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Ep. 2128 - Bernie Goes NUTS: DENOUNCE THE ONESIES!
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Well, folks, horrible tragic situation in Washington D.C. according to the UK Daily Mail, an American Airlines passenger jet with 64 people on board crashed midair into a military helicopter while attempting to land at Reagan National Airport. This is one of the most heavy, heavily policed areas of the sky in all of America. Reagan national, of course, a very sensitive security site given the fact that it has close proximity to pretty much all of the major American security sites in Washington D.C. the tragedy is just shocking. You can see on video as this American Airlines passenger at a small passenger jet that was taking off from Kansas is trying to land at Reagan national. And a helicopter which was swirling around in the area, a Blackhawk military helicopter, flies directly into its path. And it's pretty clearly an accident. There's a lot of speculation last night. I don't like doing speculation, but particularly in situations like this where all the information is not available. The video is shocking and horrifying. This is some camera footage that was available, some security camera footage available. From afar, you can see the fireball that is created as the plane hits the helicopter. Here. You can see the explosion happening. Near the bottom of the screen, there's a close up, you can see the helicopter approaching the flight. Flying directly into the path of the airplane, it explodes in midair. It breaks apart. It lands in the Potomac River. Everybody aboard apparently dead. That includes members of the U.S. figure Skating Community who'd been returning home from the National Development Camp, which is an advanced training camp for promising young athletes held in conjunction with U.S. figure Skating Championships. As many as 15 people on the flight may have been involved in figure skating. According to the reports, it included a married couple, Russian married couple, and Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who apparently won world championship in figure skating back in 1994. Again, there were three soldiers who were aboard the Blackhawk helicopter. Just a horrifying, tragic scenario. We'll bring you the latest as more news becomes available. But at this point, all you can really do is pray for the families because there are no survivors. From what we know at this point, bodies have been fished out of the Potomac. This is gonna mandate serious change, I'm sure, in how Reagan national is run. And that is some very busy airspace. Despite the fact that it's very sensitive airspace. The last time there's a major American plane crash was 2009. It's been a long time in the United States. These are very rare. The United States does have the safest aviation system on planet Earth. So when this sort of stuff happens, it is truly, truly shocking, horrifying and tragic. Once again, our prayers go out to the family. We'll bring you more information on how people can give charity and help out as time goes on, as that information becomes available. Okay. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C. the big story of the day was that RFK junior Bobby Kennedy had his hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services. He, of course, is one of the more controversial nominees by President Trump, both from the right and from the left. From the left, there are a lot of people who question Bobby Kennedy's association with President Trump, the fact that he gave a pretty bang up speech leaving the race. He was running originally as a Democrat. He was basically barred from the Democrat primaries because the Democrats were trying to rig it for Joe Biden. And then he ran as an independent and he was picking up a not insignificant portion of the vote and he decided to drop out and endorse President Trump. In that speech, he went after many of the Democrat controlled systems ranging from the media to academia. So there's a lot of ire from Democrats who used to love Bobby Kennedy. At Bobby Kennedy on the right side of the aisle, there's some dyspepsia over many of Bobby Kennedy's prior positions, ranging from abortion to his sort of broad position on vaccines. So his hearing yesterday was, I think, an excellent job by Kennedy of walking back some of the positions that are more extreme, generally anti vaccine positions or positions that suggest that he's going to outright work to ban foods that he doesn't like. The implication had been from many people that make America healthy again was really going to be a sort of Michael Bloomberg effort to ban you from buying a soda or buying a hamburger. And Bobby Kennedy said, no, that's not the case. He said right off the top, listen, I'm not interested in taking people's food away. The President of the United States is Donald Trump. That dude loves. That dude loves McDonald's, he loves diet Coke and he loves cheeseburgers. Those ain't going away. I don't want to take food away from anybody. If you like a cheeseburger, a McDonald's cheeseburger, Diet Coke, which my boss loves, you should be able to get them. If you want to eat Hostess Twinkies, you should be able to do that. But you should know what the impacts are on your family and on your health. Okay? The fact that he's pushing for more information being available is not a terrible thing. He says that his tenure at the head of hhs, if he is confirmed, will be marked by radical transparency which of course would be a major shift from the past. The Democratic Party, of course, has not embraced radical transparency in any area of administrative law. All the administrative agencies have basically been opaque. You only find out when you violated a law because you get a summons from some sort of executive branch agency. Here is RFK Jr suggesting that the hallmark of his tenure will be radical transparency. My approach to administration HHS will be radical transparency. If members of this committee or other members of Congress want information, the doors are open. I've spent many years litigating against NIH and its sub agencies. I mean HHS and its sub agencies, nih, cdc, fda, on FOIA issues, trying to get information that we, the taxpayers paid for and oftentimes getting back redacted copies after a year or two years of litigation. That should not be the case. And if Congress asks me for information, you will get it immediately. Okay, again, that is