The Clock Is Ticking | Episode 262

Hey there, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. Good to have you with us. We have a lot to get to today, as always. Today is countdown day. By the end of the day, we could have some pretty dramatic bombing runs going on, on infrastructure in Iran. In fact, as we begin this morning, we already have some breaking news that there has been bombing overnight. The United States military has led a number of strikes on Karg Island. This is apparently, reportedly, on the defense elements of Karg Island this morning. So not infrastructure, although Karg Island is a big oil infrastructure hub. The reports this morning are that bunkers, radar stations, and ammunition storage were hit overnight by the United States military. So the war there in Iran continues. The president has given them this countdown until 8 p.m. Eastern time tonight. That would be 3.30 a.m. local time in Tehran, Wednesday morning. Are they going to make a deal? Are they going to open up the Strait of Hormuz? Are they going to hand over their nuclear material? If they don't do those things, well, President Trump has issued a very stark warning. And I don't think he's bluffing at all here. I wouldn't. If I was the Iranians, I wouldn't take it that way. So much more ahead. On the program, lots of breaking news already this morning. We'll get to all of it. And also, I want to talk to you today about the Save America Act. I want to gavel into our conversation yet again about the Save America Act and where Washington is with it and the attempt to orchestrate a cover-up that's underway. So much to talk about. Thanks for being here with us. The best audience anywhere. I want to thank our sponsors for making all of this possible. Rumble is just an amazing operation. First and foremost, love doing this program on Rumble each day. But one of the reasons we value Rumble so much is because Rumble is the free speech platform. Rumble is a free speech platform. It consistently stands for free speech. 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It's not a custodial service. See terms at wallet.rumble.com. Yeah, the bombing will continue until morale improves. That's the current plan. We'll see where this goes. We do have this deadline tonight that the president has imposed that everybody's been chattering about of 8 p.m. And are the Iranians going to play ball? Are they finally going to come to a deal? It was an amazing video yesterday as the president stepped out for a big press conference yesterday afternoon. We covered a lot of it during the big radio show yesterday. And there was one moment that really stood out to me where he was talking about how the Iranians at times in fits and starts have appeared open to negotiations, whether they're kind of talking, they're working with Steve Wittkoff and Jared Kushner and JD Vance. And then all of a sudden they're backing away from a deal. And these three men, JD, Wittkoff and Kushner, are constantly giving President Trump updates on the state of negotiations with Iran. And they approached him at one point and they said, Mr. President, it looks like they're walking away from the table. They're breaking the deal. And the president said, that's fine. That's fine. Send them a message for me, would you? Watch this moment from yesterday as the president describes cut for Iran balking on an earlier offer. Watch. You saw the bridge. The bridge one, we were very close to a deal. And then I got a call from Mr. Wittkoff, Mr. Kushner and JD saying, I think they're breaking the deal. I said, tell them that's okay. Don't worry about it. But tell them to look out their window and watch. And within 45 minutes, I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge. I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge in, I believe the Middle East, but the biggest bridge in Iran. And within 10 minutes after I gave that order, that bridge was was over. Look out the window. That's okay. Look out your window. So that was a warning shot. They blew up a big bridge in Iran. We saw the video of that recently. They blew up the bridge. And the president is basically conveying the same message over and over. I'm not screwing around with you. I'm serious about this. I want peace. I don't want to fight you. I don't want to fight you. But I'm done with your crap. I'm done with the nuclear development. I'm done with it. So we're going to settle up now. And if you won't settle up, then I'm going to bomb you into submission. He told the press yesterday, somebody asked him, what about the Iranian people? What about the Iranian people? If you bomb these infrastructure targets, if you're bombing power plants and bridges, you know, what about the Iranian people and the effect on them? And his view on this is that they are, in fact, rooting on the destruction of the regime. His view is that if they, if they will under, they will undergo a little bit of short-term suffering in the president's view for the long-term benefit of getting that tearing off from over the top of them. That's, that's the view of the Iranian people from the president's perspective. Now, fundamentally, our goals are U.S. centric. What's good for the United States? What benefits us directly? And the answer is to denuclearize Iran and resolve that problem after 47 years. That's the answer. That's the answer that the president's given throughout this mission and the driving force behind the president's operations right now. Iran is so simple for Iran, if they came forward right now, and they said, we're not going to molest the Strait of Hormuz. We're not going to be involved there at all. And we hand over our nuclear material. This whole thing is done. The president doesn't even mess with the molest. He's going to keep all those people in place. He'll let them do whatever they want, except for pursuing a nuclear weapon and interfering with international shipping traffic. That's it. It's the simplest possible thing. You give up those things? Blue skies are ahead. Happy days. Happy days are ahead. And yet, they're not doing that. And so we're taking this hour by hour now. And if by 8 p.m. tonight, we don't get any commitments to that effect, I'm sorry, but the president seems very serious this time. The other piece is that all the Middle Eastern countries in the region, they're also done with Iran's crap. They're applying intermediary right now to the Trump administration. So insofar as there are negotiations going on, there are reportedly going on through third parties. So you have all these countries who are trying to get Iran to the table, to get it to come to his census, and yet we're not there yet. We're not, we're no, and who knows how close we are. Now, by the time you hear this podcast today, things could change. This is the nature of the Trump administration. It's one of the perils of all recorded content, by the way. This is why like a lot of the time, it is good to watch this show live, rumble.com slash vince at 8 o'clock in the