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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Donald Trump promised that he was going to put America first,
and he promised that he was going to do it,
especially when it came to trade deals where America was
being taken advantage of by countries literally all over the world,
and he was going to do it by imposing more
tariffs to make it fair trade. He was tired of
American jobs disappearing, American manufacturing disappearing, and again America just
(00:25):
being taken advantage of by countries that had no problem
importing their goods in the US, but weren't even taking
our goods, and even in places like the UK, a
strong ally of ours. Well, now we're hearing that Donald
Trump could impose more tariffs on China over Russian oil.
But here's the point that I want to make before
(00:47):
we get to that the media was wrong. They claimed
it was all doom and gloom, that the tariffs weren't
going to work, that it was going to be bare
shelves for the Americans as you went to your favorite
store to get basic necessity, and then it was going
to put us into a recession. None of that happened.
Larry Kudlow at Fox News Channel saying this.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, and you know, I remember when everyone said the
market would crash, inflation would skyrocket because of these terrorists.
But that's not what's happening. And now you've got billions
of dollars coming in. Larry, I want to go, I
want to pivot in here, because yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
An important point though, just to you know, we're thirty
seconds here. All the gloom and doom, tariff inflation, tariff recession,
tariff catastrophe, none of that has happened. Okay. And in fact,
as you noted earlier, the tariff revenues are pouring in. Okay,
he could do as much as four hundred billion this
(01:47):
year alone in tariff revenues. Imports from China, or let's say,
Chinese exports to the United States, all right, their lowest
point in over twenty years. Our trade deficit through June
is at its lowest point in the last two years. Okay.
(02:07):
These are all positives. And basically what he's saying is
he wants to level playing field and he wants to
protect the American economy. People have been taking advantage of
the United States and that's coming to an end now.
Instead of warfare, you know, set of retaliation or the
so called world tariff war. No, it's deal making, deal
(02:29):
making everywhere the deal maker in chiefe place, Yes, exactly.
And you know a place like Japan which is difficult,
or South Korea which is difficult, or the European Union
which is difficult. So I would say he's gotten off
to a great start on this policy.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Not only has he gotten off to a great start,
but other countries are starting to come to the table
quickly to make sure they get their deal done as
fast as they can.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The President has also talked about what he's going to
do with pharmaceuticals, making it clear that he is going
to be putting tariffs on pharmaceuticals. Why because he wants
the maid in our country and not us depending on
other nations like China from a national security standpoint.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Listen to President on CNBC on.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
That chips We'll be putting a initially small tariff on pharmaceuticals,
but in one year one and a half year's maximum,
it's going to go to one hundred and fifty percent,
and then it's going to go to two hundred and
fifty percent because we want pharmaceuticals made in our country
and that's not the chipsack like Biden did because he
(03:37):
didn't know what he was doing, where they gave billions
of dollars to companies that had more money than they
knew what to do with.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Which brings me to the new point that Donald Trump
is making the new frontier on tariffs. We're now being
told from the White House the President Trump is now
saying he will announce further tariffs on China, similar to
the twenty five percent duties announced earlier on India over
its purchases of Russian oil, depending on what happens. He said,
(04:07):
it could happen, Trump told reporters after saying he expected
to announce more secondary sanctions aimed at pressuring Russia to
end its war in Ukraine, he said, quote, it may happen.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I can't tell you yet.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
We did it with India, We're doing it probably with
a couple of others. One of them could be China.
Trump on Wednesday imposed an additional twenty five percent tariff
on Indian goods on top of a twenty five percent
tariff announced previously, citing its continued purchases of Russian oil.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Now, the White House order did.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Not mention China, which is another big purchaser of Russian oil.
