Former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani, 81, is hospitalized with a fractured vertebrae and multiple cuts and bruises, including injuries specifically to his left arm and lower leg, after his rent-a-car was hit from behind while traveling in New Hampshire.
NEW YORK – “The accident occurred after he re-entered his vehicle, which was then hit from behind at high speed.”
Ragusa said Giuilani, who was mayor from 1994 through 2001, is recovering and in good spirts. “The mayor is in great spirits. He’s a beast. He survived 9/11,” Ragusa said.
We are all praying for a speedy recovery.
Lord Jesus Christ, thank You, that You hear and answer our prayers. You sent out Your disciples with the command to heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers and drive out demons. They were able to do this because of Your mighty power working in and through them.
We ask for that same power to touch the life of Rudy Giuliani and provide the healing and recovery he needs. Nothing is impossible for You. Please guide his doctors and caregivers. You have done more than we ask or even imagine. Extend Your healing touch to Rudy Giuliani, Lord. In Your powerful name. ~Amen.
Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears on CBS Face the Nation to discuss ongoing efforts to remove illegal aliens from our nation. The conversation starts with CBS Ed O’Keefe asking about upcoming ICE efforts scheduled to take place in Chicago.
When Ed O’Keefe begins discussing FEMA and the Noem initiative to control costs, he makes the mistake of asking Secretary Noem if she could give him an example of cost cutting. O’Keefe immediately regrets the question as Secretary Noem begins outlining examples of waste fraud and abuse in FEMA spending. The video and transcript are below. WATCH:
[Transcript] – We begin today with Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, who’s joining us from Florida.
Madam Secretary, thanks for being with us.
KRISTI NOEM (U.S. Homeland Security Secretary): Absolutely, Ed. Thank you for inviting me.
ED O’KEEFE: Yes. Well, we have a lot to discuss.
And we want to start with this, because we’ve learned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning on expanding operations in the coming days to Chicago. When are those operations expected to start? And you said in recent days that you’re using the recent deployments in Los Angeles as a model. What does that mean?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Well, we’ve already had ongoing operations with ICE in Chicago and throughout Illinois and other states, making sure that we’re upholding our laws.
But we do intend to add more resources to those operations. I won’t disclose the details because they are law enforcement and investigative folks that are on the ground there, and I want to make sure we keep their security our number one priority.
But we will continue to go after the worst of the worst across the country, like President Trump has told us to do, focusing on those that are perpetuating murder and rape and trafficking of drugs and humans across our country, knowing that every single citizen deserves to be safe.
ED O’KEEFE: Part of what distinguished the Los Angeles operations, however, is that National Guard troops were there, in essence, protecting or backing up those federal agents as they conducted operations.
Is that what we should expect to see in Chicago?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: You know, that always is a prerogative of President Trump and his decision. I won’t speak to the specifics of the operations that are planned in other cities, but I do know that L.A. wouldn’t be standing today if President Trump hadn’t taken action.
And that city would have burned down if left to the devices of the mayor and the governor of that state. And so the citizens who live there, the small business owners in downtown L.A., they’re thankful that President Trump came in with federal law enforcement officers and helped support keeping those streets open, keep their homes and businesses from burning down, and made sure the law and order was restored.
ED O’KEEFE: I just want to clarify one thing you said there. You said L.A. wouldn’t be standing if not for these federal deployments?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: So many of those homes and businesses that were in downtown L.A. and in those areas were dealing with riots and violence. And coming in and bringing those federal law enforcement officers in was incredibly important to keeping peace.
And so we are grateful that President Trump was willing to send resources and people in, in order to enforce the law. And, Ed, since then, we have arrested 5,000 dangerous illegal criminals out of L.A. and removed them from our country and had them face justice for their crimes.
ED O’KEEFE: So, as you know, we spoke with Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker about all this. And I asked him what he’d say to you about these forthcoming plans. Let’s play that and let you respond after.
(Begin VT)
ED O’KEEFE: If she were to call you, what would you say? What’s your message to her?
GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER (D-Illinois): Well, I tell her that what she’s doing is inflaming passions and causing disruption that doesn’t need to be caused.
We have people that have lived, yes, in the state of Illinois, in the city of Chicago for decades, working here, paying taxes. They’re law-abiding members of our communities, friends, neighbors. And why are we arresting them? Why are we making them disappear?
Indeed, they’re even disrupting the lives of people who are attempting to go through a legal process to stay in this country, who’ve been invited to a hearing, and then they’re arresting them in the hallways on their way to that hearing.
So this is dangerous. They shouldn’t be doing it. It’s anti-American. It’s un-American. And I would tell her to maybe check herself for, what does she really believe?
ED O’KEEFE: She’s also critical the fact that Chicago is one of the cities that doesn’t cooperate with federal immigration operations, and she was quoted as saying that Illinois – quote – “refuses to have our back.”
GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER: Well, that’s not true. In fact, there were police officers who made sure that there was nobody interfering or attacking or causing problems for the ICE officials that were here.
People have a right to express themselves. People have a right to their First Amendment, you know, freedom to express. And we protect that too in the city of Chicago. So it’s not true that the nobody has their backs.
What we won’t do, however, is engage in what is a federal effort. That is to say, they have their job, immigration. We have our job, which is to fight violent crime on the streets of our city. And, by the way, we’re succeeding at that job. But when they bring people in and don’t coordinate with us, they’re going to cause enormous problems.
(End VT)
ED O’KEEFE: Madam Secretary, your response?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Well, for 13 consecutive years, Chicago had more murders than any other American city. In fact, just last year, in 2024, they had three times the amount of murders that L.A. did, five times more than New York City.
So he can talk about what a great job he’s doing as governor, but he’s failing those families who will no longer have their child with them, their mother or their father or their cousin, aunt, and uncle that are gone forever because of the violence that’s happening in Chicago.
So I was a governor for many years. So I recognize the responsibilities that you have on your shoulder when you’re a governor. And I will tell you, as a governor, when I had to make tough decisions, and when I had disagreements with the Biden administration or challenges my people were facing, I called up the Biden administration.
I went and talked to them. I asked for meetings. I fought for my people. This seems like it’s more about Governor Pritzker’s ego now, rather than actually protecting his people. If he has one murder in the city of Chicago, he should be calling President Trump and saying, what’s your ideas? What can we do?
They don’t even honor our detainers in Chicago. They don’t go out there and work with us to make sure we’re bringing people to justice. And, instead, he goes on TV and he attacks me, when we’re doing exactly what those people need, is, they need someone to help them get the dangerous criminals off their streets.
And if he has one, two, five or 10, those victims and their families deserve to walk in freedom on those streets and not have to worry about what’s going to happen to them on their way to their jobs.
ED O’KEEFE: Sure.
Are you planning, beyond Chicago, to expand these kinds of operations to other cities? There have been reports, for example, that Boston may very well soon be next.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: I think there’s a lot of cities that are dealing with crime and violence right now.
And so we haven’t taken anything off the table. We’ve been making sure that we have the resources and the equipment to go in. We’ve been working to partner with every single agency that we can. We have hundreds and hundreds of agreements with local law enforcement, sheriffs, city administrators that – and mayors across the country that want to solve problems.
I would encourage every single big city, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, whatever they are, if they want to help make their city safer, more prosperous, allow people the opportunity to walk in freedom, like the people of Washington, D.C. are now, and enjoying going out to eat at night and not having to worry if they’re going to be a victim of a carjacking or a robbery, they should call us.
ED O’KEEFE: You mentioned there are a bunch of cities in Democratic- controlled states with Democratic mayors. And there have been a lot of questions asked about that focus.
There are Republican cities with major crime issues as well, and we haven’t heard about plans to deploy, say, to Dallas or to Oklahoma City, or to cities in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi that have considerable crime rates, in some cases higher, percentage-wise, than those other cities you mentioned.
Are there plans to go to red states and Republican-controlled cities in this kind of way?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Absolutely.
ED O’KEEFE: OK.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer. So we’ve got operations that, again, I won’t talk about details on, but we absolutely are not looking through the viewpoint at anything we’re doing with a political lens.
ED O’KEEFE: One of the most-high profile examples of someone who’s been rounded up by ICE in recent months is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the fate of his situation is still up in the air.
He’s awaiting trial on human smuggling charges set for January in Tennessee, but your department is also working to get him deported to Uganda. If he broke the law in this country, as the administration alleges, shouldn’t he be held here and face charges here, instead of being deported?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Well, prosecution decisions are always made by the Department of Justice and – and Pam Bondi’s department. So we will let them do that.
Although this individual does have criminal charges pending, he has charges pending against him civilly as well. And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn’t walk free in the United States of America.
ED O’KEEFE: But I heard you say that we’re going to let the Justice Department do that. Does this mean that – does that mean the push to deport him to Uganda is off?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Oh, we will still continue to pursue all options.
ED O’KEEFE: OK.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: We will make sure that he’s not released into this country. So, regardless of that, yes, absolutely.
He’s not an American citizen, and he shouldn’t be here. And especially because of his dangerous criminal activities, we should ensure that we leave every avenue on the table.
ED O’KEEFE: Got it.
So, among other things, you oversee FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as we hit the peak of hurricane season. And we’re marking the 20th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina this weekend 20 years ago. Is the federal government prepared to respond to a major disaster at this moment?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: We are absolutely more prepared than the last administration and doing a much better job responding to the disasters we’ve already experienced since President Trump has been in the White House.
We’ve had over a dozen, close to 20 different disasters throughout the country just since President Trump has been the president of the United States. And we have deployed resources twice as fast as FEMA ever has in the past, gotten people on the ground over 100 percent quicker than any other administration has.
