October 21, 2025 • 34 mins
1. Government Shutdown
- Democrats continue the shutdown, the “Schumer shutdown.”
- Democrats delayed reopening the government due to optics around the “No King's rally.”
- We quote National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who predicts the shutdown will end soon.
2. Healthcare Subsidies Debate
- Criticizes COVID-era expansions of Obamacare subsidies.
- Frames the issue as Democrats giving “handouts” and Republicans being more fiscally responsible.
3. Trump’s Political Standing
- Asserts that Trump’s approval rating has increased during the shutdown.
- Compares the current shutdown to the 2018–2019 one, claiming Trump is politically stronger now.
- Uses polling data to argue that fewer Americans blame Trump this time.
4. Executive Orders
- Highlights Trump’s use of executive orders as a way to bypass legislative gridlock.
- Claims Trump has signed more executive orders than any president since FDR.
5. National Guard Deployment
- Discusses the Ninth Circuit Court ruling allowing Trump to deploy the National Guard to Portland.
- Frames this as a legal and political victory for Trump.
- Includes quotes from judges and reactions from media outlets like MSNBC.
6. Illegal Immigration & Crime
- Details arrests of illegal immigrants, emphasizing those with serious criminal records.
- Quotes Kristi Noem and ICE statistics to support claims of law enforcement success.
- Frames Trump’s immigration policies as fulfilling campaign promises and improving public safety.
7. Law and Order Narrative
- Emphasizes Trump’s efforts to restore safety in cities like Portland, Washington D.C., Memphis, and Chicago.
- Criticizes liberal opposition and media portrayal.
- Ends with a strong endorsement of Trump’s leadership and policies.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I hate to say it, but I told you so.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Actually, I don't say it. I love it when I
give you predictions and they're spot on. That is hopefully
why you listen to the show. Because guess what we're
now hearing from the White House. The White House Economic
Advisor Hassett is now saying the shutdown could end this week.
Why because the No King's Rally has happened. Democrats ran
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to those rallies and laid down before the extremists, the Marxists,
the Socialists, and the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And now that that is over, they can now.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Actually go back to again not holding America hostage and
shutting down our government. The National Economic Council director predicting
that the ongoing government shutdown is likely to end sometime
this week, but Warren the Trump administration may impose stronger
measures if the.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Funding impasse continues.
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had to say on CNBC and the only interview he's
done about the government shutdown and the last week, clearly
making it obvious that the White House is behind everything
that he's saying.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And here is what he had to say on CNBC.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Twenty of the government shutdowns. Join US now, National Economic
Council Director Kevin Hesset. It's day twenty of the government shutdowns.
Join us now, Nasal Economic Council Director Kevin Hasset.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's good to see Kevin.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
This give me.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
The blueprint of how you think this ends. I don't
think it's that difficult for you maybe to go out
on a limbar. Do you think the President gets involved
and gives the Democrats some type of assurance for these
Obamacare subsidies or do you think he takes a hard
(03:57):
line And you mentioned on over the weekend that some
extreme measures are possible about firing people, taking away things
that are important at Democrats.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
What do you think really happen right right?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Well, first of all, the President has been very active
throughout this process, but it's also his position that this
is a thing that the Senate.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Needs to work out.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
A lot of our friends in the Senate have said
that it was just bad optics for Democrats to open
the government before the No King's rally, and that now
there's a shot that this week things will come together
and very quickly the moderate Democrats will move forward and
get us an open government, at which point we could
negotiate whatever policies they want to negotiate.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
With regular order.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I was very pleased to see that my friend Senator
Shaheen from Hampshire, a very sound minded Democrat, came out
and supported opening the government on Friday, so it means
that they're sort of cracks in the Schumer armor.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I think the Schumer shut.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Down is likely to end some time this week, but
I can tell you that if it doesn't. If it doesn't,
if the story that we've been basically hearing from moderates
that look, we just can't do it under the no
King's rally, if that ends up not being true, that
I think that the White House is going to have
to look very closely along with Russ vote at you know,
stronger measures that we could take to bring up to
the table.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So there would be negotiations about what to do we're
running out of time before November. First, there would be
negotiations about what to do with the pandemic super subsidies
for Obamacare.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Well, that again is an issue for the Senate.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
That you know, the Democrats passed that law.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
They it was in an emergency for COVID and they
ended it now because it was such an expensive law.
And so it's the Democrats policy. It's a Democrats shutdown,
and it's a super shutdown, and really the Senate needs
to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But it affects you know, real people and people in registrates,
and I mean we're subsidizing healthcare for a lot of it,
but we're like it or not.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's just the position we're in.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So there are certain people that either wouldn't have healthcare
or where the premiums would go up so much. Not
to say that it's you know, not Obamacare's fault, because
there's a lot of flaws, but you see something where
there would be some fixes put in to get Republicans
who agreed to do that.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Again, that's up to the Senate to negotiate.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
But if you look at the expiring subsidies, you know,
the vast majority of people, certainly low income people, aren't
affected at all. It's just that the policy was expanded
to people up to four times the povery level, and
so you get people who have much much higher incomes
than were intended to be predicted by Medicaid, and they
gave them basically, you know, a free card as well
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back during COVID. And I think that some scrutiny about
that is something that in you know, the course of
ordinary Senate business, I would expect senators.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Should debate that. But this is about keeping the government open.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Remember, the Democrats got thirteen continuing resolutions that were clean
when Joe Biden was there, which means that Republicans understood
their constitutional duty to keep the government open. Time after
time after time, people say, oh, the Democrats voted, you know,
for a CR thirteen times. So it's actually the Republicans
voted for it too, because they understand that the job
of the senator is to be the voice of moderation
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in Washington, as opposed to what Senator Schumer's doing. Frankly,
where he's the exact opposite.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Is anybody talking to anybody, Kevin, because every person we
talk to makes it sound like there is not.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
No absolutely absolutely, especially like within the Senate, everybody's talking
to everybody.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Does that extend to the White House? Does this extend
beyond that? It doesn't sound like last week Schumer and
Thune were saying that they hadn't had conversations.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Well, well, everybody in the White House has conversations with
senators every day, is all I could say. But at
the end, it's the position of the White House that
the you know, the President believes that the Senate needs
to work this out.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So if you break down what you just heard there
from Hassett, it's a couple of different things Number one,
it's very clear Democrats were waiting to vote to reopen
the government until after this weekends. Nationwide, no King's protests
against Donald Trump, right, that's number one. Number two, they
are holding us hostage and claiming it's over these subsidies,
which you just explained very well, which during COVID put
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it four x what you should have it at when
it comes to when you should get subsidies for your
health care, and they did that during COVID. With these subsidies,
which again were during COVID. Democrats have never met a handout.
