1 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: And hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast. 2 00:00:26,879 --> 00:00:30,960 Happy Thursday. Today's the tenth day of July two thousand 3 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,039 and two, year of Our Lord twenty twenty five. My 4 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,439 name is Tom Sullivan. So what do we have today, 5 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,679 boys and girls. Well, we've got some updates on the 6 00:00:40,719 --> 00:00:45,840 flood floods, I should say, some questions about climate change 7 00:00:46,439 --> 00:00:51,079 being given some sort of blame. We've got ice under 8 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:57,320 attack by agitators, activists and so forth, I mean, like 9 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,920 seriously under attack. Start with the White House doctor doctor 10 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,400 Kevin O'Connor. And this is interesting on a number of 11 00:01:08,519 --> 00:01:14,879 different fronts because doctor O'Connor has two issues that he's facing. 12 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:20,040 One of them is he's a doctor and patients, You 13 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,599 and I, our doctors can't talk publicly, can't talk to 14 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:29,719 anybody about our health, hippo laws, what the doctor treated 15 00:01:29,799 --> 00:01:33,560 us for, what's wrong with us, what medicines we take, 16 00:01:33,599 --> 00:01:38,040 whatever it might be. So doctor O'Connor gets called in 17 00:01:38,079 --> 00:01:42,920 before the House Oversight Committee and is asked about this, 18 00:01:43,159 --> 00:01:47,400 and not only does he not want to talk about 19 00:01:47,439 --> 00:01:53,079 his patient, President Joe Biden, but he also which is 20 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,640 the curious part, is that he took the Fifth Amendment 21 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,120 over and over and over. Here's doctor O'Connor. 22 00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:06,159 Speaker 2: I must respectfully decline to answer based on the physician 23 00:02:06,239 --> 00:02:09,199 patient village and reliance. Am I right under the Fifth 24 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:11,599 Amendment of the Constitution. Am I right under the Fifth 25 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,479 Amendment of the Constitution? Am I right under the Fifth 26 00:02:14,479 --> 00:02:16,719 Amendment of the Constitution. So am I right under the 27 00:02:16,719 --> 00:02:17,960 fifth Amendment at the Constitution. 28 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, so you heard what played? Is the answers back 29 00:02:20,879 --> 00:02:23,759 to back. He every question that was asked was he 30 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:29,120 refused to answer under his Fifth Amendment privilege. So this 31 00:02:29,159 --> 00:02:32,159 gets into the I get the doctor patient thing. I 32 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,199 don't know why he was. Is he worried about committing 33 00:02:36,199 --> 00:02:41,400 a crime? Jonathan Turley, the law professor, he chimes in 34 00:02:41,479 --> 00:02:42,719 on both of those issues. 35 00:02:43,199 --> 00:02:45,719 Speaker 3: Well, you have to keep on repeating that line because 36 00:02:45,759 --> 00:02:49,599 you can't get into any answers without undermining your invocation. 37 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,879 The question is really what Congress will do about it. 38 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,240 They can actually force his testimony by giving him a 39 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,960 grant of immunity. Now, the key about it the patient 40 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:04,520 privilege is that that is often negated in a case 41 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,960 of what's called the crime fraud exception. In fact, even 42 00:03:08,039 --> 00:03:12,800 laws like HIPPA have exceptions for subpoenas and criminal investigations. 43 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:15,800 What the Oversight Committee is saying is we're looking into 44 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:21,000 possible crimes here. These are very serious allegations that even 45 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,280 legislation was signed without the knowledge and consent of the president. 46 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,879 That can be a crime. There's also questions whether perjury 47 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:31,639 might have been committed. So Congress is in a good 48 00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:35,919 position here, but it's likely that O'Connor and maybe even 49 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,159 President Biden could go to court to try to prevent 50 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,199 even his being compelled to testify. I expect that Congress 51 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,319 would likely do it as well. They're not trying to 52 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,680 bag O'Connor, they're trying to get at the truth here. 53 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,560 To keep in mind, the twenty fifth Amendment was designed 54 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,520 to deal with the president who's no longer capable of 55 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,919 carrying out the duties of his office. But it's a 56 00:03:56,919 --> 00:03:59,759 bit of a paper tiger. It doesn't work unless you've 57 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,639 got cooperation of figures like the Vice president and others. 58 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,599 The only other protection we have is Congressional oversight, is 59 00:04:07,639 --> 00:04:10,800 the ability of Congress to look into these matters. This 60 00:04:10,879 --> 00:04:14,680 is long overdue. You know, we had President Wilson who 61 00:04:14,719 --> 00:04:17,839 was effectively out of office when his wife and others 62 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:21,800 were carrying out his functions and he was basically incapable 63 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:25,720 of making any decisions. We really haven't improved much since then. 64 00:04:25,879 --> 00:04:28,040 I mean, the Democrats have their own problems. 