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Apple News Today
Trump says he’s not defying court orders. A judge says otherwise.
This administration acted within the confines of the law, again, within the president's constitutional authority and under the authority granted to him under the Alien Enemies Act. We are quite confident in that and we are wholly confident that we are going to win this case in court.
Apple News Today
How the Eagles, and Kendrick Lamar, won the Super Bowl
These are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces. $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap.
Candace
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detainment: Fighting Terrorism Or Speech? | Candace Ep 158
Well, in fact, Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khalil, and I'm glad you brought this up. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who serve – or adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America.
Candace
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detainment: Fighting Terrorism Or Speech? | Candace Ep 158
And Mahmoud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of coming to this country to study at one of our nation's finest universities and colleges. And he took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege, by siding with terrorists Hamas terrorists who have killed innocent men, women, and children.
Candace
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detainment: Fighting Terrorism Or Speech? | Candace Ep 158
This is an individual who organized group protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda, Flyers with the logo of Hamas. That is what the behavior and activity that this individual engaged in. And I have those flyers on my desk.
Candace
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detainment: Fighting Terrorism Or Speech? | Candace Ep 158
They were provided to me by the Department of Homeland Security. I thought about bringing them into this briefing room to share with all of you, but I didn't think it was worth the dignity of this room to bring that pro-Hamas propaganda. But that's what this individual distributed on the campus of Columbia University.
Candace
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detainment: Fighting Terrorism Or Speech? | Candace Ep 158
And this administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans. We have a zero-tolerance policy for siding with terrorists, period.
Consider This from NPR
Tariffs will boost prices a lot — here's how much
Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal. You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here.
Consider This from NPR
Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
On the funding freeze? White House counsel's office believes that this is within the president's power to do it, and therefore he's doing it.
Consider This from NPR
Is Trump testing limits or trying to eliminate them?
The folks that you mentioned have a right to have that legal opinion, but it is in disagreement with the legal opinion of this administration.
Consider This from NPR
Is Trump defying the courts?
It is the administration's belief that you feel like you are bound to comply by the judge's orders? We are compliant with the judge's orders.
Consider This from NPR
The long history of Russia's broken promises to Ukraine
Everyone now is at a table to get to the same goal.
Consider This from NPR
The long history of Russia's broken promises to Ukraine
We have never been closer to peace than we are today.
Consider This from NPR
Is there a Trump Doctrine for Foreign Policy?
I am saying that the president has not committed to that just yet.
Fox News Hourly Update
9PM ET 03/05/2025 Newscast
For the last four years, unfortunately, our neighbors to the north and the south, Canada and Mexico, respectively, have allowed America to be a dumping ground, not just for illegal aliens, but for illegal, poisonous, deadly fentanyl.
Global News Podcast
US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
This is not a blanket pause on federal assistance and grant programs from the Trump administration. Individual assistance that includes Medicare benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause.
Global News Podcast
US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
And I want to make that very clear to any Americans who are watching at home who may be a little bit confused about some of the media reporting. This administration, if you are receiving individual assistance from the federal government, you will still continue to receive that.
Global News Podcast
Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
He believes that China wants to make a deal with the United States. He believes China has to make a deal with the United States. It was a mistake for China to retaliate. The President, when America is punched, he punches back harder. That's why there will be 104%. Tariffs going into effect on China tonight at midnight. But the President believes that Xi and China want to make a deal.
Global News Podcast
Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills scores of people
They just don't know how to get that started. And the President also wanted me to tell all of you that if China reaches out to make a deal, he'll be incredibly gracious, but he's going to do what's best for the American people.
Global News Podcast
BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
Looking ahead, April 2nd, 2025 will go down as one of the most important days in modern American history. Our country has been one of the most open economies in the world, and we have the consumer base hands down, the best consumer base. But too many foreign countries have their markets closed to our exports. This is fundamentally unfair.
Global News Podcast
BBC team reaches Khartoum and finds overwhelming destruction
The lack of reciprocity contributes to our large and persistent annual trade deficit that's gutted our industries and hollowed out key workforces. But those days of America being ripped off are over.
Global News Podcast
Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full
I would defer you to the Secretary of Defense's statement he put out this morning. There were various reasons he listed, things that were not included in that messaging thread, that were not classified.
Global News Podcast
Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full
And again, going back to the American public, do you trust the Secretary of Defense, who was nominated for this role, voted by the United States Senate into this role, who has served in combat, honorably served our nation in uniform? Or do you trust Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a registered Democrat and an anti-Trump sensationalist reporter?
Global News Podcast
Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full
I spoke to our senior North America correspondent Gary O'Donoghue, who was in that briefing room.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Auto Tariff Relief & ABC Braces for Layoffs | Afternoon Update | 3.5.25
Reciprocal tariffs will still go into effect on April 2nd, but at the request of the companies associated with USMCA, the president is giving them an exemption for one month so they are not at an economic disadvantage.
Morning Wire
Laken Riley Act Signed & Cartel Train Heists | Afternoon Update | 1.29.25
The Office of Personnel Management sent an email yesterday offering employees up to eight months of pay if they resign by February 6th. The message warned of potential layoffs as the administration moves to downsize agencies and increase workplace standards. The offer excludes military personnel, postal workers, and national security employees.
Morning Wire
Laken Riley Act Signed & Cartel Train Heists | Afternoon Update | 1.29.25
The White House says the goal is to ensure an efficient federal workforce that operates in person and serves taxpayers effectively. Here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt.
Morning Wire
Laken Riley Act Signed & Cartel Train Heists | Afternoon Update | 1.29.25
This comes as the White House rescinded an order which froze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans. The move comes after a federal judge blocked it yesterday, though the White House says it's still committed to freezing any grants or loans supporting woke programs.
Morning Wire
Federal Funding Freeze & ICE Raids Hit NYC | 1.29.25
Social Security benefits, Medicare benefits, food stamps, welfare benefits, assistance that is going directly to individuals will not be impacted by this pause. And I want to make that very clear to any Americans who are watching at home who may be a little bit confused about some of the media reporting.
Morning Wire
Federal Funding Freeze & ICE Raids Hit NYC | 1.29.25
This administration, if you are receiving individual assistance from the federal government, you will still continue to receive that. It is the responsibility of this president and this administration to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.
Morning Wire
Federal Funding Freeze & ICE Raids Hit NYC | 1.29.25
This is a temporary pause and a freeze to ensure that all of the money going out from Washington, D.C. isn't aligned with the president's agenda.
Morning Wire
Federal Funding Freeze & ICE Raids Hit NYC | 1.29.25
On January 23rd, ICE San Francisco arrested a citizen of Mexico unlawfully present in the United States who has been convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child aged 14 years or younger. ICE St. Paul has arrested a citizen of Honduras who was convicted of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.
Morning Wire
Wisconsin’s Judicial Election Decided & HHS Layoffs Begin | 4.2.25
Thanks to President Trump's leadership, Border Patrol agents are now back to doing the jobs they signed up for, securing the border, rather than serving as travel agents for illegal aliens.
Morning Wire
Wisconsin’s Judicial Election Decided & HHS Layoffs Begin | 4.2.25
The president made it incredibly clear to the American public that there would be a mass deportation campaign of not just foreign terrorists, but also illegal criminal aliens who have been wreaking havoc on American communities. And shame on you and shame on the mainstream media for trying to cover for these individuals.
Morning Wire
Trump Plans Executive Action & Guantanamo Flights Begin | Afternoon Update | 2.4.25
The order simply directs federal agencies to come up with a return to work plan. And so this isn't a purge and this isn't forcing every single individual in Washington, D.C. to return to work, only if they are able and, of course, within the law.
Morning Wire
Trade War Detente & USAID Closes Up Shop | 2.4.25
These are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. 1.5 million dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces. 70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. 47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. 32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
Morning Wire
New Jersey Drone Saga & East Palestine Settlement | Afternoon Update | 1.28.25
Speaking to a jam-packed and energized press room, Levitt began by noting the amount of busts made by ICE in just the first week of Trump's administration, and then pivoted to news directly from the president regarding the New Jersey drone saga.
Morning Wire
New Jersey Drone Saga & East Palestine Settlement | Afternoon Update | 1.28.25
Levitt also announced some big briefing room changes, announcing that independent journalists, podcasters, new media and social media influencers will now have a seat in the Brady briefing room. The new press secretary said the Trump administration is adapting to the new media landscape as traditional media faces record low trust levels.
Morning Wire
Colony Ridge Arrests & Inmate Gets New Trial | Afternoon Update | 2.25.25
I am proud to announce that we are going to give the power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations. Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team.
Morning Wire
Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
These are heinous monsters, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sexual assaulters, predators who have no right to be in this country and they must be held accountable.
