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Hey, we talk about the mass scandal in the media now that the media, of course, is avoiding.

But what has been exposed by Liz Wheeler?

It's much more

than Politico taking a few dollars.

What are they taking the dollars for?

And how did we go from eight yesterday to $34 million coming in to Politico from the government?

Also, why has the Senate committee delayed the vote on Cash Patel another week?

Same old story, but some real good insight on what's happening on that and what the Trump administration has just done that is really going to open up this whole exposing of every agency with Chris Bedford.

That's all on today's podcast.

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Liz Wheeler is here.

She is the host of Lace TV's The Liz Wheeler show.

She broke the news early yesterday that the federal government has been subsidizing Politico, not to the tune of $6 million, but $34.3 million.

She has the receipts.

Liz, welcome to the program.

Hi, Glenn.

Thanks for having me.

You bet.

So the media is now saying this is a right-wing conspiracy.

There's nothing nothing to see here.

But if the Trump administration,

if those people were all subscribers to the Blaze and we were getting $6 million or $35 million from the Trump administration, even if it was all legitimate, they would go apoplectic.

So tell me why this is...

What?

And they should go apoplectic if that were happening.

This is one of the biggest media scandals of this decade.

and it's also a litmus test.

Anybody in the swamp, anybody elected politician, anybody in the media who's defending Politico, getting this amount of money from the federal government, they're part of the problem.

They're the baddies, not the goodies here.

So what's happening is yesterday we woke up to news that Politico had received $8 million from U.S.

aid.

U.S.AID, of course, is a so-called autonomous agency of the federal government that Elon Musk has been doging.

He's been exposing corruption within that agency.

It's a CIA front.

It's a CIA front.

It is in charge of all of the color revolutions all around the world and the color revolution that they've been trying to pull here in America.

Anyway, go ahead.

That's exactly right.

I was going to say it's the nexus of the censorship industrial complex.

They've taken their political warfare abroad and aimed it back at us.

So no better target for Elon Musk than U.S.

aid.

This is a scandal in and of itself that Politico was receiving $8 million from them in 2024.

But what my team and I did did is we went onto this website where any American citizen can find out how their taxpayer money is spent.

It's called usaspending.gov.

And you plug in the name of any recipient, organization, group.

We type Politico into the keyword.

And then instead of just looking at year 2024, we said all fiscal years.

Let's see how much Politico has received in the last 10 years.

And what we found before our very eyes, it began to populate millions upon millions of dollars, totaling $34.3 million.

And Glenn, this is not just from USAID.

This is from a veritable laundry list of the most corrupt federal government swampy agencies like the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, sub-agencies like the FDA and the CDC and the EPA.

And if you look at when these subsidies started, they started just about the moment that Trump descended on that golden elevator in 2015.

That's when the gravy train for Politico started.

And then you can see it year by year in 2020 and 2021, when Joe Biden took office, all of a sudden, these subsidies to Politico increased exponentially.

Exponentially.

And of course, you'll have these defenders saying, well, these are just subscriptions that federal government employees paid for

Politico Pro.

It's like a $10,000 a year subscription.

They claim it's a premium service.

Aimed right for the Beltway.

Aimed right directly at the Beltway.

So go ahead.

100%.

Well, first of all, that's clinically insane to pay $10,000 for a subscription service.

That's not a subsidy.

That is patronage if you are paying $10,000.

But this is what money laundering is, right?

It's nebulous.

It's vague.

Money is fungible.

So if the bulk of your...

If the bulk of your revenue or a huge percentage of your revenue is coming from so-called federal government employees that are paying this exorbitant fee, what are you going to expect in response?

You're going to expect in response coverage exactly like Politico has given us, where they told us that Hunter Biden laptop story isn't real, that it was Russian disinformation.

Like they were the leader on that.

They were the leader on that.

Yep.

Yes, of course, which makes sense when you think about where they're getting all this $34.3 million from.

They were defenders of the COVID-19 jab, the Moderna jab, even for young men, which we now know it's very dangerous.

They're the ones, Glenn, that that led.

They broke the story when the Supreme Court leaker leaked that the Supreme Court was going to overturn Roe v.

Wade in the Dobbs case.

They were the ones that published that.

So they are an arm, they're a propaganda arm of the federal government.

This, as you said, is the biggest scandal in media.

So you know, Liz, just a point of information that most people don't know.

