C (6:26)

I will say this about Greenland. We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic right now. Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place. We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security. And Denmark is not going to be able to do it. I can tell you. You know what Denmark did recently to boost up security in Greenland, they added one more dog sled.

A (6:56)

It's true.

C (6:57)

They thought that was a great move.

A (6:59)

Let's not besmirch the good people, you know, riding the dog sleds. However, of course, Trump is right. Look, if Iran, if China, if other countries are moving on Greenland, which is in our section of the world, right, Our hemisphere, it is strategically important to us. So it's, this is the new doctrine, you know, and this is sort of what I was talking about yesterday that I think lot of people there's a certain libertarian bent that thinks that Donald Trump by saying America first means America only or just sort of what happens within our borders is the only influence that America is going to have in the world. But I don't think Donald Trump has ever meant that. He doesn't want crazy military adventures all over the place. He is wrapping up wars. See the Middle east, see what was it? I think it's eight total wars in his time in office that he has wrapped up. Let's not forget what four or five months ago, India and Pakistan were on the verge of a war. They're both nuclear armed countries. So he does not want war. But what he wants is peace through strength. So if you go in and now we, let's say, make Venezuela, what would be the easiest way to say it, we just make Venezuela, let's say, a little more friendly to American interests, a little less friendly to Iranian and Chinese interests. And then we do the same thing with Greenland. That is America first, because it's not America first to say, oh, we only care about what's at our border. So all of our enemies and the bad guys and our adversaries can just keep getting closer and closer and closer to us. Do we want, you know, missiles and do we want, you know, warships hanging out in Cuba, not that far from, I don't know where I am here in Miami? I think there was something called the Cuban missile crisis about 50 years ago. Anyway, here's Bill O'Reilly, who apparently has sat in on some of the meetings where they're offering some insight into why the Trump administration actually wants Greenland. He offered it up on News Nation.

D (8:45)

Here's what Greenland's all about. And I know this because I sat in a meeting with President Trump to discuss Greenland. President Trump wants military bases in Greenland, U.S. air Force and Navy wants it to blunt the Arctic expeditions of Putin and China, which are actively underway. That's what he wants. His negotiating ploy is to create chaos in Copenhagen, which he is doing. But all of this is what Trump does. He creates chaos, and then he gets his deal. He knew we need the United States military bases in Greenland. I suspect we will get them.

A (9:26)

Yeah, I suspect it, too. This is standard Trump 101 stuff, right? So when Hegseth is like, we're prepared for anything implying the military is going in, it's like, no one really thinks the military is going into Greenland and, like, it's sort of off the table. Now, is it possible as negotiations get tighter and tighter with Denmark, that we send a couple troops or we send a ship to show them we're not messing around? Let's not forget what we did with Maduro in Venezuela just three weeks ago, right? Suddenly there were ships going on there, and you've got Maduro going, come and get me. And then we went ahead and did it. So the difference with American foreign policy now is, versus, say, over the last 40 years or so, is when Trump sets red lines. He doesn't let people go over those red lines. When he says he's gonna do something, he actually does it. And this is the reordering of the world. But O'Reilly just lays it out fairly cleanly. There are Arctic expeditions happening right now by China and Russia in Greenland, in essence, in our backyard, and we are not gonna have it. Now. The Funny part of all of this is you might. And it's, maybe we should do a show on this. Or I can bring on a historian to talk about why Denmark is in charge of Greenland in place. But the funny part really is that Denmark, like Denmark can't do anything here. What's Denmark going to do? Like you can't stand up to the United States. What, are you going to throw cheese at us? You can't, you can't do it right. And I like the Danish people. I've been to Denmark twice. It's lovely. But like there's not much you guys can do here. So just take a deal, take some cash, cut your losses and get going. My friend Joe Lonsdale, who of course was one of the co founders of Palantir alongside Peter Thiel, here he is explaining a bit more of sort of strategically, this is sort of more of the fall philosophy of why America first should have borders outside of America. Take a look. There is a real agenda of like Greenland could be the new world and we could develop a society there.

E (11:21)

And I, you know, I think having a frontier is very healthy. I think Britain was a healthier society when it had a frontier and was growing. I'm a huge Anglophile and love British history. I think part of America being great is that it is growing and creating more wealth for everyone. If the people in Greenland want to be part of us, if we can use those resources better and make sure Russia and China don't get advantages in the Arctic. That sounds great to me.

A (11:42)

That's something different than economic growth. It's not the same, but it's a frontier. It's a frontier mindset.

E (11:47)

It's taking new possibility, it's creating new things. You know, our poorest state, Sally, near us, Louisiana and West Virginia are much wealthier unfortunately at this point per capita than Britain because we've been run much better the last 30 years. The confident places should grow and should help create growth. And if Bruno wants a partner, be part of that. That's a functional thing for the world.

