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laura? some fearsome and quarrelsome spirit but not a holy one. bystanders say they don't know why the fight broke out. but if those in boarding group 8 jumped the line and join group 5, i can see how this could have happened. the brawl dissolved. or maybe they just all got on board, i don't know. by the time the police arrived, no arrests were made. can you imagine that? >> laura: raymond. i wouldn't want to be a steward on that thing. >> laura: on certain airlines you don't get a pillow. you don't get extra for air and a little extra if you want to breathe. you have to pay another $25 surcharge. all right, raymond. awesome stuff. always great to have you on. that's it for us tonight. make sure to follow me on social media. thank you for watching. we'll have special behind-the-scenes looks on gitmo on instagram. jess -- jesse watters takes it next. >> welcome to "jesse watters
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primetime." >> president trump: this is a disgrace to our nation. >> jesse: the first cabinet meeting of the golden age. >> president trump: for the most part i think everyone's not only happy. >> i think the email perhaps was best interpreted as a performance review but actually it was a pulse check review. do you have a pulse? >> are you alive? doge wants to know. >> are these people real? are they alive and can they write an email? >> we're shaking uch washington in more ways than one. >> the power belongs to the people not elitist journalists in washington. >> jesse: trump puts the press in its place. >> typical political mumbo-jumbo. >> jesse: plus -- >> if you were in morocco i could cut your tongue out right now. [ ♪♪ ] >> jesse: a new episode of "the apprentice" just dropped. and this season it takes place at the white house. the cabinet's competing to get the best results for the country and trump's a little
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busy so he's bringing on another judge. and if you don't like him, get out. >> president trump put out a truth social today saying that everybody in cabinet was happy with you. i just wondered if that's -- if you had heard otherwise. >> president trump: let the cabinet speak just for a second. [ laughter ] unhappy -- if you are, we'll throw him out of here. [ laughter ] >> jesse: if you're antimusk, you're getting doged. but so far elon likes what he sees. >> president trump has put together i think the best cabinet ever, literally. so -- and i do not give false praise. this is an incredible group of people. i don't think such a talented team has actually ever been assembled. i think it's literally the best cabinet the country's ever had and i think the country should be very appreciative of the people in this room. >> jesse: today's cabinet meeting didn't look like a typical meeting from the last four years. the first lady wasn't
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sitting at the head of the table. and no one had to submit talking points ahead of time like they did with biden. last year a source called biden's cabinet meetings kind of an act. joe went a whole year without one. we're a month into this administration. every cabinet official was there. and they know what their job is. >> president trump: this country's gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run. i think we had the worst president in the history of our country. he just left office. i think he's a disgrace what he's done to our country by allowing millions of people to come into our country like that. and all of the other things, the inflation which he caused because of energy and stupid spending, to spend hundreds of millions, trillions and trillions of dollars on the green new scam. >> jesse: the white house is giving every secretary the same job. cut, cut, cut and make washington accountable to you. and the secretary of defense was the first at bat. >> we're doing a complete
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review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of afghanistan and plan to have full accountability. it's one of the first things we anowed. >> president trump: i don't see big promotions in that group. [ laughter ] i think they're going to be largely gone. i know the man on my left. i think they're going to be largely gone. >> jesse: the pentagon's being run differently. if you screw up, you don't get a promotion. promotions are only based on one thing, merit. >> on behalf of president donald trump, i want to thank you for everything you do for our nation, for our republic, for the security of so many americans who are grateful for what you do in far-off places, in the middle of the night wa high threat level and a lot of uncertainty. i am humbled to have the opportunity to help lead you, to give advice to the commander in chief and to make sure that, when you are put in harm's way, you are given absolutely everything you need to overwhelm and
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destroy the enemy, hopefully to deter them so we don't have to fight these wars. >> jesse: like any boss, you expect your team to show up with pitches. i make my staff pitch stories every day. and today's cabinet meeting was like a pitch meeting. like, how about gold cards? >> 200,000 of these gold green cards is $1 trillion to pay down our debt, and that's why the president is doing it. >> president trump: i've had the complaint from a lot of companies where they go out to hire people and they can't hire them out of colleges and now what they do? they go back to india. they go back to the country where they came and they open up a company and they become billionaires. this way, they have pretty much unlimited longevity. also with the 5 million, you know, that's a path to citizenship. so that's going to be -- sort of a green card plus, and it's a path to citizenship. we're going to call it the gold card. >> jesse: the idea is, if you want in, you have to
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invest in the american dream and pay off our debt. it's the opposite of letting unvetted illegals in and giving them a free plane ticket and a hotel room. but letting millions every mysterious foreigners buy their way into the country might be a recipe for corruption. but i'm keeping an open mind. we're still working on getting rid of people, and tom homan has a message for folks throwing up roadblocks. listen. >> as far as the politicians who want to push back and attack the men and women of i.c.e. and myself, i'm not running a popularity contest. i'm not -- doing what we promised the american people. rather than enforcing the law without apology we're going to keep coming. you can put all the roadblocks up. we're going to keep coming for sanctuary cities want to push back and impede us, we'll double the workforce. we're not going away. we're going to keep coming at 'em until every illegal criminal gang member, every illegal criminal is eradicated from this country. that's when i'll be satisfied.
