Radio Show Hour 1 – 02/13/2025

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[00:01:38] Honest money report coming up as well in the next segment. Hang tight for that. Shock claim, says the headline from TheBlaze.com. Shock claim. Hunter Biden was running the White House. Is it possible? Asks TheBlaze. And my response is, you know, I don't know which clowns were running the White House. And it's a serious problem for sure.

[00:02:03] I mean, it's criminal where the president's incompetent, unable to make decisions and be ever-present, if you will, in his responsibilities and his obligations to carry out his sworn oath to uphold the supreme law of the land and protect America from enemies foreign and domestic. And, okay, if he's not competent in doing that, we have a big problem.

[00:02:27] Well, the Republicans and the Democrats, you heard me, ladies and gentlemen, I'll say it again, the Republicans and the Democrats, the uniparty, whatever word you want to use for the deep state, literally took advantage of Joe Biden's age and health problems and whatever else. And they literally ran the government. Leaving the president there is literally a puppet.

[00:02:53] It's like that old country song, prop me up by the jukebox when I die. I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight. Right? Put a drink in my hand and just prop me up beside the jukebox when I die. They've almost done that to Joe Biden. Now, I know he didn't die yet. Some are saying he's dead and it's a prop standing in. I don't know that I believe that, but there you go. And so here's the deal, though. Joe Biden's unable to run the country.

[00:03:21] Mike Johnson, current Speaker of the House, lead Republican, if you will. He knew this in January 2024 kind of thing. Yeah, he's known it for a year. And he said, I understand. He said this on national TV. I understand the president's just not able to understand what's going on. I talked to him about he blocked some things and I told him he blocked them. And he said, no, I didn't. And I just, you know, allowed a study to happen.

[00:03:48] And anyway, Mike Johnson literally says, hey, Joe did not know what was going on. He didn't know what was going on in his administration at all. Now, Mike Johnson keeps quiet about that for a year. The Republicans literally put Donald Trump up for office. The Democrats put up Joe Biden once again, knowing full well he's completely incompetent. Kamala Harris certainly should have known. Other people surrounding the president, top aides and everything else should have known.

[00:04:18] Mike Johnson absolutely knew and said that he knew for a year. Not only are they putting up Joe and he's not capable of serving, but Mike Johnson on his own watch allowed the president to literally sit there as a puppet for a whole year. Knowing full well it was a sham. Meanwhile, they're skipping primary elections for the Democrats. They're changing horses at the last minute, reassigning money that came from one candidate to another.

[00:04:47] All kinds of shenanigans. And Mike Johnson literally said nothing. So why am I attacking Mike Johnson? I'm not really attacking Mike Johnson, but I want you to understand this is not a partisan divide. This is not the Democrats did this. The Republicans didn't know. Oh, my heavens. They all knew. And they lied. And they betrayed the American people. And we let them get away with it because, hey, Joe Biden then politely stepped down all the while babbling at the mouth. Oh, I could have beat Joe.

[00:05:17] I'm sorry. Joe's saying I could have beat Donald. I, you know, I still could have won. But yet he was forced to step down. By who? That's the question about the deep state Nancy Pelosi. Well, when did they decide? This is the question. When did the Democrats decide that either Joe couldn't win or Joe couldn't stay in his position because the people would find out? I don't know which. But what about the Republicans?

[00:05:45] What about the Mike Johnson's of the world that sat there and said nothing? See, to me, that's a serious, serious, serious problem. And now we get word circling back to the headline I started with on this rant. But shock claim Hunter Biden was running the White House. Is that possible? The Blaze.com TV staff talks about this and it's a fair question. But again, are we going to get to the bottom of it?

[00:06:14] Well, I hope so. Because if we can get Cash Patel, leader of the FBI, his nominations are a step closer now. If we can get RFK, JR, the vote is supposed to happen on him today. He's likely to get nominated or confirmed as well. Cash Patel coming up, RFK. But you know what?

[00:06:34] Tulsi Gabbard, ladies and gentlemen, will be overseeing 18 different intelligence agencies as President Trump's National Director of National Intelligence. All right. Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence. I guess she got confirmed. Now, the Senate confirmed her on Wednesday. So yesterday or whatever.

[00:07:03] Great news, right? Now, here's the interesting thing about this. She'll oversee 18 different intelligence agencies. Is she going to launch an investigation into these allegations that Hunter Biden was running the White House? If it's not Hunter, who else was? Was it Kamala Harris running the White House? If it wasn't Kamala, who was it? The leader of the FBI? The leader of the CIA? The leader of Homeland Security? Who was running the White House?

