March 28, 2025 • 33 mins
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Immigration Enforcement:
- We discuss the arrest of foreign students by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) under the Trump administration. Specific cases include a doctoral student at the University of Alabama and a Turkish student at Tufts University.
- The administration's use of laws to deport non-citizens who are perceived as threats to U.S. foreign policy is highlighted, with a focus on students involved in pro-Palestinian protests.
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Political Reactions:
- We include reactions from various political groups and individuals, such as the University of Alabama's College Democrats and Representative Jamie Raskin, who criticized the deportation of gang members without due process.
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Media and Public Broadcasting:
- There is a significant focus on the funding and perceived bias of NPR (National Public Radio) and PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). The document mentions efforts by Republicans, including President Trump, to defund these organizations due to their alleged liberal bias.
- Specific tweets and statements from NPR executives are scrutinized, with accusations of promoting radical left-wing ideologies.
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Legislative Actions and Political Strategies:
- We discuss the withdrawal of Representative Elise Stefanik's nomination as the U.S. Ambassador to the UN to maintain the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
- It also covers legislative priorities such as defunding NPR and PBS, and the broader political strategy to support Trump's America First agenda.
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Law Enforcement and National Security:
- We detail the arrest of a top MS-13 gang leader and the administration's efforts to combat gang violence and drug trafficking.
- Statements from officials like FBI Director Cash Patel and Governor Glenn Youngkin emphasize the importance of law enforcement in maintaining national security.
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Economic Policies:
- Elon Musk's comments on reducing government spending by eliminating waste and fraud are included, highlighting a goal to cut the federal budget by 15% without affecting critical services.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You can file what I'm about to tell you under
promises kept after promises were made by Donald Trump during
the campaign.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We now have more students that are.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Being arrested by ICE on college campuses. At the University
of Alabama, a doctoral student has been arrested by ICE.
And also in another headline from the Associated Press, they
are now reporting that a Turkish student at Tufts University
is the latest Palestinian supporter swept up in a US crackdown. Now,
(00:34):
let's go to Alabama first. The University of Alabama says
one of its doctoral students has been arrested by Immigration
and Customs enforcement, adding to the growing list of foreign
students that have been targeted by law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The University of Alabama recently learned that a doctoral student
has been detained off campus by federal immigration authorities. Federal
privacy laws limit what can be shared about the individual student,
the university said. The student, an Iranian national, was identified
by the Crimson White Now that's the university's student newspaper,
(01:10):
who has a student visa, was detained this week and
it's not clear what, if any charges he is facing.
The Hill reached out to the Department of Home in
security for comment. Most of the foreign students, by the way,
the Trump administration's target, have been involved in pro palace
and in protests. In some way, the administration is seeking
to make use of a law. They say the Secretary
(01:32):
of State can deport a non citizen who threatens the
foreign policy of the nation Against these individuals, Now, don't worry.
The lefties at the University of Alabama and the College
Democrats put out a statement saying, quote, our fears have
come to pass. Donald Trump and Tom Homan and Ice
have struck a cold, vicious dagger through the hearts of
(01:56):
au international community. Students at several high profile universities across
the country have also been detained amid the Trump administration's crackdown.
Another example of that is what we're now hearing from
the Associated Press that a Turkish student at Tufts University
has been arrested. Now the Turkish student was detained by
(02:16):
federal officers as she walked along a street in Boston suburb.
It's the latest supporter of a Palestinian Causes group that
have been swept up in the Trump administration's crackdown on
immigrants who have expressed their political views that's how the
AP is reporting it. In reality, that's not actually what
they're doing. The Trump administration is cracking down on immigrants
(02:39):
who have student visas who are actually threatening and going
after others in the US. The thirty year old, a
doctoral student at Tufts University, was swiftly moved out of Massachusetts,
a demonstration of how US Immigration and Customs enforcement is
sending immigrants who are taken into cussy to detention centers,
are deporting them all together before a federal judge has
(03:02):
a chance to weigh in on their case and possibly
halt the actions. That is how the AP is sounding
the alarm. The woman who was attained Tuesday, shortly after
she left her home in Somerville had been moved to
a nice detention center in Louisiana by the time her
lawyer went to court and a judge ordered her to
be kept in Massachusetts. US government lawyers said in a
(03:24):
court document Thursday.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
They said they made her lawyers aware that she.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Was being moved and facilitated contact with her Wednesday night.
A senior Department of Home in Security spokesman said federal
authorities detained the woman after an investigation found that she
had quote engaged in activities in support of hamas, a
foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. The
(03:51):
Department did not provide evidence of that support, of course,
as how again, the AP is trying to make it
look like Donald Trump did something wrong. Look at the
facts here. When the Department of Home in Security in
this case tells you what happened, they say they are
deporting a woman that is engaged in activities in support
of a terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.
