Speaker 1: Well, happy Friday, my friends, and yes, we've made it
Speaker 1: through another week now. This week, of course, we had
Speaker 1: no new wars. Thank god for that, right, little little
Speaker 1: new accountability regarding the Epstein files, and even worse, less
Speaker 1: progress I'm making things more affordable for the American people.
Speaker 1: But instead, well, this administration, they focused on the favorite group.
Speaker 1: The President focused on his new favorite group, that is
Speaker 1: the US men's hockey team. Though I gotta be honest,
Speaker 1: it seems that even they are having some problems with him.
Speaker 1: Many of the players have shown support for Trump. But
Speaker 1: early that was, of course earlier this week, where the
Speaker 1: White House had posted an AI video of one of
Speaker 1: the players, and they really weren't happy. Let me show
Speaker 1: you what they said in it, he writes. The White
Speaker 1: House's official TikTok posted an AI video of US hockey
Speaker 1: star Brady Tatcik calling Canadians maple syrup eating fuckers. Tatchuk
Speaker 1: addressed the video, It's not my voice. It's not what
Speaker 1: I was saying. I would never say that. That's not
Speaker 1: who I am. You know, that's really the biggest problem
Speaker 1: as it relates to AI. You really have no idea.
Speaker 1: When I saw it, I actually thought that was his voice.
Speaker 1: I don't know what his voice really sounds like. And today,
Speaker 1: let's be clear, let's talk about Trump's schedule. He's actually
Speaker 1: headed to Texas as part of his midterm rally tour.
Speaker 1: And Politico, well, let's just say they broke down the
Speaker 1: situation in Texas quite nicely. In it, Politico rights Trump's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four presidential campaign team involvement with Cornyn's reelect
Speaker 1: is opening a fresh wound for some pro paxt In
Speaker 1: MAGA types. Tony Fabrizio, Trump's top polster, is working for
Speaker 1: Cornyn's campaign, and Chris los Cevida, one of Trump's top
Speaker 1: campaign hand works as a senior advisor for the pro
Speaker 1: Cornins super Pac Texas for a Conservative Majority. Steve Bannon,
Speaker 1: the longtime MAGA torch bearer, He's taken issue with Fabrizio
Speaker 1: and las Sevita's involvement. The article further goes on to say,
Speaker 1: my belief is the Trump team should have stayed out
Speaker 1: of this race absolutely, Bannon told Playbook from a rented
Speaker 1: ranch in North Texas, where he's been broadcasting his war
Speaker 1: Room show. The article further goes on to say, asked
Speaker 1: about Bannon's criticism of their involvement with Cornyn's reelection effort.
Speaker 1: Fabrizio did not respond, but las Sevita, well, he texted
Speaker 1: Playbook a fiery reply. Here's what he said. Associating with
Speaker 1: Senator Cornyn is better than being a lackey for Epstein,
Speaker 1: he said, an apparent reference to Bannon's newly surfaced ties
Speaker 1: to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Finally, the
Speaker 1: article turns around and says, but the White House doesn't
Speaker 1: seem bothered. Here's the quote. We don't regulate the business
Speaker 1: political choices of private individuals if they are a part
Speaker 1: of our world. In a race where the president is neutral,
Speaker 1: the White House official told Playbook, let me be crystal clear.
Speaker 1: Is it a conflict? Absolutely not. Should they all be
Speaker 1: on the same page? Well sure, but that's what races
Speaker 1: are made of. And welcome back to The Michael Cohen
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Speaker 1: Cohen Show or wherever you get your podcasts Now. Let
Speaker 1: me be crystal clear about something too. Trump says that
Speaker 1: he doesn't like New York City Mayor z Aren Mandani,
Speaker 1: but it seems that Mandani can actually get through to
Speaker 1: the President whenever he wants. And yesterday, maybe if many
Speaker 1: of you maybe have heard about this, a Columbia student
Speaker 1: was detained by Ice, but somehow Mandani was able to
Speaker 1: get her released. Let me show you what happened here
Speaker 1: In it, Columbia student is released from Ice after Mandani
Speaker 1: Trump meeting. Federal officials had misrepresented themselves to gain access,
Speaker 1: According to the university mayor, Zoron Mandani said President Trump
Speaker 1: had told him the student would be let go. The
Speaker 1: articles goes on to say, in a dizzying sequence of events,
Speaker 1: a Columbia University undergraduate arrested by federal immigration agents in
Speaker 1: her college apartment Thursday morning, was released later in the
Speaker 1: day after New York city's mayor intervened directly with President Trump.
