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00:00Yes. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. All right. Thank you. All right. And on your way out, don't forget to help yourself to the bucket of crawdads.
00:14Happy Wednesday, everyone. So CNN's Caitlin Collins revealed staffers secretly dread traveling with President Trump because he does not sleep.
00:25Conversely, Biden staffers dreaded traveling with Joe because he does not wipe.
00:35It's day eight of the government shutdown. It's getting scary.
00:39They're already considering getting a backup generator for Mitch McConnell.
00:47They say the shutdown could cost the economy approximately 15 billion dollars a week.
00:53To put that in perspective, that's 15 billion dollars more than Kilmeade's book sales.
01:01After receiving criticism for height shaming, AOC now claims she actually loves short people.
01:11In fact, she's hiding three of them in her ass.
01:14It's a compliment.
01:22KFC is once again offering its original honey barbecue flavor.
01:26In a related story, guess who just bought four metric tons of napkins?
01:33According to a new study, our brains only have the capacity to deal with 150 friends.
01:39Well, you still have 149 to go, Jesse.
01:45I counted his wife as a friend.
01:48Not the kids, though. They hate them.
01:51And Ohio Zoo is asking the public to name its newborn baby rhino.
01:56You know, ABC did the same thing after they adopted five new dairy cows.
01:59Never fails.
02:05Why stop?
02:08JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago is due to his obsessive fixations.
02:15Yeah, this from the guy who every time he steps on a crack, he has to eat a pizza.
02:18Meanwhile, Trump says Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson should be in jail.
02:28But why those two?
02:31Well, in case Pritzker gets hungry.
02:37And finally, James Comey was arraigned today regarding federal charges of lying to Congress.
02:43You know, just for fun, they should give him this many days.
02:47So apparently Democrats have a new plan to win back young men.
02:59And it's not inventing a time machine to undo the last eight years where dudes wore moo-moos and a dead guy was elected president.
03:09The party is testing everything from beer ads to left-wing influencers.
03:13In other words, they're trying to rebrand a bad product instead of putting out a good one.
03:18They're even trying something called gym outreach.
03:22Yeah, gym outreach, which, by the way, was my stage name when I made those films to pay my way through community college.
03:30Those were the days.
03:32Democrat operatives are paying left-leaning fitness influencers to create online content.
03:36Think about that.
03:37They're paying guys to pretend that they're masculine liberals.
03:42And here I thought that was what Hollywood was for.
03:46But the same guys who called physical fitness white supremacy now pretend that they like the bench press.
03:53Finally, a transition that doesn't make you cut anything off except the carbs.
03:58But give the Dems some credit.
04:03At least they're finally recognizing that their typical male supporter is a smelly life support system for a man bun.
04:12I mean, you know you're in trouble when your Rambo is Beto O'Rourke.
04:16And if this is your party's answer to Clint Eastwood, no wonder Democrat men start menstruating.
04:31And this is your action hero?
04:34He banged the first girl who ever talked to him.
04:38And she did it because she was a spy.
04:40Now, it's good they're hitting the gym, but we do it for ourselves, not for political advantage.
04:48There's a difference there.
04:50Republicans go because we like work.
04:52We like strength.
04:53We like winning.
04:54We like women doing lunges and Lululemons.
05:00And look, I mean, look at me.
05:02You think all this happens without hours at the gym?
05:06Shout out to my personal trainer, Seth.
05:09Yeah.
05:10Don't wait up.
05:12But once again, Trump is lifting up Americans, including his opponents.
05:17Guys that look like David Hogg or a Hogg, period, are going to the gym now just to beat Trump.
05:24But this gym, it could be a doorway to the logic of hard work.
05:29Maybe the left won't resent people that succeed if they see what happens when they succeed.
05:34How soon before they discover other healthy habits like proper hygiene and not eating your body weight
05:40and bear claws.
05:43And it's helping female Democrats, too, who now realize that a guy who looks like Pete Hegseth
05:48and can carry the groceries is far more preferable to their soy-flavored emotional support animals,
05:54whose idea of pleasing a woman in the bedroom is to vacuum it.
