>> president donald trump: have a good time, have a great tour! >> a special treat a lot of folks happy to be there as they head into the white house towards the first one of the year. the first lady has reopened the white house for tours i know people of got a very special place. that is the story for this for this tuesday. february 25th. the story goes on right here, there is so much going on and we will see you back here tomorrow at 3:00 have a lovely evening everybody, i will see you back here tomorrow. will cain getting started right about now.

>> will: live from the heartland this is the will cain show. welcome to the busiest hour in cable news, the busiest hour from america. president trump is set to sign more executive orders in the white house very soon. we could be getting those remark from the president after the signing and if that happens, we will bring them to you here. but, first, putting an end to the weaponization of our government. >> for the past four years it was not the people's justice department it was a political weapon. >> every day that passes the department of justice is losing institutional knowledge and exceptional attorneys because of a blind arrogance and vengeance. >> they are now filled with actual staggering corruption. >> will: every single time the only thing we get wrong is, it's always worse than what we thought. as we speak house oversight committee is promising to enter the golden age by ending the

weaponization of our justice department. those abuses on display at that hearing at l. is its a story that we have all become too familiar with because it's a story that has defined both the last five years and potentially the next five. if there was a metal stand of images that defined the american past and future, it would undoubtably have donald trump post assassination attempt, yelling, screaming, fight, fight, fight to americans. but getting silver, my go-to, the mug shot of donald trump. so much so if you and i were to walk into the oval office right now, if he were to visit the white house and make our way to president trump's office, to see a framed vision of that photo, of that mug shot as we entered the oval office. that brings me to today's big three. weaponization of our government, the weaponization of our justice department, is perhaps has seen

no better illustration than cross fire hurricane. the investigation that ultimately turned into the russia hoax. chris from our fbi agent was at the hearing today, promising to reenter the golden age of america, giving some examples of this weaponization. >> a well-known example is cross fire hurricane and it was notorious of the 2016 trump presidential campaign tainted by surveillance orders. based on deliberately false information. containing opposition research. this was a company by an unprecedented infiltration of the campaign by multiple enforcements. further involves the potential entrapment of the pretext of an introductory intelligence briefing and rather than target the western influencers and protect the unwitting campaign operatives the fbi targeted the trump presidential campaign.

when similar information was developed about the hillary clinton campaign she was immediately afforded a defensive everything. >> will: for five years we were subjected to the idea that donald trump was a russian asset. when that accusation tired, when it wore out the same way phrases and verbal techs like shadow governments were elon musk is actually the president inevitably fizzle, the left will move on to the idea that donald trump is a criminal. this is because our justice department managed to file numerous lawsuits in criminal charges against donald trump for a roughly five, six or seven year period. including election interference, classified documents, election interference in georgia, new york, hush money trials. it was all a stark contrast with the justice department did not do. it shows not to look into things like prosecuting the blm riders.

-- rioters. all of this led to that moment when we saw on television, together, fbi agent raid mar-a-lago. donald trump's home in florida was rated in search of quote, unquote, classified documents and many suggested this was the strongest case against donald trump. built upon this soft foundation, this foundation of sand, democrats did take and today we can even hear them still echoing the idea that donald trump is a criminal. >> the only person who is a convicted felon is the man i'm looking at right now. >> donald trump the felon, has no plans to lower cost for families. >> we cannot have a convicted felon as president of the

united states. >> donald trump is a rambling incoherent convicted felon who incited an insurrection and wants to be dictator on day one. >> there's clearly a choice between a president with a record and somebody he was a convicted criminal and in my opinion, a traitor to our country. >> will: that became laughable. to most of us. we even sold merchandise for donald trump's mug shot, in the blazing with the slogan never surrender its also very serious because it was a clear politicization of our justice department and the attempt to manipulate an american election. today, it is time for can ability. not just us the house promises to look into this, but attorney general pam bondi has not put together a working group to look into the weaponization of the department of justice. let's bring in texas republican

