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00:00Thank you, Steve. Good morning, everybody. You've got radical activists now putting a target

00:04on Tesla. You've had dealerships across the country being shut up and firebombed.

00:09How the DOJ is now responding. Morning, everybody. Dana's got the day off. I'm Bill

00:14Hemmer live on a Thursday. Hello there. Good morning, everybody. Good to be with you, Bill.

00:18I'm Martha MacCallum. The alarm was slightly earlier today. A little bit earlier on the old

00:23alarm. Thanks for saying yes. Up and at it. Good to be here. So the FBI is investigating attacks

00:28on at least seven Tesla facilities over the course of the past month. It's not just dealerships

00:34that are being hit. People who own the cars are also being threatened. So the DOJ is calling

00:40the vandals domestic terrorists and they vow now to hunt them down and hold them accountable.

00:45Here's the A.G. We have charged multiple people. Get ready. More coming. They're targeting Tesla

00:51owners. They're targeting Tesla dealerships. They're targeting Elon Musk, who is out there

00:55trying to save our country. And it will not be tolerated. We are coming after you. We will find

01:00you. And if you are an organized group who is funding this, we're going to find you, too. You

01:04better look out and you better stop it. Lisa Cunha's got live news now from Denver on that.

01:09That's where we begin. You had a dealership north of town that was hit there. Good morning.

01:13Good morning, Bill. Good morning, Martha. And there is a Web site now that says it's

01:18posting personal information of Tesla owners in the U.S. names, addresses and phone numbers

01:24and encouraging Web site visitors to vandalize in protest. The Trump administration promises to go

01:31after the people who are firebombing and spray painting dealerships around the country.

01:35Here's the president with Laura Ingraham. Lunatics are setting fire to Tesla's all

01:41across the country. Do you consider this an act of domestic terror? I think I think so. Why?

01:45I think that if and when they catch the people and I hope they do. The good thing is they have

01:50a lot of cameras in those places and they've caught some already having to do with that.

01:54I think that you will find out that they're paid by people that are very highly political on the left.

02:01Law enforcement has been responding to scenes similar to this attack at a Las Vegas Tesla

02:05dealership and service center for the last two months, ever since the company's CEO,

02:11Elon Musk, began working with President Trump and his efforts with Doge. The FBI is investigating

02:17as incidents have spread to multiple Tesla storefronts and charging stations in at least

02:2311 states. A handful of arrests have been made, but so far the FBI has not said if they are

02:30connected. And look at this. This man has been arrested for keying a woman's Tesla in a San Jose

02:36parking lot while she was in Costco. And that is just one example of everyday folks now being

02:42targeted back to that website bill I mentioned off the top. Reportedly, whomever runs it says

02:48they will remove personal information once an owner can prove they sold their Tesla.

02:54Oh, there's the demand. Yeah. See how that goes. At least a heavy handed tactic. All right,

02:59let's bring in Kerry Urban, Fox News legal editor. Kerry, so that's new information about this

03:05website that is doxing people. And it says when you get rid of your Tesla, I'll take your name

03:10down. How hard is it to find these people and prosecute? Yeah, look, I mean, what's happening

03:16is suspicable. I think we can all agree on that. But your question is a good one, Martha. How hard

03:19is it? It's harder than people think. I will say that. And the reason I say that is because we ran

03:24into this with Antifa when I was at the Department of Justice working for Bill Barr. I think people

03:28thought, well, it should be obvious who these people are. It wasn't. And I you know, the

03:31president made a good point to Laura Ingraham about the cameras at these dealerships. That

03:34does make things easier reviewing the footage. But typically people don't walk around raising

03:40their hands when they're committing these acts and outwardly identifying in a way that you

03:45would think that I think that some people think they do. Like, for instance, with Antifa,

03:50I think people thought it was the organization around it was much more obvious. And it was

03:55difficult determining one organization and two funding sources. However, I do think the usage

04:01of domestic terrorism as a label here is appropriate, given that is what we're seeing.

04:06We're seeing people who are intimidating the civilian population here in the United States

04:11because they're trying to influence the government and they're doing so via these

04:14harmful acts. And so while there is no specific law against domestic terrorism,

04:20what it typically used is how it's used as a sentencing enhancement. So the underlying crime

04:26itself is charged and then they bring in domestic terrorism or terrorism as a way to up the amount

04:31of time someone say could spend in prison. OK, so some people are making fun of this,

04:35but you may have seen the clip Jimmy Kimmel had. He gave it a shot the other night. Watch here.

