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Good morning and welcome to Vince. Boy, you caused some trouble yesterday. Holy cow. This Ed Martin conversation we had yesterday, the guy is supposed to be the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., the president's pick. Man, you got involved.
And let me tell you, you took over the entire country yesterday with this conversation. More in a moment on that. Also, China is gearing up for a big conversation with President Trump. They want to get out of that headlock. We've got a lot to get to. This episode is brought to you by Blackout Coffee, the official coffee of all of us here at Silverlock. Go to blackoutcoffee.com slash Vince. Use the code Vince. That's V-I-N-C-E for 20% off your first order.
Who's calling Tom Tillis? Who did that? Did you do that, Chad? Who called Tom Tillis? Because Tom Tillis, the senator from North Carolina right now, is the Republican blockade against Ed Martin becoming the Senate-confirmed U.S. in D.C. And somebody in this chat, I can't say who yet.
Somebody called him yesterday, and right now the Congress switch Congress's switchboard is getting melted down by your calls. So something crazy is going on here. And I love it. I love everything about it. We'll get into the details in just a moment. What Tom Tillis is now saying, whether or not I'll have a conversation with the North Carolina senator. I'll get into all those details in just a moment. Hey, I got to thank our sponsors encryption.
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Ed Martin is an essential figure here in Washington, D.C. right now in order to unwind the deep state. There are massive implications going on with the confirmation process for this guy, Ed Martin. Let me show you, fellas, can you put this up? This is Mike Benz's take on Ed Martin and just how important it is that we get this guy through.
He writes on X this week that people are not appreciating the magnitude of the Ed Martin situation. Ed Martin situation. The prosecutor is on top of the FBI. He runs all of the D.C. criminal investigations.
By the way, when Mike says he's on top of the FBI, it doesn't mean he's in charge of the FBI. I see some of these people nitpicking Mike's assessment here. That's ridiculous. No, he is a key prosecutor to go after criminals within the FBI. You need good prosecutors on your side in order to conduct these cases.
Ed Martin is the guy. And so Mike points out he's the choke point for DC's worst secrets. If Ed Martin is blocked and Judge Boasberg picks.
But Trump's 2.0 momentum is totally paralyzed, totally paralyzed. Now, yesterday, if you haven't listened to it yet, go back to the podcast. You can listen to yesterday's, of course, and all the other shows we've done. But yesterday we talked at length about Ed Martin and why he's so important to get through.
And why right now the impediment to that occurring is at least one Republican senator who's definitely leading the charge. And that's North Carolina Senator Tom Tillis. Now, after our show yesterday and then during the 12 to 3 nationwide radio broadcast, we kept talking about this. I kept saying that, look.
I want this senator to appear on this program. Come on the show. Account for yourself. Why are you getting in the way of the American people's agenda here? Why are you stopping a well-qualified guy from being the Senate confirmed U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia? A guy with a proven history of success already. The guy who's actually charging people for violating the law in the District of Columbia and going after left-wing, RICO-violating, garbage-
leaders
In our government, including by going after Chuck Schumer, demanding he account for his threats to the Supreme Court, going after the Biden crime wave, demanding that all the people around him give Ed Martin answers right now for whether or not Biden was even competent to sign all of these ridiculous and scandalous pardons that he signed on the way out the door, that the robot signed for him on the way out the door. This is a guy who's trying to get stuff done and we need to get out of his way so he can do that. And that takes the Senate confirming him.
OK, so we brought up Tom Tillis yesterday. As of this hour, Tom Tillis's office is hiding from you. Senator Tillis's office, Senator Tillis has not agreed to an interview on this show or on our nationwide radio broadcast. They're they're laying low. They're trying to hide from that accountability. They don't want to answer questions on this subject. Now, other senators that we've reached out to, we've gotten some answers from.
John Cornyn in Texas was one of the guys who was working against Ed Martin before.
And now all of a sudden, Cornyn is indicating that he supports Ed Martin. He supports Ed Martin. But here's the game that they're playing. And it is a game. I want to direct you to this because it's really important that you see through kind of the weasel language that's going on with John Cornyn's supposed support for Ed Martin. Take a look here. This is a statement.
From John Cornyn's spokeswoman, her name is Natalie Yazbek, and she posted this yesterday morning. Look at the time on this, by the way, as this goes up on screen. This is 1047 a.m. yesterday morning, meaning it was before we even concluded our live show yesterday. Cornyn's office began indicating, quote, when he comes up for a vote, I intend to support him, was the message out of Cornyn's office.