65 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 4: You know. 66 00:04:28,199 --> 00:04:32,879 Speaker 3: The Republicans are citing Representative Goldman who said previously that 67 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,839 invoking the fifth Amendments only done when you did something wrong, 68 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,480 and they're quoting that all over the place. But the 69 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:41,360 Democrats can have a hard time convincing the public to 70 00:04:41,399 --> 00:04:44,000 listen to them and not their lying eyes that we 71 00:04:44,079 --> 00:04:48,439 all saw that debate. That was not someone who was 72 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,360 even aware of some of his answers, and so we 73 00:04:52,879 --> 00:04:55,519 this is I don't think this is going to work 74 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:01,120 for them, and this idea that somehow they can sort 75 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,360 of talk this one away is really not going to work. 76 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,800 There's serious questions here. It's unlikely criminal charges are going 77 00:05:07,879 --> 00:05:09,839 to come out of this just because of the nature 78 00:05:09,879 --> 00:05:13,920 of this process. It's possible, but what we do need 79 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,199 our answers. The problem under the twenty fifth Amendment in 80 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,480 our current system is that most there's always people invested 81 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,279 in keeping a president, even a president who looks like 82 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,759 you know, Weekend with Bernie. It's in their advantage to 83 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,000 keep him in office and oversights the only way for 84 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:34,560 us to penetrate that protective cocoon. 85 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: So fascinating from a couple different points. First of all, 86 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,079 the old thing about you certainly have the right to 87 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,680 say that I can't. I won't say anything under my 88 00:05:44,759 --> 00:05:47,759 rights on to the Fifth Amendment. That's because you take 89 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,839 that when you don't want to be incriminating yourself in 90 00:05:51,959 --> 00:05:55,519 a crime. So why would the doctor keep taking the 91 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,720 Fifth Amendment? Did he get involved in some sort of 92 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:03,959 But more importantly, like Turley said, the chances of criminal 93 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:07,399 charges coming out of this are slim to none. But 94 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:11,439 the real issue is the twenty fifth Amendment. It doesn't 95 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:17,120 work because, as Turley said, there's always a group of 96 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:22,560 people that have a stake in keeping their side of 97 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,879 the aisle in power at the White House. They don't 98 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,639 want to get rid of their own guy or gal. 99 00:06:29,439 --> 00:06:31,839 So the twenty fifth Amendment doesn't work. But it was 100 00:06:31,879 --> 00:06:36,879 also interesting that Turley said Congress can under the crime 101 00:06:37,199 --> 00:06:41,920 fraud rules overrule and find out what was going on, 102 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,160 regardless of HIPPA and regardless of the Fifth Amendment. So 103 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,040 if there's a crime fraud rule applied or not. But 104 00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:51,360 I think the point out of all of this with 105 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,480 doctor O'Connor, and he's got himself in a very sticky 106 00:06:55,519 --> 00:06:59,879 position here. The real question is the twenty fifth Amendment 107 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:05,560 does not work. So I would be all for it, 108 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:11,720 deleting it, getting rid of it, and rewriting something so 109 00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:16,199 that when we do have a president that is physically 110 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,800 or mentally unable to do the job, that there is 111 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:24,839 a better system for going in and replacing that. Now, 112 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,319 as totally said, there's always going to be If it's 113 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:31,160 a Democrat president, the Democrats are going to screen bloody murder. 114 00:07:31,399 --> 00:07:34,120 If it's a Republican, Republicans will do the same thing. 115 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,240 I don't know what the answer is, but I'm sure 116 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:40,759 a nice blue ribbon commission of pointy hids could figure 117 00:07:40,759 --> 00:07:45,319 out something better than the twenty fifth Amendment. So we've 118 00:07:45,319 --> 00:07:51,839 got that, and we have Texas and New Mexico with 119 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,399 the flooding. The latest update now one hundred twenty dead, 120 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,279 one hundred and sixty missing. I think the missing are 121 00:07:59,319 --> 00:08:03,560 probably under You've seen the videos of the river and 122 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,240 the trees and the silt and the sand and the 123 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:09,399 dirt and everything. I imagine a lot of them are 124 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:12,839 buried underneath all of that, but it brings up the 125 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:19,680 usual suspect about FEMA, and it brings up the usual 126 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,360 suspect about climate change. Let's start with THEMA, because if 127 00:08:23,439 --> 00:08:27,000 you've listened to my radio show, you knew I have 128 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,920 never been a fan of FEMA. They are not first responders, 129 00:08:31,279 --> 00:08:38,039 and their former administrator, Dian Criswell that