Morning Wire
Trump-Putin Phone Call & COVID Lab Leak Coverup | 3.18.25
This administration acted within the confines of the law, again, within the president's constitutional authority and under the authority granted to him under the Alien Enemies Act. We are quite confident in that, and we are wholly confident that we are going to win this case in court.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Canadian Tariff Win & NIH Vaccine Hesitancy Research | Afternoon Update | 3.11.25
The president is, again, responding to the fact that Canada has been ripping off the United States of America and hardworking Americans for decades. If you look at the rates of tariffs across the board that Canadians have been imposing on the American people and our workers here, it is egregious. In fact, I have a handy-dandy chart.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Canadian Tariff Win & NIH Vaccine Hesitancy Research | Afternoon Update | 3.11.25
here that shows not just Canada, but the rate of tariffs across the board. If you look at Canada, since you brought it up, American cheese and butter, nearly 300% tariff. You look at India, 150% tariff on American alcohol. You think that's helping Kentucky bourbon be exported into India? I don't think so.
Morning Wire
Trump Speech Fallout & Sanctuary Mayors Testify | 3.6.25
The behavior of Democrats last night was completely disgraceful and demonstrated how severely out of touch they are with the American public.
Morning Wire
Trump Speech Fallout & Sanctuary Mayors Testify | 3.6.25
Democrats didn't stand for an innocent and beautiful child who is surviving brain cancer. They couldn't even clap for two mothers whose daughters were killed by illegal aliens. One of the only things that could get Democrats off their feet last night was cheering for Ukraine, not for America.
Morning Wire
Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
I think that's quite sad, but I think Governor Walz unfortunately is living a sad existence after his devastating defeat on November 5th.
Morning Wire
Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
We have judges who are acting as partisan activists from the bench.
Morning Wire
Tesla Attacks Investigated & Trump Battles Legal Injunctions | 3.20.25
We will continue to comply with these court orders. We will continue to fight these battles in courts. But it's incredibly apparent that there is a concerted effort by the far left to judge shop, to pick judges who are clearly acting as partisan activists from the bench in an attempt to derail this president's agenda.
Morning Wire
Federal Workers Reinstated & Trump Tower Swarmed | Afternoon Update | 3.13.25
I know there was a lot of fake news about an invitation that wasn't sent or was sent. We want to correct the record. We sent an invitation. They enthusiastically accepted and you will see them here on April 28th.
Morning Wire
Inflation Cools Down & Education Department Downsizes | 3.13.25
You see the cost of eggs is going down, cost of gasoline is going down because of the massive deregulatory efforts of this president. And also the fact that we are delivering on his promise to drill baby drill already.
Morning Wire
Inflation Cools Down & Education Department Downsizes | 3.13.25
You saw this past weekend, the National Economic Advisory put out a report that because of the regulations we've already slashed in just 52 days, we've saved American taxpayers $180 billion. That comes out to about $2,000 per American household. That's in 52 days.
Morning Wire
Stocks Soar as Trump Pauses Tariffs | 4.10.25
Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal. You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here. You tried to say that the rest of the world would be moved closer to China when in fact we've seen the opposite effect.
Morning Wire
Stocks Soar as Trump Pauses Tariffs | 4.10.25
The entire world is calling the United States of America not China because they need our markets, they need our consumers, and they need this president in the Oval Office to talk to them.
Morning Wire
Reshaping the Deep State: Trump’s Buyouts & Reforms | 2.22.25
That was White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt announcing the number of federal employees who have accepted the Trump-Doge buyout.
Morning Wire
Reshaping the Deep State: Trump’s Buyouts & Reforms | 2.22.25
Thirty days into his second term, President Trump has taken aggressive steps to reshape the executive agencies by forcing out tens of thousands of federal workers, part of a personnel-is-policy approach designed to remove those who'd block his America First agenda.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Record Pace & Federal Media Contracts Cancelled | 2.7.25
This will be the largest tax cut in history for middle-class working Americans. The president is committed to working with Congress to get this done.
Morning Wire
Trump’s Tariff Fallout & Military Standards Equalization | 4.4.25
To anyone on Wall Street this morning, I would say trust in President Trump. This is a president who is doubling down on his proven economic formula from his first term. As the president declared yesterday, this is indeed a national emergency. And it's about time we have a president who actually does something about it.
Morning Wire
Education Department Dismantled & Tesla Terrorism Continues | 3.21.25
The Department of Education was founded in the 1970s, and since then we have spent more than $3 trillion at this federal bureaucracy. What has been the return on that investment for the American taxpayer? Levels that are less than ideal.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-25-2025 8PM EST
This is bigger than the WHCA. This is about the White House press corps and having the right people covering the president of the United States, and that's independent news organizations that aren't chosen by the president of the United States.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-19-2025 4PM EDT
We don't have any flights plan specifically, but we will continue with the mass deportations. And I would just like to point out that the judge in this case is essentially trying to say that the president doesn't have the executive authority to deport foreign terrorists from our American soil. That is an egregious abuse of the bench. This judge does not have that authority.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-19-2025 4PM EDT
It is the opinion of this White House and of this administration, and that's why we're fighting this in court.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-19-2025 3PM EDT
Highlights including... President Zelensky asked for additional air defense systems to protect his civilians, particularly Patriot missile systems, and President Trump agreed to work with him to find what was available, particularly in Europe.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 04-01-2025 6PM EDT
This is obviously a very big day. He is with his trade and tariff team right now, perfecting it to make sure this is a perfect deal for the American people and the American worker.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-20-2025 3PM EDT
When you look at how students around the world, particularly in China, are being educated, American students are falling behind. We're not keeping up with our allies or our adversaries, and that's a major problem for our country. And the president is fixing it today.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 02-12-2025 7PM EST
The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch, where district court judges and liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 04-03-2025 6PM EDT
This will mean the erasure of of our ability to preserve and share our history.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-31-2025 6PM EDT
This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned. There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-31-2025 4PM EDT
Speaking outside the White House, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said that President Trump continues to have confidence in the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Waltz took responsibility for adding the Atlantic editors-in-chief to the group chat of top officials discussing plans to launch strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-31-2025 4PM EDT
Last week, the White House said it was reviewing how the journalist was added. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill also called for an investigation. But Leavitt said today they have completed their review.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-31-2025 4PM EDT
This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned. There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-31-2025 4PM EDT
Levitt did not offer any details, though, on what steps were taken. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 03-17-2025 3PM EDT
All of the planes that were subject to the written order, the judge's written order, took off before the order was entered in the courtroom on Saturday. And the administration will, of course, be happily answering all of those questions that the judge poses in court later today.
PBD Podcast
Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
over the past several years. These are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces. $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
PBD Podcast
Trump's Tariffs, Mexico & Canada Cave, DOGE Shuts Down USAID, Zelenskyy's Missing Money | PBD Podcast | Ep. 543
I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either, and that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do, to get the fraud, waste, and abuse out of our federal government. Thank you, guys.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2152 - The Supreme Court ATTACKS DOGE Cuts!
We have an individual in our new media seat today, Mary Margaret Olihan, who is The Daily Wire's first ever White House correspondent. Congratulations, Mary Margaret. The Daily Wire was founded 10 years ago by Ben Shapiro. The Daily Wire now has over 1 million paid subscribers, a monthly network reach of 138 million, and has evolved into a leading conservative multimedia giant.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2152 - The Supreme Court ATTACKS DOGE Cuts!
They are now the fifth largest podcast network in the world and home to some of the top ranked shows. With that, I will take your questions, and Mary Margaret, why don't you kick us off?
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2152 - The Supreme Court ATTACKS DOGE Cuts!
So I gave a quote to one of the media outlets in this room yesterday that Democrats behaving like children would be the least surprising thing of the night. And unfortunately, that quote did turn out to be true. I think the president and everyone, frankly, was surprised by the Democrats refusing to stand for not the president's policies, because frankly, we expected that.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2152 - The Supreme Court ATTACKS DOGE Cuts!
But for the everyday Americans who President Trump was shining a light on their stories, Mark Fogel, for instance, an American school teacher who was detained by the Russians, President Trump freed him. If Joe Biden had done that, they all would have been on their feet. But because of it came from President Trump, they weren't. So we think it's very sad.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2152 - The Supreme Court ATTACKS DOGE Cuts!
But we're very proud of the president today. And the American people are the people that this president cares about most. And the reviews are in and everybody loved his speech.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
I believe the attorney general has made her comments clear on that. She is investigating these events as acts of domestic terrorism, and we fully condemn them. And as I said earlier to Jackie's question, We think it's despicable what is happening to not just this American company, but also their innocent employees. And again, innocent Americans who drive these vehicles.
The Dan Bongino Show
JD Vance on Working for Trump, VP Harris and the Power of Memes | Episode 4
We condemn it wholeheartedly.
The Dan Bongino Show
Deranged Libs Go All In For Ukraine War and Govt. Corruption (Ep. 2423)
the actual receipts, we are happy to provide them. And I actually brought some today because all of you know I love to bring the receipts. We have contracts upon contracts that we can send and provide this information to you. Let me be very clear. We are not trying to hide anything. We have been incredibly transparent and we will continue to be.