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>> jesse: it's not just about keeping illegals out of the country. it's about keeping out narcotics. one tool in the toolbox to do that, tariffs. and pay attention because there's a new deadline. >> president trump: we've lost millions of people due to fentanyl. it comes mostly from china but it comes through mexico and it comes through canada. i have to tell you that, you know, on april 2nd -- i was going to do it on april 1st but i'm a little bit superstitious. i made it april 2nd, the tariffs go on. not all of them but a lot of them and i think you're going to see something that's going to be amazing. we've been taken advantage of as a country for a long period of time. >> jesse: while trump's working on trade deals, he's also working on peace deals. secretary of state marco yueb rowe is working on a beauty can zelenskyy that will secure valuable mineral rights in ukraine, and it's this close. >> my last indication was it was very close to the finish line. we were not even on the 1-yard line. at the half-yard line. you know when the eagles
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push the quarterback across. kush push thing. >> jesse: this deal would make america less dependent on china who has a monopoly on rare earths. the peace deal drives a wedge between russia and china. since the start of the war they have forged a deeper alliance. zelenskyy's reportedly coming to the white house to sign on the dotted line but there's no chance ukraine's getting what it really wants. >> president trump: nato, you can forget about. i think that's probably the reason the whole thing started. and i think j.d., we can say that. do you have a statement on that? >> as the president said, we're not going to do the negotiation in public with the american media. he's going to do it in private with the president of russia, with the president of ukraine and with other leaders. and i think that's how this has to go. i think the -- i just want to push back against some of the criticism i've seen in the administration on this because every single time the president engages in diplomacy, you guys preemptively accuse him of
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conceding to russia. he hasn't conceded anything to anyone. he's doing the job of a diplomat and he is of course the diplomat in chief is the president of united states. >> jesse: trump's really threading the needle, seeking a peace deal with a mineral kickback while at the same time demanding our allies drop tariffs and pay more for nato. >> president trump: they don't accept our cars. they don't accept essentially our farm products. they use all sorts of reasons why not and we accept everything of them and we have about a $300 billion deficit with the european union. i love the countries of europe. i love all countries frankly. european union -- it was formed in order to screw the united states. let's be honest. the european union was formed in order to screw the united states. that's the purpose of it and they've done a good job of it but now i'm president. >> jesse: trump's got, like, five balls in the air here. [chuckles] this is about as high stakes as it getsment but if he can pull this off, we're looking at a new world order,
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something we haven't seen since before 1945. a major pillar of the trump doctrine is nothing's free. overseas or at home. and you can't execute an agenda like this if everyone isn't working in perfect harmony. >> the president's put together a tremendous team of people that have known each other for a long time. first of all half of us are from florida so that's good. i've known mike waltz since his tire time in congress. we've been working together for a long time. steve witkoff envoy, lives in miamiment very talented smart person. i talk to steve four times a day. talk about pam bondi. i've known her for 15 years. a group of people have been working together for a long time. extends to the president. >> we could call this the floridian age. half the cabinet anticipates from the sunshine state. but these guys don't look ready to retire. first apple committed to the largest domestic investment in american history. a half a trillion dollars and 20,000 new jobs.