it was quick 130 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,440 to say that. I mean, it's no surprise, but people 131 00:08:40,519 --> 00:08:45,559 think they're first responders. Well they're not. And people are 132 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:50,559 criticizing FEMA for taking seventy two hours to show up 133 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,120 in Texas. It was a holiday weekend, on and on 134 00:08:54,159 --> 00:08:57,399 and on. It wasn't something anybody saw coming. I saw 135 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,720 one reporters say, well, why didn't they the Preposeosi. No, 136 00:09:00,879 --> 00:09:04,399 that's what they do for hurricanes when you have the 137 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:07,639 Weather Service saying here comes a hurricane. Nobody saw this 138 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:11,919 one coming. And we've gone over the whole. Everybody's trying 139 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:18,279 to blame somebody, but FEMA, I'm not sure what is 140 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,360 for it. Generally, it comes in after all of a 141 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,440 sudden done. The first ones there are Walmart and their trucks, 142 00:09:25,919 --> 00:09:29,200 and Home Depot with their trucks, and that's sort of 143 00:09:29,879 --> 00:09:33,879 that sort of charitable work that comes from major corporations 144 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,799 come in, bring in food and supplies to help the 145 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,279 people that are in trouble. So it took a while 146 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:45,600 to get there. But that's not the gripe Christinome, who 147 00:09:45,639 --> 00:09:48,480 if you've also listened to my show, you know I'm 148 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:53,080 not a big fan of Christinome, but she's right. She 149 00:09:53,279 --> 00:09:58,120 says this needs to be shut down and put back 150 00:09:58,159 --> 00:10:02,320 together different then it has been run in the past. 151 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,759 And what they've done in the past is nothing to 152 00:10:05,919 --> 00:10:07,399 write home about. Here's Christino. 153 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 5: Federal Emergency Management should be stayed and locally led rather 154 00:10:12,279 --> 00:10:16,240 than how it has operated for decades. It has been 155 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:19,399 slow to respond at the federal level. It's even been 156 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,600 slower to get the resources to Americans in crisis, and 157 00:10:22,639 --> 00:10:26,320 that is why this entire agency needs to be eliminated 158 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,720 as it exists today and remade into a responsive agency. 159 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:32,799 Speaker 1: First of all, it's a government agency, so you're not 160 00:10:32,879 --> 00:10:39,159 expecting a lot from them. They're bureaucratic in slow and 161 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,919 again they usually come into a community. If you think 162 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:45,240 they're going to rebuild your house, you know, think again. 163 00:10:45,519 --> 00:10:48,519 What they usually do is bring in money for the 164 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,519 local government. If city hall was damaged, They'll repair City 165 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,759 Hall if the if police cars were damaged, they'll replace 166 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,679 the police cars. They write checks for or mostly public 167 00:11:01,919 --> 00:11:05,759 government agencies. Do they help out. I've had people call 168 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:09,399 and say that they've got some help. But if you 169 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,200 think they're going to rebuild your house, now, that's not 170 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,759 what FEMA does. So I don't have the answer. Like 171 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:20,000 I said, they need a Blue Ribbon commission to point 172 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,559 he heads, to sit down and say what is what 173 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,399 is the answer for the twenty fifth Amendment and also 174 00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:29,039 for how are we going to get a government agency 175 00:11:29,399 --> 00:11:33,320 that is not bureaucratic that can respond to national emergencies. 176 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,840 I'm not sure if that's possible, but I do applaud 177 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:44,399 their efforts to reinvent FEMA in many many ways, which 178 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:47,360 also brings up the people that are now pointing and 179 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,519 saying see, see see I tell you it's that climate change, 180 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,600 climate change and thinking about it, and the people that 181 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,639 are pro climate change have done a horrible job of 182 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,679 trying to sell it to the public. Harry Enton has 183 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:02,799 some of the numbers on this. 184 00:12:03,039 --> 00:12:05,759 Speaker 4: Yeah, are Americans afraid of climate change? And the answer 185 00:12:05,879 --> 00:12:10,559 is Americans aren't afraid of climate change. Climate activists have 186 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,799 not successfully made the case to the American people. I 187 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,000 want you to take a look here. Greatly worried about 188 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,399 climate change? We have data going all the way back 189 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,159 since nineteen hundred and eighty nine. Look at that. It 190 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,279 was thirty five percent, two thousand forty percent, twenty twenty 191 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,559 forty six percent, and twenty twenty five forty percent, which 192 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,519 is the exact same percentage as back in two thousand. 