The Majority Report with Sam Seder - 2519 - Mike Lee Melts Down, Iran Tensions Rise, NYC Comptroller Arrested by ICE, CA Sues Feds w/ Rob Bonta

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

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On the program today, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, on the various lawsuits California has whose outcomes could determine just how easy it is for Donald Trump to become more of an authoritarian. Also on the program today, speaking of authoritarian, Israel continues to trade missile strikes with Iran as it continues to slaughter Palestinians in Gaza. Trump leaves the G7 meeting in Canada early because he felt awkward. And signs may be that the U.S. is about to enter the Israel. Iran War. It could be a little awkward to tell

our allies were roping everybody into World War III. I just don't like everybody laughing at me. Trump not interested in the political assassinations in Minnesota as Mike Lee refusing to apologize for his

failed troll. Ice reverses on their reversal will go after farm workers and service workers after all meanwhile Senate releases language on its reconciliation

and it's worse than the houses but it happens to be polling worse than that Genius Act now set to pass with 18 Democratic votes allowing Trump's scam

and potentially shattering our financial regulation system. Bernie Sanders endorses Zoran Mondamni in New York mayoral race. Russia kills 15, injures over 100

after a missile drone strike in Kiev. The jury finds Mike Pillow guy guilty of defamation going to cost him $2 million. How many dollars? How many

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Hello, everybody. It's me. I'm married. That's the truth. That's what happened over the weekend. And, you know, I was waiting until after it happened to reveal. I told Matt, actually, that you know how superstitious I am, right? the planner who was helping us told me

that if you bury a sausage in the ground that you won't get rain on your wedding day I went to the bodega I said can I have an egg sausage sandwich but hold everything except the sausage the guy was like okay and I was like can I also have a spoon because I'm going to need to find a way

to bury this in the park there's some drone footage out there of me like last week burying this sausage in the park and it's pretty embarrassing, I'd imagine, if everyone, anyone would be able to get a hold of it. And it rained anyway. So I just didn't do it the right way, I think. I was just going to say, not a sausage patty. I know, I got the patty.

I think that was my. It has to be a sausage encased in sausage casing for that to work. I didn't work, but, you know, I'm choosing to believe the other superstition that rained on the wedding days. so good luck for the marriage well we we alluded to this yesterday but uh the wedding was spectacular everybody had a lot of fun it was so great to have you guys really a fun wedding you got to meet my crazy friends got to meet you crazy friends um you got to hear some speeches i mean my my my sister and my my best friend and then my husband's brother really knocked out the part i think park i think but like um it was uh i thought everybody was pretty

gave a great speech. Every single person. Right, there you go. Also, shout out the band. Oh, the band, yes. Okay, got to say, because there were some MR fans in the band. Shout out to the Bud Maltin band. They were, I mean, everyone said that they were awesome, right?

They were pretty damn good. That three great singers, like a whole bunch of great musicians is fantastic. I had my friend who was there. They played her wedding before, so I had seen how they tear it up, and I made sure to hire them. and they gave us a, you know, nice deal because they were fans of the show. So shout out to the Bud Maltin band.

There you guys. Yeah, that was a lot of fun. All right, and now let's get back to the crab show. Did I miss anything? Yes. The best part was Friday night. We hung out with your friends, and we were all talking like,

we can't tell Emma what's going on with Israel and Iran, or the wedding will probably get canceled. and also my husband to be was there i guess apparently too because we stayed separately so he was at the hotel and uh yeah i was trying to avoid my phone but by friday night i'd had a few drinks and i couldn't help but scroll and you know that's of course uh emma gets a couple drinks in her and then it's off to the races with uh looking up being on my phone on twitter um all right well maybe uh you saw this uh Emma now we want to put this back up because i'm still shocked that this thing this is not a screen grab right this is

this tweet is still the tweet right now this is still this tweet is still up it is from based mike lee who also happens to be a senator when he's not being based on twitter and it's a picture of a killer of a democratic lawmaker and his uh and uh her husband um in minnesota this guy tried to shot two other um uh folks who are also involved in democratic politics and And Mike Lee, based upon a quick sort of like internet rumor, was the case that this guy had been appointed to some type of commission in the state. Newsflash, most governors don't just appoint Republicans or Democrats. They will sometimes appoint just all sorts of different people to commissions like they're

