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Episode 4296: Cheating And Weaponization; Failures Of Exporting American Culture Abroad
Episode 4296: Cheating And Weaponization; Failures Of Exporting American Culture Abroad ...
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Donald Trump
Javelins. And the expression was that Obama gave sheets and I gave javelins. That was a big deal at the time. Wiped out. That was the beginning where people said, wow, that's something. Well, that was American equipment. Without American equipment, this war would have been over very quickly. And American money too. I mean, a lot of money. That war fighting equipment and the ammunition that's sustained going forward for Ukraine and how long is it sustained? Well, it could go forward for a while and maybe until we have a deal with Russia. Look, we're going to, we need to have a deal with Russia, otherwise it's going to continue. But now when Americans put up their money, the taxpayer money, and the president approves it, we're getting our money back in some form. But it could go on for a while or it could be settled quickly. I think it's going to be settled quickly. I spoke with President Putin. I think he wants to settle it. And once you get on with life. It's horrible what's happening. Horrible. Thousands of soldiers a week are being killed and others too, but especially on the battlefield, thousands a week are being killed. And we want that to end. Yes. Okay, real quickly. Carolyn Levitt, your press secretary sent an earthquake through that briefing room earlier today, announcing that the WHCA would not have any control over placing media in the seats of the briefing room. Just want to get your thoughts on that.
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Brian
And also on Air Force One.
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Donald Trump
It's really, it's trending on X. People are talking about it. Get your thoughts. Well, we're going to be now calling those shots. As you know, we won that lawsuit right there. See the Gulf of America, which is a beautiful name. Most people agree. I don't know, it's, you know, AP has been terrible. Look, I think they're radical left. I think they're third rate reporters. I know the specific young lady that works on the account is terrible. She's a radical left lunatic as far as I'm concerned. They don't treat us fairly. That's number one. And number two, they had no right to do that. This is the Gulf of America. And if you look at that shoreline, look at that shoreline. Look. From Florida. Well, most of it is, it's called America and vast majority like big numbers. So I'm just admiring it as I look at it. I'm getting teary eyed. But I don't want you to say Trump broke down and started crying. How beautiful is that? Look at the shoreline. Look at that. That's America. Can I shift our attention to Canada real quick? Yes, please. Last week I spent some time with two government officials for Canada and I was asking them, how realistic is it that Canada would be the 51st state? And they told me there is a path. Alberta is first and if they sign on, Saskatchewan would follow. And then you go west to British Columbia. There is a movement in Canada to join us. Want to get your thoughts on that.
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Carolyn Levitt
And how that's proceeding right now?
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Donald Trump
So it's true. Thank you, Brian. It's true a lot of people in Canada are liking becoming our beautiful, cherished 51st day. They'll have to pay much lower taxes. They'll have the ultimate security. You know, they don't pay very much for security right now because they rely on us, which is really unfair to us. They make cars that we could make and they send them back into the United States. They make a lot of things, including the sending of oil and everything. We don't need their oil, we don't need their lumber. In fact, we're going to be freeing up, and I've asked Howard Lutnick to get that done with Lee and everybody. LEE zelden, ENVIRONMENTAL we're freeing up our forests. We're going to be able to take down trees now, you know, we're so restricted environmentally, we're going to be freeing it up with an emergency order. We have an emergency order and we're going to be freeing up our forests. We have more forests than almost anybody. And great lumber, great trees. We don't need anybody's trees. We don't need trees from Canada or anybody else. In fact, we have to put the slits, as they call them, the area, in a 50, 60 yard area in between areas of trees. It stops the fires. And frankly, California should have been doing that for years. It's almost getting late. They're going to run out of forests the way they're going. What a shame. And by the way, the water is flowing in California. I hope you people have seen it, but the water is flowing. Do you have a picture of that? Hold it up. Do you have a picture of that? Get a picture of it, please. You know, we had a little skirmish in California. I can't believe we had to do that. But we opened up the water in California. The water was flowing into a place called the Pacific Ocean, which for the Pacific Ocean is only a drop. But for us, it's more water than we can use in California. So I'll get you some photographs. But it's a beautiful sight. The water is flowing in California. Beautiful water from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. And it Flows down and instead of being routed out to the Pacific Ocean, and this has been going on for 20 years more in order to take care of certain species of fish which wasn't doing very well without water, I can tell you. So that's a big deal. It's like not reported. It's incredible. But California has a lot of water that's going to take care of farmers. It's going to wetten up the land and it's going to go all the way down to Los Angeles where they have curfews on water, where they have all sorts of blocks on water you can only use so much. And we're going to put a. Until just recently, they were going to put a number of gallons per person living in a house in Beverly Hills on water. You're not going to have that problem anymore. Do you have a picture? Let me just see what that looks like. How beautiful is that? Look at that beautiful water flow. Look at that. That's coming in the dikes and other means of transportation. Isn't that beautiful? Who would believe that that's all water they could have had? I went to the governor during my first term and I said, why don't you do this? And they said, environmental. They have an environmental problem with clean water. If this water were there, you wouldn't have had those fires. You had sprinklers. They make people put sprinklers in the ceiling of a home and they had no water in them. With this, they would have had a lot of water in them. They would have all been full. They would have had a. You would have had a whole different deal down there. You probably wouldn't have had a fire. But if it was, it would have been small, would have been put out. You had. The fire hydrant's not working in California. So it's a beautiful sight. These are canals that were built. These were all built. And you saw them for years. They were empty concrete. They call them the V shapes or the pipe half pipes. And they're shaped. Different forms, but they're shaped. And they rush down through the farm areas where the farmers can take it and down to Los Angeles. And they were sitting empty for years. And now look at that. Look at that way it looked. It wasn't easy. Weirda be very unfriendly to get into those areas. We opened it up. Mr. President, I essentially attacked California. Can you believe it?
