1-25-25 The Weeken Hour 1: Trump's Deportation Plan Takes Off Like a SpaceEx Rocket

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Too night. Michael Brown joins me here the former FEMA
director talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no, Brownie, You're
doing a heck of a job the Weekend with Michael Brown. Hey,
welcome to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to have
you with me. So it's been an amazing week, hasn't it.
Jiminy Christmas so much winning. The Trump Effect is everywhere,
you know. I think there's more Trump effect Trump change

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going on than there is climate change going on. Yeah.
I mean it's again, it's colder than a well digger's
ass in Colorado today and it's snowing like crazy. Uh.
And the Trump effect is everywhere everywhere you go. I
am absolutely amazed by it. So we're gonna get to
all of that stuff. There's a there's a whole bunch
of stuff to cover today, and we'll try to get

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So the marine showed up. I know you've probably heard.

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I'm not gonna take time to find it, but you
know there was that clown that they are that they arrested,
that ice arrested in Boston, and I forget he was.
I think he was Venezuela. And you know who cares,
but he was. He wasn't supposed to be here, and
I think he was. He was guilty of murder and
some rape. And I mean, who knows, he's a dirt bag, right,
he's a dirt bag. Oh, he's Haiti, he was Haitian,

(02:13):
he was Haitian. And I throws him into you know,
the paddy wagon, and he's I'm not going back. I'm
not going back. And you know, thank you Joe Biden
for everything you did for me. Thank you Barack Obama
for everything you did me for me. And I'm thinking
to myself, really, you really want to admit that we,

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uh we fed you and we let you hang out
here as a as a you know, a refugee, a migrant,
you know, an asylum seeker, whatever crap word you want
to use. And now you get arrested and they throw
him in the car and he starts screaming, I'm not
going back to Haiti. I'm not going back to Haiti.
Excuse me. And I'm thinking, uh, yeah, you are. You

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are going back to Haiti and they're going to take
him back to eighty And then this week, Jake Tapper
on CNN is just you know, it's kind of interesting
when you listen to when you listen to the Kabal,
they are, they're a little more subdued, and they're a

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little more i would say, Orwellian in the way they
are presenting the news because I don't think they know
how to resist. I think the resistance is at least
for the time being. Don't get me wrong. It's kind
of like Hamas in Israel. You know, there's we're kind
of like in a ceasefire right now and Hamas, you know,

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the Kabal they are now. People are screaming about that.
Old Michael Brown compared the Cabal to Hamas, and they
they they're in the ceasefire because they're regrouping. And then
at some point down the road, maybe tomorrow, maybe the
next day, next week, next month, maybe next year, let's
let's hope never, but sometime they'll rise their ugly head

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up again and they'll start screaming. Well, Jake Tapper kind
of did that this week when because, as you know,
the United States Marines began their deployment to the southern
border yesterday Friday A. It was. They're part of a
fifteen hundred strong military force aimed at helping to secure

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the border with Mexico under the new Trump administration. Now,
the move is an attempt to boaster efforts to halt
the flow of these illegal aliens that keep attempting to
cross the border illegally. And it's like, you know, you've
I forget, but there used to be, at least when
I was growing up, which is back in you know,
black and white television days, cartoons of you know, soldiers

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marching in a line and they and they they hit
a brick wall and they all just kind of keep marching.
And then I think it was it may have been, Oh,
what was that movie the It'll come to me in
a minute, the movie Dang It, help me out here.
Michael the Oh, John Belushi and the frat boys, Brain Fart,

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Animal House, Animal House, and the band, you know, bunches
up against a fence and then they all just keep
bunching up against each other. Well, that's what's happening on
the southern side, on the Mexican side of the border,
is all these illegal aliens are just starting to bunch up,
and Mexico is suddenly starting to build tent cities and

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shelters and everything else. And I'm thinking, hmm, that's interesting,
and the numbers have dropped dramatically. You know where we
used to have like thousands and thousands of encounters. I
love the word encounter. Oh look, I encountered an illegal alien.
Those have gone from thousands and thousands to last week,
I think there were five hundred and fifty. That's a
great start. So this is all never to stop the