supposed to. And Mike Lee tweeted out, this is what happens when Marxists don't get their way talking about the murder of two people and a picture at the guy on their

doorstep about to assassinate them. And aside, I mean, even if it turned out that this guy was not a virulent right winger, religious fanatic ultra-conservative

like an anti-abortion extremists, right? He'd done some weird sermons in Africa about that were vaguely anti-trans. Oh yeah. And and had a manifesto of a list of democratic politicians in the state

and was clearly like just circling around hitting as many people as he could Mike Lee for some reason has not taken the video down and he was questioned yesterday I mean not the video

the post and he was questioned yesterday by reporters because it is because Senator Tina Smith from Minnesota apparently approached him and certainly there was a

an email or I should say an email or a letter sent from Tina Smith's deputy chief of staff to Mike Lee top staffers but here is

well let's look at the what the screenshots are let's look at number 11 sorry about that here it is I knew Melissa Hortman many people in this office did she was a longtime friend of Senator Smith

who had seen her hours before she was murdered so you'll forgive my candid as I speak through enormous grief. It's important for your office to know how much additional pain you've caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend. I'm not sure what compelled you or your boss to say those things, which in addition to being unconscionable also may very well be untrue. Well, it turns out like almost 100% untrue. Yeah, he had a manifesto, and there were like a dozen lawmakers on it, all Democrats. But that's not the point.

Why would you use the awesome power of the United States Senate office to compound people's grief. Is this how your team measures success using the office a U.S. Senator to post not just one, but a series of jokes at about assassination? Is that a successful day of work on Team Lee? Did you come into the office Monday and feel proud of the work you did over the weekend? Let's recap Saturday so you fully understand what Minnesota was going through. Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered. Senator Hoffman and his wife were shot numerous times and remain hospitalized. By the grace of God, it appears they're going to survive. Senators are discovered to be on a hit list of an armed man on the run, Senator Lee's colleagues.

And the decision of the office center, Mike Lee, was not to publicly condemn the violence or to express, uh, oh, sorry, uh, or to express grief. It was to intimate that Melissa and Mark somehow deserve this by making jokes. Did you have any consideration for the survivors and her family, for the Hoffman's in the hospital, for their families? You exploited the murder of a lifetime public servant and a husband to post some sick burns about Democrats. Did you see this as an excellent opportunity to get likes in a retweet? Have you absolutely no conscience, no decency?

He goes on to say, I pray to God that none of you ever go through anything like this. Yeah, I mean, Hortman, she helped pass, I think, universal child care in Minnesota. She also helped pass legalization of cannabis. She was doing work to make the state better. So Mike Lee was approached by reporters yesterday after this letter was released. And not only, again, Lee has not taken down the post. There's no one here who has not tweeted out something that they probably regretted. But to leave this up,

and here is Tina Smith talking to Mike Lee and just even the body language this guy's such a douchebag it's unbelievable the the need to I guess portray himself as a macho in some fashion

just bleeds through that that picture and just the fact that he won't take down the post immaturity is somehow macho And is it macho to not answer Like this is not macho

This He but when someone comes up to you With a camera reporter And they ask you to your face About what you did Look at how this Supposed Macho man runs away Can you tell us about your conversation

With Federsmith Do you regret your tweet Do you stand by the posts that you made on X? Have you had a productive conversation about that post? Is that what the senator wanted to speak to you about? What do you think of the meeting you just came from? There it is. How macho, running, running away from questions.

That little twerp holding up his iPad in front of you is. protect him I mean it really is just fascinating the and then you know to portray himself

as some type of like you know libertarian this is all just part of the authoritarian crap that's going on we got more to talk about this in a moment we're going to be talking to

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All right, quick break. Be right back with California Attorney General Rob Bonta on the various lawsuits that California has against the president of the United States, one of which is in a court of appeals today. We are back, Sam Cedar, Emma Viglin on the Majority Report, joining us now. California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, Attorney General, thanks so much for joining us. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. So today, in a federal appeals court, the case of the case of, The suit that the state of California has brought against President Trump's and his supposed authority to deploy the National Guard and Marines to L.A. is going to be heard.

