White House Panics in Disaster Presser as Admin Collapses

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0:47Ben Meiselas:Stay on top of every moment with live stats, highlights, and instant replays. The FIFA world cup streaming live on Fox one offers a subject to change. See Fox.com for complete terms and conditions. Donald Trump's White House is panicking. They just held a disastrous press conference. Caroline Levitt, Donald Trump's chief propagandist, just started lying about what Democrats said about Donald Trump and the press called her out for it. And then she literally ran off of the stage while she was giving this press conference. Watch what took place here. Let's play it. And you will hear more about that later.

1:23Thank you. You misquoted Democrats in that video. That's actually not what they said.

1:26Ben Meiselas:And then Caroline Levitt before that was asked by the press, what did Donald Trump mean when he called one of the members of the press a female reporter from Bloomberg piggy? When he called her piggy, what did he mean by that? And Caroline Levitt was like, that's how he should treat you because he's being transparent. So he's calling you what you are. That's basically what she said, that she deserved to be called piggy. That's disgusting. This is what you're teaching our children, the next generation? How horrible. Here, play this clip. ... tomorrow and I'll let the president speak for himself.

2:01Natalie. Thank you, Caroline. What did the president mean when he called reporter Peggy? Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room. You've all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons that the American people reelected this president, because of his frankness. And he calls out fake views when he sees it. He gets frustrated with reporters when you lie about him, when you spread fake news about him and his administration. But he also is the most transparent president in history. And he gives all of you in this room, as you all know, unprecedented access.

2:37You are in the Oval Office almost every day asking the president questions. And so I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is frankly a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration, where you had a president who lied to your face and then didn't speak to you for weeks and hid upstairs and didn't take your questions. So I think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a near daily basis.

3:05Ben Meiselas:Then she goes and attacks the president of South Africa, Ramaphosa, and she's like, he needs to stop running his mouth right now. Tell the president of South Africa to stop running his mouth. You know, there's a G20 meeting taking place in South Africa, which Donald Trump is not sending the United States because Trump has made up fake claims that there is a white genocide taking place in South Africa and that only white people deserve refugee status in the United States. These are despicable people. Here, play this clip. For you, the New York Times is reporting that the administration is now sending a U.S.

3:43official to the G20. They're sending Mark Dillard. Can you just can you confirm if that is true and also explain the shift? And I'd be happy to explain because there is not a shift. The United States is not participating in official talks at the G20 in South Africa. I saw the South African president running his mouth a little bit against the United States and the president of the United States earlier today. And that language is not appreciated by the president or his team. The ambassador or the representative of the embassy in South Africa is simply there to recognize that the United States will be the host of the G20.

4:21They are receiving that sendoff at the end of the event. They are not there to participate in official talks, despite what the South African president is falsely claiming. On Ukraine, there have been reports.

4:32Ben Meiselas:And then Caroline Levitt says, you know, the great thing about the government shutdown is we all learned that we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Here play this clip. The Democrats' reckless 43-day government shutdown did manage to do one valuable thing. It proved that America does not need a federal Department of Education. During the longest shutdown in history, the Department of Education furloughed 90 % of its staff, and America's education system was not impacted whatsoever. Schools stayed fully open across the country. Students attended class and received normal in-person instruction, and our wonderful teachers received their paychecks uninterrupted.

5:15The Democrats' government shutdown made it painfully obvious that American families do not need the Department of Education.

5:21Ben Meiselas:How disgusting you're saying that you use the shutdown to rip away people's healthcare, to take away people's SNAP benefits, and the thing you learned is not how people were suffering, but to take away the Department of Education to harm our kids? Doesn't it seem that everything this regime does, whether it's cover up a child sex trafficking ring with the Epstein files, ripping away people's healthcare, attacking Medicaid, going after the Department of Education, they want to attack and kill the kids. That's what they wanted. So disgusting. Then right here, you have Caroline Levitt talk about the meeting taking place in the Oval Office tomorrow between Donald Trump and the New York City mayor-elect, Mom Donnie.

6:05Ben Meiselas:And she's like, we're having a little communist here. We're having the little communist over. And again, just who behaves like this? Like these are freaking evil, weird, demented human beings. Here, play this clip. I think you'll all hear from him directly. I also think I will just add it speaks volumes that tomorrow we have a communist coming to the White House because that's who the Democrat Party elected as the mayor of the largest city in the country. I think it's very telling, but I also think it speaks to the fact that President Trump is willing to meet with anyone and talk to anyone and to try to do what's right on behalf of the American people, whether they live in blue states or red states or blue cities, in a city that's becoming much more left than I think this president ever anticipated in his many years of living in New York.