They don't like to still give to people. So that's
part of the problem here. And all of this comes
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as the federal government enters a third week of a shutdown.
There's again no clear end insight, but it is clear
that when it comes to the polling now, Democrats are
actually losing on the issue. How do we know this
far left CNN has now been forced to admit that
(08:50):
President Trump is actually winning the political debate against the
Democrats and the fake media in the ongoing government shutdown battle.
Fast full to today, and Trump's average approval rating during
the shutdown is actually up by a point, as fewer
than half those pulled forty eight percent blame him for
(09:12):
the government shutdown. This is a massive win for Donald
Trump in the White House.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
It turns out shutdowns are different the second time around
when it comes to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Take a look here.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
You know, we speak about Donald Trump shutdowns not approval rating.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
We're talking twenty days into it.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
In twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen, Donald Trump's not approp
rating was already falling. The shutdown was eating and it
was popular support. It was down three points already at
this particular point and would fall considerably more.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It was very much on the decline.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
You come over to this side of the screen, This
shutdown hasn't eaten in the Donald Trump support at all.
Isn't That approval rating is actually up a point and
in terms of in terms of his popular support. So
the bottom line is this the first shutdown during Trump's
first term twenty eighteen twenty nineteen was hurting Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
This one is not hurting him at all. There's no
real reason.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to
popular's report, I want to get out.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Of the shutdown.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
What about the question of blame, Yeah, Okay, what about
the question of blame. Okay, you see here, you see
Donald trump'sun approv rating was down twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen.
You talk about twenty twenty five as net approve rating
is up. It comes down to the blame game, a
game I love to play when I was younger. Blame
Trump for the shutdown A great deal. In twenty eighteen
slash twenty nineteen, sixty one percent, more than three and
five Americans blame Trump a great deal for that particular shutdown.
(10:30):
You come over to this side of the screen.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Look at this. It's a different world. It's a different world.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Forty eight percent of Americans blame Trump a great deal
for this particular shutdown.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
So it's more than three and five.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Back in twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen, it's less than
half a drop of thirteen points. Again, it's no real
wonder that Donald Trump, at this point, looking at the shutdown, says,
you know what, it's not actually harming me politically, in
large part because he's getting less of the blame.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And he's doing things differently during this shutdown.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yes, exactly right.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
You know, we talked about Donald Trump, and you say Okay,
he wants to be a consequential, influential president. Well, if
the legislative process has basically freezed up, you know on
Capwell Hill, you may say, well, then he can't actually
get legislation through. But that's not how Trump is governing
in this term. We've spoken about this over and over
and over again. He's using his pen, He's using executive orders.
Trump executive orders. At this point of presidency in twenty seventeen,
(11:22):
it was just fifty Look at this, already two hundred
and ten executive orders signed by Donald Trump during this presidency.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
That is the most in a year.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You have to go all the way back.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Since Franklin Delan or Roosevelt to find a president who
signed more executive orders in the year than Donald Trump
has already signed this time around. And remember, John Burman,
we still have two months to go in this year.
So wouldn't be surprising to me if he signs even.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Yes, HEA's to be saying, Congress, you don't want to
do something, I'll do it, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That is CNN talking right there, and they're clearly saying
this shutdown is a different world for Trump than the
eighteen nineteen shutdown. He's in a much better spot. His
net approval is up slightly during this shutdown versus dropping
in eighteen and nineteen. And why because the percentage you
blame him a great deal for the shutdown is down significantly,
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meaning that Donald Trump clearly is winning on the issue.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Which brings me back to what I said a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I have no doubt that there is going to be
a government reopening this week. That is my prediction based
on what we're witnessing. It is another moment where you
can say Donald Trump was right and the radical left
was yet again wrong. This time the Ninth Circuit Court
has ruled on Trump's National Guard deployment to Portland. That
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is a liberal Ninth Circuit court, and the three judge
panel has now said yes, the President has the authority
to do this. The Ninth US Circuit Court Appeals on
Monday ruling the President Trump can deploy Oregon's National Guard
troops the city of Portland, delivering a significant victory to
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the Trump administration after the left said Donald Trump was
breaking the law and it would not continue to be
able to do so, that he was going to lose
the ability to actually go in and make America cities
safe again. Well, the Trump administration is now on another
massive victory, all because they're sending federal forces into democratic
led cities despite a string of recent setbacks in other
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radical districts. And then the appeals courts happened and then
bam yet again. Donald Trump is the president and the
courts admit he has the right to do it. Judges
on the three panel rule two to one to authorize
Trump's deployment, Judge Ryan Nelson and Judge Bridget Bade, both
of them sided with the administration in the majority ruling,
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with the loan Clinton appointed Judge Graber dissenting quote. After
considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that
it is likely that the President and lawfully exercised his
statutory authority under ten USC Dash one two four h
six Dash three, which authorizes the federalization of the National
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Guard when the President is unable with the regular forces
to execute the laws of the United States. The majority
opinion wrote, Now this is significant why because the move
now becomes a political flashpoint as protesters opposing his key
policies are clashing with law enforcement. In Portland is a
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great example. Chicago is another one, and part of this
offico revolved around the No King's Day Now. Oregon officials
and civil rights radical groups say the administration is exaggerating
the threat of anarchy in these cities of lawlessness of
the radicals in the left who defend a legal immigrant
criminals more than they protect American citizens. They say that
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there is not really a threat. Donald Trump is saying, sorry,
the data proves you are wrong, and we now need
to come in to restore order now. After a federal
judge in Oregon temporarily blocked Trump's attempt to deploy troops
to Portland earlier this month, that is when the US
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear the Trump
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administration's case. The lower court judge, by the way, had
described Trump's actions in her emergency order as untethered to
reality and one that she said, quote risks boring the
line between civil and military federal power to the detriment
of this nation.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The appeals court.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Said, yet, we're not buying into that liberal bs, and
they quickly stayed the lower court's order, penning review.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
The ruling also comes as Trump has sought to deploy
hundreds of National Guard troops to democratic led cities, despite
stated opposition from local and state leaders, specifically on the
democratic side. Senior administration officials have argued that the deployment
is a necessary step to crack down on what they
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say is an uptick in violent crime and protect against
threats from protesters, including the anti ice demonstrations in many
downtown areas, including Portland. Democrats have countered that Trump's descriptions
are hyperbolic and quote inaccurate, and are merely a quote
legal pretext for Trump to try to federalize, they claim
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democratic led cities, which is the complete opposite of what
Donald Trump is clearly doing. And if you don't believe me,
just look at what he has done in Washington, d c.