congressman brandon, he is a member of the house committee who is in that weaponization hearing, he just stepped up to speak with us. thank you for being with us. if we are able to establish that there are prosecutors inside the doj that executed the marching orders of politicians, what can be done? what can be done with those prosecutors? >> first of all, thank you for having me on the show. we suffered through four years of the biden administration weaponizing the federal government against the american people and in particular his political enemies, a you named it a few examples but you can also add concerned parents who are worried about the curriculum that we are being taught. pro-life protesters that the biden fbi went after. you can name so many different examples, this is a two tear justice system, that is whatever committee is looking out for

now. for four years under the of the joe biden and his cronies would steamroll investigations that would refuse to provide evidence, they would withhold evidence, they did everything they could to hide what they were actually doing. so we've got to continue these investigations because i think we barely scratched the surface. but to your point once we are done investigating and this will take some time, we have to follow up with action. what is different now is that we have a doj he was not politically partial, they are looking to institute justice, bring justice back to this country. and we have a ton of work to do but we are just getting started. >> will: a great point i'm glad you brought it up. disaffected everyday americans. i do hope and with the new attorney general pam bondi, we can see more the investigation and congress are important. but they are there to hide that information, they do have to form some level of accountability, it will be fascinating to see what abuse

means or countability for various prosecutors. i want to move to this because it's happening tonight. it's supposed to happen tonight. a 6:30 p.m. that is the house of representatives set to vote on a budget. what is the latest, do you expect there to be about andy -- and do you have the boat to pass it? >> i do expect there to be about. there has been some pushback within the conference remember we have a diverse conference on the republican side. unlike the democrats, we do not all walk in lockstep we think independently. the speaker's job is to bring a very diverse coalition together. to pass the trump agenda tonight is just the first step in doing that. enacting it, securing the border, providing funding for the largest mass deportation operation in american history, reupping our military and providing trump tax cuts.

i feel good about where we stand with things right now, we have details we need to iron out but we have got to get this one big beautiful bill passed for the american people. >> will: congressman i only have one minute left and i hate to leave such an important story to such a little time. but for all the concern about elon musk and it doj and the privacy of the everyday american citizens there is a story out now the irs leaked 450,000 americans private data out there, to the public. what can you tell us about this story? >> if you remember last may a spokesperson for the irs said the only leaked data of 70 million americans -- 70,000, excuse me. this is being linked to a left wing news organization that is funded in part by george soros.

we are learning today was not 70,000 it was 405,000. remembered these are the kinds of things that we have to get details on, this is why these congressional investigations are so important. because the american people deserve answers for what the biden administration was doing to them for four years. >> will: all the concerned about elon musk and quote, unquote, organizations, career bureaucrats we are supposed to trust with our private information, i don't know where that trust was earned. great to talk to you thank you for stepping out for us here today. cartel at turf wars, are they a window of opportunity? we have been talking to you about this. now today we are joined by independent journalist to put that journalist in mexico. do mexican people actually want the american military to provide security and stability by taking out the cartel? and shiny dishes.

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>> will: the cartel is historically the world's most powerful drug operation also the oldest cartel existing cartel in mexico. i am endlessly fascinated by the "game of thrones", of power display in mexico by mexican drug cartels. starting back in the 1980s been the last five months its fractions, federation was once led by... no descendant into his sons and their followers. but as power-sharing arrangement with him, has also descended into chaos with his followers called, now fighting,

neighbourhood by neighbourhood for the control of this oldest cartel. it's called chaos, absolute chaos, kidnappings and murders in. once a politician said the more weakened divided torn than ever before. this moment represents unique opportunity for the mexican government to recover, control these areas from organized crime. you saw it here on, i spoke to a former member of the cartel, i went on to have a longer conversation with him. on the will cain digital show, one hour. he said something in that interview that fascinated me. i asked why the mexican president would resist american help in mexico? he said will i don't know how she feels her why she feels the way she does about america. but the mexican people, would welcome america, watch. >> in operation like that, that targeted the head or -- of three

