Trump, Iran, and New York's New Direction (Ep. 105)

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Up and down,
counting out,
smiling through the taste of blood in my own mouth.
I got bruises
and broken bones,
but they don't know I ain't in this ring alone.

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I'm a fighter.
No one can say that I'm a running
hider.

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I'm a fighter.
I get back up.
That's what I do.

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I don't think there has been a president
in modern American history that has fought harder
for
The United States,
for this country.
And,
you know, it's it's
I'm trying to fix something here. Sorry.

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And it's it's incredible
that
the more this man fights
for this country,
the more the globalists,
the deep staters
do everything in their power
to try to shut them down, stop them, block them

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from fighting for the American people,
for you and me.
Now you may not agree with everything that he does, and that's fine. You don't have to do that. You don't have to to, you know, like we said yesterday, you don't have to tow the line. You don't have to, you know, blindly follow. The the beautiful thing about about
being

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a conservative
and being an American
is the freedom that you have to disagree
with those that are in charge,
with those people that have been elected to office
to represent you

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on the world stage.
That's what Congress is. That's what the Senate is.
To represent
you,
The president of The United States,
his role is to represent
you on the world stage.

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He is the chief executive officer of the land. It it's his responsibility
to make sure
that the laws
are followed.
It's his job to make sure that the country is safe.
And I find it absolutely
incredible,
absolutely incredible and disturbing

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how there are some in this country
that will do anything that they can possibly do to prevent him from doing just that.
It's disgusting when you really look at it and think about it.
Two attempts on this man's life
in the lead up to this election.

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Two, that we know of. There are probably more.
There could be more on the way.
If you listen to people like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity and,
you know,
you know,
conservative voices in in that
neocon
perpetual war always wanting to fight,

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faction of the conservative party
or the Republican party.
All they try to do is just drum up fear,
warmonger,
and this president
has made it a point
to pursue peace
at all at all odds,

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at every
opportunity.
We saw that this week with the conflict, the twelve day war between Iran and Israel.
Did we get involved in it? Yes. We got involved in it.

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Again, like, I I've said many times, I don't I didn't agree with it
because my concern was of one of those protracted,
never ending,
long
term conflicts
at the expense of American lives

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and treasure.
President Trump went out and he said that this is gonna be a short engagement.
We're gonna we're gonna do what we need to do, and we're done.
Be seeing now is how the deep state and the globalists

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are doing
everything in their power
to make sure
that the war between Iran and Israel continues,
stirring up
more
with,
Ukraine and Russia. I had to think for a second. Sorry.

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The deep state's not gonna stop.
They want perpetual war. They want World War three because
the perpetual war, World War three, will not only bankrupt countries, it'll kill millions of people,
and it will actually usher in a whole new world order.

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Now just like World War two did, when World War two came to an end, there was a new order in the world,
the new world order
at that time.
The new world order they're talking about now is that one
unified
government,
that government controlling body that's going to dictate

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where you can live, how you get around, what you can eat,
what you wear,
throwing those implants, those chips.
And you see these morons going on I I've seen it on on TikTok. I've seen it on on Instagram and all those places. You know, these morons go out and they get these these little microchips implanted in their hands and have all their bank account information. Oh, I'm so cool. I can go do look what I can do. I can go scan my hand and pay my bills.

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Yeah.
Remember what the Bible says, the book of Revelation, it talks about
the mark of the beast
being
either in your right hand or in your forehead.
It could very well be a microchip. Could be a tattoo. I don't know.

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Doesn't really say, but it does say it's in, so it makes me think it would be
a microchip, some kind of an implant.
And it got Elon Musk running around with, you know, his implants that he wants that he's that, you know, they they say it's for medical purposes and things like that, but it's for control.
Way off my mark here.

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My whole point was is that
the globalist, the deep staters, they want this perpetual war. They don't wanna see it come to an end.
Again, they're gonna do whatever they can to
keep it all going,
to perpetuate it.
Now
here comes Donald Trump

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reviving the the Reagan doctrine of of peace through strength,
which worked under Reagan,
and then we had the capitulation
under,
liberal
president's following.
You had never ended well, in a a twenty five year war

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in, in
in,
Afghanistan,
which ended horribly
for The United States,
much like it did Russia
when when the when it was the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union tried to
take over
Afghanistan,
failed miserably.
And then we had the hasty withdrawal

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of American troops under Joe Biden,
which
is why I said didn't end well for us either.
They have Donald Trump
bringing back peace through strength,
appointing Pete Hegseth
as the secretary of defense

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or as he often puts in parentheses,
war.
That's what he used to be called. He used to be called the Secretary of War.
And this weekend,
Donald Trump demonstrated American power,
the the warrior ethos that Pete Hegseth was commissioned to bring back to the United States military,

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you saw that in action this weekend.
Within hours of the airstrike,
the ceasefire was called.
There were some limited exchanges between the two,
between Iran and Israel,

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and, of course, there was that one stray
missile that was fired off. I personally think that was
an attempt to restart the whole thing, but
the administration
our administration wasn't having that.
Called the ceasefire

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within hours.
It's amazing. It really is. It is absolutely amazing
how quickly this whole thing shut down,
and now president Trump has been nominated for for a Nobel Peace Prize.
And at least
at least,

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he deserves it.
Not like Obama,
who got it
because he was the equal opportunity employment
president.
Obama did absolutely nothing to earn the Nobel Peace Prize that he won.

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As a matter of fact, Obama dropped over 27,000
bombs over the course of his presidency.
I forget how many it was in the actually, in the last year or yeah. Last year, I think, is when he dropped the most.
He bombed Syria. He bombed
Libya. He bombed everything in sight in The Middle East.

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At least president Trump
legitimately earned the Nobel Peace Prize because only
Donald Trump
could have brokered a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
Now this week, he's up in he's up in, The Netherlands
at, at NATO.

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And,
so we're gonna look at a few clips of a few things that took place,
at the at the meetings today
and over the course of the last couple of days.
And
I think that probably
one of the great things that took place, the the level of respect

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that peace through strength brings.
When you see the reaction
and the welcome that the president received, we looked at some of those clips yesterday
and then today. So let's, let's get into these clips
before it gets too late.
Let's get into some of these clips. So,

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this one is, this is president Trump arriving
at NATO,
And, let's go to, yeah. Let's do this one.
It's kinda weird. The honorable
Donald Trump, president of The United States Of America.
So this is over at The Hague in The Netherlands.
It's weird that there's, like, so quiet.

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All you hear is that buzzing of the,
of the cameras.
Now take a few pictures.

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Kinda weird. Right? Glad we'll be back. Be back in a second for the day.
Alright. So, so they left the stage. They come back a little bit later on, and, this is one of the clips that that I I love. I think it's hysterical.
And, it's a short clip, but this one has made the rounds along social media.

