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00:00Welcome to Jesse Waters' prime time tonight.
00:04I'm ashamed of certain members of the court.
00:07Absolutely ashamed.
00:08They also are a, frankly, disgrace to our nation, those justices.
00:14The Supreme Court takes on the trade war.
00:17He said, sir, I want to kiss you so badly.
00:19And I said, no, thank you.
00:21My husband has said he took some rides on the airplane for his charitable work.
00:33I don't recall ever meeting him.
00:36Did you ever meet Elaine Maxwell?
00:38I did on a few occasions.
00:40The Epstein blast radius gets bigger.
00:43We're on the list because we were at a party or a wedding or something that somebody might have been.
00:49You know why my name is there.
00:52I'm just asking again, can you just say once and for all, whether or not the cocaine belonged to the
00:58Biden family?
00:58Breaking news on the White House cocaine.
01:02I have been very clear.
01:04The Biden family was not here.
01:05They were not here.
01:07Plus.
01:08I think they must have some kind of weakness.
01:22This is why we hate lawyers.
01:25The president can use tariffs.
01:27So the president picks one, uses tariffs, gets sued, and the Supreme Court can't agree if he picked the right
01:33law.
01:33Three said he did.
01:35Six said he didn't.
01:36They all agree the president has the power to use a tariff, but six of them say he's got to
01:42pick a different law.
01:44So the president's just going to pick a different law and put the tariffs back on.
01:49That's what happened today.
01:51The three justices who backed Trump were Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas.
01:55Amy Coney Barrett, Gorsuch Roberts, all sided with the Democrats.
02:00I'm ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for
02:08our country.
02:09In fact, they're just being fools and lapdogs for the rhinos and the radical left Democrats.
02:14The court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever
02:23think.
02:23I guess Trump's not a dictator anymore because the court ruled against him and he's going to do what they
02:28say.
02:29Carney in Canada, he doesn't have this issue.
02:32Ursula at the U.U. can hit us with tariffs and nothing stops her.
02:37Mexico can hit back fast.
02:39China can.
02:39They dump in tariff all day long.
02:42But the United States has to just sit there and take it.
02:45The president can't hit back fast.
02:47He has to guess which law to use.
02:49And if he retaliates too hard against Vietnam or Switzerland, these countries can hold firm because the court might strike
02:57them down.
02:59Foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years are in the streets, but they won't be dancing for
03:09long.
03:09That I can assure you.
03:10The president enacted big, fast, sweeping tariffs to knock everybody off their chairs and send them scurrying to Washington to
03:18negotiate.
03:19Other countries were desperate to do a deal because the tariffs hurt and Trump had a free hand.
03:24You think if Trump had wanted, waited two years and then hit the Japanese with just a tiny 10%
03:30little tariff, they would have buckled and sent us $600 billion?
03:36The president controls foreign policy.
03:40Foreign trade is foreign policy.
03:42And Trump used tariffs to get NATO's spending boosted, to kick China out of the Panama Canal, and to pull
03:50Greenland away from Little Denmark, and to make peace deals.
03:54Hey, you two, stop fighting or I'll slap 50% tariffs on you both.
03:58You two, stop fighting or I'll slap 50% tariffs on you both.
04:03The Supreme Court says you did that the wrong way.
04:06You got to do it this way instead.
04:09Richard Nixon used the exact same authority to slap a 10% tariff on almost every import.
04:17The Supreme Court upheld it.
04:20Trump used the same authority and they knocked it down.
04:24How mad is the president?
04:27The Supreme Court justices who ruled against this policy, striking it down.
04:33Are they still invited to your State of the Union next week?
04:36And will you speak with them?
04:37They are invited, barely.
04:39Barely.
04:42Three are happily invited.
04:44No, no, they're barely, they're barely invited.
04:48Kavanaugh cut through all the gobbledygook and said, what's the point?
04:53Today, the decision might substantially constrain a president's ability to order tariffs going forward.
05:00That is because numerous other federal statutes authorize the president to impose tariffs and might justify most, if not all,
05:08of the tariffs at issue in this case.
05:11Then Kavanaugh made a list of all the other laws the president can use to do the exact same thing.
05:18It's like having dirty dishes, but you have to do it by hand.
05:23You're not allowed to use the dishwasher.
05:26Why are we making it so difficult?
05:28Let's just get the dishes done and go to bed.