Give us the sort of the backstory on this, because over the past week, we've had essentially two different rulings. that's the way that these things go. But just give us a timeline that brings us up today in this case. Sure. Two weekends ago on a Saturday, we started seeing some aggressive ice raids in Los Angeles. We saw some protests, nearly all peaceful. And we also saw some violence, some agitators getting involved in unlawful conduct. And what was done is,

is what is always done. Law enforcement started cracking down on the crimes, and the sheriff in the L.A. Police Department got involved, and then we saw an executive order from the president calling in the National Guard to L.A. and invoking a statute. It's called 10 U.S.C. 12406. And it requires the presence of a rebellion or an invasion or the inability of the federal government to execute the laws, none of which were present also requires to cooperate. of the governor. By the time the National Guard got to LA, they came to quiet streets. And we brought a lawsuit the following Monday, a temporary restraining order, the following Tuesday. We had a hearing the following Thursday. And we secured a restraining order from Judge Breyer

and the United States District Court. The federal government, it said that the federal government had acted unlawfully, violated that statute I just referenced, also violated the Constitution, the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which gives states rights, and the federal government immediately moved for what's called an administrative stay. It's a procedural move that doesn't address the case on the merits in the Ninth Circuit quickly granted that stay while they set a quick briefing schedule to have the merits considered before them. The case is now briefed before the Ninth Circuit panel, three-judge panel. We have a hearing today at noon, and nothing has changed since we secured the order in front of Judge Breyer,

except for the potential of potentially additional unlawful conduct by the military that have been deployed in L.A. And we remain confident in our case. Strong fact, strong law. We should have an order later today. But, of course, you know, there's no guarantees. And with this three-judge panel, while we do feel confident, obviously there's no certainty here.

the statute that the administration cited they need to when they when they federalize the national guard they need to state what authority they're doing it under does that statute uh and and your argument is that the statute of is valid but the facts are this is an argument on the on the facts the facts do not rise to the level that the statute calls for in terms of federalization How does that statute refer to the Marines? Like, is there a different, is the U.S. military, the authority needed to essentially have the U.S. military do this type of function different than that of the National Guard? It is, and you're exactly right. The California National Guard is a joint operation. It's generally under the command of the commander-in-chief, Governor Gavin. Houston, the governor of California, unless there's a statutory, specific statutory authority for the president to become the commander-in-chief. And it needs to be triggered by the facts being

present that the statute contemplates. And here it contemplates a rebellion or an invasion or the inability to execute the laws. Again, none of which are present. But yes, you're right. The statute is a real statute, 10 U.S.C. 12-406, but the facts that would give the authority that the president wants are not present at all on the ground and not even close. The statute invoked to bringing the National Guard is with respect to the National Guard. The Marines are separate. They are required to comply with the Pasi Kamatatus Act, which basically says that the military should not be used for civil and civilian law enforcement. And so it's unclear under what authority the Marines were mobilized. The Insurrection Act has not been invoked, and the Posse Comitatis

Act is in full effect. So the Marines, we believe, and the National Guard, that their mission is to protect federal property, personnel, and functions. And that's very concerning because protecting functions like immigration enforcement means going out into neighborhoods, communities, out into the field, could include arrest and detention, search, and seizure, all of which would violate the Possecomitatis Act. So is your challenge to the administration two-pronged? Is it addressing the 10 U.S.C. 12406 authority to basically saying that it didn't meet the threshold to federalized? the Guard because you would need rebellion against the U.S. government. And then the second part is, well, why were these extra Marines deployed? Because you would need the Insurrection Act to override the Posse Comitatus Act in that instance. Yeah, you got it. And the judge at the trial level, Judge Breyer, ruled only on the first. He looked at the 10 U.S.C. 12406

arguments and said that the National Guard was unlawfully deployed and should be returned to the command of Governor Newsom and that the Constitution was violated in the process because state rights were infringed on. He thought that the facts had not yet evolved to a level of, we call it ripeness or reviewability because it wasn't clear what the Marines were doing or not doing yet, but he kind of reserved the right to revisit that in the future and when he didn't rule on it at that moment. To your knowledge, has the Marine question, become more ripe or have they basically stayed on federal property because the really issue here is theoretically the Marines can be sent to guard the federal courthouse i mean it seems

completely a waste and unnecessary and provocative but that's within their legal purview the moment they go out into the community ostensibly to protect ice um uh officials um is where the question is there's also a question as to like has there been an ice official harmed i mean to your knowledge in california or across the state over the past six months i mean i should say across the country i mean is there is there do we have facts that rise to the level that you know every federal i mean theoretically every federal every EPA inspector could be surrounded by the military as they go out, right? I mean, there's no indication that this is required. Right. I agree. A number of good points there. I'll first say

that if the Marines is one of the most elite fighting forces in the world and for them to stand on buildings doesn't seem to be the best use of their skills, their training, you know, They're for military, international protection of United States's security and safety, not for protecting federal buildings. There's a lot of other folks that can do that. Civilian law enforcement can do that. That's federal. You know, you have marshals, and you have FBI and ATF and DEA.

