1. Foiled Terror Attack in Los Angeles
- Incident: FBI arrested five suspects allegedly planning coordinated New Year’s Eve bombings in Los Angeles.
- Group: Identified as the Turtle Island Liberation Front, described as a radical pro-Palestinian, anti-American extremist group.
- Details:
- Planned attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at five locations.
- Four suspects arrested in Lucerne Valley while testing bomb components; a fifth arrested in New Orleans.
- Materials included potassium nitrate, PVC pipes, sulfur powder, and charcoal.
- Ideology: Anti-U.S., pro-Palestinian, anti-law enforcement; Instagram posts included “Death to America” and “Free Palestine.”
2. DOJ and FBI Emails on Mar-a-Lago Raid
- Revelation: Internal FBI emails show agents doubted probable cause for the August 2022 raid on Trump’s residence.
- Concerns:
- Evidence was “single source, uncorroborated, and possibly outdated.”
- FBI suggested less intrusive alternatives, like negotiating with Trump’s attorneys.
- DOJ officials allegedly dismissed optics concerns, saying they “didn’t give a damn.”
- Implications: The raid was politically motivated, intended to damage Trump’s chances of reelection.
3. Housing, Immigration, and Economic Policy
- Housing Crisis: Attributes skyrocketing rents and home prices to Biden-era immigration policies, citing a HUD report linking immigration to housing demand.
- Trump’s Deportation Policy: Claims mass deportations have lowered rents by 1.1% year-over-year and 5.2% since 2022.
- Economic Measures: Highlights upcoming tax reforms for 2026:
- No tax on tips.
- No tax on overtime.
- No tax on Social Security for seniors.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome in his vertical center.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you and Senator We've got
a big show today, including starting with a thwarted terror attack.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, the FBI arrested five terror suspects who were allegedly
planning a bombing in Los Angeles for New Year's Eve.
Pro Palestinian radical Islamists, anti American far left were going
to break down the details of who they are, what
they were caught doing, and what.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
It means for you.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We also have stunning news from the Department of Justice
and the FBI, which is during the Biden DOJ, the
FBI and DOJ believe they did not have probable cause
to search mar A Lago, and nonetheless, political appointees at
in the Biden DOJ overrode the career employees and said
(00:52):
search it anyway. And finally, Scott Bess and the Treasury
Secretary broke important news that rents are dropping across America
because President Trump is deporting millions of illegal aliens, that
it is having exactly the effect the President told the
American people, and the result is the rents that Americans
(01:14):
are paying are going down.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
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have been talking about this for quite some time, and
that is the national security threats that we face in
(02:25):
this country. A lot of it is because of the
open southern border that happened under the Biden administration, countless
number of people coming across the border that we didn't
know who they were, where they were coming from, and
catching people that were also on the terrorists watch list.
What we're now witnessing is the government sounding the alarm
that hey, we have a lot of people in this
country in the thousands who are here that we do
(02:48):
believe either have ties of terrorism are directly connected to
terrorist organizations. And then we see the news break about
the thwarting of this attack from la all the way
to New Orleans. This was a major operation that had
a plan to kill a lot of Americans.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, week after week we're saying terrorist or radical Islamists
either carrying out acts of violence or being prevented from
carry out acts of violence. But there's a consistent pattern
we've seen that many of them were admitted to this country,
allowed in this country by Joe Biden, the Democrats. We
saw that, for example with the Afghan radical who traveled
(03:27):
to d C. To and shot to National guardsmen, one
of whom he murdered, the other of whom he severely injured. Well,
this story now the federal authorities say they disrupted a
credible terrorist threat over the weekend, they arrest four alleged
members of a radical pro Palestinian extremist group accused of
(03:49):
planning coordinated New Year's Eve bombings in Los Angeles. The
FBI said that the members self identified as part of
a radical offshore of the Turtle Island Liberation Front. We're
going to tell you more about that group. It really
is a whack job group. It is an extremist group
motivated by pro Palestinian, anti law enforcement and anti government ideology.
(04:13):
According to the FBI, they were allegedly planning coordinated bombing
attacks on New Year's Eve using improvised explosive devices, targeting
five separate locations across Los Angeles. Four of them were
arrested in Lucerne Valley, where they were believed to be
preparing to test explosive devices ahead of the planned attacks,
(04:35):
and they've each been charged with conspiracy and possession of
a destructive device. A fifth individual was arrested Monday in
New Orleans connected to the same extremist group and was
allegedly planning a separate attack. I want you to listen
to Fox News covering this breaking news.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
FBI now reports that has disrupted a play and New
Year's Eve terror attack in Los Angeles. Four suspects and custody,
the FABI identifying them as members of a pro Palestin
extremist group. They're suspected a planning coordinated ied attacks targeting
five different locations in Los Angeles. But based on the reporting,
(05:17):
now that plot has been foiled, we will wait for
more out of LA or out of.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Washington D Center.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You hear this report, and I think what's so concerning
to so many Americans is we seem to be having
more and more of these reports. It's also got to
be incredibly frustrating law enforcement because this was avoidable. The
number of terrorists and random groups just like this one
we've I've never heard of before is concerning. And knowing
that there are thousands and thousands of terrorists in this
(05:48):
country and law enforcement's got about a thousand otherwise Americans die,
that is incredibly frustrating when you hear another report like this.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, look that this is what global laws, the Intifada means.
You look at the horrific mass murder in Australia and
on Bondi Beach, and that was globalizing the Intifada, the
father's son who committed that mass murder. There's evidence that
they were connected with ISIS and they were waging jihad
in this instance. Let me ask you this group, the
(06:21):
Turtle Island Liberation Front. Have you ever heard a Turtle
Island before?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I literally had to google it because until this report
came out, I'd never heard of it before. And then
I said it. And what was even funnier was my
wife was like, what movie are you talking about. I'm like,
I'm not talking about a movie. This is like a
terrorist organization I've never heard of before.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Look, I hadn't heard the phrase Turtle Island either, So
let me tell you what it is. The Turtle Island
Liberation Front Instagram account says its founding chapter is in
Los Angeles and its goal is to free Turtle Island,
which is an indigenous indigenous name used to refer to
North America. What do they want to free North America from?