In fact, with the disasters that we saw that were so horrific and devastating in Texas and New Mexico, North Carolina, we’ve had people on the ground within hours responding to those families that were in crisis.
ED O’KEEFE: Right.
I bring this up because part of what you’re suggesting there is in dispute from a handful of current and former FEMA employees who wrote to Congress this past week raising concerns about the agency’s ability to respond to forthcoming natural disasters.
One of the specific concerns they have is this decision that now has you reviewing any cost of $100,000 or more that FEMA plans to make. Can you give me an example of a charge of $100,000 or more that you’ve rejected?
😂SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Yes, absolutely.
We paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars to a one- woman firm to deliver to us 30 million meals, and she delivered only 50,000 to us. And it was a – one person that the state – federal government had contracted with in order to deliver 30 million. And I don’t know how they ever expected one person to do that.
We – we had a person that was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to book meetings…
ED O’KEEFE: OK. 🤣 [O’Keefe crying ‘uncle’ – but Noem doesn’t stop]
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: … that – of less than 10 to 15 people, and with no meetings that we saw that were productive or couldn’t be done by sending an e-mail.
Over and over again, we’re looking at these contracts and looking at the fact that, are they duplicative, are they just supporting woke ideologies, DEI, or are they actually delivering disaster response, which is what FEMA job is, is to put in place operations to support states and local governments to take care of people.
And so that evaluation has saved us hundreds of millions of dollars within FEMA. And within the Department of Homeland Security, it has saved us $13 billion already. And we’re going to consider – continue to make sure that we’re accountable to taxpayers.
ED O’KEEFE: At least 20 of the people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees, and they’ve been placed on administrative leave.
And I had heard you in previous interviews suggest that those that are making accusations against the agency should put their names on the criticisms of the allegations. So, now they have, and they’ve been placed on administrative leave.
And I’m curious if it’s now the policy of DHS that any time an employee puts their name on something, publicly criticizes you or the president’s leadership, that they should anticipate being put on leave or fired.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: This – this letter was signed by many people anonymously. There was some who had their names on there.
And those who had their names on there were temporary contract employees who had worked for the Department of Homeland Security for less than a year, individuals who are not long-term FEMA employees, who – who grab ahold of the mission to be there, to go and serve individuals and to – are deployed across the country, and have for years to make sure they’re responsive to families in their time of need.
So, absolutely, every employee will be evaluated as to if they’re doing their job and if they’re doing it appropriately.
ED O’KEEFE: All right, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joining us this Sunday from Florida, thank you so much. Lots to discuss. We appreciate it.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Thank you, Ed. Appreciate it.
Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears on CBS Face the Nation to discuss ongoing efforts to remove illegal aliens from our nation. The conversation starts with CBS Ed O’Keefe asking about upcoming ICE efforts scheduled to take place in Chicago.
When Ed O’Keefe begins discussing FEMA and the Noem initiative to control costs, he makes the mistake of asking Secretary Noem if she could give him an example of cost cutting. O’Keefe immediately regrets the question as Secretary Noem begins outlining examples of waste fraud and abuse in FEMA spending. The video and transcript are below. WATCH:
[Transcript] – We begin today with Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, who’s joining us from Florida.
Madam Secretary, thanks for being with us.
KRISTI NOEM (U.S. Homeland Security Secretary): Absolutely, Ed. Thank you for inviting me.
ED O’KEEFE: Yes. Well, we have a lot to discuss.
And we want to start with this, because we’ve learned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning on expanding operations in the coming days to Chicago. When are those operations expected to start? And you said in recent days that you’re using the recent deployments in Los Angeles as a model. What does that mean?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Well, we’ve already had ongoing operations with ICE in Chicago and throughout Illinois and other states, making sure that we’re upholding our laws.
But we do intend to add more resources to those operations. I won’t disclose the details because they are law enforcement and investigative folks that are on the ground there, and I want to make sure we keep their security our number one priority.
But we will continue to go after the worst of the worst across the country, like President Trump has told us to do, focusing on those that are perpetuating murder and rape and trafficking of drugs and humans across our country, knowing that every single citizen deserves to be safe.
ED O’KEEFE: Part of what distinguished the Los Angeles operations, however, is that National Guard troops were there, in essence, protecting or backing up those federal agents as they conducted operations.
Is that what we should expect to see in Chicago?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: You know, that always is a prerogative of President Trump and his decision. I won’t speak to the specifics of the operations that are planned in other cities, but I do know that L.A. wouldn’t be standing today if President Trump hadn’t taken action.
And that city would have burned down if left to the devices of the mayor and the governor of that state. And so the citizens who live there, the small business owners in downtown L.A., they’re thankful that President Trump came in with federal law enforcement officers and helped support keeping those streets open, keep their homes and businesses from burning down, and made sure the law and order was restored.