There's a lot of folks that are not military. And the ICE agents can provide perimeters and safety for ICE agents. Any of those civilian federal police forces can as well. The FBI could do it, DEA, ATF, marshals, if they wanted it, absolutely no requirement that it be military, especially with the Posse Comitatis Act. I think the federal government will argue that there were some challenges to some of the ICE immigration enforcement. In that original weekend, they were getting some resistance from members of the public. I don't know if anyone was actually hurt or harmed in any way.

But there's a lot of ways to address this either hypothetical, even if it's real issue, without the deployment of military personnel on American soil. Let's turn. So we're going to find out, at the very least, within the, I guess, within a couple of days, maybe theoretically today, what the ruling is on that first question about the National Guard. In the event that the appeals court upholds the Breyer's ruling, and there is no ripeness for the Marines, and it also feels like it's probably in the Trump administration's benefit

to avoid ripeness at this time. I would imagine that they probably want to be in a different circuit if they want to test the ability for them to deploy Marines, because this California is not exactly the most hospitable to right-wing rulings, it seems to me. What are the implications for across the country in the event that Breyer's restraining order and, theoretical, at least negative definition of what constitutes facts that would allow for the federalization of the National Guard going forward? Judge Breyer's decision is a really thoughtful decision. It's a blueprint for what other judges might look at, either binding if it's in a binding jurisdiction or persuasively. He really looks at the elements of 10,

USC 12406, he defines what a rebellion is. He says that, which I thought was very, very appropriate. He says that a rebellion invasion or inability to execute the law actually needs to exist, not just the federal government saying it exists when the facts don't back it. He also said that challenges and obstacles in the federal government executing the laws doesn't mean that they are unable to execute the laws. It just means that there are challenges and obstacles and they're overcomable and they can be addressed. Also, I thought a thoughtful insight in his opinion.

But this is, the 10 U.S.C. 12406 has only been invoked once in the history of the United States of America. It was when there was a strike at the U.S. Postal Service, the constitutional and federal statutory requirement that the mails moved through the U.S. Postal Service was not able to be executed. and so the National Guard came in to move U.S. mail, and that's the only other time. It's never been used in a situation like this. So the Judge Breyer's opinion engaging on this statute, saying what it means, saying

how it should be used or not used, how it should be applied or not applied, I think will be very helpful for other jurisdictions as they face probably what California and L.A. are facing. The executive order that led to the National Guard being deployed in L.A. has no geographic restriction. It applies nationwide. It has no, well, it does have a time restriction, but it's a very broad one. It's for 60 days. And you would think that if National Guard was being brought in to address some flare-up of violence or unlawfulness in L.A. It would be geographic specific and time-specific, but it's not. It purports to give very broad authority nationwide for Trump to deploy the National Guard.

And we may see it in other cities. And, you know, his talk lately has been very specifically about blue cities and blue states, you know, Chicago, Illinois, New York. He's very weaponizing and partisan in his targeting of blue jurisdictions, unfortunately. And which I think, you know, emphasizes the relevance of this case. And particularly, to the extent that we can predict what other courts would do in the wake of this court's decision, in those jurisdictions at least, I can imagine that perhaps there are parts of southern Texas where they might get a different ruling based upon what we've seen in the past

but certainly when we're talking about Illinois we're talking about New York we're talking about more blue states as you say the courts tend to be a little more skeptical of these claims I just want to also ask you about a month or so ago you filed two lawsuits

that were aimed at the Trump administration's tying random federal grants to the state of California to the California's actions in regards to immigration authorities. On its face, I cannot see how they can do this, particularly like in light of the ACA ruling, with the expansion of Medicaid because if the federal government can't even say we as are going to change the Medicaid program to expand

it, you can either participate in it or not and the court the Supreme Court at that time said that is undue influence by the federal government I don't understand how they could even be a question in this instance there shouldn't be a question in this instance

it was a clearly unlawful course of use of the spending authority of the federal government to try to condition Department of Transportation grants and funding and Homeland Security grants and funding that keep planes in the air and keep cars on the road safely and tackle terrorism and emergency preparedness to our decision in California to use law enforcement to tackle violations of the criminal law and not have those limited resources be diverted to do what a whole branches or whole departments and agencies that federal government do, which is civil immigration enforcement. So we sued on that. We think we have a very strong case.