The Dan Bongino Show
Deranged Libs Go All In For Ukraine War and Govt. Corruption (Ep. 2423)
These are screenshots of contracts that Doge found across our government. This is a DEI contract, $36,000 for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. That is against the President's policies in his America First agenda. This is a $3.4 million contract, a Council for Inclusive Innovation at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, another DEI contract that DOGE identified.
The Dan Bongino Show
Deranged Libs Go All In For Ukraine War and Govt. Corruption (Ep. 2423)
I can continue to go through these. Oh, I love this one, $57,000 for climate change in Sri Lanka. What is this doing to continue the interests of the American people? Absolutely nothing.
The Journal.
What's Going On With the Economy?
We are in a period of economic transition. We are in a period of transition from the mess that was created under Joe Biden in the previous administration.
The Journal.
Trump’s Tariff Whiplash
The president has also put out specific statements in terms of Canada and Mexico when it comes to what he expects in terms of border security. We have seen a historic level of cooperation from Mexico.
The Journal.
The U.S. Spent Billions Fighting AIDS. What Now?
$70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
The president and Elon and his entire cabinet are working as one unified team, and they are implementing these very common-sense solutions.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
Those responses should be directed to agency leadership, and the president defers to his cabinet secretaries, who he's obviously entrusted, to pursue the guidance relative to their specific workforce. And for some of the agencies that you've seen who have said, please don't send these emails, it's in their best interest for that specific agency, and the president supports that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
And let me be very clear, the president and Elon and his entire cabinet are working as one unified team, and they are implementing these very common sense solutions.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
I can announce that we've had more than 1 million workers who have chosen to participate in this very simple task of, again, sending five bullet points to your direct supervisor or manager, CCing OPM. I actually participated in it myself. It took me about a minute and a half to think of five things I did last week. I do five things in about 10 minutes, and all federal workers
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
should be working at the same pace that President Trump is working and moving. We have a country to save, and we want this federal government to be responsive to the needs of the American people who reelected this president to have historic, massive reform. And that's what the intention of this idea is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
Asking the President of the United States questions in limited spaces such as the Oval Office in Air Force One is a privilege that unfortunately has only been granted to a few. It is not a legal right for all.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
As you all know, for decades, a group of DC-based journalists, the White House Correspondents Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore. Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join, fear not, but we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
you invade our nation's borders, if you break our country's laws, and if then you further commit heinous, brutal crimes in the interior of our country, like raping and murdering innocent law-abiding women and girls and committing heinous acts of violence, then you are going to be deported from this country and you may be held at Guantanamo Bay. These are criminals we are talking about.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Elon's Email Results, White House Makes Major Media Changes, Town Hall Truth: AM Update for 2/26
Don't forget that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Canada Blinks First on Tariffs, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire, Trump Goes Car Shopping: AM Update 3/12
The president is, again, responding to the fact that Canada has been ripping off the United States of America and hardworking Americans for decades. If you look at the rates of tariffs across the board that Canadians have been imposing on the American people and our workers here, it is egregious. American cheese and butter, nearly 300 percent tariff.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Canada Blinks First on Tariffs, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire, Trump Goes Car Shopping: AM Update 3/12
President Trump believes in reciprocity, and it is about dang time that we have a president who actually looks out for the interests of American businesses and workers. And all he's asking for at the end of the day are fair and balanced trade practices.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Canada Blinks First on Tariffs, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire, Trump Goes Car Shopping: AM Update 3/12
First of all, when it comes to the stock market, the numbers that we see today, the numbers we saw yesterday, the numbers we will see tomorrow are a snapshot of a moment in time. We are in a period of economic transition. We are in a period of transition from the mess that was created under Joe Biden in the previous administration. Joe Biden left this country in an economic disaster.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Canada Blinks First on Tariffs, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire, Trump Goes Car Shopping: AM Update 3/12
This is an individual who organized group protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Canada Blinks First on Tariffs, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire, Trump Goes Car Shopping: AM Update 3/12
And this administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Canada Blinks First on Tariffs, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire, Trump Goes Car Shopping: AM Update 3/12
Columbia University has been given the names of other individuals who have engaged in pro-Hamas activity, and they are refusing to help DHS identify those individuals on campus. And as the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday, he is not going to tolerate that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Canada Blinks First on Tariffs, Ukraine Agrees to Ceasefire, Trump Goes Car Shopping: AM Update 3/12
President Trump believes in reciprocity, and all he's asking for at the end of the day are fair and balanced trade practices.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump vs. Judge on Alien Enemies Act Escalates, Biden Autopen Questions, Putin Call: AM Update 3/18
They led a multi-state sex trafficking operation involving smuggling women into the United States, holding them in stash houses in Louisiana, Florida, New Jersey, Texas, and Virginia, and forcing them into prostitution. They kidnapped and murdered a 33-year-old woman in Texas. They sexually and physically assaulted a woman and her daughter in Wisconsin. They conducted a mass shooting in Illinois.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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We have said all along that no classified material was sent on this messaging thread.
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Well, it's not just me saying that, Peter. It's the Secretary of Defense himself. Why aren't launch times on a mission strike classified.
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Many outlets in this room have been fearmongering the American people into believing there is a constitutional crisis taking place here at the White House. I've been hearing those words a lot lately.
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But in fact, the real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch, where district court judges and liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump's basic executive authority. We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law.
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And they have issued at least 12 injunctions against this administration in the past 14 days, often without citing any evidence or grounds for their lawsuits. This is part of a larger concerted effort by Democrat activists and nothing more than the continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump.
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Quick news flash to these liberal judges who are supporting their obstructionist efforts, 77 million Americans voted to elect this president. And each injunction is an abuse of the rule of law and an attempt to thwart the will of the people.
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As the president clearly stated in the Oval Office yesterday, we will comply with the law in the courts, but we will also continue to seek every legal remedy to ultimately overturn these radical injunctions and ensure President Trump's policies can be enacted.
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The media out of touch? I think the media certainly is out of touch. And I think that's proven by a number of things, John. To me, it's like,
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Yes, so Trump 1.0 started as an intern and then was offered a full-time job, which led me to working in the press office under Kayleigh McEnany, who was my old boss. remains a very good friend to this day. And then went back home and actually ran for office. I briefly worked for Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who will soon be our United Nations ambassador.
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And she has a PAC that supports and encourages women to run for office. And I had a conversation with her about being in New Hampshire and the district that I was from and, you know, really sparked my interest to run myself. So I went back home and kicked off a congressional campaign, which was an amazing experience. I was in a very competitive primary. A lot of money from the D.C.
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establishment went into the race against me. There was a lot of negative ads. I won the primary. ultimately lost the general election. New Hampshire's a tough state to win at the federal level, unfortunately, for a few reasons, but it worked out. Did that thicken your skin right up, though? Totally. Oh, my gosh.
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I have so much respect for anyone who puts their name on a ballot because nothing is off limits. They will go after you and your family, and everything is on the line when you decide to be a public servant and run. But I don't have no regrets. I met amazing people and it taught me so many skills and life lessons and it was a wonderful experience.
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I met my husband during my congressional campaign. A mutual friend of ours hosted an event at a restaurant that he owns up in New Hampshire and invited my husband and I was speaking and we met, we were acquainted as friends and then we fell in love, as you said. Was there any like, I can't date him, he's 59. Yes, of course. I mean, it's very atypical love story, but he's incredible.
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He is my greatest supporter. He's my best friend. He's my rock. And, you know, he's built a very successful business himself. So now he's fully supportive of me building, you know, my success in my career. And he's the father of my child, of course. And he's the best dad I could ever ask for. And so supportive, especially during this very chaotic time. period of life.
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Poor man, he had no idea what was gonna happen. I say, I walked into your life and it's been a circus ever since, but God bless him because he's fully on board. So he's an Italiano. Yes, he is. And he's a lover.
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That's your little boy. My little boy.
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Yeah, it's a lot. No denying it. He's seven months. I had him in the midst of the presidential campaign. Three days before the president almost lost his life in Butler, Pennsylvania. My son was born on the 10th. The president was shot on the 13th. It was my first day home with him from the hospital.
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And it kind of threw me right back to work much sooner than I would have probably expected or hoped. But becoming a mother in the midst of this very chaotic political world that I work in has been the best thing I could have ever imagined because it gives you great perspective and it humbles you. And my son doesn't give a crap about my job.
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He just wants me to come home and snuggle and play toys and be present. So it's a difficult balance to prioritize being good at my job and being good as a mother, but I just try to prioritize my time and carve out that time when I can. And I'm so grateful to have the support system I do. A great husband who can be very present with our child.
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And then, of course, a wonderful mother and father and friends who chip in when I need them. Your parents must be so proud of you. I think so. I hope so. You gave them a grandchild and access to President Trump in the same year. My mom actually was in town this week to help with our baby because my husband had some work things to attend to. And she came to my briefing yesterday.
