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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
At first, they thought this was a joke, the threat
coming from President Trump.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
They'd had good.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Relations with President Trump in his first term. They then
were mystified. Then they got angry and defiant. Then you
started seeing, as we've seen here in just the last
days that we've been here, all this week, flags being
arrayed all across on the streets in Panama. It's not
a big holaday here. It's in defiance of the US
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and of Marco Rubio's incoming business.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The biggest, most expensive project we ever built one hundred
and ten years ago. If you bring it up to now,
it would have been the equivalent of two trillion dollars,
the most expensive we ever built. And we gave it
away for one dollar. Okay, if we gave it away
essentially for it nothing, and we either wanted back or
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we're going to get something very strong, We're going to
take it back and China.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Will be dealt with. Talking about the.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Panama Canal, what they've done is terrible. They violated the agreement.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
We're not allowed to.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Violate the agreement. China's running the Panama Canal.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I was not given to China.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
That was given to Panama foolishly. But they violated the
agreement and we're going to take it back or something
very powerful is going to happen.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You assure the world that as you try to get
you full of these areas, you are not going to
use military or economic coortion.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
The Panama now pledging to end the key development deal
with China on the Panama Canal.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The reversal coming following Trump's tough talk.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The name of the game here is behavior modification. He
wants Canada and Mexico to help stem the flow of
drugs and people across the border. That's number one. He
doesn't think they're doing enough. He's using these tariffs as
a tool to say, look.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm not fooling around. We mean business.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Until you help me, I'm going to inflict some pain
upon you. The American economy is bigger than yours. You
depend on us more than we depend on you. Therefore,
please modify your band larger macro issues.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Here to me is is.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Donald Trump on a mission to show dominance in the hemisphere,
dominance in the region, and to try to get other
people to bend to our will. Colombian and Panama I
believe have. If Mexico and Canada been on helping us
stop the flow of people in drugs, that would be
another victory. And John, Yes, if the terrorists went away, everyone.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Would be happy.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
We'd have less immigration, less drugs, and lower prices, and
I'd be a great neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
I'm told that three hundred Americans die per day from fentanyl.
My late brother was a narcotics officer or part of
his career, and he said something to me years ago
that is stuck with me is that I've never seen
a drug on the streets like fentanyl. I said, well,
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explain that to me. Get granular, really talk to me
like I'm four years old. I want to grasp this.
And he said, Michael, because he called me Michael Ramon.
He said, Michael, if someone dies from alcohol poisoning, which happens,
you got to work at it because your body has
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a natural shut off valve. If for those of you
who hopefully you're not still but at some point you
were a binge drinker, high school, college, first job, whatever
that was, you may have had that moment or you
passed out and your buddies, you know, drew on your
face or hopefully you weren't driving, you were to maybe
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you were to party. But the passing out is what
people will talk about. That's the body's shut off valve. Hey,
you idiot, stop pouring alcohol down my throat. So his
point is was, if if somebody dies of alcohol poisoning,
it is almost a death wish, or it's a fraternity
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where they get the powerful stuff down the throat too
fast before the body can react, and those are terrible deaths. Right,
No mother, no father ever wants that. But those are
relatively rare. Relatively Okay, you don't need a Michael my Son.
I get it, you're hurting, but they're relatively rare. Heroin,
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you got to first start with I'm gonna put a
needle in my arm.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Okay, you're at a certain point.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Nobody is doing nothing and their entry level drug is heroin.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You're somewhere on the spectrum before you do that.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
My point is for you to die from some drug
is possible, but in every other case there had to
be steps before that. Fittonel is a drug that will
take someone's life the first time they take it in
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such a amount that it can be in a little
piece of candy smaller than a sweet tart?
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Sweet tart? Is that what those were called? What the
little tart's called? Earn a nerd?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Yeah, for those of you who remember the pop of
a nerd, I saw it on the end of a
pencil lit and he said, it's horrifying because you get
you get teenagers who will say, hey, my brother gave
me this and try it, and you go, well, they're dumb.
You had to be dumb to do that. I don't
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know about you, but I was dumb when I was young.
I didn't drink till I was twenty nine. I never
did drugs, but I was dumb. I drove one hundred
miles an hour on the road on country roads that
had no lighting.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That was dumb. You're reckless, you're fearless. You don't know
any better. You're dumb.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
You will grow up, you will learn, and you will
know people who will die, and with each of those deaths,
you grow a little wiser, you grow a little less reckless.
So let's just start with the three hundred per day
who die in America because of Chinese made fentanyl that
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the cartails traffic into here, and the President is trying
to get Mexico, who can do the lion's share of this,
to keep it from happening, to be our partner, to
be our ally right. The President's trying to get them
to do their job. That's it. Just like he just
toured the New York subway and he's got Eric Adams
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there and they got officers. Say hey, put officers down here.
You got people getting burned to death, getting raped, getting pushing.
Put officers down here. That's their job. Restore the dignity
and security of the well. That's what he's asking the
Mexicans to do. That's what he's asking the Mexican government
to do. So it's not that hard to do, right.
Imagine that Democrats are saying, no, we don't want you
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to stop the flow of ventanyl. We want people to die,
we want mothers to bury their babies. That's sickening. How
about the fact that Elon Musk has brought these young
nerds into DOSEE and they're able to use AI to
figure out where all the waste is coming from.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The Democrats are going.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
No, stop, stop identifying all the waste of our tax dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Please stop. That's a bad look. Michael Berry's show. I
don't know if you're old enough to remember this. We're gong,
but there was a time.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
That if you lost somebody's number, you may never talk
to that person again, right, And there wasn't an easy
place to put their number. Like now, if you meet
somebody and you go here, let me put your number
into my phone, you've got their number forever. And I
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mean now you can literally you know, you lose that phone.