During the Obama administration, it may still be true, I don't know, you couldn't not only get to Blaze TV to log on on a government computer, you couldn't go to theblaze.com.

It was banned as a website for the government.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

So

anybody who was like, whoa, you know, they were just.

Well, there are a lot of people that wanted to, you know, subscribe and subscribe personally, not through their office, and just be able to to listen or watch or just get their news from the news site, theblaze.com.

And they were blocked.

Every government employee was blocked.

I did not know that.

I mean,

it proves exactly what we've been saying.

First of all, there is no justification on the face of this earth for $34.3 million to be given from the federal government agencies to a supposedly objective media organization.

There's just, there's no explanation for it.

We all know that.

The swamp creatures that are defending it are just exposing their true colors here.

We're not always lucky enough to have an email that says this $10,000 is for the big guy or this 10% is for the big guy, but we know.

We're smart people.

We use common sense.

We know how human nature works.

We know that if the federal government is giving this exorbitant amount of money to a media organization, what they're going to get in return is coverage and cover-ups and propaganda and emotional manipulation.

And exactly what we've seen from Politico for the past, for the past decade, you know, coincidentally since this gravy train began.

And one comment on, you know, the Blaze TV,

I double-checked this morning to see how much our subscriptions are because I was like, okay, I pay for a couple of subscriptions to

even mainstream media outlets, although I really try not to because I don't like to give them my money, but I need to for research purposes sometimes.

Me too.

Normal people pay $100 a year.

That's what, if you go to blazetv.com slash live, it's $120 for an annual subscription, and you can get $20 off.

That's what normal people pay.

And even then, they probably share the login, which also normal people do.

Well, we don't encourage that, but

yes, you're right.

I mean, you know,

my initial

payment to open the doors, I had a few partners, and I can't remember what they gave, but it was probably around 10 million together.

And I had put in 20 million myself.

We started this entire operation with $30 million.

$30 million is what kicked off the blaze when the technology didn't even exist, that we had to invent all of this stuff to do it.

To have $34 million coming in from the federal government, They are your master.

They are absolutely your master.

Could you talk about one thing, Liz?

The press is hanging their hat on the fact that some media outlets said

that was the cause of them not making payroll was Doge.

That didn't have anything to do with it, did it?

Well, it depends on if you are a swamp creature and you view the world through your own twisted reality or if you're a normal person that can look at things that probably aren't coincidences.

We were told that, according to this initial report, that Politico had never missed a paycheck before.

So I would just pose questions

to

all of us normies.

Do you think that's a coincidence that the day that their gravy train is cut off, that they're not able to make payroll?

It doesn't seem funny to me.

It's funny because

one of my producers knows one of the people at Politico and on the phone all day yesterday, arguing back and forth.

And this person said, we have payroll glitches here all the time.

And I thought, I've never had a payroll glitch.

I'd get another payroll service if it was glitchy all the time.

So, I mean, they either have the worst payroll service, which there's lots of them out there you can get that actually work,

or there was something else going on.

But that's not the story.

The story.

No, that's what they were using to distract from the $34.3 million.

Even the subscriptions are a distraction because they don't want us to think $34.3 million given from basically the Biden regime to Politico.

It is one of the most significant scandals the mainstream media has ever been exposed without an excuse, being in the middle of that I can remember.

So we also found out yesterday that our federal government gave millions of dollars to the BBC.

The BB freaking C.

That's supposed to be the Queen's money, not our money.

What the hell are we doing funding the BBC?

I mean, the

go ahead.

Listen, this is what's so critical to understand.

The reason that people like, I don't know if you've been watching Brian Stelter's X seed, it's quite funny because he's freaking out about this.

The same with Jen Saki on MSNBC.

She was like, there's a hostile takeover of the federal government happening because you and I are identifying ways that that taxpayer money has been corruptly abused.

That's a hostile takeover in her mind.

But the reason they're freaking out about this isn't just because their pet projects won't be funded anymore or they won't have a log in to their gossip reg Politico magazine or whatever it is.

The reason they're freaking out is because their mechanism of controlling us hinges on the mainstream media outlets, these corporate media outlets, running propaganda for them.

They'll never be able to lie to us and emotionally manipulate us if the media isn't taking a front, isn't taking a leading role in that.

And now they can't.

On top of that, they also have lost their gravy train through the NGOs.