Or look at what he's done in Memphis, Tennessee. Now,
the left, don't worry. They continue to go radical. They've
used news conferences to highlight declines they say in violent crime,
and have argued in court that efforts to deploy federal
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troops exceeds Trump's authority as the literal commander in chief.
You cannot make this up until the matter is a
field the Supreme Court. The burden, by the way, remains
on the lower courts to navigate the high profile and
politically thorny flurry of cases that are all being brought
by the left now. Another federal appeals court also weighed
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in on the dispute. On Saturday, the seventh US Circuit
Court of Appeals in Chicago partially lifted a lower court
order blocking Trump's federal deployment of National Guard troops there
that the decision stopped short of authorizing their use, instead
allowed them to remain at a US Army reserve base
outside of the city in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
By the way, the ninth.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
US Circuit Court of Appeals held about ninety minutes of
arguments on the administration's appeal. The Trump administration officials argued
the troops presence was necessary to quell mounting unrest and
protests against future risk of violence. Judges on the three
member panel appeared largely sympathetic to the Trump administration, especially
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those two that wrote the opinion saying, yes, it is
time for Donald Trump to be able to do his
job as president.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It may well be.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That the forces are used in an improper way, but
we don't have evidence of that, is what Judge Ryan Nelson,
a Trump appointee said during the oral arguments, Trump's decision
to call up the military doesn't strike me as a
glaring overuse on its face, the judge continued in his opinion.
The panels of majority otherwise did little to disguise their
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skepticism of arguments presented by the organ Assistant Attorney General,
including that Trump's assessment of violence in the city did
not justify as federalizing the National Guard. Chaffin argued that
the protests in Portland are a far cry from a
definition of a rebellion, one of two conditions that Donald
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Trump needs to meet the legal pretexts for National Guard deployment,
saying then yes quote rebellions are unusual and extreme emergencies,
the Democrats said in their comments there As as an
attorney general, she noted that the bulk of the complaints
by local agents are focused on them being short staffed.
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Administrative or personal concerns, she said, are not a reason
to bring the military into the streets of Portland or
any other US city. Still, the court appeared poised aside
with the Trump administration quote, I'm not sure even President
Lincoln would have been able to authorize the use of
force right now if his actions were to be scrutinized
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under the much more stringent reviewability standards implied by Oregon Here,
Nelson noted shortly before court adjournment. Now, the Ninth Circuit
is one of several appeals courts that have weighed Trump's
plan to send National Guard troops to democratic led cities
in recent weeks, which brings me to President Trump. He
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was asked on Air Force one heading back to DC
on Sunday about the National Guard, specifically what it's done,
for example in Washington, d C. And here's what the
President had to say about the success of deploying the
National Guard that San Francisco.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Are there other cities you're actively looking out for the
National Guard right now?
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (20:20):
What about it? I'm just wondering if you care to
comment on that.
Speaker 12 (20:24):
Well, we've used the National Guard to be very successful
in Memphis. You can see the numbers are falling like rocks, Washington, DC,
Chicago's getting better, even though we're going through a lot,
and you know, we're trying to do it in a.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Very nice way.
Speaker 12 (20:39):
I'm allowed, as you know, as president, like fifty percent
of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
They can use that, and everybody agrees.
Speaker 12 (20:47):
You're allowed to use that, and there's no more court cases,
there's no more anything. We're trying to do it in
a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Act if we want. You take a look in the past.
Speaker 12 (20:59):
I'm one in particular, president used it twenty eight times
during the course of a presidency.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
So we're allowed to do that. We thought we could
do it in a very nice way. All we want
to do is have safe cities.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
We're not looking for anything that would be spectacular other
than crime free become spectacular. We want to have great
crime free cities, so I'd be allowed to use if
I wanted the Insurrection Actor, then all of this nonsense
would go away.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
You have the absolute right.
Speaker 12 (21:26):
It's the strongest power president has, and you have the
absolute right to do it.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
We wanted to go this route, but we get sued.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
Every time you look at somebody, you look at somebody
the wrong way, and you end up getting sued. We
just want no crime. We want to have crime free cities.
That's not a big I mean, it's pretty common sense,
I think. But that's all I want is crime free cities.
I campaigned on it. It's become I think, even more
successful that we thought because of the tremendous success that.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
We had literally in twelve days in Washington, d C.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
And it continues. If Washington Dcent was so proud of it.
People are eating in their restaurants, restaurants are opening. All
the stores and restaurants were closing. You couldn't walk down
the street without being mugged or worse. And now it's
a safe city.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
I mean, it's considered a very safe city because we took.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
Seventeen hundred people out of there and brought them back
to where they came from.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yet you see you're President Trump saying I'm going to
keep doing this to make cities safe again. He said,
we took seventeen one hundred people out of there referring
to DC and brought them back to where they came from.
That is exactly why he says the city is so
much safer. The President clearly going forward with this and
not backing down, and a federal court is now ruled
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in the present's favorite that he can deploy the National
Guard to Portland and hopefully save that city as well.
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We've got a very big.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Story coming out of the White House and is a
promise that President Donald Trump made to every American if
he was elected president. It was that he was going
to do whatever he could to get rid of illegal
immigrants in this country, and he was also going to
get rid of the illegal immigrants first that had committed
the most heinous crimes. He also promised he was going
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to make dangerous cities safe again.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
All this he is paying off on.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But now we have some of the biggest data we've
seen so far backing this up. The Department of Homeland
Security has arrested more than four hundred and eighty thousand
illegal immigrants in the first nine months of the Trump administration.
I'm going to give you that number again, four hundred
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and eighty thousand illegal immigrants in a nine month span.
