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Trump is doing a Q and A in the Oval
office after he announced the uh, the winning bidder for
the F forty seven. I don't know if that's purely
coincidental that he's also forty seventh president, but the new
fighter jet. But now he's taken questions, they're all over
the place. At one point he called Tim Walls a loser,
which is fact check true.
Speaker 1: And so let's see here.
Speaker 3: Next question about Canada becoming the fifty first state.
Speaker 4: Concerned Canada, they became the.
Speaker 3: Ifty first state, they would be a very very blue state.
Speaker 4: Very very big and very very blue.
Speaker 5: Now there might be, but it would you know, you
have that artificial line that goes that straight, artific that
looked like it was drawn by a ruler, somebody with
a I don't mean a ruler.
Speaker 4: Like a king.
Speaker 5: I mean like a ruler, like a ruler this way
and just an artificial line that was drawn in the
sand or in the ice.
Speaker 4: And you know, can I tell Peter just you add
that to this country.
Speaker 5: What a beautiful landmss the most beautiful land mass anywhere
in the world, and it was just cut off for
whatever reason.
Speaker 4: It would be great now, is it? Liberal? Maybe?
Speaker 5: But you know, a conservative until I got involved, because
I don't care who wins up there, frankly, probably would
do better with a liberal than the conservative, if you
want another truth. But just a little while ago before
I got involved and totally changed the election, which I
don't care.
Speaker 1: About right towards the liberals.
Speaker 5: Probably it's our advantage actually, but the Conservatives was leading
against I call him Governor Tutto. The conservative was leading,
So I don't know about that. I think Canada is
a place, like a lot of other places. If you
have a good candidate, the candidate's going to win.
Speaker 6: And the two astronauts that you just helped save from space,
they didn't get any overtime pay. We're all that extra
time they got five dollars a day per diem for
two hundred eighty six days. That is fourteen hundred and
thirty dollars in extra pay. Is there anything the administration
can do to get them to make them hold well?
Speaker 5: Nobody's ever mentioned this to me. If I have to,
I'll pay it out of my own pocket. Okay, I'll get.
Speaker 4: It for I'll take care of that. I like that.
Speaker 5: I think I'll pay it right out of my Is
that all? That's not a lot for what they had
to go through. And I want to thank Elon Musk
by the way, because think if we don't have him,
you know, it's only so long even though they're in
the capsule up there that the body starts to deteriorate
after nine or ten months and gets really bad after
fourteen fifteen months with the bones and the blood and all.
Speaker 4: The things that you've been in the body very well.
And if we don't have Elan, they could be up
there a long time.
Speaker 5: Who else is going to get him? And I just
want to thank him. He's going through a lot, what
they're doing to him. And these people are going to
be caught, and they're going to be caught, and they're
going to be prosecuted. And from what they tell me,
I see this just by watching your programs and read
in the news. But from what they tell me, they
could get twenty years in jail and they'll get it.
I'll tell you there's going to be no leniency and
there'll be no pardons.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that right now.
Speaker 6: He said fail and then you know you said this morning,
twenty years in jail, and then maybe they'll go to
one of these prisons in Al Salvador.
Speaker 3: Do you think with the way that the judges have
been issuing injunctions, it would be easier or harder to
send these sloid domestic terrorists to a jail in El
Salvador than these Amas thirteen are trying to arrive with guys.
Speaker 4: Well, I view these people as terrorists just like others.
Speaker 5: When I looked at those showrooms burning and those cars
not one or two, like seven, eight ten burning exploding
all over the place, these are terrorists.
Speaker 4: You didn't have that on January sixth.
Speaker 5: I can tell you you didn't have anything like that
on January sixth, which is sort of amazing because on
January sixth, the the Democrats were talking, nobody was killed
other than a very beautiful young woman, Ashley Ashley Babbitt.
Nobody was killed. And you look at what's going on
now with these terrorists. These are terrorist and that's an
organized event, you know. Take a look at their signs.
Speaker 4: Take a look.
Speaker 5: They're all made by the same sign company. A nice
expensive job. Now, these are the people that finance it are,
in my opinion, in just as big a trouble as
the people that are setting the match and setting the fires.