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Brian
At the outset of your administration, sir.
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Donald Trump
You committed to ending the weaponization of government, to holding those accountable who participated in the weaponization of government. Hold it. This is a good one. Is everybody listening? Deranged Jack Smith. We're going to call it the Deranged Jack Smith signing or bill. Go ahead. One law firm that provided pro bono.
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Carolyn Levitt
Legal services to the special Counsel's office.
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Donald Trump
Under Jack Smith's leadership was Covington and Burling.
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Brian
As a result of those actions, we're.
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Donald Trump
Now going to be suspending and putting under review the security clearances for the attorneys and employees at that firm who worked with Jack Smith's team. And we're going to continue holding the people who were responsible for the weaponization of government, who supported it, accountable for what they did. And you'll be doing this with other firms as time goes by, Right? We're looking at sort of the whole panoply of options. The weaponization of our system by law firms, even pro bono work they're doing just in order to clog up government, stop government. And nobody knows about it more than me. And hopefully that will never happen again. So the Covington and Burlington. Covington and Burlington. Okay.
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Brian
Mr. President, may I ask you a question about Europe?
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Donald Trump
So, long term, do you plan to.
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Carolyn Levitt
Maintain the number of U.S. troops?
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Donald Trump
Wait, I just want to savor this one. Please. Who would like this pen? I'll take it. Why don't you send it to Jack Smith, a deranged person?
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Brian
Mr. President, what do you say to.
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Carolyn Levitt
People who worry that targeting an individual firm or individuals who aren't Jack Smith for his actions.
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Donald Trump
I've been targeted for four years longer than that, so you don't tell me about targeting. I was the target of corrupt politicians for four years and then four years after that, so don't talk to me about targeting. Mr. President, there are approximately 2 million federal employees right now. By the end of your term, what.
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Carolyn Levitt
Do you expect that number to be? What would you like that number to be?
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Donald Trump
Well, it'll be lower, but I can't tell you. We. Everybody knows I ran on downsizing government, but making government better. I ran on tariffs and making our country rich. And that's what it's going to do. We're going to be doing something else that's going to be very, very good. We're going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card. This is a gold card. We're going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million. And that's going to give you green card privileges. Plus, it's going to be a route to citizenship. And wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card. They'll be wealthy and they'll be successful and they'll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people. And we think it's going to be extremely successful. Never been done before or anything like this. But it's something that we're going to be putting out over the next. Would you say two weeks? Al, do you want to say a couple of words about it? Mr. President, are there requirements for that gold card? Do you have to invest a certain amount of money in this country in order to qualify for that gold card? Yeah, Exactly. So the EB5 program was really, you lend some money, but it was all, it was full of nonsense, make believe and fraud. And it was a way to get a green card that was low priced. So the President said rather than having this sort of ridiculous EB5 program, we're going to end the EB5 program. We're going to replace it with the trump Gold card, which is really a green card. Gold. So they'll be able to pay $5 million to the US government. They'll have to go through vetting, of course. We're going to make sure they're wonderful world class global citizens. They can come to America, the President can give them a green card and they can invest in America and we can use that money to reduce our deficit. Why do we give out lotteries of green cards? Why do we give out EB5 for green cards? President of the United States understands that the right answer is why don't we eliminate the deficit of the United States of America instead? And how? The gold card? The gold card. Well, millions. But the gold card will bring in with it people that create jobs, very high level people I think companies will pay to get people in. For instance, you today graduate from the Wharton School of Finance or Harvard or Stanford or any college and nobody knows if you can even go to work for a company. So Apple and all these companies that want to get people to be working for them will be able to buy a card. And for the people that are number one in their class at top schools, you know, I see that as one of the things, but generally speaking, it'll be people with money and people that create jobs and they won't have to pay any tax on income outside of the United States, which they're not paying right now. They're not citizens, but they'll have to pay. If they create jobs in the United States, they'll pay full taxes like everybody else. So you're getting big taxpayers, big job producers. And we'll be able to sell maybe a million of these cards, maybe more than that. And if you add up the numbers, they're pretty good. As an example, a million cards would be worth $5 trillion. Five trillion. Wow. And if you sell 10 million of the cards, that's a total of $50 trillion. Well, we have $35 trillion in debt. That would be nice. So we'll see. But it could be great. Maybe it will be fantastic. We have it all worked out from the legal standpoint. It's totally legal to do. Hasn't been done before. It's been done in many different forms. We give them away. Why should we give them away? We shouldn't give them away. And I think it's something very exciting. I think it's potentially just something that we're all very excited about. So it's a goal card, it's somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication. It's a road to citizenship for people and essentially people of wealth or people of great talent, where people of wealth pay for those people of talent to get in, meaning companies will pay for people to get in and to have long term status in the country. And I think it's something we're very, very happy about. Would you have anything to say about that? Many other countries, by the way, do this, including, of course, your 51st state does that.
