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• President Trump reaches a temporary deal to delay the onset of 25 percent tariffs on Mexico for 30 days while the two countries negotiate a more permanent agreement. We’ll show you what Mexico agreed to in order to get the deal and head off a looming trade war with the U.S.
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio took over as Acting Director of USAID after the agency’s staffers were told to leave the headquarters. 
• New Jersey’s Democrat Governor Phil Murphy openly admits that he and his wife, First Lady Tammy Murphy, are personally harboring an illegal immigrant in their own home, practically daring federal authorities to step in. We will share Tom Homan’s response.
• President Trump says he’d like to tie continued aid to Ukraine to the U.S. getting access to rare-earth minerals from the war-torn country.
• The federal Homeland Security official caught on undercover video last week saying the department will defy orders from newly-appointed DHS Chief Kristi Noem is now under investigation.
• And Trump doubles down on his call for Canada to join the United States as the 51st state.

All these stories and more when the Worldview Report begins, right now!

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Good evening and welcome to the Worldview Report.

Leading off tonight, one day after new 25-percent tariffs went into effect, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced she reached a series of agreements during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump. Included in the deal is a 30-day pause on U.S.-imposed tariffs.

The Trump administration had announced 25 percent tariffs on imported goods from Mexico and Canada over the weekend, and this deal will avert those tariffs from going into effect for 30 days with regard to Mexican imports.

The Mexican president said, “We had a good conversation with President Trump, with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty. We reached a series of agreements.”

She summarized the agreements as follows:

• Mexico will reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard immediately, to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, particularly of fentanyl. 
• The United States has committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons into Mexico.
• The two countries will begin working immediately towards long-term agreements on two fronts: security and trade.
• Tariffs will be paused for one month.

SHOW TWEETED PHOTO OF CARTEL ARREST

https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1886466676486476180

 The ink was not dry on the temporary agreement and Mexico announced it had arrested El Ricky, a regional boss of the Northeast Cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful and violent cartels.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio took over as Acting Director of USAID after the agency’s staffers were told to leave the headquarters.

Rubio arrived in El Salvador on Monday morning to meet with President Nayib Bukele.

Upon his arrival, Rubio told reporters that he had taken over as Acting Director of the USAID after more than 600 of the agency’s staffers were locked out of the computer systems.

Tension started building up over the weekend after the Trump Admin put two top leaders at the US Agency for International Development on leave because they refused to give Elon Musk’s DOGE classified documents.

Musk’s DOGE got the classified materials on Saturday after the two officials initially withheld the materials.

The two officials claimed the DOGE employees did not have the security clearance to obtain the classified documents.

Rubio said the USAID is supposed to respond to the State Department’s policies and it was refusing to do so, even after it was clarified that no classified documents were involved.

He told reporters:

“Our goal was to go in and align our foreign aid to our national interests. But if you go to mission after mission and embassy after embassy around the world you will often find that in many cases USAID is involved with programs that run counter to what we are trying to do in our national strategy with that country or that region. That cannot continue.”

Rubio added that, “USAID is not an independent, non-governmental entity. It is an entity that spends taxpayer dollars and it needs to spend it, as the statute says, in alignment with the policy directives that they get from the Secretary of State, the National Security Council and the President and it has been 20 or 30 years where people have tried to reform it.”

WATCH VIDEO

https://x.com/HowardMortman/status/1886471530525139047

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New Jersey’s Democrat Governor Phil Murphy brazenly admitted that he and his wife, First Lady Tammy Murphy, are personally harboring an illegal immigrant in their own home, practically daring federal authorities to step in.

During a recent event with Blue Wave New Jersey, Murphy revealed that an individual whose “immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to” is currently residing above his garage.

Murphy’s comments came during a broader discussion about the new Trump administration’s policies. While refusing to disclose specific details, the governor made his position clear, stating:

“Tammy and I were talking about, I don’t want to get into too much detail, but there’s someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to. We said, you know what? Let’s have her live at our house above our garage. Good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.”

WATCH

https://x.com/SteveGuest/status/1886431609965965797

In November, border czar Tom Homan had a stern message for Democrat governors trying to block deportations.

All this prompted Gateway Pundit editor Jim Hoft to write:

“Is it time for ICE to storm New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s mansion?”

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The federal Homeland Security official caught on undercover video last week saying the department will defy orders from newly-appointed DHS Chief Kristi Noem is now under investigation and his firing is imminent.

The Gateway Pundit reports that Noem has vowed to shut down Biden and Mayorkas’ CBP One app, which serves as a “concierge service” to facilitate mass illegal immigration.

During her hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Noem promised to “make sure that our nation is a nation with borders” and that she will enforce consequences against Biden’s criminal aliens.

Noem said she is also going to go after the NGOs that are funding the border invasion.

Brandon Wright, platform services manager for the Department of Homeland Security, told O’Keefe Media Group that underlings in the DHS will defy Secretary Noem.

“Kristi Noem? I f-ing hate her!” Brandon Wright says to the undercover journalist, adding: “The secretaries can set the priorities for the department, but they can’t actually tell us what to do. We don’t agree with those priorities. There’s a lot of room for interpretation in terms of how we interpret what those policies are. By the time the actual marching orders get to me and below, we can filter it in a way that steadies the ship.”

Wright said Kristi Noem is so incompetent that DHS “could fall on her head and she wouldn’t know what it is.”

