Timcast IRL - Democrat Senator FORCIBLY REMOVED From DHS Presser, MAGA Says IT WAS STAGED w/ Charlie LeDuff & Aaron Reitz

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

Phil, Mary, & Serge are joined by Charlie LeDuff & Aaron Reitz to discuss a Democrat Senator being forcibly removed from a DHS presser after he tried rushing the stage, Israel launching an attack against Iran, an Antifa blog claiming responsibility for torching NYPD vehicles, and Trump floating granting amnesty to illegall immigrant farm workers.   Hosts:  Tim @Timcast (everywhere) Phil @PhilThatRemains (X) Mary  @PopCultureCrisis  (YouTube) Serge @SergeDotCom (everywhere) Guest: Charlie LeDuff @Charlieleduff (X) Aaron Reitz @aaron_reitz (X) | https://reitzfortexas.com/

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messages from Pocket Hose. Message and data rates may apply. No purchase required. Terms apply. Available at pockethose.com slash terms. Today, Senator Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Chrissy Noem's news conference in Los Angeles. Apparently, he kind of rushed the news conference, and I'm not sure if it was Secret Service or DHS agents that stepped in, but he was actually taken out of the room and they locked him up a little bit. I think he was in handcuffs for a little bit, so we'll talk about that. We're going to talk about some of these groups that are funding the LA anti-ice protests, which are actually going to be taken off across the country. But there are multiple groups that are sending money, sending supplies. People have seen masks turn up. Allegedly, there are new developments of pallets of bricks and stuff. I'm not so sure about how the validity of those claims, but that's one of the things that you're hearing.

Antifa anarchist blogs post claim of responsibility for torching NYPD vehicles in Brooklyn. This is definitely a continuation of the violence that we saw in the riots during 2020. It's the same type of people, even if it's not the actual same people. So we're going to get into the odds and ends of that. Donald Trump has made a statement that he supports amnesty, and then a little bit later, he walked it back. Or, yeah, he made a post on Truth Social walking it back. So we'll see if we can figure out where Donald Trump stands.

Does he want the farmers to stay? Does he want the farmers to stay? Does he want the farmers to go? What's the deal? Mediaite was reporting that Trump canceled work permits for over half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. So they're continuing to do the things necessary to control the border and control the immigration influx. So we'll talk about that.

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talk about all these things tonight is Charlie LaDuff. How you doing, sir? I'm well, man. How are you? Who are you? What do you do? I'm a reporter. I work for the Michigan Enjoyer. It's politics and lifestyle in Michigan. Won a Pulitzer Prize at the New York Times, wrote a couple bestsellers.

I worked for Fox, national correspondent. I've been through a million riots. I crossed the desert with the Sinaloa cartel in the year 2000. In 2023, I crossed the Rio Grande with an ex-con from Nicaragua named Elvis, who had 15 pesos to his name and he couldn't swim. Oh, well well all right thank you for joining us we appreciate it and also we've got Aaron writes who is running to be the AG of Texas yeah introduce yourself yeah thanks for

having me yeah so this morning I announced that I am running for Texas Attorney General to succeed the great Ken Paxton. But before then, I was a presidentially appointed official at the Justice Department, Ted Cruz's chief of staff for a couple years, Paxton's deputy for a couple years, was a Marine officer, went to Afghanistan once before law school, married, four kids, happy to be here. Awesome. Well, we appreciate that. It's a good life right there. It's a good life. Mary's here. Not the best haircut, but, you know, good life.

Mary Morgan is here. Hello, everyone. My name is Mary Morgan, and you can usually find me on Pop Culture Crisis here at TimCast. I'm happy to be here. All right. So let's get right into it. NBC News reports that... Where's Tim?

Tim is out sick. I'm here. Oh, you're going to wear the beanie? There you go. So anyways, yeah. Yeah, Tim didn't do his day's time show today and he didn't do... He's not doing nothing. I think he's getting sick. I'm not sure if he's going to be back tomorrow either. But we'll see. Anyways, NBC News reports Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat from California, was forcibly removed from a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday after he tried to question Homeland Security Secretary Kirstie Noem during a news conference related to immigration. I'm Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary, Padilla said to Noem, which prompted several men dressed in plain clothes to physically push him out of the room. A top FBI official later said bureau personnel and Secret Service agents were involved in the senator's removal. Padilla's office shared a video of the incident with NBC News.

The video shows Padilla being taken into a hallway outside and pushed face forward to the ground as officers with FBI-identifying vests told the senator to put his hands behind his back. The officers then handcuffed him. So, what do you guys think? Should we handcuff more senators? Pardon me? We got video on the next one. Oh, we got video, okay.

Oh, I want to see this. Yeah, let's see. How legit was this? Food rat fights. Sir, sir. Hands up. Hands up. I'm Senator Alex Padilla.

I have a question for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is... Okay, he didn't say that right away. ...that you're rotating on your... Hands off! Okay, well, you just... With everything going on in L.A., some guy runs into a room like that.

And I'm a senator. Like, what are you expecting? Hands on your back. Hands on your back. I'm sorry. Stop resisting. Other hand, sir. Other hand.

Is he charged with anything? No, if I understand correctly. He just got detained. He's not charged with anything? No, if I understand correctly, he's not charged with anything. They let him go once they found out who he was and what the situation was. The Democrats on the Hill are acting like this is the end of the world. Right. This is the nightmare scenario that Donald Trump has brought to the United States and the terrible authoritarian regime he is installing.

The way that it was put earlier today was that he lunged at her. So I didn't see that part of the video unless I know. I mean, he was he was he coming at her, saw him. And by the way, Padilla, you know, when I was senator cruiser chief of staff, I had to interact with him and several times. He's a big guy. He's a big guy. I say he's probably 6'3". I'd bet 230 pounds. Looks it. Yeah. I mean, he's a big guy. And you could see him as the, I don't know if it was Secret Service or whatever her personal security detail was. They were trying to gesture, hey, you can't just, you got to come back. And

you saw him push his chest up against them. So look, here's a grandstanding liberal Democratic senator trying to go viral who is bursting into a press conference and getting the result that anybody in his situation, whether he was Senator Padilla or just Alex, anybody doing some antics like that would have gotten that result. You'd expect antics like that from Congress. You would or wouldn't? I would. Yes, of course.

That's what I'm saying. I've been to plenty of press conferences, and you're not allowed to do that. You're not allowed. And bum rush, lunge, whatever, you barged in there. You started yelling. You didn't say who you were. You weren't wearing your Senate pin.

You pushed your back. You pushed forward again. Okay, so maybe you're like a homeless nut. You're going into the hallway, right, and you're going to be removed. Now, if you want to do some criticism, maybe you didn't have to put him to the ground. You could have just cuffed him right there, calmed him down, right? But because you're a United States senator, you get no special, right? Yep.

You behave like we behave behave and i'm incensed because i used to live in in la and i love it it gave me my first child it gave me my first home nobody in charge in california has said take care of each other don't burn anything do it peacefully nothing it's all of this yeah yeah look i i i, I don't give Senator Padilla any credit here. I mean, even if he were wearing his Senate pin and announced himself as, hi, I'm Senator Alex Padilla, it doesn't entitle you to burst into a cabinet secretary's press conference. And by the way, when he went out into the hallway, he knew exactly what he was doing. You could see it if you replay the clip again. He got on his knees. He wanted there to be that scene.

Yeah, he threw himself on the floor. You could see him in the video doing it. They didn't push him down. It's like, you know, when you pretend to slip when they don't put down the wet floor sign. Right. And you can see the picture on the left there, like they're trying to get his arms behind his back. He's actually resisting that. And so the only way that trying to get his arms behind his back he's actually resisting that and so the only way that you can get his arms behind his back is you got to bring him to the floor oh by the way so the homeland security director is in la when they're expecting a it's been a wild week and it's going to be a wild weekend and a guy comes up like that well what do you think is gonna he knows what was gonna happen to that point not only that but you've had how many you had two attempts on Donald Trump's life.

You've had multiple people that were committing arson and committing all number of crimes that were related to people for having Teslas because they had the wrong politics. The left has been targeting people for the clearly and openly for the better part of a year now. It's been unambiguous. So to think that, hey, we need to have a little extra security because people are trying to throw their weight around inside of a DHS news conference, that's not unusual or some kind of odd expectation. I think that's fair to say. Yeah, it's completely reasonable to say, okay, we're not going to let you approach the elected officials who happen to share the same political ideology or political party of the people that have been attacked historically for the past year, pretty old. If I might, afterwards he gives a little press conference,

you saw somewhere, out on the steps of the federal building there, and he says, well, I was in the same building, and I heard she was giving a press conference. And since I'm not getting any information, I thought I would go and listen to see if I could pick up a few clues here. But did that look like a guy that walked into a room to quietly listen? No. Maybe stand against the wall, wave to her afterwards and say,

Madam, can I get a moment of your time kind of thing? No. So I'm not buying it. To your point, it is well within the realm of possibility, given the era that we're in right now, that the left is willing and able. This podcast is supported by Talkspace. When my husband came home from his military deployment, readjusting was hard for all of us. Thankfully, I found Talkspace. Talkspace provides professional support from licensed therapists and psychiatric providers online.

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At the drop of a hat to use violence to push their ideological agenda. It is not safe to assume that conservatives necessarily are going to do that. But today's left, BLM, the sort of riot, the anti-ICE riots now, the threats against the president, the constant threats online against people in this administration, it is not unreasonable to assume that somebody busting in to take out the Secretary of Homeland Security is going to try to propagate violence. Yeah. So NBC News went on to say President Donald Trump's immigration policies and the administration's handling of demonstrations against those policies have sparked an outcry in recent days. After protesters clashed with officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles on Friday,

the president deployed a number of deployed members of the National Guard and later Marines to assist to assist local law enforcement. Dozens of demonstrations have taken place across the country in the days that followed. Speaking to reporters later Thursday, Padilla said that he was receiving a briefing from military officials when he learned Noem was in the same building and decided to join her brief. Oh, of course. So this is this is this is a again, a grandstanding Democratic senator who's like, wait a second. I could go viral here. I'm going to go do something stupid. And, I mean, mission accomplished in a way. He did do something stupid.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know that I consider it stupid. I think it's pretty predictable. And also, you know, it's emblematic of the times that we live in where everyone wants that viral clip totally bad journalism there pardon me look at the bad journalism padilla said he was receiving a briefing from military officials okay he wanted answers he's talking to the military when he learned noam was in the same building and decided to to join her briefing i was was there peacefully, he said. I didn't see that on the clip.

Yeah, I mean, I don't, he was definitely trying to use, you know, throw his weight around. This is bullshit. It's like the first, like, union address that Trump gave. And who was it that started, like, yelling and causing a huge scene in the... I don't know who it was, but that's actually happened more times than once. Oh, you're talking about the State of the Union? Congressman Kane.