I tend to defer to the president on his choices, he further adds. Now pay attention to the when he comes up for a vote element of all of this. When he comes up for a vote. These are word games that we're seeing. It's easy to say you're going to support somebody if the vote ever takes place, if you have no intention to support them and you know the vote is never going to take place. When he comes up for a vote, right now this guy,
Ed Martin has until the 20th of this month until he's out of that job. He is the acting U.S. attorney. He needs to be confirmed by the 20th so he can stay in that job and do it on a more permanent basis. Cornyn's answer is weasley. When he comes up for a vote, you know what's happening behind the scenes. Adam Schiff and Tom Tillis and others are trying to procedurally block this thing from ever coming up from a vote. Ever. In fact, this Thursday,
This Thursday, they have business in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Not on the calendar is Ed Martin. Ed Martin, not on the calendar, at least as of yesterday. Now, we'll see if we can get this changed. But I'm telling you right now, the pressure that you are exerting on Congress and in particular on Tom Tillis is beginning to have an effect here, is beginning to have an effect. Tom Tillis stepped up to a microphone.
And again, he's not coming to this microphone. I've got microphones in this studio. He can come sit with me. We can have a big conversation about all of this. He's welcome to do that. And I'm sincere about that. I'm not trying to set him up. I just want to ask him straightforward questions about what he's doing here and why he's getting in Ed Martin's way. But Tom Tillis did speak to I think it was CNN's Manu Raju and some other reporters who stuck microphones in his face.
And here's what he said. Cut three and pay attention to the language. The language in his statement includes the phrase at this point. Now, if you say at this point, you're taking a certain decision. It means you realize you may have to change your mind. Listen to Tom Tillis here. He is. I don't believe he's been advanced to the markup. And I met with Mr. Martin. He seems like a good man. Yeah.
Most of my concerns related to January 6th. And he built a compelling case on some of the 1512 prosecutions that were probably key to the moment, bad decisions. But where we probably have a difference is I think anybody that reached the perimeter should have been in prison for some period of time, whether it's 30 days or three years is debatable. OK, here's what I want to tell you about what you just heard.
He's attacking Ed Martin for being a defense attorney for January 6th defendants. That's what he's doing. Everyone in this country under our constitution is entitled to legal defense. If you can't afford a lawyer, one will be appointed to you. You know the phrasing. You're entitled to legal defense. Ed Martin is an attorney. He represented January 6th defendants. And so Tom Tillis is holding this against him. He's also holding the fact that
quite implicitly, that Ed Martin has concerns about the events of January 6th, including who the hell is the pipe bomber? Who put the supposed pipe bombs outside of the DNC and the RNC? And what role did our government play in that? Those are the types of critiques that Ed has. And so Tom Tillis is holding his legal representation of January 6th defendants against him in this decision. This is horse crap.
Again, Senator, if you've got a better explanation than the one I'm interpreting from you right now, I'd love to hear it. But right now you are penalizing him for representing a guy. This is what the left does. The left disbars attorneys for representing President Trump. They crush law firms who stand up for Americans who support President Trump and his agenda. This is lefty thinking that we're hearing from Tom Tillis.
OK, continue. Let's hear the rest of this statement from Tillis. Probably have a difference is I think anybody that breaks the perimeter should have been in prison for some period of time, whether it's 30 days or three years is debatable. But I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on January the 6th. And that's probably where most of the friction was. So he disagreed with you on that? Well, now I have to say that Mr. Martin did a good job of explaining how.
There were people that probably got caught up in it, but they made the stupid decision to come through a building that had been breached and that the police officers and others were saying stay away. So the difference wasn't that they should be charged in my estimation. It's by how much. That's an argument I'm willing to have, but we have to be very, very clear that what happened on January the 6th was wrong.
It wasn't. What is this? It was not prompted or created by other people to put those people in trouble. They made a stupid decision and they disgraced the United States by absolutely destroying the Capitol. And I can't have any patience. It sounds like your concerns were not appreciated. But let me be very clear, though. Mr. Martin did a good job of explaining the one area that I think he's probably right, that there were some people that were over prosecuted.
but there were some, two or three hundred of them, that should have never gotten a pardon, and he agreed with that.
But the disagreement there had more to do – if Mr. Martin were being put for – What are you even saying? Except the district where January 6th happened, the protest happened, I'd probably support him, but not in this district. When you say he's not being advanced to the markup, was he operating under that understanding that he's not being advanced through to a markup? Well, I think Mr. Martin – I'm sure they're looking through it. I mean –
And Trump called you in on this?
