that's what i see, joni. joni: that's awesome. so how does this play into what you saw that we just went through in 2024? joseph z: well, i believe 2024, was a do-over word. and the reason god does do-overs, you know, we recognize that. we saw the chiefs win the super bowl. that was a prophetic act. we saw these things that kept trying to manifest and then we saw trump face off against another lady candidate. you know, the manchurian got taken out of the way and she stood up and there she was. and it was something that we prophesied. he'd be removed. there he was. and the whole do-over narrative is what had to take place so he could get to the next part. god needed something to be accomplished. he needed something to happen that he tried starting in 2015. it got railroaded in 2020. and the lord kept bringing the same characters, the same spirits into collision until we got breakthrough. the battle is never over with the lord until you win. he never wants you to keep doing things over to lose. it's a do-over until you win. and that

so, this is what joni ernst is trying to stop. what do you think? >> well i'll tell you what.berg on that list, liz. the waste that has come out of usaid, the unbelievable level of taxpayer dollars that goes into australians. usaid.i had samantha power in s and we were asking the questions, and they were even, i was asking why don't we try subsidizing at least if we do that, natural gas in africa, and they were pushing solar panels. this was all about ideology. it's horrific and this is exactly why doge members were not allowed in and why we elected president trump who we're scrutinizing these things far better and being allowed to. there was no transparency. there was no openness. we couldn't get the details. well the details are coming out and unfortunately the american people won't like them but they are going to be stopped. liz: it's corruption. what do you make of this? president trump reportedly putting the majority of usaid d.c. staffers on leave. you know, usaid was created at the height of cold far to fight communism and do liberal market capitalism but senator ernst

it is not transparent and actually right when you've got senators like joni joni ernst they basicallyt have to answer to you and we're not going to share with you yet they expect us to continue to fund them. absolutely not and under trump administration you're seeing it stop. >> thank you so much congressman van dine don't forget to dvr and sending it to dagen and jason it's been a day for news you guys. >> thanks emac. ♪ ♪ dagen: good evening i'm dagen mcdowell. tracee:>> i'm jaso

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. >> john: senator joni ernst of iowa and madeleine rivera has more on aid. let's go to hillary vaughn to kick us off. >> president trump promised to audit the government so taxpayers know how every dollar and cent is being spent. the best way to do that is to go where all the money flows. the u.s. treasury. but elon musk through doge having access to sensitive payment information at the treasury has democrats warning that he is engaged in a hostile takeover of our country. >> to give doge a choke hold on treasury payments is very dangerous like putting a tiger into a petting zoo. and then hoping for the best. >> we are living a nightmare created by donald trump and elon musk and we need to wake up. >> musk said the democratic outreach is hysterical and explains why doge needed access to payment information in the first place saying the only way to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer money is follow the payment flows and pause suspicious transactions for review. this causes those who have been aiding, abetting and receiving fraudulent payments very upset, too ba

stuart: iowa senator joni ernst joined me now. you are the chair of the senate doge caucus.o you think usaid should be dismantled? >> i do think it needs to be reorganized, thank you for having me on to talk about this topic because i have witnessed firsthand the obstruction within usaid as we try to exercise our congressional oversight of some of these programs. we know there are dollars that are wasted that have gone into the pockets of fat cats around the globe without the humanitarian aid being delivered. in respect to mr. gaetz, i truly do appreciate the work that he does and there are programs in usaid that are worthy of keeping. however, we have seen such complacency with oversight and direction from usaid, sometimes it takes a sledgehammer and that is exactly what elon musk is doing, he is dismantling it, it will be scrutinized but i can guarantee you, worthy projects that benefit americans and our objectives those programs will be rebuilt but they will have a proper oversight within the state department and congress. stuart: let's move to the headlines about making