At least I'm on the Apple system. You didn't go
and get it switched over onto the new phone, so
you can keep all your numbers, although for some reason
it doesn't work for me.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I've lost a lot of people's numbers. But whatever. But
it's just funny.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Kids today can't imagine what it was like back in
the day, especially when you were a teenager and you
meet a girl and she'd.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Write her number down. You had to get a pen
and paper.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I bet young people today they don't even they wouldn't
know where a pen and paper was.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I carried a lot of such a nerd.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I carried a little notepad in my back pocket, a
little spiral notepad a little about two inches wide, about
maybe three inches long, and a little pin clip to it,
and I'd write notes.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And I thought I was a.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Journalist in training because I wrote for the school newspaper,
and you know, I'd hear something or read something, and
I'd want to make notes on it. But when you would,
when you would ask a girl for her number, I'm
fifty four, so we're talking, you know, eighty four, eighty five,
eighty six, And.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You can I get, sir, Can I borrow a pen?
Can I get a little paper?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
And you tear off some paper from whatever you just anything,
get that dang number, and you'd write it down, and man,
you would guard that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And if you got home and forgot.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
To take it out and it washed, now you had
the wadded up paper and her number was in there,
and that was going to.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Be the end of the world.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Be honest with me and answer this wherever you are
out loud. Had you ever given more than five minutes
of thought to usaid before the last two weeks, had
you ever pondered how much of your money was being
spent and in how many places? Because all we're seeing
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right now, you know, somebody said, I can't remember who
wrote it. Somebody said that the great story of today
is that Elon Musk has weaponized autism in pursuit of transparency.
And what that meant was he has brought these young,
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very nerdy, very socially awkward somewhere on the autism spectrum
geniuses in to doge the Department of Government Efficiency. And
I mean they brought cots in. If you read the
book on Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, you know that
Elon likes to work round the clock.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Time is.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
A concept to him. It's not reality.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
If he's working and it's eleven o'clock at night, don't
tell him, you know, go to bed, You got to
get up. He just will continue to work. And the
way he led at Tesla was he would sleep under
his desk because he wanted everybody else to walk in
and see him asleep under his desk. Because if the
CEO leader billionaire is here all night trying to get
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this problem solved, what are you doing going home? That
is a servant leader. So they brought in Cots. Now,
let's compare that to the fact that in North Carolina,
the Biden folks, the FEMA folks, took over a casino.
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They took over a casino, a nice casino, and they
stayed there and they ran out of money to help
the people there. Because they had no interest in helping
the people there. They took over a casino and they
didn't help the people there, whereas Elon's people, in a
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matter of days have stayed twenty four hours a day.
I mean, they are working round the clock to uncover,
using AI in a way that you never could have
You never could have done this with just the human eye.
They are using AI in the right search terms because
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they're brilliant to figure out where all the waste is.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, we are going to talk about USAID. Let's talk
about that from them.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
President Trump said, and he's right that USAID has been
run by a bunch of radical lunatics.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Well, it's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics,
and we're getting them out. Us AID run by radical lunatics,
and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
So let's just start here. I want you to understand
the kind of things they've been spending money on. It's
not just that it's wasteful. Some of it is on
organizations that terrorize you. Some of it is on organizations
that terrorize the people of other countries, and they're taking
our need to do this and acting like they're defending democracy.
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And what you're going to find by the end of
the show today, you're going to find that a lot
of the government swamp creatures are in on this. They're
personally getting enriched, their families are personally getting enriched.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
By the way.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Coming up in the next hour, Stuart Rhodes is the
founder of Oathkeepers. He was given an eighteen year sentence.
Of course when President Trump came in, it was commuted
and he was out the next day. He'll be our
guest for the next hour. Here is the Press Secretary
Carolyn Levitt. Just a few examples of where USAID money
was going.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have been
taking a look, because if you look at the waste
and abuse that has run through USAID over the past
several years, these are some of the insane priorities that
that organization has been spending money on.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
One point five million.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand for
a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, for a
transgender opera in Colombia thirty two thousand for a transgender
comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but
as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going
towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either.
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And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by
President Trump to do to get the fraud, waste, and
abuse out of our federal government.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Line.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
We're going to talk about some of the places your
money has been spent, and it is not pretty. Marco
Rubio is now as Secretary of State, the head of USAID.
Just did Trump said, forget that, you're in charge of it,
and we're going to talk.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
About what they've been up to. Folks.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
It may have been worse than even we imagine.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
The Michael Berry show. These are your money, this is
your money.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Six million dollars to fund quote unquote tourism in Egypt.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Millions of dollars.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
We're getting a final number to the EcoHealth Alliance, that's
the Wuhan lab League. Twenty million dollars on a sesame
street show in Iraq. And those are just a few
Donald Trump Junior released those. There are plenty more Let's
talk about what kind of leaders, what kind of people
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are involved in USAID. This is part of the circular
inside dealing these people do. David Bell was the second
administrator for USAID in nineteen sixty six. He left the
organization for the position of executive vice president of the
Ford Foundation. These people all move from organization to organization.
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The sixteenth I think it's all CIA and I think
this is how.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
This is how your Bush.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Establishment, Cheney establishment, Romney establishment works. They all were. There's
billions of dollars flowing through all this. The sixteenth administrator
for USAID was Henriette four She was the executive director
of UNISEF, another un organization, from twenty eighteen to twenty
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twenty two. She collaborated with GAVII. She was a global
She was a board member for the Global Preparedness Monitoring
Board convened by the World Bank.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I could go.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Through her associations with people like Bill Gates, but I
think you get the point. Rajiv Shah is the current
president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a former administrator
of the USAID. He served in numerous leadership roles with
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gosh isn't it funny
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how USAID that funds all these organizations and all these
evil causes, the same people are operating through the Clinton
Global Initiative of Bill Gates's organization.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
They're all in this together.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
And I suppose when it all gets to be too
much because they're working so hard, well, we'll fly to
Epstein Island and have sex with little girls. Raji Shaw
was also responsible for developing the International Finance Facility for Immunization. Ah. Yes,
it's always about the epidemics, isn't it. That's where the
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money's to be made, That's where the power is to
be wielded. The seventeenth administrator of the USAID was Gail Smith.