[00:07:29] Mike Johnson didn't have the intelligence or the integrity to dig in, get those answers, blow the whistle on Joe. He kept his mouth shut until Joe peacefully stepped down. Kamala lost. And then he's like, oh, by the way, I've known Joe's not competent to run the country for like a year. And I'm saying that puts significant, significant mud on your face, Mike Johnson.

[00:07:55] And now we hear Mike Johnson's totally supportive, 100% supportive of Mike or of Donald Trump. Man, he's just in all in, 100%. But yet you allowed an incompetent person to become the nominee, power through the primaries, and then let another candidate be switched in because, oh, my gosh, we didn't realize Joe wasn't doing so well. And you knew full well the whole time and you said nothing, Mike Johnson?

[00:08:23] See, I hate to keep going back to that, but this just proves to you, ladies and gentlemen, this is the absolute uniparty. In reality, the deep state controls the Republicans and the Democrats. And, yes, they've got a faux argument or, you know, battle going on. Oh, my gosh, it's the Democrats. Oh, no, it's the Republicans. Oh, let us fix it. No, we don't like their plan. Let's do the Republican plan. Oh, that's great. Oh, no, the Democrat plan's better.

[00:08:47] And all they're talking about is, hey, we don't care which way we go down the road, Republican style or Democrat style, as long as we destroy the country. And Mike Johnson allowing a man to be president on your watch as Speaker of the House of Representatives, controller of the purse strings, right, controller of the purse strings. And you say, oh, my gosh, I've known this all along. Well, what did you do about it if you knew all along?

[00:09:17] Is it okay just to not speak out, not say anything, right? I mean, this is a big problem, okay? Now, listen to this. House Speaker Mike Johnson describes support of Israel as one of America's founding principles,

[00:09:43] while war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.S. Congress. Right? I mean, it's insane. I don't even know how to respond to some of this stuff. Now, people tried to rightly remove Mike Johnson. It was an epic fail. Right? That's a serious problem.

[00:10:12] But where do you go with this? What do you do about a Mike Johnson? Right? People don't like Mike Johnson. People don't want to deal with him, but they're forced to by the good old boy deep state system. The same system that protected Joe is the same system that literally got Mike Johnson his position.

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[00:13:05] I don't know how to respond to this Mike Johnson thing. I really don't. Brian, rest with me. Russ Quitting Gift is the company, but it's now called freewatercoinco.com. Same people, three generations of honest money advocates on your radio. Freewatercoin.co. You have a friend in the honest money business. Hi, Brian. Hey, how you doing, Sam? I'm doing very well. You got this shock claim from the Blaze now. Hunter Biden was running the White House.

[00:13:35] Is it really possible, they ask? That's the Blaze TV staff. And then House Speaker Mike Johnson, I don't understand it. He literally admitted on TV several weeks ago that he knew Joe was incompetent for like a whole year. And he said nothing while all this went down. To me, this just proves the deep state unipartic, Brian. Well, there you go, Sam. Hunter was running.

[00:14:03] Wow, that's interesting. I don't know if that's factual. We've got Tulsi Gabbard that just got nominated, which I think is pretty good news for the most part. And she will oversee 18 intelligence agencies. And so I guess my question is, are we going to get to the bottom of this, though? I mean, this cannot be allowed to stand. Mike Johnson knowing about it and saying nothing while they literally circumvented a primary, while they literally put him up to serve for four more years, Mike Johnson knowing that's not even realistic at all.

[00:14:33] But saying nothing until way after the fact. They even looked at Joe Biden and some of the criminal activity and put together a report and said, yeah, he's guilty of all kind of criminal things. They did nothing and released the report after the fact. So we get all the pay dirt to be angry and frustrated and disappointed and concerned. But no real accountability of any kind, Brian. Well, we've been talking about that for a long time, Sam. Accountability is the big word that just doesn't happen. It's a two-sided government.

[00:15:02] It's our side. There is no accountability. Your side, we're going to hold you to prosecute you and tie you up in court, just like they did to President Trump. And so am I shocked? No, I'm not shocked. But I think you're right on. I mean, why can't we get accountability? I mean, your show yesterday talked about a soldier here who was hired to do a job and then thrown under the bus.

[00:15:31] I mean, where's the accountability for all these things? And we keep bringing more and more and more up, but it doesn't seem to take place. We hire – we get these politicians in place to help us as a people. I think the majority of the people want accountability and yet get none. And so I don't know – I don't understand it. Are we putting the wrong people in? We can't get the right people in? What's the deal? I don't know the answer.

[00:16:01] But I know this. I look at this situation and say, how can we allow Mike Johnson, just to stay Speaker of the House, he's from the opposite party. He would be, what, third in line to be President? Would that be right? Yeah. So he knows full well that either Kamala or Hunter or I don't know really who's running the White House. But if he doesn't ask himself who's running the White House knowing full well that Joe's incompetent, I don't know what to say about that.