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Carolyn Levitt
And the money's earmarked for deficit reduction.
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Donald Trump
It may be earmarked for deficit, but it actually could be more money than that. I mean, if you did 10 million, it would be. You'd have $15 trillion left over. But generally it's going to be paid down debt.
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Carolyn Levitt
Do you need Congress for this?
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Donald Trump
Do you think you need them to pass a law? I don't need Congress, no. Because we're not doing citizenship, we're doing the guard. It's a path. It's a path to citizenship. A very strong path to citizenship. But we're not doing the citizenship for that. I'd have to get Congress. And would all countries be eligible for this goal? It depends. The countries largely, the people will be vetted very carefully, Mr. President. On Ukraine, would you provide military support for Ukraine in the future under a peace agreement? Say it again louder. Would you provide military support for Ukraine in the future as part of this agreement? Well, people are going to do it. I think Europe will largely be responsible for that. European countries will be responsible. But Macron asked for a US Backup. Well, we'll see. I mean, right now we're just in the process of negotiating, we've pretty much negotiated our deal on raw earth and various other things. We'll be looking at that security. You're talking about general security for Ukraine later on. I don't think that's going to be. There are a lot of people that want to do it and I spoke with Russia about it. They didn't seem to have a problem with it. So I think they understand they're not going back in once we do this, they're not going back in. So not air defense or aircraft. Would the US provide, for instance, air defense? Well, I just told you right now, we're not providing anything. You know, it's about Europe too. Europe put in $100 billion and we put in $350 billion. It's not a fair thing. You know, we would normally say, and I say it now anyway, but we want equalization. They should put up actually more money than us because they're right there. We have an ocean in between. But we've had very good talks with Russia, We've had very good talks with Ukraine and we think it maybe will come to an end and we'll stop killing young people all over the battlefield. Mr. President, on Europe.
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Carolyn Levitt
So do you plan, maintain heavy military presence in Europe in the long term? Like tens of thousands of troops?
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Donald Trump
We want to withdraw some. Yeah, we'll be involved in Europe. We're involved in Europe now. Europe is our friend. They took advantage of us on trade. We don't like that. What the EU does, we don't like that. But we'll solve that the old fashioned way. We'll give them the same reciprocal numbers. You know, we're talking about a reciprocal tax, you know that. And if they charge us, we charge them right now they charge us much, much more than we charge them. And they have non monetary taxes also on tariffs. And we're going to change that. It's all changing. It's all changing. We're not going to be the people that we were. We had people in this office sitting right at this desk or another model of this desk because as you know, the other desk is right now being refurbished. Is Steve Witkoff delaying his trip to the Middle east and what. No, no, not that I know on the field, Steve. And the Middle east has, Saudi Arabia has treated us really well. They really have. And I think Qatar has treated us very well too. They want to, they want to get that whole mess ended in the Middle East. You know, we don't even talk about that anymore. You guys haven't asked One question about the Middle east, but the Middle east seems to be doing relatively well. May I ask about the Middle East?
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Carolyn Levitt
For months, even before you were elected.
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Donald Trump
In November, you've spoken about your desire to free all of those hostages that.
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Carolyn Levitt
Had been held by Hamas since October.
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Donald Trump
7, a year and a half ago. And just a few weeks ago, you gave an ultimatum. You said if they're not all released.
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Carolyn Levitt
By noon on February 15, there would.
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Brian
Be hell to pay.