(07:02):
Quote the illegal American Empire? The count posted Free Palestine,
Free Hawaii, Free Puerto Rico. Freeing the world from American
imperialism is the only way to a safe and peaceful future.
And let me also give you a little bit more
(07:22):
information about this group, because these guys really are whack jobs.
The group's into Instagram page has nine hundred and thirty
nine followers, which is one of the reasons we probably
haven't heard of them. Now, nine hundred and thirty nine
is not a lot unless you're talking about people who
are committed to terrorism and carrying out acts of violence.
On the Instagram page, you have phrases like death to
(07:44):
America and peaceful protest will never be enough. And there's
a video on the Instagram account that features a woman
who just says her name is Mary, and she explains
the group's name.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Here's what she says.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Quote, that's what the natives called it was Turtle Island.
So that's the decolonized name of the Americas, and Turtle
Island Liberation Front is looking for reparations and land back
for these indigenous groups.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
This is dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
By the way, TILF also had materials the FBI released.
One read death to Ice, another read death to America,
Long lived Turtle Island and Palestine. And so once again,
this is the Intifada, This is free Palestine, attack America,
kill Americans, and these bombs, so the bombs they were
(08:37):
found building. Here's what the federal criminal complaint says. It
says the individuals who were arrested had drafted a written
attack plan, they had shared bomb making instructions, and they
had planned pre operational surveillance of their targets. It says
three of the four individuals brought potassium nitrate, PVC pipes, charcoal,
(09:01):
sulfur powder, and other bomb making components to a camp
site in the Mahave Desert for testing.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
While in the desert, the co conspirators took steps to
begin construction of the device, including unloading the bomb making
materials e g. Precursors, PBC pipes, and fuses from their
cars and beginning to assemble the materials on a table,
constructing a tent to keep bomb materials shaded from the sun,
wiping down the interior one of the PVC pipes, and
(09:32):
they were building it when FBI agents intervened to prevent
them from actually assembling a functional explosive device. This is
dangerous and this is a pattern that we keep seeing
happen over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You know, the good news is that we have an
administration in the present that's made it very clear that
we're going to go find these people. This is part
of the reason why immigration reformans shutting down our southern
border was so important.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Tom Homan has talked about this.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He said, far too many people on the tarist watch
lists got across, and I go back and I just
for the Visual Aid Center. Remember, this is a government
under Joe Biden's leadership that went to Texas where they
had put down barriers, and they used a forkliff to
lift up those barriers in the bob wire to allow
illegal immigrants into America. Many of them were were not detained,
(10:28):
the background checks were not checked on them, and people
released and got aways into this country. So now we
are having to deal with radical groups and other terrorist
groups that we've never even heard of, all because they said,
let's flood America with legal immigrants. And my worry is
going to cost American lives at some point.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, look, and it already has.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Look at, for example, the National guardsmen who were shot
by the Afghan Islamist radical whom the Bide administrate imported
into America. We are seeing multiple attacks from violent illegal
immigrants that the Biden administration rolled out the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
To final question on this one, what are you expecting
moving forward from Congress on this as we continue to
find more in the FBI. I got to say to them,
God bless them for doing their job grabbing these radical
propusating groups and these individuals. And now I'm assuming there's
going to be even more that we can expect as
they find out who they were working with and who
(11:32):
their friends were, and who was instructing them or who
was a part of this.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But listen, this is what you happens when you have
the FBI and the Department of Justice actually focused on
going after criminals. You know what, the Biden DOJ said
their single largest operation was going and persecuting many of
the peaceful protesters from January sixth, the little old ladies
who were singing God Bless America and waving flags. The
(11:58):
Biden administration, they devoted their time, the DOJ and FBI,
to political persecution, to going after their political enemies. They
devoted massive time to going after Donald Trump directly. So
instead of looking for terrorists, which mind you, they were
flying into this country allowing to come into this country.
Instead of looking for ice, gang bangers and criminals and
murderers and rapists. They were engaged in political persecution. The
(12:21):
Trump Department of Justice, the Trump FBI is going after
bad guys and the result of that is that's making
Americans much safer.
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(13:34):
new files are revealing that the Department of Justice and
the FBI quote did not have cause to raid mar Lago.
Hold on a second, you're telling me the people in
charge of Government Center under the Biden regime knew that
they were going after Donald Trump for political reasons and
not because they thought he broke a law.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Can't I could not imagine this.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You know, it really is astonishing.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So the Department of Justice and FBI handed documents over
to the Senate Judiciary Committee. And here's what Fox News
has reported about those documents. FBI doubted probable cause for
mar A Lago raid, but pushed forward amid pressure from Biden.
Doj emails reveal quote very little has been developed related
to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents. An
(14:15):
FBI official wrote, the FBI did not believe it had
probable cause to raid President Donald Trump's mar A Lago
home in twenty twenty two, but move forward amid pressure
from the Biden Justice Department, with an official saying he
didn't quote give a damn about the optics of the search.
Newly declassified documents reveal, and you have emails between the
(14:39):
FBI and the Justice Department in the months leading up
to the August twenty twenty two rate of mar A Lago,
and FBI officials explicitly expressed concern about a lack of
probable cause to execute the search warrant on the President's residence.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Very little has been developed related to who might be
culpable for mishandling the docum. This is written by an
FBI agent serving as the assistant Special Agent in charge
to another FBI official. Quote from the interviews. The Washington
Field Office has gathered information suggesting that there may be
additional boxes, presumably of the same type as we're sent
back to Nara in January at mar A Lago. The
(15:17):
Washington Field Office has been drafting a search warrant AFFIDAVID
related to those potential boxes, but has some concerns that
the information is single source, has not been corroborated, and
may be dated. DOJCS opines, however, that the search warrant
meets the probable cause standard quote. Even as we continue
(15:37):
down a path towards a search warrant, the Washington Field
Office believes that a reasonable conversation with the former president's
attorney stating that the FBI and DOJ are reading a
search warrant and developed information there may be more documents
at mar A Lago ought not to be discounted. At
a minimum, even if the former president's attorney is correct
and the documents were all declassified or believed to be
(15:58):
disc classified, it can be reasonably argued that the documents
remain sensitive and should be properly secured until the matter
of classification is sorted out. This conversation could easily be
accomplished at the same time that the Washington Field Office
presses forward with the investigation and continues building out the
search warrant. Weeks later, an FBI agent writes in a
(16:19):
new email, quote, this is stunning. We haven't generated any
new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft.
Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified
on site. At what point is it fair to table this?
The agent rights it is time consuming for the team
(16:42):
and not productive if there are no new facts supporting
probable cause. Another email revealed that the Washington the FBI's
Washington Field Office quote did not believe and has articulated
a DOJCS that we have established probable cause for the
search warrant for classified records at.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Mar A Lago.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Let me read that again. The FBI Washington field off is.
This is in writing quote did not believe and has
articulated to the DOJCS that we have established probable cause
for the search warrant for classified weapons of classified records
at Mara A Lago. And the response quote doj OZ
(17:25):
opine that they do have probable cause, requesting a wide
scope including residents, office storage space. And the FBI also
said a raid would be quote counterproductive and suggested quote alternative,
less intrusive, and likely quicker options for resolution to reclaim
any potential classified records.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
This is stunning.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It because I can't. I don't think you can.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You can overstate how stunning this is that the field
off is.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
They're saying, this is stupid.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
This is abuse of power in essence and to the
point where they're putting it in writing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And by the way, what it means if you don't
have probable cause for a search warrant but you nonetheless
engage in the search, the search is illegal without probable cause.
You don't have a basis for the search, that is justified.
And if the FBI is saying it would be illegal
to search President Trump's home, apparently the Biden Department of
(18:25):
Justice they were so partisan. Their objective what was not
to actually prosecute a crime. Their objective was to stop
the American people from voting for Donald Trump. They were
acting as political operatives. And so their view, as one
of the officials said, they don't give a damn about
the optics. The optics they wanted was President Trump in
a mug shot. They got that optic, but it backfired
(18:47):
on them, backfired bigly. As President Trump might have said
in the first term. But this was a political persecution.
And what's stunning is they knew it at the time.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Go to accountability, And this is where some of people
listening and watching this on on on Facebook or on
YouTube are gonna want to ask the question that I'm
going to ask you. Now it's clear abuse of power.
Where's the accountability Because at this point, it's like, we
know they did it, We've got the information, we know
(19:22):
that they were breaking the law or the rules, and
no one seems to be held accountable for this. So
in the rest of my lifetime. I have a feeling
there's going to be a Democrat that's going to get
back in the White House. What then, why would there
be an incentive for them not to abuse their power
and go after any other conservatives in the same way.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So there wouldn't be an incentive. And look, who knows
it may not be a Democrat in the White House.
It may the Democrat Party may have radicalized so much
that maybe the next nominee will be a member of
the Turtle Turtle Island Liberation Front. I mean, that's that's
that's how extreme these guys are getting. Look, there has
to be accountability, There has to be people who engage
in the abuse of power need to be fired. Now
(20:01):
the Trump Department of Justice and FBI have fired a
number of people. That's that's moving in the right direction.
But anyone who knew they were participating in an abuse
of justice and abuse of power, and and and anyone
who knew that it was illegal, let me ask, why
was there not anyone who stood up and said this
is not right at the Department of Justice to abuse
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our power. Why were there no whistleblowers?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Why why was.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
There no no pushback from within d O J.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You know, as you can ask you that question. There's
a lot of appointees. So that and I want to
get in the weeds here on this because I do
think it's important to paint the picture. When I was
in the Bush administration, there are there are political appointees,
and there's non political.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
There's lifers.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
There's people that stay in certain positions at the DOJ,
for example, at the FBI, they don't change based on
the election or who is in the White House or
who's in charge of the House or the Senator of Congress.
In general, that those into visuals are the ones that
you would hope would stand up here. The problem seems
to be that there's either massive fear when the Democrats
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were in charge that their careers would be over a
or B that they just put in so many of
their liberal friends that the entire DOJ leadership and those
below them that were the supposed to be the non
political appointees were actually incredibly partisan. I go back to
you know, Peter struck and and Lisa Page or whatever
the hell their names were. That's I mean, there's two
(21:29):
examples of quote non political people that were absolutely political.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
There are far too many extreme partisans who burrowed into
both agencies, the FBI and the Department of Justice. As
you know, a book I wrote a few years ago
was called Justice Corrupted, How the Left has weaponized our
legal system, and I detailed This was written at the
beginning of the Biden administration, So I did not cover
(21:55):
the prosecutions of Trump or the Marlago rate because it
had happened.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
By the way, how right were you on writing that book?
I mean knowing what happened afterwards.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Good grief, And the book starts chapter one is actually
about Watergate. It's about Nixon. And I am not a
Richard Nixon fan. I think he was. He was corrupt
and dishonest, and he abused power. But but if you
look at one of the things Nixon tried to do
is get the Department of Justice and the FBI to
go after his political enemies. But at the time DOJ
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and the FBI and the I R S.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
They all resisted.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
They pushed back and said, no, that's an abuse of
our power. We're not going to do that. And what
Richard Nixon tried to do, Joe Biden succeeded in doing.
Why because nobody, not a political not not not careers.
Nobody pushed back effectively and stopped it. And and and
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we saw that started with Barack Obama. Barack Obama weaponized
the Department of Justice, the FBI, the I r S.
And then when Trump became president, those partisans.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Slicker about it.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I do want people to understand that he was he
was very smart about it compared to this the blaze
and abuse of power by the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But there were and and I want to remind.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Us a couple a couple examples of the abuse of
power under Barack Obama. Give us a couple of those highlights.
If people remember what they did do and how this
started a long time ago, and and the reason why
is center there were a lot of people that got.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Into the DJ yeah, and the FBI then that were
lower in rank, who are now running the damn place.
When if you fast forward to the Biden.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Years, Yeah, you look at I mean one of one
of the classic examples of lowest learner at the I
r S and and and the i r S deliberately
targeted conservative groups, that targeted tea party groups. It went
after them and persecuted them, and and and the search
words they were among among things they were looking for
as any group dedicated to the Constitution of the Bill
of Rights.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah, and and mind you, they didn't mean the A
c l U.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
They didn't mean leftist groups that they meant anyone that
was conservative, any pro Israel group they targeted. I mean,
it was an ideological purge and it was an ideological
purge that the political officials did everything they could to
cover up. And ultimately, you know, you look at Eric Holder,
who was Attorney General, described himself as Barack Obama's wingman,
(24:19):
and he ended up being held in contempt of Congress,
which was stunning.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
But it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Began during the Obama administration. When Trump became president, many
of those partisans they burrowed into senior career positions at
the agency, and for four years the first Trump term,
they waged war on Donald Trump from within the agency,
trying to overturn the duly elected president, trying to overturn
an election. And then when when Biden got into power,
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they came out in the open, and they were brazen.
