The Charlie Kirk Show, February 5, 2025

Commentary on Gaza, Elon Musk, White House Press Briefing, and USAID

 

Guests Sen. Eric Schmitt and Mike Benz

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
The Charlie Kirk Show starts.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now, Iowa has ten thousand federal workers. Which federal jobs
do you think are redundant? Is it the staff providing
care to veterans at the VA facilities in Des Moines
and Iowa City, The USDA expert supporting your state's farmers,
or the Social Security staff ensuring payments reach seniors. Let's

(00:40):
be clear about what's happening here. This isn't about right
sizing the federal government. It's about gutting it, and it's
about weakening our government's ability to serve the American people.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
You want shorter wait times for Social Security.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Faster disaster responses, safer food and medicine, then why attack
the very workers who make it happen. The House Democrats
are fighting to protect and modernize the federal workforce, hire
and retain talent, and give federal workers the resources they
need to serve the American people. That's what we are doing.

(01:18):
And with that, mister Chairman, I thank you, and I yield.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Back chair recognized mister Palmer from Alabama, thank miss Chairman,
and thank the witnesses for being here. And I want
to get to a more constructive dialogue. First of all
in regard to DOGE. As I've pointed out to some
of my colleagues, this is not the first time that
the federal government has engaged in an effort like this.

(01:41):
One time, in particular, it was during the Clint administration.
It was called the National Partnership for Reinventing Government and
it was led by Al Gore. I ran a think
tank of Time, was invited to come to Washington to
meet with some of the folks working on this. But
after seven years of this effort, they reduced the civilian
employee population by over four hundred and twenty six thousand.

(02:03):
They close two hundred and fifty federal offices. They reduced
the Federal Registry by seven hundred thousand pages and about
sixteen thousand pages of regulations. And I understand Governor rentals
that Iowa has launched a reorganization effort as the objective
there to make government more efficient, more effective, and more
responsive to the people of Iowa.

Speaker 5 (02:25):
More efficient, more effective, more responsive, more accountable. It's brought
transparency to the process. We're better at what we're doing.
I would say that, you know, the employees appreciate the
environment that we're working in today. They appreciate the culture
of innovation that we're creating in the state, and they
love being a part of it.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Did you bring it in any outside experts? As the
client administration did and that effort for reinventing government back
in the nineties, I.

Speaker 5 (02:50):
Brought in one consultant to help really do the comparisons
in other states, so we could see where we were
an outliner, where did we align, what had we maybe missed?
So we used the sultant from that perspective and just
to help us with some of the administration, but otherwise
we did it all internally.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
When I worked for a couple of international engineering companies,
and one of the companies I worked for went through
a process like this, and they brought in outside consultants
because people on outside can see things those of us
on the inside miss, So it's important that you bring
in really the best that you that you can in
that regard, I really think that we're in another reinventing
government phase, and in particular with education. Uh there's a

(03:29):
big debate right now going on about the number of
H one b VSAs that we need to have because
we're having to import so many technically trained workers. I
don't know if Iwa is experiencing some of this, but
you probably have some folks who are educated overseas that
are now working in engineering technically trained jobs.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Would that be correct?

Speaker 6 (03:47):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
I think the fact that we're having mister Tairman to
bring so many people in who are engineers and scientists
is an indictment of the current education system. We're not
able to produce the number of of technically trained people
that we need to be competitive in our economy, but
also in regard to our national security, because we're in
an arms race an artificial intelligence with China, and we're

(04:12):
going to have to have a technically trained work force.
So one of the things that I've suggested in this
effort in regard to the Department of Education is that
we not completely dismantle it governor rentals, but maybe reimagine
it as a Department of Workforce Development and block grant
the money to the States with a heavy emphasis on STEM.
Would you like to respond to that.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
I would be very much in favor of that. In fact,
we put a proposal together that we'll be submitting to
the Department of Education. It gives states the flexibility. We
already have a waiver process in place that we could
utilize until they could actually get some of that realignment done.
But like I said, hold us accountable, We'll meet those
expectations and we can do it at lower cost.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
We're going through, I think an historic phase.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Every day is a battle for your mind.

Speaker 7 (05:04):
Raging information coming from every angle, but the will to deceive.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I fear not. You found the place for.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
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Speaker 1 (05:20):
Buck a lot, here we go.

Speaker 8 (05:24):
Okay, everybody, Radio stations across the country honored to be
with you.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
As always.

Speaker 8 (05:28):
You can email me Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. There
is a lot to cover today. Front page of the
Wall Street Journal. Trump urges US takeover of Gaza. Front
page of the New York Times. Trump proposing takeover of
Gaza as a US territory.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Where is Gaza?

Speaker 8 (05:47):
Most Americans cannot tell you, So let's first just educate
all of you and catch you up the speed on
where in the world is Gaza. Well, Gaza is a
very intro sting piece of the Middle East. Its history
dates back all the way to fifth fifteenth century BCE.

(06:07):
It was an important city in ancient Egypt, and even
the Philistines seems that there's always been conflict around this
specific sliver. Let's show the map now. When you talk
about Israel, Israel is about the side of New Jersey.
Israel as it is in this particular map is the turquoise.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
On the map.

Speaker 8 (06:27):
The more brown color as I see it presented, is
what would be called the Palestinian Authority. This is a
very important point the Palestinian Authority. But usually here is
the West Bank, meaning it's west of the Jordan River,
is Judea and Samaria. There you'll have Hebron, there, you
have novelists. There you have the major metropolitan centers of

(06:47):
the Palestinian Authority. What most people don't understand, though, is
that there is a separate area of Arab Palestinian Authority
control which is not contiguous. It is discontiguous, and that
is the Gaza Strip. You can see the Gaza Strip
right there, which is positioned near the southwest corner of

(07:09):
the state of Israel. The Gaza Strip is gorgeous, it's beautiful,
It's right on the Mediterranean, has rolling hills, vineyards orchards.
It is legitimately could be the new Bay Route tool
when Beyrout was actually very nice. It could be a
Hong Kong, it could be a Singapore, it could be

(07:29):
a beautiful beacon. But there's been a lot of conflict
over Gaza throughout the years. So Gaza we'll just kind
of fast forward to more modern time. Of course, we
had the creation of the State of Israel in the
nineteen forties, and as the creation of State of Israel happened,

(07:50):
there was a lot of conflict of well, who's actually
going to control Gaza. Interestingly, Gaza was under Egyptian control
from nineteen forty eight to nineteen sixty seven. It was
not formally annexed by Egypt, but Palestinian national identity whatever
that is, however you want to explain, it.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Started to take shape.

Speaker 8 (08:12):
Now in nineteen sixty seven, there was something called the
Six Day War, very famous six Day War, where Israel
captured the Gaza strip and basically controlled it for the
next forty years. From there, you started to see a
lot of people in Gaza that were Arab Palestinian Muslim

(08:34):
start to get a little bit discontent. There was a
lot of resentment. There was something from nineteen eighty seven
to nineteen ninety three which was called the First Intifada.
It was an uprising against Israeli occupation that began in Gaza,
marking a key moment in what they would call the
struggle for self determination. There was also the Oslo Accords

(08:56):
that were offered by Bill Clinton, signed in the early
nineteen nineties and established the Palestinian Authority and set the
framework for Palestinian self rule. Now understand, the people of
Gaza that called themselves Palestinians, They've always wanted to govern themselves.
We don't want to be under Israeli rule. We don't
want to be under Israeli rule.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Now.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
Hama started to rise up in the late nineteen eighties
as a radical Islamic resistance movement. As it started to
percolate and manifest, more and more radical anti Semitic, anti
Jewish jew hatred rhetoric started to metastasize in the Gaza strip.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Then in two thousand and.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
Five, the big decision was made, and yes, please keep
that map up on screen. In two thousand and five,
Israel made the decision to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza. Dismantling
settlements and evacuating military personnel. Basically, Israel said, forget it,
We're done. This is too much headache, too much consternation.

(09:57):
It's nothing but problems for us. If you guys really
want to govern yourselves.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Have at it.

Speaker 8 (10:04):
Gaza, have at it. Hamas have at a Palestinian authority.
A couple of years later, in two thousand and seven,
following violent clashes between Hamas and Fata, Hamas took complete
control of the Gaza Strip, further deepening the political division
between Gaza and the West Bank. Now they've always wanted

(10:26):
self determination, and that's what they got, But they really
also wanted more than that. They didn't just want self determination.
They wanted free stuff, they wanted aid. They also wanted
Israel not to exist. Now, let me reiterate, Gaza could
be a lovely place. The problem is the people who

(10:47):
rule it. Israel in the past time also captured the
entire Sinai. What's notable is they gave back the Sinai
but not Gaza. In the peace deal, the whole idea
was land for peace. We're going to get you land
and we're going to get peace. But land for peace
has never worked Hamas wants to destroy Israel, and the
most radical elements of Islamic fundamentalism took control the Gaza Strip. Now,

(11:11):
as I keep that map up on screen for just
one more second, all of the activity on October seventh
originated from the Gaza Strip, not from the West Bank.
The Gaza Strip was the launching off point. The Gaza
Strip controlled by Hamas is where they went to the
rave concert, They went into the kibbutz's, they went into

(11:33):
the nurseries, they went into the little schools, they went
into the synagogues. It was the launching off point in
the Gaza Strip, not in the West Bank. So that
fast forward now to today where it's a major mess.
When Israel has now done their response to the horrific,
unspeakable mini holocaust on October seventh, it has all been

(11:57):
in the Gaza Strip. It has been focused on the
Gaza Strip and the untold military story, which honestly, the
media has had a lot to cover the last year
and a half. Is Yes, the IDF has been largely successful,
but not nearly as much as they would have liked.
And this is a pattern that America experienced in Vietnam

(12:18):
and America experience in Afghanistan and America experienced in Iraq,
with a small, determined fighting force in their home neighborhoods
and in their homeland can be very difficult to defeat.
They get stronger the more you repress them. They get
more of a fighting spirit. The snipers and the dodge

(12:40):
and duck type strategy on the streets of Gaza have
been very difficult for the IDF to completely eliminate and
wipe out Hamas. They've done a pretty good job, but
Hamas has yet to be totally and completely defeated. Now,
just a reminder, polled in December of twenty twenty three,
Palestinians in Gaza overwhelmingly support what happened on October seventh.