ED O’KEEFE: I just want to clarify one thing you said there. You said L.A. wouldn’t be standing if not for these federal deployments?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: So many of those homes and businesses that were in downtown L.A. and in those areas were dealing with riots and violence. And coming in and bringing those federal law enforcement officers in was incredibly important to keeping peace.
And so we are grateful that President Trump was willing to send resources and people in, in order to enforce the law. And, Ed, since then, we have arrested 5,000 dangerous illegal criminals out of L.A. and removed them from our country and had them face justice for their crimes.
ED O’KEEFE: So, as you know, we spoke with Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker about all this. And I asked him what he’d say to you about these forthcoming plans. Let’s play that and let you respond after.
(Begin VT)
ED O’KEEFE: If she were to call you, what would you say? What’s your message to her?
GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER (D-Illinois): Well, I tell her that what she’s doing is inflaming passions and causing disruption that doesn’t need to be caused.
We have people that have lived, yes, in the state of Illinois, in the city of Chicago for decades, working here, paying taxes. They’re law-abiding members of our communities, friends, neighbors. And why are we arresting them? Why are we making them disappear?
Indeed, they’re even disrupting the lives of people who are attempting to go through a legal process to stay in this country, who’ve been invited to a hearing, and then they’re arresting them in the hallways on their way to that hearing.
So this is dangerous. They shouldn’t be doing it. It’s anti-American. It’s un-American. And I would tell her to maybe check herself for, what does she really believe?
ED O’KEEFE: She’s also critical the fact that Chicago is one of the cities that doesn’t cooperate with federal immigration operations, and she was quoted as saying that Illinois – quote – “refuses to have our back.”
GOVERNOR J.B. PRITZKER: Well, that’s not true. In fact, there were police officers who made sure that there was nobody interfering or attacking or causing problems for the ICE officials that were here.
People have a right to express themselves. People have a right to their First Amendment, you know, freedom to express. And we protect that too in the city of Chicago. So it’s not true that the nobody has their backs.
What we won’t do, however, is engage in what is a federal effort. That is to say, they have their job, immigration. We have our job, which is to fight violent crime on the streets of our city. And, by the way, we’re succeeding at that job. But when they bring people in and don’t coordinate with us, they’re going to cause enormous problems.
(End VT)
ED O’KEEFE: Madam Secretary, your response?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Well, for 13 consecutive years, Chicago had more murders than any other American city. In fact, just last year, in 2024, they had three times the amount of murders that L.A. did, five times more than New York City.
So he can talk about what a great job he’s doing as governor, but he’s failing those families who will no longer have their child with them, their mother or their father or their cousin, aunt, and uncle that are gone forever because of the violence that’s happening in Chicago.
So I was a governor for many years. So I recognize the responsibilities that you have on your shoulder when you’re a governor. And I will tell you, as a governor, when I had to make tough decisions, and when I had disagreements with the Biden administration or challenges my people were facing, I called up the Biden administration.
I went and talked to them. I asked for meetings. I fought for my people. This seems like it’s more about Governor Pritzker’s ego now, rather than actually protecting his people. If he has one murder in the city of Chicago, he should be calling President Trump and saying, what’s your ideas? What can we do?
They don’t even honor our detainers in Chicago. They don’t go out there and work with us to make sure we’re bringing people to justice. And, instead, he goes on TV and he attacks me, when we’re doing exactly what those people need, is, they need someone to help them get the dangerous criminals off their streets.
And if he has one, two, five or 10, those victims and their families deserve to walk in freedom on those streets and not have to worry about what’s going to happen to them on their way to their jobs.
ED O’KEEFE: Sure.
Are you planning, beyond Chicago, to expand these kinds of operations to other cities? There have been reports, for example, that Boston may very well soon be next.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: I think there’s a lot of cities that are dealing with crime and violence right now.
And so we haven’t taken anything off the table. We’ve been making sure that we have the resources and the equipment to go in. We’ve been working to partner with every single agency that we can. We have hundreds and hundreds of agreements with local law enforcement, sheriffs, city administrators that – and mayors across the country that want to solve problems.
I would encourage every single big city, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, whatever they are, if they want to help make their city safer, more prosperous, allow people the opportunity to walk in freedom, like the people of Washington, D.C. are now, and enjoying going out to eat at night and not having to worry if they’re going to be a victim of a carjacking or a robbery, they should call us.
ED O’KEEFE: You mentioned there are a bunch of cities in Democratic- controlled states with Democratic mayors. And there have been a lot of questions asked about that focus.
There are Republican cities with major crime issues as well, and we haven’t heard about plans to deploy, say, to Dallas or to Oklahoma City, or to cities in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi that have considerable crime rates, in some cases higher, percentage-wise, than those other cities you mentioned.
Are there plans to go to red states and Republican-controlled cities in this kind of way?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Absolutely.