morning, because so many dynamics could change by the time you consume it later in the day. But you're busy. I get it. It makes total sense to me if you can't consume this live. But this has always been, as long as I've been covering the Trump administration in any capacity and in radio, on WMAL, in Washington DC, in various times of day, at the Daily Caller, on the national radio show, here on the podcast, for as long as I've been doing this, it has always been perilous to think, okay, I can prerecord some content and then it will air an hour later, two hours later, three hours later. But at the time it airs, everything could have changed. Everything could have changed. And that's certainly the case today. Is there a scenario where President Trump comes out later today, for instance, and posts the truth social? Good news. We've made substantial progress in our negotiations with Iran. I have delayed the bombing of the bridges and the power plants for another week or something like that. Yeah, there is a scenario. But the reporting this morning suggests that the President is as serious as ever about this and that there are people in the White House who are saying, I don't see him changing his mind here. Unless some major breakthrough comes out, we're going to see bombing runs tonight. So keep an eye on this. But again, it's so easy. It's so easy for these guys to resolve this, and they're not taking it. Now, the pressure, of course, is on too. Think about the impact on global energy we have going on. So the United States is a little bit insulated from this. Obviously, we're seeing higher prices at the pump. Clearly, we still have the price of diesel. You ask anybody in the trucking industry are familiar with diesel prices. It's remained high. It's been one of the most stubborn things to try and bring down. And it is so essential that we bring it down, because it affects the entire American economy. Everything travels by truck. Everything travels with diesel power in the United States of America, so much of it. But we are mostly relatively insulated from some of the biggest energy impacts on the planet. We've talked before about China. Think about, I want you to just think about China for a minute. 90% of Iran's oil exports go to China. So the pressure is on China to intervene here and to get the Strait of Hormuz open as well. So when the president is talking about all these countries who are failing to assist us in this endeavor, and it's at their own expense, that does include China. China needs the Strait of Hormuz to be open. And it's not that they merely that they get 90% of Iran's oil exports, which is a massive amount. 50% of China's oil comes through the Strait of Hormuz, not just from Iran, but from the other Middle Eastern countries in the region. Massive amounts of Chinese energy is coming through that Strait of Hormuz. So when you have the country, the world's biggest and most powerful countries in need of that Strait being opened, why is it that the United States is the only one that's busting its ass right now to make this happen? This is why the president is expressing so much frustration. He said, come on, guys, I'm cleaning up the nuclear problem. Now you clean up the Strait of Hormuz problem. That's what the president's been asking for. Seems like a pretty simple ask, actually. And yet it's like pulling teeth to get anybody to jump in on this fight. It's outrageous. And it's at their own expense. So, I mean, in one sense, there's, you know, if we look at the China question, there's two elements to this. One, if the Strait of Hormuz continues to be constrained, China takes it in the shorts, and that's good for us. Two, if China intervenes and opens up the Strait of Hormuz alongside of us, then that lowers global energy prices and that's good for us. So either scenario kind of is good for us in that arrangement, insofar as we have this great power adversarial battle going on with China, which we do, clearly. So just keep your eyes on that. I've ever since the Iran conflict began, I kept telling you, like, look, nobody's really talking about the China component to this, but it's massive because President Trump keeps kicking out their power cords and that's having a big impact on the Chinese. So keep an eye on that, the Chinese Communist Party, the Fangfang people. Well, I think I've got some Swallow updates for you today, too. Yeah, I do. I do have Swallow updates, new scandals emerging on Eric Swallow. So the president's trying to work on this, and he was funny yesterday. There's always these amazing moments with President Trump. Yesterday was the White House Easter Egg Roll, and President Trump was out on the South Portico of the White House. It was like an elevated platform just outside the White House, overlooking the South Lawn. They decorated it for Easter. There's floral arrangements everywhere. There's a presidential seal in front of him. And he steps up with Melania Trump, the first lady, to that little banister. And right next to him is a staffer dressed as the Easter Bunny. Now, everybody thinks it was Marco Rubio. Could have been Marco Rubio. It seems like he might be too busy with other things, but the guy does a million jobs. Why not the Easter Bunny? It could have been him. But here's the Easter Bunny, the president of the United States, Melania Trump. And of course, the president steps out and he talks to all the little children about what's going on in Iran. Watch this. I don't think it gets much more hostile than Iran. They're capable fighters. They're very tough people. And there are others like that. You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong. Not so strong like they were about a month ago. I can tell you, in fact, right now they're not too strong at all, in my opinion, but we're soon going to find out, aren't we? I just, I mean, they're not in the shot. For those of you watching on rumble.com, the kids are not in the shot, but just imagine there's a bunch of like six and seven year old kids running around and they're all just standing there watching the president of the United States speak. And he's regaling them with stories about Iran and his current negotiations with the country. It's really funny. It's a funny image, but it goes to show you his mindset. It doesn't matter where he is. It's always the weave with this guy. He'll be on Easter Egg Rolls. He'll be on Iran negotiations, whatever it is. It's on his mind. He's talking about it. Really, really hilarious. Also, as somebody years ago, during the first Trump administration, I had the privilege to bring my daughter to one of the Easter Egg Rolls. And as I recall, if I remember correctly, there are times you go in all day long. So they have, they stagger entry. Because there's a lot of people they let in. There's a big security procedure to let in all the families and get them onto the South Lawn. And they stagger your entry times. So it's not clear at what time the president will show up. You don't really know. And so we were out