The Charlie Kirk Show, January 28th, 2025

 
Commentary on Kristi Noem, immigration and border crossing, first White House press conference, Karoline Leavitt, young leadership, and press secretary coverage.

Guests Brian Glenn and Josh Hammer

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
The Charlie Kirk Show starts.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now as we come on the air of the Old saying,
elections have consequences, as playing out in very real time,
in a very real way in cities all across our country.
As the Trump administration makes good on one of Trump's
most controversial campaign promises, the promise that was immortalized in
that sea of signs at the Republican National Convention, mass deportations.

(00:43):
Now one week into Trump's second term, it's no longer
an abstract idea or controversial campaign promise or even a
convention sign. The deportations are underway.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
What we're doing is we're targeting the worst first, right,
That's who we're getting. We're focusing on those targets. We're
not targeting people in schools, We're not targeting people in churches.
We're targeting people who are the worst. You know, there's
a chance they're going to go to some of those places.
And this administration has kind of taking some of the
handcuffs off of us in a way right where we're

(01:14):
leaving the discretion with our officers, and our officers they're
drained to make good decisions out there.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Well, look, I went to Chicago a couple of times
and met with the black pastors, met with the community.
They're begging for ICE enforcement action because of the crime
in Chicago. I made a commitment to it.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
We'd be out there.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
I also made commit to the mayor of Chicago that
I'm coming to Chicago, even though he said it wasn't welcome.
I wanted all to make a point that ICE is
going to do that job, regardless of the don't help
us or now. As far as the local community, nothing
but cheers walking through the airport, cheers walking through the streets.
We stopped at a police station to take a nature break,
and we're run on the road so long, and every
uniform that building walked up shake our hands and thanked

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us for being there and helping them make their communities
more safe.

Speaker 6 (01:56):
And as we are fighting hard to get birthright citizenship
or automatic citizenship or the children of illegal aliens, that's
another way. It's automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
That's the other term that they use, which.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
Is actually more accurate or more understandable, and it's ridiculous.
Were the only country that has it, and certainly the
only country that has it to that extent, and It
wasn't meant if you look, it was really meant for
children of slaves.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is when had happened, the children of slaves.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
It was not meant for everyone to come into our
country by aeroplane or charging across the borders from all
over the world and think they're.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Going to become citizens.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
It's not meant for that. It wasn't meant for that.
I've also deployed troops to the border, and for the
first time in history, we're locating and loading the legal
aliens into military aircraft and flying.

Speaker 7 (02:49):
Them back to the places for which they came.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
And very importantly, America is respected again.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
We're respected again. That nice at the years.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Of laughing at us like we're stupid people. And as
you saw yesterday, we've made it clear to every country
that they will be taking back our people, that we're
sending out the criminals, that the illegal aliens coming from
their countries, we're taking them back, and they're going to
take them back fast. And if they don't, they'll pay
a very high economic price. And in a little while

(03:24):
I'll be signing for new executive voters. First is that
I'm directing our new Secretary of Defense Pete Haikseth is
going to be great by the way, to immediately begin
the construction of a state of the iron dome missile
defense shield, which we'll be able to.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Protect the Americans.

Speaker 8 (03:40):
You know, we protect other countries, but we don't take
to protect ourselves. And were next to ensure that we
have the most lethal fighting force in the world. We
will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's going to be gone.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
In addition, we will stop our service members from being
indoctrinated with rather left ideologies such as critical race theory.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
We're going to stop it. It's already been stopped. It's
aorty been halted, totally halted.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
And finally, we will offer full reinstatement to any service
member who was expelled from the Armed Forces due to
the COVID vaccine mandate, and we will restore them to
their former rank with full pay. It's time for the
United States to return to the system that made us
richer and more powerful than ever before. You know, the
United States in eighteen seventy to nineteen thirteen all tariffs,

(04:32):
and that was the richest period in the history of
the United States relatively speaking.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
In other words, relatively.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
And that was all made through the tariffs. We have
no income tax income tex Gament in nineteen fifteen. As
I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing
our citizens to enrich for OIG nations, we should be
tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
Does that make sense right?

Speaker 9 (05:02):
Every day is a battle for your mind, raging information
coming from every angle, but the will to the sea,
I fear not.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
You found the place for truth, the voice of.

Speaker 9 (05:12):
A generation that still has the will to believe in
the greatest country in the history of the world. This
is the Charlie Kirk Showuck a lot, here.

Speaker 10 (05:23):
We go on, all right, everybody, Welcome to the Charlie
Kirk Show. Andrew colvid In for the one and only
Charlie Kirk who's on assignment today. We'll leave it at
that for the time being. Nevertheless, lots going on. Always
very very much a privilege for me to be with
all of you, because there is so much breaking news
in the era of Trump. We are now on Trump time.

(05:45):
Everything is coming at us at a absolute break breakneck speed.
The blizzard of Trump actions is continuing into the second week.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
It's really hard to keep up.

Speaker 10 (05:59):
Now, Now that's partly by design, right, our enemies, our opponents,
the lefties, the NPC's on the left, they're having a
hard time keeping up and keeping track of everything.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
To be outraged by.

Speaker 10 (06:15):
And you know, candidly, so are we, and so are
probably all of you out in that audience. I think
it's safe to say this is basically the first time
the American people had ever seen the executive branch and
the leaders of this country run the government almost.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Like a tech startup.

Speaker 10 (06:34):
You know, they move fast and break things on purpose,
because what has been built and constructed at the federal
level especially, are things worth breaking. Now if you check
the headlines, it seems like the regime is most upset
right now about all the freezes, freezesn't hiring, freezes on

(06:58):
federal grants, freezing on freezes on aid and loans and
foreign grants. Now all of those things are good. There's
freezes on visas, there's freezes on re entry. There's the
border is completely frozen. And it is difficult to keep
pace and to keep up.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
So what is going on right now? What is happening?
And by the way, there's going to be the.

Speaker 10 (07:25):
First Caroline Levitt led press briefing today at the White House,
which is another very exciting thing.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
So we're going to take that live.

Speaker 10 (07:35):
We're actually gonna be talking to Brian Glenn in the
next segment. He's gonna be live from Pebble Beach as
they call it, inside the White House compound.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
So what is going on? Let's try and keep track here.

Speaker 10 (07:49):
We've got CNN headline all federal grants and loan disbursement
paused by White House. Now this one seems to have
them very much in a tizzy. So reading from CNN,
which is regime controlled media, it says the White House
Budget Office has ordered a pause on all federal grants

(08:10):
and loans according to an internal memorandum sent Monday, potentially
impacting trillions, yes trillions with a t in government spending
and halting public programs that affect millions of Americans. Federal
agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or
disbursement of all federal financial assistants. So we don't even

(08:32):
have rest vote in yet at OMB and the acting
O and B director is already putting out this memoranda.
So the memo specifies that the pause will not affect
Social Security or Medicare benefits, and does not include assistance
provided directly to individuals. Nevertheless, this is Trump bad. Trump

(08:55):
hates people. Trump's going to cause people to not be
able to eat.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's false.

Speaker 10 (08:59):
It's a temporary review and it will provide the administration
time to review agency programs and determine the best uses
of the funding for those programs consistent with the law
and the president's priorities.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
So the other thing that we have to look into is.

Speaker 10 (09:15):
That this memoranda also says that it is in line
with the executive orders last week. What were the executive
orders about last week? This will be implicating dei woke
gender ideology and the Green New Deal, and foreign aid
and non governmental organizations.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Now let's pause there.

Speaker 10 (09:36):
Non governmental organizations, this would be like Catholic charities that's
trying to help illegals game our immigration system, and a
lot of other NGOs that are doing that. By the way,
these NGOs, folks, they go by the name of refugee resettlement,
that this is such a good thing.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
They often quote.

Speaker 10 (09:56):
Scripture to completely game our immigran system and make money
while doing it.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
That's right.

Speaker 10 (10:03):
So what they do is they charge maybe twenty thirty
percent forty percent profit to the government to resettle refugees
from places like Afghanistan in the Middle East, which Joe
Biden put a prioritization on to bring them here into
your community, into your homes and your parks, and these

(10:26):
NGOs get paid to do it.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
That's right. So we're putting a pause on.

Speaker 10 (10:30):
All of these things so that they can be reviewed
and the president's priorities can be ensured that they're taking place. Now,
the other big news story this morning, Yeah, we've got
the b roll right there.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
If you're watching on the stream.

Speaker 10 (10:45):
Of Catholic charities talking about how you don't have to
basically comply with ice and you have to talk and
you get a lawyer and one will be paid for
you by the taxpayers when you try and break into
our country. Absolutely ridiculous. We need to fund all of
these NGOs. And now the other big news story is
that Christy nom was photographed in New York City doing

(11:05):
raids on gang members.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
They got a.

Speaker 10 (11:09):
Kingpin of Trende Ragua up in New York City. She's
fully kitted out. Now, some people don't like that. Some
people think it's you know, like Princess Warriors stuff. I get,
I get that, I get the pushback. You know, the
whole girl Boss movement is a little cringe. But here's
my pushback to the pushback. It's great to see institutional
prioritization at the top level of our government, including Christy Nome,

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getting into the field showing that we mean business.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
So I'm I'm I'm all for it. I'm all for it.

Speaker 10 (11:40):
Go into the go into the field, show the world
that we mean business and we're not playing around anymore. Meanwhile,
we've got border crossings plummeting. There are reporters that have
been at the border for over a decade, that have
been covering the story at our border for over a decade.

(12:02):
They've never seen numbers this low. They keep dropping. In fact,
across all of our sectors yesterday, not one head over
two hundred border crossers attempt to get over the border.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
We have illegals.

Speaker 10 (12:19):
Coming back from trying to cross saying don't come, you're
not going to get through.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Everybody's getting caught.

Speaker 10 (12:26):
You've got raids going on in Colorado getting trende Uragua people.
You've got raids with Tom Homan in Chicago, and doctor Phil.
You've got raids going on in New York City, and
you've got people like Selena Gomez sobving about this and
then deleting it.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
I'm going to get that clip if we can. Ryan,
what clip is that.

Speaker 10 (12:51):
Sobving about how they're attacking my people? Now, let's make
a couple things straight here. Let's get a couple things straight.
They're not going after schools and playgrounds and all this
stuff like this is all this propaganda. Now, we reserve
the right to do that if that's where the bad
guys are, but right now that's not what happens.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Is happening. We're going for the worst. First.

Speaker 10 (13:12):
We're getting murderers, rapists, pedophiles off the streets.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
These are public safety issues.

Speaker 10 (13:18):
These are public safety threats that we're getting off of
the streets and we're getting.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Them out of our country.

Speaker 10 (13:27):
And people like Selena Gomez go ahead and play cut
ninety one this. I think Charlie's post on this did
like eleven million views so far.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Play cut ninety one.

Speaker 11 (13:38):
I just want to say that I'm so sorry all
name people are getting detect the children.

Speaker 12 (13:52):
They don't understand. They're so sorry. I wish I could
do something that he can. I don't know what to do.
Try every there from.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
So we don't. We're not going to be cowed by
tears anymore.

Speaker 10 (14:16):
Hollywood celebrities, aoc crying on the border. As we make
our cities safer, as we make our communities safer, as
we remove actual murderers and rapists from the communities of
this country, we are not going to be cowed by
crying celebrities anymore. Where were your tears for Lake and Riley?
Where were they for Jocelyn Nungari? Where were they for

(14:38):
Rachel morn Where were they for one hundred thousand Americans
that die every year from fentanyl poisoning?

Speaker 1 (14:44):
I don't think So.

Speaker 10 (14:45):
We're going to secure our border, We're going to deport illegals,
and provision is going forward or when we get right.