(13:04):
Now seventy two percent of respondent said they believed Commas's
decision to launch the cross border rampage in southern Israel
was correct. Now, let's be honest. How do you conduct
a poll in the midst of a war zone. So
let me actually give you a piece of data. That
is that I think even more compelling that the people
who did October seventh the terrible savages. When they returned

(13:26):
to Gaza, they were celebrated as heroes. That is more
persuasive to me that there was parties in the streets
of the people that returned from the horrific acts on
October seventh, and they came to the streets of Gaza.
That's more persuasive than some poll that is being done.
I mean, they don't even have phones in Gaza. I

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don't know what they have or they don't have. That
is actually a much stronger data point. So this is
a big problem for Israel. The question is this a
big problem for the United States? Is there a problem
that we want to inherit? Is this a problem that
we should have to supervise? Is this a problem that
we should have to babysit and nanny because the Egyptians
had controlled it and they said no way. Israel had

(14:08):
controlled it and they said no way. And it's kind
of in this murky middle ground, and those of us
that are America first, it is a very serious question
of how should we approach the Gazahama situation. Well, we're
going to find out what President Trump means by own Gaza.
Does he mean own it like he owns Mara a Lago,
or does he mean that we're going to own the

(14:30):
activity and be responsible for managing a broker deal. Is
it a literal own or a metaphorical own? Is this
the art of the deal. We don't know. What we
do know is some red lines of what we will
not tolerate, and we're going to go through that in
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the red lines of US involvement in Gaza, should we
be involved at all.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
We'll explore and discuss.

Speaker 7 (15:47):
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Speaker 1 (17:09):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
Okay, everybody, welcome back. Email us Freedom at Charliekirk dot com. So,
President Trump, if I were to infer, I have no
firsthand knowledge of this. Of other things I do of this,
I do not if I were to infer what led
to this clip we're about to play, it was obviously
his meeting and press conference with Prime Minister bb Netanyahu.

(17:48):
Is that there was likely a dialogue that was occurring
of all the people that don't want to assume control
of Gaza, the Egyptians don't want it the Jordanians don't
want it, Israel doesn't want it, and I could see
a situation where President Trump says, oh, forget.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
It, We'll just take it over.

Speaker 8 (18:08):
I could see a moment where President Trump says, you
guys are all you don't want to take control of it.
We're going to be the alpha males and we're just
gonna come in. So let's play this piece of tape here.
And it is really shaking the matrix. I have received
hundreds of messages about this, people asking, asking, And that's
what's so nice about having this program. I don't have
to respile on text messages. I say, just watch the show.

(18:29):
Just watch the show. It's good for ratings. Just watch
the show if you want to hear my thoughts. This
is one of the moments that shook everything up that
led to these headlines.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
Front page above the fold.

Speaker 8 (18:42):
Trump urges US takeover of Gaza play Cup one twenty two.

Speaker 9 (18:47):
The US will take over the Gaza strip, and we
will do a job with it too. We'll own it
and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded
bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site,
and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out,
create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of

(19:09):
jobs and housing for the people of the area.

Speaker 10 (19:13):
Go a real job to something different. Just can't go back.

Speaker 9 (19:16):
If you go back, it's going to end up the
same way it has for one hundred years.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
Okay, let's take a step back here now. Is this
the art of the deals is to get more moderate
Arab countries to step up? Is this cutting Israel in line?
We don't know. But President Trump was reading prepared remarks there.
This was not off the cuff.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's very important.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
This is not President Trumps answering a question from a reporter.
He was reading prepared remarks. So it begs that there's
some sort of chess game going on here. But let's
kind of go through our red lines without knowing the
exact maneuvers and counter moves that are happening.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Let's go through some red lines.

Speaker 8 (19:58):
Number one, no circumstances are we going to allow refugees
from Gaza to come into the United States of America.
I can't imagine that is even on the table. I
don't think President Trump would allow that. But it needs
to be said, needs to be emphasized. While we're doing
the largest deportation effort in American history, which is going

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very well.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
We got Gitmo L.

Speaker 8 (20:20):
Salvador, We've got planes going all over the place. We're
not going to go let in a bunch of elon
Omars that are going to be singing alu akapar on
college campuses, burning American flags and waving Palestinian propaganda in
the phases.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Of American students. We're not gonna put up with that.
So the answer is zero, not going to happen. Zero.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
And number two is that we're not going to have
any US troops fighting in Gaza. That would be a
detrimental mistake, that would be catastrophic. Now, when President Trump
says we're going to own it, does that mean that
he we're going to own the situation. We're going to
diplomatically handhold it, We're going to bring stakeholders together. I'm
not sure, but we are not going to have a
single up. We're going to speak out against that with

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every fiber r being. We are not going to get
involved another Iraq, another Afghanistan. By the way, to the
best of my knowledge, Israel has never even asked for
US troops. All they want is the ability and the
green light to be able to wipe out Hamas. But
I do think we have to also proceed with some
caution here on this program.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
We have been outspoken critics of nation building.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
I don't think that's what President Trump is talking about here,
but I think it's within the same.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Potential topic here that nation building.

Speaker 8 (21:37):
One of the things that we've been most critical of
in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria and Ukraine.
This is likely President Trump trying to create more leverage
the same way he did with Canada, saying he did
with Columbia, same way he did with Mexico. So I
trust Trump one hundred percent to navigate this. He is
the master and in him I trust on this. The
same time, though, we need to make sure that we
articulate the principles that built his entire presidency and built

(22:01):
the entire movement. The occupation of Gaza is not worth
the life of a single marine from Oklahoma, period.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
It's not worth it. That is not America's role.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
To go put our most prized possession, our eighteen, nineteen
and twenty year old young men on the front lines,
to go fight in a region that has been described
as sand and death. The IDEF can handle that, and
we should give them a green light to go finish
the job. That I completely support. But limitations on American
foreign policy intervention is something that has been wide spread approval.

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The President believes us, and so this situation in front
of US is probably going to be developing in real time.
But the Jordanians and the Egyptians have to step up.
If all of a sudden we're going to say, hey,
get out of Gaza, Well, the Jordanians don't want them,
the Egyptians don't want them. But I think this definitely

(22:57):
creates a lot of momentum to force Arab neighbors to
take Palastinians. Senator Schmidt from Missouri joins us. Next email
is Freedom at Arliekirk dot com.

Speaker 11 (23:15):
Welcome back to this Real America's Voice news break. I'm
Terrence Bates. President Trump dropping a figurative bomb on Tuesday
during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo, the.

Speaker 9 (23:26):
US will take over the Gaza strip and we will
do a job with it too. We'll own it and
be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs
and other weapons on the site.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
Level the site and get rid of.

Speaker 9 (23:41):
The destroyed buildings. Level it out, create an economic development
that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for
the people of the area. Go real, job, do something different.
Just can't go back. If you go back, it's going
to end up the same way it has for one
hundred years.

Speaker 11 (24:01):
The President going on to suggest that displaced Palestinians in
Gaza be permanently resettled outside of that war torn region
in the meantime. After meeting with nat Yahoo as well
the Trump Administration's Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff, saying the
current three to five year reconstruction plan for Gaza under
the current ceasefire agreement just isn't viable while.

Speaker 10 (24:22):
The logistics are being worked out.

Speaker 11 (24:23):
Wickcoff plans to meet with Cutter's Prime Minister tomorrow here
in the United States to discuss the next phase in
the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The first illegal aliens
being housed by or at Guantanamo Bay are getting used
to their new digs this morning, after the first military
deportation flight from the United States landed at the Cuban
base Tuesday, night. The plane reportedly had ten migrants from

(24:47):
Fort Bliss in Texas on board. Eventually, the Trump administration
expects to house as many as thirty thousand illegals at
Guantanamo before repatriating them to their home countries. The first
flight to Guantana comes just one day after a flight
filled with Indian immigrants was sent.

Speaker 10 (25:04):
Back to India.

Speaker 11 (25:05):
Turns out more than seven hundred and twenty five thousand
Indians are living in the United States without authorization, which
is the third most of any country. Other recent deportation
flights from the United States have gone to Ecuador, Guam, Honduras,
as well as Peru. Colombia has also sent two flights
to the United States to pick up its citizens after

(25:26):
initially refusing to accept US repatriation planes. A bit of
closure this morning for the families of the victims of
last week's deadly mid air collision involving American Airlines and
an Army chopper. Turns out the remains of all sixty
seven people killed have now been recovered.

Speaker 10 (25:43):
I'm Terrence Man's thanks for this.

Speaker 12 (25:57):
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welcome back to the program Center. Looks like Trump's going
to get his entire cabinet. You've been holding the line,
doing great work here. Give us the latest.

Speaker 13 (27:18):
Yeah, No, I think that's exactly right, Charlie, And you
know he's got a great team, and you've talked about it.

Speaker 12 (27:24):
I've talked about it.

Speaker 13 (27:26):
I think the conference understands and certainly is something that
I've been.

Speaker 12 (27:29):
Talking about a lot.

Speaker 13 (27:30):
Is this election cycle was the disruptors versus of the
establishment right, and he deserves to have a team in
place that's going to be real reformers on the inside.
And I think you know the RFK pick, the Tulsa
Gabbard pick, which were you know, some of the results
maybe were in question a little bit earlier in the
weekend committee. They both came out of committee, and expect
him to get confirmed next week, both of them. Cash Betel,

(27:52):
we'll probably vote on him and Judiciary next week, so
he'll be a few days behind that. But having said that,
I think they're all in really good shape, and I
think it's important. I think it's important to honor, you know,
the trust that voters gave President Trump to pick his
team in this broad coalition now that we have, and
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and I think they will. One last point on that
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way ahead of the timetable that we've seen was Joe
Biden or President Trump's first term, where twelve confirmed by
the end of this week, maybe thirteen. I think it
might end up being it was at six in his
first term. Biden had six, so you'd have to go

(28:34):
back to the Obama era where we were moving as quickly.

Speaker 12 (28:37):
So that's a good sign too.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's a great sign.

Speaker 8 (28:40):
And that's also just mentioned that with maximum Democrat opposition,
every trick in the Parliamentarian handbook.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Can you speak about that?

Speaker 8 (28:51):
You got Senator Shatz from Hawaii who's saying is going
to delay everything over usaid, I mean, it's like every
possible trick. How how has that made it a little
bit more difficult and how do you navigate such delayed
tactics by the Democrats.

