Secure America Act Signed & ActBlue Pleads the Fifth 22 Times │ Rod Martin & Robert McNeily

[00:00:14] Welcome to The Jenny Beth Show. Yesterday, President Trump signed the Secure America Act funding the Department of Homeland Security's ICE and Border Patrol into law. Every single House Democrat voted against funding to secure our border, every single one. Also this week, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles opened multiple election fraud investigations. Spencer Pratt went from contention to third place in the Los Angeles mayor's race after a week of ballots continued to secure our border.

[00:00:44] continued to roll in and counting continued on and on and on. 43,000 votes shifted. And we have 50 senators on record now supporting the House-backed version of the Save America Act, which includes proof of citizenship to register to vote and voter ID when casting a ballot. It takes 60 votes for cloture in the Senate. Attaching the Save America Act to a bill the Democrats deem as must-pass legislation is the best way right now

[00:01:14] to get them to get them to sway their votes. The Senate needs to keep on working on this important piece of legislation. Section 702 of FISA expires tomorrow. This helps track terrorists on American soil. And all of this, the potential of it inspiring, happens when the World Cup starts today. And U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged airstrikes for the second day straight. And an American Apache helicopter was shot down in the Strait of Hormuz, and the U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged airstrikes for the second day straight.

[00:01:44] Iran struck U.S. Iran struck U.S. bases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Also, May CPI just came in at 4.2% annual, which is a three-year high, and energy prices are up 23.5% year-over-year. Plus, AppBlue's CEO sat in front of Congress yesterday and pleaded the Fifth Amendment 22 times.

[00:02:08] The question was asked whether foreign nationals used PayPal and Venmo to fund American elections, and she pled the Fifth Amendment. She was asked if Russia had funded American elections, and she pled the Fifth Amendment. What a week! Welcome to The Jenny Beth Show. I'm Jenny Beth Martin. Let's get into it. Joining me today is Rod Martin, who tracks the intersection of finance, national security, and policy every single day.

[00:02:35] He called the Iran conflict and its oil implications months ago. Rod, welcome to the show. Good to be here. And Robert McNeely is our Director of Broadcasting and Grassroots Engagement here at Tea Pretty Patriots Action. Robert, thanks for being here again today. Hey, thank you, Jenny Beth. So yesterday, the President signed the Secure America Act, which funds Border Patrol and ICE. He signed that into law.

[00:03:03] $69.5 billion for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol through September 30th of 2029. So basically, it's funded for the remainder of his term. The House passed it 214 to 211. No Democrats voted for it. Tea Party Patriots Action drove phone calls urging the House and the Senate to fund the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE and Border Patrol.

[00:03:31] But the Democrats allowed this to go unfunded for over four months. Robert, you and the team here at Tea Party Patriots Action ran phone calls to keep that pressure going to make sure we got it funded. What does signing the bill actually mean to activists who made these phone calls? And what do you think this says to the government workers who are living with uncertainty because of the leftists in Congress? Well, first and foremost, a huge victory.

[00:04:00] And thank you to all those activists, those Tea Party chapters. Whoops. We're having trouble with Robert, so we will come back to him. The audio is off a little bit. But, Rod, let me ask you, what do you think this means to the people in Border Patrol and ICE and even TSA now that they know that this is funded through the remainder of President Trump's term? Well, that was really essential.

[00:04:23] If you didn't get to a point where this funding was secure, it was just going to be a battle till the end of Trump's time. And honestly, you don't want to spend the last two years of his term wasting time on that. There's an awful lot to do. And it's possible we lose the midterms. I'm actually pretty bullish on the midterms.

[00:04:45] But if we were to lose the House and Senate, then they might just completely defund border security and resume the kind of flood of illegals that we saw for four years under Joe Biden. The House has the power of the purse. It can actually block funding for whatever it chooses to do.

[00:05:07] Now, with the thinness of our majority, the razor-thin margin we currently have, we usually can't get enough guys on board to be able to do anything radical. This was pretty radical for some of them. But if we could increase the majority, and I feel confident after the Calais decision and the redistricting initiatives that we've been able to pass in numerous states,

[00:05:34] I think we've got a chance to significantly increase the majority. And after the president wins in contested primaries this spring, I think we can significantly improve that majority along the way. Yes, I think that you're right. We have the opportunity to increase that majority. And we have to stay focused. We absolutely must stay focused on everything as we head into November.

[00:06:01] However, Rod, Republicans spent years promising to secure the border. Democrats, you know, they did everything they could to defund ICE and Border Patrol. What do you think is—let me rephrase what I was about to say. So this was really a political battle between the Republicans who are trying to fund Border Patrol and ICE and make sure that that policing authority stayed intact,

[00:06:27] and the Democrats who were willing to basically defund the police, which in this case are ICE and Border Patrol. Who do you think in this political battle won this round? And what do you think that we should make sure we're telling voters as we go into November so that we can't hold that majority? Well, I think this is a vital, vital distinction between the two parties. This is not actually a narrow issue.

[00:06:56] Americans support border security. Americans support all the things that the president is trying to do. Now, if you let them have a chance, they will game the system and use their media semi-monopoly—it's only semi these days—to be able to turn ICE enforcement in a city like Minneapolis into something that people get squeamish about.