The DHS released a statement to O’Keefe Media Group and said Brandon Wright is already under investigation and his termination is imminent.

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President Trump will sign an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council and cut funding to UNRWA, the agency that provides aid to Gaza.

The current president of the Human Rights Council is Ambassador Jürg Lauber of Switzerland.

According to a document obtained by Politico, Trump will also prohibit future funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza.

The document states:

“The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings. In 2018, the year President Trump withdrew from the UNHRC in his first administration, the organization passed more resolutions condemning Israel than Syria, Iran, and North Korea combined.”

Politico reported that Trump was expected to issue an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council and prohibiting future funding for the U.N. relief agency for Gaza, according to a document.

The actions, which reinstate policies in place during the last Trump administration, will come on the day the president is set to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. The U.S. has long accused the council of bias against Israel and of giving cover to governments with human rights abuses. It comes after the Biden administration paused funding to United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA, following reports that staffers were involved in the October 7th attack by Hamas on Israel.

Last year the watchdog group U.N. Watch accused the Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, of  “gross violations of U.N. rules and professional ethics.”

Albanese is in charge of investigating “Israel’s violations of the bases and principles of international law.”

According to the legal complaint filed to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, Albanese allegedly accepted honorariums and payments from activist and advocacy groups in violation of the U.N. code of conduct.

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The New York Post reported Monday that President Trump expressed interest Monday in tying continued aid to Ukraine to the US getting access to rare-earth minerals from the war-torn country.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office:

“We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earth and other things.” 

He added that he wants a guarantee in exchange for continuing the flow of US aid to Ukraine.

“We’re handing them money hand over fist. We’re giving them equipment. [The] European [Union] is not keeping up with us.”

Trump had previously vowed to end the 3-year-old war between Russia and Ukraine in the first days of his administration.

Ukraine is one of the largest rare-earth mineral suppliers in the world, and has the largest titanium reserves in Europe.

The country also boasts deposits of lithium, beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, graphite, apatite, fluorite, and nickel, per the World Economic Forum.

Russian forces have already taken parts of Eastern Ukraine that had historically provided the rest of the country with key minerals, notably much of the coal-supplying Donbas region.

But other parts of Ukraine, including the Dnieper River basin that runs through the center of the country and the Carpathian Mountains in the West, have a massive supply of minerals and natural gas under Kyiv’s control.

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President Donald Trump shared a video on Monday of U.S. military precision airstrikes against an ISIS “Attack Planner” and other terrorists in Somalia.

The video Trump shared Monday on X shows unclassified footage of U.S. airstrikes that were conducted on Saturday against ISIS targets in Somalia.

WATCH VIDEO (It’s silent so may want to read Trump’s tweet while it’s playing)

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1886453721871319097

Trump stated in the post to X:

“This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did! The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”

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An aircraft tug driver was hospitalized in critical condition on Saturday after an airplane wing collided with the tug vehicle at the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

According to Fox 5, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials confirmed that the United Airlines tug driver was injured in an incident with Air Wisconsin Flight 6181, an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ-200, at roughly 6:35 p.m. on Saturday. FAA officials noted that the airplane was “struck by a tug while approaching the gate at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.”

Fox 5 reported that the collision, which occurred as the United Airlines tug attempted to cross the airport taxiway, forced the vehicle to flip over, leaving the 64-year-old driver underneath the tug vehicle. The outlet cited Chicago police officials, who confirmed that the man was hospitalized at the Lutheran General Hospital in critical condition after suffering injuries to his head and lower body. However, officials indicated that the driver was later stabilized in the hospital.

Addressing the injury to the tug driver, United Airlines stated, “On Saturday evening, a United tug at O’Hare made contact with another airline’s aircraft while it was taxiing. The United employee was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, and we are ensuring he receives any necessary support and care.”

According to Fox 5, none of the passengers on the American Airlines flight were injured in Saturday’s incident. The FAA noted that the passengers were able to exit safely from the plane and were bused to the airport terminal. The FAA also announced that the agency would be investigating the incident.

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Time now for our nightly Worldview Report commentary.

President Trump on Sunday renewed his call for Canada to join the United States as the 51st state. He cited trade benefits and military protection that Ottawa would receive amid an escalating tariff dispute between the two countries.

Trump promised that such a move would lead to lower costs and much lower taxes for Canadians. Ottawa previously rejected the idea, emphasizing the country’s commitment to national sovereignty. 

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday, Trump stated: “We pay hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize Canada. Why? There is no reason.” 

He further suggested that without U.S. support, its northern neighbor would struggle to remain viable and proposed statehood as a solution, promising “much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada – and no tariffs!”

While it sounds good in theory, President Trump should reassess where this type of merge could lead.

While Trump may have good intentions, he is making the case, unwittingly, for a North American Union. Add Greenland to the mix and an economic powerhouse of America, Canada and Greenland covering a land mass larger than any other bloc in the world would come into being with all the same promises that were made at the launching of the European Union.

If the EU is any indication, most of the positives that are promised never materialize while so many of the negatives that get glossed over become a dark reality. EU countries today are much less free, I don’t think anyone would argue that point. And they have far less of a connection with their political leaders, who defer to the EU on most policy issues related to the environment and economy and freedom of speech.

If we are not careful, we could end up in a similar state of tyranny by sacrificing what seem like small amounts of sovereignty and walking blindly into a technocratic abyss.

That does it for this edition of the Worldview Report. Thanks for tuning in and supporting this broadcast.

Until next time…