05:57Of course, you're going to have to know exactly what a woman is or dudes will split.
06:06Because young men, they like young women, too.
06:08A lot.
06:09Especially the ones without penises.
06:14So change is afoot.
06:16Suddenly, the Dems are like, wait, these Republican guys are strong and confident.
06:19Maybe we overcorrected.
06:21A little toxicity is kind of hot.
06:23And maybe being a helpless, perpetual whiner isn't the path to happiness.
06:27We call that growth.
06:30And the first step is admitting you were wrong.
06:32The second step is admitting you were wrong again.
06:35Because I never get tired of hearing it.
06:38But also, why not unblock all your conservative loved ones and admit that they're not Hitler?
06:43Even those with an undescended testicle.
06:49You know, so not right.
06:52I'd storm all if Katie Porter didn't beat me to it.
06:56I'll be finished in a little bit, young man.
06:57Thank you very much.
06:58And even if the liberals' fitness is driven by politics, who cares?
07:03They'll soon discover testosterone.
07:04Then along with it, logic and reason and poof, they're wearing khakis and voting Republican.
07:10Fact is, you can't...
07:11Hold your applause.
07:14Till we meet later.
07:16Fact is, you can't be into fitness and into socialism, gender ideology, or open borders.
07:22There is no redistribution at the gym.
07:25You can't take someone else's well-earned muscles.
07:28And you can't tell everyone that your scrawny biceps identify as 20-inch pythons.
07:36And you can't work out at a good gym unless you're a member.
07:40But that's the hidden genius of Trump.
07:42He doesn't just make America great again.
07:44He makes his enemies better, too.
07:47By leaving the left in the dust, he's raised the bar, which has forced them to start lifting it.
07:53Let's welcome...
07:55Here he is!
07:59Tonight's guest!
08:01The original name of his show was One Nation Hates Him.
08:05Host of One Nation and Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade.
08:11She went from interviewing smashing pumpkins to digesting prunes.
08:16Host of the Kennedy Saves the World podcast, Kennedy.
08:19He calls ice on his comedy show so that someone will show up.
08:27Comedian Adam Hunter.
08:32And when the FBI spied on her phone, they only got info on how to poison your boss.
08:37New York Times best-selling author of Fox News contributor, Katu.
08:39You know, Brian, I know physical fitness and looking good is not really your thing.
08:49But do you think that it's okay to fake fitness to reach voters?
08:55Is that a weird thing?
08:57First off, I had to get paid for those two appearances during your monologue, which I knew nothing about.
09:01First off, I dare you mess with my upper body.
09:05I am clean-shaven.
09:07I'm defined.
09:08I have great biceps.
09:09My deltoids are to kill for.
09:10Not even to bring up my triceps.
09:12But I digress.
09:13First off, let's talk about authenticity.
09:15You have RFK, who was fit before he was HHS secretary.
09:20Pete Hegseth walked around here with a tank top and tattoos.
09:22We always knew how fit he was.
09:24You know it.
09:24But you have Javier Becerra and Lloyd Austin.
09:27Let me ask you, who bleeds fitness?
09:29It is, of course, these guys.
09:30They were cheering for Donald Trump at UFC events before he thought about running for president.
09:35He loves golf.
09:36He shows up at the Ryder Cup and becomes a frat party.
09:38This is very authentic and sincere.
09:42This is who they are.
09:43The problem is they spend $10 million.
09:46Am I going too long?
09:47They spend $10 million on a focus group to find out why Democrats are bleeding men.
09:52$10 million.
09:53All they have to find out is what men want and what they stand for and then work through that lane.
09:59The one thing that Trump has brought, you have to be authentic.
10:02You have to be yourself.
10:03He's tough.
10:04He's crude.
10:05He is insulting.
10:06But that's who he is, and America embraces it.
10:09And these other people trying to do that is the problem.
10:12Schumer cursed today.