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She was in the room. I was like, are you sure you want to go in? Did you get annoyed by pesky reporters being rude? Well, I brought in some backup yesterday. I brought in my colleague, Walt and Stephen and Kevin. So a lot of the questions were for them. So I asked her after, I said, how was it? She was like, thank God all the questions weren't to you today. I would have been dying in there.
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So she enjoyed it very much.
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you can't do what caroline's doing that's that's actually like an unsafe or a dangerous or a bad choice for families for children which i reject wholesale but you hear it more and more yeah what do you hear that what do you think of it i would reject that it's a bad choice is it a tough choice absolutely you know as a mother you want to be with your child 24 7. you have that maternal instinct.
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Not all the time. Well, right now, yes, because he's seven months and just squishy and lovable, but I'm sure that will change. No, but, you know, you do have that maternal instinct, but also recognizing I'm doing this work for my son and for all children to make this country better. And it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. It's also very, it's temporary, right?
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In four years, my son will be four years old. And the president will no longer be at the White House. And then I'll move on and do something else. But, you know, this chaos of 24-7 work is a temporary matter. And that's what at least I tell myself to get through these very long and hard days. But I would reject that you can't. Be a good mom and be good at your job. I think you can do both.
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Certainly, it's not for everybody. And it takes a lot of work and will and faith and prayer. And it's hard, but it can be done. And, you know... I would reject that.
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Right. We need them.
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Right.
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I was very humbled and honored, and I was campaigning with the president over the past year through the court trials. We sat in that courthouse in Manhattan with the Bragg trial, so many rallies, and we worked so damn hard to win that election.
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Yeah. I mean, come on. Yeah.
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I think it's vastly different. And if you ask people, even in the legacy media, even the Trump haters, they will tell you the approach has been much different, not just for me, but the entire White House. Oh, absolutely. They come in my office every day and they'll admit that off the record.
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Maybe not on the record, but they will say they appreciate the access and the transparency and the preparation that goes into my briefings and everybody on our team, by the way, who goes out to the cameras and speaks. We have great policy experts who are great spokespeople for the president and they appreciate the information that they're being given. They're also exhausted, by the way, much.
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It's insane. Yes.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
How are you? I'm good. Are you exhausted yet? A little, yeah. No, I'm exhilarated. It's exhausting, but exhilarating all at the same time. Tell me everything. Do you love it? Is it, what is it? How is it? I love my job. Absolutely love it. I wake up every day and I feel very blessed to go through the gates of the White House. It's exhausting. It's all encompassing. It's 24 seven. But it's amazing.
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And I work for a great president who's doing what he said he was going to do. So it makes my job quite easy, actually.
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I didn't realize that until after the announcement came out when the president officially named me and put out the statement. And I saw that on the news myself. So I suppose that's... You were born to do it.
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Sure. I was raised in a family that was not political at all. Business family, small business. We owned an ice cream stand and a used truck shop that my family still runs up in New Hampshire, which is where I was born and raised. And the fact that I grew up in New Hampshire, it kind of opened my eyes to politics, obviously being the first in the nation primary state.
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But I went to school on a softball scholarship. I was an athlete my whole life. And when I went to college, St. Anselm College, to play softball...
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
go there it's a very politically active school and i realized wow i loved news and media and politics and i was fascinated by it all and i kind of threw myself into all of these different opportunities on campus and then one thing led to the next and here we are So you interned for Trump 1.0? Yes. For the White House? I did. While you were in college? Yes.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yes. What happened there? So 2016 was the first election I was eligible to vote in. Voted for Donald Trump in the New Hampshire primary and, of course, in the general election. And I applied for an internship. A student who was a few years older than me, who's actually a producer for ABC at the White House now, was a fellow student. And she was an intern under Obama.
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And I remember hearing her talk about it in class one day. And I thought, that's fascinating. I want to be an intern for Donald Trump. So I literally went on WhiteHouse.gov and applied for the internship. And they chose me.
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Yeah, so I wrote two editorials in the St. Anselm Crier, our school newspaper, and one of the titles of one of the editorials was Why Donald Trump Just Keeps on Winning. And at the time, I realized he was speaking in layman's terms and he was saying things that I felt like really resonated with people of my background, right? Blue collar, small business, middle class working family.
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Neither of my parents went to college. They worked very hard for everything they have and watched my family business have some downturn during 2008 and the financial crisis. I was very young at the time, but that's my lived experience. You weren't getting shunned by your friends? No, I wasn't.
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The Forgotten Men and Women, I think that message really spoke to me and a lot of people that I grew up with in that kind of blue collar town. And when I got to college, I realized not everybody feels that way, especially my professors. And it really propelled me to just use my voice and, you know, dive into-
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Got to speak your truth. It's the only way I believe. And I think when you show courage and sharing your values and opinions, people respect you more and it will work out and you'll land where you're supposed to be. Right. And maybe you won't get that job you were hoping for. You'll get denied by that school. But like.
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god has a plan and it will work out for you for a reason yeah and i think it's much more liberating to just be honest and i think this election showed that um there's many more people in this country who feel the way that we do on the right than on the left and i think the silent majority isn't silent anymore and i think all parents should encourage their children to use their voice and have courage and you know speak their truth
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yes. So Trump 1.0 started as an intern and then was offered a full-time job, which led me to working in the press office under Kayleigh McEnany, who was my old boss and remains a very good friend to this day. And then went back home and actually ran for office. I briefly worked for Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who will soon be our United Nations ambassador.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And she has a PAC that supports and encourages women to run for office. And I had a conversation with her about being in New Hampshire and the district that I was from, and really sparked my interest to run myself. So I went back home. and kicked off a congressional campaign, which was an amazing experience. I was in a very competitive primary. A lot of money from the D.C.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
establishment went into the race against me. There was a lot of negative ads. I won the primary, ultimately lost the general election. New Hampshire is a tough state to win at the federal level, unfortunately, for a few reasons, but it worked out. Did that thicken your skin right up, though? Totally. Oh, my gosh.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I have so much respect for anyone who puts their name on a ballot because nothing is off limits. They will go after you and your family and everything is on the line when you decide to be a public servant and run. But I have no regrets. I met amazing people and it taught me so many skills and life lessons and it was a wonderful experience.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I met my husband during my congressional campaign. A mutual friend of ours hosted an event at a restaurant that he owns up in New Hampshire and invited my husband. And I was speaking and, you know, we met, we were acquainted as friends, and then we fell in love, as you said. Was there any like, I can't date him. He's 59. Yes, of course. I mean, it's very atypical love story, but he's incredible.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
He is my greatest supporter. He's my best friend. He's my rock. And, you know, he's built a very successful business himself. So now he's fully supportive of me building, you know, my success in my career. And he's the father of my child, of course. And he's the best dad I could ever ask for. And so supportive, especially during this very chaotic period of life.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I say I walked into your life and it's been a circus ever since, but God bless him because he's fully on board. So he's an Italiano.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yes. So there's your babe who was born in July. That's your little boy. My little boy. What's his name? Nicholas. And we call him Nico. Aw.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah, it's a lot. No denying it. He's seven months. I had him in the midst of the presidential campaign. Three days before the president almost lost his life in Butler, Pennsylvania. My son was born on the 10th. The president was shot on the 13th. It was my first day home with him from the hospital.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And it kind of threw me right back to work much sooner than I would have probably expected or hoped. But becoming a mother in the midst of this very chaotic political world that I work in has been the best... I could have ever imagined because it gives you great perspective and it humbles you. And my son doesn't give a crap about my job.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
He just wants me to come home and snuggle and play toys and be present. So it's a difficult balance to prioritize being good at my job and being good as a mother. But I just try to prioritize my time and carve out that time when I can. And I'm so grateful to have the support system I do. A great husband who can be very present with our child.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And then, of course, a wonderful mother and father and friends who chip in when I need them. Your parents must be so proud of you. I think so.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
You gave them a grandchild and access to President Trump in the same year. My mom actually was in town this week to help with our baby because my husband had some work things to attend to. And she came to my briefing yesterday. She was in the room. I was like, are you sure you want to go in? She'd get annoyed by pesky reporters.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Well, I brought in some backup yesterday. I brought in my colleague, Walt and Stephen and Kevin. So a lot of the questions were for them. So I asked her after, I said, how was it? She was like, thank God all the questions weren't to you today. I would have been dying in there. So she enjoyed it very much.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I would reject that it's a bad choice. Is it a tough choice? Absolutely. You know, as a mother, you want to be with your child 24-7. You have that maternal instinct.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Not all the time. Well, right now, yes, because he's seven months and just squishy and lovable, but I'm sure that will change. No, but you do have that maternal instinct, but also recognizing I'm doing this work for my son and for all children to make this country better.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
and it's a once in a lifetime opportunity it's also very it's temporary right in four years my son will be four years old and the president will no longer be at the white house and then i'll move on and do something else but you know this chaos of 24 7 work is a temporary matter and that's what at least i tell myself to get through these very long and hard days but i would reject that you can't
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
be a good mom and be good at your job. I think you can do both. Certainly, it's not for everybody. And it takes a lot of work and will and faith and prayer. And it's hard, but it can be done. And, you know, I would reject that.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Of course, yes. I was very humbled and honored. And I was campaigning with the president over the past year through the court trials. We sat in that courthouse in Manhattan with the Bragg trial, so many rallies. And we worked so damn hard to win that election.