193 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,200 Despite all of these horrible weather events, the percentage of 194 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,240 Americans who are greatly worried about climate change has stayed 195 00:12:36,519 --> 00:12:40,559 pretty gosh darn consistent, which kind of boggles the mind 196 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,759 a little bit. Granted, everything that we see on our 197 00:12:42,759 --> 00:12:46,159 television screens, our computer screens, the hurricanes, tornadoes, the flooding, 198 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,120 but yet greatly worried about climate change forty percent twenty 199 00:12:49,159 --> 00:12:51,879 twenty five, the exact same percentage is back in two thousand. 200 00:12:52,399 --> 00:12:55,120 Why it's because people are not worried that it's necessarily 201 00:12:55,159 --> 00:12:57,759 gonn effect them. That's what's going on here. You'll be 202 00:12:57,799 --> 00:13:02,000 a natural disaster victim often or sometimes worried. Look at this. 203 00:13:02,399 --> 00:13:05,080 In two thousand and six, it was thirty eight percent. 204 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,360 Look at where we are now in twenty twenty five 205 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:10,679 it's thirty two percent, thirty eight percent to thirty percent. 206 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,320 The number has actually gone down. The number's gone down 207 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:15,720 in terms of the percentage of Americans who where they'll 208 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,559 be a natural disaster victim, such as a hurricane or 209 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:22,200 a tornado. Okay, so right now we're looking at the present, right, 210 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:23,600 what about going into the future. 211 00:13:23,639 --> 00:13:24,519 Speaker 6: That's all this talk. 212 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 4: You know, maybe Miami might be underwater at some point, right, 213 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:30,600 but yet when it comes to climate change effect on 214 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,240 my home area, will be harder to stay. Look at 215 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,799 this all adults, it's just seventeen percent. It's just seventeen percent. 216 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,320 The GOP is six percent, Independence is six percent. Even 217 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:45,720 Democrats here, it's just twenty seven percent of Democrats who 218 00:13:45,759 --> 00:13:48,240 say that climate change will make it harder to stay 219 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:50,159 in our area. And I think this is what's so important. 220 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,919 This is across the aisle in terms of the percentage 221 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:54,600 who say all's hard to stay in their area. And 222 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:56,799 that is the exact same thing that we see here. 223 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,960 When you'll be a natural disaster victim, under fifty percent 224 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:04,120 of Democrats, Republicans, and independents believe that in fact they 225 00:14:04,159 --> 00:14:06,399 could be or at least worry about the chance that 226 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,120 they be a natural disaster victim. 227 00:14:08,159 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 6: Any right. 228 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,399 Speaker 4: They may worry about in the abstract, but when it 229 00:14:10,399 --> 00:14:12,559 comes to their own lives, they don't worry. 230 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,879 Speaker 1: So so much. For climate change worriers, they're not. Most 231 00:14:16,919 --> 00:14:19,240 people are not worried about it. I found an interesting 232 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:23,759 Republicans only six percent thought it would affect them, Independent 233 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:28,559 sixteen percent, Democrats twenty seven percent. Democrats, you're worrying very little, 234 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,279 but you're worrying much more than Republicans and Independents. So 235 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,600 it's but he wants to blame climate change, and there's 236 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:38,159 a lot there has been a lot of money that's 237 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,879 been thrown at it. It's a great business to get into, 238 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,960 I guess, because you can make a lot of money 239 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:47,039 in it. But people, even with these terrible stories about 240 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,840 the floods in Texas and New Mexico and South Carolina, 241 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,480 that people are just going probably won't happen to me 242 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,440 though they don't worry about it, and it hasn't. This 243 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,120 has been pretty consistent on when we come around to 244 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,039 election time too, about what's the most important thing affecting America. 245 00:15:06,279 --> 00:15:09,159 Climate change is usually at the bottom. We're going to 246 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:12,639 talk about ice and the attacks on ICE. This is 247 00:15:12,679 --> 00:15:17,639 not this is not just some passing story. We have Antifa, 248 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:23,000 we've got anarchists, we've got professional protesters that are out 249 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,240 there and getting communities riled up to the point where 250 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,360 they're running around finding out where ICE is and going 251 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:35,720 after them. I remind you again, ICE is a law 252 00:15:35,879 --> 00:15:40,240 enforcement agency. It's a police department. Their job is to 253 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:45,000 go on immigration and customs and enforce those laws. And 254 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,960 yet people are turning against them. And there was a 255 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,720 bunch of Democrats on one of the cable channels last 256 00:15:51,799 --> 00:15:56,320 night talking about the fact that these people are kidnapping 257 00:15:56,399 --> 00:16:01,960 citizens and putting them in concentration camps. Now they're not 258 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:07,320 kidnapping them, they're arresting them. That's what's called. And if 259 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,000 there were upwards of twenty million people that came into 260 00:16:11,039 --> 00:16:14,559 this country just in the prior four years, let alone 261 00:16:14,879 --> 00:16:19,919 the prior decades, there's a lot of illegals in our country. 