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and now eli lilly has a big announcement. >> today we're announcing four new sites, 27 billion additional spend bringing our total to more than 50 billion since 2020 in the u.s. so huge build-out in our country and it's to support our pipeline growth overall but disproportionately growing in the u.s. so here we'll be building four new sites. three are active ingredients sites and one site for injectable medications. >> jesse: nice to see the white house getting results after a four-year nap. we finally have an administration that works as hard as you do. attorney general pam bondi is here now. i can't even remember if i've congratulated you on your confirmation. have i? if i haven't, congratulations. >> thank you. only through text. this is the first time in person. thank you. >> jesse: so big cabinet meeting today. what happened that we don't know about when the cameras weren't rolling? >> you know, once the
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hour-long press conference -- you know, they throw every question in the world at donald trump and look how he answers. he's amazing and he just keeps going and going and going and he knows more than all of the media put together. and so then once they finally left, we got down to business and we went around the room and the president just basically asked a lot of us what was going on within our departments and, you know, what you shared from marco earlier is so true. we all have known each other, the majority of us, for so long. and we're friends, and that's what makes a difference. jesse, we pick up the phone. we're on the phone with each other constantly, all of us on every issue you've talked about already in your monologue and others almost daily. we talk constantly at the cabinet level and that's why we're getting things done so fast for donald trump and to make america great again. you know i got to talk about today two big drug arrests we made yesterday through the f.b.i. i'm so happy i have kash
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patel in there by the way, thank goodness. we made a huge meth arrest in wyoming. hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine. arkansas yesterday, 100 pounds of methamphetamine. think about how many people they can kill and they lace that stuff. they lace the meth with fentanyl. so we're out there fighting every day to save lives domestically and internationally. >> jesse: one of the things a lot of people are wondering, because you said last week that you have the epstein files on your desk. when can we see them? what's taking so long to release them? >> i do. jesse, there are well over -- this will make you sick -- 200 victims. 200. so we have well over -- over 250, actually. so we have to make sure that their identity is protected and their personal information. but other than that, i think tomorrow -- the personal information of victims. other than that, i think tomorrow, jesse, breaking
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news right now, you're going to see some epstein information being released by my office. >> jesse: what kind? are we going to see who was on the flights? are we going to see any evidence from what he recorded? because he had all of his homes wired with recording devices. >> what you're going to see, hopefully tomorrow, is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information. but it's pretty sick what that man did. >> jesse: ok. >> along with his co-defendant. >> jesse: absolutely. and he had help. that's for sure. >> he sure did. >> jesse: we're hearing reports that there was an investigation opened into james comey, who may have thrown honey pots at donald trump back in the 2015, 2016 years. is that true? >> jesse, i don't know anything about what you're saying about james comey right now. >> jesse: ok. >> i don't know anything about that. >> jesse: that was a report that was cited in the
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washington "times". i'll take it at that. we're hearing a lot about doge has doge been an issue for the department of justice? are you guys getting wid of waste fraud and abuse? >> to say doge has been an issue is an understatement. [chuckles] because we are defending everything doge is doing, whether it's the e.p.a. with elyse eldon or marco and usaid and secretary of state, all the departments. had a they're doing has truly been remarkable. the waste, the spending. it was more than any of us could have ever anticipated. here's an example of a case we've been handling with skos bassitt, secretary of treasury. we had a judge rule that the secretary of treasury himself could not control payments out of the department of treasury. if it wasn't so outrageous, it would be comical. only a career employee could control payments, not a
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political, not even the appointed commissioned secretary of the treasury. so that's the kind of stuff we're up against. but we are fighting back. we are going to take every single case to the supreme court, and if you have taken funds that you shouldn't have, we're coming after you. >> jesse: so you're finding that these entrenched bureaucrats, career bureaucrats, believe they run the show and that when politically appointed people or senate confirmed people come in to execute the duties of the executive branch -- [chuckles] they say no and shut the door? >> and district court judges back them up on it. >> jesse: really? >> it's true. you know, they tried to -- they d.they locked elon musk employees of doge and of the government, special government employees, half of them they locked inside usaid. half of them they locked outside usaid when they cut off their access cards. they are -- they were emboldened but no longer. and every agency within this country, every federal
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agency, we're going to find out who you are and you'd better be careful because donald trump is not going to stand for this anymore. no more waste in the federal government. it's over. >> jesse: are you finding any sabotage within the department? because that was a huge issue during the first term. >> yeah. it was. and, you know, lessons learned, jesse. i think we're a lot wiser this time. we know what we're doing. we know where the good people are. we know where the bad people are and, for the most part, for the most part, the great men and women of the justice department, the f.b.i., d.e.a., a.t.f., u.s. marshals, all the agencies that fall under the justice department, they're out there working hard every day for the most part. you know, jesse, those people -- f.b.i. for instance, they didn't go to quantityco to raid mar-a-lago, and that's over, too. the weaponization has ended. they want to be out there fighting violent crime. they want to be going after the meth dealers, the fentanyl dealers, locking up the cartels and that's what