Speaker 1: It was the clearest sign yet that Mayor Zoran Mandani,
Speaker 1: who has vocally pos mister Trump on immigration enforcement matters,
Speaker 1: holds enough sway with the President to bend a highly
Speaker 1: charged situation through personal relationship and persuasion. Further, it goes
Speaker 1: on to say, the drama at Columbia began unfolding shortly
Speaker 1: after six am on Thursday, when five plain closed immigration
Speaker 1: agents arrived at the university owned apartment building of the
Speaker 1: student and demanded to be let inside, said Claire Shipman,
Speaker 1: the acting president of Columbia, in a statement released Thursday night.
Speaker 1: The officers falsely told the building superintendent that they were
Speaker 1: from the police department and said they were searching for
Speaker 1: a missing child. The superintendent let the officers in. Miss
Speaker 1: Shipman said, Now, let me also be crystal clear again
Speaker 1: about something. You know, this is not a joke. First
Speaker 1: and foremost, it's the lack of training and the arrogance
Speaker 1: of these many of these ICE agents, not all of them,
Speaker 1: but many of them that's actually creating bigger problems than
Speaker 1: what they're even solving. You know, we talk about the
Speaker 1: number of undocumented individuals that are in this country. We
Speaker 1: hear from the administration that this one's a murderer, rapist,
Speaker 1: a drug dealer or whatever. They're all obviously terrible people
Speaker 1: and they should not be in this country. But then
Speaker 1: what do we find out that it comes out to
Speaker 1: somewhere around thirty percent or less of them who are
Speaker 1: detained actually have any criminal record at all, and here
Speaker 1: to gain access by line by posing as a police
Speaker 1: officer looking for a child. There's something seriously wrong going
Speaker 1: on there now. Mandani, potential Trump whisper, let me show
Speaker 1: you what he posted in it. He wrote, just got
Speaker 1: off the phone with President Trump in our meeting earlier,
Speaker 1: shared my concerns about Columbia student Elmina Agayeva, who was
Speaker 1: detained by Ice this morning. He has just informed me
Speaker 1: that she will be released imminently, and that, of course,
Speaker 1: was after The New York Times had posted the breaking
Speaker 1: news on the immigration arrest of the Columbia University student.
Speaker 1: This is not a joke and the ability of Mandani,
Speaker 1: despite all of the negative things that have been said
Speaker 1: between one to the other, and by the way it's
Speaker 1: been on both sides of the aisle, to be able
Speaker 1: to accomplish this to be able to actually reach the president.
Speaker 1: As the Mayor of New York City tells you a lot. Now,
Speaker 1: I do want to shift gears to another story, another
Speaker 1: horrible story regarding the lack of humanity within ICE. You know,
Speaker 1: many people will turn around and say, I'm not opposed
Speaker 1: to the Department of Homeland Security. Every country has rules
Speaker 1: entry and exit every country. But it's the lack of humanity.
Speaker 1: It's the behavior of some of these ICE agents that
Speaker 1: is so profoundly grotesque. A nearly blind refuge was found
Speaker 1: dead this week after immigration agents dropped him off alone
Speaker 1: at a closed coffee shop. Let me show you the
Speaker 1: article that talks about this nearly blind refugee found dead
Speaker 1: in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at
Speaker 1: a coffee shop alone, the official say. The article goes
Speaker 1: on to say, the death of a nearly blind refugee
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, New York, days after border patrol agents dropped
Speaker 1: him off at a coffee shop alone, has prompted an
Speaker 1: investigation into the circumstances of his final days and drawin
Speaker 1: shop criticism from state and local officials. Nural A Mean
Speaker 1: shah Alam, fifty six years of age, who spoke Little
Speaker 1: English had been missing since February nineteenth, when the agents
Speaker 1: left him at the shop shortly after he was released
Speaker 1: from the Erie County Jail. Officials said his body was
Speaker 1: found five days later around eight thirty pm Tuesday, about
Speaker 1: four miles from the coffee shop. The Buffalo Police Department said.