04:42Tesla stock is way down, almost disastrously so. People have been

04:50vandalizing Tesla vehicles, new Tesla vehicles. Please don't vandalize. Don't ever vandalize

04:57Tesla vehicles. And so I. Bit of a mic drop there. Tim Walz is on stage doing a similar thing. I

05:04don't know how that plays with a lot of people. Meanwhile, the judge overseeing the deportation

05:09has extended the deadline. He was the judge said the court seeks this information to determine if

05:14the government deliberately flouted its orders issued on March 15, 2025, and if so, what the

05:20consequences should be. The information is looking for is when do the planes leave, which airspace

05:25were they in at the time? If he declares a violation, what even happens now, Gary?

05:30Well, there could be consequences, right? If he determines that the government has violated his

05:37order, typically that would be that would look like something along the lines of contempt. However,

05:41I will say that the judicial branch is typically very, very reticent to punish the executive branch

05:47in that way. It rarely happens. So he may just chastise them. However, you know, look, there's a

05:54much bigger issue going on here. It's one thing to argue over whether the Alien Enemies Act was

06:00the best authority through which the Trump administration could have removed these people

06:05on those planes. OK, that's one question. And that's the thing that's ultimately going to be

06:08argued and hashed out through the courts. But it's another thing to use these temporary

06:12restraining orders out of the gate, you know, for a judge to order that planes be redirected midair.

06:19It's it's stunning. And I think it's emblematic of, I think, the abuse of these injunctions that

06:26we're seeing across the country with respect to the Trump administration. And I really hope that

06:30Chief Justice Roberts, you know, he put out that statement about, you know, people need to follow

06:34the normal appellate review. Well, you know, I hope that means that the Supreme Court intends

06:37to get involved sooner than later in one of these presidential power cases, because anyone you don't

06:42have to be a lawyer looking at this can take a look at what these judges are doing and saying,

06:46what's the point of being president? You know, what's the point of having elections if judges

06:50can interfere at every step of the way? Kerry, let's take a look at this exchange with Laura

06:55Ingram and President Trump when she asked him about whether or not he would do exactly what

06:59you just pointed to, which is to defy a judge's directive. Watch this.

07:05Are there circumstances where you would defy a court order?

07:08Well, I think that, number one, nobody's been through more courts than I have. I think nobody

07:13knows the courts any better than I have. I would say the chief judge does, but nobody knows them

07:18better than I have. And what what they've done to me, I've had the worst judges. I've had crooked

07:24judges. Would you defy a court order? We all know that. I never did defy a court order. And

07:30you wouldn't in the future? No, you can't do that. No, you can't do that. He said after a little back

07:35and forth there, Kerry. Yeah, I thought that was a good answer. It was a wise answer for sure.

07:40It's a long game answer. But again, this is why I think it is imperative at this point that the

07:44Supreme Court get involved in one of these cases, because it's becoming an untenable situation.

07:48It really is. And when you look at the numbers and you look at the amount of these

07:51blocks against Trump administration action compared to previous administration,

07:55the numbers don't even compare. What kind of determination, Kerry, could the Supreme Court

07:59make at this level where you've got all these different things coming from different directions

08:03that would sort of wet blanket some of this action? Well, for instance, it was the USAID

08:10funding case. Recently, they chose not to get involved in that at that point. And Justice

08:15Alito, when he had several colleagues of his join him, was enraged because he said,

08:22he basically was saying you're living in an ivory tower in terms of this review,

08:25because now by not getting involved, the two billion dollars that the Trump administration

08:29had paused to make sure it wasn't being used fraudulently or wastefully now goes out the

08:33window. They're not getting that money back. Right. And so here there is an expedited appeal

08:39on the temporary restraining order itself before the D.C. federal appeals court.

08:46A hearing on that has been set for Monday of next week. Now, depending on how that goes,

08:50I'm sure one of the sides is going to appeal. Right. There's an opportunity for the Supreme

08:53Court to step in. Now, are they going to want to on this one? I don't know. But again,

08:58if the chief is going to make these rare public statements, I think he needs to read the room a

09:02little bit and say, OK, why are people calling for the impeachment of a judge? Because they

09:07are frustrated by what they see as, you know, really outrageous interference by the judicial

09:14branches, the executive branches functioning at this point. And we have a major separation

09:18of powers issue on our hand and we have to resolve it one way or the other. Well,

09:20conversely, two years ago, there's a question about abortion drug in Texas.