They found a way to get all of their radical friends to open up an NGO and then funnel millions of dollars into it so they can do everything that they want with taxpayer dollars.

If you look at just USAID's 2023 fact sheet,

The agency supported 6,200 journalists, 707 news outlets, 279 media sector civil society organizations,

and this comes from the Columbia Journalism Review.

Now, I don't know.

If you've got 6,000 journalists on your payroll, you could probably influence a few people.

This has got to stop.

And I don't know what it's going to take for your neighbors to stop listening to the mainstream media.

That's why it's important not to say, in my opinion, that this is why they didn't make payroll because we can't prove that.

We don't know.

I mean, great coincidence, but we don't know.

It's important to say,

But this is provably true.

It's the thing with Ben Stiller and, you know, Angelina Jolie going over to Ukraine, getting $20 million.

That didn't happen.

That's not true.

You need to know what the truth is because the truth itself is so unbelievably powerful that you need to know what that is.

And that's what we try to give you here every day.

Liz, thank you for this expose.

It's great.

Thanks, Glenn.

Appreciate it.

You bet.

Liz Wheeler from the Liz Wheeler Show on Blaze TV.

She's the one that broke the, everybody else is talking about 8 million.

She's the one that broke yesterday.

It's $34 million.

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Pat Gray is filling in for Stu Regeere again today, who is off to the Super Bowl

to sit in one of those luxury boxes, I guess.

Way overpaid.

Anyway, I think he's going to be right next to Taylor Swift.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Making out.

Making out.

Poor Lisa.

I know.

I know.

It's just wrong.

It's just wrong.

It is wrong.

But anyway,

and the way he has just abandoned his Eagles because of Taylor Swift is

a lot, right?

It does.

It It is a lot.

I'm not sure which is worse, abandoning the Eagles or Lisa.

Both pretty Lisa, but they are pretty bad.

You know what I mean?

Long time.

I mean, he's been loyal to the Eagles longer than loyal to Lisa.

Yes, he has.

So, anyway.

And the Eagles aren't buying purses.

True.

Yeah.

Well, that's what Stu said.

That's what Stu said.

And

I would respond in his defense, but I don't see a defense.

But anyway,

let's move on from this personal information about Stu.

You guys do this to me too, don't you?

When I've got it.

Every time.

All right.

So the Republicans

have decided that

because I guess Dick Durbin, I don't know how this has happened because don't we have the majority on the committee?

I thought we did, yeah.

So the committee was supposed to have a vote to get Cash Patel out of

committee today.

Now they're saying it's going to happen next Thursday because Dick Durbin wants a second stab,

probably literally, at Cash Patel.

That is absolutely insane.

Insane.

It is.

The reason why I think this is happening is because,

yeah, Pam Bondi, she's not screwing around.

You need to have the FBI.

They've lost all of their radical funding from you know usaid they're going to lose all of the can you imagine how much corruption is in medicare medicaid oof can you imagine that's the next thing doge doge is taking on imagine the waste and the corruption in that

so you you just can't have the fbi uh as part of this you can't have a pit bull in there i think that's their thinking

one caveat I think the most important thing they don't want to happen is Cash Patel getting in and releasing

Jeff Steinstein files.

Yep.

Yeah.

I think that's a big part of it.

Who on that committee is part of that?

Yeah.

Would it surprise you if somebody on that

surprise me?

It wouldn't surprise me if it was both Republicans and Democrats.

No, I'm, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I have no idea.

I have absolutely no idea.

But here's what I want.

I just want to know.

Yeah.

I just want the truth.

And I don't care if, honestly, if it were all Republicans, I mean, I doubt that.

But if it was all Republicans, okay, let the chips fall where they may.

I want to know.

You know, honestly, this is kind of the p-diddy thing.

Why isn't that,

why isn't that case just busted wide open?

Right.

Why?

You know, the Pizzagate people, while they didn't, they weren't right about Pizzagate, there was something in our psyche that was telling us our children are being abused by powerful people.

Because look what's happening.

The power people, you know, in Hollywood and the power people in Washington seem to be doing this.

The power people of

the drug cartels is bringing it, bringing them in.

We've lost 300,000 children in the system, just gone.

What do you think is happening to those kids right now?

So there's something in us that said

this is a real problem.

And until we lance that boil,

until we know all of the details and we let the chips fall where they may, we're never going to fix the country.

And it's been six years.

