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00:00And welcome to Hannity. We begin tonight with a Fox News alert. Major, huge breaking news from the Middle East tonight.
00:06The war in Gaza is now coming to an end. The White House is now confirming the deal between Israel.
00:12Hamas is signed. It is sealed. It is delivered. The White House is now confirming the deal between Israel and Hamas.
00:19It is, in fact, at that point moments ago on Truth Social.
00:22President Trump posted the following, quote,
00:24I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan.
00:33Now, this means that all of the hostages will be released very soon and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps towards a strong, durable, everlasting peace.
00:46All parties will be treated fairly.
00:48This is a great day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, all surrounding nations and the United States of America.
00:56And we thank the mediators from Qatar and Egypt and Turkey who work with us to make this historic, unprecedented event happen.
01:06Blessed are the peacemakers.
01:08Now, this is real transformational history in the making.
01:11President Trump, he will join us on this show in just a moment.
01:14But so many major things had to happen for this historic moment to occur.
01:20For decades, most Arab nations, they have been completely unwilling to participate in helping to resolve this never-ending conflict.
01:29President Trump was able to build a coalition, likely unthinkable, two years ago,
01:35one day after the historic, horrific, unprovoked attacks on Israel, October 7, 2023,
01:42the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day, 1,500 dead Israelis.
01:46They have a small population.
01:48The president successfully negotiated these countries' commitments and involvement.
01:53Also, President Trump was able to work with Israel after building a great relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
02:00And the prime minister was then willing to trust the president, sign off on concessions to build a lasting peace.
02:08And the security guarantees that Israel will need to move forward.
02:11But perhaps the most powerful message that President Donald J. Trump sent to the entire Middle East,
02:18the loudest message possible was when the president followed through the principle of peace through strength.
02:25He gave Iran a deadline for peace.
02:28And when they rejected it, President Trump obliterated the Iranian nuclear sites this summer.
02:34Now, the president said in the lead-up to tonight that we can do this the easy way or they can do it the hard way.
02:41He warned in no uncertain terms, Hamas, that if they did not take the deal, he used the word, they would be obliterated.
02:48Does anyone doubt that would have been the next step?
02:51According to a report from our very own Jennifer Griffin, all 20 living hostages will be freed on the same day.
02:59There will be no ceremonies inside of Gaza to humiliate the hostages before they are handed over.
03:05Hours ago, here is how the president learned of the news during a press conference about Antifa.
03:11Take a look.
03:13Well, they're smart, but they're not smart enough.
03:15They, oh, my microphone's broken.
03:19Departments to find the criminal conspiracy.
03:22Okay.
03:24I'm just giving, yeah, I was just given a note by the secretary of state saying that we're very close to a deal in the Middle East.
03:34And they're going to need me pretty quickly.
03:36There is now no doubt this president will go down in history as a peacemaking president.
03:43Whether the Democrats like it or not, President Trump, again, will join us in a few moments with details and more on this massive development and this breaking news.
03:53It's good for the entire world.
03:54But first, here with all the key details, our very own Trey Yankst, he's live.
03:59He's in Israel tonight.
04:01Trey, this is history in the making.
04:03I know it's early in the morning there.
04:05But the Israeli people will wake up to news that those hostages will, in fact, be coming home.
04:13Yes, Sean, good evening.
04:14It's a historic moment in the Middle East.
04:16President Trump announcing that both Israel and Hamas have signed on to the first phase of his 20-point peace plan to end the war inside Gaza.
04:26This means that 20 living hostages will be freed from Hamas captivity.
04:30They'll be exchanged for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
04:34And Israeli forces will have to withdraw from certain lines inside Gaza.
04:38They will still stay within the enclave, but they will pull back a bit.
04:43All of this came together just a few hours ago.
04:46President Trump sending his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
04:52They were joined by Turkish officials and Qatari officials to try to hammer out the final pieces of this agreement and bring it across the finish line.
