1. Tulsi Gabbard’s Allegations Against the Obama Administration
- Gabbard released a report alleging that President Obama and senior intelligence officials knowingly fabricated the Russia-Trump collusion narrative.
- Claims include deliberate misinformation, suppression of contrary intelligence, and coordination with media to undermine Donald Trump’s presidency.
- Specific officials named: James Clapper, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Andrew McCabe.
- Legal implications discussed, citing potential violations of federal statutes on perjury and false statements.
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- $150 billion for border security
- $13.5 billion to repay states like Texas for border efforts
- $150 billion for military modernization
- $24 billion for Coast Guard upgrades
- Spectrum auction for telecom innovation and revenue
- $12.5 billion for air traffic control modernization
- $10 billion for NASA’s Moon and Mars missions
- Zeroing out CAFE fuel efficiency standards
- Federal school choice program with tax credits
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in his verdic with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
with you Center. It's a big week out of Washington, DC.
You were there for a lot of it. Tulci Gabbard
coming out and making it pretty clear she believes that
there are people in around the President of the United
States of America at the time, Barack Obama, who may
have deliberately and purposely perpetrated a hoax against Donald Trump.
(00:24):
People are even using the word treason at this point,
and criminal referrals are actually being talked about. Well.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Tulca Gabbard this week released a bombshell. She released evidence
that Barack Obama and his senior intelligence team deliberately lied
to the American people. They knew they lied, and they
did so to undermine the incoming Trump administration, the incoming
president who had just been elected in twenty sixteen. And
(00:52):
the bombshell, We're going to break it down for you.
She laid out, chapter and verse. She brought the receipts.
How for months, the Obama intelligence community had assessed Russia
was not trying to interfear with the election, was not
trying to elect Donald Trump, which is of course exactly
the opposite of what they spent the next four years
(01:14):
telling the American people. We're going to break down exactly
what she laid out and what it means, and what
the criminal liability is, who's going to be held accountable,
and what to expect next. We're also going to do
something that is really important, which is break down the
details of the one big, beautiful bill. It is signed
into law. President Trump signed it on the fourth of July.
(01:34):
We're going to tell you the major conservative victories that
were in that bill. It had, without exaggeration, more major
conservative victories in that bill than any piece of legislation
that has ever passed into law in the history of
our country. We're going to explain it all to you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
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the Bombshell Center. I was in DC when this happened,
and everyone was talking about the report that was released
showing how the Obama administration in essence perpetrated the Russian
hoax on Donald Trump to undermine his presidency, but also
to really get him out of the White House.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, that's right, and it's important to understand what is
new about this.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Everyone has known for some time that the Obama team
pushed the Russia Russia Russia hoax. We've known that that's
been well established. What is new what Tulsa Gabbard put
out this week is that they knew they were lying
when they did that, because the intelligence had been precisely
the opposite. And what I want to do is I
want to walk through a little bit of this timeline
(04:26):
and give you the specific facts. So August thirty first
of twenty sixteen, a DHS official tells former DNI director
James Clapper that there was quote no indication of a
Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count. That's
in August of twenty sixteen. Then September second, twenty sixteen,
(04:49):
the FBI said it was quote uncomfortable implying that there
was definitive information that Russia intended to disrupt our elections.
Then on Stember ninth, twenty sixteen, quote, the intelligence community
concluded that Russia was probably not trying to influence the
(05:11):
election by using cyber means to target election infrastructure. That continued,
so that was not just through August and September of
twenty sixteen, but it continued after the election. The election
happens in November twenty sixteen. On December seventh, twenty sixteen,
here are the talking points that D and I Director
(05:33):
Clapper had prepared for him. Quote, Foreign adversaries did not
use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US
presidential election outcome. The next day, December eighth, Barack Obama's
presidential Daily Brief read as follows quote, we assess that
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Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election
results by conducting militious cyber activities against election infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That's an important point there by the way.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's what Barack Obama was briefed on December eighth, And
then December ninth, twenty sixteen, everything changed. On December ninth,
D and I Director Clapper, national Security Advisor Susan Rice,
Secretary of State John Kerrey, and Deputy FBI Director McCabe.
They all met in person, and in that meeting they
(06:32):
reversed course entirely one hundred and eighty degrees. They flipped,
and they agreed to recommend sanctioning members of the Russian
military intelligence because of the Russia hoax. They tasked the
intelligence community with creating an assessment of the tools Moscow
(06:54):
used to influence the twenty sixteen election, and that same day,
deep state officials in the intelligence community began leaking false
intelligence to the Washington Post. This was a decision they
made to lie to the American people.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And that's the news.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Deliberately and orchestrated and planned out. This wasn't just a
random what's got there lie and at press briefing. This
was a plan, like writing a movie script of how
you were going to lie to the American people and
use the intelligence agencies to do it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And what Tulsea Gabbert has now given us the receipts
on is they knew they were lying that for months
and months and months, the intelligence community had been reporting
exactly the opposite. So when they made this decision, it
was a political determination. It was a political determination because
they hated Donald Trump. And it was a political determination
because they were furious with the American people for electing
(07:50):
Donald Trump president. And this was an attempt to subvert democracy.
And this was an attempt to overthrow the then newly
elected president of the United States. And is what is
brazen about it. It is that they did it. All
of the intelligence that for months and months and months
had been reported it suddenly magically disappeared. They didn't acknowledge it.
(08:12):
They simply those facts were no longer operative. They had
a political agenda, facts be damned, and they were willing
to lie to the American people, and they were willing
to lie to Congress.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, when you think about changing the papers is the
way it was described to the White House Press Briefing
where it was like the report says one plus one
equals too and they're like, no, no, we're going to
change that to equal seven. They knew they were doing
this to hurt the president and in essence a coup attempt.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It wasn't even one plus one equal seven. It's one
plus one equals cucumber.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I mean a great point.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And this is what happens when you have a rogue
deep state, which goes back to it. The President said
he believed this was what had happened, and they said
it was crazy when it happened. Cina. I want to
go back into what Tulsa Gabbert said when she went
it to the White House White House Press Briefing Room
and she opened it up as she was in produced
by the White House pres Secretary, and here's what she
had to say.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be
of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats Republicans.
This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic
Republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast
will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President
Obama and his national security team directed the creation of
(09:25):
an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They
knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered
in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,
selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't. The report that we released today shows in
great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings
(09:49):
from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that
disproved their false claims. They disobeyed traditional trade craft intelligence
community standards, and withheld the truth from the American people.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of
the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election
(10:11):
in November of twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners
in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine
the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be
a year's long coup against him and his administration.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
A year's long coup against him and his administration orchestrated
with the deep State.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And the media.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
She's indicting all of them, saying they knew this was
a lie.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
She is, and I will say, as she rightly pointed out,
the evidence she put out shows, number one, it was
false that Russia was trying to interfere with the election.
But number two, a second predicate of their lie is
that Russia was trying to interfere to benefit Donald Trump.