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we're going to be doing. keeping our borders safe, too, jesse. >> jesse: thanks for joining us. you probably have to get to bed because you've got a huge day tomorrow. >> sure do. >> jesse: with this epstein release and other things keeping the country safe. thank you so much. attorney general pam bondi. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> jesse: wait 'til you hear how ukraine spent your money. [ ♪♪ ] hi. i use febreze fade defy plug. and i use this. febreze has a microchip to control scent release so it smells first-day fresh for 50 days. 50 days!? and its refill reminder light means i'll never miss a day of freshness. ♪
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[ ♪♪ ] >> jesse: donald trump just announced a major deadline. agencies now have two weeks to send the president a plan on how they're going to cut waste. if they don't comply, they're going to have to deal with tech support. >> just -- called tech support here. because this is actually -- [ laughter ] as crazy as it sounds, that
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is almost a little description of the work that the doge team is doing is helping fix the government computer systems. many of these systems are extremely old. they don't communicate. there are a lot of mistakes in the systems. the software doesn't work. if we don't do this, america will go bankrupt. that's why it has to be done. i'm confident at this point -- knock on wood -- [chuckles] that we can actually find a trillion dollars in savings. >> trump signed an executive order today putting a mini elon musk in every agency. department heads will have to justify spending to doge lieutenants installed in each and every department. the executive order also freezes all government credit cards for 30 days. there's a lot of sludge that needs to be cleaned out of the government pipes and it's all starting with an email. what did you do last week? >> i think that email perhaps was best interpreted
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as a performance review but actually it was a pulse check review. do you have a pulse? [ laughter ] do you have a pulse and two neurons? so if you have a pulse and two neurons you can reply to an email. this is, you know -- i think not a high bar. we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can't respond. and some people who are not real people. like they're literally fictional individuals that are collecting pay cheques. somebody's collecting pay cheques on a fictional individual. are these people real? are they alive and can they write an e-mail? the american public would have at least that expectation of someone in the public sector. >> jesse: so if you don't show signs of life, trump's sending you to the morgue. >> president trump: that's million people that haven't responded, eelon. they are on the bubble. i wouldn't say that we're thrilled about it. they haven't responded. maybe they don't exist.
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maybe we're paying people that don't exist. those people are on the bubble as they say. maybe they're going to be gone. >> jesse: cnn says trump has the sixth sense. >> it seems like musk and trump see dead people. they believe they are formerly alive federal employees collecting pay cheques even though they're not alive any morement you would think there would be better ways to figure that out rather than send an email to everyone and hope they reply. but, you know, this is one of those things where trump and musk are doing what they call common sense even if it's actually nonsense when you think about it. >> jesse: well, if there are better ways to figure this out, why hasn't any other president done it? every year the government gets more bloated and less efficient but they only say they're inefficient because they're so busy looking for fraud. >> part of the reason government is inefficient, part of the reason bureaucracys exist, it's because we are trying so hard to make sure that there isn't waste, fraud and abuse in our programs. the reviews. >> right. >> and the processes and the
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things that seem to take a long time, that sort of hang us up, are there for a reason. they're there because we want to make sure that we are being appropriate stewards of the public's money. >> jesse: [chuckles] see? they're not lazy. finding fraud just takes up too much of their time. now all this money that we've been giving to ukraine? you're not going to believe what they did with it. an investigation found the ukrainians spent the money on runway models. money we sent to ukraine wound up funding fashion shows. our money also went to ukrainian vineyard. did you know ukraine was known for its wine? i didn't. our money was also spent on an artisanal fruit tea company. oh, and we paid this ukrainian to make cheese puffs. look, see that little u.s.a.i.d. sticker next to his head? and these ukrainians are making socks with our money. sending missiles to ukraine
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is one thing that makes a lot more sense than paying for wine, cheese and models. are we sure hunter's not there? democrats think this is all money well spent. listen to what this former u.s.a.i.d. boss said. >> about 1.5 million dollars to promote job opportunities for lgbtq individuals in serbia. is that a reflection of american values? >> providing job opportunities for allies around the world is absolutely in the interest of the american people. >> jesse: how is giving trans serbians a job in the interest of the american people? they never explain that because they can't. and if you take away that trans serbian job, somehow that makes you a traitor. >> mr. musk has just been here 22 years and he's a citizen of three countries. i always ask myself a question, with the damage he's doing here, when push comes to shove, which country is he loyalty to? south africa? canada? or the united states?