[00:16:29] Like, isn't there a responsibility there to blow the whistle and say, hold on a minute now? Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly right. I mean, and are we going to get – are we going to get the right language from him? Probably not. I mean, he doesn't seem to be up front now. So can we really trust what he's going to accomplish or do going forward? I just don't – I mean, I don't even know how to respond to it in a way because it's just so outside of my realm. Okay?

[00:16:57] To me, it's not a Republican or a Democrat thing. It's an American thing. And you would stand up. I don't care if it's a Republican president and you're in the Republican Party. At some point, if the president is not competent to run the country, it's a national security crisis. It's a constitutional crisis for the man who swore an oath as the supreme commander-in-chief of the greatest army in the world, the greatest military in the world. And this guy's not even competent to do his job and you say nothing? To me, this isn't a partisan thing. Why would Mike Johnson say nothing?

[00:17:26] That's the real – you've got to ask yourself, why would he say nothing? Why on earth? Any ideas? Well, it's like you just said. It's a – we the people, all the people, it's not a divide, but yet there is a divide. That's why I'm saying there is a divide. It's not about all of us or Republicans or Democrats working together. No, they haven't come together at all. It wasn't the key for Biden when he got into office.

[00:17:56] He says, well, we're going to now unite the country. We're just going to do it. And yet he slammed a bigger divide in it than ever. And so I just – they keep saying stuff out of one side of their face, and then they say something out of the other side of it. Well, I mean, just like now, oh, I'm all for Trump. I'm all for da-da-da. No, you're not. You haven't shown at all you are. And so that – these are the issues. Well, when people bring up the questions like I've been bringing up to Mike Johnson, he has a classic response. You ready for it? Yeah.

[00:18:25] Well, Johnson, quote, we only control one half of one-third of the federal government, Brian. We only control one half of one-third of the government there. And I look at that and I go, hold on a minute. Yes, that's factually. That's factual. That's true. Okay, it is one-half of one-third of the government. You say one-third of the government is the House and the Senate called the legislative branch. That's one-third.

[00:18:52] The executive branch, the judicial branch, the other two-thirds, right? Got it. All right, but then you say one-half. That would mean there's the House and the Senate. But what he's ignoring to articulate to you is several things. Number one, the House has 435 members. The Senate only has 100 members. The presidency only has one member. And you can talk about the branch or whatever. The courts, you know, there's judges all up and down the line.

[00:19:21] But at the end of the day, what, there's nine Supreme Court justices? So it's the biggest one-half of one-third there ever was, first of all. It's secondly closest to the people and represents more Americans, at least, than any other branch, in a direct way. Right? I digress. But it also controls the purse strings, Brian. Brian, all funding bills must originate in the House.

[00:19:48] And the House literally controls the purse strings. If they say we're not spending a penny, then the Senate doesn't have any money. The other half of the one-third doesn't have a penny. Furthermore, the other two-thirds of government, the judiciary and the executive branch, they have no money. So it's the purse string largest, closest to the people, one-half of one-third of the government, Brian. But, see, that's his get-out-of-Dodge statement.

[00:20:15] My gosh, Brian, we only have one-half of one, you know, one-half of one-third of the government there. It's really tiny. It's a cop-out. It's bogus. This is the guy that literally let a man serve in the White House who's incompetent for a whole year without a single peep. He let democracy, not that I believe in democracy, I believe in a constitutional republic, but he let the democracy principles in our republic go straight to the heck in a handbasket.

[00:20:42] He literally let them skip the primary on the Democratic side. Never been done before, right? How does this stuff happen? So, anyway, I don't know why I'm on a rant against Mike Johnson, but I look at this and I just go, now Mike Johnson is the yes-man for Trump saying, yes, yes, yes, yes. Carry out all these executive orders. But yet what he should be doing is saying, hey, President Trump, I agree that these things need to be done.

[00:21:08] Executive orders are a great temporary fix in emergency kind of situations, but we've really got to realize there's separations of powers here, and I'm going to help you get a lot of this stuff through Congress. Because if we can legislate it through Congress, it's really hard to unwind. If you just do it by executive order, the next clown that comes in will just, hey, they'll create an executive order that says all previous executive orders by the Donald is abolished.

[00:21:29] And then, of course, you can shut down everything Donald did and just the pendulum continues to swing, and the president, the wrong branch of government continues to make law while the legislative body is just sidelined by the whole process. So on one hand, he's a total yes-Trump man. On the other hand, I'm looking at it and going, I don't really see that he's supporting Trump at all. He's supporting Trump in word like a yes-man.