At this point, I've indicated to the White House that I won't support his nomination. Pay attention to all of the mindless analysis that went into this, the empty analysis that went into his decision-making. He's a nice guy.
He's bright. I like him. He would be a perfectly good U.S. attorney in every other district in the country. In fact, if he was nominated for any other U.S. attorney position, I would confirm him, but not for the District of Columbia. Tell me how that makes sense in any way. It doesn't make any sense. Unless Tom Tillis committed some sort of crime in the District of Columbia that he doesn't want the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. to hold him accountable for. That's the only thing that could possibly make sense here. What?
I would confirm him to every other district in the country, but not this one. That doesn't it doesn't pass the smell test. And this thing stinks to high heaven. And you heard him say it a moment ago at this point. You know what that means? He's opened the suggestion here. You see this number down here? See that his phone number is 202-224-6342. That's the phone number to reach Tom Tillis.
And let him know what you think. Be polite, by the way. Just be honest about what you want here. You want Ed Martin to be confirmed. You want Ed Martin to be confirmed. By the way, he also has a fax number. I don't know how many people still use fax machines, but I think you can send faxes on the Internet, actually. So if you'd like to send them a fax and if it just says confirm Ed Martin, feel free. I'd be interested to know what happens to their fax machines today.
But there you go. Phone number and fax machine for Tom Tillis. And especially if you're from North Carolina, I'm telling you right now, please indicate that if you are a North Carolina voter, indicate that as you make these calls or send these faxes to let them know, because that that adds weight to your call inside of a Senate office that's supposed to represent the state of North Carolina. We'll see how far it goes. But here's the thing about Tillis, the at this point qualification that he's added.
This is not the first time he's done this with a Trump nominee. He keeps doing this with Trump nominees. You remember he did this with Pete Hegseth.
He was trying to sabotage Pete Hegseth's nomination to become the Secretary of Defense. And in the end, he folded under pressure from you and from the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Take a look here. I've got the New York Times after this all went down and they reported on how Tom Tillis was behaving during all of this. New York Times headline, as Trump threatened a primary, a GOP holdout on Hegseth flipped.
Before Tom Tillis voted to confirm Hegseth as defense secretary, he worked with accusers to make the case against him in a bid to get Republican leaders to scrap the vote altogether. They elaborate that four days after President Trump was sworn in for his second term, his nominee for defense secretary, Hegseth, was teetering on the brink of defense on the Senate floor.
And the president was on Air Force One talking about political retribution. Mr. Trump had gotten word that Senator Tom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, planned to oppose Pete Hegseth, the former Fox & Friends weekend host, who was his choice for Pentagon chief and yada, yada, yada. They're trying to say, oh, he faces all these allegations. He's a terrible person. They say if Mr. Tillis could not be brought to heel by that night, there would be enough Republican no votes to sink Mr. Hegseth's confirmation, a humiliating defeat at the dawn of Mr. Trump's second term.
Turning to a group of North Carolina lawmakers who were flying with the president to survey storm damage. Mr. Trump noted Mr. Tillis is impending defection. Then he posed a question. Which of you want my endorsement for a primary challenge to Tom Tillis next year? That's how President Trump played this.
The implication was clear. Mr. Tillis' refusal to back Mr. Hegseth would cost him his seat. By that night, Mr. Tillis, who had been toiling behind the scenes for days to kill Hegseth's nomination so he could avoid having to publicly cross Trump, would vote to confirm Hegseth to control the most powerful military force in the world. So we've seen this. This keeps happening. This keeps happening. And Tillis is open to suggestion here.
As he says, at this point, he's against Ed Martin. Well, let's see what happens at the next point and whether or not he's still against Ed Martin, because this is one of those votes you got to know. We're watching. We're watching, Tom. And if you're a North Carolina resident, North Carolina voter in particular, I hope you're I hope you're watching and communicating with your United States senator right now, because this is a very big moment and unwinding, as Mike Ben says, as unwinding politics.
All of this craziness, it happens with the help of great prosecutors and almost none of these prosecutors, other than the Attorney General of the United States, nobody's more important here than the U.S. Attorney for D.C. This is absolutely critical. This is the critical moment. And Mike Benz is good. By the way, we'll have Mike Benz back on the show soon.