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This was, sitting down,
speaking with,
I forget his first name. Last name is Rut,
but he's a secretary general of NATO,
and,
this was a
very funny exchange. Let's take a look.
I mean, we may do papers on it, Marco. Maybe we're gonna do papers. I I don't even know if you need them. They're not gonna be fighting each other. They've had

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it. They've had a big fight, like two kids in a school yard. You know, they fight like hell. You can't stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes. Then it's easier to stop them. And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get a slogan. Language. Every once in a while, you have to use a certain word.
Alright. Did you catch that?
Did you catch what he said there?
Let let I know there were subtitles, but I I just wanna I wanna play that one more time. It's a short clip. Right? It's not too long, but short clip. Let's play it again. I mean, we may do papers on it, Marco. Maybe we're gonna do papers. I I don't even know if you need them. They're not gonna be fighting each other. They've had it.

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They've had a big fight, like, two kids in a school yard. You know, they fight like hell. You can't stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes, then it's easier to stop them. And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language. And then daddy has to use strong language. Strong language. Strong language. Have to use a certain word.
Well,
yeah. So the secretary general of the of the, of of NATO

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referred to Donald Trump as daddy.
Who's your daddy? And it it made me laugh too when I when I when I first saw the clip because I remember during the,
during the campaign
and,
after the election
when Donald Trump won,
that was a state that was actually a saying that was going around. You know? Daddy's coming home.

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You know? And,
at so I thought it was really interesting,
but I think probably the the best was,
Donald Trump was taking questions with, secretary Hegseth
and secretary Rubio,
up on the up on the platform, and
this this was this was beautiful. This is this is,

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man, I'm looking for where to go.
Okay. Here it is.
So this was a little bit later on. This was during a a press availability, as they call it, a press conference.
So,
I'm gonna set it up for you a little bit. So the this reporter asked Donald Trump about the daddy remark

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and, noting that, that Root
called you daddy. And, the question was, do you consider NATO allies as kind of a your NATO allies is kind of a child?
Donald Trump's response to this was so funny
that if you if you look at secretary Rubio and you look at secretary Hegseth,
they're doing everything they can

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not to crack up behind them. Let's let's take a look.
Mark Rutte, the NATO chief, who is is your friend,
he called you daddy earlier.
Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children? No. He likes me. I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard. Okay? No. He did he did it very affectionate. He daddy, you're my daddy. Do you regard your NATO allies, though, as kind of like children, and they're obviously listening to you, and they're spending more. And you're you're obviously appreciative

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of that. But do you hope that actually they're going to be able to defend themselves, defend Europe on their own without they need help a little bit at the beginning, and I think they'll be able to. And I think they're gonna remember this day. And this was a big day for NATO. You know, this was a very big day. They took it. One of the gentlemen said, you know what? We've been trying to raise money for raise the rate,

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for thirty years, he said. Twenty years that from almost the beginning.
And he's been there for a long time. He said, until you came along, it never happened. What you did is amazing. It's been sort of an amazing day. A deep
Just looking at Marco Rubio and look and looking at, Pete Hegseth, just that
makes it even funnier. Is that

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you
know, there's nobody like Donald Trump. He has a he has this this very unique
sense of humor. And a little bit later on, I'm gonna show you a clip of something that that
that,
that when I when I saw it, I I
I I had I was busting out laughing. It was it was that funny. But,

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but then, they went out to to answer some questions,
and,
one of the questions came up about,
about,
Zelensky.
And, let's see. Let's get to that.
And
because,
which I don't I don't know why Zelensky is there. I because I don't I don't my understanding, Ukraine is not part of NATO,

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at least not yet.
Shouldn't be part of NATO.
Another issue. Another story. We'll get to that some other time. But, but the question came up about Zelensky, and, this here was, here was the president's answer.
I think you just had a meeting with president Zelensky. Did you discuss any ceasefire in this Russo Ukrainian No. No. I just I wanted to know how he's doing. He was very nice, actually. You know, we had little rough times. It was

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couldn't have been nicer.
I think he'd like to see an end to this. I do. I think,
what I took from the meeting couldn't have been nicer, actually, but I I took from the meeting that he'd like to see it end.
I think it's a great time to end it. I'm gonna speak to Vladimir Putin, see if we can get it ended.
But but,
look, these are brave people. They're fighting

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these wars all over the place. You know,
last week, they had, I guess, close I told you, seven close to 7,000
young
soldiers. Russian and Ukrainian soldiers were killed. 7,000 in one week. It's crazy. It's crazy.
So I'll be speaking to Putin. No. I had a good meeting with,
with Zelensky,

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and I had a lot of good meetings. We had a lot of good meetings with a lot of people, a lot of great leaders,
but,
he's he's fighting a brave battle. It's a tough battle.
And he's he's he's not he's not wrong, but,
I would really love to see

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that come to an end also.
I think there's more of a concern about that
conflict erupting into
World War three,
than
the Iran and Israel
conflict
that is now resolved,
or at least for now.
I was looking for

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I was looking for
where was it?
Okay. That's for that. Alright.
Then let's see. We moved on to
Caitlin Collins.
So, Caitlin Collins was at is is at the NATO conference as well, and,
you know, she is absolutely no fan of, Donald Trump. And I don't think Donald Trump's much of a fan of hers either, to be quite honest with you. And,

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so,
president Trump
basically,
like,
just wrecks
Caitlin Collins during this live press conference
at the NATO summit.
And
she is, you know, of course, she represents,

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CNN,
and and CNN is one of those networks that Donald Trump has,
consistently
referred to as fake news and and been doing that for a long time, all the way back to his first administration.
And, you know, she came up there and, you know, smug
little thing that she is. Well, no. She's not little. She's big.

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Not big like
big. Like, big.
And and as usual, she know she had a she had a a loaded question
for
president Trump, and,
let's roll that.
Please go ahead.
Go ahead.

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Oh, fake news, CNN?
I'll hold it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Wait till you hear this question.
I think You should really say how great
our soldiers and our warriors are. I think everyone appreciates our soldiers and our warriors. I I do have two questions for you, mister president. You just cited Israeli intelligence,
on these attacks. Earlier, you said US Intelligence was inconclusive.

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Are you relying on Israeli intelligence for your assessment of the impact of the strikes? No. This is also Iran made the statement,
and it's also if you read the document that was given
that Pete can talk about if you'd like,
the document said it could be very severe damage,
but they didn't take that. They said it could be limited or it could be very severe. They really didn't know other than to say,

(39:28):
it could be limited or it could be very, very severe.
And you didn't choose to put that because it was very early after. Since then, we've collected
additional intelligence. We've also spoken to people who have seen the site, and the site is the site is obliterated.
And we think everything nuclear is down there. They didn't take it out. Okay.

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So
and
always the loaded question from from, CNN and particularly
Caitlin Collins. And, and you gotta love how,
you know, president Trump handles that, you know,
way easier this question.
Now what the the the the backstory to that is that CNN had reported,

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or ran with a conveniently
leaked,
quote, unquote, top secret intelligence assessment,
suggesting that The US strike in Iran
at at at Forto,
the Forto nuclear facility
only set the program back a few months, and that's claimed that the Associated Press and the New York Times,
that that they repeated it as well.