This while many illegal immigrants have been hanging out in
sanctuary cities being protected by the radical left. Now here's
something else that you need to know. Seventy percent of
the four hundred and eighty thousand legal immigrants had been
arrested had been convicted of crimes or had criminal charges
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against them pending. Christy NOM made the announcement during a
stop in Branden, Florida. As They also put out a
press release giving you some of the backgrounds, saying, quote,
President Trump unleashed ICE to target the worst of the
worst criminal illegal aliens. Some of the criminals arrested included
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illegal aliens convicted of incests with a minor, homicide, sexual assault,
sexual assault of a minor, and domestic violence. Seventy percent
of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens convicted or charged
with a crime in the US. This statistic doesn't even
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include they say, foreign fugitives, illegal aliens convicted of crimes
in other countries, gang members, and also suspected terrorists. NOOM
highlighted nine of the worst of the worst illegal immigrants
who have been arrested in South and Central Florida alone.
(26:51):
They included several different individuals. Nome set the press conference,
we are not going to let these individuals terrorize our
streets to anymore, and we're not going to let them
make victims out of families that live in this country.
I want you to hear directly from Christome at the
press conference, and here's part of what she had to say.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
I'll give you some examples of individuals that were brought
to justice here in Sarasota and in this area. The
first one I'll talk about is a convicted murderer whose
name is Eric Carlos Artilis Ramos.
Speaker 11 (27:23):
An illegal alien who was from Cuba.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
He had a prior removal order in two thousand and eight,
and now because of the work of this office, he
is off the streets. He was also previously convicted of
kidnapping and carjacking. We also have another individual, Oscar Alfredo
Retina Marquin, an illegal alien from El Salvador. He was
convicted of sexual assault against a child and in nineteen
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ninety five, and he was also arrested for dui. He
has been deported twice before, in nineteen ninety nine and
in twenty nineteen. Re Entry after deportation, I'll remind all
of you is a film. The next individual is Arturo
Sanchez Morales.
Speaker 11 (28:03):
He's an illegal alien from Mexico.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
He was arrested for driving drunk and he's already been
deported once before he re entered, which is a felony,
and was issued a final order of removal.
Speaker 11 (28:14):
In twenty sixteen.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
He had previously been arrested for burglary as well for
possession of cocaine and larceny, and has convictions for multiple
DUIs and lude acts against a minor. And again I'll
talk about Leylis Rinaldo Benaro Zahn, who is an individual
from Honduras who's been in this country illegally and he
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has a conviction for domestic battery. He'd been deported twice before,
in twenty eleven and in twenty seventeen. These individuals are
just a handful of people that have been in this
country creating victims out of American citizens that now those
families do no longer have to worry about. Not only
have they been brought into and incarcerated, but they're going
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to be brought to justice and paid for the crimes
that they've committed. Every single day, our law enforcement officers
put their lives at risk to protect the American people.
Every single day, they get up and they go do
their jobs to make sure that American families can live
the lives that they've dreamed of since.
Speaker 11 (29:14):
They were young.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
The LEFS anti cop rhetoric has led to one thousand
percent increase in violence against our law enforcement officers. We
have to stop the rhetoric that is allowing individuals the
cover that they want to perpetuate violence against those who
enforce our laws. Last month, we had an individual open
fire at an ICE facility and we also saw that
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we saw victims from that attack that happened not just
against ICE agents, but also about detainees.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
That were there at that facility.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
That individual, when he fired upon the building, created some victims.
We lost two lives there. Three individuals were hurt and
two died later on. After that event, the suspect had
anti ICE written on the ammunition and on his bullet casings,
proving that he had targeted against individuals that we're working
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to keep our streets safe. Criminals are now even placing
bounties on our law enforcement officers.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
This last month, the Department of Homeland.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Security arrested a criminal illegal alien and a Latin King's
gang member who placed a bounty on our US Border
Patrol Chief Greg Bevino. Still they keep pressing on, and
we've seen as well, individuals on TikTok and other apps
making threats against our law enforcement officers, putting bounties out
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on their head, and we will bring all of those
individuals to justice. We will continue to bring murderers and rapists,
those who perpetuate violence, pedophiles, gang members in our communities.
We will go after them, bring them to justice, and
we will save lives.
Speaker 11 (30:51):
The American people.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
See this, and they see that President Trump is focused
on making sure that our streets are safe and that
our families have opportunities to raise their children safe communities.
In fact, recent polls have shown that fifty four percent
of Americans want illegals to be brought into justice, and
they want to deport those who are in this country illegally,
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But seventy eight percent of Americans want these criminal illegal
aliens brought to justice. That's because the American people understand
the benefits of having law and order.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Again, this isn't just a win for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
This is a win for every man and woman in
this country, especially men and women that have been victims
of countless crimes by illegal immigrants, which also brings us
back to what the President's doing now. The Ninth Circuit
saying that President Trump can send the National Guard to
Portland is another massive win for law and order. And
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if you think that the Left is going to sit
down and just say, Okay, fine, the President's going to
be able to be the president and he has the
authority to do this and he was elected to do it,
you're wrong. MSNBC having a total meltdown as Lisa Rubin
had to read the Ninth Circuit decision authorizing Trump to
deploy the National Guard in Portland. Take a listen to
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how they spun it on MSNBC.
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Yeah, And I want to just correct one thing and
then explain why functional kay, it is the same. This
is a stay of Judge Immigrant's opinion, and that's why
it reached the Ninth Circuit as soon as it did,
because this is an emergency motion to essentially pause her order.
But as a functional matter, you are absolutely correct, it
has the function of overturning her order and thereby allowing
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the President to send the National Guard back onto the
streets of Portland. And Katy, I want to read if
I can, just from a little bit of the beginning
of this ninety three page opinion, it says, after considering
the record, and by the record they mean all the
factual evidence at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it
is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority
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under ten USC. Section twelve four oh six. That's the
statute we've been referring to has Title ten when we
have conversations about the National Guard deployments, which authorizes the
federalization of the National Guard when the President is unable
with the regular forces to execute the laws of the
United States. And this is the important part. The evidence
the President relied on reflects quote, a colorable assessment of
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the facts in law within a range of honest judgment.
We thus conclude that defendants are likely to succeed on
the merits of their appeal, basically saying that when and
if a court considers all of the record in this
matter is tried and it gets back to an appellate court,
through an ordinary process where they have full briefing and
full evidence that they still think Donald Trump is likely
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to prevail there because he has the discretion to determine
as the president within a range of honest judgment. So
when it is reasonable to what you and I were
talking about last.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Week, it is very clear the left realizes now they're
running out of ways to stop President Trump from doing
his job, a job that he was a elected by
the American people to do, and they're going to do
everything they can to continue to try to stop him.