A (12:03)

So there's an interesting philosophical notion there just on the frontier mindset, right. So let's put aside some of the minutia of Denmark, this and Russia and China and all that stuff for a second. But just the mindset of what he's arguing America should be about, that we should be looking for the new places, not to conquer them per se, but Greenland, I mean, you're seeing some of the B roll on the side there. You know, it's largely, it's A massive chunk of land, largely empty. The people happen to be very pro America. There was a tiny little sliver of a clip there where Donald Trump Jr. You may remember that, from about six months ago, showed up in Greenland right after Trump kind of floated the idea and he got treated like a hero there. So for the average person in Greenland, you might be going, boy, you know, we're sitting on this piece of land here and, you know, we got no problem with the Danish. They're. They're just fine. And we enjoy eating Danish. But nonetheless, hanging out with the Americans and having them involved in what we're doing here might be more beneficial to us culturally, economically, for a series of reasons. But again, the frontier mindset, I like that because it's not just, you know, we're gonna have to have that frontier mindset on this planet, but the frontier mindset is what Elon is doing with everything, right? Like, we should be thinking about going to Mars, going beyond Mars, interplanetary, interstellar, literally interstellar travel. Like, the idea. Why is it that when, I mean, I can tell you this is father of two, three year olds, why is it that kids want to climb every freaking thing? It's basically like built into us as humans to go to the next frontier. You take a kid to the park, as we did this weekend, and they wanna climb to the highest part of the jungle gym and then figure out if they can get to the tree from there. There's something about humans that wanna go to the next frontier. There was a show called Star Trek. I'm more of a Star wars guy. They've mucked it up, but it had something to do with the next frontier, the final frontier. There was a frontier out there. William Shatner, the other guy with the ears and everything. You remember this from Disclose tv. A little bit more on Greenland just in. Marco Rubio allegedly told lawmakers during a closed briefing that threats against Greenland didn't signal an imminent invasion. The goal is to buy the island from Denmark. Wall Street Journal. So, of course, again, this is Trump doing Trump. How do these people not get it? At this point, it's just try to even think how ridiculous it would sound. Like we're gonna just send thousands of troops into Greenland, start blowing people away, rip down the Danish flag. It's all so stupid. We're gonna buy the freaking thing. It's gonna be better for everybody. It's fine. I thought this was hilarious, this meme that's going around. So we've shown you versions of this because of all the things that we're doing right now. And the original picture of Marco Rubio, the unedited version, was from the meeting that Trump had with JD And Zelensky that went totally sideways. But the caption on this is, marco Rubio finds out he has to run Venezuela, Iran, Canada, Minnesota, Hilton hotels and Greenland. The guy has an awful lot to do. And speaking of some of the things he has to do, we'll talk about the update on the Venezuela situation in just a second. But first, lean. By the time the average person hits 60, they've often lost and regained hundreds of pounds. Doctors even have a name for it, weight cycling. Weight cycling is when you lose 10 or so pounds, then gain it back plus a couple more. It's hard on your body and truly it's just frustrating. The bottom line is this. Most people need help losing weight. That's where lean comes in. Lean is a non prescription oral supplement created by doctors. And the science behind it's very impressive. They studied ingredients that work in three powerful ways. First, lean helps maintain healthy blood sugar. Second, it helps control appetite and cravings. And third, it helps your body burn fat by converting it into energy, which is key to keeping off weight long term. So if you want to lose meaningful weight at a healthy pace and actually keep it off, add lean to your lifestyle. Right now you can get 20% off when you go to takelean.com and use code Reuben. That's Reuben for 20% off@takelean.com everyone deserves to be connected.