262 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,399 And if it does go this whole thing about well, 263 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:27,600 I want you to get the criminals, and they said 264 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,879 they would get the criminals first, But what is turning 265 00:16:29,919 --> 00:16:32,720 out to be is that if they've got the bead 266 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,799 on some criminal that is here, illegally, and they go 267 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,840 into a home or an apartment or a business and 268 00:16:41,879 --> 00:16:45,120 they find that person. They also asked the other people 269 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:48,159 to produce ID and they're finding out that they're hanging 270 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:50,720 out with other people that may not be criminals, but 271 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:53,759 they're in the country illegally, which is a crime in 272 00:16:53,799 --> 00:16:57,360 and of itself. But the people on the cable channel 273 00:16:57,399 --> 00:17:00,600 last night, we're talking about they're kidnapping citizens. No, they're 274 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:05,880 not kidnapping citizens, and they're putting them in concentration camps. 275 00:17:06,519 --> 00:17:11,200 They're borrowing words from the Nazis in World War Two. 276 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,880 They're not concentration camps. They're detention centers, and they process 277 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:20,039 them and then move them out of the country. And 278 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,519 the courts was it yesterday or the day before, I'm 279 00:17:23,559 --> 00:17:26,720 losing track of time. The Supreme Court came out and said, yes, 280 00:17:27,279 --> 00:17:31,640 the executive branch, the president can in fact do a 281 00:17:31,759 --> 00:17:35,319 couple things. One is send these people out of the country. 282 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:39,599 And secondly, you can also cut back on the employees 283 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,400 that work for the federal government. So President Trump, by 284 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,160 the time these things go through the court system, is 285 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,640 getting more and more wins. But this is this is 286 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,119 something that when they go back and they ask people 287 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,880 that voted for Donald Trump the number of people who 288 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,039 voted for him in twenty twenty four, and they said, 289 00:18:01,079 --> 00:18:03,839 what was the reason. What was the number one reason 290 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,559 you voted for Donald Trump? Eighty eight percent chose as 291 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:13,799 number one immigration. And that also brings up the whole 292 00:18:13,839 --> 00:18:18,200 point about the number of people that are asked a 293 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:23,559 huge percentage. It's in the fifties to sixty percent range. Says, 294 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,279 I'm not worry about whether they're criminals or not. All illegals. 295 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,960 Every person that's illegally in our country should be deported. 296 00:18:33,759 --> 00:18:37,920 So I understand that there are illegals that have been 297 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,359 in this country for some time and they're trying to 298 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,799 get a better life, but they know they've got to 299 00:18:44,839 --> 00:18:48,079 be looking over their shoulder the whole time. They really 300 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,279 can't go out and get a good job because they 301 00:18:51,279 --> 00:18:54,720 don't have the documents. I know they try, and some 302 00:18:54,799 --> 00:18:58,119 employers take advantage of that, but generally, if you're in 303 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,359 a country and you're not legally supposed to be there, 304 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,720 wouldn't you be looking over your shoulder. So there's all 305 00:19:04,799 --> 00:19:07,240 these stories about these people are afraid to go out 306 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,359 of their homes. I would be too. If you know 307 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,759 that the cops are looking for you. And that's what 308 00:19:12,839 --> 00:19:16,359 I say, is they're cops. If you know they're looking 309 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,799 for you, of course you're going to be careful about 310 00:19:20,279 --> 00:19:25,000 when you wander outside of your home. John Fetterman, he 311 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,039 chimed in on this, again refuting a lot of the 312 00:19:29,079 --> 00:19:33,559 Democrats speech. John Fetterman is supportive of the deportation. 313 00:19:34,319 --> 00:19:38,880 Speaker 7: ICE agents are just doing their job and I fully 314 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:45,480 support that. And for me and people in my party, 315 00:19:45,559 --> 00:19:48,480 might you know, want to abolish it or you know, 316 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:53,000 treat them as criminals or anything that's that's inappropriate and outrageous. 317 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:59,519 ICE performs an important an important job for our nation. 