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J.R. Martinez (15:29)

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.

John Decker (15:41)

This medal is for the men who.

Brian Mudd (15:43)

Went down that day.

John Decker (15:45)

It's for the families of those who didn't make it.

J.R. Martinez (15:48)

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Annabe (16:34)

This bill is a deal with the devil. It explodes our national debt, it militarizes our entire economy and it strips away health care and basic dignity of the American people.

Brian Mudd (16:53)

Yeah, so you have Hakeem Jeffries, who is the star of the show, but the award for the best supporting actress most certainly goes to aoc, which by the way, I mean, does she sound like she could be 13 and like starring in a Disney flick? Yeah, that is, that's special the deal with it. So, yeah, we are on BBB watch or the act formerly known as the BBB as Hakeem Jeffries is doing his version of a filibuster in the house with his magic minute. That is now about seven and a half hours into it. No idea where the end in this thing is. Brian Mudd in for Clayne Buck and talking about Liberation Day meeting Independence Day. Now, thinking about where we were a year ago today, where things were nuts and just how much incredible progress we've made already in just the first five plus months of Trump being back, insanity being restored in this country. You know, one of the things I was working into is foreign policy. And you start taking a look at foreign policy. We've seen the incredible changes there too. Of course. You know one of the. You wonder, you always heard about like the Iran nuclear program, you know that, man, you know what? For as long as I can remember, we've heard about the Iran nuclear program. You know how long it's been? 41 years. 41 years of development towards nuclear weapon. What Trump do crippled it by dropping 14 mops, bringing about relative peace in the Middle East. Obviously that he's still a brokered holding for well over a week now, real time working on brokering that ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. You take a look at trade. I mean, that situation has been incredible. China, England. The English trade deal went into effect this week, by the way, in Vietnam. Yeah, the Vietnam trade deal in particular. So we had been getting charged tariffs by Vietnam and they were paying nothing to come into this country. Now we pay nothing to do business in Vietnam and they pay us 20% to be in this country. Why? Because of Donald Trump. It's an incredible win. And just because Trump stepped in. That is what we see on issue after issue as sanity has been restored as we get ready for the big celebration for the upcoming Independence Day where President Trump likely will be signing is BBB to usher in ultimate sanity. Be right back. Brian Mudd in for claying bug. People will suffer, people will die. And it will be at the hands of Republicans who vote yes. That's right. In fact, that's actually. That was some of the planning that went into the act formerly known as the bbb. You had some Republicans that got around and said, you know what we haven't done in a while? We haven't created any legislation that started killing people. And yeah, you Know what, you're right. So, you know, I think we should, should get back to our roots. We are Republicans after all, so we should craft legislation that kills people. And then, you know, for example, in the event that the warm and fluffy migrants that are sent to Alligator Alcatraz and the event that they don't, you know, manage to escape, we have, you know, people to feed to the, to the alligator suits. It just, the rhetoric is just so over the top in so many different respects. And I tell you what, just say no to slugs. The whole Medicaid thing, and this is, is such a joke and I'm going to break down specifically what the work requirements are with the Medicaid and the SNAP provisions in the act formerly known as the BBB in just a few. We'll get to that. I mean it basically, if you get off your couch for 20 hours in a week, you're good, you're good. That's pretty much the way it works. So that's what, and apparently that's killing somebody to actually do that. So prime mud in for Clay and Buck. And as we are on BBB watch as Hakeem Jeffries going strong, going strong in the House. Joining us is great television and iHeartRadio's White House correspondent, John Decker. John, this bit unexpected from the House Minority Leader.