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Savings versus Comparable Verizon plans plus the cost of optional benefits plan features and techniques. Taxes and fees vary. Savings with three plus lines include third line free via monthly bill credits, credit stop if you cancel any lines. Qualifying credit required. Okay, so as I've said a couple times on this show and over the last couple days, I don't know exactly what is going to happen in Venezuela right now, but we do know that Trump is laying out what new American policy in terms of protecting the part of the world that we are in, which is the Western Hemisphere, and making sure that American interests are taken care of and that our adversaries aren't just going to be amassing military might and technological might and everything else, you know, in essence, on our borders as per what the future of Venezuela might be like. Here's this from the Hill President Trump said the US Will be running Venezuela with the support of top officials aiding in a regime transition after the capture of leader Nicolas Maduro. Trump said Monday the US Would first clean up Venezuela before holding new elections. The top team of U.S. officials leading the charge will undertake different facets of Venezuela's regime transition. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been Trump's right hand on all foreign policy and security issues. On top of serving as the acting national security advisor and a principal negotiator for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, Rubio will now also take charge of the process to stabilize Venezuela. Trump requested Rubio, under the president's close guidance and direction, to be the lead on this process, white House Deputy Chief of Staff Steve Miller told reporters Monday. Rubio told NBC News Sunday that the US Is primarily focused on halting the flow of drugs, gangs and sanctioned oil from Venezuela, noting there's a lot of work to be done here and balking at the idea of elections in the near future. All of the problems we had when Maduro was there, we still have those problems in terms of them needing to be addressed, he added. We are going to give people an opportunity to address those challenges and those problems. Vice President Vance is expected to play a role in the administration's work in Venezuela. Since September, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has led a series of strikes on Venezuelan boats traveling across the Caribbean Sea with alleged narco terrorists on board. Amid that, the Pentagon has moved a flotilla of warships into the region, which allowed for the overnight raid that captured Maduro this Saturday. The Saturday attack on land could be followed by additional strikes if carried out by Hegseth. If Rodriguez refuses to cooperate with the Trump administration's takeover, we're prepared to do it, the president told NBC News. We anticipated doing it actually. Okay, so all of that said, we're going to have to find out. There's going to be a little bit of a waiting game here, but if you think this thing is going to turn into the crazy sectarian violence and suicide bombing and massive military kerfuffle that say Iraq did that is just pure hysteria. There are huge cultural and ethnic differences. The people fundamentally are different. It's a completely different religious situation and everything else. And the people of Venezuela really did want to be free. You know, they had elections not too long ago that basically everyone knows Maduro lost and then he just decided he won this. The people wanted this. And again, you would just have to swing on by to Miami and meet any of the Venezuelans that I'm hanging out with on any given day, wandering down the street or going to the park. And these are the expats who are thrilled about it because they know what they fled. They fled communism. So the communist regime is gonna step out of the way. Is there gonna be some headaches involved? And could there be some unforeseen things? And is it gonna be that easy to get rid of the Maduro, you know, the guys that are still, let's say, loyal to Maduro, however many are still in government, and then to eventually get the institutions to work so that you can get fundamentally sound elections. Like, is any of that gonna be, like, super easy? No, but I don't think we're even promising that. I think Rubio's saying this stuff is gonna take a little bit of time, but it will be better than dealing with a country that was going down the communist road, that was allying with Russia and Iran, et cetera, et cetera. Here's a bit more from Bill O'Reilly on some of the granular parts of how we're gonna do things there.

D (20:05)

The CIA is calling the shots as far as the Venezuelan government is concerned. They know everything that's going on there, made a deal with the Venezuelan military. You step aside, because we're coming in to get Maduro. And that's the only way on earth that the US Special Forces could have snatched Maduro without any conflict at all, None. So they made a deal with the CIA that, that they're gonna basically allow America to stabilize the country, which is what the Venezuelan people want.

A (20:41)

Right. So that's the fundamental difference. The Venezuelan people, you go back to Iraq 25 years ago, and it was like, what did the people of Iraq want? Were they, you know, this is pre Internet in some sense. Like, the people almost didn't know what freedom was. It was like, if you live in the cave, it's the Plato's Cave. You live in the cave, you don't know what sides, you don't know what is outside of the cave. Then these Americans come, let's say they even had good intentions, mucked up the whole thing, okay? And now Iraq is largely a failed state, but this is just fundamentally different. We are now going to lead a transition where the base of people in the country did not want to live the way under a regime that they were living under, by the way. It's very similar to what's happening in Iran right now, which I think is being completely ignored by the mainstream. But there is an unbelievable revolution bottom up Revolution brewing in Iran. But we'll punt that for now. We'll do more on that. We'll do more on that tomorrow. You know, as we were playing that clip, Connor just mentioned to me, you know, I've mentioned to you guys a couple times over the last few days that our housekeeper here, who is Venezuelan, has had tears in her eyes the last couple days, and she's so absolutely happy, and maybe we'll be able to be reunited with some of her family members again. She's just absolutely wonderful, in many senses, a part of our family at this point. But Connor just mentioned to me that we were doing some electric work in here yesterday and our electrician is Cuban, and that he was going on and on telling Conor about how he's so excited about what happened in Venezuela and that maybe it could happen in Cuba. So we shouldn't forget these voices, the people who had to pick up and leave. Right. You know, I always talk about, you know, think about your. Whether it was your grandparents or great grandparents or whoever it was that had to pick up from whatever part of the world they went to, and everyone that came to America, nobody really had much, and you were fleeing something, that's why you came here. Well, many of those people from these Latin American countries, they're the first generation guys, and they're going, boy, there's a chance, there's a chance that the place that I fled, where maybe my family still lives or this, that could be better. And then, you know what, maybe some of those people are gonna go back. Maybe they'll at least be able to visit. Like, there's so many great opportunities here, and it's only because Trump is thinking about things differently. And speaking of Trump, he put this up on Truth Social. I'm pleased to announce that the interim authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 million barrels of high quality sanctioned oil to the United States of America. The oil will be sold at its market price, and that money will be controlled by me as the President of the United States, to ensure it's used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States. I have asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to execute this plan immediately. It will be taken by storage ships and brought directly to the unloading docks in the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter. DOMINIC Trump, President of the United States okay, so that's also interesting. What is he saying? We're gonna get some of this oil, and he specifically says it will be used to the benefit of the people of the United States and of Venezuela. So it's not like we're stealing this oil. Now you also. This is worth showing. Check out this graph of oil reserves in various countries. I mean, Venezuela, people don't realize it. I mentioned it on the show yesterday, and I didn't even know it till we did some research. Venezuela has more oil reserves than even Saudi Arabia. But you can see the big ones. Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, US And Canada. We have plenty of oil. They have about 303 billion barrels of oil reserves right now. Now the question is, do we need that oil right now? Well, the answer to that actually is no. We're producing more oil than we have in a long time because of Donald Trump. Here's Larry Kudlow on Fox Business.