Speaker 13 (14:51):
Back, Welcome back to this Real America's Voice newsbreak. I'm
Terrence Bates. Happening about forty minutes, the new Trump administration
will host its first press briefing at the White House.
President Trump's White House Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt, will lead

(15:15):
that briefing. At twenty seven years old, she is the
youngest White House Press secretary ever, there's no word if
President Trump will join her in the James S. Brady
Press Briefing Room. During his previous administration, she of course
made frequent stops in the room to face off with reporters.
Real America's Voice national correspondent Brian Glynn is at the
White House right now and will have reports from today's

(15:37):
briefing throughout the day. Meantime, President Trump is continuing to
push the envelope now that he is a full week
into his administration. His remarks to fellow Republicans on Monday
night at his Drow resort in Miami of people buzzing
this morning. Congressional Republicans are at that resort as part
of a three day retreat to put together a game
plan to successfully move the Trump agenda forward. On Monday,

(15:59):
the twenty seventh, President doubling down on his philosophy on tariffs.

Speaker 6 (16:04):
Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we
should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 13 (16:15):
The President points out that the country was once fully
funded by tariffs. He called that era in the late
eighteen hundreds, a time when America was at its richest
and its most powerful. From tariffs to saving TikTok, President
Trump appears to be plugged in on all things. Monday,
he broke the news that Microsoft isn't talks to acquire

(16:35):
the popular social media app. Just last week, TikTok was
on the verge of being banned in the United States
unless it's Chinese owners divested from the program due to
national security concerns. However, President Trump saved it with an
executive order delaying that bann by seventy five days. While
Microsoft isn't commenting on its potential purchase of the video app,

(16:57):
President Trump is openly saying that he'd like to see
a bidding war over TikTok. The app has about one
hundred and seventy million users here in the United States.
That's a great check off your headlines. As always, we
appreciate having you along for the ride. I'm Terrence Bates.
Now let's get you back to the Charlie Kirk Show.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
All right, everybody, welcome back for Charlie Kirk Show.

Speaker 10 (17:31):
Andrew Colvett in for Charlie Kirk and breaking news. I'm
allowed to disclose Charlie's actually traveling with the Vice President today,
he's with JD. Vance, who is an American hero already.
Can't wait to see all the things that jd accomplishment
accomplishes in his time serving this great country.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Right now, I'm.

Speaker 10 (17:50):
Joined by Brian Glenn, White House correspondent for Real America's Voice. Brian,
we have our first White House press briefing today with
the new White House Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt Phillis in.
What's the mood like there? What are the changes we
can expect to see. I know the entire country, especially

(18:10):
the political class, is going to be tuned into this event.

Speaker 7 (18:15):
For sure.

Speaker 14 (18:16):
You know.

Speaker 15 (18:17):
We just I just stepped outside to do this hit
with you. But I can tell you one thing. The
crowd is growing inside that press room, as it has
been all morning. It seems like there is an elevated
buzz around this press conference. Obviously, this is the first
time we've had a press conference, so we've seen Caroline
Levitt in this capacity in this.

Speaker 7 (18:39):
Official briefing room.

Speaker 15 (18:40):
And and you know what, there's new media outlets out
here that I've never seen before around the White House.
So there is certainly a buzz in the air. Andrew
and I can expect this thing also to be filled
with a ton of questions, as you would imagine on
the media here, they want to kind of be able
to scrutiny is a lot what President Trump has done

(19:02):
this first, I guess two weeks of his administration. But
I will say this a little bit in an addition
that I've not seen in there before. They do have
these two video screens on either side of where Levitt
will be standing. Perhaps I'll use that as kind of
a slideshow or maybe something to be able to play
some video to back up some of the statements and
kind of recap what has happened the last several day,

(19:24):
ten or whatever day we're on at this point. It's
been going so fast as we know. But that's kind
of an additional changes that I've noticed inside. But as
soon as we're done here, we're going to move inside
and being ready positioned for this press conference schedule to
start at one o'clock.

Speaker 10 (19:40):
So, Brian, a lot has been made about the seating
arrangement that we can expect, right. I mean, in years past,
we've seen New York Times what we like to call
the regime media, the legacy media outlets seated right up front.
There's been a lot of news made about who Karine
Jean Pierre would call on who she would not. Can
you do you have any insight yet about how the

(20:02):
seating arrangement is going to be Our outlets like Real
America's Voice, Turning Point USA, we have our own White
House co correspondent as well in there.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Do you have any insight on that yet? I don't.

Speaker 15 (20:15):
I will say this, I think it is business as
usual as far as seating goes for this particular press conference. Now,
as we move forward, I don't know what that would
look like. I could imagine after this a first initial conference,
that the seating charts, the seating arrangement, the assignments will
be scrambled up a little different, putting a little bit

(20:37):
more of maybe your conservative based media towards the front,
or maybe I scould say the ones that are fair
and unbalanced right up in front. But to your point,
I have not heard any changes for this one, but
I can expect that is going to be revised moving forward,

(20:57):
because this is very much a different administration as we know.
I mean, it seems like forever, uh that the previous
Press secretary really protected Joe Biden from any type of
official scrutiny of anything that he did. And of course, uh,
they will use this pulpit today, if you will, to
absolutely unleash on President Trump a lot of things like immigration, Andrew,

(21:19):
it's been highly criticized across most of the mainstream media. UH,
So I would expect a fair amount of questions on
that subject today, but I do expect some other uh documentation.
I mean, using these video screens, Andrew, is a great
idea because instead of turning to the to the to
the UH, to the to the book of the Binder,

(21:41):
I guess would that would have all these answers?

Speaker 7 (21:44):
Why not just show a video?

Speaker 15 (21:46):
Why not show just a PowerPoint presentation, if you will,
about what this last few days have been in terms
of the accomplishments, the executive orders, some of the changes
that have happened within our government, within our military, these
Senate confirmation hearings, all the stuff can be displayed on
these monitors, and I think it gives a great visual

(22:08):
to this whole press conference.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
I agree.

Speaker 10 (22:12):
I think we need to be more creative in government.
I think this administration is proving how creative you can
be and not being fired by the way things have
been so last question here, Brian. I know you've got
to get back there and prep.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
For this briefing thirty seconds.

Speaker 10 (22:27):
Give me a sense of how the resistance media, as
I like to call them, the tone, the vibe shift,
all these things we're hearing. What are they feeling like
these days? Well?

Speaker 15 (22:39):
I think they since there is some additional faces in
this room that they have not seen before, I could
probably give you a better answer after this press conference
of what how perhaps we were to be treated a
little differently. I have been I have been warned that,
you know, you've got some people that are going to
try to make it tough, but I have not experienced
that as so yet Andrew.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
But I will let you know as well.

Speaker 10 (23:02):
You keep an eye out for us, Brian, and ask
some great questions.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
We know you will.

Speaker 10 (23:06):
Thank you, Brian Glenn. All right, we've got Josh Hammer.
Did we win the Cold Civil War?

Speaker 16 (23:13):
If you're at.

Speaker 13 (23:13):
Back, Welcome back to this Real America's Voice news break.

Speaker 7 (23:23):
I'm Terrence Bates.

Speaker 13 (23:24):
Happening at the top of the hour, the new Trump
administration will host its first press briefing at the White House.
President Trump's White House Press Secretary, Carolyn Levitt, will lead
the face to face with the media. At twenty seven
years old, she is the youngest White House Press secretary ever.
There's no word if President Trump will join her in
the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room during his previous administration,

(23:45):
though he made frequent appearances there. Real America's Voice National
correspondent Brian Glynn is at the White House as we
speak and says, there is a possibility that we'll hear
from forty seven today.

Speaker 15 (23:57):
Knowing Trump the way he likes to kind of handle things,
I would not doubt if there is some type of
surprise press gaggle towards the end of the day, mid afternoon.
Who knows, but it's definitely different, a different feel here
at the White House this January.

Speaker 13 (24:17):
Again, there's a possibility at this point, no confirmation, but
knowing President Trump, he does what he wants to do,
and so.

Speaker 7 (24:22):
It could very well happen.

Speaker 13 (24:24):
Today's briefing, by the way, scheduled for one o'clock Eastern time,
which is about thirty minutes away or so will of
course take you there live the moment it happens. Immigration
and Customs enforcement agents are continuing to ramp up deportation
operations from coast to coast.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
This is video from suburban Washington, d C.

Speaker 13 (24:41):
Where dozens of ICE agents took to the streets of Maryland,
arresting illegal aliens who also have criminal records.

Speaker 7 (24:48):
They'll eventually be deported.

Speaker 17 (24:50):
Now, so far, we've apprehended the man wanted for homicide
now said, or we've apprehended the armed robber. We're currently
sitting outside and waiting for the conviction for child pornography.
We're gonna sit on that house for a couple more hours.
And the drug dealer gave us a bad address, but
we're we're gonna hunt him down. Like my officers are

(25:11):
the best in the business at this so we will
find him.

Speaker 13 (25:14):
And it's daily update on x. On Monday, ICE reported
seventy nine arrest The day before, the agency reported nine
hundred and fifty six arrests.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
You can see it all there on your screen.

Speaker 13 (25:27):
Well, President Trump is talking about tariffs and TikTok. On Monday,
he broke the news that Microsoft is in talks to
acquire the popular social media app. Just last week, you
may remember, TikTok was on the verge of being banned
here in the United States, and now it's got just
a couple of more weeks in order to try to
find us.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
From the campus to the guard horn to the microphone.
It's the Charlie Kirk Show.

Speaker 10 (26:04):
All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. My
name is Andrew Covet. Honored to be with you. As always.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Charlie Kirk is deployed.

Speaker 10 (26:13):
Right now with Vice President jd.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Vance.

Speaker 10 (26:16):
I'm sure he's going to have all kinds of updates
for us tomorrow. I will just say I've seen some
of the pictures and it's pretty fun. I wish I
could share them with you all, but you know, these
things complicated. Business First, I want to tell you about
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of the Charlie Kirkshow are probably brought to you in
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welcome Josh Hammer onto the show next. He's a senior
editor at large at Newsweek, host of The Josh Hammer Show.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Josh, Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. How you doing, Andrew.
I'm doing great, my friend.

Speaker 18 (28:24):
You know, it is morning in America, as a famous
man one said about four and a half decades ago,
And it's really great to be back on the Charlie
Kirk Show with you, my good friend, Andrew Colvid.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (28:34):
Absolutely, Josh, I'm so glad to have you. I mean,
there's just so much to discuss. But you know, the
real impetus for this was your op ed and Newsweek,
and I thought it was a really really fun title
for an op ed.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
First of all, the Cold Civil War is over.

Speaker 10 (28:52):
We won now, Josh, I want to get I want
you to make your argument here, but I you know,
I just want to say I'm not you know, I'm
not up in Champagne is yet. There's a lot of
work to do. But I think the premise of your
article holds. Why do you say we won the Cold
Civil War? What is the Cold Civil War? Make your case, Andrew.

(29:12):
Let me first say that the fact that.

Speaker 18 (29:15):
The enemy is slayed at least for the time being,
I agree, does not necessarily mean that it will not,
one day, god forbid, possibly rise like a phoenix from
the ashes to create more chaos and mayhem and to
sow the seeds of discourse.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Here in America.

Speaker 18 (29:29):
So while I am definitely celebrating, I agree that we
should not rest on our laurels. It is definitely time
to keep the momentum going. But the reason that I
picked this very fun title, I'm glad you agree with me.
I thought it was a very fun title as well,
is that what we've seen thus far in the opening
week or so of this second donaldru administration, is the

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most transformative culture, cultural paradigm shifting moment that I think
we've seen probably in our lifetimes. And basically in the
columnand I take a step back, Barack Obama declared war
in America. He declared war in America and instituted our
modern American civil war, our cold civil royal in cold

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civil war. This happened because Barack Obama basically said that
he was doing it. He famously said in February two
thousand name that he sought to fundamentally transform America. And
one does not seek to fundatally transform that which he
loves or seeks to conserve. And we saw this time
and time again throughout the Obama presidency, whether it came
to Obamacare, the largest entitlement since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society,
when it came to the issue of beating up on cops,

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of exacerbating racial relations, of having Eric Holder his attorney general,
you so called disparate impact theory that was kind of
the predecessor to Ebram X. Kennedy and anti racism, whether
it was all the foreign policy nonsense with the Iran deal.
Barack Obama tried time and time again to declare war
on the half of America that he infamously called bitter
clingers that he'll reclint in twenty sixteen referred to as deplorables,

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and that civil war was stopped for four years body
Don Trump administration, or at least three and a half
years or so until George Floyd met Derek Shauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
and we all saw what happened from there, the riots
of the summer of twenty twenty and there and then
we got Peaquoke. The past four years prior to Donald
Trump getting back in the Oval Office the Joe Biden presidency.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
This is Peaquoke Andrew Peaquot.