I'm hoping to get him here in studio. I just saw, I saw him actually this past weekend. We were out at, we were at a horse race together in Virginia. They have this thing called the gold cup every year. And there was Mike. And I said, Mike, I'm seeing you in person. He said, Vince, I'm seeing you in person. And I said, well, good. Come into the studio. We'll do this again in person. So it'll be, it'll be good to have him back. The guy's very, very talented. Always a great guest. Hey, um,
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Thanks for being locked in. Thanks for being totally engaged here. As of yesterday, by the time we went live on the radio show yesterday, we had the name. These are the names that were trending. You did this. The names that were trending were Ed Martin, Tom Tillis and Rhino. Those were the names that were trending yesterday by noon Eastern time.
which was wild. I think the only thing that was trending higher than that on X yesterday, the number one thing was Carney. And that's because the Canadian prime minister, John Carney, was meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office yesterday. So President Trump did some big things yesterday, of course. So they went they went number one. But this topic went number two yesterday. So thank you for that. It's been really it's
It's been really gratifying to see and a sign that a lot of great American patriots are having a big impact on the national conversation. So this has been really important. And God willing...
I think I think yesterday on the radio show and for those of you who watch on Rumble Rumble dot com slash Vince, we had some hot mic issues. You know, it wouldn't be it wouldn't be another day of the week without a random tech issue. But we had a hot mic issue on the on the breaks. We usually don't have the mics up, but my mic was accidentally up. And I said I was looking at this. I was talking to producer Jim and I said, I feel like we're going to get Ed Martin through. I feel like we're going to do it.
And I got the whole chat can hear me yammering on the break about this. But let me just tell you on the hot mic on purpose, I feel like we can do it. I wouldn't be spending my time on this if I didn't think we both had a choice and that it was so important because it is. It is very, very important to do.
So so that's going to be that's going to be a really big deal. Let's let's move on to some other topics, though, while we're you know, while I've got your attention, because there's a lot going on. We have a big story about the United States military breaking yesterday. The United States Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision allowed the president's transgender ban to go through, which is great news.
What's going on with my computer right now? I can't see anything. Allowed the president's transgender ban to go through. That's a huge, huge deal. And it's really what the court is saying in so many words is, yes, President Trump is the commander in chief. It's crazy, right, that the United States Supreme Court would have to say that? The Supreme Court confirming Trump is indeed the commander in chief of the United States military. And yes, he can stop people with mental illness.
from serving in its ranks. Fellows, let me pull this up. Supreme Court allows Trump administration to enforce transgender military ban. This is after a number of left-wing judges had gotten in the way and demanded that men play acting as women and vice versa should be in the United States military and should be given weapons of war.
Now, notice the left's position on guns to the extent that there's anything that we can detect here. It's completely incoherent. What does the left tell you about so-called weapons of war? Well, that's how they describe any hunting rifle in the United States. They try and stop you from owning a gun. Law abiding citizens from owning semi-automatic rifles based on the idea that Americans, quote, shouldn't own weapons of war.
But the second it's up to the left, you understand what they're doing. They're saying we should arm mentally ill people with weapons of war. This is their game plan. We're going to give mentally ill people weapons of war and and not just semi-automatic weapons, fully automatic weapons in some cases, weapons of war. This is lunacy. So, of course, that means it's what the left is doing. This is what the left is doing.
And so yesterday, the United States Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision allowed the Trump administration to enforce its transgender military ban, which is, of course, good for readiness, good for safety, good for our troops. This is what you need in a 6-3 decision. The majority granting the administration's request to halt the lower court's ruling, preventing the policy from taking effect.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, this is so predictable. I know you're not surprised, but I'll just say their names anyway. Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Katonji Brown, I'm not a biologist, Jackson, would have denied the administration's request according to the order. In its application, the administration argued that the lower court's injunction cannot be squared with the substantial deference that the department's professional military judgments are owed.
It is undisputed that gender dysphoria is a medical condition associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning. According to the solicitor general, John D. Sauer, sorry, D. John Sauer, writing this on April 24th.
So anyway, this is, you know, these lefty judges, they thought, hey, we could take over here. We'll just make these decisions. We'll cause lots of chaos and we'll hurt the American military in the process. The Supreme Court saying, no, you won't. So this will continue to play out through the courts. But at the moment, the president's order stands and it's a really good sign of the way the Supreme Court is going to rule if this thing makes it all the way to the tippy top.