She's worked with the World Bank as a consultant. From
two thousand and five to two thousand and seven, she
was the chairman of the Working Group on Global Poverty,
or the Clinton Global Initiative. You see, you go from
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the Clinton Global Initiative to USAID, which gives the Clinton
Global Initiative money which they supposedly spend rebuilding Haiti, but
nothing gets rebuilt, and somehow the money goes missing. And
everyone's happy until Trump comes along and starts blowing the
whistle from nineteen. Let's talk about Barack Obama's mother, Stanley
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Ann Dunham. She was a consultant on international development for
USAID from seventy nine to eighty From eighty eight to
ninety two, she was a research coordinator and consultant to
the Bank Rakyat Indonesia under three separate contracts funded by
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the World Bank and USAID.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Isn't it funny that USAID was paying Barack Obama's bills.
By the way, one thousand EPA employees were notified today
that they have been terminated. The new director of the
EPA says that their numbers show that about five percent
of EPA employees show up on Monday Friday, ninety five percent.
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Ninety five percent do not show up more than three
days a week. EPA chief Lee Zelden releasing that information today.
I mean, look, if you work from home and it
works for you because you're independent, because that's your job.
One of our producers, our creative director, Jim Mudd, works
from home because he's an hour from our studio and
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it doesn't make sense for him to drive in everything
we do. He creates audio, he produces audio, He polishes audio,
he does show research. I told him, there's no reason
for me to lose an hour of you coming in,
an hour of you going home to be here with us.
I know you're working. You got to be working because
we're emailing back and forth every five minutes. Now, Chad
Nakanishi needs to be here. Our executive producer Ramon's got
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to be stuck here across the glassroom me. Now he's
taking an app half the time, but he shows his
fat ass up to work every day. And these government
employees are not. You know. I had a friend and
a friend who has a place in San Destin on
the Florida coast, and he was telling me last night
we're having cigars and drinking some bourbon, and these days
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I'm drinking something called bear Fight Whiskey. You can get
it at barfight Whiskey dot com. And it's a Kentucky
barrel with a Kentucky straight bourbon with a it's aged
in a repisaw the cask barrel, so it's got kind
of a tequila finished to it. You don't have to
love it. I mean, people love to tell you what
they don't like about me. So I'm normally a Blanton Skuy,
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but they asked me to try it, and I said
I would try it, and I'm enjoying it, and they
sent me some to try and I'm gonna buy some
more because you can actually buy it online now Ramon's.
You know, you can buy booze online now, bar Fight
whiskey dot com. Boom, there you go. So we were
talking about the fact that my friend and his wife
have They live in a houseboat off the Florida coast,
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and the people who the little bar, they go to
the drink every night. The people who were there all
work for the federal government, and during COVID they sold
their houses and bought houses in Florida. And he said,
I don't want to seem too interested in freak them out,
but I'm asking, don't y'all ever have to go to work?
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And they'd go, no, no, we don't. We just work
from home. We want to it's a government job. These
people haven't been to the office in five years now.
There are some positions where you don't need to go
to the office. Some of the work from home crowded
go well, I don't, but you don't understand. We've got
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people who are doctors for the medical for medical facilities
in our government who haven't been to the offices to
see patients.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
We've got people who.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Are getting paid by federal government, a different state government,
a different county government, a different city government. That's illegal
not to me. How are you doing the job? And
these aren't overachievers that are working long hours anyway. The
public health director in Houston at the county Harris County
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was also the assistant public health director at the same
time from Maricopa County, which is Phoenix in Arizona. So
she was either here or there, but never both places.
And they didn't know because it's illegal that she had
two jobs and big jobs at the same time. And
none of this would have come to light except for
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the fact that some email traffic was caught between her
and a company that she was negotiating to give a
multimillion dollar contract in Harris County. They were going to
pay her millions. They basically told her, how much do
you want to come to work with us? She's going
to give them a contract on Wednesday, and on Thursday
she's flying back out to California.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Where she's from, to go to work for them.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
After She's handed them a no bid, multimillion dollar contract.
This is what our government has become, and this is
what Democrats don't want.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Elon and Trump starting to.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Make informed decisions, and you're giving them the inswer Michael Varry,
because you're a public Paul Revere had to ring in
the warning go.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Little Marco Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, telling the
press that he's now the acting director of USAID at
Trump's direction.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Well, look, I mean my frustration with USA goes back
to my time in conscience.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Is a completely unresponsive agency.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
It's supposed to respond to policy directors of the State Department,
and it refuses.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
To do so.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
So the functions of the USAID, there are a lot
of functions of USAID that are going to continue, going
to be part of American foreign policy, but it has
to be aligned with American foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I said very clearly.
Speaker 10 (24:48):
When we were not during my confirmation hearing, that every
dollar we spend in every program we fund that vote
will be aligned with the national interest of the United States,
and USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that
and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from
the national interests. He's a taxpayer dollars, and so I'm
very troubled by these reports that they've been unwilling to
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cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what
does this program do, who gets the money, who are
our contractors, who's funded, and that sort of level of
a subordination makes it impossible to conduct a sort of
mature and serious review that I think foreign at large
should have. We were spending taxpayer money here. These are
not donor dollars. These are taxpayer dollars, and we owe
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the American people assured the assurances that every dollar we
are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers
our national interests. And so far a lot of the
people that work at USA IDEA have just simply refused
to cooperate.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Are you currently in charge with the USAID. I'm the
acting director of USAID.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
I've delegated that authority to someone, but I stay in
touch with him. And again, our goal was to go
in and align our foreign aid to.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
The national interest.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
But if you go to mission after mission and an
embassy after embassy around the world, you will often find
that in many cases the usaaight ID is involved in
programs that run counter to what we're trying to do
in our national strategy.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
With that country or without regent, that cannot continue.