Speaker 1: The article further goes on to say spokesperson for US
Speaker 1: Customs and Border Protection said border patrol agents offered shah
Speaker 1: Alam a courtesy ride, which he chose to accept to
Speaker 1: a coffee shop determined to be a warm, safe location
Speaker 1: near his last known address, rather than be released directly
Speaker 1: from the Border patrol station. He showed no signs of distress,
Speaker 1: mobility issues, or disabilities requiring special assistance, CBP said. Buffalo
Speaker 1: Police said its homicide detectives are investigating the circumstances and
Speaker 1: time frame of events leading up to his death, following
Speaker 1: his release from custody, and finally, the Border patrol officer
Speaker 1: that had no protocol of what to do with a
Speaker 1: disabled man who doesn't speak English, who was confused and lost,
Speaker 1: and you know what they did. They dropped him at
Speaker 1: a closed coffee shop. That's why we do not cooperate
Speaker 1: with Ice Homeland Security and Border Patrol, Ryan said on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: the mayor called shah Alum's death preventable and insisted CBP
Speaker 1: answer for how and why this happened. New York Congressman
Speaker 1: Tim Kennedy also called for a full and transparent investigation
Speaker 1: at the local, state, and federal levels. Now, look, all
Speaker 1: you need to do is listen to the comments. When
Speaker 1: you turn around, he said, really, so they were so good.
Speaker 1: They were so good. They took him to a place
Speaker 1: that was warm and safe. He had no disabilities, he
Speaker 1: wasn't just the man is blind, he had no shoes,
Speaker 1: he doesn't speak a lick of English. But you're right,
Speaker 1: let's just drop him off somewhere. You think maybe they
Speaker 1: could have found somebody that speaks his language. Maybe they
Speaker 1: could have found a safe place. Maybe they even send
Speaker 1: him to a facility, right, like a housing facility or
Speaker 1: a church, or someplace in that neighborhood where actually he
Speaker 1: would be safe. He wouldn't have to worry about walking
Speaker 1: on the street, maybe mugged, hit by a car, or killed.
Speaker 1: This is so grotesque by these agents, such a lack
Speaker 1: of humanity by these agents. You're right, local, state, and
Speaker 1: federal investigation need to be done. It is these individuals
Speaker 1: that are causing more problems, more problems for all of
Speaker 1: us than people are even talking about. And that's because
Speaker 1: there's so much chaos in our every day lives. Now,
Speaker 1: let me be clear that it's a heartbreaking story, but
Speaker 1: don't worry. Don't worry. The White House is posting motivational
Speaker 1: posts on social media, so more importantly, head over there
Speaker 1: if you need to pick me up, let me show
Speaker 1: you what they posted. Can't stop winning. It's almost Friday.
Speaker 1: You know, I really don't even know how to describe Christinome.
Speaker 1: I really don't I personally believe that she's next to
Speaker 1: go if this administration wants to have any success. It's
Speaker 1: really hard to believe that this investigation is not already
Speaker 1: full blown ongoing, that there's not already a task force
Speaker 1: established within which to find out exactly what happened here
Speaker 1: and more importantly, to hold those countable who need to
Speaker 1: be You just can't take somebody who's blind, doesn't speak
Speaker 1: a lick of English and then just leave them somewhere.
Speaker 1: And please don't tell me that these agents didn't see
Speaker 1: that the coffee shop was closed. And by the way,
Speaker 1: even if the coffee shop was open, Why is it
Speaker 1: the coffee shop's responsibility within which to house him, to
Speaker 1: care for him, find find some local facility that can
Speaker 1: help instead of just abandoning another human being, especially one
Speaker 1: with disabilities. Stories gross, The situation's gross ice has become gross,
Speaker 1: and as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone, First of all,
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