G (24:12)

We are producing with Drill Baby Drill. We are producing 13.9 million barrels a day of oil. That is a record. A record. Call it 14. We are producing record volumes of natural gas. Okay, Prices are coming down. Supply is going up. Okay, that is, and this is such an important point going to affect the inflation rate, for heaven's sakes. Oil is so important. It's very possible monthly CPI's will print negative. They will print negative. Now people will say, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's because demand is. No, no. It's because of the importance of Drill Baby Drill, which was a Mr. Trump policy.

A (25:02)

Okay? So I generally don't love to get into all of the minutiae of all of the economic theory and everything, but I think the main point that he says there is, okay, so we're drilling, right? We're getting tons of oil, our own oil right now. So it's not as if need Venezuelan oil. And we have a lot of reserves, right? And we haven't even tapped into all of our reserves because we have all sorts of things that we don't do in terms of drilling for environmental purposes. Then he also talks about natural gas, which we have. So then that causes prices to go down, right? Because supply is up. And then hopefully what that could do is then affect inflation. And if inflation starts going down and the economy's chugging along, then interest rates might go down. And then if interest rates go down, then people can start buying houses more. And this could. That's why the timing of this is so beautiful. Because as I said on our first show back, I am not blackpilled about the midterms. We are gonna have to fight and fight and fight and message properly, and Trump's gonna have to keep doing great things and there'll be every force in the world that will want him out. Because if they can get him to basically be a lame duck and then impeached, it's all over. Like America is cooked, baby. But we don't have to go in that direction. And I think Trump is now laying the groundwork for that. The other thing here is that there's just a lot of good people on the Republican side right now. One of them is a guy who once ran against Donald Trump, but thankfully is our governor here in the free state of Florida. And although Maduro will be charged in New York at the moment, there may be some Florida charges down the pike. This is DeSantis with Jesse Waters. I'd also say that I know they indicted him in the Southern District of New York. We also have the right as a state to bring pertinent charges in state court, and we're working on that. Our attorney general is leading that effort. And you may see charges filed in a place like Miami or Doral, which we're entitled to. Do you guys want to take a field trip? What do you think about a field trip? A Rubin report field trip? I'll get you guys lunch and everything. We'll get the juice boxes going, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, the whole thing. If Maduro gets indicted in a Florida court, Miami, we'll go up to Doral. I'm not opposed. We are going to take a Rubin report trip. I will make the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. You want fruit punch, don't you? You don't like apple juice? You want the fruit punch? All right, fruit punch it is. Applesauce, apple, whatever you want. We'll cut up apples, the standard stuff. We're giving the kids right for you guys. I got plenty of boxes with little divisions, so the fruit's not going to touch the. Okay, you got it. Tax Network usa. And then more on the Democrats who. Well, you know about them. Do you owe back taxes or haven't even filed in years? Now's the time to resolve your tax issues. With the national debate around abolishing the income tax system, the IRS is pushing back by becoming more aggressive than ever. They're sending more collection notices, filing more tax liens, and collecting billions more than in recent years. If you owe or you haven't filed, it's not a matter of if the IRS will act. Its when. Right now, Tax Network USA is offering a completely free IRS research and discovery call to show you exactly where you stand. Their programs and strategies can save you thousands or even eliminate your debt entirely if you qualify. Don't make the mistake of trying to handle The IRS on your own. Representing yourself or calling them directly can waive your rights and cost you significantly more. The IRS is not on your side, but Tax Network USA is. Get the protection you need and start resolving your tax matters once and for all. Call 1-800-958-1000 or visit tnusa.com Dave for your free discovery, call. Don't let the IRS be the first to act. Democrats, crazy or retarded? Let's find out. I'm trying to say it less this year. I'm really trying, but I got a limited vocabulary when it comes to. There's only so many adjectives for these people. Lady eyelashes. Jasmine Crockett, who apparently is running for Senate in Texas, which is just so insane. And she's a congresswoman out of Houston, which has a huge, huge amount of problems right now. She went on the View and take a look.

B (29:05)

The press conference that he held, he didn't talk about democracy. Now, I know there are a lot of people that are talking about this is good for the Venezuelan people because Maduro was a bad guy, but that's not why he did it. He has not cared about Venezuelans at all. Let me be clear about that part.

A (29:19)

That's true.

