Trump TEARS into 'fake' Elon Musk report: 'Who would do such a thing?'

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00:00Last night, at about the 9 p.m. hour, a New York Times story broke.

00:03The headline was, Pentagon set up briefing for Musk on potential war with China.

00:09Now, notably, this New York Times story had more reporters than sources.

00:14There were five reporters.

00:15There were two officials confirming the details of that report, unnamed officials.

00:20President Trump denied the report at 11.20 p.m.

00:23What was interesting right now is you heard President Trump not just deny the report,

00:29but explain that Elon Musk would never be given access to war plans with China because

00:34he's a businessman.

00:35Why would he ever do that?

00:36He even went so far as to mention a conflict of interest.

00:39Elon Musk has business deals in China.

00:41Why would I give him this information, though he did praise Elon Musk broadly in his portfolio?

00:46Big news out of this.

00:48We will let you in on all of it.

00:49This is Outnumbered.

00:50I'm Kayleigh McEnany.

00:51Here is my co-host, Emily Campagno, and Harris Faulkner.

00:54Also joining us, Lisa Booth, Fox News political analyst, Guy Benson, Fox News contributor,

00:59and host of The Guy Benson Show on Fox News Radio.

01:01Guy, you and I were speaking.

01:03The most interesting part of this to me, and you and I agreed on this, was you didn't have

01:08a reporter say to him, hey, Elon Musk has a conflict of interest here.

01:13He acknowledged it himself and explained how seriously he takes this information.

01:17Let's listen to that moment.

01:18I certainly wouldn't want, you know, Elon has businesses in China, and he would be susceptible

01:25perhaps to that.

01:27But it was such a fake story.

01:28The New York Times is just as fake as CNN and MSDNC.

01:33And anybody read that story, people laughed at that story.

01:37Who would do such a thing?

01:38And the first thing I did is I called Susie and I called Pete and said, is there any truth

01:44to that?

01:45And they said, it's ridiculous.

01:46No, he's over there to talk about cost.

01:49You might want to address that, Pete.

01:50But Elon was over there today to address cost.

01:55Doge, a thing called Doge, which you've heard about.

01:58Guy, they had five reporters.

02:00They had two officials confirming the details for confirming more broadly that Elon would

02:05be at the Pentagon.

02:06That was a fierce denial.

02:08That was a categorical denial of the story.

02:11And my ears perked up as yours did.

02:14He was not asked about a conflict of interest.

02:17He raised that himself unsolicited.

02:20He understood the reason why someone would object to this.

02:23And he agreed with it.

02:24He said, that's why we're not doing it.

02:26So it wasn't just like, oh, fake news.

02:28Move on.

02:29It was fake news for these reasons.

02:30We would never allow it specifically because of some of these concerns.

02:34And therefore, the story is false.

02:35We would never even consider something like that.

02:38You worked in the press office.

02:39You know what a really strenuous denial looks like.

02:42That was it.

02:43Yeah.

02:44And to get it so quickly at eleven twenty p.m. last night, it's like I could see the

02:46balloon of the liberal media just pop in the air, just fizzle out as he gave that denial.

02:51You know, Harris, he also took on the judge.

02:54And I think the way he framed this is something a lot of Americans who just voted in an election

02:59in November will understand.

03:00Listen, this is about the judge in that plane with Trinidad, Aragua, alleged gang members

03:04on it.

03:07If ISIS or Al Qaeda foreign terrorists were operating here in the United States, cops

03:13would probably be shooting first and asking questions later.

03:17And so what is the difference between terrorists, between somebody like an ISIS or an Al Qaeda

03:23operative versus MS-13 or Trinidad, Aragua?

03:26Well, these are people that focus on destroying people in their homes.

03:31They're not as international in that sense.

03:36They're a group of thugs.

03:37They come from Venezuela.

03:38They come from the prisons of Venezuela.

03:41They're tough people.

03:42They're bad people.

03:43We don't want them in our country.

03:44We can't let a judge say that he wants him.

03:46You know, he didn't run for president.

03:47He didn't get much more than 80 million votes.

03:52And we just can't let that happen.

03:54It'd be so bad for our country.

03:55Yeah.

03:56You know, what was so interesting about that entire section to me, Kayleigh, is that he

03:59won on that issue.

04:01And he said that today.

04:02He said the American people expect me to be doing this sort of thing because that's what

04:05I promised.

04:06And that's what needs to be done to protect them.

04:08And that obviously is his first job as commander in chief.

04:11So he took the judge on on the merits of the case.

04:15He didn't make it personal, which it could be because it certainly feels personal, personal

04:20from the other direction as he goes after and joins the litany of people going after

04:25the president from the left.

04:27It wasn't about that.

04:28This was this is what they hired me to do.

