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Speaker 4: Well, we're approaching one third of Donald Trump's first year
in his second term, and it seems like just yesterday.
Of course for leftist it seems forever. But we have got,
of course today's news and more so, I'm glad you're here,
ladies and gentlemen. Let us be again today with looking
at the economy. Employers added one hundred and seventy seven
thousand jobs in April, despite says the Wall three Journal,
despite tariff uncertainty, hiring slowed significantly from March. Space while
the unemployment rate held at four point two percent. This
is great, Other news outlets said, surprisingly, surprisingly, Yeah, people
are hiring, and that's not all the good news that's
going on with the economy. But there is also news
that has caused a lot of ranker and rigamarole. Donald
Trump signed an executive order to stop federal funding of
NPR and PBS. The President said public funding of the
media networks was outdated, unnecessary, but corrosive to the appearance
of journalistic in dependence. And they're having a cow. These
people think they're entitled to the money. And okay, and
the courts may may weigh in and say Congress has
to do this, but we'll get to that in moments.
The White House also has released a budget blueprint. The
White House seeks shark spending cuts in Trump's twenty twenty
six budget plan. The White House released President Donald Trump's
twenty twenty six budget proposal on Friday, hoping.
Speaker 5: To slash, slash.
Speaker 4: If not zero out, spending on many government programs.
Speaker 2: Slash and burn and zero out.
Speaker 4: It seems a sweeping restructuring of the nation's domestic priorities,
reflective of the president's first hundred days in office and
sudden firing of federal workers of bureaucrats. Trump's plan, Oh
you gotta love this, because here they go, here they go.
Speaker 2: Here they go.
Speaker 4: Trump's plan aims for steep cuts to child care, disease research,
renewable energy, peacekeeping abroad, and then so, of course, of
course he wants to hurt the children. Of course, he
wants you to have dirty air, dirty water. Of course,
of course he wants you to die of diseases that
could have been prevented if only we had spent millions
on institutions like Harvard Universe. How dare he take away
money from Harvard? That, by the way, is another one
headlined from today. Harvard hits back no legal basis for Trump.
Trump to move to take away tax exempt status. They're
demanding that their tax exempt status, no matter what, they
have a right to it, and damn anybody challenged them. Already,
we are hearing voices like Senate Appropriations Committee chair Who Collins,
are Maine, Republican of Maine, says she has serious objections
to the defense funding proposals in President Trump's fiscal year.
In a statement on Friday, Collins called Trump's request simply
one step in the annual budget process. The request has
come to Congress late. Key details remain outstanding. Based on
my initial review, however, I have serious objections to the
proposed freeze and our defense funding giving their security challenge
we face, like the proposed fund cuts two and in
some cases elimination of programs like lie Heap, Trio and
those that support biomedical research. Let me tell you something,
not one of these United States senators, not one of them.
I haven't heard one of them. Well, I have heard Mark,
Wayne Mullins and others talk about some of the stuff
that Doge has found. But if you notice a lot
of the Republican senators have gone absolutely quiet, nothing to
say about all of the fraudulent, wasteful spending that Doge
and this administration have uncovered. Yes, we have sound bites.
By the way, Jesse Water is a Fox, sat down
with Elon Musk and with Doge, and they talked about
a lot of the stuff that was found. So you
didn't hear Susan Collins or any of these other people
that are now suddenly worried so concerned. Oh my, my,
my mind, we're gonna cut millions of dollars. You didn't
hear one peep, one little peep peep from Susan Collins,
and that ilk when it came to all this money
that has been found that the government wasted, not a peep.
She didn't go in front of the cameras. She didn't
go talk to political or to the Hill or to
the New York Times, Washington Posts and say, you know what.
Speaker 2: This is terrible. This stuff is terrible.
Speaker 4: I had no idea our government was wasting so many
billions and billions and billions of dollars, not a word.
But now you have a blueprint for a budget, and
here's Sue Collins out. I have serious objections. I object
Well take your objections, put them inside your panties and
go sit on them, because no one cares whether you
have objection, Susan Collins. These people, none of them, none
of these people that are screaming bloody murder over this budget,
have addressed a thing about what has been found. The
United States Pentagon has lost over three hundred billion dollars.
They can't find it. It's not the audits can't. They
can't pass a freaking audit. They don't know where billions
of dollars win Sue Collins is the head of the
Appropriations Committee.
Speaker 2: Why didn't Sue.
Speaker 4: Collins come out in front of the microphones and say,
I am I strongly object I have serious objections to
the Pentagon not being able to find three hundred billion dollars.