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Donald Trump
Is Hamas thumbing their nose at you, Mr. President? No, I think the opposite. So, as you know, they weren't going to release any more hostages. And I said, there's going to be hell to pay. And then they agreed that they were going to release the hostages that they had agreed to release, plus an extra one. And so that you could say that was a big difference. But I said it. From that point, it's up to Bibi Netanyahu and Israel. I may have taken a different stance, but they did release. They went back to releasing the hostages. But if you remember, they said we weren't going to release any. They've totally ended it. And I said, well, they're not going to release any. They'll be held to pay. And. But the rest is really up to him. What? I may have done it differently than him. It's not my decision, it's his decision. But they did release all of those hostages.
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Carolyn Levitt
Mr. President, when you spoke to Vladimir Putin, did he raise or did you.
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Brian
Discuss at all the possibility of a.
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Carolyn Levitt
Minerals deal on the Ukrainian land that Russia now controls? Striking a deal with Russia?
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Donald Trump
I'd like to buy minerals on Russian land, too, if we can. Rare earth. They have very good rare earth also. They both do. I would say that. And oil and gas. Look, it's a great thing if we sell. It's great for Russia, too, because we can do deals there. They have very valuable land that isn't utilized. So something like that could take place. Yeah.
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Brian
Have you put raising or lifting sanctions.
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Carolyn Levitt
Against Russia on the table, as you're.
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Donald Trump
No, we haven't looked at any sanctions.
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Brian
Are they on the table as part of any negotiations?
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Donald Trump
I guess it will be at some point, but right now, we haven't agreed to lift sanctions on anybody on that gold card. Getting back to that, I'm fascinated by this. You should be fascinated. Your taxes will go down to nothing. Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card? Yeah, possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people. It's possible they're not quite as wealthy as they Used to be. They're not as wealthy as they used to be. I think they could afford. I think they could afford 5 millionaire so that they would be eligible. A lot of people are going to want to be in this country, and they'll be able to work and provide jobs and build companies and pay taxes, all of those things. It's an incredible. It's an incredible thing. I mean, this is the group that is the first to hear it. Nobody has heard about it. Nobody ever thought about it, but we've been thinking about it very, very strongly over the last week. And I was going to announce it sometime next week, and I figured, why not? We have a lot of cameras blazing right now. Might as well. We might as well do it now. We'll have Caroline announce it the next time. No, it's a great thing, the gold card. Remember the words the gold card? Somebody said, can we call it the Trump Gold card? I said, if it helps use the name Trump, I'll give it to you for free.
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Carolyn Levitt
Mr. President, you probably just launched 10,000 stories.
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Donald Trump
Do you want to elaborate a little bit more on what Russian oligarchs you know or don't know? Isn't it interesting how many stories we do tell and they all turn out to be true and they all turn out to be ultimately correct? Trump was right about everything. Do you have one of those Trump was right about everything hats? I'm going to give it to this gentleman. Everybody gets vetted, okay? They get vetted. So you gotta, you know, we're going to begin in two weeks. About two weeks. The sale will start in about two weeks. Mr. President, do you see a more.
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Carolyn Levitt
Active role for Zelensky now, given the status?
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Donald Trump
I hope so. I mean, look, I think that we want to get that country back on its feet, and right now it's been destroyed. And so. Here, give me all of them. Look, Trump was right about everything. Just came in. Somebody sent. I said, this was sent in by a fan. I said, I think we should make some of them right. But we were pretty much. You want one?
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Carolyn Levitt
I'll pass.
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Donald Trump
Are you allowed to take one?
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Carolyn Levitt
Probably not.
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Donald Trump
You'll consider it? I know. Sort of a stiff. Brian. I'll take one. He'll take other things, but not a free hand. Always say yes to the president. Always say yes to the president. Would anybody like one? Mr. President, an easy question. Perhaps for you, maybe it's difficult. I'm going to ask you this question about the. Who do you work for? I work for two news organizations. I work for two news organizations. I Work for Great Television, America's second largest broadcaster.
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Carolyn Levitt
And I work for iHeartRadio.
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Donald Trump
So there you go. Let me ask you the easier, tough question, Mr. President. The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl. Are they being extended an invitation? They will be. We haven't yet, but we will be. I thought it was a great performance by them and absolutely they'll. They'll be extended that invitation. Would you do that right away, buddy?
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Carolyn Levitt
Yes, sir.
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Donald Trump
We'll do it right away. We're going to do it sometime today and they deserve to be down here and we hope to see them. We have a lot of team. We just had the great hockey team, as you know, Florida come here. We have many of the great athletes come that win things. What's the main obstacle holding up this PGA Tour Lib golf? Well, they have to get together. You know, they've had a lot of discussion back and forth. They both are meaning well. And a deal will ultimately happen. I think it will happen pretty quickly. It would be nice to see the golfers, the best golfers, be able to play against each other. What's your role been in this whole process? Just to help expedite it, Tiger was here, Adam Scott was here. Jay Monahan was here the other day just to really help expedite it. We had Yasser here from Saudi Arabia. Great guy. These are all great people and they want to work it out. So if I can help them work it out, I don't get anything out of it. If I can help them work it out. I just think golf, it's very much of an individual sport and you want to see the best players playing against each other, not playing in two different locations. Right.
