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The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia. It's not China. It's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within.
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Later on the program, California Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat, pushed back.
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This isn't the first time a president has come in and shaken up inspector general positions. In 1981, Ronald Reagan fired 16 inspectors general shortly after his inauguration and ended up rehiring several of them after Congress objected.
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Beyond those moves, the Trump administration also sent home 160 National Security Council aides, reassigned about 20 senior career attorneys at the Justice Department, and fired the heads of the U.S. Coast Guard and TSA. It's not uncommon for a president to quickly get to work, to hire and fire.
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But many observers have pointed out that the breadth and speed of the changes to the federal government imposed by Trump in his first week in office were a remarkable test of the limits of presidential power. Speaking to PBS News, The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart commented on the nature of some of these early moves.
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Reuters reports on the range of responses to Trump's actions. His supporters have cheered it on. Others are shocked and scared, particularly those federal employees who don't know what's coming next. Mark Lee Greenblatt, who was fired from his position as the Interior Department's inspector general, told NBC he's concerned about Trump politicizing inspector general positions.
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He said, quote, we are the so-called watchdogs inside the federal agency. So does he appoint true watchdogs or does he appoint lapdogs? Another big headline from Trump's first week in office, immigration raids. Several hundred people have been arrested per day nationwide starting last Tuesday.
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Over the weekend, raids were carried out in major cities, like in Atlanta, where the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports ICE authorities pulled a person out of church to arrest them, and in Denver, where officials say dozens of undocumented people with ties to drug trafficking and Venezuelan gangs were taken into custody.
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Let's zoom in now on Chicago, a sanctuary city which is estimated to have about 400,000 undocumented immigrants living in the region. A spokesperson for ICE said their operation there targeted only, quote, dangerous criminal aliens. Hours before the raids started, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker went on CNN's State of the Union to explain what he hoped that meant.
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But Pritzker also said he believed the raids are going beyond that scope.
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During the raids in Chicago, Trump's appointed border czar, Tom Homan, had an unexpected companion. TV personality Dr. Phil rode alongside immigration authorities as they conducted raids on several homes. Here's Dr. Phil talking with Homan on his TV channel, Merit TV.
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But first, President Trump is moving quickly to change the federal government, sidelining hundreds of government workers and paving the way to potentially fire hundreds of thousands more. In a rapid series of moves in his first week in office, Trump is requiring federal employees to return to the office five days a week.
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Dr. Phil was asking those questions because the Trump administration recently revoked a ban on arrests in sensitive areas, meaning immigration authorities can now detain people in and around schools, churches, hospitals, small businesses, even during funerals and weddings. That has led to widespread fear and panic in cities around the country that ICE officials could show up anywhere, anytime.
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Many undocumented people in Chicago have been hiding at home in fear in recent days, leaving major corridors looking like ghost towns. On Sunday, Vice President J.D. Vance defended the policy, even going after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who spoke out against opening churches to potential sweeps. Here's Vance talking to CBS's Face the Nation.
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I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns or are they actually worried about their bottom line? I think the U.S.
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Conference of Catholic Bishops has frankly not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for. And I hope, again, as a devout Catholic, that they'll do better.
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The Justice Department has said it would investigate and prosecute any official who refuses to assist federal authorities with deportations. Governor Pritzker told CNN he'll follow federal law.
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Several immigrant advocacy groups have filed lawsuits against the raids. One group filed an emergency injunction to stop them, calling their harms, quote, imminent and irreparable. The Trump administration has issued quotas to ICE field offices.
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Good morning. It's Monday, January 27th. I'm Shmeeta Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, Trump's promised immigration raids begin, how to rebuild a better Los Angeles, and the Super Bowl lineup is set.
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The Washington Post reports Trump is disappointed in the number of current arrests and wants officials to detain between 1,200 and 1,500 people a day, a significant increase. Now to Los Angeles. Though several fires are still burning, Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom are eager to start the process of rebuilding.
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He's shuttered diversity, equality and inclusion programs and environmental justice programs and cleared the way for people who work in those programs to be fired. And he temporarily blocked health officials from communicating with the public.
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They've reduced some bureaucratic hurdles, so things like building permits are issued more quickly instead of taking years. But the L.A. Times reports it's not quite that simple to just start rebuilding. L.A. will need to consider how to deal with its pre-existing housing shortage and future threats of fires. L.A. Times reporter Doug Smith told us how one former city analyst put it to him.
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Some urban planners say this time around, the city needs to seriously consider leaving more space between homes, planting vegetation that's capable of absorbing embers, and creating more common spaces in neighborhoods. A study that examined the town of Paradise in Northern California after the 2018 Camp Fire found adopting some of those tactics could reduce fire risk in the new community by 75%.
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Beyond fire safety, the other big issue is how to make sure there's enough housing for everyone who needs it.
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The city's zoning laws have historically favored single-family units. In fact, over 70 percent of residential land is zoned only for single-family use. And just last fall, the city's planning commission voted to keep protections in place for single-family housing zones. But there is a state mandate that requires L.A.
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to plan nearly half a million new homes by 2029, which is why some see this moment as an opportunity.
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There's also the question of how L.A. will afford the cost of rebuilding. Some estimates have put the total economic loss at over $250 billion, and that number is sure to go up with fires still burning. California has a reserve fund for emergencies like these. And it's asking the federal government for assistance.
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A spokesperson from the Office of Personnel Management called these steps exciting and said they are in the interest of making the government more effective and efficient. Then, late on Friday night, Trump fired 18 inspectors general. These are the independent government watchdogs that work in federal agencies to investigate allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse.
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But at one point last week, both the president and a number of Republicans in Congress threatened to put conditions on any federal aid. Trump also floated the idea of eliminating FEMA altogether, saying he would prefer it if federal money were handed over to states to handle disasters themselves. A number of California Republicans in the House have pushed back on Trump's suggestions.
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Here's Representative Young Kim, whose district is southeast of Los Angeles in another fire-prone area, speaking with Fox in L.A.
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Here are a few other stories we're watching today. On Sunday, President Trump got into an altercation with the president of Colombia on social media. It came as the United States attempted to land two planes carrying deported migrants in Colombia. president blocked those flights from landing, posting on X, the U.S. cannot treat Colombian migrants like criminals.
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In response, Trump announced he would impose a 25 percent tariff on Colombian goods and that he would ban Colombian officials from coming to the U.S. In a press release late Sunday, however, the White House said Colombian officials had accepted Trump's terms and that Trump expects other nations to, quote, fully cooperate with accepting deported people from the U.S.
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In Gaza, tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are finally making their way back into northern Gaza. They were initially blocked by Israeli authorities after Israel accused Hamas of violating the terms of the ceasefire deal, causing a snag as mediators worked to resolve the dispute. By the end of the weekend, Hamas released four women Israeli soldiers and Israel released 200 prisoners.
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President Trump, meanwhile, speaking to reporters, described Gaza as a demolition site, saying it should be, quote, He also called on Jordan and Egypt to accept more displaced Palestinians. Both countries rejected that idea in separate statements, saying Palestinian statehood is the only way forward. And finally, the Super Bowl matchup is set.
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The Philadelphia Eagles will face off against the Kansas City Chiefs for a chance to bring home the trophy at Super Bowl 59. The Eagles put up a whopping 55 points against the Washington Commanders at Sunday's NFC Championship game. Meanwhile, in Kansas City, the Chiefs are looking for their third championship in a row. The Super Bowl will be played on February 9th in New Orleans.
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You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we've got a narrated article coming up next. New York Magazine has the story of a mom in Michigan who's facing charges for allegedly cyberbullying teenagers, among them her own daughter. If you're listening in the podcast app, follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story.
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When asked why, a White House official told NBC they were cleaning house and lining under the new Trump administration. By law, the president is required to give Congress 30 days notice and a good reason for firing inspectors general. Some Republicans have acknowledged that Trump broke the law with this move, but still defend it. Here's Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on NBC's Meet the Press.
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It is the most surefire way to destroy democracy. There's no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don't.
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Meanwhile, in President Biden's final hours in office, he issued a slew of pardons to preemptively protect people who might face prosecution from Trump, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, and members of the January 6th Congressional Committee. In a statement, Biden called them public servants who haven't engaged in any wrongdoing.
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This comes after Trump has repeatedly said he would go after his political enemies. The changing of presidents is always historic, of course, but today seems extra significant. Trump will be the first convicted felon to hold the highest office. He's also the oldest president to take the oath.
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And he'll enter office with his party controlling both chambers of Congress and a clear conservative majority on the Supreme Court. That gives Trump an opportunity to fundamentally change government, perhaps even more so than he did in his first term. At a rally last night, Trump told supporters that, quote, four long years of American decline would end with his inauguration.
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And he promised a flurry of executive orders.
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Trump's reelection signaled a deep dissatisfaction among a majority of the electorate with the Biden administration. For Biden, it leaves him in a unique position. If he continues the tradition of leaving a handwritten note for the next president in the desk drawer in the Oval Office, Biden will be the only president to address his letter to the very person who left one for him four years ago.
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To understand this moment of transition and what it means for our country, I called up Peter Baker. We spoke at the end of last week. He's chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and someone who's chronicled the Oval Office for decades. I started by asking Peter how he's reflecting on Biden's legacy and the state of the country that Trump will inherit.
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You mentioned that one of Biden's promises was a sort of return to normalcy. Normalcy is a tricky word to bring up in political conversations now, right?