So this is a very big deal and a reaffirmation that the commander in chief is the commander in chief. So we can't we can't be playing these types of games. Here's a question for the live chat for the veterans out there. Are you happy veterans? Are you happy with this decision? Are you happy with the Supreme Court? Are you pleased with the president of the United States stopping people who have delusions about their gender from
From taking up weapons and being in the military, taking advantage of tax resources, paying for costly surgeries, being taken off of the front lines because they're being held back in order to get those surgeries, using gender confusion as an excuse not to deploy. Are you pleased as veterans with what the president has done here? Any opposition? I'm telling you, if I see opposition, I'll flag it here. I don't know. Yeah, everyone seems to be happy here.
Yeah, and it makes sense. I come from a big military family and everybody's on this page. This is too much. We just need...
You know what? It's like we... The left has been all about this, like, woke-ification of the military forever. You know? Meddling with the military. They have a special animus for the military because the military has always been... Insofar as the government has these, it's been the last bastion of traditional values. You know? Where it's pretty obvious that men are men and women are women. And...
The military has always had a sincere love of country. People in the military by and large are typically pretty religious people. We have chaplains, we have chapels, people go to religious services. It's an amazing actually cross section of America. And what defines the military is not its diversity, but what are those great men and women who serve have in common and their allegiance and their commitment to their country.
So it's great. And so in other words, the left wants to destroy it. They've tried to do that for years. They've constantly targeted the military for this type of destruction. And I remember talking to my, you know, my dad's a, as you may know, a retired Marine Corps major general. So I've had 36 years he did in the Marine Corps. So I grew up in this environment on these Marine Corps bases. And I always remember him saying, talking about the, you know, sometimes like you get a dignitary, like the president.
gets up there, he gets up on a stage, he's speaking in front of the presidential seal and behind him at a military base, they're gonna put tons of members of the military all standing in uniform behind the president. And it used to be that when a president would speak and you're projecting this image to the world, there he is, look behind him, it's the American military. You would put hopefully the biggest baddest dudes you could find
all behind him in the stands just to show not only how great our country is, but to really show how kick-ass our military is. That's what you want.
And I remember my dad always saying, like, what are they doing? Why are they putting fat people behind the president? Why are they putting, like, just random people? Just like, like, like somebody had decided, oh, we're going to do this based on like a color palette or something. Or we're going to make it, we're going to show all different shapes and sizes and colors and genders. And everyone's going to fill in. It became this political operation that had nothing to do with showing just how impressive our military is. And so my dad's view has always been,
Why can't we just put the baddest dudes possible behind the president just to project that image to the world? I can't help but agree. I think that's a good move. And speaking of the woke-ification of the military, the Secretary of Defense is speaking out on this this week in a statement I think you're going to love. I've got that in just a moment. Before we get there, I've got to thank the sponsors who make this program happen each and every day. Our thank you to them.
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Take a look, here's cut six. Hegseth on the woke-ification of the military and how those days are over. We are leaving wokeness and weakness behind. No more pronouns, no more climate change obsession, no more emergency vaccine mandates, no more dudes in dresses. We're done with that shit. Oh, we're done with that shit. That's a great, I'm telling you, if you haven't seen that until now,
Let me know what you think of that. Is that a W for Pete Hegseth? That was great. I adore that clip so much. I might have to make that my ringtone. That thing is unbelievable. I don't even know. Actually, speaking of ringtones, I haven't heard my ringtone in years. My phone's been on silent for literally years. I have no idea what my ringtone sounds like. But if I had a ringtone, it would be Pete Hegseth saying, we're done with that shit, which is fantastic. A massive W from the Secretary of Defense. Oh, we've got some stylized Ws in the chat. That's cool. I didn't even know we had a W emoji.
Yeah, cool. So Hegseth saying, look, this is all over. We're not doing this anymore. We're not doing this anymore. We're leaving wokeness and weakness behind. What are you playing, fellas? Was that in cue? Did people hear that? Yeah, that was in cue. Okay, so Justin was just... Justin, tell the audience what you did. Don't just tell me. Tell the audience so people know because I'm being staggered here. You're playing audio clips in my ears. Here I am thinking I have a cue, but I don't have a cue. Just you have a cue.
I'm Q-less. Okay, a little mea culpa. A little mea culpa from Justin. Justin, in case you were wondering, by the way, who Q is, it's Justin. Justin's Q. Hey, so again, back to the point I was making before Justin so rudely interrupted me. Hegseth says we're leaving wokeness and weakness behind. No more pronouns. No more climate change obsessions. No more emergency vaccine mandates. No more dudes in dresses. We're done with that shit. Yeah.