[00:07:21] But you'll notice ICE was enforcing in cities across the United States at that time, and you had no incidents like what you saw in Minneapolis. You only had it where the left concentrated its effort, encouraged people to break the law, encouraged people to assault ICE officers to get a reaction that would serve their propaganda interests.

[00:07:47] And the truth is, I think ICE is better equipped to deal with that going forward. But people are overwhelmingly in favor of a secure border. Only the socialist leadership of the Democratic Party is opposed to it, and they are truly gasping for air.

[00:08:06] If you actually have the redistricting results that we think we just had, if you actually deport large numbers of illegal aliens that give them a boost, certainly in voting—we're seeing that like crazy in L.A.

[00:08:23] where homeless people and illegals are voting, you know, 100 families registered to a vacant lot, all kinds of just insanity because the Democrats cheat, because they just cheat.

[00:08:38] And if you solve the immigration problem, if you solve the border problem, which is already an 80-20 issue, you actually get to the point where we shift seats and we shift electoral votes over the next few cycles from California and New York and Illinois, where they've padded their numbers to the red states that are actually entitled to those.

[00:09:04] And, Rod, what you just were saying, I think what I'm about to say next really is it ties to that because we have to solve the border issues once and for all. And President Trump has sealed that border. He's done a great job sealing the border. But Chip Roy and others, and I would agree with Chip on this, have argued that funding alone is not enough. You have to codify the policy. It's not just the money. Robert, is he right?

[00:09:53] Enjoying right here in the United States for the World Cup when it comes to the electoral count difference in the popular vote for president of the United States. So these are razor-thin margins. It's all about turnout, and we have to have the integrity of the elections. But furthermore, this H.R. 2 now becoming potentially a new name will be Texas Congressman Chip Roy's true legacy, as sadly he exits Congress in the coming year.

[00:10:19] Chip has a commitment to bring to the floor a vote that was referred to in the last Congress in 2023 and 2024 as H.R. 2. That bill would codify updates to our immigration law and would close loopholes. In the last Congress, almost all Republicans voted for this bill. In fact, all but two voted for it, and then there was one who was absent. So there were two no Republican votes and one who was absent.

[00:10:48] It should be able to pass again this year if it is brought to the floor. And it's my understanding that we should be seeing this legislation brought to the floor. It would go a long way toward codifying President Trump's border policy. So here's what this bill would do. It would construct the wall. It would hire and train enough Border Patrol agents to maintain a minimum of 22,000 full-time equivalent Border Patrol agents.

[00:11:16] It would expand surveillance, intrusion detection systems, and upgraded license plate readers at the northern and southern border ports. It would reform asylum, including requiring applicants to seek protection in at least one transit country before reaching the United States.

[00:11:34] It would restrict parole authority, establish stricter penalties on visa overseas, and illegal entry, which we see President Trump and his administration are working to do right now. But we need that codified. Last December in 2025, several congressmen signed a coalition letter urging the bill to be passed, and the letter said,

[00:11:57] Some Americans in communities suffered fiscal strain as their social services were stretched due to the impact of illegal aliens released from the border appearing in their neighborhoods. Others endured permanent losses, such as the tragic deaths of Kayla Hamilton, Laken Riley, and Jocelyn Nungary at the hands of illegal aliens released by the Biden administration at the southern border, all of whose parents are left without a child.

[00:12:27] Our nation should never endure a deliberate economic, social, and security crisis because the federal government has failed in one of its most basic responsibilities, securing our borders.

[00:12:39] The bill contains the policy fixes that would prevent a crisis from occurring by fixing longstanding policy gaps in our asylum system, ending mass parole, ensuring aliens are detained at the border, enrolled in a safe third country, or turned away if operational control cannot be achieved.

[00:13:01] Next week, Tea Pretty Patriot's action is going to update our call to action to include making calls about passing this bill out of the House and urging the Senate to take it up. Rod, why do you think it's so important to codify President Trump's border policies? And what happens if we don't get it done while he is still president? Well, you saw it at the beginning of both the Biden administration and the second Trump administration, actually the first Trump administration, too.

[00:13:30] Opening day, the new president comes in and signs a bevy of executive orders overturning the old executive orders. The president is the elected representative of the people of this country. He is certainly entitled to have his policy prescriptions. And if the voters vote wrong, we're going to get bad policy. So you've got to actually put this into the law.

[00:13:54] And people don't understand how much harder it is to get something out of the law than to get it in. Because if you look back to Obamacare, you know, the Democrats had a 60 seat Senate for about 10 minutes and they used it to the max. They passed this awful albatross around the necks of the American people that has just mushroomed health care costs consistently ever since. But nobody can repeal it.

[00:14:24] And Trump tried. Trump tried three separate times in 2017, which clearly shows more courage and gumption than any president I can remember. I mean, normally they'll run something up the flagpole. And if everybody doesn't immediately salute, they pull it and it's over. Trump went after Obamacare not once, but three times.

[00:14:51] But it's very, very difficult to remove something from the code for all the obvious reasons. You've got the filibuster in play. You've got the president in play. If we had both houses of Congress and we wanted to repeal Obamacare, but Kamala Harris was president, she's just going to veto it. And we don't have two thirds in both houses. So you need to get this stuff codified. Once it's there, it's much, much harder to undo.