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Now, of course, you know, the whole purpose behind that is to downplay,
president Trump's,
decisive and strategic
military strike. But
today, that
whole narrative just basically crumbled.
The Trump White House released a bombshell statement from the, the Israel the Israel Atomic Energy Commission

(40:57):
completely dismantling CNN fantasy according to the IAEC,
quote, the devastating US strike on Fordo destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.
We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities combined with Israeli strikes and other elements of Iran's military nuclear program
has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons

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by many, many years.
And then,
after reading from that assessment, Trump
took a torch to the legacy media, and he said, quote, our pilots were demeaned by fake news
CNN, which is back there wasting time because nobody's watching them. And he said that, you know, the the room basically erupted

(41:43):
laughing about that. Then he went on to say that the New York Times, they they put on they put out a story that said, maybe they were hit, but it wasn't so bad. Well, it was so bad that it ended the war. Right? So,
and then Tuesday night, president Trump also went on to take on fake news outlets, CNN and New York Times,
after a,
a a dubious top secret intel assessment about The US strikes in Iranian nuclear sites leaked to the media.

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So,
one of the folks that had
put that story out there was,
a report about with the last name of Bertrand, Natasha Bertrand. And Donald Trump took to Truth Social, and he posted, Natasha Bertrand should be fired from CNN.
I watched her for three days doing fake news. She should be immediately reprimanded and then thrown out like a dog.

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She lied on the laptop from Hell story, and now she lied on the nuclear site story attempting to destroy our Patriot
pilots
by making them look bad when in fact they did a great job and hit pay dirt, total obliteration.
She would she should not be allowed to work at fake news CNN. It's people like her who destroy the reputation of a once great network. Her slant was so obviously negative. Besides, she doesn't have what it takes to be on camera.

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An on camera correspondent, not even close,
fire
Natasha.
So let's, let's roll back to this for a second here.
So, an Israeli member that of the of the Knesset
is refuting claims made by president Trump that one of Iran's most,

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foremost nuclear facilities,
had been obliterated following strikes by b two bombers using bunker buster munitions earlier this week.
During the NATO summit
on Wednesday morning, Trump asserted that intelligence agents had inspected the Forto facility and declared a destruct destruction, but MK
Arya Derry
rejected Trump's claim that Israeli operatives had visited Iranian nuclear sites to assess the aftermath of the strikes.

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No one knows because no one has visited there yet, the ultraorthodox
lawmaker told Haredi news site,
told
Haredi news site,
Kikkar
Harshabout, I think. I'm not saying it right.
According to all the statistics, assessments, and satellite imagery, damage
has been caused there.

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Meanwhile,
report responded to reports on the American intelligence assessments, national security adviser,
this is the Israeli national security adviser,
Sachi
Haneghbe, told
Ynet something different.
The Iranian quote, the Iranian program to reduce nuclear weapons has suffered a dramatic blow and will take many years to restore it. The largest uranium or mesh facility

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in Natanz has been completely destroyed.
The reprocessing facility from metallic uranium in
Isfahan
has been completely destroyed. The nuclear facility in Aric, which was intended to enable plutonic
pathways for weapons,
has been destroyed. Regarding the extent of the damage caused by the American bombing of the underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordow,

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the estimates are that it will not be possible to restore to normal operation over time.
Trump and other senior administration officials have pushed back over the past twenty four hours against reports claiming The US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites failed to destroy critical components of nuclear program.
And, this article here goes on.

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Secretary of state Marco Rubio, who has been doubling as Trump's national security adviser, also pushed back on claims that strikes were largely ineffective. The bottom line is they are they are much further away from nuclear weapon today than they were before the president took his bold action. This is the most important thing to understand. Significant,
very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components,
and we're just learning more about it.

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Hegsepp announced on Wednesday that the FBI, that would be today, that the FBI was investigating the leak of the DIA assessment, and he said, quote, of course, we're doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes,
you know, battle damage assessments.
Alright. And,
let's see what else.

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Trump calls for CNN Natasha
Bertrand to be fired
and thrown out like a dog.
Let's,
let's share that.
Alright. So, Trump calls for CNN's Natasha
Bertrand to be fired and thrown out like a dog. Network responds.

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That was the,
that was the truth that I that I truth post that I showed you.
And then, CNN responded with, we stand 100%
behind Natasha Bertrand's journalism, specifically her and her colleagues, reporting the early intelligence assessments of The US attack on Iran's nuclear facility. CNN reporting,
made clear that this was an initial finding that could change with additional intelligence. We have extensively covered president Trump's own deep skepticism about it. However, we do not believe it's responsible to criticize CNN reporters for accurately reporting the existence of the assessment

(47:07):
and accurately characterizing
characterizing its findings, which are in the public interest.
Alright.
Let's get on down over

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here.
So this is this is just
basically
an attempt to just
diminish
the the work of
the United States military,

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president Trump,
and the actions the decisive actions that he took. And we'll come more into that in in just a minute because I have a few things about Carolyn Levitt,
talking about
The US strikes.
And,
I have a couple of other things
to, to talk about here too, some up some more clips.

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And I don't think I have that one, though.
Yeah.
Nope. I don't.
But
we'll just screen share it. Alright. Cool. So
we'll come back to that in just a few minutes.
Now
something that did really something that really came out of this and and just just to go back for one thing,

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only president Trump
can
strike
Iran
And oil prices
drop.
Oil prices plunge after Trump's surprise Middle East ceasefire deal. President Donald Trump announced that China is now authorized

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to resume purchasing oil from Iran, ending a years long policy which prevented such action
through sanctions targeting Tehran's energy sector. While en route to Europe
aboard Air Force One, Trump said the policy change would also encourage additional Chinese purchases of US oil.
The announcement highlights a major shift in US sanctions policy.
Restrictions on Iran's oil,

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exports were first reinstated by the Trump administration in 2018 following the the withdrawal of the Obama era nuclear agreement with Iran.
So
only president Trump
can bring down oil prices

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after a after a strike
at one
of the top oil producing countries
in the world.
It's amazing
what this man can do. It's just absolutely amazing.
And,
let's see. Where is that?

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Now, in regards to the oil prices, of course, you know, it this is just,
it's just an absolutely
it's just an absolute surprise to the world that these that the oil prices have gone down. And, this was, earlier today.
Before we talk about the the moves in oil prices,
lots of attention about this truth social post that president Trump put up saying that, essentially, he's green lighting China to keep buying Iranian oil. How should we read that? The White House came out yesterday to say that this doesn't mean that they're waiving sanctions,

(50:34):
but still pretty notable. Yeah. I mean, you'll be shocked to to hear we don't know,
for a change.
And, look, the headline on our stories today uses the word baffled, and I think that is the key word here because it certainly took Treasury and State officials by surprise. It took the oil traders by surprise. I think it took all of us by surprise. And we're just trying to pass out what it is what it actually means. Now, the interpretation from the White House initially is, yes, he kept hall moves open or at least removed the threat of it being closed. That allows the oil to flow. Others are perhaps interpreting it as maybe there is gonna be

(51:07):
a significant change
here. You know, it is leverage in terms of his Mhmm. Talks with China over tariffs. It's leverage with Iran over the the the continued ceasefire.
So maybe there is change coming anyway. Basically, we're gonna find out Leverage being sanctions relief in this point. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Oil prices,
quite the volatility the last couple of weeks. We're back to where we were, essentially.