That was a critical Democrat partisan lie. And one of
(10:57):
the pieces that she put out is that the Obama
intelligence community assessed that that Russia had in its possession
damaging information about Hillary Clinton, including DNC communication. So this
is the Democrat National Committee communicating saying that Clinton was
(11:18):
suffering from quote intensified psycho emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits
of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness. And by the way, that's
really weird. Well, you've been Aroundhillary Clinton and cheerful.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
If you've been around Hillary Clinton, she's not exactly the
most cheerful person, so that would be a red flag.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
And what the.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
DNC communications further indicated was that Clinton was placed on
a daily regimen of quote heavy tranquilizers, and while being
afraid of losing, she remained quote obsessed.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
With a thirst for power.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Now, I don't know if if this supposed Russian intelligence
is accurate or not. Tulci Gabbard released it and said
that the Obama intelligence community assessed that Russia had this,
and here's the critical part. Russia didn't release it. It
clearly would have been damaging to Hillary Clinton. If they
wanted Donald Trump to win, they would have put it out,
(12:16):
presumably in October of twenty sixteen. They didn't that she
had another element of the lie.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's a huge element of the lie. So the question
now becomes this where we go from here, and it
seems to be moving actually very fast. Great example of
that is the Attorney General, Pam Bondi were now being
told is forming a strike force to quote investigate disclosures
from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. That
would be Toulci Gabbard that raises allegations the Obama administration
(12:47):
quote manufactured an intelligence assessment in twenty seventeen promoting the
Russian Hoaks collusion, saying, quote the Department of Justice announcing
the formation of the strike force on Wednesday. The strike
force will assess the evidence publicized by the d and
I Director and investigate any potential quote next level steps
(13:07):
which might stem from d and I Gabbard's disclosures, that's
coming from the release, and Bondy called the disclosures from
Gabbard's office quote troubling in.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The statement, well, I'm very glad that the Trump Department
of Justice is investigating this. Tulsea Gabbard made a criminal
referral to the Department of Justice, and Pambondi launched this
strike force. And many people are asking, quite reasonably, is
anyone going to be held accountable for this, because it
seems so frustrating to have people breaking the law over
and over and over again and nobody being prosecuted, nobody
(13:38):
going to jail. I very much hope people are held accountable.
I hope that the Trump Department of Justice is able
to prosecute and improve if there is criminal conduct, that
they're able to prove it and get convictions and people
are held accountable. And I'll tell you the people who
are most likely to face criminal liability are those senior
members of the Obama Intelligence Commune unity, those people that
(14:01):
were in the December ninth meeting where they decided to
deliberately lie to the American people. Those names, by the way,
and in particular, so those names you're talking about, James
Clapper is one example. We're talking about the biggest names there. Yes,
I'm talking about James Clapper, I'm talking about Susan Rice,
I'm talking about John Carey, and I'm talking about Deputy
(14:24):
FBI Director mcabe.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Those were the ones. And in particular also it is
the senior officials who testified falsely testified before Congress and
lied and knew there were lying. And there are two
relevant federal criminal statutes that are most relevant. Number one
is eighteen USC. Section sixteen twenty one, and that is perjury. Whoever,
having taken an oath, wilfully states any material matter which
(14:47):
he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury.
That this applies to sworn congressional testimony. And secondly, eighteen USC.
Section one thousand and one, whoever knowingly and wilfully makes
any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement in any matter
within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch
shall be fined or in prison. Both of these you've got,
(15:09):
in particular, two different testimonies that are really problematic number one.
On May eighth, twenty seventeen, James Clapper testified before the
Senate Judiciary Committee about the Russia collusion and what he said,
according to what's been released by Toolsey Gabbart, he knew
was false. He said, in particular, quote Russia's influence activities
(15:31):
in the run up to the twenty sixteen presidential election
constituted the high water mark of their long running efforts.
They must be congratulating themselves. This episode is a clarion
call for vigilance and action against a threat to the
very foundations of our democratic system. And then in November
twenty twenty, Andrew McCabe testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He lied as well, and I will say for the
(15:51):
Statute of limitations, if it was materially covered up, it
is extended. This is the most likely area you'll find
criminal liability.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It is time for us to take a moment to
give you real information about the big beautiful bill, much
of what was in it that's gonna affect you and
your family in a positive way. Share this our top
twelve list of things in this bill. Share it wherever
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Speaker 2 (16:16):
Can watch CNN all day long, God help you. If
you do, your eyes will bleed, you will go insane
and run around in circles. But you could watch it
all day long and you will not get this information
that you're getting right now. On verdict twelve victories that
are in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Victory number one.
We have stopped a four trillion dollar tax increase. If
(16:39):
we did nothing on December thirty first, the Trump tax
cuts would disappear, and every American taxpayer, your taxes would
go up significantly, trillion dollars every taxpayer, and by the way,
the Democrats wanted your taxes to go up. To stop
a four trillion dollar tax increase is a massive victory.
That's victory one. And the One Beautiful Bill Victory two.
(17:02):
We enacted new tax cuts. No tax on tips. Yep,
that's my legislation. I drafted it. It is in this bill.
That means if you're a waiter or a waitress, if
you're a bartender, if you're a barber or a hairstylist,
if you work in a nail salon, if you're a
taxicab driver or an uber driver. Millions of Americans rely
on tips. We're providing real and meaningful tax relief to
(17:25):
working Americans. That's in there. No tax on overtime is
in there, No tax on Social Security is in there.
All three of those were President Trump's campaign promises. We
delivered on all three of those, and working Americans all
across Texas and all across this country will see the
benefits of those major tax cuts.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's huge.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I mean, it's just huge when you think about that
and you think about the promise and how it was,
you know, you look at the president. I go back
to the campaign. Yeah, and he came out he was
in Vegas and he was like, hey, we shouldn't be
taxing people. They're working their tails off in the tips
and everything else. And then the left actually came out
immediately started attacking him for the say it will never happen.
This is not a good idea.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
This is they did say it will never happen. He said,
it's an empty promise.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
By the way, I've told the story of where he
came up with the idea of no tax on tips.
He was the day of his Vegas rally. He was
having lunch in Vegas. He said there was a waitress
who came up to him. I was serving him lunch,
and Trump being Trump, he told us he said she
was beautiful. I'm telling you she was beautiful. And she
he said, she was saying how stressful it was to
pay taxes on tips and how complicated it was. And
(18:30):
he said, he just put out a piece of paper
and he wrote on the piece of paper, no tax
on tips. He said, what do you think. She says,
that sounds great, And he said, I had a rally
that afternoon. So I went out to the rally and
I said, all right, let's try it out. And he said,
no tax on tips.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Place went nuts.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It went nuts.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And I saw that town. I mean, yes, people will.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Make a five percent of the workers in Nevada are
tipped workers and they rely on it as there I guests,
and so I saw it, and I said, this is
political genius. And I immediately drafted the legislation to make
it happen. That is part of One Big Beautiful Bill
Victory three. Securing the Border. We mentioned what the President
has done by enforcing the law. What we put in
(19:08):
One Big Beautiful Bill is one hundred and fifty billion
dollars to secure the border. It is the largest investment
in border security in the history of America. It will
build the wall, it will complete the wall. We will
hire more border patrol agents, we will hire more ice agents.
We will build more detention facilities, we will have more
detention beds, and we will employ technology, infrared, drones, helicopters.
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It is, as I said, the biggest investment ever to
secure the border that is in the bill.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
One of the things that you mentioned there was technology.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It is amazing to see how far behind we've been
on technology and how we didn't have the funding for
the technology that we knew we needed. That was clearly
done on purpose by the prior administration, because if you
don't have the technology, then you're behind. The cartails are ahead,
the human traffickers are ahead, the people are ahead of you.