10:14Schumer has been cursed since 1981.
10:16Yeah.
10:16He's like Burgess Meredith from the Batman series, but on life support.
10:24Kennedy, there is that phrase, fake it till you make it.
10:27I'm sure you've heard of it.
10:28Do you think the Democrats can fake being into something that guys like until they make it?
10:34I'm not crazy about the idea of, I feel like they have the equation reversed.
10:41It's like we're interested in Trump.
10:44It's not like they can just suddenly make us interested in them.
10:48It's like trying to fake the male orgasm.
10:51And they'll probably do that too.
10:57Perfect answer.
10:57You know, you were on the five earlier, and I'm surprised you didn't have that take on there.
11:05I did.
11:06They bleeped me.
11:07I'm always getting censored.
11:09But this is from the party that, you know, when Pete Hegseth came out and said, we have
11:15to have standards of physical fitness in the military in order to be lethal and effective
11:21and feared.
11:23And it was the Democrats on MSNBC were like, oh my God, that is so sizist and disgusting.
11:29So you're telling me that you want women to do difficult things in the military in order
11:35to complete tasks so they can compete on the global stage?
11:39What is wrong with you, you monster?
11:41And it's like demonizing physical fitness.
11:44So like these poor generals, so you're telling me you want the people who lead the military
11:48to be able to do the physical fitness standards that other people in the military have to
11:53kill themselves trying to do?
11:55What is wrong with you?
11:56So it's like you've already shown what you despise.
12:00Right.
12:01And you can't, it is so, to Brian's point and his undescended testicle, it is so inauthentic
12:07the next day to be like, oh my God, I think going to the gym is great, right?
12:11Like I go here.
12:12That's very natural.
12:13It's almost like, Adam, you would understand this.
12:17It's almost like a racist saying there, oh, I love black people.
12:21You get that.
12:22Oh, all the time.
12:24Look, I mean, to your point, I think everyone should try to get in shape.
12:29Like I'm on this new diet called Get Fatter Friends.
12:34Where I just hang out.
12:35But I do think that like, I don't get my politics from a fitness influencer, just like I don't
12:40get my fitness from Chris Christie.
12:42Yes.
12:42You know, and I think people should stay out of it because I think it gets to be too
12:46much.
12:46Pretty soon you're going to be watching a porn and the guy in the middle of it is going
12:50to be like, I'm getting an STD right now, but that's okay because Republicans are taking
12:54away my health care.
12:55And it's just like, but I do like that they're doing like guys like Gavin Newsom are doing
13:04like this a bro podcast because it's exposing them.
13:08Like he said, I'm a Swifty, but I can't name one Taylor Swift song.
13:12Yes.
13:12Which is like saying I use deodorant, but I'm French.
13:20So, Kat, I'm trying to think, is there like an analogy of liberals invading, I mean, Republicans
13:28invading like a liberal bastion and saying, if we just hang out here, you know what I
13:34mean?
13:34It feels like they're poaching, they're trying to poach people, but it's not working.
13:39Yeah.
13:39I don't feel like Democrats need to go to the gym.
13:43I think they just need to go somewhere.
13:45Right.
13:46Right.
13:47Like, I don't feel like it should be that complicated.
13:49Yeah, you're right.
13:50Instead of maybe sitting around like running analytics on men, why don't you just go out
13:55and meet them?
13:56Right.
13:56Like, they're not like mythical creatures in a forest.
13:59You can just go talk to dudes.
14:03Yes.
14:03It's not that hard.
14:04It's actually too easy.
14:07Yeah.
14:07It's harder to not talk to dudes than it is to talk to dudes.
14:09Just unbutton the top button.
14:11It works for me.
14:12But they're acting like you need to like create men in a laboratory and then like run tests
14:17on them.
14:18Just go outside.
14:19Go to a place where people are.
14:20But you have to talk and you also have to listen.
14:22You have to listen without looking for a thing where it's like, well, actually, this thing
14:27you said, you have to just listen.
14:29Yeah.