Speaker 13 (29:07):
Yeah, normally on these confirmations, like basically, you have an
executive calendar in the Senate, you have a legislative calendar
in the Senate, and you have an impeachment calendar in
the Senate. There's only three things that you're doing at
any one time, and you've got to switch back and forth,
which you know takes a little time. But we're staying
on the executive calendar. We're staying on these nominees. They
can force us to go longer, we can only do

(29:29):
one at a time, but we're plowing through what We've
made it clear.

Speaker 12 (29:31):
We're going to be here nights, weekends. We're getting this done.

Speaker 13 (29:34):
And I think they as much as they're kicking and
screaming about it and are throwing some procedural hurdles, it's
going to happen. And so it's interesting this week, Charlie,
they're really setting this up to be, you know, their
Spartacus moment for rough vote, because they're really zeroing in
on this dose stuff, which I think is it is

(29:55):
the fight that we want. We should relish this. People
have been clamoring to reign in government. This administrative state
that's out of control. It needs to be dismantled. And
now that the you know permanent, Washington really doesn't want
people to know how this money gets spent. And USA
Idea is at the top of the list of corrupt
organizations that have spent money on DEI programs in Uganda

(30:19):
and you know, sex change operations in South America.

Speaker 12 (30:22):
It's an insult to taxpayers.

Speaker 13 (30:24):
So this is really shaking up sort of business as
usual in Washington.

Speaker 12 (30:28):
They'd like this stuff in the dark.

Speaker 13 (30:30):
It's all coming out in the open and underscrut me
and that's a good thing. And they're mad about it,
so they, like I said, they can kick and scream
about it, but we're going to get this done.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
Yeah, and again it is about making government more efficient
and just so everyone understands, from the twenty nineteen to
twenty twenty twenty fiscal year to today, so in about
four years of fiscal year, our federal budget has nearly doubled,
nearly doubled, And I just hope everyone understands that there
was almost a pre COVID baseline, and the post COVID

(30:58):
baseline is so extra.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
What is our federal budget?

Speaker 8 (31:01):
It's gonna be about six trillion ish, right if you
count this reconciled fiscal year.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Is that about right? Six trillion ish?

Speaker 12 (31:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (31:08):
Yes, And I think that's a great, great point. And
one of the things I try to mention is pre COVID,
we were spending about four trillion dollars. Okay, the budget
this year will be hope like Biden wanted to spend
seven trillion. Okay, maybe it's going to be six trillion, right,
So pre COVID twenty nineteen, President Trump's an office four trillion.

Speaker 12 (31:31):
Our revenues now, Charlie, are five trillion. Like if we
were just spending when we were spending a few years ago,
we would have a surplus.

Speaker 13 (31:38):
But the Democrat they don't, They do not want to
give any of.

Speaker 12 (31:40):
That money back.

Speaker 13 (31:41):
So we're going to have a real fight on our
hands in this next reconciliation package to sort of rain
this in. And you know, I kind of get tired
of saying, well, it's only a couple of billion dollars,
or the waste is only a few hundred million dollars,
like I still count my money. And in Missouri when
you take if you were to tell somebody that that, like, oh,
it's only a few hundred million dollars a billion dollars,
they would they'd be pissed, and they should be pissed.

Speaker 12 (32:03):
So I think any money we saved, whether it's a.

Speaker 13 (32:06):
Dollar or a trillion dollars, we ought to be focused
on it. And I think that for now, that is
where the momentum is and we ought to hold onto that,
and we ought to fight that fight with the Democrats
every single day.

Speaker 8 (32:18):
So the I want to dive deeper into the Doge issue,
specifically USAID. Your colleagues are losing it over the USAID situation,
which is one of the most wasteful, grotesque agencies. It's
actually a very good one for President Trump and Elon
Musk to focus on out of the gate, because it's
all about funding silly pet projects externally and not doing

(32:43):
anything internally. Let's play just some of this here. This
is cut. Let's just actually listen to Caroline Levitt list
out some of the waste from USAID. Play cut sixty
four through.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
USAID over the past several years.

Speaker 14 (32:57):
These are some of the insane priorities that that organization
has been spending money on. One point five million dollars
to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, seventy thousand for a
production of a DEI musical in Ireland, forty seven thousand
for a transgender opera in Colombia, thirty two thousand for
a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you,

(33:21):
but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars
going towards this crap, and I know the American people
don't either.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
And that's exactly what Elon Musk has.

Speaker 14 (33:28):
Been tasked by President Trump to do to get the fraud,
waste and abuse out of our federal government.

Speaker 13 (33:32):
Or what.

Speaker 8 (33:35):
Senator, this is where our taxpayer dollars are going, and
they're mad that Elon and Doge are putting a stop
to it.

Speaker 12 (33:43):
Yeah, that's exactly what's happening.

Speaker 13 (33:45):
And I think it's also important to putting context here
that this is sort of this is kind of business as.

Speaker 12 (33:51):
Usual in permanent Washington.

Speaker 13 (33:52):
It's also part of this decade's long failed foreign policy
establishment that is being forced out of Look in the
mirror a little bit like it's not working for the
American taxpayers. As Secretary of Rubio said, the only money
that we should be spending anywhere in the world is
if it advances US interests, our core US interests. Providing

(34:15):
sex change operations and doing this DEI stuff in foreign
countries is lunacy. But it's what happens when you have
these agencies that are totally unaccountable. They have a pot
of money and they get turf and they feel important
and they spend the money, and then they have politicians
that to get to travel those places, and then they
get to feel important when the leaders thank them for that,

(34:35):
Like that's not why I did this, Like it's I mean,
but that is why a lot of politicians in Washington,
you know, they love being greeted at the door and
thank you, thank you for all this bullshit or whatever
that we're spending money on. So anyway, I think the
reckoning is coming and that's a good thing.

Speaker 12 (34:53):
And this is just the first step.

Speaker 13 (34:55):
By the way, this is USAAD is like top of
the list, but it's not the only thing on the list.
And I think that again, this fight is worth having
across the board, Like dismantling the administrative state will do
more to restore the health of this republic than almost
anything else we can do.

Speaker 12 (35:10):
Because they're totally unaccountable. You can't vote them.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
That's exactly right, you know what I mean, And.

Speaker 12 (35:15):
So like this is this is an important fight.

Speaker 8 (35:17):
So let's emphasize that for a second, which is we
live under the appearance that there are co equal branches,
that the first executive branch, the legislative branch, and the
Supreme Court, that there's tension between them. You're speaking about
a fourth branch of government that was never authored by
the founders, the administrative state, and technically that should fall

(35:42):
under the vested authority of the president in Article two.
They don't believe that, and speak about how what is
what we are really barreling towards? We are barreling towards
a constitutional crisis. And I think the Supreme Court will
rule correctly on this of who actually runs the bureaucracy.

Speaker 13 (36:03):
Yeah, and I think look, COVID was so informative in
so many different ways. Power doesn't necessarily corrupt, it reveals,
and what COVID revealed was that there is a class
of people in this country, particularly on the left that
really does you know, the whole trust the experts thing.
This is a fight between we, the people and the experts.

(36:26):
It started with Woodrow Wilson. Not to get too historical
about this, but like maybe one of the worst presidents,
if not the worst president, who believed that the experts
knew better than the people. It's really a fundamental distrust
of our of our republic right that the people actually
get to decide what happens.

Speaker 12 (36:41):
And so you're right.

Speaker 13 (36:42):
We have a vertical and horizontal separation of powers, whether
it's federalism or the three branches of government. The founders
envision that to constantly be checking one another so that
no one branch, no one person, ever got too powerful.
Why is that the fundamental goal was to protect individual liberty,
that is, that's the constant insitutional design that we have.

Speaker 12 (37:01):
They never envisioned.

Speaker 13 (37:03):
A separate branch apart from that that would have immense
power over people's lives and livelihoods.

Speaker 12 (37:09):
And you never know who they are.

Speaker 13 (37:11):
Like you don't know their names or never heard of
thee But they can send a guidance letter and totally
destroy a third generation business, or they can have an
agency like OSHA that was created to make sure fork
lists beep when they back up force the COVID shot
on one hundred million people. So this fight really is
about it's the opening salvo about returning power back to

(37:33):
where it always belonged, which is with the people and
the Article one branch, the legislative body should be making
these decisions. It's one of the reasons why Mike Lee
and I and others are really pushing for the Rains
Act to get done.

Speaker 12 (37:44):
Because if you have an agency that's.

Speaker 13 (37:46):
That's trying to get a rule done, right, we should
have to vote on it. Like if you think banning
Guestow's is such a great idea, make us vote on it.
And the truth is those ideas would never come that
far because they know they're ridiculous that never get voted on.
But if they did, and somebody voted on it or
voted against it, you could hold them accountable for it.
So this is I think a really important fight about

(38:08):
like where does power reside? And that permanent Washington and
mostly the Democrats, they really don't like that being exposed
because it's been a great deal for them. They get
other people to do their bidding and they're never held
responsible for.

Speaker 8 (38:20):
It, and this is exactly why they're going to try
to do everything they can to stop RUSS vote.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Russ Vote is prepared.

Speaker 13 (38:27):
He's tip of the spirit, he's tip of their language, Charlie,
they're already language talking about Project twenty five. The irony
is their opening and closing argument during the campaign was
that Trump was a threat to democracy. Lost that in
the middle of that argument. Somewhere along the way they
tried to scare people with the Project twenty five whatever.

Speaker 12 (38:45):
But here we go.

Speaker 13 (38:46):
Now they're using similar language, and they're just going to lose.
And we have to exercise the power that we have
now that we're the majority to right size government and
put power back.

Speaker 12 (38:56):
To where it always belonged.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Center Schmidt, excellent work, Thank you so much.

Speaker 12 (39:01):
All right, take care well.

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Lots to still cover today. I really want to dive
deeper into this does story. This Does story is one
of the biggest things happening on the planet, and God
bless President Trump for empowering Elon Musk. Elon Musk has
gone down to the central nervous system. Elon Musk has

(40:29):
really completed the impossible task. He has first assembled a
team of rockstar young mensa's all just high IQ insanely smart,
high capacity killers, but also Elon Musk in some ways
hack the matrix. I will explain how Elon Musk beat

(40:50):
the game, how Elon Musk was able to get down
to the core element of what is wrong with our government,
the problem, the fundamental problem, and he found it and
he sees it. And by the way, Politico agrees, we'll
be right back, stay right there. He Hey, everybody, welcome back.

