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July 15, 2025 38 mins

This week on Power Hour, more Epstein evidence to be released, Ghislaine Maxwell ready to spill the “truth,” Democrats’ anti-ICE rhetoric slammed, White House hits “pathetic” Karen Bass stunt, and King Charles and Prince Harry aides meet in private.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Power Power with Gabriella Power.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello and welcome to Power Aura. I'm Gabriella Power. Thank
you for joining us. We have a massive show coming
off and we'll be getting into what's happening with the
Epstein files as Lara Trump claims that the Trump administration
will be releasing more evidence now. Former President Joe Biden
also defends the use of his autopen and over the weekend,

(00:28):
President Trump reflected on his assassination attempt one year after Butler, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
God was protecting me, maybe because God.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Wanted to see our country.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
Is better, or do really well make America great again.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's a little bit of a dangerous profession being president lea,
but I really don't like to think about.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
It too much.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Certainly it was a miracle. If Trump didn't turn his
head in that moment, we'd be living in a very
different world. But what everyone can surely agree on, whether
you like his politics or not, he is the most
entertaining president in the world. This weekend, he handed Chelsea
the Club World Cup trophy, and he was supposed to
leave the podium, but instead he stayed up there celebrating

(01:11):
with the players, soaking in the Wind. Joining us now

(01:47):
is Elizabeth Pipco, former RNC spokeswoman.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Elizabeth, It is great to see you.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I want to start with Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files,
one of the biggest stories in the world right now,
which is not going away any time soon, because we
know more than a thousand girls and women were abused
or trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein, but only one person, Glene Maxwell,
is in jail over this. She's serving twenty years on

(02:12):
child sex trafficking charges. And Epstein's victims claimed that they
were passed around to Epstein's wealthy and powerful friends who
regularly visited his homes, including his private island, and last
week we were told that the Justice Department and the
FBI found that there was no client list, and essentially.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
This was it. We're not getting any more information now.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Director of the FBI Cash Betel posted on x over
the weekend saying that conspiracy theories just aren't true. I
don't think that went down very well, and FBI Deputy
Director Dan Bongino has reportedly been fighting with Attorney General
Pam Bondie over how badly she's handled this publicly. Now,
Donald Trump has defended both of them. This is what

(02:56):
he had to say about Dan Bongino.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Oh, I think so, I did. I spoke to him today.
Dan Vongino, very good guy. I've done him a long time.
I've done his show many many times, and he founded terrific. Actually, no,
I think he's in good shape.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Trump also defended Pam Bondi, saying she's doing a fantastic job,
and then went on to say for years it's Epstein
over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to
files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Komi Brennan, and the
losers and criminals of the Biden administration. I mean, suggesting
that it was written by Obama seems pretty ridiculous. We

(03:37):
have to get more into these files in a moment,
but I just want to ask off, firstly, what do
you make of what's happening inside the Trump administration and
the fallout over these files that we're not getting.

Speaker 6 (03:50):
Yeah, I mean, first of all, great to see you,
Thanks for having me back. It's funny you asked what
do I think about what's happening in the administration.

Speaker 7 (03:57):
It's almost funny.

Speaker 6 (03:57):
I think there's more happening outside the administration right because
it's the administration, minus a few people here and there
that seems as though that they're very much on the
same page, and I'm just wanting to move on here.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
And then there's everyone on the outside.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
That's confused about the way that this was handled and
presented and kind of has questions. It's interesting to me
that it's happening under this president.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
Right.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Everyone knows I'm a giant supporter of President Trump, and
I'm a supporter of his partially because of his transparency.

Speaker 7 (04:24):
So I actually don't.

Speaker 6 (04:25):
Think that this is the end of the story, even
if the admin had originally planned for it to be.
This is a man who I kind of think wins
as much as he does because he listens to the
American people, unlike the politicians before him on both the
left and the right. And if he's listening to the people,
not just in his base, by the way, but anyone
that's followed the story, I mean, you detail the tiny
bit of it, it's one of the most disgraceful stories

(04:47):
that we have of, you know, the last ten to
fifteen years that people like I grew up having to follow.
So the fact is, if it's not going away, Donald
Trump is not going to show it aside because he
knows that he owes answers to the people who put
him in the office that he's in.

Speaker 7 (05:00):
So it's a combination of things.