Speaker 18 (31:18):
He literally chose a Vice President of the United States,
Kamala Harris, because she was a quote unquote woman of color.
He literally chose his one justice on the United States
Supreme Court Ktanji Brown Jackson, because she is a quote
unquote woman of color. Time and time again, as folks
like Chris Ruffo have reported, they weaponized all the various
instrumentalities of the American administrative, state and executive branch who

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implement so called DEI to overtly discriminate against white people,
against Christians, Jews, Asians in favor of.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Blacks, Hispanics, and so forth.

Speaker 18 (31:45):
There and just basically everything that we saw over the
past four years, this was the moment that woke reached.
I think it's apotheosis. It's been slay. It's been slay
because Donald Trump Andrew adopted a mentality to go back
to the Morning in America line that I was saying
a few minutes ago. He adopted an old Reagan eight
mantra and what Ronald Reagan famously said when he was

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asked for his approach to the Cold War and he
came into power in nineteen eighty coming off the nineteen seventies,
you had differing opinions. In the nineteen seventies, there was
Henry Kissinger, in daytons, there was kind of the Cold
War hawks a bat Then Ronald Reagan famously said that
his approach the Cold War we win and they lose.
People said that he was crazy, that he was a cowboy,
he was a warmonger, But that mentality Andrew helped win

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the Cold War.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
I think Donald Trump has.

Speaker 18 (32:30):
Taken that exact same mentality to his second term in office.
And I'm not entirely sure what the exact moment was
that galvanized him to adopt this Reagan eye mantra. I
suspect it was probably around the time that Joe Biden,
Merrick Garland, and so called special counsel Jack Smith started
to incarcerate him, to proscute him, try to throw him
in jail, bankrupt and ruin him of all his possessions,
basically deprive him of his liberty and his livelihood. Maybe

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he was around the time that Thomas Matthew Crooks and
Butler of Pennsylvania came within millimeters of assassining him before
a global television aughties.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
But at some point, at some point.

Speaker 18 (33:00):
Donald Trump had kind of his Clarence Thomas nineteen ninety
one Anita Hill moments where he looked at all this
radicalization around him and said, you know what, this is enough.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
I am over this.

Speaker 18 (33:10):
And you know what, to quote Barack Obama, get me
my freaking pen, get me my freaking phone, because this
crap ain't gonna fly anymore come day one. And that
was what we saw last weekend. We saw all these
executive orders. I mean the DEI executive Order alone, just
focusing on that one executive order, and there's been so
many amazing ones it's hard to know even where to start.
There's been the gender ideology, birthright citizenship. It's amazing stuff

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coming out of this White House. But just the DEI
Executive Order, it doesn't just get rid of DEI in
the executive branch. It actually goes way past that. It
instructs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education, the
whole cabinet to enforce Title six and to interpret the
Supreme Court's Affirmative Action case Tunes for Fair Emissions so
as to effectively ban DEI in any taxpayer support institution

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in America. This is the kind of stuff that wins
culture wars. So again, let's not rest in our laurels.
I understand, like you know, constant vigilance, and let's let'
let's keep our let's keep our foot on the gas
pedal and keep on plowing full speed ahead.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
But for now, for now, what we have seen is
the stuff of legends.

Speaker 18 (34:14):
Frankly, it kind of reminds me, as I said in
the column, I remember when I was a kid learning
about how the English took over what was then called
New Amsterdam and then they renamed the New York City
from Peter Steives into the Dutch in the sixteen hundreds.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
They famously took it over without.

Speaker 18 (34:28):
Fight, without firing a single shot, because it was just
a pure, unmitigated demonstration of force, and the enemy yielded
at that demonstration of force. That's very much how I
view what happened over this past week.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
I think that was.

Speaker 10 (34:41):
Extraordinarily well, said Josh. I. You know, and I want
to believe that all of this is going to happen
without a single shot.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
I mean, and once there's a lot of reason to believe.

Speaker 10 (34:53):
That we have now become the dominant force in culture,
and not just politically, which obviously we control the three
branches of the government, but culturally, philosophically, ideologically, you can
feel the momentum behind more of a traditional Americana, this
triumphant Americana, this manifest destiny, whether it be Greenland or
Panama or Canada, or just retaking the border. Pete Heg said, saying, yeah,

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we're going to get operational control of our southern border.
You've got ice raids where we are from a pr standpoint,
this administration is doing a fantastic job projecting strength to
the world. You saw this with Columbia and the little
tip that happened over the weekend, how quickly that was resolved.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
And then and then and then and on and on
and on it goes.

Speaker 10 (35:38):
And what I find particularly instructive and encouraging, Josh, is
the polling. You've got Harry Enton at CNN going on
in front of you know, Casey Hunt or whatever. The
host is going like, Hey, these numbers are extraordinary and
just just for our audience to sake, consider this. Donald
Trump is the only president in the history of the

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country that has a higher approval rating at the start
of his second term than he ever did in his
first term. A majority of all Americans support deportation of all,
not some, not the worst first, which obviously Tom Homan
budget constraints, manpower constraint is starting with the worst first,
but a majority, a clear majority across like five different

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polls say that Americans support deporting all illegals. This is
a phenomenal, phenomenal showing, and it shows Josh that the
main street America, average America is seeing the changes already,
are seeing the momentum shift, and American malaise is out,
America's self constraint is out. And so I do want

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to be really, really encouraged by this.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
There's a part of.

Speaker 10 (36:48):
Me that just, you know, I think can't get over
the trauma of twenty twenty or twenty twenty two and
won't quite believe it. But Josh, do you think this
has staying power? Do you think we are at the
beginning of an eight twelve year run. I do, I
absolutely do.

Speaker 18 (37:05):
I think that Jdvans is Vice President of United States,
is kind of the natural heir to the throne and
will obviously have that debate. I presume in the year
twenty twenty eight but God will in the next four
years will go well. And JD who is literally only
forty years old, is kind of a logical successor there.
And that's part of the reasons that Donald Trump tapped
Jdvans in the first place, right, and because he's making
a long term play here. I mean, look at his

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cabinet picks. I mean you mentioned Pete Hegsaf. Pete Heggsaf
is what forty four or forty five years old. I mean,
so many of these cabinet picks are very very young people.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
This is a movement, Andrew.

Speaker 18 (37:34):
And what's so fascinating is that MAGA America first just
being on the right of center right now in America
more generally.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Speaking, this is cool.

Speaker 18 (37:43):
I mean, this is kind of the anti establishment mentality,
the same way that Barack Obama was considered irreverence and
back in nineteen sixties, all the quote unquote self professed
school kids. You know, we're bringing down college campuses, the
Vietnam world that's off.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
MAGA is basically that today.

Speaker 18 (37:57):
I mean, this is kind of the middle finger to
thet ah and the Democratic Party is a rotting carcass.
It is filled with octogenarian septuagenarians, people who are literally
two to three decades past their prime. Joe Biden's obviously
a perfect encapsulation of that there, and the Republican Party
is filled with young, up and coming people who have
an inherent love of their country there, and that's being
reflected in the popular culture. Look at all the people

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in these NFL playoffs and the college wable playoffs. We're
doing the Trump dance in the end zone after getting
a touchdown, Carrie Underweld going acappella at that the inaugural
address there, that was so many cultural moments and these
big tech oligards.

Speaker 10 (38:31):
I mean, just on and on, and Josh, I don't
mean to cut you off. We're gonna have another segment
with you to keep diving into this, but I completely agree.
There was that New York magazine piece that just came
out talking about all the young energy around the inauguration.
They tried to make it like racist. We can talk
about that when we're back, but that is cool, guys,

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enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 9 (38:55):
You're listening to the future of America, and the future
is bright.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Is Charlie Kirk all right? Everybody, I want to show
you something here. Go ahead and throw up this image.

Speaker 10 (39:08):
This is Charlie just casually hanging out with the VP.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Go ahead and throw that up. I think a depth.
There's Charlie. This is breaking news.

Speaker 10 (39:17):
Charlie's just sitting next to Jade Vance there on Air
Force two, just casually plotting the future blizzard of other
executive orders and actions that will take this country back.
Our movement is a send it, folks to the conversation
that we were having with Josh. We're going to bring

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him back when we have radio rejoin in just a second.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
There is so much positive.

Speaker 10 (39:43):
Momentum happening right now, and it is impossible to separate
the movement that Trump has sparked, the ascendancy of it,
without also including this entirely new generation of young guns
like Charlie Kirk, like James Blair, like Sergio Gore, like
jd Vance, Steven Miller. There's almost too many to name,

(40:04):
Taylor Budowitch, there's so many within this administration. They're staffing
it from top to bottom. Obviously Charlie's not stabbing it,
but he's, you know, within the larger movement on this show,
in this audience, the amount of transformational change that is
possible with this new, young, vibrant core of leadership that

(40:24):
is assuming control both from a media standpoint and an
actual power standpoint, the reigns of actual power. It's impossible
to fully comprehend or appreciate at this juncture. History will
write about these days. History will write about these leaders
and they will transform America back to the founder's intent,

(40:45):
not to create some corrupt, muddled Frankenstein that would that
the founders wouldn't even recognize. But they will restore the Americanism,
the dynamism of our people in.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
The truest sense of the word. And these are extraordinary
days that we live in.

Speaker 10 (41:01):
These are extraordinary times, and it is a new Dawn
War with Josh Hammer from a senior editor at Larger Newsweek,
hosts of The Josh Hammer Show.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Next.

Speaker 10 (41:11):
Oh, and download the Real America's Voice app where we
get back.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
All right, Welcome back to Charlie Kirk Show.

Speaker 10 (41:30):
Andrew covid in for the one and only Charlie Kirk,
who is currently flying on Air Force two with Vice
President jd Vance. Very exciting times, Josh, I want to
throw this image up. This is from New York. The
New York magazine. It's kind of personal for me. Actually
throw up ninety four. Image ninety four The cruel Kids
table is the way the headline reads is a cover

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piece for New York Magazine by Brock Collier, who is
a trans journalist from the New York Magazine. I know
this because Brock also applied for press credentials at the
Turning Point Ball, our inaugural eve ball, and was there
on the red carpet. There's pictures of our ball in

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this story. But you know, the pushback is hilarious about
this piece, but I think it's an interesting even the
journalist in this piece, Josh, admits that we're winning, that
we are culturally ascended, that we are now dominating realms
of culture that would have been hard to fathom just
a few years ago. And I believe that they've cropped

(42:33):
this picture to make it look more racist, like it's
only white kids or something. There's a whole bunch of
a whole bunch of that going on here. But it's like, Josh,
take take This picture is just one instance. It's a
bunch of young, successful, happy kids drinking a you know,
at a trendy cocktail party.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
And you know, I guess if that's.

Speaker 10 (42:52):
Like cruel celebrating the dawn of a new administration in
New America, you know, I guess, you know, cry harder
lib as my you know, instant reaction.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
What do you make of this and what does this
tell us?