a good thing. By the way, one of the things Bobby Kennedy pledged is that null studies, meaning studies that come out that are basically file drawed. What that means is very often the studies that tend to get a lot of play are the ones that have quote unquote, new results. And very often those new results are not duplicated in other studies. And so if somebody tries to put forward a result that basically shows no impact, a void impact of a drug, for example, that is files reward, somebody just gets rid of the study. It just doesn't see the light of day. Says we need to see more of those things. We need to see more of the studies. We need more information. That of course would be very, very good. RFK Jr also walked back some of his pro choice positions. Not that he has suddenly become pro life, but but he does work for the Trump administration, which is a pro life administration. He's not gonna use HHS to promote abortion. That was one of the things that he said yesterday, which I think quieted a lot of concerns from the right about his anti life positions. In the past, of course, he had said on many shows, including my own show, I've interviewed him, that he is fully pro choice, but he says he is member of the Trump administration. Minimizing abortion would be the idea. I agree with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy. I agree with them that we cannot be a moral nation if we have 1.2 million abortions a year. I agree with them that the states should control abortion. President Trump has told me that he wants to end late term abortions and he wants to protect conscious exemptions and that he wants to end federal Funding for abortions here abroad. That's title 10. I'm going to, I serve at the pleasure of the president. I'm going to implement his policies. Again, that I think is aimed at the Republicans in the Senate who are likely to vote for RFK jr's confirmation. He also mitigated his own statements with regard to vaccines. So he's made many statements in the past on vaccines that are not just controversial, but are far too broad reaching, suggesting, for example, at one point that vaccines, there was no such thing as a safe and healthy vaccine. Now he says he meant for everyone, meaning that every single vaccine has some sort of side effects for someone, which of course is true. He was asked about that and he said, listen, if you think I'm taking away the measles vaccine or the polio vaccine, that is not what I am in favor of. I support the measles vaccine. I support the polio vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary, makes it difficult or discourages people from taking anybody who believes that. On a look at the measles book you wrote saying parents have been misled into believing that measles is a deadly disease, that's not true. Okay, so again, he was browbeaten by Democrats on that particular side. He spent a lot of yesterday walking back old comments, which of course is not a shock considering that he has said a lot of controversial things in the past. Now, that's not all that he did. He pointed out that many of the same Democrats who were attacking him used to be his friends. Here he was yesterday pointing out that many of the same Democrats who are now saying that he's out of his mind, that he's insane, all these same people recording his favor just a few years ago, all these Democrats are opposed to me for partisan issues. They used to be my friends, agreed with me on all the environmental issues I've been working on for my whole career. Now they're against me. Because anything that President Trump does, any decision he makes, has to be lampooned, derided, discredited, marginalized, vilified. I mean, again, he's right about that. If President Trump wants to snuff out all of his opponents, all he has to do today is come out in favor of breathing oxygen. All of his opponents will immediately denounce breathing oxygen and put plastic bags over their heads. And that is the oppositional nature of our politics at this moment. 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Get the help you need with Tax Network USA. RFK Jr also went after the kind of spending that we've been doing on our public health care system. He's not wrong about this. In fact, every single public healthcare system on planet Earth reaches a point of diminishing returns. You can increase the health of your population only to the point of the baseline health of the population, meaning that if you have a deeply unhealthy population that is, for example, obese, ridden with diabetes, has too much sugar, never exercises, no matter how much money you sink into Medicaid, it is not going to fix those problems on the back end. That is not how medicine works. Here's RFK Jr. On this. Americans don't, by and large, do not like the Affordable Care Act. People are on it. They don't like Medicaid, they like Medicare and they like private insurance. We need to listen to what people they would prefer to be on private insurance. Most Americans, if they can afford to be, will be on private insurance. We need to figure out ways to improve care, particularly for elderly, for veterans, for the poor in this country. And Medicaid, the current model is not doing that. I would ask any of the Democrats who were chuckling just now, do you think all that money, the $900 billion that we're sending to Medicaid every year has made Americans healthy? Do we think it's working for anybody? Are the premiums low enough? He's right about this. Although when he talks about premiums on Medicaid, he was banged about for this in the press because it turns out that there are no premiums in Medicaid, right? I mean, when it comes to premiums in Medicaid, Medicaid is not a private health insurance system. One of the problems with Medicaid is, is that typically the reimbursement rates are so low that many doctors won't even take it in the first place. But his point, which is we spend billions, hundreds of billions of dollars on these gigantic healthcare systems when we should actually be encouraging people to do healthy things on the front end, that he is right about now. The Democrats made Fools of themselves. One of the things that helped RFK Jr. In this hearing is that whatever mistakes he made were quickly covered up for by the fact that Democrats are out of their freaking minds. They are out of their minds. They're just crazy. They're crazy. I mean, listen, it's not our fault on the right that you guys decided to