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What are we looking out for in in the coming weeks? So I think now attention turns back to global demand, you know, and the supply on the market. So OPEC or the OPEC plus, I should say, continues to add more and more barrels.
At the same time, I think there are deep concerns about what demand will look like going forward. Not I didn't think anyone's suggesting it's falling off a cliff.
But you're getting imbalance in the market, and I think particularly the last couple of weeks has kinda masked that trend. Yeah. That trend is now firmly intact, and we go forward from there. Yeah. And many analysts talking about the potential for a big supply glut once summer demand is out of the way. So I guess we'll just go back to focusing on the fundamentals again.

(52:05):
So,
so oil prices as of yesterday I don't I didn't check them today. $65
a barrel, they were there was going up to a 120 at at the peak of all of this,
because there were concerns, of course, that the Straits Of Hormuz where where the where the where the oil tankers do travel through was gonna be obstructed by Iran. That was one of the threats that they made, that they would, intentionally block it and prevent any vessels from coming in and out. So,

(52:32):
well, thanks to president Trump,
didn't happen, not going to happen,
and, oil prices have dropped back down. So we are should be seeing some relief
at the gas pumps.
Alright. So,
as we said earlier,
talking about the,
the release of classified information by CNN

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and that this is going on well, let let's take a look at the actual
news piece that
stirred up all the attention here. Let's
screen share it because like I said, I didn't pull the clip.
So here it is right here. And it was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is the Pentagon's intelligence arm. And it is worth noting that it is a very early assessment. The strikes were only a matter of days ago, and the intelligence community is still gathering intelligence. They are still working to come up with a full comprehensive picture of what exactly happened here. But based

(53:29):
on a battle damage assessment that was carried out by US central command, essentially looking at the images and looking at what was actually damaged, the defense intelligence agency
has assessed that the core components of Iran's nuclear program,
are largely intact and that Iran's nuclear program has essentially only been set back by months. Now we presented this information to the White House, for comment and White House press secretary, Karen Levitt. She did acknowledge

(53:55):
the existence of this assessment, but she said in a statement that the administration
disagrees with it. She said, quote, this alleged assessment is flat out wrong and was classified as top secret, but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous low level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt
to demean president Trump and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran's nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen,

(54:22):
thirty thousand pound bombs perfectly
on their targets total obliteration. Now, it is worth noting here that there has been,
descent, I should say, within the intelligence community, within, the defense community about just
how much of an impact these massive bunker buster bombs would actually have on Iran's nuclear facilities. It was far from certain given that these bombs had never been tested in an actual combat scenario whether they would actually penetrate those very very deep underground,

(54:49):
tunnels that lie underneath these nuclear facilities. And what we are told is that as of now, this defense intelligence agency assessment,
it does conclude at this point. Again, it is still very
early that those underground facilities including the centrifuges, including the highly enriched uranium,
that everyone has been talking so much about. Those are largely
intact. Now, of course, this does stand at odds with what President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has have been saying in recent days about the impact of these US military strikes. Of course, President Trump said it was totally obliterated.

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And Secretary Hegseth did as well. And he actually also provided CNN with a statement.
And he said that that quote, based on everything we have seen and I've seen it all, our bombing campaign obliterated Iran's ability to create nuclear weapons. Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target
and worked perfectly. The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran. So anyone who says the bombs were not devastating,

(55:47):
is just trying to undermine the president and the successful mission. Now, our sources did emphasize here that there was a severe damage that was done largely to the above ground structures at these nuclear sites.
And so there was damage done, of course, by these massive bombs. But the core components of the nuclear program, we are told, they are largely intact and it only set the program back by a matter of months.

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So that was the, that was the that was the release of the classified information.
And then,
so here's,
Carolyn Levitt.
They took bits and pieces from a leaked top secret intelligence report. And by the way, I understand the FBI is investigating
who was the source of that leak because it's an illegal leak to CNN. And this is the same fake news CNN reporter who wrote the story alleging that the Hunter Biden laptop

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was Russian disinformation, which we know is one of the greatest political hoaxes
this country and the American public have ever seen. And that CNN story does not change the facts. There was a total and complete obliteration of Iran's nuclear facilities.
And because of the president's strike, because of our the the precision of our United States military in this perfectly executed mission,
Iran no longer has the capability to produce a nuclear weapon as imminently as they did prior to the strike. The American people in the world should be grateful for that, and it's disgusting that CNN and the New York Times are disparaging not just the president, but our brave men and women who helped conduct this highly successful operation. What kind of consequence could the leaker face?

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They should go to jail.
I I have I have a thought, actually, and I'm gonna play,
secretary heads Hegseth,
and his comments at the, NATO summit.
And then I'm gonna I'll make I'll I'll tell you what I was thinking.
Here it
is. These pilots,

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these refuelers,
these fighters,
these air defenders,
the skill and the courage it took to go into enemy territory flying thirty six hours on behalf of the American people in the world to take out a nuclear program
is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom.
And then the instinct,
the instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times is to try to find a way

(58:00):
to spin it
for their own political reasons to try to hurt president Trump or our country. They don't care what the troops think. They don't care what the world thinks. They wanna spin it to try to make him look bad based on a leak. Of course, we've all seen plenty of leakers. And what do leakers do? They have agendas. And what do they do? Do they share the whole
information
or just the part that they want to introduce? And when they introduce that preliminary,

(58:25):
a preliminary report that's deemed to be low a low assessment. You know what a low assessment means? Low confidence
in the data in that report. And why is there low confidence?
Because all of the evidence
of what was just bombed
by twelve thirty thousand pound bombs is buried under a mountain.

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It's moderate. Those that drop the bombs
precisely in the right place
know exactly
what happened when that exploded. And you know who else knows? Iran.
That's why they came to the table right away because their nuclear capabilities
have been set back
beyond what they thought were possible
because of the courage of a commander in chief who let our troops to said even though Fine. It was severe,

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they think, but they had no idea.
Absolutely.
Said it perfectly.
Now here's what I was thinking.
I was thinking that
because we know based on what we talked about yesterday

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that,
Israeli intelligence, the Mossad,
wanted to actually continue on with this campaign. They they they wanted to continue on with the fight.
They didn't wanna stop. They didn't want the ceasefire. They didn't wanna cease hostilities.
So it kinda makes me wonder. Do you think

(59:51):
that the ulterior motive behind this
was to put some
some
slight
doubt.
Well, did we really
did we really get everything we were supposed to get?

(01:00:13):
Just like with the reports of
the vehicles that were lined up
days before the strike,
the trucks that were lined up at Fordo,
allegedly moving
the nuclear material
to another location?
Do you think oops. Sorry. Do you think that it was

(01:00:36):
over the board? Do you do you think that the possibility is
that they are
trying to sow that seed of doubt
to continue the conflict.
Well, maybe we didn't get everything. Maybe we need to do another round of strikes.

(01:00:56):
Maybe we need to go back in there. Maybe we need to put boots on the ground.
I wouldn't be surprised
considering that Israel
wants to continue the fight.
Israel doesn't really want this ceasefire.