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I mean, the reaction to the first Trump presidency, at least in some circles, was to treat him as someone who is not operating under the normal terms, someone with extreme views, someone who said things a lot of politicians weren't or wouldn't at the time. The reaction this time around seems to be that he represents a lot of Americans.
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And last time you and I spoke, Peter, we were talking about this as a big moment of realignment for American politics. How are you thinking about that now?
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We are inaugurating our first president who is also a convicted felon. And we should say just days before inauguration, this special counsel report about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results was made public. Jack Smith says he thinks prosecutors had enough evidence to convict. Does any of this matter?
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Vance will become the third youngest vice president. Some notable attendees include former presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush and former Vice President Mike Pence. Several tech CEOs are also reportedly attending, including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, and TikTok CEO Sho Chu, according to Axios.
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As we head into this second Trump presidency now, what are you expecting to see in the first 100 days?
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Good morning. It's Monday, January 20th. I'm Shamita Basu. This is Apple News Today. On today's show, Hamas and Israel exchange hostages for captives in the first phase of the ceasefire deal. TikTok is back after a weekend of confusion. And MLK Day and Inauguration Day collide. But first to Washington, where Donald Trump will be formally sworn in as president today for the second time. J.D.
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For ongoing inauguration coverage, check out the Apple News app. Now to Gaza, where the initial terms of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas are now in effect. Yesterday, Hamas released three hostages in exchange for Israel releasing 90 Palestinians who were held in Israeli prisons. Let's start with the hostages.
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Three women, Romy Gonen, Doran Steinbrecher, and Emily Damari, were released yesterday after being held captive by Hamas for 471 days. Hamas! Hamas! Hamas! Video shows the chaotic moment when Hamas militants, who were standing on top of Red Cross vehicles surrounded by crowds, handed the three women over to Israeli forces. The women were reunited with their families Sunday evening.
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Doran Steinbrecher, who is 31 years old, is a veterinary nurse. She was abducted from her family's home during the Hamas-led attack on October 7th. The BBC reports she was hiding under a bed as Hamas militants entered her home. She sent a voice message telling her family she was scared and said, quote, they have caught me.
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Sub-freezing temperatures are forcing today's ceremony indoors to the Capitol Rotunda instead of out on the National Mall. Still, thousands of Trump supporters traveled to the nation's capital to celebrate the event. Some spoke to the local CBS affiliate.
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Emily Damari, a 28-year-old British-Israeli national, was taken hostage from the same kibbutz. She was shot during the attack, and in videos after her release, her bandaged hand was seen missing fingers. And Romi Gonen was 23 when she was captured at the Nova Music Festival. Gonen was on the phone with her mother during the attack. She recalled her daughter telling her she had been shot.
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In exchange for the hostages, Israel released 90 Palestinians, all women and children who had been held in detention centers. They arrived in Ramallah, a city in the West Bank, on Red Cross buses in the early hours of Monday morning. Palestinians in the West Bank have felt the effects of this war in a very acute way.
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Many will say they have loved ones or know of someone who has been detained by Israel. In this prisoner release, Israel banned their families from publicly celebrating. According to The Guardian, that's because Israel does not want their release to be interpreted as a victory by Hamas.
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Meanwhile, though, in Gaza, people were out celebrating in the streets to mark the start of what many hope will be a reprieve for more than 15 months of near-daily bombardments. AFP reports how within minutes of the ceasefire agreement going into effect on Sunday, hundreds of people began the long walk back home to northern Gaza, passing huge mounds of rubble as they went.
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One displaced Gazan told a reporter that they arrived back to their home city to find, quote, massive, unprecedented destruction. He said there is nothing left in the north worth living for. Despite the ceasefire, Israeli strikes and resulting deaths and injuries continued to mount right up until the deal went into effect. Over the course of the war, more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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The ceasefire deal is divided into three phases. This first phase lasts six weeks, during which Hamas is due to release 33 hostages, and Israel is expected to release 1,900 Palestinians. Details on the future phases haven't been hashed out yet. Big questions remain about what happens next. In particular, will the ceasefire hold? And if so, what will happen to Gaza?
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Here's Bloomberg correspondent Dan Williams in Jerusalem talking about those challenges.
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Now to some other stories we're following today. In Trump's first term, he supported banning TikTok. Now he says one of the first things he'll do when he's sworn in is save it.
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Trump says he will issue an executive order giving TikTok more time to find a new buyer. This comes after the app shut down for millions of users in the U.S. this weekend to comply with a law passed by Congress, which says because of China's ownership of TikTok's parent company, the popular app poses a major security risk. The unpause of the ban led to confusion over the weekend.
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And unlike eight years ago, the counter-protest movement was fairly tame. CNN spoke to people rallying out on the mall.
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Here's user Faiz Rug, who has 12 million followers on the app.
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The Associated Press has a good timeline of TikTok's rollercoaster ride over the past few years, including how Trump's position on it flipped. In other news, in Southern California, dangerous Santa Ana winds are expected to pick back up this week, increasing the risk of wildfire spread, just as residents are starting to return home.
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The National Weather Service issued its most extreme alert for the windy conditions. And a polar vortex is set to grip large swaths of the country over the next few days. One National Weather Service meteorologist told NPR anything east of the Rockies will see lower than normal temperatures, with wind chills in some places potentially reaching minus 50 degrees.
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And finally, it's MLK Day, only the second time ever it's fallen on Inauguration Day. And as Donald Trump reassumes the Oval Office, Martin Luther King Jr. 's son, Martin Luther King III, told USA Today that he wants Americans to double down on the work his father started of making America a more equal society.
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The King family has a goal of having Americans participate in 100 million hours of community service by 2029, the year Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 100 years old. In fact, MLK Day is the only national holiday designated as a day of service. You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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And if you're already listening in the news app right now, we've got a narrated article coming up next. New York Magazine looks at how several new startups are in the business of friendship making as Americans have become increasingly lonely. If you're listening in the podcast app, follow Apple News Plus Narrated to find that story. And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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What I'd ask folks to appreciate here is that we are not going to fix things overnight.
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We know people are struggling. We're fighting as quickly as we can to fix what was left to us, but it's not going to happen immediately.
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Now we're at the point of course that the situation has gotten so bad that this December Romania straight up cancelled the results of a presidential election. Based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors. Now as I understand it, the argument was that Die russische Uninformation hat die rumänische Wahl infiziert.
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Aber ich würde meine europäischen Freunde fragen, um eine Perspektive zu haben. Sie können glauben, dass es falsch ist, dass Russland soziale Medien anbietet, um Ihre Wahl zu beeinflussen. Das tun wir sicher. Sie können es sogar auf der Weltlage verurteilen.
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Aber wenn Ihre Demokratie mit ein paar hunderttausend Dollar von digitalen Anbietern aus einem freien Land zerstört wird, dann war es nicht sehr stark zu Beginn.
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My message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you're competitive. It's
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Our, like, our message, the cultural message, and I think the president's and mine is the exact opposite, but our cultural message is I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same. We actually think God made male and female for a purpose. And we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women.
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And we're going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.
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Well, look, I mean, President Zelensky, his country wouldn't exist without the generosity of the United States of America. So say thank you. And if you disagree with the president, pick up the phone and call him or call one of our great diplomats. Don't go on a media tour around Europe bad-mouthing the president of the United States. It's insulting. It's insulting to him. It's insulting to me.
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It's insulting to the American people. And by the way, it's stupid. All of us who know the president would tell you that bad mouthing him in public is not the way to get President Trump to change his mind. So I think Zelensky needs to have some better consult.
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I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear I, James David Vance, do solemnly swear That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States Against all enemies, foreign and domestic Against all enemies, foreign and domestic That I will bear true faith That I will bear true faith And allegiance to the same And allegiance to the same
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that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr. Vice President.
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I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you are not strong... Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
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You should be thanking the President for trying to bring it into this conflict.
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I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military? We have problems.
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And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
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It's back to you.
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Have you said thank you once? A lot of times. Even today. You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
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And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners. I look to Brussels, where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content.
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Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet, a day of action. I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder.
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And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws to supposedly protect free expression do not, in fact, grant, and I'm quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief.
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A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an Army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own.
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After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before.
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What no democracy, American, German, or European, will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There's no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don't.
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Europeans, the people, have a voice. European leaders have a choice. And my strong belief is that we do not need to be afraid of the future. You can embrace what your people tell you, even when it's surprising, even when you don't agree. And if you do so, you can face the future with certainty and with confidence, knowing that the nation stands behind each of you.
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Are we in a constitutional crisis?
I think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts, because you will get taken to court, and when the courts stop you,
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stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say the chief justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
So let me say very simply, I want more babies in the United States of America.
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It's very easy for somebody like me to watch the sources of news that I watch and to only see the really offensive stuff that Trump did replayed over and over again.
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But if you go to one of his rallies, it's maybe 5% him being really outrageous and offensive and 95% him talking about, here are all the things that are wrong in your community, here's why they're wrong, and I'm going to bring back jobs. That was the core thesis of Trump's entire argument.
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And I believe deeply that there is no security if you are afraid of the voices, the opinions, and the conscience that guide your very own people. Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis I believe we all face together, is one of our own making. If you're running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.
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Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
We believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative industry just as it's taking off. And we'll make every effort to encourage pro-growth AI policies. And I like to see that deregulatory flavor making its way into a lot of the conversations this conference.
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China vows to fight US 'blackmail' over tariffs
What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is fundamentally it's based on two principles, incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us. And to make it a little bit more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture. That is not a recipe for economic prosperity.
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It's not a recipe for low prices. And it's not a recipe for good jobs in the United States of America.