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Yeah.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I think it's vastly different. And if you ask people, even in the legacy media, even the Trump haters, they will tell you the approach has been much different, not just for me, but the entire White House. Oh, absolutely. They come in my office every day and they'll admit that off the record.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Maybe not on the record, but they will say they appreciate the access and the transparency and the preparation that goes into my briefings and everybody on our team, by the way, who goes out to the cameras and speaks. We have great policy experts who are great spokespeople for the president, and they appreciate the information that they're being given. They're also exhausted, by the way, at
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because we are doing so much.
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Well, I did have a bit of a tiff this morning outside with our friend Peter Alexander at NBC News. So it was great.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
According to an IG report from the Social Security Administration, there was $71 billion worth of fraud in one single fiscal year that we know about. And so that is a lot of fraud, Peter.
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So are you defending $71 billion in fraud, Peter? That's a lot of money. Why is the media so against cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the government? I don't get it. We won't be deterred. We will not be deterred from people like you and the press. You said something that wasn't true, which is...
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Peter, did you watch the full clip of the interview that I did when I said that? And I said there are a lot of unanswered questions, and we suspect there could be tens of millions of people.
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So you just said what I said is not true. In fact, it was true. That's a suspicion that this administration has, and we're committed to finding out the truth. It perplexes me and also infuriates me why the media continues to make excuses for our government spending billions and billions of dollars in wasteful money.
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Maybe they don't mind, but I know there's millions of people watching that do mind. So we're going to keep doing what we're doing with Doge.
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Hello? There's one report that showed $71 billion.
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So I did prepare a binder for the first briefing. My great assistant Keegan put it together. And then I showed up to work and it was like this thick. And I was like, I can't even move this. I can't use this. It was too cumbersome for my brain and the way I learn and think and study to have that. It felt like added weight.
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Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And I said, I wanna just go in there and speak from my mind and from my heart. Like your boss. Like my boss. And I've been working for my boss now on the campaign. I know the policies we're enacting. We've been talking about them for years. And in school, I was that way. Like studying, I would just read, highlight, memorize, articulate.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Exactly. And so that's been my method of preparation. No nerves involved. The first briefing, I was certainly nervous. I think any human would, and I'm not afraid to admit that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
It was, you know, once I got up there, I realized, okay, like I can do this. I know what I need to know. And, um, Now I feel very comfortable and confident and I will never get complacent because I understand the weight of the responsibility on my shoulders speaking on behalf of the President of the United States.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
So I remain as prepared today as I was on that first day and I hope that's true four years from now. And we have amazing people in that building who are so smart and know everything about every topic and I rely on them. I call Stephen Miller or Mike Waltz's team or Kevin Hassett All the time. And I'm like, please explain this to me because I don't understand, but you do. So what's going on?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
The people you see every day, especially with President Trump and his calendar of meetings, you know, walking through the West Wing lobby, you can see anybody from Tim Cook to Tiger Woods, as I saw yesterday. So, you know, when you see it, it sounds exciting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah, it's good. Exactly. It's good. And Hunter hanging around. Right. You just never know what you're what each day will bring. And that's what I love most about this job is every day is new and exciting.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Each poll is a snapshot in a moment of time, right? So they have to be taken, I think, with the greater context of everything that's going on. Overall, the president's favorability rating remains higher today than it ever was in his first term. The majority of Americans support what we're doing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
The number that has always stuck out to me is when you ask people, is Donald Trump doing what he said he was going to do? That number is astronomically high. It's anywhere from 65 to 85% based on the poll you're looking at.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
That to us tells us we need to keep moving forward and not get distracted by critics or certainly not the media because the president was very transparent and clear about what he wanted to accomplish.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I don't think so. I think he pays attention to the polls, but I don't think it changes him or what he's doing. He is who he is. Right. And he's our leader and he calls the shots and we are there to help. execute his agenda and deliver on his message and communicate that. And he's doing, again, exactly what he sought out to do. And so I don't think it influences his decision making process.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
But certainly, as you pointed out, he pays attention to them. Do you have you seen anyone on a doge cop? A doge con. I haven't seen the cons, but I have seen doge geniuses, as we call them. Yes. Can you spot them from a mile away? Yes, because they just look like the smartest kid you had at your school. High IQ. High IQ, focused, gritty, like ready to work, and very friendly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yes, I would say.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
They like to stay behind the scenes, these guys. Of course. They're working 24-7. Elon has them on those computers, finding all this waste, fraud, and abuse.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Totally. I called it out at the briefing. I said, it is so evident what all of you are trying to do, and we are not going to let you get away with it. It may have worked in the first term. It's not working now. And I say this, this is no BS, no spin. This White House is so unified. We are having so much fun. Elon and the president are having so much fun.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
They are genuinely friends, and everybody is moving at the direction of the president and of Susie Wiles, our incredible chief of staff, whom I have the utmost respect for.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Another working mom, yeah. There's a lot of working moms and dads in the West Wing, by the way. Gotta give a shout out to the working dads in there, too. I mean, the president and vice president, although...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah, the vice president has three beautiful young children. Stephen Miller has three young children. James Blair, who's one of our deputy chiefs of staff, has three young children. Two of our deputy communications directors on the comms team have newborns. Wow. There's babies. Yeah, the Easter egg roll is going to be crazy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
We thought we had a lot with X inside the oval.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Wait until we get to Easter. Yes, which was so cute. Oh, he's adorable. I was in there. When I saw the nose picking, I was like...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
No, they are not. I would like to put the kibosh on that fake news. I've seen it. Has nothing to do with X. I mean, who could blame him if it were? Trump's a germaphobe. I'm not a germaphobe. He was digging for gold. Nobody was stopping him. The cameras were, he was unfazed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I agree.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I get chills thinking about it. And there's no... I was saying yesterday, I spoke to the president about it yesterday morning, and he had seen the footage of the coffins. And I asked him, how should we even describe this? And talking to our team after, I was drafting up a tweet and I was like, there are no words to put out a statement to describe this horrific scene.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I cannot imagine the pain of that father and husband who just lost his entire family. And to say we mourn with him is an understatement. It's so sad. I just, the images of that mother holding her babies. She looks so scared. So scared. There's no words. And I think I'm pretty good with my words. And there are no words to just describe how sad and heartbreaking it is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
But I think it underscores why we need to end this conflict, why we need to eradicate Hamas.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
and the president sees these images and he's moved by them and that's why he told hamas very directly in the level office you will release all of these hostages or there will be all hell to pay he dictated that statement months ago and look at what has happened there was an extension to the ceasefire more hostages have come home we released mark fogle from russia
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
The whole world should take President Trump very seriously. He wants innocent people to be let out of captivity and free from captivity. And he is a peacemaker. He believes in peace to his core, and he's going to do whatever it takes to establish it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Absolutely. Absolutely. He does. I could hear it. I was on the phone, so I couldn't see his expression, but I could hear it in his voice. Anybody with a heart, with a humanitarian heart, has to feel for these innocent Israelis and, and these families. It's just got to be disturbing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah, I suppose. I haven't thought of that analogy. But I felt compelled to go back to work, just knowing the gravity of the work that the president was trying to do at that time. We were campaigning and pitching to people why he should be elected, and obviously it worked.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And that's been such a fun part of this experience is seeing the president go from campaigning to governing and watching all of his promises come to life. You talk about the monsters of Hamas, the illegal immigrants that we have here that have taken the lives of American citizens. I was at the rally in Georgia a few days after Lakin Riley was killed.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And Lakin's mother was backstage with the president and met him for the first time. And I witnessed that encounter. And God bless that woman. But then to see her at the White House for the bill signing, the first piece of legislation that the president signed into law, named after her beautiful daughter, was so special. And she was there, teary-eyed, saying, President Trump is a man of his word.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
To see that come to life and to see the president fulfill these promises that are... Like the mom of Mark Vogel.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
95-year-old mother. The president met her in Butler. She was supposed to have a call-up on stage. It was inserted into his speech. He was going to call her on stage so she could advocate for the release of her son. The day he got shot. The day he got shot. So she never made it on stage.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And she told CBS News following the assassination attempt, you know, that the president was so warm to her and he told her backstage, if I'm elected, I will bring your son home. And he did it within four weeks.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
I think they're blinded, unfortunately, by their hatred. And they don't see the good because likely the news outlets that they pay attention to don't share the good that we're doing. I have MSDNC, as we call it, on my TV in my office all day long because I want to see what they're reporting and what they're saying. And I need to laugh every now and then too.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And they're never reporting on the good that we're doing on a daily basis at the White House. It's always negative. 100% of the coverage is negative. So when you are being indoctrinated with such bias, of course you're going to believe This person is an evil monster when couldn't be further from the truth. I know that just looking at what he's done, but also on a personal level working for him.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