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um, senator joni ernst has been on the program, talking to me and talking to the listeners about, uh, the usaid threatened to sue her and her staff when she tried to pursue how the money was being used. so the focus for my listeners has been on accountability. how is the money being spent? is it being spent on something and items and programs that they favor? are these things that they are against? is the government being transparent about how it's spending that money? do we need all of these employees in the modern technological age in which we live? a lot of offices are becoming more efficient. downsizing. we don't like it, but the federal government probably needs to do that as well. so we're this is more of an outcome based discussion for my listeners than it is focusing on the people that are involved. >> thank you both. i could i could do this all hour. i didn't even get to the question of prices at the grocery store and the concerns about that. but we're going to do that next week. we'll have we'll carry on that conversation next week. thank you both, tom and jeff. we do apprec

joni ernst has made a big issue about sesame street and the money that's been spent in iraq.hink about it, study the organization and evaluate whether we've gotten a bang for the buck. it's a much closer call than discounting it. as can you imagine, we're spending 30 grand for a trans comic book in peru. what else came in? more social media reaction to today's program? all the corruption is being uncovered by the hour, and all i hear on cnn is whining. i'm not whining, shell. i'm not whining at all. i, i let me be very clear. i want this type of investigation undertaken. i, of course, have concerns about the approach that musk is taking with a lack of oversight apart from the president himself. but you're not hearing any whining. distance me from the whiners. i want to see what i drive the man's car. i'm fascinated by the ability to land that rocket. if he can come up with a way to do what all the politicians have said for my entire life, they would do, but never did. i'm all for it. i'm just reminding everybody as well that. and i said this to senator like we tried it the co

[applause] and finally, senator joni ernst and, richard burr will introduce miss gabbard shortly. think it is fair to say that miss gabbard's nomination has generated a bit more interest and attention than most nominees for this committee and i want to stress that miss gabbard has been and will be treated with the exact same respect, consideration and professionalism that we extended to every nominee. no more, no less, and no that is having three to john ratcliffe just two weeks ago, how we have treated nominees like avril haines and dan coats in the past. for instance, miss gabbard has conducted dozens of office meetings with senators. she has completed the committee's standard questionnaire. she has answered 247 questions in writing. this is all in keeping with committee customs, precedents and rules. before i address the important work ahead, please also let me make two observations about some of the accusations about miss gabbard. first, i am dismayed by the attacks on miss gabbard's patriotism and her loyalty to our country. for instance, hillary clinton has smeared her, call

joni: thank you, and good morning to my distinguished colleagues. i want to take a moment to recognize the lives that were lost in the collision near d.c.a. last night. sen. ernst: it is a tragedy and my prayers are with the victims and their loved ones. thank you. duty, honor, service. these are not just words, they are principles that have guided lieutenant colonel gabbard. as a young enlisted soldier in the hawaii national guard, she entered the call of duty upon her deployments to the middle east. from graduating at the top of her class at the alabama military academy, the first woman to do so, while serving as the youngest woman of the hawaii legislature, she upheld honor while breaking barriers both in uniform and in her civilian leadership roles. and today, lieutenant colonel gabbard demonstrates her commitment to service by sitting before this committee prepared to answer the nation's call yet once again, this time as the next director of national intelligence. tulsi and i share similar backgrounds, both to our nation and to our communities.

eliminated, you know, i mean speaking of upset, you know, emotional democrats on the hill on tuesday but joni ernst working with doge said i have been trying to get answers from usaid for years, about with where more than was going i was stonewalled. >> she was stonewalled, there is, obviously, some illegal activity or-fraudulent activity money area parked for pakistan ended up going to brutalized out a social media platform in cuba, to me sounds very illegal, jonathan to your point about the reckless wasteful spending remember president biden's solution so they can continue to disguise, launder money as to where dollars are going to hire 80,000 more irs zwroz go out and take our money so they can say going to pakistan actual give it to cuba like enough is enough. there has to be transparency accountability i have had said irs every year expect us to pay taxes should give is an itemized receipt of where every single one of my tax dollars go, i want to know, if 37 dollars went to guatemala to fund sex changes i want to know that. >> the democrats just don't understand that. cheryl: to your poi

rachel: joan ernst talked earlier -- -- joni ernst talked about getting rid of all of it and this isd program to help and congress created usaid. charlie: it's a religion but become a structure for which they make money and there's a sheriff in town. a new one revoking security clearances and president trump revoked former president biden's security clearance yesterday in a truth social post and he says this would be donald trump saying that he instructed the intelligence community stopping the 45th president of the united states and that would be me and accesses details on national security and courtesy provided and her report revealed that biden suffered from poor memory and in his prime couldn't be trusted with sensitive information and protecting our national security and, joe, you're fired. make america great again. rachel: this is amazing. and expect more people who donald trump doesn't think should have a security clearance to have their security clearances removed, but it's just make no mistake, you go through a former -- current now, fist lady's panty drawer and shouldn't ha