But as we witness what is happening now in Portland
and the total number of arrest nationwide in the last
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nine months, and law and order that is also being
restored to incredibly violent cities like Portland, Washington, d C. Memphis, Tennessee,
and many more to come, including Chicago. What you're witnessing
as a president that is doing exactly what he promised
he was going to do, keep all Americans safe, no
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matter where you live,
I hate to say it, but I told you so.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Actually, I don't say it. I love it when I
give you predictions and they're spot on. That is hopefully
why you listen to the show. Because guess what we're
now hearing from the White House. The White House Economic
Advisor Hassett is now saying the shutdown could end this week.
Why because the No King's Rally has happened. Democrats ran
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to those rallies and laid down before the extremists, the Marxists,
the Socialists, and the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And now that that is over, they can now.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Actually go back to again not holding America hostage and
shutting down our government. The National Economic Council director predicting
that the ongoing government shutdown is likely to end sometime
this week, but Warren the Trump administration may impose stronger
measures if the.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
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had to say on CNBC and the only interview he's
done about the government shutdown and the last week, clearly
making it obvious that the White House is behind everything
that he's saying.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And here is what he had to say on CNBC.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Twenty of the government shutdowns. Join US now, National Economic
Council Director Kevin Hesset. It's day twenty of the government shutdowns.
Join us now, Nasal Economic Council Director Kevin Hasset.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It's good to see Kevin.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
This give me.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
The blueprint of how you think this ends. I don't
think it's that difficult for you maybe to go out
on a limbar. Do you think the President gets involved
and gives the Democrats some type of assurance for these
Obamacare subsidies or do you think he takes a hard
(03:57):
line And you mentioned on over the weekend that some
extreme measures are possible about firing people, taking away things
that are important at Democrats.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
What do you think really happen right right?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Well, first of all, the President has been very active
throughout this process, but it's also his position that this
is a thing that the Senate.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Needs to work out.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
A lot of our friends in the Senate have said
that it was just bad optics for Democrats to open
the government before the No King's rally, and that now
there's a shot that this week things will come together
and very quickly the moderate Democrats will move forward and
get us an open government, at which point we could
negotiate whatever policies they want to negotiate.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
With regular order.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I was very pleased to see that my friend Senator
Shaheen from Hampshire, a very sound minded Democrat, came out
and supported opening the government on Friday, so it means
that they're sort of cracks in the Schumer armor.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I think the Schumer shut.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Down is likely to end some time this week, but
I can tell you that if it doesn't. If it doesn't,
if the story that we've been basically hearing from moderates
that look, we just can't do it under the no
King's rally, if that ends up not being true, that
I think that the White House is going to have
to look very closely along with Russ vote at you know,
stronger measures that we could take to bring up to
the table.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
So there would be negotiations about what to do we're
running out of time before November. First, there would be
negotiations about what to do with the pandemic super subsidies
for Obamacare.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Well, that again is an issue for the Senate.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
That you know, the Democrats passed that law.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
They it was in an emergency for COVID and they
ended it now because it was such an expensive law.
And so it's the Democrats policy. It's a Democrats shutdown,
and it's a super shutdown, and really the Senate needs
to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But it affects you know, real people and people in registrates,
and I mean we're subsidizing healthcare for a lot of it,
but we're like it or not.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's just the position we're in.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So there are certain people that either wouldn't have healthcare
or where the premiums would go up so much. Not
to say that it's you know, not Obamacare's fault, because
there's a lot of flaws, but you see something where
there would be some fixes put in to get Republicans
who agreed to do that.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Again, that's up to the Senate to negotiate.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
But if you look at the expiring subsidies, you know,
the vast majority of people, certainly low income people, aren't
affected at all. It's just that the policy was expanded
to people up to four times the povery level, and
so you get people who have much much higher incomes
than were intended to be predicted by Medicaid, and they
gave them basically, you know, a free card as well
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back during COVID. And I think that some scrutiny about
that is something that in you know, the course of
ordinary Senate business, I would expect senators.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Should debate that. But this is about keeping the government open.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Remember, the Democrats got thirteen continuing resolutions that were clean
when Joe Biden was there, which means that Republicans understood
their constitutional duty to keep the government open. Time after
time after time, people say, oh, the Democrats voted, you know,
for a CR thirteen times. So it's actually the Republicans
voted for it too, because they understand that the job
of the senator is to be the voice of moderation
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in Washington, as opposed to what Senator Schumer's doing. Frankly,
where he's the exact opposite.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
Is anybody talking to anybody, Kevin, because every person we
talk to makes it sound like there is not.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
No absolutely absolutely, especially like within the Senate, everybody's talking
to everybody.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Does that extend to the White House? Does this extend
beyond that? It doesn't sound like last week Schumer and
Thune were saying that they hadn't had conversations.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Well, well, everybody in the White House has conversations with
senators every day, is all I could say. But at
the end, it's the position of the White House that
the you know, the President believes that the Senate needs
to work this out.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So if you break down what you just heard there
from Hassett, it's a couple of different things Number one,
it's very clear Democrats were waiting to vote to reopen
the government until after this weekends. Nationwide, no King's protests
against Donald Trump, right, that's number one. Number two, they
are holding us hostage and claiming it's over these subsidies,
which you just explained very well, which during COVID put
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it four x what you should have it at when
it comes to when you should get subsidies for your
health care, and they did that during COVID. With these subsidies,
which again were during COVID. Democrats have never met a handout.
They don't like to still give to people. So that's
part of the problem here. And all of this comes
(08:30):
as the federal government enters a third week of a shutdown.
There's again no clear end insight, but it is clear
that when it comes to the polling now, Democrats are
actually losing on the issue. How do we know this
far left CNN has now been forced to admit that
(08:50):
President Trump is actually winning the political debate against the
Democrats and the fake media in the ongoing government shutdown battle.