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flow of these illegal aliens coming into the country, and
these marines. In fact, the whole DOLD is now going
to assist in detecting, monitoring, maintaining, and constructing physical barriers.
The Marine Corps unit was dispatched with the mission comes
from Camp Pendleton, including a detachment from the first Combat

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Engineer Battalion, the first Marine Division and a detachment from
the seventh Engineer Support Battalion, first Marine Logistics Group. And
you you may have seen video of them loading all
of their hum v's and APCs and and everything else,
the helicopters moving in. They're all it's just it's a
massive movement, and Jake Tapper is really upset. Jake Tapper

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says to his whoever he's interviewing, the talking head, the pundit,
So what's your take on this controversial use of DoD,
and I'm thinking, wait a minute, what's controversial about it? Why?
Why do you why do you think it's controversial, because

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it's not unusual to use DD In fact, when I
was the under Secretary of Homeland Security, I would oftentimes,
in fact more often than not, I would sign what's
called I would I would sign a mission assignment. A
mission assignment is simply a directive that I would execute
on behalf of the President of the United States that

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said to the Secretary of Defense, I need X whatever
X might be black Hawk helicopters, armored personnel carriers, you
know whatever, even minute things like military logistics planners and stuff,
And that was pretty commonplace. So we've often used the

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military for civilian purposes. So I don't understand why it's controversial,
but obviously Jake Tapper thinks that it is. It's not,
and it's it's showing real effects and the use of
military equipment to do this is something that clearly the

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Department of Homeland Security executing mission assignments, is lawfully authorized
to do. Now, these marines are going to be joined
by army personnel from various units based in I think Texas, Colorado,
right here in Colorado, Kentucky, New York, Georgia, Washington State,
maybe some others. Now, these military personnel that ares signed

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to the border are expected to support customs and border
patrol in managing security challenges and then also ensuring the
integrity of the US border. Now that's going to be
fascinating to watch, real fascinating to watch. If you'd like
to see some of those things I commented about this week,
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a follow right now, So GOOBMA number zero zero four

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zero one, says Mike. We pay the military, we trained
the military, and we utilize the military. This is a
great opportunity for the Marines and other military forces to
get real world training and to refine their skills and
to make them better warfighters and better experts in their fields.
God bless America, go go uber four. Oh yes, absolutely absolutely.

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I just I don't get the controversy, and it's disappeared
from my files. But Jack Tapper just thinks it's controversial
that we're doing this. You know, what's controversial about it
is that we haven't done it before, is that we
didn't do Actually, we had done it before. We did
it during Operation wetback under President Eisenhower back in the

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late fifties early sixties. So there's again, there's nothing new
under the sun. So the deployment of troops to the
border as part of Trump's broader plan to secure the
border and stop the flow of elite illegals into the
country is something that a majority of Americans support. But
yet I want you to think about if if Jake

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Tapper is willing to go on CNN and call it controversial,
and his little talking head is you know, gonna of course,
they're just in an echo chamber. Of course they're going
to call it controversial because they don't like it. But
they've got to figure out a way to come at
it without attacking what's really happening. In other words, if
you and I apologize, I can't find the stupid sound bite,

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it seems like it's disappeared from our folders. But rather
than talk about, oh, let's look at what they're doing
and let's ask questions about how they're doing it. And
I mean, and I think a legitimate question, although I
know the answer, a legitimate question that someone who doesn't
understand how this operates might ask, and you know, how's

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the mill terry paying for this? Well, again, you know,
that's a grand opportunity for someone to explain a mission
assignment and they're off in this mission assignment doing it.
But they don't want to do that because they don't
want to admit and alienate their audience even further that well,
this is what people voted for. This is what a

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majority of Americans voted for. This is why every county
in the country, at least, while they may not have
gone majority read, they shifted to the right. And now
c Indians got to recalibrate and they simply cannot do it.
And I think that's part of the reason why you
see so little resistance to what's going on with Trump.
In fact, just as a side note, there's a little sidebar.