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Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
This is a security conference, and I'm sure you all came here prepared to talk about how exactly you intend to increase defense spending over the next few years in line with some new target. And that's great, because as President Trump has made abundantly clear, he believes that our European friends must play a bigger role in the future of this continent.
Global News Podcast
Ukraine's Zelensky meets US vice-president at Munich security conference
We don't think, you hear this term, burden sharing, but we think it's an important part of being in a shared alliance together that the Europeans step up while America focuses on areas of the world that are in great danger.
Global News Podcast
Myanmar earthquake kills at least 144
Our message to Denmark is very simple. You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. That has to change. And because it hasn't changed, this is why President Trump's policy in Greenland is what it is.
Global News Podcast
Zelensky told to leave White House after clash with Trump
In this entire meeting, have you said thank you? You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country. Please, you think that...
It's Been a Minute
The fantasy vs. reality of Trump's "smokestack nostalgia"
For 40 years, we have lost manufacturing capacity. Workers have seen their wages stagnate. And some of the most critical things that we need from the pharmaceuticals, the drugs that we give to our children, to the weapons that we actually need to fight a war, if, God forbid, we had to fight a war, we don't make enough of that stuff.
Morning Wire
US takes AI Lead & Ending DOJ Corruption | 2.12.25
We will fight for policies that ensure that AI is going to make our workers more productive, and we expect that they will reap the rewards with higher wages, better benefits, and safer and more prosperous communities.
Morning Wire
US takes AI Lead & Ending DOJ Corruption | 2.12.25
To restrict its development now will not only unfairly benefit incumbents in the space, it would mean paralyzing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations.
Morning Wire
US takes AI Lead & Ending DOJ Corruption | 2.12.25
We feel very strongly that AI must remain free from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool for authoritarian censorship. America wants to partner with all of you. We want to embark on the AI revolution before us with the spirit of openness and collaboration.
Morning Wire
US takes AI Lead & Ending DOJ Corruption | 2.12.25
But to create that kind of trust, we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI technology rather than strangles it.
Morning Wire
Pardon Chauvin Petition Launched & LA Mayor Recall Effort | Afternoon Update | 3.4.25
If he called and had a serious proposal for how he was going to engage in the process, look, there are details that really matter that we're already working on with the Russians. We've already talked with some of our allies. He needs to engage seriously on the details. I think once that happens, then absolutely we want to talk to you.
Morning Wire
Trump Tariffs Unveiled & FBI Censored Biden Laptop | 4.3.25
We can rebuild the kind of society where virtue and freedom and our ancient liberties are preserved and enforced and facilitated by our government rather than torn down by our government. And that's ultimately what this is all about. Yes, there are bad things happening.
Morning Wire
Trump Tariffs Unveiled & FBI Censored Biden Laptop | 4.3.25
You see in Europe, people arrested for praying and you have the police asking them, well, what are you praying about as if it was any of the police's business?
Morning Wire
Military Recruitment Up & RFK Targets Food Dyes | 4.24.25
No more diversity training. We believe the real strength and the real diversity in the United States Marine Corps is that you all come from every walk of life, come from every corner of America, and you have got the strength and the purpose to win the nation's wars.
Morning Wire
Kash Patel Confirmed & Vance Opens CPAC | Afternoon Update | 2.20.25
The vice president took questions on a variety of topics, including immigration, the economy, and foreign policy, where he received a standing ovation for his high-profile speech in Munich, Germany last week, in which he called out Europeans for censorship. Later, he warned drug dealers to get out of our country and had a message of support for young men.
Morning Wire
Kash Patel Confirmed & Vance Opens CPAC | Afternoon Update | 2.20.25
My message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person because you're a man, because you like to tell a joke, because you like to have a beer with your friends, or because you're competitive.
Morning Wire
Kash Patel Confirmed & Vance Opens CPAC | Afternoon Update | 2.20.25
The cultural message, and I think the president's and mine is the exact opposite, but our cultural message is I think that it wants to turn everybody, whether male or female, into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same.
Morning Wire
Kash Patel Confirmed & Vance Opens CPAC | Afternoon Update | 2.20.25
We actually think God made male and female for a purpose, and we want you guys to thrive as young men and as young women, and we're going to help with our public policy to make it possible to do that.
Morning Wire
Kash Patel Confirmed & Vance Opens CPAC | Afternoon Update | 2.20.25
Elon Musk is also scheduled to speak at CPAC later this afternoon.
Morning Wire
Trump Meets Zelensky & ICE Ride-Along | 4.28.25
I try to just remember that I was lucky that I got to shake his hand and tell him that I pray for him every day because I did and I do.
Morning Wire
Trump Visits Disaster Zones & Thousands March for Life | 1.27.25
It is a blessing to know the truth, and the truth is that unborn life is worthy of protection. It is a joy and a blessing to fight for the unborn, to work for the unborn, and to march for life. God bless you all and thank you for having me. It's an honor to be with you.
Morning Wire
Vance Visits Greenland & Tesla Vandal Arrested | Afternoon Update | 3.28.25
A lot of other countries have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and of course to threaten the people of Greenland. Speaking for President Trump, We want to reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland because we think it's important to protecting the security of the entire world.
Morning Wire
Vance Visits Greenland & Tesla Vandal Arrested | Afternoon Update | 3.28.25
Unfortunately, leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long. That's been bad for Greenland. It's also been bad for the security of the entire world. We think we can take things in a different direction.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-14-2025 7PM EST
If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn't very strong to begin with.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-28-2025 6PM EDT
Our message to Denmark is very simple. You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-28-2025 4PM EDT
My argument again to them is I think that you'd be a lot better coming under the United States security umbrella than you have been under Denmark's security umbrella. Because what Denmark's security umbrella has meant is effectively they've passed it all off to brave Americans and hoped that we would pick up the tab.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 12-06-2024 6PM EST
We believe that Pete Hegseth is the right guy to lead the Department of Defense. That's why President Trump nominated him. We're not abandoning this nomination. I fully support Pete. I think Pete's going to get confirmed and we are completely behind him.
PBD Podcast
Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
About the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you are not strong... Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
PBD Podcast
Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
You should be thanking the President for trying to bring it into this conflict.
PBD Podcast
Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
I have been to... Come once. I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military?
PBD Podcast
Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
Do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
PBD Podcast
Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
Even today. You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
PBD Podcast
Andrew Tate Tells America: “I’M BACK!” – The Interview They Tried To Stop | PBD Podcast | Ep. 555
Do you have the clip of his
Part Of The Problem
Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
Have you said thank you once this entire meeting? No, in this entire meeting, have you said thank you? You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
Part Of The Problem
Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
Say thank you, except that there are disagreements, and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the American media when you're wrong. We know that you're wrong.
Part Of The Problem
Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
I have actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people in your military?
Part Of The Problem
Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
Planet Money
The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers
Every time an American is replaced with an illegal immigrant, it means that an American family loses a good family supporting wage. It means that American companies are literally replacing our own citizens with people who will work for slave wages. That is not capitalism or a market economy, Jesse. That is the decimation of the American middle class via illegal immigration.
Planet Money
The controversy over Tyson Foods' hiring of asylum seekers
and it's happening all over the country.
Pod Save America
Trump's Shocking Cuts to Air Safety and Nuke Inspection
The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. I look to Brussels.
Pod Save America
Trump's Shocking Cuts to Air Safety and Nuke Inspection
where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be, quote, hateful content. And I really do believe that allowing our citizens to speak their mind will make them stronger still, which, of course, brings us back to Munich.
Pod Save America
Trump's Shocking Cuts to Air Safety and Nuke Inspection
where the organizers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing populist parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations. If you're running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.
Pod Save America
Trump 2.0's Biggest Scandal Yet
Hey, guys, it's Shady Vance, the vice president. And you know, there was so much excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided that I didn't want her to have all that fun by herself. And so I'm going to join her. As you know, it's really important a lot of other countries
Pod Save America
Trump 2.0's Biggest Scandal Yet
have threatened Greenland, have threatened to use its territories and its waterways to threaten the United States, to threaten Canada, and of course, to threaten the people of Greenland. So we're going to check out how things are going there. We think we can take things in a different direction. So I'm going to go check it out.
Radio Atlantic
The Chaos of Blanket Pardons
If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned. And there's a little bit of a gray area there, but we're very much committed to seeing the equal administration of law.
Radio Atlantic
The Chaos of Blanket Pardons
Yeah, I mean, this is what I would say to Stuart Rhodes. Go f*** yourself.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2137 - The Trump-Musk REVOLUTION Continues!
I couldn't help but think of the conference today as If we choose the wrong approach on other things that could be conceived of as dangerous, things like AI, and choose to hold ourselves back, it will alter not only our GDP or the stock market, but the very future of the project that Lafayette and the American founders set off to create.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2137 - The Trump-Musk REVOLUTION Continues!
Now, this doesn't mean, of course, that all concerns about safety go out the window, but focus matters. And we must focus now on the opportunity to catch lightning in a bottle, unleash our most brilliant innovators, and use AI to improve the well-being of our nations and their peoples.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2188 - Canada Veers LEFT: Ugly Trudeau Wins!
If this doesn't stop, the Ukrainians aren't winning the war. I think there's this weird idea among the mainstream media that if this thing goes on for just another few years, the Russians will collapse, the Ukrainians will take their territory back, and everything will go back to the way that it was before the war. That is not the reality that we live in.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2188 - Canada Veers LEFT: Ugly Trudeau Wins!