(01:01:17):
Kinda makes you wonder a little bit.
Could that possibly
be one of the motivations behind
some of these leaks?
Remember what I said, the deep state,
they are not liking
the ceasefire.

(01:01:37):
They want perpetual war.
They want
the bloodshed,
And they will do whatever it takes to stop Donald Trump from
completing
the peace,
completing
stripping down the deep state. They will do whatever it takes.

(01:02:00):
They will sink to whatever level they need to sink to
to accomplish that goal.
So here's Carolyn Levitt again
on
Fox

(01:02:21):
News.
Here she's talking about because the the result of this is and remember we played a clip too where it said, where we had had,
the
the the genius
ghetto fabulous Jasmine Crockett
out of Dallas
complaining that, Congress didn't get can get their top secret briefing?

(01:02:43):
Well,
this might be part of that because, according to the Washington Examiner,
Trump will limit sharing of classified information with Congress after the Iran the Iran bombing leak.
And, here's Carolyn Levitt,
addressing this
on Fox News.

(01:03:03):
Share.
I am told by the FBI the leak already is being investigated, and it absolutely should be because this was a top secret intelligence analysis
that very few people in the United States government had access to see. And so I understand the FBI and the Department of Justice are already on this as they should be.

(01:03:31):
So the FBI is already on this. The DOJ is already on this. I
DOJ.
That means Pam Bondi.
Yeah. It's not gonna go anywhere.
Just like the Epstein files, just like
all that stuff

(01:03:52):
that was promised
that I still haven't seen.
Pam Bondi's desk is the place where things go to die.
So I I I I really, unfortunately, have no confidence in Pam Bondi. I I I don't.
Although, she hasn't been on too much of Fox News lately, so I'm wondering maybe she got the message. But,

(01:04:17):
yeah, not a not a good not a good thing.
Alright. Let's see what else we got. Try to get off of
this stuff. Oh, speaking of Pam Bondi,
do you wanna talk about her now? Well, here was a good win today for,
for for the president.

(01:04:39):
The house passes a bill to scrutinize
Taliban funding. Republican controlled House of Representatives passed a passed legislation
aimed at limiting the Taliban's funding
from international governments and NGOs. Note, the No Tax Dollars for Terrorist Act, h r two sixty,
states that The United States foreign policy is to oppose the provision of foreign assistance by foreign countries and nongovernmental

(01:05:03):
organizations to the Taliban, particularly those countries and organizations that receive United States provided foreign assistance.
And,
this, this particular piece of legislation
passed the house. I think it was unanimous. That's what I thought I saw.

(01:05:24):
Let me see.
Where was it?
It says earlier this month, legislation passed two twenty six to one eighty eight by the house to prevent future administration from prohibiting oil and gas drilling. That's not what we're talking about, but

(01:05:48):
well, regardless
of of the number, I I do believe it was a unanimous vote. It was, like, four sixty eight or something like that to none
on passing this. So that's that's great news.
And then, of course, the,
legislation for two twenty six to one eighty eight to prevent future administrations from prohibiting oil and gas drilling without the consent of Congress, giving Donald Trump another significant win.

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That was the Protecting American Energy Production Act.
Just weeks before he left office, former president Joe Biden banned future oil and gas drilling along 625,000,000
acres of coastal and offshore waters
among other oil and gas related regulations. Well,
they say Joe Biden did it, but it wasn't him. It was whoever was running the auto pen, which we'll come to.

(01:06:43):
Alright. I guess we'll go to,
Pam Bondi.
So,
and this is kinda making its way around around the Internet also. Pam Bondi got into a very heated exchange with
representative Madeline Dean
over a a comment that she made about competence.
So,

(01:07:04):
so, basically,
Pam Bondi was, sitting before a committee,
and this exchange
unfolded during a congressional hearing when US attorney general Pam Bondi sharply responded to representative Madeline Dean's,
a Democrat from Pennsylvania's remarks on competence.

(01:07:25):
Bondi did not hold back her response. She highlighted Dean's earlier comment on PBS where the Pennsylvania Democrat had described Biden as competent,
a state a statement she later retracted.
Let's take a let's take a look at that clip. Where is it?
Here you go.

(01:07:45):
Sincere. You wanna protect law enforcement,
but your principal, the president,
pardoned
every single one on January 6.
It rings hollow when you say these words that if you spit on a police officer, we're we're gonna go after you. Talk to my friends who are Capitol Police officers
who were here,
five of whom are no longer here. They are dead. And this administration

(01:08:10):
and I guess I wanna ask you, did you have any advice for the president when he came forward with the blanket pardon on January,
twentieth?
What advice did you offer the president?
I am never going to talk about
conversations,
advice Were you asking for anyway. Were you asking for advice? Gonna talk about discussions I've had. I've not had. You'll remember

(01:08:31):
with the president of The United States. Did you
did you give him any advice? Yes or no?
I am not going to discuss any conversations
that I have had with the the And just put your own words. I am not going to discuss reveal your own words. I am not. Please stop. Discuss conversations
I've had with the president of The United States to ask for question. I would like to reclaim the last twenty seconds.

(01:08:55):
I have asked to reclaim my time. Please put twenty seconds back on the clock. You have an extra thirty.
If the general She answered and then answered it again and answered it again with a non answer.
I ask for your consideration
of putting time on. We'll let the witness answer the question.
We will She answered it by saying no.

(01:09:16):
Okay.
The the three hallmarks of this administration
are incompetence,
corruption,
and cruelty.
I'm gonna focus today on corruption.
And in my mind, there are two types of corruption, personal
and then the other I'm gonna call public,
governmental.
Attorney general, have you ever been registered as an agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act?

(01:09:45):
I assume you're talking about when I represented the country of Qatar for a very short time. Hold on. Hold on. No. No. No. For anti human trafficking for the World Cup.
Anti human trafficking for the World Cup. Attorney General. Words in my mouth. You wanna talk about incompetence.
You're the one that said Joe Biden on PBS

(01:10:07):
was competent. You had to retract those words.
Mister chairman to me. Don't don't insult me publicly.
This is so discourteous. This is so outside the committee's guidelines.
Taking a personal shot at me while swiping at Biden,
Very strange and very unprofessional of you.

(01:10:28):
The answer is yes or no, and the answer is yes. You were registered as a lobbyist for Cutter. Is that correct? Yes. Never mind. Don't answer.
Did you disclose that
when you went before for the senate for confirmation? Yes or no?
No. It was not in your documents.
The answer is no.

(01:10:49):
President Trump
was discussed at my confirmation hearings in December.
Well, it was discussed, but you failed to bring up the conflict that you had.
President Trump recently announced he'd accept that $400,000,000,
cutter airplane because it was just prettier than the one he was flying around in.
Is it true that you, gave advice that this was legally permissible? Yes? Look at criticize sitting next to her. I will not discuss any advice that my office of legal counsel gives to the president of the United States

(01:11:22):
Executive.
When you spoke before the senate, you said you would, ask for ethical advice. Did you recuse yourself from that issue?
And talking about unprofessional,
you say the president wanted a jet because it's pretty?
Excuse me. This is a senate this is a professional
hearing. He said it himself.