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Brian
What's going to be more challenging, a PGA live deal or a Russia Ukraine deal?
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Donald Trump
I think the PGA deal is much more powerful. Sir, may I ask another Middle east.
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Carolyn Levitt
Question, if I may? What's your take on what's happening in.
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Donald Trump
The west bank and what Israel is talking about? Well, it's a movement up there that a lot of people are concerned about and there's been a lot of Israeli movement up there for a reason. All of a sudden maybe they're not feeling so good about that. So that would be terrible. I hope that doesn't happen. But there is movement up there that nobody knew about. Right? You know that, right?
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Carolyn Levitt
Yeah. And when you say, are you concerned.
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Donald Trump
About it as well? I'm concerned about everything. I want the world to be peaceful. You know, when I left here, we had no war. We had defeated ISIS in less than four weeks. In fact, I took the general that defeated isis and I put him in charge of the whole ballgame, because that's what we want. We want winners. Raisin Cain. You know Raisin. When I heard that name, I said, I like that name. That's the kind of general I like. So we'll see. But he was great. He's a great soldier. Not a politician, a soldier. A real soldier. You know that, Brian. This guy was. I do. I've heard this story a million times. Yeah. This guy is the real deal. He is. And I think he's going to do a great job. But think of it. We had no wars. We had no problems. We had no inflation. We had no problems. And then all of a sudden, you have October 7th in Israel, which was horrible. And then you. You see what happened with Ukraine would have never. Russia would have never gone in if the election weren't rigged. It was a rigged election. The 2020 election was rigged, and we got out of it. And you see what happened. You see what happened to our country? Inflation, Afghanistan, that horrible withdrawal from Afghanistan. I think when Russia saw what happened in Afghanistan, they said, wow, it's a paper tiger. We're not a paper tiger. We are the strongest military force in the world. And by the way, Pete Hegseth is doing a great job. But we didn't have wars, we didn't have inflation. We had a strong border. We had everything going good. And then Biden got in, and he's my opinion, the worst president in the history of our country. I think Jimmy Carter was a very happy man when he passed away two weeks ago. What are you expecting at the Cabinet meeting tomorrow? It'll be a Cabinet meeting and I'll preside. Unlike Biden, I'll preside over my own cabinet.
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Brian
Mr. President on the CQ.
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Donald Trump
Brown on the. Damn. You compare your Cabinet in your second term to your Cabinet that you had in your first term? Well, I had some great people my second term. I think this is deeper. I think it's better because it's deeper. I had some people that I didn't really like too much in my Cabinet, but I didn't know Washington that much. I was a New York person. I knew New York intimately, but I had to rely on people. I had great people. Look, we got the biggest tax cuts in history. I rebuilt the military. I mean, we did so much. We did unbelievable even right to try. Somebody was saying today they were saved by right to try. We did right to try. Medically, we did transparency. Medically, that was A big thing. But Biden canceled that one. He didn't cancel Right. To try, which is interesting. He didn't cancel Space Force. He was going to cancel Space Force. Space Force is turning out to be invaluable. Amazing. We created Space Force, but think of it, we rebuilt our entire military and now we're going to have to patch it up a little bit again because of the what's happened. No, this was a grossly incompetent administration. The only thing they were good at was cheating in elections and the weaponization of government. Thank you very much, Everybody.
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Brian
Thank you, Mr. President.
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Donald Trump
Thank you. Thank you, guys.