05:31Trump has a whole toolbox of things he can use and he's just going to go down the list and
05:36he's already checking it off.
05:38Tariffs are being put back.
05:39What a waste of time on this.
05:44Spent $60 million to build a factory in Georgia.
05:49Trump was just there yesterday and everybody wanted to give him a kiss.
05:54And I mean everyone.
05:56They made a speech at a factory.
05:58They made steel products.
06:00And I said, how are you?
06:02Nice to meet you.
06:03How's business?
06:04President, I'd love to kiss you.
06:07This is a very powerful man.
06:09I don't want to be kissed by that man.
06:11But a very powerful, strong man.
06:13He's been in the steel business for many years.
06:15He said, sir, I want to kiss you.
06:16I said, why?
06:18He said, because we were down to working one hour a week.
06:21And then you came in and imposed tariffs.
06:23And all of that foreign junk that they were dropping into our country stopped.
06:28He said, sir, I want to kiss you so badly.
06:32Here's the silver lining.
06:34The president goes back, does it again.
06:36This time, it's even more targeted and strategic.
06:39He's already locked in the trade deals.
06:41Now he can carve out exemptions for, let's say, coffee importers, for example, because we don't grow coffee here in
06:48America.
06:49In a way, it's a win.
06:50We got the deals.
06:52The costs have been eaten.
06:53Inflation went down.
06:55And now we can go back and redo it.
06:57And we can decide what each business's needs.
07:00The crazy thing about all this is that the court let our country get invaded.
07:06Apparently, it's not illegal to catch and release 20 million foreigners into the country.
07:10Just don't charge the foreigners a fee to come in.
07:13That would be illegal.
07:14I can destroy the trade.
07:17I can destroy the country.
07:18I'm even allowed to impose a foreign country.
07:23Country destroying.
07:25I can embargo.
07:26I can do anything I want, but I can't charge one dollar.
07:31Because that's not what it says.
07:34And that's not the way it even reads.
07:37I can do anything I want to do to them, but I can't charge any money.
07:44Democrats who actually begged Clinton, Bush, Obama to start a trade war with China now say only dictators start trade
07:52wars.
07:53Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader, has called your old wannabe king.
07:57Why wouldn't you?
07:58I have a low IQ.
07:59But why wouldn't you?
08:00He doesn't even know.
08:01And I watched him the other day interview.
08:03The guy doesn't even know what a tariff is.
08:05So if globalism crushed the working man, if Nash...
08:08The crush...
08:09I don't know what a tariff is.
08:10If globalism crushed the working man,
08:13if NAFTA crushed him,
08:14if cheap Chinese labor destroyed small-town America,
08:18how's Trump supposed to save the working man
08:20if he can't renegotiate trade deals
08:22and use the same tools other countries use?
08:25Huh?
08:26Trump's at least trying to get others to pay.
08:29Democrats want you to pay.
08:31Mayor Mondami said he was going to make New York City more affordable.
08:36So he gets elected.
08:38Now he says he's going to raise your taxes and raid the Treasury.
08:41How's that for a bait-and-switch?
08:44In order to get to this point of closing the gap
08:47on both this fiscal year and the next fiscal year,
08:49we are forced to raid the Rainy Day Fund,
08:52the Retiree Health Benefits Trust Reserve,
08:54and to increase property taxes across these other years.
08:58New Yorkers, not happy about it.
09:16Newsom's saying Americans should get a tariff refund.
09:25Newsom's saying Americans should get a tariff refund.
09:29Donald Trump should return that money immediately.
09:33He has an obligation.
09:34$1,751 per family that were taxed by Donald Trump.
09:39He took hundreds of billions of dollars from working folks,
09:43from the ag community, from small businesses,
09:46for this vanity play, this illegal action.
09:50And he finally was held to account.
09:51The rule of law.
09:53Tariff stimmy checks with Trump's name before the midterms.
09:57I'm into it.
09:58Anyway, most of the tariffs were eaten by foreigners, importers.
10:01Some prices went up, yeah,
10:02but inflation's gone down since Liberation Day.
10:05But as long as we're playing along,
10:07I love the idea of a refund.
10:10Are we getting refund checks for the $9 billion the Somalis stole?
10:15Because when there's fraud on my credit card,
10:18American Express pays me back.
10:19Are we getting refund checks for Bidenomics?