They held us back on purpose to again open the border. Yes,
(20:02):
so we've been playing catch up, and that's why this
money was so important this bill. There's another strategic victory,
which is every spending bill. The Democrats hold border spending
and military spending hostage.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yep. What we've done is funded the things that are
critical to keeping this country safe, which means the Democrats
can't hold it hostage anymore. So it has there's a
tactical advantage going forward on the next budget battle because
this one hundred and fifty billion dollars we have appropriated it,
it is going out the door, and there's not a
damn thing Chuck Schumer or AOC can do to stop it.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That is valuable on the psyche aspect of it, because
I do think this is one of the things that
is I'm witnessing a change our border patrol agents, whether
it's Department Home Security, ICE. Yes, their mentality right now
has got to be on a high.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It is like a drowning man about to die given
a life preserver, lifted out, saved. They are able to
do their jobs. They're lots like, they're fired up, They're
ready to go to wool. They're stopping drug traffickers. Every
time I see a border patrol agents or an ICE agent,
to be honest, half the time we just hug. I
mean the level of their just like, thank god, we
(21:09):
got your job. Victory number four repaying the States for
border security thirteen and a half billion dollars, over ten
billion dollars going to Texas. Texas taxpayers spent over ten
billion dollars to secure the border because Joe Biden and
the Democrats refused to do so. I help lead the
charge to repay the states that is in there. That
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means Texas is getting over ten billion dollars paid back.
That's a huge victory. Victory number four. Victory number five
rebuilding the military over one hundred and fifty billion dollars
to support our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen, our marines,
to build new submarines, to build new next generation fighter jets,
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to improve our ability to stand up to China, to
stand up to our enemies, to combat hypersonics, the next
generation of warfare. Look, with the military, often you're fighting
the last war. We're going forward. We're going to face
ten thousand drone swarms using AI. Investing one hundred and
(22:16):
fifty billion dollars to make sure we can defend this nation.
There's no responsibility the federal government has that is more important.
And by the way, this is the money the Democrats
always hold hostage, so we funded it. Right now they
can they can no longer touch this hostage because this
is done.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Huge victory Number six. The coast Guard.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Now this is something I'm particularly proud of because as
you know, I'm the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation. The Coastguard is in our jurisdiction. So I
wrote the Coast Guard Provision twenty four billion dollars for
the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in
the Coast Guard in the history of the United States
of America. To give you a sense of the scope
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of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the
Coast Guard is about twelve million dollars. We are spending
about two hundred percent of the annual budget on the
Coastguard in investments. And what are we doing. We're buying
new ships, We're buying new helicopters, We're buying new physical infrastructure,
and critically, we are investing in ice cutters, in polar
(23:22):
ice cutters and Arctic ice cutters. Right now, China is
kicking our ass in the Arctic, and the Arctic is
critical for national security. Any war ICBMs are going to
come over the Arctic. The Arctic is now You've got
the United States on the Arctic, You've got China playing
on the Arctic, You've got Russia playing on the Arctic,
and we are losing this funding will enable us not
(23:45):
only to compete, to win. And by the way, a
huge theme of everything I do in Congress is beat China,
Beat China, Beat China. This investment in the Coastguard is
to beat China and the Arctic. But let me tell
you a huge America first benefit for this, which is
shipbuilding in America has almost entirely disappeared. Yeah, and that's
scary from national security symbol, it is very scary. But
(24:08):
this Coastguard Bill will bring ship building back to America.
You look at Galveston, Texas. There's a huge, multi billion
dollar shipyard that is being built and expanded right now
to build these ice cutters. And the problem previously is
if you're a private company, you couldn't make the multi
billion dollar investment because you didn't know where demand was
(24:30):
going to come from. Because we have twenty four billion
dollars appropriated, there is a multi year stream of buy
orders coming from the Coastguard for these ice cutters. That
is going to bring back thousands of jobs, good American
jobs right here building ships to keep America safe. That
is in the bill. I'll tell you when I was
(24:50):
in the Hill Country, when I was with the coastguardsmen
who were rescuing Texans from the floods, every single coasting
every one of them, every man in woman, what knew
exactly about this investment in the Coast Guard. They knew
it was the biggest in history, and every one of
them said, thank you. This will make a massive difference
in our ability to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I've got a good friend the Coast Guard, and he
said to me the other day about this. He said,
you know, the Coast Guard, and he's been in for
twenty plus years. He said, We've always gotten the hand
me downs, we get the leftover equipment and the old equipment.
That's a lot of their equipment literally come from surplus
from military and other things. He said, this is the
first time that we are now like on the cutting
edge on our own because of what you just described.
(25:33):
He said, not only has morale gone through the roof,
we're no longer like the forgotten agency, like we're kind
of like, oh, the fifth wheel of military and government.
He's like, now we matter and it matters for national security,
as he described it. And I think that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That is absolutely right. And by the way, the Coast
Guard also does drug interdiction. It does border security exactly.
The Coast Guard is critical for securing our border, and
so this investment having those coast Guard cutters to stop
drug traffickers, stop human traffickers, and also to engage in
search and rescue, which is hugely important. That investment something
I care deeply about. And by the way, we're at
(26:10):
number six. I told you I'm going to give you twelve. Yeah,
major conservative victories in the One Big Beautiful Bill. We're
at six. I actually want listeners to pause for a second.
How many of you could list the first six before
this podcast? And I just want to make the point
what kind of job does the corporate media do. I'm
willing to bet virtually none of our listeners could have
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listed those first six because the news hasn't covered. And
it's why we do this podcast to give you information
so that when you're talking to your friends and your colleagues,
you will know what's being accomplished. There's a reason President
Trump is so excited about this One Big Beautiful Bill
because it is massive, massive victories for America. Number seven,
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Number seven Spectrum now spectrum? What is spectrum? Electromagnetic spectrum?
It is how we communicate. It our cell phones work.
It's how Wi Fi works, it's how satellites work, it's
how streaming works. It's all of electronics spectrum. The largest
holder of spectrum is the United States government. The United
States Government has vast swaths of spectrum, and under Joe Biden,
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the United States Government stop making new spectrum available to
the private sector. They ended auction authority. It was grotesquely irresponsible.
It did massive damage to America. It destroyed jobs in America,
and it let China get ahead of America. In this bill,
I wrote the legislation that directs the federal government to
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auction to the private sector eight hundred megahertz of spectrum
for private sector investment. What does that mean? Number One,
That will generate in excess of one hundred billion dollars
of revenue to the federal government. Wow, real money. Now,
even in government terms, one hundred billion dollars is real money.
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And listen, you and I are deeply concerned about the
deficit and the debt. The entire commerce title that I
wrote that had historic investments in Coastguard and a bunch
of other things, I ended up saving over forty billion dollars,
reducing the deficit and the debt by over forty billion dollars.
And the driver was because of Spectrum auction authority we
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brought in. We will bring in one hundred billion dollars
to pay down the debt. Credible, that's real money. But
it's not the biggest piece of this. The biggest piece
of this is by auctioning the Spectrum off, we will
open up billions and billions of dollars of private sector investment.