So we'll see it's under very serious investigation by the
FBI and by the Justice Department. These people are terrorists.
Speaker 4: Okay, going behind.
Speaker 5: You, what did you say to American military families where
seeing Elon Muskitt the pindagon today are hearing about the
best Parlament cuts and their thoughts are immediately going to
the stafy of their love once we're herman employing.
Speaker 4: Well, we're making our country strong. And when they see
a thing like that and.
Speaker 5: They hear that story about Elon and China, what they
should do is realize that The New York Times is
a corrupt institution.
Speaker 4: Because I think they're the ones they knew that story
wasn't true.
Speaker 5: Nobody believed that story people that when I first call,
they laughed when they heard the story. Nobody believed it
that the Pentagon was giving him a briefing on what
war with China was looking like and he has businesses. No,
they made that up because it's a good story to
make up. They're very dishonest people. Look, I have it
with the Times and you'll see more and more of it.
To me, it's a very very very dishonest organization. But
a story like that has made up. It's total fiction.
And I just wanted to make sure. I called up
Chief of Staff and I called up Pete and I said,
is it any truth to that? Absolutely not. He's there
for Dosee, not there for China. And if you ever
mentioned China, I think he'd walk out of the room.
He wouldn't, he wouldn't take it anyway. So it's just
a made up story. Nobody's taken better care of the military.
What are the things that I know the peach doing
is he's talking about a lot of the civilian staff
and we're going to get them other jobs. You know,
we're gonna have a lot of jobs in this country
because but we don't want to have wasteful jobs.
Speaker 4: We want to have meaningful jobs, and those were wasteful jobs.
Speaker 5: Those are jobs that not only military, but jobs where
people don't show up. We had you to take a
look at Department of Education. I've never seen so many
buildings with the names owner. You go past one after another,
Department of Education, and they're empty. The people don't show up.
You know why, because they have other jobs. Because they're
playing golf, or they're playing something. They're doing something.
Speaker 4: And we have a lot of great people, but we
have to move that back to the States.
Speaker 5: We're going to make our country strong and we're going
to get people much better jobs because we have companies
moving into our country the likes of which we've never
seen before. Nothing like this has happened, and it's automatic.
They don't want to pay the tariffs. How do you
get How do you avoid paying the tariffs? You build
your plant in the United States, and it's going to
be it's.
Speaker 4: A beautiful thing to see.
Speaker 5: I see it so far. It's say, four trillion dollars.
Nobody's ever heard of them. No country's ever heard of
numbers like that. Four trillion dollars. And those are the
best ones. The biggest, best chip maker in the world.
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 5: I'm not a fan of the Chip Act where you
get billions away to billions of dollars away to companies
that don't need it, and it won't bring them here.
Speaker 4: I'm giving nothing away.
Speaker 5: All they're doing is coming here to their building because
they want to avoid Remember this on the tariffs too,
because that's going to be you know, Liberation day April second.
It's reciprocal. If they charge us, we charge them. So
somebody say, well, how much are the tariffs very fair?
If India as an example, it's been very bad to
us on tariffs, they charge one hundred percent, two hundred
percent whatever they charge. Now, Europe just announce there lowering
the tariffs on cars. You know, we charge, like a joke,
two and a half percent. That's what this country charges.
Europe just announced that they're reducing their tariffs on cars.
Speaker 4: To two and a half percent.
Speaker 5: It's nice, but they also have non monetary tariffs where
they make it impossible for the cars to get in
even without the dollars on them a dollar sizes.
Speaker 4: It's called the non monetary tariff.
Speaker 5: Where they put on controls where no matter what happens,
because they don't want cars They don't want the American
car in their market, and yet they send us millions
of cars. They send us big agriculture. They don't want
our agriculture. They don't want anything from us. European Union
is very tough, but now it's fair. So whatever they
do to us, we do to them, all right.
Speaker 2: So Donald Trump is in the Oval Office obviously, just
taking questions from the media on whatever the reporters can
think to ask him.
Speaker 1: So that's happening now.
