeffries in his Magic Minute. By the way,
the rule on the Magic minute in the howse Hi
King can't leave. It's not like he can say time out,
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I'm gonna go take that pit stop. Now. The moment
that he's done, he leaves that podium, he's out, it's over,
and Mike Johnson can call for the vote. So he
does have to stand there in talk until he evidently
can't anymore or whatever. His en game here is planned.
So as we are diving into a Independence Day weekend
(04:03):
with what looks like maybe President Trump's entire agenda to
celebrate Unindependence Day this year, I couldn't help it to
think of Liberation Day meeting Independence Day, and so I'll explain,
you know, technically Liberation Day, Liberation Day, remember that April second.
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That was April second. It was widely misunderstood at the time.
Led her to a real short term freak out. A
lot of people are not feeling so liberated, feeling a
little tight in the chest, a little nervous when I'm
taking a look at the stock market. That kind of
thing created a historically great buying opportunity in the financial markets.
(04:48):
So that that's what Liberation Day was. The whole tiar
thing where you had all the economists that are always
wrong and say, oh my gosh, this guy is falling,
and then people that are smart going, hold on, Donald
try Trump is president of the United States. This is
going to be great by and so there was that.
But anyway, so you had a Liberation Day. Now you've
got Independence Day tomorrow and generally understood, right, we get
(05:13):
Independence Day also probably underappreciated, certainly in places like I
don't know, New York City, but anyway, you know, and
thinking about Independence Day this year, liberation also came to
mind because I thought back, I'm like, I kind of
remember where I was personally a year ago today, and
(05:34):
so what I actually did an advance of today's show
is I went back to a year ago, and I'm like,
what was I talking about? And in my top stories
a year ago, my message was that Independence Day is
one hundred and twenty five days away, and sanity would
(05:56):
be restoreding two hundred and one days, because we were
out a point where I was like literally counting down
the days until election Day and Inauguration Day when dementia
Joe would finally go. And among the headlines, among the
headlines nationally a year ago today, you had dementia Joe
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pledging that he was going to stay in the presidential race.
After the Botch debate, we had a story that he
had just given billions more to Ukraine, because I mean,
you know, why not, right, I'm sure, Zelenski asked nicely. Also,
the New York judge in the Stormy freaking Daniel's hush
(06:38):
money case announced that he had delayed the Trump sentencing.
That's where we were a year ago today. Those were
the big stories. Oh and an average of nearly ten
thousand illegal immigrants still pouring into the country per day.
That's fun. So that right now what we're talking about.
(07:03):
One of our biggest concerns is simply the timing of
this final vote in what looks like a very likely
outcome for President Trump being able to sign his agenda
into law on Independence Day. And also, you know, kind
of like calculating how much is my my tax saving
it's going to be what what is my tax cut
(07:23):
gonna look? Which, by the way, coming up in the
second hour, I'm going to get into that. If you
want to know what does the BBB mean to you,
I'm gonna give it to you very specifically, because there
is so much more money on the line here that
I think even some of the more credible sources that
have reported this have brought to you. So we're gonna
break it all down. You're gonna know exactly what this
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means to you and your family when you take a
look at how much better of a place we're in.
You can get more specific here with some of these things.
So you we had an incredible jobs report this morning
that came in well better than expected. Unemployment rate dropped
yet again. The inflation rate. The inflation rate at two
(08:07):
point four percent right now. You know, it's the lowest
that it's been since Trump was one month removed from
previously having been president of the United States. Last time
we had inflation as low as it is right now,
one month after he was last president. And by the
time you factor in wage growth. All right, so how
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much more is the average household bringing in now? The
answer is four point three percent. Okay, so most recently,
the average American family, we finally get in the head again,
we're doing about nearly two percent better. You know. So
you get done paying your bills at the end of
the month, what's left over, You got about two percent
more than you had before. That is the best quality
(08:51):
of life improvement that we've seen since Trump's previous presidency,
since his first administration. You take a look up year
ago today, S and P five hundred thirteen percent higher
four one K balances saving rates they've hit record highs.
And as you hit the road for independent state gas
(09:12):
prices forty cents per gallon and lower than a year ago. Today,
you have one hundred and ninety billion dollars in government
waste that's been dozed. By the way, I mean, like
doze really has stopped dozing since Elon Gonzo, but still
ended up saving eleven hundred and eighty dollars per federal taxpayer,
(09:35):
not peanuts. On immigration, the Lincoln Riley Act now law
attempted border crossings down ninety three percent, access into the
United States down by ninety nine percent. The CBP one
home map that was used by the Biden administration to
fly nearly a million illegal immigrants into this country. Yeah,
(09:58):
not so much anymore, right, Matt, being used to say,
see you to fly illegal immigrants out of this country.
On that note, isis daily detentions of fifty three percent
over a year ago. Oh and by the way, surprise, surprise,
because as detentions rise, guess what's falling. I look at
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that less crime, a lot less crime. In fact, did
you know homicides down by twenty one percent so far
this year. Robberies are two, property crime sixteen percent lower,
violent crime in general down by eleven percent two and
the biggest impact a lot of times the biggest cities
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with the biggest illegal immigrant population problems, like Denver and Aurora.
So it's of absolutely no surprise, in part because one
of the things I've been tracking about a year ago
in like what what are we doing? Like the definition
of insanity territory. Who in the right would do this
to a country? By this time last year, twenty four
(11:06):
percent of all drug trafficking done in the United States
haven't done by illegal immigrants. Twenty four percent. You wanted
to get rid of just almost a quarter of all
drug trafficking, get rid of the illegal immigrants. Twenty five
percent of all property crimes illegal immigrants. You want to
(11:27):
get rid of a quarter of all property crime in
this country, just get the people they're not legally here
in the first place. The heck out, twenty eight percent
of all fraud, Yeah, non citizens, non citizens, And you
know the lie. I remember hearing this even somewhat recently
(11:49):
on by one of the idiots on the view, Oh, well,
you know, they are less likely to commit crime than you.