05:00Then President Trump got that information from Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
05:04ultimately making the announcement on Truth Social that a deal was reached for the first phase of his agreement.
05:11This is going to alleviate suffering for Palestinian civilians.
05:13It is going to reunite the hostages with their loved ones.
05:17And it's going to enter into a chapter where the Middle East can work to formally end the war inside Gaza,
05:24bring that conflict to an end, and ultimately open up the door for more peace agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
05:31I can tell you I've covered this story for more than seven years, Sean.
05:34This is the first time that I can remember where Israelis and Palestinians were celebrating the same thing.
05:41Sean?
05:42That shows history in the making.
05:44Trey Yankst in Israel tonight.
05:46All right, joining us now live on the phone is the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
05:52Mr. President, wow.
05:54If you would have asked me two years ago yesterday if this was possible, I would have bet everything I had no.
06:01Congratulations, sir.
06:02Can you give us more of the details?
06:05Well, thank you very much, Sean.
06:06It's a great honor to be involved in it.
06:08We had some tremendous help, as you know, with everybody from Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Marco.
06:15And we had everybody, J.D., the whole group was just amazing.
06:21And the military was, as you know, very instrumental in getting this done.
06:26We have a great military with great leadership.
06:29The whole world came together, to be honest.
06:31So many countries that you wouldn't have even thought of it, they came together.
06:35The world has come together around this deal.
06:38And that's something I would say that without that wouldn't happen.
06:42I mean, so many countries that you wouldn't have thought of have wired their best wishes and their commitment to do whatever is necessary.
06:51The countries surrounding have all signed.
06:54I mean, they're all signed up.
06:55And it's been really an amazing period of time.
07:00And so great for Israel, so great for Muslims, for the Arab countries, and so great for this country,
07:08for the United States of America, and that we could be involved in, you know, making a deal like this happen.
07:14Because it was, you know, many years they talked about peace in the Middle East.
07:17This is more than Gaza.
07:19This is peace in the Middle East.
07:20And it's an incredible thing.
07:23Mr. President, you are expending a lot of effort worldwide to bring about peace.
07:29How did this become one of your top agenda items, considering this has gone on for decades and decades?
07:38A lot of the Arab nations that have formed coalitions with you were reluctant and resistant for decades to ever be a part of the solution.
07:47That was a big part of what happened here today.
07:49Explain.
07:50Can you explain that part of it?
07:51Well, I develop relationships with people, and sometimes those relationships lead to great things.
07:57And in the case of many of the Arab nations, the wealthiest nations in the world, if you look,
08:04although with what we've done in the United States, I think we top everybody by a lot with the tariffs and all of that.
08:10But, you know, having the ability to deal with trade, having the ability to use tariffs to help me make a point,
08:19the tariffs have brought peace to the world.
08:22I'm telling you, they brought peace to the world.
08:24And not only here, but with so many other deals.
08:26You know, I've made seven peace deals where countries were, in many cases, 30, 31 years, 135, 137 years.
08:35They've been fighting and millions of people being killed.
08:37And I brought peace, and I did it through, in not all cases, but probably at least five of the seven that we've done so far.
08:48It was through trade, that we're not going to deal with people that fight.
08:52We're not going to deal, and we're going to put tariffs on you.
08:55We're not going to let you deal in the United States.
08:57We'll put tariffs on you.
08:58And without that, without the tariffs, I mean, far more than even the money that we're taking,
09:03which is trillions of dollars, essentially trillions of dollars, far much more importantly,
09:09it gives you a tremendous road to peace.
09:12And the saving of millions of lives, just millions and millions of lives.
09:16You look at India and Pakistan, I said, well, we're not going to do business with either of you if you don't put it together.
09:22These are two nuclear nations that were, seven planes were shot down, as you know,
09:27and they were really at it, they were going at it, and I said, we're not going to do any business with you.
09:32We're not going to have anything to do with you.
09:35We're going to put massive tariffs on you in both cases.
09:38And they said, well, we've got to start talking about this.
09:42This is tremendous amounts of money and power we're dealing with.