(04:15):
Hummas that right, there should be enough to say, Okay,
this is a good decision for America. It's a good
decision for the safety of students on college campuses. And
why on earth would you want someone like this in
America as our guests. The Secretary of State, by the way,
Marco Rubio said, the Trump administration is revoked the visas
(04:37):
of at least three hundred people, including this woman. We
do it every day, quote unquote. We gave you a
visa to come and study and get a degree, not
to become a social activist to tear up our university campuses,
Rubio said to reporters during a stop in Ghana. So
marrow the story is this. If you think Donald Trump
and the State Department, or Tom Homan or Marco Ruby
(04:58):
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Now, if you want to know what.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Democrats, by the way, are doing on the other side
of this, top Democrat has actually come out in the
last twenty four hours and said illegals deported by Trump
quote should have been afforded the right to deny their
gang membership even though they're.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Tatted up with gang tattoos.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, the ranking member
of the House Judiciary Committee, says hundreds of illegal aliens
should have been.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Afforded that right, and they denied that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Right that they were associated with the Trends Deiragua or
MS thirteen games before they were deported from the United
States by President Donald Trump's administration. Trump invoked the Alien's
Enemy Act to begin deporting hundreds of illegal alien gang
members win the TDA Gang and the MS thirteen gangs,
both of which are now designated as terrorist organizations. We're
(08:24):
clearly flooding this country. There are two deportation fights that
were underway. They were headed you may remember the El
Salvador's mega prison. Two left wing groups sued, and the
judge involved issued a temporary restraining order stopping Trump from
using the Alien Enemies Act to deport more gang members. Well,
on Wednesday, an appellate court upheld Moseburg's ability to block
(08:48):
Trump from deporting gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. Now,
Raskin is demanding the Trump administration handover details regarding the
deportation flights to El Salvador, even as the Attorney General
Pambondis has said such details are protected under the state
secret privileges.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
According to Raskin, the illegal.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Aliens should have been allowed to defend themselves against the
Immigration and Customs enforcement assertion that they were gang members.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You can't make this up.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
He then said, I write to demand answers about the
administration's jews of the Alien Enemies Act to forcibly remove
non citizens from the interior of the United States to
the dangerous prison in Ol Salvador. Just to be clear,
the Democratic Party is so broken right now and hates
Trump so much that they.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Are now actively being the legal system.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The lawyers for these gang members who have been wreaked
hell on American citizens, who have raped children, who have
killed Americans, who have sold fetnyl that has killed countless Americans,
and the Democrats are now defending them. He goes on
to write, the idea that the president of the United
States can merely declare that the US is being invaded
(10:06):
not by a foreign country but by a criminal gang,
and then ship people off to yet another country to
hand them over to a foreign.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Dictator is shocking, quote unquote.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Moreover, the Democrat wrote, it is terrifying to think that
these people being held indefinitely in an authoritarian megaprison, were
sent there without any opportunity in America to appear, to
appear before a judge hear the evidence against them established
that theirs is a case of mistaken identity, or challenge
these substant of claims against them. So let's just take
(10:38):
a moment and reflect, the Democrats and the Republicans, we
are not the same. The Democratic Party now has decided
that the best way for them to recruit voters is
to stand up for the hardcore criminals in two gangs
that are so vicious that they've been declared terrorists organizations.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's number one.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Number two, they are defending these individuals that have killed
countless Americans and that have raped children in America and
have sold the drugs that have killed countless Americans. Again,
let that sink in. So if you want to know
which side they're on, they're sure as hell not on
(11:27):
the side of Americans. They're on the side of the
actual terrorist organizations that are the most vicious gangs.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
In all the world.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right, I want to move now to another big
story that the media is absolutely lying to the American
people about. The story headline looks like it could be
a scandal. The White House is withdrawing representative Sephonics nomination
as the UN ambassador. Naturally, people think, oh my gosh,
(11:56):
what did you do wrong?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
What happened? Why is it?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But they have stopped this and what is the scandal
behind it?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, let me explain it to you very clearly.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
There is no scandal at all if you actually understand
why they decide to pull her name for that nomination.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Now, let's go back in time and I'm going to
walk you through this.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
In November of twenty twenty four, President Donald Trump nominated
Representative of Stefanic of New York to serve as the
United States Ambassador the UN. Now, if you actually know
what is going on, what I'm about to tell you
is actually not a big deal makes a lot of sense.
There is a reason why President Trump withdrew her nomination
(12:38):
on Thursday, emphasizing the critical need to maintain the Republican
Party's narrow majority in the House of Representatives, He stated, quote,
as we advanced our America First agenda, it is essential
that we maintain every Republican seat in Congress. Now at
the time, this is the numbers. Publicans are holding a
(13:01):
very slim majority to eighteen to two thirteen in the House.
There are four vacant seats right now, and Stephanic's departure
to assume the UN ambassador role would have well necessitated
a's special election to filler congressional seat.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
This is not a seat that is in a place
that you would just guarantee that a.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Republican would win.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
That could easily jeopardize the GOP's ability to pass Donald
Trump's key legislation. House Speaker Mike Johnson, by the way,
coming out supporting the decision, as well, highlighting Sephank's vital
role in advancing the party's legislative priorities. Now, Sephonic, who
represented New York's twenty first districts in twenty fifteen, had
(13:45):
previously stepped down from her position as chair of the
House Republican Conference in anticipation of her ambassadorial appointment. Her
continued presence in Congress is seen as crucial for maintaining
part unity and ensuring the passage of significant initiatives on
the Republican agenda. So let's just step back and let
(14:07):
you totally understand this. There is nothing here except for
Republicans making the right decision. Let me also be clear
that I think that if Republicans gain in the House
in the midterms, there's a very good chance that Representative
Elise to Phonic could then go back and get a
major job in this administration. She would have been perfect
(14:27):
to be the US Ambassador United Nations. But it doesn't
matter as much if you lose control of the House
and it stalls Donald Trump's agenda of putting America First.
We must be unified to accomplish our mission and Elistephonic
has been a vital part of our efforts from the
very beginning. Trump also wrote, I've asked eleast as one
(14:47):
of my biggest allies to remain in Congress quote unquote
Donald Trump, making it clear that he is a huge
fan of her work and is basically saying, I know
you'd be great at this other job, but right now
I need you in Congress. So there's no doubt that
we get the America First Agenda passed.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
So now let's talk about the agenda items.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
For example that if Stephanic left, would be in major
jeopardy of never happening. A perfect example of that is
the real chance of defunding MPR in PBS. Now I
played for you yesterday some of the moments in that
debate over doge and government waste and spending at these
two organizations. Now, President Trump has called on Congress officially
(15:34):
to stop giving taxpayer money to National Public Radio INPR
and the Public Broadcasting Service PBS, saying it this way,
quote MPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms.
Networks should be defunded by Congress immediately. Republicans don't miss
this opportunity to rint our country of this giant scam,
(15:57):
both being.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Arms of the radical left Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Then he wrote in all caps, just say no and
make America great again, Trump posting that on True Social
Trump also asked the Federal Communications Commission Chair Brennan Carr
to open an investigation to determine if MPR PBS violated federal.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Law by airing commercials.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The heads of the two media outlets on Wednesday faced
intense questioning for Republican members of Congress over the alleged
liberal bias and their reporting and content. Where the big
moments was when Representative Margory Taylor Green scolded the executives, saying, quote,
MPR and PBS have increasingly become radical left wing echo
(16:42):
chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy, white urban
liberals and progressives who generally look down and judge rural America. Also,
as you know it is flyover country. Green added, we
believe that you all can hate us on your own dime.
Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, said this month
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is a month to act, and he introduced legislation to
in federal funding for NPR and PBS, about one percent
of MPR is federally funded, according to the outlet, while
about sixteen percent of PBS comes directly from tax dollars. Now,
you may say, what's one percent of a budget, Well,
it equates to about five hundred million of your tax
(17:25):
dollars each and every year going to PBS and NPR. Now, Republicans,
and I'm one of them, that have threatened for a
long time, are said we should strip funding for MPR
and PBS. But the problem is in Congress we've had
quite a few well squishy Republicans that have never actually
done it. Nearly twice as many Americans support the continued
(17:49):
federal funding of public media outlets as opposed it that,
according to a survey release Wednesday by the Research Center.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Here's the issue.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Though many times Americans have no clue what their money
is going for. They just think Sesame Street's good, and
MPR is good, our PBS is good. So why would
we want to stop funding it? Well, if you explain
to the American people exactly what they're doing with those dollars,
and that's what they're doing on Capitol Hill, it'll be
very interesting to see how quickly these polls can change. Well,
(18:21):
not a majority by the way, but forty three percent
of those surveyed said the federal government should continue to
fund MPR and PBS at present levels. Twenty four percent
said the government should stop funding the outlets, and thirty
three percent of Americans said they weren't sure what to do,
meaning that there needs to be more information given the
(18:41):
American people about just how biased and corrupt these two
organizations are. Now, if you break it down by party,
and this is some very interesting polling, thirty two percent
of Democrats said they regularly get their news from MPR,
Only nine percent of Republicans said the same thing. Thirty
one percent of Democrats, by the way, and only eleven
percent of Republicans say.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
They regularly watch PBS.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
There's also a nostalgia aspect of these two organizations. Many
think that if you defund them then they're going to disappear.
That's also not true, which goes back to what Margley
Taylor Green said, If you want to hate us and
our values, you can do it on your own dime.
There is no doubt that NPR and PBS can make
money and they do not need our tax dours to
(19:27):
subsidize them. Yes, they may actually have to run it
like a real company where they cut bloat and waste
and fraud and abuse, and you know, just actually lay
some people off and streamline their operations. But they can
survive on their own, which is another reason why there
is no logical reason why our tax dollars should be
(19:47):
going to these radical news organizations. There's another reason why
Democrats are angry over this because they've had two major
networks in essence, just as Donald Trump said, that have
been running their propaganda for decades. And yes, NPR and
PBS do in fact have large audiences.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
One of them has a very large audience.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Of children, your children or your grandchildren, and many of
their programs that they now have for those kids are
about pushing radical and alternative lifestyles. They have spent millions
of dollars pushing LGBTQ on kids and your grandkids programming.
They've even had drag queens put into cartoon characters. And
(20:34):
that is the problem with MPR and PBS, and that's
exactly why it's time that we advocate for stopping this funding.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Now, this is where you, as a voter comes in.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
You got to start calling your congressman and your senators.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And tell them that you're in favor of this.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
One of the reasons why many times Republicans get squishy
on these issues is they're afraid that they're in the minority.
I think once the American people know where their money's going,
there's no doubt this.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Is something we can win on.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And just be honest about who you are. Hey, no
Republicans allowed. We got eighty seven editoral people that are
Democrats as a democratic communist organization. Come on it, and
if you're gonna be that, then be intellectually honest about it.
But don't take my damn tax dollars to push your
state sponsored media. I want to go back to what
we were talking about earlier with NPR. So if you
(21:26):
thought that MPR was gonna get away and PBS was
gonna get away with wasting your government dollars, things did
not go well. Later in the questioning for the NPR president,
Representative Brandon Gill asking a very simple question and then
(21:46):
the lie from the MPR CEO.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Listen, it's interesting because a lot of your thinking, as
expressed by your public statements, is deeply infused with economic
and cultural Marxism. Do you believe that a mayor is
addicted to white supremacy.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier,
I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the
last half decade.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It has evolved. Why did you tweet that?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't
be able to say.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Okay, do you believe that America believes in black plunder
and white democracy?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I don't believe that, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You tweet it.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It's reference to a book you were reading at the time,
apparently The Case for Reparations.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I don't think I've ever read that book, Sir.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
You tweeted about it.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
You said you took a day off to fully read
The Case for Reparations.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You put that on Twitter in January of twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I apologies. I don't recall that I did. Okay, no
doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Okay, do you believe that white people inherently feel superior
to other races?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I do not.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You tweeted something to that effect. You said I grew
up feeling superior.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Ha.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
How why did you tweet that?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I think I was probably reflecting on what it was
to be to grow up in an environment where I
had lots of advantages.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir. I
was just reflecting on my own experience.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Do you think the white people should pay reparations?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I have never said that, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yes you did. You said it in January of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, Yes, America, Yes,
our original collective sin and unpaid debt.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yes, reparations, yes on this day.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
What kind of reparations was it a reference to.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I think it was just a reference to the idea
that we all owe much to the people who came
before us.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay,
many how much reparations have you personally paid?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Sir? I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, just for everybody else, asking anyone who's to be
what you're suggesting.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Do you believe that looting is morally wrong?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I believe that looting is illegal, and I refer to
it as counterproductive. I think it should be prosecuted.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Do you believe it's morally wrong though?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Of course, then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?
Very different, very different way to describe it.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
It is both morally wrong and counterproductive, as well as.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Being be tweeted. It's hard to be mad about protests.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
In reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private
property of a system of oppression. You didn't condemn the looting,
you said that it was counter productive. NPR also promoted
a book called in Defensive Looting.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir, and I don't believe
that was.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
A tweeted that you read that book.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
But I don't believe that I did read that book, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Do you think that a few years ago INPR educated
America about quote the whole community of gender queer dinosaur enthusiast.