Speaker 10 (26:12):
USAID is not an independent, non governmental entency. It is
an entity that spends taxpayer dollars and an he suspended,
as the statute says, in alignment with the policy directors
that they get from the Secretary of State, the National
Security Council, and the President. And it's been twenty or
thirty years where people have tried to reform it.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Former Press Secretary to the Democrat President Jim Posaki, now
at MSNBC says, look, Elon is only targeting USAID because
they're fighting corruption and we need to be bold.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We can't let him do that.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
An elected best friend Elon Musk. His latest target was
the United States Agency for International Development, and that agency
is the one that not only leads on humanitarian assistance
around the world, but also works to combat corruption and
foreign aid programs.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It's a big part of what they do.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I kind of see how that could make Elon Musk
have been uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So what do you think he did? You may already know.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Well, he removed two of the top leaders of the
organization who wouldn't do his bidding over the weekend, and
then overnight last night, employees received an email ordering them
not to come into the office today. They weren't given
a reason or any sort of rationale. They're basically just
told not to show up. Many were even blocked from
the system and locked out of their email accounts.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
We're also seeing something similar.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Happening in the Treasury Department. In the last few days,
Elon Musk and his doge pals have been granted access
to the federal payment system that handles paychecks to federal workers,
social Security checks, tax refunds, and basically incredibly sensitive personal
information about anyone who gets those payments. This takeover is
also happening across the Office of Personnel Management, where Musk
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has gained unprecedented access to federal human resources databases that
have sensitive personal information about millions of federal employees. And
I'm going to talk with the reporter who broke that
story today about what else he has learned later in
the show. Now, I'm going to just be straight with
you about all this. I mean, in the face of
all of this and much more that's happened in the
last two weeks. There's not always been the type of clear,
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consistent and united response from leading Democrats that I believe
and you probably believe the moment requires. Yes, there have
been some powerful voices out there in the confirmation hearings especially,
but overall, it's taken far too long in my view,
for elected officials to respond, to respond boldly, and when
they do respond, those responses aren't often specific enough or
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bold enough, and just hasn't been super clear all the
time to me or to probably all of you what
they are actually doing to push back on this hostile takeover.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
You see, she's very clear Elon and Trump are going
in and exposing all the corruption and all the fraud,
and we have to stop them.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Robert F.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Kennedy who passed out of the committee today. It will
now go to the full Senate. It passed fourteen thirteen
in Louisiana Keep the heat on Bill Cassidy. There were
fourteen Republicans in thirteen Democrats, and he was threatening to
vote with the Democrats. He is a physician and a
senator and an American. He knows that we need to
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reform America's health. He knows this, but he's also I
suspect scared the death of losing a big farm of money.
That's what he didn't want. He voted the right way. See,
these folks are torn between two lovers. That's what this
comes comes down to. Trying as the Oakridge boys trying
(30:02):
to love, trying to please to lovers is lack a
ball and chain. They've got their big donors who pay
their bills, but they've got.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You back at home.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
As long as they don't think that you will fire them,
they'll come to your event, they'll explain. But as long
as you will end up voting for them, then they'll
they'll they'll their sponsors. They're investors that you know, big forearm,
and these folks, they're always.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Going to satisfy them.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
That's what they're going to do because that's who's going
to hire their family members, that's who's going to pay
for their campaign. As long as they think they can
get over on you. John Corny's done for years. Because
the only place you're going to vote against them. They
know this is in a primary. So what they're hoping
for is the establishment and the party will keep anybody
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strong from running against them in a primary. It's very hard,
especially in a big state like Texas. Louisiana is a
big state. It's hard to campaign across a state as
big as Louisiana. You're gonna raise a lot of money.
And so what they do is all they have to
do is win their primary, because come November, all they
have to do is tell you, hey, I know I'm
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not perfect, but look at those Democrats. At least I'm
not a Democrat. And so they get six more years.
Six years is a long time. But when they since
that you've had enough, that you're just angry enough, that's
when they'll vote with you. They don't want to unless
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they're turned out, unless they're leaving. Mitch McConnell, he doesn't
give a damn about Kentucky right now. He's got an
axe to grind. He's been made a fool love. He's
a swamp creature. He's been made a fool love by Trump,
and he's out to destroy Trump. And that's what this
is all about. Tulsea Gabbard passed out a committee today
as well. I think both of those are gonna pass.
(32:03):
It'll be close, but make no mistake. Trump is calling
in every favor, threats favors, cajoling, whatever it takes. Once
he gets those two in place, once we get this
those two and Cash Betel in place, man, we're gonna
have the right team. It's like we got the head coach,
(32:23):
we got Saving, we got Belichick. Now we got the
whole coaching staff. It's gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
A love it.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Stuart Rhodes, the founder of Oathkeepers, was given an eighteen
year sentence over January sixth. He was released on January
twenty first, due to the President the day before.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Commuting his sentence. We'll talk to him about that whole
process coming up.