tout Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren as your champions of diversity, of inclusion, of economic wherewithal. That is your fault. You decided to make these people your leading lights. We didn't. You chose the form of your destructor. And it turns out it was a bunch of geriatric socialists with no relationship with the real world. The funniest moment by far of the day came when Bernie Sanders started questioning RFK Jr about a onesie for a baby. That said unvaxxed, unafraid. And apparently Bunny doesn't like the onesies. Onesies are bad. Where are the legs? Why are there no legs on this onesie? Why can't I wear a onesie? Will you denounce the onesies? Who made these onesies? Bunny wants enters. Bunny wants hassles right now about the onesies. They are selling what's called onesies. These are little things, clothing for babies. Are you supportive of this? I've had nothing to do with. Are you supportive of these onesies? I'm supportive of vaccines. Are you supportive of this clothing, which is militantly anti vaccine? I am supportive of vaccines. I want good science and I want to protect. But you will not tell the organization you founded not to continue selling that product. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Why will you not announce the onesies? Who ordered the onesies? Who did it? Was it you? Was it you? Babies are okay. They're not great. They're okay. They poop a lot. They wear onesies. I don't like the onesies. These are bad onesies. Bernie 2028, will you denounce the onesies? By the way, one of the funniest things that I've ever seen in a congressional hearing like this was Megyn Kelly who showed up. And Megan, of course, I'm friends with Megan. Megan showed up directly behind RFK Jr right. She considers herself a maha mom, and she was sitting behind RFK Jr and during this exchange, if you can't see it, she bursts out laughing. It's really funny. And it's everybody's thought. It's like, this is just crazy. You think that you're gonna get RFK Jr. On. Will you denounce the onesies? These onesies I have Questions about onesies. Why do they have snaps? Snaps are not good for onesies. Why don't they all just use zippers? The snaps are very difficult. Sometimes you get one, sometimes you get three. What do you do? How can you take. Sometimes the poop explodes in the diaper. It hits the onesie, but now you have to take the onesie off over the baby's head. What you. As you can tell, I've had some experience with baby onesies. That was not the end of Bernie's insanity. He then asked RFK Jr if healthcare is right. And RFK Jr gave the correct answer. Which is not the way you mean it. Is health care a human right in the way that free speech is a human right? Yeah, I would say it's different because free speech doesn't cost anybody anything. But in health care, if you smoke cigarettes for 20 years and you get cancer, you are now taking from the pool. And so are you guaranteed the same right? I'm sorry. Okay, so that is the correct answer. Okay, the correct answer. When someone says, is X a right? You have to ask, what do you mean by that? There are many different type of quote unquote rights. What Bernie means is, do you think it's a good thing that everybody should have? And the answer to that is, sure. That doesn't mean it's a right. If you're demanding a service from somebody, it's no longer a right. I don't have a right to food, for example. I have a right to the ability to obtain food in a free system. I don't have a right to food because that means that somebody else would have to provide me that food. I do have a right to free speech because I do have the ability to demand from you that you not actually impede my ability to speak freely. Right. That is the difference between so called negative rights and positive rights. Positive rights is a conflict of terms. It doesn't mean anything other than an entitlement. Meanwhile, it wasn't just Bernie, it was also Elizabeth Warren, who sort of knockoff Timu. Bernie. Here she was yelling at RFK Jr. And basically just redoing the lady screaming at cat meme. If this is what Democrats like, please, more of this. Really. How did you turn Republicans into the cool kids? Well, probably with the lecturing school marm, fake Native American. Who is the senator from Massachusetts? Mr. Kennedy, it's just a really simple question. You've taken in two and a half million dollars. I want to know if you will commit right now that not only will you not go to work for drug companies. You won't go to work suing the drug companies and taking your rake out of that while you're a secretary and for four years after. It's just, I'll commit to not taking any fees from drug companies while I'm secretary. I, I, I'm asking about fees from suing drug companies. Will you agree not to do that? You're asking me to not sue drug companies and I'm not going to agree to that as much as you want. I am not going to agree to not sue drug companies or anybody. I mean, first of all, it's kind of amazing that what Elizabeth Warren is doing there is, what she's trying to do is she's trying to suggest that RFK Jr would be corrupt if he sued the companies that he is regulating as hhs. Now normally the corruption allegation is that you go and you work for the companies that you're regulating at these various agencies. Right? That's usually the rip, right? Pete Hegseth, for example, was asked about this by Mazie Hirono during his hearing when he was being nominated for Secretary of Defense. The question is, are you going to go work, for example, for some sort of defense contractor afterward? That's the normal question. But she's not asking whether he's going to go work for Pfizer. She's asking if he will refrain from suing Pfizer after he's the head of, of hhs, which is a super weird take. Now again, I think the Big Pharma gets a horrible rap in the United States. As a general rule, Big Pharma has developed literally every drug that you and your parents rely on, all of them and your kids. So Big Pharma does bad things just like every other corporation does bad things. But this notion that Big Pharma is uniquely bad when they develop literally all of the life saving things that surround you in the world is a bizarre one to me. Nonetheless, Elizabeth Warren was attacking him from the right there. It's super duper, duper weird. Meanwhile, Maggie Hassan, the senator from New Hampshire, she was ripping on RFK Jr suggesting that he had sold out his life's work by now, suggesting that he would be part of a pro life administration. When was it that you decided to sell out the values you've had your whole life in order to be given power by President Trump? Senator, I agree with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy, that we can't be a moral authority in this country. So, but that isn't what you said back in New Hampshire in 2023. My question is, exactly when did you decide to sell out your life's work and values to get this position? Senator, I agree with President Trump. Every abortion is a tragedy. 