Fast full to today, and Trump's average approval rating during
the shutdown is actually up by a point, as fewer
than half those pulled forty eight percent blame him for
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the government shutdown. This is a massive win for Donald
Trump in the White House.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
It turns out shutdowns are different the second time around
when it comes to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Take a look here.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
You know, we speak about Donald Trump shutdowns not approval rating.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
We're talking twenty days into it.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
In twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen, Donald Trump's not approp
rating was already falling. The shutdown was eating and it
was popular support. It was down three points already at
this particular point and would fall considerably more.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It was very much on the decline.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
You come over to this side of the screen, This
shutdown hasn't eaten in the Donald Trump support at all.
Isn't That approval rating is actually up a point and
in terms of in terms of his popular support. So
the bottom line is this the first shutdown during Trump's
first term twenty eighteen twenty nineteen was hurting Donald Trump.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
This one is not hurting him at all. There's no
real reason.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to
popular's report, I want to get out.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Of the shutdown.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
What about the question of blame, Yeah, Okay, what about
the question of blame. Okay, you see here, you see
Donald trump'sun approv rating was down twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen.
You talk about twenty twenty five as net approve rating
is up. It comes down to the blame game, a
game I love to play when I was younger. Blame
Trump for the shutdown A great deal. In twenty eighteen
slash twenty nineteen, sixty one percent, more than three and
five Americans blame Trump a great deal for that particular shutdown.
(10:30):
You come over to this side of the screen.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Look at this. It's a different world. It's a different world.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Forty eight percent of Americans blame Trump a great deal
for this particular shutdown.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
So it's more than three and five.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Back in twenty eighteen slash twenty nineteen, it's less than
half a drop of thirteen points. Again, it's no real
wonder that Donald Trump, at this point, looking at the shutdown, says,
you know what, it's not actually harming me politically, in
large part because he's getting less of the blame.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And he's doing things differently during this shutdown.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yes, exactly right.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
You know, we talked about Donald Trump, and you say Okay,
he wants to be a consequential, influential president. Well, if
the legislative process has basically freezed up, you know on
Capwell Hill, you may say, well, then he can't actually
get legislation through. But that's not how Trump is governing
in this term. We've spoken about this over and over
and over again. He's using his pen, He's using executive orders.
Trump executive orders. At this point of presidency in twenty seventeen,
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it was just fifty Look at this, already two hundred
and ten executive orders signed by Donald Trump during this presidency.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
That is the most in a year.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You have to go all the way back.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Since Franklin Delan or Roosevelt to find a president who
signed more executive orders in the year than Donald Trump
has already signed this time around. And remember, John Burman,
we still have two months to go in this year.
So wouldn't be surprising to me if he signs even.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Yes, HEA's to be saying, Congress, you don't want to
do something, I'll do it, I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
That is CNN talking right there, and they're clearly saying
this shutdown is a different world for Trump than the
eighteen nineteen shutdown. He's in a much better spot. His
net approval is up slightly during this shutdown versus dropping
in eighteen and nineteen. And why because the percentage you
blame him a great deal for the shutdown is down significantly,
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meaning that Donald Trump clearly is winning on the issue.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Which brings me back to what I said a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I have no doubt that there is going to be
a government reopening this week. That is my prediction based
on what we're witnessing. It is another moment where you
can say Donald Trump was right and the radical left
was yet again wrong. This time the Ninth Circuit Court
has ruled on Trump's National Guard deployment to Portland. That
(12:40):
is a liberal Ninth Circuit court, and the three judge
panel has now said yes, the President has the authority
to do this. The Ninth US Circuit Court Appeals on
Monday ruling the President Trump can deploy Oregon's National Guard
troops the city of Portland, delivering a significant victory to
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the Trump administration after the left said Donald Trump was
breaking the law and it would not continue to be
able to do so, that he was going to lose
the ability to actually go in and make America cities
safe again. Well, the Trump administration is now on another
massive victory, all because they're sending federal forces into democratic
led cities despite a string of recent setbacks in other
(13:25):
radical districts. And then the appeals courts happened and then
bam yet again. Donald Trump is the president and the
courts admit he has the right to do it. Judges
on the three panel rule two to one to authorize
Trump's deployment, Judge Ryan Nelson and Judge Bridget Bade, both
of them sided with the administration in the majority ruling,
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with the loan Clinton appointed Judge Graber dissenting quote. After
considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that
it is likely that the President and lawfully exercised his
statutory authority under ten USC Dash one two four h
six Dash three, which authorizes the federalization of the National
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Guard when the President is unable with the regular forces
to execute the laws of the United States. The majority
opinion wrote, Now this is significant why because the move
now becomes a political flashpoint as protesters opposing his key
policies are clashing with law enforcement. In Portland is a
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great example. Chicago is another one, and part of this
offico revolved around the No King's Day Now. Oregon officials
and civil rights radical groups say the administration is exaggerating
the threat of anarchy in these cities of lawlessness of
the radicals in the left who defend a legal immigrant
criminals more than they protect American citizens. They say that
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there is not really a threat. Donald Trump is saying, sorry,
the data proves you are wrong, and we now need
to come in to restore order now. After a federal
judge in Oregon temporarily blocked Trump's attempt to deploy troops
to Portland earlier this month, that is when the US
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to hear the Trump
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administration's case. The lower court judge, by the way, had
described Trump's actions in her emergency order as untethered to
reality and one that she said, quote risks boring the
line between civil and military federal power to the detriment
of this nation.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
The appeals court.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Said, yet, we're not buying into that liberal bs, and
they quickly stayed the lower court's order, penning review.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
The ruling also comes as Trump has sought to deploy
hundreds of National Guard troops to democratic led cities, despite
stated opposition from local and state leaders, specifically on the
democratic side. Senior administration officials have argued that the deployment
is a necessary step to crack down on what they
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say is an uptick in violent crime and protect against
threats from protesters, including the anti ice demonstrations in many
downtown areas, including Portland. Democrats have countered that Trump's descriptions
are hyperbolic and quote inaccurate, and are merely a quote
legal pretext for Trump to try to federalize, they claim
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democratic led cities, which is the complete opposite of what
Donald Trump is clearly doing. And if you don't believe me,
just look at what he has done in Washington, d c.
Or look at what he's done in Memphis, Tennessee. Now,
the left, don't worry. They continue to go radical. They've
used news conferences to highlight declines they say in violent crime,
and have argued in court that efforts to deploy federal
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troops exceeds Trump's authority as the literal commander in chief.