14:29But you know what?
14:30You're saying it's easy to go outside, but that might be the number one issue is that
14:34they don't like going outside in general.
14:37Well, who does?
14:39Yeah, that's true.
14:41Outside sucks.
14:44Thank God we invented the inside.
14:46What were they doing before there was inside?
14:49Outside all the time.
14:51Hey, you can't go home.
14:52There's no home.
14:55Up next, AOC loves shorties.
15:02AOC flip flops on shorties.
15:05Kennedy, I'm going to play these videos.
15:06But first, the first video, she makes fun of Stephen Miller for being, quote, four foot
15:10ten when obviously he's five three.
15:14We're going to play that old clip and then we're going to follow her backtrack where she
15:18must have got some, you know, backlash from her short friends.
15:21If she has any, let's roll it.
15:25Laugh at them.
15:26Stephen Miller is a clown.
15:28I've never seen that guy in real life.
15:31But he looks like he's like four ten and he looks like he is angry about the fact that
15:38he's four ten.
15:39I want to express my love for the short king community.
15:44I don't believe in body shaming.
15:46I am talking about how big or small someone is on the inside.
15:52Like, for example, I have no idea how tall Andrew Tate is.
15:58No idea at all.
15:59But that guy looks to me like five three, like five three, five four.
16:08Whereas physically, men of smaller stature can come across.
16:15They are spiritually six foot.
16:19So, Kennedy, she basically, in her apology, said being short is still a bad thing.
16:24She goes, when I see somebody really awful, like Andrew Tate, I just assume they're short.
16:30So, she said, like, I love short people, but when I see people I don't like, I just assume
16:35they're short.
16:36Why not just say black, AOC?
16:42I don't think this was a diatribe against Emanuel Lewis, if that's what you're saying.
16:47I watched this and I thought, what a judgmental, sizist harpy.
16:52And I was so disgusted by her comments.
16:56And then I realized, Greg, this whole thing was a love letter to you.
17:00That's right.
17:00So, what she was trying to do is, like, pretend she's not obsessed with you.
17:04Like, oh, my God, Stephen Miller, he's so short.
17:07Like, I've never even met him, but Democrats have to do this thing with their hands.
17:12Like, we're constantly grabbing women's boobies.
17:14Like, Gavin Newsom.
17:16Like, we're speaking sign language, but we don't really know how to do it.
17:19And he's probably so short and gross because short people are disgusting, am I right?
17:24And then she was, then, you know.
17:25She was trying to get a response from me.
17:27The little people community, including yourself.
17:29Yeah, I am an unofficial king.
17:31Build her inbox, as it were, metaphorical, of course.
17:34Yes.
17:34And she backtracks.
17:35She's like, no, I love short guys so much.
17:37I need to go on Greg's show, but he'll never invite me because we haven't met yet.
17:40But I love you, Greg.
17:42Mmm.
17:44Adam, how tall are you?
17:46I'm like 5'10 and a half.
17:50Yeah, without that half, you'd be nothing.
17:52Nothing.
17:52Is that including the hair or no?
17:546'3.
17:56What do you make of her efforts to clean this up?
18:01You know, I just, I think you should own it.
18:02Like, when Trump calls Rosie a fat pig, and he doesn't say, on the inside.
18:07Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:09You know?
18:10So, you know, I think you should treat people the way you want to be.
18:18That's what I tell my kid.
18:19You know, treat people the way you want to be treated.
18:21Like, you know, she shouldn't make fun of people for being short if she doesn't want
18:25people to make fun of her for riding a short bus.
18:27Yeah.
18:30Should have ended earlier.
18:32Yeah, it's okay.
18:33That happens frequently with you.
18:35Um, Kat, you are a keen analyst of the psyche and of excuses.
18:43Do you think that the way she shifted it to being about the inside works?
18:47I feel insulted.
18:49Yeah?
18:50She called me stupid.
18:52Yeah.
18:53She called everyone stupid.
18:54Like, no, you didn't.