[00:21:58] But if he really wanted to support President Trump, he'd stand for the proper role of government, wouldn't he? He'd stand for the way it's supposed to go down, right? Yeah, you're right on. You know, that's the sad thing. I mean, he's a person that's in high position in our government, and yet he's flip-floppy. He hasn't come forward, which is, I think, his position is to hold people accountable and bring out the truth.

[00:22:27] And by not doing that, obviously, he's saving his own butt. I mean, just so whoever's in, I'm good to go type thing. I'll just do what you want, you know, be happy with what you're trying to do or accomplish, but I'm not going to rock the boat on behalf of the next person that comes in. I mean, it seems to be that's his motive, I guess. But a person in that position needs to come forward. We deserve that as a people.

[00:22:55] And I think he's, yeah, by not doing that, it's sad. But yet, you know, we're finding more and more things out, and like you say, there's not accountability for any of these things. It's just sad. I don't know where to go with this because it seems to me just so egregious. But I will say this. We're starting to rule by executive order. Now, I understand President Trump, and I'm not – a lot of people are like, Sam, come on, lay off Trump. He's doing his very best. I get it, and I'm not here to attack Trump, okay?

[00:23:24] Trump is left with no choice because the Republican Party won't back him. The deep state's undermining him at every turn. I have all kinds of reports internally now from Congress where they say, yeah, you know what's happening? They're publicly going, yeah, yeah, yeah, Donald, good work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As he, you know, puts in place executive order after executive order after executive order more than any other president in history. Meanwhile, they're undermining him at every turn. And they haven't legislatively backed anything that Trump is doing.

[00:23:50] So when Trump says, I'm going to lay off all these people, then the courts say, no, you're not. And a single judge overrules President Trump. Where's Congress? Congress could put together a resolution or pass a law that says, hey, we're going to give the president authority in this specific case to do this. And or we pass a law that says we're going to let go of all these employees. In fact, we're going to defund it. Oh, yeah, they can throw the purse strings, right? So see, he's a yes man and we're ruling by executive order.

[00:24:19] It's all going down wrong, people. I understand that we think we got a bunch of wins. But I'm telling you, it's deception at the highest level. And I don't think it's intentional by Donald Trump, by the way. But I do think it is intentional by people like Mike Johnson. Hang tight. Brian, rest with me. Freewatercoinco.com.

[00:24:50] Pursuing liberty. Using the Constitution as our guide. You're listening to Liberty News Radio. News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Tasha Stevens. President Trump is giving Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency more power to cut fraud and waste in the federal government.

[00:25:12] The president signed an executive order Tuesday requiring agencies to work with Doge to slash workforces along with limiting the hiring of replacements. When asked about people calling his efforts a hostile takeover, Musk said that people voted for major government reform and that it's what the people are going to get. It's just common sense. It's not draconian or radical, I think. It's really just saying, let's look at each of these expenditures and say, is this actually in the best interest of the people?

[00:25:42] And if it is, it's proved. If it's not, we should think about it. President Trump says Musk and his team have already uncovered a massive amount of waste in the government. Tens of billions of dollars that we've already found. And now a judge who's an activist judge wants to try and stop us from doing this. Why would they want to do that? I campaigned on this. I campaigned on the fact that I said government is corrupt.

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[00:30:24] Back with you live, ladies and gentlemen, Brian Rust, Sam Bushman, talking hard-hitting radio. Always. Mike Johnson, we only control one-third of one-half of the government. I reminded you about they control the purse strings, though, ladies and gentlemen. How dare Mike Johnson sit quiet while Joe Biden is not even competent to run the White House for literally admitted to. He knew about it, did nothing for a year. To me, that's a credibility crisis. It's a security crisis, to say the least, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:30:53] Ruling by executive order. Donald Trump doing the best he can. But, man, he's getting shut down by all the Democrats at every turn, by all the courts at every turn. Mike Johnson, leader of Congress, is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Donald. But he's not doing anything to legislatively back President Trump that I can see at all. I don't even know what the Congress has done in the last six weeks, Brian. Yeah, that's exactly right. And that's the sad thing. I think right now we should be supporting President Trump and moving forward with a lot of these things.

[00:31:21] I'm kind of fed up with a number of these judges that seem to just jump up out of nowhere and halt everything that we try to do and throw it out. You know why they do that, don't you? Well, yeah. They lie and claim they're there for life, my friend, and they feel like they have complete immunity. We need to jettison that yesterday and realize they're there for life based on good behavior. And this is activist propaganda and an agenda from the bench. They have no authority.

[00:31:51] They should be impeached. And as soon as a few of these clowns get impeached and removed from office, they'll start to change their minds. Yeah, I think you're right. And that needs to happen because we've got just a lot of that going on that's just pathetic. All right. Now, I find this interesting, too. Is it the Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America, Brian? Well, there you go. Well, the reason that I ask the question is because a headline says this.