If this thing goes on for another few years, We could have, you know, societies collapsing. The demographics of both of these countries are a nightmare. You could have millions of more people killed if this thing goes on for another few years, and it can risk escalating into a nuclear war.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2207 - Can Trump STOP World War III?
But I actually think the most significant part of that trip was is that it signified the end of a decades-long approach in foreign policy that I think was a break from the precedent set by our founding fathers.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2207 - Can Trump STOP World War III?
We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation-building and meddling in foreign countries' affairs, even when those foreign countries had very little to do with core American interests.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2207 - Can Trump STOP World War III?
Our government took its eye off the ball of great power competition and preparing to take on a peer adversary. And instead, we devoted ourselves to sprawling, amorphous tasks, like searching for new terrorists to take out while building up faraway regimes. Now, I want to be clear. The Trump administration has reversed course. No more undefined missions. No more open-ended conflicts.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2207 - Can Trump STOP World War III?
We're returning to a strategy grounded in realism and protecting our core national interests. Now, this doesn't mean that we ignore threats, but it means that we approach them with discipline and that when we send you to war, we do it with a very specific set of goals in mind. And consider how this played out in just the last major conflict we engaged in with the Houthis over in the Middle East.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2207 - Can Trump STOP World War III?
We went in with a clear diplomatic goal, not to enmesh our service members in a prolonged conflict with a non-state actor, but to secure American freedom of navigation by forcing the Houthis to stop attacking American ships. And that's exactly what we did.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2207 - Can Trump STOP World War III?
Past leaders sent our service members on mission after mission with no exit strategy, no end in sight, and with little articulation for the American people or for the war fighters about what we were doing. When we extend the deployment of an aircraft carrier, that has real impact on people's lives and we're aware of it.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2207 - Can Trump STOP World War III?
They miss their families, of course they miss their loved ones and their home life. They accept that sacrifice, and that's the job that you've taken on. But the job that we have taken on is to never misuse that sacrifice or never ask you to do something without a clear mission and a clear path home.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2140 - Trump & Vance WRECK Europe
The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2140 - Trump & Vance WRECK Europe
I have a question. Oh, hi, Ryan Reynolds.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Well, I'm going to echo something Secretary Rubio said, which is, look, we've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process. We've engaged in an extraordinary amount of diplomacy, of on-the-ground work.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
We've really tried to understand things from the perspective of both the Ukrainians and the Russians. What do Ukrainians care the most about? What do the Russians care the most about? And I think that we've put together a very fair proposal.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2169 - BREAKING: Le Pen BANNED?!?
For 40 years, a lot of our friends all over the world have used America as a piggy bank. They have used us to absorb all of their excess economic production. What does that mean for Americans? For Americans, that's meant manufacturing jobs declining. That's meant middle class wages going down. That's meant whole towns that have been hollowed out by empty factories.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2169 - BREAKING: Le Pen BANNED?!?
And that means an America that is less safe because our manufacturing isn't as powerful now as it was 30 years ago.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2169 - BREAKING: Le Pen BANNED?!?
Hey, guys, how we doing? Please, at ease. At ease. Good Lord. Sit down and eat. Sit down and eat. Don't let the Vice President stop you guys from getting your chow here. How we doing? It's cold as here. Nobody told me.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2169 - BREAKING: Le Pen BANNED?!?
There is no amount of bullying, no amount of obfuscating, no amount of confusing the issue. Our message to Denmark is very simple. You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland, and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass filled with incredible people. That has to change.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2169 - BREAKING: Le Pen BANNED?!?
And because it hasn't changed, this is why President Trump's policy in Greenland is what it is.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2125 - Trump Goes FULL FAFO!
Let me ask this question, Margaret. Separate the immigration issue. If you had a violent murderer in a school, of course I want law enforcement to go and get that person out.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2125 - Trump Goes FULL FAFO!
We empowered law enforcement to enforce the law everywhere to protect Americans.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2125 - Trump Goes FULL FAFO!
I desperately hope it has a chilling effect on illegal immigrants coming into our country. You think the U.S.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2125 - Trump Goes FULL FAFO!
I think the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has frankly not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement that the American people voted for.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2125 - Trump Goes FULL FAFO!
Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country. That happened during the campaign, if you may remember. So clearly not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2125 - Trump Goes FULL FAFO!
But my primary concern as the vice president, Margaret, is to look after the American people. And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. It's not good.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2125 - Trump Goes FULL FAFO!
Just like the guy who played a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted. And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted. Clearly he wasn't.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2125 - Trump Goes FULL FAFO!
Well, this is a country founded by- This is a unique country. This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers. But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2173 - FALLOUT: Stock Market Drops, Trump Pushes On
What I'd ask folks to appreciate here is that we are not going to fix things overnight. Joe Biden left us, this is not an exaggeration, Lawrence, with the largest peacetime debt and deficit in the history of the United States of America, with sky-high interest rates. You don't fix that stuff overnight. We know people are struggling.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2173 - FALLOUT: Stock Market Drops, Trump Pushes On
We're fighting as quickly as we can to fix what was left to us, but it's not going to happen immediately.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2129 - Did DEI Cause the DC Crash?!
Something the president said that I think bears reemphasizing, which is that when you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2129 - Did DEI Cause the DC Crash?!
And I think that is a core part of what president Trump is going to bring and has already brought to Washington DC is we want to hire the best people because we want the best people at air traffic control. And we want to make sure we have enough people at air traffic control who are actually competent to do the job.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2129 - Did DEI Cause the DC Crash?!
If you go back to just some of the headlines over the past 10 years, you have many hundreds of people suing the government because they would like to be air traffic controllers, but they were turned away because of the color of their skin. That policy ends under Donald Trump's leadership because safety, is the first priority of our aviation industry. Thank you, Mr. President.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
Yeah, so look, I do fall in the camp of believing the thing that makes the United States of America unique is that we are bound by a set of ideals. And that's different than the blood and soil vision of American identity. And I do think that that's gaining currency. It's popular. I'm empathetic to it. But I think that that fails. The blood and soil vision fails.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
First of all, our national identity will always then be thinner than that of somewhere like Japan or Italy, for that matter. Right. Or Israel. Like these are countries where you have deep blood and soil connections, genetic lineages dating back or religious ties. Like that is not the United States of America.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
So if we pretend that somebody is more American because they've been here for seven generations where somebody's only been here for two or one. Well, guess what? Our national identity is always going to be a weaker form than that existing in most other countries.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
In fact, most other countries have not only a stronger claim on that national identity, but it also denies the possibility of American exceptionalism, which is this idea that the United States, which I actually buy into, this idea that the United States of America is exceptional relative to all other nations across time and space because of the common ideals that otherwise brought together a divided and even in some ways polyglot group of people, religiously diverse group of people in a way that's never been done in human history.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
And so what are those ideals? I think that they're foundational ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. I think the idea that we, the people, actually can be trusted to govern ourselves for better or for worse, which acknowledges that we're going to be trade-offs. Sometimes we'll get it wrong, but that is who we are.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
That's what made America great the first time. The idea that you get to speak your mind openly and express any opinion, no matter what that opinion is, no matter how heinous it is to me, the fact that you get to express that opinion as long as I get to in return, the fact that you get to practice your religion, whatever that religion is, as long as you're not hurting somebody else in the process,
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
as long as I get to in return. The idea of merit, right? Merit, I think, is at the heart of the American identity. And what is merit or what is a meritocracy? I think it's a system that, A, recognizes that not everyone, in fact, decisively everyone does not have the same God-given gifts.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
It acknowledges that, and yet still says that we create a space, a nation, that allows you to achieve the maximum of your God-given potential, even though that's different from mine or anybody else's. Your God-given potential, you can maximize that God-given potential in this country without any government or system standing in your way.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
Those, I think, begin to form the beginnings of an American identity grounded in the rule of law. Something that we say is, you know, a nation without borders is not a nation, but that's an extension of the fact that we're a nation founded on the rule of law.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
So I think those basic ideals, free speech, open debate, free expression, free exercise of your own religion, meritocracy, the best person getting the job regardless of their genetics, the commitment to self-governance for better or for worse, the idea that the people we elect to run the government are the ones who run the government rather than unelected or enlightened bureaucrats, as it's been done in most nations across human history and even most nations on earth today.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
Those are unique American ideals, and that's what I believe makes American exceptionalism possible. That, I believe, is our identity.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
I agree with you. So I think you and I are actually even more similar than I know we're pretty similar in our perspective. I think, so there's another interesting observation to make about these sort of two branches of the conservative movement here. We just talked about sort of the content of the differences. I think there's another difference, though, that kind of complicates this.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
If I heard between the lines correctly, tell me if I did, was sort of your implicit critique of the post-libertarian right might relate to this, which is that the libertarian right can sort of argumentatively joust according to first principles. Okay, that there's a set of principles that, you know, maybe at risk of being completely blind to present realities.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