318 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, they do. And the problem with all this is 319 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:07,200 there are people that are now armed and shooting at 320 00:20:07,279 --> 00:20:11,839 ICE agents. This is way beyond just some protesters out 321 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,720 in the street. So Hakim Jeffries, the leader of the 322 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:19,480 Democrat Party in the House of Representatives, was asked about this, 323 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,519 and well, let's put it this way. He really didn't 324 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,559 call out the rioters. See this is his muttering. 325 00:20:27,279 --> 00:20:29,559 Speaker 6: What we are in a more is more environment in 326 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,200 terms of the unprecedented assault on the American way of 327 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,319 life and our country that has been launched by Donald 328 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,599 Trump and compliant House Republicans. 329 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not exactly calling out the people that are 330 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,759 violently attacking the ice officers. No, he's not calling out 331 00:20:46,799 --> 00:20:50,400 the rioters at all. And the Democrats people are watching 332 00:20:50,799 --> 00:20:53,759 and they're listening, and they're thinking, so, you're on the 333 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:57,720 side of the illegals. You're on the side of the people. 334 00:20:57,799 --> 00:21:00,519 The MS thirteen all the way down to people that 335 00:21:00,559 --> 00:21:03,799 are in our country illegally, in a heavy majority of 336 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,640 people in poll after poll after poll say they want 337 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,960 all illegals to port it. And the Democrats are coming 338 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,559 out and going, yeah, we're not really for that. And oh, 339 00:21:15,559 --> 00:21:17,680 by the way, the attack on our way of life, 340 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,000 how about the attack with guns on ice agents, ace, 341 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:27,480 ice police anything. They're hakey, not a word. Mary Catherine 342 00:21:27,519 --> 00:21:30,200 Ham has an observation about all of this. 343 00:21:30,759 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 8: Now here's the thing. Democrats never miss an opportunity to 344 00:21:33,519 --> 00:21:36,240 miss the point. In an environment where fifty and sixty 345 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,079 plus percent of Americans say yes, we should deport all 346 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,400 illegal aliens. That's not criminal immigrants, this is just all 347 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,160 of them in repeated polls. And we have an environment 348 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,400 where there's ten people arrested in Texas, there's a shooting 349 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,880 on an officer. There are plots for mass murder going 350 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,480 on here, And they say, you know what the problem 351 00:21:54,519 --> 00:21:58,119 is the masks. The masks on law enforcement. Law enforcement 352 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,279 is not perfect, and they should be held accountable. But 353 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:02,839 this idea that we're going to play along with Democrats 354 00:22:02,839 --> 00:22:05,400 in their little game of Calvin ball when they decide 355 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,319 when masks are virtuous and when they're bad, is ridiculous. 356 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,960 They're not speaking to the needs or the desires of 357 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,640 voters at all. And the only people they do listen 358 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:18,279 to are the folks quoted in that Axio piece who 359 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:21,559 are their far left activists. Also that piece noted that 360 00:22:21,599 --> 00:22:25,599 they are often white, suburban and affluent. Big surprise that say, 361 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,839 you know, revolution, you guys have to get shot for 362 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,799 the movement. This is wild stuff. And Rocana, I'll give 363 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,720 him a shout out. Democrat Rocana in that article said, 364 00:22:34,799 --> 00:22:37,079 I think maybe we should hwe some more messaging about, 365 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,400 you know, fealty to the constitution and staying within the 366 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,480 norms and such. But they have spent the entire Trump 367 00:22:43,519 --> 00:22:48,839 era rationalizing whatever they want to do, tons of bad behavior, 368 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,680 corruption inside government, violence outside of it. By saying Trump 369 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,599 is special extraordinary threat. Right, They are continuing to do that, 370 00:22:56,839 --> 00:22:59,480 and it is very bad for luring, very bad for 371 00:22:59,519 --> 00:23:01,400 wooing vote, and it's very bad for the countries. 372 00:23:01,519 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 6: Yeah. 373 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:03,559 Speaker 8: I mean, look, I think support is going to go 374 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,039 up for law enforcement, and law enforcement is simply trying 375 00:23:06,079 --> 00:23:07,960 to do its job. I was so disappointed to see 376 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,240 in La Okay, so LA says and on many blue 377 00:23:10,279 --> 00:23:12,400 cities say we will not cooperate with you. You know, 378 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,519 it would be a really easy way to not have 379 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,640 ice come into your city is to cooperate with detainers 380 00:23:17,799 --> 00:23:20,599 and hand over criminal aliens who are in your system. 