The law is clear about how leveraging and coercive use of the spending authority is unlawful. There's also an argument that we've made around violating our 10th Amendment rights. You cannot commandeer or conscript or enlist, draft into service state resources that are for the health, safety, welfare of the state to do what the federal government wants it to do to do their job for them when it comes to federal immigration enforcement. So we do think we have really strong precedent, a strong case here. But this is what the federal administration does. They try to leverage. They try to coerce. They try to wage the culture wars. They try to make you do something completely unrelated to the funding at the threat of not getting that funding. So unfortunately,

while always shocking, it's not surprising. And again, we'll take them to court. And, you know, we have 26 lawsuits against this brazenly, blatantly consistent and frequent, you know, repeat offender administration. What is the status of those of the suits that challenged the authority to leverage random grants over trying to compel California to do the administration's bidding? Yeah, we filed the lawsuit, so we're in the early stages still. no ruling or order in joining or restraining at this point and they the grants still go through is that right or i mean are those federal of those monies um have they been appropriated and um uh they sit in the account because i know the new york city had an issue where some of the money was clawed back yeah you know they the yes that the money should continue to flow the because congress has the power

the purse. Congress has the power to spend and appropriate. The president doesn't, although he desperately wants that authority. He's tried to, people use the euphemism impound. He's trying to impound the funding that Congress is appropriated, but he can't. His duty is to take care that the laws be executed, to execute the laws, to do and execute the will of Congress not to second-guess them or add additional conditions or stop funding that they have already appropriated. So the Department of Transportation and Homeland Security funding should continue to flow. These conditions were not part of, you know, conditions that Congress included, you know, nor could they, I would argue, but they certainly weren't included originally and the president

can't add them. So there have been quite a few cases. You know, the second case that we brought was challenging an Office of Management and Budget memo that sought to withhold $3 trillion of funding that Congress had already appropriated all throughout the country for, you know, housing and health care and food and college and childcare and public safety and disaster preparedness and relief. And we got a quick order in that case saying you cannot withhold that funding. It needs to continue to flow. And the issue is the same here. But this is what I mean when I say he's a repeat offender. He gets struck down by a court on the $3 trillion of funding from Office of Management budget in their memo. And then he does the exact same thing for another

source of funding. Loses there. Does the exact same thing for another source of funding. Loses there. He continues to violate the law in the same way, repeatedly. Well, Russell Vote had four years to plan these series of cascading lawsuit, or I should say actions. So I would imagine that you're prepared for even more. Lastly, let me ask you this. We've all seen the footage of various protests going around in California, some of which there has been violence and some of which there has been property destruction in certain instances. Are you aware this footage? We played this footage yesterday of Jacob Saabroff,

who is a reporter for NBC, on reporting live, literally saying during the No King's protest, reporting live saying everything is peaceful here, and then we watch the sheriff's department's horses begin to essentially attack the protesters and then begin firing. I mean, to the point where this reporter is caught in between. What are there, what are the, what is your office doing in terms of like monitoring the actions of the police or the sheriffs in this instance in situations like that?

Yeah, you know, there's quite a few laws that were. passed in the wake of the protests involving the murder of George Floyd in 2020, and they include different crowd control and use of non-lethal, like rubber bullets and other types of approaches that all must be followed. And so our North Star is we help ensure that the laws follow and that it's being complied with, including all the rules and laws that apply to crowd management, you know, managing peaceful protests, addressing any violence that erupts from or flares up from an agitator during a peaceful protest. So we're definitely receiving, you know, input and incoming when it comes to what's happening on the ground in L.A., you know,