18:55You said he looks like he's this.
18:57Yeah.
18:57And he's mad on the inside because of how he looks like this on the outside.
19:02So, she could have owned it.
19:03She also could have just not said anything.
19:06Yeah.
19:07There's other stuff.
19:08Like, maybe four people said something like, you shouldn't have said that about short guys.
19:15And she's like, oh, no.
19:16Yeah.
19:17Oh, no.
19:17Now I got to make a video.
19:19Like, no, you don't have to make a video.
19:20Mm-hmm.
19:21And, like, obviously you meant, you were body shaming.
19:25If that's against what you believe in, then you did it.
19:28But don't say that you, no, you did not.
19:30Like, I speak English.
19:32Yes.
19:32And you were not saying on the inside.
19:34Mm-hmm.
19:34How tall do you think I am spiritually, Pat?
19:42Oh, man.
19:44Seven feet.
19:49I didn't mean it.
19:53Minus six.
19:56Kill me.
19:56Jade, you've overcome a lot of physical defects.
20:03And it is, I think, homely people have it harder than short people.
20:07So what's your, I mean, you must feel a bit punctured by her words.
20:12You know what hurts me most?
20:14What?
20:14He sat around all day to write that insulting question.
20:18Because you are actually reading the insult.
20:20So this is not coming from the inside.
20:22This is coming from your team of writers.
20:24No, I wrote this as well as your...
20:25In my handwriting, physical defects.
20:27I was going to put deformities, but I thought that was too harsh.
20:30Right.
20:31I appreciate you walking it back.
20:32Yeah.
20:33And it's the last time I open up in the green room about my testicle issue.
20:37And you bring it up on the shelf.
20:38Well, I thought I could open up to you.
20:43Emotionally, emotionally, ladies and gentlemen, I am Tyrus.
20:47Yes.
20:47I am 10 feet tall and a big wrestler.
20:50Yeah.
20:51But I would say a couple of things.
20:52Number one, you just brought this up, Kat.
20:55There is a lockdown going on.
20:58There's a war happening in Israel.
20:59There's peace.
21:00There's health care, all this stuff.
21:02And she's saying, I have a problem with Stephen Miller.
21:06What is the problem this term with Stephen Miller?
21:08Everyone wants to fight him.
21:10An ABC reporter lost his job because he tweeted about him in a drunk text at one night.
21:15What is it about him?
21:16He's just a guy advising the president, go after the president that's usually good enough.
21:21The other thing I never heard of was Short Kingdom.
21:23We have another kingdom?
21:25Short Kingdom?
21:26No, Short King Community.
21:28Okay, so that's even worse.
21:29Short King, there is one?
21:31Yes, there is.
21:32I had no idea.
21:33You know where it is?
21:34Where?
21:34It's in that, it's, uh, what?
21:38I'm the king.
21:39The king of late night.
21:40This is the Short King Community.
21:41Oh, that's fine.
21:42You know what?
21:42Okay, so when you walk out of this studio, you know that tiny little door that looks like
21:49an entrance to a, like a mice?
21:51Yes.
21:51A little mouse house?
21:53So get on your hands and knees and just open it and then you go down the street.
21:55Into the kingdom.
21:56Into the kingdom.
21:57Yes, yes.
21:57That's fantastic.
21:58I just can't believe that we actually saw the, we saw the apology and we saw the entrance
22:02to it, but she actually must have gotten some serious blowback.
22:05She's got like 7 million followers.
22:07Yeah.
22:07She must have got blasted.
22:08She's going to be the nominee.
22:10You think so?
22:11Oh yeah, I think so in 2028.
22:16She's the only Democrat that's worth talking about.
22:20I mean, she's the only interesting one.
22:22And, you know, you know, the way people felt, the way Democrats feel about Trump, we felt
22:28about her and that's...
22:29Who is making that prediction?
22:31You or your boner?
22:31My boner can't vote.
22:37Yet.
22:38Yet.
22:39Boner rights.
22:41Up next, a candidate freaks out.