there and we didn't see the president of the United States. But man, it was such a cool experience to bring our child and take pictures and just be on the South Lawn of the White House. It's really neat. And so the families who were there were the lucky ones who got to see the president and the first lady in the Easter Bunny come out. And the president had talked about Iran. Also, while we're on that subject, yesterday was one of the great, there's so many great moments in the Trump administration. One of the great moments is President Trump sat down with the children. There were a bunch of kids sitting at a picnic table. They were all coloring. And the president sat down with them and started signing autographs for the kids. And at first he said, look, you could, if you want, you can sell these on eBay tonight. You'll probably get like $25,000 a pop. He's telling the children. And then he starts talking about Joe Biden and the way he did it. Watch this. Here's President Trump regaling children with the story of President AutoPen. Watch. Just, can you imagine? Can you imagine being the parent to one of those children? It's just like, like I'd be, I'd be howling. I mean, I am, I think it's so funny now. But just if my daughter was sitting there and he's telling her the story of President AutoPen, and the kids are just sitting there, they, they don't know what he's talking about. They're just like, oh, AutoPen, got it. Yeah. They used to follow him around with a machine. They followed him with a machine. Yeah. Then it would do all the signatures for him. That's incredible. And it's a true story. It was a true story. President Trump telling the kids a real story. So good. It's so good. He's, he's unbelievable. It's really good. So they'll tell that story for the rest of their lives. Once they become aware of what it was, they're going to tell that story for the rest of their lives. Yeah. President Trump, I was sitting with him and he told me the story of President AutoPen. Funny. It's super funny. Back to the serious business of dealing with Iran. President Trump and his press conference said yesterday that the Iranians are indeed crazy bastards. This is what he said over the weekend about the Iranian regime. And one of the reporters yesterday, there were a couple of reporters who were like, what's your concern about your tone? Concern about your tone? And you called the Iranians crazy. Aren't you crazy? These are the types of unserious questions that pop up at these press conferences. A packed house yesterday, a complete fire hazard at the White House, as you had reporters hanging from the rafters trying to get questions into the president, including this stupid exchange that the president had to swap down. Cut five. Watch this. You called the, yesterday in your truth social, you called the Iranians crazy bastards. True. What is your response to critics who say that- I don't care about critics. What is your response to critics who say that it is your mental health that should perhaps be examined as this war continues? Well, I haven't heard that, but in that case, you're going to have to have more people like me because our country was being ripped off on trade or in everything for many years until I came along. By the way, that's the laziest possible formulation for a question. If you say critics say this, or these types of things, you're being a lazy ass, or that's your opinion that you're trying to smuggle in as if some third party just asserted it. That's dishonesty, it's deception. If you're going to quote somebody, quote them. Say their name. Hakim Jeffery said this about you. How do you react to that? Give it specific. If you're going to generalize it, that's hackish garbage designed to smuggle your own disgusting opinion and try to debate the president of the United States and impugn him. That's what that guy was doing. He just smugged British accent. Oh, aren't you the mentally ill one? Get the hell out of our breast briefing room. And by the way, the country too, you mind? Insanity. Just insanity. But the president swatted it down. He's like, I don't care about critics. I don't care about that crap. He goes, we're going to need more people like me. We need more people with clear vision who are blunt about this, who are ready to fix it. Not people who are ready to get into another game of rope it, though, with the Iranians who are going to be strung along forever while the threat just becomes more dangerous. Yes, the president confronting the press yesterday as well. I'm glad they moved that to the press briefing room, by the way. The original plan was to have it in the Oval Office. But as Caroline Levitt said on Sunday, by popular demand, it was moved to the press briefing room, which was good. There were a lot of great moments yesterday. The president was flanked by the secretary of War Pete Hegseth, John Ratcliffe of the CIA, as well as General Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. One of the, I think, most important elements yesterday was John Ratcliffe was called up to the lectern to talk about the CIA's contributions. And by the time Ratcliffe spoke, we knew a lot of the details because the administration had already been basically sharing it with the media that the CIA had located one of these missing F-15 pilots in Iran on Sunday. They said they had technology like it was finding a grain of sand in the desert. That's how good their ability to find this guy was. And John Ratcliffe also relayed, and President Trump confirmed, that the CIA used deception tactics to get the Iranians off the track of our pilots, which is great. And that are technologies that are unique to the CIA that they used to find this guy. So that's all wonderful news. But I thought the most important element that Ratcliffe shared yesterday was the mandate that President Trump gave him when he arrived at the CIA, which is a very simple one, and he didn't use these words, but basically, don't be John Brennan. Don't be John Brennan. President Trump told Ratcliffe when he arrived at the CIA, his job is to strip the politics out of the agency. This agency is not to be used as a political weapon. It's not for surveilling Americans. I don't care what party they voted for. I don't care if they're common voters. You don't surveil American citizens. You don't abuse your power. You don't hurt people. This is not the CIA. The job of the CIA is to represent the American people, to spy upon our adversaries, and to gather intelligence, and to give it to the President of the United States for his own wise decision making. That's it. That's what the CIA is supposed to do. And the President said, restore that mission, John. And John Ratcliffe got up there yesterday at the podium and said, yeah, that's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. We're restoring that mission. That was a breath of fresh air to hear. I like hearing that, and I like hearing that the President is so focused on it. All right. More ahead on the program, we've got quite a bit to get to because, well, we just had a very busy day yesterday, and today is going to be yet another busy day as that countdown continues with those crazy bastards in Iran. More ahead, I want to talk to you in a moment about the Save America Act because you want to talk about something domestically that's really important? It's the Save America Act. And I've got a big update on that subject coming up in just a moment. But first, I want to thank one of our great sponsors. That is Beam. Beam's Dream Powder, an amazing part of my day. It's how I conclude my day. And it's one of my favorite sponsors, actually. Beam is a locked in part of my nightly routine. 