The guy with the cane. With the cane, he was shaking the cane. Yes, Green. Yeah. That's exactly right. Exactly the scene. How Green, he disrupted an official... The hysterics and the melodrama.

Totally right. And he was given way too many chances before getting thrown out of there. Totally right. Totally right. Yeah, I mean, and it does show that, you know, the reaction by Speaker Johnson to not actually do anything was definitely, you know, kind of left a bad taste in my mouth.

Against Green? Yeah. Well, he was eventually, I mean, it led to Mary's point. I mean, he went for, like, way too long. But I think he was eventually. Well, no, they adjourned. Right, but he did not. Yeah, long but i think he was eventually well they're no they they went they adjourned yeah they adjourned because he wouldn't shut up well i could tell you is as a swing voter in a swing state me you know this ain't doing it for me it's it's not this

is the strategy i i can't i can't i used you know used to never belong to Democratic Party but when you're from Detroit that's how you think sure I never moved where did these people go I love this country this is well that's the thing now nowadays at least presently um the people that are protesting and rioting they're not Democrats that love this country they're progressives that see only the flaws in the united states and there's it looks like progress to you man no not at all to be called a progressive of course not when it's burned it up yeah it's it's they believe that that the destruction of the existing system is necessary for the new system to to exist but i think we're going to go to we got some breaking news right now um

nick sorter is reporting that explosions are heard in tehran iran per wall street journal uh nick says it seems it has begun pray for america pray for our troops which is great i love the sentiment but this should not be the united states carrying out these attacks and if i understand correctly it is not the United States. What's good old Nick reporting? Or is he reporting somebody else's reporting? I think he's reporting someone else's reporting. I stay away from it because I don't know what's going on.

Now this guy's saying, is Israel attacks Iran? Yeah, Israel attacks Iran. Visuals from Tehran. We've got some video here. what's up okay so well that could have been from the last time yeah i'm i'm gonna keep calm i don't know any i'm gonna keep calm i'm gonna wait well i mean— No, we're all going to die. Eventually. That is true. Sorry, I'm laughing at—

Yeah, look, I hope that—I mean, I'll withhold judgment until we see what's going on. But I hope that the United States doesn't get plunged into another Mideast war. I mean, I went to Afghanistan. I remember 9-11 happened when I was a freshman in high school, and it shaped, like, that whole teen in 20 years. And I went to Afghanistan. I remember totally sold on the mission. We got to go get the bad guys. They're going to come here to get us.

I mean, it was very—I was a true believer. And then you get to Afghanistan, and you're like, oh, my gosh, this is never going to be, it doesn't matter how many, you know, Dari or Pashtun constitutions we print, this ain't going to stick. It ain't going to take root. And I just, I hope that. I went to Iraq, dude. And like, it was with the Marines, 24th.

There ain't no weapons of mass destruction here. Hey, Colonel, there's no weapons here. We've been told we're here to impart democracy. I'm like, oh, no. You can't make people want something. It's the whole you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Well, you better get it right before you start sending my brother over here. You see what I'm saying?

I completely agree with you. But that was the failing of the first 10 years of this century, you know, the Bush administration's assertions that actually they're just like us and we can just show them democracy and they will obviously decide that they want Jeffersonian Republican government. That's crazy. I'm not even fully convinced I want those. They only said that after we were there. That wasn't the reason. No, I don't know. That was very much sort of the neoconservative thinking at the time. It's that, look, there are people, there are sort of universal political values that are shared across time, culture, and space, and that there are regimes that from time to time and place to

place will oppress those natural instincts. And so we need to topple those regimes to then let freedom breathe. And I think that that philosophy- That's an error. A total error. Completely, completely. Let's remember, though, that's not... Well, I watched the planes hit the twin towers and i covered the ground zero for a year the action to send my cousin me you the way they sold it to us was not about selling democracy it was like those fuckers hit us go get that guy yeah and then some more bs about they were also involved well my big yeah, my biggest my biggest memory of the of the the Iraq war and the justification for it and stuff was all about weapons of mass destruction, was all about the nuclear threat that Saddam Hussein would pose to the United States and the possibility of not just a dirty bomb,

but an actual functioning nuclear weapon in a port city here in the U.S. That was the argument that was made that I heard most frequently. But there was the tie to Al-Qaeda. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, look, that whole time, there was also a tremendous amount of mission creep during this time. So 9-11 happens. Okay, who did it? Al-Qaeda.

Those are bad guys, right? No question, bad guys. No question. All right, who's harboring them? Well, there's this political party in Afghanistan called the Taliban. So the Taliban is the ruling party of a regime that is harboring the bad guys. So we're going to go and get the bad guys. But then it creeped into, well, if you break it, you buy it.

So we're here breaking things. Well, I guess the moral thing to do is to sort of, we're going to blow you up and then we're going to rebuild you. And then Iraq creeped in because people had been salivating over toppling the Saddam Hussein regime for decades. Now you had the pretext where Americans' eyes are now oriented toward the Middle East. Now's the time for Saddam Hussein to go down. So why don't we start a second war in Iraq? And then it just spiraled, spiraled, spiraled. And what kept it going for that whole time was a philosophy of regime change,

which we've sort of already articulated, which is that these people want freedom. The bad guys don't hate our freedoms. So let's take out the bad guys that hate our freedom and then we'll be safe and then the people of whatever country they're making the argument for will you know democracy will blossom and that will so what here's what happened for 20 years is um in fact what we'll do is they hate our guts we're gonna pay them through usaid we're gonna build a water treatment plant in fallujah that never gets built. And when you're over there, right, like you run out of cigarettes or chewing tobacco, who do you got to go to, to get cigarettes? It's the guy in the white robe who's got

dough and American tobacco. And you're like, but I think that, I think that what's encouraging though, is one of the things that propelled President Trump to the national stage, first back in 2015-16, and then again in, well, frankly, again in 2020, there were some issues there. And then in 2024, was a rejection of this philosophy. Yes. It was a failed experiment for the better part of 30 years, or 20 years. And it was a rejection of that. So part of why I hate to see this is not only because I just, you know, war is like not the best thing. It's necessary sometimes, but it's not the best. But I don't want to see us,

I don't want to see Americans forget the lessons that we've learned in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am surprised and admittedly, I don't follow geopolitics like at all. But the last I heard, and tell me if i'm wrong um the u.s had a proposal a sort of compromise that they would take their uranium enrichment off of their own land and as far as i had last checked into it they had not even replied to that proposal yet talking about say they iran? Iran, yes. They had not even replied formally to that proposal yet.

When this happened? Yes. I thought at least that Israel would have waited until there was a formal rejection of the U.S.'s proposal to them. I don't know. Which wasn't even a guarantee they might have taken it. Right. As I said at the start of this segment,

I don't know, And I was a younger man when I didn't know. And I just followed. I'm a wiser man. I don't know. It's a good question you ask. Maybe Israel has intelligence that Iran sped it up. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if that video is true. I don't know why the bombs went off, but I'm going to, as a wiser guy, I'm coming at it with caution. We've got this tweet from Barak Ravid. Ravid? Yeah. Breaking Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz declares a special state of emergency in the home front throughout the entire state of Israel.

Following the state of Israel's preemptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the state of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate future, Katz said. I think that kind of goes without saying. And if I understand correctly, the opinion is that the response from Iran is not going to be just, it's not going to be small. It's going to be, you know, you're going to probably see hundreds of missiles shot at Israel. And I don't, I think that Israel does not expect the Iron Dome to be able to handle the volume. And what we see, again, assuming this is true, it seems to me, what stands out to me is that the Israeli defense minister did in fact confirm this was a preemptive strike. Yeah. And that's, that's like what they've been doing for a long time. Like the six day war that they were, that's, they're kind of like the, let's say the leading experts on these preemptive

strikes and like taking care of something before it even is a problem for you. So that like this, it's interesting to see what's going to happen with all this. What did they strike? That hasn't been said yet. I've been, I've been trying to get information as this, cause as soon as we went live this is kind of when we started getting reports about 8 o'clock exactly so we had to run the whole first segment first before we got to this too but all the information you have now is what we have.

It's all AI. Has anybody in the Trump administration put out a statement? We haven't seen anything yet. Not that I'm aware of. I'd be curious if during the course of this show if something comes out. Yeah I would not be surprised if some kind of statement. Surely there's got to be something. Yeah.

Because, I was going to ask a question. Yeah, I just, I don't see, I don't see how the U.S., I don't see how the U.S. has to get drawn into this. I do think that Israel could have waited, but I don't, I still don't see how the U.S. has to be involved. Well, those are two different questions. Your second question I think is an interesting one, which is I don't see why the U.S. should get involved. But your first question was I don't see how it could get involved. And those are slightly different because what's still happening to this day in 2025 is you've got – even on the right, you have a huge philosophical difference on an approach to geopolitics. I mean there's this sort of neocon view and then there's the more realist or – people call it isolationist view. And it's not particularly clear who within the Defense Department or the national security apparatus, which one controls, which one prevails.

And I think ultimately the president as a commander-in-chief has got to make the decision. My sense is that President Trump's inclination is to let the situation develop before he commits any troops. I think President Trump has consistently run on foreign policy prudence, foreign policy restraint, and realism. And I think his first instinct is your instinct, which is like, I don't want to immediately mobilize the troops. This isn't the Bush era anymore.

Troops is a big leap. We're involved right now. We're involved with intelligence, armament. So go ahead, actually. Please expand on that. You think that the U. We're involved with intelligence, armament. So go ahead, actually. Please expand on that. You think that the U.S. is providing intel, and you think the U.S. is providing them weapons? We provide them money.

I mean, these are just facts that we know that have been going on for years. So you're talking about the more broad issue of foreign aid to Israel. Yeah, that we know. Yes. Right now, just dumping troops in there. I don't know about that, right? But the world already knows this so let's bring it around back to the border who did we let in are there iranian cells here you know is there a way to i don't think that i think i think the question is almost a

guaranteed yes that there's there are people that there are iranians here i don't know that they're state sponsored but there are iranians here that don't look positively on the U.S. I think that's a fairly safe assumption. And there was no mechanism or political will to vet anybody over the past four years. Yes, the worry, the short-term worry, short-term. So what have we got here? Yeah, we have a couple more things. Kellan sent me this, the Home Front Command. It seems like they're sending this out to people in Israel right now, which is basically saying to adhere to the Home Front Command. It seems like they're sending this out to people in Israel right now, which is basically saying to adhere to the Home Front Command guidelines, which you'd expect to see in something like this. And then we also have these commercial flights from OSINT

Defender here showing how the commercial flights have been rerouted around Tel Aviv and then also around Tehran. So we don't really know necessarily where everything's being struck, but judging by these two, I guess, pieces of information, you know. They're expecting the retaliation. What is OSIN Defender? OSIN Defender is an X page. Yeah, shout out, OSIN Defender. And this first one was the Israeli government, so that's an official.

