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Terms apply. Levitt appeared to be a bit stressed out, anxious. Their eyes were wide, almost ashen. At times, those were some of the sort of images that I'm going to stick, will stick with me. A letdown, I think, would be an understatement, but it's a little embarrassing, frankly, to see all of that on the tarmac.
I believe that the humiliation for the United States, the loss of credibility and reputation, Yesterday in in Alaska was much worse than the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. I was struck by. Obviously, President Putin was not at the table, but President Trump. was effectively voting his proxy.
So uh proxy. Uh so here's the deal. That is just some of the slanted reporting. I'm not talking about opinion reporting. Their opinion was that Gary Kasparov was the one who said this was worse than Afghanistan.
Are you insane? By the way, just how dumb a statement you made. He's known as an extremely intelligent guy, world chess champion. You got to be smart. But if it wasn't for Afghanistan, there would be no invasion of Ukraine because the weakness we showed there, our unwillingness to do anything overseas anymore and retract from the world stage, was the opening that Vladimir Putin used to invade Ukraine because he thought he could do it.
Because you weren't paying attention. Caroline Levitt, taking a page from Kayleigh McInaney, attacked, cut to 18. One thing that has absolutely not changed is the media's negative and downright false coverage of President Trump and his foreign policy accomplishments. From the beginning of this entire process, much of the left-wing media has been actively rooting against the President of the United States in the pursuit of peace. Initially, the media ridiculously claimed that President Trump was somehow beholden to Russia for even agreeing to have a face-to-face discussion with President Putin inside of the United States.
So That's right. Call them out. Make them justify it. Then they want to come out and say she looked ashen. Number one, I think that if you work all day, you fly all night, and then you go through a grueling, three-hour high-intensity meeting with Vladimir Putin, you come out, you look a little tired.
I don't think that means the meeting went bad. And why that was part of the reporting, I don't get. Here's more as she points out. Not only is the media attacking, they're wrong. Cut 19.
The media said President Trump was making a grave mistake by, quote, legitimizing Putin. They were aghast that President Trump would treat another world leader like a world leader. The media relentlessly attacked President Trump and claimed he suffered a, quote, major defeat for not immediately emerging with a final agreement. Even though he said heading into that meeting, this was a meeting to listen and to understand how to move the ball forward.
So She's 100% right, laid the groundwork.
Now she'll take some questions. And I think you just gotta be ready, unlike the last press secretary, you gotta be ready to defend your questions. As well as the answers, because then when she watches your reporting, we'll ask you about it the next day. I would say this, Tyrus, would you even be nervous as Tyrus has entered the building? Would you even be nervous if you were a reporter sitting in the pressroom knowing that Caroline Levitt was going to challenge the premise of your question.
Only if my agenda was to push a narrative. Yeah. I think that's the thing. I refer to them, they're not media, they're squealers. From the book Animal Farm.
They just push narratives. They don't, facts and. How about asking a question? Here's a crazy one. How to go?
You know, how is the President feeling after his conversation with Vladimir Putin? They never ask the real questions. It's just a setup. Trying to, you know, and I think it's funny they're always going after lately whether the President Trump is tired or seems off. Where were you four years ago?
You know, yeah, limping. And, well, you know what? When you don't rest. And you're doing generational work trying to clean up this country from four years of just disaster, you're going to be tired. You might have a limp.
Did you hear what Senator Lindsey Graham said? While flying back from Alaska on the sixth hour, right, a two and a half hour meeting, half hour press conference, six hours one way, six hours the other. He calls up Lindsey Graham and said, Do you want to play golf tomorrow morning? Yeah, so the guy is 79 years old. I want to play golf tomorrow morning.
Got to get up at 8 o'clock. He's not going to be hungover. He doesn't drink. No. And he's going to sleep.
I'm assuming there's a comfortable bed of some sort in Air Force One. Probably one of the most beautiful beds ever made, a lot of people say. Right.
Some are saying. Yes. That's what they're telling me. But again, this is the problem. With the The media.
They shouldn't even have them in the room because they already have their questions and answers before they even go in the room. But you know what he's balancing out the press room now? They are balancing it out for him.
So you do get some questions like. You've already brought five nations, stopped five wars and five separate nations, and then let him answer. And then, you know. It's just kind of frustrating, I think, and I think that Caroline Levin has taken a page from Kayleigh. Kaylee was the first I saw open up that book and say, here's the questions you should have asked.
This is what you're not doing. And I thought to myself, this is precedent setting. Caroline Levitt picked up the mantle.
Well, Sarah Huckabee did the same thing. She started challenging the media. Like, why are you here? What was the point? You could have done all this without even asking the question.
She had the worst. She had the whole Russia thing. Yeah. You know, and again. Ask the question that people want to know.
But again, that means you have to actually research. You have to pay attention. You can't get your questions off X.
So I was out yesterday. Thanks for filling in. You do an unbelievable job. Oh, I appreciate the opportunity every time I get it.
So I don't know if you had a chance, I don't think, to talk about the CBS story. I just jumped on it late last night, flying back. And it turns out that If you look at Shelly Redstone, Sherry Redstone, she sells, about wants to sell Paramount CBS and she's en route to doing it to Skydance. And then all of a sudden, this Harris interview comes out, and the president says, I'm suing you. You made her look coherent.