09:24It kind of went like this with AOC. Watch this.

09:30I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling. So you're saying the Biden

09:35administration should ignore this court. But what does that look like? What does that actually mean?

09:40You know, I think the interesting thing when it comes to a ruling is that it relies on

09:47enforcement and it is up to the Biden administration to enforce,

09:52to choose whether or not to enforce such a ruling.

09:54It's pretty rich when you look at it in the mirror there.

09:58Carrie, thank you so much for running. Thank you. Much more to come, I'm sure. Thanks.

10:03So the brother of the illegal immigrant who murdered Lakin Riley is now also heading to

10:09prison, a judge sentencing him to four years for having a fake green card. After he serves

10:15that sentence, he will be handed over to ICE and deported. His brother is serving life in prison

10:20for murdering Riley. He killed her while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus

10:25in February of last year. So meanwhile, Fox News learning that Columbia University is signaling it

10:31will comply with White House demands to restore 400 million dollars in federal funding. Trump

10:38administration canceled the grants earlier in the month over how the school handled the wave of

10:43anti-Semitism on campus. Alexis McAdams, she's been on campus a lot, almost a student.

10:48Can you believe I'm in here? No degree. I'm going to ask about it, but nothing yet. But

10:52as soon as the Trump administration kind of took over here, they told these Ivy League schools,

10:56including Columbia, they were not messing around. They demanded that Ivy League schools like

11:00Columbia make major changes on their campus, including banning masks and holding students

11:05who participated in what they call legal protests accountable. So this comes after the Trump

11:10administration launched investigations into this university last month. A video you're looking at

11:14was from the Hamilton Hall takeover and then those encampments where the students just

11:18wouldn't listen to the faculty. The Trump administration says Columbia failed to protect

11:23their Jewish students on campus, accusing the school of inaction in the face of persistent

11:28harassment of Jewish students. The administration pulling at least 400 million dollars in the

11:34funding and the contracts, forcing them to listen up and threatening to cut billions more.

11:38The investigation, though, happens as ICE arrested Mahmoud Khalil, who we've talked about. He was the

11:43Columbia University grad who led those pro-Palestinian protests on campus. He was just

11:48arrested the other day. We now have that video that shows him being taken into custody. He's

11:52originally from Syria, now being investigated as a national security threat and looking at

11:57deportation. Dozens of other schools have been on notice by the Trump administration. Look at those

12:03pictures there. We're talking from everywhere from Harvard to the University of Minnesota, NYU,

12:08and more. So we're keeping a close eye on that. This week, pro-Palestinian protesters on UCLA's

12:14campus briefly occupied parts of an engineering building and hung free Gaza banners. So it

12:19continues and we're hearing that it could possibly speed up, not just on campuses, but in places

12:24across the country. Columbia University says they do understand how serious this is and they're

12:28going to work to do everything they can to fix it. But I think for parents and all these students

12:33out there that dealt with this for months, they're wondering why did the Trump administration have to

12:36step in to make the school enforce the rules. Their rules. UCLA was trash last year. Yeah. Watch

12:42that. All these campuses, you know. This is why these institutions, universities have a president.

12:47That's right. The president is supposed to lead the organization and do it well and keep

12:52people safe. So that's what happens. Huge wake up call, guys. Funny what happens when the money gets cut off.

12:59If you recall several years ago, this story went on for a very long time. A jury has now

13:08found that Greenpeace is liable for big money and damages over these pipeline protests.

13:14Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is going to take that on coming up live in a moment. And did you

13:19catch this? No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings and not presidents who think

13:27they are kings. So that's Boston Mayor Michelle Wu extending her gaze to Washington, D.C.,

13:35tearing into President Trump. Does she have enough problems in her own backyard? Plus this.

13:44So these are anti-Israel protesters perhaps getting even more aggressive by the march,

13:51pushing past the NYPD and entering a building in lower Manhattan.

13:58It's right here. Everyone thinks that's the nuclear. Everyone thinks that's the nuclear

14:05weapon. They think it's a nuclear weapon. They say, if I press this, it's the end of the world.

14:11And then it's like the business seems to work out. This was kind of an interesting tour,

14:16was it not, Martha? So Laura got an exclusive tour of the new Oval Office. He showed off his

14:22copy, the Declaration of Independence, the map of the Gulf of America. And, of course,

14:26that famous Diet Coke button. Problem is, he pressed it and it didn't come in.