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I'd say the most resistance that I've seen so far
to the Trump agenda. Confirmed Republicans. Pete Hegseth was confirmed
last night as the twenty eighth or twenty ninth Secretary
of Defense, and it was broken a fifty to fifty tie.
Was broken by the Vice President J. D. Vance at

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about I don't know, nine o'clock, ten o'clock last night,
East coast time. Well, that's because Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins,
and Mitch McConnell all voted against him, and there was
a fourth one I think too, But anyway, those three
voted against him. No, actually I think that back it

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would be only those three because that would take us
to a fifty to fifty tie. So why want you
to stop and think about this? Alaska voted I think
by thirteen points in favor of Donald Trump. Now, Lisa Murkowski,
you want to talk about a political dynasty? You know

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how Lisa Lisa Murkowski first became a member of the
United States Senate because her father appointed her. Yes, she
wasn't originally elected by the people of Alaska. She was
appointed by her father. And I understand, don't get me wrong,

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but I think there's a Senators have a right to
vote how they believe is in the best interests of
I think their constituents or the country. But if your
constituents are saying by a thirteen point margin that we
want Donald Trump and we want his team in place
to do the things we want to do, then Lisa

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Murkowski should get on the team and vote for hegsath.
Now she can come up with all of the lame
excuses she wants to, and you know, power to her.
But why do Republicans always seem to break rings? And
then there's old turtleneck, old turtleface Mitch McConnell. Now he's

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no longer the Senate majority leader, he's still the senior
senator from Kentucky. Kentucky voted overwhelming like by thirty points
or better for Donald Trump. Now, I don't know whether
Mitch McConnell will. He says he's going to fill out
the remainder of his term, whether he lasts that long
or not, I don't know. I'm not wishing anything bad
for him. I'm just saying, if you think Joe Biden's

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bad or was bad, you ought to watch Mitch McConnell sometime.
Yet here's Mitch McConnell claiming that he just doesn't think that, Well,
you know, change agents come in all forms, but this
isn't the kind of change agent that we're looking for. Well,
then who are you looking for? When you were in control,
did you put any change agents in place? No, So
the next time, if you live in Kentucky, you ought

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to be kicking Mitch McConnell out, which you probably won't
have a chance to do because he probably won't run again.
But you need to think about I mean, I would
just say this is a great lesson that when you
vote in a presidential election, it's so easy to just
on the down ballot in the general election, especially to

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just vote for whoever's there. If that's why we have
an incumbency rate of like ninety eight percent or something,
we have voters have the opportunity in primaries to primary
some of these people and get these old farts out
of the way. Get some of these stale old farts,
you know, go back home, sit on the ports on

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the swing, and do whatever you want to do, but
get out of the way of us making change, particularly
when a majority of Americans, Republican and Democrat, have demanded change.
So this deployment of troops of the border as part
of Trump's border plan is simply amazing because Trump, at

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the same time that he has sent the military and
has completely changed I heard one member of either ICE
or CBP comment that, you know, we're no longer changing
diapers and filling out forms and dealing with paperwork. We're
now actually doing our jobs as law enforcement officers. Well,
in addition to doing that, Trump has already shut down

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the major entry point at al al Paso, Texas, and
people in al Paso are cheering, finally, finally somebody is
doing something. Then they shut down that stupid cb CBP
one app, you know, which was kind of like, you know,
you're it was kind of like your Global Entry or
your TSA pre check or you know, having your Ticketmaster

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ticket online to some concert, which would just give you
a you know, an automatic appointment which might be five, six,
seven years down the road and just come, you know,
come on in. You're you're claiming asylum and we're we
don't we're not going to do any background check. Well,
that's over thousands, thousands of illegal aliens they were using
that mobile app to gain gain entry into the United

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States were shocked to find as they tried to load
it or you know, open it up on their phones.
By the way, if you're so poor, if you're so
poor and downtrodden, where did you get a new iPhone? Huh?
How did you manage to do that? Oh? The NGOs
gave it to you in that special well you know

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the remember this, A cell phone is pretty much worthless
unless you have one of two things. Yeah, a wireless
carrier or internet access. Yeah, you gotta have Wi Fi.
Or you've got to have a cell tower somewhere and
access to the cell tower. You got to have a
cell plan. So the NGOs, all these non government organizations,