That is such a lie. I mean it might have
actually been drue, like third years ago when you had
a Mexican who came over to pick some oranges. No,
not in a very long time. The non citizen crime
(12:10):
rate by a year ago at this point, how much
more likely do you think a non citizen had become
to commit a crime than you, like, well, I don't know,
I mean, yeah, kind of a shaky person. You could
be a shaky person and the uh, your average non
citizen was still going to blow you away. They had
(12:32):
become nine times more likely to commit a crime than
the average legal citizen. Again, not necessarily the biggest surprise
when you know, the first action by said individual is
to you know, kind of say, uh, I'm going to
ignore federal law. So yeah, none necessarily a surprise that
once their first action is to break the law, that
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then suddenly they don't go but now straighten, even I
just want to abide by all the laws. Is I
really care about it? M h. So yeah, that's how
bad it had become. Your average non citizen in this
country nine hundred and fourteen percent more likely to commit
crimes than the average legal citizen. And in fact, if
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you take a look, during the whole four year window
of the Buying administration, total crimes committed by non citizens
rose by six hundred and twenty six percent. I mean,
they're just mind blowing numbers. But then again, you know,
we know the impact and the situation with all the
open borders, and that is just on those two pieces.
(13:37):
I'll pick up there next. Brian Mudd in for Clay
and Bug twenty four.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
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Speaker 2 (13:54):
This bill is a deal with the devil.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It explodes our national debt, it militarizes our entire economy,
and it strips away healthcare and.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Basic dignity of the American people's.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, so you have Hakeem Jeffries, who is the star
of the show. But the award for the best Supporting
Actress most certainly goes to AOC which, by the way,
I mean, does she sound like she could be thirteen
and like starting in a Disney flick. That is that's
special the deal with the So yeah, we are on
(14:34):
BBB Watch or the Act formerly known as the BBB
as Hakeem Jeffries is doing his version of a filibuster
in the House with his Magic Minute that is now
about seven and a half hours into it. No idea
where the end in this thing is. Brian mutt in
for Clayon Buck and talking about Liberation Day meeting Independence
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Day now thinking about where we were a year ago today,
where things were nots and just how much incredible progress
we've made already in just the first five plus months
of Trump being back, insanity being restored in this country.
You know, one of the things I was working into
is foreign policy, and you start taking a look at
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foreign policy, we've seen the incredible changes there too. Of course.
Now one of the you wonder you always heard about,
like the Iran nuclear program. I mean you know that, man.
You know what, for as long as I can remember,
we've heard about the Iran nuclear program. You know how
long it's been forty one years, forty one years of
development towards nuclear weapon. What Trump to crippled it by
(15:42):
dropping fourteen mopis bringing about relative peace in the Middle East.
Obviously that peace daily broker holding for well over a
week now real time working on broker and that sees
fire between Israel and hamas you take like a trade
I mean that situation has been an incredible China, England.
The English Trade Deal went in effect this week. By
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the way, in Vietnam, Yeah, the Vietnam Trade deal in particular.
So we had been getting charged triffis by Vietnam and
they were paying nothing to come into this country. Now
we pay nothing to do business in Vietnam and they
pay us twenty percent to be in this country. Why
because of Donald Trump. It's an incredible win. And just
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because Trump stepped in, that is what we see on
issue after issue, a sanity has been restored. As we
get ready for the big celebration for the upcoming Independence
Day where President Trump likely will be signing is BBB
to usher in ultimate sanity. Be right back, Bryan mud
In for claim bug, people will suffer, people will die,
(16:48):
and it will be at the hands of Republicans Booth. Yes,
that's right. In fact, that's actually that was the planning
that went into the Act formally known as the BBB.
You had some Republicans that got around and said, you
know what, we haven't done in a while. We haven't
created any legislation that's sort of killing people. And you
(17:11):
know what, you're right, so, you know, I think we
should should get back to our roots. We are Republicans,
after all, so we should craft read legislation that kills people.
And then you know, for example, in the event that
the warm and fluffy migrants that are sent to Alligator
Alcatraz and the event that they don't, you know, manage
to escape, we have, you know, people to feed to
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the to the alligators. It's just the rhetorica is just
so over the top in so many different respects. And
I tell you what, just say, notice slugs the whole
Medicaid thing and this is is such a joke. And
I'm going to break down specifically what the work requirements
are with the Medicaid and the snap provisions in the
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Act formerly known as the BBB, and just a few
we'll get to that. I mean, basically, if you get
off your counts for twenty hours in a week, you're good.
You're good. That's pretty much the way it works. So
that's what and apparently that's killing somebody to actually do that.
So Brian mutt In for Clay and Buck. And as
we are on BBB watch as Hakeem Jeffries going strong,
(18:23):
going strong in the House. Joining us is great television
and iHeartRadio's White House correspondent John Decker, John, that's a
bit unexpected from the House Minority leader.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Well, it is unexpected to a certain extent. But Hakeem Jeffries,
he is one of those leaders in the Democratic Party
and he's acting like a leader for his party right
now in terms of delaying what to me, Brian is
the inevitable, and it is inevitable. And we saw this
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in the procedural vote that took place early this morning.
We'll see it on the actual vote that takes place.