ED O’KEEFE: OK.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer. So we’ve got operations that, again, I won’t talk about details on, but we absolutely are not looking through the viewpoint at anything we’re doing with a political lens.
ED O’KEEFE: One of the most-high profile examples of someone who’s been rounded up by ICE in recent months is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and the fate of his situation is still up in the air.
He’s awaiting trial on human smuggling charges set for January in Tennessee, but your department is also working to get him deported to Uganda. If he broke the law in this country, as the administration alleges, shouldn’t he be held here and face charges here, instead of being deported?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Well, prosecution decisions are always made by the Department of Justice and – and Pam Bondi’s department. So we will let them do that.
Although this individual does have criminal charges pending, he has charges pending against him civilly as well. And the one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn’t walk free in the United States of America.
ED O’KEEFE: But I heard you say that we’re going to let the Justice Department do that. Does this mean that – does that mean the push to deport him to Uganda is off?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Oh, we will still continue to pursue all options.
ED O’KEEFE: OK.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: We will make sure that he’s not released into this country. So, regardless of that, yes, absolutely.
He’s not an American citizen, and he shouldn’t be here. And especially because of his dangerous criminal activities, we should ensure that we leave every avenue on the table.
ED O’KEEFE: Got it.
So, among other things, you oversee FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as we hit the peak of hurricane season. And we’re marking the 20th anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina this weekend 20 years ago. Is the federal government prepared to respond to a major disaster at this moment?
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: We are absolutely more prepared than the last administration and doing a much better job responding to the disasters we’ve already experienced since President Trump has been in the White House.
We’ve had over a dozen, close to 20 different disasters throughout the country just since President Trump has been the president of the United States. And we have deployed resources twice as fast as FEMA ever has in the past, gotten people on the ground over 100 percent quicker than any other administration has.
In fact, with the disasters that we saw that were so horrific and devastating in Texas and New Mexico, North Carolina, we’ve had people on the ground within hours responding to those families that were in crisis.
ED O’KEEFE: Right.
I bring this up because part of what you’re suggesting there is in dispute from a handful of current and former FEMA employees who wrote to Congress this past week raising concerns about the agency’s ability to respond to forthcoming natural disasters.
One of the specific concerns they have is this decision that now has you reviewing any cost of $100,000 or more that FEMA plans to make. Can you give me an example of a charge of $100,000 or more that you’ve rejected?
😂SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Yes, absolutely.
We paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars to a one- woman firm to deliver to us 30 million meals, and she delivered only 50,000 to us. And it was a – one person that the state – federal government had contracted with in order to deliver 30 million. And I don’t know how they ever expected one person to do that.
We – we had a person that was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to book meetings…
ED O’KEEFE: OK. 🤣 [O’Keefe crying ‘uncle’ – but Noem doesn’t stop]
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: … that – of less than 10 to 15 people, and with no meetings that we saw that were productive or couldn’t be done by sending an e-mail.
Over and over again, we’re looking at these contracts and looking at the fact that, are they duplicative, are they just supporting woke ideologies, DEI, or are they actually delivering disaster response, which is what FEMA job is, is to put in place operations to support states and local governments to take care of people.
And so that evaluation has saved us hundreds of millions of dollars within FEMA. And within the Department of Homeland Security, it has saved us $13 billion already. And we’re going to consider – continue to make sure that we’re accountable to taxpayers.
ED O’KEEFE: At least 20 of the people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees, and they’ve been placed on administrative leave.
And I had heard you in previous interviews suggest that those that are making accusations against the agency should put their names on the criticisms of the allegations. So, now they have, and they’ve been placed on administrative leave.
And I’m curious if it’s now the policy of DHS that any time an employee puts their name on something, publicly criticizes you or the president’s leadership, that they should anticipate being put on leave or fired.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: This – this letter was signed by many people anonymously. There was some who had their names on there.
And those who had their names on there were temporary contract employees who had worked for the Department of Homeland Security for less than a year, individuals who are not long-term FEMA employees, who – who grab ahold of the mission to be there, to go and serve individuals and to – are deployed across the country, and have for years to make sure they’re responsive to families in their time of need.
So, absolutely, every employee will be evaluated as to if they’re doing their job and if they’re doing it appropriately.
ED O’KEEFE: All right, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joining us this Sunday from Florida, thank you so much. Lots to discuss. We appreciate it.
SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM: Thank you, Ed. Appreciate it.
Previously Chairman, now serving as a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Andriy Parubiy was shot several times with a short-barreled firearm, police said. Parubiy died on the spot. The perpetrator, who fled the scene and has not yet been identified, was “thoroughly prepared” according to local authorities.
Andriy Parubiy was the primary Ukrainian political activist during Victoria Nuland’s organized Maidan revolution. In common parlance, this assassination might be considered throwing a bag over a potential risk. Remember, CNN is to the State Dept as the Washington Post is to the CIA.