Speaker 6 (05:01):
I don't know if the timing was correct when he
first said why are we talking about Jeffrey Epstein? It
was during a meeting where they were actually discussing the
flood in Texas. If I'm not mistaken, I think they're
still looking for bodies right now. So obviously timing is everything.
Maybe that wasn't the time for that topic to come up. However,
I understand the people's concern, and I think President Trump
as well understands the people's concern. It is going to

(05:22):
listen and if people are still going to talk about
this and ask questions and be angry about the way
it was handled, I think he's going to come back
to the table and talk more about it.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, And it appears that is the case because we
know that many MAGA voices who proudly support Trump are
pushing back on this because they were promised truth and
transparency and they're not going to let this go. They're
not going to let the Trump administration move away from it.
And Laura Trump prevealed on the Benny Johnson Show today
that the Trump administration.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Is listening and suggested that more evidence will be released.

Speaker 8 (05:55):
Listen to this the consternation out there, and I think
he's going to want to set things as well. So
I believe that there will probably be more coming on this,
and I believe anything that they are able to release
that doesn't you know, damage any witnesses or anyone under
age or anything like that, I believe they'll probably try
to get out sooner rather than layer because they hear

(06:15):
it and they understand it.

Speaker 7 (06:17):
So hopefully we see that happen soon in the.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Later So, yes, we can expect more transparency around this,
more evidence to come.

Speaker 9 (06:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
Look, I mean les Laura said, this is a man
who's listening. And if people are talking about and asking questions,
and I think if anyone was in the White House,
maybe I would feel differently, But knowing it's Donald Trump,
I would assume that his administration is listening. The kind
of people that he has in the administration of the
types that we're asking these questions before they went in, right,
so they actually understand where the people are coming from.
Why there's this much of an uproar considering what happened

(06:50):
and how this was related to the public. So I
would assume, just like Laura said, if the people are
going to continue to ask questions. Donald Trump is one
of few presidents who likes the liver for the people
who put him in the position that he's in, and
I would assume that they're going to release more information,
like she said, that can be released, but I assume
they're going to figure out a way to get some
answers out to the people, because Donald Trump does respect
the people who put him in there and the people

(07:11):
that have questions about things like this, something he's talked
about quite a bit as well.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
The Daily Mail is reporting that Glen Maxwell he is
willing to speak in front of Congress about the Epstein files.
A source told the Daily Mail that despite the rumors,
Gleane was never offered any kind of play deal and
should be more than happy to see before Congress and
tell her story. Elizabeth, I'm sure plenty of people would
support something like this.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Look, it would be very interesting, to say the least.
I don't know that many details about her case, and
you know, what she was offered or wasn't the fact
if you're of, you know, the camp that is in
the interest of full transparency, you would want something like this,
right because she's already behind bars. We already know what
she was a part of. But more information can never hurt.
So I would assume people would be excited about this.
Then again, you never know where she was coming from

(07:56):
and why someone like her would want to go out
and testify on the discuss crimes that she was a
part of. But I'd be curious to see where that goes,
because I can only imagine that more and more people
are going to be curious for that, because if you
want transparency, you actually don't care who it comes from
or where it comes from.

Speaker 7 (08:11):
You just want more information out there.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Speaking at Toenning Point, USA and an event of the way, Ken,
Director of National Intelligence tells me Gabad claim that there
is a war with a dape state going on.

Speaker 10 (08:23):
I think the campaign was hard. You think what President
Trump went through was hard, and it was the road
ahead will not be easy. I can attest personally that
in my work as the Director of National Intelligence, the
deep state is fighting us every step of the way,
and it exists within every single federal agency.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
And so I feel the.

Speaker 10 (08:47):
Same frustration that I see many of you expressing on
x or in different platforms about why aren't things going faster?
Why aren't we getting results more quickly? I feel this
frustration every single day. We are pushing hard know that
they are pushing hard back.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's beth pretty interesting insight there from Telsea Gabad suggesting
that there is still this fight going on with the
deep state.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
What did you make of? What shit to say?

Speaker 6 (09:17):
You know, I completely agree there is a fight, and
it's a fight that's going to continue to go on
because those those that have built and upheld Washington, d C.
For all it is the good and the bad, those
are people that are still in there right and there
are people that are very hard to get rid of
when they've been around for such a long time. The
fact is, I remember when Elon Musk had announced that
he was going into the administration and people asked me

(09:38):
what I thought, and.