When that occurs on the House floor. Every Republican that
values their career in the House of Representatives and their
future career in the House of Representatives will vote for
the legislation and this bill will get to the President's
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desk for his signature in time before that self imposed
deadline July the fourth. That will be a part I
believe of the President's schedule tomorrow, the President assigning this
legislation his signature. Domestic achievement of his second term in
the White House, getting that all done sooner than when
he got that big tax cut bill sign in his
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first term in the White House.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And to give you a little background about John if
you're maybe not familiar, John has covered every president starting
with Bill Clinton. He also is the only member of
the White House Press Corps that is an attorney, having
studied once upon a time under one professor Jonathan Turley Decker,
now himself a professor at Georgetown UCLA. And John, as
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we take a look at, you know, the historical ramifications here. Obviously,
you know Trump wanted one bill. There are a lot
of conservatives that said, hey, we need to do this
in two. The Senate wanted it into In the end,
you take a look at the the President's influence, the
will and how this has come together a to get
the Senate on board with one bill and then be
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the House. I mean you had House Freedom Caucus members
like Chip Roy just two days ago saying that what
the Senate had done was a literally a deal killer
of an already bad deal. And here we are on
the precipice of whenever Hikeema has done doing what he's doing,
passing this thing.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Well, that's right, you know, As for Chip Roy, you know,
I think time and time again he's proven that he's
all bark and no bite. You know, he threatens not
to vote for the legislation and ultimately caves in, as
do other House Republicans that want to make a career
of being a member of the House of Representatives. So
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does it surprise me that, you know, Chick Roy a
member of the Freedom Caucus, and other members of the
Freedom Caucus are caving in. No, it doesn't, you know,
because President Trump has the ultimate power, and that is
something that he has threatened to wield, and that is
essentially saying, you vote against this legislation, your career as
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a member of Congress is over. That's a very real threat.
He's not afraid, interestingly enough, Brian, of making that threat outwardly.
You know, normally those are the kind of threats that
you make behind closed doors. He puts it on truth
social He makes everybody aware of what he's saying to
these members that may be on the fence in terms
of supporting the big beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
John, One of the other things I was thinking about,
you take a look at where we are today in
Trump's presidencies. So you know, the first time around, he
signed two hundred and twenty executive orders in four years
he signed. I believe it's one hundred and sixty five already,
three more than President Biden and Team Autopen did already
in just over five and a half months. And you
(22:16):
take a look at you know, his Tax Cut and
Jobs Act, his Trump tax cuts the first summer, it
took until December, the first go round to be able
to get his tax cuts through. Here we are heading
into the Independence Day weekend, and it looks like he's
not only going to get those tax cuts made permit,
he's going to get the additional tax cuts he promised,
the no tax on tips overtime, also some big breaks
(22:39):
for seniors that for most seniors going to work, basically
like not having tax on Social Security income. You start
putting all this together, and it just shows how well
oiled and organized his policy approach is and how effective
he is.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Well, I don't disagree with you. You know, this is
president in his first term. He clearly was someone who
is learning the ropes from insiders. He had never been
a politician before at any level before becoming president, and
so he did rely on others in terms of showing
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him how to move legislation forward. This time around, he
doesn't need that help. And this time around, he understands
all the leavers of the power of the presidency. He
realizes how powerful this office is, made even more so
powerful by that recent Supreme Court decision handed down last week.
(23:37):
And so look, I think that this is a president
that understands.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
All the ways that he can move.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
His agenda forward, and we're seeing it applied in real time.
I think it's pretty remarkable. You know, there will be
this will be a part of history, you know, in
terms of the way that the president has managed to
move his agenda forward in such a record amount of
time time.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
John, you were with the president last week at the
NATO summit, and pretty remarkable situation. He tried to get
it done his first term. It was starting to come together.
It is, you know, ultimately coming together now where the
NATO members this out of Spain contributing five percent of
their GDP to uh, you know, to to defense spending
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and pretty much getting not just what we've seen here
at home, which is his own party in order to
get his agenda done, but also around the world, how
he's managing to get that agenda done, especially with trade
now too.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Well, that's exactly right, Brian. You know, that's the thing
about President Trump. He understands the leavers of power in
terms of moving his domestic agenda forward, and he understands
the leavers of power in terms of moving his foreign
policy agenda forward. And this is part of his foreign
policy agenda. When he left that NATO summit last week
(24:58):
in the Netherlands, and that's point out. I cover that summit.
I was in the Hague for the summit. I was
at the press conference. He called on me at the
press conference. When he left, he was exuberant because everyone
of his goals was achieved during the course of his summit.
And I think he made it clear to every one
of the thirty one other members of the NATO Defense
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Alliance there is one leader, and that leader at the
United States of America, and the President is the leader
of the United States of America, and he's going to
exert his power his influence to get his way with
those other NATO Defense Alliance members. We saw that play itself.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Out last week.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
So you know, for all of those who were saying
it's been a remarkable two weeks for the president. I
couldn't agree more. It has been a remarkable two weeks
for the president, including of course that those attacks on
those three nuclear sites in Iran. So to me, you know,
this is someone who has a winning streaking and obviously
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would like to keep that winning streak going beyond ultimately
signing this big, beautiful bill with him the next few days.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, he's definitely not tired of winning. Yet a lot
of people are not tired of winning within the administration.
And also China announcing that yeah, you know, the terms
of the trade deal are on the English trade deal,
the UK trade deal actually took effect this week, just
announced the Vietnam trade deal, where they were charging us
to do business there, now they're not. We weren't charging
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them anything now we are. I mean, it just goes
on and on, and it gives you a roadmap for
where a lot of those trade deals are probably going
to land too. And then you talk about like the
the mops and that whole situation, you know, the Defense
Department yesterday talking again about yeah, I mean, at a minimum,
the nuclear program set back a couple of years, and
that to me was always one of the things anyway,
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and you know, you spend it's an occupational hazard. You
spend a lot of time around colleagues in the press
corps that were endlessly you know, trying to you know,
say that you know, somehow or another, the linked information
or you know, whoever wanted to say that the nuclear
program wasn't really damaged more than it was. I mean,
there just is no sense in this, right. I mean, ultimately,
(27:09):
if Trump was propagandizing, you just walk with it and
you think, okay, well he is, you know, just saying
that they got in they really didn't. So what you know,
you have Iran that comes back in six months and says, surprise,
We've got nukes. I mean, there just is no way
to effectively propagandize that situation. It either happened, it is
either destroyed or it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I agree, you know, I think that you know, even
those who want to get that readout from the administration,
Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee in either the House
of the Senate have to acknowledge that the Iranian nuclear program,
it's nuclear ambitions have been set back substantially because of
(27:53):
the action taken by the United States. And you know,
you mentioned, you know, all all of the the things
related to while why the president can't just propagandize this issue.