(VIA CNN) – […] Parubiy participated in 2004’s Orange Revolution, where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians joined in peaceful protest following disputed elections.
He was also a prominent figure in the Maidan Revolution, a movement which began in November 2013 after then-President Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign a trade pact with the European Union that had been years in the making, opting instead for closer ties with neighboring Russia.
During the revolution, which lasted three months, Parubiy was the head of an enormous tent city established by thousands of protesters in Kyiv’s central Independence Square, known as the Maidan.
He was later the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council during 2014. In 2019, Parubiy signed a bill to make the use of the Ukrainian language mandatory in certain public sectors, calling it a “historic day.” (read more)
Long ago, the opposition elements in eastern Ukraine labeled Parubiy a ‘nazi’ and accused him of working in collaboration with U.S. intelligence (CIA).
Andriy Parubiy knew a lot about western intelligence operations in Ukraine.
Andriy Parubiy is dead now.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy knows a lot about western intelligence operations in Ukraine.
We watch and read these interviews not to learn details of events, but rather to gauge President Trump’s awareness of the events as contrast by the information management team around him.
Unfortunately, we have yet to see an approved interview where the interviewer has a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter around their questioning. The Daily Caller’s White House Correspondent Reagan Reese sat down for an hour-long interview with President Trump on Friday to repeat the pattern.
[(L-R) President Trump, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Daily Caller journalist Reagan Reese]
We pull the following quote from the transcript and ponder the ramifications against all previous research into the information control dynamic.
When discussing the activity of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump replies: “By the way, she’s coming along, right?”
There are only two people in the orbit of President Trump who are considered a high priority risk by those in the consequential part of the deep state, DNI Tulsi Gabbard and NSA Marco Rubio.
Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Dan Bongino et al, are easily managed by the system around them. Russiagate presents no threat.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard stands at the gateway to the larger Silo. Her intent is direct and consequential. Spygate is a serious threat.
The supportive positions of CIA Director John Ratcliffe and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, both with a long-range muscle memory of the power behind the gate, are unknown variables.
The man who politicized the CIA to frame Donald Trump is back on MSNBC lamenting that the CIA has been politicized by Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/2EoO0sMlZx
I had not been paying close attention to the overarching issues of President Trump removing Fed Governor Lisa Cook for cause – fraudulent filings on her three mortgage applications. However, the appearance of Norm Eisen as her lawyer certainly highlights the political nature of the defense effort.
Norm Eisen is a well-known Lawfare operative, second only to Mary McCord in his high visibility and connections to all of the anti-Trump efforts. Eisen, like McCord, is at the center of the leftist effort to stop the Trump agenda through the manipulation of the courts, ie. ‘Lawfare.’
Norm Eisen left, Abbe Lowell right. Both lawyers for Lisa Cook
WASHINGTON – A federal judge likely will not rule until next week on whether Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve board, can remain in her job despite President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her.
At the first hearing on Cook’s lawsuit against Trump, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb grappled with the legal issues raised by Trump’s unprecedented move against Cook but offered few hints about how she might rule. The judge, an appointee of Joe Biden, acknowledged the limits of the courts’ power to question the president’s motives, while expressing concerns about the lack of due process afforded to Cook. (more)
While the lawyers defending Ms. Cook dance around the central issue, there is no doubt Ms. Cook lied on three mortgage applications, claiming primary residency in both Illinois and Georgia within a week.
Norm Eisen appears in the footage below, but no one seems to notice him or identify him by name.
Barack Obama didn’t like Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama didn’t even care about Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign. Barack Obama would have liked nothing more than to watch Hillary Clinton go down in a ball of flames, until something happened in 2016 that changed the dynamic.
Suddenly, Barack Obama needed Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election…
That my friends, is the reason why so many people get lost in the story of the 2016 election and the eventual Trump-Russia conspiracy. However, once you understand what changed in those April and May 2016 moments, everything reconciles.
The U.S. government, under the President Obama administration, was spying on American citizens.
It started with Barack Obama and AG Eric Holder’s use of the IRS database in the 2010 midterm, against the primary threat of the Tea Party movement. However, an IRS whistleblower from the Cincinnati field office took the continued use of the IRS off the table.
From the period of mid-2012 to April-2016, the administration factually and demonstrably shifted to using the power of electronic surveillance to conduct political spying operations using the NSA database and the metadata captures within it.
However, once that NSA surveillance and spying was identified in April 2016, President Obama had a problem. That’s where the Obama alignment with the Clinton ‘dirty trick’ comes into play. After May 2016, Obama needed Hillary Clinton to win the election. The rest is “Russiagate” history.
Those who remember the 2015/2016 presidential race will remember President Obama never campaigned for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 primary. After all, Bernie Sanders was potentially going to upend Clinton until the DNC stepped heavily on the scales to assist her, and team Sanders was furious. Then suddenly, following the California primary, Barack went all in.