And that's the kind of thing that it's not just this chat that's putting up the W's. It's members of the American military who are putting up the W's. Veterans, active duty service members, people who chose to volunteer to serve their country, to take up arms if necessary, to go to war and perhaps even pay the ultimate sacrifice. They're putting up the W's today for that. It's obvious. People don't join the military to be part of a social experiment. They're not there to get experimental jabs.
Although, again, if you're in the military, you guys know the veterans, they get they don't really ask you a lot of questions. They just they just walk you into the doctor's office and they stick a bunch of needles in your arms. They give you a million vaccines. I got it. But this idea that they're going to have like these emergency vaccine mandates for experimental drugs that don't even need to be applied to the healthiest people in our country. That is young members of the American military. It's demented. They drove people out of the military.
In order to, you know this, in order to filter them for political reasons. That's what happened. And they drove members of our military out as if we didn't need them. Crazy. And now these guys are bringing them back. In fact, I just saw this week that the DOD's recruiting numbers have been gigantic. Their recruitment numbers have been dynamite. And it's not a surprise at all.
It's not a surprise at all. The types of young men and some women who want to serve in the United States military who were sitting back on, you know what? Now's not the right time. Not under Biden. I don't like what I see happening.
There's just been all this pent up demand for a real fighting force that's really going to do the job, the right job. And so now you've got people joining the military. You've got veterans, legacies, basically, who are saying to their kids, yeah, now's the time. This is a president we can trust. This is a government that we can have some belief in. And they're not going to just waste the lives of our troops, not going to squander them by either experimenting on them or sending them into insane foreign conflicts that have nothing to do with American interests.
So a big, big win for the American military in terms of recruitment. That's good. Another big win, too, for the American military. The president announced yesterday that it looks like our military has bombed the Houthis into submission. Now, the Houthi terrorists out of Yemen have been disrupting all of the shipping lanes in the Suez Canal. They've been attacking ships to include American flag ships. And the president's responded by
by bombing the hell out of these guys. The American military has been bombing the hell out of the Houthis. And the president came out with something of a surprise announcement yesterday that all of a sudden the bombing can stop because the Houthis are, well, we beat the hell out of them. Take a look. Here's Cut7, the president of the United States. - We had some very good news last night. The Houthis have announced that they are not, or they've been announced to us at least, that they don't want to fight anymore.
They just don't want to fight. And we will honor that. And we will stop the bombings. And they have capitulated. But more importantly, we will take their word. They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. And that's what the purpose of what we were doing. So that's just news. We just found out about that. So I think that's very, very positive. They were...
They were knocking out a lot of ships going, as you know, sailing beautifully down the various seas. It wasn't just the canal. It was a lot of other places. And I will accept their word. And we are going to stop the bombing of the Houthis effective immediately. And Marco, you'll let everybody know that. Yeah. And so, you know, these guys shouldn't get it twisted. We have a gun to their head.
We just continue to have a gun to their head. You know, I get a chance from time to time to talk to these White House officials and get some information. I'm always asking for more. I'm always asking for more. I want to know more. But one thing I will say, a through line, a constant drumbeat, is that the press has not focused on this issue at all. The success that the Trump administration has had against the Houthis, because...
The American military at Trump's direction has been beating the hell out of them and now they're begging for mercy. Now they're begging for peace, please, please, please, we're not gonna do this anymore. We'll see, you know, if they pick it up again, again, we've got the gun to their head so we can just keep striking. But the story that the White House feels like is not being told at all is just how successful these military operations have been.
Because think about what is the press talking about when they talk about the military, if they talk about anything? How badly we need so-called transgender people to serve in it. And then, oh, Pete Hegseth was on Signal. He was communicating with other government officials on an end-to-end encrypted app. These are the big stories that our press tells. They don't tell stories like the American military is having incredible success bombing the hell out of the Houthis and now bombing them into compliance.
So just again, this is a victory on the part of the American military, on the part of the Trump administration, and a proper use of the military because, again, it involves directly American interests. You have Houthi terrorists attacking American shipments. Well, you've got a problem on your hands. You've got a real problem. We're done with that shit. So the president – yeah.
Yeah, we're done with that shit. So the president offering an update on that, a surprise update yesterday that for now things are looking better, but things can change moment by moment. You screw with us again, we're coming at you hard. That's the implicit statement from the president of the United States yesterday. So that is very, very good. Let's see here.
Let's talk China for a moment. Also announced yesterday. This was last night. This was late breaking news because earlier in the day, I'll start with earlier in the day. First, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson was testifying before Congress yesterday.