He can't propagandize this issue. I mean we're talking about
also Israel's safety, its security. Israel's not going to propagandize
(28:16):
this because they're very security. Their existential existence depends upon
Iran's nuclear program being curtailed.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Back to you know, zero essentially.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
And you know, when we hear from Israeli intelligence, they're
satisfied with the actions taken by the United States. I
think that says a lot. You know, if they weren't,
maybe they would be saying, you need another go around,
you know, in terms of taking it out altogether. They're
not saying that, Brian, that they're saying it has been
(28:50):
in the President's word, he uses obliterated. It has been obliterated,
it has been decimated. I think that those two words
certainly applied to Iran's nuclear program right now.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Brian mud with John Decker. One more for you. John
so mentioned that John is the only member of the
Press Corps that's also an attorney, So putting your legal
hat on for the whole Didty situation. So we get
the verdict and not guilty of the most serious charges.
Judge is holding him in jail until sentencing. What do
you make of this deal?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
I don't know, you know, I mean, as you know,
it's a substantial bond that he needs to post. I
believe it's fifty million dollars, and that's the reason why
he has remained behind bars for all of this period
of time.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You know, maybe that it gives you a window about
what kind of sentence he intends to hand down against Diddy,
But you know, as the interest on the face of it,
as you know, he really skirted the possibility of very
serious prison time. Remember this is a federal case because
(29:57):
of the fact that he was acquitted on the most
serious charges. For the two counts that he was found
guilty of, they have maximum penalties of ten years in prison.
He will not get ten years in prison. You know,
he's a non violent offender, someone who's not a repeat offender.
I can't tell you what the judge is ultimately going
(30:18):
to sentence Diddy two in terms of a jail sentence
a prison sentence, but it won't be anywhere near that
tenure maximum sentence, and certainly his lawyers are going to
ask for no jail sentence, a time served for all
of the amount of time that he's served in prison,
(30:40):
and will see ultimately whether that federal judge agrees with that.
And let's not forget the president has the power of
the pardon, and it would not surprise me. Nothing surprises
me these days, Brian. It would not surprise me if
Diddy gets a pardon from the President of the United States.
So we'll have to wait, wait and honey, you know,
(31:01):
I mean, he's got a lot of big things on
his plate right now, but that would not surprise me
in the least.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Really. I mean that one was not on my bingo card,
so that is that is interesting. So Decker pointing, pointing
to the outfield right now, and we'll see what happens there.
That would be uh, that would be an interesting development. John,
really appreciate it. Thank you so much for the time
the inside.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Thanks Brian, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Byebye. All right, and again great television and iHeartRadio. White
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Speaker 4 (31:50):
And it's all designed to put a happy smile on
the face of billionaires that is inconsistent with the Declaration
of Independence and what we should be celebrating on July fourth.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, as Haikeem Jeffries continues to do his best Spartacus impersonation.
You know, Corey Booker is Spartacus after all, and Higem
Jeffries indicated that must be a speech like forty five minutes,
maybe an hour. It's what he told speaker Mike Johnson
early this morning before he went on just before five o'clock.
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He's still going. So that was the gamesmanship associated with
all of this. As he is using his magic minute
to hold up the final vote for the act formerly
known as the Big potentially aesthetically pleasing act, you know,
like maybe he's got a couple of words on it,
but nothing that you know, a little concealer won't take
(32:45):
care of, you know, just a little conceal it, or
you just look at the right angle and you go yeah,
you know, oh yeah, it turned out beautiful, beautiful and
kind of like the two Face and Seinfeld that kind
of thing. So anyway, Uh yeah, Hikeem Jeffries continues to
do that. Meanwhile, billionaires, Yeah, because you and I both
know a lot of billionaires that work for tips, right.
(33:05):
I mean it's like you see them serving you at
restaurants and they work a lot of overtime that they
get paid for too.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's definitely they're really looking to cash in on that
child tax credit to a doubt. Yeah, I think Kakeem
Jefferies has really good points just by the billionaires. Oh,
by the way, if you want lower taxes, the BBB
is a beautiful thing. I'm going to break down coming
up in the second hour exactly what the BBB means
(33:36):
to you, because it means a lot of money to you.
Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buddy
Vice President Jade Vance is now lifting the veil on
the mindset of Republican lawmakers who are stuck sitting there
in the House chamber listening to Hakim Jeffries talk before
they are allowed to vote. Vance posted this GOP congressman
just texted me. I was undecided on the bill, but
then I watched Hakem Jeffries' performance, and now I am
a firm Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, well that probably didn't go quite as planned, and
it's still not really going quite as planned. Fox's Peter
Doosey on the State of Affairs as I've got to
hand it to Hakim. Now, I could stand up there
for over seven hours at this point and you know,
(00:42):
throw out my arms and rant and ravee a little bit,
and I do all that. The real challenge, the real
skill in this type of situation comes in with the uh,
the bathroom situation. That is the real challenge. You know,
there's no way that I'm seven hours. I'm throwing my
arms and I'm shouting and doing the ranting and raving
(01:04):
without needing a pit stop or two, maybe three. And
so that is the real scheme, the real skill of HIKEM.
Jeffries here as he is continuing to use his magic
minute to hold up the final vote on President Trump's
One Big Beautiful Bill Act, or at least it's kind
(01:25):
of like the legislative version of print, because it's the
act that was formerly known as the One Big Beautiful
Bill Act. You have good old Chuck Schumer to thank
for that maneuver. This is obviously not Clay or Buck.
Brian Mudd, It's a pleasure to be here with you.
I am broadcasting from my home station w J and
(01:47):
O in West Palm Beach. It is always a pleasure
to be here with you. And we have maybe a
celebration that'll be on our hands before the end of
the show today. As we take a look what's going
going on right now in the house, I do wonder
the one thing that has gotten me with the King
Jeffries and his house version of a filibuster. Did he
(02:10):
take a cue from Sparty and you know, you take
a look. Sparty was able to go twenty five hours.