Correct. This is what they posted out to everyone that's in the— Well, it's on anyway. Yeah, well, definitely, definitely. Wow. Is anything good going on, man? Not today. Yes. My name's Aaron Reitz, and I'm running for Texas Attorney General.

You can go to aaronreitz.com. That's the great news today. Texans can have hope that the next attorney general is going to be a champion for liberty and justice in the United States. Aaron's settling right in, isn't he? We got it in. So Ken Paxton, who is currently the AG, right? He's running for which seat is he going to be running? United States Senate. So John, he's, he's, he's jumped into the Republican primary to primary John Cornyn. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. So, so he, Ken Paxton has been the Texas AG for

three terms or so four year terms, right? It's been just over a decade for him. And Paxton has taken what, you know, 15 years ago, state AGs, nobody was really talking about like state AGs, and the same way that they don't talk really about state treasurers or, you know, state ag... Well, I mean, AGs nowadays, actually, it kind of does matter. It matters. That's what I'm saying. But that evolution from AGs kind of being like a B-team state office holders, guys who want to be the next governor. That's why they call AG like aspiring governor because they're just sitting there and waiting to go be the next one. But it was guys like Paxton and very few others who sort of wielded their constitutional powers to make a state AG something that's really a national force. And so, yeah, I'm running for Texas AG.

But folks need to understand, and your national audience needs to understand, that if you don't get a good state AG in Texas who presides over the largest Republican law firm in the country by orders of magnitude, you're missing out on an opportunity to really advance the ball for law and order, for justice, for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. So Paxton is the one that turned it up a notch. He turned it up to 11 and is now running for the Senate. So now the seat's open and I've jumped in. Awesome.

We actually just got this update. What was that? The new one. Yeah, so we just actually got this update from Alana Treen. Donald Trump is convening a cabinet-level meeting as Israel launched what it called preemptive strikes against Iran.

A White House official and two sources familiar with the plans told her and Kylie Atwood, the meeting was planned before the strike, the sources say. Who is she? Alana Treen. Hold on one second.

I got to check, man. White House reporter for CNN. Oh. Let me read the... Let's see. What was that? The meeting was expected to focus on the U.S. response to the developing events in Iran. Two of the sources said Trump was seen leaving the congressional picnic at the White House shortly after 8 p.m.

The White House declined to comment. Yeah, I mean, like I said, I still can't imagine how the United States benefits from being involved in this. I know that the argument that people say is like Israel's our greatest ally or whatever, you know, we need to support Israel because they're surrounded by enemies and they're a democracy in the Middle East and yada, yada, yada. But I still don't see why the United States needs to be involved when honestly, it's my opinion that Israel has more than enough technological capability to handle Iran themselves. Yeah, look, Israel is a critical ally of ours. I think we just need to let the situation develop a little bit. If the president determines that

critical American national interests are at risk of non-intervention, then maybe intervention is the way to go. But I think that what President Trump is going to expect if we do get more involved, and to your point, like, there's a sense in which we're already involved because we do provide military aid to our ally Israel. But President Trump, I think, I anticipate that he would, if we do get more involved, be able to articulate a vital national security interest that is more concrete than the basis for the wars that we went to over the past 20 years. Saudi Arabia is there, too. Yeah. I mean, Saudi Arabia has way more concern about what Iran is doing. Also a client slash business partner of ours.

Remember when the Iranians blew up their pipelines? Oh, yeah. Okay, so, you know, there was a big party there a couple weeks ago. But it's not my ballywig, but just my mind's running, right? Okay, so if we put troops over there, we got troops in L.A. tonight, right? Yeah. I mean, technically, yes, we do. So just to go back around there, just back to the riots and whatever, people are so dumb.

The Democrats are really dumb because I'm from Detroit. In the 67 riots, the 81st and 82nd and 101st Airborne were in Detroit. In 1943, six, I don't know, battalions came in to stop the riots. In the Civil War in 1863, the United States Army was there. So Detroit has the great history of being the only united states city to be occupied by the united states military three times so this isn't uh unheard of you know what i'm saying no no no he's it would give a nuisance tweeting it yeah outrageous i mean the constitutionalist not no no the the in fact the the trump administration has been well within its rights, within the legal boundaries set up in the Constitution and stuff.

As of right now, the military is there and all they're doing is drawing security for the federal agents, you know, your ICE agents and DHS and stuff. So they can carry out their duties. But otherwise, like the they're not doing the police work like the military is entitled to well i mean precedent for it so i i assume there is with the insurrection act the insurrection act would have to be invoked for them to do that kind of stuff um and as of right now to be honest with you donald trump is he's acting assertively without honestly without acting aggressively as much as there are people that are going to swear up and down that he's being aggressive, just the federal agents carrying out their job is not aggressive.

That is just them doing their jobs. The hysterics from the left over the very disciplined approach that the president has taken is just totally disproportionate and weird, frankly. Well, I mean, it's not weird. It's a tactic with a goal. Well, yes, and also the left is weird. And so, like, you know, it's just, they've lost their minds over a completely reasonable

and sort of tempered response, almost. I like the left. They're cool. This is the far left nut jobs. Yeah. The left can lead us places, you know what I mean? i mean those are my friends too i don't agree with that but you know i i just try to you know get along in the world but what's going on i i want no part of i don't understand it and i will stand against it yeah i mean and and that's something that i think that the the majority of what we what used to be considered blue dog Democrats,

that's the way they feel as well. They're like, wait a minute, we're not supposed to be, well, we're not supposed to be happy that there are people waving foreign flags. We're not supposed to be happy that there are people that are actually fighting with the police. We're not supposed to be happy that there are cars burning, even if it is only a few blocks where this is happening, which is something I hear the Democrats point out.'s like it's such a small area it's such a small area blah blah yeah that's that's this week and everyone knows that come saturday though there's going to be protests throughout the country and we'll see what it looks like after that because it'll be a totally different animal when it's not just that one little you know square square mile here's what my dad told

me he got back from nam and he was driving the bread truck wonder bread and uh he said he said you want to know what happens during a ride i go what's that dan he says the bread man don't show up yeah beer man don't show up it's not it's not the way to go. So we got this post here from Mario Noffel. Breaking Israel strikes Tehran targets homes of top Iranian officials. Israel reportedly targeted the homes of Iran's top political and military officials during tonight's strike on the capital city of Tehran. It makes sense. All those images we're seeing look like they're in the middle of the city. Yeah, they're not striking the—this isn't an attack on the nuclear infrastructure.

This is an attack on the people in charge of Iran's military and government. So that'll change the estimation and how Iran is going to respond, I imagine, significantly. Yeah. If Israel were to say this is just about the nuclear missile or their nuclear technology, then that'd be one thing. This is going to be a totally different kind of response from Iran. Seems so. one thing this isn't going to be this is going to be totally a different kind of response from iran seems so you know i i don't see i don't see iran taking it pretty well when they were personally targeted yeah um but so they neutered hezbollah so well yeah maybe this is the the pager part two

but it's coming from the sky instead of in your pocket. So we're going to jump to, we were talking about the people going crazy in LA. We're going to jump to this post-millennial story. Antifa anarchist blog post claim of responsibility for torching NYPD vehicles in Brooklyn. The cars were just waiting there, practically begging for a new makeover. The post from Antifa affiliate blog reads um from katie davis court an antifa affiliated blog posted a claim of responsibility for an arson attack targeting eight new york police department vehicles parked near the 83rd precinct in brooklyn on wednesday the incident occurred around 1 30 a.m and the anarchist called for additional attacks against the police and government in solidarity with the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles.

So Antifa's attacking not just ICE, but any police. This brings to mind all of the ACAB sentiment that you heard so much in 2020, how all cops are guilty of being oppressorsors and they need to get rid of ICE entirely. They want to abolish ICE. There's probably going to be more calls to abolish the police, even though the results of the calls to abolish the police were more crime in the most crime-ridden areas. And it wasn't any kind of positive result for the people of those areas. So these activists that are making these demands or making these calls, they're actually harming the people they swear up and down they're trying to help. Yeah, you give them too much

credit by just merely calling them activists. I mean, these people are seditionists. They are insurrectionists and they are in our midst. They are trained under a sort of cultural Marxism that justwing violence. And you have blue state governors, blue state AGs, Soros-funded DAs, Soros-funded police chiefs who have given safe harbor to the seditionists and the insurrectionists. And so it becomes very difficult to do what's necessary to keep our American cities safe. So this is not surprising. I mean, it's shocking shocking but it's not surprising to see this sort of thing i like how they like black lives matter like you know two-thirds of them were

white and they went home to the suburbs and couldn't sleep in mommy's basement that's how i see it on the streets yeah look these are these are actual domestic terror organizations actually and i think that if you read you just have to open up like their own, like user manuals, and they are domestic terrorists, and they should be treated like domestic terrorists. Now what the left wants to do, and what they particularly did during the Biden administration, is they project their own guilt onto the right by calling like traditional Catholics who are praying in front of you know abortion clinics oh they're the they're the seditionists and the insurrectionists and the extremists and

the domestic terrorists but man we need a national mobilization of law enforcement to root these guys out I know that as the next Attorney General of Texas, and to learn more, you should go to erinwrights.com, that the Attorney General of Texas has tremendous power to sort of investigate the flow of where all this money and the funding is going to expose and then work with local law enforcement to go arrest and then try these criminals. So what do you think the chances of a legitimate like RICO case being put together surrounding these groups? You know, the chances for any RICO case getting a successful conviction is always low, right?

I mean, it's just always, I mean, it's, this is why you get them on tax fraud, right? Like it's even in instances where you just have nature of the threat and who want to pursue charges in creative but lawful ways to bring justice. And so anyway, just to circle back on my first answer to you, I think there's a there there. I think that an investigation may give rise to either civil or criminal RICO charges against these sorts of networks. But they're always difficult to stick. And depending on the jurisdiction that you bring them in, you're either going to get, you know, a democratically appointed or in some jurisdictions, a democratically elected judge, a Democrat judge with a Democrat jury and a Democrat criminal defense attorney and a sympathetic Democrat media that will cover the cases. The cases are stacked against law and order. So it's tough. My thought is Antifa should have been designated a domestic terrorist organization years ago.

During Trump's first administration, I'm still puzzled as to why he didn't do that and hasn't done it yet still. And I'm looking at this that they arrested three members of Antifa in Portland so far for stacking flammable debris on the local ice building and trying to set it on fire. And you look at the pictures of these people, they just look pathetic. I mean, they look like baristas. That's why people, no one regards them as the threats that they are. And I also love there's like viral clips coming out now of like leftists at gyms getting like liberal workouts and stuff. Have you guys seen this? Yeah, I've seen some of this. Where they get into the boxing ring and they're completely unathletic schlubs trying to be fearsome

because we're going to fight the fascists or whatever. And it's totally lame and cringy. I mean, we should be investigating these people on Twitter who have fan accounts for Luigi Mangione. I just saw people circulating this letter that he wrote out for his, his, what was it? His 27th birthday.