Epstein died in 2019.

It's been going on six years now, and we still don't know.

How is that possible?

Because there's too many important people.

it.

Yeah.

I mean,

you're going to see Bill Gates go down.

Almost certainly.

You're going to see.

The way he's acting.

I mean, I'd be really surprised if he's not deeply involved.

Oh, my gosh.

I mean, what he's been saying the last couple of weeks.

Ah, wow.

Oh, you know, it was a big mistake to be around Epstein.

And yeah, I was having an affair.

I wasn't doing anything with the kids.

No, no.

Yeah, but I was having an affair, and my wife was right.

That was the biggest mistake of

my life, not listening to my wife and getting a divorce.

Was it, Bill?

Was it?

Yeah, I think we're going to find out some other bigger mistakes than that.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

And I can't wait.

You know, his first mistake, and a pretty big one, too, was to steal all the tech that he did from IBM and Xerox.

He still hasn't paid for that.

But that's going to be fascinating when that list comes out.

And it's inevitable now, and they they know it.

I mean,

Cash was on my show.

When was that, Sarah?

Last summer, maybe?

Maybe last spring?

He was sitting in my office and, you know, I'm going through, okay, so how does all this work?

And, you know,

where is the corruption?

He laid the whole corruption out on a chalkboard for me.

And we made it into an episode.

And he's sitting on my couch and he's like, no, you got to add that name and that name.

And here's what you have to go after.

And we got, and I said, so who, who has the Epstein stuff?

And he's like, I know right where it is.

It's in the hands of the director of the FBI.

Wow.

Now, my question is,

do we still know it's there?

Yeah, that's a good question.

And I think we do because

that would be a Trump person that is in there.

Even if...

Cash is not there, somebody is in charge of that vault.

I would have, you know, I would go into our nuclear silos and I'd get the two guys with the keys, you know, that, you know, can point a gun to each other and say, I want you to guard this safe because that's in there.

And if he starts to go bad, shoot him in the head.

He goes bad, you shoot him in the head.

You know,

I would want some fail safe on that because that is, can you imagine how valuable that is in the wrong hands?

Huge.

Imagine

the blackmail.

That's why all this stuff has to be exposed.

Even if nobody goes to jail, it has to be exposed because otherwise you're blackmailing.

You know, all these people are compromised.

You don't know who they are.

You don't know who might be compromising them.

You know,

that's not good.

Yeah.

And, you know, Bill Gates, not even probably the most powerful.

I mean, you've got Bill Clinton potentially, I would think.

Oh, yeah.

Who is with him multiple times?

Oh, yeah.

Like 20 trips overseas on the Lolita Express.

I mean, really, really not good.

So there are some names that are on there that are pretty powerful.

So you also have the FBI director in charge of all of the documents on the Biden family.

All of that is in that same safe.

I mean,

and

Cash Patel's going to drop all of it.

I mean, on day one,

I believe you will see on day one,

it will be breathtaking.

On what, I mean, I said to my

said to my staff,

we have to be ready because I don't know how they're going to drop it.

We have to have a team that is on that thing.

Whenever he is confirmed, on his first weekday,

he's going to do something amazing and probably drop something big like the Christopher Ray stuff or most likely the Epstein stuff.

And he'll drop that and

that's going to be earth shattering for a week.

That will be

easily will be poured over and just the names.

You'll just be talking about names.

I can't believe that we are sitting at a time where I have been, I mean, Pat, you and I have talked about this forever.

By 2025, we may not be a country anymore.

We've talked about that for 30, 40 years.

You know, if this keeps going at this pace and continues to speed up like it was, we're done as a nation.

I can't believe we're sitting here and I'm as optimistic as I am that we're going to make it.

Yeah.

We're going to make it.

Yeah.

And it is the movement, the rapid movement of Donald Trump that's making it possible that we might survive this.

Yeah.

Because

it is

all the activity that he has done in the first 17 days that will save this country.

Yeah.

He's got to codify it.

He's got to codify this stuff.

Otherwise,

otherwise somebody's going to come in.

Through legislation.

Yeah.

Otherwise, somebody's going to come in

and change it all.

I mean, if we don't win again in 2028, if Republicans don't win, they'll just change it all again.

Whatever Democrat is elected next will reverse everything he's ever done.

And that's the problem with executive orders.

So, one of the things that Donald Trump did, I have to tell you, I don't understand.