There is a distinct timeline shift during this period that most seem to overlook, because “Russiagate” was/is easily the shiniest thing for people to follow. However, it was the precursor scandal, ‘spygate’, that is more critical yet gets almost no attention.
Here it becomes critical for people to understand exactly what was taking place. Absolutely nothing had anything to do with: the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, aka FISA – surveillance impacting Americans (FISA-702), the FISA Court, masking, minimizing or unmasking. None of those terms apply. What the Obama administration was doing was simply spying.
The only reason the aforementioned terms enter the discussion is through the method used by the NSA compliance officer to reveal the nature of how the database was being compromised. The only tool for the NSA to reveal the spying was to report it to the FISA Court which holds jurisdiction over the use of the database.
When FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer was made aware of the spying, in October 2016 by NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers, she then interpreted the NSA admissions through the language of the FISA Court.
When Judge Collyer released her report in March 2017 [SOURCE], that’s how the FISA terminology entered the discussion. However, nothing about the use of the NSA database to conduct political surveillance or spying had anything to do with the Obama administration using the FISA-702 authority to exploit the system.
Collyer noted that 85% of the Obama administration’s searches of the database, from 2012 to 2016, had nothing to do with FISA inquires. No attempt at minimization or justification was being done, and further, only 15% of the use of the database was being done in compliance with the rules governing the use of the database.
Tens of thousands of searches were conducted by the Obama administration, as they used their access to the NSA database to spy on their targets. The NSA identified the spying culprits colloquially as “FBI Contractors,” but factually nothing was ever provided to verify that assertion.
In fact, the only attribution that could be associated with the “contractor” claim, is the workstations and user access IDs deployed to search the database. To this day, we do not know where those workstations were located, or who was behind the user IDs operating the searches.
What we do know is that massive spying operations were undertaken during the period from 2012 to 2016, and many of those searches were for the same people repeatedly; meaning the same people were under constant illegal surveillance, and all of their electronic information was being reviewed by the Obama administration.
♦ Again, just for emphasis, the Obama administration was spying on targeted Americans repeatedly, and absolutely none of the activity had anything to do with FISA authorities. It was the existence of the NSA captures, the database itself, which brought the Obama administration to a place where it became useful for their spying operation.
The use of the NSA database for domestic spying operations followed the moment when the use of the IRS database was no longer feasible. Once congress and the American people became aware of the IRS and DOJ’s collaborative “special research project,” a targeted surveillance mechanism that culminated in the IRS/DOJ agreeing to settle a class-action lawsuit, the Obama administration switched from using the IRS data to using the NSA data. It really is that simple.
Obviously, the existence of the NSA database itself is problematic. However, the problem expands exponentially when we realize the false sense of security, the FISA firewall, is nothing more than a ruse to keep gathering the data of Americans.
The American people are told the data captures and FISA searches are being done as part of the national security system, where searching the database is a critical tool for the various intelligence agencies to identify threats. However, as shown by President Obama’s activity in 2012 through 2016, only 15% of that activity was part of a national security effort.
The overwhelming amount of activity that takes place within the NSA database, is simply the U.S. government conducting electronic surveillance. That’s the issue highlighted by “Spygate,” President Barack Obama’s unlawful use of the data captures to monitor targets identified by the administration.
Just like the Cincinnati IRS whistleblower (’12), once the NSA compliance officer noticed what was happening (March ’16), the trail of spying became a risk to the Obama administration. That’s the moment when Hillary Clinton’s planned deployment of the vast Russian conspiracy became of value to Obama and the surveillance perpetrators.
The Clinton campaign had been planning to use Russia as a dirty trick tool against the winner of the GOP nomination. The testimony of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, even admitted it.
John Durham – Q: In the Summer of 2016, was Mr. Trump’s relationship with Russia something that the campaign focused on?
Robby Mook – A: Yes. I mean, it was frankly something we were focused on before that time. But absolutely.
Q: Mr. Mook, before the break you had testified that there was a conversation in which you told Ms. Clinton about the proposed plan to provide the Alfa-Bank allegations to the media; is that correct?
A: Correct.
Q: And what was her response?
A: All I remember is that she agreed with the decision.
What became known as “Russiagate” was the 2016 Clinton campaign smear that was directed at Republican candidate Donald Trump. However, “Spygate” preceded the deployment of the smear.
The Obama administration used Clinton’s Russiagate to hide Obama’s Spygate.
President Obama’s support for the dirty trick Hillary Clinton created, starts with his motive to hide the spying.
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On Sunday the nationalists in Australia are organizing a series of Australia-First marches confronting the issues of excessive migration, globalism, corporate control of politicians, population change and the destruction of Australian cultural identity.
Obviously, this represents a threat to the authoritarian regime currently controlling Australian govt.