10:23The average family paid thousands of dollars more a year.
10:26Should I check the mailbox?
10:28We spent hundreds of billions on migrants.
10:32Their hotels, health care, phones.
10:34I want a refund.
10:36Are California taxpayers going to get the $24 billion back
10:40that Gavin spent on the homeless?
10:43Do California taxpayers get the $16 billion back
10:46from the train to nowhere that Gavin never built?
10:53That rail CEO?
10:55He just got arrested for battery.
10:58There's investigation pending,
11:00and what's not pending is progress.
11:03And we continue to make progress laying the rail.
11:07Newsom thinks he's leading the charge on refunds, all right?
11:11He's not even leading Mayor Pete.
11:13A new poll in New Hampshire has Buttigieg beating AOC, Newsom, and Harris.
11:19Mayor Pete, who Kamala said was too gay to run with,
11:22is now running away with it.
11:24I'm a big believer in going everywhere,
11:26both across the media landscape and geographically.
11:29There are so many places.
11:31Some are well-known places on the political map.
11:34Some are a little bit off the beaten path.
11:36All of them deserve attention at a moment.
11:39I'm going to continue wherever I think I can be useful.
11:43Newsom's already on his knees,
11:45begging the South Carolina kingmaker for favors.
11:49I try to understand.
11:50I love the meeting John Lewis, meeting Martin Luther King.
11:54You're contemporary of all these folks.
11:56Jesse Jackson, all these folks.
11:58I mean, so were they, you know, for someone like me, sitting back,
12:02I mean, we think of these people in obviously and appropriately reverential terms,
12:06as we do you, but it's a living testament to that.
12:10Yeah, Newsom's lost control.
12:12Blacks hate him, so he's kissing Clyburn's ring.
12:15And he needs Silicon Valley money to win,
12:17so he sided with China in the trade war.
12:20Remember he cleaned up San Francisco for Xi?
12:22Not for us, for Xi.
12:25Chinese knee pads, he's in a lot of trouble.
12:27And once these donors send him all this cash and he loses,
12:31they're going to want a refund.
12:34Ambassador Monica Crowley is the United States Chief of Protocol.
12:38The Supreme Court is,
12:41they're going to have fun at the State of the Union on Tuesdays.
12:44They're going to get ugly.
12:46Well, I'm not privy to the president's speech writing process, Jesse,
12:50but I can guarantee you there might be a zinger or two in there for the U.S. Supreme Court
12:55after today's decision.
12:57Look, I actually think that the clarity that comes with this decision today
13:02actually pours rocket fuel on the president's trade agenda and his tariff regime,
13:08because it does clarify a lot of things.
13:11And it makes it very clear that the president does, in fact,
13:15have plenary control over national security,
13:18as well as control over economic policy for the country.
13:22So while they said that this is a procedural decision based on this specific statute
13:29that he attempted to do these tariffs under,
13:32he has a whole range of tools in the tariff.
13:37Today is that now he is going to have these expanded powers
13:42to go forward with this tariff regime under all these other authorities.
13:48And he actually layered an additional 10 percent global tariff
13:52on imports coming into the United States.
13:55So how bad would a tariff refund be?
13:57I mean, would the president call Newsom's bluff and say,
14:00all right, you want me to send out checks with my name on it
14:03right before you guys all vote in November?
14:06Fine. I was going to do that anyway.
14:09Well, I think the message is be careful what you wish for
14:12and also be careful what you're celebrating today.
14:15As the president said, you might be dancing,
14:17but you're not going to be dancing for much longer.
14:20President Trump knows exactly what he's doing.
14:23And for those people out there who are still underestimating this man,
14:27you might be a little slow.
14:29He has been talking about tariffs for 30 or...
14:33This teed up with alternatives ready to go.
14:37And, Jesse, when you mentioned refund checks,
14:39over the last year, the calendar year 2025,
14:43President Trump's tariffs have generated nearly $270 billion
14:48for the federal government.
14:50And those returns are coming back to the American people.
14:54They're coming back in the form of lower deficits,
14:58an overall lower national debt as we proceed with this.
15:02And it's also generating tremendous economic growth.
15:06It's generating private job creation.
15:08And it's also generating a manufacturing boom.
15:12We started to see it in Trump's first term,
15:14and now we're seeing it on steroids.
15:17All right.