09:46And within 24 hours, I had a peace deal they made.
09:51They stopped.
09:52They stopped the fighting.
09:53And we can go one after another.
09:56You've been really nice enough to announce all of the deals, but there have been many deals.
10:02And a lot of the settlements were based on trade.
10:07You know, Mr. President, I actually hope the Supreme Court is listening to you right now,
10:13because I think you are making a very critical argument,
10:17as this very issue will go before the United States Supreme Court,
10:20and that is that I would argue that tariffs are critical to your role as commander-in-chief.
10:26Your constitutional authority is based in it, and it would cripple your ability to fully defend the country.
10:34Mr. President, you know, I think there's a misunderstanding among some about a question I asked you when we were together in Alaska,
10:43and that is about the Trump doctrine.
10:45I think people don't really understand the Trump doctrine.
10:48I totally agree with you.
10:50We should never have forever wars anymore.
10:52I think military technology is changing that before our eyes.
10:55But more importantly, some people seem to interpret that as that you will not use the military.
11:01But yet in your first term, you wiped out the ISIS caliphate.
11:04You took out Soleimani on that tarmac.
11:07You took out Baghdadi and Associates.
11:09You dropped the mother-of-all bombs on Afghanistan.
11:13And here in your second term, you gave Iran 50 days to achieve a peace deal.
11:20They did not do so.
11:22And then you said they could not have nuclear weapons.
11:24And you did something that nobody thought would happen.
11:27And you took out their nuclear sites.
11:29How impactful was that decision, do you believe, in this deal being possible today?
11:37Well, Iran was about one month, maybe two months away from having a nuclear weapon.
11:43And if I allowed that to happen, this deal would not have been possible.
11:48Or if it was, it would have a tremendous clout over it because you'd have a country with a nuclear weapon that was not obviously very friendly.
11:56And the power of nuclear weapons is something that we shouldn't even be talking about.
12:00It's so massive.
12:01And so by doing that, we now have something where actually Iran and I and Iran and a number of people have been talking about a deal.
12:12But it's a very much different Iran.
12:13And frankly, we've had some very good conversations.
12:18And as you saw, they blessed the deal.
12:20They put out a few hours ago a statement that they agree with the deal and they blessed the deal.
12:25So that's a tremendous thing.
12:26I believe if they had a nuclear weapon, there would be a whole different – even if we made the deal, it would have literally – it would have a very dark cloud over it because of what could potentially happen.
12:38So now there are no dark clouds.
12:40We're going to have peace.
12:42And by the way, I believe Iran is going to be actually a part of the whole peace situation.
12:46But countries that, frankly, didn't get along, they're all involved.
12:51And it's brought the whole world together.
12:53It's amazing.
12:54I've never seen anything.
12:55It's so good for Israel.
12:57I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu just a little while ago.
13:00He called.
13:00He said, I can't believe it.
13:02He said, everybody's liking me now, meaning him.
13:05He said – and I said, more importantly, they're loving Israel again.
13:10And they really are.
13:11It's – I said, Israel cannot fight the world, Bibi.
13:15They can't fight the world.
13:16And he understands that very well.
13:18So it's amazing the way it's all come together.
13:21And it's a beautiful picture.
13:23I don't know if it could ever happen again.
13:24It was just a set of circumstances, like, for instance, taking out the nuclear – the potential nuclear power of Iran.
13:34So many different things happened that were so amazing.
13:38It's a lot of talent involved, I'll tell you.
13:42But there was a certain degree of luck, too.
13:43You know, you need luck also.
13:45There is such a thing as luck.
13:46Mr. President, you said in your statement that this is the first phase of the peace plan and that the hostages will be released very soon.
13:57I assume that means both those that are alive and those that are not alive.
14:02And Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed-upon line.
14:07Can you expand on that and tell us maybe what part two – is there a part two or a part three?
14:13Because the idea has to be a lasting peace, and would that include the security guarantees that Hamas can no longer be armed with weapons that they can fire into Israel?