The companies that buy this Spectrum are going to invest.
It is going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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That is not an exaggeration, hundreds of thousands of jobs.
And you know what spectrum is all about, beating China
to six G. I mentioned my consistent theme, beat China.
Beat China in the Arctic with the Coastguard, beat China
to six G with Spectrum. And I got to tell you,
three months ago, there was nobody in Washington who thought
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we could get this done. I sat in the office
of the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a good
friend of mine. I said, Mike, We're gonna do Spectrum
on the one big, beautiful bill and Mike laughed in
my face.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
He's a good friend. But yeah, there's no way, he.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Said, there's no chance because the Department of Defense and
the CIA will fight you, They will stop you. You
cannot get it done. We not only got it done
when I cut the deal and got it in the bill.
President Trump called me the next morning. He said, Ted,
this is incredible. This is like, how did you get
such an incredible deal? Historic spectrum auction authority producing hundreds
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of thousands of jobs and beating China to six g
that's in the bill. Number eight Air traffic Control. This
bill invests twelve and a half billion dollars modernizing our
air traffic control. Keep your family safer when you fly,
to keep my family safer when we fly. To stop
using outdated radars, to stop using computers that have floppy discs,
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and a little copper wire copper wire, to modernize our
air traffic control. A massive investment in keeping the American
public safe. This bill. I wrote that portion that is
also in the Commerce title. So I wrote that portion
that will fund and improve air traffic control. A huge victory.
Number nine space, yep, this bill has ten billion dollars
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for NASA to go to the Moon, for the Artemis program,
for the Gateway program to beat China to the moon.
China has said they intend to return to the moon
by twenty thirty. In my view, if we lose the
Moon to China, it would be a catastrophic loss. It
would be a loss if we woke up in a
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few years and China was on the moon and China
established a base on the moon, which is what they
said they intend to do with the Russians.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And they made that very clear. That is the sole
intent of going. It's not just to go to the moon.
It's to have a base on the moon.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yes, if they did that and we lost, I think
it would be worse than Sputnik that it would be
a national body blow that would crush this country. And look,
the moon is critical number one for national security. The
moon is the high ground you look at. So much
of our national security and so much of our commerce
depends on satellites in orbit around the Earth. The moon
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gives you the high ground. It is very dangerous for
us to see that to China. It is unacceptable for
us to see that to China. But number two, there
are massive rare minerals on the moon. There are enormous
economic advantages. It is current US law that it is
the policy of the American government to have a sustained
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human habitation either on the lunar surface or in cislunar orbit.
This investment in beating China to the moon. And by
the way, the Moon is a stepping stone to Mars.
We will go to Mars, but we haven't landed on
a celestial body in over fifty years. So we're gonna
land on the Moon first to make sure we know
how to do it, and then we're gonna go to Mars.
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This investment, I wrote this investment in there. I will
say there was significant resistance, and without getting too much
into the sausage making, we won against the resistance. This
is in there. It is a massive investment. Well, yeah,
that is exactly right.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
That's number nine. Number ten.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Cafe standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to
have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars. That's
what the Biden administration has used as its tool, as
one of its tools to wage the war on the
internal combustion engine, to try to force every car to
be electric. Is they keep jacking up CAFE standards higher
and higher and higher. What does that mean? Number one,
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it drives up the cost of your cars. You notice
cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Trucks have gotten
a lot more expensive. Number two, it makes cars less
safe because one of the ways you get the gas
efficiency hire is you replace metal with plastics. You chl
cheap plastic that crumbles it in a crash and more
people die. In the commerce section of the oneful, big,
beautiful bill, you know what we did to cafe standards?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
What was that zeroed them out? Really they're gone.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So it's actually in this so you're telling me that
my car, instead of being all plastic, we have a
little finger bade and everything breaks. They can actually go
back and say, hey, we're not trying to save weight here,
we're trying to actually make safe cars.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It can be a great American car again, made a
steel tough as hell. And by the way, you want
to buy electric car, great, that's your choice. You want
to have to hybrid, great, you want to buy a
gas car great. It ought to be consumers choosing. And
actually the way we did this we very much modeled
how in twenty seventeen we repealed the individual mandate on Obamacare.
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So that was a fight I led in twenty seventeen.
The individual mandate. The way we eliminated it is under
the rules of reconciliation, we could not eliminate the legal
mandate to buy health insurance, which was the individual mandator
under Obamacare. So you know what we did. We made
the penalty zero. So you used to be the IRS
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finds you. If you didn't buy health insurance, the IRS
would find you. It is still the law. You're required
to buy health insurance. Don't you will be fined zero
dollars and zero cents. We did the same thing to
cafe standards, so they can put their standards out, but
the penalty for violating it is zero. And I want
to mention, look, this is again like PBS at NPR,
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this has been a conservative battle for fifty years.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
And Democrats have been winning for fifty years unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And we got this done. I wrote this portion, it
is in the bill. It is zeroed out, and we
got this done. And I'm willing to bet fewer than
one percent of our listeners even knew we had done it,
because we won so many victories that this falls all
the way down to number.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Ten on the list. Incredible, well done.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
The final two, yep, the final two is you now
are very near and dear to my heart. Number eleven
is school choice. In this bill, we pass the single
largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the
history of our country. I wrote this provision. Every single
American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars
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a year to a scholarship granting organization in the States
and get a dollar for dollar credit on their taxes.
It means the money is free. The effect of this
is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship
money in the States for school choice, for K through
twelve school choice. We're going to do a subsequent pod
(35:40):
that does a really deep die because.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
This is part of your legacy. By the way, this
is going to be part of your lig.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
This is the issue I care more about than anything else.
I have spent thirty years fighting for it, and we're
going to do another pod where we do a very
deep die because there's some aspects of this that I
want the listeners to appreciate that are both incredible policy
victories but also massive political victories. We are creating incentives
to turn blue states red, to build constituencies of parents
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and kids who want fantastic educations. This is I told
the President, if and when we get this done, you
will go down in history as one of the greatest
civil rights presidents in our nation's history. Your critics will
never acknowledge that.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, but the reality will be you're going to change
poor communities.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
The reality is the school choice provision is massive, and
it's in the bill. And then the final number twelve
are the Trump accounts, the invest America accounts. Again, I
wrote this provision.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
This could fundamentally change this country.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
By the way, starting next year July fourth of next year,
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States
of America, every child in America will have a personal
investment account. Every newborn child will have it seated with
one thousand dollars. Parents, family employers can contribute up to
five thousand dollars a year in a tax advantage account.
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All of that money is invested in the S and P.
Five hundred is invested in the stock market. That enables
every kid to enjoy the incredible benefits of compound growth,
which will transform our kids. The wealth creation for the
next generation of Americans will be utterly transformative and not
only that this creates a new generation of capitalists, as
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our kids will all be owners of the largest employers
in America. These two victories, school choice and personal investment
accounts for kids without exaggeration, Ben and I've told the
President this. I think ten years, twenty years, thirty years
from now, these will be the two things everyone remembers
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from this bill everything else. I listed one through ten,
which are massive that they are conservative victories for the generations.
I think eleven and twelve will dwarf one and ten
because the difference. We will see trillions of dollars invested
in four oh one case for kids in these Trump accounts.
