and that was being seen by the end of president george biden's administration. so the country's been trying to put the message across to president trump. i'd also like to put across it is trying to store fence into that. it's trying to pass new laws to stop production of the drug and it seizing more amounts of that, especially in the state of center lower, which is a real big uh, drug production region in the country. so those were the messages. the president probably assigned them was trying to put across and what she said was alone. 30 to 45 minute cool. with president trump it seems to be enough to the moment. but will both countries have said, isn't that good but seems to negotiate, says that it's going to be economic negotiating as well. are coming together now to see if they can have the truck towers for longer than just one month. lots of mexico city for us that john, thank if or or some threats. self. tyrus on the european union have overshadowed a block. lead is meeting in brussels. they've won, that's a trade war. could cost of it. you cannot make dama

if during the biden administration, george soros had access to government payment systems and unilaterallyle public agencies, republicans in congress would be apoplectic. the indignation would be palpable. why is that not happening now? is it because donald trump is president? sen. johnson: we were not particularly happy when president biden weaponize the department of justice, the fbi. persecuted his political opponents. again, that is the problem. it's unaccountable, infiltrated by radical leftists who have weaponized government against conservatives. we are trying to get can stroll -- control of the situation. he was undermined in his first term. he's trying to prevent that in his second term. if geoff: i want to ask you about tariffs, because you said you share market concerns about president trump's tariff plans. what are your sen. johnson: concerns? sen. johnson:first of all, there are multiple uses for these. to use protections from sicko and canada, and i think peter navarro said this is a war on drugs. i don't disagree with that. what i would be concerned about is creating long-te

imagine if at any point, if at any point, joe biden said to george soros here, i'm going to create a little agency, and i'm going to put you in charge of it. and in the course of your being in charge of this fake behind little agency, you will have access to everything out of the treasury department, and you can go into anybody's bank account, you can go into anybody's finances. you can go inside the economics of anybody's contract that do business with the. >> including his own, including his own business interests. >> his own right. i imagine what. this leadership would be saying. >> right. oh my goodness. it would be they would be calling a constitutional crisis and like, oh, we must impeach the president. that's what they'd be doing. they'd be opening an impeachment inquiry over some how the hell things i can't say on tv. >> musk the keys to anything. >> this is why i will tell you career civil servants, they matter. because the career people at the treasury department, they fought this for a week. there was a standoff for a week because folks within the department of the treasur

george w. bush and joe biden and barack obama. it goes back before that as well. for an american president who's supposed to be the beacon of democracy to the world, saying, look, it hasn't worked. so i don't think it's your land anymore. sorry. you got to go, and i'm going to take it over. um, i have a few already from some european ambassadors saying what? they don't think this is going to happen. they're trying to figure out what the end game is. trump often throws up these incredibly big, blustery things because he has a goal somewhere down here beneath them, and they're trying to sort that out. but if you put it in the context of what you were talking about at the start of the program, we are two weeks and one day in and they're dismantling federal agencies. they're firing federal employees. they're trying to do away with things that if the congress would stand up to him and say, sir, we could talk about this, but actually the constitution says that's our job. this is a presidential power grab and present a view of presidential power. and now a view of americ

george w. bush, obama and biden. this group has affiliations with seven of the most well-known think tanks in the country as well as the america first policy institute, the economic policy institute, the free enterprise institute, the heritage foundation and the hoover institute. it is not accomplished group. many are best-selling authors. some thought this would not be possible. how can you get a wide-ranging group like that to it range on -- to agree on topics and measures for this progress report? we were not sure if we would or not. this was an experiment. we did not know until four or five months ago if we would be standing here with anything to report. it took us two years meeting every month. all of the topics had super majority support, not just a simple majority but at least 75% of the board agreed. we do not stop there. we do not want this to be another expert driven report. wee another expert driven report. there are 350 million americans so we asked a representative sample of 1000 americans. they voted th