Speaker 7 (09:39):
I said, I think he's going to be very disappointed.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
I think it's going to end badly purely actually, because
so many people go in, they're going to be able
to make this giant difference and don't actually realize what
it looks like when you work for the federal government.

Speaker 7 (09:51):
They don't know what it looks like when you're.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
Up against so many people and so many institutions that
have been in place long before you were born and
that are basically meant to work against people like him
and people like Tulci, people that want to go in
and do things differently, not by the books, not by
the system, and make some kind of real change and
make that change fast. So I think what you said
makes perfect sense. It's what we kind of expected from
an administration filled with people like Cash Battel, like Tulci, Gabbard.

Speaker 7 (10:15):
Like Dan Bongino. So it makes sense.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
And honestly, I'm just I'm happy that despite being in there,
she's still able to go out tell the truth and
tell that to the people, because people are curious about
what she's doing. They're curious about what goes on and there,
and they're curious if the people that they have faith
in are going to kind of turn into that deep
state or stay on their side and stay on the
outside despite being in the government. So it's actually refreshing
to see her talk that way.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Former President Joe Biden has defended his use of the
autopen in an interview with The New York Times. We
know that he granted clemency in pardon more than fifteen
hundred individuals, in what the White House described at the
time as the largest single day act of clemency by
a US president. Biden insists that he made every decision
on his own, Yet we know that he did not

(10:59):
personally say many of these documents. His White House staff
used an autopen to do.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
So. This is what Donald Trump had to say today.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
I mean, you're talking about the autopen. Look, the autopen,
I think is maybe one of the biggest scandals that
we've had in fifty to one hundred years. This is
a tremendous scandal. And I know the people on the
other side of the OSS desk a resolute desk. Unfortunately
he used it before me. But you know, we have

(11:29):
our choice of seven desks. They're all beautiful, but I
chose the resolute and so did he, unfortunately. But the
people on the other side of the resolute desk, I
know them, Lisa, the whole group, and they're no good.
There's sick people. And I guarantee he knew nothing about

(11:51):
what he was saying. I guarantee it.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
This interview just raises more questions over those pardons, including Fauci's.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
He's was signed with an order pen.

Speaker 6 (12:03):
I mean, look, this is it's the kind of thing
that nightmares are made of. If you had said this
what's going on during his administration, we would have been
told that we were lying and making things up, like
we were told anytime anyone on the Republican side that
tried to bring attention to Joe Biden and his obvious decline.

Speaker 7 (12:18):
And now that it's.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
Happening, now that there's proof that this happened, people just
kind of want us to forget about it. The fact
is this is a huge scandal. I can only imagine
how it would be reported on if it was Donald
Trump who was using auto pens left and right for
big decisions like this, possibly done.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Without his knowledge. It's sad.

Speaker 6 (12:34):
It's disgraceful to happen in the United States of America.

Speaker 7 (12:37):
It's more disgraceful that people are.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Politicizing it and not reporting on it the way they
should be because they are against the fact that Donald
Trump is the one bringing it to light and Donald
Trump one day twenty four election, that's.

Speaker 7 (12:47):
The fact of the matter.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
And I think any real journalist prior to twenty sixteen
would have had no problem covering a story like this,
whether it was a Republican or a Democrat. And it's
sad that the country has changed so much that we
don't have those standards anymore. But the fact is any
American left right pro Trump provided in between doesn't matter,
would have a problem with this and should have a
problem with us.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Finally, we have to talk about Michelle Obama because Michelle
Obama and actress Julia Luis Dreyfus, both multi multi millionaires,
have taken to the Awaves to complain about how difficult
life is for American women.

Speaker 11 (13:21):
Listen to this, women, we have so many landmines and
barriers and don'ts and limitations. It's you know, I mean, Craig,
you're the guy at the table, But I think it's
important for all guys listening, especially men raising daughters, to

(13:42):
realize that that difference, you know, and that that thing
that inadvertently, as you were loving and raising these beautiful girls,
there are so many rules.

Speaker 12 (13:53):
Bake them, make us small, baked in without our knowing it. Yeah,
you know, and I wish I could. I mean, I well,
you know, I remember people saying, oh, well, she's a
female doctor, as opposed to just she's a doctor.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Former Fast Lady has previously complained about how expensive it
was to live in the White House.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
I mean, it's a bit painful to listen to this.