He wrote down a list of all the things he's grateful for. And one of them was hashtag Latinas for Luigi or whatever. He knows that, that people idolize him online and the people who are publicly posting about that find them, arrest them. I mean, look, they are in LA. In LA, they should just be coming in there with unmarked vans and rounding these people up, literally, and possibly just throwing them out over the Mexican border. Yeah, I mean, it's very, it's a very tempting, I mean, you're, it's a, it sounds like a good time. In fact, when I, when I resigned, uh, from the justice department

on, uh, I guess it was last night. Um, all of my Marine friends were like, you know, dude, are you getting mobilized to go to LA? And I was like, don't tempt me with a good time because that would have been, I agree with you though. This, we just need the political will to enforce law and order and bring justice. I feel like Trump so tragically mishandled the Summer of Love 1.0 and we're about to embark on Summer of Love 2.0. That's what we're looking at right now. And he held back because it was prior to the election and they didn't want to have bad press. That's my opinion. You're talking about in 2020?

Yeah. BLM terror uprising. Do you think that is going to be replayed here this summer? Or do you think that he'll be more forced? The violence? No, the reaction from the press. I mean, obviously his attention is divided at the moment. But, I mean, it's been not a great showing so far.

Like they were ramping up deportations, obviously, but I just, I don't see enough of a strong response to the criminal actions of protesters. So he's already activated the Guard. He sent 2,000 Marines to one spot in one city. He's continued the ice operations, and that's what the National Guard, the Marines haven't got there. I'm not sure if the Marines are there now, but as of last night, the Marines were still doing training for basically riot training. But the National guard is there the guard unit was running security for ice and for everybody so they could go and continue to

do their jobs i mean that's night and day different than from what he did initially in um in the summer of love he basically he just had federal assets to protect the courthouses and the federal house, like federal buildings. They didn't do any kind of support role for or the military wasn't there, first of all. And there was no federal assets doing a support role for the police. I think that the response so far is significantly stronger. It's better. I'm just not going to be satisfied until I see every last one of these people rounded up and arrested and so far there are three in portland from what i've seen she's like until i see him look like vlad the impaler i'm yeah i mean yeah

i i should so i would say and until until the deportation numbers are up to let's say three thousand a day for the rest of this presidency, which is not going to happen. Yeah. I mean, look, there's like 20 million plus illegal aliens that need to be deported. Probably like 40 million. So that's actually probably right. Like, just assume that whatever reported numbers exist is probably just double. They've been saying 20 million for 20 years.

I know. No, look, I share the sympathy. They've been saying 20 million for 20 years. necessarily to like election optics, because I actually think I would make the argument that like a hard crackdown on that would have, I think, buoyed American spirits. I think that this was the first real mass national militant, ideologically leftist, anti-American, like insurrection in a long time. And that the administration and law enforcement are, like, trying to figure out how do we do this? Like, is this going to go away in a week? Are they just letting off some steam for a week? And then it turns out it went on for months. And then it's like, okay, now what do we do? Now we have blue mayors, blue police departments, blue governors,

like, taking the knee and putting their BLM fist in the air. And navigating that is actually really tricky. I will say, though, to President Trump's. Now, again, Mary, though, to your to your point, like I know what I think I know what I would have done back then. And I would have put riot gear on everybody and gone online from one, you know, the east of the urban area to the literally just online. Doesn't over get way, though, man. I mean, when the president mobilizes the National Guard over and above the governor, normally he notifies the governor. This is not normal, and you're not going to do it in all cases. If the governor doesn't want to take care of the governor's own territory,

that's what happened in 2020. You don't want to do it, Harry Balls, Tim Walls, whatever. You don't want to do care of the governor's own territory that's what happened in 2020 you don't want to do it harry balls tim walls whatever you don't want to let it burn then i guess we're going to have to step in so you do learn okay gavin newsom you're particularly troublesome but you're not going to see every marine division going into american city right so but there's not a requirement there's no legal requirement to get the governor's permission. There is none. No. That's why it's very exceptional. So now. Sure. Do you really expect the president United States to be managing 50 National Guards?

No. I expect the governor to do it. Yeah. But he's been such an abject failure in California. We've learned it now. We learned in 2020. We learned it from the fires. Right. We're going to make a statement here in 2020. We learned it from the fires. We're going to make a statement here, I think is what's going on. Yeah, look, the blue jurisdictions are failed regimes. Like California. It's crazy. California. Look, California has a lot of good things going for it. When I think of California, I actually am like more heartbroken than I am disgusted because it's like a great American state. It's beautiful. I lived there in Southern California for three years when I was stationed at Pendleton.

And so we love California. It's a great American state. But when creatures of the left assume power, all they know how to do is to destroy or preside over brokenness and rottenness and so california and some of these other blue cities and counties around the country they're just failed regimes now we can't allow it within american borders for there to just be like in whole scale failed cities and so it then gets escalated and then send me money to fix it because. Yeah. Well, I mean, speaking of money, there's there's something that I wanted to bring up. The Post Millennial was reporting. These are the groups suspected of funding radical L.A. anti-ice protests.

Some left wing activist groups are suspected of funding the anti-ice protests turned riots over the weekend. FBI Director Kash Patel has said that the law enforcement agency will be investigating all the funding as well as the groups that supported and organized the efforts. The FBI is investigating any and all monetary connections responsible for these riots. Patel told Just the News earlier this week. Over the weekend, after some initial peaceful anti-ice protests, violence and riots erupted in downtown LA with Waymont cars being burned, looted, violence targeted at police and other criminality. According to the outlet, one of the groups linked to the protests that occurred leading up to the violent riots is the Party for Socialism and Liberation,

PSL. It's also Pumpkin Spice Latte. Yeah, which is a Marxist group that has reported ties to the Chinese Communist Party. PSsl has also been connected to many gaza encampments on college campuses around the world that's something that's worth worth at least mentioning again these riots these these demonstrations whatever you want to call them they're they're not dependent on whatever issue they're talking about at that time. Correct. You know, the issue is not the issue. The issue is the revolution. That's why they tie Gaza in with illegal immigration to the U.S. You mean these aren't guys who got upset one day in Compton

and decided to put down a video game in the blunt and just go out there? You're telling me this is coordinated? Yes, sir. That these guys could be getting paid? I am telling you that, sir. Yeah. Yes, sir. These guys could be getting paid. I am telling you that, sir. Yeah. Yes, sir. The Party for Socialism and Liberation, I think we were talking about this earlier today.

We were. Yeah. And I forget the guy's name that you'd mentioned. Roy Singham. What was it, please? Roy Singham, an American billionaire, tech billionaire, now lives in China with his wife, who has founded Code Pink. You remember that one? So he's a devout Maoist, right?

Yeah. I don't know how a billionaire is a Maoist, but yet he is. And money flows, as I understand it, and talk to a few people in dc it it flows to the party uh uh socialism and liberal liberal pumpkin spice latte liberation yeah yes oh yeah and they go to the the coalition for the humane immigration rights in la churla okay which is also being funded by the SIU union going to Chirla. So these are union dues. Yeah. A rich guy living in China, funding groups coming into.

That are paying for people to riot in Los Angeles in the name of both Gaza and illegal immigration. These are, to both y'all's points, it's worth emphasizing, these are highly coordinated, highly sophisticated money laundering schemes where you have- That's why I mentioned RICO, you know? That's what I'm saying. Yes, no, I mean, and you're onto something, right?

My only point was maybe more of just like a legal nerd point, which is just like, it's difficult to get those cards to stick. Right. But it's this is completely unsurprising. Like, of course, there are dark money groups and Soros affiliated groups, and there's 15 of them with 10 different names. Some of them have like, you know, they wear their ideology in their name. Other organizations are more innocuously named so you wouldn't expect that you know the the the foundation for a just america i'm making

that up i don't know what that is but a foundation for justice is actually a front group for like militant marxist leftism right and then our eyes get wide open when you're finding like there's a trail to usaid and like you're funding it totally Totally right. And by the way, it's been going on for decades and conservatives have sort of just contented themselves to Mary's point to just like arrest three criminals. Oh, we got three of them, boys. Mission accomplished. High fives all around. Meanwhile, the billionaire leftist Marxist insurrectionists are like, that's fine.

Three of our soldiers are down. I've got thousands and thousands. I've got ant colonies. The smokeless war. Yeah. No, that's exactly right. Now, this is, and I want to, we already, I made this point, but again, I'll say it again. This is exactly why you need an attorney general in the state of Texas who understands the nature of the problem.

What's the website again? The website is, thank you very much for mentioning that. It's aaronreitz.com, A-A-R-O-N-R-E-I-T-Z.com. If I could get in there, enjoyer.com or nobsnewshour.com. Those are great. Yes, those are great.coms as well. And so you got to have an AG in Texas presiding over the largest Republican law firm in the country who understands the nature of the threat who reads headlines like what we've looked at and is unsurprised by it but let me let me throw this in while you're doing it because you know watch out Texas because California's moving there right yeah look okay the party for socialism and uh liberation I'm going to spice latte. Also had dealings in the Columbia campus.

Yeah, Columbia and New York. Columbia University. The guy that shot the two Jewish people in front of the embassy in D.C., PLA. So you could see this thing's kind of getting all over the country. We're not even aware of it. Well, Phil made this point earlier there is a um there is a sort of global communist revolutionary spirit yeah that transcends

it doesn't matter whether you're a privileged white person uh going to columbia or whether you're an impoverished uh sympathizer, it doesn't matter what it is, or you're a BLM type. They have this shared narrative of a global revolution that in their mind of progress, they want to destroy, destroy, destroy, tear down the institutions of the West, tear down American institutions so that out of those ashes, they can create their vision of the future. It's got to be stopped. When the BLM young people were coming by in Detroit in 2020, I know them, you know, they know me. And it's cool, it's friendly.

And they were talking Marxist stuff. And I said, young man, Marxism is the greatest critique of capitalism there is. It's quite good. the problem is the solution always ends up with people in the trains to the gulag you don't know what you're advocating for so i would submit to this table and the listeners our system is an excellent one the problem is it's been co-opted by a corrupt culture and corrupt people. There's no better system.

I'm here to keep it. We just need better people. And do not fuck with my shit. Because you will find out. That's something that most Americans generally agree. 100%, dude. Let's see. We're getting some more information. We have a post from Vicegrad24 reporting initial reports of Iran launching ballistic missiles towards Israel. We've also got a second tweet from them.

Reports of explosions at the airport in Baghdad where U.S. forces are stationed. It's possible that the Iranian proxy groups in Iraq launch Ajak Qatib Ibn Hezbollah are attacking U.S. forces. I'm sure I butchered that name. There was one other thing. There we go. This is from the Secretary of State. For immediate release, tonight Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.

Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense. President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear, Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel. Which would be great. Or else what? Well, I mean, honestly, if they kill Americans, then Americans generally change their opinion about whether Americans should, you know, be involved in something. Because whether or not, you know,

whether or not the United States is actually launching any kind of attacks on Iran, if Iran attacks the U.S., like they're going to respond. We already moved our people. We did kind of and probably know a little something. We moved people out of the region. We definitely did. President Trump was talking to us. He was something along the lines of, well,

I'm not supposed to know and I'm not supposed to say, but yeah, you know, it's going to happen. Got him out of Erbil. Got him out of Baghdad. Talking about the whole, like, all the pizza, the pizza orders at the Pentagon yesterday, too. Yeah. We were tracking that on the show, and we weren't sure if it was going to happen.

The orders of pizza in D.C.? Yeah, pizza orders. Late at night? Not just in D.C., but there's actually a Domino's in the Pentagon. Right. So when that one gets busy... That one. Is that a thing? Yeah, there is a Domino's pizza inside the Pentagon. And you guys can track it? Yep, it's an index. that a thing? Yeah, there is a Domino's Pizza inside the Pentagon. And you guys can track it?

Yep, it's an index. Like Pentagon Pizza? Yeah, it's just whatever the address is. I forget what the address is, but there's a Domino's Pizza. And you can actually, just like on Google or on Yelp or whatever it says, it's surprisingly busy or uncharacteristically busy. When it goes through the roof, you're like, whoa. World War III busy. They're literally, everyone everyone staying at the Pentagon and ordering pizza because the U.S. is doing something

overseas. You low-level, deep-state motherfucker. It is not me that's doing this. That's a great detective tool. I never knew it. That's interesting. So they're saying we are not involved in these strikes, but you're suspecting they did know about it

beforehand. Well, yes. I don't think that the, I think the U S and Israel generally share information when it is beneficial to both of them. So I don't think that the U S and Israel share all intelligence, but I think that if, if it's beneficial for the U S to know something for, if it's beneficial to Israel for the U. to know something, if it's beneficial to Israel for the U.S. to know something, then, you know, they're going to tell the U.S. And I think it's definitely beneficial for the United States to know that they were going to attack, considering we were talking about talking with Iran on Sunday, I think it was. What is this? Is this in English or are we going to listen to uh we have an idea for years

the iranian regime has called for the destruction of the state of israel planning and advancing concrete military plans to do so over the past few months intelligence has shown that iran is closer than ever to obtaining a nuclear weapon this morning theF began pre-emptive and precise strikes targeting the Iranian nuclear program in order to prevent the Iranian regime's ability to build a nuclear bomb in the immediate timeframe. We have no choice. We are operating against an imminent and existential threat. We cannot allow the Iranian regime to obtain a nuclear weapon that would be a danger to Israel and the entire world. This operation is for our right to exist here, for our future and for our children's future. The State of

Israel has the right and obligation to operate in order to protect its people and will continue to do so. The IDF conducted significant preparations for this operation. We are well prepared both in defense and offense to defend ourselves. The IDF will continue to defend the state of Israel. So are we to believe that these strikes were against the homes of Iranian officials or their nuclear program? Exactly what I was thinking. So we're getting. I don't know that we can actually have a reliable sense of what the what the targets were.

Yeah, we have no nothing confirmed yet. I'm going to sit like before. I'm going to let the night play out and hope, you know, to the media for a second. I need somebody in some place where it's reliable. And I just, it's just been missing for years now, you know? Hey man, we're trying. Oh no, I mean, building the new media. So if you had a budget, I'm sure you could find 30 ex-Marines that'll go over there and be reporters for you.

You know what I mean? I'm with Milo. I'm okay with it. I'm ready to can find 30 ex-Marines that will go over there and be reporters for you. You know what I mean? I'm with Milo. I'm okay with it. I'm ready to be with Jesus. That's kind of where I'm at now. That's how Milo feels. Let's see. What else do we got here?

If there's anything new. I got to see Ed Krasenstein. Let's see what Ed Krasenstein. Oh, I don't want to see. I got it, dude. Krasenstein. What do you? It's to see what Ed Krasenstein. I got it, dude. Krasenstein. What do you? It's like Twitter forces.

I don't follow the guy. I just want to see what smugness he's got for me tonight. Whose fault is it, Ed? He said no new wars under Trump, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, that's how I feel. Well, I mean, technically, like. He didn't pull the triggers.

Well, yeah, the U.S. isn't involved in this yet. Hopefully not at all. Ed would love it. Of course he would. He'd love it. He'd love it. Give me grist and fodder. So we're going to go to this story here. Obviously we're going to keep monitoring the situation in the Middle East. But we're going to go to this

story where Tim Poole actually was tweeting something that Donald Trump had said, and it came as a bit of a surprise. What made you change your mind about targeting in California farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business? Well, we're not targeting. In fact, if you look today, I put out a statement today about farmers.

Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers. They've worked for them for 20 years. They're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great. And we're going to have to do something about that. We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have, maybe not. And you know what's going to happen and what is happening? They get rid of some of the people because, you know, you go into a farm and you look and people don't — they've been there for 20, 25 years and they've worked great and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else. And then you're supposed to throw them

out. And you know what happens? They end up hiring the people, the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else. So we're going to have an order on that pretty soon, I think. We can't do that to our farmers. And leisure, too. Hotels. We're going to have to use a lot of common sense on that. What are you talking about, Don? This is outrageous.

So that was at 4 p.m. Right? Sorry. That was 4 p.m. today. And then at 6.45, Donald Trump truthed. I don't have a link to it. Actually, maybe I can find a link to it. Jack Posobiec also added the murderer of Molly Tibbetts was a Mexican illegal who worked on a dairy farm in Iowa.

Well, yeah, that is true. He was just looking for honest work let's see so here's the actual tweet from Donald Trump the truth from Donald Trump the follow up to that statement at the press conference

the Biden administration and Governor Gavin Newsom flooded America with 21 million illegal aliens destroying schools, hospitals and communities, and consuming untold billions of dollars in free welfare. All of them have to go home, as do countless other illegals and criminals who will turn us into a bankrupt third world nation. America was invaded and occupied. I'm reversing the invasion. It's called re-immigration. Our

courageous ICE officers who are daily being subject to doxing and murder threats are heroes. So that seems to be walking back the idea of keeping the farm workers that his friends that own farms. I think people are straining to see something that's not here. This articulation in this Truth Social post that we're reading right now is consistent with what President Trump has said from the very beginning and is consistent with the policies that he's enacted since he got sworn in on January 20th.

Dude, you make sense. I think that what he was sort of riffing with, with the Fox News reporter, I don't view that in any way as like a firm articulation of a policy position. I don't view it as like we're staking out a new thing. I think that he is channeling what I imagine are some concerns that have been articulated to him. But I don't see this as a policy pronouncement in any way, shape, or form. I think that the Truth Social post that came two and a half hours afterwards

was not so much a walking back, but just a re-articulation of what has... This, what he said there, was maybe a little bit different and threw some folks off. But the Truth Social post was consistent with what he's been doing from the beginning. So it just doesn't bother I don't love

then why did he say that what is common sense in his estimation from that clip we're going to need to use common sense about that his rhetoric is giving me whiplash

yeah there's a real world here if I might about that. I think he's thinking and processing it well. His rhetoric is giving me a whiplash. Yeah, I just don't... There's a real world here, if I might, been out in it. This, what he says is, all of you that just came in here, this last wave, you're gone. There's no, you're not going to be amnesty. And if you came in

the first wave, and you're a punk and a creep, and you make convictions, you're gone. What he said today makes 100% sense to me. For instance, David, que tal? Es Carlito, bro. There's a dude. I worked in the canneries, slaughterhouses, the grape orchards.

There are people been here for 20 years working, can't go home, can't go to funerals. They got kids that are doctors. David is a good neighbor. He works. They're not paying enough for you to go work for $9 an hour in the California sun, picking grapes gently so you don't bruise them. David's been doing it.

In 2013, there was the immigration reform bill. They came up with a concept called a blue card. Not a green card, a blue card. Which means you work ag. You don't get to vote. You have some access to government programs, right? You can move internationally, go to the funeral. They're upstanding people in our country. They've been here forever, built lives. We're not running them out. And if you think we're running them out, we will go broke

because working in a slaughterhouse, they're not paying anymore. They're not paying in the canneries anymore because that's all been broken. So in the short term, if you gathered everybody up, you're never going to eat. Not that Americans won't do the jobs because they used to do the job. Well, they used to do the jobs for like higher livable wages. I'll give you an example of it. Illegal immigration on scale is what has caused these jobs that you would otherwise be able to live off of to now be like sub-pops.

In 1985, when the whore mill unionized workers went on strike in Minnesota, they were making $10.50 an hour, adjusted for inflation because we all now know what inflation is. That's $32 an hour. Yeah. And they got benefits like a pension, right? Yeah. What do they pay in the horn mill plants today? Dirt, probably. Dirt?

18, 16, 15? In fact, they're replacing the illegals with the new illegals. Right. So they can cut the wage. That's what's going on. It's a longer-term problem. My view of this is, I mean mean you know Mary Mary asked the question like what does he mean by common sense I just don't read a lot into what he's saying in this clip

genuinely and maybe I'm being like completely naive typically I don't like to think that I'm naive but I'm hearing the president riff casually with a reporter that he knows extremely well and is sort of just thinking out loud. And I hear policy. And by the way, I hear policy. I don't because if you hear policy, then what – if you were to conclude that what the president of the United States said in a one-minute, six-second clip, which is completely different from everything he's ever said on immigration. I don't know if that's true.

On immigration. Okay. He never said everybody got to go. I don't think that's true. What I read in the second clip was all of you that came the second time under bogus circumstances, you're out. And if you came that first time, because we got a lot of those. What's the second time?

The second time would be the Biden era. The first time would be when NAF got signed the peso collapsed and everybody came in about 1998 99 2000 2001 2002 when you started hearing on the telephone if you want english press number one about that time yeah this is when uh the great great Pat Buchanan was putting out great ads. And don't forget, dude, when NAFTA got signed, then WTO got signed, normalization of trade with China got signed, Detroit got crushed, our jobs went overseas. And what came in for the rest of the jobs?

Cheap labor. So you can't turn that around with a few immigration sweeps you just can't i think he's making sense to me i i world no i don't think so i look i think that there was a a a move toward progressive globalization that believed that global markets borderless countries a an erosion of identity of state nation and people is something that swept the West from the 80s to the 90s to the early 2000s. Called neoliberalism. Correct. And what President Trump represents is a rejection of that.