If you remember earlier this year in the Senate Corey
Booker and what we learned from him, and speaking of
the bathroom situation as well, I'm not sold on the
idea that he didn't like walk into the chamber. You know,
(02:33):
some depends handy. But nevertheless, the one thing that we
did end up learning from Corey Booker was that he
fasted in advance and then only did two glasses of
water during the thing. So did hit King Jeffries take
aque from Sparty? Is he going to try to extend
his Magic minute? I don't know into Independence Day to
(02:54):
try to hold out. There was a lot of gamesmanship
with this. The first thing to know, like in this deal.
Around four o'clock this morning, we were giving the heads
up that he's got a speech. It's about forty five minutes,
maybe an hour, and coming out of that yet House
Speaker Mike Johnson who said, yeah, you know what, by
eight thirty this morning, we think we're gonna have a vote.
We think we are going to pass the One Big
(03:16):
Beautiful Bill Act over to President Trump's desk. So we
will be on the Act formerly known as the BBB
Watch all throughout the course of the show as we
are monitoring Keen Jeffries in his Magic Minute. By the way,
the rule on the Magic minute in the howse Hi
King can't leave. It's not like he can say time out,
(03:39):
I'm gonna go take that pit stop. Now. The moment
that he's done, he leaves that podium, he's out, it's over,
and Mike Johnson can call for the vote. So he
does have to stand there in talk until he evidently
can't anymore or whatever. His en game here is planned.
So as we are diving into a Independence Day weekend
(04:03):
with what looks like maybe President Trump's entire agenda to
celebrate Unindependence Day this year, I couldn't help it to
think of Liberation Day meeting Independence Day, and so I'll explain,
you know, technically Liberation Day, Liberation Day, remember that April second.
(04:25):
That was April second. It was widely misunderstood at the time.
Led her to a real short term freak out. A
lot of people are not feeling so liberated, feeling a
little tight in the chest, a little nervous when I'm
taking a look at the stock market. That kind of
thing created a historically great buying opportunity in the financial markets.
(04:48):
So that that's what Liberation Day was. The whole tiar
thing where you had all the economists that are always
wrong and say, oh my gosh, this guy is falling,
and then people that are smart going, hold on, Donald
try Trump is president of the United States. This is
going to be great by and so there was that.
But anyway, so you had a Liberation Day. Now you've
got Independence Day tomorrow and generally understood, right, we get
(05:13):
Independence Day also probably underappreciated, certainly in places like I
don't know, New York City, but anyway, you know, and
thinking about Independence Day this year, liberation also came to
mind because I thought back, I'm like, I kind of
remember where I was personally a year ago today, and
(05:34):
so what I actually did an advance of today's show
is I went back to a year ago, and I'm like,
what was I talking about? And in my top stories
a year ago, my message was that Independence Day is
one hundred and twenty five days away, and sanity would
(05:56):
be restoreding two hundred and one days, because we were
out a point where I was like literally counting down
the days until election Day and Inauguration Day when dementia
Joe would finally go. And among the headlines, among the
headlines nationally a year ago today, you had dementia Joe
(06:18):
pledging that he was going to stay in the presidential race.
After the Botch debate, we had a story that he
had just given billions more to Ukraine, because I mean,
you know, why not, right, I'm sure, Zelenski asked nicely. Also,
the New York judge in the Stormy freaking Daniel's hush
(06:38):
money case announced that he had delayed the Trump sentencing.
That's where we were a year ago today. Those were
the big stories. Oh and an average of nearly ten
thousand illegal immigrants still pouring into the country per day.
That's fun. So that right now what we're talking about.
(07:03):
One of our biggest concerns is simply the timing of
this final vote in what looks like a very likely
outcome for President Trump being able to sign his agenda
into law on Independence Day. And also, you know, kind
of like calculating how much is my my tax saving
it's going to be what what is my tax cut
(07:23):
gonna look? Which, by the way, coming up in the
second hour, I'm going to get into that. If you
want to know what does the BBB mean to you,
I'm gonna give it to you very specifically, because there
is so much more money on the line here that
I think even some of the more credible sources that
have reported this have brought to you. So we're gonna
break it all down. You're gonna know exactly what this
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means to you and your family when you take a
look at how much better of a place we're in.
You can get more specific here with some of these things.
So you we had an incredible jobs report this morning
that came in well better than expected. Unemployment rate dropped
yet again. The inflation rate. The inflation rate at two
(08:07):
point four percent right now. You know, it's the lowest
that it's been since Trump was one month removed from
previously having been president of the United States. Last time
we had inflation as low as it is right now,
one month after he was last president. And by the
time you factor in wage growth. All right, so how
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much more is the average household bringing in now? The
answer is four point three percent. Okay, so most recently,
the average American family, we finally get in the head again,
we're doing about nearly two percent better. You know. So
you get done paying your bills at the end of
the month, what's left over, You got about two percent
more than you had before. That is the best quality
(08:51):
of life improvement that we've seen since Trump's previous presidency,
since his first administration. You take a look up year
ago today, S and P five hundred thirteen percent higher
four one K balances saving rates they've hit record highs.
And as you hit the road for independent state gas
(09:12):
prices forty cents per gallon and lower than a year ago. Today,
you have one hundred and ninety billion dollars in government
waste that's been dozed. By the way, I mean, like
doze really has stopped dozing since Elon Gonzo, but still
ended up saving eleven hundred and eighty dollars per federal taxpayer,
(09:35):
not peanuts. On immigration, the Lincoln Riley Act now law
attempted border crossings down ninety three percent, access into the
United States down by ninety nine percent. The CBP one
home map that was used by the Biden administration to
fly nearly a million illegal immigrants into this country. Yeah,
(09:58):
not so much anymore, right, Matt, being used to say,
see you to fly illegal immigrants out of this country.