Speaker 2: If there's anything else of import that comes out of it,
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Speaker 1: All right, So.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump in the Oval Office talking about the F
forty seven, the new fighter plane, talked about cracking down
on domestic terrorists, talked about Elon Musk and how crappy
the New York Times story is, and apparently they're now
stealth editing their headline because no, the Pentagon did not
give Elon access to some secret Chinese warplan or the
war on China or something.
Speaker 1: It's very similar.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: What it reminded me of was the Carter Page smear.
Remember that Carter Page business guy went over Trump advisor
went over to Russia, came back, talked to the CIA
as he apparently had done repeatedly over the course of
his career because he's a patriot, and he would tell
the CIA, Hey, this is what the Russians talk to
me about, this is what they're interested in, whatever, you know,
here's the business dealings, here are the people I met.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: And then when the FBI was looking to target Donald
Trump and they found Carter Page's visits to Russia, they
were like, oh, this is it. And so as his protocol,
they have to reach out to other intel agencies like
the CIA and say, hey, just to make sure he's
one of he's not one of your assets, is he
And the CIA said, actually, yes, he's been working with
us for a while. And that's when the FBI lawyer,
Kevin Kleinsmith.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 2: That's when he left that out of the documentation when
they filed the warrant application in the FISA court, because
if the court had known that Carter Page was working
with the CIA on stuff, then the court would have
been like, oh, well, that explains why he would be
going to Russia.
Speaker 1: He's talking to the CIA after so, no, you can't.
You don't have.
Speaker 2: Probable cause basically to wiretap his stuff. But if you
omit that fact now it's like, oh, look at this,
he's going to rush all these times. We need to
figure it out. Is is Trump a puppet of Putin right?
And that's how they That's how they did it, and
that's what it kind of smacks of this the wrap
up smear right, as Nancy Pelosi called it. Trump also
said that he would pay the overtime pay for the astronauts.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was unaware of this.
Speaker 2: Peter Doocey asked Trump during this Q and A in
the Oval office and asked him, Hey, these astronauts were
up there and they apparent don't get overtime pay.
Speaker 1: They were supposed to be up there for a.
Speaker 2: Three hour tour I believe, a three hour tour, a
three hour tour, and ended up being up there for
like nine months. I feel like that should be overtime pay, right, No,
it seems I mean that seems fair. But apparently they're
not eligible for the overtime pay. And so Trump wasn't
aware of that either before the question, he said, and
so he was like, well, like they only get five
bucks an hour, so they're only getting like fourteen hundred
dollars for being up there for eight or nine months.
So he said, yeah, that we'll look into it, and
if I have to pay it myself, I'll pay it myself.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. We shall see what happens. What else, Oh,
Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders has for a very long time,
you know, tried to position himself as not of the
Democrat Party, kind of of the Democrat Party. I'll call
us with you, guys. I'll vote with you, guys. I
agree with you on a whole bunch of stuff. But
I'm a socialist. I'm an independent, and so therefore I'm
not going to be a registered Democrat. I'm going to
run for president on the Democrat ticket, but I'm not
of you. I'm Democrat adjacent, right, And as Ed Morrissey says,
Sanders has tried to distance himself from the party while
simultaneously attempting to seize control of it.
Speaker 1: Now, the New York Times.
Speaker 2: Reports, and again this is the New York Times, or,
as Donald Trump calls it, the failing, corrupt. New York
Times reports that Sanders is now urging progressives to run
in elections as independents rather than Democrats. That would create
an actual split in the party.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: This is not in a primary.
Speaker 2: This is in a general because if you are a
quote independent, then you would not be running in the
Democrat primary. So he's saying, hey, all you Bernie bros.
When you're not out there trying to assassinate all of
the Republicans on a softball field like that guy Hodgkinson did,
then you need to be running for office as independents
or socialists right in the general election. New York Times
here's their report, or part of it. Sanders's admonition came
in an interview with The New York Times on the
eve of a three day, five city swing through western
states alongside Representative Alexandria Cazo Cortes of New York. He
predicted that they would draw tens of thousands of people
to rally against President Trump, Elon Musk, and the influence
of the billionaires on the American government. The suggestion that
would be leaders of the left should abandon the Democrat
Party picks at a political scab that has never fully healed. Sanders,
who is eighty three years old, a long time independent,
has had a tense yet codependent relationship with the party
for decades. And Ed Morrisey asks a very important question.