[00:32:19] The White House barred a reporter from the Associated Press from the Oval Office on Tuesday because the outlet continues to refer to the Gulf of America by the old term, the Gulf of Mexico. Kicked out of the White House. I guess from the Oval Office, I'm just trying to think based on this idea. Number one, you think the reporter should be kicked out?

[00:32:49] Number two, do you think you can just change the name of it like that by executive order? Is that the way we work? Maybe. Maybe that's the way it is. That's very interesting. I don't know what his issue was or if he kept pounding or pounding on that. I don't know. Is the name by law? Is it a law? I don't think so. So, you know, Donald can change the name if he wants to and he can examine or refer to it as this. And that's fine.

[00:33:18] But do you really kick out a reporter because they insist on the Gulf of Mexico? I would think not. But yet, hey, he got kicked out. And at first, you can kind of laugh and go, yeah, you know, everybody needs to go along. You know, Google's going along. And now Google has a weird deal. For you and I, if you look in the United States, it's called the Gulf of America on their maps. If you're in Mexico, it's called the Gulf of Mexico. And if you're international, it has both names. Just so you know there. They don't want to get in trouble. I'll tell you that right now. That's right. It's just weird.

[00:33:50] We live in weird times. And I'm not here to debate it. I don't really like calling it the Gulf of America because in my mind, it moves towards the merging of Canada, the United States and Mexico. Right now, Trump's saying he's serious. He wants Canada. If you can grab this soundbite, Liz, be ready for this one. It's the Trump one here. Trump says his wish for Canada to be America's 51st state is real. It's a real thing.

[00:34:19] And a lot of people are going, oh, he's just kind of joshing or he's just trying to do misdirection or there's nothing to it. But he did an interview right before the Super Bowl. So if you want primetime special privilege TV, there it is. Right. But check this out. Here's the soundbite of President Trump. You announced tariffs on Canada and Mexico. You immediately got action from both of them on border security and drug interdiction. I did. A lot of action. Is that good enough? Is that good enough? No, it's not good enough. So more needed in 30 days.

[00:34:49] Something has to happen. It's not sustainable. And I'm changing it. You know, the prime minister said this weekend to a group of Canadian businessmen. He was a private meeting. He said that your wish for Canada to be the 51st state is a, quote, real thing. Is it a real thing? Yeah, it is. I think Canada would be much better off being a 51st state because we lose $200 billion a year with Canada. And I'm not going to let that happen. It's too much.

[00:35:15] Why are we paying $200 billion a year essentially in subsidy to Canada? Now, if they're a 51st state, I don't mind doing it. Brian, I don't want to be $200 billion for Canada. And that, number one. And number two, even if they become the 51st state, first off, they've got a bunch of provinces. And Canada is divided. Some of the folks in the east part of Canada want to stay with the French kind of language and everything else. But at the end of the day, it's too big to be a single state because it's several provinces anyway. But set that aside for a second.

[00:35:45] I don't want to spend $200 billion on Canada, whether they're the 51st state or not. The federal government has no authority to send money to either situation. Well, it's not only Canada, and I agree with your point, but it's across the world. We're sending money recklessly across the world. And I just think we need to rein that in. And it's been a problem for a long time. And it continues to be a problem. And I think something needs to be done.

[00:36:14] Now, do I have a problem with the expansion of the United States? I don't, actually. I mean, look, before we had the Louisiana Purchase, before we pushed west, and, you know, before Texas joined, before, you know, like where we live right now, Utah used to be Mexico, right? Then it was the territory. Now it's a state. Okay, I get all that. But I'm not really for the expansion the way we're talking about it.

[00:36:40] But if the Canadians are like, hey, we'd like to, you know, if a Providence in Canada says we want to become, you know, the 51st state, I don't have a problem with considering those things. I don't have a problem with considering buying Greenland. I mean, to me, those things make some sense. And I'm a little bit conflicted because from a country point of view only, I'm like, we don't have the money for that. We're $35 trillion in debt. Forget it. Can't do it. Don't have it.

[00:37:07] At the same time, I say, well, you know, when it comes to spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ and being a light on a hill, maybe the joining of Canada to the United States makes sense. But the real question about self-determination is what do the Canadians think? Yeah, good point. But why would we make Canada the 51st state when you've got Puerto Rico and Guam and all these other, I don't know what you call them. What are they, territories of the United States? Right.

[00:37:37] Okay. Why not make them full-fledged states or, you know, let them be their own country? Do we have to have this middle deal where they don't quite have status, but yet they're not on their own? But yet, you know, this stuff concerns me. Same thing with the Indian reservations. Are they their own countries? Well, yeah, but with oversight and control and manipulation from the United States government plus a big bunch of handouts to the reservations, yeah, they're independent countries, Sam. What? I don't understand any of that, Brian.