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Carolyn Levitt
It's Tuesday, the 25th of February, year of our Lord 2025. Right there. President Trump holding court as he signs executive orders. Some of those executive orders a little controversial. The Trump gold card. I got to wrap my head around that. But he said the Biden administration was great for two things, cheating. Cheating and weaponization. And I think he's correct on both of those. Another huge day of Days of Thunder. Do we have our first guest up? Is he up? Correct. We're getting him right now. Michael Benz, Mike Benz is going to join us. Huge development in that story. The story is about this, I guess a chat room or a thread in a chat room with senior people in the National Security Agency and I think other people in the intelligence community. Absolutely kind of demonic or what they're talking about. Tulsi Gabbard, I think, has just signed something that has signed something that's going to out the names of these people. So this is going to be a huge Mike Benz, who's been so terrific about following the security, the national security in the Intelligence Committee. Mike Benz is going to join us also. Eric Teitzel from cra. As it stands right now, I don't think it's changed here in the last few minutes. They're trying to schedule a vote on this budget resolution which will kind of kick off the process for the reconciliation for the one big beautiful bill. You got to get this first. The House will try to pass it tonight and then see if the Senate wants to act on it. Senate doesn't want to act on it. I think it becomes part of it or the sun can come up with their alternative. A lot of confusion on Capitol Hill. People all day tweeting, talking about the cr let's get this done now. Let's make sure it's not a year end. Cr. How are we going to get the, how are we going to get the Doge cuts in there then on this side, the reconciliation with the budget, all very confusing. But just remember the process is President Trump's trying to push his agenda, the agenda of a supply side tax cut. He needs to do that through a budget reconciliation process. So that will begin tonight. I was very skeptical earlier today when Johnson said at first they scheduled it, then he said later, well, it's either tonight or, you know, it'll be sometime. I thought that was an indication that he did not have, he did not have the, did not have the votes. And I've been, people I'm talking to thought it might be not even this week or next week before they rounded everybody. I think there's been some whipping of the vote since then. It's supposed to be at 6:30 tonight. We will cover that live on the CR. I am told that the continued resolution for this year, there's still significant number of votes short and the Democrats have told them they're not going to bail them out. So that's not going to happen. President Trump right there talking about everything from trying to do the merger of LIV golf and the PGA Tour. Obviously President Trump very interested in that as a, as a guy that takes golf very seriously, takes tour golf very seriously and the majors very seriously, everything to what's happening in Ukraine. And I understand we're on the half yard line on the Ukraine deal, which is the minerals deal, the way it's been structured and as you saw it yesterday, Macron, they're still trying to get American security guarantees. Their belief is if they get the United States in for some sort of development project with their minerals and remember most of their minerals, I believe, at least the way I understand the geography of Ukraine, are not simply in the eastern part of Ukraine, but very close to the Donbas. So I don't know how that's going to work without some sort of Russian, you know, at least acknowledgement. And I think they'll be part of this Russian rapprochement that, you know, the Europeans once again trying to get us entangled in the Ukraine. The Ukraine deal makes perfect sense or as perfect sense as you can get in this day and age as part of an overall Russian rapprochement. I think I've got Mike Benz. Mike Benz. Mike, you join us. Tulsi Gabbard just put out a tweet or a tweet out about Tulsi, about what she may be doing. This nsa, can you explain to our audience, given your knowledge of the intelligence community kind of this, what's coming out on Twitter the last couple of days? It Seems, Seems quite depraved, perverted, demonic. I don't know what you want to say, you know, how you refer to it, but can you tell our audience exactly technically what's been going on and what has been revealed by this?
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Brian
Sir, yes, there have been communications with the CIA, nsa. These are over unclassified channels, but essentially, just like private corporations like Google have essentially chat groups that are designed for inclusivity and basically in group solidarity for various identity groups in the intelligence community, you have these LGBT and sort of queer centric affinity groups that have been using the CIA and NSA unclassified comms channels to basically, you know, say this charitably, to talk. Talk ill of domestic political opponents. Of course, CIA and NSA are both supposed to point outwards. They're not supposed to opine at all on domestic affairs, especially domestic political affairs. They're supposed to answer to the democratic will of the domestic population. And the fact that, of course, as Chuck Schumer famously said, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you to use those foreign facing dirty tricks to target domestic political opponents. The fact that they couldn't even keep it in their pants long enough to do it on their own cell phones, to do it on their own messaging apps on their own phones, they couldn't wait to get to the office to conspire with their friends about, you know, celebrating the death of people like Pat Robertson and to, you know, call Tulsi Gabbard a Russian agent or, you know, an enemy of the queer community. Not sure even where they're getting that from, you know, is evidence of just how deep the ideological rot has gotten within the intelligence core.
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Carolyn Levitt
So let me get this straight so the audience can understand this. You have these affinity groups, they use these comm channels, text messaging, chat rooms, whatever, at least sponsored or somehow on the apparatus of the server of the intelligence. These various intelligence apparatuses. And this affinity group is what? Transgender lgbtq? Is that what it is, this affinity group?
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Donald Trump
Yeah.
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Brian
And it's important to remember here that there was a reorientation of the intelligence community towards this. While Kamala Harris was vice president and when she was on oversight of the Senate Intelligence Committee, there was a famous episode, I forget if it was reported by the New York Times or Politico, but where Kamala Harris described getting CIA analyst memos on geopolitics of countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe and whatnot. And she gave orders for the CIA analysts to type the memos up again or to, going forward, make sure that the language in the CIA Analyst memo was gender inclusive. For example, she cited, according to mainstream news reporting, that a term was used to describe a female foreign leader that would not be used, in her opinion, for the same activities by a male foreign leader. And so, as has been reported, she basically wanted the intelligence community to completely reorient the language it uses in intelligence analyst memos, the culture of the organization to basically have ideological dominance of the exact section that we now see is doing domestic political targeting and using official CI, NSA comms channels for, you know, basically a combination of a kink, you know, a kink sex talk, a, you know, a domestic targeting outlet and, you know, a gossip column.