(01:11:44):
The absolute hate
on the left for president Trump is just
disgusting.
It really is. It really is. And,
this whole exchange that that
took place between Dean and Bondi here
is
it it really has gained a lot of traction because,

(01:12:07):
especially on social media,
for the most part, because,
you know, it what it really does highlight is just that that that
ongoing
struggle, the ongoing battle for political dominance in Washington.
That's what this that's what it's
that's exactly what it highlights. And

(01:12:31):
I just think it's absolutely horrible and disgusting
that
appointees have to be have to sit under that type of questioning.
All of this is grandstanding
for the, for the elected representative.
That's all it is. It's just grandstanding. It's just them them being able to shout over and talk over

(01:12:57):
the witness that they're,
in they're they're interviewing.
And I think the administration
has
because if you notice, they all handle this the same way. They they they don't just sit there and let them say what they say. They fight back.
And, and that's something that Democrats are not used to. The Democrats are not used to people answering back. They're just they're used to them just capitulating.

(01:13:23):
Not this administration. This administration is not playing games with that. And, yeah, you see the reaction of it.
Alright. Let's do, let's see. Let's move on to
because we're gonna take a little break and then come back and just do some stuff up there from from New York City.
So this this autopen scandal thing, I wanna show you something here. This is this is really quite interesting.

(01:13:51):
If you remember back in May,
Donald Trump posted this. Other than the rigged presidential election of twenty twenty, the biggest scandal in American history is the auto pen.
Whoever used it was usurping the power of the presidency, and it should be very easy to find out who that person or persons is.
They did things that a Joe Biden of sound mind would never have done, like open borders, transgender for everyone, men and women men and women's sports, and far more. Fear not, however, we will bring America back bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.

(01:14:23):
Alright? So we remember that post.
Well,
there was a lot of talk back and forth about
the the whole thing with, you know, who was using the auto pen.
Very, very dangerous thing because
what we found out was is that it was almost like a miniature Politburo.
It was governing by committee,

(01:14:44):
and
it has now come out
that,
one of the main
people involved with this was a woman by the name of Neera
Tanden.
So, Instruction Barbie on on x posted this. The unelected president Neera Tanden, the NGO cartel,

(01:15:04):
and the greatest conflict of interest in modern American politics. On 06/24/2025,
the mask finally slipped.
Testifying before Congress behind closed doors, Neera Tanden,
a longtime Democratic operative and former president of the far left think tank Center for American Progress.
She admitted to running the auto pen for president Joe Biden. She didn't just witness the signature process. She oversaw it. In some cases, she was the one signing in the president's name to executive orders and laws.

(01:15:32):
This wasn't a technicality.
This was a transfer of power.
Joe Biden was not acting as president.
Neera Tanden
was, and that's only half the scandal.
The circular scam continues.

(01:15:53):
Tanden's role on both ends.
This is where the conflict of interest becomes
undeniable and explosive. As head of
CAP, Tandon helped design the policy
architecture that gave preferred NGOs outsized control of federal money.
Later, as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, she wielded executive authority

(01:16:16):
over how those policies were implemented.
Now in sworn testimony, we learned that she has signed the documents via AutoPEN that activated the very
programs and funding models her allies stood to profit from.
This is not just a revolving door. It is a closed loop of power and money. Neera Tanden wasn't just advising on policy. She was authoring executive orders,

(01:16:38):
overseeing disbursements,
and enabling unaccountable NGOs
to control billions of dollars while holding the pen
with Joe Biden's name
on it.
Well, what do you think of that?
What do you think about that?

(01:17:00):
And,
here here's here's a very short clip. Here's near attendant.
A brief comment.
Thank you. I,
just
spoke with the House Oversight Committee, majority and minority council. I answered
every question, was pleased to discuss my public service, and,

(01:17:20):
I it was a thorough process, and I'm glad I answered every question. Was there an effort to disguise president Biden's condition?
Absolutely not.
And she just walks away.
So Tandon, who served as the senior adviser to the president during the first half of the Biden presidency, testified Tuesday,
yesterday,
as part of the committee's investigation into Biden's cognitive decline and his ability to authorize use of an auto pen under such circumstances.

(01:17:46):
Quote, as staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president.
I was also authorized to direct that auto pen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents. We had a system
of authorizing
the use of the auto pen that I inherited from prior administrations. We employed that system throughout my tenure

(01:18:08):
as staff secretary.
Tandon also testified that she had been authorized to direct auto pen use from October 21 to May 23.
I'm sorry, October 2021 to May 2023
when she left the role of staff secretary and senior adviser to Biden.
Tandon, at the time, replaced Susan Rice as the head of domestic policy council. She was succeeded by Annie Tomasini, who was expected to sit down for her own interview in the coming weeks.

(01:18:36):
At present, it is unclear whether Tomasini continued the system used by her predecessor to operate the auto pen, the use of which has become increasingly worrisome based on Biden's advancing cognitive decline.
Biden issued a sweeping
issued sweeping preemptive pardons to members of of his family, while 37 individuals
had had death row sentences converted to life in prison in the waning days

(01:19:00):
of his failed presidency.
In addition to the pardons, a government watchdog last month raised red flags after conducting a review of significant executive orders signed by the auto pen under previous administration,
finding no evidence that Biden was even aware of them.
So these
a significant number of

(01:19:22):
executive orders
were signed by Autopen
that
Neera Tanden had control over,
and there was no evidence that Joe Biden actually
even knew about it, that he wasn't even aware of it.

(01:19:46):
In March, the Heritage Foundation found that a significant majority of official documents signed during Biden's term as president used the same auto pen signature.
Now it should also be pointed out too that, you know, it's not the use of the auto pen that's being questioned here. It's

(01:20:07):
who had
control of the auto pen? Who was actually calling the shots? Who was the one that was actually responsible for the documents that were being signed?
Because according to what is being reported and what was being discovered
and now being questioned about,
Joe Biden had no idea

(01:20:30):
about these executive orders.
So this is
president Trump is right. This is this is a huge
scandal.
Huge.

(01:20:51):
Probably bigger than Watergate.
Shadow president Neera Tanden.
This is from US News. Shadow president Neera Tanden testifies as she
testify she oversaw Biden auto pen decisions.
Leftist think tank CEO and mastermind behind liberal NGO network acted as unelected POTUS.

(01:21:16):
You know, folks, people need to be held accountable for this.
This is a legitimate constitutional crisis. You know, the left likes to throw out there, you know, threat to democracy,
you know, that Trump is a threat to democracy, MAG is a threat to democracy.
Constitutional crises,
and everything that Donald Trump does.

(01:21:38):
This is an actual
constitutional crisis.
This is the actual threat to our democracy, which we're a republic, but you know what I'm saying.
Despite confirming she was given permission to use the phony Biden signature device, the ex presidential aide claimed she committed no manipulation or wrongdoing.

(01:22:02):
Proving she's not the least bit trustworthy, Tandon told reporters on Capitol Hill during lunch break for the hearing that there was absolutely not a cover up of Biden's deteriorating health.
The Atlantic actually labeled her as one of the key architects of Obama's Affordable Care Act or Obamacare
when she served as a key adviser to, Kathleen Sebelius, who was then, at that time, the DHS secretary.