[00:38:03] So we've got to get our ducks in a row first if we're going to expand to where we realize, hey, you can't control, say, Puerto Rico. You've either got to make them complete citizens and equal with the rest of us, equal footing, or you've got to let them go and be their own country. You can't have this middle ground. Well, the reason this is so important is because when Trump pushes to expand, expand, expand, what happens when China decides to flex their muscle and do the same? Then what are we going to start to say? Yeah, that's right. Are we going to jump in and try to stop that?

[00:38:33] You know, see, so to me, I understand it. If the Canadians all, you know, vote and come back and say, listen, would like to be part of the United States, I don't have any problem working on that. But it's how it all goes down. He ain't going to have that wish for Canada to be America's 51st state. I get what he's saying. But let's first stop the $200 billion. Just stop it. And then say, hey, Canada, you're on your own now. You're a free country. If you guys want to be independent, then by all means, be independent. We're not paying you a dime.

[00:39:02] You know, it's kind of like the little kid that leaves home but expects daddy to pay for car insurance and pay for the car payment and, you know, this kind of stuff. It's like, no, if you're on your own, buddy, you got this. I'm not going to, right? Well, it seems like that's where we are with this thing, right? Well, I think that's – you've hit it right on, Sam. I think it's not so much about taking them or making them a 51st state or whatever.

[00:39:26] I think the important part or, you know, you hit the key point is we're just not going to pay anymore. We're done paying, you know. And if it's a bigger issue, if it's the drugs coming across or it's, you know, in Mexico or wherever, Canada, all these places, you know, we're just going to stop this kind of stuff. We're not going to pay you. We're not going to give you money anymore. We're done. We're just done doing that deal. And we'll look at each factor. Maybe we'll assist in something or whatever.

[00:39:53] But right now we're cutting the ties of the money. We're just not sending you the money. And I think that needs to go across the world. We're just done. And if you folks, citizens of Canada, decide that you like Trump's good wish, good idea, and you want to vote to do that and you want to join the union and not be on the dole, let's get all the other states, by the way. Speaking of around the world, let's get all the states off the dole. No states should be taking money from the federal government, period, end of paragraph.

[00:40:19] Federal government should be on such a thin diet, on such a thin plan to carry out its enumerated responsibilities and nothing more, nothing less, to where we wouldn't need a penny coming from the general government of the states for any reason whatsoever. And so we need to get there, too. Man, do we have a long way to go. Chevron's in the news. The second largest U.S. oil gas company said on Wednesday that it would lay off as much as 20% of its workforce up to 9,000 people, Brian.

[00:40:51] Yeah, they're going to, I guess, apparently with the amount of money that's going out there on some of their projects, is that what's the hazard? I mean, I guess they want a cost-cutting plan, and I'm just thinking, wait a minute. Didn't we just have Donald Trump kind of double back and say we're going to do a lot more oil than we did before? I mean, doesn't their future look brighter than it's ever looked in modern times? Yeah. I don't get it. But there you have it. It's going to be tough, though. I mean, look, 1,000 – I'm sorry, 9,000 people.

[00:41:20] That's huge. That's a lot of money. And I doubt these are like low-paying jobs, right? They're not like McDonald's or anything. Right. It's going to affect the number of people, you know, some of the things that are going on in that company. I know they're trying to – what's that, 20% of their workforce or something? I think it's that. Families at stake. I'll tell you that right now. Anyway, I found that interesting. Trump officially calls for the end of the income tax. Most – or they say it's probably the first SCOTUS to do so in history.

[00:41:50] Or first POTUS. I'm sorry, not SCOTUS. First POTUS to do so in history. What do you think of that? Will he really get it done? Well, I think there needs – something needs to be done. And, yeah, right. Let's put him in there and see what he can do. I support shutting down the IRS. Trump has made statements about that for quite some time. And he's to be commended for it.

[00:42:18] But Trump has a lot of bold statements. And the problem with some of it to me, it's hard to know, like, what is he serious about? What's he really, like, dedicated to getting done versus what's kind of an offhanded comment, right? So here's what Donald Trump says. The latest email I have from Donald J. Trump says this. Quote, should I audit the IRS into oblivion? What do you say, Brian? Yeah.

[00:42:49] So I got a question. Why would you ask me a question like that? Who, in their right mind, as an American citizen, would be like, no, I ain't got to keep the IRS that consolidates power and violates all the checks and balances of America, that's harassed and terrorized citizens for literally 100 years. No, you shouldn't get rid of that, Donald. Okay. It's just like, why would we take a poll? Why would we ask a question? Which clown on the planet would be like, oh, no, keep that in place?