Do you think that that's inappropriate use of tax dollars?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I was not an MPR at the time.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
That's not the question, though. Do you think that that's
an appropriate use of our tax dollars?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I think our tax dollars that we use are to
be able to provide a wide range and take.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'll take that as a yes, you do believe that
that's appropriate.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Your health advisor at NPR also stated in an interview
that quote, fear of fatness is more harmful than actual fat.
Would you like to explain how fear of fatness is
more harmful than actual fat? That's directly that's an editorial NPR.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I am not familiar with the editorial, and I don't
believe that was published during my time here.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
It's called diet culture is everywhere. Here's how to fight it.
Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I think any reporting on health is an appropriate use.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
You spent dollars, Yes, And you think that editorializing that
fat is not unhealthy is appropriate?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I don't know that what that article is, sir, and
I'm not familiar with it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
With student said fake news.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Do you think that basic accommodations like doorways or seat
belts represent quote latent fat phobia?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
I don't have an opinion.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
It's also from NPR. Do you think cibility is racist? No, sir, No,
Your outlet ran an article entitled quote when civility is
used as a cudgel against people of color?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
That was on All Things considered.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Would you like to explain, Well, I'm not on the
editorial side. Sorry, I'm not familiar with that story.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You talk about how NPR is news. This is editorialization,
and I'll read it. For many people of color in
the United States, civility isn't so much social lubricant as
it is a vehicle for containing them, preventing social mobility,
and preserving the status.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Quote. This is garbage.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
I'll spend all of my time doing everything I can do,
and sure you guys never get another dollar of taxpayer funding.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
This is complete garbage. Thank you, madam chair.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Now you listen to this NPR CEO. She makes a
lot of money. It's subsidized by your tax hours. She
was clearly caught off guard after Representative Gil just started
reading her has tweets to her one by one. That
is what you I referred to as a brutal takedown
using someone's own words.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
This was not and I got you moment.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
This was saying, hey, I went and looked at your tweets,
and this is what you were saying when it comes
to your tweets like these are your words?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And how many different times did she say my tweet
is real.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Like my prolific radical left wing ideology as the CEO
of NPR, Yes, this is what I believe.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
This is what I'm using this for. Right, I'm using
all of this for that reason.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And so you look at how again this goes back
to our money.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
This goes back to what people care about.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
There are many Americans that if you listen to that clip,
and I hope you'll take it, and I hope you'll
share it on social media. I hope you share the
show so other people can hear it. They don't know
that this is what the CEO of MPR is actually doing.
They have no idea that this is happening, right, no
clue at all that this is actually going down. And
part of this is just saying, you want to know
(28:17):
who's running these organizations. Listen to their own words, listen
to their tweets, listen to what they say. Now, want
to move to two other things real quick that are
also a big deal.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
This is coming out of Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
DC officials are now detailing the arrests of a top
MS thirteen gang leader that is running this gang and
their operations throughout the United States of America. The FBI
Director Cash Pttel saying this about grabbing this MS thirteen
leader that by the way, the Biden administration could have grabbed,
but deliberately chose not to.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
This is what happens when you let good cops be cops,
and we're going to continue to let good cops be
cops across this country. And Trump gave us the executive
decision to go after and safeguard our communities. General Bondi
is our worry of justice leading that charge. Governor Youngkin,
It's an honor to be a partner in this operation
with you and.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
US Attorney Seabird.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
This is the mandate we have right now. We have
an American dying every seven minutes from a drug overdose.
That is a national security crisis we have not seen
ever before.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We have a woman or child.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Being raped every six and a half minutes in this country.
We have a homicide twice an hour. No part of
that metric is a safe and secure America. But thanks
to the brave leadership of this administration and the folks
that you see here, we are returning our communities to safety.
As you heard, we took down this morning a top
leader of MS thirteen. That is not done easily, that
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is done with brilliant law enforcement. And right here, I'm proud,
and I think the governor knows I'm biased, having graduated
from the University of Richmond to have this here in
the state of Virginia. I'm here in our Northern Virginia
Resident Agency with our partners, with our Washington Field Office
and our special agents, our SOS folks are Intel analysts,
and our support staff.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You listen to Cash Hotel there and he says, this
is what happens when you let good cops be cops. Right,
this is exactly what happens. Let us be good cops,
Let us do our job. Let us go out.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
There and find these criminals.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Christy Nome going on TV as well, doing a video
today from where all those major hardcore gang criminals are
being held, and she did an actual statement from there.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Here's what she said.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Here at SEACAT today and visiting this facility. And first
of all, I want to thank El Salvador and their
president for their partnership with the United States of America
to bring our terrorists here and to incarcerate them and
have consequences for the violence that they have perpetuated in
our communities. I also want everybody to know if you
come to our country illegally, this is one of the
consequences you to face. First of all, do not come
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to our country illegally. You will be removed and you
will be prosecuted. But know that this facility is one
of the tools that our toolkit that we will use
if you commit crimes against the American people.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You hear her, and you look behind her, and there's
like all of these gang members all tatted up shirts
off in this prison. It is clearly I think warfare.
I do think that's part of it. It is warfare,
that mental warfare that now this administration is using. You
want to know where you're going to go if you
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come in this country and you're one of these individuals.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I mean, seriously, do you want to know what is
going to happen to you? Do you want to know
what's going to happen when you do this? We're going
to show you what happens when you do this. This
is where you're going to end up. Do not come
to America. Do not come to America because if you do,
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this is exactly what is going to happen to you.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
We're not screwing around, We're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So, yes, can you fight these multiple issues at the
same time. Yes, is this administration doing one hell of
a job. You better believe it. They're doing an amazing job.
They're doing an amazing job on all of these fronts.
And one last thing I just want to have for you.
Elon Musk set down and broke some news with brettbear
(32:25):
Over at Fox News Channel, and he said that he
believes now that doves can cut fifteen percent from the
budget without affecting any critical government services.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
The budgetary savings goals and how much do you think
you've achieved so far?