(01:22:36):
Other individuals identified by house oversight committee chairman James Comer as being involved in the auto pen scandal are scheduled to testify before the committee
later this week, and I am really looking forward to that. I wanna I wanna know what's going on here. This is
huge.
Absolutely
huge.

(01:22:57):
Alright. Let's see what else.
RFK.
We don't really talk about RFK too much, which is a shame because he's doing some fantastic work.
RFK Junior exposes Democrats'
$2,000,000
big pharmatized
during a live hearing.
So,
the hearing was initially focused on the fiscal year of 2026,

(01:23:18):
h h HHS
budget
shifted into controversy as Kennedy
confronted Pallone over his past advocacy for vaccine injured individuals
and how that advocacy allegedly disappeared
after major pharmaceutical donations.
So,
let's, let's take a look at this clip here.

(01:23:41):
He have because he absolutely destroyed
Frank Malone here.
This is, yes. Good clip.
And I'll address you, congressman Malone.
Fifteen years ago, you and I met you were at that time a champion
for people who had suffered injuries
from vaccines.

(01:24:03):
You were very adamant about it. You were the leading member of congress on that issue.
Since then, you've accepted $2,000,000
from pharmaceutical companies in contribution more than any other member of this committee.
And your enthusiasm
for
supporting the old ASIP committee, which was completely

(01:24:23):
rife and pervasive
with pharmaceutical
conflicts,
seems to be an outcome of those contributions.
Point of order, mister chairman. Point of order.
Point of order. The chair recognizes the doctor is impugning the reputation of a member of congress.
It is.
Mister Palone. So what?

(01:24:44):
Stop the clock. Can you stay stop the clock for a second. Can you can you state the point of order?
Yeah.
He was impugning mister Palone's Mister chairman, I I didn't hear it. Did the joke? Oh, you weren't paying attention. That's why. Well, you know, it's hard to pay attention here when we're not getting any response. Okay.

(01:25:04):
Democrats.
Impugning
the reputation of a member of Congress.
Big deal.
Big deal.
Just because you are a member of congress does not mean you are any better than anybody else. And if you are
a thief
and you get called out for it, that's not impugning your reputation.

(01:25:34):
Alright. I was gonna take a break, but, it's already 08:30, and, we only have
a half an hour to go
before we wrap this show up here.
So So let me let me let me touch on something that's going on,
in my
hometown
of New York City.

(01:25:57):
I got a couple of clips to play about it and,
some things to read to you about it. And then, actually, we'll screen share this.
But,
so
it's election season up in New York, and,
my sister still lives there, and,
my my daughter and her family, they still live there.

(01:26:20):
And I'm I'm I'm incredibly troubled by what's been taking place in New York with this
obviously
ridiculously
left leaning
administration
that's currently there, and,
the consistent
and the consistent

(01:26:42):
How do I put it?
Well, the further the the
the the the continued
left direction. Okay? So,
right now you have Eric Adams,
who's a political monster.
And I don't mean monster as, like like

(01:27:04):
well, I guess maybe I do. But
he knows which way the wind is blowing. And, obviously, right now, he's he's very embattled, and he is,
running as an independent.
Andrew Cuomo,
the disgraced former governor,
who was forced to resign,

(01:27:24):
shortly after shortly after COVID,
and then they installed Kathy Hochul, who was con con continuing to destroy the state of New York.
He decided to run for mayor, and,
he was running up against,
in a primary,
against

(01:27:46):
socialist,
Muslim,
Zoran
Mamdani.
This guy
and, I'm gonna read to you a a post from Stephen Miller
of the Trump administration.

(01:28:09):
The commentary about New York City Democrats nominating an anarchist socialist for mayor omits one point,
how unchecked migration fundamentally remade the New York City electorate. Democrats change politics
by changing voters. That's how you turn a city that defined
US dominance into what it is now.

(01:28:30):
And he's
absolutely correct.
Absolutely correct. In New York,
illegals vote,
they're given driver's licenses,
It's mass migration of third world,
it's third world immigration,
and with third world immigration

(01:28:51):
comes third world politics.
What really disturbs me though
is how in New York City,

(01:29:14):
which just twenty five years ago
saw the World Trade Center come down,
the loss of 3,000 lives,
which was

(01:29:35):
blamed
on
this group of,
Muslim terrorists,
Radical Islamic terrorism

(01:29:58):
to now embracing
its symbology.
I don't understand it.
I text my sister today, and I told her I said, listen. If this guy actually wins the election,

(01:30:21):
which I don't think I don't think he's
gonna lose, to be honest with you.
There was only one candidate on the Republican side that ran, and he ran,
uncontested
in the primary,
and that's Curtis Sliwa

(01:30:44):
of the Guardian Angels.
Right? It's the Guardian Angels. I think it's Guardian Angels.
And,
it's been a while. I haven't really kept up with them. But
I saw some posts today on, on Truth Social.
Wonder if I can pull them up.
Things that I responded to.

(01:31:08):
Let me see if I can get that.
Yeah.
So basically, the the post was that,
the Republican
Republican politicians in New York were telling people to
move out of New York City,

(01:31:33):
which to me just basically demonstrates that they gave up. They're they're they're not gonna put up a fight
to keep this
radical
socialist
Islamicist out of power in New York City.
You're talking about a guy that that wants to socialize

(01:31:55):
just about every aspect. He wants to raise taxes by $10,000,000,000.
He wants to
take over
all of the supermarkets and make them city run and city controlled supermarkets.
So there are your bread lines right there,

(01:32:15):
and people are just lining up following this.
And he didn't he didn't beat Andrew Cuomo by in the in the primary by just a small margin. He beat him by a good 12 percentage points or close to it.
So I came across this.

(01:32:37):
It's a very interesting little,
very interesting little,
video here. It's only about thirty seconds.
But, this young man was going around just randomly stopping people asking them, you know, who they voted for in the primary. Stop this one young lady. She I'd she,
informed him that she voted for

(01:32:57):
Mamdani.
Mamdani. Right? I say it right.
Mamdani.
And
he proceeded to ask her some questions about it and and,
then asked, do you think socialism will work in New York City? And here was her answer.
I voted for mom Donnie. Okay. Oh, can you tell us why?
I'm just looking for someone

(01:33:22):
so hasn't been accused of sexual assault. I I spoke to the other side a little bit
three buses. What's your response to that? I think government in The US is great in the
no one person is making all the decisions, and so I think they'll be balanced within. He describes himself as a democrat socialist. Like, do you feel like socialism would work in New York City? No. Not necessarily.

(01:33:46):
Alright. So did you catch that? So he wants free buses and and city run,
city run supermarkets,
higher taxes,
and and and the gamut,
and, identifies himself as a Democrat socialist.
And then the question but and and this is the person who voted for him. Do you think that'll work here in New York City? No.

(01:34:08):
No.
And you know what the funny thing is too? It it if you listen to her, she's not even a native New Yorker. You know?
Because that's not a New York accent
by far. That's like a Midwest type accent.
Yeah.