And part of the reason Biden was so much worse
than Obama is they saw there were no consequences when
it happened under Obama that it worked, that they were
able to w repinize the system. And I suspect many
good people just left the agencies and those many of
those who remained were either they were afraid or they were.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Willing to go along with it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But it's why one of the most important obligations responsibilities
that the Trump DOJ and the Trump FBI have is
to restore integrity to those agencies to go after criminals
and bad guys like terrorists planning to set off bombs
in Los Angeles, rather than using it to target political opponents.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
What will accountability look like specifically on these emails and
the people there? And will Congress get involved in this
now seeing this letter Grassly, etc.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, Look, I would certainly expect we'll see hearings in Congress.
I'd like to see the Senate Judiciary Committee hold hearings
on this and engage in oversight. This was released by
Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, so that's beneficial.
And you know, look, I want to amend the Trump
Justice Department for handing these emails over. But part of
the reason that the Biden DOJ wrote these is because
(26:07):
they thought no one would ever know that they thought
Biden was going to be reelected or Kamala Harris was
going to be elected, and so this would remain hidden forever.
What changed the rules is you have a new Attorney
General and a new FBI director who decided we're going
to give this to We're going to show the American
people exactly what was going on.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
That was the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Finally, I want to move to another shocking breaking news story,
and that is if you get rid of people in
this country they're here illegally, then you don't have to
compete for them. Center for Housing, we have seen the
medium age of first time home buyers. The number skyrocket
to forty plus years old, depending on where you live.
(26:48):
It's the highest we've seen it, certainly in my lifetime,
and the highest we've seen since World War One. I
think if I looked at the data correctly, that was
something that should be very eye opening. Rental prices have
also skyrocketed, because well, you're competing when it comes to
renting a home, especially those entry level homes. With tens
of millions of illegal immigrants, we are now finally seeing
(27:11):
Donald Trump's deportations and the shutting down the southern border
completely turning into guess what, lower rent and lower home
prices for Americans.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah, and look, this is at the end of the day,
very simple economics. And in economics one oh one you
learn that prices. Prices are determined by two factors, supply
and demand and their graft, and where they intersect is
where the price is. So supply, it's pretty simple to understand.
The more of something there is, the lower the price is.
(27:45):
If there are a whole bunch of houses, the price
of housing goes down. If there are a whole bunch
of bananas, the price of bananas go down. But the
other thing that determines price is demand. If there are
a ton of people that want to buy houses or bananas,
the price goes up. And so those two counterbalance each other,
and actually rising prices typically are a market signal that
(28:09):
we need more supply. And so if banana prices skyrocket
because suddenly people decide they really really like bananas, you
know what's gonna happen. People are gonna plant more bananas
and grow more bananas to meet the demand, and the
price will fall. Well, what did Joe Biden do? Joe
Biden imported allowed more than twelve million illegal aliens to
(28:30):
come into this country. Now, when they came into this country,
most of those illegal aliens didn't live in a tent,
they didn't sleep on a park bench. They went and
rented an apartment, or they rented a house, or they
bought a house. And you bring in twelve million people,
that's twelve million people that are trying to rent, and
when demand goes up a lot, you end up having
prices go up. Now, now here's what Scott Besson reported.
(28:54):
Scott Besson said that last month apartment rents fell one
two point one percent compared to the same time last year,
and they dropped five point two percent compared to the
same time period in twenty twenty two, when rents had
peaked under Joe Biden and Bessen did an interview on
(29:14):
Fox Business Channel where he said rents are down and
the story the Biden administration doesn't want to talk about
the mass unfettered immigration that pushed up rents, especially for
working Americans. And he continued to say, there's a recent
study out from the Wharton School that shows every one
percent increase in population, rents went up one percent. So
(29:39):
President Trump, by enforcing the border and sending home more
than two million illegals. We're now seeing rents coming down substantially.
I think that will continue for the rest of the year.
We brought down interest rates and so we brought mortgage
rates down, and I think everything else will follow that.
That is a major victory. And by the way, it's
exactly what President Trump said on the campaign trail, which
(30:03):
is that if we deport the illegal aliens that Joe
Biden's open borders brought into this country, the result is
going to be rents are going to come down and
housing is going to be more affordable. We now have
the data backing that up. You know.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Messaging, I think center is going to be so important
going into the mid terms. And one of the things
I do think we have not messaged well enough on
our side is what is about to happen in twenty
twenty six. And there are laws that were passing twenty
twenty five that are enacted in twenty twenty six. You
combine what you just said about home prices and what
(30:36):
the Treasury Secretary was talking about there with something that's
going to have a huge impact on our economy. No
tax on tips is coming in this new year. No
tax on overtime is coming this year, and no tax
on Social Security for seniors is coming. Those are three
massive victories that I think many Americans have actually kind
(30:56):
of forgotten about that are going to be implemented this year.
That's going to have a very big impact on our economy,
but also affordability and living.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
No, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
And I got to say, by the way, for people
that make substantial tipped wages or over time, millions of
Americans are going to be entitled to a refund from
the IRS starting in January, Starting in just a couple
of weeks, they'll be entitled to a refund because of
those tax cuts, because of the working family tax cut.
(31:27):
And look, the latest mantra of both Democrats in the media,
because in many instances they're one and the same, is affordability.
Now affordability. I am certain that that came from a
focus group the Democrats put on that that was a
word they could blame and blame on Trump. Affordability about
(31:48):
twelve minutes ago, used to be called two things, jobs
and inflation.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
That's how we used to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Jobs were seeing economic growth, and that is coming from
the historic tax cup we pass and it's coming from
President Trump's incredible leadership, cutting job killing regulation, and then inflation.
We are seeing inflation coming down, and this is interesting.
The HUD Department, the Housing and Urban Development Department, published
(32:16):
this month a report an investigation that concluded Biden's importing
of millions of migrants drove up prices for Americans who
are low income but who do not receive public assistance.