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
At first, they thought this was a joke, the threat
coming from President Trump.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
They'd had good.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Relations with President Trump in his first term. They then
were mystified. Then they got angry and defiant. Then you
started seeing, as we've seen here in just the last
days that we've been here, all this week, flags being
arrayed all across on the streets in Panama. It's not
a big holaday here. It's in defiance of the US
(00:48):
and of Marco Rubio's incoming business.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
The biggest, most expensive project we ever built one hundred
and ten years ago. If you bring it up to now,
it would have been the equivalent of two trillion dollars,
the most expensive we ever built. And we gave it
away for one dollar. Okay, if we gave it away
essentially for it nothing, and we either wanted back or
(01:19):
we're going to get something very strong, We're going to
take it back and China.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Will be dealt with. Talking about the.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Panama Canal, what they've done is terrible. They violated the agreement.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
We're not allowed to.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Violate the agreement. China's running the Panama Canal.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I was not given to China.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
That was given to Panama foolishly. But they violated the
agreement and we're going to take it back or something
very powerful is going to happen.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You assure the world that as you try to get
you full of these areas, you are not going to
use military or economic coortion.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
The Panama now pledging to end the key development deal
with China on the Panama Canal.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The reversal coming following Trump's tough talk.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
The name of the game here is behavior modification. He
wants Canada and Mexico to help stem the flow of
drugs and people across the border. That's number one. He
doesn't think they're doing enough. He's using these tariffs as
a tool to say, look.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I'm not fooling around. We mean business.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
Until you help me, I'm going to inflict some pain
upon you. The American economy is bigger than yours. You
depend on us more than we depend on you. Therefore,
please modify your band larger macro issues.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Here to me is is.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Donald Trump on a mission to show dominance in the hemisphere,
dominance in the region, and to try to get other
people to bend to our will. Colombian and Panama I
believe have. If Mexico and Canada been on helping us
stop the flow of people in drugs, that would be
another victory. And John, Yes, if the terrorists went away, everyone.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Would be happy.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
We'd have less immigration, less drugs, and lower prices, and
I'd be a great neighborhood.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
I'm told that three hundred Americans die per day from fentanyl.
My late brother was a narcotics officer or part of
his career, and he said something to me years ago
that is stuck with me is that I've never seen
a drug on the streets like fentanyl. I said, well,
(03:51):
explain that to me. Get granular, really talk to me
like I'm four years old. I want to grasp this.
And he said, Michael, because he called me Michael Ramon.
He said, Michael, if someone dies from alcohol poisoning, which happens,
you got to work at it because your body has
(04:13):
a natural shut off valve. If for those of you
who hopefully you're not still but at some point you
were a binge drinker, high school, college, first job, whatever
that was, you may have had that moment or you
passed out and your buddies, you know, drew on your
face or hopefully you weren't driving, you were to maybe
(04:35):
you were to party. But the passing out is what
people will talk about. That's the body's shut off valve. Hey,
you idiot, stop pouring alcohol down my throat. So his
point is was, if if somebody dies of alcohol poisoning,
it is almost a death wish, or it's a fraternity
(04:58):
where they get the powerful stuff down the throat too
fast before the body can react, and those are terrible deaths. Right,
No mother, no father ever wants that. But those are
relatively rare. Relatively Okay, you don't need a Michael my Son.
I get it, you're hurting, but they're relatively rare. Heroin,
(05:22):
you got to first start with I'm gonna put a
needle in my arm.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Okay, you're at a certain point.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
Nobody is doing nothing and their entry level drug is heroin.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You're somewhere on the spectrum before you do that.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
My point is for you to die from some drug
is possible, but in every other case there had to
be steps before that. Fittonel is a drug that will
take someone's life the first time they take it in
(05:59):
such a amount that it can be in a little
piece of candy smaller than a sweet tart?
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Sweet tart? Is that what those were called? What the
little tart's called? Earn a nerd?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Yeah, for those of you who remember the pop of
a nerd, I saw it on the end of a
pencil lit and he said, it's horrifying because you get
you get teenagers who will say, hey, my brother gave
me this and try it, and you go, well, they're dumb.
You had to be dumb to do that. I don't
(06:34):
know about you, but I was dumb when I was young.
I didn't drink till I was twenty nine. I never
did drugs, but I was dumb. I drove one hundred
miles an hour on the road on country roads that
had no lighting.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That was dumb. You're reckless, you're fearless. You don't know
any better. You're dumb.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
You will grow up, you will learn, and you will
know people who will die, and with each of those deaths,
you grow a little wiser, you grow a little less reckless.
So let's just start with the three hundred per day
who die in America because of Chinese made fentanyl that
(07:11):
the cartails traffic into here, and the President is trying
to get Mexico, who can do the lion's share of this,
to keep it from happening, to be our partner, to
be our ally right. The President's trying to get them
to do their job. That's it. Just like he just
toured the New York subway and he's got Eric Adams
(07:35):
there and they got officers. Say hey, put officers down here.
You got people getting burned to death, getting raped, getting pushing.
Put officers down here. That's their job. Restore the dignity
and security of the well. That's what he's asking the
Mexicans to do. That's what he's asking the Mexican government
to do. So it's not that hard to do, right.
Imagine that Democrats are saying, no, we don't want you
(07:57):
to stop the flow of ventanyl. We want people to die,
we want mothers to bury their babies. That's sickening. How
about the fact that Elon Musk has brought these young
nerds into DOSEE and they're able to use AI to
figure out where all the waste is coming from.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The Democrats are going.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
No, stop, stop identifying all the waste of our tax dollars.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Please stop. That's a bad look. Michael Berry's show. I
don't know if you're old enough to remember this. We're gong,
but there was a time.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
That if you lost somebody's number, you may never talk
to that person again, right, And there wasn't an easy
place to put their number. Like now, if you meet
somebody and you go here, let me put your number
into my phone, you've got their number forever. And I
(08:52):
mean now you can literally you know, you lose that phone.