14:24I was in a city, a border city in Gaza, near Gaza.
14:30They had gotten hit with 10,000 rockets in 10 years.
14:33I was in those terror tunnels.
14:36I think you're going to see all of that disappear.
14:38I think you're going to see people getting along, and you'll see Gaza being rebuilt.
14:43We're forming a council that – the Council of Peace, we think it's going to be called, and it's going to be very powerful.
14:51And it's going to really – I think to a large extent it's going to have a lot to do with the whole Gaza situation.
14:59People are going to be taken care of.
15:01It's going to be a different world.
15:02I think really the Middle East came together.
15:05Amazingly they came together.
15:06You know, they have some countries with extraordinary wealth, and just spending a small portion of that wealth can do so much for that area.
15:15So we'll be involved in it.
15:17But the big thing is hostages are going to be released.
15:21It's probably – our time would be probably Monday.
15:25And, you know, it's – they're terribly – a terrible situation.
15:31They're deep.
15:32They're deep in the earth, and they're being gotten, and a lot of things are happening right now.
15:37As we speak, so much is happening to get the hostages freed, and we think they'll all be coming back on Monday.
15:45So it looks like that's the thing, and that'll include the bodies of the dead.
15:52And, you know, the parents that we're – I talk to so many of them, but the parents are more – almost more intent,
16:00but equally intent as getting their – in just about all cases – the son, their son's body back than they are as though the young man was alive.
16:11It's just the same intensity.
16:14They want their baby's body back.
16:17That's what one woman said, I want my baby's body back.
16:20And, you know, the son is 25, 26 years old.
16:23So that's a very big part of it, getting all of the – it's about 28.
16:29The number is 28.
16:30We'll be coming back, but unfortunately, dead.
16:34Mr. President, the Supreme Court, you talked about how tariffs are critical,
16:38and I mentioned the Supreme Court will be weighing in on that issue.
16:43Interestingly, the issue of tariffs comes up on another issue with your constitutional role as commander-in-chief,
16:51and that has to do with putting tariffs on countries that are buying Russian oil.
16:57There's a report on Reuters tonight that Ukraine has stepped up their drone attacks on Russian refineries,
17:03and the Russian people now are waiting in gas lines after Ukraine targeted their oil refineries.
17:11You know, I was there.
17:12I watched.
17:13You've been trying to give Vladimir Putin every opportunity imaginable, and he's rejected it.
17:19And now the Ukrainians have upped their game, and they're now fighting without handcuffs on,
17:24and they're going after their money, and you're helping them by saying to other countries,
17:29don't do business with Russia if they're going to invade innocent countries.
17:34Well, just to go to the first part of your question, without tariffs, it's a different country.
17:38Tariffs have been used on us to take our wealth and to take tremendous amounts of our power away from us.
17:44They've been used against us by China, by Europe.
17:48If you look at the European Union, they used them very smartly against us,
17:52and, you know, that's not happening anymore.
17:55We've signed deals, and we've signed deals.
17:58It's not like anybody was forced.
18:01So we've signed deals, and the people that brought the lawsuit against us,
18:04that's before the Supreme Court, these are all foreign-related countries
18:08because all of a sudden they can't take advantage of the United States anymore
18:12because we are, and I'm not taking advantage of them,
18:15but billions and even trillions of dollars is pouring into our country.
18:19Do you see that? And we're a rich country again,
18:21and more importantly, we're a powerful country in terms of peace.
18:25I can create peace with tariffs.
18:27I'm using them for a lot of different reasons.
18:29If that power was taken away from the President of the United States,
18:32it would be a terrible, terrible day for our country,
18:35and I would say many of the things that I've done could be eradicated,
18:39and the United States would be in a very, very bad, vulnerable position,
18:44and these are enemies of the country that are pursuing that lawsuit,
18:49and I would hope that that lawsuit would disappear.
18:52The country would be in a very different position than it is right now,
18:57and you wouldn't be stopping wars.