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joni ernst, very involved with doge says usaid has been stonewalling her personally for years.on usaid's case for years now going back several years where i was trying to investigate the expenditures for humanitarian aid primarily when it came to the war in ukraine. let my team and i encountered was absolute destruction analyze coming out of usaid. they did everything possible to stop me from accessing their records to understand where the taxpayer money was going. >> of another reason why doge is looking at all agencies. and that is where you will expect at some point there will be layoffs and all agencies because they really do want to downsize the federal government. >> carley: you have congressman chris van hollen will fight doge in the streets. i don't see many people getting out their pitchforks to fight back to save taxpayer money but there is always tomorrow that will. >> todd: it is not chris van hollen's money although he thinks it is but it's our money. want to do j.d. whitworth show. don't mess cheryl casone's morning show. >> carley: $7 million defamation crisis pu

for the life of me, governor, i do a lot of research today, and joni ernst was looking for the information the specifics of the money that was spent, they wouldn't give it to her. it's only because of elon musk and president trump that we know this. what is your reaction to it? i'm angry. >> i just think you're wrong about some things, sean, you said this could be the most consequential president. i think he already has been in three weeks. i've never seen anything like it. i'm going to the emergency room later tonight because i have whiplash from what is happening at the white house and fact that they've taken things that have been sacred cows for a long time. usaid, a pet farm that started by bush and saved millions of lives. if you take a stew pot and put poison in this, you don't say keep serving because there's good stuff at the bottom of the pot. you dump it out, clean the pot and make stew and nothing but stew. that's what trump is doing and it's the most amazing thing i've ever seen in my life. i never thought we could cut through the red tape and the nonsense but when these things

why do they give joni ernst and threaten her when she asks for receipts on what they are spending. >>e has been working on this a very long time for years and years and josh hawley about u.s. aid says their power base is being threatened now. they have used that as personal play thing it. includes billions and billions of your money, the taxpayer dollars' money. trump is exposing, this cutting off the liberal supply chains and the question is for us when we watch that protest, why do you not want to save money? why do you want to fire elon musk for balancing the books? you are right. all he is doing is just pulling back the curtain and saying why are we spending on these senseless things? chuck schumer has out there. some of the democrats are embarrassed by him for this. watch. >> we are going to fight this fight. i am going to stand with you in this fight. and we will win. [chanting we will win] [chanting we will win] [chanting we won't rest] [chanting we won't rest] >> lawrence: is he crazy. >> brian: changed chants in the middle. i recommend if you are protest don't change the chan

on a call with musk last night, senator joni ernst said her own investigation into usaid found 50 tothing but direct aid to help people, wining and dining among other wasteful things and musk saying usaid is a rotten apple that's just got to be thrown out. >> we've got all kinds of threats from usaid because i was trying to exercise my oversight capacity in congress. we love to feel good about helping starving children and name your country. but it's not going there. it's going to support somebody's fancy dinner, to entertain whoever. >> it's got to go. it's beyond repair. reporter: musk gained access to the treasury's payment system getting a real look at taxpayer money going out the door. musk says they've been spending money behindly "payment approval officers at treasury were instructed to approve payments to known fraudulent and terrorist groups and never denied a payment in their entire career, not even once". democrats in congress are outrae that had musk got access to a sensitive system including social security and medicare payments. >> you have elon musk who he himself rece

on us aid senator joni ernst went up and saying you are wasting all your money.t's going on with this? u.s. aid said you have no right to ask us this. they threatened her. wait a second a sitting senator gets threatened by usaid who didn't want to be questioned on where the money is going. going to fold it into the state department. make it accountable. the state department everyone said was the deep state. it's being gutted. the c.i. a was told tighten your belt. the fbi was told tighten your belt. these aren't republican organizations. it's a country that wants to get its house in order in order to get -- keep more of our money and keep it in america's pockets. >> ainsley: tomorrow is the last day of the buyout. want to quit your job and still get paid through the end of september and a federal worker you can 20,000 have said yes. >> steve: trump was very smart in deciding to go after usaid first because to the point about, you know, we are spending all that money overseas whereas rather he had come out and said okay we are going to cut the department of educat