15:17Monica Crowley, chief of protocol.
15:20Thank you so much.
15:22You will do.
15:24White House cocaine, Jeffrey Epstein, and UFOs.
15:28Keep it here.
15:33The Epstein files are detonating across the globe.
15:36Prince Andrew fell, and police are searching his home.
15:39So who's next?
15:41Because if you were anywhere near Epstein or Maxwell or just your name,
15:45you're in the blast zone.
15:47Larry Summers, who worked for Obama and Clinton,
15:49just resigned from Harvard.
15:51Obama's top lawyer, Kathy Rumler, resigned from Goldman.
15:54We looked at her emails.
15:56There's hundreds of them.
15:57She called Epstein Uncle Jeffrey and gave him advice on how to get better press.
16:02And now another Obama official, his homeland security advisor, Lisa Monaco,
16:08showing Epstein after his case for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
16:15And one of Epstein's notes claimed Bill got an STD and needed help to hide it from his wife
16:21after contact with Russian girls.
16:25Gates denies that happened.
16:27Thomas Pritzker, JB's cousin, was a frequent guest at Epstein's townhouse.
16:32He just stepped down from his role as Hyatt Hotel's executive chairman.
16:37Bard College is now reviewing its president's ties to Epstein.
16:41Leon Botstein's name apparently appears over 2,000 times in the documents.
16:47American Express just put out a statement saying they regretted having Epstein as a client.
16:52After they regretted.
16:56Epstein is a client after he used their plastic to book travel for the girls.
17:01CNN just reported that New Age guru Deepak Chopra might be in a little bit of trouble.
17:082017, Epstein asked Chopra, did you find me a cute Israeli?
17:13Chopra responded, universe is human construct.
17:16Cute girls are aware when they make noises.
17:18He later added, God is a construct.
17:21Cute girls are real.
17:22And in one 2016 exchange that began with a link to a TED talk about the end of physics,
17:27Chopra wrote to Epstein, statistics is like a girl in a bikini.
17:31What she reveals is obvious.
17:33What she conceals is more interesting.
17:35Chopra was recently approached at the airport and repeatedly asked about his relationship with Epstein
17:40and whether he has any regrets.
17:43It will all come to light.
17:46Look, you can tell me here and now to at least start to put this to bed.
17:51No misconder.
17:53Hillary knows the heat's on, but like usual, she's on cleanup duty.
17:58We have no links.
18:00We have a very clear record that we've been willing to talk about, which my husband has
18:06said he took some rides on the airplane for his charitable work.
18:12I don't recall ever meeting him.
18:15Did you ever meet Elaine Maxwell?
18:17I did on a few occasions and thousands of people go to the Clinton Global Initiative.
18:22So it, to me, is not something that is really at the heart of what this matter is about.
18:32Ghislaine wasn't just another guest at the Clinton Global Initiative.
18:34She had a, quote, complementary access pass, which you usually get after getting
18:41guest in 2013, years after sexual abuse allegations had circulated.
18:47And don't forget, Ghislaine was at Chelsea's wedding.
18:51Even Stephanopoulos is being looked at again for having dinner at Epstein's apartment after
18:56he got out of prison.
18:58Plus, Lex Wessner told Congress under oath that Epstein told him he worked with Bezos,
19:03the Rothschild family, and Google.
19:06Now New Mexico is reopening its investigation into Epstein's ranch after a newly released
19:12email claims two foreign girls were buried there, apparently dying of strangulation during
19:18rough fetish sex.
19:20The FBI was even warned Epstein could be destroying evidence with an incinerator after he built a
19:26suspicious barn on the property with a chimney.
19:29But this is...
19:32New files show Epstein was offered a chance to buy buildings owned by the Pentagon.
19:39In 2016, he was offered to invest in a massive complex right next to the Pentagon, a site used
19:46exclusively for Department of Defense operations, labeled in records as a mission-critical asset.
19:54The guy doing the pitching?
19:55A go-between for both Epstein and Prince Andrew.
19:59No deal was ever finalized, but why was Epstein getting a pocket listing for one of the most sensitive
20:04national security sites in the country?
20:07Other files show Epstein may have compromised U.S. customs officers in the Virgin Islands,
20:14prompting another criminal investigation, apparently offering them food, advice, musical gigs.
20:21How did this guy gain this type of access?
20:24And why did he gain this type of access?