I've read this story three or four times today.

I just don't understand it.

But

people who do know are saying, oh, no, no, no.

This is the mother of all bombs,

what he just did.

The Office of Personnel Management sent a memo out on Tuesday to the heads and acting heads of all federal departments and agencies recommending that every agency revoke the career-reserved status for their chief information officers, so the CIOs of every agency.

By doing so and by also opening the roles to general employees, the establishmentarians presently occupying the increasingly politicized roles can be easily canned and replaced by individuals willing to carry out the president's agenda.

Now, we know that kind of stuff was happening.

They were going to try to start changing

the status of some roles, but they're going after the chief information officers, which I think one of the reasons why they're doing it is because

you have

tech and Elon Musk is under

tech.

Barack Obama put this office into the White House that if we can improve our government efficiency through the use of digital technology, it should be done.

And so

that's where he's working.

And so when people say he doesn't have the right to do anything, yeah, he does.

Yeah, he does.

But the chief information officer is the tech officer.

And so I don't know exactly why

this is such a big deal.

We're going to explain it.

I've got somebody who actually knows.

They're going to explain it to me and to you here in just a second.

The other thing that has happened in the last 24 hours is

they're fighting back now on

the Medicare, Medicaid, all of the information that everybody has on health.

And

the reason why now the unions are pushing back on saying that Elon Musk can't have any access to Social Security numbers, he can't have access to any names, anything, not their health records.

They don't want him to have the Social Security number.

Why?

I think

it's because they're going to find out exactly how much these people with Social Security numbers are reporting to the IRS.

If you aren't going to work and you're being paid full time, are you making more

than you were

when you were working here in the building?

That's fraud.

You're working for us full-time.

I think

these guys are so brilliant.

I've been saying this for a while.

The left has been so genius at what they're doing,

it's admirable.

I mean,

you have to admire it, okay?

It's evil, but

you have to look back and go, that was

expertly done and brilliant.

We've caught up to them.

We've caught up to them.

And I think what's playing out is absolutely brilliant.

And this is only phase one, kids.

This is phase one.

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Let me go to Chris Bedford.

Christopher Bedford, he is the Blaze Media Senior Editor for Politics and Blaze Media Washington correspondent.

Chris, have you seen anything like what has been happening the last 17 days?

Never, never, and I never expected to.

And no one I know here in Washington ever expected to.

There's a lot of people who've been here a long time.

And, you know, I I was listening in your introduction.

You're talking about, well, Donald Trump said he was going to do this, but I've been in D.C.

now for over 20 years, and a lot of people say they're going to do a lot of things, and it never happens.

I got to a point where I rolled my eyes and Republicans talked about the Department of Education for tackling USAID, where I could go around and talk to rooms of congressmen and senators and say, why are you funding the universities?

Why are you funding the left-wing activist groups?

Why don't you stop that?

And they just looked at me blankly.

Well, it seems too hard.

It seems too difficult.

This is a revolution going on, a soft, peaceful revolution in the way the federal government works, and it will have lasting impact.

Yeah, I hope so.

I hope the Republicans don't screw it up.

What the hell is happening with Cash Patel

in the committee?

Why didn't they vote on him today?

That's a whole lot of essentially niceties going on.

At the beginning of this, Chuck Rashley, who I think is actually a good senator,

he's 92 and he also goes by the rules.

He's got his standards.

When they began the committee at the beginning of the Congress, they should have gotten rid of some of these rules that haven't been useful for a long time and existed from a period where Democrats and Republicans maybe came to bipartisan consensus.

One of them was the ability to delay a hearing.

A single member on that committee can ask.

They wanted to look for more information.

The problem with this is you know that these Democrats are going to vote in line against Cash Patel.

They're not looking for more information.

They're simply looking to delay and to sink.

Anything they can dig up to scare Republicans, they're going to do.

Republicans and Democrats, neither side has been able to use this rule for years now to do anything other than delay.

It actually hasn't changed any outcomes so far.

But I tell you, it does have some people nervous that they're going to find something to cause some kind of weak-kneed Republicans to quibble a little bit.

But I still think he's on lock right now to be confirmed in about 10 weeks.

I think so too.

Why did Chuck Grassley do this?

I mean, you know,

they always play by the rules, and I understand, but this isn't ⁇ you know, when you're using the rules as they're intended, that's fine.