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That's with the number four carsforkids.org Ben Donate your card today. Once again, 1877-cars for kids or carsforkids.org Ben okay, so the Democrats decided to go hard after RFK Jr using these particular lines. Again, the only effective line of attack on RFK Jr in this hearing was basically just asking him about past comments and he spent most of the time rebutting that. But if Bernie yelling about onesies and Elizabeth Warren going nuts over RFK Jr are your methodology, good luck. Also, I'm sorry you blew it here. You really did. Sorry. Democrats do not get to complain about their own nominees when they nominated people like Rachel Levine to be Assistant HHS secretary. Remember Rachel Levine? The dude, the fake admiral? Remember that? Hello, I'm Admiral Rachel Levine. This Black History Month, I'm pleased to partner with OMH in advancing better health through better understanding for black communities. Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on the physical and mental health of black communities. Black Americans are more likely than white Americans to live in areas and housing that increase their susceptibility to climate related health issues. All these Democrats voted for. 65% of black Americans report feeling anxious about climate change's impact. Through our Office of Climate Change and Health Equity and the Office of Environmental justice, we're working with providers and community leaders to identify innovative approaches that empower communities to address to health consequences linked to climate change. This is hhs. This person was approved by Democrats. This person was championed by Democrats. And now it's like, okay, RFK Jr. Is too weird. All right. Again, I might have respected that position if you guys weren't so weird yourselves. And again, there are going to be questions about how RFK Jr. Does his job. I hope that he is held to the standard that he set for himself in the hearings. Meaning no cram downs on Americans ability to choose what kind of foods they want to eat. No attempts to simply punish companies for not doing the will of hhs. No shutting down of R and D. That would actually be useful. I mean, there's some R and D that really is counterproductive, as we saw from Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but not attempting to shut down research. You're gonna judge him by the fruits of his labors over at hhs. But I don't think Democrats really laid a glove on Bobby Kennedy yesterday, which is indicative of their total failure across the board since they lost the last election cycle. Meanwhile, speaking of that failure, President Trump continues to succeed along the lines of cracking down on illegal immigration. Yesterday, he signed into law the Lake and Riley Act. The Lake and Riley act, of course, was designed to crack down on criminal illegal immigration in the United States. In doing so, he praised Democrats who signed on to the act. Many of them did. I very much especially appreciate the bipartisan support the Democrats. Really, a big percentage of them came through and plenty of them wanted to. They probably felt they couldn't, but. But they really wanted to. That they don't understand. That would have made them a lot more popular, would have made them a lot better with their people. The ones that didn't are going to be. They're going to be sorry because the people are not going to forget that they wouldn't sign. This is a perfect, incredible tribute to an unbelievable young lady. Hey, so what exactly did the Lake and Riley act do? Well, well, it orders ICE to detain illegal immigrants for crimes like theft. And it allows states to sue the Department of Homeland Security over harm caused to citizens by illegal immigrants. That obviously is a strong act that had a bunch of Democratic support. Trump is winning on this particular issue. He's also expanding his mandate on this particular issue. So yesterday, President Trump announced that Gitmo would essentially be turned into a housing facility for for the worst criminal illegal immigrants in the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal, he ordered the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to construct a facility for holding as many as 30,000 migrants at Guantanamo Bay, the US Navy base in Cuba, the site of a prison for more than two decades where terrorist suspects would instead be used to contain the worst criminal illegal immigrants. Here's President Trump announcing it yesterday. Today, I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30, 000 person migrant facility at Guate, Guantanamo Bay. Most people don't even know about it. We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad, we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. So we're going to send them out to Guantanamo. This will double our capacity immediately. Right. And tough. That's a tough. That's a tough place to get out of. Okay, well, this, I think, is going to be a popular notion for Americans who don't wish to see violent illegal immigrants in the United States. According to the Wall street journal, opening 30,000 additional detention beds would almost double ICE's capacity to hold migrants ahead of their deportations. Congress has allotted funding for detaining as many as 41,000 immigrants at a time, a historically high number Trump's team considers inadequate as it tries to carry out mass deportation. This is not the first time Gitmo has been used this way. It was used this way during the 80s and the 90s. Kristi Noem, the newly approved head of the Department of Homeland Security, she said, listen, this is something we've done in the past. We're already doing it. Actually. There is already facilities there that are housing illegal immigrants, and it's the worst of the worst that are kept there. Many times, those who are sent there are gang members, you know, people that have created terrorist activities in the United States of America