04:30And I'm going to do what the American public hired me to do with millions and millions

04:33and millions of votes.

04:35It's on display right now.

04:37And Andy Biggs, congressman from Arizona, also on the Judiciary House committee there,

04:42explained to me today that the problem for this judge is that he actually doesn't have

04:47a position that gives him a lifetime job.

04:51He can be removed if he has bad behavior, if he steps out of line, if it looks like

04:56he's trying to thwart a sitting president or whatever it would be deemed to be.

05:00I thought that was really interesting.

05:02Now, there are some reports that Boasberg may be getting a raise in terms of elevation

05:07of position.

05:08We'll watch for that today.

05:09Yeah.

05:10One hundred sixty seven federal judges, one elected president of the United States.

05:15These judges have an immense amount of power over what the president is doing on a day

05:19to day basis.

05:20Lisa, he also addressed these Tesla attacks that we've seen that are widespread and remarkably

05:24consistent in the way that they're performed.

05:27Listen to what he said.

05:28I view these people as terrorists, just like others.

05:34When I looked at those showrooms burning and those cars, not one or two, like seven, eight,

05:3910 burning, exploding all over the place.

05:42These are terrorists.

05:43Take a look at what's going on now with these terrorists.

05:45He's a terrorist.

05:46So that's an organized event.

05:47You know, take a look at their signs.

05:49Take a look.

05:50They're all made by the same sign company, a nice expensive job.

05:54Now, these are the people that finance it are, in my opinion, in just as big a trouble

06:00as the people that are setting the match and setting the fires.

06:04So we'll see.

06:05It's under very serious investigation by the FBI and by the Justice Department.

06:09These people are terrorists.

06:11It seems like he's indicating there Kash Patel, Pambandi may be looking to see if there's

06:16any sort of organization around this.

06:18Well, yeah.

06:19And they're also making an example out of three different individuals, which I think

06:22will help to send that message that we are treating this as domestic terrorism.

06:26I love these media availabilities and these press conferences.

06:29One, it's a little bit like a choose your own adventure novel.

06:32You know, do we talk about Ukraine?

06:33Do we talk about China?

06:34Do we talk about Doge?

06:35You know, which issue do we talk about?

06:36Because he's doing so much.

06:38This is an administration on steroids.

06:40You can tell the guy doesn't sleep.

06:42And so that's why it's so important for him to do these things, to do these availabilities,

06:46to take a beat like he did with the joint session to Congress as well and say, hey,

06:50look, this is what I'm doing for you.

06:52Here's how I'm delivering.

06:53This is why it's important and to inform the American people.

06:56And this is the most transparent president or at least one of them we've ever had.

06:59You look at his first month alone.

07:01He took over 1000 questions from reporters at seven times as much as Joe Biden did during

07:06that same period of time.

07:08You know, so for good for him, for being so transparent with the American people and speaking

07:12directly to them, it also helps them circumvent the biased media as well.

07:16You know, the motto of my press shop when I was there was offense only.

07:20And I'd like to think that that's a phrase that I adopted from the style of my boss.

07:24And my boss was President Trump and he knows how to go on offense better than anyone.

07:28I want to play an example of that.

07:29A reporter asked him, do you have the authority to deport?

07:34And watch how he turns this around about Joe Biden's authority to let in eight million

07:38illegal immigrants.

07:39Mr. President, do you think you have the authority, the power to round up people, deport them

07:46and then you're under no obligation to a court to show the evidence against them?

07:50Well, that's what the law says.

07:51And that's what our country needs, because we were unfortunately they allowed millions

07:57of people to come into our country, totally unvetted, totally unchecked.

08:01So you ought to ask, do he have the authority to allow millions of people?

08:04Did Biden have the authority to do something that's unthinkable, have open borders where

08:10millions of people poured into our country, totally unvetted and totally unchecked, just

08:14as you would say.

08:16And many of those people were criminals.

08:18Many of them were from jails and prisons and mental institutions and gang members and drug

08:23dealers and very dangerous people.

08:26Many were murderers.

08:27So you ought to ask me if we have the authority.

08:29Did Biden have the authority to allow millions of people to come into our country?

08:34Many of these people, hardened criminals at the top of the line who have caused tremendous

08:39damage in our country.

08:46It would seem Biden's authority would be in contravention of the Immigration and Nationality

08:50Act, but who cares about details?

08:52Emily, this all began and you were very passionate about this with a new fighter jet and the

08:56J-7.

08:57You wanted to expound upon it.

08:58Yeah.

08:59I'm so excited by this.

09:00And keep in mind that just three days ago, China reportedly took a second test flight

09:05of their sixth generation fighter jet.

09:07Now, allegedly that's called the J-36.

09:10They've been operating a fifth generation so far.