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and he's only been a citizen -- i'll say again -- 22 years. >> jesse: hmm. so they question musk's loyalty because he's an immigrant but not the hundreds of thousands of chin niece, muslims and venezuelans they let in. so this is the last shot to wrangle that power from the shady bureaucrats who have been secretly running our country for decades. quote, the biden years underscored this point. we didn't even need a conscious or active president. only a figurehead. behind the scenes, institutions ran everything: jillian michaels is the host of keeping it real. so keep it real, jillian. what do you think of musk and doge? >> i'm horrified. i -- if i was to play devil's advocate, the argument would be hey, slow down. make sure you don't break something. be very precise with this. but as you run down that
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list, and i have liched to the coungument many times to try to maintain neutrality and be intelligence about this. i am horrified by this stuff. and i can only imagine that the average american, who lives paycheck to paycheck, that when they see their tax dollars funding stuff like this, of course they're outraged. of course they want to drain the swamp. who doesn't? >> jesse: play devil's advocate. why not give money for ukrainian fashion shows? >> i -- jesse, i can't even begin on that one. what i can tell you is that it's clear some of this funding is like a c.i.a. slush fund. there's obviously a lot going on here that the average bear, like myself, does not understand. but where there's smoke, there's clearly fire. this is a brain tumor essentially, and when you're
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going to remove that brain tumor, you kind of want to be precise about what you're removing and how you're removing it. be methodical. be careful. but at the end of the day, this is just insane, and the email that he's asking people to respond to as a boss, you have reviews for your employees. what are you doing? what are your job tasks every single day? what are the things they need? what are the things you're not getting? holding them accountable. the fact that we can't ask people 30 seconds to answer an email without appearing draconian is absurd. no business could run like that. >> jesse: do you feel bad for these government workers that are getting put on ice? >> it's my understanding, though, that many of them are getting eight months' severance. am i wrong about that? >> jesse: eight-month buyout with severance, full
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benefits. >> no then. [ both laugh ] >> jesse: ok. >> no. this is why i was feeling bad. this is my point. so i was like oh, gosh. these are innocent people. they probably have kids and bills to pay. you can't just rip the rug out from under them so i did a little digging and i saw exactly that. i thought, well, that sounds like kind of a good deal. you've got eight months with benefits to find another gig, and we know there are 7 million job openings in the country right now. no. so no. no, i don't. nope. >> jesse: ok. i bet you would like eight months to do nothing and get paid. make a lot of -- i think a lot of people would. >> i love it. yeah. >> jesse: i know it's different but you've got to look at the bright side. thank you, jillian. >> i say sign me up, jesse. i'll take eight months. absolutely. thanks for having me. >> jesse: have a great night. trump press secretary karoline leavitt has something you need to know.