Speaker 18 (43:06):
Well, first of all, angew I'm pretty sure they did
do exactly that which you said they did, which that
they cropped out this photo. They edited it, they photoshopped
to make it look just more monolithically white than it
is there. But you know, I think a normal American
looks at this photo, whether it's been photoshopped or cropped,
edited or not, and says, oh, wow, these are a
bunch of like pretty good looking young people having a

(43:30):
great time. They're dressed nicely. There, they're clanking their glasses,
they're saying cheers.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
There.

Speaker 18 (43:34):
I'm sorry, I'm not seeing anything wrong with this picture, Andrew.
I'm simply just not seeing anything. And I think what
kind of the broader point is getting at here? This
is the point that I've made actually for a few
years now. I think this is part of the left's
war on fun. I actually literally call the war on fun.
You know, whether it's trying to call you a scold
for driving a gas guzzling pickup truck or an suv,

(43:56):
whether they're calling you a bad person for wanting to
have numerous kids kids, you know that whole be fruitful
and multiply thing right there from the Book of Genesis.
God forbid you actually take God at his word and
have three, four or five. You know, God knows who
many children who are going to consume oxygen and spit
out carbon dioxide. You know, you're a very very bad person.
Like they definitely hate that, Andrew. You know, God forbid

(44:18):
you actually teach your children about religion, about the Bible,
about the things I've actually built this country, about the
founding Fathers, about the constitucial convention.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
You can't have any of that either there.

Speaker 18 (44:27):
I mean, the left has become just these pearl clutching
bunch of overtally faux moralistic primadonnas. That's basically what they
become there, and they hate looking at anyone who is
more successful than them. That obviously gets back to kind
of the roots of socialism and Marxism is this whole
idea of envy and class envy and individual envy.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
That's definitely part of this as well.

Speaker 18 (44:47):
There, but they're just fundamentally just a bunch of just
a rag tag and frankly, Andrew, if I'm just being
very blunt for a second here, you know, I was
looking at this at this rally on the eve of
the inauguration, the left wing rally there with kind of
those pain hats whatever, the women's marched off there on
the National Mall. A bunch of ugly people. I mean,
I'm probably gonna enhol for saying that there, but like
these are just typically they are excit, but a bunch

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of like very ugly people, honestly.

Speaker 10 (45:11):
Josh, I mean, think about it, you know, And I
think Matt Walsh made this point on Twitter. We like
Matt a lot, and he had a great role to
play in you know, just his film and so many
other things. But what reads is left wing now besides
like a bunch of purple haired, you know, nose piercing,
you know, many obese or at least overweight young people

(45:36):
screaming about some injustice that they've invented in a college laboratory.
I mean literally, if young kids having fun, if young kids,
you know, wearing a flannel and in the country, you know,
listening to country music, whatever. I mean, we are the
fun movement and this it's a very fascinating point, Josh,
and we'll throw it back to you for thirty seconds

(45:56):
to react.

Speaker 7 (45:57):
You know, it.

Speaker 10 (45:58):
Seemed like in two thousand and eight, this intruscendency of
the left promised all of these things but failed to deliver. Instead,
it delivered this dystopian, puritanical scolding you from the left
about these invented injustices. And this movement, I believe can
actually deliver on the promise of lifting everybody and having fun.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Final reaction, Josh Hammer.

Speaker 18 (46:23):
Well, you're totally right to take it back to two
thousand and eight, and that's where I started my cold
civil wars over op at too, because it does go
back to Barack Obama in a two thousand and eight campaign, Andrew,
if the left is going to have any chance of recovering,
and thank god, it's not my problem. I'm a man
of the right obviously, but if the left is going
to have any chance of recovering here, Andrew, they have
to disavow the entirety of the Barack Obama legacy and

(46:43):
his post presidential legacy. They need to go back to
the old Democratic Party of Bill Clinton and his predecessors, who,
whatever their flaws were, they were focused on bread and
butter issues, not this woke prep.

Speaker 10 (46:54):
I agree, Josh Hammer good Man, follow him, follow his stuff.
Caroline Levitz press conference coming up next.

Speaker 13 (47:19):
Welcome back to this Real America's Voice news break. I'm
Terrence Bates. A new era continues today as the Trump
administration is hosting its first press briefing at the White House.

Speaker 7 (47:29):
Here's a live look at the James S.

Speaker 13 (47:31):
Brady Press Briefing Room where White House Press Secretary Caroline
Levitt will take the podium any moment now and.

Speaker 7 (47:37):
Lead today's briefing. Again.

Speaker 13 (47:39):
This is scheduled for one o'clock. You can see it's
a jam packed room filled with reporters, many of those
reporters taking pictures on their cell phones and preparing to
hear from the twenty seven year old who is the
youngest White House Press secretary ever. She is expected to
take the podium there here Momentarily. There's no word though,
if President Trump will join her for today's briefing. During

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his previous administration, he of course made frequent stops in
the room to face off with reporters. Real America's Voice
National correspondent Brian Glynn is at today's briefing. He is
there in the room. I'm sure he'll get in a
question today. After spending the day on Monday with President
Trump and Republican members of Congress at Durral in Miami.
We're hearing that President Trump is back at the White

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House today. We're hearing that he received a national security
briefing earlier this morning there at the White House. But
again still no word if in fact he's going to
be speaking here at today's press briefing or if he
will make an appearance. We of course will stay on
this live for you throughout the day, and the moment
Caroline Levitt takes the podium will listen in in the meantime.

(48:41):
One of the issues that we're expecting President Trump to
speak about today, or at very least Caroline levi at
at the White House Press Secretary is immigration Enforcement, as
well as border security. Immigration and Customs enforcement agents are
continuing to ramp up deportation operations from coast to coast.
You're looking at video from suburban Washington, DC, where dozens
of ICE agents took to the streets of Maryland arresting

(49:03):
illegal aliens who also have criminal records, and they'll eventually
be deported.

Speaker 17 (49:08):
Now, so far, we've apprehended the man wanted for homicide.
Now Salvador, we've apprehended the armed robber. We are currently
sitting outside and waiting for the conviction for child pornography.
We're going to sit on that house for a couple
more hours. And the drug dealer gave us a bad address,
but we're we're gonnahunt him down, Like my officers are

(49:29):
the best in the business at this so we will
find him.

Speaker 13 (49:33):
In its daily update on AX, on Monday, ICE reported
one and seventy nine arrests. The day before, the agency
reported nine hundred and fifty six arrests.

Speaker 7 (49:44):
Well.

Speaker 13 (49:44):
From tariffs to saving TikTok, President Trump is literally plugged.
In Monday, he broke the news that Microsoft is in
talks to acquire the popular social media app.

Speaker 7 (49:54):
Just last week, TikTok.

Speaker 13 (49:55):
Was on the verge of being banned in the United
States unless it's Chinese owners divest from the program due
to national security concerns. However, President Trump saved it with
his executive order delaying the ban by seventy five days.
While Microsoft isn't commenting on its potential purchase of the
video app. President Trump is openly saying that he'd like
to see a bidding war for TikTok. The app, by

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the way, was about one hundred and seventy million, where
has about one hundred and seventy.

Speaker 7 (50:22):
Million users here in the United States.

Speaker 13 (50:25):
Again, the other big, the other big headline of the
day is happening at the White House right now. The
reporters are in place here waiting for the Trump administration's
press briefing, which is expected to happen quite literally at
any moment. It was scheduled for one o'clock, so we're
about three minutes behind. But what is historic about this
is that Caroline Levitt, twenty seven years.

Speaker 7 (50:46):
Old, will become the youngest.

Speaker 13 (50:48):
Ever White House Press secretary to meet with the media. Obviously,
a number of major issues to be addressed today. Front
and center, very likely will be immigration enforcement and President
trump promise of mass deportation. That, of course, is already underway,
as ICE has already arrested thousands of people across the
country and it's continuing its enforcement. President Trump also just

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yesterday on Monday, met with lawmakers from Capitol Hill at
his golf course in Durau. A number of issues discussed there.
Among those issues were his tariffs. President Trump has promised
tariffs on countries like Canada, Mexico as well as China.
So I'm sure that Caroline Levitt will field questions related
to that as well. And then of course there will

(51:32):
be questions about the economy and President Trump's foreign policy.
All of those questions, we will take you to live
the moment Caroline Levitt takes the podium here at the
Press briefing.

Speaker 7 (51:43):
Room at the White House.

Speaker 13 (51:44):
Again, we're expecting that she will arrive any moment now,
and we will take you here live so that you
can hear it all again, a live look from the
press briefing room there. Okay, So we're believing that it's
going to start here momentarily, So instead of going back
to the Charlie Kirksha, we are going to keep you
here live to hear from Caroline Levitt as she is

(52:05):
said to be making her way there to the press
briefing room. As you can see, it is a packed house.
The cameras are there. Many of the reporters moments ago
we're taking pictures on their cell phones and preparing for
Caroline Levitt's appearance.

Speaker 7 (52:20):
This is historic.

Speaker 13 (52:20):
It is the first time that the Trump administration, in
its second administration, if you will, is hosting a press
briefing here at the White House. President Trump, of course,
took office a week ago yesterday, and so it has
taken eight days for this first briefing, even though the
President himself has spoken to the media. But this will
be the first opportunity for the media to field questions

(52:41):
or to ask questions of Caroline Levitt, who is the
White House Press Secretary, and we're expecting that she will
be walking through the doors here at any moment now
taking the podium. She very likely will make a couple
of quick statements, and then she will very likely take
questions from the media.

Speaker 7 (52:57):
Another headline, if you.

Speaker 13 (52:59):
Will, that's me out of all of this, is that
the Press Corps, the White House Press Corps.

Speaker 7 (53:04):
Is expanded.

Speaker 13 (53:05):
Many more conservative news agencies are now on site and
being allowed in the White House to ask questions. There's
also lots of social media and non traditional media, if
you will, that are being allowed into the White House
Press Corps and into this briefing room, so they'll also
be asking questions.

Speaker 7 (53:22):
Which is something that is unique.

Speaker 13 (53:23):
We're also told that, apart from access being expanded, that
many of the reporters on site, particularly reporters representing conservative media,
feel that it's a bit more welcoming, a bit more
of a welcoming environment, if you will.

Speaker 7 (53:38):
They say, so far, things have looked pretty good.

Speaker 13 (53:41):
All right, Caroline Levitt, Ladies and gentlemen, is at the podium.

Speaker 7 (53:44):
Let's listen to.

Speaker 19 (53:45):
The Golden Age of America has most definitely begun. The
Senate has already confirmed five of President Trump's exceptional cabinet nominees,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA
Director John rapt Of, Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome, and
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. It is imperative that the Senate

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continues to confirm the remainder of the President's well qualified
nominees as quickly as possible. As you have seen during
the past week, President Trump is hard at work fulfilling
the promises that he made to the American people on
the campaign trail.

Speaker 20 (54:22):
Since taking the oath.

Speaker 19 (54:23):
Of office, President Trump has taken more than three hundred
executive actions, secured nearly one trillion dollars in US investments,
deported illegal alien rapists, gang members, and suspected terrorists from
our homeland, and restored common sense to the federal government.
I want to take a moment to go through some

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of these extraordinary actions. On day one, President Trump declared
a national emergency at our southern border to end the
four year long invasion of illegal aliens under the previous administration. Additionally,
President Trump signed and execut order to end catch and
release and finish construction of his effective border wall. By

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using every lever of his federal power, President Trump has
sent a loud and clear message to the entire world.
America will no longer tolerate illegal immigration, and this president
expects that every nation on this planet will cooperate with
the repatriation of their citizens, as proven by this weekend,

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when President Trump swiftly directed his team to issue harsh
and effective sanctions in tariffs on the Colombian government upon
hearing they were denied a US military aircraft full of
their own citizens who were deported by this administration. Within hours,
the Colombian government agreed to all of President Trump's demands,
proving America is once again respected on the world stage.

