Political Commentator/Guest (6:50)

I am pissed for the American people. This is absolute bullshit. And it's absurd that we are in a body with 435 members. Everybody has a responsibility to serve their district, to serve their constituents.

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Ron Filipkowski (7:23)

All of this is taking place, while this crisis is taking place? Just to be clear, what is Dr. Oz talking about? Who, who now is one of the leaders with within the health department. Here's what he talked about and it was in connection with, I guess, gender affirming care. As the Trump regime, you know, wants to attack immigrants in the transgender community. This is what Oz was talking about today. Play this clip.

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Ron Filipkowski (9:42)

Now, as I mentioned earlier, one of the things that Donald Trump was exposed doing today is manipulating the inflation data. Because all of a sudden it's like, wow, so inflation just dropped pretty dramatically all of a sudden. What? Especially in housing and rent. So wait a minute. In October and November, all of a sudden, housing rental prices just dropped completely? Like, how did that happen? Oh, wait a minute. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just assumed rent and oer was zero for October. Zero. So they acted like there was no inflation. They just put the number zero. It wasn't zero. But because the government was shut down, that's what they did. They just reported zero. Also, one of the things they did to show a massive drop in infl is they only use the data basically from Black Friday sales to show, look, all these goods and products and clothing. Look at all the massive drop that just took place. So they didn't use anything but the Black Friday sales. Or they primarily use the Black Friday sales because they said, well, the government was shut down all this. So we're just gonna use Black Friday basically as our only metric. I mean, this stuff is getting exposed over and over again. You know what else has been exposed? The shell game that Donald Trump played. As this one account says, every single thing Trump said last night in his speech was a lie, including the money that he said he was giving to the U.S. troops. Right? So Donald Trump said that he was giving $1,776 as a warrior dividend to our troops. Remember he said that? Well, as Thomas Novi writes, Trump's $1,776 checks for 1.45 for 1.45 million troops announced Wednesday night come from congressionally allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize Housing allowances for service members. A senior official confirmed to Defense One. Great work here. By Defense One. Just think about that. Trump is taking housing allowance, right? And this all ties together, right? He's manipulating the housing data. We have a housing crisis, but when it comes to our troops, he's taking their housing allowance. And he's saying, I'm giving you a $1,000 and $776 check as a gimmick, as our editor in chief, Ron Philip Koski writes. So Trump is taking money out of their housing allowance approved by Congress and giving it to them in a bonus. So it looks like it came from him. It's just a shell game with the military pay from the ultimate con man. And that's the thing, you know, these housing allowances, it's a big deal. And Congress has continued to try to press the Defense Department that they need to use it for what it's actually allocated for subsidizing housing, housing allowances. But the Trump regime, you saw what Donald Trump does, a gimmick. Now, with all of this going on, with this shell game taking place, you can never lose sight of Donald Trump enriching himself, right? This is ultimately about also enriching Donald Trump. So what went down this morning? So Trump Media, which in my opinion is a failing media company, that's the parent company to Truth Social. We've reported how every quarter they lose tens of millions of dollars. The stock was absolutely tanking. Remember all the reports I was doing how it basically completely tanked? All these people lost their money. So Trump Media today announced a $6 billion merger with a fusion company called TAE Technologies, a fusion power company. Now, there are currently no commercial plants producing electricity using fusion, which is a futuristic technology that carries the potential to generate abundant energy without the risks associated with nuclear power. CNBC writer Kevin Bruminger writes. Okay, so with all of Donald Trump deregulating all of AI with all of the data centers, Trump Media right now acquires or merges or mergers with this fusion company that is also dependent on the Department of Energy for approvals and for grants. And so in my opinion, again, First Amendment opinion that I am giving here, right, the fusion company is, it's like, well, if we just join with Trump, we'll get all of these approvals and we'll utilize, we'll utilize Trump's position, and this will allow us to just streamline everything that we need to do to cut ahead of the line and we can just kind of plow forward. So Trump Media now is a parent company for this, and of course, in my opinion, this is because Donald Trump is using his access to the Department of Energy to enrich himself. So the stock now goes up 33% on this announcement. I don't know how anybody can be okay with this. This is patently unacceptable, in my opinion. Finally, let me just share with you at Trump's national economic adviser Kevin Hassett was on MSNBC and he was asked, why does Trump exaggerate all his number? Why is he lying about all the numbers? I want you to watch Hassett's response. Play this clip Struck.

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We talked earlier in the show. Steve Rattner was here, helped us with it with a fact check. You know, the President does have some good news to talk about, about the economy, gas prices, for instance. But why, why the need to constantly sort of exaggerate? Gas prices are $3 and not 250. You know, the idea of suggesting that, that I think a lot of the impact of inflation, yes, some progress made, but not as much as he says, why not just tell the present American people and say, hey, look, this is, these are the facts. I can understand how you feel, why they need to exaggerate.

Political Commentator/Guest (15:40)

You know, I'd have to go back and look at the specific language, but, you know, and I hate coming back with questions for you guys, but, but the President, in order to make sure that everybody understood the facts and the facts were documented, spent a lot of time with us with our team preparing slides that showed the data for what he was talking about in the speech. And in some networks while he was speaking, they showed the slides, and in some networks they didn't. And I just thought that was kind of unusual. I was expecting when I was flipping around to just see the slides everywhere. Gosh, we spent so much more time on them. But, you know, I think that the President had documentation for the facts that he was saying they were in the slides. And so if there's a specific number you'd like to talk about, maybe he misspoke or something, I'm happy to talk about it. But I wonder.

Ron Filipkowski (16:27)

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