14:31That's what I was in trouble. So that so does become the president's trademark drink,

14:34including on the golf course, as you see right there. So that's the update from the Oval. Now,

14:51so those left wing activists nearly a decade ago trying to block construction

14:55of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now, a North Dakota jury is finding Greenpeace liable for

15:02hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in connection with those protests. Interior

15:07Secretary Doug Burgum, who was governor of North Dakota during some of those protests,

15:11is going to join us in just moments with his this big win, really, for energy independence.

15:16But first, William Lajeunesse live with the background on this story and the verdict.

15:21Hi, William.

15:23Hey, good morning, Martha. Two stories here, really. One is this massive judgment, right?

15:27Six hundred and sixty million dollars. Does it bankrupt and kill Greenpeace? Secondly,

15:33does it stifle other progressive groups that use social media, publicity stunts and boycotts from

15:38fighting big oil and other projects? So let's go back. Twenty seventeen vandalism and protests

15:43go violent when demonstrators clash with police over a pipeline under the Missouri River.

15:49President Obama had stopped it, but President Trump helped restart construction of the 1200

15:54mile pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to refineries in the Midwest. Activists, however,

16:00did not back down. The pipeline company alleged that Greenpeace orchestrated and coordinated

16:06a campaign to stop construction, recruiting and paying protesters, then providing intelligence,

16:12training, tents, tools and 30 lock boxes to chain themselves to equipment,

16:18leading to some seven hundred arrests. Now, the company's lead attorney, Trey Cox,

16:23said in a statement, quote, This verdict clearly conveys that when the right to peacefully protest

16:28is abused in a lawless and exploitive manner, such actions will be held accountable. Now,

16:34unanimously, the jury found Greenpeace liable also because it defamed and used false claims

16:40to force banks to divest from the pipeline costing millions. Question is, will this judgment

16:46force other social justice and environmental groups to reconsider how they fight big oil and

16:51others? This is a really critical time for people to step into exercising our First Amendment rights.

16:58This is to scare us. And what you know in this moment where it's likely that other

17:03corporations are trying to see, oh, will this have the intended chilling effect?

17:07So Greenpeace says it will appeal not just in North Dakota, but countersuit in the Netherlands,

17:12where it is based internationally. Martha, we imagine. Thank you, William. Yeah. Doug Burgum,

17:17secretary of the interior. So thanks for coming on. You were the governor of North Dakota at that

17:21time. What do you remember? Well, Bill, I took office on December 15th of November 16th,

17:29and at that time there was thousands of protesters camping illegally on federal land.

17:34This this protest, there was a separate trial that showed that the Obama administration,

17:38which was still in office that time, was putting their thumb on the scale on the on the side of

17:43the protesters. And this was this hurt. It hurt the tribe. It hurt their casino. It hurt their

17:50their their revenues. The local ranchers and farmers are being terrorized. The law was being

17:55broken every possible which way, not just trespassing, but human trafficking, sex

17:59trafficking, drug trafficking, ATF issues, arms issues. I mean, this place was a toxic mix

18:07of protests all in there, grifting and trying to grab national attention. And I'd say today's

18:12ruling is for the really for the rule of law. I mean, in North Dakota, we understand free speech.

18:17We support free speech. But there's a difference between free speech and violence. And I think

18:23free speech and violence. And I think this is a timely, a timely and appropriate outcome from

18:29the jury. Six hundred sixty million. No small sum there. Let's talk about oil. Let's talk about gas

18:35in America. There were at least 13 oil executives. Big summit of the White House yesterday meeting

18:40with the president. We can put on screen the names of those companies. They're big ones seen all over

18:45the world, especially here. Chevron was there pushing access in Venezuela. I understand as we

18:51see the reveal, let's go to the average price per gallon of regular gas. A year ago, three fifty

18:58one. Today, it's down thirty nine cents to three dollars and twelve cents. Well, from what I'm

19:03reading, the executives weren't really concerned about the price of gas. They were concerned about

19:08the speed of permitting. What was the response on that and tell us why that's important?

19:15Well, Bill, this is a you know, there's been a whole of government attack against U.S. energy

19:20by the Biden administration, and it's been brought in every possible which way, not just

19:26protests, but in supporting protests, but also the the regulatory regime and the regulatory regime is

19:32not just about the production of more energy, but also the transportation, the pipelines, linear

19:40linear infrastructure ground to a halt under the Biden administration, the sale of leases on public

19:47land ground to a halt. And now in this room of innovators and job creators, because that's what

19:54those companies do together. They represent almost a two trillion dollars of our economy,

20:02eleven million jobs. And energy isn't just an industry. Energy is the foundation of all other

20:08industries because of lower energy costs support, lower prices in every category, whether it's the

20:15food you eat or the clothes you wear. And so a very productive conversation. But the highlight is,

20:20yeah, the regulatory regime is adding cost and taking adding cost to the production of energy.