disapproved. 16 of those came during the trump administration, 3 during the biden administration and one during the bush administration, george w.ri bush administration. so that's 20 example of that usage.pl in that time, though, there have been 461 resolutions of eitheroval introduced in the house or the senate and that use -- usage has been increasing exponentially and that accounts for 208 of the introductions that i just mentioned so nearly half of all the resolutions introduced inll cra history andf we drill down even further in 2024 last year alone, 158 introductions. all of those -- not all of those, yeah, all of those were introduced outside of what we will talk about lookback period. none of them to put it differently were introduced in the transition from a president of one party to a president of another party who is coming into office with same-party majorities with both the house and the senate. and that specific situation is really the essentially about the only condition when we will see resolutions of disapproval become law. there's one exception to that, one of the 20 resolutions of disapproval that has been

george w. bush, barack obama, donald trump and joe biden. i do that willingly, and we do it every day. >> what will it mean with 10,000 employees, if indeed this happens the way the trump administration and and elon musk's doge group wants it to? 10,000 employees leaving, whether they are fired or pushed out or resigned with just 300 people, about left is the agency essentially closed? what will that do to the work of usaid? >> we will be effectively clos w

george w. bush, barack obama, donald trump and joe biden. i do that willingly, and we do it every day. >> what will it mean with 10,000 employees, if indeed this happens the way the trump administration and and elon musk's doge group wants it to? 10,000 employees leaving, whether they are fired or pushed out or resigned with just 300 people, about left is the agency essentially closed? what will that do to the work of usaid? >> we will be effectively closed. we will not be able to do any work that we have been doing for the last 60 years, since usaid was founded. humanitarian assistance will stop. food aid will stop being distributed, medication to fight hiv will stop, immunization programs will stop programs that support the private sector development and create jobs in countries overseas will stop our partnerships with american companies will stop. and not only that, in addition to the 10,000 u.s. aid employees, the private sector and the nonprofit sector will also face tremendous layoffs as they are forced to reduce their staff because th

george w. bush to executive orders, president obama had five. trump the first time had six. bidenld down 25, trump has 45 and counting. it's hard to keep up with this especially if you're angry at everything. when it comes to the border, cracking down illegal immigrant criminals, get on board. >> two things he's done, tremendous support by the american public, all people of all walks of life support the immigration, stopping this immigration we've had, it was wrong. the deadliest thing and the most challenging thing with pat and the other thing, no one is talking about 100,000 deaths a year. we've had more deaths from drug abuse and drug overdoses and drug use than anything else, than any other wars all wars put together and now he saying mexico, china and a precursor to mexico. we are going to put parting on you all and that's what the tariffs on for and protect americans. i appreciate that part that. >> it should be an american thing and he declared cartels as terror organizations which means in. i understand we could hit them in mexico because they are hurting american security

jeffrey, more than what the biden and obama administrations, for instance, and the bush administrations wanted, and george w bush on pepfar, which is part of, you know, broadly, it's a separate program. but broadly, foreign aid is a george w bush republican program that is also was also one of the things halted temporarily. >> this used to not. >> be very controversial. >> there were controversies on the. >> margins. >> as peter mentioned. >> there's some waste. there's some spending on programs. >> that don't work. >> but but. >> that's. >> that's that's the normal. >> course of events in government. >> alas. >> but but these are. >> programs that. >> people like ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. >> put aside. >> george w. >> bush not only. >> supported for. >> humanitarian reasons. >> right. >> shining city on the hill. >> we have a lot of money. >> we have a. >> lot of resources. >> we have a lot. >> of food we. >> can distribute. >> we have. >> a lot of medicine. >> this was also national security. you know, these. >> are these. >> are ways of. >> keeping of letting populations. across the developin

nancy pelosi and barack obama and george clooney were behind his ousting and tried to do it covertly at the beginning and then not so covertly near the end because bideny made a big bet. they bet the next candidate, they weren't sure it was going to be kamala harris would be able to beat donald trump and they lost on for her to go into this weird statement about the children. did she not watch the press conference earlier? or the executive order signing earlier this week with president trump at the white house surrounded by little girls who don't want men in their locker rooms, invading their space, stealing their titles and scholarships away from them and their hopes and dreams in terms of female athletics. she doesn't want to talk about it and she's worried now about what joe biden might write in a buck or joe biden now that he has a talent agency may expose about the democratic party as they try to get their feet under them for their future. >> she was asked about the future of the party inside about six or seven months you will see such a change but they still went with ken martin is the head of the dnc. is very progressive, the party chair of min