(41:31):
Email us as always freedom at Charliekirk dot com. For
those of you that watch Star Trek. In Star Trek
two The Wrath of Khan, there is a fictional training
exercise called Kobayashimaru or Kmaru. In this it was an

(41:53):
exercise designed to test a cadets cadets cadets character and
ability to stay in control under pressure. The potential cadet
must decide whether or not to try and rescue the
damaged Kobayashu Maru ship or leave it destroyed. If a
cadet tries to rescue the ship, they'll face an insurmountable

(42:15):
enemy force. The exercises intended to help cadets learn to
deal with the emotional toll of defeat. Now there's only
one individual, and of course this fictional story in Star
Trek two Wrath of Khan that was ever able to
beat the Kobayashi Maru, and it was Captain James Tiberius

(42:35):
Kirk no relation who was the only one ever to
beat the exercise.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
And how do he do it? By hacking the simulation?

Speaker 8 (42:46):
What Elon Musk has done successfully via doje is he
has hacked the matrix. He won a set piece battle
that was impossible, and the bad guys knew it, so
the system had to be completely reprogrammed to make success possible.
Reject the premise and hack the matrix. Front page of

(43:08):
Politico dot com quote, They've done their homework. The unexpected
power of Musk's digital assault on Washington if the rules
are rigged, change the rules. Elon musk campaign to cut
Washington bureaucracy is aiming at a very specific, very sensitive

(43:30):
digital power center, the federal IT infrastructure.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Musk and his allies.

Speaker 8 (43:36):
Have gained access to the Treasury Department's payment systems. They've
commandeered enough control of OPM to send out a mass
email offering to federal employees. Unnamed federal officials tell The
Washington Post. Anna Lewis, who is the former director of
the Technology Transformation Services under GSA says quote Elon's team.
They've done their homework, going where the majority of the

(43:59):
volume of govern transaction data is very strategic. Elon Musk
has rejected the rules. Instead of playing the game of
the Kobayashimaru, he went and changed the rules and hacked
the matrix. We're going after the computers. Give us the passwords.

(44:19):
What Elon has done is he has consolidated technological control
for the president by the way, as his emissary, as
his ambassador, as his representative, as his special government employee,
to say, we can now send mass emails to the
entire federal government. Did you know, prior to Elon Musk
showing up and doing this, there is no way to
be able to email everyone at dot gov. There is

(44:40):
no federal directory of all the employees. There is no
way to be able to find out who does what
and where the payment systems are. Get me the passwords,
and you control the federal government. And the rock stars
he is bringing in are these young superstars. Here's one
of them, Cut ninety one, who's being smeared by the

(45:01):
media's Oh, these nineteen year olds, These nineteen year olds
are smarter than the entire combined intelligence of the US
Senator if you exclude Mike Lee and Ran Paul, and
there's a couple other great ones. Do we should be
grateful that these young geniuses are giving us a minute
of their time. Instead, they are being smeared, They're being attacked,
and they better be careful by the way.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
This could be. I'm telling you, this could be a
Covington kid situation.

Speaker 8 (45:25):
Two point zero. These are not private, These are not
public figures. These are private actors that are being attacked
every day by the media. This could be Nick Salmon
two point zero. Play cut ninety one and.

Speaker 15 (45:38):
One day, I was just listening to a podcast back
in March. It was with Nat Friedman. He just kind
of got on the podcast explained like, there are these
burnt up scrolls that were buried in the POMPEII eruption.

Speaker 10 (45:48):
No one knows how to read them.

Speaker 15 (45:49):
But some professors have created CT scans of these scrolls,
and they uploaded the data on the internet as a
competition to see who could find writing insight of these scrolls.
I just went home from work that day at the
end of the day, and I've been working on it
evenings and weekends ever since. Late one Saturday night, I
was sitting at a party at a friend's house in Omaha,
and I get a text from another person on the

(46:10):
challenge team and he says, Hey, I've just uploaded this
new kind of piece of the scroll.

Speaker 12 (46:15):
You should take a look at it.

Speaker 15 (46:16):
Right remotely access to my computer, I type into it, like,
please run the algorithm on this new piece of scroll,
and then I just kind of started. I pull out
my phone again, just nonchalantly, like hey, I wonder how
that went. And there are three Greek letters on the screen.
The letters I'd never seen before. It was really cool
because it's like, oh my goodness, like we actually detected
new writing in the scrolls using AI. And that was

(46:37):
the moment I realized, like, this is actually going to work.
We were probably going to read this roll.

Speaker 8 (46:41):
That is one of the young men that Elon has
brought into the government. High IQ combined with patriotism. Combined
with patriotism is a threat to the establishment. The federal
government has been synonymous with underachieving, lazy mediocrities. But a
new team is here. Checkmate koled ba Yashi Maru Second
hour coming up.

Speaker 11 (47:17):
Welcome back to this Real America's Voice. News Break I'm
Terrence Bates. We appreciate you being here with us. A
lot happening in the White House. In fact, we were
expecting Caroline Levett, the White White House Press Secretary, to
take this podium here in short order. She has a
press availability here in the next couple of minutes. Obviously,
she'll very likely be talking about and taking questions about

(47:38):
President Trump's position that he wants to kind of take
over Gaza and rebuild it after leveling it. All of
this obviously in light of the war between Israel and Hamas. Also,
she'll likely talk about the executive order that President Trump
is set to sign this afternoon banning men from participating
in women's sports. President Trump also set to meet with

(47:59):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott this afternoon, as well as California
Governor Gavin Newsom. So in short order, a lot to
talk about, and she will be taking questions from the
media here. That would be Caroline Levitt in a few minutes,
will of course take you there live. In the meantime,
As I mentioned, President Trump making lots of headlines this
morning for dropping a figurative bomb on Tuesday during his

(48:21):
meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin nt Yahoo. In case
you missed it, here's what he said.

Speaker 9 (48:26):
The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we
will do a job with it too. We'll own it
and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded
bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site
and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out,
create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of

(48:48):
jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do
a real job, do something different. Just can't go back.
If you go back, it's gonna end up the same
way it has for one hundred years.

Speaker 11 (49:00):
The President going on to suggest that displaced Palestinians in
Gaza be permanently resettled outside of the war torn region
in the meantime. After meeting with Netanyahu as well, the
Trump Administration's Middle East Envoy Steve Whitkoff, saying the current
three to five year construction program for Gaza under the
current cease fire agreement just isn't viable while the logistics

(49:23):
are being worked out.

Speaker 16 (49:23):
Though.

Speaker 11 (49:23):
Wikoff also plans to meet with Cutter's Prime Minister tomorrow
here in the United States to discuss the next phase
in the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The first illegal
aliens being housed at Guantanamo Bay are getting used to
their new digs right now. After the first military deportation
flight from the United States landed at the Cuban based
on Tuesday. The plane reportedly had ten migrants from Fort

(49:47):
Bliss and Texas on board. Eventually, the Trump administration expects
to house as many as thirty thousand illegals at Guantanamo
before repatriating them to their home countries. Though the first
flight to Guantanamo comes just one day after a flight
filled with Indian immigrants was sent back to India. Turns
out more than seven hundred and twenty five thousand Indians

(50:08):
or living in the United States without authorization, which is
the third most of any country. Other recent deportation flights
from the United States have gone to Ecuador, Guam, Honduras,
and Peru. Columbia, by the way, has also sent two
flights to the United States to pick up its citizens
after initially refusing to accept the US repatriation planes. The

(50:28):
US State Department is ordering all overseas missions for USAID
to shut down and all foreign staff to return home,
preferably as soon as Friday, plus nearly all of the
agency's employees will be put on leave Friday night. It's
the latest thing to shake up at the USAID, which
President Trump and Department of Government Efficiency had Elon Musk
agree is marred by fraud, waste, and abuse. The movement

(50:53):
appears to be the first step and potentially shutting down
the agency altogether. The agency has more than ten thousand employees,
with about.

Speaker 10 (51:00):
Two thirds of them serving overseas.

Speaker 11 (51:03):
Its mission is to provide humanitarian aid to more than
one hundred countries around the world, but critics, including President Trump,
point to millions of dollars being spent on everything but that.
And there's a bit of closure this morning for the
families of the victims of last week's deadly mid air
collision involving an American Airlines plane and an Army chopper.

(51:23):
The remains of all sixty seven people killed have now
been recovered. Meantime, the National Transportation Safety Board is looking
at new information and trying to confirm that the Blackhawk
helicopter was in fact flying above its two hundred foot
flight ceiling, potentially even as high as three hundred feet.

Speaker 10 (51:40):
Officials say the flight.

Speaker 11 (51:42):
Recorder from on board the plane confirms that it was
flying at an attitude of about three hundred and twenty
five feet when it crashed. Investigators are also hoping to
get more details about what went wrong from inside the
still submerged chopper.

Speaker 10 (51:56):
We're working breaking news also just into our newsroom.

Speaker 11 (51:59):
It turns out that Senator Mitch McConnell, the eighty two
year old, has fallen down the Senate stairs and stairs
excuse me. It is the latest health scare involving the
longtime Senator. McConnell apparently fell down the Marble Senate staircase
today after voting for President Trump's Housing and Urban Development.

Speaker 10 (52:16):
Secretary Scott Turner.

Speaker 11 (52:18):
He was reportedly helped up by Senators Steve Daines as
well as Mark Wayne Mullen, both of those Republicans. McConnell,
of course, has had a number of recent health scares,
including this moment here. You probably remember it when he
was speaking and then just kind of.

Speaker 10 (52:33):
Seized up, if you will.

Speaker 11 (52:35):
There's no word on just how he's doing or if
he was seriously injured during the fall, but again, he
was able to be helped up by fellow senators after
he fell down the stairs, so We'll continue to monitor
this developing story as well as eighty two year old
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has fallen down the stairs at
the US Senate. It was a marble staircase, but he

(52:56):
was helped up by fellow lawmakers there in the Senate,
and we are working to find out if they're any
larger after effects of that fall. Also, we're going to
get you to Washington, d C. Here in short order
the White House. There's going to be a press availability,
a White House press briefing coming up here in short order.