Speaker 6 (14:18):
It's more than painful, honestly, it's disgraceful.

Speaker 7 (14:21):
It's sad.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
It's almost ironic, right because this is the person that
we as women should be hearing from. You know, it
was out there telling us that you can actually do
whatever you want as a woman. Look at me, Look
where I came from, Look where I ended up, and
look what I have now.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
She's the person that can prove that everything that she's.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
Saying is somebody that can be beaten, something that you.

Speaker 7 (14:39):
Can rise above.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
The fact is, of course women are met are different,
and women are treated a certain way in society, and
there's people out there that will treat you horribly no
matter what. But the fact is, someone like Michelle Obama
is proof that doesn't matter where you come from or
how people treat you, you can become one of the
most powerful people in the world. The fact that this
is kind of a new thing in America. It's the
oppression Olympics and apparently even former first ladies are willing

(15:01):
to compete in it. It's sad and it's pathetic, and
I can't understand why she's doing it, but I know
that she is desperate reviews and attention and some kind
of relevancy again, So that is my only guess, truly
for why someone has educated as Michelle Obama would even
bother saying that.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Elizabeth Pipcoe, former RNC spokeswoman, thank you so much for
joining us on Power. Our great to speak to you again.

Speaker 7 (15:22):
You too, talk soon.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
It's time for media meltdowns. Well, it's no secret the
mainstream media is still suffering from teds and it seems
that always looking for new angles or some fake news
to slam the president. Washington Post Associate editor Jonathan Kapeart
seems concerned that we're not questioning Donald Trump's mental acuity

(15:51):
in the same way that Joe Biden had been questioned.

Speaker 13 (15:55):
So the thing I keep coming back to on a
whole lot of things that the president does, asking the question,
why are we not talking about his mental acuity in
the way we would if President Biden had been saying
and doing a lot of these erratic things.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
And we're not.

Speaker 13 (16:14):
I think we need to start having that conversation.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
And that went to air on PBS, the taxpayer funded
network which has recently been exposed for increasing its negative
coverage of Donald Trump and Republicans to more than ninety percent.
But a couple of points for Jonathan k Part the
media did not question Biden's mental acuity.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
They covered it up.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
And if you want to compare the sitting president to
Joe Biden, let's do it here is Donald Trump.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying
we needed new legislation, We must have legislation to secure
the border. But it turned out that all we really
needed was a new president.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
And this was Joe Biden in just last year.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
So I want to thank you all for being here,
and now we'm I introduce you next.

Speaker 14 (17:10):
Who's next, distinguished guests. The Prime Minister of the Republic
of India.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Joining us now is broadcaster and commentator Jeff Krue. Jeff,
great to see you again. Can I get your reaction
to the coverage that US taxpayers are getting on PBS
raising concerns that were not focused on Donald Trump's mental acuity.

Speaker 15 (17:43):
Well, PBS has been historically left wing for decades, and
their coverage is very biased, and they had no problem
with Joe Biden's metal acuity, and Joe Biden couldn't even
remember his own cabinet. Donald Try goes in front of
rallies and speaks for hours and seems to be mentally

(18:05):
sharp to me for a seventy nine year old man,
And the fact that they keep bringing this up is crazy.
And they were like totally fine with Joe Biden. Really,
I think he had a problem from before he was
elected in twenty nineteen. I mean, during the campaign of
twenty twenty, he was you know, he confused his sister

(18:28):
and his wife, and I don't think he ever really
understood who his defense secretary was.

Speaker 16 (18:34):
He could never figure out the name Lloyd Austin.

Speaker 15 (18:37):
So I mean, it's just it's amazing that they had
no problem with that, but they find some issue with
Donald Trump.

Speaker 16 (18:43):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
And we all watched the decline of Joe Biden in
real time, and if there was a decline of Donald Trump,
would all witness that as well, And of course we'd
be calling that, but we're not saying it now. Over
the weekend, the White House is honored Corey Compartoori, the
hero firefighter who was killed last year in Butler when
the gunman tried to assassinate Donald Trump. The White House
posted on X one year ago. Corey Competoi died a

(19:07):
hero shielding his family from an assassin's bullet in Butler.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
His courage, love and sacrifice.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Will never be forgotten. We honor Corey today and always now.
The President has also opened up about coming so close
to losing his life just one year ago.

