B (4:16)

I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March, if the rhetoric didn't stop, there's going to be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die. Not officers, not members of the community, and not the targets of our operations.

A (4:48)

While all of that's going on, more US Companies are announcing layoffs. We previously reported massive layoffs from Amazon while they fund also Melania's movie. They give her $70 million, but slash 16,000 jobs. Lots of other companies have announced massive job cuts and layoffs. As I've said before, we are in a jobs recession right now. People can't get jobs. People who have jobs are unable to make wages with dignity or get wages with dignity. This is the Trump era of corporate cost cutting, as they're describing it, which is actually the CEOs making thousand, three thousand, five thousand X with their employees work while firing their employees. But take a look at how various state regime media is dealing with it. This morning, CBS News, which shouldn't even be called news anymore, as I saw that one comedian say at the Golden Globes, it stands for cbs. It's all BS that comes out of them. But their state regime media, now they brought on Treasury Secretary Scott Besant and you know, they're asking him the tough questions like, tell me about something unusual that you drink or eat in the morning. Here, play this clip.

B (6:04)

My deep, dark secret is I have a Dr. Pepper for breakfast. Not allowed to do it in the house with the children. That's your breakfast secretary. Breaking news. Don't tell Bobby Kennedy.

A (6:14)

All right, I'll tell Bobby Kennedy.

B (6:16)

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A (7:33)

What are we even talking about there then? Going to state regime media, which calls itself Fox. You have Melania Trump, I guess, on there every hour now, promoting the Melania movie, which nobody wants to see. And she says that, you know, as a parent, you have to be there for your little children. And Barron, who's 19 years old, she describes as like her little child. This is what they're doing on state regime Media. Play this clip.

B (7:57)

Tell us about that. The challenge of being the first lady of the greatest country in the world. Everyone's pulling at you, but you also have your priority of your family. It's very important. You need to be there for a child nonstop, especially when they need you, especially at that age. That Barones, he's incredible young man. We are very proud of him. Second year in Stern school of Business.

A (8:24)

She also talks about that her representatives are in contact with Vladimir Putin right now. And this, as we know, Donald Trump is displaying Vladimir Putin's photo With Trump in the Oval Office very prominently. Here's what Melania says there. Let's play it in Russia.

B (8:39)

You sent Vladimir Putin a note. Did he get back to you? Tell me about that. He did. He did. He wrote a letter back to me. My representative is in contact with them. And we are still, still working, reuniting more children. I hope soon we will have a great success again. It's great.

A (9:02)

To Energy Secretary Chris Wright. This is part of the new Trump propaganda push this morning. They're saying as a result of Donald Trump bringing back coal and getting rid of solar and wind energy, hundreds of lives were saved in the winter storm. Hundreds of people would have died, he said, if Biden was in office. But we saved your life by bringing back coal. That's the propaganda the regime is spewing this morning. Let's play this clip right here.

B (9:30)

Yeah. Not just the, the storm, but the cold temperatures, Dana, they drive up demand for electricity to the to often the annual peak. And I will tell you, coal and President Trump's effort to keep coal plants open has, in the last few days has likely saved hundreds of American lives. We had a much smaller cold front during the Biden administration. We lost over 200American lives because power went down, heating went out. The Trump administration, we've saved 17 gigawatts of coal plants to keep them open. Natural gas, coal and nuclear, in that order, have been the key workhorses to keep the lights on at these peak demand times.

A (10:11)

Now we're also learning more about Donald Trump's shady oil dealings with Venezuela, because all of this is a grift to enrich Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that Trump officials who were awarded Venezuela oil sales contracts have done that with firms tied to bribery. Two trading houses with a history of bribery and Corruption won the $500 million deals. Court record show they were previously hunted down by the US Department of Justice. But that does not seem to matter to the current regime. Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with Trump this month to sell Venezuelan oil and then put the money into Qatari bank account were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere. A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump's 2024 election campaign. Isn't that what this is all about, folks? At the end of the day, Donald Trump enriching himself through this, through this utter, utter grift. And then finally, the United States moving closer to war with Iran. Iran says that it is engaging in war games right now off the strait of her muse, where they're going to be doing live firing exercises potentially dis traffic through that waterway. America has its Abraham Lincoln tanker group that's heading that's in the area right now. It seems that there could be another war imminent with Iran and we will be keeping you posted every step of the way as we watch for that hit. Subscribe let's get to 6 million and thank you everybody for watching.

B (11:52)

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