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I know that there's been a lot of chatter about, like, oh, the president, and including from the president himself, he has seemed kind of down on the chances of the Save America Act passing the United States Senate. Our own Reagan Rees just asked him a couple of days ago about this, you know, do you believe that this isn't going to pass the Senate? And he said, yeah, we've got a lot of problems with Republicans. And we can't get any of these Democrats to support this common sense thing, a voter integrity, because they prefer cheating in elections. And so I'm going to have to do this, however I can do it. So he signs an executive order to protect mail-in voting. Clearly, the president is trying to go his own way in the absence of the Senate developing the testicular afforditude to do the right thing for the country. But the president is not getting off of this bone. He's staying on it because he thinks it's that important. So earlier this week, the House Freedom Caucus put out a video that the president shared once again, calling for the Senate to grow a pair and pass the Save America Act. Now watch this video from the House Freedom Caucus. 51 Republicans show up. Democrats would have to fill a buster, standing and talking hour after hour to block it. As long as Republicans show a backbone and stay united, Democrats will eventually run out of time to talk. Tell your senator to make the Democrats actually debate instead of just giving in to them. The House Freedom Caucus says the Senate should support President Trump and the House in passing this law essential to saving America. The Freedom Caucus Foundation is responsible for this ad. Okay, a couple things. A couple things. One, I just want to congratulate you for getting this fight to this level. We now have full-blown political ads being generated, having conversations that you and I were having in the fall of last year. Now you've got the House Freedom Caucus telling America that the Senate is lying about the need for 60 votes. We can do this with a simple majority. It's time to tell the truth about this. And a well-packaged, well-produced advertisement shared by the president of the United States is now getting that message out to the masses. That's thanks to you. I'm telling you right now, you need to understand how much of an impact you've had on this conversation. The grassroots movement to get this front and center for the American public has just been extraordinary. One of the most extraordinary movements I've ever seen right up there with the movement to get President Trump elected now multiple times. So again, thank you for that. Thank you for your role in that. I love that. Two, I just saw somebody in the chat with Mark's madness goes, this is a funny, I'm going to let me just take a quick aside here. Mark's madness goes, Vince was definitely raised by a Marine quote, testicular fortitude. So that expression, testicular fortitude, it is true. It did come from a United States Marine. It wasn't my father. He was not, the general was not using the phrase testicular fortitude around the house very often. I remember we had a drill instructor come by the house once for dinner years ago. Where were we living? I think it was in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. And we had a DI come by the house for dinner. And he had this gravelly DI voice, like the kind of voice that had been worn out from just years of screaming at Marine recruits, which is, you know, we talk like this, like everything they say, sounds like this all the time. And I remember him saying, I remember him being at dinner and using that expression. And I never forgot, I was like, holy crap, that's a great expression. So you need a testicular fortitude. And I was like, testicular fortitude, that's an incredible phrase. So if you're wondering about the, the etymology of that phrase, where did that come from? It was a Marine DI. So yes, that you're right about that, Mark's madness. You've properly perceived that that expression came from the United States Marine Corps, just in case you were wondering. It is, it is a great expression. I love it. So the Save America Act. So the president's pushing for this. And, and the House Freedom Caucus is pushing for this. And you're pushing for this. America is pushing for this. So why is it so hard for the United States Senate to get up off of their fat, pampered asses to pass it? And so there's a, there's a, there's an effort underway, as we've gone into some detail, to placate you, to make this thing go away, to make this political energy that I just described as some of the most incredible grassroots political energy we've ever seen, to make it go away, to diffuse it, to let it whimper out, to distract us while they move on to other things and not election integrity. And in a moment, I'm going to share the latest from Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Senator, powerful committee chairman, a guy who's in a position to advance a lot of what we want here and instead is currently orchestrating a cover up and yet calling it a gift, pretending like he's doing something for you. And it pains me to say that, but I'm just telling you exactly like I see it. I've got the details ahead here on the program as we, as we continue. I want to thank a BrickHast nutrition for sponsoring the show. BrickHast nutrition is great. There's a lot of people out there that are trying to turn to the weight loss injections to lose weight, because they're looking for dramatic results. And the way the weight loss injections work is they lower your blood sugar, reduce your appetite. But what if you're the kind of person who wants to lose the weight, but you don't want painful weekly injections? Hard to blame you, especially when you hear about some of those side effects. 