At least I'm on the Apple system. You didn't go
and get it switched over onto the new phone, so
you can keep all your numbers, although for some reason
it doesn't work for me.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I've lost a lot of people's numbers. But whatever. But
it's just funny.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Kids today can't imagine what it was like back in
the day, especially when you were a teenager and you
meet a girl and she'd.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Write her number down. You had to get a pen
and paper.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I bet young people today they don't even they wouldn't
know where a pen and paper was.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I carried a lot of such a nerd.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I carried a little notepad in my back pocket, a
little spiral notepad a little about two inches wide, about
maybe three inches long, and a little pin clip to it,
and I'd write notes.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And I thought I was a.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Journalist in training because I wrote for the school newspaper,
and you know, I'd hear something or read something, and
I'd want to make notes on it. But when you would,
when you would ask a girl for her number, I'm
fifty four, so we're talking, you know, eighty four, eighty five,
eighty six, And.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You can I get, sir, Can I borrow a pen?
Can I get a little paper?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
And you tear off some paper from whatever you just anything,
get that dang number, and you'd write it down, and man,
you would guard that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
And if you got home and forgot.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
To take it out and it washed, now you had
the wadded up paper and her number was in there,
and that was going to.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Be the end of the world.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Be honest with me and answer this wherever you are
out loud. Had you ever given more than five minutes
of thought to usaid before the last two weeks, had
you ever pondered how much of your money was being
spent and in how many places? Because all we're seeing
(10:46):
right now, you know, somebody said, I can't remember who
wrote it. Somebody said that the great story of today
is that Elon Musk has weaponized autism in pursuit of transparency.
And what that meant was he has brought these young,
(11:08):
very nerdy, very socially awkward somewhere on the autism spectrum
geniuses in to doge the Department of Government Efficiency. And
I mean they brought cots in. If you read the
book on Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, you know that
Elon likes to work round the clock.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Time is.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
A concept to him. It's not reality.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
If he's working and it's eleven o'clock at night, don't
tell him, you know, go to bed, You got to
get up. He just will continue to work. And the
way he led at Tesla was he would sleep under
his desk because he wanted everybody else to walk in
and see him asleep under his desk. Because if the
CEO leader billionaire is here all night trying to get
(11:59):
this problem solved, what are you doing going home? That
is a servant leader. So they brought in Cots. Now,
let's compare that to the fact that in North Carolina,
the Biden folks, the FEMA folks, took over a casino.
(12:22):
They took over a casino, a nice casino, and they
stayed there and they ran out of money to help
the people there. Because they had no interest in helping
the people there. They took over a casino and they
didn't help the people there, whereas Elon's people, in a
(12:43):
matter of days have stayed twenty four hours a day.
I mean, they are working round the clock to uncover,
using AI in a way that you never could have
You never could have done this with just the human eye.
They are using AI in the right search terms because
(13:07):
they're brilliant to figure out where all the waste is.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, we are going to talk about USAID. Let's talk
about that from them.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
President Trump said, and he's right that USAID has been
run by a bunch of radical lunatics.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Well, it's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics,
and we're getting them out. Us AID run by radical lunatics,
and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
So let's just start here. I want you to understand
the kind of things they've been spending money on. It's
not just that it's wasteful. Some of it is on
organizations that terrorize you. Some of it is on organizations
that terrorize the people of other countries, and they're taking
our need to do this and acting like they're defending democracy.
(14:03):
And what you're going to find by the end of
the show today, you're going to find that a lot
of the government swamp creatures are in on this. They're
personally getting enriched, their families are personally getting enriched.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
By the way.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Coming up in the next hour, Stuart Rhodes is the
founder of Oathkeepers. He was given an eighteen year sentence.
Of course when President Trump came in, it was commuted
and he was out the next day. He'll be our
guest for the next hour. Here is the Press Secretary
Carolyn Levitt. Just a few examples of where USAID money
was going.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have been
taking a look, because if you look at the waste
and abuse that has run through USAID over the past
several years, these are some of the insane priorities that
that organization has been spending money on.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
One point five million.
Speaker 9 (14:50):
Dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand for
a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, for a
transgender opera in Colombia thirty two thousand for a transgender
comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but
as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going
towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either.
(15:12):
And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by
President Trump to do to get the fraud, waste, and
abuse out of our federal government.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Line.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
We're going to talk about some of the places your
money has been spent, and it is not pretty. Marco
Rubio is now as Secretary of State, the head of USAID.
Just did Trump said, forget that, you're in charge of it,
and we're going to talk.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
About what they've been up to. Folks.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
It may have been worse than even we imagine.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
The Michael Berry show. These are your money, this is
your money.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Six million dollars to fund quote unquote tourism in Egypt.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Millions of dollars.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
We're getting a final number to the EcoHealth Alliance, that's
the Wuhan lab League. Twenty million dollars on a sesame
street show in Iraq. And those are just a few
Donald Trump Junior released those. There are plenty more Let's
talk about what kind of leaders, what kind of people
(16:20):
are involved in USAID. This is part of the circular
inside dealing these people do. David Bell was the second
administrator for USAID in nineteen sixty six. He left the
organization for the position of executive vice president of the
Ford Foundation. These people all move from organization to organization.
(16:46):
The sixteenth I think it's all CIA and I think
this is how.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
This is how your Bush.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Establishment, Cheney establishment, Romney establishment works. They all were. There's
billions of dollars flowing through all this. The sixteenth administrator
for USAID was Henriette four She was the executive director
of UNISEF, another un organization, from twenty eighteen to twenty
(17:15):
twenty two. She collaborated with GAVII. She was a global
She was a board member for the Global Preparedness Monitoring
Board convened by the World Bank.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I could go.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Through her associations with people like Bill Gates, but I
think you get the point. Rajiv Shah is the current
president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a former administrator
of the USAID. He served in numerous leadership roles with
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gosh isn't it funny
(17:50):
how USAID that funds all these organizations and all these
evil causes, the same people are operating through the Clinton
Global Initiative of Bill Gates's organization.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
They're all in this together.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
And I suppose when it all gets to be too
much because they're working so hard, well, we'll fly to
Epstein Island and have sex with little girls. Raji Shaw
was also responsible for developing the International Finance Facility for Immunization. Ah. Yes,
it's always about the epidemics, isn't it. That's where the
(18:26):
money's to be made, That's where the power is to
be wielded. The seventeenth administrator of the USAID was Gail Smith.