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all these groups that are money laundering tax dollars to
help support this, not only gave them a phone, but
then gave them access to the to the cell towers.
You see, there's been a there. There is significant change
going on and the Trump effect. Oh yeah, it's at
the border and that's at these raids I think there

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were there. So far this week, close to six hundred
illegal aliens have been arrested and are on the way
to being deported. Yeah. It's kind of an interesting time
to be alive, isn't it. Uh, don't forget. You can
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Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director of talk
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I mean, you know, I just spend you know, the
entire day to day just talking about everything that Trump's done.
Just in the first week. The State Department has ordered
a Massy ninety day freeze on new foreign aid, and

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there are really hardly any exceptions at all. But because
of the way the budget works, let me take just
a moment to explain that what this really means. So
foreign aid that has already been appropriated, authorized, and appropriated
by Congress has already been sent to the executive branch
through the Office of Management and Budget. That money's already

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in this Just imagine a pipeline. Imagine a big ass
pipeline going out from the West Wing all the way
to all of these foreign capitals. Well, that money is
already in the pipeline. And while we could, if you
really wanted to have like a executive branch lecture, we
could talk about things that Trump could do to slow
that down, but that would take the rest of the day.

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It's called recision. But we're not going to do that.
So just imagine all that money flowing out to all
these foreign capitals. Well, what this ninety day freeze does
is it stops any new foreign aid. So anything in
the pipeline will continue to flow, but any new monies
that have been appropriate, authorized, and appropriated by Congress will

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not flow. That stays frozen, that never leaves the Office
of Management, Budget, never leaves the State Department, it stays
in place. And that's one of the first things that
our new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio did. That kind
of nice Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Sounds kind of cool,
doesn't it. You know, I interviewed Marco Ruby that was

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in DC for something one time, and I interviewed Marco Rubio,
and you know how he well, I guess I can't
make fun of it because I do the same thing.
But you know how he talks pretty fast all the time.
He's always got I mean, he's just wam bam bam, bam, bam,
bam bam. Well, he and I were in this hotel
conference room and I was I was taping an interview

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with him, and it was supposed to be like a
fifteen minute interview, and because we had known each other
from before, we just kind of kept going and we
kept going, and pretty soon we'd been talking for thirty minutes,
and standing behind him was were a staff members, including
whom I assume was probably his press secretary, and she

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kept giving me the old you know, cut it off,
you know, taking your hand and slicing your throat gesture,
cut it off, Cut it off, and I just looked
at her and just kept talking to Rubio because I
finally thought to myself, you know, sweetheart, you're the press secretary.
You don't tell me what to do. If you want

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him to stop talking, then you need to come around
behind me and give him the cut off signal. So
we talked for I bet forty five minutes. Got a
great interview. Because when you when you first of all,
when you know these people, but second of all, when
you ask them legitimate questions and really ask them, you know,

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explain to me why you do this or why you
did that, Explain to me the and then you, if
you learn, a good interviewer, will learn to just shut up,
bite your lip, bite your tongue, and let them go
because invariably they'll say something that's marvelous or controversial or stupid,
and you can run off with that too. Anyway, it's

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great to have Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. So
they frozen new foreign aide for nearly every country except
one exception is emergency food aid and of course military
assistance to Egypt and Israel. And I understand those two.
Let me explain something to you about foreign aid to Israel.

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There is in downtown New York. In downtown Manhattan, there
is is a discrete built office building. It looks like
a stereotypical skyscraper, nothing unusual about it. You can walk in,
and you can get on the elevator, and you can
go to some business that's on the top four or

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five floors of us probably I'm guessing probably a thirty
forty story building, and you can go to the bottom,
say one through twentieth floor. But if you try to
go somewhere between the twenty first floor and say the
thirty first floor, you can't do it. In that building

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is an entire Israeli how would I describe it, a
little mini Israeli government inside this building in Lower not
Lower Manhattan, actually in midtown Manhattan. And all they do
is they are the ones that execute contracts. They negotiate contracts.