On that note, isis daily detentions of fifty three percent
over a year ago. Oh and by the way, surprise, surprise,
because as detentions rise, guess what's falling. I look at
(10:19):
that less crime, a lot less crime. In fact, did
you know homicides down by twenty one percent so far
this year. Robberies are two, property crime sixteen percent lower,
violent crime in general down by eleven percent two and
the biggest impact a lot of times the biggest cities
(10:41):
with the biggest illegal immigrant population problems, like Denver and Aurora.
So it's of absolutely no surprise, in part because one
of the things I've been tracking about a year ago
in like what what are we doing? Like the definition
of insanity territory. Who in the right would do this
to a country? By this time last year, twenty four
(11:06):
percent of all drug trafficking done in the United States
haven't done by illegal immigrants. Twenty four percent. You wanted
to get rid of just almost a quarter of all
drug trafficking, get rid of the illegal immigrants. Twenty five
percent of all property crimes illegal immigrants. You want to
(11:27):
get rid of a quarter of all property crime in
this country, just get the people they're not legally here
in the first place. The heck out, twenty eight percent
of all fraud, Yeah, non citizens, non citizens, And you
know the lie. I remember hearing this even somewhat recently
(11:49):
on by one of the idiots on the view, Oh, well,
you know, they are less likely to commit crime than you.
That is such a lie. I mean it might have
actually been drue, like third years ago when you had
a Mexican who came over to pick some oranges. No,
not in a very long time. The non citizen crime
(12:10):
rate by a year ago at this point, how much
more likely do you think a non citizen had become
to commit a crime than you, like, well, I don't know,
I mean, yeah, kind of a shaky person. You could
be a shaky person and the uh, your average non
citizen was still going to blow you away. They had
(12:32):
become nine times more likely to commit a crime than
the average legal citizen. Again, not necessarily the biggest surprise
when you know, the first action by said individual is
to you know, kind of say, uh, I'm going to
ignore federal law. So yeah, none necessarily a surprise that
once their first action is to break the law, that
(12:54):
then suddenly they don't go but now straighten, even I
just want to abide by all the laws. Is I
really care about it? M h. So yeah, that's how
bad it had become. Your average non citizen in this
country nine hundred and fourteen percent more likely to commit
crimes than the average legal citizen. And in fact, if
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you take a look, during the whole four year window
of the Buying administration, total crimes committed by non citizens
rose by six hundred and twenty six percent. I mean,
they're just mind blowing numbers. But then again, you know,
we know the impact and the situation with all the
open borders, and that is just on those two pieces.
(13:37):
I'll pick up there next. Brian Mudd in for Clay
and Bug twenty four.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
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Speaker 2 (13:54):
This bill is a deal with the devil.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
It explodes our national debt, it militarizes our entire economy,
and it strips away healthcare and.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Basic dignity of the American people's.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, so you have Hakeem Jeffries, who is the star
of the show. But the award for the best Supporting
Actress most certainly goes to AOC which, by the way,
I mean, does she sound like she could be thirteen
and like starting in a Disney flick. That is that's
special the deal with the So yeah, we are on
(14:34):
BBB Watch or the Act formerly known as the BBB
as Hakeem Jeffries is doing his version of a filibuster
in the House with his Magic Minute that is now
about seven and a half hours into it. No idea
where the end in this thing is. Brian mutt in
for Clayon Buck and talking about Liberation Day meeting Independence
(14:58):
Day now thinking about where we were a year ago today,
where things were nots and just how much incredible progress
we've made already in just the first five plus months
of Trump being back, insanity being restored in this country.
You know, one of the things I was working into
is foreign policy, and you start taking a look at
(15:19):
foreign policy, we've seen the incredible changes there too. Of course.
Now one of the you wonder you always heard about,
like the Iran nuclear program. I mean you know that, man.
You know what, for as long as I can remember,
we've heard about the Iran nuclear program. You know how
long it's been forty one years, forty one years of
development towards nuclear weapon. What Trump to crippled it by
(15:42):
dropping fourteen mopis bringing about relative peace in the Middle East.
Obviously that peace daily broker holding for well over a
week now real time working on broker and that sees
fire between Israel and hamas you take like a trade
I mean that situation has been an incredible China, England.
The English Trade Deal went in effect this week. By
(16:04):
the way, in Vietnam, Yeah, the Vietnam Trade deal in particular.
So we had been getting charged triffis by Vietnam and
they were paying nothing to come into this country. Now
we pay nothing to do business in Vietnam and they
pay us twenty percent to be in this country. Why
because of Donald Trump. It's an incredible win. And just
(16:25):
because Trump stepped in, that is what we see on
issue after issue, a sanity has been restored. As we
get ready for the big celebration for the upcoming Independence
Day where President Trump likely will be signing is BBB
to usher in ultimate sanity. Be right back, Bryan mud
In for claim bug, people will suffer, people will die,
(16:48):
and it will be at the hands of Republicans Booth. Yes,
that's right. In fact, that's actually that was the planning
that went into the Act formally known as the BBB.
You had some Republicans that got around and said, you
know what, we haven't done in a while. We haven't
created any legislation that's sort of killing people. And you
(17:11):
know what, you're right, so, you know, I think we
should should get back to our roots. We are Republicans,
after all, so we should craft read legislation that kills people.
And then you know, for example, in the event that
the warm and fluffy migrants that are sent to Alligator
Alcatraz and the event that they don't, you know, manage
to escape, we have, you know, people to feed to
(17:33):
the to the alligators. It's just the rhetorica is just
so over the top in so many different respects. And
I tell you what, just say, notice slugs the whole
Medicaid thing and this is is such a joke. And
I'm going to break down specifically what the work requirements
are with the Medicaid and the snap provisions in the
(17:58):
Act formerly known as the BBB, and just a few
we'll get to that. I mean, basically, if you get
off your counts for twenty hours in a week, you're good.