And here's what the report concluded. Quote one key cause
of elevated worst case needs is immigration. Between twenty twenty
(32:37):
one and twenty twenty four, the foreign born population of
the United States increased more than six million, the largest
such increase over such a short period in American history.
This immigration driven increase in households has contributed to a
significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up housing prices.
(32:58):
In fact, in some markets, immigration is accounted for nearly
all of the increase in housing demand in recent years.
That is hurting affordability.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
All nearly all. What else do you need to know?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, that's Democrat policies kill jobs and drove up inflation.
And right now, under common sense conservative policies, we're seeing
jobs come back and we're making progress turning around and
driving down the Biden inflation that hurts so many Americans.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, it's a great point.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
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a big show today, including starting with a thwarted terror attack.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah, the FBI arrested five terror suspects who were allegedly
planning a bombing in Los Angeles for New Year's Eve.
Pro Palestinian radical Islamists, anti American far left were going
to break down the details of who they are, what
they were caught doing, and what.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
It means for you.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
We also have stunning news from the Department of Justice
and the FBI, which is during the Biden DOJ, the
FBI and DOJ believe they did not have probable cause
to search mar A Lago, and nonetheless, political appointees at
in the Biden DOJ overrode the career employees and said
(00:52):
search it anyway. And finally, Scott Bess and the Treasury
Secretary broke important news that rents are dropping across America
because President Trump is deporting millions of illegal aliens, that
it is having exactly the effect the President told the
American people, and the result is the rents that Americans
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Speaker 4 (01:16):
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have been talking about this for quite some time, and
that is the national security threats that we face in
(02:25):
this country. A lot of it is because of the
open southern border that happened under the Biden administration, countless
number of people coming across the border that we didn't
know who they were, where they were coming from, and
catching people that were also on the terrorists watch list.
What we're now witnessing is the government sounding the alarm
that hey, we have a lot of people in this
country in the thousands who are here that we do
(02:48):
believe either have ties of terrorism are directly connected to
terrorist organizations. And then we see the news break about
the thwarting of this attack from la all the way
to New Orleans. This was a major operation that had
a plan to kill a lot of Americans.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, week after week we're saying terrorist or radical Islamists
either carrying out acts of violence or being prevented from
carry out acts of violence. But there's a consistent pattern
we've seen that many of them were admitted to this country,
allowed in this country by Joe Biden, the Democrats. We
saw that, for example with the Afghan radical who traveled
(03:27):
to d C. To and shot to National guardsmen, one
of whom he murdered, the other of whom he severely injured. Well,
this story now the federal authorities say they disrupted a
credible terrorist threat over the weekend, they arrest four alleged
members of a radical pro Palestinian extremist group accused of
(03:49):
planning coordinated New Year's Eve bombings in Los Angeles. The
FBI said that the members self identified as part of
a radical offshore of the Turtle Island Liberation Front. We're
going to tell you more about that group. It really
is a whack job group. It is an extremist group
motivated by pro Palestinian, anti law enforcement and anti government ideology.
(04:13):
According to the FBI, they were allegedly planning coordinated bombing
attacks on New Year's Eve using improvised explosive devices, targeting
five separate locations across Los Angeles. Four of them were
arrested in Lucerne Valley, where they were believed to be
preparing to test explosive devices ahead of the planned attacks,
(04:35):
and they've each been charged with conspiracy and possession of
a destructive device. A fifth individual was arrested Monday in
New Orleans connected to the same extremist group and was
allegedly planning a separate attack. I want you to listen
to Fox News covering this breaking news.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
FBI now reports that has disrupted a play and New
Year's Eve terror attack in Los Angeles. Four suspects and custody,
the FABI identifying them as members of a pro Palestin
extremist group. They're suspected a planning coordinated ied attacks targeting
five different locations in Los Angeles. But based on the reporting,
(05:17):
now that plot has been foiled, we will wait for
more out of LA or out of.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Washington D Center.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You hear this report, and I think what's so concerning
to so many Americans is we seem to be having
more and more of these reports. It's also got to
be incredibly frustrating law enforcement because this was avoidable. The
number of terrorists and random groups just like this one
we've I've never heard of before is concerning. And knowing
that there are thousands and thousands of terrorists in this
(05:48):
country and law enforcement's got about a thousand otherwise Americans die,
that is incredibly frustrating when you hear another report like this.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, look that this is what global laws, the Intifada means.
You look at the horrific mass murder in Australia and
on Bondi Beach, and that was globalizing the Intifada, the
father's son who committed that mass murder. There's evidence that
they were connected with ISIS and they were waging jihad
in this instance. Let me ask you this group, the
(06:21):
Turtle Island Liberation Front. Have you ever heard a Turtle
Island before?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You know?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I literally had to google it because until this report
came out, I'd never heard of it before. And then
I said it. And what was even funnier was my
wife was like, what movie are you talking about. I'm like,
I'm not talking about a movie. This is like a
terrorist organization I've never heard of before.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Look, I hadn't heard the phrase Turtle Island either, So
let me tell you what it is. The Turtle Island
Liberation Front Instagram account says its founding chapter is in
Los Angeles and its goal is to free Turtle Island,
which is an indigenous indigenous name used to refer to
North America. What do they want to free North America from?
(07:02):
Quote the illegal American Empire? The count posted Free Palestine,
Free Hawaii, Free Puerto Rico. Freeing the world from American
imperialism is the only way to a safe and peaceful future.
And let me also give you a little bit more
(07:22):
information about this group, because these guys really are whack jobs.
The group's into Instagram page has nine hundred and thirty
nine followers, which is one of the reasons we probably
haven't heard of them. Now, nine hundred and thirty nine
is not a lot unless you're talking about people who
are committed to terrorism and carrying out acts of violence.
On the Instagram page, you have phrases like death to
(07:44):
America and peaceful protest will never be enough. And there's
a video on the Instagram account that features a woman
who just says her name is Mary, and she explains
the group's name.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Here's what she says.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Quote, that's what the natives called it was Turtle Island.
So that's the decolonized name of the Americas, and Turtle
Island Liberation Front is looking for reparations and land back
for these indigenous groups.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
This is dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
By the way, TILF also had materials the FBI released.