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And then so, the balance of the funding is going to be done through reconciliation. So, with this like simple majority budget maneuver that happens way too often in Washington, but this is the way that Republicans are going to be able to get the rest of this funding passed. And to the credit of the Republicans, the plan is to try and fund ICE and Border Patrol, that those elements of the funding for the next three to 10 years. Big. That's a great way to handle this, I think. I think that's perfectly fine. I would have preferred to see a full funding package passed at once, but if we're going to get massive amounts of funding for years for these essential agencies, fine. Just dunk it in the face of the Democrats. But here's the thing. You remember when the reconciliation fight began? I told you that they were thinking about including it with including the Save America Act and the conversation. Oh, we're going to pass elements of the Save America Act and reconciliation. We'll do it all together. And so, the question was immediately, really? Is that possible? Can you really do that? And the answer, according to Mike Lee, is that it's already impossible. This can't happen. Look, watch, when this conversation started, Mike Lee immediately warned everyone, this is a scam. It is not possible to do what we need through reconciliation. Watch, Mike Lee. There are a lot of things that can be passed through a Senate procedure known as budget reconciliation through which we can pass things with a simple majority vote. The Save America Act isn't one of those things. It can't pass through budget reconciliation because it's a policy. It is not budgetary. And even if you attached money to it, there are things at the margin that we could do to help facilitate compliance with it. But the restrictions themselves have basically zero chance of meeting the standard to pass through budget reconciliation. So, look, regardless, there are other reasons out there to do budget reconciliation. Do not be fooled into thinking that we can set down the Save Act, the Save America Act, and just pick it up on budget reconciliation. That's not going to work. Thanks. Yeah, it's a buck passing exercise. They're trying to pass the blame for failing the Pass the Save America Act to the parliamentarian. Oh, we were told we can't do this by the parliamentarian. Sorry, we tried. When they already know how this is going to end, they know that they can't pass this. And yet they're trying to pull a scam on you. And now the scam becomes even more pronounced. Here's Lindsey Graham on South Carolina Radio, I'll let you listen to him first and then I'll explain what he's actually telling you. Here is cut seven Lindsey Graham, South Carolina yesterday. And what about the Save Act? What are your thoughts on this? Save Act, we're going to try to do another reconciliation bill later in the year and get as much evidence as we can. So to integrity laws, I'm going to create grant programs. But they'll have conditions on them to get a grant. You got to make sure you purge your roles of illegal immigrants. There are a lot of blue states out there that don't do that. And we'll try to get as much of a voter ID system as I can reconciliation as limits. But we're going to make a down payment on the Save Act and reconciliation in the fall. We're going after fraud. If you get stamp benefits, you get food stamps or any other government benefit, kind of a welfare benefit, you don't even have to prove you are who you are. You don't even have to have an ID. You don't have to do anything. So look at what happened in Minnesota, eight to $10 billion of ripoffs. Basically, the people that don't exist. So next in the fall, I want to do a reconciliation bill saying, if you get these federal benefits for a state to get federal money, they're going to have to biometrically identify the recipients. That's going to save us a ton of money. That's W-O-R-D host Bill Frady talking to Lindsey Graham, South Carolina. And so there's a couple of elements that probably jumped right out at you in that conversation. Did you hear when he said he's going to try and pass the Save America Act through reconciliation? What timeframe? The fall? The fall in a separate package, not the one that's going to fund DHS imminently, but instead a can kick to the fall I'm sorry, what is the name of the legislation? It's Save America. Do you think we have time to wait until the fall? To begin the process in the midst of the midterm? Oh, wait. So in addition to can kicking this to later in the year, in the hopes that you've got too much on your mind, you get distracted, you stop caring about this, it's also going to be kicked to the middle of the frenzy of the midterm terms. When you and me and anybody who loves their country is in the fight of our lives to make sure that candidates who actually represent us get elected during the midterms. And Lindsey Graham thinks that the frenzy of the midterms will be enough of a cover up for him that they can just kick this thing to the fall and you won't even notice when it fails. The other pieces, once again, they're relying on the parliamentarian. This is a can kick on passing it at all. So even if they were attempting to pass it now in the DHS funding package, the chances that anything of value would come out of it are zilch, nada, nothing, according to Mike Lee. So every element of this is a cover up operation. Lindsey Graham says the words to try and make it sound nice, like, oh, I really care about voter integrity. It's just awful what's happening with our election system. And so this is such an urgent priority, we're going to do it in the fall. When everybody else is distracted by the midterms, and then the parliamentarian is going to tell us no, and then I'm going to have to shrug and be like, well, I tried. Hell no, don't fall for this crap. This is a cover up operation. It's unbelievable. I mean, it's not shocking, but it is appalling. What you and I are witnessing. So when they try and serve up this kind of lipstick on a pig, this turd wrapped in a bow, don't fall for it, keep the pressure on, they're feeling it. They're clearly feeling it. Thank you to the Patriots and the House Freedom Caucus who are pushing so hard right now and telling the truth out loud about what's possible in the United States Senate. The Senate, these guys need to get their asses back to Washington and actually do something for the American people. And regardless of how this fight ends, I'm not promising anything. I wouldn't even pretend to. Regardless of how this fight ends, can you do me a favor? Can you please keep up this kind of pressure on Congress going forward? We spent so many years attending to our families and our jobs, and meanwhile Washington was selling us out, and now it's time for the American people to be full-time parole officers for Washington. We have to obsess over everything that they do, every utterance they make, every cover-up they orchestrate. Just pay attention at levels that make it clear you really care about your country, because I know you do. And keep rattling these guys. Keep metaphorically grabbing them by the shirt collar and forcing them to do the business of the American people, because the lesson that we've learned the hard way is that when you're not paying attention, they're not really advancing your interest. They're not. You can't delegate this power to them. You can't, because when you do, and then you