organizations, you think would send a message that would make the next generation of leaders calm the waters. is there any argument that that kind of operation deep within mexico with american military, could begin to create a vietnam type situation for america. like the cartels would fight back and this is going to be terrible, perhaps on the american side of the border? >> this is my point of view. i don't think they will fight back. not in a way where you think it will be vietnam. i think the mexican people want this. they are the one that suffered the violence, these cartels. basically only them. i think they suffer the most. they are the ones that can benefit the most from this. i don't think they get together and fight back. >> will: an independent journalist from mexico he is

lived in the mexican border side for the past eight years, just relocated to the united states. thank you for joining me or mike you heard that right. from an american side dealer connected to the cartel that he thought, should president trump doesn't make the cartels as terrorist organizations and that leads to a military strike by americans in mexico. he said it would be welcome by mexicans. >> absolutely and i agree. one of the things in mexico, you either are rich or poor. there is no middle class and those in the upper echelons, they are either corrupt cartels and they want to give up their power. in those at the bottom, they have been crying for help. they don't trust law enforcement. any time they seek justice, the same law enforcement or prosecutors will turn against them and snitch them out to the

cartels. they are welcoming the president trumps initiative to name these cartels as a terrorist organizations and they welcome intermission to mexico and do away with this violence. something they have been hoping for in praying for four years on end. as you mentioned these cartels started back in the 80s, they have increased our power and violence in mexico is increased. >> will: i want to seep i and get two follow-up questions. awaiting remarks from trump who is signing it -- executive orders. this caught my attention from "the wall street journal". is talking about the fracture of the cartel, at this quote came from a woman. she works with warrior bloodhounds, a local group searching for missing relatives. she said if the state can't establish order, let another

state, the americans do it. by the way, it says later that day, her group dug up four sets of human remains. the question is, president of mexico seemed to suggestive week, america work to do something in mexico that would be a violation of our sovereignty. but you don't think the mexican people would feel the same. you are not violating the sovereignty of mexico. >> that is correct and i think the remarks its a clear indication of how intertwined politicians and cartels are working together hand-in-hand. they prefer to defend as opposed to listening to all the victims in mexico and so, i agree. mexican citizens, by in large will welcome help from the united states to combat these cartels and this violence once and for all. it's a great opportunity.

>> will: it's never surprising, if the answer you gave me was yes, but i hear that high levels of mexican government in this case perhaps even the president, corrupt charged -- tied to the cartels? >> exactly the levels of corruption in mexico from local state police, all the way to president cabinets. those currently serving here in the united states, are held with the drug charges and corruption in mexico. mexican citizens they don't trust the government. and to make mexico safe and secure. >> will: one last question for you, this notion that this would have america in a quagmire, my former member also rejected the notion. he said that the drug cartels don't stand up for one another.

one cartel would not stand up for another cartel and even lieutenants within a cartel, would not stand up and fight, should their top leader be taken out. because every man in the business is looking out for himself. it's not some cohesion to fight back against the military strike. >> i agree that is exactly right. with president trump naming these cartels as terrorist organizations you would think the mexican cartels would come together and fight against the united states. but it's the complete opposite. they are fighting each other and it will be getting themselves and once they see that mexican -- i'm sorry the u.s. military, there is no way they can match up to u.s. forces and what they are going to do is disband and go into blend in with civilians. they will not fight and risk dying for something that maybe they don't believe in. for them is just a lifestyle. to me, they will dis- mend and

hide against within civilians. >> will: i'm fascinated by this discussion i amped -- i appreciate you giving me more information. thank you so much. to be clear, everything we talk about here is not an advocacy for american military action in mexico but greater understanding of what would be the cost, and the likelihood of success and understanding the state of play. south of the border. another dei program gone wrong, at this. some nsa employees talking dirty. on the taxpayer dime. real dirty. we will talk to you and with former cia agent about that, next!