[00:15:21] And future presidents are going to be bound to follow the law, which, you know, clearly Democrats are willing to ignore. Biden just absolutely subverted border control, absolutely subverted our immigration acts for four solid years. So perhaps they won't follow it. But if they don't follow it, you've got a court case. You've got an opportunity to enforce it.

[00:15:47] And you certainly have the fact that they are lawbreakers when you come back to the next election. So we've got to get this done. And God willing, we won't be stupid and elect Gavin Newsom. You know, we really ought to elect one of our incredible bench of Republican presidents.

[00:16:08] And I think by the time we're done with the economic boom that the Trump administration is unleashing as we speak, I don't think that's going to be a hard thing to accomplish. I think the American people are going to be very impressed by the end of this four years. I think that you are right. They are going to be very impressed by the end of the next four years. And there's we we have we just we have to get this done.

[00:16:37] When you just said something, Rod, you said the next administration, if it actually if we can get this enacted into law, they may not follow it because we saw with Biden they were not following the law.

[00:16:50] But also the way the immigration law is currently structured, some of the things that this bill would do would tighten up loopholes that President Biden and his administration or President Otto Penn and his administration were exploiting. So this would help close up some of those loopholes. We if they're not going to follow the law, we have a whole other problem.

[00:17:14] But at that point, perhaps we can can have suits from states against the federal government urging that they follow it. Well, we'll just have to see how that goes. But right now we need to make sure we're urging Congress to to pass it out of the House and then work on the Senate. And boy, this Senate is the one who keeps giving us trouble. All right. Before we go to the next section, let's review what our current week's call to action is.

[00:17:42] And, you know, the drill it is to dial 202-224-3121. That's the capital switchboard. You're going to need to call it three times. You want to call both of your senators and you want to call your congressman. Tell your senators to pass the Save America Act and to figure out how to get it done through must pass legislation.

[00:18:02] Then call your congressman and ask your congressman to attach the Save America Act to every bill moving through the House, including FISA, which is being voted on this week. Go to pass the Save America Act dot com to sign our petition. Join the coalition. And for more details, only American citizens should decide who vote. It's not even just who votes.

[00:18:27] Only American citizens should be voting for the American president and American congressmen and senators. That number, again, is 202-224-3121. And we'll be right back.

[00:19:47] Welcome back. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles open multiple election fraud investigations this week. The U.S. Attorney's Office sent a prosecutor directly to the county counting center. Boy, say that three times fast. And over the course of a week-long mail-in ballot count and continuing to allow ballots to come in well past Election Day,

[00:20:12] Trump-backed Spencer Pratt went from contention to third place with roughly a 43,000-vote swing. This is why the Save America Act matters so much. Rod, why does Los Angeles take a week to count votes when almost every other functioning democracy can count the votes and close out an election on election night? Well, longer than that. And it's just worse in every regard than people grasp.

[00:20:41] I mean, in California, the law now is quite clear that your postmark doesn't even matter. You can just write in the date that you want it to count as having been voted. You know, so if you send it in a week later or two weeks later, no problem. This is just a recipe for fraud, just like the mail-in ballots.

[00:21:04] It's interesting you should mention 43,000 because that just happens to be the number of homeless people in Los Angeles. I don't think that's accidental. And there's no question that what we just saw is statistically impossible.

[00:21:20] You simply can't have the third place candidate getting basically all the votes in every subsequent drop after we see very clearly what her performance was prior to Election Day. And then the first place candidate gets basically nothing. Spencer Pratt, in some cases, gets actually nothing. Only the person they wanted Karen Bass to run against gets any of these votes.

[00:21:49] That's absurd. Well, it is absurd. And statistically, it makes absolutely no sense at all. So the fact that they want us to believe that everything is kosher and perfectly OK drives me absolutely crazy because it's not. You just look at it and you know there are things that are not wrong. And here's the other thing.

[00:22:12] Let's say that every single one of these votes is perfectly legal, perfectly valid, and there's no issue with it whatsoever. The fact that the counting continues to go on and that ballots are allowed to come in even after Election Day creates the impression that something nefarious is going on. And it undermines our entire election system.

[00:22:37] So even if you see the crazy talking points that people like Welker had for President Trump the other day when she was saying there is no evidence of anything going on. I don't remember her exact words, but no evidence that the California election is rigged. OK, let's just see all of that. But still, it is giving the impression that something is wrong. It creates distrust in the election system.

[00:23:04] And we should have faith in the outcome of our elections. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, you should be able to trust the outcome of the elections. So it is what is happening in California undermines an essential bedrock to the foundation of our government. And they need to clean up their act. Robert, I think this is part of the reason why it is so essential to pass the Save America Act. What do you say? Yes, no question.

[00:23:33] And anything we can do in short-term legislation to the long-term, attaching that, whether it's through reconciliation, whether it's the use of the talking filibuster, whatever it takes at this point. Integrity of elections is the paramount of our constitutional republic as we celebrate 250 years of this great country. But once again, Jenny Beth, it's common sense versus chaos. It is truth and reason.