and have been a real danger and threat to our people. So what we'll be doing is utilizing our resources to expand the capacity there, to make sure that as we continue to do what President Trump has talked about and deporting people who are here illegally and are making our streets much more dangerous is that we're going to utilize Guantanamo Bay to a more expansive purpose, and that we will be going and putting resources there to make sure we have the space to getting people out of this country right away. That will. That will make sure our face, our country, much more safe. Okay, well, again, I think the entire administration is on the same page. This is very different from Trump 1.0. Everybody is moving in lockstep inside the Trump administration. Pete Hegsett, the new Secretary of Defense, he said something similar, said, listen, we're ramping up mass deportations. This is a plan in movement, but not in movement because we're behind, but because we're ramping up for the possibility to expand mass deportations. Because President Trump is dead serious about getting illegal criminals out of our country. And the DOD is not only willing to. Is proud to partner with DHS to defend the sovereignty of our southern border and advance that mission. Now, again, this is a whole of administration approach and President Trump is not slowing down on any of this. Now, Colombia had, of course, talked back to the United States, suggested they weren't going to take illegal immigrants that were deported from the United States. Trump said, you're going to take exactly what we send you. For the first time in history, we're loading dangerous and illegal aliens into military aircraft and flying them back to the places from which they came. You probably read about Colombia two days ago. They said, no, we're not taking them. I said, we're going to take them. You're going to take them. You're going to like it too. You're going to take them. By the way, it is worth pointing out here that Democrats again have very little response to any of this other than to claim that you won't be able to get blackberries or blueberries in your smoothies because the illegal immigrants are picking all your fruit again. It is kind of incredible that this is the only comeback they've been able to come up with after what 30 years of this conversation about illegal immigration is. Your mangoes might be more expensive. Really? That's what you got, guys? Really, that I can't wait. That shouldn't be here. I can't wait until American women can't get blueberries for their smoothies. I cannot wait until there is a full crackdown on all small businesses as if that's going to be the solution to the immigration problem. It is just going to put immigration related issues further into the darker corners. We're not going to see them. It's just going to become even harder to solve the problem. It doesn't make sense to punish individuals and people when there is a broken system. Well, actually it does make sense to actually fight the broken system by unbreaking the system and deporting the people who are illegally here. Again, if your white lady privilege, which is we have to absorb 20 million illegal immigrants so that your blueberries can be a little bit cheaper for your protein smoothie, I'm not sure what to tell you. I feel like you might be just a little out of touch. Just a little bit. Meanwhile, the President of the United States continues his spate of very strong executive actions. Yesterday he issued an executive order ending racial indoctrination in K through 12 schooling. This, of course, is designed to end DEI indoctrination across the public school system. The executive order suggests, quote, imprinting anti American subversive harmful and false ideologies on our nation's children not only violates long standing anti discrimination civil rights law, in many cases it usurps basic parental authority. For example, steering students towards surgical and chemical mutilation without parental consent or involvement, or allowing males access to private spaces designed for females may contravene federal laws that protect parental rights. My administration will enforce the law to ensure recipients of federal funds providing K through 12 education comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in various contexts and protecting parental rights. So this means no more if you're receiving federal funding of this nonsense where you socially transition a child. No more indoctrinating kids at school to believe that they are inferior based on their white skin color. No more of that. That all goes away. Meanwhile, the President issued another executive order attempting to broaden the possibility for school vouchers. According to this brand new executive order, quote parents want and deserve the best education for their children. Too many children do not thrive in their assigned government run K through 12 school. According to this year's National Assessment of educational progress, 70% of 8th graders were below proficient in reading, 72% were below proficient in math. Moreover, geographically based school assignments exacerbate the cost of housing in districts with preferred schools. It is the policy of my administration to support parents in choosing and directing the upbringing and education of their children. Within 60 days of the date of the order, the Secretary of Education shall issue guidance regarding how states can use federal formula funds to support K through 12 educational choice initiatives. The Secretary of Education shall now include education freedom as a priority in discretionary grant programs as appropriate and consistent with applicable law. So the idea here would be to promote as far as possible the spread of school choice across the country. The great civil rights issue of our time, allowing children to go to the best school available to them, facilitating that we have universal school choice here in my wonderful home state of Florida. It is a godsend. It is wonderful. And President Trump is trying to extend that across the country. In just a moment, we'll get to more of President Trump's strong executive action. First, 10 years ago, the Daily Wire started a fight. We took on the radical left's assault on truth. We refused to bow to their delusions and today, because of our members support, we are winning. On January 20, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning the chemical and surgical mutilation of children. It's a huge victory