Speaker 10 (53:15):
Caroline Leavitt has set US talk.

Speaker 11 (53:17):
She of course, will talk about President Trump's remarks yesterday
with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nan.

Speaker 10 (53:22):
Yahoo. We'll take you there live the moment we can.

Speaker 8 (53:53):
Okay, everybody, welcome back. Email us as always freedom at
charliekirk dot com and subscribe to our podcast that is
the Charlie Kirkshow podcast page. Joining us now is Mike Bens,
who is the expert on all things disinformation usaid. First, Mike,
are you feeling better? It seems like you were down

(54:16):
for the count for quite some time.

Speaker 17 (54:19):
Yeah, yeah, no, earlier I think, yeah, right, after inauguration,
I was I was a little bit walloped by uh,
you know, by a flu, but we are you know,
sunlight is is a disinfectant that evidently cleans up not
just institutions but viruses.

Speaker 7 (54:37):
So well, we're interrupting this program for a special live report.

Speaker 11 (54:41):
All right, We're interrupting your regularly scheduled programming to take
you live to Washington, d C. The White House, Caroline
Live at the White House Press Secretary at the podium.

Speaker 14 (54:50):
Since October seventh, twenty twenty three, President Trump and his
administration worked diligently to secure their release and are committed
to freeing all remaining hostages. Yesterday, as you all know,
President Trump held his first foreign meeting at the White
House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo, and as the

(55:10):
President said, the bonds of friendship and affection between the
American and Israeli people have endured for generations in are
absolutely unbreakable. The President is committed to eliminating hamas in
securing a lasting peace for the entire region. The historic
proposal for the United States to take over Gaza, announced

(55:34):
by President Trump last night, underscores this commitment. Insanity is
doing the same thing over and over again in expecting
different results. President Trump is an outside of the box
thinker and a visionary leader who solves problems that many others,
especially in this city, claim are unsolvable. We've already seen

(55:56):
the results from President Trump's bold peace through strength diplomacy
on the world stage. In response to President Trump's tariffs
this week, both Mexico and Canada took immediate steps to
alleviate the illegal alien migration and flow of deadly jougs,
particularly fetanyl, into our country. Mexico's President Claudia Shinbaum agreed

(56:17):
to permanently supply ten thousand Mexican soldiers on the US
border who will be specifically designated to stopping fetanyl and
criminal aliens from pouring into our country, and Canada's Prime
Minister Justin Trudeaux agreed to appoint a fetanyl zar list
cartels as terrorists, and increased resources to assist the ten
thousand front line personnel at our northern border with Canada.

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In recognition of these steps, President Trump paused the implementation
of tariffs for one month while negotiations continue and final
deals can be structured. Throughout the transition and during his
inaugural address, President Trump made it known that the United
States cannot and will not allow the China the Communist
Party to continue with its effective and growing control over

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the Panama Canal. Following Secretary Rubio's successful first trip and
visit there over the weekend, Panama's president said he will
allow its participation in the Chinese Communist parties, it will
no longer allow the participation in the Belton Road initiative.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
That participation will expire. This is significant because.

Speaker 14 (57:24):
Panama was the first Latin American nation to join beltoon
Road and now becomes the first to back away from
it because of President Trump. And to assist with the
ongoing mass deportation effort, Al Salvador's president has agreed to
the most unprecedented migratory agreement anywhere in the world because
President Trump is back in charge. El Salvador has offered

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for illegal aliens of any nationality facing deportation in the
US to be booked in his country's prison system. And finally,
President Trump's Envoy for Special Missions, Rick Cornell, traveled to
Venezuela and not only secure the release of six American hostages,
but Venezuela also agreed to accept the return of illegal
alien Trend de Aragua gang members. All of these incredible

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victories prove how well President Trump's peace through strength approach
is working in the days of weak American leadership are over.
In another success story this week, efforts to seal the border,
halt the invasion, and carry out the largest mass deportation
campaign continue at lightning speed. Customs in Border Protection has
approximately seventy nine miles of new border wall projects already

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underway in various stages.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Of construction and planning.

Speaker 14 (58:38):
The first flights arrived at Guantanamo Bay yesterday afternoon out
of El Paso.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
And who were some of the passengers aboard? You may ask?

Speaker 14 (58:46):
There were ten members of the transnational gang Trend de
Arragua on this flight. In overall, our heroic ICE agents
continue to prioritize the removal of violent, criminal illegal aliens
in communities across the country. On February third, Ice Dallas
arrested a citizen of Nicaragua who has been convicted of

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sexual assault, strong arm and lude acts with a minor
and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. ICE Los Angeles
arrested a Mexican citizen who has been convicted of lute
acts with minor with a minor and sentenced to three
hundred and sixty four days. In Ice, Atlanta arrested a
citizen of Mexico who has been convicted of homicide by
vehicle and hit and run and sentenced to.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Six months confinement.

Speaker 14 (59:30):
In Ice, New York, arrested a Venezuela national and known
TDA gang member who has a prior criminal conviction for
assault in the third degree causing physical injury. Americans are
safer every single time one of these criminals is arrested
and deported from our country. On another important and ongoing topic,
the Senate is working fast to confirm President Trump's exceptional

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cabinet nominees in the face of relentless media smear campaigns.
As of right now, twelve members of the president cabinet
have been confirmed, most recently Pam Bondi, who, as you
all know, I was just in the Oval Office for
that swearing in ceremonies, surrounded by Pam's lovely family, and
we look forward to watching her serve as the Attorney
General of the United States. According to CNN, President Trump

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is getting more cabinet picks confirmed so far than the
average president in the modern era. Another success story, and
we believe it's critical that Republicans in the Senate majority
stay tough and keep their foot on the gas to
confirm all of the remaining nominees as quickly as possible
so we can continue President Trump's important work here at

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the White House and across our entire federal government. And lastly,
throughout his historic campaign, President Trump pledged to restore common
sense to our country, and he's continuing to deliver on
that with an executive order that he will sign later today.
The President will be signing an executive order keeping men
out of women's sports to defend the safety of athlete,

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protect competitive integrity, and uphold the promise of Title nine.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
This common sense.

Speaker 14 (01:01:06):
Action from President Trump ends the disgusting betrayal of women
and girls by the previous administration, who for years catered
to radical activists who wanted biological males to be treated
as women and workplace showers, competitive sports, prisons, and even
rape shelters. Gender ideology insanity is over. Submissions from individuals

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across the country interested in participating in our new media
seat at a future briefing continue to flood in. We
are at more than twelve thousand in counting. If you're
watching right now and are interested, you can continue to
apply on our new media website white House dot gov
slash new Media and in the seat today we have
a longtime national television broadcaster. I'm sure many of you

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recognized her when she came in, Sage Steele, who is
now the host of an incredibly successful podcast, The Stage
Steel's Show on YouTube and all podcasts platforms, and previously,
Sage was a fixture at ESPN from two thousand and
seven to twenty twenty three, primarily hosting Sports Center, which
we all know well, before leaving the company to exercise

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her First Amendment rights more freely.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
We are honored to welcome her to the briefing room today.

Speaker 14 (01:02:16):
She will be joining the President at the Big EO
Signing Leader this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
I know many of you will be there as well.

Speaker 14 (01:02:21):
So Sage, why don't you kick us off on this
very exciting day for women and girls across the country.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Thank you for joining us.

Speaker 6 (01:02:27):
This is exciting, And Caroline, thank you for welcoming people
like me with a.

Speaker 16 (01:02:31):
Little bit of a different perspective, different background in this seat.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
It really does mean a lot thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:02:36):
Obviously, the House already passed the Protection of Women and
Girls in Sports Act, which is a really big step
for women and girls. So far, the Senate, as we know,
has not brought it up to vote. We all know
executive orders can be overturned, so I'm wondering how important
it is to the President to get Congress to bring
this to pass legislation, so there are no instances like
the passive administration that really tried to destroy Title nine.

Speaker 14 (01:03:00):
It's incredibly important that Congress immediately acts on this priority.
I think the President is really setting the tone, making
this a very immediate priority for this administration, just as
he promised to do on the campaign trail. And I'd
like to get into the executive order a little bit
because it is the news of the day here at
the White House, and talk about what this executive action

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will actually do. So the executive order that the President,
the President will be signing later this afternoon, as I said,
upholds the promise of Title nine. It also will require
the DOJ to abide by the nationwide previous administration's illegal
Title nine rewrite that would have dissolved single sex spaces
and opportunities. It also requires immediate action, including enforcement actions

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against schools and athletic associations comprised of schools that deny
women single sex sports in single sex locker rooms. The
executive order also calls for the convening of private sporting.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
Bodies in the White House.

Speaker 14 (01:03:58):
We want them to come to this case so the
President can hear in person the stories of female athletes
who have suffered lifelong industry injuries, who have been silenced
and forced to shower with men and compete with men
on athletic fields across the country. Many of those women
will be at the White House today.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
I encourage all of you in the media to actually
talk to them to hear their stories. Then I would
also just add one more thing.

Speaker 14 (01:04:21):
This is a wildly popular position with the American people.
In fact, there was a new poll recently that showed
the overwhelming majority of Democrats also support keeping biological men
out of women's sports. And so I know the President
is very excited about the bill signing that will take
place at three o'clock this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
You will hear from him more on that later, and
we look forward to seeing you their stage. So thank
you very very much, Garrett. Great to see you here today.
Thank you.

Speaker 18 (01:04:48):
On Gaza. The President has spent basically his entire public
career criticizing foreign entanglements, nation building, sending American troops to
fight abroad, particularly in the Middle East. This plan seems
like it could ultimately involve.

Speaker 12 (01:05:02):
All of those things.

Speaker 18 (01:05:03):
Can you explain this reversal in how building and owning
Gaza squares with America first form policy.

Speaker 14 (01:05:10):
I would reject the premise of your question that this
forces the United States to be entangled in conflicts abroad.
The President has not committed to putting boots on the
ground in Gaza. He has also said that the United
States is not going to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza.
His administration is going to work with our partners in
the region.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
To reconstruct this region.

Speaker 14 (01:05:31):
And let me just take a step back here, because
this is an out of the box idea. That's who
President Trump is, that's why the American people elected him,
and his goal is lasting peace in the Middle East
for all people in the region. And as I said
in my opening remarks, we've had the same people pushing
the same solutions to this problem for decades, and it's

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been made very clear to the President that the United
States needs to be revolved involved in this rebuilding effort
to assure stability in the region for all people. But
that does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza.
It does not mean American taxpayers will be funding this effort.
It means Donald Trump, who is the best deal maker
on the planet, is going to strike a deal with
our partners in the region.