susan collins has been satisfied by some of what he was talking about, i believe, joni ernst as well. if it comes to a full vote in the senate they would seem to be on board with it. but as you pointed out the big question is whether or not it gets out of committee. if he doesn't, he doesn't go to a full vote. >> dana: maybe you heard more than i have. there is a possibility that he could pick up some democratic votes. not in committee but perhaps on the floor? >> john: it's possible. bernie sanders and he had a fairly civil conversation. i think that they share some common ground. certainly on some things. >> dana: senator fetterman. his assessment of rfk, jr.'s hearing last week was not glowing to say the least. so we have probably cross that one off the list as well. maybe there aren't many out there. >> john: if you could get one or two you can lose a couple on the republican side. tulsi gabbard also still in some uncertain territory. her confirmation vote will happen this afternoon in the committee. there are probably five republicans who expressed reservations on her. >> dana: t

senator joni ernst said what are you spending your money on.k as though you are not going for american causes. you are going for anti-american causes. they threatened her. they told her to back off. as peggy noonan writes she says of all the agencies being battered around this one the first one we'll recall the period in history u.s. agencies for international development some of whose line items spending devoted to cultural imperialism. you have seen the list. usaiddei musical in ireland and everything we just saw. when you look at what they're pushing in the world you think they are not fighting anti-american feelings. they are causing anti-american feelings. >> lawrence: ainsley, i'm stunned that they have allowed the republicans now to be the party of the people. and when i say the people, the american people. if there was an argument to be made of some program internationally that you want to fight for, you could just go to the president or the white house and say can we at least just keep this program? but that's not the argument that the

aid a lot this week and joni ernst tried to have oversight and actability and was stone walled and deniedd and i'm fine. think about covid and $873 million plus in insurance fraud from covid. our congress supposed to have the power of the purse loses that power, it is up to the executive branch and now doge to uncover what's going on. charles: so many hysteria out there and number one hysteria and chief, if that's a title, would be chuck schumer. not just this but a couple days ago explaining or warning americans about tariffs. take a look. >> let's just take super bowl sunday. it's going to aif he could beer, okay. most of it corona here coming from mexico. itgoing to affect your guacamol. guacamole is made of avenue kavocadosfrom mexico. if you have pizza, going to affect the cost of cheese. charles: i thought of this scene from one of my favorite movies, take a look. >> what are commodities? commodities are agricultural products like coffee that you have for breakfast, wheat, which is used to make bread; pork belly used to make bacon, which you might find in a baa con, lettuce -- bacon

joni mitchell once wrote, you don't know what you've got till it's gone. well, we're about to find out, because we could very well be headed into a completely deregulated world run by artificial intelligence, mega enforcers and elon fanboys who will make america work about as well as twitter. what could possibly go wrong? joining me now is senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts. please correct me if i got any of that wrong. >> you didn't. >> okay. >> and i want to say what was really lovely about what you just said is just to remind people we built a government to work for all of us. yes. you know, we're just all better off if, in fact, the bird flu gets under control and that our eggs won't kill us, we are all better off. we're better off. we make these investments in infrastructure. we make these investments in our payment system so people don't get cheated. that's how we keep the economy going. and look, bless everybody who gets out there and makes a fortune. bless everybody who gets up every day and goes to work. but understand the underpinnings of

so struck by the parallels with the defense secretary, because you had a subject matter specialist, joni ernst, the senator from iowa, who was a combat veteran who had deep, deep concerns about pete hegseth nomination. she had a lot of pressure from the outside. she got around to voting yes, doctor cassidy. senator cassidy had he's a subject matter expert. he got around to voting. yes. the reality here is it is virtually impossible. i'm impossible, politically speaking, to withstand the opposition, particularly if you're up for reelection. but even if. if so. so i think the question going forward is how collaborative is secretary kennedy? should he become confirmed? how collaborative will he be with the senate, or are there going to be some fights between the legislative branch and the executive branch, which we are already seeing every hour of every day here? but he clearly got. to from republicans on this, not from republicans. >> they're the ones who run the place. >> so yeah, exactly. i mean, a few of them have raised small concerns, but not really. but i was in the oval office yeste