Speaker 5 (19:24):
You know, great confidence in these people. I know the people,
and they're very talented, very capable. That they had a
bad day, and I think they'll admit that they had
a rough day. There's a very dangerous job being president.

Speaker 9 (19:37):
You know.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
I say a race card driver one percent of one percent,
think of that day. It's not a lot a bull rider.
I think that's pretty dangerous. It's like one tenth of
one percent day, and with a president's like five percent.
Why didn't you tell me this? I could have we

(20:00):
made a different decision, But I wouldn't have made a
different decision because we're doing so well. The country's back.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
The sacred service that has an annual budget of three
point two billion dollars displayed utter incompetence that day. Are
you confident that they'll be able to get it right
next time that there is an attempt on Trump's life.

Speaker 15 (20:21):
No, I'm not confident because nobody's been fired. I mean
the only real ramifications were six people were suspended for
between ten and forty two days, and a man lost
his life, as he pointed out, a real hero who
shielded his family. Two other people, remember, were injured. President
Trump came within you know, millimeters of dying. If he

(20:43):
hadn't have turned his head to look at an immigration chart,
he would have been dead. I mean, the incompetence is
just mind boggling. I mean, the shooter had a drone
in the air on that day, but the Secret Service,
with a budget, as you pointed out, a three point
two billion did not, and he was literally running around
the whole site for hours and not apprehended. I mean,

(21:06):
they should have never allowed President Trump to go out
on the stage. So we still need transparency, We need disclosure.
The documents haven't been released. Everything needs to be declassified.
The man is dead, so they're not protecting anyone. It's
got to come forward, the family of the killer of
the Yeah, the man he did kill Cory has really

(21:28):
not cooperated. We haven't heard anything from them, So there
are just so many questions that remain a year later.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Are you frustrated that we still don't know anything about
the gunman?

Speaker 15 (21:40):
Very frustrated because some of his friends say it doesn't
make sense that he would have done it. Other information says, well,
he went to a range forty times to practice and
that was the same range the Department of Homelanded Security
officials used to practice air shooting. There must be footage

(22:01):
of him doing that. There's got to be more information.
I think they got into his phone finally, so all
of that information I mean needs to be forthcoming. If
I were President Trump, I'd be completely frustrated by the
lack of action that we've seen in the past year.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Looking back on that incident just more than twelve months
ago now, and it was quite incredible watching the footage
that Donald Trump happened to turn his head in at
that moment he was just milli seconds away from it
being a different outcome.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Do you believe it was divine intervention?

Speaker 16 (22:37):
I do. I do. I think that's the only thing
that can explain that.

Speaker 15 (22:40):
I mean, I think it was the hand of God,
and I think Donald Trump is a changed person because
of it. He is, I think different because he realizes
he was saved for something important, and that is really
to save America. I mean sometimes I think about what
would have happened if he would.

Speaker 16 (22:55):
Have been killed.

Speaker 15 (22:57):
Kamala Harris would be our president right now. The country
would have been thrown into turmoil. I mean, God really
not only saved President Trump, he really saved the country.

Speaker 16 (23:08):
It would be a disaster right now.

Speaker 15 (23:10):
So that's why I think he's acting with such urgency
on so many issues. I mean, he realizes this is
a gift from God that he's been given, and he
is acting very quickly to try to get as much
done as he can in this second term.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
I want to talk to you about the Democrats. It
appears some of them are encouraging attacks on ICE agents.
Some desperate Democrats are showing that they're all in on
this Trump resistance, and it appears that some are encouraging
attacks of this.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
Donald Trump's modern Dagscapo is scooping folks up off the streets.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
They are in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off
to foreign torture dungeons.

Speaker 17 (23:49):
This is America, so not the Soviet Union, but not
behind the Iron Curtain, is not the nineteen thirties, And
every single one of them, no matter what it takes,
no matter how long it takes, will of course be
identified that in fact is the law.

Speaker 10 (24:07):
They're acting more like vigilantes than of agents of our government.
How can we even trust that these are government officials.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
It's nothing more than kidnapping.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
And just like what Tampon Tim said, ilhan Omar claimed
that ICE agents were sending illegals to dungeons around the world.
She says that we're seeing people be abducted and sent
to dungeons in foreign countries.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
I mean, Jeff, this is insane.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
And these claims are being made by the left while
ICE agents are getting shot at.