[00:24:00] And we, the people, versus a big bloated bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., constantly trying to centralize itself against the rest of us. As you see, Republicans and Democrats, the voters agree on this. We want to pass the Save America Act. You could do so right now at PassTheSaveAmericaAct.com. Tell your senators, tell your congressmen, regardless of party, just what you want.

[00:24:25] Now, it's a little bit of a concern because of that temporary short-term extension seemingly failing earlier this morning in the House with Section 702 of FISA through July 2nd. But, Speaker Johnson, leadership, they've been creative with all of this, and we'll watch to see what happens in the coming hours and days. You know, one thing I know about Speaker Johnson is that he is going to be praying right now and very prayerful that everything will be—that they will eventually get the votes that they need.

[00:24:54] And I know in these times when it's really tough and he's not sure of the outcome, he is reaching up to God in prayer. So, Rod, there are 50 senators who voted yes in favor of the House-backed version of the Save America Act, and we still don't have cloture in the Senate. What do you think it tells people who are watching about the way Washington actually works? I think it's a circus. This is an 80-20 issue.

[00:25:23] Everybody in this country is for this. Voter ID, my gosh, the numbers are consistent across every Democratic group you can come up with. Republicans, Democrats, older people, younger people, Black, White, Hispanic, you name it. They're all for voter ID, and they should be because basically every country on Earth requires it except parts of the United States.

[00:25:51] And my goodness, you have to show an ID to get cough syrup. You have to show an ID to go to a bar. There is absolutely no legitimate case that this somehow disenfranchises anybody. Everybody in this country has ID. Likewise, find me a country anywhere on Earth that has mail-in ballots of the sort that we're seeing in California. It's nowhere.

[00:26:21] Nobody thinks this is a good idea. There are communist dictatorships that aren't stupid enough and corrupt enough to do what California is doing right now. So you have a party that has just absolutely repudiated the idea of the rule of law because they are a law unto themselves.

[00:26:40] They see their own power as the only virtue, and they see the Constitution as a racist, aristocratic abomination of another era.

[00:26:52] And, of course, we can't have anything in the new socialist order that wasn't invented literally yesterday, the irony of which being, of course, that socialism is a marketing scam to replace our republic with an aristocracy of apparatchics in Washington. So we absolutely have to stand against this, and we have to push John Thune. It is not okay that he's not doing what it takes to get this done.

[00:27:21] We could lose the Senate, and someday we will. And if they don't go ahead and take their shot while they have it, they may not ever have another shot. It's time to actually enforce a talking filibuster, attach this to a reconciliation bill, fire the parliamentarian like John. Like Trent Lott did, like Bob Dole did. Whatever it takes to get this done and get it done.

[00:27:49] Yes, they must get this done. And that's the thing about a true leader. A true leader is going to do everything he can to figure out how to get it done. And a true leader would do what I'm sure is happening right now with Speaker Johnson. He's going around talking to every member, talking to all the different factions, and figuring out how in the world is he going to cobble together legislation that accomplishes the goal.

[00:28:16] And as far as I can tell, Senator Thune hasn't been going around talking to the senators and going, Okay, what about this Murkowski or Collins or Fetterman or whoever else it might be on both sides of the aisle? What about it? Do you have an objection to? Is there a way for us to modify the bill? Can we negotiate so that we can get you to a yes? What will it take? That is what a true leader would do.

[00:28:40] And as far as I can tell, leader, leader in air quotes, Thune has just been like, I tried. I made a whole bunch of speeches on the floor. I tried. And that's he thinks that's good enough. It's not good enough. It is not good enough at all. And we polled our supporters at Tea Party Patriots Action asking, what do you think about the job leader Thune is doing?

[00:29:06] And they overwhelmingly were saying retire. If there was one sentence you could tell leader Thune, if there was one sentence you could tell him, what would it be? And they said, retire, retire, retire, resign, resign, resign, resign, leave, step away, step down, over and over and over. Many different words to say the same thing. They don't think he's leading and they want him to get out of the way. And we need him to step up and be the leader his peers elected him to be.

[00:29:34] He needs to get the job done. Robert, the left will say the voter ID is suppression and will hurt minority voters. Our McLaughlin polling from T that we at Tea Party Patriots Action commissioned shows that 95.2 percent of all voters already have a photo ID. And that includes 92 percent of black voters and 90 percent of Hispanic voters. How do you answer this suppression argument?

[00:30:03] Well, I have to actually show my ID if I'm interested in attending my sitting senators rallies. Yes, Senator John Ossoff requires that to register for his events. In fact, a recent one, it was actually two forms of ID for security purposes. He has every right to do that, but he should also join the Republicans to pass the Save America Act.

[00:30:25] And to your point, Jenny Beth, about Senator Thune and the lack of leadership in the majority seat when he first ran or the second time he ran for the U.S. Senate, but first successful in 2004 against then minority leader Tom Daschle.

[00:30:39] He was criticizing that he had forgotten about their home state of South Dakota, this being Leader Daschle in all of this and ignoring the concerns over motor voter, the concerns over valid voting ID even way back when, 22 years ago. So the irony of now becoming what Washington has turned him into is the very first thing he ran against all those years ago.