John Decker (21:20)

Well, it is unexpected to a certain extent. But Hakeem Jeffries, he is one of those leaders in the Democratic Party and he's acting like a leader for his party right now in terms of delaying what to me, Brian, is the inevitable and it is inevitable that, and we saw this in the procedural vote that took place early this morning. We'll see it on the actual vote that takes place when that occurs on the House floor. Every Republican that values their career in the House of Representatives and their future career in the House of Representatives will vote for their legislation. This legislation and this bill will get to the President's desk for his signature in time before that self imposed deadline, July 4th. That's, that will be a part, I believe, of the President's schedule tomorrow. The President assigning this legislation, his signature domestic achievement of his second term in the White House, getting that all done sooner than when he got that big tax cut bill signed in his first term in the White House.

Brian Mudd (22:28)

And to give you a little background about John, if you're maybe not familiar, John has covered every president starting with Bill Clinton. He also is the only member of the White House press corps that is an attorney having studied once upon a time under one professor Jonathan Turley Decker, now himself a professor at Georgetown, ucla. And, John, as we take a look at, you know, the historical ramifications here, obviously, you know, Trump wanted one bill. There are a lot of conservatives that said, hey, we need to do this in two. The Senate wanted it in two. In the end, you take a look at the President's influence, the will, and how this has come together A to get the Senate on board with one bill and then be the House. I mean, you had House Freedom Caucus members like Chip Roy just two days ago saying that what the Senate had done was a literally a deal killer of an already bad deal. And here we are on the precipice of whenever Hakeem is done doing what he's doing, passing this thing.

John Decker (23:31)

Well, that's right. You know, as for Chip Roy, you know, I think time and time again, he's proven that he's all bark and no bite. You know, he threatens not to vote for the legislation and ultimately caves in, as do other House Republicans that want to make a career of being a member of the House of Representatives. So does it surprise me that, you know, Chip Roy, a member of the Freedom Caucus and other members of the Freedom Caucus are caving in? No, it doesn't. You know, because President Trump has the ultimate power, and that is something that he has threatened to wield. And that is essentially saying, you vote against this legislation, your career as a member of Congress is over. That's a very real threat. He's not afraid, interestingly enough, Brian, of making that threat outwardly. You know, normally those are the kind of threats that you make behind closed doors. He puts it on truth, social. He makes everybody aware of what he's saying to these members that may be on the fence in terms of supporting the big, beautiful bill.

Brian Mudd (24:34)

Yeah. John, one of the other things I was thinking about, you take a look at where we are today in Trump's presidency. So, you know, the first time around, he signed 220 executive orders in four years. He signed, I believe it's 165 already, three more than President Biden and Team Auto Pen did already in just over five and a half months. And you take a look at, you know, his, his Tax Cut and Jobs act, his Trump tax cuts. The first time around, it took until December, the first go round, to be able to get his tax cuts through. Here we are heading into the Independence Day weekend, and it looks like he's not only going to get those tax cuts made permanent, he's going to get the additional tax cuts he promised the new tax on tips over time, also some big breaks for seniors that for most seniors going to work basically like not having tax on Social Security income. You start putting all this together and it just shows how well oiled and organized his, his policy approach is and how effective he is.

John Decker (25:36)

Well, I don't disagree with you. You know, this is a president who in his first term, he clearly was someone who is learning the ropes from insiders. He had never been a politician before, at any level before becoming president. And so he did rely on others in terms of showing him how to move legislation forward. This time around, he doesn't need that help. And this time around, he understands all believers of the power of the presidency. He realizes how powerful this office is made even more so powerful by that recent Supreme Court decision handed down last week. And so look, I think that this is a president that understands all the ways that he can move his agenda forward. And we're seeing it applied in real time. I think it's pretty remarkable. You know, there will be, this will be a part of history, you know, in terms of the way that the president has managed to move his agenda forward in such a record amount of time.

Brian Mudd (26:41)

John, you were with the president last week at the NATO summit and pretty remarkable situation. He tried to get it done his, his first term. It was starting to come together. It is, you know, ultimately coming together now where the NATO members this side of Spain contributing 5% of their GDP to, you know, to, to defense spending and, and pretty much getting, not just what we've seen here at home, which is his own party, in order to get his agenda done, but also around the world how he's managing to get that agenda done, especially with trade now, too.