381 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,000 They refuse to do that. So these officers come into 382 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,839 La to do the job that they are tasked with 383 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,279 doing that has inherent risk, and what do they get, 384 00:23:27,319 --> 00:23:30,000 no force protection. They get attacked by the folks on 385 00:23:30,039 --> 00:23:32,440 the street. They try their best to defend themselves and 386 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,920 conducted themselves extremely well, and Democrats are like, yeah, masks, 387 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:38,640 let's get the masks off of them. I mean, it's 388 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:41,799 just so missing the point. And this would all be 389 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,559 easier if blue cities would say, yes, let us help 390 00:23:45,599 --> 00:23:48,119 you in a civilized manner to enforce the law. 391 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 6: That is very clearly that's going to happen. 392 00:23:50,279 --> 00:23:53,559 Speaker 1: So it is interesting the fact that they could have 393 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,880 cooperation with the LAPD and when they're ready to release 394 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,799 somebody from a jail, they have a detainer they call ICE. 395 00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:02,359 ICE comes over to the jail, picks them up and 396 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,200 in custody and out they go. They don't have to 397 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,880 go chase them down in the street or a park somewhere. 398 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,720 I think it's worrying some people is that you see 399 00:24:10,759 --> 00:24:14,640 the ICE agents and they're in civilian clothes with a 400 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,559 vest on and on the back of the vest it 401 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,839 says police or it says ICE, and they're in civilian 402 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,680 cards and they've got the masks on. Because what's going 403 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,559 on is in fact, I'll play this clip for you. 404 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,519 Todd what's his name, todd Lyons, he's the acting ICE director, 405 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,240 talks about the fact that the Antifa and those people 406 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:38,160 are taking photos of the ICE officers and figuring out 407 00:24:38,279 --> 00:24:41,599 who they are, where they live, and then threatening them 408 00:24:41,599 --> 00:24:44,319 in their personal lives. Here's todd Lyons. 409 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 9: You can see from all the video too, right they 410 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,119 say the ICE agents they don't they're not properly marked. 411 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,359 You see them in their tactical gear, in their vest 412 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:56,599 where you know, you see blaming ce FBI, atf ICE, 413 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,759 HSI ero, whoever's out with us. So the Mayor's claim 414 00:24:59,839 --> 00:25:02,960 that just totally falls. And what she's doing is making 415 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 people afraid of us. If you know, La wasn't a 416 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,119 sanctuary city, we wouldn't have to go on the streets. 417 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,079 If they turned these criminals over to us in a 418 00:25:10,079 --> 00:25:13,039 secure setting, we would not be out there. So what 419 00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:15,799 the mayorage doing is she's stoking the flames of this 420 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,759 and she's the one that's making it worse. 421 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 6: Than what it really is. 422 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,640 Speaker 9: Like, like we have talked before, if you looked at 423 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,160 the beginning of this administration, who looked even in December 424 00:25:23,279 --> 00:25:26,240 November last year, we weren't wearing masks. ICE agents weren't 425 00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:28,720 wearing masks because they weren't afraid of their information being docks, 426 00:25:28,759 --> 00:25:32,119 their photos taken, addresses posted. But as you've seen the 427 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:35,279 steady increase of when we started doing our law enforcement mission, 428 00:25:35,759 --> 00:25:39,720 that's when you saw, you know, these left wing activists, 429 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:43,680 these groups start posting the names, faces of ICE agents, officers, 430 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,720 and their families. So while I'm not a fan of 431 00:25:46,759 --> 00:25:49,400 the masks, I think we could do a better, but 432 00:25:49,759 --> 00:25:51,799 we need to protect our agents and officers, and I 433 00:25:51,799 --> 00:25:53,720 fully support them in that. I say it's in need 434 00:25:54,039 --> 00:25:56,039 because they need to protect their families, they need to 435 00:25:56,039 --> 00:25:57,519 go home safe at night. And if you just look 436 00:25:57,559 --> 00:26:01,000 at the ambush in Texas, just Rea, that's a pure 437 00:26:01,039 --> 00:26:04,400 sign right there that this rhetoric is really stepping up 438 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,240 the violence and it's getting worse. 439 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: Here is a Congresswoman PayPal from Seattle and the Mayor 440 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,240 of Chicago, Brandon Johnson Wane. 441 00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:15,039 Speaker 8: In all this, some of the most inspiring things have 442 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,920 been when people encircle courtrooms and refuse to allow ICE. 443 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:25,319 Speaker 1: Agents in our local police department will not ever cooperate 444 00:26:26,079 --> 00:26:30,359 with ICE. So that was Congresswoman PayPal from Seattle and 445 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,039 the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson. Brandon Johnson went on 446 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,880 to say, it doesn't matter what constitutional authority they have, 447 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,400 we will not obey them, or put up with them, 448 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:45,839 or allow them to do anything in the city of Chicago. 