And when he was testifying, he said, look, we got a lot of countries we're working with right now. They're all coming forward. We got trade deals in the works. We're in these negotiations and we could announce them as early as this week, next week, three weeks. We could announce a whole bunch of trade deals. The one place that we don't have a full blown negotiation going on with yet is China.
China. Here is Scott Besson cut to announcing this yesterday before Congress. There are 18 very important trading relationships. We are currently negotiating with 17 of those trading partners. China, we have not engaged in negotiations with as of yet. So China,
I expect that we can see a substantial reduction in the tariffs that we are being charged. Approximately 97 or 98 percent of our trade deficit is with 15 countries. 18 percent of the countries are our major trading partners. And I would be surprised that if we don't have more than 80 or 90 percent of those,
wrapped up by the end of the year. And that may be much sooner. I would think that perhaps as early as this week, we will be announcing trade deals with some of our largest trading partners. The pressure's on. The pressure's on for China. How do you think China feels about that? If all of these other countries establish trade deals...
With the United States, that only places more pressure on China to come to the table and to sit down. Now, I've been over this in the last few shows with you, but just to give you a kind of quick rundown of what's happening in China. China's factories are slowing to a halt. Chinese workers are now staging protests in the streets. China is as of last weekend, going into the weekends, began saying, well, maybe we need to have a negotiation with China.
the United States. U.S. factories are picking up production dramatically right now. Small and mid-sized manufacturing plants here in the United States are reporting overwhelming orders to get things produced. There are massive things going on right now in the United States and very difficult things going on in China. And guess what? We've got all the leverage in this relationship. We buy all this stuff.
from them it's not mostly going the other way around mostly so we've got all the leverage here let's use it let's use it right now and so that brings me to the scott besant last night we've got a big update on china as of last night how about we go to uh china is now seeking a deal here's scott besant last night cut one
The world has been coming to the U.S. and China has been the missing piece. I was going to be in Switzerland to negotiate with the Swiss. Turns out the Chinese team is traveling through Europe and they will be in Switzerland also. So we will meet on Saturday and Sunday. And, you know, look, we have shared interest that the U.S.
This isn't sustainable, as I said before, especially on the Chinese side. And, you know, 145 percent, 125 percent is the equivalent of an embargo. We don't want to decouple. What we want is fair trade. China coming to the table now. They're meeting. They're having the big meeting in Switzerland on Saturday and Sunday where they're all going to get together and they're going to they're going to do a little chat. Now, China, remember, throughout all this, China is going to try and
maintain this posture. Oh, yes, we're in a very strong bargaining position here. And it's lucky the United States even gets a chance to negotiate with us. They're going to give you all this garbage. Ignore all that crap. The fact that China is now rushing to Switzerland to meet with Scott Besson means they're crying, uncle. They want a way out of this. And so here's what we want from the Trump administration. We want to force as many possible concessions out of China as possible and to ensure that it's the greatest possible deal possible.
You know, it's not this is not a deal for a deal's sake. You know, we're not we don't want just like, oh, we have a deal. Look what we did. We won because we have a deal. No, the quality of the deal matters. The quality of the deal matters. How much more energy is China going to buy from the United States? How much how many fewer pieces of IP intellectual property is China going to steal? How much can we stop Chinese currency manipulation amidst all of this?
You know, it's the whole thing is like, OK, we'll see what happens. But if if China wants to keep the trade war going on forever, the reality is that just gives us more time and more incentive to bring everything back here and to buy from other international suppliers. Look, Apple's already moving its supply chain out of China and into places like Vietnam and India. And yes, the United States of America.
We're doing something good here. We're basically reorienting these economies away from our signature adversary. It's a huge deal. So Scott Besson is going to sit down with these guys over the weekend. But I won't be surprised if they walk away and there is no grand deal. I doubt there will be because this is one of the toughest negotiations that President Trump and his administration are going to face out of both administrations. And we should fight for the best deal possible.
But I love that we have an administration that fights, don't you? Aren't you happy about this? What a vast improvement over where we were. We didn't have, last administration didn't fight. They rolled over and then stabbed you in the back. That's been the relationship we had with the Biden people. And speaking of Biden, Biden has finally popped up for a big interview. And as you might expect, not with an American reporter, because why would they do that?
Instead, Joe Biden just did his first big television interview since his terrible presidency with the BBC. That's right. State controlled British media. That's who he did it with. And he was asked a couple of questions, which and I think in all of this, what you're going to see, I'm going to play these clips for you because I want you to see just how dead he is. He's dead. I'm pretty sure as he's speaking, you will see dust fly up in the air with each exhale.