Speaker 18 (01:06:15):
He did not rule out American troops in Guayza last night.

Speaker 12 (01:06:18):
Are you doing that now?

Speaker 14 (01:06:19):
I am saying that the President has not committed to
that just yet. He has not made that commitment, and
you know that.

Speaker 18 (01:06:24):
And on the foreign partners, the Jordanians, the Egyptians, the
Saudis have already panned to this plan. What foreign partners,
if any, have expressed any interest in being part of it.

Speaker 14 (01:06:33):
Well, the President has said he's been socialing this idea
for quite some time. He's been thinking about this, he
said in his remarks last night. This was not a
decision or an announcement that he takes lightly. And the
President has already spoken to the President Alcci. In fact,
that was his first foreign leader call. He's meeting with
the King of Jordan, King of Doulah next week. He
spoke with the King of Bahrain, he spoke with the

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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and he has made it
very clear.

Speaker 3 (01:06:59):
He's been very vocal that he expects.

Speaker 14 (01:07:01):
Our partners in the region, particularly Egypt and Jordan, to
accept Palestinian refugees temporarily so that we can rebuild their home.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
I'd like to show you some images of Gaza.

Speaker 14 (01:07:12):
That were taken at Fox News, and this, I mean
that is, as they put it, in an apocalyptic scene
in Gaza, this is an unhabitable place for human beings.
Do you really think that that families can live their
dream in a region that looks like this with no
running water, no electricity. And the Special Envoy to the President,

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Steve Whitcoff, recently traveled to Gaza, as you all know,
and he came back with images that he showed the
President of the dire situation here, and the President made
this decision with a humanitarian heart for all people in
the region.

Speaker 19 (01:07:47):
Peter, thank you, Caroline.

Speaker 20 (01:07:49):
Are any officials here preparing to fight democratic lawmakers in
the streets?

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
Absolutely not so, And thanks for the question.

Speaker 20 (01:07:58):
Some elected Democrats are so steam about doge. Congresswoman Lamonica
mcgiver says, we are at war, Ilhan Omar says we
might actually see somebody get killed, and Chris van Hollen says,
we have to fight this in the Congress, we have
to fight this in the streets.

Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
So what now?

Speaker 14 (01:08:14):
And may I just point out if you heard that
type of violent, enticing rhetoric from our side of the isle,
from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, I think there would
be a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
More outrage in this room today.

Speaker 14 (01:08:26):
It's unacceptable the comments that have been made by these
Democrat leaders, and frankly, they don't even know what they're
talking about. Because President Trump was an elected with a
mandate from the American people to make this government more efficient.
He campaigned across this country with Elon Musk vowing that
Elon was going to head up the Department of Government
Efficiency and the two of them, with a great team

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around them, were going to look at the receipts of
this federal government and insurance accountable to American taxpayers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
That's all that is happening here. And for Democrat officials.

Speaker 14 (01:08:57):
To incite violence and encourage an Americans to take to
the streets is incredibly alarming and they should be held
accountable for that rhetoric.

Speaker 20 (01:09:05):
It sounds like something that they're most concerned about is
DOGE engineers with access to Treasury systems? Can you clarify
do the DOGE engineers have read only access in these systems,
so they.

Speaker 12 (01:09:16):
Are not allowed to write new code? They are not okay?

Speaker 21 (01:09:19):
And then one more thing.

Speaker 20 (01:09:21):
NBC is reporting that some of the illegal immigrants that
we've seen rounded up and arrested are not being deported.
They're being released with ankle or wrist monitoring devices or
they have to check in on the phone. So is
the administration arresting more people than you have room for?

Speaker 14 (01:09:39):
I have seen the reports and I'm glad you brought
it up because we want to address it. There have
been a total of four hundred and sixty one illegal aliens.
This is of this morning when I got this information
from DHS that have been released from custody. Of the
more than eight thousand that have been arrested since President
Trump was inaugurated, it's less than six percent, and there

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are reasons for their release. Some of the factors include
a lack of significant likelihood of removal and the foreseeable
future lack of detention availability, which is something this President
in this administration has been.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Incredibly vocal about.

Speaker 14 (01:10:12):
We are doing everything we can to deport and detain
illegal immigrants, but we need Congress's help to increase funding
for border patrol and for ICE, to increase detention capability
in our facilities. And then other serious medical conditions have
also been the reasons for some of the release of
these individuals, but none of them have final deportation orders.
Many of them are probably contesting their immigration status. I'd

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refer you to DHS for more details, but I did
get that information because I knew it would be a question.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
So thank you. Sure.

Speaker 22 (01:10:41):
Yes, the President and you here again today have made
They're given the devastation. You think Palestinians have no choice
but to leave Gaza and go elsewhere, But Palestinians say
this is their home.

Speaker 12 (01:10:51):
They don't want to go.

Speaker 22 (01:10:53):
The President last night said he's willing to use the
military if necessary. Is the US prepared to remove Palestinians
from Gaza by force?

Speaker 14 (01:11:01):
The President is prepared to rebuild Gaza for Palestinians in
all people in the region, peace loving people who want
real economic development and opportunity in the region. This is
a region that has been controlled by Iranian back terrorists Hamas,
who have brutalized not just Israelis, but Palestinians too. It
is because of Hamas that you see those images on

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that screen that Gaza has become a demolition site, because
Hamas launched that brutal attack on Israel on October the seventh.
And so again I would stress President Trump wants to
ensure that this can be a place where all people
can live in peace. He is a peacemaker in chief.
He made that very clear in his first term. And
as for how that will be accomplished, the President and

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his team are talking with our allies in the region
to consider next steps.

Speaker 22 (01:11:48):
What should the American people be prepared to see US
military on the ground fighting a ground war against Hamas.

Speaker 14 (01:11:53):
Again, the President has not committed to US troops in
the region, but it is an option. I have said
that the President has not committed to that yet.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Sure you just.

Speaker 12 (01:12:02):
Follow up on that though.

Speaker 23 (01:12:03):
Why not rule out the idea of committing US troops
This has been a longstanding argument that the President has
made really over the last decade or so, talking about
endless wars and something in the US wants.

Speaker 14 (01:12:14):
Why not rule out because I think the President is
very good when he's making deals and negotiating not to
rule out anything because he wants to preserve that leverage
and negotiations, and so I think that's what he's doing here.

Speaker 19 (01:12:27):
Mary all up and that though he also said that
everyone loves this plan. He said that in the Oval
office this morning. In fact, the deputy Prime Minister of
Jordan called it the declaration of war on the Arab people.
So how does he square the fact that even some
Republicans on the Hill are objecting to this or questioning this.
How does he square the fact thing everyone loves this?

Speaker 14 (01:12:47):
Well, King Abdullah of Jordan will be here next week,
so I can provide you more context on the conversations
he will have directly with the President of the United
States after that meeting. And I would just point out
that there's been a lot of leaders and officials all
around the world world who have doubted, I suppose the
deal making ability of President Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
You heard the Panama leader.

Speaker 14 (01:13:07):
Saying that he would not agree to some of the
concessions that he has now made because of Secretary Rubio's visit.

Speaker 24 (01:13:13):
You have the.

Speaker 14 (01:13:14):
Colombian president saying he wouldn't accept flights of Colombian illegal
nationals who have entered into our country illegally, and those
flights are underway. So actions speak louder than words, Dasha Carline,
you said the President has been working on this idea
for a while behind the scenes.

Speaker 12 (01:13:28):
Now is there a written plan based on the.

Speaker 24 (01:13:31):
President's proposal for Raza and it's so, when was it
drafted and who had a hand in that.

Speaker 14 (01:13:36):
The plan was written in the president's remarks last night
as he revealed it to the world and to the
American people, and his team are continuing to be engaged
on this effort.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
I saw the National Security Advisor this morning.

Speaker 14 (01:13:47):
He has a very busy day of calls and they
will again continue to engage with our partners, that includes
Steve Whitkoff as well.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
Mary.

Speaker 25 (01:13:54):
Two questions for you on the news of the day, So,
how is today's executive order going to impact the twenty
twenty eight Summer Olympics in Los Angeles?

Speaker 6 (01:14:03):
For example, would a man who thinks that he's.

Speaker 25 (01:14:05):
A transitioner woman be allowed to compete as a female
on US soil.

Speaker 14 (01:14:10):
It's a very good question, and the President has actually
mentioned this that he does expect the Olympic Committee and
the NCAA to no longer allow men to compete in
women's sports. And I think the President, with the signing
of his pen starts a very public pressure campaign on
these organizations to do the right thing for women and

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for girls across the country. Again, this is an incredibly
popular position. There have been many notable female athletes who
have had the courage to speak out against some very
powerful institutions in this country.

Speaker 3 (01:14:41):
They deserve to have a voice in a say.

Speaker 14 (01:14:43):
The President is bringing their voice to the highest level
at the White House this afternoon, and he expects these
organizations to comply with this federal executive order that he'll
be signing today.

Speaker 6 (01:14:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 25 (01:14:52):
And one more on media coverage of this executive order
in the topic in general, what's the White House's view
of for that calls men, transgender, females or similar rhetoric
coming from organizations like the ACLU and glad.

Speaker 14 (01:15:07):
Well, It's been very clear the policy of this administration
is that there are only two sexes, male and female.
Pretty simple.

Speaker 26 (01:15:15):
Brian Glenn Yes, USAID has gotten a lot of attention
in the last couple of days with some of these
bizarre things that we've been taxpayers have been funded. Now
it looks like there are a couple of media outlets
that have been dragged into this conversation as far as
the USAID as well.

Speaker 12 (01:15:36):
Does the present have any comment on that?

Speaker 14 (01:15:38):
So upon coming out here to the briefing room, I
was made aware of the funding from USAID to media
outlets including Politico, who I know has a seat in
this room. And I can confirm that the more than
eight million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing
subscriptions to Politico, the American taxpayer's dying will no longer

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be happening. The DOGE team is working on canceling those
payments now.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Again, this is a whole of.