B (29:20)

Here's the problem. The biggest problem that I have is that it was illegal. Everything that this administration does is illegal. And so I don't know how you take the moral high ground when you are actually executing something in an unconstitutional way in the first place.

A (29:36)

Lady, I know you're a lawyer, you keep telling us that, but there's nothing unconstitutional about this. That's number one. Although if Trump loses the midterms, I guarantee you, if the Republicans lose the midterms, I guarantee you they will try to impeach him on this. Even though Barack Obama was drone striking the hell out of people, including American citizens, without congressional authorization when he was president, we destabilized and completely destroyed the state of, of Libya. Remember, there was that Muammar Gaddafi guy, looked a little crazy, the hair was a little bizarre. Wasn't a great guy. But we completely annihilated the country. It didn't have congressional authorization. That was under Obama. They called it a kinetic military action. Sounds like an Xbox, Kinect, something. Anyway, she's just a complete hypocrite and dingbat and all of those things. By the way, she represents Dallas, not Houston. Houston's got major problems. Dallas is actually doing kind of okay. Hmm. That makes you wonder. Anywho, here she is explaining that Trump and Maduro, not just Maduro, But Trump, too, are legitimate illegitimate.

B (30:38)

And, you know, I do want to just say this. Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate as we sit here on January 6th. I do want to be clear. Somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful.

A (30:59)

I don't really feel like responding to that myself. So let's play a clip from Billy Madison. What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumb for having listened to it. I had a nickel for every bong hit I took while watching that sophomore year of College in 1995 in Binghamton. I have a lot of cash. It was the anniversary of January 6th yesterday, solemn day in American history, where several people, one who had a set of the Capitol in Lego, went and voiced their opinions on some things. The Democrats held a candlelight vigil yesterday.

D (32:14)

I won't see.

A (32:18)

You know, having watched that, especially watching what's his name, the crazy guy who looks like a werewolf, wave his cane. I've changed my. January 6th was a horrific disaster. Donald Trump did illegitimate president. I'm joining the Democrats like you guys got me. It was just so beautiful. You might enjoy this.

D (32:36)

It's a.

A (32:36)

It's a funny edit that was going around because recently Nancy was. Pelosi was asked about whether she had this Capitol troops step down on that day and. Well, just watch the edit.

H (32:49)

Why did you refuse the national guard on January 6th?

A (32:54)

Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The president didn't send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you're a serious journalist? Wait a minute. I take responsibility. Responsibility for not having them.

G (33:09)

Damn.

A (33:12)

So you can see why that was making us. Also, do you see their cat? Why is it that. I know she's stepping away now, finally, but why is it all of these people can't walk by themselves? But she has enough. Anders, shut up. Like, they just hate you. They hate you so much. And I have just no doubt her grandchildren hate her, which is why she stuck around for the gig that long. But. All right, whatever. Uh, let's talk about Rumble Premium for a moment. And then a bit on Pete Hegseth and Mark Kelly, who could be in some hot water for telling soldiers not to perform the duty of soldiers. Guys, if you want the best experience on Rumble, you need a Rumble Premium. It's ad free, distraction free and built entirely around creators who actually stand for something. You'll get exclusive access to a whole lineup of voices that aren't afraid to think differently. Rumble Premium is how you support a platform that's genuinely built on free speech, not just talking about it. Go to rumble.com premium rubin that's rumble.com premiumrubin for 10% off annually for Rumble Premium. Join the movement today.

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Savings versus Comparable Verizon plans plus the cost of optional benefits, plan features and taxes and fees vary. Savings with three plus lines include third line free via monthly bill credits. Credit stop if you cancel any lines. Qualifying credit required. All right, so you remember a couple months ago when several Democrats in Senate and Congress, they put up one of those videos where they do those jump cuts and they said if you are in the military and you get an order that's not legal, you don't have to listen to that. And when the video, that was a pretty good impression, right? And then when the video came out, what did I say the day it came out? I was like, I don't know of any orders that are illegal. And I don't think they do either because if they did, they might have mentioned them in the video. Of course, subsequently, over the few days after that, they all went on various shows, all basically admitted that they didn't know what the illegal orders were, including Mark Kelly, who's a former member of the military. Listen to this from Fox because he could be in some hot water now. Secretary of War Pete Hegsen Seth said Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat from Arizona, will receive a formal censure letter and that he has directed Secretary of the Navy John Phelan to review the retired Navy captain's retirement rank and pay and provide a recommendation in 45 days, sharply escalating an investigation alleging he made seditious statements that undermined military operations. Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly and five other members of Congress released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. Hegs has said in a statement to Fox News Digital. As a retired Navy captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice and the Department of War, and the American people expect justice. This comes after a group of Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds. Kelly, Senator Elisa Slotkin of Michigan and Representatives Chris DeLuzzo and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire and Jason Crow of Colorado released a video directed at service members and intelligence officers stating, our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. So, look, I can't. I'm not a lawyer. I'm certainly not a military lawyer. I can't speak to the legality of now going after his pension and that sort of thing. So we'll find out more about that. But the simple truth is they put that video together. They had to have known what was going to happen, right? Did they honestly think they were going to put out a video like that? And then suddenly all of these. These members of the military, various disciplines, were suddenly going to be like, all right, I'm just not listening and everything's going to be okay. No, if you knew if there was an ill. And by the way, the sidebar of all this, of course, is that members of the military have to follow orders. Because if every member of the military was like, you get whatever your 10 orders are, and you're like, you know what? I'm going to have my lawyer review all these things before I do anything, you would simply not have a functioning system. That doesn't mean that bad things can't come down the pike. Doesn't mean that there's bad people. Look, the Nazis, one of the. What did the Nazis say during the Nuremberg trials when they brought lower level Nazis? They would always say, I was just following orders. Right. So philosophically, there is something around this that makes sense. But when you're a retired member of the military telling people, don't follow orders, and you don't even know what orders you're talking about, you got a problem. Here's Mark Kelly going after Hegseth.