449 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,599 So we got all this baloney thrown at is about 450 00:26:50,079 --> 00:26:52,480 Donald Trump is going to be a threat to democracy, 451 00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:54,440 and Joe Biden was going out there about he was 452 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,640 going to save democracy, and yet the mayor of Chicago 453 00:26:59,279 --> 00:27:03,440 is saying that doesn't matter about their constitutional authority. We 454 00:27:03,599 --> 00:27:06,519 are going to disobey that we don't care about the 455 00:27:06,599 --> 00:27:14,079 constitutional authority. Isn't that really the essence of anti democracy. 456 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 9: It's so frustrating because all we're actually doing is our 457 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,519 law enforced emission that we've constitutionally sworn to do. And 458 00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:23,759 when you look at a lot of the instances that 459 00:27:23,759 --> 00:27:26,279 we've done recently, you hear a lot of elected fishal say, 460 00:27:26,279 --> 00:27:28,240 if ICE has a criminal warrant, if ICE has a 461 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,880 warrant signed by a judge, or a search warrant, Well, 462 00:27:31,079 --> 00:27:33,039 now we do, and we're out there doing a law 463 00:27:33,079 --> 00:27:35,319 enforced oubmission, and they still don't like what they're doing, 464 00:27:35,319 --> 00:27:37,960 what we're doing. And the more they say this, these 465 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,880 crazy rhetorics that they won't work with us, or they're 466 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,720 happy when they circle a court room or they stop 467 00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:46,000 an ICE arrest, all they're doing is putting the public 468 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:48,279 at risk, and they're putting ICE offices and agents at risk. 469 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,519 It's their rhetoric, and what they're saying is what's making 470 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:53,759 the situation worse and what's really putting my men and 471 00:27:53,799 --> 00:27:56,799 women every day in harm's way. Because like you showed 472 00:27:56,799 --> 00:28:00,960 that graph, the increase is alarming and it's danger. You 473 00:28:01,039 --> 00:28:05,960 have ice agents being hit, you know, being struck by vehicles, well, 474 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,680 being shot at. Never in my whole credit, I think 475 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,079 that would happen for doing your law enforcement mission. 476 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,319 Speaker 1: All right, let's talk money, wrap up the podcast for today. 477 00:28:15,319 --> 00:28:18,240 First of all, it's Thursday. So the Thursday morning jobs 478 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:21,559 numbers came out two hundred and twenty seven thousand first 479 00:28:21,599 --> 00:28:24,880 time jobless claims versus an estimate of two hundred and 480 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:29,720 thirty five thousand, so pretty much as expected. The continuing 481 00:28:29,799 --> 00:28:33,079 claims up ten thousand, up to a million, nine hundred 482 00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:37,240 and seventy thousand. That's also been gradually creeping up, but 483 00:28:37,319 --> 00:28:43,119 not a lot. It looks like the job market is 484 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:49,160 still steady, it's still strong, and the first time jobs 485 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,559 claims seemed to be pretty much in the same territory 486 00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:54,920 as far as the tariffs go. Just as we were 487 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,920 leaving the program yesterday, we got word that the President 488 00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:00,799 was going to put a forty percent terriff on copper. 489 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,599 It turned out where later in the evening last night 490 00:29:05,359 --> 00:29:10,519 they changed that to fifty percent. Fifty percent tariff on copper, 491 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,799 and copper is in a lot of things that you 492 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:19,559 and I own, So we'll see how that plays out. 493 00:29:19,839 --> 00:29:26,319 And Brazil president said he's putting a tariff on everything 494 00:29:26,359 --> 00:29:30,160 coming from Brazil, and the reason for that is because 495 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:37,000 of he's unhappy with Bolsnaro's elect with the courts in 496 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,000 Brazil going after Bolsonaro, and so as a result, he 497 00:29:41,359 --> 00:29:45,519 put a tariff on I think it was two hundred 498 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:49,160 percent on everything coming from Brazil. The weird part about 499 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,359 that is this is totally a political tool to him. 500 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,680 This is not an economic tool because we have a 501 00:29:57,759 --> 00:30:03,079 trade surplus with Brazil. So this, I'm sorry, doesn't make 502 00:30:03,119 --> 00:30:05,799 any sense to me. But tariffs, you know, I don't 503 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,839 like them. Wall Street they were fine with everything today. 504 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:15,319 The DAFT shows industrials up one hundred and ninety two 505 00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,400 to forty four thousand and six point fifty, SMP up 506 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,599 seventeen nasdak up nineteen, gold up twelve dollars to thirty 507 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:28,440 three thirty three, and the price of oil fell a 508 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,759 buck and a half. It's down to sixty six dollars 509 00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:34,400 and some change for one barrel of oil. Thank you 510 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,640 for coming by today, have yourself a wonderful rest of 511 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,160 your day, and will see you tomorrow.