Speaker 14 (01:16:05):
Government effort to ensure that we are going line by
line when it comes to the federal of government's books,
and this president and his team are making decisions across
the board on do these receipts serve the interests of.

Speaker 3 (01:16:21):
The American people.

Speaker 14 (01:16:22):
Is this a good use of the American taxpayer's money.
If it is not, that funding will no longer be
sent abroad and American taxpayers will see significant savings because
of that effort.

Speaker 8 (01:16:33):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
I'd like to give some love to the back row.

Speaker 14 (01:16:35):
I've heard that unfortunately they haven't been called on in
years past.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
So Reagan, why don't you go ahead? Thanks Caroline.

Speaker 24 (01:16:42):
The WHCA announced that comedian Amber Ruffin, who is called
the President a toddler with his pants pulled down, will
be the entertainment for this year's correspondence dinner. Does the
White House of reaction to this choice? And will the
President be attending the dinner this year?

Speaker 14 (01:16:56):
Certainly an interesting choice. I have the President's ination on
my desk. I have the invitation for myself on my
desk as well. Haven't talked to the President about it.
When he makes his decision, I will let you all know.
But definitely an interesting choice. At the comedian, I'll talk
to the boss about it and see what we decide.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
Sure, go ahead, yes, yes.

Speaker 16 (01:17:15):
On the executive order are said to be signed today?

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
You said that this would be enforced.

Speaker 12 (01:17:20):
He still which schools? Like? How exactly the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Administration's plans to force this even.

Speaker 6 (01:17:26):
At our local levels?

Speaker 3 (01:17:27):
And on top of that, there are can rights.

Speaker 6 (01:17:29):
For to say that this pre exposed kids to discrimination.

Speaker 12 (01:17:33):
What is your.

Speaker 10 (01:17:33):
Response to them?

Speaker 14 (01:17:34):
I think kids have already been exposed to discrimination, especially
young women and girls who have been forced to shower
in locker rooms with biological men, who have been forced
to compete on playing fields with biological men, which is
incredibly unfair and unsafe, and again an incredibly unpopular policy
with the American people. As for the actions that this

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executive order takes, I already laid those out at the
beginning of the briefing.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
I'm happy to give you a copy of this fact
sheet so you can.

Speaker 14 (01:18:02):
Let your audiences across the country now will comply with
they should because it's going to be federal law in
about an hour and a half. So your colleague to
your right, to my left, Yes, Taylor.

Speaker 12 (01:18:13):
Inspector News. You talked a bit about doge.

Speaker 27 (01:18:16):
Elon Musk is currently a quote special government employee who
also owns companies that have billions of dollars in federal contracts.
You said earlier this week that he has abided by
all applicable federal laws.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
But what steps is the.

Speaker 27 (01:18:29):
Trump administration taking to address that conflict of interest?

Speaker 14 (01:18:32):
The President was already asked and answer this question this week,
and he said, if Elon Musk comes across a conflict
of interest with the contracts and the funding that DOGE
is overseeing. Then Elon will excuse himself from those contracts,
and he has again abided by all applicable laws in
the back left go ahead.

Speaker 28 (01:18:49):
Trade Advisor Peter Navarro, when asked about the External Revenue
Service today, said quote, We're going to collect a lot
of tariff revenues. We're going to get tax cuts out
of it. Is it the official position of the White
House that tariffs will lower taxes for Americans.

Speaker 14 (01:19:03):
President has always been clearer that he believes tariffs are
attacks on foreign nations, and he's committed to cutting taxes
for the American people here at home. He also believes
tariffs are a great revenue razor for this country, and
that's exactly why he has committed to the creation of
the External Revenue Service.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Which I think is a phenomenal idea. We'll just go
down the whole row, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:19:25):
Can you confirm that under the President's plans for Gaza,
any and all the Palestinians who want to stay in
Gaza on their land will be allowed to do so.

Speaker 14 (01:19:34):
I can confirm that the President is committed to rebuilding
Gaza and to temporarily relocating those who are there, because,
as I've showed you repeatedly, it is a demolition site.
There is no running water, there is no electricity. The
President wants these individuals to live in peace.

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
He is committed to doing that.

Speaker 14 (01:19:52):
With this very bold new plan, and we will continue
to keep you apprized of updates as we receive them.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Ed Laurence, go ahead, yes, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (01:20:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 18 (01:20:01):
So, now that the President Trump's policies are starting to
take shape, how long will it take to cycle through
and get some of the actual prices that Americans are
paying to come down?

Speaker 14 (01:20:11):
Prices at the store and at the grocery pump across
the board, Shore, Well, the President is doing everything he can,
obviously to reduce the cost of living crisis in this
country as quickly as possible. That is that's why he
signed a litany of executive orders across the board in
the first couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Here he declared a national energy emergency.

Speaker 14 (01:20:29):
He committed to cutting ten regulations for every new one
on the book. As you know working for a Fox
business related outlet, deregulation and energy independence are huge drivers
of reducing inflation in this country, and I think Americans
can be assured by the results President Trump had in
his first term when again, inflation was one point four
percent when he left office once.

Speaker 12 (01:20:50):
Or is it a year? And will Americans have the
patience to wait for.

Speaker 14 (01:20:53):
I don't have a timeline, but the President is doing
everything that he possibly can to reduce cost of living
for Americans at home.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Phil Wegman, thank you.

Speaker 18 (01:21:02):
Is it worth risking the life of a single US
marine to turn the Gaza Strip into the Rivi Era
of the Middle East?

Speaker 14 (01:21:08):
Phil, I'm not sure why you're asking me that question,
because I've already said the President has not committed to
sending marines or any boots on the ground in Gaza.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
We'll bring it to the front, rowdy.

Speaker 12 (01:21:18):
Good to see you again here in the front row.
Two things on today's announcement Title nine. If he scales
back the.

Speaker 19 (01:21:27):
Education Department or moves to click shut it down entirely,
what entity will enforce Title nine?

Speaker 14 (01:21:32):
As of now, this will be enforced through education through
Title nine. Is if the abolishment of the Department of
Education continues, which, as the President said yesterday, it's something
his team is looking at and considering. It's something he
talked a lot about on the campaign trail. Then, of course,
we will look at additional maneuvers to ensure that these

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very important policies can be implemented.

Speaker 12 (01:21:54):
Okay, so the education abolishman thinks still on the table.

Speaker 14 (01:21:57):
When the President talked about it yesterday in the Oval Office,
he has good reason to talk about it. I mean, look,
our education system is failing students in this country.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
The nation's report card. I brought it up in my
remarks last week.

Speaker 14 (01:22:09):
It shows that fourth graders are not reading at the
level they should. I believe it was forty percent of
them our proficient in reading. As the mother of a child,
I want an education system that helps my child read
and write, teaches him math, nothing else in the classroom.
And the President is wholeheartedly committed to we can make academia.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
Great again in this country. DNA, Thanks Carline.

Speaker 6 (01:22:33):
That's the president as he was looking at offering anything
to these Arab countries that take in Palestinians, is you
willing to give them anything in return? And secondly, when
the President announced his taking over galls up policy yesterday,
was not in Yahoo aware of this?

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
And what was his reaction when Trump presented that.

Speaker 13 (01:22:52):
Idea to him?

Speaker 14 (01:22:53):
I was not I won't get ahead of the President's
discussions or negotiations. On your first question about what would
be offered, I think the President's made it clear that
he expects these nations in the region to step up
and to accept a Palestinian refugees who will be temporarily
relocated for the rebuilding of Gaza. As for whether Prime

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Minister Netanyahoo was aware before the president's remarks, he was. Indeed,
I wasn't present for that reaction. But again, this is
something the President has been socializing and thinking.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
About for quite some time. Nick, good to see you, Jeordan, Sorry.

Speaker 21 (01:23:27):
Caroline, So secretary. He announced yesterday that army recruiting levels
have reached twelve year highs in December, fifteen year highs
in January. What is making young people want to serve
the military under the Trump administration and how does that
contrast to Biden's failure consistently to be recruiting average.

Speaker 3 (01:23:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:23:47):
Does President Trump's anti DII agenda player role in this?

Speaker 14 (01:23:52):
First of all, the recruitment level for all branches of
our military are at crisis levels, and it serves as
a national security risk that our military branches are not
fully staffed to where they need to be. And I
do believe it's a culture problem within these institutions that
the President is very much committed to fixing, as emphasized

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by the executive orders he has signed to DEI out
of the military. And I think when young men and
women who are honorably signing up to serve in our
nation's see somebody like Pete Hegseth, the new Secretary of Defense,
who is a proven warfighter who risked his life in
battle for this country, who understands what it means to
deploy and to defend the constitution and your nation abroad

(01:24:35):
and to put your life on the line. When they
see a leader like that, and a leader like President
Trump who has committed to peace through.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Strength, that's very inspiring.

Speaker 14 (01:24:43):
And we look forward to seeing those recruitment numbers and
retention numbers skyrocketing over the next four years. And I
know Pete Hegseth is committed to increasing recruitment at all
branches of the military of Defer you to the Department
of Defense on exactly what he plans to implement.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
Jeff, thanks very much.

Speaker 12 (01:24:59):
Two questions.

Speaker 15 (01:25:00):
One, the President yesterday used the word permanent for permanently
resettle Palestinians.

Speaker 10 (01:25:05):
I hear you saying temporarily today.

Speaker 15 (01:25:07):
Is that a shift or a specific change that you
want to highlight?

Speaker 16 (01:25:12):
And my second question is yesterday he spoke about the
US owning Gaza.

Speaker 12 (01:25:18):
Who owns Gaza?

Speaker 15 (01:25:19):
Now, then how would the US acquire ownership?

Speaker 14 (01:25:22):
Well, Gaza is currently run by Iranian backed terrorists in
the Middle East Hamas who we all agree. I think
everybody in the region agrees that can no longer stand.
Just look at the events of October seventh, in the
events since, and the President again is committed to rebuilding
the region for all people who want to return to

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it once it is no longer a demolition site and
it's a place where people can actually live and thrive
in harmony. As he said last night, his words, not mine, Daniel.

Speaker 10 (01:25:52):
Permanent versus temporarily resettle.

Speaker 14 (01:25:54):
The President has made it clear that they need to
be temporarily relocated out of Gaza for the rebuilding of
this effort. Again, it's a demolition site right now. It's
not a livable place for any human being.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
I think it's.