that this company led the way on a battle that other conservatives weren't even willing to fight. A decade ago. There were other mainstream right wing channels that actually surrendered in this. We took the heat, we took the losses, we took major, major risks. And reality won. Truth one, we win. But the fight is far from over. The left isn't giving up. Neither are we. Join us. It's because the next decade is gonna be even bigger. Join the fight right now@dailywire.com subscribe Meanwhile, President Trump is using his executive power to also go after the universities. And that is what he is doing yesterday when he put out an executive order, additional measures to combat anti Semitism. The goal here would be to force universities to actually enforce the civil rights law that they enforce on campus with regard to black students or Mexican students or Asian students to also apply to Jewish students. So if you violate the Civil Rights act, then you will lose your federal funding. Again, this is a lever that the administration is using to go after these ridiculous Ivy League institutions. It does not make illegal free speech. I know there are a lot of people who are saying that that is not what it does. That is not what it's designed to do. President Trump would not do that. That is not what it is designed to do. Instead, what it is designed to do is go after the universities by suggesting, quote, it shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti Semitism vigorously using all available and appropriate legal tools to prosecute, remove or otherwise hold accountable the perpetrators of unlawful anti Semitic harassment and violence. Unlawful being the key word right there. Specifically, within 60 days, the head of each department or agency shall submit a report to the president identifying all civil and criminal authorities or actions within the jurisdiction of that agency beyond those already implemented Under Executive Order 13899 that might be used to curb or combat antisemitism. And that, of course, includes going after colleges and universities that are designed to harm Jews on campus. Now, again, this executive order specifically, specifically goes out of its way to point out that it is not, in fact, dealing with speech issues here, that it is simply applying the Civil Rights act to Jews, which, of course, was always the design of orders like this one, despite, I think, some misrepresentation in the media. And meanwhile, some controversy has broken out. Yesterday, the White House rescinded its order to freeze federal assistance and grants. It didn't actually rescind the order to pause the spending. What it did do is rescind the Office of Management and Budget memo that ordered the thing. It's a little bit confusing, but according to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration rescinded its memo calling for federal agencies to pause potentially trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans, and other financial assisted programs as after a federal judge temporarily blocked the directive. So the White House just withdrew the memo. They said, okay, fine, in order to prevent an injunction from stopping us from pausing the spending, we'll remove the memo. That was too broad and could be easily construed wrong. Instead, what we are going to do is we're gonna go with much more specific and targeted actions, which, of course, is the proper response. The memo was a good window into what the administration is likely trying to do. But to remove it is a way of mitigating its legal effect. And instead, specific rescissions or specific grant pauses are going to be pursued by the administration. Chuck Schumer, of course, took a victory lap on this one, even though he really shouldn't. Donald Trump rescinded the OMB order. Now he should rescind the nomination of Russell Vote. When the Trump administration announced this awful directive on Monday night, we knew immediately it was short sighted, disastrous, cruel, and dumb. It was clear then, as it is now, that the director, that the directive was given without any comprehension of what it actually called for, let alone the ramifications on literally hundreds of millions of Americans. Okay, again, this sort of exaggeration and craziness is really not going to have its intended effect. And we can say, oh, it's chaos. It's such chaos. Okay, fine. So they put out the memo, A judge held up the memo, they withdrew the memo. These spending pauses are still going to continue with regard to DEI and TRANS propaganda and with regard to grants to foreign sources like the World Health Organization. Stephen Miller said, quote, it became clear bureaucrats were still trying to funnel unapproved discretionary grants of funds to their pet project. You wouldn't believe the payments we've had to pause the last few days with bureaucrats trying to funnel money out the door. Funnel money to the who. Funny. Funnel money to resettlement agencies, funnel money to foreign countries. And so, of course, you have to put a pause on these discretionary grants of funding and have a political review process. Again, the goal here for the administration is to get the effect without providing the legal fodder for an injunction. And that is correct. The Wall Street Journal, I think, gets this right on its editorial page. They say, quote, governing by cast doesn't work. To succeed. Trump's executive actions need to be nailed down and carefully explained or they'll be torn apart by courts and agents of the status quo. And I think that that's what you're seeing here is a recognition in real time that the memo is going to be used as a weapon more by the left in the courts than it would be a weapon in favor of the Trump administration agenda. And so they did the smart thing. They withdrew the memo. And now they're still moving forward with many of those same spending pauses. The same holds true with regard to the offer of retirement to millions of federal employees. Here's President Trump yesterday saying, listen, it's pretty easy if you're a federal employee, show up to work, you're fired. As federal employees, they must meet a high standard. They're representing our government. They're representing our country. If they don't agree by February 6th to show up back to work in their office, they will be terminated. And we will therefore be downscaling our government, which is something that the last 10 presidents have tried very hard to do, but failed. Most of the people we're talking