18:59You wouldn't be using the power of trade and the power of tariffs to stop wars.
19:02I've used it.
19:03As an example, I say to a country that if you're going to continue to fight,
19:07we're going to put a 20 percent or 100 percent or a 300 percent tariff on your country
19:12in dealing with the United States,
19:14and I haven't had one country want to take that on,
19:17and they've stopped wars.
19:18I've saved millions of lives using tariffs.
19:21So if for any reason the court ruled against,
19:24and, you know, on the legal merits, we should be absolutely entitled.
19:28Almost every single legal scholar said the President has the right to enact tariffs.
19:34If you didn't have that right, we'd be in big trouble,
19:36because other countries would be able to do it against us,
19:39and we wouldn't be able to do it against them.
19:41So it would be very unfair to the country.
19:44But in the meantime, we're making deals with Japan, with South Korea,
19:49and we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars like we've never done before,
19:54and we're making friends, frankly.
19:57They respect us again.
19:58You know, we're like a respected country again.
20:02We were laughed at.
20:03Nobody took advantage of us worse than our so-called allies on trade,
20:09and that's under the Biden administration,
20:11and under Barack Hussein Obama, we were a disaster.
20:15We were a laughingstock.
20:16But it really—and then we did great.
20:18We had one of the best economies in history under my administration.
20:22And then when this travesty of an election took place and we relied on Biden,
20:29he let the world take advantage of us.
20:31We had tremendous heartache, and just—it was horrible.
20:35And it was blowing up.
20:37So we came in, and the power of trade, the power of tariffs,
20:40all of the different powers that a president is entitled to and allowed,
20:44and legally allowed, has brought us into a different country.
20:48We're a highly respected country again.
20:51You know, it's very interesting.
20:52The king of Saudi Arabia said it.
20:54He said, sir, one year ago, you were a dead country.
20:58He used the word dead, and other people have too.
21:01We were a dead country.
21:02Now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
21:04We're the hottest country in the world.
21:05And if we didn't have that power,
21:06I wouldn't have been able to make this recent deal,
21:09which is the biggest of them all, probably the biggest deal ever made.
21:12And we're getting the hostages back.
21:15We're getting—and they're going to hopefully come back in a good, healthy state.
21:19But, you know, they'll be healthy.
21:20In a short period of time, they'll be healthy.
21:22But their lives were hell.
21:24But we're getting them back.
21:26And we're getting, again, the bodies back, the bodies of the dead.
21:29We're getting them back, which is very important to a lot of people.
21:34And things are going to be much different in the Middle East.
21:36But things are going to be different all over the world.
21:38And without the tariffs, you would not be in this position, I can tell you that.
21:43So we'd be a different—a much different country, a weakened country.
21:48I wouldn't say a laughingstock, but we were a laughingstock just a year ago.
21:53If you look back with the Biden, the whole world was laughing at us.
21:57And by the way, they were charging us tariffs,
21:59and we weren't retaliating because we had a president that didn't understand what it meant
22:03and didn't understand what the meaning of a tariff is.
22:06It brought peace and wealth to our country and to the world.
22:12Mr. President, our last question.
22:14And I could ask you a million questions about the Schumer shutdown,
22:17about the Antifa roundtable you had today.
22:20You know me.
22:21I can keep going, but I won't.
22:23By the end of this term as president, what vision do you have?
22:29What would you like to see Gaza look like?
22:32What will the relationship with Israel and other Middle Eastern countries be like,
22:38you know, as this process continues to unfold
22:42and as you have convinced these other nations to finally involve themselves?
22:47And then we'll let you go, sir.
22:49Well, Gaza is going to be a peaceful, much safer place.
22:53Obviously, it's been blown to pieces, and this is just not by Israel.
22:57This is over years and years and years.
22:59It's been heartache for many years.
23:01A lot of people say this is a deal for 3,000 years.
23:04So whether you say 500, because some people say 500 based on events,
23:09but other people say this is something historic for 3,000 years.