[00:31:05] But to Rod's point earlier, it's absolute malarkey because you have to use an ID a number of times throughout the day, whether it is buying that cough medicine or showing it for looking for an apartment, looking to put down that mortgage on a home, or even perhaps getting a pack of cigarettes.

[00:31:25] I wouldn't recommend it, not very healthy. So many things you have to use nowadays. Even if you're renting a car, you have to use a form of identification. And quite frankly, it's an insult to say about one group or class of people or a certain race that they're not smart enough or a demographic is not capable of obtaining a civil ID.

[00:31:46] You are exactly right. And while we were speaking, one of the members of my team texted and said, Thune has the opportunity to be a leader if he would just do the right thing. He really needs to step up and do the right thing. OK, let's shift gears just slightly, but it is going to tie back to the Save America Act. FISA Section 702 expires tomorrow. And that is because it is considered must pass legislation.

[00:32:14] Must pass is kind of a I'm putting that in air quotes for the listening audience. Here is some insight into why this bill is usually considered must pass legislation by both parties. And what it means is that both parties feel like it absolutely must be passed in order for the benefit of America.

[00:32:36] So FISA Section 702 authorizes the government to surveil communications of suspected terrorists on American soil. The World Cup begins today. People within the administration and on Capitol Hill, including congressmen and senators, say that if Section 702 of FISA expires, it could cost American lives, especially with the World Cup starting right now today.

[00:33:02] No member of Congress wants to be on the record having allowed it to expire if a terrorist attack actually were to happen during that expiration period, especially if one happened during the World Cup when all of the world's eyes are on America. That's why this piece of legislation is usually deemed must pass. Usually Democrats and Republicans will vote in favor of this legislation.

[00:33:30] And oftentimes each party will try to get something in a change for their vote. So so they use it as a fulcrum to get some leverage for something else that they want. If Democrat senators are going to vote for this, then it gives us an opportunity to meet the 60 vote cloture requirement in the Senate on the Save America Act, which explains why we're urging the Save America Act to be attached in the House to FISA before it leaves the House.

[00:34:00] Now, there are also some Republicans in Congress who are calling for a warrant requirement before surveillance can happen on American citizens. Others who are calling for changes to central bank digital currency. Democrats want Pulte removed as the acting director or nominee of the of national intelligence in exchange for their vote on FISA. All of these competing interests make this a high stakes game on Capitol Hill.

[00:34:27] And there there may even be a short term term extension to FISA as the negotiations continue, which is what Robert was talking about with the vote that did not succeed earlier this morning. So, Rod, strip away all of these acronyms. Many people are urging various changes to the bill before it's passed into law. What do you think is going to happen?

[00:34:49] And do you think and do you think that FISA is currently the best vehicle and the best opportunity we have right now to pass the Save America Act? Yeah, I think a short term reauthorization is probably likely. They need a little bit more time to sort some things out.

[00:35:07] It is ironic that any Democrat would consider law enforcement to be must pass when you consider that they have done everything they can to gut the police departments across this country and to gut immigration enforcement. But but nevertheless, there are an awful lot of people in the Democratic side who are deep staters and attached to the intelligence community in one way or another.

[00:35:35] So I do think we get this over the line. The need, of course, is to attach the Save America Act to it. Now, is that going to work? We'll see. I mean, but we got to try. You got to throw enough mud at the wall to see if some will stick. This is a great, great vehicle for that. At the same time, the reforms you were mentioning are vital.

[00:36:01] If FISA is important, it's important that we be able to do these things. It is not important that we do them in exactly the way we have chosen to do them. The abuses of the FISA court that have been exposed in the course of the Russia hoax are absolutely staggering. It is worse than than the Star Chamber in English history. It is just a dreadful thing. So that's another thing that we're going to need to come back at.

[00:36:29] But my guess is we're not going to have a really good chance to do a lot of that tinkering until we get a little bit bigger majority. I think that you are right about that, which is why we're urging to attach the Save America Act to it, because it would get us something in exchange for it. And it's something that over 80 percent of Americans want.

[00:36:54] If Democrats vote for this, they are not going to lose independent voters when it comes time for elections. If Republicans vote for it, it's going to encourage the base to continue to come out. But more importantly, some of the ones who are kind of on the fence about it, it won't harm them in reelection either, because over 70 percent of independents and Democrats agree with this.

[00:37:18] So if it's a Democrat who's never going to vote for a Republican and they're against this, you're not going to get their vote anyway. It's the right thing to do for America. Robert, why are the World Cup games such a critical point for security right now? And how are they different from other sporting events we have in America all the time? Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen put it perfectly this morning. 78 games here in the United States in 38 days.

[00:37:45] Well, you say there's Major League Baseball, so you have hundreds of more in that period of time. But here's the problem. 11 different sites, 11 different cities creating outside of the perimeter of these stadiums soft targets. And 1.4 billion people tuning in on average for each and every game beginning at 3 o'clock Eastern today as Mexico takes on South Africa. Good luck to all the teams and go USA.

[00:38:14] But in North America, throughout, 13 games in Canada, 13 games in Mexico. So this really creates a nightmare scenario for law enforcement. So the federal government, state and local officials all have to be working together. And thank God for that Secure America Act signed yesterday by the president, not only for that extension through September of 2029, but in fact, to protect these games from any would-be terrorists.