But when you have

a bullcrap reason for doing it, and everyone knows this is just to delay.

Why is he going along with it?

You know, a good illustration of kind of the way he's been a chairman is he's so he's sort of an older time in the U.S.

Senate of more bipartisan consensus, which, by the way, I'll point out is also a time when Republicans are more of a controlled opposition party, the one that actually really governed or played hardball.

And it was wild to watch him during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings because he was looking left and right, and you could tell he was just kind of overwhelmed and amazed at the viciousness of the attacks from Democrats and how far they were willing to go.

It took him by surprise.

And old dogs don't learn a whole lot of new tricks.

So

he walked into this committee process as thinking someone we're going to have mutual respect between the parties.

Yeah, that's so good.

So we're going to go by the way the rules were.

And not, I think, fully expecting just how vicious Democrats might get.

If he were to go back, I suspect, if he had a go-back switch, he would have gotten rid of this rule at the time, but it was an oversight.

Let me switch to Doge and Elon Musk.

The media is running a non-stop campaign against Elon Musk.

He is doing everything the president campaigned with him on the campaign trail.

He would bring him out, say, this is the guy who's going to go in and he's going to look at every budget.

He's going to, with a team, go and look at everything.

He's doing it the right way.

He's doing it through the Office of Digital.

What is the office that he's actually running?

It was set up by Barack Obama to, if we can make government more efficient by digitizing things, we should.

That's the office he's working out of.

And the left is just losing their mind.

It's kind of wild.

I'm writing about it right now for tomorrow's Beltway Brief newsletter about, if you're on the Capitol Hill listservs, I used to have a house in Capitol Hill.

My wife is on the mom's listservs.

People are setting up support groups for federal workers who may have their feelings hurt or may be looking at eight months of paid salary if they resign.

People are trying to search around.

Can we find a USAID flag that I can fly in front of my house next to the rainbow flag, never an American flag on Capitol Hill?

The absolute panic gripping the city is incredible because Republicans have never actually done what they said they were going to do to actually tackle the deep state, to actually look at the bureaucracy.

I mean, tonight is the deadline for federal employees to take the offer that Elon Musk put out on behalf of the president to take a buyout until the summer in order to resign.

So you get paid, you get to look for another job, you get to figure things out.

And people at first were suspicious, but the numbers keep on growing.

10,000, 20,000 people have taken it.

And I strongly suspect that by the midnight deadline, which they've announced they will not extend, you're going to have an absolute flurry of people who say, I'm out of here.

I'm done.

I'm quitting.

You can't fire me.

I got to tell you, I would be taking that.

I mean, especially if I disagreed with Donald Trump, I'd get the hell out of town because, you know, especially in Intel, when Tulsi Gavard starts to go through those 18 agencies,

you know, you know, things were done and things were done at USAID that does the president know about this?

Let's not ask any questions.

President doesn't need to know.

When it comes to these black ops, you know, there are people who are like, I'm not taking the fall for this.

Excuse me.

I'm not taking the fall for this.

If we get caught, it's on your head, not mine.

All those conversations that have happened over the last 20, 30, 40 years,

all those chickens are coming home to roost.

I'd get the hell out of there, or I'd become a whistleblower.

You've been talking about this

ever since I first saw you on TV decades ago about the corruption and the connectedness between USAID, Department of State, the federal grants they give out, the lawsuits and the activist groups.

And this has been a real blessing, finally, for Elon Musk to pull it off and to see all these organizations and to have

these young and brilliant people who spend their free time trying to use computers to read ancient scrolls are now focusing their attention on what's going on in Washington, D.C.

And the interconnectedness and how much of the American left and the global left, which has been so successful that they seemed impenetrable and indestructible these last couple 20 years or so, how much they're actually funded,

how much of it is fake, how much of it comes out of the U.S.

taxpayer, how much of it can't possibly stand up on its own.

And I think that half of the freak out that we're seeing isn't just because of USAID, which is a huge spreader of this money, but because of what they expect to be found after USAID as they dig deeper, as you get people like Telsey Gabbard, exactly to your point.

So tell me, you wrote a story today

that

honestly I don't really understand about the

CIOs of every agency.

Can you tell me, you said this was absolutely critical and a very big deal.

I don't understand it.

Can you explain it?

Talk down to it.

It is because so when you have the secretaries and the directors, they come in and they're appointed or they're confirmed by the Senate or they're sent in by the White House.