And it's not just him, but it's now super majorities of American voters who reject that. We've seen the fruits of it. And it has been, in my opinion, terrible for America, both economically and culturally. And so I celebrate the worldview articulated in the Truth Social post that came at 645 that I think represents the heart of President Trump's immigration agenda, for which I intend as the next Texas Attorney General, at where you can go to AaronWrites.com to stand alongside him, fighting to deport illegal aliens, defend,

build the border wall, protect our communities, end human and drug trafficking. All right. That was a great pivot, man. That was good. So we're going to jump to this story here from Mediaite. Trump cancels work permits for over half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

That's how you do. That, to me, sounds like a good idea. That was a bogus plan by Biden. The Department of Homeland Security revoked work and resident permits for hundreds of thousands of migrants on Thursday, according to a CNN report. A notice sent by email to Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan nationals demands that migrants vacate the country immediately, stating that failure to do so may result in involuntary detention. This notice informs you that your parole is now terminated. A copy of the notice obtained by CNN reads, if you do not leave, you may be subject to enforcement actions, including but not limited to detention and removal without an opportunity to make personal

arrangements and return to your country in an orderly manner. The termination of the Biden-era parole program that granted legal working status to an estimated 530,000 migrants from these four countries has long been a goal of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end the program on his first day in office, one of many steps taken to achieve the president's campaign promise of mass deportation.

I mean, look, 500,000 is a nice start. Dude. Again, if we go back to what, you know, we were just going back and forth about back and forth this era this biden disaster disaster right we agree here yeah we agree okay so they get they got to fly in they got to make reservations and part of that application was you get to work immediately and then you get temporary protective status and all of this. Yeah. 100% you're gone. Done.

Revoked. Get out. Half mil. Okay. Half mil is a huge move. That's tremendous. Yeah. Just going back again.

Before this disaster and we could kind of put up with it and we were getting our shit together and let's put up a wall and come in the right way. We still had David out there picking the gray. Okay. We can deal with you, dude. Right. But I, I see, I'm not trying to argue what you want or if it's right or anything, but I see him actually being consistent and keeping his word because he didn't say, man, if you work on a great farm and you've been here since 1999, you're out. Yeah, look, I mean, to the extent like I don't think it's inconsistent to say that getting these 500,000 out is a top priority.

Whereas getting out to use your phrase like the grape pickers who moved to central California in 98 is not the priority. Now, it is my opinion that the great picker who's still here breaking the law every single day should go, but we can have a prudential conversation about what's the number one priority right now. I think this is the right move. Look, and this is this. So this is interesting. When I was a deputy at the Texas Attorney General's office several years ago during the Biden era, actually, this decision by the Biden administration is something blanket what's called parole. So parole is a legal immigration concept that is supposed to be used on a case-by-case basis. So you've got immigration authorities who, in extraordinary circumstances, can issue sort of what's called parole. It's like, look, this is outside the norm, but there's exigent circumstances.

Yes, you can come over here, but you need to stay in the cell. You're getting to connect yourself with family. And so parole, think of parole as something that has always historically been used as a one, like one by one, onesie here, twosie there, whatever. What Biden then did is he just blanket paroled tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands all at once, which eviscerated the legal concept of parole. What it was was it just, it turned parole and amnesty, which are supposed to be very rare, one-to-one type things, into just amnesty, right? And so what happened here, yeah.

So we actually sued. It was a lie. It's a total lie. And they knew exactly what they were doing. And if I could give the dumb guy version, you know, dude, you should call me up. I'll give lie. It's a total lie. And they knew exactly what they were doing. The dumb guy version. Dude, you should call me up. I'll give you some free advice on the camera. Here's the dumb guy version of parole.

When you claim amnesty, you walk in this country. Amnesty, right? We've signed international courts. Okay. Amnesty? Asylum? You need asylum? Here's what happens to you.

You get locked up. You are sitting in a cell a nice cell an american cell some of the best cells great cells terrific cells i know builders you're supposed to sit in a cell until you see the immigration judge usually took on average 35 days you got parole so you could leave to go get your heart fixed or your blood pressure dropped you get to leave the cell and go to the hospital and then you got to come back that's right that's what parole was then but biden went like this come on in there's no jail cell for you parole will get to you in years you can think of these concepts even in like a law enforcement right where like you know i'm on parole right an individual you old epstein shit right like a a a an alleged defendant uh is out on parole uh or criminals out on parole

under certain circumstances and terms those terms are very customized they are personalized they are individualized they apply only to that person it's made on a case-by-case basis yes in coordination with the judge, a parole officer, the police department, and the prosecution. And it's not like parole getting out of the state pen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? It's not that kind. So this is absolutely... So even though, like, when I was at the Texas AG's office, we litigated stuff like this. Thank God President Trump wins in 2024. And all he's doing is just unraveling something that was manifestly illegal in the first place. But I think what's, and so this is good, like this is something to be happy about,

this is good. We see the leftist pro-illegal alien groups sort of weeping and gnashing their teeth over it. That's also sometimes an indication of whether something good is happening. But you look at the legal arguments that these groups made in court, and it again reveals the true nature of the liberal left and what they believe about this country, what they believe about the rule of law. And gosh, to see the left, the well-funded sort of legal nonprofit space work in coordination with democratically appointed judges in blue jurisdictions with blue juries and blue communities, they are stopping at nothing. The litigation that these blue states and pro-illegal alien groups waged against Trump for doing something manifestly within the discretion of the president of the United

States is just yet another reflection of the left's willingness to throw all principle out the door and just do whatever it takes to just stop and thwart the will of the American people. So trust me as the, you're a conservative, right? Yes. And then, and you don't like the left. So trust, don't trust me, but consider me as a reasonable centrist. Okay. That there's a pathway forward that we can have a normalized country where people are

working and providing things for each other that we don't have to have this shit. But if we could magically get them all out tomorrow, you wouldn't eat. And not all immigrants are like picking grapes let's get that straight too but it's nothing but grapes you know it's everywhere like you have to so much has been reconfigured in 30 years that it's you just can't get it done in a minute yeah i thought no i actually thought trump was speaking reasonably maybe i'm wrong but you don't have to hate me for it maybe i'm wrong i might you don't have to hate me for it. Maybe I'm wrong.

I don't hate you. No, I mean, I actually don't feel like there's any animosity for anyone sitting around the table. But I do think that, look, if there's a lot of people that think the more people are deported, the better. Because they kind of take it for granted that you're not actually going to get rid of 21 million people. I think there's a lot of people out there that were like, look, if you made them an offer and said, look, we're not getting 21 million. But we can get 6 million out. I think there's a lot of people that would feel like that's a victory personally i would i would like to i don't think that there should be i to me there's no upper limit as to how many are how many people that are here illegally is enough to to move along i do understand the argument oh they've been here for 20 years and

and they've lived set up a life and. And I do think that's a different context than people that have been here for three, four, five years. But at the same time, I don't think that there's any reason to say, oh, well, you're here illegally, you've been here for a long time, so because you've

been here for a long time, we're not going to do anything. Yeah, right. That's not like a principled, like consistently enforceable standard. Like, we've been here for a long time, we're not going to do it. Yeah, right. There's no, that's not like a principled, like consistently enforceable standard. Like we've been here a long time, exception to deportation. I don't, I can understand where we would make certain prudential considerations based upon feasibility, logistics, second and unintended second and third order of effects. But these are, these are like prudential considerations. But on the principle, by which I distinguish prudence from principle, on the principle discussion, every single one of the 21 plus million people who are here illegally are in

fact here illegally, and are therefore under our duly enacted immigration laws subject to deportation. No argument for me. And so, look, I think that your framing earlier was correct about like, well, you know, if we can't get all 21, let's just accept six. And yeah, six is better than zero, right? But I don't accept the premise that we should immediately begin from a position of negotiating against ourselves or like erecting a, and I'm not saying you're suggesting it, right? But, but I acknowledge that weaker conservatives, Republicans with less willpower are willing to

begin the public policy discussion by just conceding that, well, oh, 21 million is, we can't do that. That would be, could you not only imagine the economic effects, but the optics would just be terrible. So therefore, we have to content ourselves with like a pittance. I don't see that because you're already seeing ice at work. I mean, the first. That's not what I'm saying. I know. But here, man, I'm jumping in. The first stroke was, all right, we're going to start deportation.

We're going to get these guys. Now you just saw all the Border Patrol app people gone. That's the next move. You got to start talking about how you're going to reach a path of normalization. Let me look into your background. You paid taxes. You broke the law. you've been duly employed okay that you know yeah look i i i there's no purity here man i and i'm and i'm tired of this one here too no one is illegal okay yeah but the shit people do is illegal we'll get to that in just a minute

you know like being here illegally let's get our immigration system together so this doesn't happen anymore we can agree on that yeah of course i mean that's forward i mean no we can't right like so we'll we can talk like we can agree but the issues that we're having right now or that we've been experiencing they were directly in the being you know in the face of what Americans wanted. No Americans wanted a total open border. No Americans wanted to ship in 20 million illegal immigrants, especially when the reason to ship them in was to bolster the numbers in places like California, where there have been a mass exodus of population and they were used they're you they're looking to have these people in the census in the in uh 2030 so that way that it that enhances democrats uh you know chances of having electoral success the the congressional districts so that's all

dependent on the census and this is a this is a two-pronged attack on the existing Americans' voting power. You know, if you can dilute the American people's voting power by changing the makeup of states and getting more congressional seats. California has 55 or something like that congressional seats because there's 36 million people in California or something like that. And if they can get in an additional five or or so million because of this that could mean a you know an additional two i don't know how many it is but the the point is democrats have been actively doing this this isn't a situation where it's through no fault of of of anyone you know at all this is this is something this is an active plan that the democrats have been instituting between this particular issue and also things like the refugee resettlement program and the NGOs that were financing people's trips.

So this is totally because of Democrats. So it's not 100% right. We can't even get the immigration system in order going forward because of this. Yeah. Divide, right? I totally agree with that. And then I submit to you, if we can't even get the rules applied all the time,

how are we going to get everybody out? Well, okay. So we're mixing two separate conversations, and I think it's causing a lack of clarity. There is the practical conversation about what can or cannot be done. Then there is the sort of more principled or ideological conversation about the nature of illegal immigration and the degree to which you enforce borders and so on and so forth. And I'm trying to treat these things separately.

On the one hand, I start from the principle that if 21 million aliens are here illegally, every single last one of them should be deported. That is just statutorily, legally correct. Then there's a separate conversation which is well where do we start from what states what are the methods is it feasible or desirable to get all 21 million those are separate policy level conversations i'm just trying to to detach we're all we're all there yeah okay so i would would say that's great. You start in the classroom.

I start from the streets and read the books at night when I go to bed. So I'm talking about the reality. Yeah. Listen, I, okay. I just tell you that's the street, dude. I have litigated immigration cases for several years. I have worked with Senator Cruz on passing border security legislation. You gave us your resume. several years. I have worked with Senator Cruz on passing border security legislation.

You gave us your resume. And I was nominated to the Justice Department in part to work on a federal immigration law and have partnered with Tom Homan and Kash Patel and Attorney General Bondi on working all these things. I covered the border for 10 years. I worked in the world's biggest slaughterhouse. I worked in the world's biggest cannery. I'm just, we're trying to share here and get someplace. So all I'm saying, and by the way, Mary brought it up.