Where was she saying we need to clean this swamp
up because billions of dollars are being siphoned off from
the taxpayers. We don't know where the money's going. Who's
getting rich from these Where's Sue Collins? Where's the rest
of these objecting Democrats, Democrats and Republicans that all of
a sudden want of oh, oh, we're cutting He wants
to cut the budget. He is saying that he wants
to cut what is it, one hundred and sixty eight
sumire billion dollars from the budget. Let me see if
I get the exact figure here, it's I think it's
one hundred and sixty eight billion dollars budget cuts. That
doesn't come near sharp, sharp budget cuts, that doesn't come
near the amount of money that has been wasted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4: And this is this is discretionary spending that we're talking about.
Our discretionary spending is about one point eight three trillion
dollars a year on defense and non defense accounts.
Speaker 2: Trump's team wants.
Speaker 4: To drump that by one hundred and sixty three billion,
and these people are screaming bloody murder. The Pentagon can't
account for more than that, almost double at and you
hear none of these people whining about that and saying
something is seriously wrong here. Yes, eyes, oh, I'm getting feedback.
Put them inside your pennies and sit on them. Really, James, Yes,
I said it. These people get their little panties in
a wad because the government, because Trump issues a budget
blueprint that says, okay, we're gonna slash one hundred and
sixty three trillion dollars from discretionary spending. And meanwhile, all
the billions of dollars that have been found to be
wasted wasted, not a peep from these same people. Let's
start with this one. Cut eight, Just cut eight. This
is from Jesse Waters last night with Elon and Doge.
Speaker 6: Just by sharing a database and looking at social security
numbers that showed that at the time of the loan
they had listed at over one hundred and fifteen years old.
Speaker 5: Were actually under eleven.
Speaker 6: We didn't even check it for under eighteen maybe under
eleven years old, that's pretty great.
Speaker 7: Maybe people were getting loans.
Speaker 5: That was six hundred and sixty million dollars. Yeah, and
also people with birthdates in the future. What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Well, in one I mean I.
Speaker 5: Think like the birthday birthday.
Speaker 7: I think in one case was like fetuses, we're getting
well not even really is sort of a a you're
talking about like your great grandchildren, like with the birthday.
I think it was like twenty one sixty five, So
more than essentially from now was the birthday George Jetson
was getting a yes, because your birthday is in the future,
like the far like for the far future, not like
next year, and we either this is either fordulines or.
Speaker 5: We have your birthday wrong, either a typo or someone stealing.
Speaker 2: Now let's just move from there.
Speaker 4: That's just one little six hundred and sixty Okay, six
hundred and sixty million dollars, big deal. What would any
of us do with six hundred and sixty million dollars.
Let's go very quickly before we have to get into
our affairs to break, shall we. Let's go to cut
eleven and just please check this out.
Speaker 5: Sir, so, actually a lot of great work in the
Treasury this week.
Speaker 8: One of the crazy things with regards to the Treasury
is that when a payment is made and the computers
at the Treasury actually pay but five trillion dollars per year,
like crazy amounts. There was formerly not a budget code
on there, so if a payment was made, you didn't
know actually what it was for.
Speaker 2: It could have been for anything. Yeah, there was a.
Speaker 8: Four billion dollars COVID fund in the Department of Education
and there was no receipts required, so people we just
drawed down on it. And when people looked into it,
this wasn't justice before us, they found that money was
being used to rent out Caesar's Palace for parties, rent
out stadiums, et cetera. And so the one change that
DOGE made with our education is we had the simple
requirement that if you draw down money, you must first
upload a receipt.
Speaker 5: That was the only change that was made.
Speaker 8: You must upload your receipt, and upon doing so, nobody
drew down any money anymore.
Speaker 5: Yes, but we didn't say that we'd check the receipt.
Speaker 9: You could send a face receipt, you could send a
picture of your.
Speaker 5: Dog, anything, anything, anything.
Speaker 7: But as soon as we asked for anything at all,
that suddenly the requests.
Speaker 2: Were like, oh, we don't need it anymore. Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 5: They were renting Caesar's palace.
Speaker 7: Yes, they were like basically partying of.
Speaker 2: The texture of money.
Speaker 5: Stadiums, Yes, leasing stadium.
Speaker 2: Using stadiums for what for parties?
Speaker 5: Basically for parties.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a big parties, big party.
Speaker 5: You'd think if you were stealing, you'd start small. They
do start small, but then over what happens is over
the years.
Speaker 2: So generally the.
Speaker 7: Fraud starts out small and they try to hide it.
Speaker 9: But then year after year, if nobody stops the fraud,
it gets more and more brazen, and every year it
gets bigger until they're literally renting out stadiums like.