09:12It's the J-20, if I remember correctly.

09:14That's radar evading.

09:15And these photos of this new sixth generation fighter jet on their part, it sort of looks

09:19like a mix between the B-2 bomber and the F-117A, which is our stealth fighter.

09:23So basically like a black triangle, like a bat.

09:27And so that's something that when you couple with the Secretary of Defense's remarks today,

09:31where he said, look, under the prior administration, this program was paused, was potentially going

09:35to be canceled.

09:36And now we are reminding the world that our air power is superior and we are investing

09:41in a maintenance of that superiority and that with that air power, the president talked

09:45about how the availability of this new, you know, F-47 on our part, obviously a lot of

09:52it's classified, but he said greater payload, greater maneuverability, greater stealth,

09:57greater speeds.

09:58It's going to hold a bunch of drones.

09:59Tip of the iceberg, and especially that photo was quite exciting.

10:02But I just note that as we come off of the prior administration, remember the spy balloons

10:08that floated across our country.

10:10Remember how we experienced sort of an alarming uptick and surge of physical violations by

10:16the Chinese in terms of our military institutions and installations, not to mention the intellectual

10:20property theft.

10:21That also had to do with air technology.

10:25So I, as an American and as a lover of the Air Force and fighter jets, I'm just so heartened

10:30by the F-47 and I can't wait to see it unveiled.

10:34And final quick point, just last November, China unveiled their answer to our F-22 and

10:39the F-35.

10:41So they're right on our heels.

10:42And this is an example, this is an arena where the president and the Secretary of Defense's

10:47commitment to lethality and superiority on our part is really going to shine through.

10:51Yeah.

10:52Exciting days for the U.S. military.

10:53All right.

10:54Well, House Republicans launching an investigation into rising swatting attacks on conservatives.

11:00Now swatting is when someone tries to send armed police to another person's house under

11:04false pretenses.

11:06The act can put the lives of the victims and the responding officers in danger, as it did

11:10in the case of talk radio host Joe Pagliaro, who was recently woken up in the middle of

11:16the night by more than half a dozen armed officers.

11:21But this guy was, wherever he happened to be, was trying to get police to break down

11:25the door and possibly either kill me or scare us enough to where I would shut my mouth and

11:30not do what I do on the radio every day.

11:31It was one of those, I'm sure you've had this where your heart flops out of your chest.

11:36I've never had it that hard before, but thankfully the police were there.

11:39They understood the situation.

11:40They got that it was a swatting and we're all safe.

11:42I think that it's A, either get me dead, B, have me kill a cop as I'm doing it, C, have

11:48the cop be the one who kills me.

11:49Now we're all bad guys.

11:51And then D, people like you shut up and stop talking about what you talk about.

11:54They didn't accomplish what they wanted to, but I hope there will be accountability.

11:57DHS Secretary Kristi Noem vows to hunt the cowards behind those calls.

12:03Quote, under President Trump's leadership, we will not sit idly by as conservative news

12:08media and their families are being targeted by false swatting.

12:12DHS has the ability to trace phone numbers and track location information and we will

12:17use it to hunt these cowards down.

12:20This is an attack, she says, on our law enforcement and innocent families and we will prosecute

12:25it as such.

12:27Guy, a frightening turn of events that hopefully does not begin a pattern.

12:33Using this as a weapon is extremely dangerous and it's evil and it should be charged basically

12:38at the level of a home invasion.

12:40I think.

12:41Right.

12:42I believe that when someone falsely accuses someone else of, let's say, sexual assault,

12:46if that is proven to be a hoax and false, there should be charges commensurate to what

12:51the lie initially was.

12:53And in this case, you're putting a lot of people's lives in danger.

12:56You are sending armed police, heavily armed police to the house, believing falsely because

13:02of the lie that there is some sort of life threatening moment or incident unfolding in

13:07that house or at that property.

13:09So they are armed to the teeth, understandably.

13:11And the people sitting at home are completely unaware of any of this.

13:14They're just innocently trying to go about their lives, even sleeping in bed at night.

13:18And to have a door knocked down or pounding, it is a terrifying thing.

13:22And those who are responsible for swatting others should face extremely serious consequences

13:28because this type of thing will get people killed.

13:30Lisa, there's a parallel, in my opinion, between this scenario and the vandalism at the Tesla

13:35dealerships and with cars.

13:37The point being, while the defenders of such say, oh, it's innocuous, it's no big deal.

13:41The propensity for massive loss of life, the frightening volatility of these scenarios

13:47is what makes it so explosive and so terrifying.

13:49They need to be condemned and prosecuted immediately.

13:51Well, and you know, how do you think the left would react if that happened?

13:55I mean, sadly, I think there'd be a lot of people cheering.