She's worked with the World Bank as a consultant. From
two thousand and five to two thousand and seven, she
was the chairman of the Working Group on Global Poverty,
or the Clinton Global Initiative. You see, you go from
(18:51):
the Clinton Global Initiative to USAID, which gives the Clinton
Global Initiative money which they supposedly spend rebuilding Haiti, but
nothing gets rebuilt, and somehow the money goes missing. And
everyone's happy until Trump comes along and starts blowing the
whistle from nineteen. Let's talk about Barack Obama's mother, Stanley
(19:12):
Ann Dunham. She was a consultant on international development for
USAID from seventy nine to eighty From eighty eight to
ninety two, she was a research coordinator and consultant to
the Bank Rakyat Indonesia under three separate contracts funded by
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the World Bank and USAID.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Isn't that funny?
Speaker 7 (19:39):
Isn't it funny that USAID was paying Barack Obama's bills.
By the way, one thousand EPA employees were notified today
that they have been terminated. The new director of the
EPA says that their numbers show that about five percent
of EPA employees show up on Monday Friday, ninety five percent.
(20:03):
Ninety five percent do not show up more than three
days a week. EPA chief Lee Zelden releasing that information today.
I mean, look, if you work from home and it
works for you because you're independent, because that's your job.
One of our producers, our creative director, Jim Mudd, works
from home because he's an hour from our studio and
(20:23):
it doesn't make sense for him to drive in everything
we do. He creates audio, he produces audio, He polishes audio,
he does show research. I told him, there's no reason
for me to lose an hour of you coming in,
an hour of you going home to be here with us.
I know you're working. You got to be working because
we're emailing back and forth every five minutes. Now, Chad
Nakanishi needs to be here. Our executive producer Ramon's got
(20:46):
to be stuck here across the glassroom me. Now he's
taking an app half the time, but he shows his
fat ass up to work every day. And these government
employees are not. You know. I had a friend and
a friend who has a place in San Destin on
the Florida coast, and he was telling me last night
we're having cigars and drinking some bourbon, and these days
(21:09):
I'm drinking something called bear Fight Whiskey. You can get
it at barfight Whiskey dot com. And it's a Kentucky
barrel with a Kentucky straight bourbon with a it's aged
in a repisaw the cask barrel, so it's got kind
of a tequila finished to it. You don't have to
love it. I mean, people love to tell you what
they don't like about me. So I'm normally a Blanton Skuy,
(21:33):
but they asked me to try it, and I said
I would try it, and I'm enjoying it, and they
sent me some to try and I'm gonna buy some
more because you can actually buy it online now Ramon's.
You know, you can buy booze online now, bar Fight
whiskey dot com. Boom, there you go. So we were
talking about the fact that my friend and his wife
have They live in a houseboat off the Florida coast,
(21:53):
and the people who the little bar, they go to
the drink every night. The people who were there all
work for the federal government, and during COVID they sold
their houses and bought houses in Florida. And he said,
I don't want to seem too interested in freak them out,
but I'm asking, don't y'all ever have to go to work?
(22:14):
And they'd go, no, no, we don't. We just work
from home. We want to it's a government job. These
people haven't been to the office in five years now.
There are some positions where you don't need to go
to the office. Some of the work from home crowded
go well, I don't, but you don't understand. We've got
(22:35):
people who are doctors for the medical for medical facilities
in our government who haven't been to the offices to
see patients.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
We've got people who.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Are getting paid by federal government, a different state government,
a different county government, a different city government. That's illegal
not to me. How are you doing the job? And
these aren't overachievers that are working long hours anyway. The
public health director in Houston at the county Harris County
(23:12):
was also the assistant public health director at the same
time from Maricopa County, which is Phoenix in Arizona. So
she was either here or there, but never both places.
And they didn't know because it's illegal that she had
two jobs and big jobs at the same time. And
none of this would have come to light except for
(23:32):
the fact that some email traffic was caught between her
and a company that she was negotiating to give a
multimillion dollar contract in Harris County. They were going to
pay her millions. They basically told her, how much do
you want to come to work with us? She's going
to give them a contract on Wednesday, and on Thursday
she's flying back out to California.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Where she's from, to go to work for them.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
After She's handed them a no bid, multimillion dollar contract.
This is what our government has become, and this is
what Democrats don't want.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Elon and Trump starting to.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Make informed decisions, and you're giving them the inswer Michael Varry,
because you're a public Paul Revere had to ring in
the warning go.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Little Marco Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, telling the
press that he's now the acting director of USAID at
Trump's direction.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Well, look, I mean my frustration with USA goes back
to my time in conscience.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Is a completely unresponsive agency.
Speaker 10 (24:30):
It's supposed to respond to policy directors of the State Department,
and it refuses.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
To do so.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
So the functions of the USAID, there are a lot
of functions of USAID that are going to continue, going
to be part of American foreign policy, but it has
to be aligned with American foreign policy.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I said very clearly.
Speaker 10 (24:48):
When we were not during my confirmation hearing, that every
dollar we spend in every program we fund that vote
will be aligned with the national interest of the United States,
and USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that
and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from
the national interests. He's a taxpayer dollars, and so I'm
very troubled by these reports that they've been unwilling to
(25:10):
cooperate with people who are asking simple questions about what
does this program do, who gets the money, who are
our contractors, who's funded, and that sort of level of
a subordination makes it impossible to conduct a sort of
mature and serious review that I think foreign at large
should have. We were spending taxpayer money here. These are
not donor dollars. These are taxpayer dollars, and we owe
(25:30):
the American people assured the assurances that every dollar we
are spending abroad is being spent on something that furthers
our national interests. And so far a lot of the
people that work at USA IDEA have just simply refused
to cooperate.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Are you currently in charge with the USAID. I'm the
acting director of USAID.