Last week, the Treasury Secretary Scott Dessent warned China that
it could also face new tariffs if it continued buying
the Russian oil. So China is also responding to this
as well, and there is escalation between the two countries
(05:06):
as China pushes back at the US with their own
comments against the president.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Here's what they said.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
China quote will always ensure its energy supply in ways
that serves our national interests, is what the Chinese Foreign
Ministry posted on acts following two days of trade negotiations
in Stockholm. Responding to the US threat of one hundred
percent tariff coercion and pressuring will not achieve anything, China
(05:35):
will firmly defended sovereignty, security and development interest, the ministry went.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
On to say.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now the response is notable at a time when both
Beijing and Washington are signaling optimism and goodwill between the
two countries when it comes to well getting a deal
done after climbing down from sky high tariffs and harsh
trade restrictions. It also underscores china confidence in playing hardball,
(06:02):
the country says when dealing with President Trump and his administration,
especially when trade is linked to its energy and foreign policies,
the President saying I'm not afraid and making it clear
that if you're buying from Russia, it's going to be
a problem for the United States of America, which brings
us to the bigger picture, and the question is what
(06:24):
can you expect from new tariffs on imported goods? Well,
American businesses and consumers will soon have a better idea
of how President Donald Trump's foreign trade agenda might actually
affect you directly. What US customers can expect from the
new tariffs on imported goods is also something that the
Associated Press is saying is quote turning real American businesses
(06:47):
and the consumers, they say, will have a better idea
of how President Donald Trump's foreign trade agenda will affect them.
When the imposed higher tariffs on products from dozens of
countries hit the shelves. It's it's been nearly one hundred
years since the nation had an overall import tax rate
as high as the one set today, but the individual
(07:08):
impact on businesses, costs, and consumer prices could vary as
much as the tariffs applied to goods of nearly seventy
US trading partners from complicated economies like the European Union
to small African nations as well. Experts from a majority
of them are getting tax at fifteen percent. For a
(07:31):
handful of countries in Asia the rate is nineteen percent.
Products from the rest of the world are subjected to
taxes of twenty to fifty percent. Meanwhile, there's still a
fifty five percent tariff on Chinese made goods is scheduled
to take effect next week if a US China trade
deal has not agreed to on or before then. Now,
(07:53):
businesses in the US and abroad have been dealing in
various ways since February with the tariffs. But what we
found is that many Americans are happy with what they're
seeing in the stores. Why because many companies are actually
absorbing the costs for now. A great example of that
is automakers. They appear to be leading the pack and
(08:14):
have absorbed the costs at this point instead of passing
it on to you the consumer. Now, recent government data
indicated that retail prices for groceries, furniture, and appliances have
started to creep up minimally in June, far less than
what the experts claimed when they said there was going
to be doom and gloom because tariffs, sorry, tax on imports.
(08:38):
Economists had expected US customers to foot the bill. And
guess what that is not what has happened at all.
The projections were all based on analysis of duties implemented
this year through Wednesday, and they said it was going
to be terrible. But the actual price increases a bit
about one point eight percent in the short term. And
(09:00):
the US government has been collecting billions from the countries
that the present decided to put tariffs on. So at
the end of the day, as President Trump unveiled the
sweeping import tax on goods coming into the US from
sixty six countries, the European Union, Taiwan, the Falkland Islands
in April, what did he say? He said, the reciprocal
(09:21):
tariffs were meant to boost domestic manufacturing. That has happened.
It's also meant to restore fairness to global trade. That
has also happened. And here's the point that matters to you.
The present pause the country specific tariffs a week later,
but applied to ten percent tax to most imports. In
early July, he began notifying countries that their exports would
(09:44):
be subject to higher tariffs on August one unless they
reached the trade deals. A week ago, he pushed the
start date to Thursday. So here we are. It is Thursday,
and it's real. In the meantime, Trump has also announced
a third five percent tariff on imports from Canada, but
delayed action on Mexico while negotiations continue. However, a free
(10:07):
trade agreement reached with Mexico and Canada during Trump's first
term shields most of those countries' products from punishing duties.
The president also ordered a fifty percent tariffs on goods
from Brazil this week. He also signed executive order to
take India's tarif freight from twenty five to fifty percent,
all because of, as I mentioned earlier, the purchases of
(10:28):
Russian oil. So the President's not playing, and what we
now know is the present's telling you the truth. If
you're one of these countries around the world, you either
come to the table and get a real deal done
or it is going to hurt your country more than America.