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Carolyn Levitt
We'll get to the domestic targeting a second. But the kink part, doesn't that make people in the intelligence community more vulnerable to be influenced, blackmailed, influenced, et cetera, by foreign powers? Isn't that, doesn't the intelligence community think that that is a concern that these people may be exposed and may be open to blackmail?
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Brian
Well, that was always the knock from the 1950s until, you know, the 1970s, 80s. It was always the, you know, the, the traditional FBI, you know, concern was that members of the LGB, LGB community, this is sort of before the T took over, you know, because there was social stigma around homosexuality in the mid 20th century that it, that, you know, folks in high level political spheres who had a deep dark secret at risk of being exposed would be at risk, at risk for blackmail. And this was, you know, this was something that was a not inconsiderable part of, you know, U.S. counterintelligence in the mid 20th century. But then I think as LGBT was exported around the world by US Intelligence as a means to sort of break up post Soviet states and draw them into a more liberal Euro Atlantic order. And as the sort of geopolitics of gender and sexual identity became weaponized, as we're seeing with usaid, for example, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year, if not low billions of dollars a year on transgender dance festivals, LGBT music conferences, and all sorts of cultural affinity groups. And a large part of that is because it stands in such stark contradiction to the norms of the, the former Soviet empire and the legacy paternalistic Russian influence as well as the Chinese, that they're useful affinity groups abroad. And so you sort of have a similar situation where just the promotion of that at a movement and at a cultural level has, you know, can have some blowback when you start to see this type of clustering, you know, attacking heteronormative, you know, communities essentially.
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Carolyn Levitt
So, yeah, and I'm not making a value judgment about whatever people do in their own personal and private life. The question I'm asking, this is a group, this is a group chat, right, which would be open to be, to be broken by foreign agents. And here in the group chat, they're open and this thing gets pretty salacious. Isn't that a problem with the intelligence community having this type of platform where whatever people do in their personal private life is what they do in their personal private life? But here you're actually making it almost like theater. And it's out there for. It seems to me to be very easy for foreign intelligence agencies, particularly the ccp, who are brutal about this kind of stuff. That's why I can't imagine how this went on. And what you're saying is essentially officially sanctioned by previous administrations of the intelligence community.
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Brian
Well, it was a major emphasis of Kamala Harris during her time because remember before she was vice president and running for president and backed by, if you remember there was the 50 plus intelligence community support letter for Kamala Harris over Joe Biden. She had bipartisan support during the time that internationalist Republicans really dominated the Republican wing of Congress during Trump's first term while she was on the Senate Intelligence Committee before she became Vice president and then the presidential nominee for the dnc. So, you know, this super protected group status effectively means that if you, if you castigate the, you know, the attempt to use official comms channels as private sex chats that you are, what would normally be impropriety if it was done in the heterosexual community is, becomes almost like a hate speech, targeted attack on a protected class when the same standards are held to that community. I think that was at least the cultural norms that were set up by the Biden Harris, by the Biden Harris oversight and implementation of the executive branch intel corps.
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Carolyn Levitt
And there was also open almost targeting of political opposition. It puts to a joke that these groups are apolitical, right? There was open derision and actual potential targeting of political opposition, sir.
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Brian
Yeah, I mean they openly, they openly celebrated the death of Pat Robertson, you know, saying that if there's, you know, smoke, if it felt smoky today, it was because the gates of hell had just opened up. And you know, and you know, the, the deceased conservative had just entered and then, you know, followed by five or six similar chat messages that were all spiking the football. And you know, these, these sorts of things are standard fare in the rough and tumble of a comment section, you know, where you have red team, blue team. But the fact is is the intelligence community is where the darkest arts are practiced. This is where we overthrow governments. This is where we do gain of function, funding for freak viruses. This is where we provide clandestine support for terrorist groups and paramilitaries. There's a license to kill effectively given to these agencies. So when the civilians who pay these people's paychecks see that they have their sights directly on the taxpayers of this country, where they're not even allowed to operate, I think it resonates with something, with a very deep and legitimate fear in the US population, which is that when you are given. When you are a spy agency who is authorized to lie legally under NSC 10, 2, plausible deniability. When you are authorized to overthrow democratically elected governments and do all the malfeasance of traditional CIA spy craft, there's a special burden on you to, you know, just like judges are held to a standard beyond impropriety, they have to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Whether there was propriety or not, they should not even come close to the line. And in this case, they blew so far over it that, you know, the smoke, so to speak, was the exhaust pipe from these channels that they were having. But like I said, if this. I mean, this is the unclassified comms that we got. Imagine what's in the classified documents. Imagine the domestic targeting and the language in CIA NSA analyst memos during the Biden administration around populism. I mean, populism was a major target of intelligence work because it was defined as a threat to democracy itself. So I can only imagine what's in the classified files around targeting of these various groups that in the unclassified, they're celebrating the deaths of openly.