Right.
I'm suing you. And he wins, and they said the suit's going. No, you sue. I want $15, $16 million.
So she was talking to the New York Times the whole time. She goes, just don't publish until we settle. They said, deal.
So what she said is, I want to settle. And she goes, I want to settle. And you know, one of the reasons why? It's about five pages.
So it's a New York Times story.
So it goes on forever. But one of the reasons why? She said, because in Discovery, they're worried about going back to the 2023 Biden interview. When Scott Pelley sat there, and according to reports, he was dozing off during the interview. Did Mr.
Journalists say anything about that? He goes, I don't, it's going to get worse. We're going to get charged more if they start going after us. Cut a deal. You know, but that's the hold off on the story until after I what journalism worth their merit would agree to that?
They're not journalists. You tell the truth as it comes. You don't, could you imagine if I did something stupid? I said, hey, do me a favor. Don't bring this up till after my negotiations with Fox, please.
I don't want any distractions. The journalists would be like, Absolutely not. The people need to know. This is the problem, and this is why. Just left out the story itself.
What do you think? How do you think the fact that she's trying to be the mature person in the room and the journalists at CBS say, How dare you? Yeah, no, no, because of course they have to say, How dare you. And then her rebuttal should be, no, how dare you? Because they're just not doing.
Their craft. I mean, you went to school. You had to have some honor, some integrity. You want to be the best in your field. You have to ask who benefits from this type of reporting?
I'll be narrating. Who benefits? But but can you imagine If they really don't understand that they're being biased, and with Sherry Redstone, who evidently, I did not know all this background, but her dad evidently treated her terribly. And then she had two gold-digging wives. We will bring it back to bumps.
And they don't know. They do know. That's what makes it. Yeah, they had two gold-de-ding young wives that didn't work out.
So she ends up getting the company. I was born with two left feet, and I wanted to square dance. I get it. But it has nothing to do with doing your job. Do your job.
Yeah, so she was saying that she takes over, and she's like, you know what? The more I think of it, I think I just want to cash out.
So in the meantime, Israel gets hit October 7th, and she's big pro-Israel. And she's seen the way CBS is covering Israel, pro-Hamas, pro-you know, the way we've all been witnessing. And she sees there's no balance. She asks for some balance, so she hires someone from the outside to come in and provide balance at 60 minutes. She is recognizing the problem.
So that guy quits because how dare you bring in somebody to oversee me? And then this whole thing blows up with Kamal Harris. One of her quotes was: to paraphrase, maybe Donald Trump could bring balance to the CBS newsroom. Yeah, you know, it is life is turning into Star Wars. You know, we need balance in the force.
We need balance in the thing. No, there needs to be mass firings. There needs to be. There are journalists out there that want to do their job. There are people that want to run a fair and balanced company.
Because here's the thing: if you are fair and balanced, You will always be in the conversation. And you get advertised. Yes. When you pick a side short-term, they can't see past their nose. If you pick a side, like I'm going all in on the left and Biden and Kamala.
And if they win, you can carry that on for another four years, but then they lost and they lost horribly. And the Wizard of Oz pulled the curtain and they saw all the stuff that was going on.
Now you have nothing. And that's what they have. And instead of accepting the fact that they picked the wrong side willingly, They're still trying to put band-aids on it. And if we could just get one thing on the president, it will all be worth it.
So here is Scott Pelley, October 2023. This is the same day he did the interview with Robert Hur, which, by the way, is the same day. of the attack this October 7th of on Israel.
So, cut 28. As we spoke to the President, his Secretary of State was in Israel. His Defense Secretary was at a NATO meeting on Ukraine. America's oldest presidents seem tired from directing all of this. Directing.
Number one, directing all of these. Are you kidding me? Stop it. He didn't. Direct.
Covering four, right? Covering four. You know what? You know what bothers me is that voice used to mean something. That voiceover, 60-minute voiceover, was powerful.
It was truth.
Now, when you hear it, you roll your eyes. You know, you just go, they have completely. Destroyed their credibility. And as a journalist and as a TV show that pushes news, credibility is the only thing you have. It's not entertainment.
He's not dazzling us with colorful epitaphs. Just your opinion. Do you believe that he knows? that he's not being balanced. Yeah, thousand percent.
This is not a dumb man. These are not dumb people. They went to the greatest schools and they had all the greatest things. They chose their martyrs. They know better than the American people.
That's the Trump derangement syndrome is that I'm smarter, I'm better. And it's a little bit of narcissism in there to where, you know, maybe they're just jealous because their voices didn't have the same effect. You understand that President Trump took the expert out of the experts. There used to be, who was the number one guy on foreign policy? Was it Kerry?
Was the guy, you know, like even Biden himself was considered, oh, he's a foreign policy expert. And then this guy from Queens shows up and says, hey, we're going to do this. We're going to do this. And he's talking to everybody. I believe they said he talks at a sixth grade level, which means that everyone understands him from somebody who's uneducated to a scientist.