Is this a tactic to simply ramp up the pressure
on Chuck Schumer to resign? Is that what this is
designed to do? And does he then backtrack much like
he did with Hillary Clinton, right when he's like, I'm
going to run for president against Hillary Clinton, and then
the next debate it's I'm tired of hearing about our emails. Right,
So he's sort of a controlled opposition inside the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1: Is that what he's doing? There's more to this, all right?
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writing about Bernie Sanders's call for quote independence his followers
to start running for offices against Democrats and Republicans in
general elections. Do not call this a civil war, people,
This is merely Democrats in disarray. Okay, only the Republicans
have a civil war inside their ranks. This would go
beyond just challenging establishment Democrat incumbents and primaries. Morrissey rights.
If Sanders convinces Progressives to run as independents in most states,
they would have to do so in the general elections.
They would then run against Democrats and Republicans, likely splitting
voters on the left while allowing right leaning voters to
unite behind the GOP nominee. That would portend an absolute
disaster for Democrats, essentially forcing a party split, or or
it solidifies a more moderate Democrat party. See I'm what
do I always tell you Rule Number one about Marxists
is that they lie, right, and Bernie being a Marxist,
he lies.
Speaker 1: So you don't know what the actual motivation is here.
Speaker 2: He could be, as I said earlier, controlled opposition inside
the Democrat Party. He's like a pressure release valve. So
you got a lot of people on the left, a
lot of leftists inside the Democrat Party that are really
really mad at Chuck Schumer, and they're really mad at
other Democrats who aren't, you know, pushing back hard enough
against Donald Trump. Like I guess we need to burn
more car dealerships or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: But if Bernie is there to offer that sort of
a pressure release valve to the leftists, and then that
may empower the more moderates in the Democrat Party to
like rise and then ostracize some of these more leftist candidates,
I don't know, That's what I mean. Like all of
this is just speculation on my part, just trying to
kind of game in out in my head, and I'm
just operating under this you know, guiding principle that commis
lie and Bernie's a commy, so I like I cannot
trust I cannot trust him. And Ed Morrisy says, one
has to wonder what Sanders envisions the outcome of this
strategy is right, You have to wonder just how many
progressives Bernie is going to convince to commit electoral suicide. Right,
But maybe that's the point. You run for these offices,
you get blown out badly, you cost Democrats elections, you
then get blackballed, Right, maybe that's the point. If the
party establishment finds less radical alternatives, though, they might hold
the blue, the deep blue districts even with a split
on the ticket, and then that might actually rid themselves
of the toxic influence of the cultural political Marxists for
a while. Because the other thing about Bernie is that
he's lazy. He always has been. Remember this is the
guy that got kicked out of a Kami commune because
he wasn't doing anything, which is very on brand for
commune's right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of their jam.
Speaker 2: They they're lazy, they don't want to do the work,
and so they just want to kind of, you know,
parasitically siphon off of the productive people in the in
the commune. So maybe this is just you know, him saying, hey,
you go out and run, you go out and run,
you split these votes. And meanwhile he's just leading them
to the slaughter rhetorically speaking. Then there's this over at Politico,
as Democrat sene Minoriti leader Chuck Schuma knows better than anybody,
the Democrat base is hacked off, and not just a
little bit, not just a little bit. They're very very man.
Speaker 1: Related to this actually is an NBC News poll. Have
you heard this?
Speaker 2: Voters' opinions of Donald Trump, JD. Van Cylon, Musk Doge,
the gop Zelenski Dei, and the Democrat Party. An NBC
asked this breakdown is demographically of white people, white men,
white women. So I was unaware actually that NBC News
is now of the opinion that there are only men
and women. But anyway, so my white men, white women
with the college degree and without a college degree, and
the results here show uniformity, if you will, a general agreement,
not on everything, and there are definitely some gaps here,
but among white men with no degree, white men with
a degree, white women with no degree. There is more
cohesion around political favorability on those items that I listed,
those three demographic groups, white dudes within without degrees and
white women without degrees. And then there's this one outlier
off to the side, which is white women with college degrees,
and they are in like another They're not even on
another planet, They're in another universe. It's not even close
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u the intensity of the anger roiling the Democrat party
is at a historic level, suggesting a breach between congressional
Democrats and the party grassroots so severe that it could
reshape the twenty twenty six primary election season.