As for the president, he has the backing of the
American people. New pulling data shows, and that's exactly why
(10:51):
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Speaker 5 (13:26):
He has had an incredible impact on my career.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
A sincere and genuine Uh, someone I look up to
and I'm so thankful to have people like this in
the radio community.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
But also in this world is Mark Levin.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I've had the honor of filling in for him for
several years now, and he is a man that writes
books that when he writes them, you need to pause,
you need to buy them, and you need to read them.
There's a reason why they're always a bestseller. And he's
got a new book out called On Power. It explores
the nature of power. It's historical uses, good and bad,
the impact on liberty. Mark, thank you for coming on
(14:02):
and I'm excited about this book. I got an advanced
copy Reddit cover to cover, and I don't think the
timing of this book could have been any better, especially
coming after what we just saw with the Biden regime
and the auto pen and the abuse of power. It
can be used for good and bad, There's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
First of all, thank you for that intro. You are
a terrific person and a great radio talent as well,
and I really appreciate it, brother, And it's always a
thrill to be back in your community, Memphis. Yeah. So
I wrote this book On Power, and I'll tell you why, Ben,
Because in addition to the point two raise, which I
definitely want to get into, I just started the thinking,
(14:44):
started thinking that I'm not sure we're addressing this issue
of tyranny in our liberty properly, because when you really
think about it, the Revolutionary War wasn't photover liberty. This
photover power in order to acquire or preserve liberty. And
I got to thinking, you know, liberty without rights is
(15:05):
non existent. Rights without powers non existent. So power is
the bottom line. And you bring up what they've done
to Trump, but they're trying to do to Trump, the
Obama Hillary scandal and others. It's all about power. In fact,
this whole battle over budgets, that's about power. Open borders
so they can swamp us with new congressional districts for Democrats,
(15:27):
same thing, trying to control the Supreme Court and potentially
pack it. It's the same thing. You see the Democrats,
the Marxists, the Islamis, they get it. They're for power
and they try to do everything they can to acquire it.
We are on defense. We're trying to defend power versus power,
that is divided power, separation of power. We're trying to
(15:47):
defend the origins of our founding, which is really not
about powers, about God the sovereign, We the children of
the sovereign, and on earth where the sovereign, where the
people is in individuals and as a society. And then
we fuse that with the enlightenment which we embrace, to
apply that kind of sovereignty which is is Mondesquez said
(16:10):
in other's power versus power. So we we don't explain this,
we don't think it's through in my humble opinion, and
doing this all these years to just throw out, you know,
shibbles or something at a surface level, it isn't going
to do it anymore. So this is why I argue
that we have got to really understand we are for
(16:32):
positive power, their negative power. What does that mean? Their
abuse and use of language? What's the purpose thought control?
And so for coercion, obedience, manipulation. What do we really
mean by liberty in the sense of power? What do
we really mean by rights? And I feel with all
these things going on the rise of Marxism and Islamism,
(16:53):
including in our own country a far more aggressive Democrat
party that is unmoored completely really from our found and
our requirement as citizens now to teach our children and
grandchildren and other people what it is that we should
stand for because we don't get it in the schools.
That's the point of the book.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You mentioned the schools there, and look, I'm getting older
now I say that, and I'm not joking.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
I'm going to hit gosh, was it forty four in
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I've got three sons, I know, right, I got twins
or six and a nine year old turned nine couple
days ago. And what terrifies me the most now is
the education that they're going to get from someone that
wants them to have the power over them, to make
them hate this country. You look at the report that
came out even last week, Mark, and it talked about
(17:41):
how the Chinese Communist Party has in essence completely infiltrated
our education system at the highest levels, including the ivy leagues,
buying access to the minds of our young people. That
is something that concerns me. I know, you don't have
to do this anymore. You could retire if you wanted to.
I know why you do it. You love this country.