20:26And that's ending up as cost to every American in everything they buy.

20:29Well, drill baby drills like music to their ears, I guess. We came across this story,

20:35sir, and I want to get your reaction to it. It had to do during the Biden years about natural

20:40gas and its exports. And apparently this story was pushed underground. Here are the headlines.

20:45Study found U.S. gas exports did not impact climate change. That's one headline. So the

20:50Biden administration buried it. Biden Energy Department failed to release the study to

20:53Congress or the public. That's according to the Trump administration, of which you're now a part.

20:57Here's Chris Wright, Energy Secretary with Brett last night on this topic.

21:02Those days of pseudoscience and frankly, outright deception. Those are over. The Trump administration

21:08is about math, about data and about the American people. They change some assumptions around made

21:14made up some fictitious scenarios to sort of support their agenda. But that's just shameless.

21:21You can't mess with energy for political reasons. This is just critical to the American people.

21:26Elections have consequences with a different result. Maybe we don't know that. Did you know that?

21:33Well, Chris Wright couldn't have said it better. I mean, this report that they found in the

21:39Department of Energy that had been suppressed had the exact opposite conclusions a year.

21:44Then a year later, the Biden administration came out with a new study that led to the pause in

21:51building in approving export facilities for U.S. natural gas, which, of course, hurt Americans

21:56and hurt our allies in Western Europe, helped our adversaries that were in the oil and gas business.

22:02And so, again, it's it's not only unthinkable that they would suppress real, accurate information

22:09that would be beneficial to America, but they're doing things that was actually helping

22:13people that were funding wars against us. I want to squeeze this in Ukraine and nuclear

22:19power plants. There's a suggestion we might own one. They've got five right now. Chernobyl is

22:24closed to make it four in that country. Is this going to happen? Quick answer on that, sir.

22:29Well, I think nuclear power has got a big future both here and abroad. But right now at home,

22:36as part of what we need to do to win the arms race with China, we've got to build more electricity

22:40right here at home. That's the most important thing. We've got to cut through the permitting

22:44and we've got to bring more natural gas fired electrical plants online quickly.

22:48We've got to save every clean, beautiful coal plant in America. If there's a coal plant running

22:53today in America, it's clean because they've survived 20 years of regulatory onslaught.

22:57We need all that electricity to bring prices down for Americans and to turn

23:02electricity into intelligence. That's what you manufactured, an A.I. data center.

23:06And that's what we're going to need to drive productivity and to win this arms race with

23:10China around artificial intelligence. That's a 180 from the past four years,

23:14sir. Thanks for coming on. More to get to certainly next time around. OK,

23:17Doug Burgum, thank you for your time today. Appreciate it. Thank you, Bill.

23:22OK, I don't know if he knows his identity. I don't know if he knows what he's about. And

23:25clearly America doesn't either, which is why they rejected him and Kamala.

23:30Boy, Tim, well, it's making a lot of news lately, right? Republicans

23:33piling on failed V.P. candidate Tim Walz, although he's done a pretty good job of putting himself

23:38out in front on a number of issues. Comments on the Tesla shares,

23:42how Elon Musk is responding to all of this. That is coming up. Plus,

23:47new Fox polls show how voters really feel about what Doge is doing to cut government waste.

23:53Money man Charles Payne joins us on set now.

24:02Well, the helicopters were in the air yesterday in New York yet again with the TV cameras,

24:05and they were taking a part of this right here, taking this in anyway, chaotic scene,

24:09lower Manhattan protesters pushing past police and going into the Oculus, which is a stunning

24:15new building at the World Trade Center hub, waving flags and shanty and chanting anti-Israel slogans.

24:22After IDF renews the bombing against Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the NYPD moving quickly

24:26to escort them out. That did not last long, but it did happen. New York.

24:32Some brand new Fox polls came out last evening showing voters say that cutting wasteful

24:37government spending is important, but they do have some concerns. They registered over

24:42how Doge is implementing some of those cuts. Charles Payne, host of Making Money on Fox

24:47Business, joins us. Charles, great to have you with us today. Let's pop up this first

24:52full screen here, which is the amount of government spending that is wasteful.