biden's final months are in limbo. and among the cities impacted is louisville, kentucky. four years after breonna taylor's fatal police shooting and minneapolis four years after george floyd'sr, in that time, you represented the families of both the deceased. we've been involved from national action network with you. we've watched these consent decrees get negotiated and now sabotaged by trump's justice department. describe the impact on police reform and the police reform movement in the country, attorney crump. well, reverend al, it's been devastating to say. >> in just a. >> word. >> i agree with my learned colleague martin luther and judith that we have to confront these. unconstitutional acts. i mean, he's acting without any. response from. congress to get authority to roll back. all the. civil rights that we've gained. so we. >> have to be. >> strategic and confront. them in the court of law and. >> in the court of public. >> opinion, like you're doing with costco. but the other thing we. >> have to do is. learn from. >> the lessons of martin luther king jr. when he said in the letter from birmingham jail, just because they say it's legal, that doesn't make. >> it rig

biden warned of this dangerous new threat. he warned of what he called the tech industrial complex and how it could break our democracy. what georgeton called our great experiment. he cautioned that there would be dangerous consequences if a concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra ultra wealthy people goes unchecked. just three weeks in, it's not actually too late. across all 50 states, resistance is taking shape. despite the attempts to flood the zone with a barrage of presidential pronouncements and orders of dubious legal validity that are in large part designed to distract the media and demoralize the population, or at least that part of the population that opposes the damage that trump and the oligarchy are doing to america. america's judges are holding the line in some cases, and people are in the streets defending the body politic that is currently under siege. this is not new for us. even in america, americans have faced grave challenges in the past slavery, the fight against women's suffrage, racist laws, unjust wars, the civil war. we have never emerged from them perfectly, but usually, and ultimately, we

george soros, who is a naturalized u.s. >> citizen like. >> myself, like. >> elon musk, who is a multi-billionaire. >> like elon musk, unlike myself. >> has a history of. supporting democratic presidents. >> imagine if. >> bidenlly gave soros the kind of power that elon. >> musk now enjoys. that is something. can you. >> imagine what republicans would say or do about that? that's really the way. democrats should. >> be acting, and i don't think we. >> are right. and that brings you back to biden sort of mentioning oligarchs on his way out. and the democrats don't have completely clean hands when it comes to business interests, fairly or not. we've seen signs that working class people, at least when it comes to joe biden as the democratic leader, had had really lost trust. maybe if you change the leader, that would change. certainly. aoc warren, who i showed moments ago, are taking on big business in a way that reflects what some of is going on in the country. when you look at health insurance, wall street labor rights, there's a lot of energy out there that could be tapped. biden wasn't seen during those years necessarily as as the most credible leader on that. how do you marry? how does your party marry? the

george w bush to fight aids. it saved 26 million lives so far. and that is implemented in part through usaid. and so, you know, marco rubio a few years ago was calling on the bideninistration to invest more in usaid as a way to advance the competition with china, for example. so i do think that while too many republican voices are quiet right now, there is some recognition about the enormous damage this is doing, not just to kids in sudan or botswana, but to americans right here. and i hope that that outcry will be enough to mitigate the damage, at least, and hopefully reverse much of it. >> i recommend the column to folks. as you point out, everything can be improved. usaid is not exempt from that. there are certainly things that they could do better, but you put it into such perfect context. nicholas kristof, thank you for writing that, and thank you for coming on the program. >> thank you chris. >> and still to come, the speaker's pilgrimage to the white house, all to get his caucus in lockstep with president trump's agenda. what happens if he can't? but first, breaking news federal employees no longer need to make one of the biggest financial decisions of th