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Carolyn Levitt
Mike. This plays into those of us that think this is a. The intelligence apparatus is completely and totally out of control, not supervised. And where it is supervised, it's to be weaponized against the American people. What is your recommendation? Because obviously you're very highly regarded in MAGA circles, but you're also very highly regarded at the senior levels of the White House, the administration. What is Mike Benz's conclusion here? What has to be done about this situation?
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Brian
Keep cleaning house? I think everything that's being done is incredibly heartening to see. I actually don't think there has ever been this much pressure on the rogue intelligence agencies here in the US in the entirety of US History. There was a. There was a moment of reform in the late 1970s during the church and Pike Committee hearings, during what was called the Halloween massacre, when Jimmy Carter fired 30% of the CIA and slashed their budget. You know, there's it's now, it's been floated that up to half of CIA officers or agents or analysts could be fired in the upcoming months, which would be even more severe and drastic than what was done under Jimmy Carter. And then when you combine the fact that USAID has been slashed and USAID is the primary money funnel that builds up the institutions that CIA then works with to conduct operations, I don't think there's anything that's been close in previous years to what has been done just in the past month. But you can expect opposition on this from several places. The judges there's going to be a full court press to go to jurisdictions in New York or wherever they can find favorable judges to try to stop that firing process from happening. I think it's already underway. Elon and the Doge people, with the consent of the treasury and Donald Trump, have offered golden parachutes essentially to CIA personnel. This has greatly bothered the CIA in exile folks who are telling people, don't take the money because they offered eight months, eight months severance. Basically, you get eight months of your CIA paycheck if you if you leave that that way we're paying you without you having to work.
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Carolyn Levitt
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Brian
State well, it's important to remember that it's all connected. In this case it was CIA and nsa, but CIA is primarily a COVID support mechanism for the State Department and NSA is a COVID support mechanism for the Pentagon. And so it's all connected. This attempt to clean out the rogue elements and the rot within the intelligence community means that the same pressure needs to be applied at State and at dod. So obviously USAID has come under intense pressure, but State will be inheriting usaid and so all of those programs and all those functions that were being done to project soft power influence. For example, we talked about how some of these gender identity and sexual orientation identity aspects have been weaponized by US Statecraft for decades now as a way to try to implement regime change or try to alter the course of elections. Great example this for example, the CIA Red Cell memo that was disclosed by WikiLeaks from 2010 showed that when the CIA, when the State Department was frustrated that France and Germany that their parliaments were not taking more taxpayer dollars from Germans and French citizens to support the NATO war effort in Afghanistan, the CIA analyst memo proposed to the State Department based on their own fieldwork and polling surveys they'd done that if the messaging is changed from a national security predicate to support the war to a feminist predicate to support the war by changing the State Department messaging and the USAID media funded messaging away from Afghans as terrorists to Afghan women as being oppressed, that that would lead more of the German population and French population because 50% of the voters are women and you have many men who are sympathetic to the women's rights issues that that would lead European parliaments to vote to give more money for the NATO war in Afghanistan. And you see this play out in country after country, this selective analysis of the demographics of a country in order to build up those capacities, in order to implement, to achieve aims that are deemed beneficial to U.S. statecraft. And so I think that this has now gone on so long that we're now seeing blowback at home. There's a parallel, for example, with our migrant and refugee programs. The primary function of our refugee programs and migrant programs are to bring people from foreign countries in war torn areas where their families are part of militias or, or political royalty who's being oppressed there, bring them to safety in the us, pay for their entire lifestyles and have tens of thousands of them send back remittances that basically fund a CIA or Special Forces proxy war in the region. But then those people stay here and they in turn exert their own influence over the politics. And there is blowback. This is what's happening in London, for example, with Pakistan. Pakistan plays a major role in British statecraft in Central Asia and even into Romania and Ukraine. And the fact that there's been such a huge amount of importing of those refugee communities who are playing a useful role to Great Britain in terms of funding the British war effort in the great game against Russia. You see the same thing happening with gender and sexual orientation blowback here in the intelligence community who works again with those elements, you know, abroad for statecraft purposes. So this has to be a holistic effort is what I'm saying. You see this at CIA and nsa, you have to take it all the way up to the chain to the State Department and DoD. And that means Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth have their, have their work cut out for them.
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Carolyn Levitt
Wow. Tulsi Gabbard, extraordinary. Benz, where can we get you? I know on social media you're active, influential and a must read. Where do people go?
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Brian
Ikebencyber on X and the website is foundationforfreedomonline.com.
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Carolyn Levitt
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Brian
Thanks, Steve.
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Carolyn Levitt
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