videos are helpful recordings and are helpful. And our role will be to help ensure that the law is being followed and complied with. And if not, that there is appropriate accountability. on both sides i would imagine yes oh yes yeah everyone needs the follow of law um great all right well um uh i guess lastly have one more a broader question do you have as a state with some anticipation that the trump administration is going to be doing these kind of things where they're going to be or the potential for this to happen how much how much in terms of like resources have you all dedicated. I imagine your office has been very busy since mid-November, working out how you're going to respond to various scenarios. Have most of those scenarios, like, have you been surprised

by anything that the federal government has attempted to do at this point? And how much do you have up your sleeve, I guess? We're not surprised. We're ready for everything. We've been preparing for months before November, before the election, for the possibility of a Trump victory, obviously. You know, he wasn't my preference in the presidential election, but I couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't win, and we owed it to our constituents to be prepared. And we looked at everything that Trump said on the campaign trail, is in her circle, channeled and projected and telegraphed that they would do, and then we looked at the document they handed to us in writing that said what they would do, Project 2025, and we prepared for all the

scenarios and did legal analysis and, you know, we're ready to file briefs if necessary. In some cases, all we need to do was that the eyes, cross the tease, press print, and file. And so we owe that to our constituents to be ready and to not be surprised and not be caught flat-footed and not be caught off guard. And so what we've seen so far has been very high volume, high-speed, faster and more volume than Trump 1.0. And Trump 1.0, my office bought 120-plus lawsuits against the Trump administration in the four years, we'll hit that in two years at this pace. It's double the pace. We've sued him 26 times in 21 weeks, more than once a week because that's how often he's

violated the law. So I got a lot of gas in the tank, tons of energy. We've got a great team with the largest State Department of Justice in the nation. They're definitely working overtime, pulling all-nighters. You know, the timeline I just described around how we brought our complaint and temporary restraining order application, in this case, involving deployment of the national Guard, things happened quickly, and we had to respond quickly. And, you know, and there are folks who were, you know, on fumes and working hard, and I couldn't be more proud of

them. But they rose to the occasion. They met the moment. They did what the people of our state and our nation needed and moved to uphold the rule of law and the Constitution. And we will do that every time. You know, we don't want to sue the president once a week or at all, because that would mean that he's complying with the law and following the Constitution. But each and every time he does, we will be unapologetic, immovable, and resolute in our commitment to taking him to court every time he breaks the law, violates the Constitution, and hurts Californians, and we're ready for whatever comes next. We haven't been surprised. We do remain shocked because it's shocking, and you can never normalize what's so abnormal or accept what's so unacceptable. But we saw

much of this coming, and we've been ready, and we will continue to be prepared. California Attorney General Rob Bont, thank you so much for your time today. Really appreciate it. Good luck with those cases. I think they're going to be important to, obviously, not just folks in California, but to many of us around the country. Thanks so much for having me. Honored to be with you. Thanks.

All right, folks. We're going to take a quick break, but we're just seeing a report now that city comptroller and mayoral candidate and cross-endorser was Zoran Mamdani. Bradlander has been arrested by federal agents, some of whom, of course, wearing masks. Bradlander, born in St. Louis, so here he is. Look at that image. Oh, here's video.

Here's video right here. Even this still, though, is, I mean, that we have it up, People can see if they're watching, but he's essentially being put into, uh, maybe not a joke old, but grabbed around his neck. Here it is. We have volume? So he was at immigration court. Here we go. Guys, back up, back up, guys, back up, back up, I understand. If you're going to interfere with this arrest, we're going to get a back up. Back up, guys.

I guess you can assume the masked guys are ice. Landers asking for his warrant at that point. have a line for him. I will let go when you show me the judicial warrant. Where is it? All these guys and ball of clavis. Let us see it. So let us see it.

He didn't want to take us for it. Oh, my God. Stay back. Yeah, that's where that picture's from at that moment. Stop back. Please, step back. Step back. Step back.

Step back. You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens. So he was there to observe immigration hearings. Unbelievable. Can the whole bipartisan support for these creeps end today, please? Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffers. Abolish ICE.

I'm going to need to see more information, and then I'm going to get mad. Are they seriously? They're taking him right there. Yeah. Right there. Hands behind his back. Where are you taking the controller? And with what authority? Why are you arresting the city controller? And where are you taking him?

No. Number one's gonna go with them, all right? Hang on, please number one. Hold on. Who are these guys? They don't have a warrant and they barely need to even identify themselves. They get to wear masks like this? Yeah.