One read death to Ice, another read death to America,
Long lived Turtle Island and Palestine. And so once again,
this is the Intifada, This is free Palestine, attack America,
kill Americans, and these bombs, so the bombs they were
(08:37):
found building. Here's what the federal criminal complaint says. It
says the individuals who were arrested had drafted a written
attack plan, they had shared bomb making instructions, and they
had planned pre operational surveillance of their targets. It says
three of the four individuals brought potassium nitrate, PVC pipes, charcoal,
(09:01):
sulfur powder, and other bomb making components to a camp
site in the Mahave Desert for testing.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
While in the desert, the co conspirators took steps to
begin construction of the device, including unloading the bomb making
materials e g. Precursors, PBC pipes, and fuses from their
cars and beginning to assemble the materials on a table,
constructing a tent to keep bomb materials shaded from the sun,
wiping down the interior one of the PVC pipes, and
(09:32):
they were building it when FBI agents intervened to prevent
them from actually assembling a functional explosive device. This is
dangerous and this is a pattern that we keep seeing
happen over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You know, the good news is that we have an
administration in the present that's made it very clear that
we're going to go find these people. This is part
of the reason why immigration reformans shutting down our southern
border was so important.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Tom Homan has talked about this.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He said, far too many people on the tarist watch
lists got across, and I go back and I just
for the Visual Aid Center. Remember, this is a government
under Joe Biden's leadership that went to Texas where they
had put down barriers, and they used a forkliff to
lift up those barriers in the bob wire to allow
illegal immigrants into America. Many of them were were not detained,
(10:28):
the background checks were not checked on them, and people
released and got aways into this country. So now we
are having to deal with radical groups and other terrorist
groups that we've never even heard of, all because they said,
let's flood America with legal immigrants. And my worry is
going to cost American lives at some point.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Yeah, look, and it already has.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
You.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Look at, for example, the National guardsmen who were shot
by the Afghan Islamist radical whom the Bide administrate imported
into America. We are seeing multiple attacks from violent illegal
immigrants that the Biden administration rolled out the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
To final question on this one, what are you expecting
moving forward from Congress on this as we continue to
find more in the FBI. I got to say to them,
God bless them for doing their job grabbing these radical
propusating groups and these individuals. And now I'm assuming there's
going to be even more that we can expect as
they find out who they were working with and who
(11:32):
their friends were, and who was instructing them or who
was a part of this.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
But listen, this is what you happens when you have
the FBI and the Department of Justice actually focused on
going after criminals. You know what, the Biden DOJ said
their single largest operation was going and persecuting many of
the peaceful protesters from January sixth, the little old ladies
who were singing God Bless America and waving flags. The
(11:58):
Biden administration, they devoted their time, the DOJ and FBI,
to political persecution, to going after their political enemies. They
devoted massive time to going after Donald Trump directly. So
instead of looking for terrorists, which mind you, they were
flying into this country allowing to come into this country.
Instead of looking for ice, gang bangers and criminals and
murderers and rapists. They were engaged in political persecution. The
(12:21):
Trump Department of Justice, the Trump FBI is going after
bad guys and the result of that is that's making
Americans much safer.
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example of what you were just describing, and that is
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new files are revealing that the Department of Justice and
the FBI quote did not have cause to raid mar Lago.
Hold on a second, you're telling me the people in
charge of Government Center under the Biden regime knew that
they were going after Donald Trump for political reasons and
not because they thought he broke a law.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Can't I could not imagine this.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
You know, it really is astonishing.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
So the Department of Justice and FBI handed documents over
to the Senate Judiciary Committee. And here's what Fox News
has reported about those documents. FBI doubted probable cause for
mar A Lago raid, but pushed forward amid pressure from Biden.
Doj emails reveal quote very little has been developed related
to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents. An
(14:15):
FBI official wrote, the FBI did not believe it had
probable cause to raid President Donald Trump's mar A Lago
home in twenty twenty two, but move forward amid pressure
from the Biden Justice Department, with an official saying he
didn't quote give a damn about the optics of the search.
Newly declassified documents reveal, and you have emails between the
(14:39):
FBI and the Justice Department in the months leading up
to the August twenty twenty two rate of mar A Lago,
and FBI officials explicitly expressed concern about a lack of
probable cause to execute the search warrant on the President's residence.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Very little has been developed related to who might be
culpable for mishandling the docum. This is written by an
FBI agent serving as the assistant Special Agent in charge
to another FBI official. Quote from the interviews. The Washington
Field Office has gathered information suggesting that there may be
additional boxes, presumably of the same type as we're sent
back to Nara in January at mar A Lago. The
(15:17):
Washington Field Office has been drafting a search warrant AFFIDAVID
related to those potential boxes, but has some concerns that
the information is single source, has not been corroborated, and
may be dated. DOJCS opines, however, that the search warrant
meets the probable cause standard quote. Even as we continue
(15:37):
down a path towards a search warrant, the Washington Field
Office believes that a reasonable conversation with the former president's
attorney stating that the FBI and DOJ are reading a
search warrant and developed information there may be more documents
at mar A Lago ought not to be discounted. At
a minimum, even if the former president's attorney is correct
and the documents were all declassified or believed to be
(15:58):
disc classified, it can be reasonably argued that the documents
remain sensitive and should be properly secured until the matter
of classification is sorted out. This conversation could easily be
accomplished at the same time that the Washington Field Office
presses forward with the investigation and continues building out the
search warrant. Weeks later, an FBI agent writes in a
(16:19):
new email, quote, this is stunning. We haven't generated any
new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft.
Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified
on site. At what point is it fair to table this?
The agent rights it is time consuming for the team
(16:42):
and not productive if there are no new facts supporting
probable cause. Another email revealed that the Washington the FBI's
Washington Field Office quote did not believe and has articulated
a DOJCS that we have established probable cause for the
search warrant for classified records at.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Mar A Lago.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Let me read that again. The FBI Washington field off is.
This is in writing quote did not believe and has
articulated to the DOJCS that we have established probable cause
for the search warrant for classified weapons of classified records
at Mara A Lago. And the response quote doj OZ
(17:25):
opine that they do have probable cause, requesting a wide
scope including residents, office storage space. And the FBI also
said a raid would be quote counterproductive and suggested quote alternative,
less intrusive, and likely quicker options for resolution to reclaim
any potential classified records.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
This is stunning.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It because I can't. I don't think you can.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You can overstate how stunning this is that the field
off is.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
They're saying, this is stupid.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
This is abuse of power in essence and to the
point where they're putting it in writing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And by the way, what it means if you don't
have probable cause for a search warrant but you nonetheless
engage in the search, the search is illegal without probable cause.