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So to foreign nationals who are thinking about trying to
illegally enter the United States, think again. Under this president,
you will be detained and you will be deported. Every day,
Americans are safer because of the violent criminals that President
Trump's administration is removing from our communities. On January twenty third, ice,

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New York arrested a Turkish national for entry without inspection
who is a known or suspected terrorist. On January twenty third, ice,
San Francisco arrested a citizen of Mexico unlawfully present in
the United States who has been convicted of continuous sexual
abuse of a child aged fourteen years or younger. Ice

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Saint Paul has arrested a citizen of Honduras who was
convicted of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
Ice Buffalo arrested a citizen of Ecuador who has been
convicted of rape. Ice Boston arrested a citizen of the
Dominican Republic who has a criminal conviction for second degree murder.

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This criminal was convicted of murder for beating his pregnant
wife to death in front of her five year old son.

Speaker 20 (57:08):
And Ice Saint Paul also arrested.

Speaker 19 (57:09):
A citizen of Mexico who was convicted of possessing pornographic
material of a minor on a work computer. These are
the heinous individuals that this administration is removing from American
communities every single day into the brave state and local
law enforcement officer, CBP and ICE agents who are helping
in the facilitation of this deportation operation. President Trump has

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your back and he is grateful for your hard work.
On the economic front, President Trump took immediate action to
lower costs for families who are suffering from four long
years of the Biden administration's destructive and inflationary policies. President
Trump ordered the heads of all executive departments and agencies

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to help deliver emergency price relief to the American people,
untangle our economy from Biden's regular constraints, and end the
reckless war on American energy. President Trump also signed sweeping
executive orders to end the weaponization of government and restore
common sense to the federal bureaucracy. He directed all federal

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agencies to terminate illegal diversity, equity and inclusion programs to
help return America to a merit based society.

Speaker 20 (58:25):
President Trump also signed an executive.

Speaker 19 (58:27):
Order declaring it is now the policy of the federal
government that there are only two sexes, male and female.

Speaker 20 (58:34):
Sanity has been restored.

Speaker 19 (58:37):
Before I take your questions, I would like to point
out to all of you once again have access to
the most transparent, inaccessible president in American history. There has
never been a president who communicates with the American people
and the American press corps as openly and authentically as
the forty fifth and now forty seventh President of the

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United States. This past week, President Trump has held multiple
news conferences, gaggled on Air Force one multiple times, and
sat down for a two part interview on Fox News
which aired last week.

Speaker 20 (59:12):
As Politico summed it up best, Trump is.

Speaker 19 (59:15):
Everywhere again, and that's because President Trump has a great
story to tell about the legendary American revival that is
well underway. And in keeping with this revolutionary media approach
that President Trump deployed during the campaign, the Trump White
House will speak to all media outlets and personalities, not

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just the legacy media who are seated in this room. Because,
according to recent pulling from Gallup, Americans trust in mass
media has fallen to a record low. Millions of Americans,
especially young people, have turned from traditional television outlets and
newspapers to consume their news from podcasts, blogs, social media,

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and other independent outlets. It's essential to our team that
we share President Trump's message everywhere and adapt this White.

Speaker 20 (01:00:07):
House to the new media landscape. In twenty twenty five.

Speaker 19 (01:00:10):
To do this, I am excited to announce the following
changes will be made to this historic James S.

Speaker 20 (01:00:15):
Brady Briefing Room, where.

Speaker 19 (01:00:17):
Mister Brady's legacy will endure. This White House believes strongly
in the First Amendment, so it's why our team will
work diligently to restore the press passes of the four
hundred and forty journalists whose passes were wrongly revoked by.

Speaker 20 (01:00:30):
The previous administration.

Speaker 19 (01:00:33):
We're also opening up this briefing room to new media
voices who produce news related content and whose outlet is
not already represented by one of the seats in this room.
We welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content
creators to apply for credentials to cover this White House,

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and you can apply now on our new website white
House dot gov slash new Media. Starting today, this seat
in the front of the room, which is usually occupied
by the Press Secretary's staff, will be called the new
Media Seat. My team will review the applications and give
credentials to new media applicants who meet our criteria in

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pass United States Secret Service requirements to enter.

Speaker 20 (01:01:19):
The White House complex.

Speaker 19 (01:01:21):
So, in light of these announcements, our first questions for
today's briefing will go to these new media members whose outlets,
despite being some of the most viewed news websites in
the country, have not been given seats in this room.
And before I turn to questions, I do have news
directly from the President of the United States that was
just shared with me in the Oval Office from President

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Trump directly an update on the New Jersey drones. After
research and study, the drones that were flying over New
Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by
the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of
these drones were also hobbyists, recreational in private individuals that

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enjoy flying jones in meantime, in time.

Speaker 20 (01:02:07):
It got worse due to curiosity. This was not the enemy.

Speaker 19 (01:02:12):
A statement from the President of the United States to
start this briefing with some news, and with that I
will turn it over to questions, and we will begin
with our new media members, Mike Allen from Axios, Matt
Boyle from Breitbart, Mike, why don't you go ahead?

Speaker 21 (01:02:25):
Thank you very much, Carolin. Does the President see anything
fishy about deep Seat, either its origins or its cause
and China's ability to make these models quick or cheaper
effect our thinking about expanding generation data centers trip manufacturing.

Speaker 20 (01:02:43):
Sure.

Speaker 19 (01:02:43):
The President was asked about Deep Seak last night on
Air Force One when he gaggled before I think the
third or fourth time throughout the weekend with members of
the traveling Press Corps. The President said that he believes
that this is a wake up call to the American
AI industry. The lasted minute stra sat on their hands
and allowed China to rapidly develop this AI program. And

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so President Trump believes in restoring American AI dominance and
that's why he took very strong executive action this past
week to sign executive orders to roll back some of
the honors regulations on the AI industry. And President Trump
has also proudly appointed the first AI and cryptos are
at this White House, David Sachs, whom I spoke with
yesterday very knowledgeable on this subject and his team is

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here working every single day to ensure American AI dominance.
As for the national security implications, I spoke with NSC
this morning.

Speaker 20 (01:03:36):
They are looking into what those may be, and when
I have an update, I will share it with you.

Speaker 7 (01:03:40):
Mike, Carolyn, you.

Speaker 21 (01:03:41):
Say restore US dominance? Is there a fear that the
US either has fallen or has fallen behind? And how
would the president picture US STASI?

Speaker 9 (01:03:50):
Now?

Speaker 19 (01:03:51):
The President is confident that we will restore American dominance
in AI.

Speaker 22 (01:03:54):
Now, So Caroline, first off, thank you to you and
President Trump for actually giving voices to new media outlets
that represent.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
Millions and millions of Americans.

Speaker 5 (01:04:04):
The thing I would add, I've got a two part
question for you.

Speaker 22 (01:04:07):
The first is is you just can you expand upon
what steps the White House is going to take to
bring more voices, not less.

Speaker 5 (01:04:14):
Which is what our founder Andrew Breitbart.

Speaker 22 (01:04:16):
Believed in into this room where they rightly belong.

Speaker 5 (01:04:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:04:20):
Absolutely, And as I said in my opening statement, Matt,
it is a priority of this White House to honor
the First Amendment. And it is a fact that Americans
are consuming their news media from various different platforms, especially
young people, and as the youngest Press secretary in history,
thanks to President Trump, I take great pride in opening
up this room to new media voices to share the

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President's message with as many Americans as possible. In doing so,
Number one, we will ensure that outlets like yours, Axios,
and Breitbart, which are widely respected and viewed outlets, have
an actual seat in this room every day. We also
again encourage anybody in this country, whether you are a
TikTok content creator, a blogger, a podcaster, if you are

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producing legitimate news content, no matter the medium, you will
be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House.
And as I said earlier, our new media website is
white House dot gov slash new Media, and so we
encourage people to apply again. As long as you are

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creating news related content of the day and you're an
legitimate independent journalist, you're welcome to cover this White House.

Speaker 22 (01:05:30):
Secondly, Caroline, you said you've laid out several of the
actions of President Trump has taken at Obviously it's star
contraction previous administration of breakback.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
Speed from President Trump.

Speaker 22 (01:05:40):
Can we expect that paste to continue as the hunt
for the first one hundred days moves along here and
beyond that.

Speaker 19 (01:05:47):
Absolutely, there's no doubt President Trump has always been the
hardest working man in politics. I think that's been proven
over the past week. This President has again signed more
than three hundred executive orders.

Speaker 20 (01:05:57):
He's taken historic action.

Speaker 19 (01:06:00):
I gaggle the board Air Force one to mark the
first one hundred days of this administration four pm last Friday,
our first hundred hours, rather, and this president did more
in the first hundred hours than the previous president did
in the first one hundred days. So President Trump, I
think you can all expect for him to continue to
work at this breakneck speed.

Speaker 20 (01:06:19):
So I hope you're all ready to work very hard.
I know that we are.

Speaker 23 (01:06:21):
Sek Miller, Thanks Caroline, A question that we've asked your
predecessors of both parties in this job. When you're up
here in this briefing room speaking to the American public,
you view yourself and your role as speaking on advocating
on behalf of the president, or providing the unfurnished truth
that is not to line, not to off escape to
the American need.

Speaker 19 (01:06:41):
I commit to telling the truth from this podium every
single day. I commit to speaking on behalf of the
president of the United States.

Speaker 20 (01:06:47):
That is my job.

Speaker 19 (01:06:49):
And I will say it's very easy to speak truth
from this podium when you have a president who is
implementing policies that are wildly popular with the American people.
And that's exactly what this administration is doing. It's correcting
the lies and the wrongs of the past four years,
many of the lies that have been told to your
faces in this very briefing room.

Speaker 20 (01:07:08):
I will not do that.

Speaker 19 (01:07:09):
But since you brought up truth seek, I would like
to point out, while I vow to provide the truth
from this podium, we ask that all of you in
this room hold yourselves to that same standard. We know
for a fact there have been lies that have been
pushed by many legacy media outlets in this country about
this president, about his family, and we will not accept that.

Speaker 20 (01:07:29):
We will call you out.

Speaker 19 (01:07:31):
When we feel that your reporting is wrong or there
is misinformation about this White House. So yes, I will
hold myself to the truth, and I expect everyone in
this room.

Speaker 20 (01:07:40):
To do the same.

Speaker 23 (01:07:40):
And caroly I just thought a substantive question yesterday White
Hoss Office of Management the Budget directed across the board
phrase with subtections for individual assistants. We understand the federal grants.
It's cost a lot of confusion around the country, Headstart providers,
among services to homeless veterans, Medicaid provider state saying they're

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having trouble access in the portal. Could you help us
clear up something that you can give some certainty to folks.
And also, is that uncertainty, how does that uncertainty service
the President's voters.

Speaker 19 (01:08:13):
Well, I think there's only uncertainty in this room. Amongst
the media, there's no uncertainty in this building. So let
me provide the certainty and the clarity.

Speaker 20 (01:08:20):
That all of you need.

Speaker 19 (01:08:21):
This is not a blanket pause on federal assistance in
grant programs from the Trump administration. Individual assistance that includes
I'm not naming everything that's included, but just to give
you a few examples, Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, food Stamps,
welfare benefits. Assistance that is going directly to individuals will

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not be impacted.

Speaker 20 (01:08:45):
By this pause.

Speaker 19 (01:08:46):
And I want to make that very clear to any
Americans who are watching at home who may be a
little bit confused about some of the media reporting this administration.
If you are receiving individual assistance from the federal government.
You will still continue to receive that. However, it is
the responsibility of this president and this administration to be
good stewards of taxpayer dollars. That is something that President

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Trump campaigned on. That's why he has launched DOGE, the
Department of Government Efficiency, who is working alongside OMB. And
that's why OMB sent out this memo last night, because
the President signed an executive order directing OMB.

Speaker 20 (01:09:20):
To do just this.