(01:34:33):
President Trump
joined the conversation on this, said it finally happened.
The Democrats have crossed the line.
Zoran Mamdani, a 100% communist lunatic,
has just won the Dem primary and is on his way to becoming mayor. We have we've had we've had radical leftist lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous. He looks terrible. His voice is grating. He's not very smart. He's got AOC plus three dummies all backing him,

(01:35:02):
and even our great Palestinian senator cry crying Chuck Schumer is groveling over him. Yes. This is a big moment in the history of our country. And, you know, tongue in cheek, yeah. A little sarcastic, yes.
But he's not wrong, folks.
This is very bad. This is dangerous.
Just like what you saw what you see happening over in in London

(01:35:26):
with the Muslim mayors,
just like you're seeing all around,
and the Republican Party in in in New York is basically telling people, well, if the guy wins, move out.
Well, actually, no. It wasn't even if the guy wins is I move out now.

(01:35:51):
And like I said a few minutes ago, it they're not even gonna put up a fight.
It's like this guy is gonna be crowned
the king of New York City.
I wonder if no kings are gonna protest.
What do you think?
I highly, highly
doubt it.

(01:36:16):
You know, you think
it couldn't get any worse,
but now, again, the one city in in The United States that really defined
The United States.
And this is the guy too who who was at the Capitol when Tom Homan

(01:36:37):
in Albany, rather,
State Capitol.
When Tom Homan
went to, testify,
before the, state legislature
and was screaming
like a lunatic
at Tom Homan
and had to be physically removed.

(01:36:58):
This is a guy that
is chummy
with someone that says that
New York City deserved what happened to it on 09/11,
that America deserved what happened to it on 09/11.
So how do you go from

(01:37:21):
09/11
to
putting someone who sympathizes with it?
This is a guy that is
pro Hamas.
This is a guy that, that that

(01:37:45):
I don't know.
I really don't know.
The only thing that can that that
and and I'm and you're not gonna believe I'm gonna say this, but

(01:38:07):
the only thing because I don't think Curtis Lee has a chance to win. I I I really don't. I'm sorry.
There's still a chance that Eric Adams could win
reelection as an independent.

(01:38:31):
And, again, so who is
Maamdani?
I was looking for this while we were talking. He's the son of a Columbia professor,
of course,
and a radical in every respect.
On 10/08/2023,
just hours after Hamas invaded Israel and slaughtered 1,200 people while taking almost 300 more hostage,

(01:38:53):
Mamdani posted
this
online.
Let me reshare that. There we go.

(01:39:17):
So, this this is a statement by,
Zoran
k. Mamdani, assembly member.
I mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine in the last thirty six hours. Netanyahu's
declaration of war.
The Israeli government's decision to cut electricity to Gaza and the Knesset members calling for another Nakba, whatever that is, will undoubtedly lead to more violence and suffering in the in the days and weeks to come. The path toward a just and lasting peace can only begin by the by ending the occupation

(01:39:47):
and dismantling
apartheid.
In the weeks before Tuesday's primary election, Mamdani was questioned about the rash of antisemitism in New York City and the support of pro Hamas groups. His response

(01:40:08):
was to defend the use of the chant, globalize
the intifada.
Globalize the intifada.
You know what intifada is? What you saw on 09/11.
That was an intifada.
While comparing those who say it to those who died in the Holocaust.

(01:40:36):
Let's, let's share this.
I am someone who, I would say, am
am less comfortable with the idea of

(01:40:57):
banning the use of certain words, and then I think it is more evocative of
a Trump style approach
to how to
lead a country.
And and I think especially when we've seen Sure. But, like, does that just make you uncomfortable? Like, the phrase globalized intifada from the river to the sea, does that make you come uncomfortable? Or do you think Okay. Those are different. Those are super different. They're not really different genres. I'm sorry. I'm asking Soran. Then they're not really different to me. And so some people are not different. You know, I

(01:41:28):
I I know people for whom those things mean very different things.
And and
to me, ultimately,
what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights
in
in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also
is that
the very word

(01:41:51):
is has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising
into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. Sure. And
as
a
Muslim man who grew up post nine eleven, I'm I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words
can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. Yeah. And I think that's that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And

(01:42:24):
the
question of the permissibility of language is something that I that I haven't I haven't
Amdani's pro terror associations don't just center around Palestinian cause either. He also has ties to individuals who believe America deserved
nine eleven, and here he is with the man who said that America deserved it.

(01:42:47):
To believe that Mamdani is just naive is akin to believing Osama bin Laden really did just care about climate change. The most likely explanation for his long standing associations and expressed sympathies with Islamicists
is that he is one himself,
which is what I said.
That's who New Yorkers just made the odds on favor to be their next mayor less than twenty five years after nine eleven, with an absolute disgrace in the memory of those who perished that day. But what about his economic and social policies? In short, Mamdani is a communist and not in the way that word is sometimes used on the right to describe crony capitalist Democrats. No. Mamdani is literally just a communist. Two of his primary proposals are government owned grocery stores and rent control.

(01:43:29):
Meanwhile, he doesn't even dance around wanting to defund the police and destroy criminal justice system in the name of radically dangerous social justice pursuits.
So
here's a list of some of the things that, he's looking to do.
End cash bail, repeal the walking while trans ban,

(01:43:50):
decriminalize sex work, legalize marijuana, permit safe injection sites, restrict sal solitary confinement,
enact elder parole, re enfranchise incarcerated New Yorkers.
Actually, let's open that up.
The list goes on to decriminalize simple drug possession,
repeal all mandatory minimum sentences, reduce maximum sentence with retroactive effect,

(01:44:15):
repeal felony bump up statuses,
repeal sentencing enhancements,
and end cooperation
with ICE.
Let's see. Queer liberation means defund the police.

(01:44:37):
There he is again.
Now at this point,
again, this is red state. At this point, you might be asking how New York City ended up in this position. After all, who in their right mind would vote for someone like Mamdani?
The answer is the same as it's been for a while when discussing the elevation of left wing radicalism in America, affluent white female liberals, which is the clip that I showed you.

(01:45:03):
They will not rest until they've destroyed what's left of Western civilization.
So with all that said,
I'm not much removed to further lament what's happened to New York. It's about time the rest of America stopped feeding sympathy as if stopped feeling sympathy as if it was the result of misguided naivete.

(01:45:24):
No. They voted for an anti Semitic Islamic communist with their eyes wide open. The destruction that is coming was a choice, and New Yorkers deserve to suffer the consequences of that. No federal bailouts and no interference
to try to save them from themselves. Let it happen.
Unfortunately, yeah, I gotta say I agree with that.

(01:45:44):
I gotta say I agree with it.
And,
I'm telling my sister,
who I think watches, I'm not sure.
She doesn't really like me sometimes.
But, to her, I tell her get out.
Get out.
Get out.
Because if this guy wins, which for all intents all intents and purposes,

(01:46:06):
will,
again, because
there's really no opposition,
and, again, because the Republicans in New York are telling people to get out.
This is the future of New York City.
It's gonna be coming to London,

(01:46:29):
And I think that's it. I think I'm done. I'm tired.
I need to get some rest.
I've been up since 04:00 this morning.
Alright. Well, folks, with that, we're gonna say our good nights. Folks, please, don't forget
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