13:57I mean, we saw that on The Daily Show recently as people were applauding what's happening

14:02with the Teslas and the fire bombings as well.

14:05I mean, look, the whole intention of that, they want to get someone killed.

14:08That's why you swat.

14:09The hope is that the police officer accidentally kills the individual who's being targeted.

14:13They want somebody to be killed.

14:14We've seen people get killed in the past.

14:16One gentleman comes to mind, Andrew Finch.

14:18I think Congress should make this a distinct federal crime.

14:21I believe it can be considered under interstate threats, but to make it a distinct federal

14:26crime because the whole purpose is to get someone killed.

14:29And if this continues, that will likely happen.

14:31Yeah.

14:32I mean, I've seen the phones that can be also.

14:34Yeah, exactly.

14:35You're more equipped to answer that.

14:36I'll kick that over to you.

14:38Kayleigh, as the radio host was talking about it, Mr. Joe, I mean, he outlined exactly what

14:42could I could have been killed.

14:43They could have been killed.

14:44The danger is so profound and frightening.

14:46It's very scary.

14:48Someone could definitely get killed.

14:50This is a new method, but this this method or practice of intimidation and harassment

14:55is old.

14:56I follow a lot of these conservative influencers.

14:58I've been seeing them say my house is swatted.

15:00Someone said it was swatted for the fourth time.

15:03These influencers are very powerful.

15:05They are very effective.

15:06They have huge followings.

15:08Many of them are probably a reason lots of young people flock to the president.

15:11So people know that and they target people who are effective in the Trump orbit.

15:15They did this to me.

15:17My old house in Florida was not swatted, but when they were burning down buildings in the

15:21Tampa area and a gas station, they posted the address of my house, picture of my house

15:25and my house was next.

15:26I had police show up at my door.

15:28I had a new baby and they said they're threatening to burn down your house.

15:32We need to protect you.

15:33They called both of my high schools, the boys school, the girls school.

15:36They called my dad's business.

15:38They called my uncle's business.

15:39They called my sister's track coach.

15:41They called my mother, said that I was the C word and said that I hope I get cancer.

15:46These are the things people sign up for when they sign up to be an effective voice in the

15:50Trump orbit, either in government or as a conservative influencer who I would argue

15:55has outsized influence more so than many actual government officials.

16:00Stay strong, guys.

16:01You're doing a great job.

16:02You're effective.

16:03And the fact that you're being targeted is an example of why you're so.

16:06I'm so sorry.

16:07I didn't realize you had to go through all that since.

16:09Yeah.

16:10It's crazy.

16:11People need to know.

16:12Yeah.

16:13So much.

16:14I'm glad.

16:15I'm glad you shared that.

16:16I do see a similarity with what's going on with Elon Musk and the Teslas.

16:18And I said this yesterday and took a lot of heat for saying it, but I totally believe

16:22it, especially after what you just said, how these should be separate federal crimes.

16:27They're not vandals.

16:28They're domestic terrorists.

16:30They're blowing up dealerships.

16:31There might be a night guard on that.

16:32They like to do these things after hours.

16:34So you see the flames better, I would guess.

16:37This is about ideology.

16:38And if you look at it and Congressman Biggs told me this last hour, if you look at it,

16:43it is the definition of domestic terrorism.

16:47And so what does that mean?

16:48If someone gets hurt in the process of this, that ratchets up that crime even further.

16:53We can't tolerate this like this is this is not OK.

16:57There is now and you can look this up today.

17:00Our Seattle affiliate Fox 13 has video of a woman who's Tesla.

17:04She was driving.

17:05It got spun off the road.

17:08A guy ran her off the road, got out.

17:09He had on full fatigues.

17:11You couldn't see anything except for his eyes.

17:13And he threatened her.

17:14He said, you've got to get rid of this car now.

17:16And he went on.

17:18Well, of course, the cameras are rolling from all over the Tesla.

17:20So we see this whole thing play out.

17:23I mean, when I tell you that this is terrorism, she said, thank God she didn't have anybody

17:27young with her.

17:28What if she'd had children with her?

17:29I mean, there are I had then another Al Moter, a Democrat on my hour last hour on the Faulkner

17:34Focus, who said he fears for his life.

17:37He wanted to buy a Tesla.

17:38But out of fear, he wouldn't a Democrat.

17:42This is terrorizing us as citizens.

17:45And it's got to stop.

17:46Although they're making me want to buy a Tesla.

17:48I've never wanted to buy it.

17:49You and Dean.

17:50I want to buy one out of spite.

17:51Just to be like.

17:52Dean Kane, too.

17:53Superman.

17:54Get to him.

17:55Yeah.

17:56Hey, everyone.

17:57I'm Emily Campagno.

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