They rely on a team in these departments and agencies.

One of the top people they rely on is the chief information officer.

Now that's someone that the left will always say, oh, they're non-political.

They're non-political.

But non-political in D.C.

is code for Democrat.

This city is 95% Democrat.

That is all of them.

So non-political is just don't touch me.

I'm above the rules.

I defend the Democrats.

Now, some of these guys are actually in there doing Yaman's work.

But by and large, if you're the new secretary and you walk in and you say, I want all the communications between my agency, EPA, and these outside environmental groups, or I want to see what communications you had with the FBI on this subject, or I would like to see where all the projects are going.

I want an accounting for everything.

Where is the money going?

The chief information officer is the person who's going to get that to you.

And when they're trying to move against you like they were in the first Trump administration, That just ends up with leaks of the New York Times.

It ends up with lawsuits.

It ends up with different activist groups coming at you.

Personal friends I know of mine, some of which declined to buy the insurance before going in, ended up being sued for millions of dollars for decisions that they made as executives to go after different kinds of wasteful spending that we're seeing go on right now.

Chief Information Officer can be someone who controls that.

But also, they do a lot of cybersecurity and protection of American data and American secrets.

In the modern world, With the Trump administration, they're looking at this and saying, I can get an engineer from Palantir.

I can get someone from Peter Thiel's world to come in here and do cybersecurity.

Sure, it's a pay cut, but it's a couple of years as a chief information officer, Department of State, EPA, any of these different groups.

That's a cool thing on their resume.

It's an opportunity for them to serve, and we're going to get top-notch talent that way.

So, in every aspect, American security and the ability of the executive to actually know what's going on in their own agency, this is a crucial move, even if it is a little in the weeds.

I thank you for explaining that in a way I can understand.

The other thing that I saw today was that

they are freaking out about Doge going into

Medicare, Medicaid

and looking into

what department is that?

Health and Human Services.

Yeah.

And so going into there, which is a big one, they're expecting to find all kinds of fraud in that.

And

the unions are starting to organize and saying,

he can see raw numbers, but

we can't allow him to have any access to

names or social security numbers or anything else of any employee.

And one of the thoughts is that he is going to run those social security numbers and find out what you were paying in taxes, what you're making.

Are you working from home on another job when you're supposed to be working full-time?

Have you heard that?

Yes, that's one of the things.

That's one of the ways that the administration has to fire people with cause is having secondary work and

taking money from outside sources while you're supposed to be a full-time federal employee.

How many of these people are taking gigs with the gig economy?

How many of these people are taking payments from some other side hustle?

It's kind of, it's been really wild.

It's been a conversation around school playgrounds and even to churches around D.C.

between employees who, for the first time, time, that they've been six-figure federal employees for years, have to figure out who's going to watch their kids during the day while they're at work, the kind of thing that you and I had to figure out when we went to work.

We put on our big boy pants and went to a job.

And it shows you exactly

where their priorities have been.

D.C.'s outside markets on a nice day and outside bars and cafes are absolutely packed with people hanging out with their friends, quote unquote, working from home.

And you'll see it over and over again.

And it's something that Elon musk has railed against in his oh yeah in his previous companies at uh his rocket ship company at

tesla at twitter he comes in and says we're done you're coming into the office it's essential for you to be here and this is going to be a path for him to get in there but it is one of the freakouts and it's it's one of the places you're going to start to see they're so disorganized right now but start to see a flurry of lawsuits from the unions, from employees, and from activist groups trying to stop everything they they can.

So progress, this is kind of the opening strike, and I expect progress too slow and grind down a little bit.

But if he keeps on moving at this pace, this frenetic pace, he keeps on working weekends, as he says, we're still going to make incredible progress.

I got to tell you, I talked to Holman last night, and I said, you know, how far planned out are all of you guys?

And he said, oh, we're in phase one.

In about four weeks, phase two is coming, and then we have three and four.

He said, I'm not going going to give anything away, but we're a long way from being done.

This is well planned out.

I don't think it's going to slow down.

Imagine if the liberals could go back in time and just treat Donald Trump like a normal Republican instead of trying to put him in prison.

I think they would take that deal in a heartbeat.

What they've created now is incredible.

Thank you so much.

Christopher Bedford, he is Blaze Media Senior Editor for Politics, Blaise Media Washington correspondent.

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