And a combination of not just the blindness, but the lack of courage is actually what I call it, to take up the full extent of what you actually believe, right? Okay, somehow the Civil Rights Act and the protected classes are sacrosanct and we can't touch them. But we're going to pretend like
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
the free market starts where those end, while actually having the law create the very conditions for viewpoint-based discrimination, deplatforming, firing, whatever else it is. And same thing, by the way, we'll take the ESG-driven control of capital markets as given, but then somehow any push against that movement... Everything outside of that is free market.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
Yeah, everything outside of that is free market, that we have to flash-freeze the present and then assume here and forward. That model doesn't work, so we talked about that. The problem with much of the, you know, the post-libertarian right or what you could call lowercase p populist right or whatever, is that it doesn't rest on a philosophy or set of principles.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
It's an emotion that is frustrated, correctly so, by the way, with the failures of courage and the failures of eye-opening, of opening one's eyes of the classical conservative sort of neoliberal right, neoliberarian right, but also frustrated with the actual victory, the winning that you refer to on the left.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
And so I think what we need, what sort of the future of the conservative movement demands is bringing the intellectual rigor of actually having a principled, ordered worldview from the historically classical right, but applying that to a starting point and a status quo that recognizes the fact that we're not starting from neutral territory. We're not starting with a whiteboard.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
And we as a movement have not done the hard work of defining what that affirmative vision actually is, as opposed to saying that, you know, fight back and get to neutral. Fight fire with fire, right. Like, you know, yeah, I mean, like, okay, that might be like a short-term, like, strategy to a stalemate, but like, where from there?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
Okay, the libertarian, classical, liberal, Milton Friedmanite worldview had a vision of what that society looks like, okay? For whatever reason, the people who have espoused that mantle do not have the political courage, will, or ability to drive and recreate a worldview by undoing the damage that's been done for the last 60, 70 years of policymaking in this country. Fine.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Trump’s Team: Best Ben Shapiro Show Moments
If we're then going to take that as given, what is our ordered worldview that we will advance as a North Star guiding set of principles of the conservative movement? I mean, that was... I will not claim to have done that in my new book, but that was a project that I at least attempted to begin in my new book that's coming out next month.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2148 - The Epstein File Release FIASCO
I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies. But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2148 - The Epstein File Release FIASCO
Of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also affect American technology companies and by extension, American citizens. So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2163 - The Left’s ASSAULT On Musk Continues…
You can't have a judge who's controlling troop deployments. You can't have a judge who's controlling how we enforce our immigration laws. You know, the American people actually invested the president of the United States with some of these core law enforcement authorities. And the president has to be able to do the job the American people elected him to do.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2163 - The Left’s ASSAULT On Musk Continues…
I think what you're seeing really is judicial overreach on a scale we've never seen before. in the history of this country. And I think the Supreme Court has got to put a stop to it.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
The economy shrank first time in three years. People are pointing to the tariff policy. There are people looking at their 401ks that are worried. What do you tell them? Is this going to work?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
So the first thing is, when you talk about the economy, this is Joe Biden's economy. And we inherited $2 trillion of debt, the highest peacetime deficits in American history, a $1.2 trillion trade deficit, which fundamentally means we're not making enough of our own stuff. And the president came in and he said, this is not always going to be easy.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
It would have been very easy for Donald Trump to do what administrations past have done, which is borrow a lot of money and continue fueling the national debt. He said, no, we need a reset. We need American workers to have better jobs. We need to protect the jobs that they have right now.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
And we need to be more self-reliant as an economy, which, by the way, will drive down those skyrocketing levels of debt that we've seen. That is what he promised he was going to do. And he came in and we've started that process.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
So he wasn't let go. He is being made ambassador to the United Nations, which, of course, is a Senate-confirmed position. I think you can make a good argument that it's a promotion. But we brought Mike on to do some serious reforms of the National Security Council. He has done that. I like Mike. I think he's a great guy. He's got the trust of both me and the president.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
But we also thought that he'd make a better U.N. ambassador as we get beyond this stage of the reforms that we've made to the National Security Council. You saw the president announce that Marco Rubio is going to step in as interim leader of the National Security Council. So, look, I think the media wants to frame this as a firing. Donald Trump has fired a lot of people.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2191 - SHAKE-UP At The White House
He doesn't give them Senate-confirmed appointments afterwards.
The Bulwark Podcast
David French: Vengeance and Rage
This guy being the president, it's like there's a horse loose in a hospital. It's like there's a horse loose in a hospital. I think eventually everything's going to be okay, but I have no idea what's going to happen next. And neither do any of you, and neither do your parents, because there's a horse loose in the hospital. It's never happened before. No one knows what the horse is gonna do next.
The Bulwark Podcast
David French: Vengeance and Rage
Least of all the horse, he's never been in a hospital before.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stephen Miller's Masterclass + Innovation Over Stagnation
Last month, migrant crossings were down 94% to their lowest number all time, and that happened just in two months of serious border enforcement. Thanks to President Trump's leadership, last month, for the first time in over a year, the majority of job gains went to American citizens born on U.S. soil, and that's important.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stephen Miller's Masterclass + Innovation Over Stagnation
For the first time in over a year, the majority of job creation actually went to American citizens.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stephen Miller's Masterclass + Innovation Over Stagnation
I'd say that globalization's hunger for cheap labor is a problem precisely because it's been bad for innovation. Both our working people, our populace, and our innovators gathered here today have the same enemy. And the solution, I believe, is American innovation and reclaiming our heritage via America's great industrial comeback.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Stephen Miller's Masterclass + Innovation Over Stagnation
And I believe that's what we're on the cusp of, a great American industrial comeback.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
For 40 years, we have lost manufacturing capacity. Workers have seen their wages stagnate. And some of the most critical things that we need from the pharmaceuticals, the drugs that we give to our children, the antibiotics that we give to our kids, to the weapons that we actually need to fight a war if, God forbid, we had to fight a war. We don't make enough of that stuff.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Bukele at The White House + Where’s The Money?
And so President Trump ran explicitly on changing that. Yes, as the President mentioned, it caused a little bit of disruption in the market, but I actually think over the long term, workers are going to benefit, stocks are going to go up, American businesses are going to benefit as we reinvest and reindustrialize our country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Sad, Disinvited RINOS + Elon & Vance + Maine Defies Trump
We cannot rebuild Western civilization. We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into our country. It has to stop. Thank God it stopped here, but it's got to stop there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Sad, Disinvited RINOS + Elon & Vance + Maine Defies Trump
Peace is in the interest of the American people and he's going to fight for it for the remainder of his administration. Wherever war breaks out, he's going to be the president of peace. Now, he, of course, is a very good negotiator, a very good businessman. He recognizes that a lot of these issues are tough. It's going to take a smart statesman to figure this stuff out.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Sad, Disinvited RINOS + Elon & Vance + Maine Defies Trump
But we've got that in the White House. And I really believe that we're in the cusp of peace in Europe for the first time in three years because we have leadership from the Oval Office and we haven't had it in four years in this country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Sad, Disinvited RINOS + Elon & Vance + Maine Defies Trump
Germany's entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer. There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany today. Do you think that the American taxpayer is going to stand for that if you get thrown in jail in Germany for posting a mean tweet? Of course they're not.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Sad, Disinvited RINOS + Elon & Vance + Maine Defies Trump
So the point that I try to make to our European friends, and I think that they're our friends, I believe that, I know President Trump does, is that friendship is based on shared values. You do not have shared values if you're jailing people for saying we should close down our border. You don't have shared values...
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Sad, Disinvited RINOS + Elon & Vance + Maine Defies Trump
If you cancel elections because you don't like the result, and that happened in Romania, you don't have, you do not have shared values if you're so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Sounds good, Charlie. Thanks, man.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Thanks, Charlie. It's good to be with you. And yeah, man, it's kind of crazy. It feels in some ways like we've done more in 100 days than other administrations do over 100 years. But it feels good. And obviously, we're going to keep up the momentum as much as we can. But it's a big milestone, and I'm happy to celebrate it with my dear friend Charlie Kirk.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Yeah, well, obviously, the president is working at a very fast pace. He goes to bed late. He wakes up early. He's constantly asking us, how can we do more? How can we give an objective and accomplish it faster?
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And so I think it's actually liberating in a lot of ways because you know that whatever you do, so long as it is consistent with the president's objective, he's going to empower you to do it. He's going to encourage you to do it. And if you're not doing it, he's going to ask, why the hell haven't you got it done?
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And I think that's a very easy way to go about the job of vice president, because, you know, I feel like I have pretty broad latitude, right. To accomplish the things that the president wants us to accomplish. And so I really enjoyed the job. Obviously I've only been in a hundred days, but I really enjoyed it. I think we've gotten a lot done.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And I think in particular, there's so many issues where the press said, you need a new piece of legislation. You need a grand bipartisan compromise. We're actually just having a different president changing the law enforcement apparatus of the country and has accomplished so much.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
I think obviously the biggest example of that is at the border, where I think at this point we are down 99% or close to it border crossings since the president took office.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
You have this sense of almost, you know, when I visited the border about a month ago, there was a sense of almost boredom among the border patrol agents because there were so many people coming across just a few short months ago. that they were like, wait, where did everybody go?
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And it turns out if you just sit in the signal that we're going to do border enforcement, you tell people not to come, most of them don't come. And so those who do are easier to process, easier to send back home. So I think that's where we've seen the most immediate success. I think some issues obviously...