[00:38:43] Very good explanation there, Robert. All right. So this is a deal, folks. We need you to make those calls to Capitol Hill, 202-224-3121. Tell your congressman, call right now today and ask them to attach the Save America Act to FISA this week. Only American citizens should decide American elections. We need to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. OK, Robert, I'm going to come back to you in a couple of minutes,

[00:39:12] but we're going to go rapid fire through a couple of topics with Rod because he's going to have to hop off. So, Rod, you were on Fox Business back in March calling the Iran conflict and its oil implications. And so far this week, we've had two days of airstrikes with a third wave of attacks anticipated tonight.

[00:39:35] Iran downed an American Apache helicopter, and they also hit our bases in three different countries. What do you think is going to happen next with Iran? What is the best way to deal with Iran? And how do you think it's going to affect oil? Well, first and foremost, the president hasn't wasted one moment of the last nine weeks. This time has been being used. Now, how exactly? That's somewhat speculative.

[00:40:03] But if I were guessing, I would say we have armed a lot of key Iranians. We have trained them what to do with that armament. I think the Kurdish discussion is a hint of what's actually happening more than a news item. Mossad has been incredibly active. We have been collecting intelligence on where they're moving their remaining armaments, where they're moving their remaining leadership.

[00:40:33] Every single moment has been utilized. And you got that in just plain as day from the president and from Pete Hegseth and actually from Scott Besson yesterday, talking about all of this Iranian oil we've been interdicting and seizing. And of course, left-wing Twitter wants to tell you, oh, that violates international law. No, it doesn't. We're in a war.

[00:41:02] You actually get to seize the enemy's cargos, for heaven's sake. So you're seeing the price of oil actually move in the right direction. We were confidently promised in March that oil was going to $150 or $200 a barrel, maybe even higher.

[00:41:20] It's about 89 right before we got on this show and actually dropping, partly because we are actually escorting a decent amount of supply out of the Persian Gulf, partially because the Saudis have amped up transport through their east-west pipeline. So the terminal being used is not Rastanura in the Persian Gulf, but Yanbu in the Red Sea.

[00:41:45] But mostly because people have figured out what has to happen. They have to buy oil and gas from America. So the Gulf of America is filled with supertankers that are entering into what are going to be long-term supply contracts for our allies and, to some degree, even our enemies.

[00:42:10] We're actually now shipping a lot of LNG to China, and the Chinese just blocked a Russian gas pipeline from Siberia that Putin desperately needs, and the Chinese very much should need, if you analyze this the normal way, in that it makes them less dependent on the Strait of Malacca. It makes them less dependent on the Strait of Hormuz. Instead, they bought from Trump, which is just extraordinary.

[00:42:40] And it tells you the degree to which they need the American consumer market, and the president's actions in the Middle East have completely changed the landscape on our trade deficit, on our energy exports, and on global security. Very good analysis there, Rod. Now, we just saw in May CPI hit 4.2%, which is a three-year high. Republicans say core inflation is less than half of what it was under Biden,

[00:43:10] and that this spike was driven because of energy. Is that a fair defense, or does someone at the checkout line not really care about all the fine print? What do you think when we're looking at these numbers that were just released? Yes and yes. You're not really going to be able to explain core inflation to the average Walmart shopper. That's not a thing. So we've actually got to get these numbers in the right direction.

[00:43:37] But these numbers are pretty easy to get there. When you get beyond a certain point in this process in the Middle East, gas prices have to come down with oil coming down. Also, we're seeing an explosion in production out of Venezuela now. And the country with the most refineries that are optimized for Venezuelan heavy crude is, of course, the United States.

[00:44:06] So that's a tremendous amount of new refined product coming online. At the same time that we're about to construct this new pipeline from Alberta for 500,000 barrels a day, and we're opening up the North Slope, and all these positive things are happening. But we're also getting a lot of shipping out of the Persian Gulf, and that story is largely going untold.

[00:44:30] So all these things work to bring prices down for the United States in the short term. Once the war is resolved, they go back to normal. But once the Iranian threat to the Strait of Hormuz is conclusively, permanently eliminated, I think you're going to see another drop of about $10 to $20 a barrel on the just average, normal, all-the-time price of oil,

[00:44:57] because that is the amount represented by the risk premium that we have lived with since I was a teenager due to the fact that the Iranians have been holding this threat over the world. We're eliminating that threat. So the long-term trajectory of energy prices is incredibly positive, and the shift to U.S. supply as opposed to foreign supply,

[00:45:24] not just for us but for our allies, is going to slash our trade deficits and create tremendous numbers of new jobs. We're seeing that job growth now. We're seeing that CapEx now. I think it's really going to hit well before the midterms. That is very positive, very optimistic, and not what we hear from the mainstream media. And in fact, sometimes we don't even hear this oftentimes on social media with conservatives who are talking.