You don't have a basis for the search, that is justified.
And if the FBI is saying it would be illegal
to search President Trump's home, apparently the Biden Department of
(18:25):
Justice they were so partisan. Their objective what was not
to actually prosecute a crime. Their objective was to stop
the American people from voting for Donald Trump. They were
acting as political operatives. And so their view, as one
of the officials said, they don't give a damn about
the optics. The optics they wanted was President Trump in
a mug shot. They got that optic, but it backfired
(18:47):
on them, backfired bigly. As President Trump might have said
in the first term. But this was a political persecution.
And what's stunning is they knew it at the time.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Go to accountability, And this is where some of people
listening and watching this on on on Facebook or on
YouTube are gonna want to ask the question that I'm
going to ask you. Now it's clear abuse of power.
Where's the accountability Because at this point, it's like, we
know they did it, We've got the information, we know
(19:22):
that they were breaking the law or the rules, and
no one seems to be held accountable for this. So
in the rest of my lifetime. I have a feeling
there's going to be a Democrat that's going to get
back in the White House. What then, why would there
be an incentive for them not to abuse their power
and go after any other conservatives in the same way.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
So there wouldn't be an incentive. And look, who knows
it may not be a Democrat in the White House.
It may the Democrat Party may have radicalized so much
that maybe the next nominee will be a member of
the Turtle Turtle Island Liberation Front. I mean, that's that's
that's how extreme these guys are getting. Look, there has
to be accountability, There has to be people who engage
in the abuse of power need to be fired. Now
(20:01):
the Trump Department of Justice and FBI have fired a
number of people. That's that's moving in the right direction.
But anyone who knew they were participating in an abuse
of justice and abuse of power, and and and anyone
who knew that it was illegal, let me ask, why
was there not anyone who stood up and said this
is not right at the Department of Justice to abuse
(20:23):
our power. Why were there no whistleblowers?
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Why why was.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
There no no pushback from within d O J.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
You know, as you can ask you that question. There's
a lot of appointees. So that and I want to
get in the weeds here on this because I do
think it's important to paint the picture. When I was
in the Bush administration, there are there are political appointees,
and there's non political.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
There's lifers.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
There's people that stay in certain positions at the DOJ,
for example, at the FBI, they don't change based on
the election or who is in the White House or
who's in charge of the House or the Senator of Congress.
In general, that those into visuals are the ones that
you would hope would stand up here. The problem seems
to be that there's either massive fear when the Democrats
(21:08):
were in charge that their careers would be over a
or B that they just put in so many of
their liberal friends that the entire DOJ leadership and those
below them that were the supposed to be the non
political appointees were actually incredibly partisan. I go back to
you know, Peter struck and and Lisa Page or whatever
the hell their names were. That's I mean, there's two
(21:29):
examples of quote non political people that were absolutely political.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
There are far too many extreme partisans who burrowed into
both agencies, the FBI and the Department of Justice. As
you know, a book I wrote a few years ago
was called Justice Corrupted, How the Left has weaponized our
legal system, and I detailed This was written at the
beginning of the Biden administration, So I did not cover
(21:55):
the prosecutions of Trump or the Marlago rate because it
had happened.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
By the way, how right were you on writing that book?
I mean knowing what happened afterwards.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Good grief, And the book starts chapter one is actually
about Watergate. It's about Nixon. And I am not a
Richard Nixon fan. I think he was. He was corrupt
and dishonest, and he abused power. But but if you
look at one of the things Nixon tried to do
is get the Department of Justice and the FBI to
go after his political enemies. But at the time DOJ
(22:25):
and the FBI and the I R S.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
They all resisted.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
They pushed back and said, no, that's an abuse of
our power. We're not going to do that. And what
Richard Nixon tried to do, Joe Biden succeeded in doing.
Why because nobody, not a political not not not careers.
Nobody pushed back effectively and stopped it. And and and
(22:49):
we saw that started with Barack Obama. Barack Obama weaponized
the Department of Justice, the FBI, the I r S.
And then when Trump became president, those partisans.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Slicker about it.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I do want people to understand that he was he
was very smart about it compared to this the blaze
and abuse of power by the Biden administration.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
But there were and and I want to remind.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Us a couple a couple examples of the abuse of
power under Barack Obama. Give us a couple of those highlights.
If people remember what they did do and how this
started a long time ago, and and the reason why
is center there were a lot of people that got.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Into the DJ yeah, and the FBI then that were
lower in rank, who are now running the damn place.
When if you fast forward to the Biden.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Years, Yeah, you look at I mean one of one
of the classic examples of lowest learner at the I
r S and and and the i r S deliberately
targeted conservative groups, that targeted tea party groups. It went
after them and persecuted them, and and and the search
words they were among among things they were looking for
as any group dedicated to the Constitution of the Bill
of Rights.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yeah, and and mind you, they didn't mean the A
c l U.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
They didn't mean leftist groups that they meant anyone that
was conservative, any pro Israel group they targeted. I mean,
it was an ideological purge and it was an ideological
purge that the political officials did everything they could to
cover up. And ultimately, you know, you look at Eric Holder,
who was Attorney General, described himself as Barack Obama's wingman,
(24:19):
and he ended up being held in contempt of Congress,
which was stunning.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
But it.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Began during the Obama administration. When Trump became president, many
of those partisans they burrowed into senior career positions at
the agency, and for four years the first Trump term,
they waged war on Donald Trump from within the agency,
trying to overturn the duly elected president, trying to overturn
an election. And then when when Biden got into power,
(24:49):
they came out in the open, and they were brazen.
And part of the reason Biden was so much worse
than Obama is they saw there were no consequences when
it happened under Obama that it worked, that they were
able to w repinize the system. And I suspect many
good people just left the agencies and those many of
those who remained were either they were afraid or they were.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Willing to go along with it.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
But it's why one of the most important obligations responsibilities
that the Trump DOJ and the Trump FBI have is
to restore integrity to those agencies to go after criminals
and bad guys like terrorists planning to set off bombs
in Los Angeles, rather than using it to target political opponents.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
What will accountability look like specifically on these emails and
the people there? And will Congress get involved in this
now seeing this letter Grassly, etc.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Yeah, Look, I would certainly expect we'll see hearings in Congress.