That will change the future of every one of our
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kids and make them all have skin in the game
in our capitalist society. And school choice is going to
literally provide hope and opportunity to millions of kids. We
got both of them done. Those are victories, generational victories,
and when the President signed it on July fourth, they
were victories for all of America.
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Welcome in his verdic with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
with you Center. It's a big week out of Washington, DC.
You were there for a lot of it. Tulci Gabbard
coming out and making it pretty clear she believes that
there are people in around the President of the United
States of America at the time, Barack Obama, who may
have deliberately and purposely perpetrated a hoax against Donald Trump.
(00:24):
People are even using the word treason at this point,
and criminal referrals are actually being talked about. Well.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Tulca Gabbard this week released a bombshell. She released evidence
that Barack Obama and his senior intelligence team deliberately lied
to the American people. They knew they lied, and they
did so to undermine the incoming Trump administration, the incoming
president who had just been elected in twenty sixteen. And
(00:52):
the bombshell, We're going to break it down for you.
She laid out, chapter and verse. She brought the receipts.
How for months, the Obama intelligence community had assessed Russia
was not trying to interfear with the election, was not
trying to elect Donald Trump, which is of course exactly
the opposite of what they spent the next four years
(01:14):
telling the American people. We're going to break down exactly
what she laid out and what it means, and what
the criminal liability is, who's going to be held accountable,
and what to expect next. We're also going to do
something that is really important, which is break down the
details of the one big, beautiful bill. It is signed
into law. President Trump signed it on the fourth of July.
(01:34):
We're going to tell you the major conservative victories that
were in that bill. It had, without exaggeration, more major
conservative victories in that bill than any piece of legislation
that has ever passed into law in the history of
our country. We're going to explain it all to you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, it's really incredible. We're gonna have that for you
a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
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the Bombshell Center. I was in DC when this happened,
and everyone was talking about the report that was released
showing how the Obama administration in essence perpetrated the Russian
hoax on Donald Trump to undermine his presidency, but also
to really get him out of the White House.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Well, that's right, and it's important to understand what is
new about this.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Everyone has known for some time that the Obama team
pushed the Russia Russia Russia hoax. We've known that that's
been well established. What is new what Tulsa Gabbard put
out this week is that they knew they were lying
when they did that, because the intelligence had been precisely
the opposite. And what I want to do is I
want to walk through a little bit of this timeline
(04:26):
and give you the specific facts. So August thirty first
of twenty sixteen, a DHS official tells former DNI director
James Clapper that there was quote no indication of a
Russian threat to directly manipulate the actual vote count. That's
in August of twenty sixteen. Then September second, twenty sixteen,
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the FBI said it was quote uncomfortable implying that there
was definitive information that Russia intended to disrupt our elections.
Then on Stember ninth, twenty sixteen, quote, the intelligence community
concluded that Russia was probably not trying to influence the
(05:11):
election by using cyber means to target election infrastructure. That continued,
so that was not just through August and September of
twenty sixteen, but it continued after the election. The election
happens in November twenty sixteen. On December seventh, twenty sixteen,
here are the talking points that D and I Director
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Clapper had prepared for him. Quote, Foreign adversaries did not
use cyber attacks on election infrastructure to alter the US
presidential election outcome. The next day, December eighth, Barack Obama's
presidential Daily Brief read as follows quote, we assess that
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Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election
results by conducting militious cyber activities against election infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That's an important point there by the way.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's what Barack Obama was briefed on December eighth, And
then December ninth, twenty sixteen, everything changed. On December ninth,
D and I Director Clapper, national Security Advisor Susan Rice,
Secretary of State John Kerrey, and Deputy FBI Director McCabe.
They all met in person, and in that meeting they
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reversed course entirely one hundred and eighty degrees. They flipped,
and they agreed to recommend sanctioning members of the Russian
military intelligence because of the Russia hoax. They tasked the
intelligence community with creating an assessment of the tools Moscow
(06:54):
used to influence the twenty sixteen election, and that same day,
deep state officials in the intelligence community began leaking false
intelligence to the Washington Post. This was a decision they
made to lie to the American people.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
And that's the news.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Deliberately and orchestrated and planned out. This wasn't just a
random what's got there lie and at press briefing. This
was a plan, like writing a movie script of how
you were going to lie to the American people and
use the intelligence agencies to do it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
And what Tulsea Gabbert has now given us the receipts
on is they knew they were lying that for months
and months and months, the intelligence community had been reporting
exactly the opposite. So when they made this decision, it
was a political determination. It was a political determination because
they hated Donald Trump. And it was a political determination
because they were furious with the American people for electing
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Donald Trump president. And this was an attempt to subvert democracy.
And this was an attempt to overthrow the then newly
elected president of the United States. And is what is
brazen about it. It is that they did it. All
of the intelligence that for months and months and months
had been reported it suddenly magically disappeared. They didn't acknowledge it.
(08:12):
They simply those facts were no longer operative. They had
a political agenda, facts be damned, and they were willing
to lie to the American people, and they were willing
to lie to Congress.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, when you think about changing the papers is the
way it was described to the White House Press Briefing
where it was like the report says one plus one
equals too and they're like, no, no, we're going to
change that to equal seven. They knew they were doing
this to hurt the president and in essence a coup attempt.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
It wasn't even one plus one equal seven. It's one
plus one equals cucumber.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I mean a great point.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And this is what happens when you have a rogue
deep state, which goes back to it. The President said
he believed this was what had happened, and they said
it was crazy when it happened. Cina. I want to
go back into what Tulsa Gabbert said when she went
it to the White House White House Press Briefing Room
and she opened it up as she was in produced
by the White House pres Secretary, and here's what she
had to say.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
The stunning revelations that we are releasing today should be
of concern to every American. This is not about Democrats Republicans.
This has to do with the integrity of our Democratic
Republic and American voters having faith that the votes cast
will count. There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President
Obama and his national security team directed the creation of
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an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false. They
knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered
in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,
selling it to the American people as though it were true.
It wasn't. The report that we released today shows in
great detail how they carried this out. They manufactured findings
(09:49):
from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that
disproved their false claims. They disobeyed traditional trade craft intelligence
community standards, and withheld the truth from the American people.
In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of
the American people who elected Donald Trump in that election
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in November of twenty sixteen. They worked with their partners
in the media to promote this lie, ultimately to undermine
the legitimacy of President Trump and launching what would be
a year's long coup against him and his administration.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
A year's long coup against him and his administration orchestrated
with the deep State.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And the media.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
She's indicting all of them, saying they knew this was
a lie.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
She is, and I will say, as she rightly pointed out,
the evidence she put out shows, number one, it was
false that Russia was trying to interfere with the election.
But number two, a second predicate of their lie is
that Russia was trying to interfere to benefit Donald Trump.