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mew. >> jesse: for four years the media told you not to believe your eyes. joe biden was tom cruise. now after those lies were exposed and trump won in a landslide, jake at that point per has seen the light. he's announcing a brand new book "original sin". president biden's decline, its cover-up and his disastrous choice to run again. >> i think what we see on stage with joe biden, jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. that's what i'm referring to. it makes me uncomfortable to watch somebody on stage -- >> so amazing. it's so amazing to me that -- >> and try and figure out -- >> remarking a stutter. you have no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. >> jesse: hmm, but he does. this is like when o.j. wrote "if i did it." what a great deal. jake gets paid when he's wrong and when he's right. he's like a weather man. the biden cover-up exposed just how badly the media
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needs a shake-up. change isn't coming. it's already here and the entire media establishment better buckle up. >> you have a group of journalists based here in washington, d.c. who dictate which reporters go into the most intimate spaces of the american presidency. that system hasn't changed since the early 1900s. obviously the media today in 2025 looks a heck of a lot different. legacy media will still have a seat just like they still have a seat in our briefing room but we're going to bring new voices into the fold. >> jesse: the associated press just got banished from the oval office and a trump judge sided with trump. nbc's in trouble. lester holt's out at the nightly news. while joy reid and a bunch of other far-left hosts are fired. rachel basically called her boss a racist for firing a black woman. jeff bezos is turning "the washington post" into the "wall street journal". listen to this. "we are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and free
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markets." we'll cover other topics too, of course but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. washington post columnist phil bump said what the actual "f"? and then the opinion page editor resigned. gavin newsom's looking around. he sees the writing on the wall. there's no way he can get the democrat nomination in this toxic main stream media bubble so he's branching out. like hillary. he's going on a listening tour. he's launched his own podcast and wants to talk to people with common sense now. >> we need to change the conversation and that's why i'm launching a new podcast and this is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast. i'm going to be talking to people directly that i disagree with, as well as people i look up to, real conversations. what's going on with the comfort of eggs? what are the imimpacts, real impacts to you around tariffs? what power does an executive
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order really have? what's really going on inside of doge? in the first few weeks we're going to be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and architects in the maga movement. >> jesse: white house press secretary karoline leavitt joins us now. karoline, will you be joining newsom soon on his podcast? >> hey. [chuckles] i haven't received an invitation yet, jesse but well, well, well, look who decided to wake up and smell a little bit of common sense. and this is the donald trump playbook, i may add. president trump owned this nontraditional media lane during the campaign. he sat down for a plethora of podcasts with big names, having real conversations with real people. and it was clearly a winning strategy. we welcome the democrats aboard but there's a lot of legacy media outlets in this city who are still not welcoming podcast hosts and non-traditional media voices. they're a little upset about the changes we've made at the white house but they are welcome to cover this administration.
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>> jesse: yeah. i mean the associated press says you're restricting access to the president and you're restricting access of the free press. >> it's a very hard argument to make when the president of the united states holds press conferences himself for more than anticipate hour, sometimes multiple times a day, and takes questions from an array of journalists from outlets on the left and on the right. this is the most accessible and traps apparent administration in history, and anybody who just watches the television can see that, except for the associated press, i guess. even a judge, a federal judge in washington, d.c. sided with us in saying that the associated press, or any outlet, does not have a legal right to go into the oval office and ask the president questions. it is a privilege and it's a privilege that has unfortunately been restricted by this group of d.c.-based journalists who call themselves the white house correspondents'
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association and have had a monopoly over the white house and its press access. not anymore. yesterday we announced that the white house is now going to control the pool rotation of reporters who get to fly on air force one, get to go into the oval office and ask president trump questions, and we are going to keep the legacy media outlets around because we're not afraid to take questions from anybody, but we're also going to add those new voices in the mix who deserve to be there and who are excited about the privilege of enjoying this trump administration. >> jesse: sure. >> and asking the president of the united states questions. >> jesse: there's a lot to enjoy. but before we let you go, careline, how honorable is it for jake tapper to participate in the joe biden cover-up and then get paid to write a book about the joe biden cover-up? >> kudos to jake because, as you said, he was paid for lying. now i guess he's paid for finally telling the truth, but he owes lara trump, my dear friend and the daughter-in-law of the president, an apology.
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you played the clip. he tried to get the american people not to believe our own eyes and there's a lot more journalists in this city who did as well. they lost a lot of credibility because of it and, jake tapper is surely one of them. >> jesse: well, he lost credibility but then he got a big paycheck for t.thank you very much, karoline. good to see you and keep up the great work at these briefings. >> thanks, jesse. >> jesse: monica lewinsky and bill clinton. a special report with abbey. [ ♪♪ ] hey we're going big tonight let's go safety whoa! should i call mom? no, no don't tell your mother anything
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>> jesse: time for waters cooler. let's bring in abby hornsack. >> i'm doing great, jesse. how are you doing? >> jesse: very good. first, monica lewinsky keeps spilling the beans. she appeared on the call her daddy podcast and this time she didn't hold back on bill. listen. >> the right way to handle a situation like that would have been to probably say it was, you know, nobody's business and to resign, you know, or to find a way, to find a way of staying in
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office that was that was not lying and not throwing a young person who was just starting out in the world under the bus. >> jesse: who do you side with? monica or bill? >> don't ask me that. i know in the tease you said i was an expert. i'm here to give a report. you know i think there's a lot of logic now. hindsight is 2020. you know she did go on to say i'm not naive. it's the most powerful office but, jesse, i don't unfortunately think, for her, a 49-year-old married president who is willing to sleep with a 22-year-old unpaid intern really is prone to doing the right thing. >> jesse: [ laughs ] >> so i don't know -- >> jesse: you're saying she had too high expectations for the relationship. >> i'm not saying anything. i am neutral. i think it shouldn't have happened in the first place, jesse. >> jesse: you're not siding with her. >> someone always finds -- well, i think it takes two to tango but she was very young, 22 and 49. >> jesse: takes two to tango. we'll leave it at that.