about have not been going to their federal offices in many, many years from even before COVID but they have nevertheless been paid. Some have worked, some haven't worked. And most of the studies say that some have just gone through the motions. We may ask these people to prove that they didn't have another job during their so called employment with the United States of America, because if they did, that would be unlawful. Okay, he is right about this. Caroline Levitt, who's the White House press secretary, said, listen, it's very simple. Go back to work. Why is this so difficult? Question about these buyouts? You've been describing it as this effort to get folks to return to work. The union that represents federal workers, though, says this isn't a voluntary buyout. They say this is a purge of people that don't agree with the president. What's your response? That's absolutely false. This is a suggestion to federal workers that they have to return to work. And if they don't, then they have the option to resign. And this administration is very generously offering to pay them for eight months. Six percent of the federal workforce in the city actually shows up to work. That's unacceptable. We're all here at work at the office. There are law enforcement officers and teachers and nurses across the country who showed up to the office today. People in this city need to do the same. It's an overwhelmingly popular policy with people outside of Washington, D.C. president campaigned on this and his administration's keeping the promise again. Carolyn Levitt happens to be correct about all of this. Meanwhile, Democrats are freaking out over Caroline Levitt. It is amazing what kind of sexism you can get away with if you're a Democrat. Trump Joy Behar yesterday on the View suggested the only reason that this press secretary was hired by Trump is because, quote, she's a 10, which I'm not sure if that's an insult. It feels like kind of a backhanded compliment. Also, Joy Behar is from Hollywood, where literally everyone gets cast except for Joy Behar, apparently based on the basis of some sort of physical appeal. And you don't see a lot of normies making it big in Hollywood. She's probably been put in there because according to Donald trump, she's a 10. You know, that's what it is. I want to be clear, though, it's not her first job. It was her first press briefing. She worked in the previous administration. This is the first time, which I think is an accident. She may be, but my point is that job would not maybe have been open to her. No, I understand. I just wanted to clarify that. Yeah. Okay. So apparently it's bad that Caroline Levitt is pretty. It would be better if she were hideous. We need like a hideously ugly person to be the White House press secretary. I mean, if a Republican said that about a Democrat, that the reason that a woman was picked was because she was pretty, then probably the world would cave in about their ears. Now the reality is the Democrats do pick people based on external characteristics all the time. They just openly say it. They constantly do that sort of thing. There's this bizarre sense among the Democrats that finally, for the first time, they are beginning to recognize that they may have alienated like traditional basic standards of beauty. One of the big controversies that's broken out over the course of the last 72 hours is this New York magazine cover that shows a bunch of very attractive young people at CJ Pearson's party, his inaugural party last week. And the idea from the Democrats is these are all cruel kids, but all they are is just normal good looking young people who are partying for Trump. If those are the people that you guys lost, that's kind of your fault. If you're the ones who decided that you wanted to steer directly into the. Our mainstream base is going to be blue haired lesbians with seven earrings and a navel piercing and seven tattoos on the neck, if that's what you guys like. No one made you do that. That was you who did that. So, I mean, Carolyn Lovett could have you. Can you can find good looking people to be your press secretaries too, I would assume. Or can you not? And if not, what does that say about you? It's very strange stuff from the Democrats if this is their particular angle, pretty wild. Meanwhile, Jerome Powell has paused rate cuts over at the Fed. I suggested this was going to happen, that the rate cuts were going to be ramped up just before the election in an attempt to get Kamala Harris over the finish line, inject a little bit more money in the economy, hope to blow up the stock market a little bit just in time for the election. And then the inflation would kick in and then the Federal Reserve would stop. Well, that's exactly what happened. The Federal Reserve has now stopped the interest rate cuts. Now, my suggestion had been that they never should have engaged in interest rate cuts in the first place. We had not conquered inflation yet. Preemptively cutting the interest rates was not going to be a good idea. It was gonna artificially boost more air into an already inflated economy. But Jerome Powell is doing this a little bit belatedly. Again, this idea that low interest rates is sort of the only thing that creates a workable economy is very far from the truth. Interest rates need to float with the level of risk in the economy. Obviously. Jerome Powell says, quote, with interest rates now significantly less restrictive than they were before last year's cuts, we do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance. So apparently the central bank will likely hold at its meeting in mid March and said Powell said that the Fed would need to see real progress on inflation or unexpected weakness in the labor market before considering further rate reductions, which, again, I think makes a lot of sense. I just wish he had done it earlier and not artificially lowered those interest rates in an attempt to boost Kamala Harris just before the election. Joining me on the line is the newly confirmed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin. Lee, congratulations on the confirmation and you got a big agenda ahead of you. Looking forward to hitting the ground running, Ben, and great to be with you. Yeah, we're very excited about it. So let's talk about your top priorities for the epa. Obviously, the EPA has been used as a tool of the left for a very long time in order to cram down environmental policies that really are less about the environment and