That was a critical Democrat partisan lie. And one of
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the pieces that she put out is that the Obama
intelligence community assessed that that Russia had in its possession
damaging information about Hillary Clinton, including DNC communication. So this
is the Democrat National Committee communicating saying that Clinton was
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suffering from quote intensified psycho emotional problems, including uncontrolled fits
of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness. And by the way, that's
really weird. Well, you've been Aroundhillary Clinton and cheerful.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
If you've been around Hillary Clinton, she's not exactly the
most cheerful person, so that would be a red flag.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
And what the.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
DNC communications further indicated was that Clinton was placed on
a daily regimen of quote heavy tranquilizers, and while being
afraid of losing, she remained quote obsessed.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
With a thirst for power.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Now, I don't know if if this supposed Russian intelligence
is accurate or not. Tulci Gabbard released it and said
that the Obama intelligence community assessed that Russia had this,
and here's the critical part. Russia didn't release it. It
clearly would have been damaging to Hillary Clinton. If they
wanted Donald Trump to win, they would have put it out,
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presumably in October of twenty sixteen. They didn't that she
had another element of the lie.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's a huge element of the lie. So the question
now becomes this where we go from here, and it
seems to be moving actually very fast. Great example of
that is the Attorney General, Pam Bondi were now being
told is forming a strike force to quote investigate disclosures
from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. That
would be Toulci Gabbard that raises allegations the Obama administration
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quote manufactured an intelligence assessment in twenty seventeen promoting the
Russian Hoaks collusion, saying, quote the Department of Justice announcing
the formation of the strike force on Wednesday. The strike
force will assess the evidence publicized by the d and
I Director and investigate any potential quote next level steps
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which might stem from d and I Gabbard's disclosures, that's
coming from the release, and Bondy called the disclosures from
Gabbard's office quote troubling in.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
The statement, well, I'm very glad that the Trump Department
of Justice is investigating this. Tulsea Gabbard made a criminal
referral to the Department of Justice, and Pambondi launched this
strike force. And many people are asking, quite reasonably, is
anyone going to be held accountable for this, because it
seems so frustrating to have people breaking the law over
and over and over again and nobody being prosecuted, nobody
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going to jail. I very much hope people are held accountable.
I hope that the Trump Department of Justice is able
to prosecute and improve if there is criminal conduct, that
they're able to prove it and get convictions and people
are held accountable. And I'll tell you the people who
are most likely to face criminal liability are those senior
members of the Obama Intelligence Commune unity, those people that
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were in the December ninth meeting where they decided to
deliberately lie to the American people. Those names, by the way,
and in particular, so those names you're talking about, James
Clapper is one example. We're talking about the biggest names there. Yes,
I'm talking about James Clapper, I'm talking about Susan Rice,
I'm talking about John Carey, and I'm talking about Deputy
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FBI Director mcabe.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Those were the ones. And in particular also it is
the senior officials who testified falsely testified before Congress and
lied and knew there were lying. And there are two
relevant federal criminal statutes that are most relevant. Number one
is eighteen USC. Section sixteen twenty one, and that is perjury. Whoever,
having taken an oath, wilfully states any material matter which
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he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury.
That this applies to sworn congressional testimony. And secondly, eighteen USC.
Section one thousand and one, whoever knowingly and wilfully makes
any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement in any matter
within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch
shall be fined or in prison. Both of these you've got,
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in particular, two different testimonies that are really problematic number one.
On May eighth, twenty seventeen, James Clapper testified before the
Senate Judiciary Committee about the Russia collusion and what he said,
according to what's been released by Toolsey Gabbart, he knew
was false. He said, in particular, quote Russia's influence activities
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in the run up to the twenty sixteen presidential election
constituted the high water mark of their long running efforts.
They must be congratulating themselves. This episode is a clarion
call for vigilance and action against a threat to the
very foundations of our democratic system. And then in November
twenty twenty, Andrew McCabe testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He lied as well, and I will say for the
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Statute of limitations, if it was materially covered up, it
is extended. This is the most likely area you'll find
criminal liability.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
It is time for us to take a moment to
give you real information about the big beautiful bill, much
of what was in it that's gonna affect you and
your family in a positive way. Share this our top
twelve list of things in this bill. Share it wherever
you can on social media. Take a listen you.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Can watch CNN all day long, God help you. If
you do, your eyes will bleed, you will go insane
and run around in circles. But you could watch it
all day long and you will not get this information
that you're getting right now. On verdict twelve victories that
are in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Victory number one.
We have stopped a four trillion dollar tax increase. If
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we did nothing on December thirty first, the Trump tax
cuts would disappear, and every American taxpayer, your taxes would
go up significantly, trillion dollars every taxpayer, and by the way,
the Democrats wanted your taxes to go up. To stop
a four trillion dollar tax increase is a massive victory.
That's victory one. And the One Beautiful Bill Victory two.
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We enacted new tax cuts. No tax on tips. Yep,
that's my legislation. I drafted it. It is in this bill.
That means if you're a waiter or a waitress, if
you're a bartender, if you're a barber or a hairstylist,
if you work in a nail salon, if you're a
taxicab driver or an uber driver. Millions of Americans rely
on tips. We're providing real and meaningful tax relief to
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working Americans. That's in there. No tax on overtime is
in there, No tax on Social Security is in there.
All three of those were President Trump's campaign promises. We
delivered on all three of those, and working Americans all
across Texas and all across this country will see the
benefits of those major tax cuts.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
That's huge.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I mean, it's just huge when you think about that
and you think about the promise and how it was,
you know, you look at the president. I go back
to the campaign. Yeah, and he came out he was
in Vegas and he was like, hey, we shouldn't be
taxing people. They're working their tails off in the tips
and everything else. And then the left actually came out
immediately started attacking him for the say it will never happen.
This is not a good idea.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
This is they did say it will never happen. He said,
it's an empty promise.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
By the way, I've told the story of where he
came up with the idea of no tax on tips.
He was the day of his Vegas rally. He was
having lunch in Vegas. He said there was a waitress
who came up to him. I was serving him lunch,
and Trump being Trump, he told us he said she
was beautiful. I'm telling you she was beautiful. And she
he said, she was saying how stressful it was to
pay taxes on tips and how complicated it was. And
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he said, he just put out a piece of paper
and he wrote on the piece of paper, no tax
on tips. He said, what do you think. She says,
that sounds great, And he said, I had a rally
that afternoon. So I went out to the rally and
I said, all right, let's try it out. And he said,
no tax on tips.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Place went nuts.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It went nuts.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
And I saw that town. I mean, yes, people will.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Make a five percent of the workers in Nevada are
tipped workers and they rely on it as there I guests,
and so I saw it, and I said, this is
political genius. And I immediately drafted the legislation to make
it happen. That is part of One Big Beautiful Bill
Victory three. Securing the Border. We mentioned what the President
has done by enforcing the law. What we put in
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One Big Beautiful Bill is one hundred and fifty billion
dollars to secure the border. It is the largest investment
in border security in the history of America. It will
build the wall, it will complete the wall. We will
hire more border patrol agents, we will hire more ice agents.
We will build more detention facilities, we will have more
detention beds, and we will employ technology, infrared, drones, helicopters.
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It is, as I said, the biggest investment ever to
secure the border that is in the bill.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
One of the things that you mentioned there was technology.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It is amazing to see how far behind we've been
on technology and how we didn't have the funding for
the technology that we knew we needed. That was clearly
done on purpose by the prior administration, because if you
don't have the technology, then you're behind. The cartails are ahead,
the human traffickers are ahead, the people are ahead of you.