[00:45:53] So thank you very much for sharing that insight, Rod. And thank you for joining me again today. I really appreciate having you on. It's always good to be here. Thanks, and we'll have you on again soon. All right, let's bring Robert back in. Act Blue's CEO sat before Congress yesterday and pleaded the Fifth Amendment 22 times. Her own lawyer said in 2023, or in 2023, they had a letter that they sent to Congress

[00:46:21] about safeguarding against foreign donations, which was inaccurate. Let's just watch this clip of her testimony. The clip does a much better job of explaining what happened than I do. Your board chairman said Act Blue accepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin. How much fraud is too much fraud? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question,

[00:46:47] pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. How many foreign contributions did Act Blue accept? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question, pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. How much money did Act Blue accept from Russia? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question,

[00:47:17] pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. Why did your entire legal team quit? Your in-house legal team. On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question, pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question,

[00:47:48] pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. I understand. We won't keep you here all day, but let me just do one more. Did you weaken your fraud standards to help Democrats? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question, pursuant to my Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution. Mr. Chairman, again, I appreciate the good work you and your committee are doing.

[00:48:11] I watched that clip, and I just am shocked at how many times she invoked the Fifth Amendment. And some of those questions, it seems to me she should have been able to answer them. And because she couldn't, she does have the right to remain silent. She doesn't have to testify. That is the beauty of America. It doesn't look good. Robert, what is your reaction to that testimony? And if this had been win red instead of act blue,

[00:48:40] don't you think it'd be the biggest story in the country right now? Oh, it'd be the main headline throughout most of the New York Times to far-left productions and different outlets. Here's what's interesting about Ms. Wallace Jones. If that's her name, considering she also used the Fifth when asked if that was her actual name, which led Congressman Barry Loudermilk to be quite confused just as we are reacting to that. But we might actually have to seriously look now,

[00:49:08] and I think Congress does have to address campaign finance reforms as a result of this. But it's a really disturbing trend you're seeing from the left because, as we saw with the other hearings at the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, they are targeting conservatives, not people active in politics, but rather those going to school board meetings because they're children. They have concerns over the transgender issues to praying outside of abortion clinics. They're deemed domestic terrorists.

[00:49:37] And you look at Act Blue and where it's putting its money or lack of the areas where it's supposed to be going, and it's a concern to see as Americans are being targeted as a result of this. Okay, and then let's go to this. Speaking of SPLC, Congressman Chip Roy has a bill to remove their tax-exempt status. I think it's a bill or he's just calling for their tax-exempt status to be removed. What do you think of that?

[00:50:07] Should they continue to be an organization that receives tax-free dollars, or should their tax-exempt status be pulled? Oh, I think it should be pulled immediately as a result of this, because we need to know, as American citizens, the left is very good about getting money into different areas of interest, especially using those public dollars and interests. And as President Trump, this has been his main concern, along with many conservatives throughout the country.

[00:50:33] We'd be living like the Middle East when it comes to the amount of wealth in this country if the fraud, waste, and abuse did not continue here in this country. It's almost as if it's a hidden tax like inflation is. Really, so many of us, when we look at our taxes on usually an annual basis, we're anticipating certain things, but we have seen that waste, fraud, and abuse wasting so much of our precious tax money. All right.

[00:51:02] And speaking of waste, fraud, and abuse, Vice President Vance offered— he didn't offer. He referred Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Department of Justice over potentially $9 billion in fraudulent taxpayers spending. $9 billion, Robert? Sometimes it doesn't even feel like a real number. Put this in terms that people will understand.

[00:51:28] Yes, it is quite simply Minnesota, Maine, to Illinois, California. Your dollar, everything you're earning and working hard for in an honest manner goes less and less far to feed your families, to put groceries on the table, to fill up the gasoline in your car. So those everyday essentials, it's making it more difficult for the honest American to truly pursue their right to life, liberty, that pursuit of happiness

[00:51:58] that's enshrined to us in the founding documents. Tomorrow, SpaceX goes public. Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire with a T. The left spent two years trying to destroy him. Robert, what do you think the news that Elon Musk will be the first trillionaire means in terms of the left's attempt to destroy him? Well, before Rod left, just talking about how we have a strong economy, and before these midterms, I think people will really see that as they go to the polls.

[00:52:27] And having a trillionaire means growth and wealth capital in this country. We are a capitalistic nation. We have to continue to do so. And it's the antithesis of the hard left, the far left communists that are trying to usurp the freedoms we have in this country. On top of it, Elon Musk is truly a visionary. It's the passion he's put into this, not someone who's simply seeking wealth. And if it was the case, he has every right to do that as an American.

[00:52:55] But he is keenly looking at, how do I make human life better during my time here? And we've seen that through SpaceX. We've seen it through the acquisition of X as well. Yes, and that is exactly right to me. Elon's story is one that speaks of the incredible opportunity that people have in America. America gives everyone the opportunity to succeed and to lift up from the status they currently are to a higher status.

[00:53:24] Elon Musk has truly lived the American dream. And he is determined. He's a lifelong learner. And he perseveres despite all odds. So I say congratulations in advance to Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire to be. All right. Last question, Robert. What is the headline underneath all the other headlines today? What is the story that we're missing or that the media is burying? Well, two of them. One very positive.

[00:53:52] The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in Orlando and at four o'clock, officially consecrating the United States of America on this June 11th to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. So once again, as we're celebrating America 250, this is somewhat in conjunction with that. But going back to the founding of this nation and that this is truly God's nation

[00:54:16] and our founding documents are rooted in that of faith, those Judeo-Christian traditions. So at four o'clock, Orlando, Florida today, stop and say a prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to watch over this great nation of ours. So an exciting news that some of those left wing outlets may not be talking about, but also on a sadder note, the reality of human trafficking here in America.