And this is a guy that the left, they tried to run. Actually, it's Jill who tried to do this. Jill Biden tried to make this guy president of the United States again for her own selfish reasons. That's right. Lady McBiden tried to do that. And yet, look at this guy. There's no way, cut eight, that he should be president of the United States. Take a look. What did you make of those scenes in the Oval Office, President Trump and President Zelensky? I found it sort of beneath the surface.
America, the way that took place, and the way we talk about now that, well, it's the Gulf of America. Maybe we're going to have to take back Panama. Maybe we need to acquire Greenland. Maybe Canada should be a fit. What the hell's going on here? What president ever talks like that? That's not who we are. Let's pause this. We're about freedom. Let's pause this. That's exactly who we are.
No, no, no, no. Let's pause it right there because I want to continue, but I want to focus on that for a moment. What is this? The Gulf of America, Panama, Greenland, Canada. What president talks like that? A president who believes in our country. That's a president. That's what we want. A president with a big view, a big positive vision for our country. The left is defined by its criticism for our country. It's defined by self-loathing. It's defined by its contempt for our country.
This belief that we don't deserve the land that we live on, that we don't deserve our fellow countrymen, that we don't deserve to be in the greatest country on earth, that it's merely an accident, that we're not entitled to. That's the left's view on this subject. President Trump has the vision of all of the biggest thinking American presidents in our history. The view that not only are we great, but we can become greater. President Trump sees the value in our national security.
Having a place like Greenland in a world where Greenland is an important national security outpost for the well-being of the United States of America. Taking back control of Panama, which he says should have never been given up in the first place by the United States. Criticize Jimmy Carter as an idiot for giving it up for a dollar. This is a president who believes in our country and our well-being. He has a big view, a big picture view, a positive view of our country.
Biden doesn't understand that. There's not much he understands about anything these days, but he doesn't understand that because that's the left's view on this subject, that we're a country deserving of criticism and that everything we have is stolen. No, no, we're a great country and everything we have is a result of the hard work that the people who live here have undertaken. All right. More from Joe Biden's rambling and slowly delivered interview.
Should you have withdrawn earlier, given someone else a bigger chance? I don't think it would have mattered. We left at a time when we had a good candidate. She was fully funded. And what happened was, I had become... Fully funded. What we had set out to do, no one thought we could do.
I had become so successful on our agenda, it was hard to say, "No, I'm going to stop now." It was so successful. I know what I said when I started. Yeah. That I think it's... Betrayal. I'm prepared to hand this to the next generation. It's a transition government. But things moved so quickly... Look how old he is! ...that it made it difficult to walk away. And it was a... You can barely think. It was a hard decision. But... Regrets, though?
No, I think it was the right decision. I think that the, well, it was just a difficult decision. Oh, my gosh. But you shouldn't have taken it out. Thank God we don't have this guy anymore. Well, I don't think so. I mean, I don't know how that would have made much difference. What a difference. Holy cow. Now, let me point out something that he did in that clip that, you know, don't get just lost in his oldness there. He said two things of immense value there about Kamala.
We fully funded her campaign so she didn't have to do anything. We gave her everything. We gave her everything. So that's him taking a shot at Kamala. Another piece of that, he was asked at the tail end of that conversation, you don't regret not getting out earlier? Don't you think if you gave her more space?
that she would have had a better chance if only the campaign had been longer. Now, by the way, I think if the campaign had been longer for Kamala, the margins would have been bigger for Trump. The longer people think of Kamala as potentially becoming president of the United States, the worse it was for her. So to the extent that you can formulate any campaign that might work to her advantage, make it short, make it a little one, because if we stare at her too long, we're saying no way in hell does this person become president of the United States.
But the argument that she's been making that her people have been making is, oh, she only had a couple of days to run for president. She didn't have enough time. And Biden is saying there he has no regrets whatsoever. Getting out earlier would have made no difference. He said put differently. Joe Biden is saying Donald Trump was going to win no matter what. No matter what. And for once.
I agree with Joe Biden. Glad to have you with us again today here on the Vince podcast. Please keep the pressure on Tom Tillis. Let him know you're watching him. We got to get Ed Martin confirmed to be the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. And until tomorrow, really appreciate you. It's been another good podcast with you. The big national radio show coming up 12 to 3 Eastern time. You can watch that rumble dot com slash Vince. Great to have you with us today.