But again, I think it's a smaller and smaller percentage of people in this country who feel that way. I think the vast majority of Americans see the president as a strong and tough leader who when he says he's going to do something, he's going to do it. And that's just been proven by his first term record. And then of course the first four weeks, look at all that he's done.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Interesting framing of a program that has sent hundreds of millions of dollars to overseas programs that do absolutely nothing for humanitarian purposes. With the trans opera in Colombia, it's a no. Why are we... Why are we funding vasectomies in Mozambique? Why are we funding DEI in Serbia and sex changes in Guatemala? That does nothing for working class people in this country.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And that is just one agency of many, one program of many that DOGE and the administration are looking into. It is fascinating, but also infuriating what they are discovering on a daily basis. Are you getting...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yes, absolutely. And it's much more simple than the media is spinning it to be. They're making it seem like it's this chaotic operation. It's actually not. It's very simple.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Doge has individuals who are, again, genius level tech nerds, if you will, for lack of a better term, who are onboarding at every agency as political appointees, just like I onboarded at the White House as a political appointee. This is what happens from administration to administration. Instead of like under Biden and Harris, you have a bunch of left wing bureaucrats who are onboarding.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Now we have OUTSIDERS WHO ARE HERE TO SHAKE UP THE SWAMP ONBOARDING TO ADMINISTER PRESIDENT TRUMP'S AGENDA. THEY ARE WORKING AT THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARIES AT THESE AGENCIES. YOU SAW OUR NEW SECRETARY OF AG, BROOK ROLLINS, PUT OUT A PHOTO, A SELFIE YESTERDAY WITH SOME OF THE DOGE ENGINEERS THAT ARE NOW AG EMPLOYEES
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And they're helping her dig into the books, go line by line to identify the waste and the fraud and abuse. So this is a whole of government effort. The president obviously appointed Elon to head it up. The Department of Government Efficiency is a promise they campaigned on. And ultimately, the president is directing all of this. But every secretary across the board is on board with this idea.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
They're welcoming this. Yes, absolutely. And we're all working together.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah, I loved his comments addressing it at CPAC yesterday. He was like, there's no country in the world who can afford me. Even if they did want to buy me, they can't afford me. He has nothing to gain from this. He truly cares about humanity and the future of our country. And it is a fact that the United States of America is going to go bankrupt unless we have massive reform and change.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And that's what the people voted for. And so we will not be deterred by the Peter Alexanders or the mainstream media hacks who are, you know, trying to fearmonger people. And I think it's really sad that the media is trying to do that. It shut down his agenda. Exactly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
they their argument that this administration is not standing up for the first amendment is preposterous you have a president of the united states who within hours of taking the oath of office welcomed journalists into the most intimate corner of the American presidency, the Oval Office, to ask him questions for more than an hour on every topic under the sun.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
He has done that on a near daily basis. And when he's not doing that because he's too busy with meetings, even though he'd love to do it every day, I, as his press secretary, am out there. We have administration officials going to the cameras every single day. They are hearing from this White House and this admin. Their transparency is off the charts.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And the Associated Press still has their White House credentials. They still have a seat in the press briefing room. They are still welcome to cover this administration, but nobody has a right to enter the Oval Office. It is a privilege to cover the United States. And I said it in my first briefing, we are going to hold people accountable that push lies.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And the president believes deeply that American news outlets should be reporting the truth about the Gulf of America. And that's not all with the Associated Press style book.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
They don't even want to call women mothers. They want to call us birthing people. They removed Hamas from their style book for some very odd reason. I have a whole list. It's actually in my purse. I carry it around with me as a souvenir.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
of all of the crazy things in the AP style book. So look, they are welcome to cover this White House. And there are hundreds of outlets on that campus who show up every day in good faith to cover this administration with accuracy and truthfulness that don't have the privilege of being in the Oval Office every single day because they're not the AP. Well, guess what?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
We're gonna start giving those media outlets a seat at the table. They deserve to be in front of the Resolute Desk asking the President of the United States questions. What gives the AP greater privilege than- No, nothing should. Nothing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yes, and they are no longer that unbiased organization.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
It was a little surprising, some of the names on the list, but it doesn't faze us. Again, there are thousands of reporters across the country who will fly to Washington DC to cover this president in a minute. And they just did.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
You can get the pool reports. We'll send them to you. You can get the pool feed. Somehow I've managed. Yeah, exactly. And like I said, we just had a local media row. We had a bunch of outlets come to Washington, local radio stations, local TV. They were so honored to be- and grateful for the opportunity. And they're covering the White House with honesty and transparency.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
And they reached 60 million people across the country, across the heartland. So we'll get our message out just fine without the Associated Press in the Oval Office.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Or of the Fox News reporters, Peter Doocy and Jackie Heinrich, who didn't get questions for, I believe it was 12 weeks from the previous press secretary. And we are still welcoming the legacy media into that room. And you'll take questions from the AP. I take question. I took we took four questions from Caitlin Collins yesterday. I mean, we take questions from everybody.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
We're not afraid of that because we have truth and facts and statistics on our side. But the legacy media doesn't deserve this superior, superior access. There's many other outlets who have far greater reach like this Megyn Kelly show. I'm sure you have many more viewers than MSNBC will tonight.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Michael Waltz on How Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal Happens, and Karoline Leavitt on Sparring with the Press and Being a Working Mom | Ep. 1011
Yeah.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
Again, I've been asked and answered this question. Elon Musk is overseeing Doge. They're our career administrator. There are... No, Elon Musk is a special government employee, which I've also been asked and have answered that question as well. There are career officials at Doge. There are political appointees at Doge. I'm not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium.
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Congressman Robert Garcia on Trump Chaos
I'm happy to follow up and provide that to you. But we've been incredibly transparent about the way that Doge is working.
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Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything
He is, as a matter of fact. I spoke to the president about that before coming down here as well. And Elon, considering he is working alongside the president and our cabinet secretaries, this entire administration, will be in attendance tomorrow just to talk about DOJA's efforts and how all of the cabinet secretaries are identifying waste, fraud, and abuse at their respective agencies tomorrow.
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Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything
We look forward to the meeting tomorrow. And I think you'll be hearing from the president and his cabinet where they're on campus tomorrow. Hope you guys are excited.
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Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything
Again, I've been asked to answer this question. Elon Musk is overseeing Doge. They're our career administrator. There are, no, Elon Musk is a special government employee, which I've also been asked and have answered that question as well. There are career officials at Doge. There are political appointees at Doge. I'm not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium.
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Trump Screws Himself as He Tanks Everything
I'm happy to follow up and provide that to you. But we've been incredibly transparent about the way that Doge is working.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
I have no updates about that or that specific program at this time. Karen.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
We are not going to reveal operational details about a counterterrorism operation. But what I can assure you, as I said on Monday, we have the highest degree of confidence in our ICE agents and our Customs and Border Patrol agents who have committed their lives to targeting illegal criminals in our country, particularly foreign terrorists. And they had great evidence and indication.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
They have the highest degree of professionalism, and they were 100 percent confident in the individuals that were sent home on these flights and in the president's executive authority to do that.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Again, as I just said, we're not going to reveal the operational details of a counterterrorism operation for quite obvious reasons. We're trying to combat terrorism here in the United States of America. Jeff.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
The president has been asked and answered this question. He said it's not something he's considering at this time. Philip.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
And this judge, Judge Boasberg, is a Democrat activist. He was appointed by Barack Obama. His wife has donated more than $10,000 to Democrats. And he has consistently shown his disdain for this president and his policies, and it's unacceptable.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
we are not going to reveal operational details about a counter-terrorism operation but what i can assure you as i said on monday we have the highest degree of confidence in our ice agents and our customs and border patrol agents who have committed their lives to targeting illegal criminals in our country particularly foreign terrorists and they had great evidence and indication they have the highest degree of professionalism and they were
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
100% confident in the individuals that were sent home on these flights and in the president's executive authority to do that.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
To point out that the judges in this country are acting erroneously. We have judges who are acting as partisan activists from the bench. They are trying to dictate policy from the president of the United States. They are trying to clearly slow walk this administration's agenda, and it's unacceptable. As the president said last night, we will continue to comply with these court orders.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
We will continue to fight these battles in courts. But it's incredibly apparent that there is a concerted effort by the far left to judge shop, to pick judges who are clearly acting as partisan activists from the bench in an attempt to derail this president's agenda. We will not allow that to happen.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
And not only are they usurping the will of the president and the chief executive of our country, but they are undermining the will of the American public. Tens of millions of Americans who duly elected this president to implement the policies that are coming out of this.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Our understanding, and that's the truth.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
No, it has nothing to do with disagreeing with the president on policy. It's with disagreeing with the Constitution and the law. And it's trying to usurp the authority of the executive branch of this country. It's having baseless reasoning for these injunctions. And it's a clear effort by these judges to slow roll this president's agenda.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
Sure. Because the time was right to let these people go and the president absolutely has the authority to do it. And they were given ample notice in a letter that I believe your outlet reported on. So it pretty much explains exactly why this administration chose to let those individuals go.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
The goal was to let these individuals go. If we have to fight it all the way to the Supreme Court, we certainly will.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
The president signed the, invoked the Aliens Enemies Act with a proclamation, which then directed the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State to move forward with the plan of action. And as I said yesterday, all of the planes that were subject to the judge's written order took off before the order was submitted in court.