John Decker (27:16)

Well, that's exactly right, Brian. You know, that's the thing about President Trump. He understands the levers of power in terms of moving his domestic agenda forward and he understands the levers of power in terms of moving his foreign policy agenda forward. And this is part of his foreign policy agenda when he left that NATO summit last week in the Netherlands. And as you point out, I covered that summit. I was in the Hague for the summit. I was at the press conference. He called on me at the press conference when he left, he was exuberant because every one of his goals was achieved during the course of his summit. And I think he made it clear to every one of the 31 other members of the NATO defense alliance there is one leader, and that leader is the United States of America. And the President is the leader of the United States of America. And he's going to exert his power, his influence to get his way with those other NATO Defense alliance members. We saw that play itself out last week. So, you know, for all of those who are saying it's been a remarkable two weeks for the President, I couldn't agree more. It has been a remarkable two weeks for the president, including, of course, that those attacks on those three nuclear sites in Iran. So to me, you know, this is someone who has a winning streak going and obviously would like to keep that winning streak going beyond ultimately signing this big, beautiful bill within the next few days.

Brian Mudd (28:47)

Yeah, he's definitely not tired of winning yet. A lot of people are not tired of winning within the administration. And also China announcing that, yeah, you know, the terms of the trade deal are on. The English trade deal, the UK Trade deal actually took effect this week, just announced the Vietnam trade deal where they were charging us to do business there. Now they're not. We weren't charging them anything. Now we are. I mean, it just goes on and on, and it gives you a roadmap for where a lot of those trade deals are probably going to land, too. And then you talk about, like, the mops and that whole situation, the Defense Department yesterday talking again about, yeah, I mean, at a minimum, the nuclear program set back up a couple of years. And that, to me, was always one of the things anyway. And, you know, you spend. It's an occupational hazard. You spend a lot of time around colleagues in the press corps that were endlessly, you know, trying to, you know, say that, you know, somehow or another, the. The leaked information or, you know, whoever wanted to say that the nuclear program wasn't really damaged more than it was. I mean, there just is no sense in this. Right. I mean, ultimately, if Trump was propagandizing, you just walk with it and you think, okay, well, he is, you know, just saying that they got it and they really didn't. So what, you know, you have Iran that comes back in, in six months and says, surprise, we've got nukes. I mean, there just is no way to effectively propagandize that situation. It either happened, it was either destroyed or it wasn't.

John Decker (30:11)

I agree. You know, I think that, you know, even those who want to get that readout from the administration, Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee in either the House or the Senate have to acknowledge that the Iranian nuclear program, its nuclear ambitions have been set back substantially because of the action taken by the United States. And, you know, you mentioned, you know, all of the things related to While why? The President can't just propagandize this issue. He can't propagandize this issue. I mean, we're talking about also Israel's safety, its security. Israel is not going to propagandize this because their very security, their existential existence depends upon Iran's nuclear program being curtailed back to, you know, zero essentially. And you know, when we hear from Israeli intelligence, they're satisfied with the actions taken by the United States. I think that says a lot. You know, if they weren't, maybe they would be saying, you need another go around, you know, in terms of taking it out altogether. They're not saying that, Brian. They're saying it has been, in the President's word, he uses, obliterated. It has been obliterated. It has been decimated. I think that those two words certainly apply to Iran's nuclear program right now.

Brian Mudd (31:40)

Brian Mudwood, John Decker, one more for you, John. So mentioned that John is the only member of the press corps that's also an attorney. So putting your legal hat on for the whole Diddy situation. So we get the verdict and not guilty of the most serious charges. Judge is holding him in jail until sentencing. What do you make of this deal?