23:12There's nothing ever going to be bigger than this.
23:15And so Gaza, we believe, is going to be a much safer place,
23:19and it's going to be a place that reconstructs,
23:21and other countries in the area will help it reconstruct
23:24because they have tremendous amounts of wealth,
23:27and they want to see that happen.
23:29And we'll be involved in helping them make it successful
23:32and helping it stay peaceful, but I think it's going to be peaceful.
23:36I think, again, the Iran situation was very important doing what we had to do,
23:41which was, again, 22 years it was planned to be done,
23:46and nobody, no other president wanted to do it or whatever for whatever reason,
23:50but they didn't do it, and having that was very important.
23:54But, you know, I'm very confident there'll be peace in the Middle East.
23:58I mean, the words peace in the Middle East is something people have been striving for
24:01for hundreds of years, for centuries, for many centuries,
24:06and we really have, every country has come together,
24:10and on a little different scale, but so important.
24:13It seems like everything's at a different scale,
24:15but we're going to make our cities safe.
24:18We're going to make Chicago safe.
24:20We're going to make Memphis, Tennessee, we're there right now.
24:23We're making it safe.
24:24There's a difference in one week.
24:26It's like day and night.
24:29It's so important what we did in D.C., Washington, D.C.,
24:33our own capital that people come to, and it was crime-ridden,
24:37and now it's as safe as there is anywhere in the country.
24:40It's safe.
24:41It's clean.
24:42We've cleaned it.
24:43We've gotten rid of the thugs.
24:45We took 1,700, in many cases, career criminals,
24:49and in many cases people coming from other countries
24:52that shouldn't have been allowed to come,
24:53gang members from other countries, jail, people from jails.
24:58The jails were literally opened up in Venezuela
25:01and other countries into our country,
25:04and we've gotten them out, and we're getting them out,
25:06but we took out 1,700 in Washington, D.C.,
25:091,700 criminals that are no longer there,
25:12and we have a safe, beautiful capital again.
25:15You can go and eat at the restaurants.
25:17The restaurants are booming.
25:18They were closing one after another,
25:20and now they're booming.
25:21They're opening, and this all took place
25:24over the last two months.
25:25It's amazing, actually.
25:27Nobody's ever seen a transformation like they have
25:29in Washington, D.C.
25:31It's as hot as it can get.
25:33It's beautiful.
25:34It's a beautiful thing to watch,
25:36and to see it be safe with our beautiful buildings,
25:39the graffitis off the walls,
25:41the tents from all over,
25:43thousands of tents in our beautiful parks,
25:45our national parks.
25:46The tents are all gone.
25:48Everything is, and it's only going to get better
25:51over the next year.
25:52It's going to be, there'll be some rebuilding
25:54and some fixing up and some cleaning up,
25:57and people are proud of our capital again,
25:59but the beautiful thing is it's really safe.
26:02You can walk down the middle of the street
26:03with your wife.
26:04You can walk down the middle of the street by yourself.
26:07Your family can, and you have no fear.
26:10If you did that, if you said that a year ago,
26:13they had almost no chance of making it
26:17to the other side of the table.
26:18And, you know, to bring a lot of people to the table,
26:21we pray for the people in the region,
26:23and we pray this is a peace that lasts forever,
26:25but this is a great first step.
26:27Mr. President, historic by every measure,
26:30we appreciate you being on with us tonight, sir.
26:32Thank you very much, Sean.
26:34All right, thank you.
26:36All right, and tonight,
26:37the federal government is still in the Schumer shutdown mode.
26:39There's just one reason for that.
26:41Senate Democrats refused to vote
26:43for a clean CR continuing resolution.
26:46They had another opportunity to do so today.
26:48Once again, just three Democrats voted
26:50to reopen our government,
26:52but that hasn't stopped Democrats
26:54from trying to spin this.
26:56Apparently, according to Axios,
26:57the Democrats are being told
26:58that they are somehow winning the shutdown messaging war.