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Alarmed White House Holds Disaster Press Conference
I was asked and answered that question multiple times yesterday. Kate, go ahead.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
He is now delivering on it. And I've been fighting fake news reporters all day long here in the Washington, D.C. swamp who are trying to fearmonger the American people into believing that this administration is going after their hard-earned tax dollars and their hard-earned Social Security checks. So I want to set the record straight.
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Jim Acosta Joins Meidas with Urgent Message to the Press
on your show tonight sean and i'm very grateful for the opportunity to do so president trump has directed elon musk in the doge team to identify fraud at the social security administration they haven't dug into the books yet but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent social security payments jim what do you make of caroline levitt
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
I wonder, does this administration still consider Canada to be a close ally of the United States? Well, I think Canada is a neighbor. They are a partner. They have always been an ally. Perhaps they are becoming a competitor now.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
But as the president also laid out in his Truth Social post today, he believes that Canadians would benefit greatly from becoming the 51st state of the United States of America. And I actually looked into some of the research about the cost of living in Canada And the cost of living is much higher than it is here in the United States of America. The average cost of a home in Canada is much higher.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
In Quebec, the highest tax rate for an income of $150,000 or more is 53.3%, more than half of Canadians' incomes they are being taxed on. So the president has made it clear that he believes Canadians would be better served economically, militarily, if they were to become the 51st state of the United States of America. Reagan.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Cutting the waste, fraud, and abuse out of these programs will protect it for hardworking Americans.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Again, if you read his full quote, he said, we think. So it's an estimate based on what he's seen. He's not saying definitively. He's saying that's what Doge suspects and thinks. And that's exactly why Doge was created, to ensure that we are investigating the fraudulent spending, the wasteful abuse across our federal government.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And I would remind everybody in this room that 77% of the American people support this effort by Elon Musk and Doge to identify such waste, fraud, and abuse.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And I'll see you guys later. Perhaps you'll see the president in a Tesla later this afternoon. Have a good one.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
So we are in a period of transition from that economic nightmare under a president who had no idea what he was doing, never held a private sector job in his life, into a golden age of American manufacturing under a businessman and a dealmaker in chief and President Donald J. Trump, who will be implementing, is implementing the formula that we know works.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Look at President Trump's results in his first term. If people are looking for certainty, they should look at the record of this president. That's why the American people reelected him back to this office.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And despite the globalist mainstream media's attempts to worry consumers, President Trump will not repeat the trend of past American presidents who broke their promises to the American public and smiled while they stuck a knife in the back of American workers and shipped their jobs overseas.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
He's actually not implementing tax hikes. Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that, again, have been ripping us off. Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people, and the president is a staunch advocate of tax cuts. As you know, he campaigned on no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security benefits.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Look, the president is unwavering in his commitment to restore American manufacturing and global dominance. And I think he doubled down on that this morning with his new statement and the tariffs that will be implemented tomorrow on steel and aluminum.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And the president put out a statement after seeing those comments and said that there would be grave consequences imposed on Canada if they think about shutting off electricity for the United States of America and our citizens.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And the president is also determined to ensure that we are depending on American electricity, not the electricity production of foreign nations, including our allies in Canada.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
He is committed to all three of those things, and he expects Congress to pass them later this year. I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff?
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Well, there's a lot to unpack there. So let me start by saying that, first of all, when it comes to the stock market, the numbers that we see today, the numbers we saw yesterday, the numbers we will see tomorrow are a snapshot of a moment in time. And as President Trump has said, and I'm here to echo the remarks of this president of this White House, we are in a period of economic transition.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
We are in a period of transition from the mess that was created under Joe Biden in the previous administration. Joe Biden left this country in an economic disaster.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
Secretary Rawlins put out a four-point plan to address this crisis. And she has been honest and realistic with the American people, as this administration always is. It will take about three to six months to get the egg supply back to where it should be. But she's focused, and this administration is focused on doing that every day. Karen.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
And ultimately, when we have fair and balanced trade, which the American people have not seen in decades, as I said at the beginning, revenues will stay here, wages will go up, and our country will be made wealthy again. And I think it's insulting that you're trying to test my knowledge of economics and the decisions that this president has made.
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Scared White House Holds Catastrophic Press Briefing
I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
He's actually not implementing tax hikes. Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries that, again, have been ripping us off. Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people, and the president is a staunch advocate of tax cuts. As you know, he campaigned on no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security benefits.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
He is committed to all three of those things, and he expects Congress to pass them later this year. I'm sorry, have you ever paid a tariff?
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
And ultimately, when we have fair and balanced trade, which the American people have not seen in decades, as I said at the beginning, revenues will stay here, wages will go up, and our country will be made wealthy again. And I think it's insulting that you're trying to test my knowledge of economics and the decisions that this president has made.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
I wonder, does this administration still consider Canada to be a close ally ally of the United States? Well, I think Canada is a neighbor. They are a partner. They have always been an ally. Perhaps they are becoming a competitor now.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
But as the president also laid out in his Truth Social post today, he believes that Canadians would benefit greatly from becoming the 51st state of the United States of America. And I actually looked into some of the research about the cost of living in Canada. And the cost of living is much higher than it is here in the United States of America.
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Trump Makes Tesla Commercial as He Tanks Markets
The average cost of a home in Canada is much higher. In Quebec, the highest tax rate for an income of $150,000 or more is 53.3%, more than half of Canadians' incomes they are being taxed on. So the president has made it clear that he believes Canadians would be better served economically, militarily, if they were to become the 51st state of the United States of America. Reagan.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Excuse me, Raquel, if I could just add to what the secretary said. Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal. You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here. You tried to say that the rest of the world would be moved closer to China when in fact we've seen the opposite effect. The entire world is calling the United States of America
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
not China, because they need our markets, they need our consumers, and they need this president in the Oval Office to talk to them. And that's exactly why more than 75 countries have called, because the United States of America is the best place in the world to do business. And as the president has shown great courage, as the secretary has said, in choosing to retaliate against China even higher.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
Here was Caroline Levin on April 8th saying that no delay was being considered.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
The president was asked and answered this yesterday. He said he's not considering an extension or delay. I spoke to him before this briefing. That was not his mindset. He expects that these tariffs are going to go into effect. And you said something very important, Elena, in your question. You said the president has captivated the attention of the world. Absolutely he has.
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Terrified Trump Folds in Panic Amid Economic Collapse
And it's about time we have a president in the Oval Office who is putting the world on notice and is putting the American people first and, again, is using the leverage of the United States to negotiate good trade deals. Just a quick question.
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Panicking Trump Goes Nuts on Tariff Day
Caroline, the president has said foreign countries and companies will eat the cost of tariffs. In his speech on Inauguration Day, he said, quote, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. Right. So then why did he have to tell the domestic automakers not to raise prices?
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Trump Has Massive Meltdown as Presidency Crashes
But unfortunately, this is not what the Democrats and the media want to talk about. They are focused on a coordinated campaign to try and sow chaos in this White House. And this has been the most successful first two months of any administration ever, which is exactly why they are doing this. We are not going to bend in the face of this insincere outrage.
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OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War
Most importantly, and so the president will continue to effectively utilize tariffs while, again, driving down the cost of living in this country. Both things can happen at the same time. Just look at President Trump's first term as an example. When he left office, inflation was a low 1.4%. Another day in the Trump regime.
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OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War
Close ally very quickly when there's new leadership. Well, the president is, again, responding to the fact that Canada has been ripping off the United States of America and hardworking Americans for decades.
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Fox News Crashes Hard on Live TV as Trump Tanks Fast
We are finally going to treat nations the way that they have treated the United States for far too long. And Canada saw if you want to step up into the big leagues with President Trump, you better be prepared to play. It looks like they are not.
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Fox News Crashes Hard on Live TV as Trump Tanks Fast
Madam Secretary, great to see you.
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Yikes! Fox News Loses It as Trump Tanks Bad
Again, the American people voted for this monumental change and that's exactly what they're getting.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
Excuse me, Raquel, if I could just add to what the secretary said. Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal. You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here. You tried to say that the rest of the world would be moved closer to China when in fact we've seen the opposite effect.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
The entire world is calling the United States of America, not China, because they need our markets, they need our consumers, and they need this president in the Oval Office to talk to them. And that's exactly why more than 75 countries have called, because the United States of America is the best place in the world to do business.