John Decker (32:01)

I don't know. You know, I mean, as you know, it's a substantial bond that he needs to post. I believe it's $50 million. And that's the reason why he has remained behind bars for all of this period of time. I don't know, maybe that it gives you a window about what kind of sentence he intends to hand down against Diddy. But on the face of it, as you know, he really skirted the possibility of very serious prison time. Remember, this is a federal case because of the fact that he was acquitted on the most serious charges for the two counts that he was found guilty of. They have maximum, maximum penalties of 10 years in prison. He will not get 10 years in prison. You know, he's a non violent offender, someone who's not a repeat offender. I can't tell you what the judge is ultimately going to sentence Diddy to in terms of a jail sentence, a prison sentence, but it won't be anywhere near that ten year maximum sentence. And certainly his lawyers are going to ask for no jail sentence, time served for all of the amount of time that he served in prison. And we'll see ultimately whether that federal judge agrees with that. And let's not forget the President has the power of the pardon. And it would not surprise me. Nothing surprises me these days, Brian. It would not surprise me if Diddy gets a pardon from the President of the United States. So we'll have to wait, wait and see. You know, I mean, he's got a lot of big things on his plate right now, but that would not surprise me in the least, really.

Brian Mudd (33:47)

I mean, that one was, was not on my bingo card. So that is, that, that is interesting. So Decker pointing, pointing to the outfield right now and we'll see what happens there. That would be, that would be an interesting development, John. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much for the time the insight.

John Decker (34:05)

Thanks, Brian. Talk to you soon. Bye bye.

Brian Mudd (34:08)

All right. And again, Gray Television and iheartradio White House correspondent John Decker. I'm Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck 24, a weekly podcast from Clay and Buck covering all things election. Episodes drop Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts this.

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J.R. Martinez (35:29)

The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.

Brian Mudd (35:41)

This medal is for the men who went down that day.

John Decker (35:45)

It's for the families of those who didn't make it.

J.R. Martinez (35:48)

I'm J.R. martinez. I'm a U.S. army veteran myself and I'm honored to tell you the stories of these heroes on the new season of Medal of Stories of Courage from Pushkin Industries and I Heart podcast from Robert Blake the first black sailor to be awarded the medal to Daniel Daly, one of only 19 people to have received the Medal of Honor twice. These are stories about people who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor going above and beyond the call of duty.

John Decker (36:19)

Duty.

J.R. Martinez (36:20)

You'll hear about what they did, what it meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Brian Mudd (36:34)

And it's all designed to put a happy smile on the face of billionaires that is inconsistent with the Declaration of.

John Decker (36:43)

Independence and what we should be celebrating on July 4th.

Brian Mudd (36:48)

Yeah. As Hakeem Jeffries continues to do his best Spartacus impersonation. You know, Cory Booker is Spartacus after way after all. And Hakeem Jeffries indicated that must be a speech like 45 minutes, maybe an hour. It's what he told Speaker Mike Johnson early this morning before he went on just before 5 o'. Clock. He's still going. So that was the gamesmanship associated with all this, as he is using his magic minute to hold up the final vote for the act formerly known as the big potentially esthetically pleasing act. You know, like maybe it's got a couple warts on it, but nothing that, you know, a little concealer won't take care of, you know, just. Little concealer or you just look at it at the right angle and you go, yeah, you know, oh, yeah, it turned out beautiful. Beautiful and kind of like the two Face and Seinfeld, that kind of thing. So anyway, yeah, Hakeem Jeffries continues to do that, meanwhile, billionaires. Yeah, because you and I both know a lot of billionaires that work for tips. Right. I mean, it's like you see them serving you at restaurants and they work a lot of overtime that they get paid for too. Right. That's definitely. They're really looking to cash in on that child tax credit too. No doubt. So, yeah, I think Hakeem Jeffries has a really good point just about the billionaires. Oh, by the way, if you want lower taxes, the BBB is a beautiful thing. I'm going to break down, coming up in the second hour, exactly what the BBB means to you because it means a lot of money to you. Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buddha.

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