more about damaging the American economy or reshaping how the American economy is done. What are your top priorities as the new EPA administrator? So the mission of the EPA is protecting human health and the environment. It's important when you're doing it that you're cognizant of what the American public spoke, loudly, clearly this past November, is they also care about economic concerns. How are these policies applied, impacting lives All Americans want clean air and clean water. How we go about doing it is key. Having the cleanest, safest, healthiest air, land and water, I think is a goal. Regardless of whether you're a conservative, a moderate, a liberal, a red, purple, blue state, it doesn't matter. But we have to have smart, common sense, practical solutions that aren't going to result in people struggling to make ends meet, not having choice, being unable to obtain a vehicle that they want, or to be able to power their home in an affordable way. So it's just really important that we do our job smartly. So, Administrator Zelda, one of the things you've talked about here is making America the capital of the world. I hear that, and I think a lot of people hear that thing. What does that have to do with the EPA per se? AI requires a lot of access to energy, and here in our country, there's going to be an increased demand. And in order for America to be the AI capital of the world, we're going to have to meet this moment. And if we make a strategic decision not to, it's not like the world is going to wait to advance. It's only going to be a situation where we're witnessing China get further ahead of the United States. So we have to meet this moment. Our policies as it relates to the regulation of energy, the president's priority, as it relates to making our country a nation that's unleashing energy dominance, understanding that the cleanest forms of energy are coming out of America thanks to American innovation. This is a moment for us to meet and to ensure that we are winning this battle, that it is the United States of America that is the AI capital of the world. President Trump obviously has a very aggressive agenda. One of the things that he's faced in the past is are people within the executive branch who may not like that agenda, who may oppose that agenda, and who may do things to get in the way of that agenda. The EPA is a big agency. You're talking 17,000 employees, an $11 billion budget. How do you handle an agency of that size and ensure that actually President Trump's agenda and your agenda as the administrator, actually get done? Our agency needs to follow the rule of the law. We need to follow our obligations under the law. We can't be going rogue and interpreting some vague language in some law, however we see fit that the Supreme Court made very clear in the loper bright decision overturning the Chevron doctrine that it's important for federal agencies to be following the letter of the Law. We need to be accountable to the people. We need to be transparent with the public. And we need to ensure that we're being as productive as possible and operating in a way that the American people can be proud of. We can't be wasting tax dollars. And it's important that we are doing our mission in the smartest, best way, most transparent way possible. That is a commitment across the board they care about. And one thing I would add to on top of it, Ben, is cooperative federalism and working with states for there to be a partnership, and it's not just all being run out of some headquarters in Washington, D.C. that collaboration with the states is going to be important. Now, you've mentioned before auto jobs and the needs of the American consumer and the American worker. Obviously that's high on President Trump's list of priorities. Very often these two things are sort of put in opposition to one another. Protecting the environment and protecting American jobs. What do you make of that and how do you plan to square that circle? There's a lot that goes into bringing back American auto jobs. The EPA needs to ensure that we are doing our part to assist with that mission. We, we don't want to see our American auto jobs disappearing, getting moved to other countries. There is a need for certainty when investment is being made here, permitting, reform, research is done within the epa. There are people who are doing very important work, and we have to ensure that we are working closely with these American auto companies to ensure that we are hearing their feedback and that we are putting out policies from the federal government that's making it easier for them to do business while we are both able to accomplish our mission and they're able to accomplish theirs to make that investment in the American economy. Now, President Trump has already put forth notice that he's interested in cutting wasteful programs implemented by the Biden administration over the course of time. I assume that you are going to have a pretty weathered eye when you look at sort of the cost structure inside the epa. Right. I don't want us wasting any money. It doesn't matter what agency you are, and the EPA is no exception. It's important for us to be good stewards of tax. There was a video that came out, it was about a month or so ago, where there was somebody who is a political appointee here at the EPA talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic. And this person in the video said it a few times. They were trying to get money out the door, billions of dollars out the door. By Inauguration Day, when I hear tossing gold bars off the Titanic. To me, gold bars are tax dollars and off the Titanic means that you know you're wasting it. In the video, they also talked about how they were giving out money with an eye towards getting jobs at the recipient NGOs. It is so important that not only are we being careful and not wasting billions of dollars, we shouldn't be wasting pennies. And that's my job at the top. Well, that is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Lee, again, congratulations on your confirmation. Look forward to seeing what you do at the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Congratulations again. Thanks a lot, Ben. All right, guys. Coming up, we'll get to the release of Israeli hostages. The scene upon the release is pretty shocking. If you're not a member, become a member. Use code Shapiro Checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Click the link in the description and join us.