27:02What about the people that are suffering
27:04that they always warned us about?
27:06Anyway, they are the ones causing the shutdown.
27:08They claim that they're keeping the government closed
27:10until Republicans promised to extend
27:12those massive Joe Biden subsidies for Obamacare,
27:16which was supposed to be temporary,
27:18and those plans and premiums.
27:20Here's what Chuckie Schumer had to say.
27:23So now we're in a government shutdown,
27:26and you may be asking yourself,
27:27how the hell did we get here?
27:30Donald Trump and the Republican Party
27:32are hell-bent on taking health care away
27:34from 60 million people,
27:37closing community clinics,
27:39rural hospitals, nursing homes,
27:41all so they can keep giving tax breaks
27:43to their billionaire friends.
27:45It's a disgrace.
27:46So Democrats have three words for this.
27:49No way.
27:51It's literally life or death.
27:54We will not let Republicans blow up.
27:56The Trump administration revives
28:01English language requirement for truck drivers.
28:06Transportation Secretary Duffy
28:14cites safety concerns reversing Obama-era policy
28:18that relaxed enforcement.
28:20The Trump administration on Tuesday
28:22took steps to begin enforcing a law
28:24that requires truck drivers to speak English.
28:28Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
28:30was in Austin, Texas,
28:32where he signed an order
28:33to direct the Department of Transportation
28:35to enforce the law.
28:39Duffy framed the move
28:41as a safety issue for America's roadways.
28:45For too long,
28:46misguided policies have prioritized
28:48political correctness
28:49over safety of the American people,
28:52Duffy said.
28:54Under federal law,
28:56a driver must read and speak
28:58in the English language sufficiently
29:00to converse with the general public
29:02to understand highway traffic signs
29:04and signals in the English language
29:06to respond to official inquiries
29:08and to make entries on reports and records.
29:12The move came after President Donald Trump
29:15signed an executive order on April 28th
29:17directing the Department of Transportation
29:19to include English literacy tests
29:21for our trackers.
29:25You might not know,
29:26but there's a lot of communication problems
29:28between trackers on the road
29:30with federal officials
29:31and local officials,
29:32as well as which obviously
29:34is a public safety risk,
29:36White House Press Secretary
29:37Caroline Leavitt said at the time.
29:39So, we're going to ensure
29:41that our trackers,
29:42who are the backbone of our economy,
29:44are able to speak English.
29:45That's a very common sense policy.
29:47Before 2015,
29:51more than 99,000 drivers
29:53had English provisancy violations
29:55and 1,000 were taken out of service,
29:57Duffy said.
29:59Many of those drivers
30:00were given a slap on the wrist,
30:02he said.
30:03English is the language
30:04of opportunity in America,
30:06the secretary said.
30:08Allowing drivers who cannot read,
30:09stop signs,
30:10or understand police officers'
30:12instructions
30:12to operate an 80,000 pound big rig
30:15threatens the safety
30:16of every American
30:17on our roadways.
30:19Moving forward,
30:20truckers would be taken out of service
30:22if they are pulled over
30:23and found unable to speak English.
30:33Tensions flare
30:34at school board meeting
30:35after trans athlete
30:37wins multiple track events.
30:38A biological male
30:41beat out 7th grade females
30:43in multiple events
30:44at a track meet recently.
30:48Parents and residents
30:50clashed at a school board meeting
30:51in Chicago on Monday
30:52after a trans junior high school student
30:54won multiple events
30:55at a local track meet.
30:59The Naperville 203
31:01Community School District
31:02board meeting
31:03was at times contentious
31:04with roughly 100 people
31:06in attendance
31:06split between the main room
31:08and an overflow viewing area.
31:13Those in support
31:14of the trans athlete
31:15waved the blue, pink
31:16and white striped transgender flag
31:17while those advocating
31:19for athletes to compete
31:20against people
31:20of the same biological sex
31:22held signs reading
31:23Protect Girls Sports
31:25and defend the title IX
31:27a federal civil rights law
31:29that prohibits
31:29sex discrimination
31:30in education.