[00:43:18] Because I got news for him. Why don't we get rid of the IRS for all of us? But those who want to keep it, the IRS could just have them in their own personal database and just harass the heck out of them. And you can stay on there if you want to, but you can exit at any time. And so to any of those who want to keep the IRS, just keep them on the IRS crosshair list. Let the rest of us go free. And then you can just go ahead and, you know, turn in your taxes every year.

[00:43:43] And, you know, I mean, who in their right mind would say, no, I don't think that's a good idea, Donald. Really? Even the public officials that would call for, oh, we got to have the IRS, have it or wreak if we don't have it. Privately, they're like, hey, man, I'm all in. We got to get rid of this thing.

[00:44:02] The only people that would want to keep it, in my mind, would be Congress at the deep state level where they're like, hey, we can use this to make sure we can whip Brian and whip Sam into compliance. Right. Right? Yeah. But I just look at this and I go, I don't even understand the question that you're asking me. It's almost a clown question. I don't mean to be rude to Donald. But it really is, right? Yeah. Well, he puts himself out there. I think he does. He likes that.

[00:44:33] Anyway, I just find it fascinating that you're really going to ask me that. Are you being serious right now? And I don't know how to express my support for it any more than I've done for the last 30 years, for crying out loud. Should I audit the IRS into oblivion? Yes, sir. Roger that. Get her done. What do you need me to do to help? How quick? Can we do it yesterday? Can we get rid of taxes and give people back tax refunds for the last seven years?

[00:45:03] And, you know, what do I got to do? Get her done. You know, I just. Yeah. I don't mean to be rude. I'm just saying I can't believe we're taking a poll about this. Yeah. That's right. How quick can we audit the IRS into oblivion? You know, where are they? Look, Joe Bannister, dear friend of mine, used to be an IRS agent. He was a special agent with the IRS armed to the teeth as an agent. Hey, let's first off take away their arms.

[00:45:31] If we want to disarm somebody, disarm those clowns over the IRS. Shut that thing down. Judge Durian Executioner. Days are over. Anyway, I just find that fascinating, Brian. Elon Musk. Listen, this is a weird group of people, but I kind of dig it. Here it is. See if you're aboard. Elon Musk in a post on X.

[00:45:56] Backs Charlie Kirk's suggestion that Ron Paul should replace Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Great idea. Musk replied on X to a statement from Kirk saying Paul would make the great next chairman of the Federal Reserve.

[00:46:16] Then, in a reply to Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, Musk said that would be amazing when Mike Lee said he'd like Ron Paul to be the chair of the Federal Reserve. What do you say? Are you into this, Brian? Yeah. Let's put him in. I mean, Jerome Powell, basically.

[00:46:42] You know, same guy that said that price inflation was transitory before finally saying, oh, I guess it's obvious and rising rates. He said that in 22. And so let's put him in. Let's see. You know, we're stagflation, aren't we? Aren't we still? Well, yeah. They say inflation is starting to tick up again and it's higher than it was last year. And, you know, Donald said he was going to drop prices on the first day. Now he's had a lot more major approach to his comments.

[00:47:12] But nevertheless, hey, if you boss the IRS and you put Ron Paul in head of the Federal Reserve, oh, boy, would things change in a hurry then, buddy. I like it. No IRS. Ron Paul at the head of the Federal Reserve. Deportations efforts seriously underway. USA ID on the ropes. I mean, come on. Let's go. So, see, I'm not downing President Trump by support these things. I just know that if you do it all by executive order, it can be, with a swipe of a pen, reversed every single thing you've done.

[00:47:41] If you codify it through Congress and you respect the three branches of government and Congress jumps aboard to do the will of the people or risk replacement at the next election. Okay, these are the things that we need to do. The American people have got a lot of work to do to jump to Donald Trump's defense. I'm not attacking President Trump. He's doing the best he knows how, being undermined by every part of the deep state, even his own supposed supporters.

[00:48:08] Now, I support Mike Lee, Elon Musk, and Charlie Kirk 100%. Let's get that done. I agree that Ron Paul would be amazing as the Federal Reserve chair. Anyway, in another twist of fate, you know, Steve Bannon attacked me, wrongfully so. I'll let that slide for now. But sadly, Steve Bannon pleads guilty to fraud. Oh, man. Avoids jail time. One News Network or OAN News reporting this. And, you know, it's all over this.