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And almost all of the foreign aid that we give
to Israel, particularly for Israeli defense forces or Masade or
anything like that, come never even leeds the country. It
stays right here in the United States, I mean physically
stays here in the United States. It doesn't go to
Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. It stays here. It goes to

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that office building in New York. Neuros result you know,
ones and zeros, and it goes to this office building
in New York, and then they execute contracts with our
defense industry and they buy the majority and by majority,
I mean like ninety percent of what they use other

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than what they build themselves, they buy from US. So
that money really helps keep Americans employed, keeps our defense
contractors working, They collaborate on new technologies, they do all
sorts of things. So it's a win win for US.
So and with respect to Egypt, the reason that Trump

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didn't cut off any new aid to Egypt is because
we are in negotiations and have gotten the approval, and
I think Trump probably put his thumb down on this
so that we would have access to the southern end
of the Gaza Strip known as the Philadelphia Corridor. That's
where we have discovered and this is old news, but

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this is where we have discovered that the Iranians were
using that corridor at the southern end of the Gaza Strip,
which is in the Sinai Desert. They were using tunnels
and entries there knowingly by Egypt. So Trump was able

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to get that corridor as was israel I did. It
was a joint effort to keep that corridor occupied by
the Israelis, to keep the Iranians from using it. And
we basically said to Egypt, if you want foreign aid,
you're going to back off and let the Israelis continue
to control that corridor. This is this is the exercise

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of American power. This is using American tax dollars, American
military strength, and using the power of the presidency to
say to a country like Egypt, which is ostensibly an
ally but sometimes I question it, to say, you want
our help, here's the quid pro quo. If you want

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our help, here's what we get in exchange. And you're
going to do this on behalf of the Israelis too.
Around one percent of our annual budget about sixty billion dollars,
So when people kind of bitch and moan about foreign aid,
it's not as extensive as you think. Most of our

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budget is actually money that is redistributed back to lower
class and middle class Americans, Medicare, social Security, Medicaid, all
of those social welfare programs. It's just a recycling of
money from one taxpayer back to another taxpayer. Anyway, our
annual budget an estimated sixty billion dollars is directed toward

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four and eight, making it the largest foreign aid budget
of any country on Earth. And by doing this the
way they're doing it, it flexes our muscle, something that
Biden was clearly unwilling to do, except I don't know,
give the Ranians our enemies money. So Secretary of State

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Rubio informed the embassies across the world of the aid freeze,
which relates to an executive order signed by Trump already
earlier this week that halts certain foreign EID assistance programs. Now,
eight groups already view this order as an immediate impediment
to their work, and they're threatening to shut down their
operations to avoid additional costs, to which I say, okay, okay,

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we'll give you an example. Abie Maxim, the head of
Oxfam America, issued a statement criticizing Trump fa mean that
the administration is threatening people's lives. No, we told you
you'd still get food aid. We told you we'd still
do that. But money for your NGO, No, not at all. Now.

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The order most notably does not mention Ukraine either. So
while Biden and Harris spent billions of taxpayer dollars to
continue the Ukrainian war with Russia, and to be fair,
they did it the same way that we do it
with Israel. You know, there is foreign aide that literally
goes to Ukraine to support programs I don't think we

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should be supporting. But in terms of the weaponry, what
we've really been doing is just sending them our kind
of used cars and then having the defense industry build
us new cars to replace the old we send to Ukraine.
But people don't really want to talk about that. Now.
Both Trump and Putin have already agreed to sometime meet

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this year to start discussions to end the conflict. However,
around three point eight five billion dollars of congressionally approved
spending for Ukraine is still available, and who who or
what Trump will do with that remains to be seen.
But again, just this week, an amazing change, just in

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the Trump effect just continues unabated. One of the executive
orders that he signed this week is that he wants

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to declassify all the files related to the JFK assassination,
the RFK Senior assassination, and the Martin Luther King assassination.
And Bobby Kennedy Junior has expressed his gratitude to the
President for initiating the d classification declassification of the files