I (37:48)

Let me make it perfectly clear. This letter or anything that Pete Hegseth says or does to me is in no way gonna affect the way I do my job and represent my constituents in the United States Senate. Ain't happening. So, you know, his option, you know, right now is he can continue with this kind of bull or he can go take a hike. That's his options. And if I have an opportunity to, you know, tell him that, that tomorrow, maybe I will.

A (38:19)

Well, that's not really his options, because we just heard what his options are. And it's not bullshit, as you just said, it's that they are going to look into the legality of a former member of the Navy who is now a sitting senator, and what are the repercussions if he creates a propaganda video to tell current serving members of the military that they don't have to follow orders? There might be a little something there, right? It might affect your pension. Now, interestingly, there's nothing better that the left does than eat their own. So this is just great. So Mark Kelly went on Jon Stewart and Jon Stewart, my disappointment with him never ends. And many of you, I'm sure, know I interned at the Daily Show Back in 1999, a lifetime ago, and spent a little time with him and liked him personally. And he should have been what Bill Maher became, a stalwart defender of true liberalism. He decided to go all in on wokeism and all the worst things stuff. So anyway, he had Mark Kelly on, I think this is yesterday. And here he is. He kind of is with. He's with him as it pertains to what happened with Trump. But then Stewart turns on him suddenly. Watch the move here.

I (39:24)

It's not complicated. If a reasonable person would think that this thing that they are asking me to do is illegal, you have an obligation not. It's not an option. You have an obligation not to follow those orders.

A (39:39)

So are the boat strikes illegal?

I (39:41)

Well, so I've been asking this question for a long time. I'm on the Armed Services and the Intelligence Committee, right. They have some complicated legal rationale. 40 pages of why these are legal. It's questionable at best.

A (39:54)

But what I'm. Do you see my point? You yourself, I don't. But under the Obama administration, they did extrajudicial killings of American citizen through drone strikes. Like we criticized that. That's my point, is there's enough gray area. Congratulations, you guys all have each other right now. Look, I'm very critical of Jon Stewart, but he actually did the right thing there. Because first off, yes, Obama did extrajudicial, non congressionally authorized killings of drone strikes of American citizens. And I don't remember it specifically, but I'll believe Jon Stewart when he says that they criticized it on that show. I actually will believe him on that. Now the question is, did Mark Kelly, a Democrat, criticize Barack Obama at that point? I'm gonna go out there and assume that the answer is no on that. But the other point that Kelly just walks into the. It wasn't even a trap. But it's like Kelly is like, well, you know, if any reasonable person thinks that something might be illegal, and then Stewart's like, well, were the strikes illegal? And he's like, well, there's a 41 page thing and it's very unclear. And that's the point. That's the point. You can't just say to every member of the military, just think about it. Just, you have to think about it. You're not a lawyer. You don't have a lawyer on retainer as an army, a member of the army. You don't have just a lawyer sitting next to you to decide, well, I don't really feel like doing that. This thing just seems a little weird. Or I would like a little more rationalization. Literally the entire system would collapse on itself in a day if people were to do it the way that Mark Kelly was proposing. Speaking of systems collapsing on themselves in a day, let's jump over to California because listen to this from the New York Post. California could be losing a staggering $250 billion in taxpayer cash through rampant fraud, waste and abuse, according to a Republican backed analysis of whistleblower tips. Steve Hilton, who's running for governor, and Herb Morgan, who's seeking the state controller job, unveiled findings from their Califraudia tip line investigation, a damning review of the Golden State's bloated welfare system, which they allege has become a piggy bank for scammers and political hacks. The explosive allegations come after the duo collected hundreds of whistleblower tips through their website, califraud.com, painting a picture of systemic looting across major state plat programs. This is what you get from 16 years of one party rule, Hilton is expected to thunder at a Monday afternoon press conference in San Francisco. Corruption, fraud and abuse on an epic scale. Gavin Newsom and the corrupt Democrat machine have stolen our money and handed it out to corrupt cronies and political front groups. The Republican candidates fired off a formal letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and federal inspectors general demanding the FBI's Public Corruption and complex fraud units swoop in to investigate. So look, we will find out more about this, but the reason I wanted to cover this quickly was because we're in the midst of a ridiculously massive scandal unfolding out of Minnesota thanks to YouTuber Nick Shirley, a kid with a camera who has now caused the sitting governor, almost Vice President of the United States Tim Walls, to not seek reelection. I mean, the scandal is just freaking huge. They've got the Attorney General Keith Ellison on tape talking about how he was gonna cover up the scandal. Like there's just so much there. And now I guess you not I guess I would venture to say we are gonna find out about an awful lot of this and most of it's gonna be coming out of Blue St. Of course there'll be red states with scandals and of course there are bad people everywhere and all of those things. But California under Gavin Newsom has basically been a giant money laundering operation. Can I get the numbers on the train that they try. We've covered it before, but they were trying to build for a decade a train that was basically gonna go from LA up north to San Francisco and they wasted billions of dollars and it barely got to Bakersfield. We'll get to Joseph's working on the numbers on that. But let me get a little sign from Trump here on truth. California under Gavin Newscomb is more corrupt than Minnesota, if that's even possible. The fraud investigation of California has begun. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So they're gonna start looking at Cali too. And when you think about California, 16 years of one party state, you know, basically since is that really, since Schwarzenegger was governor, you've, you've obviously got crazy levels of corruption. This is what happens when you get big government, you get big bureaucracies, you get people that are just, this is kind of what deep state is. You get people who are just all in on it all the time. To build the railway which was going to go from Los Angeles to San Francisco, they said it was going to be $128 billion, which that just, just is insane. California has spent almost 16 billion of it and it's basically untouched. So where did that money go? Like, start looking into that and then you're going to find out some more. And by the way, we are going to be looking into all of it. Here's DHS Secretary Kristi Noem talking about Gavin Newsom's future. Enjoy.