Speaker 19 (01:09:21):
And the reason for this is to ensure that every
penny that is going out the door is not conflicting
with the executive orders and actions that this president has taken.
So what does this pause mean. It means no more
funding for illegal DEI programs. It means no more funding
for the Green New scam that has cost American taxpayers
tens of billions of dollars. It means no more funding

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for transgenderism and wokeness across our federal bureaucracy and agencies.
No more funding for Green New Deal social engineering policies. Again,
people who are receiving individual assance assistants, you will continue
to receive that, and President Trump is looking out for
you by issuing this pause because he is being good
steward of your taxpayer dollars.

Speaker 20 (01:10:04):
Thanks Caroline. Sure, how long is this pause going to last?

Speaker 19 (01:10:08):
And how is the Trump administration recommending that organizations that
rely on federal funding make payroll pay their rent. In
the meantime, it is a temporary pause in the Office
of Management and Budget is reviewing the federal funding that
has been going out the door. Again, not for individual assistance,
but for all of these other programs that I mentioned.

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I also spoke with the incoming Director of OMB this
morning and he told me to tell all of you
that the line to his office is open for other
federal government agencies across the board, and if they feel
that programs are necessary and in line with the President's agenda,
then the Office of Management and Budget will review those policies.

Speaker 20 (01:10:48):
Think this is a very responsible measure.

Speaker 19 (01:10:50):
Again, the past four years, we've seen the Biden administration
spend money like drunken sailors. It's a big reason we've
had an inflation crisis in this country, and it's incumbent
upon this administration to make sure again that every penny
is being accounted for.

Speaker 20 (01:11:03):
Honestly, why oppose this pause with so little notice?

Speaker 19 (01:11:06):
Why not give organizations more time to plan for the
fact that they are about to lose, in some cases
really crucial federal funding.

Speaker 20 (01:11:16):
There was for a period there was notice.

Speaker 19 (01:11:19):
It was the executive order that the President signed. There's
also a freeze on hiring, as you know, a regulatory freeze,
and there's also a.

Speaker 20 (01:11:25):
Freeze on foreign eight.

Speaker 19 (01:11:26):
And this is again incredibly important to ensure that this
administration is taking into consideration how hard the American people
are working and their tax dollars actually matter to this administration.
You know, just during this pause, a Doge and Omb
have actually found that there was thirty seven million dollars
that was about to go out the door to the

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World Health Organization, which is an organization as you all know,
that President Trump, with the swipe of his pen in
that executive order, is no longer wants the United States
to be a part of so that wouldn't be in
line with the President's agenda. Do Janomb also found that
there was about to be fifty million taxpayer dollars that
went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That

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is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that's what
this pause is focused on. Being good stewards of tax dollars.
So this does jetifi.

Speaker 20 (01:12:16):
Meals on wheels for headstart or disaster eight.

Speaker 19 (01:12:19):
Again, it does not affect individual assistance that's going to Americans.

Speaker 24 (01:12:23):
To follow up on Nancy, do you think there will
be a list of who is affected and how much
money is affected? How will these contractors and organizations know
if they are actually being having their funding frozen?

Speaker 5 (01:12:34):
And then secondly, if you're willing, can you.

Speaker 24 (01:12:37):
Just clarify is the end goal of this to essentially
challenge Congress or to prove that the president can withhold
federal opending?

Speaker 9 (01:12:46):
Is in an other.

Speaker 24 (01:12:47):
Words, is this an attempt to pick a fight to
prove that he can do this?

Speaker 20 (01:12:50):
No, absolutely not.

Speaker 19 (01:12:52):
As it says right here in the memo, which I
have and i'd encourage all of you to read it,
it says, the American people elected President Trump to be
the President of the United States and gave him a
mandate to increase the impact of every federal dollar. This
memo requires federal agencies to identify and review all federal
financial assistance programs and supporting activities consistent with the President's

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policies and requirements. The American people gave President Trump an
overwhelming mandate on November fifth, and he's just trying to
ensure that the tax money going out the door in
this very bankrupt city actually aligns with the will and
the priorities of the American people.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
Brian Glenn, Yes, welcome, Thank you great.

Speaker 7 (01:13:30):
You're doing a great job.

Speaker 25 (01:13:31):
Talked about transparency, and some of us in this room
know how just transparent President Trump has.

Speaker 7 (01:13:37):
Been the last five or six years. I think you'll
do the same.

Speaker 25 (01:13:41):
Well, my question is do you think this latest incident
with the President of Columbia is indicative of the global
powerful respect they have for President Trump moving forward not
only to engage in economic diplomacy with these countries, but
also world peace.

Speaker 20 (01:14:00):
Absolutely.

Speaker 19 (01:14:01):
I'll echo the answer that the President gave on Air
Force one last night when he was asked a very
similar question by one of your colleagues.

Speaker 20 (01:14:07):
In the media.

Speaker 19 (01:14:08):
This signifies peace through strength is back, and this president
will not tolerate illegal immigration into America's interior, and he
expects every nation on this planet again to cooperate with
the repatriation of their citizens who illegally entered into our
country and broke America's laws. Won't be tolerated and as

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you saw, the Colombian government quickly folded and agreed to
all the President Trump's demands.

Speaker 20 (01:14:34):
Flights are underway once again. Wadana.

Speaker 26 (01:14:38):
Two questions on deportations if I may. President Trump had
sign on the campaign trail that he would deport Prohama's
students who work here on visas, and on his first
day in office, he's sent an executive order that said, quote,
the US must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise
already president in the US do not bear hostile attitudes
towards the citizens.

Speaker 20 (01:14:59):
Culture.

Speaker 26 (01:14:59):
Government institutions are found in principles. So should we take
this executive order as Trump's saying he would be open
to deporting those students who are here on visas but
old Khama sypathies.

Speaker 19 (01:15:12):
The President is open to deporting individuals who have broken
our nation's immigrations laws. So if they are here illegally,
then certainly he is open to deporting them. And that's
what this administration is hard at work at doing. We
receive data from DHS and from ICE every single day.
From what we hear on the ground, ICE agents are
feeling incredibly empowered right now because they actually have a

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leader in this building who is supporting them and doing
their jobs that they were hired to do, which is
to detain, arrest, and deport illegal criminals who have invaded
our nation supporters over the past four years.

Speaker 20 (01:15:46):
That's what the President is committed to seeing, Peter.

Speaker 5 (01:15:48):
Thanks Jerl.

Speaker 27 (01:15:49):
That's very good.

Speaker 5 (01:15:50):
We've just following up on the question on immigration. First.
President Trump, during.

Speaker 27 (01:15:53):
The course of the campaign in twenty twenty four, said
the following about illegal immigration. He said, they're going back
home where they belong, and we start the criminals.

Speaker 5 (01:16:00):
There are many, many criminals.

Speaker 27 (01:16:02):
NBC News has learned that ICE arrested eleven hundred and
seventy nine on documented immigrants on Sunday, but nearly half
of them five hundred and sixty six of the migrants
appear to have no prior criminal record besides entering the
country illegally. Is the President still focused exclusively which is
a civil crime, not a it's not criminal federal crime.

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So I'm masking though he said he was going to
focus on those violent offenders first. So is violent offenders
no longer the predicate for these people to be deportd The.

Speaker 19 (01:16:30):
President has said countless times on the campaign trail. I've
been with him at the rallies. I know you've been
there covering them. To Peter that he has focused on
launching the largest mass deportation operation in American history of
illegal criminals. And if you are an individual, a foreign
national who illegally enters the United States of America, you
are by definition a criminal and so therefore you are

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subject to deportation.

Speaker 27 (01:16:51):
I apologize for interrupting, so to be clear, it's not
violent criminals do not receive precedents in terms of the
deportations taking.

Speaker 19 (01:16:57):
The President has also said two things can beat you
at the same time. You want to deport illegal criminals,
illegal immigrants from this country. But the President has said that,
of course the illegal criminal drug dealers, the rapists, the murderers,
the individuals who have committed heinous acts on the interior
of our country and who have terrorized law abiding American citizens,

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Absolutely those should be the priority of ICE. But that
doesn't mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our
nation's borders are off the table.

Speaker 27 (01:17:25):
Understood the Let me ask you a separate question about
the confusion that still exists across the country right now
as it relates to the freeze or the pause as
it's described. The President Trump, of course ran one of
the key policy items was that he was going to
lower prices, lower.

Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
The cost of everything from groceries, as he often said.

Speaker 27 (01:17:40):
But in many of the cases, it would seem that
some of these moves could raise prices for real Americans
on everything from low income heating that program, childcare programs.

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
Will nothing that the President's.

Speaker 27 (01:17:51):
Doing here in terms of the freeze in these programs
raise prices on ordinary Americans.

Speaker 20 (01:17:56):
What particular actions are you referring to.

Speaker 5 (01:17:58):
That with Veran's an l heap right now?

Speaker 27 (01:17:59):
That the low income Heating program, for example, we can
talk about. There's no clarity, so I could refer to
a lot of them. We don't know what they are specifically.
Can you tell us that l heap, that lie heap
is not one of those affected?

Speaker 19 (01:18:09):
So you're asking hypopthetical based on programs that you can't
even identify.

Speaker 20 (01:18:14):
What I can tell you is that.

Speaker 27 (01:18:16):
Since you guys haven't identified, let's do it together. Just
for Americans at home, Medicaid is that affected.

Speaker 19 (01:18:21):
I gave you a list of example social Security, Medicare, welfare,
benefits of food stamps that will not be impacted by
the federal pause. I can get you the full list
after this briefing from the Office of Management and Budget.
But I do want to address the cost cutting because
that's certainly very important and cutting the cost of living
in this country. President Trump has taken historic action over

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the past week to do that. He actually signed a
memorandum to deliver emergency price really for American families, which
took a number of actions.

Speaker 20 (01:18:52):
I can walk you through those. He also repealed.

Speaker 19 (01:18:55):
Many onnorous Biden administration regulations. We know over the past
four years, American households has been essentially taxed fifty five
thousand dollars in regulations from the previous administration. President Trump,
with the swipe of his pen, rescinded those which will
ultimately put more money back in the pockets of the
American people.

Speaker 20 (01:19:14):
So deregulation is a big deal.

Speaker 19 (01:19:16):
And then when it comes to energy, I mean, the
President signed an executive order to declare a National Energy
Emergency here at home, which is going to make America
energy dominant. We know that energy is one of the
number one drivers of inflation, and so that's why the
President wants to increase our energy supply to bring down
costs for Americans. The Trump energy boom is in coming
and Americans can expect that.

Speaker 7 (01:19:37):
Sure, thank you, Ji.

Speaker 28 (01:19:39):
I think some of the confusion I think maybe here
with this pause on federal funding.

Speaker 29 (01:19:42):
You've made it clear you're not stopping funds that go
directly to individuals. But there certainly are lots of organizations
that receive funding and then may pass along a benefit
meals on wheels. For one, they provide meals for over
two point two million seniors. What is the President's message
to Americans out there menu of whom supported him and
voted for him, who are co that this is going
to impact them directly, even if, as you said, the

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funding is it coming directly to their way.

Speaker 19 (01:20:06):
I've now been asked and answered this question four times
to individuals at home who receive direct assistance from the
federal government, you will not be impacted by this federal freeze.
In fact O and B just sent out a memo
to Capitol Hill with Q and A to clarify some
of the questions and the answers that all of you
are asking me right now Again, direct assistants will not

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be impacted. I've been asked and answered about this O
and B memo. There's many other topics of the day.
Jackie Hyer correct assistance in Carolina. It's going to another
organization and then trickling down direct assistance that is in
the hands of the American people will not be impacted again.

Speaker 20 (01:20:42):
As I said to Peter, we will continue to provide
that list as it comes to fruition.

Speaker 19 (01:20:46):
But O and B right now is focused on analyzing
the federal government's spending, which is exactly what the American
people elected President Trump to do.

Speaker 28 (01:20:54):
Caroline, Immigration, of the thirty five hundred arrests ICE has
made so far since President Trump came back to office,
can you just tell us the numbers how many have
a criminal record versus those who are just in the
country illegally.