They held us back on purpose to again open the border. Yes,
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so we've been playing catch up, and that's why this
money was so important this bill. There's another strategic victory,
which is every spending bill. The Democrats hold border spending
and military spending hostage.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yep. What we've done is funded the things that are
critical to keeping this country safe, which means the Democrats
can't hold it hostage anymore. So it has there's a
tactical advantage going forward on the next budget battle because
this one hundred and fifty billion dollars we have appropriated it,
it is going out the door, and there's not a
damn thing Chuck Schumer or AOC can do to stop it.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
That is valuable on the psyche aspect of it, because
I do think this is one of the things that
is I'm witnessing a change our border patrol agents, whether
it's Department Home Security, ICE. Yes, their mentality right now
has got to be on a high.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
It is like a drowning man about to die given
a life preserver, lifted out, saved. They are able to
do their jobs. They're lots like, they're fired up, They're
ready to go to wool. They're stopping drug traffickers. Every
time I see a border patrol agents or an ICE agent,
to be honest, half the time we just hug. I
mean the level of their just like, thank god, we
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got your job. Victory number four repaying the States for
border security thirteen and a half billion dollars, over ten
billion dollars going to Texas. Texas taxpayers spent over ten
billion dollars to secure the border because Joe Biden and
the Democrats refused to do so. I help lead the
charge to repay the states that is in there. That
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means Texas is getting over ten billion dollars paid back.
That's a huge victory. Victory number four. Victory number five
rebuilding the military over one hundred and fifty billion dollars
to support our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen, our marines,
to build new submarines, to build new next generation fighter jets,
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to improve our ability to stand up to China, to
stand up to our enemies, to combat hypersonics, the next
generation of warfare. Look, with the military, often you're fighting
the last war. We're going forward. We're going to face
ten thousand drone swarms using AI. Investing one hundred and
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fifty billion dollars to make sure we can defend this nation.
There's no responsibility the federal government has that is more important.
And by the way, this is the money the Democrats
always hold hostage, so we funded it. Right now they
can they can no longer touch this hostage because this
is done.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Huge victory Number six. The coast Guard.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Now this is something I'm particularly proud of because as
you know, I'm the chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation. The Coastguard is in our jurisdiction. So I
wrote the Coast Guard Provision twenty four billion dollars for
the Coast Guard. This is the single largest investment in
the Coast Guard in the history of the United States
of America. To give you a sense of the scope
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of the order of magnitude, the annual budget of the
Coast Guard is about twelve million dollars. We are spending
about two hundred percent of the annual budget on the
Coastguard in investments. And what are we doing. We're buying
new ships, We're buying new helicopters, We're buying new physical infrastructure,
and critically, we are investing in ice cutters, in polar
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ice cutters and Arctic ice cutters. Right now, China is
kicking our ass in the Arctic, and the Arctic is
critical for national security. Any war ICBMs are going to
come over the Arctic. The Arctic is now You've got
the United States on the Arctic, You've got China playing
on the Arctic, You've got Russia playing on the Arctic,
and we are losing this funding will enable us not
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only to compete, to win. And by the way, a
huge theme of everything I do in Congress is beat China,
Beat China, Beat China. This investment in the Coastguard is
to beat China and the Arctic. But let me tell
you a huge America first benefit for this, which is
shipbuilding in America has almost entirely disappeared. Yeah, and that's
scary from national security symbol, it is very scary. But
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this Coastguard Bill will bring ship building back to America.
You look at Galveston, Texas. There's a huge, multi billion
dollar shipyard that is being built and expanded right now
to build these ice cutters. And the problem previously is
if you're a private company, you couldn't make the multi
billion dollar investment because you didn't know where demand was
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going to come from. Because we have twenty four billion
dollars appropriated, there is a multi year stream of buy
orders coming from the Coastguard for these ice cutters. That
is going to bring back thousands of jobs, good American
jobs right here building ships to keep America safe. That
is in the bill. I'll tell you when I was
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in the Hill Country, when I was with the coastguardsmen
who were rescuing Texans from the floods, every single coasting
every one of them, every man in woman, what knew
exactly about this investment in the Coast Guard. They knew
it was the biggest in history, and every one of
them said, thank you. This will make a massive difference
in our ability to do it.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
I've got a good friend the Coast Guard, and he
said to me the other day about this. He said,
you know, the Coast Guard, and he's been in for
twenty plus years. He said, We've always gotten the hand
me downs, we get the leftover equipment and the old equipment.
That's a lot of their equipment literally come from surplus
from military and other things. He said, this is the
first time that we are now like on the cutting
edge on our own because of what you just described.
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He said, not only has morale gone through the roof,
we're no longer like the forgotten agency, like we're kind
of like, oh, the fifth wheel of military and government.
He's like, now we matter and it matters for national security,
as he described it. And I think that's a great point.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That is absolutely right. And by the way, the Coast
Guard also does drug interdiction. It does border security exactly.
The Coast Guard is critical for securing our border, and
so this investment having those coast Guard cutters to stop
drug traffickers, stop human traffickers, and also to engage in
search and rescue, which is hugely important. That investment something
I care deeply about. And by the way, we're at
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number six. I told you I'm going to give you twelve. Yeah,
major conservative victories in the One Big Beautiful Bill. We're
at six. I actually want listeners to pause for a second.
How many of you could list the first six before
this podcast? And I just want to make the point
what kind of job does the corporate media do. I'm
willing to bet virtually none of our listeners could have
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listed those first six because the news hasn't covered. And
it's why we do this podcast to give you information
so that when you're talking to your friends and your colleagues,
you will know what's being accomplished. There's a reason President
Trump is so excited about this One Big Beautiful Bill
because it is massive, massive victories for America. Number seven,
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Number seven Spectrum now spectrum? What is spectrum? Electromagnetic spectrum?
It is how we communicate. It our cell phones work.
It's how Wi Fi works, it's how satellites work, it's
how streaming works. It's all of electronics spectrum. The largest
holder of spectrum is the United States government. The United
States Government has vast swaths of spectrum, and under Joe Biden,
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the United States Government stop making new spectrum available to
the private sector. They ended auction authority. It was grotesquely irresponsible.
It did massive damage to America. It destroyed jobs in America,
and it let China get ahead of America. In this bill,
I wrote the legislation that directs the federal government to
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auction to the private sector eight hundred megahertz of spectrum
for private sector investment. What does that mean? Number One,
That will generate in excess of one hundred billion dollars
of revenue to the federal government. Wow, real money. Now,
even in government terms, one hundred billion dollars is real money.
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And listen, you and I are deeply concerned about the
deficit and the debt. The entire commerce title that I
wrote that had historic investments in Coastguard and a bunch
of other things, I ended up saving over forty billion dollars,
reducing the deficit and the debt by over forty billion dollars.
And the driver was because of Spectrum auction authority we
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brought in. We will bring in one hundred billion dollars
to pay down the debt. Credible, that's real money. But
it's not the biggest piece of this. The biggest piece
of this is by auctioning the Spectrum off, we will
open up billions and billions of dollars of private sector investment.
The companies that buy this Spectrum are going to invest.
It is going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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That is not an exaggeration, hundreds of thousands of jobs.
And you know what spectrum is all about, beating China
to six G. I mentioned my consistent theme, beat China.