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>> will: stunning is not the word to describe this new report

released today. protest, outrageous, some employees at the nsa revealed an internal document that intel officials maintained a secret chat room. talking about, trans surgeries, polyamory, poly fuels. fetishes, more. including how to go through hormone therapy, how to get breast augmentation and how aroused you might be after transgender surgery. these chats were reportedly created as part of been intel link system inside the intelligence agency. and we are given approval or at least looked over as part of the dei initiative that started off as an employee resource group. and turned into using the bathroom after trans surgery. i don't know if you can but here with me now to try and make sense of this is former cia analyst and cohost of the clay

show, buck. where to begin? let's begin with the legitimate smart question, i hope it a smart. a legitimate curious question, what is this system? to clarify, intel link, that they are commuting on, is that like/but for spies? >> pretty much. there are number of ways, i have been out for years so it could have been updated. it's effectively, a place were different employees can communicate about things. into can be quite normal like, hey, i need somebody to dog sit my dog. this weekend. but in this case clearly the dei partisans got completely nuts on this, they first of all... i have to tell you i am up to speed on the lgbt community and terminology but it turns out i

am not. there were things in this chat, that i've no idea what they were talking about. then i felt weird looking it up so that is not a good sign. they hear is why it matters. on the one hand, it shows you how far dei madness goes inside of these agencies and my friends who are in some cases former colleagues, you were still on the inside of the intel community tell me that trans awareness day feels like it is every other week at some of these places. this has become a real mantra. it goes beyond just the effects this has on morale for other people and the fact that what kind of hiring are you going to get when people feel like they have to refer to a colleague as and it, this came up in the chat as well. or some colleagues wish that they could have a hermaphrodite baby so they can run trans

experiment to let them choose later their gender. people are not mentally well in some cases. very clearly. i have to tell you a somebody who got ts clearance, at the height of the war on terror, it was incredibly evasive. minor things. how much credit card debt do you have? what kind of gambling habits do you have? these are the questions that you had to do under a lie detector test by the way and now, you look at this and you were told, you have to call a colleague and it and refer to them as they were else you are a bad person. it's crazy. this is insane. >> will: a couple of things to highlight, in our short conversation together, the reason i asked you what the communication channel was was to clarify. this was done on a work system. you make a good point, this is great work done. finally, yes, these people of top secret clearances and clearly also mental instability and all of it was excused under

the either fear or brand of de i've. pure insanity. thank you so much check him out! then there is this! elon musk heading to fort knox to check on its gold supply. ai and crypto is here with much, much more, next!

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>> will: some breaking news as we wait for video president trump's executive order signing. ukrainian officials have agreed to the framework for mineral deal, us trump says zelenskyy might visit on friday. joining me with more is ai and crypto czar. you have been a prominent voice when it comes to the war between russia and ukraine. we could be, it looks like within the matter one week or tweet we headed towards a peace agreement which would include a mineral deal with the

united states -- the united states. would he think about the potential for peace? >> i think that this is definitely a step in the right direction. and the administration i think president trump has, really has been amazing in the way that he has led the effort here to find a peace deal for ukraine. first he had that phone call with president putin, that's the first time the leader of the united states, russia has even talk to each other for something like three years. and we had those delegations from the united states and from russia you have further conversation. and now looks like we are making further progress. i really applaud the effort the president is putting in here to try and get to a peace deal so the dying can stop. to be cleared this is a topic you would not have been discussing for years. as administration, ai and crypto, this is not something that is formally within my portfolio. this is somebody that has spoken out about the war over the past

for years and really wants it to stop and has seen it. as a huge mistake of american policy undivided administration. it's extremely gratifying that president trump is made so much progress. >> will: that's a great clarification. now with your official place within the american government to have to clarify what you do and do not speak unofficially but you have been very prominent in your outspoken pushback against the ongoing funding and ongoing dragging out of the worn ukraine and being a realist on the ground where we stand in this war. that is the point at which this administration began. others call it appeasement of russia, i see it and i think you start from a position of reality. here is where we are. we have to start talking about negotiations from reality. >> right, that is exactly right. you have to start with battlefield realities. first of all, look at what is happening on the ground, the ukrainians have been getting destroyed. the russia have a military that

is something four or five times bigger than the ukrainian military. they have something like 10 times the artillery that the ukrainians do. ukrainian leaders themselves have said this. they have drones, they have air superiority, they are able to drop this enormous 3000-pound bomb they dropped from 50 yards behind the line of contact. ukrainians are losing and they have been losing territory virtually every day for approximately one year. it is not to say anything that the casualties, the ukrainians have lost hundreds of thousands of people. this is a war in which ukrainians are losing on the ground, losing territory, losing people in their countries getting destroyed. you have to ask what this all four? i don't think this is in a strategic interest of the united states. certainly the biden administration never explained what it was we were trying to accomplish. if the goal here was to try and prevent russia from taking over