[00:54:41] Roughly 450,000 children, an estimate lost by the open border under the Biden administration, under Alejandro Mayorkas. It's a terrible statistic. And acting attorney general Todd Blanche, along with DHS secretary Mark Wayne Mullen today at that press conference detailing that. And I'm sure the mainstream media does not want to highlight all of that, as thousands of children have been found by this administration

[00:55:09] since taking the oath of office again, President Trump on January 20th of 2025. Just a terrible scourge on society. And again, with the World Cup and thousands of people, millions really pouring into the country and visiting, that sad reality of human trafficking is something that will accompany it. Yes, I think that you are right. It is one of the very negative things that will accompany the World Cup.

[00:55:37] Robert, I think that we have that clip with the attorney general. Let's go to that just so people can see what he said. We're going to enforce our nation's laws, and we're going to right the wrongs that the Biden administration turned a blind eye to. It's because of President Trump's leadership. It's horrific to what's happening right in our own country,

[00:56:01] because of four years of a blind eye that allowed unvetted sponsors to come pick up 450,000 kids on our borders. Knowing their reports, why the Biden administration was in office, their own reports was reporting that over a third of the females,

[00:56:27] regardless of age, was sexually assaulted before they made it to their border. They knew it was human traffickers that were trafficking these young kids to the border, and then they were unvetting or refusing to vet the so-called sponsors, and there was zero wellness checks.

[00:56:57] And they want to claim that Republicans, because we're enforcing the laws, is inhumane somehow? No, what they were doing was inhumane. I got that wrong. It wasn't the attorney general. It was the Department of Homeland Security secretary. Robert, thank you so much for highlighting that and making sure people are aware of it. It's a very important story. It's good that they're able to find many of these children.

[00:57:25] I worry about what they've been through, and I pray for them. And I know that there are many nonprofits, maybe not many, but I know there are quite, there's several who help people who are victims of human trafficking. And I really appreciate the work that they do, because it is hard, hard work to know that especially children have been treated so badly by adults in America, where we expect there to be freedom and liberty.

[00:57:56] I'm just glad you brought this to our attention. I'm happy to. You know, it's modern slavery, Jenny Beth, and countless great organizations, as you mentioned, nonprofits. But a big shout out to Tim Tebow and someone who uses his platform, his foundation, fighting this and activating those to go and find these bad guys. If you've seen Sound of Freedom as well, just the work of Angel Studios, Jim Caviezel, countless others that have put their lives, their reputations on the line,

[00:58:23] because the sad reality is drugs can be used once, but a human being can be used over and over and over again. And America is the largest consumer of this. Remember that if the demand is taken away, we starve these cartels. We starve these people who do not value human life. And a secure border is one that is a moral victory. It is moral legislation. These are moral executive orders by the president of the United States.

[00:58:50] And I've become very impassioned by this throughout my career and my work to save children, many of whom not only trafficked here in America, but the victims being that of South American backgrounds and flown traffic throughout the world. It's a terrible thing. And we must bring it to an end. Robert, thank you again for bringing this to our attention. And it's part of the reason why it is so good that the Secure America Act was passed yesterday. We need to be able to fund the entirety of the Department of Homeland Security,

[00:59:20] including ICE and Border Patrol. So I'm very glad that that was funded. And I think it highlights why the bill we were talking about earlier today, what was called H.R. 2 in the previous Congress, I'm not sure if it's still the same bill number right now, but codifying President Trump's executive orders on the border and making them permanently law,

[00:59:44] that is critical that we get done as well so it can help reduce the kind of human trafficking we just were discussing. Robert, thanks again for joining me. I'm really glad to have you on the team and to be part of the show. Oh, yes. Always a pleasure, Jenny Beth. All right. That call to action one more time is for you to make three phone calls, 202-224-3121. Call both of your senators and your congressmen and tell them to pass the Save America Act. Attach it to FISA.

[01:00:13] Attach it to everything. Get the bill passed. Go to passthesaveamericaact.com for more details on this. And then before we go, we've got one more video that I want to show you. It is from the Babylon Bee, and it is about, it's satire. It's about AOC and economics. Take a look at this.

[01:00:38] All right.

[01:01:46] Let me just explain something to our listening audience, because it's hard to tell there was not a lot of conversation and dialogue in this video. It's sort of a horror slasher movie, and Babylon Bee created it using Grok, and it had AOC, and it also had Thomas Sowell. And she's hiding, and the whole room is dark, and she's hiding and afraid and worried that something's going to get her. And it keeps showing Thomas Sowell's basic economics book dropping in her lap and dropping

[01:02:15] in front of her and hovering over her head. And she's screaming. She cries. Supply and demand cannot hurt me. Supply and demand cannot hurt me. And at the very end, Thomas Sowell jumps up behind her. It's very clever. It's wonderful satire. The Babylon Bee titled it, What Would Happen If AOC Was Forced to Learn Economics? Sometimes satire is the most honest journalism in the country, so I'll just leave it right there. I'm Jenny Beth Martin. Thank you so much for watching The Jenny Beth Show.

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