You're good. That's pretty much the way it works. So
that's what and apparently that's killing somebody to actually do that.
So Brian mutt In for Clay and Buck. And as
we are on BBB watch as Hakeem Jeffries going strong,
(18:23):
going strong in the House. Joining us is great television
and iHeartRadio's White House correspondent John Decker, John, that's a
bit unexpected from the House Minority leader.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Well, it is unexpected to a certain extent. But Hakeem Jeffries,
he is one of those leaders in the Democratic Party
and he's acting like a leader for his party right
now in terms of delaying what to me, Brian is
the inevitable, and it is inevitable. And we saw this
(19:01):
in the procedural vote that took place early this morning.
We'll see it on the actual vote that takes place.
When that occurs on the House floor. Every Republican that
values their career in the House of Representatives and their
future career in the House of Representatives will vote for
the legislation and this bill will get to the President's
(19:25):
desk for his signature in time before that self imposed
deadline July the fourth. That will be a part I
believe of the President's schedule tomorrow, the President assigning this
legislation his signature. Domestic achievement of his second term in
the White House, getting that all done sooner than when
he got that big tax cut bill sign in his
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first term in the White House.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
And to give you a little background about John if
you're maybe not familiar, John has covered every president starting
with Bill Clinton. He also is the only member of
the White House Press Corps that is an attorney, having
studied once upon a time under one professor Jonathan Turley Decker,
now himself a professor at Georgetown UCLA. And John, as
(20:09):
we take a look at, you know, the historical ramifications here. Obviously,
you know Trump wanted one bill. There are a lot
of conservatives that said, hey, we need to do this
in two. The Senate wanted it into In the end,
you take a look at the the President's influence, the
will and how this has come together a to get
the Senate on board with one bill and then be
(20:32):
the House. I mean you had House Freedom Caucus members
like Chip Roy just two days ago saying that what
the Senate had done was a literally a deal killer
of an already bad deal. And here we are on
the precipice of whenever Hikeema has done doing what he's doing,
passing this thing.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Well, that's right, you know, As for Chip Roy, you know,
I think time and time again he's proven that he's
all bark and no bite. You know, he threatens not
to vote for the legislation and ultimately caves in, as
do other House Republicans that want to make a career
of being a member of the House of Representatives. So
(21:12):
does it surprise me that, you know, Chick Roy a
member of the Freedom Caucus, and other members of the
Freedom Caucus are caving in. No, it doesn't, you know,
because President Trump has the ultimate power, and that is
something that he has threatened to wield, and that is
essentially saying, you vote against this legislation, your career as
(21:33):
a member of Congress is over. That's a very real threat.
He's not afraid, interestingly enough, Brian, of making that threat outwardly.
You know, normally those are the kind of threats that
you make behind closed doors. He puts it on truth
social He makes everybody aware of what he's saying to
these members that may be on the fence in terms
of supporting the big beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
John, One of the other things I was thinking about,
you take a look at where we are today in
Trump's presidencies. So you know, the first time around, he
signed two hundred and twenty executive orders in four years
he signed. I believe it's one hundred and sixty five already,
three more than President Biden and Team Autopen did already
in just over five and a half months. And you
(22:16):
take a look at you know, his Tax Cut and
Jobs Act, his Trump tax cuts the first summer, it
took until December, the first go round to be able
to get his tax cuts through. Here we are heading
into the Independence Day weekend, and it looks like he's
not only going to get those tax cuts made permit,
he's going to get the additional tax cuts he promised,
the no tax on tips overtime, also some big breaks
(22:39):
for seniors that for most seniors going to work, basically
like not having tax on Social Security income. You start
putting all this together, and it just shows how well
oiled and organized his policy approach is and how effective
he is.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Well, I don't disagree with you. You know, this is
president in his first term. He clearly was someone who
is learning the ropes from insiders. He had never been
a politician before at any level before becoming president, and
so he did rely on others in terms of showing
(23:17):
him how to move legislation forward. This time around, he
doesn't need that help. And this time around, he understands
all the leavers of the power of the presidency. He
realizes how powerful this office is, made even more so
powerful by that recent Supreme Court decision handed down last week.
(23:37):
And so look, I think that this is a president
that understands.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
All the ways that he can move.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
His agenda forward, and we're seeing it applied in real time.
I think it's pretty remarkable. You know, there will be
this will be a part of history, you know, in
terms of the way that the president has managed to
move his agenda forward in such a record amount of
time time.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
John, you were with the president last week at the
NATO summit, and pretty remarkable situation. He tried to get
it done his first term. It was starting to come together.
It is, you know, ultimately coming together now where the
NATO members this out of Spain contributing five percent of
their GDP to uh, you know, to to defense spending
(24:21):
and pretty much getting not just what we've seen here
at home, which is his own party in order to
get his agenda done, but also around the world, how
he's managing to get that agenda done, especially with trade
now too.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Well, that's exactly right, Brian. You know, that's the thing
about President Trump. He understands the leavers of power in
terms of moving his domestic agenda forward, and he understands
the leavers of power in terms of moving his foreign
policy agenda forward. And this is part of his foreign
policy agenda. When he left that NATO summit last week
(24:58):
in the Netherlands, and that's point out. I cover that summit.
I was in the Hague for the summit. I was
at the press conference. He called on me at the
press conference. When he left, he was exuberant because everyone
of his goals was achieved during the course of his summit.
And I think he made it clear to every one
of the thirty one other members of the NATO Defense
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Alliance there is one leader, and that leader at the
United States of America, and the President is the leader
of the United States of America, and he's going to
exert his power his influence to get his way with
those other NATO Defense Alliance members. We saw that play itself.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Out last week.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
So you know, for all of those who were saying
it's been a remarkable two weeks for the president. I
couldn't agree more. It has been a remarkable two weeks
for the president, including of course that those attacks on
those three nuclear sites in Iran. So to me, you know,
this is someone who has a winning streaking and obviously
(26:00):
would like to keep that winning streak going beyond ultimately
signing this big, beautiful bill with him the next few days.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, he's definitely not tired of winning. Yet a lot
of people are not tired of winning within the administration.