Speaker 1: Once again, this is speculative.
Speaker 2: We don't know, as so much journalism is nowadays, but
I suspect part of the problem the Democrats have here
is born out in this NBC News poll, so voters'
opinions of Donald Trump white men forty one percent. White
men with no degree is a plus forty one. Okay,
so white guys without a college degree overwhelmingly support Donald Trump.
White men with a college degree are plus one Donald Trump.
White women no degree plus fourteen for Donald Trump. Favorability
white women with a college degree negative thirty eight. This
is like the the most hyperpartisan cohort. Jd Vance. Similar
numbers Elon Musk, similar numbers, Doge, similar swings. Republican Party,
similar swings Vladimir Zolensky, White men with no degree negative
five for Zelensky, White men with a degree plus eleven
for Zelensky, white women no degree minus three White women
with a college degree plus fifty three.
Speaker 1: What is the deal with that?
Speaker 2: What's up with the white college degree women? Levanon Zelenski
DEI same sort of swings. I mean, they're not even
close to their fellow white women without degrees or their
white male degreed counterparts. Like DEI is its negative. It's
underwater in every category except white women with college degrees.
That's the base now of the Democrat Party. Congressional Democrats
have typically enjoyed higher popularity with their voting base than
their Republican counterparts, but the trauma of the twenty twenty
four presidential election defeat appears to have ruptured that relationship.
A review of Quinnipiac University's annual first quarter congressional polling
reveals that, for the first time in the poll's history,
Congressional Democrats are now underwater with their own voters in
approval ratings. Just forty percent of Democrats approve of the
job performance of Congressional Democrats, compared to forty nine percent
who disapprove of their own party's congressional performance. That is
a dramatic change from the same time last year. Now, obviously,
that would have been before the election, when seventy five
percent of Democrats approved and twenty one percent disapproved of
their own parties members of congress. Politico says this is
eerily reminiscent of the Republican grassroots sentiment in the period
leading up to Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican Party.
The numbers are clear. No longer satisfied with the status
quo in their party, Democrats are on the verge of
a Tea Party style intra party revolt. What have I
been saying the parties are realigning, and the Democrat Party
is apparently not going to be able to keep a
hold of dudes. It's going to become a female dominated
a like college educated white female and black female college
and non college educated demographic cowort. That's where this that's
where it looks like this is going. And that's not
good for the society. And it's not good now. I
don't think there's a critical mass with this kind of
a breakdown for Democrats to ever actually then win again.
Speaker 1: That's a problem.
Speaker 2: For the party, right if they can't win, and if
they cannot keep men, particularly white men and even to
a lesser extent, black men and Hispanic men who have
also started jumping ship from the Democrat Party. So you're
losing these men, but that means you're losing these these
different racial categories, these different cohorts. And what have I
said for years that when the Democrat or the yeah,
when the Democrat Party no longer attracts the ninety plus
percent of black vote that it enjoys right now, when
black voters start voting like all of the other racial
demographics do, the Democrat Party is done. They can't win.
They need the ninety plus percent. And if you are
alienating black men from your party and they are now
going independent, or they're going to Trump, or they're going
to the Republicans, then the Democrats are finished at a
national level winning national races. You add in the loss
of population in states like New York and California where
you're losing congressional seats, you're not going to be able
to compete to control the US House. This is a
very big problem for Democrats, and they seem completely incapable
of addressing it. I played the clip yesterday Tim Walls,
the VP nominee, who was supposed to attract all of
the rural dudes, and just came across as really weird
and effeminate. Right, they don't even know how to start
the conversation. Oh, by the way, somebody did take them
up on his offer for a fight. I'll tell you
in a minute.
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