You cannot make this up until the matter is a
field the Supreme Court. The burden, by the way, remains
on the lower courts to navigate the high profile and
politically thorny flurry of cases that are all being brought
by the left now. Another federal appeals court also weighed
(17:13):
in on the dispute. On Saturday, the seventh US Circuit
Court of Appeals in Chicago partially lifted a lower court
order blocking Trump's federal deployment of National Guard troops there
that the decision stopped short of authorizing their use, instead
allowed them to remain at a US Army reserve base
outside of the city in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
By the way, the ninth.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
US Circuit Court of Appeals held about ninety minutes of
arguments on the administration's appeal. The Trump administration officials argued
the troops presence was necessary to quell mounting unrest and
protests against future risk of violence. Judges on the three
member panel appeared largely sympathetic to the Trump administration, especially
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those two that wrote the opinion saying, yes, it is
time for Donald Trump to be able to do his
job as president.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It may well be.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That the forces are used in an improper way, but
we don't have evidence of that, is what Judge Ryan Nelson,
a Trump appointee said during the oral arguments, Trump's decision
to call up the military doesn't strike me as a
glaring overuse on its face, the judge continued in his opinion.
The panels of majority otherwise did little to disguise their
(18:34):
skepticism of arguments presented by the organ Assistant Attorney General,
including that Trump's assessment of violence in the city did
not justify as federalizing the National Guard. Chaffin argued that
the protests in Portland are a far cry from a
definition of a rebellion, one of two conditions that Donald
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Trump needs to meet the legal pretexts for National Guard deployment,
saying then yes quote rebellions are unusual and extreme emergencies,
the Democrats said in their comments there As as an
attorney general, she noted that the bulk of the complaints
by local agents are focused on them being short staffed.
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Administrative or personal concerns, she said, are not a reason
to bring the military into the streets of Portland or
any other US city. Still, the court appeared poised aside
with the Trump administration quote, I'm not sure even President
Lincoln would have been able to authorize the use of
force right now if his actions were to be scrutinized
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under the much more stringent reviewability standards implied by Oregon Here,
Nelson noted shortly before court adjournment. Now, the Ninth Circuit
is one of several appeals courts that have weighed Trump's
plan to send National Guard troops to democratic led cities
in recent weeks, which brings me to President Trump. He
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was asked on Air Force one heading back to DC
on Sunday about the National Guard, specifically what it's done,
for example in Washington, d C. And here's what the
President had to say about the success of deploying the
National Guard that San Francisco.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Are there other cities you're actively looking out for the
National Guard right now?
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (20:20):
What about it? I'm just wondering if you care to
comment on that.
Speaker 12 (20:24):
Well, we've used the National Guard to be very successful
in Memphis. You can see the numbers are falling like rocks, Washington, DC,
Chicago's getting better, even though we're going through a lot,
and you know, we're trying to do it in a.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Very nice way.
Speaker 12 (20:39):
I'm allowed, as you know, as president, like fifty percent
of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
They can use that, and everybody agrees.
Speaker 12 (20:47):
You're allowed to use that, and there's no more court cases,
there's no more anything. We're trying to do it in
a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection.
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Act if we want. You take a look in the past.
Speaker 12 (20:59):
I'm one in particular, president used it twenty eight times
during the course of a presidency.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
So we're allowed to do that. We thought we could
do it in a very nice way. All we want
to do is have safe cities.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
We're not looking for anything that would be spectacular other
than crime free become spectacular. We want to have great
crime free cities, so I'd be allowed to use if
I wanted the Insurrection Actor, then all of this nonsense
would go away.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
You have the absolute right.
Speaker 12 (21:26):
It's the strongest power president has, and you have the
absolute right to do it.
Speaker 10 (21:30):
We wanted to go this route, but we get sued.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
Every time you look at somebody, you look at somebody
the wrong way, and you end up getting sued. We
just want no crime. We want to have crime free cities.
That's not a big I mean, it's pretty common sense,
I think. But that's all I want is crime free cities.
I campaigned on it. It's become I think, even more
successful that we thought because of the tremendous success that.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
We had literally in twelve days in Washington, d C.
Speaker 12 (21:58):
And it continues. If Washington Dcent was so proud of it.
People are eating in their restaurants, restaurants are opening. All
the stores and restaurants were closing. You couldn't walk down
the street without being mugged or worse. And now it's
a safe city.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
I mean, it's considered a very safe city because we took.
Speaker 12 (22:14):
Seventeen hundred people out of there and brought them back
to where they came from.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yet you see you're President Trump saying I'm going to
keep doing this to make cities safe again. He said,
we took seventeen one hundred people out of there referring
to DC and brought them back to where they came from.
That is exactly why he says the city is so
much safer. The President clearly going forward with this and
not backing down, and a federal court is now ruled
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in the present's favorite that he can deploy the National
Guard to Portland and hopefully save that city as well.
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Speaker 1 (24:33):
We've got a very big.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Story coming out of the White House and is a
promise that President Donald Trump made to every American if
he was elected president. It was that he was going
to do whatever he could to get rid of illegal
immigrants in this country, and he was also going to
get rid of the illegal immigrants first that had committed
the most heinous crimes. He also promised he was going
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to make dangerous cities safe again.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
All this he is paying off on.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But now we have some of the biggest data we've
seen so far backing this up. The Department of Homeland
Security has arrested more than four hundred and eighty thousand
illegal immigrants in the first nine months of the Trump administration.
I'm going to give you that number again, four hundred
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and eighty thousand illegal immigrants in a nine month span.
This while many illegal immigrants have been hanging out in
sanctuary cities being protected by the radical left. Now here's
something else that you need to know. Seventy percent of
the four hundred and eighty thousand legal immigrants had been
arrested had been convicted of crimes or had criminal charges
(25:48):
against them pending. Christy NOM made the announcement during a
stop in Branden, Florida. As They also put out a
press release giving you some of the backgrounds, saying, quote,
President Trump unleashed ICE to target the worst of the
worst criminal illegal aliens. Some of the criminals arrested included
(26:09):
illegal aliens convicted of incests with a minor, homicide, sexual assault,
sexual assault of a minor, and domestic violence. Seventy percent
of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens convicted or charged
with a crime in the US. This statistic doesn't even
(26:30):
include they say, foreign fugitives, illegal aliens convicted of crimes
in other countries, gang members, and also suspected terrorists. NOOM
highlighted nine of the worst of the worst illegal immigrants
who have been arrested in South and Central Florida alone.