20:27And why would he be operating anywhere near the national security apparatus at all?
20:34Barry Levine is the author of The Spider, Inside the Tangled Web of Jeffrey Epstein.
20:40So was he bribing customs and border officials in the Virgin Islands?
20:46Well, listen, Jeffrey Epstein needed that access because these were the individuals who were
20:52granting these visas to these, you know, young girls who were being flown over from, you know,
20:59countries like Russia and so many other places.
21:03And these girls were as young as 12 years old.
21:06They were, before they got off the private plane, Jesse, the pilot and the people on board the
21:13flight would allegedly have them.
21:16University and college sweatshirts to make them appear older, even though these were children.
21:23Okay.
21:23So Jeffrey Epstein knew that he needed access to the customs officials there.
21:29And he would send turkeys at Thanksgiving.
21:32He would send them cannolis on Christmas Eve.
21:36But he also set the men up with financial advice.
21:39He brought them to his own island to see musical shows.
21:45And apparently at least one of the four customs officials that's being looked at asked Jeffrey
21:50Epstein for a financial loan.
21:52Yeah.
21:52I mean, and the Obama administration looked into this and nothing was done about it.
21:55Nothing was ever done.
21:56Bush, Obama, nothing's ever done about this guy.
21:59Tell me why Epstein would be offered to buy property right next to the Pentagon.
22:07Yeah, this is a, this is a mind blower in the sense.
22:11It wasn't just a gun facility.
22:15This was a huge center for military intelligence.
22:18And also he was offered a purchase of two FBI buildings in Richmond and in Baltimore, if you can believe
22:26that.
22:26Now, all this came through a gentleman named David Stern.
22:30And we're learning more about him tonight.
22:33He was the fixer between Jeffrey Epstein and former Prince Andrew.
22:39And he, in an email that was just unearthed in the files, he called himself a soldier.
22:46He called Epstein his general.
22:48And we're now finding out that he knew everything that was going on with Andrew.
22:55He was sending Jeffrey Epstein Andrew's itineraries.
22:59He was sending him sensitive information.
23:04In the UK involving the Bank of Scotland and some car companies.
23:10So this gentleman, we think, is going to be looked at as part of this investigation.
23:15Yeah, I mean, Epstein had totally compromised the trade secrets of the United Kingdom, national security secrets of many countries.
23:23You've investigated him at length.
23:26Do you think he was working for Israeli intelligence, American intelligence, British intelligence?
23:32Or was this just like this kind of dirty, scummy web of people that he was all kind of double
23:40dipping through?
23:40Yeah, he was, you know, any country that wanted to do business with him, you know, if it meant making
23:47money and getting intelligence secrets, he was involved in that.
23:50You know, the UAE, Russia, Israel, the U.K., so many other additional countries that he was involved in with
24:05security procedures, also with intelligence procedures.
24:09And there's no question in my mind that if that if this crazy transaction ever went ahead for four hundred
24:16million dollars on the Pentagon, who knows if Jeffrey Epstein would have attempted to wire that place up in terms
24:24of surveillance?
24:25It just doesn't make any sense.
24:27Yeah, all his homes were wired.
24:28We're never going to see the evidence there.
24:30We understand that's being kept for national security reasons.
24:36What's going to happen here?
24:38I mean, it seems like this guy was using women, trafficking them for blackmail and espionage purposes.
24:52The children, the minors, they were currency in his attempt to blackmail individuals, the most powerful people in the world
25:03he was after, not only in finance, but in political circles.
25:07We don't know the fallout from this.
25:10We're seeing we're seeing investigations in many countries, the U.K., France, Norway, where big individuals are going down.
25:20And in New Mexico and New Mexico.
25:22They're looking allegedly for two bodies of girls that were apparently buried in, you know, on the grounds near his
25:32Zorro ranch.
25:37It is horrible that that New Mexico officials didn't look into this years and years ago.
25:45Well, he had everybody in his pocket.
25:47That's probably why it's a great book.
25:51Thank you so much for your reporting.
25:53And I know you're combing through.
25:54Was it three million files?
25:56Yeah, it's a it's a day and night job.
25:58Unlike the New York Times, I don't have twenty five investigators.
26:02All right. Well, maybe you should hire some people.
26:04It's a lot of work. Thank you so much.
26:06Thank you, Jesse.
26:07Cocaine and aliens on deck.