Mary brought it up. Mary. In 2005, the Pew Foundation said there were 11 million illegal immigrants living in America. At the end of 2023, their latest study, after all the Biden stuff, there were 11 million illegal immigrants. So there was not one extra illegal immigrant in all of that time.

And it's the conversations. What we have seen since President Trump was inaugurated on January 20th was a concerted, national, extremely well-funded lawfare campaign to thwart even just the beginnings of deportation operations. Like we've deported, I think at this rate, like 175,000 people. Maybe we're at 200 by now, somewhere in that zone. Right. And we're just we're just now getting started. And it has been a monumental task to even just begin scratching the surface. And so I'm arguing that 20 plus million illegal aliens ought to and do, in fact, united states laws deserve to be deported but to a point that was made earlier i think you made this point which was like we can't even agree on the rules moving forward to deport them because look at how difficult it is just to get 0.01 percent indeed of them out of here so it's tough it's tough but it takes political will

to see it through and there are brains in the Trump administration because I know people working this. They expected all that. All the theater of judge shopping and national injunctions, they were expecting it. As it was explained to me, here comes the rollout now. What you're seeing now is the rollout. All right. Well, we're going to go ahead here comes the rollout now. What you're seeing now is the rollout. All right, well, we're going to go ahead and jump to Super Chats. So smash the Like button, share the show with your friends,

with your family, with everyone you know. Head on over to TimCast.com to join our Discord, and head on over to Rumble.com, become a member, and you'll be allowed to watch the after hours uncensored portion of our show where we do the call-ins. You can call in and talk to our guests, talk to the panel. But we're going to start with Shane H. Wilder here says, With the last plane crash, it's Trump's fault crowd are at it again. I did the research and the month-to-month numbers from the FAA are lower than they were in the middle of COVID-2020. That's great, but I don't think... Are people blaming Trump for the plane crash in India?

Maybe not in India. Oh. But everywhere. Everywhere else. All right. Fair enough. You know that's going to happen. All right.

Oh, my God. Sounds good. Let's see. Weary Traveler says, I had a whole message prepared for Tim about giving him yet another Fell For It Again award, but that Shaboskoy is too embarrassed to show his face now that his fellow Shaboskoy backtracked on everything. Amazing. Amazing.

I'm not sure exactly why We why weary traveler is so worked up uh weary traveler is is frequently in the pcc chat and far calmer usually but uh apparently this evening weary traveler is uh is worked up what does shabbos mean uh i'm not sure i think it means like yeah shabbos goos Goy is like on the Sabbath, you are like the Goy, or the Goy, in this case, one of the Goyim, that can do work for someone who's a reverend Jew. My brother, his neighbor will come over and say,

can you turn my lights on? That's a Shabbos Goy. That's a Shabbos Goy. Frankie, you're a Shabbos Goy. Congratulations. MosefStalin69 says, can you guys see my Rumble rants? We can. I'm not sure that we're excited about it, though.

I'm not sure. Tonight's going to be a rough night for the rants and the super chats. Let's see. Jeremy B. said, if I rushed to the podium of the DHS secretary, they would have thrown me under the jail. Yeah, look, it's standard procedure to protect government officials, especially cabinet officials. So they would definitely have thrown you under the you know just like any other normal person and to be honest with you the senator was treated you know pretty uh pretty i think that was uh sop response to uh somebody trying to barge into a press conference by a secretary i mean i don't i don't feel like

he you don't you don't feel like it was a big deal do you i think it was the right thing man well the right thing to yeah but you know he should go to jail and then be let out on his own for the cognizance it'd be it'd be better to actually no cash bail and cali now let's see uh justin spengler says i did executive production in the navy we would have treated the situation the exact same i have no idea who this crazy man screaming is be gone thought which i mean yeah like security is gonna do security things it doesn't matter that like you know you're a senator especially seeing as like he is the junior senator from from california right so he's he's not very well known this uh ranking senator i think he's the

junior i think he was the junior senator. Who's the other senator? They're both very new. The other one is a pencil neck. Did he just get elected? He just got elected to the Senate. And Padilla got Dianne Feinstein. I think he's the senior senator from California. That's hilarious.

That is bizarre. Wow. Is he actually the senior senator? Yeah, Padilla is the senior bizarre. Wow. Is he actually the senior? Yeah, Padilla is the senior senator. Wow. All right. So he succeeded Feinstein in 23 and then Schiff got elected in 24. They're both new.

I mean, they're both really new. They're both very new. Both very diplomatic. Would you not agree? Yes. Total. Let's see here. Trucking Pat says, while we have an aspiring, we need a state to sue California for allowing illegals to count on the census and to vote in elections.

Yeah. Thanks, Reagan. What was that? Thanks, Reagan. Yeah, I would actually really like to see some kind of challenge, but I don't foresee that coming anytime soon. And to be honest with you, I'm not even sure that the Supreme Court would take it. Well, it depends on who the next Texas Attorney General is. There you go. And if you want to learn more about whether I'd be able to do something like that, go to erinwrights.com.

Perfect. Plastic Cup Politics says, Mr. LaDuff, I'll be attending the Kilmar Garcia arraignment protest tomorrow in Nashville. Any last minute words of advice for a 20 year military veteran covering the event protest? Yeah, my brother, thank you for doing it. Go there.

Show them how we Americans do it. Keep it peaceful. Keep smart and keep your chin up, man. And thanks for taking the time Wait so what is he's going to He's attending the arraignment of Kilmar Garcia Tomorrow in Nashville

Protest the arraignment or support the arraignment No I think he's just going to cover it And then he expects to see Cover it as a journalist Is he a reporter? Yeah he's a reporter Oh bro just just soak it up and write the truth there you go talk to everybody which is that kilmar garcia that's the thing about

a reporter though that's the truth right when you hit the streets you you pick and choose yeah because oh that person will talk to me or that one looks too rough. You know, like try to get a wide swath and try to get a seat in the courtroom. There you go. Good stuff. All right. Let's see. Evol 2022 says Q2 crew. Do you think it would be a good idea to have the National Guard and DHS joint forces to help with deportations?

We need more ice agents. And I think the National Guard could be trained to help with that. Personally, I don't think it's a great idea. I think that the DHS and ICE actually do have sufficient bodies to wrap people up, and I don't think that the National Guard is actually well trained for that particular mission. I do think the National Guard, it's fine for the National Guard to be security for these guys that are doing the job. But the actual policing of civilian areas in the United States, that's got to be the actual police. I have maybe a slightly different take on that. So one of the features of the big,

beautiful bill that the president is trying to get through Congress is an injection of new and big funding for immigration enforcement, ICE, DHS, and so forth, because those entities have communicated to the Congress that they are not adequately staffed to take care of the mass deportation campaign that we need to experience for the next couple of years. And then the second thing is, I think you're right that the National Guard or sort of the DOD space more generally is not necessarily ideally equipped to handle immigration enforcement or law enforcement. That's not their purpose.

However, as we've seen with the president's mobilization of the National Guard and then the activation of the Marines, is that they can, in fact, provide very helpful sort of—the right word is maybe not gap filling, but there are areas in the secondary level, whether it's logistics or support or area security or property protection that the National Guard is really good at doing, which then frees ICE agents and other immigration enforcement officials to carry out their mission. And so just me personally, there are nuances here on how you do something like that. But I would like to see what that particular poster suggested. I toss this in for that person. This is what I hear, and this is, again, coming from the borders, ice, et cetera. The big, beautiful bill is going to have about $170 billion for immigration enforcement, which includes massive detainment facilities, probably in the Midwest, Kansas, something like

that. Until those get built, Air National Guard bases, etc. may be and are considering to be used as detention facilities. So you might have National Guard being detention guards. All remains to be, it's up in the air now until that bill passes. All right. Europa Chronicle says, Aaron, can you speak to Texas investigation into ActBlue's foreign money laundering into Democrat campaigns and NGOs. Yeah, I mean, look, ActBlue is absolutely something that has been hijacked by foreign money influences. And then ActBlue, for the listeners that don't know, is sort of the vehicle by which Democratic candidates receive money. And it is illegal in the United States for either foreign individuals or foreign entities to give money to American elections,

right? This is, it is, it's part of the category of election interference. Frankly, it's foreign election interference. But because ActBlue is so flush with hundreds of millions of dollars of foreign cash, they are reluctant to open up stop to that. So it became incumbent upon red state AGs to open up investigations. Those investigations are ongoing. They are revealing highly disturbing trends, which – and I don't know if there's any active litigation yet, but you have to build the facts and build the case before you bring it. And now the state AGs have a partner in Trump's Justice Department. And so to this poster's question, I can tell you it's ongoing. I can tell you that it is a huge problem. I can tell you that it is the benefit of foreign money is something that goes almost uniformly, unilaterally to the Democratic Party and to the left and what you need

Especially in an AG's office like Texas Which is the largest Republican and conservative law firm in the country is you need an AG who? Understands the nature of that threat and that again is why I'm running for Texas Attorney General to succeed Ken Paxton to continue pressing in on that stuff Chat by the way, we did cover Israel-Iran war, just so you guys know, in an earlier part of the show. We don't have any more information about it. It's all coming out right now. It's a very fluid situation, but we'll talk about it again when we know more.

Thanks, y'all. Let's see. You can read that one if you want. I'll respond to that. Which one? The one that you saw just above this right here. Go ahead. Oh, I thought you were going to do it.

I'm not sure which one you're referring to. Oh, it's okay. No worries. Keep going. Eric Shaver one? Yeah. Eric Shaver says, Serge looks like he's been hanging out with the creeps

loitering in front of the booth behind the truck stop. Are you a lot lizard, Serge? No, I think that's what he's trying to call me is a lot lizard anyways call your mom man she misses you yikes uh let's see here um yakuilinda like yakuilindia the biden era invasion and the subsequent anti-ice riots have set back overall legal migration back further than all the progress we made up to 2020. Speak the truth. Yeah, I mean, the American people generally had a positive opinion of legal immigration up until the Biden administration.

And I think that the Biden administration has turned a significant, if not a majority of Americans against the idea of immigration at all for a while. Yeah. Total immigration moratorium. Yeah. Now kind of the standard. There was a long time where you could where that if you presented that idea, people would, you know, would gasp. Yeah. You know, the idea that you would turn off immigration for any amount of time. And now you can you know, there are people that are like hey 20 years shut it down shut it down yeah you know like i say there's things to think about but i don't argue you know i mean like i i know why you're feeling that way i'm extremely sympathetic with that position yeah and here we are sitting here we are sitting all right let's see uh some more super chats here uh the glower deluxe says trump is allowing illegal workers to stay he approved 100k plus h1b visas in 2026 while our tech sector is being gutted and palantir is

being used as the new patriot act none of this is america first uh i do agree with you. I do think that the Palantir issue is a different issue, not that it's good or okay, but I think the Palantir issue is significantly different to the H-1B visa issue, and it's also pretty different from the overall immigration question. But I do understand these three different issues that you bring up or things that you're talking about, they're all things that people would have said, no, Trump wouldn't do that. That's not the kind of thing that Trump wants. That's not the kind of thing that the MAGA coalition wants.