31:33The controversy
31:34centred around
31:35a biological male
31:36who competed
31:36in 7th grade track meets
31:38against biological females
31:39at Naperville Priory
31:40conference meets
31:41with attendees
31:42at the meeting
31:43sharply divided
31:44on the issue.
31:47These situations
31:48place feelings
31:48over reason
31:49and force other students
31:50and families
31:51to participate
31:52in something we all know
31:53is a lie.
31:54Parents,
31:55Mike Labelle,
31:56said.
31:58Naperville resident,
31:59Doug McGregor,
32:00said that there is
32:01a hidden political agenda
32:02behind district policies.
32:05Many of us knew
32:07that the achievement gap
32:08was just a children's horse
32:09for DEI's real objective,
32:11pronouns,
32:12and the radical LGBTQ plus agenda,
32:14McGregor said.
32:16Naperville parents
32:17will spend literally
32:18tens of thousands
32:19of dollars on sports
32:20throughout their daughter's lives.
32:22Travel teams,
32:23coaches,
32:24summer camps,
32:25traveling to tournaments
32:25and meet,
32:26etc.,
32:27and when her daughter
32:28steps up for her chance
32:29to win in a state championship
32:31or medal,
32:32he said,
32:33she'll lose to a biological male
32:34that once in a lifetime moment
32:36gone because of DEI's
32:38political agenda.
32:41Those defending the trans athlete
32:43include Dorothy Powers,
32:44a parent of six
32:45who is non-binary.
32:46Powers argue that
32:47forcing students
32:48to compete in a gender category
32:49that does not match
32:51their identity harms
32:52their personal development.
32:55When a student is forced
32:58to compete in a gender
32:59with which he or she
33:00does not identify,
33:02education is a choice.
33:04Powers said,
33:05America began providing
33:07public education
33:07in 1635.
33:09Will Naperville continue
33:10the proud American tradition
33:11of forward progress
33:13or try to justify exclusion
33:14for those who are
33:15non-binary, of course?
33:17I include,
33:18I encourage inclusion.
33:20Parenting Thompson said
33:21the controversy
33:22is not truly about races
33:23or a specific athlete,
33:24but rather part of
33:26a broader effort
33:26to target transgender students.
33:30Don't be fooled.
33:31It was never about race
33:32and it was never about
33:33an athlete,
33:33Thompson said.
33:34This is an attempt
33:35to further marginalise
33:36the group and tell them
33:37that they don't belong,
33:38that they aren't good enough.
33:42Awake, Illinois,
33:43has filed a civil rights
33:44complaint against the district
33:45with the Education Department
33:47Officer for Civil Rights
33:49alleging a violation
33:50of Title IX.
33:51They called on federal funds
33:55to be withheld
33:56from the district,
33:57which it says receives
33:58$8 million and $9 million
34:00in federal grants annually.
34:02The complaint is part
34:04of a broader effort
34:04by Awake, Illinois,
34:06which previously filed
34:07the similar Title IX complaint
34:08against other districts
34:09and the Illinois State Board
34:11of Education.
34:14Shannon Adcock
34:14of Awake, Illinois,
34:16also spoke out
34:17at the meeting.
34:19Now, in 2025,
34:21you've got boys
34:22stealing girls' victories,
34:24leaving young girls
34:25subbing on the tracks,
34:26Adcock said.
34:27This isn't inclusion,
34:28it's oppression.
34:30Meanwhile,
34:31Lauren Herby
34:31said that
34:32in a solution
34:33may be to give
34:34trans students
34:35a different class of sports
34:36to compete against
34:37one another.
34:37But I think for women,
34:41I don't think we stand
34:41a chance against a male,
34:43she said.
34:44I know a lot of these girls
34:45practice their entire life
34:46to try to get a scholarship
34:47and there's a lot
34:49of lost opportunities,
34:51so I just wanted to come
34:52and support women
34:53in women's sports.
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