turn away from it, you get betrayed. So we need to stay on top of them. And boy, that's just infuriating to listen to that clip from Lindsey Graham. Oh yeah, we're kicking it to the fall. Yeah, that's a real sign you care about it. It's crazy. So that's the Save America Act update today. We do have election-rigging updates for you in Virginia. We got a really encouraging piece from the American spectator overnight by a guy called David Ketrone, who, and my apologies, David, that's not your last name to pronounce. Maybe Catherine, I'm not sure, but very interesting that people like us in the Commonwealth of Virginia, just great American patriots, are responding big time to the fact that there's an election-rigging scam going on by Abigail Spanberger. First of all, Abigail Spanberger, according to a Washington Post survey just out, has the lowest approval rating of any Virginia governor in modern history, any. And that's because she's pursuing an election-rigging operation. But here's what David writes. The early vote bodes very ill for Virginia redistricting scam. Early turnout favors GOP as voters question a congressional map that may hand Democrats a 10 to 1 advantage. It's not going well. The official date of the special election is April 21st. Early voting began on March 6th, and the number of ballots cast in heavily Republican areas of the state has been far higher than in their Democrat counterparts. The Old Dominion does not register voters by party, but in Virginia they've got data that shows that early vote totals by congressional district prove that five of Virginia's 11 U.S. House districts held by Republicans are out voting the districts held by Democrats, the six held by Democrats, right now. Thus far, of the nearly 700,000 Virginians who have voted, 55% have cast their ballots in the five districts held by Republicans. Now, this doesn't mean that everybody in the district is a Republican, but it does suggest that Republican voters are turning out in larger numbers than expected. That's good news. Now, here's the thing. We have until April 21st, so what am I looking at? 14 more days of this, two more weeks to the day, two more weeks of this. We've got to keep the energy up. We have to. So again, I'm just asking the same thing I ask all the time. If you're in Virginia, go vote no. If you're not in Virginia, tell your friends in Virginia, go vote no. We have to defeat this. Barack Obama, Hakeem Jeffries, Abigail Spanberger, George Soros, the whole lot of them are all pushing for a major election rigging operation right now in Virginia, and we have to defeat them. And our chances right now are at the ballot box. There are other court battles playing out, but we can't rely on any of that crap. Too many radical judges in this country, too many insane unconstitutional decisions. Right now, the grassroots is an opportunity to defeat this. We have to defeat it at the ballot box. We have to. So a positive news update on that subject. It looks like there's a lot of energy to defeat this thing, and I'm seeing a lot of very worried headlines from left wing outlets right now panicking about this. Oh, it might not work. It might not work. Good. Good. I hope we destroy you. I hope we absolutely destroy you. Speaking of left wing news outlets and their insane coverage, the Associated Press had a report yesterday on the Trump administration with a headline that is, well, it's typical, but you have to see it to believe it. The Trump administration terminates agreements to protect transgender students in several schools. Trump administration terminates agreements to protect transgender students in several schools. Oh, so what does that mean? So if I were just a casual observer with no knowledge whatsoever of this issue, I would say, oh my gosh, the Trump administration is imperiling students? Of course, that's not what's happening at all. The real headline, if the Associated Press was honest, would be that the Trump administration is, as announced officially, that they're not going to participate in child abuse anymore. No more child abuse, the Trump administration position officially, which is wonderful. We don't abuse kids. We don't lie to them. We don't tell them they're born in the wrong body. We don't assist in the abuse of girls by allowing boys to pour into their locker rooms and their sports teams. Dayline Washington, the Education Department said Monday it has terminated agreements with five school districts and a college aimed at, get ready for the Orwellian language here, upholding protections for transgender students, backing away from requirements negotiated by previous administrations that took a different interpretation of civil rights. The decision removes the federal obligations for the schools to keep up measures such as faculty training on abiding by a student's preferred name and pronouns and allowing students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Have you noticed that the left advances disorder and calls it a moral imperative? It is your moral obligation to advance chaos. That's actually what George Orwell wrote about. This is Orwellian. This is a perfect inversion of the truth. So prior administrations to include President Autopen were telling schools that they were obligated to lie to children. If you lie to a child, you are abusing that child, especially about such basics as their name and their gender. You're lying to a child. The Biden administration called that protecting them. The Associated Press calls that protecting the child that you're abusing. It's a different word for this. It's grooming. The Associated Press is a part of a grooming operation for the abuse of children. And they're angry that President Trump is ending it. Allowing students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity. This is lying to children and allowing boys to pour into the girls' room. Allowing boys to go into the girls' locker room. This is insanity. Say it out loud. It is insanity. It's demonic is what it is. It's cruelty. One of the school systems, Delaware Valley School District in rural eastern Pennsylvania, received notice of the change from the Trump administration in February. And has since voted to roll back its anti-discrimination protections for transgender students. How dishonest. Another district, Sacramento City Unified, said Monday it quote remains committed to the support of our LGBTQ students and staff. In other words, Sacramento City Unified is going to continue to abuse children. The other affected districts are Cape, forgive me for those of you in Delaware, Henlepen, Cape Henlepen School District in Delaware, Fife School District in Washington, La Mesa Spring Valley School District and Taft College in California. Under the Biden and Obama administrations, the department interpreted Title IX, which is designed to protect women. AP refers to it as it protects sex discrimination and education to include protections for transgender and gay students. The Trump administration has penalized schools