Speaker 14 (01:26:06):
Actually quite evil to suggest that people should live in
such dire conditions.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
Daniel, fairly, thank you so much.

Speaker 29 (01:26:12):
The daily guidance says that the President will be meeting
with the para governors today, Governor Abbot Texas and Governor
Newston in California. It comes after the President's with executive
action to turn the water back on in California. Billions
of gallons are flowing out. What can you tell us
about the two meetings and the importance of President Trump's
actions to help people in California.

Speaker 14 (01:26:30):
Sure, those meetings will be taking place shortly, so I
will get out of here to get to those meetings.

Speaker 3 (01:26:37):
We can always provide you a readout, as we always do.

Speaker 14 (01:26:39):
We try to be very transparent about what the President
is doing the Oval office. Perhaps I'll even call you
in to join him. We never know around here, as
you all know. But Governor Abbitt is obviously a great
friend and an ally to the President. He has been
on the front lines of the border crisis in this country.
And as for Governor Gavin Newsom, well, the President is
willing to work with anybody from Blue states or red

(01:27:01):
states to do it's best for the American people. And
he really enjoyed The President really enjoyed his trip to
Pacific Palisades last week. He felt very inspired by the
frustration of the residents there, and he has been wholeheartedly
committed to ensuring that the water is flowing in California
to prevent these wildfires and also that people have access

(01:27:22):
to their properties. And he has continued to apply tremendous
pressure to Gavin Newsom and also the Los Angeles Mayor
to allow private residents and property owners to access their property.
He believes that's their right to do so and they
should be able to do it. And one more thing
before I wrap up, because I do want to get
to these meetings and I will see you all at
the EO signing later this afternoon. I would just say

(01:27:43):
that you brought to mind California in North Carolina, who
continue to be on our hearts, and the President and
this administration are committed to ensuring that these individuals get
the funding that they need. And I would just say
a strong message to Democrats who are out there pretending
to be outraged about the long list of crap that
this administration is cutting federal waste and funding like two

(01:28:06):
million dollars for sex changes in Guatemala, six million to
fund tourism in Egypt, twenty million on a new sesame
street show in Iraq, four point five million to combat
disinformation in Kazakhstan. I could go on and on, and
I'm happy to provide this list to every single one
of you. Democrats are outraged that the American people want
to be They want their taxpayers going to good uses,

(01:28:29):
not stuff like this. But then they're very quiet about
the fact that there are still North Carolinians and people
in California who have lost everything and in the last
four years the federal government did nothing to help them.
This president will continue to put Americans first, and I
think the successes of this week so far speak to that.
And it's only Wednesday, so I'll see you guys later

(01:28:49):
this week, and we'll see you this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:28:51):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 11 (01:28:54):
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levit's speaking there in the
White House Press Briefing.

Speaker 10 (01:28:58):
All right, let's get you back to Charlie Kirkshow.

Speaker 12 (01:29:00):
Now this has been a little center special USA pay
them twenty seven dollars. I mean, while you.

Speaker 17 (01:29:06):
Had USAD adjacent riot planners in twenty twenty who openly contemplated,
through a group called the Transition Integrity Project, that Black
Lives Matter should be capacity built in the middle of
their riots to serve as a potential destabilization force to
oust Trump from office if he won the twenty twenty election.

Speaker 8 (01:29:28):
So how would we go about defeating this beast? Is
Elon going about this correctly? And President Trump?

Speaker 12 (01:29:37):
That's a complicated question.

Speaker 17 (01:29:38):
And I sincerely hope the people who are who are
at the tip of the spear in terms of White
House policy really know what they're doing, because we are
conducting open heart surgery on the body of the entire
American Empire right now, and I'm not fully sure that
the folks who are doing that open heart surgery fully

(01:30:00):
understand the anatomy of the body they are operating on.
You know, I have I have, you know, oftentimes for
for the past several years, when I crusade on this,
people hear what I'm saying and say, okay, well, we
need to eliminate this entirely. This thing is so corrupt
and evil. And it is corrupt and evil. The issue

(01:30:20):
is it is also it also plays a critical role
in projecting US influence around the world.

Speaker 12 (01:30:27):
And you know, I.

Speaker 17 (01:30:28):
Always say, you know, while the blob is is the
key antagonist, the chief you know, villain on the other
side of the story about how America can can can
become great again. It also does play an indispensable role
in securing US interests around the world. You know, I
talk about, for example, the Milton Friedman analogy of the pencil.

(01:30:52):
You know, Milton Friedman has this, you know, very viral
popular video that he recorded decades ago about the power
of the free market for the creation of pencils. You
know that no one person can make a pencil, and
that you know America. You know, the reason we have
pencils in America is because of the magic of the
market operating uh to get us you know, wood from

(01:31:16):
trees in South America and in graph height from you know,
mines in Argentina, and gum for the pencil eraser from
trees in Malaysia. Well, you know what happens if, for example,
the Malaysian government decides that they no longer want to
allow you know, US corporations or the export of you know,

(01:31:37):
gum tree products two pencils. America would be potentially without
pencils unless we had some capacity to influence the internal
events of Malaysia.

Speaker 12 (01:31:48):
Same thing, for example, with the graphite and a pencil.

Speaker 17 (01:31:51):
If the if the Let's just say there's a labor
strike in the country in South America with the graphite
minds that we used to make pencils, Well, what if
the if the union's going strike there against American corporations
or South American corporations that are producing that graphite, Well,
then no pencils.

Speaker 12 (01:32:07):
The US has perceived.

Speaker 17 (01:32:09):
And potentially sincerely does need a mechanism to be able
to influence the activity of those unions or influence the
nationalization of national resource policies in foreign countries, and that
sometimes involves dirty work infiltrating those unions putting pressure on
foreign governments. But the problem is is this license to
do dirty work has become completely unchecked, especially a USAID

(01:32:34):
where it doesn't even require a presidential finding to do
this covert action. And so I did not It was unseemly,
but perhaps okay when this was being done to protect
US interests. But when USAID began to be weaponized against
sitting presidents beginning in twenty sixteen, that's really when the

(01:32:55):
bets are off. Because the whole purpose of having an
American empire is for the benefit of the people of
the American homeland. If the foreign policy establishment controls the
affairs of the American homeland too. Then we don't even
have a democracy. We have a blobocracy, and we have
no control over our own internal affairs. We're not even
setting our own foreign policy at that.

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Mike Ben's after the break. Okay, everybody, welcome back. We

(01:36:12):
have a serious challenge in front of us. We have
the USAID fight, we have the doche fight, we have
this funding issue in front of us. Mike Benz, Mike Benz,
if you were to say one two three, we only
have four minutes remaining, one two three, what are the
one two three action items on how we should finalize
this USAID situation in front of us.

Speaker 17 (01:36:34):
Number one, shut down the agency and move it into
a branch of the government that goes through the traditional
oversight process. So, for example, I think this plan to
shut down US eight and tucka understate.

Speaker 12 (01:36:47):
It is a very interesting one.

Speaker 17 (01:36:50):
I'm not sure if that's ultimately the best place for it,
but as an intronim matter, I think it's potentially potentially
the right move. But what's what's really what's really important
is is it's you know, and I say this, you
know time and time against you know for the past
week and a half since this saga has been playing out.

(01:37:11):
But simply ending USAID as an organization does not end
USAID as a function. If if USAID grants and contracts
and operational structuring remained the same, but the organ but
headquarters simply shut down and moved over to State, well
state just inherits a USAID herpes infection, it simply will

(01:37:34):
will have the same problems that USAID had if that
structuring fundamentally remains. This is the same reason there really
wouldn't be much change in the CIA if you simply
shut down Langley and moved CIA to be directly under state.
In fact, this was the original plan in nineteen forty
eight for the CIA. George Kennon, who authored the National

(01:37:56):
Security Council tend Dash to Plausible Deniability DOT, which gives
the CIA it's private cloak for all of its covered
action work. George Kennon, three months before he penned that doctrine,
initially wanted the CIA Operations Division to operate directly at
State under what he called the Bureau of Political Warfare.

(01:38:17):
You can read the nineteen forty eight memo called the
Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare where he goes over that
exact structure. But the fact is the CI would still
be doing CIA work, it would just be warehouse within State.
And right now USAID is about to undergo that exact process.

Speaker 21 (01:38:35):
Now.

Speaker 17 (01:38:35):
The nice thing is is because because State works very
closely with the White House National Security Council, and there
is a tremendous amount of constant communication and oversight between
White House and State, in theory, it will be much
easier to catch the malfeasance at State than it was

(01:38:56):
a USAID. But the problem is is everybody's everybody in
Washington is in on the take at USAID. You know,
this is a bigger problem than Democrats and Republicans. You know,
as I mentioned, a huge portion of the of the
Republican Congress is directly or indirectly, whether personally or their

(01:39:19):
constituents or their donors are dependent on either USAID funding
directly or USAID covert influence work to support their activities.
I'll give you a great example. Rex Tillerson was the
chairman of ex On Mobile for the first few years
of the Trump administration. Exon Mobil has been a stalwart

(01:39:41):
donor to the Republican Party for decades. Well, you know
who was Victoria Neulan standing in front of when she
made that speech that I referenced in December twenty thirteen
about all the billions of dollars USAID had pumped into
the rent of riots in Ukraine. In twenty fourteen, when
she made that speech about USAID's funding of the rent

(01:40:01):
to riots, she was at a sponsored event by egx
On Mobile and Chevron. The literal signs for the eggs
and Chevron's sponsors were behind Victoria Newland when she said it.
Which is to say that it's not just the direct
USAID folks in the Republican Party who are going to
push back on the attempt to cut these grants while

(01:40:22):
they're at state. It's not just going to be the
Liz Cheney types. Liz Cheney worked at us AID. It's
not just going to be the Bill Crystal types. Bill
Crystal's a part of an organization that gets millions from
the USAID. But it's going to be key donors to
the Republican Party who're going to want to keep these
grants and contracts and covert operations flowing. And there's going
to need to be a very difficult conversation by highly

(01:40:45):
informed Trump world foreign policy architects about how to make
American state craft more consistent with American norms and values
in the years of ha Very.

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
Good, Mike, that was terrific. We have to be on again.

Speaker 8 (01:41:00):
I mean we barely touch the surface here, but thank you, Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
We learned a lot. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 12 (01:41:05):
Thanks Charlie.

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