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
you know, trade, bring back manufacturing, some of the things that we're working on when it comes to foreign policy. These things take a little bit longer to bake, but I think the border has been in some ways the most rewarding because you see the results so quickly.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Yeah, I mean, look, I can point to a few things, but just on the border, you're right. Obviously, the border has gotten the most attention. I think it's the place where you can see the clearest direction and connection between the president's policy and the reduction of border crossings.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
To your point, I think it's a radical improvement in a very short amount of time without a single piece of legislation. We had a border invasion, and now we don't. And the only thing that changed was Donald Trump's leadership. That is a very good thing. But There are all these subtle ways in which border enforcement, Charlie, it doesn't gather the same headlines.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
It doesn't, you know, gather the same focus as the top line reduction border crossing. But Charlie, you just have cartels who are not engaging in the same level of activity. who would have crossed, would have been processed and released into the country, who just aren't even trying to make the trek.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
That means there are probably thousands of children who otherwise would have been trafficked across the southern border who haven't been. And so, yeah, it does gather the most headlines, but there are so many parts of a successful border policy that don't gather headlines at all that I think are worth focusing on.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And Charlie, I mean, if I point to another issue, it would have to be foreign policy, because as you know, this is sort of one of these issues where I think that the president is so right, his critics are so wrong. You know, yeah, have the Russians and the Ukrainians stopped fighting? No, but have we made more progress in three months than we made in the previous three years? Absolutely.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And you have even the Ukrainians, the Europeans, the Russians, all sort of simultaneously admitting that sometimes begrudgingly, that Donald Trump's diplomacy has advanced the ball there more in a few months than the previous few years. That's a big, big accomplishment.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
The final thing I'd say, Charlie, is, you know, while the trade policy is maybe where we get the most criticism from the far left press, I actually think that what President Trump has done has fundamentally reset things. Whether you're an American business, and I talk to a lot of CEOs and
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Whether you're a foreign investor, whether you're somebody who just works and lives in the economy, which is, of course, most of our citizens, I think that people recognize we're not going back. We're not going to go back to the same old ways of shipping American jobs overseas, of relying on hostile powers to make the things that we need. And there's a lot still to do there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And there's a lot to accomplish. Obviously, as the president has said, we're negotiating a lot of these trade deals. But man, there's just this sense among the business community that this is a new era in American economic and investment, American economic activity.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
I think that doesn't get the headlines, but that may be the enduring change from the second Trump administration is people recognize we're not going back. This rebalancing of global trade is here to stay. And that's all because of Donald Trump's leadership.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Well, so I might push back slightly on that, Charlie, because I think if anybody was aware of what the judicial system is capable of, these unelected bureaucrats, it was Donald J. Trump. And I think coming into this, he very much had a general on the battlefield mindset where he said they're going to try to stop us from doing everything and we have to be prepared.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And I understand there are folks in the base, Charlie, who are frustrated with the pace of deportations. I get it. I'm frustrated, too. I know the president is frustrated, too. He has said so publicly. But that's because we're running against this wall of the unelected bureaucracy. But the only way through it, Charlie, is to actually run through it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
and to fight this stuff out legally, to take this stuff to the Supreme Court where appropriate, to find alternative legal methods when one district court judge stops us. You go on to the next thing and you try to ensure that you can accomplish the law and accomplish the will of the people. And that's just what we're doing. And, you know, yeah, 100 days is a big milestone, Charlie.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
But think about this. We're not even a third of the way done through the first year of the Trump administration. And I think that what we're really doing is fixing 40 years of accumulated, bogus, bureaucratic BS. We're fixing 40 years of judges thinking they rule the country instead of the American people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
We're fixing 40 years of judges telling the president what to do instead of the American people telling the president what to do. And that's not going to happen overnight, but I think it had to happen. And thankfully, we're actually getting it done. And, you know, you talk about the Dugan case. I mean, this was a judge. who was engaged in explicit obstruction of justice.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
We had people who had valid deportation orders, and this judge was trying to prevent us from doing the job the American people elected us to do. As you heard Democrats say so often, no one is above the law, and that includes judges who are obstructing justice. And there's going to be a lot of justice for people who violated the law, Charlie. That's what you have to do.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
The American principle of justice is not, you know, because you're a Democrat, you don't actually face the justice of the judicial system. The American system of justice is that rich or poor, Republican or Democrat, if you broke the law, you go through the judicial system. And we're committed to bring that basic principle back to life in the United States of America.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
And I think there's a side benefit to it, Charlie. This is not why you do these things, of course. But if Democrats know that they are going to be penalized for violating the law, maybe they'll stop violating the law. And maybe they'll stop using the Justice Department as a weapon system against their political opponents.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
We want to bring back common sense to this country, but there's no way to do it if Democrats think they can throw their opponents in jail. They're now finding out that if they violate the law, they're going to face the consequences. And that is a very important principle to bring back to this country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Yeah, Charlie, so I obviously don't want to prejudge the negotiations because they are very much you know, in full swing. I actually had a conversation just this morning about this particular issue. Here's the way that I put it, Charlie, is, you know, one, if I could bring people on the inside, I think what they'd see is that sometimes you're incredibly frustrated with Ukrainians.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Sometimes you're incredibly frustrated with the Russians. You know, that is the nature of the negotiation is you're going back and forth. And sometimes you just want to throw your hands up, but that's what President Trump doesn't let us do. He doesn't let us just throw our hands up and say, you know what, this is ridiculous.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
He forces us to continually go back to the table, continually try to find a solution, bring the sides together. And that really is sort of where this thing is right now. You have the Russians who have one peace settlement they'd like. You'd have the Ukrainians, they have a different peace settlement.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
The biggest breakthrough is that we've got both of them talking about what they would need in order to stop fighting. But what one side needs is different from what the other side needs. And it's the job of diplomacy to try to bring those two sides together.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
I can't say with a hundred percent certainty, Charlie, we're going to be able to do it, but I do think that we're trying very hard and I feel more optimistic about it today than I did two weeks ago. And I felt more optimistic two weeks ago than I did two months ago. So we're making progress. Things are moving along. We're just going to have to keep on, you know, sometimes you apply pressure.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
Sometimes you're a little bit more friendly. Sometimes you offer rewards. Sometimes you offer punishments. It's just, it's a nitty gritty, dirty job that, but it's the job the American people elected the Trump administration to do. If this doesn't stop, Charlie, one final point on this, if this doesn't stop, the Ukrainians aren't winning the war.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
I think there's this weird idea among the mainstream media that if this thing goes on for just another few years, the Russians will collapse, the Ukrainians will take their territory back, and everything will go back to the way that it was before the war. That is not the reality that we live in. If this thing goes on for another few years, We could have societies collapsing.
The Charlie Kirk Show
My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance
The demographics of both of these countries are a nightmare. You could have millions of more people killed if this thing goes on for another few years, and it could risk escalating into a nuclear war. It has to stop. It is the policy of this administration that it stops, and I guarantee you the president is having all of his people, including me, work very hard for that end goal.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you are not strong... Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
You should be thanking the President for trying to bring an end to this conflict.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
I have actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
Have you said thank you once? A lot of times. Even today. You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Was Trump/Zelensky a Setup?
I tell you. Say thank you. I said a lot of times to American people. Except that there are disagreements. And let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the American media when you're wrong. We know that you're wrong.
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
To make it a little bit more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture. That is not a recipe for economic prosperity. Oh, shit!
The Dan Bongino Show
Is Something Big About To Go Down In Washington? - GUEST: Dr. Marty Makary | Episode 51
Now all of us will honor the fallen and their families in our own way. But allow me to suggest two ways of honoring their sacrifice. Two ways that I try to honor their sacrifice every day. First, we ought to commit ourselves and expect from our leaders to treat the lives of our troops as the most precious resource. The very best way.
The Dan Bongino Show
Is Something Big About To Go Down In Washington? - GUEST: Dr. Marty Makary | Episode 51
The very best way to honor the fallen is to only ask the next generation to make the ultimate sacrifice when they absolutely must. We must be cautious in sending our people to war.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
Yeah, look, I mean, first of all, of course, we wish the best for the former president's health. And, you know, it sounds pretty serious, but hopefully he makes the right recovery. I will say whether the right time to have this conversation is now or at some point in the future, we really do need to be honest about whether the former president was capable of doing the job.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dem Congresswoman Assaults Officer And Finds Out | Episode 47
And that's that's no you know, that you can separate the desire for him to have the right health outcome with the recognition that whether it was doctors or whether there were staffers around the former president, I don't think he was able to do a good job for the American people. And.
The Dan Bongino Show
Tucker Carlson on the Biden Family, JD Vance's future and more, Pt. 2 | Episode 2
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you are not strong... Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
The Dan Bongino Show
Tucker Carlson on the Biden Family, JD Vance's future and more, Pt. 2 | Episode 2
You should be thanking the President for trying to bring it into this conflict.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
The way that most normal people, they're not filing lawsuits, right? when they want to accomplish something in their government. They vote. They vote for their legislators and they vote for their president.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
So if we allow basically a bunch of rich lawyers to run the government, but we don't allow normal people who voted for a president to see their government run the way they see fit, then I think what we're really doing is we're not just turning over the power of the government to rogue judges, we're actually depriving the American people of their God-given right to control their government.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And it's really a fundamental violation of how the American system was set up. We can't stand for it. We won't stand for it. We're going to keep fighting back against it.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Well, I think he can do a lot in the next four years. And fundamentally, we just have to do a good job for the American people over the next four years. He did a lot of good in 2016 to 2020. And if you look, one of the charts that I care the most about is, what are median wages? In other words, what is the worker in the middle of our society? How well are they doing?