As with the yellow vests in France, the AfD party in Germany, the MAGA movement in the USA, U.K Brexit and the current resurgence of British people against mass migration, these nationalist rallies are a direct threat to the globalist politicians and their corporate benefactors. The Australian government has pledged to crack down on non-compliant dissident voices.
It is worth remembering the worldwide experience with COVID-19 enforcement. Arguably, we can assert the most oppressive western actions to enforce COVID-19 mitigation were conducted by the same national governments’ now being confronted over mass migration.
If you remember 2020, the eastern Europe region currently under extreme EU pressure to comply with anti-Russia policy was the same region with the most brutal COVID-19 compliance enforcement. France, Germany and the EU overall were the originators of the COVID-19 passport.
Similarly, no nation was as openly ridiculous with their heavy-handed COVID-19 and vaccine enforcement than Australia and New Zealand. Quarantine camps, restricted travel, forced vaccinations and lockdowns were not only carried out, but they were also enforced with arrests by very militarized police.
This is the backdrop where Australians will be attempting to organize and protest.
WTF?
This march was organised months ago!
The gov is clearly worried that people are actually against their stupid immigration policies and the media stooges are playing their part wonderfully…reminiscent of the covid suck-ups.
AUSTRALIA – […] Earlier this month, March for Australia said protests are scheduled across the country on August 31 to demand the government end “mass immigration”.
It claimed “Australia’s unity and shared values had been eroded by policies and movements that divide us” and migration had “torn at the bonds” holding communities together.
“This march is a stand for the people, culture and nation that built Australia – and for our right to decide its future,” its website read.
In a new update on Monday, the group posted flyers about the nine locations of the protests, saying “thousands of Australians” will simultaneously march on Sunday.
“Big business wants endless migration. Whether it’s Coles and Woolworths, the big banks, Harry Triguboff, universities or the Business Council of Australia – they all want “big Australia (a population of 100+m ASAP),” the statement said.
“Each migrant means they can sell another 365 days worth of food or another mortgage. The only cost? Our nation.
“Whether you’re concerned for our culture, wages, traffic, housing supply, water supply, environmental destruction, infrastructure, hospitals, crime or loss of community, we are stronger together! Don’t leave this work to be done by your children.” (more)
Posted originally on CTH on August 29, 2025 | Sundance
There are going to be two major stories in 2026 that we will have full context to understand. Yes, the 2026 midterm politics are going to lead the headlines, but two other issues will have considerable impact.
The first, is the FISA (702) reauthorization, and there is a lot that will surface in the next several months likely to upend the best laid plans of the administrative UniParty [Tulsi Factor]. The second, is the USMCA reauthorization – the end of the trilateral trade agreement, and the structural shift into two separate free trade agreements.
As to the latter issue, while Mexico and Canada are currently in a state of economic flux, only Mexico is preparing to deal with the seismic shift that is about to unfold. Canada is going to be caught completely off guard.
While Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is trotting around Europe trying to establish his relevance amid the pro-Ukraine coalition, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is spending time focused on her domestic economy.
Mexico is preparing to drop significant tariffs on Chinese imports, a proactive move to position Mexico in advance of the upcoming bilateral discussion.
Sheinbaum knows that right now for every deportation ICE executes, her economy is hit as remittances recede. Simultaneously, for every mile of border wall that is completed, the financial dependency model increases. President Trump’s leverage in the upcoming bilateral trade negotiation against Mexico increases each day, week and month.
Claudia Sheinbaum is smartly focused on trying to get ahead of the issues, while Mark Carney ignores his vulnerability and is about to make Canada naked to the economic weaknesses created by Justin Trudeau.
CHINA POST – Mexico is preparing to raise tariffs on Chinese imports of automobiles, textiles and plastics, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, under a proposal expected to be part of the 2026 budget to be submitted to the nation’s Congress next month.
If confirmed, the increase would mark one of Mexico’s sharpest trade shifts in recent years. Officials in Washington have urged the move as part of US President Donald Trump’s push to build a “Fortress North America” and reduce dependence on Chinese supply chains.
Trump has been a long-time critic of what he calls trade “loopholes” in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement allowing Chinese goods to enter the US. During his election campaign last year, he railed against Chinese carmakers building plants in Mexico to export cars to the US.
Mexico’s imports from China exceeded US$51 billion last year, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the country’s total purchases abroad.
The rapid growth has turned Mexico into China’s top overseas market for vehicles, but has also left local manufacturers complaining of unfair competition from subsidised goods. The planned tariffs could also be extended to other Asian nations, although China remains the main focus. (read more)
Taken in context, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is prepping to be in alignment with the goals and objectives of President Trump. Meanwhile Canada is completely ignoring the issue of Chinese trade, and the loopholes that anger President Trump within the USMCA exploitation.
We’ll keep watching, but this context will unfold. Slowly at first, then suddenly, all at once, come spring ’26.
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