Speaker 10 (25:48):
I've delegated that authority to someone, but I stay in
touch with him. And again, our goal was to go
in and align our foreign aid to.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
The national interest.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
But if you go to mission after mission and an
embassy after embassy around the world, you will often find
that in many cases the usaaight ID is involved in
programs that run counter to what we're trying to do
in our national strategy.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
With that country or without regent, that cannot continue.
Speaker 10 (26:12):
USAID is not an independent, non governmental entency. It is
an entity that spends taxpayer dollars and an he suspended,
as the statute says, in alignment with the policy directors
that they get from the Secretary of State, the National
Security Council, and the President. And it's been twenty or
thirty years where people have tried to reform it.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Former Press Secretary to the Democrat President Jim Posaki, now
at MSNBC says, look, Elon is only targeting USAID because
they're fighting corruption and we need to be bold.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
We can't let him do that.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
An elected best friend Elon Musk. His latest target was
the United States Agency for International Development, and that agency
is the one that not only leads on humanitarian assistance
around the world, but also works to combat corruption and
foreign aid programs.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
It's a big part of what they do.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
I kind of see how that could make Elon Musk
have been uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
So what do you think he did? You may already know.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Well, he removed two of the top leaders of the
organization who wouldn't do his bidding over the weekend, and
then overnight last night, employees received an email ordering them
not to come into the office today. They weren't given
a reason or any sort of rationale. They're basically just
told not to show up. Many were even blocked from
the system and locked out of their email accounts.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
We're also seeing something similar.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Happening in the Treasury Department. In the last few days,
Elon Musk and his doge pals have been granted access
to the federal payment system that handles paychecks to federal workers,
social Security checks, tax refunds, and basically incredibly sensitive personal
information about anyone who gets those payments. This takeover is
also happening across the Office of Personnel Management, where Musk
(27:58):
has gained unprecedented access to federal human resources databases that
have sensitive personal information about millions of federal employees. And
I'm going to talk with the reporter who broke that
story today about what else he has learned later in
the show. Now, I'm going to just be straight with
you about all this. I mean, in the face of
all of this and much more that's happened in the
last two weeks. There's not always been the type of clear,
(28:22):
consistent and united response from leading Democrats that I believe
and you probably believe the moment requires. Yes, there have
been some powerful voices out there in the confirmation hearings especially,
but overall, it's taken far too long in my view,
for elected officials to respond, to respond boldly, and when
they do respond, those responses aren't often specific enough or
(28:46):
bold enough, and just hasn't been super clear all the
time to me or to probably all of you what
they are actually doing to push back on this hostile takeover.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
You see, she's very clear Elon and Trump are going
in and exposing all the corruption and all the fraud,
and we have to stop them.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Robert F.
Speaker 7 (29:15):
Kennedy who passed out of the committee today. It will
now go to the full Senate. It passed fourteen thirteen
in Louisiana Keep the heat on Bill Cassidy. There were
fourteen Republicans in thirteen Democrats, and he was threatening to
vote with the Democrats. He is a physician and a
senator and an American. He knows that we need to
(29:39):
reform America's health. He knows this, but he's also I
suspect scared the death of losing a big farm of money.
That's what he didn't want. He voted the right way. See,
these folks are torn between two lovers. That's what this
comes comes down to. Trying as the Oakridge boys trying
(30:02):
to love, trying to please to lovers is lack a
ball and chain. They've got their big donors who pay
their bills, but they've got.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You back at home.
Speaker 7 (30:13):
As long as they don't think that you will fire them,
they'll come to your event, they'll explain. But as long
as you will end up voting for them, then they'll
they'll they'll their sponsors. They're investors that you know, big forearm,
and these folks, they're always.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Going to satisfy them.
Speaker 7 (30:34):
That's what they're going to do because that's who's going
to hire their family members, that's who's going to pay
for their campaign. As long as they think they can
get over on you. John Corny's done for years. Because
the only place you're going to vote against them. They
know this is in a primary. So what they're hoping
for is the establishment and the party will keep anybody
(30:57):
strong from running against them in a primary. It's very hard,
especially in a big state like Texas. Louisiana is a
big state. It's hard to campaign across a state as
big as Louisiana. You're gonna raise a lot of money.
And so what they do is all they have to
do is win their primary, because come November, all they
have to do is tell you, hey, I know I'm
(31:18):
not perfect, but look at those Democrats. At least I'm
not a Democrat. And so they get six more years.
Six years is a long time. But when they since
that you've had enough, that you're just angry enough, that's
when they'll vote with you. They don't want to unless
(31:40):
they're turned out, unless they're leaving. Mitch McConnell, he doesn't
give a damn about Kentucky right now. He's got an
axe to grind. He's been made a fool love. He's
a swamp creature. He's been made a fool love by Trump,
and he's out to destroy Trump. And that's what this
is all about. Tulsea Gabbard passed out a committee today
as well. I think both of those are gonna pass.
(32:03):
It'll be close, but make no mistake. Trump is calling
in every favor, threats favors, cajoling, whatever it takes. Once
he gets those two in place, once we get this
those two and Cash Betel in place, man, we're gonna
have the right team. It's like we got the head coach,
(32:23):
we got Saving, we got Belichick. Now we got the
whole coaching staff. It's gonna be good.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
A love it.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Stuart Rhodes, the founder of Oathkeepers, was given an eighteen
year sentence over January sixth. He was released on January
twenty first, due to the President the day before.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Commuting his sentence. We'll talk to him about that whole
process coming up.
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