I'd like to see the Senate Judiciary Committee hold hearings
on this and engage in oversight. This was released by
Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, so that's beneficial.
And you know, look, I want to amend the Trump
Justice Department for handing these emails over. But part of
the reason that the Biden DOJ wrote these is because
(26:07):
they thought no one would ever know that they thought
Biden was going to be reelected or Kamala Harris was
going to be elected, and so this would remain hidden forever.
What changed the rules is you have a new Attorney
General and a new FBI director who decided we're going
to give this to We're going to show the American
people exactly what was going on.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
That was the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Finally, I want to move to another shocking breaking news story,
and that is if you get rid of people in
this country they're here illegally, then you don't have to
compete for them. Center for Housing, we have seen the
medium age of first time home buyers. The number skyrocket
to forty plus years old, depending on where you live.
(26:48):
It's the highest we've seen it, certainly in my lifetime,
and the highest we've seen since World War One. I
think if I looked at the data correctly, that was
something that should be very eye opening. Rental prices have
also skyrocketed, because well, you're competing when it comes to
renting a home, especially those entry level homes. With tens
of millions of illegal immigrants, we are now finally seeing
(27:11):
Donald Trump's deportations and the shutting down the southern border
completely turning into guess what, lower rent and lower home
prices for Americans.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Yeah, and look, this is at the end of the day,
very simple economics. And in economics one oh one you
learn that prices. Prices are determined by two factors, supply
and demand and their graft, and where they intersect is
where the price is. So supply, it's pretty simple to understand.
The more of something there is, the lower the price is.
(27:45):
If there are a whole bunch of houses, the price
of housing goes down. If there are a whole bunch
of bananas, the price of bananas go down. But the
other thing that determines price is demand. If there are
a ton of people that want to buy houses or bananas,
the price goes up. And so those two counterbalance each other,
and actually rising prices typically are a market signal that
(28:09):
we need more supply. And so if banana prices skyrocket
because suddenly people decide they really really like bananas, you
know what's gonna happen. People are gonna plant more bananas
and grow more bananas to meet the demand, and the
price will fall. Well, what did Joe Biden do? Joe
Biden imported allowed more than twelve million illegal aliens to
(28:30):
come into this country. Now, when they came into this country,
most of those illegal aliens didn't live in a tent,
they didn't sleep on a park bench. They went and
rented an apartment, or they rented a house, or they
bought a house. And you bring in twelve million people,
that's twelve million people that are trying to rent, and
when demand goes up a lot, you end up having
prices go up. Now, now here's what Scott Besson reported.
(28:54):
Scott Besson said that last month apartment rents fell one
two point one percent compared to the same time last year,
and they dropped five point two percent compared to the
same time period in twenty twenty two, when rents had
peaked under Joe Biden and Bessen did an interview on
(29:14):
Fox Business Channel where he said rents are down and
the story the Biden administration doesn't want to talk about
the mass unfettered immigration that pushed up rents, especially for
working Americans. And he continued to say, there's a recent
study out from the Wharton School that shows every one
percent increase in population, rents went up one percent. So
(29:39):
President Trump, by enforcing the border and sending home more
than two million illegals. We're now seeing rents coming down substantially.
I think that will continue for the rest of the year.
We brought down interest rates and so we brought mortgage
rates down, and I think everything else will follow that.
That is a major victory. And by the way, it's
exactly what President Trump said on the campaign trail, which
(30:03):
is that if we deport the illegal aliens that Joe
Biden's open borders brought into this country, the result is
going to be rents are going to come down and
housing is going to be more affordable. We now have
the data backing that up. You know.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Messaging, I think center is going to be so important
going into the mid terms. And one of the things
I do think we have not messaged well enough on
our side is what is about to happen in twenty
twenty six. And there are laws that were passing twenty
twenty five that are enacted in twenty twenty six. You
combine what you just said about home prices and what
(30:36):
the Treasury Secretary was talking about there with something that's
going to have a huge impact on our economy. No
tax on tips is coming in this new year. No
tax on overtime is coming this year, and no tax
on Social Security for seniors is coming. Those are three
massive victories that I think many Americans have actually kind
(30:56):
of forgotten about that are going to be implemented this year.
That's going to have a very big impact on our economy,
but also affordability and living.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
No, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
And I got to say, by the way, for people
that make substantial tipped wages or over time, millions of
Americans are going to be entitled to a refund from
the IRS starting in January, Starting in just a couple
of weeks, they'll be entitled to a refund because of
those tax cuts, because of the working family tax cut.
(31:27):
And look, the latest mantra of both Democrats in the media,
because in many instances they're one and the same, is affordability.
Now affordability. I am certain that that came from a
focus group the Democrats put on that that was a
word they could blame and blame on Trump. Affordability about
(31:48):
twelve minutes ago, used to be called two things, jobs
and inflation.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
That's how we used to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Jobs were seeing economic growth, and that is coming from
the historic tax cup we pass and it's coming from
President Trump's incredible leadership, cutting job killing regulation, and then inflation.
We are seeing inflation coming down, and this is interesting.
The HUD Department, the Housing and Urban Development Department, published
(32:16):
this month a report an investigation that concluded Biden's importing
of millions of migrants drove up prices for Americans who
are low income but who do not receive public assistance.
And here's what the report concluded. Quote one key cause
of elevated worst case needs is immigration. Between twenty twenty
(32:37):
one and twenty twenty four, the foreign born population of
the United States increased more than six million, the largest
such increase over such a short period in American history.
This immigration driven increase in households has contributed to a
significant increase in housing demand, thus driving up housing prices.
(32:58):
In fact, in some markets, immigration is accounted for nearly
all of the increase in housing demand in recent years.
That is hurting affordability.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
All nearly all. What else do you need to know?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, that's Democrat policies kill jobs and drove up inflation.
And right now, under common sense conservative policies, we're seeing
jobs come back and we're making progress turning around and
driving down the Biden inflation that hurts so many Americans.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Yeah, it's a great point.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
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