Speaker 19 (01:21:06):
All of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws,
and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes.
I know the last administration didn't see it that way.
So it's a big culture shift in our nation to
view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal.
But that's exactly what they are here.

Speaker 20 (01:21:20):
They all have a criminal record and welcome to the
if they broke our nation's laws, yes, they are criminal.

Speaker 30 (01:21:25):
Yes, thank you on stripping security details for figures like
John Fulton, Pompey, O'Brien hook. Senator Tom Cotton said that
he's seen the intelligence and the threat from Iran is
real for anyone who played a role in the Solemani strike,
he voiced concerned it wouldn't just impact those individuals, but
potentially their family, and it's in bystanders, friends, anyone who's

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near them when they're out in public. Is the President
open to reconsidering his decision.

Speaker 19 (01:21:56):
The President was asked and answer this yesterday and he
was firm and his decision despite some of the comments
that you had referenced, And he's made it very clear
that he does not believe American taxpayers should fund security
details for individuals who have served in the government for
the rest of their lives. And there's nothing stopping these
individuals that you mentioned from obtaining private security. That's where
the President stands on it. I have no updates on that.

Speaker 20 (01:22:17):
Is there any concern that this decision might.

Speaker 30 (01:22:21):
Jeopardize the administration's ability to hire the best advisors for
these kinds of positions in the future.

Speaker 25 (01:22:28):
No.

Speaker 19 (01:22:28):
In fact, I've talked to the Presidential Personnel Office, who
has told me directly that there is such an influx
of resumes for this administration that it's incredibly overwhelming. There
is no lack of talent for the Trump administration.

Speaker 30 (01:22:39):
Reagan, have you take any responsibility if anything happened to
these people?

Speaker 20 (01:22:43):
Would he feel at all that his decision was a
factor in that.

Speaker 19 (01:22:46):
The President was asked and answer this yesterday and for
you to commerce, Reagan, since you're in the back row,
I hear you. The back row hasn't gotten that much
attention in the last four years. So I'm happy to
answer your question.

Speaker 31 (01:22:56):
You project, does the President intend to permanently cut off
fun to NGOs that are bringing illegal foreign nationals to
the countries, such as Catholic charities?

Speaker 19 (01:23:06):
I am actually quite certain that the President signed an
executive order that did just that, and I can point
you to that.

Speaker 20 (01:23:11):
Well, we're Caroline.

Speaker 31 (01:23:12):
President Trump issued an executive order on increased vetting for
refugees and visa applications. Part of that order was considering
an outright ban for countries that have deficient screening processes.

Speaker 20 (01:23:24):
As a president considered yet which.

Speaker 31 (01:23:25):
Countries might fall into this category or countries like Afghanistan
or Syria under consideration for a full ban.

Speaker 20 (01:23:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:23:31):
So the President signed an executive order to streamline the
vetting for visa applicants and for legal immigrants in this
country who are coming, of course from other nations. It
also directed the Secretary of State to review the process
and make sure that other countries around the world are
being completely transparent with our nation in the individuals that
they are sending here. So the Secretary of State has

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been directed to report back to the President. I haven't
seen that report yet. We've only been here for a
few days.

Speaker 32 (01:24:00):
Redstry One on the freezing federal funding, who advised the
president on the legality of telling government agencies that they
don't have to spend money that was already appropriated by Congress.

Speaker 19 (01:24:11):
Well, as the OMB memo states, this is certainly within
the confines of the law. So White House Counsel's office
believes that this is within the President's power to do it,
and therefore he's doing it okay, So they.

Speaker 32 (01:24:22):
Disagree with lawmakers who say that they don't have the
power to freeze this fire.

Speaker 19 (01:24:27):
Again, I would point you to the language and the
memo that clearly states this is within the.

Speaker 20 (01:24:30):
Law and all that happened.

Speaker 32 (01:24:31):
On Friday night, the administration fired several Inspectors general without
giving Congress the thirty day legally required notification that they
were being fired.

Speaker 20 (01:24:39):
I think only two were left, DHS and the DOJ.

Speaker 32 (01:24:43):
And then yesterday we saw several prosecutors that lived twelve
fired from the Justice Department who worked on the investigations
into the president. As you know, they are career prosecutors.
Therefore they are afforded civil service protections.

Speaker 20 (01:24:56):
How is the administration.

Speaker 32 (01:24:57):
Deciding which laws to follow and which ones to ignore?

Speaker 19 (01:25:01):
So it is the belief of this White House, in
the White House Council's Office, that the President was within
his executive authority to do that. He is the executive
of the executive branch, and therefore he has the power
to fire anyone within the executive branch that he wishes to.
There's also a case that went before the Supreme Court
in twenty twenty scale law LLC versus the Customs the

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Bureau Protection. I would advise you to look at that case,
and that's the legality that this White House was rested.

Speaker 32 (01:25:29):
I'm confident that if they bring lawsuits against you as
prosecutors who were fired that.

Speaker 20 (01:25:33):
They will we will win in court. Yes, he personally.

Speaker 32 (01:25:36):
Direct to this, given they worked on the class by
Document's investigation in the election interference investigation.

Speaker 19 (01:25:41):
This was a memo that went out by the Presidential
Personnel Office, and the president is the leader of this
White House.

Speaker 20 (01:25:47):
So yes, yes, Caroline, Carolineline.

Speaker 33 (01:25:50):
Thank you, congrats on your person guid and podium. Thank you,
President Trump. And is funding for undraw and also designated
the WHO he's a foreign terrorist organization. Both were decisions
that the previous administration had reversed.

Speaker 1 (01:26:06):
So here's my question.

Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
Will there be an.

Speaker 33 (01:26:08):
Investigation into who gave the previous administration this terrible advice?

Speaker 20 (01:26:13):
Well, that's a very good point.

Speaker 19 (01:26:15):
I haven't heard discussions about such an investigation, but it
wouldn't be a bad idea considering that the WHO these
certainly are terrorists. They have launched attacks on US naval
ships across this world, and so I think it was
a very wise move by this administration to redesignate them
as a terrorist group because they are, and I think
it was the fullest decision by the previous administration to

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do so. As for an investigation, I'm not sure about that,
but it's not a bad idea.

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
Josh, thank you for the question.

Speaker 16 (01:26:41):
I appreciated when you give sent in on the president's
plan for his tariff agenda. He spoke a lot about
this yesterday and there's a couple of dates coming up
these I've spoken to number one February first. He's alluded
to both the potential for terrans for Canada and Mexico,
but also China to take effect on those days. Whereas,
what's you thinking about that? Yeah, to those countries, expect
them again.

Speaker 19 (01:27:00):
He was asked to answer this question this past weekend
when he took a lot of questions from the press,
and he said that the February first date for Canada
and Mexico still holds.

Speaker 16 (01:27:09):
What about the China ten percent tariff that he also
amused tout last Tuesday going intoffect on.

Speaker 7 (01:27:14):
The same day.

Speaker 19 (01:27:14):
Yeah, the President has said that he is very much
still considering that for February first.

Speaker 16 (01:27:18):
Really yesterday he talked also about sectoral tariffs on for instance,
pharmaceuticals as well as semiconductor computer chips. You don't with steel,
aluminum and coffer, what's the timeline on those? Is that
a similar sort of coming days thing?

Speaker 19 (01:27:31):
Yeah, So when the President talked about that in his
speech yesterday, that actually wasn't a new announcement. That was
within a presidential memorandum that he signed in one of
the first days here in the White House on his
America First Trade agenda. So there's more details on those
tariffs and there as far as a date, I don't
have a specific date to read out to you, but
the President is committed to implementing tariff's effectively, just like

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he did in his first term.

Speaker 16 (01:27:52):
Finally, he also was asked on the plane when he
gaggled about the potentials for a universal tar if. He
was asked maybe about two and a half percent. It
was a report by that he said he won much
bigger than that. Should we understand that these tariffs would
add up, you know, in other words, you might have
country specific tariffs like Canada and Mexico China. You might
have sectoral tariffs like on pharmaceuticals, as well as a
potential universal tearff on top of that, to be stacked

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on one of the other, or would one sort of
take precedents over another.

Speaker 19 (01:28:18):
All I can point you to is what the President
has said on this front. The February first date for
Canada and Mexico. Also the China tariff that he has discussed.
He rejected the two point five percent tariff. He said
that was a little bit too low. He wants it
to be higher. I'll leave it to him to make
any decisions on that front.

Speaker 16 (01:28:33):
I feel like what the Mexicans Canadians have done so far.
Do you have any comment on whether that has met
the bar? What do you want to see on Freendill?

Speaker 7 (01:28:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 20 (01:28:40):
I won't get ahead of the president again on.

Speaker 19 (01:28:43):
Advocating to foreign nations on what they should or shouldn't
do to get away from these tariffs. The President has
made it very clear again that he expects every nation
around this world to cooperate with the repatriation of their citizens.
And the President has also put out specific statements in
terms of Canada and Mexico when it comes to what
he expects in terms of border security. We have seen

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a historic level of cooperation from Mexico. But again, as
far as I'm still tracking, and that was last night
talking to the President directly, February first is still on
the books.

Speaker 34 (01:29:12):
Phil Lady Caroline a quick programming note and then a
questions on tech.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
Well in terms of programming. Should we expect to see
you here every day? How frequently will these press bringing.

Speaker 20 (01:29:22):
Spa It is a good question, April.

Speaker 19 (01:29:24):
So look, the President, as you know, is incredibly accessible.
First day here, he wanted all of you in the
Oval Office. You got a sixty minute press conference with
the leader of the free world while he was simultaneously
signing executive orders. I may add that's pretty impressive. I
don't think the previous office holder would be able to
pull such a thing off. So look, the President is

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the best spokesperson that this White House has, and I
can assure you that you will be hearing from.

Speaker 20 (01:29:48):
Both him and me as much as possible.

Speaker 5 (01:29:51):
I have a question I have with tax cuts. You know,
the President has promised to extend the tax cuts from
the previous term.

Speaker 34 (01:29:57):
I'm curious, you know, does the President support or corresponding
spending cuts as some Republicans have called for in Congress,
and will the new Treasury Secretary be leading those negotiations
with the hell as Minutian did during the first administration.

Speaker 19 (01:30:11):
The President is committed to both tax cuts and spending cuts,
and he has a great team negotiating on his behalf.
But there's no better negotiator than Donald Trump, and I'm
sure he'll be involved in this reconciliation process as it
moves forward.

Speaker 35 (01:30:25):
Charon the announced that the emade last night on the
Iron Dome, it said the President had directed that the
United States will build this iron dome. Yeah, when you
read into the executive order, it seemed short of that.
It asked for a series of studies and reports back up.

Speaker 20 (01:30:44):
Can you tell us whether the President has.

Speaker 35 (01:30:46):
Directed this and if he is this concern on this issue.
Why the suspensions that we saw listed by omb included
so many different nuclear programs, non proliferation program programs to.

Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
Blend down nuclear weapons and so forth.

Speaker 19 (01:31:05):
First of all, when it comes to the Iron Dome,
the executive order directed the implementation of an iron dome.
It also, as you said, kind of directed research and
studies to see or how the United States can go
about doing this, particularly the Department of Defense. When it
comes to the other question that you asked about those

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specific programs, again, I would say, this is not a ban.
This is a temporary pause in a freeze to ensure
that all of the money going out from Washington, d
C is an aligned with the President's agenda and as
the Office of Management and Budget has updates on what
will be kick started once again, I will provide those
to you if one.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
Fire or five.

Speaker 35 (01:31:46):
For a sec what you were saying before in medicaid,
it wasn't clear to me whether you were saying that
no Medicaid would be cut off. Obviously a lot of
this goes to states before.

Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
It goes to individuals and so forth.

Speaker 35 (01:31:57):
So are you guaranteeing here to no indivi visual now
on Medicaid?