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Our goal is to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars,
so from a nominal deficit of two trillion, to track
cut deficit in half to one trillion, or looked at
it in totlet federal spending, to drop the federal spanning
from seven trillion to six trillion. Sort of at a
high level, you should think of this as we are.
(33:04):
We want to reduce the spending by eliminating waste and
forward reduce the spending by fifteen percent, which.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Seems really quite achievable.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
The government is not efficient and there's a lot of
waste forward, so we feel confident that fifteen percent reduction
can be done without affecting any of the critical government services.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yet again, another victory for Donald Trump. Give me a favor.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Make sure you share this podcast with your family, your friends,
put it up on social media wherever you are on
social media, and I will see you back here tomorrow.
You can file what I'm about to tell you under
promises kept after promises were made by Donald Trump during
the campaign.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We now have more students that are.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Being arrested by ICE on college campuses. At the University
of Alabama, a doctoral student has been arrested by ICE.
And also in another headline from the Associated Press, they
are now reporting that a Turkish student at Tufts University
is the latest Palestinian supporter swept up in a US crackdown. Now,
(00:34):
let's go to Alabama first. The University of Alabama says
one of its doctoral students has been arrested by Immigration
and Customs enforcement, adding to the growing list of foreign
students that have been targeted by law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The University of Alabama recently learned that a doctoral student
has been detained off campus by federal immigration authorities. Federal
privacy laws limit what can be shared about the individual student,
the university said. The student, an Iranian national, was identified
by the Crimson White Now that's the university's student newspaper,
(01:10):
who has a student visa, was detained this week and
it's not clear what, if any charges he is facing.
The Hill reached out to the Department of Home in
security for comment. Most of the foreign students, by the way,
the Trump administration's target, have been involved in pro palace
and in protests. In some way, the administration is seeking
to make use of a law. They say the Secretary
(01:32):
of State can deport a non citizen who threatens the
foreign policy of the nation Against these individuals, Now, don't worry.
The lefties at the University of Alabama and the College
Democrats put out a statement saying, quote, our fears have
come to pass. Donald Trump and Tom Homan and Ice
have struck a cold, vicious dagger through the hearts of
(01:56):
au international community. Students at several high profile universities across
the country have also been detained amid the Trump administration's crackdown.
Another example of that is what we're now hearing from
the Associated Press that a Turkish student at Tufts University
has been arrested. Now the Turkish student was detained by
(02:16):
federal officers as she walked along a street in Boston suburb.
It's the latest supporter of a Palestinian Causes group that
have been swept up in the Trump administration's crackdown on
immigrants who have expressed their political views that's how the
AP is reporting it. In reality, that's not actually what
they're doing. The Trump administration is cracking down on immigrants
(02:39):
who have student visas who are actually threatening and going
after others in the US. The thirty year old, a
doctoral student at Tufts University, was swiftly moved out of Massachusetts,
a demonstration of how US Immigration and Customs enforcement is
sending immigrants who are taken into cussy to detention centers,
are deporting them all together before a federal judge has
(03:02):
a chance to weigh in on their case and possibly
halt the actions. That is how the AP is sounding
the alarm. The woman who was attained Tuesday, shortly after
she left her home in Somerville had been moved to
a nice detention center in Louisiana by the time her
lawyer went to court and a judge ordered her to
be kept in Massachusetts. US government lawyers said in a
(03:24):
court document Thursday.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
They said they made her lawyers aware that she.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Was being moved and facilitated contact with her Wednesday night.
A senior Department of Home in Security spokesman said federal
authorities detained the woman after an investigation found that she
had quote engaged in activities in support of hamas, a
foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. The
(03:51):
Department did not provide evidence of that support, of course,
as how again, the AP is trying to make it
look like Donald Trump did something wrong. Look at the
facts here. When the Department of Home in Security in
this case tells you what happened, they say they are
deporting a woman that is engaged in activities in support
of a terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.
(04:15):
Hummas that right, there should be enough to say, Okay,
this is a good decision for America. It's a good
decision for the safety of students on college campuses. And
why on earth would you want someone like this in
America as our guests. The Secretary of State, by the way,
Marco Rubio said, the Trump administration is revoked the visas
(04:37):
of at least three hundred people, including this woman. We
do it every day, quote unquote. We gave you a
visa to come and study and get a degree, not
to become a social activist to tear up our university campuses,
Rubio said to reporters during a stop in Ghana. So
marrow the story is this. If you think Donald Trump
and the State Department, or Tom Homan or Marco Ruby
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Now, if you want to know what.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Democrats, by the way, are doing on the other side
of this, top Democrat has actually come out in the
last twenty four hours and said illegals deported by Trump
quote should have been afforded the right to deny their
gang membership even though they're.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Tatted up with gang tattoos.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, the ranking member
of the House Judiciary Committee, says hundreds of illegal aliens
should have been.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Afforded that right, and they denied that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Right that they were associated with the Trends Deiragua or
MS thirteen games before they were deported from the United
States by President Donald Trump's administration. Trump invoked the Alien's
Enemy Act to begin deporting hundreds of illegal alien gang
members win the TDA Gang and the MS thirteen gangs,
both of which are now designated as terrorist organizations. We're
(08:24):
clearly flooding this country. There are two deportation fights that
were underway. They were headed you may remember the El
Salvador's mega prison. Two left wing groups sued, and the
judge involved issued a temporary restraining order stopping Trump from
using the Alien Enemies Act to deport more gang members. Well,
on Wednesday, an appellate court upheld Moseburg's ability to block
(08:48):
Trump from deporting gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. Now,
Raskin is demanding the Trump administration handover details regarding the
deportation flights to El Salvador, even as the Attorney General
Pambondis has said such details are protected under the state
secret privileges.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
According to Raskin, the illegal.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Aliens should have been allowed to defend themselves against the
Immigration and Customs enforcement assertion that they were gang members.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You can't make this up.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