Beat China in the Arctic with the Coastguard, beat China
to six G with Spectrum. And I got to tell you,
three months ago, there was nobody in Washington who thought
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we could get this done. I sat in the office
of the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a good
friend of mine. I said, Mike, We're gonna do Spectrum
on the one big, beautiful bill and Mike laughed in
my face.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
He's a good friend. But yeah, there's no way, he.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Said, there's no chance because the Department of Defense and
the CIA will fight you, They will stop you. You
cannot get it done. We not only got it done
when I cut the deal and got it in the bill.
President Trump called me the next morning. He said, Ted,
this is incredible. This is like, how did you get
such an incredible deal? Historic spectrum auction authority producing hundreds
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of thousands of jobs and beating China to six g
that's in the bill. Number eight Air traffic Control. This
bill invests twelve and a half billion dollars modernizing our
air traffic control. Keep your family safer when you fly,
to keep my family safer when we fly. To stop
using outdated radars, to stop using computers that have floppy discs,
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and a little copper wire copper wire, to modernize our
air traffic control. A massive investment in keeping the American
public safe. This bill. I wrote that portion that is
also in the Commerce title. So I wrote that portion
that will fund and improve air traffic control. A huge victory.
Number nine space, yep, this bill has ten billion dollars
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for NASA to go to the Moon, for the Artemis program,
for the Gateway program to beat China to the moon.
China has said they intend to return to the moon
by twenty thirty. In my view, if we lose the
Moon to China, it would be a catastrophic loss. It
would be a loss if we woke up in a
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few years and China was on the moon and China
established a base on the moon, which is what they
said they intend to do with the Russians.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And they made that very clear. That is the sole
intent of going. It's not just to go to the moon.
It's to have a base on the moon.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Yes, if they did that and we lost, I think
it would be worse than Sputnik that it would be
a national body blow that would crush this country. And look,
the moon is critical number one for national security. The
moon is the high ground you look at. So much
of our national security and so much of our commerce
depends on satellites in orbit around the Earth. The moon
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gives you the high ground. It is very dangerous for
us to see that to China. It is unacceptable for
us to see that to China. But number two, there
are massive rare minerals on the moon. There are enormous
economic advantages. It is current US law that it is
the policy of the American government to have a sustained
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human habitation either on the lunar surface or in cislunar orbit.
This investment in beating China to the moon. And by
the way, the Moon is a stepping stone to Mars.
We will go to Mars, but we haven't landed on
a celestial body in over fifty years. So we're gonna
land on the Moon first to make sure we know
how to do it, and then we're gonna go to Mars.
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This investment, I wrote this investment in there. I will
say there was significant resistance, and without getting too much
into the sausage making, we won against the resistance. This
is in there. It is a massive investment. Well, yeah,
that is exactly right.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
That's number nine. Number ten.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Cafe standards, the standards that mandate you keep having to
have higher and higher fuel efficiency on your cars. That's
what the Biden administration has used as its tool, as
one of its tools to wage the war on the
internal combustion engine, to try to force every car to
be electric. Is they keep jacking up CAFE standards higher
and higher and higher. What does that mean? Number one,
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it drives up the cost of your cars. You notice
cars have gotten a lot more expensive. Trucks have gotten
a lot more expensive. Number two, it makes cars less
safe because one of the ways you get the gas
efficiency hire is you replace metal with plastics. You chl
cheap plastic that crumbles it in a crash and more
people die. In the commerce section of the oneful, big,
beautiful bill, you know what we did to cafe standards?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
What was that zeroed them out? Really they're gone.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
So it's actually in this so you're telling me that
my car, instead of being all plastic, we have a
little finger bade and everything breaks. They can actually go
back and say, hey, we're not trying to save weight here,
we're trying to actually make safe cars.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It can be a great American car again, made a
steel tough as hell. And by the way, you want
to buy electric car, great, that's your choice. You want
to have to hybrid, great, you want to buy a
gas car great. It ought to be consumers choosing. And
actually the way we did this we very much modeled
how in twenty seventeen we repealed the individual mandate on Obamacare.
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So that was a fight I led in twenty seventeen.
The individual mandate. The way we eliminated it is under
the rules of reconciliation, we could not eliminate the legal
mandate to buy health insurance, which was the individual mandator
under Obamacare. So you know what we did. We made
the penalty zero. So you used to be the IRS
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finds you. If you didn't buy health insurance, the IRS
would find you. It is still the law. You're required
to buy health insurance. Don't you will be fined zero
dollars and zero cents. We did the same thing to
cafe standards, so they can put their standards out, but
the penalty for violating it is zero. And I want
to mention, look, this is again like PBS at NPR,
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this has been a conservative battle for fifty years.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
And Democrats have been winning for fifty years unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And we got this done. I wrote this portion, it
is in the bill. It is zeroed out, and we
got this done. And I'm willing to bet fewer than
one percent of our listeners even knew we had done it,
because we won so many victories that this falls all
the way down to number.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Ten on the list. Incredible, well done.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
The final two, yep, the final two is you now
are very near and dear to my heart. Number eleven
is school choice. In this bill, we pass the single
largest and most consequential federal school choice bill in the
history of our country. I wrote this provision. Every single
American taxpayer can now contribute up to seventeen hundred dollars
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a year to a scholarship granting organization in the States
and get a dollar for dollar credit on their taxes.
It means the money is free. The effect of this
is going to be tens of billions of new scholarship
money in the States for school choice, for K through
twelve school choice. We're going to do a subsequent pod
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that does a really deep die because.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
This is part of your legacy. By the way, this
is going to be part of your lig.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
This is the issue I care more about than anything else.
I have spent thirty years fighting for it, and we're
going to do another pod where we do a very
deep die because there's some aspects of this that I
want the listeners to appreciate that are both incredible policy
victories but also massive political victories. We are creating incentives
to turn blue states red, to build constituencies of parents
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and kids who want fantastic educations. This is I told
the President, if and when we get this done, you
will go down in history as one of the greatest
civil rights presidents in our nation's history. Your critics will
never acknowledge that.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, but the reality will be you're going to change
poor communities.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
The reality is the school choice provision is massive, and
it's in the bill. And then the final number twelve
are the Trump accounts, the invest America accounts. Again, I
wrote this provision.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
This could fundamentally change this country.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
By the way, starting next year July fourth of next year,
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States
of America, every child in America will have a personal
investment account. Every newborn child will have it seated with
one thousand dollars. Parents, family employers can contribute up to
five thousand dollars a year in a tax advantage account.
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All of that money is invested in the S and P.
Five hundred is invested in the stock market. That enables
every kid to enjoy the incredible benefits of compound growth,
which will transform our kids. The wealth creation for the
next generation of Americans will be utterly transformative and not
only that this creates a new generation of capitalists, as
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our kids will all be owners of the largest employers
in America. These two victories, school choice and personal investment
accounts for kids without exaggeration, Ben and I've told the
President this. I think ten years, twenty years, thirty years
from now, these will be the two things everyone remembers
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from this bill everything else. I listed one through ten,
which are massive that they are conservative victories for the generations.
I think eleven and twelve will dwarf one and ten
because the difference. We will see trillions of dollars invested
in four oh one case for kids in these Trump accounts.
That will change the future of every one of our
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kids and make them all have skin in the game
in our capitalist society. And school choice is going to
literally provide hope and opportunity to millions of kids. We
got both of them done. Those are victories, generational victories,
and when the President signed it on July fourth, they
were victories for all of America.
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