And it's not the kind of thing that America First people want. And I think that's a great point. It's legitimate. Like those kind of ideas are not the kind of thing that America First people want. And I think that's a great point. It's legitimate. Those kind of ideas are not the kind of things that you would talk to someone that considers themselves MAGA and say, they'd say, oh yeah, I back these ideas. So, let's see. Dalimar says, $3,000 per day is nothing.

The Biden hoard is $20 million alone. We need $30,000 per day, seven days a week, to put a dent in the total number of illegals. I mean, look. Is that what Mary said? I think Mary made that. Is Mary Dalimar? Not $30,000 per day.

I said $3,000 per day would be great. Yeah, and he said that. Get rid of a million a year. I mean, look. That would be. It would be nice. Yeah. I doubt that will happen.

So if it was, we average about $8,000 a day under Biden, right? Coming in, something like that will happen. So we average about 8,000 a day under Biden, right? Coming in, something like that. Right, so that was over four years, so it would take 15 years. I mean, it'd take forever. No, look, I think that Dalimar has at least got the numbers right. If you've got 30,000 per day for 365 days, that's just short of 11 million per year, which would get us on track. You know, I mean,

Dalimar's on to something, I don't know. I'm just saying, if you're going to hit the benchmark of what most people would consider mass deportation, that would be about a million a year, which is well below, obviously, the number that he provided in that super chat. But still, I think I think, too, that's just that's just the bare minimum. So I am the popular mandate.

I and I. Yes, I you are correct, I think, in identifying what the popular mandate was. I think you are also correct in identifying what like kind of the feeling of what the threshold should be to meet that mandate. And I am more on the side of Dalimar than you might think. But what I appreciate, I think that guys like Tom Homan and Stephen Miller and the president, Kristi Noem, et cetera, are taking is what they want is they want, I think, I don't know this for sure. I haven't had this conversation with these guys about this particular issue. But my sense is that what we are going to see for the first year of the Trump administration is a proof of concept. And I think that they are starting

with the worst of the worst. They are building popular consensus to the actual execution of deportation operations. Because I think you're right, the American people voted for mass deportations, but there's a difference. You have to sustain popular support for mass deportations. And I think a smart way to do that is to spend about a year getting rid of like the baddest hombres that are out there. And, but also we have to get our immigration enforcement, law enforcement, and our logistical chains, like accustomed to deporting people, which we haven't done. And so it takes, it takes time to build. And so, yes, I too would like to see 30,000 deported per day for like year after year. Right.

But, but I also understand that there are practical concerns and there are prudential concerns that don't excuse not deporting people. In other words, I will never concede that 20 million should be deported, but I'm okay with six. That was that conversation we were having earlier. But I do respect that in the execution, in the prosecution of a deportation operation, which is massively logistically complicated, that it takes some time to warm up. And so I'm willing to sort of let the administration figure this thing out. It might take them a year, 18 months or so. And then once we've got the rail lines built, we've got the beds and the housing facilities built, we've got ICE agents, ICE

offices like repopulated with law enforcement officers, we've got ice uh agents ice offices like repopulated with law enforcement officers we've got cooperating uh sheriff's departments and police departments that's when we start ticking it up up up up up up up until we get to that 30 000 per week because they had fully anticipated 80 20 everybody wants the bad guys out right yeah they know the polling when it gets down to oh geez it's going to be you know the library the maid then you get around 51 52 still a majority right but you look at what's going on now in la and now it's not 51 now it's 59 right you see what i mean so this this thing might backfire on on the funded protesters where people have had enough we we all famously have now seen that legal immigrants are sick of this thing it was yeah right exactly canadian uh i'm gonna i'm to act like you didn't just say that but I'm from South Africa

so alright let's see I like Canadians you know oh you should read that I want to say something about that the cloth Swiss this one here cloth Swiss John Deere makes wonderful great picking machines I'm fatigued by the fatigued

with the who's going to pick the cotton argument subscribe to cecil says for your leftist copes and freak outs i don't know i i have no comment on like the all caps part of that but like this this is one of the things where you know i as a conservative am more comfortable with ai and emerging tech. Because I actually think in many instances, that is the answer to valid concerns about who's going to harvest the almonds or the strawberries or whatever. If you look at, you know, the Palantirs of the world, they are developing technologies to basically just have hundreds, thousands of acres farmed by AI, smart tech, and these machines.

And so there's no need to have tens of millions. I like to see that. I'm glad you pulled up because that was directed at me. So I'll answer you, dude. Yeah, the cotton gin did that. Necessity is the mother of invention. I get all that. I'm not an idiot.

What I'm saying is we go through the list who's remember that you know who was essential during covid the guy working at the fucking dog food store you know i mean like my dog gonna starve i didn't i got myself toilet paper and i forgot the dog food he was a set that's all we're doing is just figuring it out i'm not like you know andy almonds and you know we got canning machines now. You know, we got nets that catch fish. It's not, I understand that. I'm not, would he call me a liberal?

Call me liberal or whatever? I don't know. I don't like my talking points. I don't know. I don't know. I think he was just criticizing the argument. Yeah, but there's some sensible things to be done is what the president was bringing up today.

That's all. All right. Okay, let's see. Raymond G. Stanley Jr. says, I support slave labor. Hot take. That's a hot take there, Raymond G. Stanley. He spent money to say that, and then I just tossed him right under the bus. Let's see.

Raymond G. Stanley, again, for $5, says, Thank you, Charlie, for speaking sense to the Trump farmer's comment. I said this on the show. Folks won't pick strawberries, but 20-year illegals will. If you pay them cheap. If you pay them cheap. If you pay them cheap. I get the argument, man.

So will an AI-generated farm machine. No need for the 20-year-old illegal alien. I'd rather Americans get paid part of the profit to pick them. That's what I prefer. Well, I mean, that makes sense. But I think to think that automation is going to stop, I don't think that's going to be a future. I think,

I think that, that we got, we got a good point about the, the robotics. We lost 40% of our jobs to globalization and 60% to robots. Yeah. Dan Stenger says, how about start it,

start firing, finding business heavy for hiring illegal immigrants. If they can't make money, I'm guessing they won't stay in self-deport. Look, that's something that I think goes to a totalizing strategy for reducing not just illegal immigrants, but like, well, not just criminal immigrants,

but all illegal immigrants. And that's make it as difficult for the people that are hiring the illegal immigrants um and that's make it as difficult for the people that are hiring the illegal immigrants and and stuff to make it as difficult for them as possible which is one of the reasons that are one of the most objectionable things to what donald trump said earlier when he was talking about you know the the the farmers and they're you know they're going to get hurt so bad if we send away the illegal immigrants. And it's like, look, you shouldn't just be saying, oh, we don't want to see these farmers get hurt. You should be saying, look, we want to fine these farmers for hiring illegals at all.

The way to make sure that you don't have illegal immigrants in your country is to make it difficult for illegal immigrants to stay in your country. And you have to make it difficult for them immigrants to stay in your country and you have to make it difficult for them to find work and the best way to make it difficult for them to find work is to actually punish people that would hire illegal immigrants yeah there has been a reluctance to do this over the past like 40 years yeah right it's like it in and a lot of times from the sort of like corporatist right, which has always been very reluctant to like go after corporations. But really it's the megacorporations that are – that have the demand for the illegal labor and is the primary driving force to bringing in hundreds of millions of illegals. And then my neighbor, of course, there was a time there when I was like,

wow, black guys and white guys are mowing lawns again. Whoa, we're roofing again. What happened? And then we got the next wave and they're out again because even the local guy, the dude that owns the company, it look in the profit, maximizes profit. I know how to roof, but you only pay him 15, dude.

Alright, let's see. What do we got here? Some more super chats. May I approach, Your Honor? You ever see the clip? Okay, then. Let's see. The Sig P220 said, Inside Source is reporting Delaney Hall, Okay, then. Let's see. The Sig P220 said, Inside source is reporting Delaney Hall, New Jersey,

the detention center holding ICE detainees that LaMonica McIver assaulted agents has been taken over by the prisoners. Really? What's that? Inside source is reporting that Delaney Hall in New Jersey... Let's see what... Holding ICE detainees? Yeah, it says that Delaney Hall in New Jersey... Let's see what... Holding ICE detainees? Yeah, it says that Delaney Hall in New Jersey

is the detention center holding ICE detainees, has been taken over by the prisoners. Let's see. Yeah, I don't know. I haven't seen anything about that yet, but... Yeah, neither have I. But if that's happening, that's kind of crazy. LOL, World War III is starting

and you're talking about illegals. Yeah. It's still a problem. Look, man, the fact of the matter is the stuff that's going on in Iran right now isn't as prescient of a problem for Americans as illegal immigration. There's no question that illegal immigration is a uniquely american problem right now it remains to be seen whether the conflict between israel and iran is like an existential american threat uh but right now today at this hour the existential threat that america is facing is the invasion of tens of millions of illegal aliens yeah that's that's my sense as well yeah i'm worried about saturday it's the protests i

think that that the protests are going to go off and i think that most uh most of the police forces in in the u.s will be able to handle whatever's going on in their uh in their respective jurisdictions let's see larp laugh love how do you live here for 20 years without getting papers? Hiding your past from your home country. Federal minimum wage is $7.25. Your dirt poor wage and send them all home by David. Okay. The way that you live in this country for 20 years without ever having to show papers is when you have a completely failed state that does not uphold any semblance of the rule of law.

Well, yeah. I mean, it's maybe like a trite answer. That's the answer. Again, this isn't about— That's not trite. That's a tight answer. Well, there you go. This isn't about not enforcing the law. This is about actively subverting the will of the American people.

Our government has been actively will of the american people our government has been actively working against the american people or at least the democrats have and and you know you could argue the republicans have i'm sure because the republicans have have been uh a failure at stopping it but the the fact that there have been all these efforts by ngos using you know federal dollars that the American people are going to have to account for, whether it be through inflation or through raising taxes, the American people are going to have to deal with this. And it's been the government, the Democrats using the American people's money to affect the ability of existing Americans'

votes to matter. So. Totally right. Let's see. There was something that. Totally right. Let's see. There was something that you just had. Let's see. Mr. Sombra, this is all that remains. Oh, keep up the good work. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Let's see. Four Bar High says, All this replacement migration is part of a broader anti-colonialist genocide of Western civilization. Western Europe is the bellwether. We don't have to live this way, and the American people deserve better. I, you know, I— Crushed it. What a comment.

I mean, four bar high. Yeah. Absolutely spot on with that comment. Yeah, that really does wrap all of the issues with immigration up pretty well, pretty succinctly. But right now, we're going to have you guys head on over to Rumble.com and sign up, become a member, because we're going to go to that after show, the uncensored Rumble exclusive show. We'll head over there in just a few minutes. But let's see.

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