26:15Be gone, Raymond.
26:17Yes, it has.
26:18And the politicians are taking notice.
26:20Senator Tim Kaine wanted to make sure everybody knows how he's participating this year.
26:25And it's all about politics.
26:26To Catholics and many Christians around the world, the Lent season is a really important one.
26:32I've decided to read the book of Exodus, thinking about the continued need of individuals and societies to move from
26:39the things that bind us and shackle us toward more liberation and freedom.
26:46Can we not politicize the sacred season?
26:50I mean, Laura, even Cardinal Blaise Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, led an Ash Wednesday procession, which sounds wonderful.
26:57Only it was to an ICE detention center.
27:00Ditto for the cardinal in Newark, a bishop in New Mexico.
27:04So, again, this season is to draw people to Jesus, not to stage a rally against an administration's emergence of
27:13the calf and all these young men are going back to the faith.
27:17Of course, the bishops are doing everything they can to push young men away from the faith.
27:24I mean, this is ridiculous.
27:26Keep it.
27:26Keep it real.
27:27Keep it real.
27:27You know, this is a sacred season.
27:29And why are we why are we shoehorning it and alienating because they're leftist citizenry?
27:34They need the they need the bodies in the pews and they want the money from the bodies in the
27:37pews and they want the federal dollars that they get when they relocate the migrants, et cetera, et cetera.
27:42That's my view.
27:43But what do I know?
27:45Well, Laura, I want to move on a few months ago.
27:48The View ladies were screeching for those Epstein files.
27:52Watch this.
27:53Release the damn files and release them now.
27:55Release everything.
27:56Who are they protecting?
27:57For somebody who screams in the middle of the night on X, who sends out mists that has been crickets
28:06for the last little while since people have been saying, well, what is your response to this?
28:13Well, this week, Laura, it was revealed Whoopi Goldberg's name is in the Epstein files.
28:19In the name of transparency, can you put up my name is in the files?
28:29Yeah.
28:29In other words, anybody can be on anybody.
28:32Well, this is my point, because I'm telling you, when I tell you people are trying to turn me into
28:37I wasn't his girlfriend.
28:40You were too old for him.
28:42If you look, you know why my name is there, because someone was looking for a plane, and that's what
28:48people do.
28:48They go to all the people who have private planes and say, do you have one?
28:53So, Laura, she was looking to score a private plane to a fundraiser in Morocco, okay?
29:06She didn't take the flight.
29:07But here's the larger point here.
29:10A few years ago, Whoopi Goldberg, through a third party, was reaching out to Epstein.
29:15So, he was fine a few years ago to try to score a flight to Morocco.
29:19Now, it's a problem.
29:21So, be very careful about calling you for transparency when your name might be in the file.
29:28Yeah.
29:29Oh, hypocrite situation there, perhaps.
29:32I mean, everybody in the Epstein files is not going to be put up on a stake.
29:35I mean, but when you're so high and mighty about everything, and you're trashing the billionaire class,
29:41and the people fly around on their private jets, and climate change,
29:45and then, turns out, you're just like everyone else who wants to free private jets.
29:49I'll take one, too, by the way.
29:51Yeah, exactly.
29:52Not from that particular individual.
29:55He also sold, however, for one of the worst potty mouths in a television interview.
30:02I took a moment, and I just said,
30:24I didn't even know what she said.
30:26I guess she said the F word.
30:27It wasn't even...
30:29I don't know what she was saying.
30:31I mean, she took morning TV to morning, M-O-U-R-I-N-G-TV, N-I-N-G.
30:38I mean, it is very sad that these athletes can't...
30:44Just be thankful, as you played earlier, other athletes who've realized they're serving the country,
30:53they're representing the country, and they represent something larger than even their sport.
30:57This is degrading and sad, really.
31:01Well, unfortunately, it's the culture they marinate themselves in.
31:07Online, little kids screaming blank, you know, F ice, you know, right into ice officers' faces
31:14or screaming it in front of their teachers, teachers screaming it to kids and all laughing.
31:18So this is, you know, parents have to step in and decide what kind of a future they want for
31:23their children.
31:24That's it.
31:24All right, Randi.
31:26Coming up, what made one woman decide to ditch a lucrative career on OnlyFans?
31:35Back in life, well, what do you do?
31:37Well, if you're smart, you make a change.