24:5813 percent said almost all, 44 percent, a great deal. And I'm good enough at math to tell you

25:03that that's 57 percent. Yeah, more than that. That's a lot of folks think that it's almost

25:08all or most of it wasteful. Yeah. And only 7 percent said not much. So it's like we know

25:14everyone understands that the government is bloated. Everyone has had their own issues.

25:18Everyone's got a horror story about dealing with a bloated government, what it means, right? Slow

25:22downs in this, missing that, whatever. Some of them are really ugly. And we understand also we're

25:26in a financial crisis. Otherwise, President Trump would not be President Trump. So there's no doubt

25:31that this is a major, major issue. Maybe there's some debate over how to address it, but there's

25:37never been any doubt that this is a problem. And it's, you know, for most people, it's a ticking

25:41time bomb. Here's my question for you. Back on this polling here. Don't need a call for guys.

25:46Six and 10 feel that a great part of federal government is wasteful and inefficient,

25:53yet only 51 percent. So just a slight majority now substantially think that shrinking the number

25:58of government employees is a good idea. Sixty five percent worry that not enough thought and

26:03planning has gone into it. When Musk bought Twitter and went in and laid off, what is it,

26:08two thirds of the staff, I believe. Right now it's X. Right. Do you think that's a good

26:14comparison in a case like this for Doge? One, it was it turned out to be a private company. Right.

26:20I mean, the sooner you cut this stuff, the better. But you're dealing with the government,

26:23you're dealing with the public. There's an image that also that that and I think he's already

26:28talked a couple of times about this is picking up on that, that, you know, as much as we complain

26:33about certain things, just like Congress says, what, a nine percent approval rating. We always

26:38say let's get rid of the bums, but somehow we always vote back our bum. Right. So like that's

26:42there's always that sort of weird, obvious kind of, you know, it's so weird. Like we hate them,

26:48but we like we hate your bridge. I was going to say, my senator bridge is better than your

26:53senator. Right. Right. Right. We love our bridge nowhere, but we hate your bridge to nowhere.

26:57And then we all fret that, hey, how long can thirty seven trillion become forty trillion

27:01becomes how how can we spend one point two trillion on interest and where do our kids go?

27:06And, you know, so we know that this is wrong and it's the ability of all Americans to sort of suck

27:10it up, which is tough because there's some messaging that's got to go along with that,

27:14which I think I think Musk is getting that. And I think the White House is getting that, too.

27:18So, you know, I think that people have become so accustomed to enormous government spending

27:24that in some of these numbers you see, you know, that it's hard for even

27:28some American citizens to realize the waste that is going on and to cross that bridge.

27:33Also, I let 15 percent of the country vote works for the government.

27:38Yeah. Fifteen percent. A large portion. Huge number.

27:41You know, I was just looking at some of the headlines. And one of the things I see a lot

27:45is those cuts popular X, Y, Z, like to your point. So the government spends a lot of money.

27:51What's wasteful to you is popular to somebody else. And again, this is something that we've

27:55got to all wrap our head around that money is money. And when it flows somewhere, someone

27:59benefits from it. Someone loves it. Someone wants it to keep coming. The fact that it's coming out

28:04of everyone's pocket, that it's wasteful, that it does hurt our nation is what has to be articulated

28:09over and over again. Of course, they're popular programs. Yeah. I mean, you know what, if I could

28:13walk outside and there's someone handing me a hundred bucks every day and the one day I go out

28:17there and he or she's not there, I'm going to be upset. I never asked what, especially if you don't

28:21really you're not really eligible for it. I would just say this battle is going to go on for years

28:25in Washington, D.C. Quickly roll this from Tim Walz. If you haven't seen it yet, hit up on Tesla. Watch.

28:32They've got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day.

28:38Two twenty five and dropping. So if you own one, we're not blaming you. You can

28:45you can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off.

28:49Nothing says capitalism like that, does it, Charles? So Elon says sometimes when I need a

28:54little boost, I look at the J.D. Vance portrait in the White House and thank the Lord.

28:59Thank you, Charles. I think we all do. Thank you very much, Charles. Thank you, Charles. All right.

29:04So voting is underway now for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the first major partisan test

29:11of the second Trump term. So we'll get a measure of the state of the race and check in with Carl

29:15on that coming up here. New documents are out on the case of the accused Idaho murderer Brian

29:20Koberger, as well as an ominous selfie from the suspect. And wait to hear when this picture was

29:26taken.

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