Speaker 5 (01:32:01):
We'll see you cut off because of the pause.

Speaker 20 (01:32:04):
I'll check back on that and get back to you,
John L.

Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
Thanks a lot, Caron.

Speaker 36 (01:32:07):
As you know, in the first week that the president
was an office signed and executive order as it relates
to birthright citizenship trying to eliminate that. Our twenty two
state attorney generals have said that this is unconstitutional. A
federal judge has just agreed with their argument. What's the
administration's argument for doing away with birthright citizenship?

Speaker 19 (01:32:32):
The folks that you mentioned have a right to have
that legal opinion, but it is in disagreement with the
legal opinion of this administration. This administration believes that birthright
citizenship is unconstitutional and that is why President Trump signed
that executive order. A legal immigrants who come to this
country and have a child are not subject to the

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laws of this jurisdiction. That's the opinion of this administration.

Speaker 20 (01:32:57):
We have already.

Speaker 19 (01:32:58):
Appealed the rule of the LA lawsuit that was filed
against this administration, and we are prepared to fight this
all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to,
because President Trump believes that this is a necessary step
to secure our nations borders and protect our homeland.

Speaker 5 (01:33:14):
Caroline.

Speaker 36 (01:33:14):
By foreign policy, if I may, the President's commitment to
the NATO Defense Alliance. Is it as strong as the
prior administration. Is it the same as when he served
as president in his first term in office.

Speaker 19 (01:33:28):
As long as NATO pays their fair share, and President
Trump has called on NATO allies to increase their defense
spending to five percent. You actually saw the head of
NATO at Davos last week on Bloomberg Television saying that
President Trump is right and if Europe wants to keep
itself safe, they should increase their defense spending.

Speaker 20 (01:33:46):
I would just add that.

Speaker 19 (01:33:47):
There was no greater ally to our European allies than
President Trump. In his first term the world for all
nations in Europe, and of course here at home was
much safer because of President a peace through strength diplomatic approach.

Speaker 20 (01:34:03):
Monica.

Speaker 29 (01:34:04):
Thank you, Caroline, and it's great to finally be called
on as.

Speaker 20 (01:34:06):
Well as the briefing room. I appreciate that welcome.

Speaker 37 (01:34:08):
Of course, we know President Trump just got back from
North Carolina and California meeting with victims of natural disasters.
There's the two year anniversary of the East Palestine, Ohio
toxic train derailment.

Speaker 20 (01:34:19):
Does the President have any plans to go visit the
victims of that toxic spill or just visit in general.

Speaker 19 (01:34:25):
No plans that I can read out for you here.
If that changes, I will certainly keep you posted. What
I can tell you is that President Trump still talks
about his visit to East Palestine, Ohio. That was one
of the turning points, I would say in the previous
election campaign where Americans were reminded that president is a
man of the people, and he as a candidate visited.

Speaker 20 (01:34:45):
That town that was just derailed.

Speaker 19 (01:34:47):
By the trained derailment, no pun intended, and he offered
support and hope, just like I saw the President do
this past week. It was a purposeful decision by this
president on his first domestic trip to go to North
Carolina into California to visit with Americans who were impacted
by Hurricane Helene and also by the deadly fires. A
red state and a blue state, both of which feel

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forgotten by the previous administration in the federal government that
has now ended. Under President Trump, he will continue to
put Americans first, whether they're in East Palestine, in Pacific Palisades,
or in North Carolina.

Speaker 5 (01:35:23):
Thank you, Caroline.

Speaker 38 (01:35:23):
On California, could you please clarify what the military did
with the water last night as reference in the President's
true social posts.

Speaker 19 (01:35:30):
The water has been turned back on in California, and
this comes just days after President Trump visited Pacific Palisades
and as you all saw, applied tremendous pressure on state
and local officials in Pacific Palisades, including Los Angeles, americaaren
bass to turn on the water and to direct that
water to places in the south and in the middle

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of the state that have been incredibly dry, which has
led to the expansion, the rapid expansion of these fires.

Speaker 38 (01:36:00):
Could you clarify what the military's role was, where the
water came from?

Speaker 20 (01:36:04):
And how it got there again.

Speaker 19 (01:36:05):
The Army Corps engineers has been on the ground in
California to respond to the devastation from these wildfires. And
I would point out that just days after President Trump
visited the devastation from these fires, the water was turned on.
That is because of the pressure campaign he put on
state and local officials there who clearly.

Speaker 20 (01:36:24):
Lack all common sense.

Speaker 19 (01:36:25):
And I will never forget being at that roundtable with
the President last week and hearing the frustration in the
voices of Pacific Palisades residents who feel as though their
government has just gone insane. Before President Trump showed up
on the scene, Karen Bass was telling private property owners
that they would have to wait eighteen months to access
their private property. So this administration, the President and his

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team that's on the ground in California, Rick Cornell, who
has designated to oversee this great crisis, will continue to
put pressure on Karen Bass and state and local officials
to allow residents to access their properties.

Speaker 20 (01:37:00):
This is a huge part of it.

Speaker 19 (01:37:01):
These residents want to take part in their own clearing
out of their properties. They should be able to do that.
It's the United States of America what happened to our freedom.
Clearly it's gone in California, but not anymore under President Chump.

Speaker 20 (01:37:13):
April Caroline, Welcome to the free from m Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:37:16):
Several questions.

Speaker 7 (01:37:17):
One on the pause.

Speaker 39 (01:37:18):
Will minority serving institutions, preferably colleges and universities, have those
moneies held back temporarily at this.

Speaker 19 (01:37:27):
Moment, Again, I have not seen the entire list because
this memo was just sent out, So I will provide
you all with updates as we receive them.

Speaker 20 (01:37:35):
Okay, So that's really also.

Speaker 39 (01:37:37):
Secondly, when it comes to immigration, there is this southern
border focus. What happens to those who've overstayed their visas?
That is part of the broken immigration system. In twenty
twenty three, there was a report by the Biden administration
of Homeland Security Department. It said overstays of VISUS was
three times more than usual. Will there be a focus

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on the overstays for visus?

Speaker 19 (01:38:00):
If an individual is overstaying their visa, they are there
for an illegal immigrant residing in this country, and they
are subject to deportation.

Speaker 39 (01:38:07):
And yes, well, lastly, as we're dealing with anti dei,
anti vote efforts, we understand this administration could thinking about celebrating.

Speaker 5 (01:38:16):
Black History Month.

Speaker 39 (01:38:17):
Have you got any word on that, anything that you
can offer to us?

Speaker 19 (01:38:20):
As far as I know, this White House certainly still
intends to celebrate and we will continue to celebrate American
history and the contributions that all Americans, regardless of race, religion,
or creed, have made to our great country.

Speaker 20 (01:38:31):
And America is back Christian Day talk.

Speaker 5 (01:38:33):
Thanks Carolyn.

Speaker 14 (01:38:35):
Just real quick, you mentioned the inflation executive over the
President signed but eight crisis of skyrocketed since President Trump
took office, So what specifically is he doing to lower
those costs for Americans?

Speaker 20 (01:38:47):
Really glad you brought this.

Speaker 19 (01:38:48):
Up, because there is a lot of reporting out there
that is putting the onus on this White House for
the increased cost of eggs. I would like to point
out to each and every one of you that in
twenty twenty four, when Joe Biden was in the Oval
office or upstairs in the residents sleeping, I'm not so
sure egg price has increased sixty five.

Speaker 20 (01:39:06):
Percent in this country.

Speaker 19 (01:39:09):
We also have seen the cost of everything, not just eggs, bacon, groceries,
gasoline have increased because of the inflationary policies of the
last administration. As far as the egg shortage, what's also
contributing to that is that the Biden administration in the
Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than
one hundred million chickens, which has led to a lack

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of chicken supply in this country, therefore lack of egg supply,
which is leading to the shortage.

Speaker 20 (01:39:35):
So I will leave you with this point.

Speaker 19 (01:39:37):
This is an example of why it's so incredibly important
that the Senate moves swiftly to confirm all of President
Trump's nominees, including his nominee for the United States Department
of Agriculture, Brook Rawlins, who is already speaking with Kevin Hassett,
who's leading the economic team here at the White House,
on how we can address the egg shortage in this country.

Speaker 20 (01:39:55):
As for costs, I laid out costs.

Speaker 19 (01:39:57):
I laid out the plethora of ways that President Trump
has addressed saving costs for the American people over the
past week.

Speaker 20 (01:40:04):
He looks forward to continuing and doing that in the
days of DAWA. Thank you guys.

Speaker 28 (01:40:09):
More and more border fore portals down in all fifty states.

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
Wow.

Speaker 13 (01:40:17):
All right, Caroline Levit just wrapping up her first news
conference as White House Press secretary, She of course is
twenty seven years old, pointing out that she is the
youngest White House Press secretary ever. A lot to discuss here,
I've taken several notes. So one of the first orders
of business she brought up the new Jersey drone, saying
that that they had been authorized by the FAA for

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research and.

Speaker 7 (01:40:39):
Quote other reasons. She went on to say though that
this was not the enemy.

Speaker 13 (01:40:44):
That information just coming from President Trump, she said, and
she of course passed that along, also going on to
say that there are going to be a number of
changes to the White House Press Corps and the people
credentialed to be in the White House Press Corps. Four
hundred and forty journalists who had their press credentials.

Speaker 7 (01:41:00):
Revoked will have those restored, she said.

Speaker 13 (01:41:03):
She also said that there would be an opportunity for
other independent journalists to apply for press credentials as part
of new Media, that they can do that immediately. And
then of course there were questions about Deep Seek, which
of course is a Chinese AI company. It's announcement yesterday
about how well it had been doing forced a nosedive

(01:41:24):
in the US markets. That of course has kind of
turned back around, but there are also questions about that
President Trump saying that he wants United States AIS to
be the dominant force in the AI business, so a
lot to address there. She of course also talked about
some of the key issues that we expected in terms
of immigration and deportations, all of that happening right now.

(01:41:45):
So it was a fully it was a wide ranging
news conference there at the White House, as it was
the first of the new Trump administration. We of course
will have more coverage here on Real America's Voice throughout
the day. For now, we're going to get you back
to the break and then we'll get you back to
all right, we're not going to go to the break
just yet, I'm hearing, so just kind of running down.

Speaker 7 (01:42:07):
Some of the other things that were said here.

Speaker 13 (01:42:10):
Obviously, Caroline Levitt also breaking down some questions about the economy.
It's one of the last questions she just took there.
People were asking about egg prices in particular, and Caroline
Levitt saying that part of the problem was what she
called a mass casualty event, if you will, involving chickens,
that the Biden administration had killed hundreds of thousands of

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chickens and that was part of the reason there was
a lack of eggs that were on the marketplace, and
that's part of the reason that the egg prices have
driven up. But that's obviously one of the issues that
the Trump administration plans to focus on. It was a
promise during the campaign from President Trump that he would
in fact cut prices that you're paying at the grocery store.

Speaker 7 (01:42:53):
Eggs, of course one of those things.

Speaker 13 (01:42:55):
Caroline leve at the White House Press Secretary pointing out
that egg price is doing and the Biden administration had
gone up about sixty five percent or so, so that's
one of the issues that they'll be talking about. All
of this coming right after President Trump was in Durral, Florida,
with legislative members, with lawmakers from Capitol Hill.

Speaker 7 (01:43:15):
They are still strategizing there.

Speaker 13 (01:43:17):
In Deral over the next two days to decide how
to help President Trump move his agenda forward. And today
we just got the first indication of some of the
work that has been done and some of the work
that still will be done in the Trump administration. We
of course will continue to follow all of this for
you here on Real America's Voice throughout the day. Our
Brian Glynn is on the ground there at the White House,

(01:43:38):
and we'll be checking in with him throughout the day
as well to get an update and to get some
more perspective on all of what we just heard. For now,
we're going to take a quick break, and then we'll
get you back to your regularly scheduled programming