As Nassau County bans masks. Not a week after Democrats were assassinated by a guy purporting to be law enforcement, Minnesota. Oh my God, great point. Because we said this last week. These ICE agents and these unmarked cars, no warrants, not identifying themselves. We show that they were showing up at elementary schools. Yep. This could be any predator. It could be the assassin in Minnesota. It could be a child predator posing as ice, taking children to abuse them at school. And the other thing is that Glander's clearly asking to see the judicial warrant. The quote here, I will let you go if you show me a judicial warrant. I would like to see the warrant, and then I will let go.

Seconds later, one of the officers said, take him in. The agents then forcibly removed Lander, pushed him up against a wall, and cuffed him. You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens, Lander said, I'm not obstructing. I'm standing right here in the hallway. You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for judicial warrant. He's exactly right. Why does every ICE officer think they do? Well, they are under pressure from sniveling, screaming, hysterical Stephen Miller, who has been upset that they haven't met their quotas of 3,000 deportations a day. They were, I think hit their records some, like around 2,000 and changed two days in a row

last week. But so they're going after workers at Home Depot. They're going after workers in farm. They're going after people who are showing up to hearings, which is the opposite. I would say of a dangerous criminal, somebody who is going to sit in front of a judge to try to get their ability to stay here extended. What we know to be a fact at this point, not only were we told about it about two weeks ago by Ronald Reagan, an immigration attorney, who was subsequently a couple days later reported by NBC that immigration judges have been instructed to dismiss cases, as soon as people who are in the process of having hearings happen,

dismiss the cases. And before the subjects of these cases have the opportunity to appeal, which is the normal procedure, they walk out of the courtroom and they are grabbed by ICE at that point. So what you're basically doing is, I mean, ICE is doing this. the primary reason is because they can't hit their quotas. They're not even remotely close to being able to hit their quotas if they're just going after supposed criminals. But they can't hit their quotas.

So they're going to essentially what amounts to a honeypot. And it has the added benefit from a political standpoint to drive people away from the courthouses and then they'll be able to say, see, These immigrants don't show up for their court dates. Yeah, they're ramping up and the rate of growth, as, again, people should follow Austin Koker's substack has been covering in terms of detentions for other immigrant violator, which basically means crossing the border, but sometimes doesn't even mean that if you're going to your hearing. Perstain of visas? Yeah, 9.1 times.

convicted criminal rates in terms of ICE growth for detentions, 1.5 times for convicted criminals, 2.7 times for pending criminal charges 9.1 times for other immigrant violator. It's also just especially cruel when they're going to these hearings because there's an expectation that a judge in this country is supposed to be the fair arbiter of a case that's supposed to hear the prosecution and supposed to hear the defense. but immigration judges do not work like that in this country. They have been rubber stamping ICE and immigration enforcement throughout. We covered this maybe a few months ago.

But in Texas, there was an immigration judge who was caught posting white nationalist anti-immigrant posts on a blog. So like just to give people a sense of how it's even like, like, Like, prosecution already is more favored by judges in this country, and that's a flaw in our system. But with immigration, it's not even close. The latest reports, as of 18 minutes ago, Lander still in federal custody. That's insane. Yep. I'm going to vote after, because I'm going on my honeymoon next week, so I won't be here for the election day.

That rank Lander number two. I think that's now we know I'm rankings all around one, lander two. Meg Barnett, Brad's wife is tweeting from at Brad Lander update six minutes ago while scoring a defendant out of the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza Brad was taken by masked

agents and detained by ISIS is still developing our team is monitoring the situation closely. And also remember Emma You've got to fill out all five Yes. And don't rank Cuomo. Quomo.

I'll just say my rankings now what I'm going to do in case people are listening. So after, I'm going to do this today. I'm going to rank Zoron first, obviously. Bradlander's second. I'm going to rank Michael Blake third. There's been some reporting that Adrian Adams is secretly taking some DoorDash money. Whoopsie. But I am going to rank her fourth and then Zellner-Mirey number five.

But who could I rank if I didn't want to rank Adams? Isn't there another one? That's a good question. I mean... Can you do a write-in? I don't know if I would risk that. No. That's a good point.

Yeah. All right. And before we go to the fun half, breaking news, can you check on this, Matt, and see if you can confirm this? It appears based that Mike Lee has folded to our pressure. Oh, it's the majority report that did it.