I (44:54)

The Governor of California says bring it on.

H (44:58)

Oh, we'll be there. We think that this is just the tip of the iceberg. So Minnesota is unbelievable, what we've seen, but it is leading us to networks all over the country and overseas, and we're going to follow every single one of them. Homeland Security Investigations is an incredible team of individuals who go after human traffickers, sex traffickers. But the fraud that we have in our public programs that are tied to California. Absolutely. We're going to come to you, Governor Newsom, and we're going to arrest every single individual that has ties to this kind of ceiling of taxpayer dollars. And we will hold them accountable.

A (45:36)

What do I always say? It's like, this is a serious cabinet. These are serious people that are going to look in and don't forget, like, Gavin Newsom right now, like, lizard stuff aside, and all the jokes about him aside, he has been in power forever. He is so deeply corrupt. He is so deeply authoritarian. The things that he did during COVID the fact that he rejoices when billionaires that are running massive companies leave his state, takes those. Take those tax dollars out, which he needs with their crazy high taxes. And it's funny, you know, people don't realize when you live in a blue state, you somehow think that, oh, and you're paying all this money, that it has to be that way. And yet Florida here has no state income tax. And we have cleaner roads and we have cleaner cities, and we have better services and everything else. My brother lives in New York, and every time he comes down here, he's like, wait a minute, why am I paying all these taxes still in New York? But you guys have all of the stuff we have, and it's actually better and safer and cleaner, et cetera, et cetera. What is going on here? Here's Elon Musk on Gavin Newsom.

J (46:39)

All right, guys, there's a reason why we criminalized theft in the first place. And then, amazingly, I think Gavin Newsom was. Was came out against that proposition. Yeah, no, honestly, he's the goddamn Joker. Gavin Newsom is like, if it's like, from the, like, Batman, Dark Knight, the Joker is in charge of Gotham. You remember, like, when he took over New York, basically, and the criminals roam free and the citizens are arrested. That's how. That's California.

A (47:13)