22:52Iran's Khamenei says Americans should avoid talking nonsense in nuke talks.
22:58Ayatollah Ali Khamenei questions whether future nuclear talks can succeed.
23:04A fifth round of negotiations remains uncertain.
23:08Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday called US's demand that Tehran stop
23:15enriching uranium entirely utter nonsense and questioned whether future nuclear talks could
23:20succeed.
23:22For the Americans to say we won't allow Iran to enrich uranium is utter nonsense.
23:27He said in a post on X.
23:29We aren't waiting for anyone's permission.
23:33The Islamic Republic has certain policies and it will pursue them, he added, without
23:38expanding on what these policies are.
23:43Iran in recent years has been under international pressure to hold its nuclear program as many
23:48fear Tehran is actually in pursuit of nuclear weapons development.
23:51Iran has not stated it intends to build a nuclear weapon, but it has enriched uranium to near
23:59weapons grade and bolstered its missile program in what experts argue is an important step to
24:04ensure Tehran could fire a nuclear warhead.
24:06While uranium can be enriched for civil nuclear power, and nations across the globe rely on
24:14nuclear energy, including the US, which utilises nuclear energy to supply nearly 20% of its
24:19energy needs, and it is the largest source of clean energy, Iran's reliance on nuclear energy
24:24amounted less than 1% in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency.
24:29The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's question over whether
24:37it has in fact demanded that Tehran halt all uranium enrichment.
24:41However, Khamenei suggested the Trump administration's push to negotiate on Iran's nuclear program
24:47could be short-lived.
24:52Indirect negotiations took place during March Rassi's term, similar to what's happening now.
24:58Needless to say, there were no results.
25:00He added in reference to negotiations' attempts under the Biden administration, which we don't
25:05think these negotiations will yield results now either.
25:09We don't know what will happen.
25:12Reports suggested that the fifth round of nuclear talks could take place this weekend in Rome.
25:17But Khamenei, as well as his foreign minister Abbas al-Rakqi, said Iran had not yet agreed
25:23to the talks following the US's latest demands.
25:26A date has been suggested, but we have not yet accepted it, Arakqi told the report this
25:32Tuesday, according to Aruta's report.
25:34We are witnessing positions on the US side that do not go along with any logic and are
25:39creating problems for the negotiations.
25:41That's why we have not determined the next round of talks.
25:47We are reviewing the matter and hope logic will prevail, Arakqi added.
25:51Trump hostage envoy dismissed his report of Israeli abandonment threats as fake news.
26:07Adembolya says he thinks hostage deal is getting closer and closer, praises US efforts.
26:12In an executive interview with Fox News Digital at the annual Jerusalem Post conference in
26:18New York, special envoy for hostage response Adembolya responded to a Washington Post report
26:24that claimed President Donald Trump threatened to abandon Israel unless the war ended as fake
26:30news.
26:30That sounds like fake news to me, he said.
26:35I think the president has maintained a very high degree of support for Israel, he added.
26:40He may be saying, hey, listen, let's try to end the war.
26:43He might speak strongly, but I think American president, in particular, this president's support,
26:50President Trump's support for Israel is ironclad.
26:53Separately, US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, also rejected the claim.
26:59In an interview with Israel's Ynet, he said, there's reporting is nonsense.
27:04They need to listen to what the president says, not what some uninformed source pretends to know.
27:10Bola emphasised that the US government's primary focus remains on securing the release of 58
27:15hostages still held by Hamas.
27:18I think there's obviously continued back and forth.
27:21The president made it very clear that he wants something to come to a conclusion.
27:27I know that he and Steve Witkoff are working very hard right now to try to bring that out.
27:32So a very fluid situation.
27:34But our primary focus is number one, the hostages, and number two, Israel security, he said.
27:42On the humanitarian...
27:44Sorry, one more time.
27:45On the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Bola addressed the recent development of opening borders to allow A-trucks into Gaza after two months of blockade.
27:58He also discussed the new US-backed mechanism that could potentially replace the United Nations relief and works agency for Palestine refugees.