Just moments ago, we criticized Mike Lee for still having this tweet up. And literally, seconds after we criticized him for doing it, he deleted the tweet. Pressure works, folks. Yes, it does. It works. Our pressure here worked on Mike Lee. I want to welcome the staffers in Mike Lee's office and Mike Lee's campaign apparatus, his family. I know most of Mike Lee's family watches the show, some often not live.

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program. We got the exclusive one. It's more expensive, but it allows us to prevent more than nine people from watching the show at any given time on Rumble. And we pay a lot for that, but

seems like a great use of our resources. Yeah. Sam, I'm sorry, we moved on from the Mike Lee thing a little bit too fast. Do you know what based means? Yeah, I do. Okay, define it. It means like when you're, like, cool. It means, well, you're close.

It means specifically unbothered by your social situation in any sort of censure you might get. So I think Mike Lee needs to go a little bit further and remove based from his username. Oh, yeah, unbased. I'm sorry, you cave, bro, and you should have never done it. Not based. but you're not based

you're psychopath still but you're not based anymore I'm sorry oh he's uh total total Jesse Lee Ferguson total beta that's not his name Jesse Ferguson is the guy from modern family he's completely skibbitty

skibbitty toilet right now total skittity toilet I still don't get it I still don't get that one and we should also mention since we're here we have 15,000 people in our Discord. That's nuts.

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And, um, like Iran, uh, Iran, Charlie Kukkress has guidance on people who are upset about Iran will get to looks a little bit like a white flag saying, don't look at the internet, everybody. It's interesting. This split in right wing media is interesting. Um, I mean, you have Marjorie Taylor Green criticizing Fox News and Tucker Carlson kind of joining hands with her. And I will say this, um, the only reason why we're seeing. a split, it seems to me, is because of the size of the right-wing media. Because if you go back to Iraq, Tucker Carlson was on CNN at that time. He famously said on a radio show, I don't care about these monkeys, referring to the Iraqis.

He was, he would cheer on Iraq, but less than enthusiastically, enough so that he would go back at one point when Gene Grofellow hosted with him. They went in the back to have a cigarette, and he's like, I don't care about any of this at all. I'm not into it. But of course, you know, he at that time had to play like he was. So these splits, and particularly, you know, in the Pat Buchananites, and that's who, you know, we're seeing Tucker Carlson is cut from that same cloth. The, they don't like the neocons, in part because they saw them as very Jewy, broken clock, et cetera, et cetera. Although, oddly, same exact dynamic with Marjorie Taylor Green, right? Like, if we're going back, she is, she is, she was doing all those like KKK adjacent

anti-Catholic things when the Pope died, and now she's basically fully doing the Buchanan stuff, the anti-Semitism. sure these anti-supposed anti-war warriors could find a war that they like. I have no doubt about that. But in the meantime, we're seeing this split, I think, only because of the size of the media, of the right-wing media now, as opposed to in the past, where we just wouldn't, we wouldn't see it even though it was there on the fringe because it wasn't lucrative enough. or they didn't have the financial security to do so yeah so um i i would remind people to keep that in mind now with that said is it helpful hmm i think it is the media can't hurt who knows i like that

massy and you know ilhan and great cassar and aOC like that's and you know i'll take marjor taylor green on the bill too if she wants to sponsor it it's good to have i mean within limits because you don't want them to discredit it which is basically what trump He used anti-war stuff as a vehicle. Iraq was a big, fat mistake, and now look where he is. So you can't trust them, ultimately. Right. Well, and it's also just like Marjorie Taylor Green, if she actually wants to run for Senate against John Ossoff.

Oh, I think she has already stepped. She's already stepped out of the race. Oh, she has. I think Trump convinced her to get out about, I want to say, three weeks ago. But look, here's the bottom line. I'm happy to have any Republican vote for a bill that. inhibits the ability of the president in the United States

to go to war. Any president, frankly, or any war. It should be Congress's decision. It's not to say I don't have an opinion as to what their decision should be. But I'm happy to have anybody vote for that. And

beyond that, I still think that she's a piece of garbage. And she doesn't need my support. So, because I would never vote for her under any circumstance. So, Oh, no, she's a true, legitimate, like, anti-Jewish bigot and bigot in so many other ways, but we can use her and discard her if it prevents us from going. Yeah, we're not even using her.

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