that have made efforts to accommodate students based on their gender identity. I'm telling you right now, if it wasn't for people like me and people like you who can see clearly through lies like this, if your only news was from the Associated Press, which by the way, the AP is I think the most distributed wire service in America. So it used to be that like conventional newspapers had full blown newsrooms of reporters who worked for them and their newspaper would be filled with copy that was written by local reporters. It's not really the same anymore. There's only maybe there's one or two local reporters who are actually producing anything nowadays for a lot of these newspapers. And then what ends up happening is they fill the rest of the paper and their websites with AP wire copy. So the Associated Press gets to write all of this left-wing propaganda and in this case, it is advancing the abuse of children and calling it decency and then wagging its finger at the Trump administration for actually protecting children. This is opposite world. And one more thing about the AP, the Associated Press has something for those of you who study journalism, you're familiar with AP style. AP style is how all journalists, almost all journalists, are trained in the United States to write. You're trained to use phrases that the Associated Press endorses to describe the world. Don't use this phrase, use that phrase, capitalize these words, don't capitalize those words. For instance, the AP capitalizes black, doesn't capitalize white, just to give you a sense of AP style. So AP style is to lie and so division. AP style is to advance racial prejudice and the abuse of children. That's AP style. The truth should be AP style, but it is not. And that's how you end up with garbage like this. A completely dishonest recitation of the world. And I was going to say of the facts, it's not even of the facts. So good for the Trump administration for tackling this kind of abuse and shame on the Associated Press for trying to enable it. Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. Speaking of disgusting, Eric Swalwell has a new scandal emerging. This is, you know, it's funny, it's the most typical thing in the world. Eric Swalwell is running for governor of California, but there's lots of Democrats running for governor of California right now. So when Democrats run against each other, they start airing all of the dirty laundry about each other. This is one of those amazing moments. Watch the new scandal that's emerging on Eric Swalwell. Apparently, the left is claiming, a bunch of lefties are now claiming, and there's supposed to be some big news stories coming out on this subject, that Swalwell was stooping the interns. Did I say that right? Stooping? Stooping? Stooping. Stooping the interns. Trying that out today. Here's a video, The Washington Free Beacons, The Great Chuck Ross, summarize this. There's an organization called Gen Z for Change, and a woman called Cheyenne Hunt, who's been releasing videos talking about the emerging Eric Swalwell scandal. Here's the news about Fang Fang's boyfriend. Watch. Cut nine. That process takes time, but the number of credible women who have come forward since I posted my first video is really shocking, and all of them moving forward together has greatly expedited the timeline of this whole process. I got deeply involved because like I said in my first video, I had heard these rumors for years, going back to the time when I was working on the Hill, but the first person who approached me with their story was a close personal friend of mine. Then, once I started digging into it and I found that there were a number of other women whose stories matched the same pattern of manipulation and abuse of power, I knew that I couldn't stay silent because these women needed to know that if they came forward, there was a group of people that would have their back. I understand that people want as much information as possible about these women, their stories, their identities, and the proof to back this all up. The problem is that many of these women have remained silent for so long because they believed that they were alone, and that if they came forward, it would ruin their careers. And as someone who has worked in politics, I can't disagree with that assessment. It appears that others may have stayed silent because of a belief that non-disclosure agreements required them to keep this secret. While it is true that most NDAs would be unenforceable under these circumstances, most people don't know that, and the idea of challenging a powerful sitting congressman in court is not something that most people want to do. I understand and appreciate that people are- So the NDA thing is interesting to me because Congress has been paying a bunch of settlements with accusers through the years using American taxpayer money, and then there's non-disclosure agreements signed in order to keep those stories from going public. And it is true that people make false allegations, no question, that that definitely happens. And you may be thinking to yourself, Vince, this might be a little unfair to Eric Swallow. Perhaps these are false allegations. Shouldn't he be innocent and so proven guilty? Maybe people are just- You know, maybe the left is just attacking him because they're in the midst of a heated governor's race in California, and the left is doing what it always does. It makes up lies. Okay. And I would say to you, that is a fair assessment. That is a fair critique that you raise all of those very interesting points. But here's the problem. Eric Swallow doesn't play by those rules. Eric Swallow will leap on any scurrilous allegation if he thinks it can grievously wound people, good people, who don't deserve that kind of treatment. In fact, if you go back in time, remember the left treatment of Brett Kavanaugh, one of the most disgusting displays we've ever seen? Brett Kavanaugh, the attempted character assassination of Brett Kavanaugh to prevent him from joining the United States Supreme Court reached unbelievably disgusting levels. And good for Brett Kavanaugh for the ferocious response he mounted in his Senate confirmation hearings. And that because of that, he prevailed and he made his way to the United States Supreme Court. But at the time, Swallow was spreading the lies. And he was saying, you know, there's a lot here where there's a lot of smoke, there's fire. Clearly, Brett Kavanaugh has a scumbag. Listen to Swallow while at the time, the great Maze Moore capturing this moment in a flashback this week. Here is what that looked like cut 11. Brett Kavanaugh's sake, if he is innocent, I hope tomorrow he opens his statement and says, you know what, bring in all the victims, allow them to be heard, allow them to be questioned. That will clear his name if he's indeed innocent. And if he's not, for the sake of the credibility of the court, I hope that the senators would vote against him. It's very easy to isolate one incident and, you