in this process, for example, senator joni ernst of iowa, during the initial hegseth phase, she's up thom tillis in north carolina. you've also got susan collins in maine and others. cassidy in louisiana. how much is the politics palpable here? >> the politics. >> is almost the number one issue for a lot of them. and it's unfortunate that we've gotten to a point where being primaried is probably the toughest part of winning a reelection fight for a lot of these members. >> especially in maga. >> especially in maga. and a call from mike davis, steve bannon or elon musk is the most terrifying thing any of these senators can get. knowing that means a primary challenge is coming and they don't want to face that. so i think it is looming over them. no matter what they say, they have to look two years ahead and say, do i want to spend the next two years trying to raise $100 million and fend off a primary challenge, and then have to go head to head in a purple state against a well-funded, moderate candidate? after i've gone so far to the right, it's not easy. >> is there a limit to those th

i know senator joni ernst had requested this information repeatedly, and they they, they use obscure names to really hide where the money goes and what the money went for. where i grew up in when i grew up in new york. and thank god i don't live there anymore. we used to call that fraud. what do you call it? >> well, i call it fraud. and, and that's even a nice name for it when you look at it, sean. and you did do the research. and yet what we saw was the doge team goes in there actually looking through through the checkbook and say, where is the money going? and you said it in your monologue, this is the tip of the iceberg. wait until they start looking at all the grants that are coming out of hhs and the education department. i mean, it will blow the american people's minds. and why are we getting the big pushback from chuck schumer and elizabeth warren? they're afraid that the american people will finally start to see behind the curtain. and we can thank donald trump for that, because no one else would have had the courage to make sure that that happened. and thank elon musk for a

and i know joni ernst was looking for this information, the specifics of the money that was spent, and they wouldn't give it to her. and it's only because of elon musk and president trump that we know this. what are your what's your reaction to it? because i'm i'm angry. >> well, i just think you're wrong about some things, sean. you said that this could be the most consequential president. i think he already has been in three weeks. i've never seen anything like it. i'm going to the emergency room later tonight because i have whiplash from what is happening at the white house and the fact that they've taken things that have been sacred cows for a long time. let's look at usaid. look, i'm the first to admit that there are some things in usaid, pepfar, for example, started by george w bush, saved millions of lives from aids. good thing. but if you have a stew pot and you've cooked stew in it and it's been good, but then you start putting poison in there, you don't say, well, let's just keep serving because there's some good stuff at the bottom of the pot. you dump it all out, you clean

midnight with vivek ramaswamy, senator joni ernst of iowa, and senator. >> mike lee of utah.is all. >> part of what is going on at the department of government efficiency. we've seen a number of headlines about this over the. >> last few days, frank. >> and what we found out last night during this twitter spaces was musk plans to shut down u.s. aid. he said, quote, none of this stuff could be done without the full support of the president. you know, and with regard to the u.s. aid stuff, i went went over it with him, you know, in detail. and he agreed with that. we should shut it down. so there you go. there's your confirmation. at least i know there is some wiggle room about comments from the president, but elon musk apparently believes he has the authority to go through and shut down u.s. aid. also, musk took this opportunity to speak a lot about breaking up bureaucracy within the government. he called it a fourth branch of government, saying, quote, you have the rule of the bureau, and this is obviously wrong. it's unconstitutional, unconstitutional. and it is imperative,

and that's not even the joni ernst style online pressure that could or could not be orchestrated by elonk if he chose to. some members of congress that i've spoken to said, listen, it's not just the primarying that we have to worry about. it's actually our own personal safety that we now have to worry about. i have to worry about the safety of my spouse, the safety of my children if i defy donald trump. and when you've got don jr. coming out very forcefully and saying, we want all of these to be a yes, there is no exception for tulsi gabbard. there is no exception for bobby kennedy. he is speaking for the maga base. and literally i've had members of congress say, look, you know, you do have to worry in this day and age. you have to worry about your own safety as well. it's not just the primary factor. >> yeah. and guys, i was on the hill last thursday during that day where they had hearings all happening at once for kennedy and patel and tulsi gabbard, and they're talking to congressional aides. the thing is, it's about the math. what's so hard for these republican senators is being that