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before we get ourselves in nigh trouble here. we all know celebrities -- kathy griffin found out the hard way when she tried to bad-mouth trump to a moroccan cabbie in london. >> i did what i always do. i immediately apologized for trump. i know. i can't believe we voted in trump. i get it. he goes he's the greatest president you've ever had. so i go, well, um, i don't know about that, but um i'm not a fan of his. he goes you're the lady from the picture. and i'm all, yep. that's me. and he goes, if we were in morocco, i could cut your tongue out right now. >> jesse: [ laughs ] is that true in morocco? can you do that? >> i don't know. that's what he said. what i'm trying to work out, jesse, is why her first instinct was to apologize to a moroccan man for a u.s. president who during his first presidential tenure gave sovereignty to morocco over the western sahara. >> jesse: oh,. so if she would have maybe
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asked the follow-up question of why do you think trump is the best u.s. president, it probably would have said her a lot of embarrassment of now proposing this story as a flex. >> jesse: did you know that he did that. >> i did. >> jesse: before this segment? >> yes. 2020. i paid attention to every single thing that he did, jesse. >> jesse: i don't know if i even knew that. very good research. this is the best research we've ever seen on the cooler. finally i learned today one of my producers is diabolical. she's been begging her boyfriend to let her get a dog for over a year and now she's upping the ante. her boyfriend's a an avid golfer so she bought him two tickets to the masters. here's the catch. she says no dog, no ticket. she'll go without him if he doesn't give in. is this the art of the deal or bribery? >> this is where i did the most research, actually. what i think is diabolical, jesse, is denying your girlfriend a puppy. and i talked to a source very close to the situation. it was nina, your producer. >> jesse: yes. [chuckles] >> and i have three quick
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bullet points. apparently he doesn't want the responsibility. but she is willing to take care of the dog. two, she said doesn't matter what kind of dog. i just want to take care of a living thing. wow. boyfriend, sound like she'd make a really good mom one day if you decide to have kids. and number three, i offered to dog sit, jesse, just in casement she said, wow. that's our biggest problem. so problem solved, boyfriend. >> jesse: problem solved. >> you know what? you're lucky she doesn't sell those tickets and buy a puppy herself. >> jesse: all right, nina's boyfriend. you're getting a dog. now it's just a matter of what you're going to name t.thank you very much, abby. >> watters. >> jesse: or abby. more "prime time" straight ahead. [ ♪♪ ]
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cocaine in the white house. remember the cocaine that they blew up? they destroyed the evidence. they did a fake investigation. they said it wasn't on any of the cameras in the white house right at the entrance. they kind of found a little dna but not really. we will get to the bottom of that. epstein tomorrow, cocaine next week. let's do some texts. bill from dayton, ohio,, window we get an inside look at your meetings with the prime time team? should we do a cabinet meeting pitch meeting? maybe next week. georgia from laguna beach, will the gold card come with access to trump golf clubs? yes, you always get the first tee time of. lori from michigan, miller is too young for me but hallman is looking better every day. see the white hat or the black hat he on -- he had on?
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fire. i'm really looking forward to the epstein files being released. his famous friends can't hide forever. remember just because you were on epstein's jet doesn't mean you are guilty of anything. sure we're going going to hear that tomorrow. i could safe to say epstein's friends are having their last supper tonight. gym from chesterfield, virginia, , i think the third ukrainian model was sticky sami, hold on to your suitcases. and now finally we should get the sticky sami video surveillance. from the las vegas airport that they've been hiding. adam from fox weather, first you rig sink or swim against me now you compare me to jake tapper, thanks for nothing jesse. get paid whether you are right or wrong. >> sean: welcome t

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