ukraine there is a very easy way or the biden administration to do that. the first month of the war, back in april of 2022, there was a peace deal on the table called to the instant bull agreement. a required to agree to neutrality. if they agreed to it, if they agreed to limits on the size of their forces so they would not be perceived as a threat to russia in russia's eyes, then russia agreed to basically leave the country and takeover no territory. this is a deal that ukraine could have had in the first month of the war. unfortunately what happened is the biden administration did not support this deal and boris johnson flew to kyiv and told president zelenskyy that will don't want to make a deal with who and we want to challenge putin in the biden administration promised ukraine would have all the weapons they need to defeat russia and the biden administration did give them lots of aida but it was not

enough in ukraine is gone destroyed and for what? we now know that ukraine will not be joining nato, even the biden administration at the end of the biden term, acknowledged that ukraine would not in fact be joining nato. that was the main assurance the russians were looking for three years ago. of wages given it to them then, there would've been no war. >> will: it's a question for anyone that disagrees with your premise or disagrees with this conversation and they are always welcome here, what is the alternative? is the alternative the idea that you can somehow beat vladimir putin back to the preborders or punish them in some way that he will never do so again describe that reality, that would be the question for those who disagree. i also need to ask you about this, elon musk is going to fort knox, here is a known back -- fact. about four, only the fourth time

by the way that fort knox has opened it's doors, once to fdr and lawmakers in 1974. and in 2017. with a delegation. what do we need to know about fort knox? >> well fort knox is one of the main repositories of the united states, gold deposits. it's not the only one there are a few others but it's the biggest. what i think is interesting about this is that nobody has said, at this is a crazy idea, to go make sure the gold is actually there. just think about that. i think the gold is probably there. it's probably almost certainly there but nobody thinks this is a crazy idea to go check because we don't know. that is how about the corruption is gone and washington. we cannot fully trust that our gold is still in fort knox. most of the american people are distrustful and we have seen

that the corruption in washington is rapid and that is what d.o.g.e has exposed. usaid was a slush fund for all of these left-wing and democratic interest groups that was funding the media, "the new york times", "politico", the bbc, 9 out of 10 publications in ukraine were getting funded and so down the line '01. we've seen as does has uncovered more about where our money is being spent. we are seeing this expose of corruption and people are actually so sceptical now on how our government is spending the money they actually are little bit worried about whether the gold is still in fort knox. like i said i think it probably is there but we have to check. >> will: it's a well earned scepticism, i don't think there is anything his blind face. -- as blind eighth. -- as blind faith.

what does nai and crypto zara do? >> -- what does nai and crypto czar do? -- what does ai and crypto czar do? >> as a potential advisor, i see my role as being a bridge between the technologist and driving the innovation because ultimately it's the private sector that drives innovation. but it's the government that creates the conditions, the ecosystem renovation. what i'm trying to do is bring that perspective to washington and find ways for the government to help our private sector when the ai race and also help our crypto companies operate within a legal framework that is actually conducive to innovation as opposed to driving them short. >> will: i hate to say this

question, because it requires probably a half hour discussion but, there is conversations about the jobs coming home, winning the ai race like you just mentioned, i do want to ask you this, you are a technologist, i do think you have optimism when you look forward, is at all optimistic david? should we be concerned when elon musk says we are approaching the event horizon, she would be about ai? >> i don't think we should be cavalier about the risks, there are risk associated with ai, however, i think there are opportunities as well. i would say the opportunities are greater. the only thing we ever hear in the media is about the risk. i think the vice president j.d. vance give a great speech impaired at the ai summit where he pointed this out. i'm here to talk about ai opportunity not ai safety because frankly the only thing we have talked about for the past two years orderlies in the