joni mitchell, lizzo. this trend doesn't seem like it's going out of style.n? >> sam: it's a mullet with like a bowl cut in the middle. it's like a step down mullet. i don't know. that's it. that's pop news. >> robin: this is what i miss on fridays? [ laughter ] in person. i do watch. all right. thank you all. i'm gonna get on out of here. time to get away from sam and into the viral sweat pant jeans trend with shop gma lifestyle contributor lori bergamotto. lori b is here to tell us all about it. >> lori: good morning. >> robin: jeans from celebrities like brittany pha home, jennifer aniston. >> lori: everybody is going crazy for these. have you heard of these? >> robin: rag and bone got it all started. >> lori: we're gonna start with them to your right. these are the rag and bone jeans. people are going crazy for them. go ahead, robin, touch this pair next to you. what does that feel like? feel like denim? >> robin: it does. >> lori: it feels like sweatpants. give it another try there. what i want you to do, see there's a fashion tear on the knee. >> robin:

did a spaces held court online, and with him was senator joni ernst, who was effectively backing him up when he said that he wanted to get rid of usaid. she made the point that she said, we want to help starving children effectively in other countries, but that they're afraid the money is not going where it's supposed to be going the way that usaid does its work is it funds non-governmental organizations that then funnel the money where it needs to go into any of the number of these countries that usaid helps. what joe is talking about here is the hearts and minds approach to national security. and so, yes, democrats have been flat footed in some cases or aggressive in others in pushing back against this administration. but when you're in the minority, it's hard to affect change, especially if no one in the majority party is willing to cross party lines and stand with you. so we've seen it on everything from the gutting of these kinds of agencies, the attempts to try to eliminate these agencies, which, by the way, you need congress to actually do. you can't just stroke of a pen wipe

joni ernst said that when she got here she planned to be a squealer on budget issues and i plan to be a squealer on the loss of life.this weakens us. i know that all of you know that. i want to thank a great president who has done a lot in the first two weeks of office. in the last four years i said repeatedly as ag, we need to declare the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. he got that done. we need to do that to send military to th and by the way when i pointed out as dr. farfan said, when i pointed out that the mexican president at the time said that no is not our problem. i am in mexico first president. signal is an american problem. soon thereafter our commander-in-chief said that mexico was a greatur partner. i am so glad when the president now that when the first two weeks leveraged tariffs that now mexico and canada have both pledged resources and bodies to shut those borders and stop the flow of fentanyl. that's how you get stuff done. it can happen if you people committed to it. transnational problem give a car transnational effort and i'mts glad we have a commander-

i mean, if you look at why a lot of republicans are falling in line, like, i have to go back to jonie pete hegseth hearing, she got shouted down and people were attacking her so vociferously from the maga. right. anybody, whether it's thom tillis, anybody who makes senator cassidy when it was, you know, rfk because he has doubts, because he's a medical doctor and he doesn't want to put some anti-vaccine crank in in as as head of hhs. they all get cowed, right? they all get basically put in their place by right wing maga sort of people who are intimidating them. and so right now, people are operating from a place of fear. and at some point, the only way to get out of that place of fear is for trump to for it to feel to people like trump has less of a public backing than he has. and there's a symbiotic relationship, right? like with that right to get there, somebody has to drive down his popularity, which means somebody has got to show some leadership and step up and go on offense. and that's the democrats job. the democrats job is to figure out how to communicate with the american peo

in fact, yesterday, musk was joined by joni ernst and senator mike lee. so two republican senators who were full throatedly endorsing this. and again, there are some really wild accusations made. i mean, the covid one i just mentioned about us sending money to china to create covid. i mean, that is just one of the more ludicrous ones. >> he's more concerned about the payment system. yeah, in a way, because ultimately, look, the agency, all of these different agencies authorize payments, right. and historically, the payment system, meaning the treasury's payment group just made the payments, it was their responsibility was not to ascertain whether it was a good payment or a bad payment, whether the money was being used effectively or not effectively. >> congress said to spend it. >> we're spending like the agencies or didn't like the agencies. i understand why using that prism, meaning yes, if you have access to that, that area, you should be able to study in a very that's that is the place you would go to study what's going on and to be able to identify p