[00:48:37] He raised a ton of money, 15, 20 million. Can't remember the exact number. For the border wall after, you know, the Republicans and Democrats, the deep state stopped Trump from the border wall funding in the first place. Mexico didn't pay for it. The United States wouldn't pay for it. So Charlie Kirk, I mean, not Charlie Kirk. Wow. Steve Bannon and others went out and raised a bunch of money. Well, then they said that they took the money for themselves. It was a big old fraud scandal. Well, now Steve Bannon pleads guilty to the fraud and avoids jail time. What Steve would say, though, is, hey, I didn't take any of the money. I was facing a big sentence with all these, you know, lawfare stuff.

[00:49:07] And I had to plead guilty so that I don't go to jail. I've got work to do for the country. I actually give him the benefit of the doubt on that. I'm not here to attack him. I'm just saying it's very, very interesting that he had to plead guilty. Are we going to look at this case and start impeaching judges? Because I don't see how we even got there with all this lawfare against Steve Bannon. So believe it or not, he attacks me and I come back and defend Steve. We need to look into this and impeach judges for this. Look, they took out Trump on this stuff.

[00:49:35] They've now attacked Steve Bannon on this stuff. You know, we cannot let this continue, Brian. Well, it's there's a lot of that going on. And I'd like to see. Yeah, that instead of naming the 51st state candidate, how about we start, you know, taking some of these. What's the first things we ought to be doing? These line item things should be doing. It shouldn't be the 51st state. It should be more about these judges and other things. I agree. Yeah, we got we got to get priorities here.

[00:50:03] And we hear the Trump administration is overwhelmed. And what they got to do is just make Sheriff Richard Mack ambassador to El Salvador. We've been working on that for a bit. But the next issue that I find fascinating is this Tom Holman. You know, he's the I don't like to use this term, but he's the borders are right. He's the guy on the border. Tom Holman. Great guy doing a great job. We are working with him at the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. No doubt about it. Sheriff's all over the country working with Tom Holman doing a great job.

[00:50:32] However, Tom Holman confirms that ICE operation got leaked. He says it points to the FBI as the leakers. Criminal investigation is now underway against the FBI. Not only will this person lose their job and lose their pension, they are going to jail, says Tom Holman. What do you think about that?

[00:50:58] So you've got this deportation plan in a way and the FBI leaks and puts the deportation, Border Patrol and some of these other people, it puts them in serious danger to criminal gangs and everything else because the FBI leaked it in protest. Yeah, well, let's see, that's there again. There's another big problem right there by doing that. Yeah, well, it's just one more thing. One more thing. We just keep kicking.

[00:51:27] We just keep finding more things out that's happening in here. And I mean, what's wrong is right and what's right is wrong. And we're still talking about things like that that we talked about years ago, right? I mean, it's the same thing. Yeah, so just shut down the FBI. Yeah. Yeah. Entirely. Put Kash Patel in a different spot, but shut down the FBI entirely. They're just a clown show. By the way, there's rumors that Donald Trump is going to pardon Edward Snowden.

[00:51:58] I have a big question mark at the end of this headline because I hear it, but I don't see it happening. Why are we going to talk about pardoning Snowden? Just get it done. He's an American hero whistleblower. The guy should be brought in and have a big old parade and support of whistleblowers all over. Right. Well, we got to talk about that in the 51st state and we got to talk about, yeah, all these things that probably should be down the list, way down the list.

[00:52:28] Now, they do say Judge faces impeachment for blocking Doge's treasury access, judicial overreach, they say, the blaze with that piece. So that's good news. Hopefully they'll get that done. Brian, where's gold and silver sitting, sir? Gold's $2,920.60. $29.20.60. Okay. Silver's $32.2. Wow, that's up quite a bit.

[00:52:58] Yeah. $32.02? $0.20. Oh, $0.20. Got it. Okay. So, ladies and gentlemen, gold, $29.20.60. Silver, $32.20. Wow. Those are up quite a bit, aren't they? They are. Yeah. The supply for gold and silver hitting some roadblocks as far as availability. That's usually what happens. You mean people want to take possession of the metal brand?

[00:53:28] Is that what you're saying? That's right. There you go. So, you know, getting product becomes harder just because it's unavailable. You know, industry pays whatever. What do you mean? Hold on a minute. What do you mean it's unavailable? If I have my paper shares, can I turn it into real? Well, you can come and get stuff, but that's usually what happens in the marketplace is availability takes longer to get product. What happens if everybody wants to take possession? Yeah.

[00:53:55] That's why we've been preaching preparation. Get in there and get some metal because it's going to get tougher to get. By the way, they can't meet all their obligations. The paper trade on gold and silver is fraud. Yeah. 100% fraud. Why? Because they don't have enough gold and silver to back up their claims in their paper trades. That's why it's fraud. Amen. It should be called on the carpet as such, ladies and gentlemen. But listen, the good news is you can take possession of your metal now and you've got a friend in the honest money business, our buddies, the Rust family, three generations doing an incredible job.

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