31:39And in the case of our next guest, the change was a 180.
31:44Because for years, she made her...
31:47For years, she made her living on OnlyFans, the website where women and men post photos and videos of themselves
31:55wearing little in the way of clothing, if anything at all.
31:59So what the heck happened that drove her to lead the life she knew to live among the Amish?
32:06I am a dancer and living in Los Angeles, California.
32:09When I first moved here, I was giving myself to other men who, like, really did not respect me.
32:13There's something more that I want to be doing.
32:16God is giving me this opportunity to become Amish, being in a community that is more pure.
32:22Here with me now, Kendra Bates, former OnlyFans model and suddenly Amish cast member.
32:29Kendra, it's so great to see you.
32:32This is wild, and it seems almost to me like too good to be true.
32:38So is this just a stunt, or was this a...
32:42I knew I wasn't happy.
32:44I wasn't morally aligned with some of the decisions that I've made in my past.
32:48And I gave myself to God a year and a half ago.
32:51And that change alone for me was a 180, right?
32:54And I just realized more, like, do I want to be in L.A.?
32:57Do I want to be a dancer?
32:59I'm 33 years old.
33:00Like, what am I doing in life?
33:02And then this opportunity just dropped in front of me.
33:05And it correlates with my family, too, because we actually have Mennonite roots.
33:09So I was like, what a great opportunity to go back to where my family started, get out of L
33:14.A., get away from all the distraction, the noise, and really live a life of God, which is what the
33:19Amish live.
33:20So it was a great opportunity for me.
33:22Well, there's a huge return to faith period happening in your generation right now, the Catholic faith.
33:29I mean, in your case, the Amish.
33:33It's unbelievable.
33:34It's real.
33:35It's not fake.
33:36It's true.
33:37But I want to go back for a moment.
33:39What drove you to become this OnlyFans model, which, you know, I think it's so brave that you're speaking out
33:48and you did what you did.
33:49But what initially drove you to this?
33:51Was it just easy money?
33:53The money, for sure.
33:55I have friends who were doing it.
33:57They were making like $20,000 in a week, right?
33:59And I was not well off.
34:01My family has always struggled.
34:02And for me, I was like, you know, I could pay off my debt.
34:05I can pay off my family's debt.
34:07I can take care of them.
34:08And it's like at the time, that's the only distraction.
34:12It was like the money was so distracting for me that I completely lost sight of myself, my values, the
34:18love for myself.
34:19And then, unfortunately, doing it just sunk me even deeper.
34:23And I just, I lost everything I knew about myself.
34:26And I, you know, I started to not love myself.
34:29And then from what, like what's more important, money or my soul, you know?
34:37So I had to get out of it.
34:38And obviously, the biblical, you know, the biblical roots to the understanding that your body is a temple of God.
34:45Like God created you and God doesn't want, you know, us to do stupid things.
34:49We all do stupid things.
34:51But what do you say to all the young women, a lot of them in college or grad school, who
34:56say, this is the way I'm putting myself through school.
34:59I'm bettering myself by doing this.
35:02What's your message to them?
35:04I think you have to think long run, right?
35:06Because I did it in the past.
35:08And at the time, I was like, I don't care.
35:10Like, this is what I want to do.
35:12And then, you know, a couple years later, I'm like, why did I do that?
35:16Like, you know, you really have to look at yourself.
35:19And like, even if you don't have a relationship with God, it's like, what do you want for yourself out
35:26of this life?
35:27Like, you know, how can you enrich your own life?
35:30Is it just to get a little money right here, right now?
35:32It's like you have to look long term, right?
35:34And then if you do have a relationship with God, it's like, biblically, where does God want you?
35:40You know, what are the standards that he has you at?
35:42You know, so it's really, you've got to figure it out for yourself.
35:45And even if you do OnlyFans and you feel like you made a mistake, like, you can get out of
35:50it, right?
35:51You can change your life at any point in time.
35:53Kendra, number one thing, 15 seconds that you learned from the Amish that you're taking into your new life.
35:58Okay.
35:59I am dressing more modestly.
36:00I am going through tattoo removal now.
36:04My faith is stronger.
36:06And I think just valuing time with friends and family.
36:11And I hope people watching you, because a lot of young women think it's their only option, and it's not.
36:18Kendra, thank you so much, and good luck to you.
36:23What are we?
36:23What are we?
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