(26:51):
They included several different individuals. Nome set the press conference,
we are not going to let these individuals terrorize our
streets to anymore, and we're not going to let them
make victims out of families that live in this country.
I want you to hear directly from Christome at the
press conference, and here's part of what she had to say.
Speaker 9 (27:12):
I'll give you some examples of individuals that were brought
to justice here in Sarasota and in this area. The
first one I'll talk about is a convicted murderer whose
name is Eric Carlos Artilis Ramos.
Speaker 11 (27:23):
An illegal alien who was from Cuba.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
He had a prior removal order in two thousand and eight,
and now because of the work of this office, he
is off the streets. He was also previously convicted of
kidnapping and carjacking. We also have another individual, Oscar Alfredo
Retina Marquin, an illegal alien from El Salvador. He was
convicted of sexual assault against a child and in nineteen
(27:47):
ninety five, and he was also arrested for dui. He
has been deported twice before, in nineteen ninety nine and
in twenty nineteen. Re Entry after deportation, I'll remind all
of you is a film. The next individual is Arturo
Sanchez Morales.
Speaker 11 (28:03):
He's an illegal alien from Mexico.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
He was arrested for driving drunk and he's already been
deported once before he re entered, which is a felony,
and was issued a final order of removal.
Speaker 11 (28:14):
In twenty sixteen.
Speaker 9 (28:15):
He had previously been arrested for burglary as well for
possession of cocaine and larceny, and has convictions for multiple
DUIs and lude acts against a minor. And again I'll
talk about Leylis Rinaldo Benaro Zahn, who is an individual
from Honduras who's been in this country illegally and he
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has a conviction for domestic battery. He'd been deported twice before,
in twenty eleven and in twenty seventeen. These individuals are
just a handful of people that have been in this
country creating victims out of American citizens that now those
families do no longer have to worry about. Not only
have they been brought into and incarcerated, but they're going
(28:58):
to be brought to justice and paid for the crimes
that they've committed. Every single day, our law enforcement officers
put their lives at risk to protect the American people.
Every single day, they get up and they go do
their jobs to make sure that American families can live
the lives that they've dreamed of since.
Speaker 11 (29:14):
They were young.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
The LEFS anti cop rhetoric has led to one thousand
percent increase in violence against our law enforcement officers. We
have to stop the rhetoric that is allowing individuals the
cover that they want to perpetuate violence against those who
enforce our laws. Last month, we had an individual open
fire at an ICE facility and we also saw that
(29:38):
we saw victims from that attack that happened not just
against ICE agents, but also about detainees.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
That were there at that facility.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
That individual, when he fired upon the building, created some victims.
We lost two lives there. Three individuals were hurt and
two died later on. After that event, the suspect had
anti ICE written on the ammunition and on his bullet casings,
proving that he had targeted against individuals that we're working
(30:08):
to keep our streets safe. Criminals are now even placing
bounties on our law enforcement officers.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
This last month, the Department of Homeland.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Security arrested a criminal illegal alien and a Latin King's
gang member who placed a bounty on our US Border
Patrol Chief Greg Bevino. Still they keep pressing on, and
we've seen as well, individuals on TikTok and other apps
making threats against our law enforcement officers, putting bounties out
(30:36):
on their head, and we will bring all of those
individuals to justice. We will continue to bring murderers and rapists,
those who perpetuate violence, pedophiles, gang members in our communities.
We will go after them, bring them to justice, and
we will save lives.
Speaker 11 (30:51):
The American people.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
See this, and they see that President Trump is focused
on making sure that our streets are safe and that
our families have opportunities to raise their children safe communities.
In fact, recent polls have shown that fifty four percent
of Americans want illegals to be brought into justice, and
they want to deport those who are in this country illegally,
(31:12):
But seventy eight percent of Americans want these criminal illegal
aliens brought to justice. That's because the American people understand
the benefits of having law and order.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Again, this isn't just a win for Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
This is a win for every man and woman in
this country, especially men and women that have been victims
of countless crimes by illegal immigrants, which also brings us
back to what the President's doing now. The Ninth Circuit
saying that President Trump can send the National Guard to
Portland is another massive win for law and order. And
(31:48):
if you think that the Left is going to sit
down and just say, Okay, fine, the President's going to
be able to be the president and he has the
authority to do this and he was elected to do it,
you're wrong. MSNBC having a total meltdown as Lisa Rubin
had to read the Ninth Circuit decision authorizing Trump to
deploy the National Guard in Portland. Take a listen to
(32:10):
how they spun it on MSNBC.
Speaker 13 (32:12):
Yeah, And I want to just correct one thing and
then explain why functional kay, it is the same. This
is a stay of Judge Immigrant's opinion, and that's why
it reached the Ninth Circuit as soon as it did,
because this is an emergency motion to essentially pause her order.
But as a functional matter, you are absolutely correct, it
has the function of overturning her order and thereby allowing
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the President to send the National Guard back onto the
streets of Portland. And Katy, I want to read if
I can, just from a little bit of the beginning
of this ninety three page opinion, it says, after considering
the record, and by the record they mean all the
factual evidence at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it
is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority
(32:55):
under ten USC. Section twelve four oh six. That's the
statute we've been referring to has Title ten when we
have conversations about the National Guard deployments, which authorizes the
federalization of the National Guard when the President is unable
with the regular forces to execute the laws of the
United States. And this is the important part. The evidence
the President relied on reflects quote, a colorable assessment of
(33:17):
the facts in law within a range of honest judgment.
We thus conclude that defendants are likely to succeed on
the merits of their appeal, basically saying that when and
if a court considers all of the record in this
matter is tried and it gets back to an appellate court,
through an ordinary process where they have full briefing and
full evidence that they still think Donald Trump is likely
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to prevail there because he has the discretion to determine
as the president within a range of honest judgment. So
when it is reasonable to what you and I were
talking about last.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Week, it is very clear the left realizes now they're
running out of ways to stop President Trump from doing
his job, a job that he was a elected by
the American people to do, and they're going to do
everything they can to continue to try to stop him.
But as we witness what is happening now in Portland
and the total number of arrest nationwide in the last
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nine months, and law and order that is also being
restored to incredibly violent cities like Portland, Washington, d C. Memphis, Tennessee,
and many more to come, including Chicago. What you're witnessing
as a president that is doing exactly what he promised
he was going to do, keep all Americans safe, no
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matter where you live,
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