28:08Perhaps there needs to be a replacement for UNRWA.
28:15We've had a lot of issues with the UN, and this works.
28:18If it gets food into the Palestinian people who need it, then I greatly favour it, Bola said.
28:25Later in an interview on stage at the Jerusalem Post Conference, Bola recalled the tense moments surrounding the release of American Israeli soldier,
28:33Edan Alexander, it's an unbelievable moment, it was an unbelievable moment on Sunday, the whole time we couldn't sleep, it was exciting, nerve-wracking.
28:43We watched pretty much real-time, we were waiting for Steve Witkoff to come.
28:48We were waiting the whole time for the Red Cross, when the helicopter landed, we saw it on TV.
28:53That first phone call was unbelievable, it was right on Mother's Day when we went over.
28:57It had a lot of meaning for me, Steve and everybody.
29:00As for the time frame of the hostage deal, Bola expressed cautious optimism.
29:07I think it's getting closer and closer to making a deal here.
29:10If Hamas wants to come forward and make a legitimate offer, they're willing to stand by and release hostages, we're always open to that.
29:20He also credited the recent Israeli ground operation for increasing pressure on Hamas, saying,
29:26I do think we're closer than we ever were. Part of that is because of the movement of Israel and the IDF on the ground.
29:34Finally, addressing the recent joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada,
29:41which condemned Israel's military operations in Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire,
29:46Bola responded firmly,
29:47The United States has always been a fervent supporter of Israel.
29:52If I were a European country, I'd be particularly sensitive in how I criticise Israel.
29:57Trump said the GOP's tax bill will cut fraud, waste and abuse from Medicaid.
30:12President Donald Trump went on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to talk to Congressional Republicans
30:16about the Reconciliation Bill that will serve as a vehicle for tax cut legislation
30:21and urge them to avoid making cuts to Medicaid.
30:24Potential changes to Medicaid have been discussed as part of the process of drafting the tax cut package
30:32to help offset the lost revenue of spending deductions.
30:35Among the reforms in the proposal are stronger work requirements for Medicaid enrollees.
30:44While some Conservatives are arguing for deeper reforms to Medicaid,
30:48the White House has been reluctant to exceed those who requests,
30:51as Democrats have cited reports that millions of Medicaid enrollees could lose coverage
30:56as they look to rally opposition to the bill.
31:00Here's what I want on Medicaid.
31:03We're not touching anything, Trump told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday.
31:07All I want is one thing, three words.
31:10We don't want any waste, fraud or abuse.
31:13Very simple, waste, fraud, abuse.
31:16Other than that, we're leaving it.
31:19Medicare, we're leaving it.
31:21All week after, and this is for the good of it, a lot of waste, fraud and abuse.
31:26That's all we're doing.
31:27We're not touching it.
31:28The Democrats are going to destroy it, the President added.
31:32The House Energy and Commerce Committee,
31:34which drafted the Medicaid-related provisions of the bill that the House is considering,
31:38said on the Tuesday that Congress' non-partisan budget watchdog found most of the spending reductions
31:44were due to eligibility with changes.
31:50According to the Congressional Budget Office,
31:53the coverage lost from Medicaid enrollees under the bill
31:57come from removing illegal immigrants, able-bodied adults choosing not to work
32:01and individuals who are not actually legible for Medicaid, the committee said.
32:08Within the CBO's analysis, it identifies Medicaid-related spending reductions
32:13amounted to $792 billion over the 2025 to 2034 period.
32:19Last year, the panel unveiled details of the proposed work requirement,
32:23which would mandate that certain able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid
32:26between the ages of 19 and 64, work 80 hours per month to maintain their eligibility.
32:33The committee's provisions would also put guardrails on states' spending funds
32:39to expand their Medicaid populations under the Affordable Care Act, ACA.
32:43States were permitted to expand eligibility for Medicaid
32:46to include adults making up to 138% of the poverty level.
32:53Okay, so one last.
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