He then said, I write to demand answers about the
administration's jews of the Alien Enemies Act to forcibly remove
non citizens from the interior of the United States to
the dangerous prison in Ol Salvador. Just to be clear,
the Democratic Party is so broken right now and hates
Trump so much that they.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Are now actively being the legal system.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The lawyers for these gang members who have been wreaked
hell on American citizens, who have raped children, who have
killed Americans, who have sold fetnyl that has killed countless Americans,
and the Democrats are now defending them. He goes on
to write, the idea that the president of the United
States can merely declare that the US is being invaded
(10:06):
not by a foreign country but by a criminal gang,
and then ship people off to yet another country to
hand them over to a foreign.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Dictator is shocking, quote unquote.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Moreover, the Democrat wrote, it is terrifying to think that
these people being held indefinitely in an authoritarian megaprison, were
sent there without any opportunity in America to appear, to
appear before a judge hear the evidence against them established
that theirs is a case of mistaken identity, or challenge
these substant of claims against them. So let's just take
(10:38):
a moment and reflect, the Democrats and the Republicans, we
are not the same. The Democratic Party now has decided
that the best way for them to recruit voters is
to stand up for the hardcore criminals in two gangs
that are so vicious that they've been declared terrorists organizations.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's number one.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Number two, they are defending these individuals that have killed
countless Americans and that have raped children in America and
have sold the drugs that have killed countless Americans. Again,
let that sink in. So if you want to know
which side they're on, they're sure as hell not on
(11:27):
the side of Americans. They're on the side of the
actual terrorist organizations that are the most vicious gangs.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
In all the world.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right, I want to move now to another big
story that the media is absolutely lying to the American
people about. The story headline looks like it could be
a scandal. The White House is withdrawing representative Sephonics nomination
as the UN ambassador. Naturally, people think, oh my gosh,
(11:56):
what did you do wrong?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
What happened? Why is it?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But they have stopped this and what is the scandal
behind it?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Well, let me explain it to you very clearly.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
There is no scandal at all if you actually understand
why they decide to pull her name for that nomination.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Now, let's go back in time and I'm going to
walk you through this.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
In November of twenty twenty four, President Donald Trump nominated
Representative of Stefanic of New York to serve as the
United States Ambassador the UN. Now, if you actually know
what is going on, what I'm about to tell you
is actually not a big deal makes a lot of sense.
There is a reason why President Trump withdrew her nomination
(12:38):
on Thursday, emphasizing the critical need to maintain the Republican
Party's narrow majority in the House of Representatives, He stated, quote,
as we advanced our America First agenda, it is essential
that we maintain every Republican seat in Congress. Now at
the time, this is the numbers. Publicans are holding a
(13:01):
very slim majority to eighteen to two thirteen in the House.
There are four vacant seats right now, and Stephanic's departure
to assume the UN ambassador role would have well necessitated
a's special election to filler congressional seat.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Here's the problem.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
This is not a seat that is in a place
that you would just guarantee that a.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Republican would win.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
That could easily jeopardize the GOP's ability to pass Donald
Trump's key legislation. House Speaker Mike Johnson, by the way,
coming out supporting the decision, as well, highlighting Sephank's vital
role in advancing the party's legislative priorities. Now, Sephonic, who
represented New York's twenty first districts in twenty fifteen, had
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previously stepped down from her position as chair of the
House Republican Conference in anticipation of her ambassadorial appointment. Her
continued presence in Congress is seen as crucial for maintaining
part unity and ensuring the passage of significant initiatives on
the Republican agenda. So let's just step back and let
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you totally understand this. There is nothing here except for
Republicans making the right decision. Let me also be clear
that I think that if Republicans gain in the House
in the midterms, there's a very good chance that Representative
Elise to Phonic could then go back and get a
major job in this administration. She would have been perfect
(14:27):
to be the US Ambassador United Nations. But it doesn't
matter as much if you lose control of the House
and it stalls Donald Trump's agenda of putting America First.
We must be unified to accomplish our mission and Elistephonic
has been a vital part of our efforts from the
very beginning. Trump also wrote, I've asked eleast as one
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of my biggest allies to remain in Congress quote unquote
Donald Trump, making it clear that he is a huge
fan of her work and is basically saying, I know
you'd be great at this other job, but right now
I need you in Congress. So there's no doubt that
we get the America First Agenda passed.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
So now let's talk about the agenda items.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
For example that if Stephanic left, would be in major
jeopardy of never happening. A perfect example of that is
the real chance of defunding MPR in PBS. Now I
played for you yesterday some of the moments in that
debate over doge and government waste and spending at these
two organizations. Now, President Trump has called on Congress officially
(15:34):
to stop giving taxpayer money to National Public Radio INPR
and the Public Broadcasting Service PBS, saying it this way,
quote MPR and PBS, two horrible and completely biased platforms.
Networks should be defunded by Congress immediately. Republicans don't miss
this opportunity to rint our country of this giant scam,
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both being.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Arms of the radical left Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Then he wrote in all caps, just say no and
make America great again, Trump posting that on True Social
Trump also asked the Federal Communications Commission Chair Brennan Carr
to open an investigation to determine if MPR PBS violated federal.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Law by airing commercials.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The heads of the two media outlets on Wednesday faced
intense questioning for Republican members of Congress over the alleged
liberal bias and their reporting and content. Where the big
moments was when Representative Margory Taylor Green scolded the executives, saying, quote,
MPR and PBS have increasingly become radical left wing echo
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chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy, white urban
liberals and progressives who generally look down and judge rural America. Also,
as you know it is flyover country. Green added, we
believe that you all can hate us on your own dime.
Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, said this month
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is a month to act, and he introduced legislation to
in federal funding for NPR and PBS, about one percent
of MPR is federally funded, according to the outlet, while
about sixteen percent of PBS comes directly from tax dollars. Now,
you may say, what's one percent of a budget, Well,
it equates to about five hundred million of your tax
(17:25):
dollars each and every year going to PBS and NPR. Now, Republicans,
and I'm one of them, that have threatened for a
long time, are said we should strip funding for MPR
and PBS. But the problem is in Congress we've had
quite a few well squishy Republicans that have never actually
done it. Nearly twice as many Americans support the continued
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federal funding of public media outlets as opposed it that,
according to a survey release Wednesday by the Research Center.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Here's the issue.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Though many times Americans have no clue what their money
is going for. They just think Sesame Street's good, and
MPR is good, our PBS is good. So why would
we want to stop funding it? Well, if you explain
to the American people exactly what they're doing with those dollars,
and that's what they're doing on Capitol Hill, it'll be
very interesting to see how quickly these polls can change. Well,
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not a majority by the way, but forty three percent
of those surveyed said the federal government should continue to
fund MPR and PBS at present levels. Twenty four percent
said the government should stop funding the outlets, and thirty
three percent of Americans said they weren't sure what to do,
meaning that there needs to be more information given the
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American people about just how biased and corrupt these two
organizations are. Now, if you break it down by party,
and this is some very interesting polling, thirty two percent
of Democrats said they regularly get their news from MPR,
Only nine percent of Republicans said the same thing. Thirty
one percent of Democrats, by the way, and only eleven
percent of Republicans say.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
They regularly watch PBS.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
There's also a nostalgia aspect of these two organizations. Many
think that if you defund them then they're going to disappear.
That's also not true, which goes back to what Margley
Taylor Green said, If you want to hate us and
our values, you can do it on your own dime.
There is no doubt that NPR and PBS can make
money and they do not need our tax dours to
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subsidize them. Yes, they may actually have to run it
like a real company where they cut bloat and waste
and fraud and abuse, and you know, just actually lay
some people off and streamline their operations. But they can
survive on their own, which is another reason why there
is no logical reason why our tax dollars should be
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going to these radical news organizations. There's another reason why
Democrats are angry over this because they've had two major
networks in essence, just as Donald Trump said, that have
been running their propaganda for decades. And yes, NPR and
PBS do in fact have large audiences.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
One of them has a very large audience.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Of children, your children or your grandchildren, and many of
their programs that they now have for those kids are
about pushing radical and alternative lifestyles. They have spent millions
of dollars pushing LGBTQ on kids and your grandkids programming.
They've even had drag queens put into cartoon characters. And
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that is the problem with MPR and PBS, and that's
exactly why it's time that we advocate for stopping this funding.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Now, this is where you, as a voter comes in.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
You got to start calling your congressman and your senators.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And tell them that you're in favor of this.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
One of the reasons why many times Republicans get squishy
on these issues is they're afraid that they're in the minority.
I think once the American people know where their money's going,
there's no doubt this.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Is something we can win on.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And just be honest about who you are. Hey, no
Republicans allowed. We got eighty seven editoral people that are
Democrats as a democratic communist organization. Come on it, and
if you're gonna be that, then be intellectually honest about it.
But don't take my damn tax dollars to push your
state sponsored media. I want to go back to what
we were talking about earlier with NPR. So if you
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thought that MPR was gonna get away and PBS was
gonna get away with wasting your government dollars, things did
not go well. Later in the questioning for the NPR president,
Representative Brandon Gill asking a very simple question and then
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the lie from the MPR CEO.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Listen, it's interesting because a lot of your thinking, as
expressed by your public statements, is deeply infused with economic
and cultural Marxism. Do you believe that a mayor is
addicted to white supremacy.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier,
I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the
last half decade.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
It has evolved. Why did you tweet that?
Speaker 5 (22:12):
I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't
be able to say.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Okay, do you believe that America believes in black plunder
and white democracy?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
I don't believe that, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You tweet it.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It's reference to a book you were reading at the time,
apparently The Case for Reparations.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I don't think I've ever read that book, Sir.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
You tweeted about it.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
You said you took a day off to fully read
The Case for Reparations.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
You put that on Twitter in January of twenty twenty.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I apologies. I don't recall that I did. Okay, no
doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Okay, do you believe that white people inherently feel superior
to other races?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I do not.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
You tweeted something to that effect. You said I grew
up feeling superior.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
Ha.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
How why did you tweet that?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
I think I was probably reflecting on what it was
to be to grow up in an environment where I
had lots of advantages.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir. I
was just reflecting on my own experience.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Do you think the white people should pay reparations?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I have never said that, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yes you did. You said it in January of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, Yes, America, Yes,
our original collective sin and unpaid debt.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Yes, reparations, yes on this day.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
What kind of reparations was it a reference to.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I think it was just a reference to the idea
that we all owe much to the people who came
before us.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay,
many how much reparations have you personally paid?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Sir? I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, just for everybody else, asking anyone who's to be
what you're suggesting.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Do you believe that looting is morally wrong?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I believe that looting is illegal, and I refer to
it as counterproductive. I think it should be prosecuted.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Do you believe it's morally wrong though?
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Of course, then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?
Very different, very different way to describe it.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
It is both morally wrong and counterproductive, as well as.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Being be tweeted. It's hard to be mad about protests.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
In reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private
property of a system of oppression. You didn't condemn the looting,
you said that it was counter productive. NPR also promoted
a book called in Defensive Looting.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir, and I don't believe
that was.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
A tweeted that you read that book.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
But I don't believe that I did read that book, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Do you think that a few years ago INPR educated
America about quote the whole community of gender queer dinosaur enthusiast.
Do you think that that's inappropriate use of tax dollars?
Speaker 5 (25:02):
I was not an MPR at the time.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
That's not the question, though. Do you think that that's
an appropriate use of our tax dollars?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I think our tax dollars that we use are to
be able to provide a wide range and take.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'll take that as a yes, you do believe that
that's appropriate.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Your health advisor at NPR also stated in an interview
that quote, fear of fatness is more harmful than actual fat.
Would you like to explain how fear of fatness is
more harmful than actual fat? That's directly that's an editorial NPR.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I am not familiar with the editorial, and I don't
believe that was published during my time here.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
It's called diet culture is everywhere. Here's how to fight it.
Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I think any reporting on health is an appropriate use.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
You spent dollars, Yes, And you think that editorializing that
fat is not unhealthy is appropriate?