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And you saw those folks get the biggest pay raise of the last generation. during the first Trump administration. That's fundamentally our goal. And I think that if we bring manufacturing back, if we unleash American technology, if we reject this globalist idea that the way to produce economic growth is to import cheap labor, I really think that we can do a lot in four years.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Are you going to fix every problem in four years? Of course not. We certainly need to make sure this movement continues over the next four years. But I think if we do a good job over the next four years, the American people will give us an opportunity to keep on doing good things. And whoever that is, I'm not worried about it. I just want to do a good job as vice president. Okay, good.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Definitely the Leo DiCaprio one from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood where he's pointing at the TV screen. That's a really good one. I'm a personal fan of Vance Halen, but that's because I really like the band Van Halen. So that's just my personal preferences. But, man, I don't know how that happened or where it came from, but it's been very, very funny to watch your own face perform.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
become this meme. It's made the job a lot more fun. So I encourage people to keep doing it.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
The fundamental goal of President Trump's economic policy is, I think, to undo 40 years of failed economic policy in this country. For far too long, we got addicted to cheap labor, both overseas and by importing it into our own country, and we got lazy. We overregulated our industries instead of supporting them.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
We overtaxed our innovators instead of making it easier for them to build their great companies, and we made it way too hard to build things and invest things in the United States of America. That stopped two months ago, and it will continue to stop and will continue to fight for American workers and the American businesses that hire them and that support them.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Well, yeah, it's one of the funny things about our system, right, is the vice president doesn't have any formal power. So I see my role fundamentally as trying to help the president do whatever he needs to do. And so that's made me more of a generalist. There's not a particular issue where I've sort of made just my issue. I think the president and I work on everything.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And obviously, I take direction from his leadership, but I try to implement the agenda as well as I can. And that's that's what I've been doing. And it's been it's been a lot of fun because, you know, like traditionally vice presidents will be a little siloed. You know, they'll pick sort of one or two things and just focus on that.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I feel like the president has empowered me to be involved in everything. And that's made the job a lot more fun than I think maybe it would otherwise be.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Yeah, that was pretty crazy. And, you know, the background on that is that I think it was a Polish journalist who had asked a couple of unfair questions and asked a third unfair question. I answered it. And obviously, Zelensky didn't like my answer and he jumped in. And, you know, really, the president could have said, well, hey, I'd like to take that.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Or, you know, he could have shot me down or disagreed with me. But he actually empowered me, I think, to participate in that conversation. And you're right. You know, it's a little bit his leadership style where when you have when he has trust in somebody, he sort of just lets them do what he thinks they need to do.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
He doesn't try to micromanage you so long as he actually trusts you to do the right thing. And that's certainly been you saw publicly with that particular exchange. But I've seen it privately a lot, too. And, you know, I just try to do the best job I can. I try to remind myself that it's a blessing to be here.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And if the president gives me something to do, I'm going to try to accomplish it as best as I can.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Well, so let me just say this. So I don't call it a diplomatic issue here, Vince. We've had some good conversations with Zelensky since then, and I think that we're all sort of aligned on trying to bring this conflict to a close.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
But in the moment, I think there was some frustration, and I frankly think some of it was probably a language barrier issue, where he seemed to be disagreeing with some of the president's substantive answers, you know, shaking his head or or making some statements that I think he just didn't quite understand what the president was trying to do.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And I understand, frankly, Biden did whatever Zelensky told him to do. In some ways, over the last four years, Zelensky was more president of the United States than Joe Biden was. And so he comes in and he has this president who's a strong personality, a strong leader. And so I get that it took a little bit of time for him to sort of understand where we were coming from.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
But fundamentally, look, the president has said the war has to stop. It's stupid. The killing is off the charts. It's destroying these two countries. It's not good for them. It's not good for America. I think finally we're at a stage where Zelensky seems to want to follow that direction.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And that's a good thing because I think the president has an opportunity that, frankly, we haven't had for the past four years to actually bring this conflict to a close.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Well, I don't have four shots of vodka before every meeting. That's one way I think that Kamala really tried to bring herself into the role is these word salads. And I think that I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions. I mean, look, man, I don't know. My sense is, and this is a little bit of guesswork, obviously.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I don't talk to Kamala Harris or Joe Biden very often. But my sense is that there wasn't a level of trust between Biden and Harris. And so, you know, she was just less empowered to do her job. And, you know, luckily I'm in a situation where the president trusts me, where if he asked me to do something, he believes it's going to happen. And obviously, you know, we'll talk about it and check in.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
But I feel empowered in a way that I think a lot of vice presidents haven't been. But but that's all in the service of accomplishing the president's vision. And I think I try to remind myself of that every single day that the American people elected Donald J. Trump to do a job for him to do that job successfully.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
The people around them starting at the top with the vice president have to do their jobs well.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Yeah. There was some weird thing where, you know, my wife, cause so we have three young kids, seven, five, and three. And so we wanted the kids to see this place before they moved into it. And for whatever reason, man, I don't know if it was a staff issue.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I don't know if it was Kamala Harris herself, but they just would not, even with me, not there, they would not allow the three kids just to come by and see this place that they're going to live in. And I imagine a lot of your listeners have kids, you know, kids, kids get nervous about big moves and, And we just wanted them to actually see this place.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
That didn't happen, but it's all water under the bridge. The kids are living in the vice president's residence now. They love it. There's a lot of space, especially for Washington, D.C., and we're having a good time.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I have to say, Vince, I was never physically intimidated by Tim Walz. I saw those comments and I just – there's a little bit of a thing where the Democrats have become so unpopular among young men in particular but really all men that I think they have to posture and pretend. Who goes on TV and says I could beat up a large group of people?
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I just think that it's a guy who doesn't actually know how to relate, who's trying to say something that sounds relatable and it just comes across. And unfortunately, the way that Tim Walz sometimes comes across. So I'm not too worried about him. You hear people say that he wants to take a bigger leadership role, might run for the Senate in Minnesota.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I'm not too worried about Tim Walz as a political talent. We're just going to focus on doing our job. And when Tim Walz says something crazy, we'll laugh at it and move on.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
So I don't know, but I do know that we're actually deploying some real law enforcement resources to understand where this stuff is coming from, you know, whether it's one-off attacks or whether there's something more coordinated. I mean, it really is an act of terrorism, right? If you own a Tesla, whoever you voted for, you know, I think there are a lot of people who are worried right now.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Obviously, you know, Elon has taken a big role in the administration. I think he's doing a great job. And so you have these people trying to tear him down and and by consequence, tear down the entire administration. They're basically trying to send a message that if you do a good job for President Trump, they're going to come after you. They're going to come after your business.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
They're going to come after your home. So we are investigating this stuff. A lot of times, this stuff will happen and there aren't real law enforcement resources dedicated to solving it. That has changed with Pam Bondi and Kash Patel. So You never know where an investigation is going to lead. But I really think that we have to do everything we can.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
We are doing everything that we can to get to the bottom of it. And if we identify people who've committed crimes, man, we're going to prosecute them. The other thing I always wonder with this stuff is this is not cheap, right? Terrorism is not cheap. We saw that in the Middle East 20, 25 years ago. You had some very wealthy financiers of Al Qaeda.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
My guess is that if we do get to the bottom of this, we're going to find out that there are some very crazy, very deranged, but very wealthy left-wing people who are funding this stuff. And I think that is the most important thing that we have to focus on. It's not the foot soldiers. It's the guy at the top writing the checks.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Yeah, it would be. And I don't know that it's them. I wouldn't be shocked if it was. But we know that there are a lot of crazy people who have a lot of money who I think are willing to let the country burn quite literally so long as it helps them accomplish their political goals. So it's really sick, twisted stuff, man. But we're not going to stand for it.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I think that's what's different about President Trump's administration is. For really the first time in my life, I think you have a conservative president who's actually pushing back against this stuff in a very real and substantive way. He's actually empowered his FBI and law enforcement agencies to go after some of these psychos. That's what we have to do. It's what we're going to keep on doing.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And we'll see where it leads. But I'm optimistic that if we actually force these bad guys to suffer some consequences, they'll stop doing crazy stuff.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Yeah, though I will say in defense of the American people, Jimmy Kimmel's show is so unfunny and boring and left-wing that it's probably not a representative sample. If you go to a Jimmy Kimmel live viewing, you have to really be a humorless scold. And so my hope is that that's isolated to a very small number of
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
But you are right that we've seen this embrace of mob violence from some corners of the far left. I think the only way to deal with it is to force people who endorse that stuff, who actually commit violence, to actually go to prison and to suffer some consequences. And, man, left to right, we can argue all day about tax policy or regulatory policy or what our foreign policy should be.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I just – at a fundamental visceral gut level, I'm disgusted by violence on behalf of your politics. Like this is – Not what America was supposed to be. We can argue at each other. We can yell at each other. We can vote against people we don't like. But you don't get to commit violence over politics in this country. It's third world, disgusting crap. And I don't think that we can tolerate it.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
Yeah, I bet all those judges are huge fans of Jimmy Kimmel, by the way. But I think, Vince, that one, we have an appeals process. The president's been very clear. He's going to respect that process. He's going to take his case all the way to the Supreme Court, or I guess his cases all the way to the Supreme Court.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And, you know, I will say that I think the chief justice and other judges or justices on the Supreme Court, like this is a real opportunity to actually set proper boundaries for both the courts, but also the executive. You can't have a judge. who's controlling troop deployments. You can't have a judge who's controlling how we enforce our immigration laws.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
You know, the American people actually invested the president of the United States with some of these core law enforcement authorities. And the president has to be able to do the job the American people elected him to do. I think what you're seeing really is judicial overreach on a scale we've never seen before. the history of this country.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And I think the Supreme Court has got to put a stop to it. We're actually going to, you know, we're, of course, going to make those arguments to the justice of the Supreme Court. I think that we're going to win, but we can't let rogue judges tell the president how to conduct the people's business.
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JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
And there's another element of this that I don't think anybody has really picked up on, but it's really important. Like, if you think of the courts, right, to get access to the courts is let's be honest, that's mostly for people filing lawsuits. You've got to have money to do that stuff. You've got to have money to hire fancy lawyers in civil suits.