You know, it's funny, I didn't see that clip till this morning. And just yesterday we showed you that clip of the Dark Knight, and I was talking about how Mamdami is now going with his, you know, trials, his renter, his landlord trials. He's basically gonna be the scarecrow in the Dark Knight. And you've got Elon there saying Newsom is the Joker. Like, he's just burning down the entire thing there. I think we have an updated image of Gav. There he is. Oh, look, his hair got a little ruffled. Bit more on what's going on in California. Breaking. Elon Musk calls on all Californians to sign the petition to put voter ID on the ballot. In the 20 election, 1 million signatures were just surpassed, and it needs around 200,000 more. This would legally require photo ID to vote. Verification of citizenship. So no more illegals voting, no more dead people voting. None of it. Make it happen. All 50 states need voter ID to endpoint. Look, the fact that we don't have voter ID in all 50 states is completely absurd. I've told you the story many times that literally in the recall election of Gavin Newsom at the height of COVID they wanted everybody to mail in their ballots. But I was like, no, I'm not going to do it. And me and Connor and a couple of the other guys voted together. And I walked into the ballot office, which was a few blocks from my house, and I was about to take out. I was literally taking my wallet out, like taking my ID out. The guy who was sitting there, he recognized me. He's like, dave, how you doing? No, no, no, don't show me that. He literally pointed like he did not want to even see it. And it wasn't. Cause he knew who I was, right? It was like, they don't even want to see your id. I then voted. And by the way, then the machine actually had an error and I had to vote again. And. And the way they did the election with the mail in, since we did get the mail in, I was fiddling with the actual paper. You couldn't fold it in such a way, no matter which way you folded it, if you had voted for Larry Elder, you could see it through the envelope. Like the whole thing was so freaking corrupt. But the basic idea that you're allowed to vote without an ID is insane. In Cali, all they wanted was your name and your address so you could literally walk in. And if you knew your next door neighbor's name and address, you could say you were your next door neighbor. And then if he showed up and did it, well, he'd either be screwed or they'd probably let him do it again because it's Cali. So this is the lowest common denominator. This is base level stuff. Every functioning society obviously should have this. This idea that black and brown people don't have IDs. I have black and brown friends. I got a list of them. Because you gotta keep a list of your black and brown friends. They've all got IDs. I don't know any black people that don't have IDs. Okay? It's just. It's absurd. It's racist. It's all of this stuff. And here's a bit more from Elon on the absurdity and what happens and how this is all connected to illegals in swing states.

J (49:58)

And when you're talking about elections that are won or lost by 10 or 20,000 votes and then you bring in 200,000 people and then you put them on the fast track to citizenship. This is without considering any cheating, this is legal realized that if, if, if that, if that is, if that happens over the next four years there will be no swing states. The, the, they're importing voters. That is my, I think that's obvious to anyone who looks. And we will have a situation like we have in California where it's, it's, it's a one party state. California is, is a super majority majority Dem state. And so it's one party rule. And if you have one party rule, that's not a democracy.

A (50:47)

So this is basic stuff guys, right? Like this, you don't have to think about this, this, you don't have to be a political scientist to think about it or anything else, right? If you have people that are allowed to vote without showing IDs and you've also imported, let's say 21 million people in four years and we don't know where they are. Do you think you have created a fraud situation that is extraordinary and on top of the flag fact that so many of our elections are so close. So if you just sent in, I don't know, 50,000 illegal Somalis, I'm not even saying that specifically, but you just sent in anywhere a whole bunch of people. And we also know that barely anyone in America votes. You know, we've gotten a little bit better in presidential elections where it's usually over 50% but so few people vote that it's not even that you would need that many people to cause the fraud. Though this was interesting from polymarket breaking. Trump orders Congress to immediately pass nationwide voter id. So look again, this is where, where Congress, you have no excuses right now. Republicans, you have a majority. This is where they're going to have to decide whether they want to do the nuclear option or not and get rid of the filibuster and a whole bunch of things. I think Trump has, you know, in essence, it's, it's to November. He has 10 plus months to do everything in his power to keep America on the right track. Track, reorganize the world, fight for all of the right things, fix things. And yet. Yes. Is it, is it always the case? Virtually always the case. I think around 70% of the time that the incumbent president's party losing in the midterms, that is a fact. But it, but it's not set in stone. And 70% means about 30% of the time it goes the other way. Trump's got an opportunity right now, and for him, it's personal because.

C (52:25)

You got to win the midterms. Because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be. I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached. We don't impeach them. You know why? Because they're meaner than we are. We should have impeached Joe Biden for a hundred different things. They are mean and smart, but fortunately for you, they have horrible policy. They can be smartest can be. But when they want open borders, when they want, as I said, men and women's sports, when they want transgender for everyone.

A (53:05)

I don't know about smart. I would rather say calculating. Right? Like, they're calculating and kind of evil. So there's just no doubt. Right. If the Republicans lose the House 100%, they hang up Trump with sham impeachment for two years. It's not even a question. Right? We've been through this show several times. Season seven of impeachment. Tune in tomorrow. Like, that's where we will be. Everyone gets that. He's right about that. And their policies are horrible. So with horrible policies, New York City is going to continue to go down in free fall again. This is the backdrop of America at our 250th anniversary. That's a super amount of patriotism that could re establish itself this year. That happens July 4th of 2026. That's only three months from the elections. We got to run with all this stuff. And if Trump can do well in Venezuela, and now there's a revolution happening in Iran and like, like a whole bunch of things. And for the reasons that Larry Kudlow laid out. If inflation starts to go down and the rest of it, there's a huge, huge, huge, huge bright future here. That's what I'll fight for. That's what I hope you fight for. We got a Postgame show in 30 seconds. Ruben Port a lot. I was about to say, you see what happened there? I was about to say, this was a 9, 8. I really felt good about today's show to the point that I mucked up saying Rubinreport locals. So what do we drop on that point for? All right, we're at 9 3. See you tomorrow.