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related to the assassination of his father and of course
the others too. So that executive order was signed on
Thursday permitting the declassification of the documents. It was kind
of interesting because once he finished signing it, he handed
the pen to his aid and said, be sharing, give
this to RFK And then in a post on x An,

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RFK Junior thanked Trump for showing trust in the American
citizens and reversing what he sees as a detrimental path
toward government secrecy and He cited JFK's belief in the
importance of transparency in a democratic society, which I totally
agree with, and he criticized kenned. RFK Junior did criticize

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what he described as quote a sixty year strategy of
lies and secrecy, which he claims was used by the
intelligence community to obscure facts regarding the assassinations Vietnam September eleventh,
the Iraq war, COVID nineteen, on and on and on.

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Now let me be clear, Let me be clear. According
to this EO, this executive order, the d and I,
the Director of National Intelligence, and the AG have fifteen
day and forty five day deadlines to devise plans to
release the files. Now. The order emphasizes transparency and the

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fact that these files have been you know, classified for
five decades or longer, and it says that we deserve
to have access to the full details of the assassinations
without further delay, and I totally agree. However, I want
to warn everybody because while I personally am excited to

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see these files, I also understand how declassification works. As
I explained to my local audience yesterday, classified files come
in these folders and you know they're marked. They have
this red outline on it, and across the top it
will describe, you know, whether it's secret, top secret, below that,

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whether it's you know, for whether there's foreign access or
no foreign access. They are all these classifications, and then
on the documents themselves are classifications. Now, declassifying something is
pretty simple, and the President has the ultimate classification and
declassification authority. But here's where the deep state I think

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will play a game. They will declassify the documents, but
many of those documents will be released redacted. Imagine an
eight and a half eleven sheet of paper, single space,
just hundreds of words on the page, but all you
see are about ten words out of say five hundred

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and fifty words on the page. All the other words
have been blacked out. That's called redaction. Well, the intel community,
and I think in some cases, may be justified in
doing so. To protect people who are absolutely innocent of
any involvement. They just happen to be interviewed by the
FBI or the CIA or somebody, Well, those names probably

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should be redacted. But I don't think that's what the
CIA or the FBI will do. I think they'll redact
a lot of stuff that they still don't want us
to see. So I can just imagine that when the
declassification occurs, all the media, the cabal, everybody, even other

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talk show hosts, will I'll be oh my gosh, the
files are going to be released tomorrow, and then the
files are going to come out, and mark my words,
people are going to be pissed, including Bobby Kennedy Jr.
The descendants of Martin Luther King Jr. There are and
and people like me. Although I'm not going to be
surprised by it, because they'll still be redacted. There'll still

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be information on those documents that we will not see
because they'll be marked through. We want bill breed what
it says. So then Trump's going to have to go
back and not only order them to unredact that information,
He'll have to say specify what they are able to
redact things that we don't need to know. I mean,

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let's just take you for example. Let's say that your
grandfather was interviewed because he happened to be on the
Grassy Knoll that day in Dallas, November twenty second, nineteen
sixty three, and so the FBI tracked him down and
interviewed him, and he said, oh, I don't know. I
didn't see anything because I actually left early. I you know,

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I had a meeting to go to. So yes, I
was there waiting for the motorcade, but the motorcade wasn't
quite on time, and so I left. I didn't see anything.
Do you really want your grandfather's name released and then
have the media hounding you about, Oh, what's your grandfather's see?
What are you over? No, I don't think people want that,
and I don't think that we necessarily need to know
that now. However, if your grandfather actually gave the FBI

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actionable intelligence, then yes, we should probably know your grandfather's name.
So I all of that. Just everyone's all excited about
the declassification of these files, and I just want you
to remember there's a very major distinction between declassifying a

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file and that file, once declassified no longer top secret.
You still don't see everything that's in there. And I
think that's the game that the FBI and the CIA
are going to play, and Trump's head will explode. He
will be so pissed off. Now, Interestingly, there's a fight

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among the Kennedy's whether they want the files released or not.
And I find that fascinating because why wouldn't you. I
understand the trauma of it. But no, uh he was
the freaking president of the United States of America unredact
the file and declassifile It's the weekend with Michael Brown.

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