Speaker 15 (24:41):
Right, it is insane. Now, now, remember go back to COVID.
I mean the Democrats were masking up. I mean they
were all four masks. I mean the Democrats never met
a mask they didn't love during COVID. Now they want
people that are really being threatened, people whose family are
being threatened, to be unmasked so that can be targeted.

(25:01):
And let me tell you, these leftists, many of them
are deranged, many of them do commit violence. You've seen
an incredible increase in the attacks on ICE. More people
were deported during the Obama administration, yet there was never
an attack on ICE. This is all because of the
Trump derangement syndrome and all the left wing nonsense. It

(25:25):
is being really targeted at Donald Trump. They see this
as a way to get after Donald Trump. And really
all he's doing is sending ICE out to take people
out of this country that are here illegally. And they're
starting with the violent ones, the ones that have criminal records,
and the American people support this. They don't want these

(25:45):
people in this country. So the Democrats can continue on
this road. But it's not going to help them politically.
I think it's going to make it even harder for
the Democrats to win by power because I think they're
out of step with the American people.

Speaker 16 (25:58):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, And you make a good point that the data
and the polling shows that the majority of Americans do
support this, do support deporting illegals, and as you say,
ICE agents at the moment, I think assaults are up
more than seven hundred percent, which is so concerning. But
La Mayor Karen Bass, she's been campaigning against ICE and
she's signed in executive order which includes offering cash payments

(26:21):
to illegals in response to the ICE raids. She says
cash cards with a couple one hundred dollars on them
can be distributed by immigrants' rights groups in the space
of about a week.

Speaker 18 (26:33):
The executive directive that I will be signing in a
few minutes is to help the city family, to help
the city workforce, to help the city departments and all
of the general managers essentially develop preparedness plans that have
specific protocols and that help city workers know how to

(26:55):
address immigration officials should they approach a city department.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Jeff, As you say, some of these rights has resulted
in detaining countless violent criminals. But Karen Bass, we just
heard her, she's doubling down on her defense of illegals.

Speaker 15 (27:13):
Karen Bass is someone that trained in Communist China, Communist Cuba,
so she is a communist. Of course, the mayoral leader
in New York as a socialist slash communist. I mean,
that's the direction the Democrat Party is going into the
far far left. And you know she's talking about this
kind of assistance program for illegals.

Speaker 16 (27:33):
What about our working citizens? What about those that are.

Speaker 15 (27:37):
That are legally here, that are that are tax paying,
What assistance is she offering them? And of course these
illegals are taking jobs that could go to legitimate citizens
of this country. And they are really doubling and tripling
down here with this program of getting behind folks that
are here illegally.

Speaker 16 (27:56):
It's amazing to me. I don't think it's going to work.

Speaker 15 (27:58):
Karen bass is president over a horrible response to the fires,
the riots that occurred a few weeks ago.

Speaker 16 (28:06):
Now she's doing this kind of a program.

Speaker 15 (28:08):
She's trying to really usurp what the federal government has
the responsibility to do. Cities have no right to get
in between what ICE agents are doing.

Speaker 16 (28:17):
That's not the role of a mayor.

Speaker 15 (28:20):
So it just goes to show you the split that
we have in this country between the two parties. And
I think the Democrats are just moving further and further
to the left.

Speaker 16 (28:32):
I don't think it's going to help them, I really don't.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
I want to talk to you about an Australian story
that is making headlines around the world. The e Safety
Commissioner here, known as e Karen has been pushing to
have children bounded from YouTube. Now it has been revealed
that Julie Edman Grant's office actually published several children's cartoons
to YouTube as part of her own social media publishing strategy.

Speaker 19 (28:56):
Only you have the power to protect your personal information.

Speaker 20 (29:00):
You know what, You're right.

Speaker 16 (29:02):
I'm saying no to Jenner.

Speaker 19 (29:04):
I'll be careful who I share my personal information with.

Speaker 20 (29:09):
It's a good thing.

Speaker 19 (29:10):
You're so responsible, wonder well. It is my greatest power.
We all have the power to be responsible, protect your
personal information. And if you're still not sure, ask an
adult you trust for help.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
E Safety has a lively YouTube page featuring videos with
cartoon animals, kid friendly animations to educate children. Yet the
E Safety Commissioner has been pushing to ban fifteen year
olds from YouTube. I mean, Jeff, how would Americans handle
this sort of thing over there? If there was this
censorship push, this pushing for a YouTube ban for children.