Speaker 2: Stadium.
Speaker 4: All right, now, have you heard one Republican Have you
heard one Republican, including Sue Collins, go out and say
it is ridiculous for the federal government to have a
bank account with five trillion dollars in it and people
can just draw the money out without any proof of
who they are, exactly why it's needed. It's just an
open account, no receipts, no codes. In other words, we
don't know how the money is being spent. This was
your federal government, and Sue Collins and the rest of
this ilk in the Republican Party have not one damn
word to say about this supreme mismanagement of taxpayer dollars.
Yet they'll go out and start whining, moaning, gnashing their
teeth because President Trump says, you know what, maybe we
shouldn't be spending so much.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Van, we're gonna get back because I got more
on this budget stuff. I got more on this dog stuff.
But quickly Van Jones interviewed some black folks you wanted
to see, Yeah, go ahead play it.
Speaker 10: Actually, I come from a family that was like super democratic.
Speaker 2: My first time voting, I voted demograph I voted for
Joe Biden. What about Trump appeal to you guys? I mean,
part of it is he's asked I like authenticity.
Speaker 3: You voted for Obama and then you voted for Hilly
Clinton in twenty sixteen, but twenty twenty you voted for
Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: What made the sake I began listening to someone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we're gonna have to check out of this
and we'll chat back in there's more of this. Van
wants to know if they would still vote for Donald Trump.
The black folks he had on Yes, so much fun.
Keep you right here, don't go away, folks.
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Speaker 5: The Rush Hour with James.
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Speaker 4: I want to get a few things really quickly and
let me get back to this doge stuff because this
is insane.
Speaker 2: Okay. We have and I have people asking me questions
on the text box of course.
Speaker 4: And by the way, you can always reach me it
at bo nerdly s s n e r d l
e y I had on Twitter at bose nerdly if
you have any questions or comments for me. But those
doge guys, Princess Diana can't wait to hear what she
has to talk about tomorrow with us on the Saturday
Morning program. Those doge guys said that they're going to
forward some of the most some of the most egregious
stuff has already been forwarded to the FBI and to
the GoJ That's right, But elected Republicans are awol. They
are This stuff is like it happens in a vacuum.
It happens in a vacuum. I have another one. So
if the applications were showing these birthdays, how in the
world would anybody even approve loans to begin with? Yes, exactly,
But ask yourself this. These are the people that make
rules for you. These are the people. The person that
shent me this owns a small business. I don't want
to identify her. She owns a small business that she's
getting off the ground. The number of regulations and hoops
that she has had to go through from the federal
government and from the state. They want every document that
you have verifying who you are, every document that you
have regarding your income, every document that you have regarding
the space that you want to lease, and whether it's
met up to their OSHA, whether it's met up to
this and that, whether you have to make sure that
you post their requirements on who you can offend and
who you can't offend. You have to go through so
many hoops to open up any kind of business thanks
to these very people. These very people will tell you
if you want to go buy a house, here's the
form that you have to fill out, and I'm so sorry.
We need to know your requirements. We need to know
your income to debt ratio, how much money you make
compared to how much you lose. And by the way,
you need to verify that, and you need to verify
who you are three times over. And here's how much
money is in the bank. And it better be legitimate,
because if you lie on these applications, unless you're a
powerful Democrat, we have the potential to throw your ass
in jail because we don't like liars. Okay, these are
the same people that do all this for you when
you want to open up a business, and yet they're
the thing. They are in charge of the federal treasury
with trillions of dollars of your money in it. Collectively,
they have zero checks and balances on how the money's
going out.
Speaker 2: You ask every all the time. We've been asking this
for years and years.
Speaker 4: How is it that people get elected to Congress, get
elected to the sense they're broke, and yet by the
time they retire, their multimillionaires how does that work? Exactly well,
when you have an open bank, when you have the
ability to have let's say, money flowing in certain directions
to certain NGOs or certain other organizations that have no
accountability either, it's like a blank check. And then all
of a sudden, people are surprised when some of these
elected officials end up becoming multi millionaires when the money's
pretty much untraceable.
Speaker 2: It's a game, and we have the taxpayers have been
at the losing end of this game.
Speaker 4: Yet, in addition to that, you have the Democrat Party
funding every single weapon at their disposal. Media outlets like
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS, who now are pretending.
Speaker 2: That they're not biased. Oh how dare this assault on us?