know, shine inaccuracies or inconsistencies on that case. But the more and more cases that are separate and independent that look the same, pretty soon a prosecutor starts to say to a jury, and this is not a jury, but it's a, it's allegations that the arrows are pointing in the same directions. And what are the chances that three or four women independently who never met each other would have similar experiences with one person. So either Ari, this person committed these horrific acts or he is the single unluckiest person in the world for these people to conspire and make up lies against him. But it's a very hard case to make the more allegations that come in. Either Sua well committed all of these horrific acts. He was getting on with the interns or he's the single unluckiest person in the world. He just keeps getting fang fanged because he's a sucker. Which one is it? Which one is it? Sua well, that's his assessment of all of this. I ended a with another great news day when it comes to the Artemis to journey around the moon. What an amazing operation they got going on. I can't get enough of this thing. Are you guys like me? I'm like turning on the live stream to check in on the radio communications from off planet earth. It's just amazing what they can do. In fact, we are getting this very high quality, I would say relatively, they're extending 4k video back to earth with pretty tremendous audio quality. And I was wondering how do they do that? They're using a laser communication system, a laser that that's basically pulsing millions of times every every second in order to send back this very high quality data all the way from their journey from hundreds of thousands of miles away. It's actually just absolutely incredible what they're able to achieve. I just think that technology is a complete miracle. And they're sending all of this data in and yesterday, the Artemis 2 crew just before they lost radio communications in the six o'clock eastern hour for about 45 minutes on the dark side of the moon. They traveled further than any humans in American history. Here is that historic moment yesterday cut 12 watch integrity crew on April 15 1970 during the Apollo 13 message mission. Three explorers set the record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from our home planet. At that time, over 55 years ago, level swigert and haze flew 248,655 statute miles away from earth. Today, for all humanity, you're pushing beyond that frontier. Integrity over to you. Yeah, from the cabin of integrity here as we surpass the furthest distance humans have ever traveled from planet Earth. We do so in honoring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration. We will continue our journey even further into space before Mother Earth succeeds in pulling us back to everything that we hold here. But we most importantly choose this moment to challenge this generation in the next to make sure this record is not long lived. Amazing, just amazing. Just imagine being a part of something like that. I think people have really grown to like this crew. From a distance, we're learning so much about them now. And one of the standouts of the four three Americans, one Canadian, one of the standouts has been American Victor Glover. The guy keeps sharing gospel messages from space, talking about his perspective outside of our planet, looking back upon it, the wonders of creation, what God has created for us. I love that message. And here he is yesterday sharing a gospel message just before he disappeared for that 45 minute blackout time behind the moon. Here's Victor Glover yesterday. The guy's crushing it. Cut 13. Watch this. To remind you of one of the most important mysteries there on earth. And that's love. Christ said in response to what was the greatest command that it was to love God with all that you are. And he also being a great teacher said the second is equal to it. And that is to love your neighbor as yourself. And so as we prepare to go out of radio communication, we're still able to feel your love from earth and to all of you down there on earth and around earth. We love you from the moon. Amazing. Amazing. I send that guy to space a lot. I love the messages he's sending back. It really gives you a healthy dose of perspective. And then finally, last night, just before I went to sleep, I was lying in bed and the President of the United States posted the truth social, an alert that he was about to speak to the astronauts directly. It was in the 10 o'clock Eastern time last night. So I flipped on the live stream. I was like, I gotta watch this. And NASA kept describing it as a PAO event, a public affairs event last night. And here's what it produced. Here's the President of the United States last night, calling into these astronauts, and again, by laser technology from earth and inviting them when they get back to the Oval Office. Here's the President of the United States. I really look forward to when we can, I want to look forward to seeing you in the Oval Office. I'll ask Jared to bring you over and I'll ask for your autograph, because I don't really ask for autographs much, but you deserve that. You really are something. Everybody's talking about this. And I look forward to having you in the Oval Office at the White House and we will celebrate your incredible achievements and triumphs. This is big. This is really big stuff. The whole world is talking about it. And if you have the time, I will certainly find the time. I'll be pretty busy also, as you know, but I will absolutely find the time and we'll get together. And I'm going to be giving you a big salute on behalf of the American people and beyond that. A little delay. A little delay. There are hundreds of thousands of miles away. Thank you for that, Mr. President. And when you want us, we will be there. And thank you for your leadership. Thank you to Jared for his leadership. Really, thank you for taking the time out today to visit NASA. It's really special for us, but it's really special for the team on the ground. A whole team of people all around the world pulled this off. And we just want to say thank you to all of you for this. It is the thrill and honor of a lifetime to have been on this journey. Today was amazing, but this three-year journey has been amazing and it was made people, made possible by the American people and the Canadian people. And we're so grateful to you all. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much. And Jared, congratulations. We'll see you soon. And I know that you have Mars very much in your mind, so we'll start thinking about that pretty soon, I think. And thank you. Congratulations to everybody. I'll see you at the Oval Office. Thank you for your time, Mr. President. It's been an honor. Amazing. Just amazing. What a cool adventure. A lot of news, as always, including from out of this world. As always, we'll be back with you tomorrow on this program. We got a big show planned for you. 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