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The Pope Is Dead. And The Supreme Court Is Meddling. | Episode 26
What is your response to Mrs. Moran?
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The Pope Is Dead. And The Supreme Court Is Meddling. | Episode 26
Good morning. How are you? Fine, yourself? Yeah, thank you. Not been feeling great, but it's good to see you in better health.
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The Pope Is Dead. And The Supreme Court Is Meddling. | Episode 26
Thank you very much for your visit. Of course, of course. And thank you for seeing me. I pray for you every day. God bless you. I pray for you every day.
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The Pope Is Dead. And The Supreme Court Is Meddling. | Episode 26
But there's this old school, and I think it's a very Christian concept, by the way, that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country. And then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that.
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The Pope Is Dead. And The Supreme Court Is Meddling. | Episode 26
They seem to hate the citizens of their own country and care more about people outside their own borders. That is no way to run a society. And I think the profound difference that Donald Trump brings to the leadership of this country is the simple concept, America first. It doesn't mean you hate anybody else. It means that you have leadership.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Pope Is Dead. And The Supreme Court Is Meddling. | Episode 26
And President Trump has been very clear about this, that puts the interests of American citizens first. In the same way that the British prime minister should care about Brits and the French should care about the French, we have an American president who cares primarily about Americans, and that's a very welcome change. What is President Xi doing? What is Vladimir Putin doing?
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The Pope Is Dead. And The Supreme Court Is Meddling. | Episode 26
He's looking after the Chinese. Putin is looking after the Russians. They're entitled to do that. Thank God we now have an American president who's looking after the citizens of his own country.
The Dan Bongino Show
America Is Back In The World Stage, And We Love To See It (Ep. 2433)
We do have, of course, a special relationship with our friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies. But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British. Of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also affect American technology companies and by extension, American citizens.
The Dan Bongino Show
America Is Back In The World Stage, And We Love To See It (Ep. 2433)
So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch.
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Donald Trump Jr. on JD Vance, Tim Walz, and Kai Trump | Episode 05 - 03/21/25
Of yours, yes.
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Donald Trump Jr. on JD Vance, Tim Walz, and Kai Trump | Episode 05 - 03/21/25
Well, I don't have four shots of vodka before every meeting. That's one way I think that Kamala really tried to bring herself into the role is these word salads. And I think that I would need the help of a lot of alcohol to answer a question the way that Kamala Harris answered questions. So good.
The Ezra Klein Show
The Government Knows AGI is Coming
When conferences like this convene to discuss a cutting-edge technology, oftentimes I think our response is to be too self-conscious, too risk-averse. But never have I encountered a breakthrough in tech that so clearly calls us to do precisely the opposite.
The Ezra Klein Show
There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk
As just one example, a vivid one, look at the explosion in rent in Springfield, Ohio, where Kamala has resettled the 20,000 Haitians.
The Ezra Klein Show
The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
And as an American leader, but also just as an American citizen, your compassion belongs first to your fellow citizens.
The Ezra Klein Show
The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
It doesn't mean you hate people from outside of your own borders, but there's this old school, and I think it's a very Christian concept, by the way, that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country. And then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.
The Ezra Klein Show
The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
It's fine for that to be your politics, but to pretend that's your religion.
The Ezra Klein Show
The Dark Heart of Trump's Foreign Policy
The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.
The Journal.
Trump 2.0: Shaking Up Europe
The threat that I worry the most about, vis-a-vis Europe, is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.
The Journal.
Trump 2.0: Shaking Up Europe
Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis I believe we all face together is one of our own making. If you're running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor for that matter is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
Well, let's keep in mind, I'm going to be quick here. The president beat lawfare when it was going after him when he was a candidate. The president's going to beat this, in my opinion. Yes, I think he should take a page out of Andrew Jackson's playbook. At some point, J.D. Vance is right. When J.D.
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
said, hold on, you can't have a judge step in when the president is exercising his constitutional authority. Imagine if a judge said. Mr. President, as commander in chief, you can't bomb this particular city or this certain area. You can't do that. You got to give the president the ability to be the chief executive. I hope we'll continue to do that.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Screws Them
Congress, by the way, we need to make his executive orders permanent. We need to pass laws to back up his agenda. We need to move quickly to do that. And then we can stand behind the president. But the president's right to say he'll follow the law. But the Constitution matters, too. And he can do his job.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/25/25
I'm so excited to share that I'll be visiting Kuala Lumpur, Greenland, next weekend. I'm particularly thrilled to visit during our national dog sled race, which our country is proud to support as a sponsor. I've been reading all about it with my children, and I'm amazed by the incredible skill and teamwork that it takes to participate in this race.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/25/25
I'm also coming to celebrate the long history of mutual respect and cooperation between our nations, and to express hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years. I look forward to meeting many of you soon and to learning from you about your beautiful land, culture, and traditions. See you soon.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/17/25
point of course that the situation has gotten so bad that this December remote Romania straight-up cancelled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors now as I understand it the argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections.
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MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 2/17/25
But I'd ask my European friends to have some perspective. You can believe it's wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. We certainly do. You can condemn it on the world stage even. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn't very strong to begin with.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Has Disaster Morning as Approval Plummets
Is because, you know, what I think about, like, what is the essence of masculinity? You could answer this in so many different ways. But when I think about me and my guy friends, we really like to tell jokes to one another.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Furious India Blasts Trump for Screwing Them
India has only followed its military operations. If Pakistan again shows the activity of terrorism or military malice, then we will see its face broken.
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Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
But I just wanted to answer the question. And then, of course, something I said in my answer caused the blow up. You know, Zelensky got frustrated with it and then everything went from there. You know, the president, what I try to do is obviously he's the president. I'm the vice president. I try to be respectful. But I also recognize that sometimes the president wants me to say stuff.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Fox News Is Terrified On Air as Trump Betrays His Voters
And, of course, if the president, if I think there's something useful I can say and I think that it's going to be deferential to the president, I'll jump in and offer my thoughts.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
World Leaders Destroy Trump in Public Show of Force
And now I want to talk about, of course, the interaction and what Denmark, I think, has done and sometimes in partnership with us. But let's be honest, what Denmark over the last 20 years has failed to do in some cases, because we know that unfortunately, this place is This base, this surrounding area is less secure than it was 30, 40 years ago because some of our allies haven't kept up.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
World Leaders Destroy Trump in Public Show of Force
As China and Russia have taken greater and greater interest in Greenland, in this base, in the activities of the brave Americans right here, we know that too often our allies in Europe have not kept pace.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
World Leaders Destroy Trump in Public Show of Force
They haven't kept pace with military spending, and Denmark has not kept pace in devoting the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China, and from other nations. Now, President Trump, as he says... Well, there you have it, folks.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Holds Presser in AM and It Quickly Goes Off the Rails
Very good, Vice President. I'm just here to watch the show, sir. I think airplanes are pretty cool, so I wanted to check this out. It is cool. Mr. President.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Holds Presser in AM and It Quickly Goes Off the Rails
Elon Musk is a patriot. Elon Musk is an innovator. Elon Musk provides a lot of capabilities our government and our military rely on, and I'm grateful for that. We welcomed him today to the Pentagon to talk about Doge, to talk about efficiencies, to talk about innovations.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Holds Presser in AM and It Quickly Goes Off the Rails
Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore. President Trump has reestablished American leadership. The F-47 is part of it. And Mr. President, thank you for having the courage to do it and leading the way for all our warfighters.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
We're at the point, of course, that the situation has gotten so bad that this December. Romania straight up canceled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors. Now, as I understand it, the argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Canada MP Destroys Trump and Unites Canada
But I'd ask my European friends to have some perspective. You can believe it's wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. We certainly do. You can condemn it on the world stage even. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn't very strong to begin with.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
Except that there are disagreements. And let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the American media when you're wrong.
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Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you are not strong... Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict.
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Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
I have been to... Come once. I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
Have you said thank you once? A lot of times.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you are not strong... Mr. President, Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the President for trying to bring it into this conflict. Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
I have actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy. That's what President Trump is doing. Can I ask you?
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Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown
You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
The NPR Politics Podcast
How Trump Changed U.S. Policy Toward Ukraine
Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis I believe we all face together, is one of our own making. If you're running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.
Today, Explained
No kids on the block
We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made. And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.
Today, Explained
The man who helped kill DEI
Vance stuck up for him and said, I obviously disagree with some of Eliza's posts, but I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life. We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. ever.
Today, Explained
Chicago Pope
And I think it's a very Christian concept, by the way, that you love your family and then you love your neighbor and then you love your community and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country. And then after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.
Today, Explained
Chicago Pope
I believe, Maureen, and maybe this is wrong, that I'm the first Catholic convert to ever be Vice President of the United States. And... I appreciate that. I appreciate you guys clapping because it turns out there are some people on the internet who don't like Catholic converts. And in fact, there are some Catholics who appear not to like Catholic converts.
Today, Explained
Chicago Pope
I've learned that the hard way, but of course, the gross majority... These converts are very specific type, right?
Today, Explained
Chicago Pope
When I was a kid, we used to call new converts to the faith, baby Christians. And I recognize very much that I am a baby Catholic.
Up First from NPR
Public Media Cuts, Waltz Out As National Security Advisor, Alien Enemies Act Ruling
I like Mike. I think he's a great guy. He's got the trust of both me and the president. But we also thought that he'd make a better U.N. ambassador as we get beyond this stage of the reforms that we've made to the National Security Council.