All we want to do is report the news and
serve our communities. Oh oh, you should hear some of
these people.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump said that, by the way, this is such
a non story because now they're saying they're gonna go
se They're gonna go to We're gonna sue him. We're
gonna sue him. His executive order says the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting should cease federal funding for NPR and PBS
to the extent alloud by law. He's recognizing the Congress role,
so to the extent that we can, let's defund it
to the extent by law. He didn't say we're bypassing
the law. Unlike in nineteen sixty seven when c P
was established, the media landscape is solid, was abundant, diverse
and innovative news options.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah. So these people, Paula Kuger, CEO of PBS.
Speaker 4: The president's blatantly unlawful executive order issued in the middle
of the night, threatens to our ability to serve the
American public with educational program as we had for the
fast fifty years. It was not unlawful, he said, to
the extent by law. Maybe you should read it, miss PBS,
before you start pontificating. Patricia Harrison, the president and CEO
of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, issued a defiant statement
stress the White House did not control the organization. CBP
is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority.
Speaker 2: Congress directly authorized.
Speaker 4: And funded to see PB to be a private, non
founded corporation wholly independent of the federal government. Holy independent.
But we want your money, but we demand your money.
But we're independent of anybody telling us what to do.
Cather and mayor the raging leftist that runs in PR.
We will vigorously defend our right to provide essential news,
information and life saving services to the American What do
you get from PBS and NPR that you can't get elsewhere?
There are so many options in places. Why them? But no, no, no,
they're special and they deserve your money. And no, they
shouldn't have to worry about competing like other broadcasters do.
Speaker 2: Get it to them. They're entitled to it.
Speaker 4: But do you see any expose a's of any of
this stuff on PBS, on any of these outlets, these
government outlets. Did you even know before dojie your government
was this mismanaged and ill organized. This is as unprofessional
as any If you ran a business and you had
to report to the government, like many of you do,
if you ran your company with the lack of controls
that the federal government runs theirs, these people would be
trying to get you in a cell next to what's
his name, George, what's his name Santos. They'd be trying
to line you up for the cell next to George Santel. He,
by the way, has a video where he's asked acxing
Lily Bonix. There, what about some of the other members
of Congress. You're gonna see them indict it. Maybe we'll
get to that tomorrow. Anyway, these people they got, Sue
Collins mean excrewing me.
Speaker 2: Serious tradictions and serious objections to the way its entire
government has been run.
Speaker 4: Why don't you the Institute for Peace? Did you even
know that there was an Institute for Peace?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Cut nine, the Institute for Peace. Let's listen to what
happened when those went inside the Institute for Peace.
Speaker 11: Maybe, yeah, okay, agency, small agency called the United States
Institute of Peace. It's definitely the agency we had the
most fight at. We actually went into the agency and
found that they had loaded guns inside of their headquarters.
Speaker 5: Institute for Peace.
Speaker 7: I mean, any given company, any given organizational name, is
going to be kind of be the opposite of the title,
right Yeah, yeah, So it was.
Speaker 11: By far the least peaceful agency.
Speaker 3: That we've worked with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ironically, of course.
Speaker 11: Additionally, we found that they were spending money on things
like private jets, and they even had a one hundred
and thirty thousand dollars contract with a former member of
the Taliban. This is areal We don't encounter that in those.
Speaker 5: St Yeah, what was the money going to the Taliban for?
Speaker 11: So it was a contractor. They received one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars for generic services. And to Elon's point,
there was not actually a clear description of what the
contractor services were for.
Speaker 5: But was it for opium.
Speaker 8: Unclear?
Speaker 11: Or weapons or yeahing or nothing or abroad or yeah,
And you actually have to ask the question, well, how
did we get here? Like when the country was founded,
there were only four agencies. Today there are over four hundred,
So there's been a one hundred xc increase in the
number of agencies since the foundering of the nation. And
thanks to President Trump, he's now signed two executive orders
to start to reduce the number of agencies in the
government and the Institute a Piece was one of them,
which is why our team went into try and understand
what was going on, and that's when we found all
the craziness, like the weapons and their armory, we found
the payments to the Taliban.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, try to ide the evidence, right.
Speaker 11: So just a few hours after we got into their headquarters,
we found that their chief accountant had actually deleted over
a terabyte of accounting records from SERVA leaders. So you'd
have to ask the question, well, why would somebody do
that if the Dose team fortunately was able to recover
that data with the help of a few great employees
at the Institute of Piece. And I think the most
troubling thing was they received fifty five million dollars a
year from Congress, and any money that went unspent, instead
of returning that to Congress, they would sweep it into
a private bank account which had no Congressional oversight, and
that's what they would use to fund things like events
at their headquarters and the private jets. And so I
think it's a great example because most Americans don't know
what's going on at a lot of these smaller agencies,
and this is a I think the most extreme case
of some of the wasteful spend that we're finding.