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8:14Ben Meiselas:Thanks to Miracle Made for sponsoring this episode. Then a reporter asked Caroline Levitt, so you're accusing the Democrats of engaging in political violence, but Donald Trump's been making social media posts all day saying that Democrats who said that the military should not follow unlawful orders, and they were very clear, do not follow unlawful orders because you'll end up in a military tribunal. you're in the chain of command. Don't follow him. And she go and Donald Trump saying that those Democrats should be killed, that George Washington would have hung them and that they should be hung for sedition.

8:53Ben Meiselas:And Caroline Levitt then lies. And the reporter says they were saying illegal orders, like you're not even addressing the question. Then she runs off. But here, play this clip. I just follow up. The president and the vice president, for that matter, have accused the other side of encouraging political violence. Isn't that exactly what the president is doing when he says that members of Congress should be killed? Why aren't you talking about what these members of Congress are doing to encourage and incite violence? They are literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members not to defy the chain of command, not to follow lawful orders.

9:28Actually, they said you can refuse an illegal order. But they're suggesting, Nancy, that the president has given illegal orders, which he has not. every single order that is given to this United States military by this commander in chief and through this command chain of command through the secretary of war is lawful. And the courts have proven that this administration has an unparalleled record at the Supreme Court because we are following the laws. We don't defy court orders. We do things by the books and to suggest and encourage that active duty service members defy the chain of command is a very dangerous thing for sitting members of Congress to do.

10:07And they should be held accountable. And that's what the president wants to see.

10:11Ben Meiselas:And a reporter then asks her, so you're saying that it was a good plan that Donald Trump proposed to Ukraine to allow Russia to essentially take over all of Eastern Ukraine, for Ukraine to basically completely drop its military, to give into Putin's maximalist demands, to basically give Putin everything he wanted. You agree with that, Caroline Levin? And she goes, did you read the plan? Did you read the plan? We'll put the plan out there, but we know what it is. It's everything that Putin said. Here, play this clip. Sure. Go ahead. You said this is a good plan. So according to our sources, this proposal demands major concessions from Ukraine and doesn't demand much from Russia.

10:56Ben Meiselas:So was Russia involved in your understanding is wrong? Have you read the full plan? You haven't. So if you can give details, maybe. You've read reporting from one side of the war. And so I want you to understand that the administration has talked equally with both sides. You have seen President Trump engage directly with both President Putin and President Zelensky. Likewise, his national security team has as well. In fact, Special Envoy Whitcoff and Secretary Rubio met with some of the Ukrainians just in the past week to discuss this very plan. And so just like you saw with respect to Israel and Gaza, we are hearing out both sides of this war to understand what can you commit to to end the war.

11:37And that's ultimately how we are going to get to an agreeable solution. That's what the president has directed of his team. I know there's a lot of criticism out there and a lot of doubters, but I would just remind you of the historic success that this president and his team accomplished in the Middle East. We believe that is possible with Russia and Ukraine, and we're hoping and working very hard to achieve that.

11:56Ben Meiselas:And so a reporter says, but are you saying no matter what the order is, anything that Donald Trump says is right and the military must follow any of his orders, even if they're war crimes like killing 82 people off the coast of Venezuela, Colombia and in the Pacific? And she's like, yeah, if he makes it, that makes it right. Here, play this clip. Brian. Thank you, Carolyn. Two questions. You were talking about four earlier in this briefing about the president's borders. You were going back and forth about what the ad said and what it said. My first question is the advertisement that the Senate Democrats were featured in.

12:31Ben Meiselas:So the first question is, no matter what the order is, it could be to any administration official, military or otherwise, no matter if the electorates might think it's illegal, does the president expect those cabinet members, administration officials to go ahead with those orders regardless of any outside thinking or expertise? The president expects his cabinet officials in the administration to follow the law and to demand accountability and hold people accountable for their dangerous rhetoric. And I would just add that if this were Republican members of Congress who were encouraging members of the military and members of our United States government to defy orders from the president and from the chain of command, this entire room would be up in arms.

13:13But instead, it is the other way around. And I think that's quite telling. I'm going to let you all go because the president, Excuse me. I appreciate the the encouragement this morning, but this afternoon, but President Trump is about to meet is about to meet in minutes with Israeli hostages who this administration freed. And so I'm going to go up to that meeting and you will hear more about that later. Thank you.

13:39Ben Meiselas:All right, Caroline. That was so utterly disgusting. I don't even know what to say. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. Horrific stuff out of the White House.