And he basically took all of their steam and their prestige out the window because it was all fluff.
So he knows 1,000%. It's a revenge tour.
So listen to Scott Pelley at Wake Forest in May after they settled for $16 million. And he knows, he says, The Harris interview is the way we do things that the president had without merit to do this. He won anyway. Cut 30. Power can rewrite history.
with grotesque, false narratives. They can make criminals heroes. and heroes criminals. Power can change the definition. of the words we use to describe reality.
Diversity. is now described as illegal. Equity. is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.
This is an old playbook, my friends. There is nothing new in this. You look like it was going to cry. Yeah, because it's projection. By the way, those kids were graduating?
Yeah. Thanks. Hi, Mom. Yeah, they were real excited to hear that. Again, this is what, and you can break this down in simple terms: a bad husband who who's convicted committed to his lie.
His committed to he wasn't cheating, or whatever it was he was to destroy his marriage, he will continue. See, the beautiful thing about lies is they stick to everything. You can connect anything. Diversity, no, diversity isn't a bad thing. It's how it's.
Unqualified diversity is a bad thing. Abused diversity is a bad thing. DEI was a bad thing because it doesn't matter what color the box is that you put in the store, it's whether the product delivers to the consumer. Bottom line. And that's what the president got back to, meritocracy.
He's like, listen, inclusion is great, except for excluded people. We have inclusion in this country. It's called opportunity. Yeah, that's it. That's right.
It's simple. Right.
And compared to something else, the president's moving in on education. He's moving in on law and order. He's moving in on world peace. He's trying to bolster up our security, get our energy sector going, and he's doing it all at once. And we're only seven months in.
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I do think we should all commend Brett Baer on how well he handled his interaction. Do you know who I am? I'm Brett Baer. I'm Brian Kilmead. Yeah.
And I hate the cops. I'm Brian. Tell them back. I'm Brian, kill me, and I hate the cops. And speed off.
Let me just, before you say anything, you know, I always say. He's a friend. Right.
You know, I never partake in any of the besmirchment. of your good name. But I will say, you were one of the best sports at Gutfeld's clear envy of your success, your prowess. You know, when you started the semi-pro soccer team, I'm sure he was in his office angry because he doesn't have a soccer team. You know, you're one of the most.
You stuck on Fallon when he could be at a soccer game. Exactly. Oh, by the way, since you didn't roll the tapes because apparently he wanted to talk about the tonight show quite a bit, like four or five days. You missed a few days. Yeah, on purpose.
But when he mentioned it, he goes, hey, and I said, I wasn't aware you were. Wait, wasn't Killmead on?
So I protect and serve. You do. I protect and serve. Listen, I'm a part of your books. Greg's just envious.
You know, you're a good three or four inches taller than him. Your workouts are legendary. I mean, you keep a soccer ball in your ring because you work out. Do you think that Gutfell's doing that? No, he's not.
He's not. He's envious. And it's sad. You know, it's sad. And let's be honest.
The audience kind of laughs. You don't get the same laugh when you say make fun of, I don't know, Jesse Waters. Huge laugh. But you're a respected guy. And I think a lot of times the crowd's just excited to hear your name.
So, Tyrus, do you think respected enough to pack the house on the 23rd at the Windspeak? Oh, yeah.
Sold out. Rafters, people standing in line outside, probably some scalping and whatnot going on. Yes. I would love to know people scout my tickets. Yeah, a thousand percent.
You know, it's interesting. Yesterday, when I, again, thank you for letting me fill in. Alan West was on. He's coming. Yeah, and he's phenomenal.
He's one of my favorite people. And we got into a great conversation about Booker T. Uh and uh I got a chance to say, Hey, This is this great book, and I still think it's one of the best books written about that period, that time, that individual, that relationship. But why is he not respecting the black community? I was in New Orleans yesterday and I fil I thought it was great, Booker T.
Washington High School. Right.
Right? I'm like, why do we hear more about this?
Well, it's the same thing: why is every Martin Luther King Boulevard one of the worst streets in the in the community? I think uh and I can't speak they're they're there was always like a black community, black community. We're very uh independent individual Culture. And unfortunately, a lot of our heroes are lost upon us because, and I'm just being real: when we focus on entertainment heroes more than we focus on historic heroes, that's a problem.
Well I w I went to the African American Museum and I walked through it and you know where the all everybody was? The sports area, where they were showing the highlights with Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan and Will Chamberlain. And it's an unattainable, you have a better chance of. Rolling up your sleeves and doing the hard work to emulate a Booker T. Washington's career than you do at Michael Jordan's career.
But for some reason, we just can't get our heads around that. Right.
And now with what's going on in college with the NIL, now everybody getting b you know, more people can share in the wealth. At least it's less emphasis on going pro. Absolutely. But I would love for somebody to go to school. Yes.
I just want somebody to go to class. Yes, that would be great. Yeah, I'm here for an education. Oh, sir? Shador Sanders goes, Yeah, I think I went to two classes.
He went to one. Oh, come on.
Well, we'll see what happens. He might have to get a real job soon. Yeah, I would like to go to the next one. Thanks, Tyrus. I'm going to go ahead and show, but yeah, thanks.
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