And also China announcing that yeah, you know, the terms
of the trade deal are on the English trade deal,
the UK trade deal actually took effect this week, just
announced the Vietnam trade deal, where they were charging us
to do business there, now they're not. We weren't charging
(26:28):
them anything now we are. I mean, it just goes
on and on, and it gives you a roadmap for
where a lot of those trade deals are probably going
to land too. And then you talk about like the
the mops and that whole situation, you know, the Defense
Department yesterday talking again about yeah, I mean, at a minimum,
the nuclear program set back a couple of years, and
that to me was always one of the things anyway,
(26:48):
and you know, you spend it's an occupational hazard. You
spend a lot of time around colleagues in the press
corps that were endlessly you know, trying to you know,
say that you know, somehow or another, the linked information
or you know, whoever wanted to say that the nuclear
program wasn't really damaged more than it was. I mean,
there just is no sense in this, right. I mean, ultimately,
(27:09):
if Trump was propagandizing, you just walk with it and
you think, okay, well he is, you know, just saying
that they got in they really didn't. So what you know,
you have Iran that comes back in six months and says, surprise,
We've got nukes. I mean, there just is no way
to effectively propagandize that situation. It either happened, it is
either destroyed or it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
I agree, you know, I think that you know, even
those who want to get that readout from the administration,
Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee in either the House
of the Senate have to acknowledge that the Iranian nuclear program,
it's nuclear ambitions have been set back substantially because of
(27:53):
the action taken by the United States. And you know,
you mentioned, you know, all all of the the things
related to while why the president can't just propagandize this issue.
He can't propagandize this issue. I mean we're talking about
also Israel's safety, its security. Israel's not going to propagandize
(28:16):
this because they're very security. Their existential existence depends upon
Iran's nuclear program being curtailed.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Back to you know, zero essentially.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
And you know, when we hear from Israeli intelligence, they're
satisfied with the actions taken by the United States. I
think that says a lot. You know, if they weren't,
maybe they would be saying, you need another go around,
you know, in terms of taking it out altogether. They're
not saying that, Brian, that they're saying it has been
(28:50):
in the President's word, he uses obliterated. It has been obliterated,
it has been decimated. I think that those two words
certainly applied to Iran's nuclear program right now.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Brian mud with John Decker. One more for you. John
so mentioned that John is the only member of the
Press Corps that's also an attorney, So putting your legal
hat on for the whole Didty situation. So we get
the verdict and not guilty of the most serious charges.
Judge is holding him in jail until sentencing. What do
you make of this deal?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
I don't know, you know, I mean, as you know,
it's a substantial bond that he needs to post. I
believe it's fifty million dollars, and that's the reason why
he has remained behind bars for all of this period
of time.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You know, maybe that it gives you a window about
what kind of sentence he intends to hand down against Diddy,
But you know, as the interest on the face of it,
as you know, he really skirted the possibility of very
serious prison time. Remember this is a federal case because
(29:57):
of the fact that he was acquitted on the most
serious charges. For the two counts that he was found
guilty of, they have maximum penalties of ten years in prison.
He will not get ten years in prison. You know,
he's a non violent offender, someone who's not a repeat offender.
I can't tell you what the judge is ultimately going
(30:18):
to sentence Diddy two in terms of a jail sentence
a prison sentence, but it won't be anywhere near that
tenure maximum sentence, and certainly his lawyers are going to
ask for no jail sentence, a time served for all
of the amount of time that he's served in prison,
(30:40):
and will see ultimately whether that federal judge agrees with that.
And let's not forget the president has the power of
the pardon, and it would not surprise me. Nothing surprises
me these days, Brian. It would not surprise me if
Diddy gets a pardon from the President of the United States.
So we'll have to wait, wait and honey, you know,
(31:01):
I mean, he's got a lot of big things on
his plate right now, but that would not surprise me
in the least.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Really. I mean that one was not on my bingo card,
so that is that is interesting. So Decker pointing, pointing
to the outfield right now, and we'll see what happens there.
That would be uh, that would be an interesting development. John,
really appreciate it. Thank you so much for the time
the inside.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Thanks Brian, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Byebye. All right, and again great television and iHeartRadio. White
House Correspondent John Decker. I'm Brian mudd In for Clay
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Speaker 4 (31:50):
And it's all designed to put a happy smile on
the face of billionaires that is inconsistent with the Declaration
of Independence and what we should be celebrating on July fourth.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, as Haikeem Jeffries continues to do his best Spartacus impersonation.
You know, Corey Booker is Spartacus after all, and Higem
Jeffries indicated that must be a speech like forty five minutes,
maybe an hour. It's what he told speaker Mike Johnson
early this morning before he went on just before five o'clock.
(32:24):
He's still going. So that was the gamesmanship associated with
all of this. As he is using his magic minute
to hold up the final vote for the act formerly
known as the Big potentially aesthetically pleasing act, you know,
like maybe he's got a couple of words on it,
but nothing that you know, a little concealer won't take
(32:45):
care of, you know, just a little conceal it, or
you just look at the right angle and you go yeah,
you know, oh yeah, it turned out beautiful, beautiful and
kind of like the two Face and Seinfeld that kind
of thing. So anyway, Uh yeah, Hikeem Jeffries continues to
do that. Meanwhile, billionaires, Yeah, because you and I both
know a lot of billionaires that work for tips, right.
(33:05):
I mean it's like you see them serving you at
restaurants and they work a lot of overtime that they
get paid for too.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
That's definitely they're really looking to cash in on that
child tax credit to a doubt. Yeah, I think Kakeem
Jefferies has really good points just by the billionaires. Oh,
by the way, if you want lower taxes, the BBB
is a beautiful thing. I'm going to break down coming
up in the second hour exactly what the BBB means
(33:36):
to you, because it means a lot of money to you.
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