Speaker 15 (29:53):
You know it would not go over well. I mean,
this is a country that has the First Amendment. Thankfully,
efforts to try to sense Americans I have not gone
over well. You saw it during a COVID there was
a pushback Hillary Clinton was doing an interview the other
day where she was talking about, you know, banning material
on social media, and she got a lot of blowback

(30:14):
for that. It's not something that the American people like
to see. I mean, as long as the content is
not promoting violence or profanity or something that is of
course not appropriate for young people, I don't think American
people would stand for that at all. So yeah, it's just,
thankfully something that we have in this country that we

(30:34):
need to make sure that we embrace, and that's the
ability to speak our minds and to have this first Amendment.
It really sets us apart from a lot of countries.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Jeff Kruez, thank you so much for joining us on
Power Hour.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Great to speak with you, Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Joining us now for all the role news is Louise Roberts,
News Cult columnist, Louise.

Speaker 20 (30:55):
Great to say you see you too, Gabriella.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Let's start with Wim Wooden.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
The Princess of wild received a huge run of applause
and sheers as she arrives.

Speaker 9 (31:03):
Let's take a look, well, look at that, and.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
The Princess of Wales, Princess Catherine. She's making a SETI
return to public duties following her cancer diagnosis, and she
wold Center Court handing at Yannick Sinner the Wimwooden trophy.
What more can you tell us about her involvement at
wimwoed and well, the Queen in waiting is back, isn't she?
She absolutely owned Centre Court on the weekend.

Speaker 21 (31:53):
So was that appearance we've just seen there in the
beautiful cream suit and the standing ovation which still gives
me goosebumps when I watched that as well, and when
she saw she gave the Wimbledon final winner his trophy.

Speaker 20 (32:04):
Which is well, which is beautiful.

Speaker 21 (32:06):
But then of course the next day on Sunday when
she arrived with William and also the two children, George
and Charlotte as well, and the way the crowd erupted,
this is applause again. Everyone is so thrilled to see
her back. I think it's very much too. It's you know,
wearing the royal blue dress and having the Wimbledon ribbon

(32:26):
dis below her collar bone on the right side. It's
very much Kate is back, and it's a real statement
from her about quiet power and dignity. And I might
be in recovery, but I'm not retreating. I will choose
which events I go to, and of course Wimbledon's a
fabulous event. It's very public, it's broadcast to millions, and
she didn't go to as Scott as we know, but
she's chosen Wimbledon to come back into the scene with

(32:48):
the cause.

Speaker 20 (32:48):
Those two beautiful children.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
It was amazing. I agree with you get griose pumps
as well. Just looking at that applause, how loved she is.
And yeah, I completely agree with that assessment of Princess Catherine.
There were so many kind of heartwarming moments throughout women
and watching it. There was a cute moment when she
was with Princess Charlotte. They were smiling at one another
as they're enjoying the tournament. Plenty of heartwarming moments there.

(33:13):
Now let's talk about the King and Queen, who will
be hosting Donald and Milania Trump on a state visit
to the UK in September. So the US President and
First Lady'll be staying at Windsor Castle and it will
mark the first time a world leader has received a
second state visit to the country. What can we expect
from this.

Speaker 21 (33:31):
Well, they're arriving September seventeen, and they're spending two days
at Windsor Castle with the course with Charles and Camilla.

Speaker 20 (33:36):
So Donald Trump and Millenia will be there, and as.

Speaker 21 (33:39):
You say, it is unprecedented, especially for a world leader
to get that second state visit at Windsor.

Speaker 20 (33:44):
So what did a show.

Speaker 21 (33:45):
I think that Charles is being very strategic in a
sort of political space. It's not just about the pageanty here.
It's more about building relationship with Donald Trump. And they've
already got a great friendship as we know, and of
course we know that mister Trump loves the Royal family.

Speaker 20 (34:00):
He was very effusive about the late Queen, calling her
a great lady.

Speaker 21 (34:04):
And I don't think it hurts that Charles is working
very hard to keep that relationship strong, given a call
that Harry lives in the US and has a rather
checkered past with.

Speaker 20 (34:13):
The actual president himself, as does Meghan.