Speaker 5 (25:48):
I don't know that what that article is, sir, and
I'm not familiar with it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
With student said fake news.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Do you think that basic accommodations like doorways or seat
belts represent quote latent fat phobia?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
I don't have an opinion.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
It's also from NPR. Do you think cibility is racist? No, sir, No,
Your outlet ran an article entitled quote when civility is
used as a cudgel against people of color?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
That was on All Things considered.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Would you like to explain, Well, I'm not on the
editorial side. Sorry, I'm not familiar with that story.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
You talk about how NPR is news. This is editorialization,
and I'll read it. For many people of color in
the United States, civility isn't so much social lubricant as
it is a vehicle for containing them, preventing social mobility,
and preserving the status.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Quote. This is garbage.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
I'll spend all of my time doing everything I can do,
and sure you guys never get another dollar of taxpayer funding.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
This is complete garbage. Thank you, madam chair.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Now you listen to this NPR CEO. She makes a
lot of money. It's subsidized by your tax hours. She
was clearly caught off guard after Representative Gil just started
reading her has tweets to her one by one. That
is what you I referred to as a brutal takedown
using someone's own words.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
This was not and I got you moment.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
This was saying, hey, I went and looked at your tweets,
and this is what you were saying when it comes
to your tweets like these are your words?
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And how many different times did she say my tweet
is real.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Like my prolific radical left wing ideology as the CEO
of NPR, Yes, this is what I believe.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
This is what I'm using this for. Right, I'm using
all of this for that reason.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And so you look at how again this goes back
to our money.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
This goes back to what people care about.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
There are many Americans that if you listen to that clip,
and I hope you'll take it, and I hope you'll
share it on social media. I hope you share the
show so other people can hear it. They don't know
that this is what the CEO of MPR is actually doing.
They have no idea that this is happening, right, no
clue at all that this is actually going down. And
part of this is just saying, you want to know
(28:17):
who's running these organizations. Listen to their own words, listen
to their tweets, listen to what they say. Now, want
to move to two other things real quick that are
also a big deal.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
This is coming out of Washington.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
DC officials are now detailing the arrests of a top
MS thirteen gang leader that is running this gang and
their operations throughout the United States of America. The FBI
Director Cash Pttel saying this about grabbing this MS thirteen
leader that by the way, the Biden administration could have grabbed,
but deliberately chose not to.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
This is what happens when you let good cops be cops,
and we're going to continue to let good cops be
cops across this country. And Trump gave us the executive
decision to go after and safeguard our communities. General Bondi
is our worry of justice leading that charge. Governor Youngkin,
It's an honor to be a partner in this operation
with you and.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
US Attorney Seabird.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
This is the mandate we have right now. We have
an American dying every seven minutes from a drug overdose.
That is a national security crisis we have not seen
ever before.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We have a woman or child.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
Being raped every six and a half minutes in this country.
We have a homicide twice an hour. No part of
that metric is a safe and secure America. But thanks
to the brave leadership of this administration and the folks
that you see here, we are returning our communities to safety.
As you heard, we took down this morning a top
leader of MS thirteen. That is not done easily, that
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is done with brilliant law enforcement. And right here, I'm proud,
and I think the governor knows I'm biased, having graduated
from the University of Richmond to have this here in
the state of Virginia. I'm here in our Northern Virginia
Resident Agency with our partners, with our Washington Field Office
and our special agents, our SOS folks are Intel analysts,
and our support staff.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You listen to Cash Hotel there and he says, this
is what happens when you let good cops be cops. Right,
this is exactly what happens. Let us be good cops,
Let us do our job. Let us go out.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
There and find these criminals.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Christy Nome going on TV as well, doing a video
today from where all those major hardcore gang criminals are
being held, and she did an actual statement from there.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Here's what she said.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Here at SEACAT today and visiting this facility. And first
of all, I want to thank El Salvador and their
president for their partnership with the United States of America
to bring our terrorists here and to incarcerate them and
have consequences for the violence that they have perpetuated in
our communities. I also want everybody to know if you
come to our country illegally, this is one of the
consequences you to face. First of all, do not come
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to our country illegally. You will be removed and you
will be prosecuted. But know that this facility is one
of the tools that our toolkit that we will use
if you commit crimes against the American people.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
You hear her, and you look behind her, and there's
like all of these gang members all tatted up shirts
off in this prison. It is clearly I think warfare.
I do think that's part of it. It is warfare,
that mental warfare that now this administration is using. You
want to know where you're going to go if you
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come in this country and you're one of these individuals.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Do you want to know?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
I mean, seriously, do you want to know what is
going to happen to you? Do you want to know
what's going to happen when you do this? We're going
to show you what happens when you do this. This
is where you're going to end up. Do not come
to America. Do not come to America because if you do,
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this is exactly what is going to happen to you.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
We're not screwing around, We're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So, yes, can you fight these multiple issues at the
same time. Yes, is this administration doing one hell of
a job. You better believe it. They're doing an amazing job.
They're doing an amazing job on all of these fronts.
And one last thing I just want to have for you.
Elon Musk set down and broke some news with brettbear
(32:25):
Over at Fox News Channel, and he said that he
believes now that doves can cut fifteen percent from the
budget without affecting any critical government services.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
The budgetary savings goals and how much do you think
you've achieved so far?
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Our goal is to reduce the deficit by a trillion dollars,
so from a nominal deficit of two trillion, to track
cut deficit in half to one trillion, or looked at
it in totlet federal spending, to drop the federal spanning
from seven trillion to six trillion. Sort of at a
high level, you should think of this as we are.
(33:04):
We want to reduce the spending by eliminating waste and
forward reduce the spending by fifteen percent, which.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Seems really quite achievable.
Speaker 8 (33:13):
The government is not efficient and there's a lot of
waste forward, so we feel confident that fifteen percent reduction
can be done without affecting any of the critical government services.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yet again, another victory for Donald Trump. Give me a favor.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Make sure you share this podcast with your family, your friends,
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