public discourse relates to ai are all of the safety risks. i'm not saying they don't exist, there is a risk of bad actors misusing the technology. i say that very long term down the road you could potentially have a situation where you could lose control of ai. i want to be cavalier about these risks but i think that we just have not been optimistic enough about all of the opportunities that are associated with this and i think that ai is going to drive a boom in product -- productivity over the next decade that a similar the way the internet did in the late 90s. i think we need that boom, we need that productivity to drive our economy, the united states is something they 35 trillion in debt. how are we ever going to get out of the debt unless we have an economic boom so we need these new technologies. i believe that we can marshaled them responsibly. i think we can use them responsibly like the vice president said we can use them in a pro worker way. so, i think that we could use them to benefit the united states. i think one final point is that if we don't do it, it's not like the innovation is going to stop.

china will do it, they are competitive. we have to win this ai race, trump has been clear, that the united states must win the ai race, we must maintain our global leadership and even dominance as a world he uses because if we fall behind to china, and they are the leader in ia -- in ai, that is going to power their economy. it could provide a military advantage, it could make china a more powerful countries in the united states and we cannot that happen. >> will: david, ai and crypto czar, thank you so much for your time. again we are monitoring president from sending executive orders the word is he just wrapped up. let's see we can get that video here soon and if we do, i will bring it right to you!y l be right back!

rump: and its lawsuits against our companies, and frankly very violent and very bad to our airlines. i've gotten calls from the heads of airlines saying they stopped

in europe and they are getting charged all sorts of taxes that they never even heard of. they stop and they are getting fined and charged, and they do it only with american companies. they are not doing it to other countries, so we are stopping it. and we have another thing, we have another step to go, and if they don't shape up, as an example, apple has had to pay like $17 billion in a lawsuit that nobody thought was worth anything, and i won't get into the judge or the decision or how the decision was arrived, but i'm pretty good at this stuff, and i think it's disgraceful. and googles being sued, facebooks being sued, and many others are being sued. by their so-called government, if you call it a government, e.u., and they don't treat us right. they don't treat us right as a country. so we are going to protect our companies. we have to protect our companies or we are not going to have any

companies left anymore. i also want to thank apple for announcing they are going to invest $500 billion and our country. that is the biggest investment anybody has probably made to this date, and they are going to do it very quickly, and that is because of tariffs, they don't want to play pay the tariffs. they feel strongly about the country now. they wouldn't have done it without us, without the trump administration they wouldn't have done it, but they feel very strongly about the direction of the country. the polls have shown that, too. the polls are coming out showing direction of the companies -- of the country is the best they have ever seen, actually. best they've ever seen. so i just want to thank tim cook and apple for the confidence. $500 billion. that's the biggest investment anyone has made in a short period of time. >> mr. president, have you spoken today with house republican holdouts who say they would not be supporting the budget resolution? >> president trump: i'm not involved in that.

they know what i want. and the senate does what i want to, too, and the senate has got a bill that is very strong having to do with the taxes. because the taxes is what's bringing all these companies in. so -- and without it, by the way, you have to double your own taxes. everybody would be doubled up. you would have the biggest tax increase ever. so the house has a bill and the senate has a bill, and i am looking at them both, and i will make decisions, but i don't know where they vote. i know the senate is doing very well, and the house is doing very well, but each one of them has things that i like. so we will see if we can come together. >> reporter: can you clarify hopefully once and for all what your expectations are with this email to federal employees? what are you going to use that information for? and do you see it as voluntary or mandatory? >> president trump: it is voluntary but also if you don't answer you get fired. what it really is -- what it is is do people exist?

we have this massive government with millions of people and nobody knows who is working for the government and who is not, so what they are doing is there sending out a letter to everybody, what were the things you did last week? i guess they ask for five. and if people work and it is easy, i can tell you five things i did last week. i can tell you five things i did six weeks ago, right? if they are there and they are working, they are able to say they did five things during work. and that means they are working with us and they have no further obligation. if they are not, it could be there is no such person. it could be the person is no longer working. they are no longer living at that address. >> will: behind the scenes coverage, president trump remarks in the oval office or never live, they are turned around to us, in which week case we take them as is possible. we pass it off to "the five" who continue to monitor this event from the oval office. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. i'm wa