Speaker 21 (34:16):
So I think, you know, Charles has been very strategic,
He's been very savvy and he just wants to keep
that relationship strong with the US. Understand, the invitation was
delivered personally by the Prime Minister Kirs Starmer.

Speaker 20 (34:29):
In February when he had a meeting with Trump at
the Oval Office.

Speaker 21 (34:31):
So Trump's had a long time to get very excited
about this, and of course he is very excited, saying,
you know, it's wonderful and it's beautiful and I can't
wait to go over there and see them.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
So it's great.

Speaker 21 (34:42):
It's all really good news, I think from the sort
of US British relations, Yes.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
And interesting.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
As you mentioned the checkered past with Harry and Meghan. Well,
after years of public estrangement with Prince Harry and King Charles,
they may finally be inching towards reconciliation, with their senior
aides spotted whole a private meeting in London, so it
remains unclear at this point who initiated this meeting.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
But what would you say about this, Louise?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Is this the most promising development we've seen so far
and a potential patching up between Prince Harry and King Charles.

Speaker 20 (35:15):
I do think it is.

Speaker 21 (35:16):
I think the fact that Charles's aid actually went to
the meeting and spoke to Meredith Mains, who I believe
is Harry and Meghan's new pr person, very effective. I
think she broke at the BBC interview he did where
he talked about wanting to have a reconciliation with his father,
So this sort of leads on from that.

Speaker 20 (35:33):
And look, Charles's person didn't need to go that meeting.

Speaker 21 (35:36):
Could have been an absolute snub, but it wasn't so.
And also the fact I think that Charles and his
team haven't put out any colms since that meeting. Now,
somebody obviously tipped off the paparazzi because the meeting was
held at a private club near Clarence House, and that
photograph was done on a very long lens, so obviously
someone was waiting to capture that picture.

Speaker 20 (35:56):
We don't know who tipped them off.

Speaker 21 (35:58):
I mean, we could speculate that maybe Harry's camp has
more to gain from doing that.

Speaker 20 (36:02):
We just don't know.

Speaker 21 (36:03):
So either way, it's a good look for both of
them to be seeing to broke a peace through their
representative and it's not done through lawyers. There's no kind
of nasty tone to it, was very sort of upbeat
and peaceful, and let's hope that is the start of
a reconcidiation between Charles and his youngest son.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
We'll see.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
It also comes after the King appeared to recently snub
Harry King Charles omitted Prince Harry from a speech praising
my son Prince William during the state banquet for French
President Emmanual mccron. Rather, so, reconciliation might be easier said
than done.

Speaker 20 (36:37):
But it could be.

Speaker 21 (36:38):
But let's hope that this is a new path forward
for them, because they've both got a lot to gain,
I think, from patching things up, and a lot to
lose from continuing this sort of global feud that's been happening.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Absolutely well, let's talk about another family feud that is
playing out in the public. Please bring us up to
speed on the fall art with the Beckham family. There's
apparently been the social media war between the Beckham kids.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
It appears that the Beckham.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Brothers are publicly fighting after Romeo and Cruz blocked Brooklyn
on social media.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
What's happened here?

Speaker 21 (37:12):
Yes, so, I think despite David and Victoria's best efforts
to keep this spat out of the public eye, it's
gone fully nuclear now.

Speaker 20 (37:19):
And it's interesting.

Speaker 21 (37:20):
The social media aspect has been described as the sort
of gen Z version of World War III because it's
not been played at in headlines, which is traditionally where
celebrity families would maintain their positions and sort of argue
with each other.

Speaker 20 (37:33):
It's all done on social media. So yes, Cruz and
Romeo have.

Speaker 21 (37:36):
Reportedly blocked their older brother on Instagram, which is a
real statement in this day and age, very much so,
and apparently happened to day after Brooklyn made a mention
of his younger sister's fourteenth birthday and wish to happy
birthday to Harper. So look, I think, and I've said
this before, I think Brooklyn's made his point. He clearly

(37:58):
wants to be his own person away from the Beckham brand.
But I still think behind the scenes he needs to
work very hard to patch things up with mum and
dad because it's moved from parents v son to now
a war between the brothers. So what's next, I mean,
a complete estrangement from the family. I don't know, and
I do hope not.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Very interesting though, Louise Robert, thank you so much for
joining us.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
It's great to speak to you and that is power.
Allah thank you for your company.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
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