Speaker 12: So the agencies are hiding money from you, they're sending
into the Taliban, They have loaded weapons in the department.
Speaker 5: Buildings at the Institute of Piece, at the Institute of Peace,
that's right, So this is a cover up.
Speaker 7: When you guys, roll in this one of the cover up,
big big belief of mass out of financial information.
Speaker 5: That's really a definition of a cover up. Isn't that
illegal to delete evidence? Yes, shred documents? It is.
Speaker 11: It's certainly illegal to delete accounting records that that Congress
would certainly want to know where the congressionally appropriated funds
are going from taxpayers.
Speaker 12: When you catch them going Hillary style on their computers,
do you refer this to the Department of.
Speaker 11: Justice In this case, we did refer the evidence in
the accounting example to the FBI and DJ.
Speaker 5: We're proud to do that, so yes, we did.
Speaker 4: Instance has now the United States Postal Service. Let's get
to that one really quickly, folks. I got so much
more that I wanted to do today. We're not going
to have a chance to get to tomorrow morning. Please
God willing, we're here. Please be here with us, because
there's so much other stuff that is happening out there.
But this is important now. They also talked about the
USPS the Postal Service. Okay, and that's cut fourteen. Let's
just jump into it. I want to comment on that.
Speaker 10: So, yeah, I'm at the Postal Service. I think a
lot of people don't realize that there's actually a law
that says that the post Office is supposed to like
have a balanced budget there is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, Well that's not working, is it. No, So
they're breaking the law.
Speaker 10: They're breaking the law basically since two thousand and seven.
Almost every year since two thousand and seven they've they've
lost money. So you might ask, like, what happened in
two thousand and seven, Yeah, yeah, there was additional regulation
that when it's a place that essentially crippled them and
put them down this like not good path where they
essentially are stuck in the past as well as bleeding
money left and right. So, like, it's great, and we
appreciate that the postal employees are are willing to go
to the hardest parts like in this country. But we
think that we can organize it and help them become profitable.
Speaker 5: Right now, last year they lost nine a half pe dollars.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I want you to think about that. Last year.
Speaker 4: If you didn't hear that last part post Office lost
nine and a half billion dollars, I want you to
think about this just for one moment, folks. Every day,
many of you see a truck coming up to deliver
stuff to you. It's got a little arrow that looks
kind of like a phallic symbol getting ready to go
into something.
Speaker 2: But never mind that.
Speaker 4: These people have figured out how to deliver stuff to
you sometimes at four o'clock in the morning, if you
order it the night before, the day before, sometimes the
next day, and within a few days. And not only
that they'll give they'll track They'll Okay, here's the stuff
you ordered, by the way, here's when you can expect it.
We may be late. We'll let you know about that too.
Here here's a link you can track it yourself if
you order this stuff from there. Yeah, if you order
this stuff from from the grocery store that they ow
that they own. Right, Not only do they put stuff
in your basket without telling you because you've ordered it before,
just to make sure your basket is stocked up with
more stuff, right, based on everything that you've ever bought.
You can see that too, And then they recommend, by
the way, you didn't buy this this time.
Speaker 2: You want some of that.
Speaker 4: Here, we'll put it in your basket for you, and
it'll be here this afternoon tomorrow morning. Oh, pick an
eight and you get free shipping on some of it.
If you want your groceries, you may have to pay
ten bucks more.
Speaker 2: But yeah, who cares. Right now?
Speaker 4: The United States Postal Service has every every single address
in the United States of America. They have access to
reach every single household, every single apartment building, every single
cave that has an address. They're losing money at a
time when people are buying like crazy and demanding everything
be sent to their homes because.
Speaker 2: They don't want to go out shopping anymore.
Speaker 4: And yet the government is losing nine billion dollars a
year while other companies are making a killing delivering stuff.
And Sue Collins and the damn Republicans don't.
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Speaker 4: Again, I invite you to join us in the morning,
God willing we are there, because there's so much more
I want to talk about. H Ha King Jeffries. He's
getting a lot of heat from some people in his party.
Speaker 2: Do we have time to do this? Yeah? Quick? We
have cut to Donald Trump his speech at Alabama. Cut two.
I believe it is yes, cut two very quickly, so.
Speaker 14: Asking me to go through with that stuff. But it's
pretty descriptive, is it.
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 14: It helps when you know that borders are not racist,
speech is not violence, America is good, Terrorists are bad,
men can never become women, police are not criminals, and
criminals are not victims.
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