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Panicked Trump Reeks of Fear as Markets Get Twisted
And as the president has shown great courage, as the secretary has said, in choosing to retaliate against China even higher. Elena, go ahead.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
Well, the President put that in his True Social account, or his True Social post earlier today. He feels strongly that it would be very beneficial for the Canadian people to be the 51st state of the United States. They wouldn't be paying for these tariffs. They'd have much lower taxes if they were part of our great country.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
President's reaction to him saying that.
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
One on the reprieve that is being granted to these three automakers for one month on the tariffs on Canada and Mexico. How did the president settle on one month? The reciprocal tariffs will go into effect on April 2nd. And he feels strongly about that no matter what. No exemption. So that's where the one month comes from. So does he expect them to be able to shift production within a month?
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Canadian MP Destroys Trump at Press Conference
He told them that they should get on it, start investing, start moving, shift production here to the United States of America where they will pay no tariff. That's the ultimate goal.
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French President Puts the Dagger in Trump to All of France
He did last night.
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French President Puts the Dagger in Trump to All of France
Well, Elon Musk wore a suit last night. I'm sure you saw it.
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French President Puts the Dagger in Trump to All of France
No, I don't think so. I'm just pointing out that he did wear a suit last night. And I think the president liked that very much.
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Trump Plan BACKFIRES IN HIS FACE as World ERUPTS
He said that in the Oval Office this morning. In fact, the Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan called it the declaration of war on the Arab people. So how does he square the fact that even some Republicans on the Hill are objecting to this or questioning this? How does he square the fact saying everyone loves this plan?
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Trump Claims He Never Signed His Own Order on War Powers
President Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act regarding the invasion of the United States by the foreign terrorist organization, Tren de Aragua. At the president's direction, the Department of Homeland Security carried out a counterterrorism operation, deporting nearly 200 violent Tren de Aragua terrorists, which will save countless Americans.
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Trump Claims He Never Signed His Own Order on War Powers
Good morning, Maria. The president signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua members who have invaded our country. These are the most violent, heinous criminal monsters you could ever imagine. They have taken the lives of innocent American women like Jocelyn Nongre and Lakin Riley.
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Trump Claims He Never Signed His Own Order on War Powers
And the president invoked this authority to deport nearly 300 of them who are now in El Salvador, where they will be behind bars where they belong rather than roaming freely in American communities.
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Trump Quickly Flees from DC to Run Away from Bad News
But you asked why President Trump wants to make a deal. I would remind you, he's the master of the art of the deal. He is America's dealmaker in chief.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
So he was on the brink of signing an economic agreement that would have ensured economic prosperity for the Ukrainian people and recouped American tax dollars for funding this war. Instead, because of his rude and antagonistic ways, the deal blew up in his face.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
And so it's very unfortunate for the Ukrainian people and for President Zelensky that he walked in with this mindset of give, give, give from the American people without much gratitude for what the American people have done.
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Fox News Loses It After Trump Oval Office Meltdown
His countrymen are dying. And most of all, President Zelensky failed to recognize that he is walking into the Oval Office with a new sheriff in town. And that sheriff is Donald Trump.
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Trump LOSES IT as Presidency FALLS APART QUICK
said promises made, promises kept. That will be happening 25% for Mexico, 25% for Canada, 10% tariffs on China. There was a bit of a market reaction. You can see the Dow off more than 200 points. If you pop up the big board, John, you'll see right about the time she confirmed that these will begin tomorrow, shortly after the 1 o'clock Eastern time hour. That's when you saw the Dow sell off.
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Trump LOSES IT as Presidency FALLS APART QUICK
Not a huge sell off, but there was certainly a reaction to that.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
I'm not able to confirm it because I have not heard that. I will caution. I know there have been many inaccurate and misleading reports from Reuters lately, so I would caution anybody taking that seriously. But I can check in and get back to you.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
Intelligence and the men and women on the ground in the interior of our country who are finally being allowed to do their jobs. Their hands were tied under the previous administration. And as I said, they take their jobs very seriously. They should be trusted and respected by the American public with this operation.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
And of course, as I said to Kelly, the administration will provide all details to the questions that the court poses. Jennifer.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
Absolutely not. And my advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now. So they should be very grateful to our great country.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
We want to restore the Department of Justice to an institution that focuses on fighting law and order and crime and putting real criminals behind bars, not targeting Americans because of their religion or their political speech. We saw that under the previous administration and it's unacceptable to this president. And just the
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
If the president was even consulted about his legally binding signature being signed onto documents. And so I think it's a question that everybody in this room should be looking into because certainly that would propose, perhaps criminal or illegal behavior if staff members were signing the President of the United States autograph without his consent.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
The president will be traveling to the Kennedy Center later this afternoon. I look forward to going with him. As you know, he is now the chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center, where he hopes to restore arts and culture that embrace American tradition, don't disparage it, as we have unfortunately seen over the past several years. The president will be doing a tour of the center.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
In his business developer mind, I'm sure he will make some recommendations on how the center itself can be improved, but also will be discussing perhaps some future plays and musicals and theatrical programs that the center will be hosting under his new leadership and the board's new leadership.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
I think so. I think the previous administration is the reason this war began. As President Trump often says, this war would have never started if he were still in office. It only started because of the incompetence and the weakness of the previous administration. And President Trump is very proud of the progress that he and his team have made in such a short amount of time.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
And hopefully tomorrow that progress will move forward.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
But was he aware of his signature being used on every single pardon? That's a question you should ask the Biden White House.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
Again, as I said, all of the planes subject to the written order of this judge departed U.S. soil, U.S. territory before the judge's written order.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
Well, there's actually questions about whether a verbal order carries the same weight as a legal order, as a written order, and our lawyers are determined to ask and answer those questions in court. Sean?
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
You're a reporter, you should find out, Sean.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
Biden administration abused to facilitate the mass illegal entry of illegal immigrants into our country. It was like a fast pass at Disneyland. That's not happening under this administration. We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
I have not heard the president talk about impeaching judges. I know you mentioned Mr. Musk's tweet, but I have not heard the president of the United States ask that.
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Panicked White House holds Disaster Press Conference
And many communities have been totally destroyed. The president has been actively monitoring the situation and the Trump administration is engaged with governors and leading in.
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Can't Be Saved
Yeah, I mean, the Associated Press says you're restricting access to the president and you're restricting access of the free press.
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Can't Be Saved
We're hearing reports that there was a investigation opened into James Comey, who may have thrown honeypots at Donald Trump back in the 2015, 2016 years. Is that true?
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Can't Be Saved
That was a report that was cited in the Washington Times. I'll take it at that.
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Can't Be Saved
One of the things a lot of people are wondering, because you said last week that you have the Epstein files on your desk, is when can we see them and what's taking so long to release them?
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Can't Be Saved
What kind? Are we going to see who was on the flights? Are we going to see any evidence from what he recorded? Because he had all of his homes wired with recording devices.
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Fox News in Complete Panic as Trump Can't Be Saved
OK, well, along with his co-defendant. Absolutely. And he had help. That's for sure.
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Trump And Gaza, Migrants At Guantanamo, USAID Staff On Leave
President Trump is not messing around and he's no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world.
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Trump's 'Liberation Day', Wisconsin Supreme Court Race, Mistaken Deportation
Well, first of all, the error that you are referring to was a clerical error. It was an administrative error.
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Trump's 'Liberation Day', Wisconsin Supreme Court Race, Mistaken Deportation
The administration maintains the position that this individual who was deported to El Salvador and will not be returning to our country was a member of the brutal and vicious MS-13 gang.
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Bonus Pod: Biden's New Autopen Scandal, Houthi Crackdown in the Middle East & JFK Files Released
president was begging the question that i think a lot of journalists in this room should be asking about whether or not the former president of the united states who i think we can all finally agree was cognitively impaired i know it took people some time to finally admit that but we all know that to be true as evidenced by his disastrous debate performance against president trump during the campaign i digress on that uh... but the president was raising the point that
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Bonus Pod: Biden's New Autopen Scandal, Houthi Crackdown in the Middle East & JFK Files Released
did the president even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge? And that's not just the president or me raising those questions, Caitlin.
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Bonus Pod: Biden's New Autopen Scandal, Houthi Crackdown in the Middle East & JFK Files Released
According to the New York Post, there are Biden officials from the previous White House who raised those questions and wondered if the president was even consulted about his legally binding signature being signed onto documents. And so I think it's a question that
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Everybody in this room should be looking into because certainly that would propose perhaps criminal or illegal behavior if staff members were signing the President of the United States autograph.
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Bonus: Daily Review with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton - Mar 20 2025
I think that's quite sad, but I think Governor Walz unfortunately is living a sad existence after his devastating defeat on November 5th.