It's why you write these books. But how concerned are
(18:04):
you about the abuse of power coming from other influencers
who are grabbing our kids' minds in the public schools
and also at our universities.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Very and when you read the chapter on language, the
nature of the language that's used, what's allowed to be said,
not allowed to be said, new words, new definition of words,
This whole idea of wokeism and DEI and CRT, it's
all intended to destroy our connection with our founders and
the belief system that brought us to where we are today.
(18:34):
And that's why I write these books so people have
relatively easy access to the information, the tools, the arguments.
Because we have to go around the teachers' unions, we've
got to go around the college faculty, we've got to
go around the media. We've got to inform ourselves and
educate ourselves. And we as parents and grandparents, we have
an obligation. And sometimes you'll succeed and sometimes you'll fail.
(18:56):
To try and pass this on to our kids and
our grand it's because they're not getting it from these institutions. Now.
I'm all for school choice. I think what the President
Trump's doing with these colleges and universities is absolutely fantastic,
and those that's a battle that's fought, say over here,
but the battle that's fought in our private lives needs
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to be a different kind of battle. And I mean,
I hear young people going on about this, mondamie, why
don't we try socialism? What's the problem, what's the you know,
what's the Because they haven't been told anything, they haven't
experienced anything, they haven't lived in a certain circumstances that
tell them what's wrong with it. So we have to
do that. And that's what I'm trying to adjust here,
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not just for young people, but for all people among ourselves,
and in terms of projecting it to other people, we're
going to get down to the crux of the matter.
If somebody says I can't afford food, and we respond
with liberty, it goes in one ear and out the
other ear. If somebody says, look this guy, mandamie, we're
gonna have public rice stores, and I said, well, that's great.
(20:02):
So now he'll have the power to decide whether you
eat or you don't eat. And he'll have the power
to decide what you do eat and what you don't eat.
Is that okay with you? Or whether your shelves are
filled or they're not filled, so there are ways to engage.
And I think when you get down to the core
of it, it is about the distribution of power, a
positive distribution or a negative distribution of power.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You mentioned power, and one of the things that I
think is very scary about where we are in twenty
twenty five is going back to the point you made
a second ago. How easily people are willing to just
give up their own power and say, here, government make
all the decisions for me. Did we get to this
point because we become lazy as society or is it
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because of indoctrination in society or a little bit of both.
And also there's now a new culture. Let's be clear
that is hate America. America is evil, America is bad.
So therefore communism or socialism or Marxism must be tried.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I think these are two points and they're very good.
I think that first point, you know, de Tgfolk kind
of talked about it. When government gets involved in all
things small and large, you're creating a different kind of people,
a different kind of mentality, and you are kind of
reverse engineering human nature. Whereas you know you want free will,
certain things motivate you, and so forth. It wears you down.
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It gets you used to subsidies, it gets you used
to being pounded on about what's wrong with you, what's
wrong with your ancestry, what's wrong with your race, that
sort of thing. I think the second point you raise
is very it's a very nefarious problem, which is the
poisonous leakage into our system of these ideologies that have
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as their purpose not to compete, but to destroy not
even the government, the society and to destroy the culture.
And this is what people need to understand. We are
trying to defend limited government, which is very important. They're
destroying everything that undergo it, a civil society which comes
before government, and they're trying to grab control of it.
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So they're about centralization of power, the imposition of their ideology.
They're about brainwashing, fear mongering, while they promise redistribution, while
they promise more liberty, while they you know, it's like
the People's Republic of China. I think they're about the
people or a republic. They'll take the word democracy democratic socialism.
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Those two words are oxymorony. They don't work together. Socialism
about the government controlling the means of production and the
distribution of resources and material and wealth that has nothing
to do with democracy in any way. We've got to
challenge this, We've got to break it down and say,
excuse me. We're the ones who believe in participatory democracy, republicanism.
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We're the ones who believe in the free, voluntary commercial
activity among people. And then we need to explain what
that creates. What that creates is a massive middle class
like no other society ever on the planet has experienced,
where we live better than any king or queen one
hundred and fifty years ago. We have more access to
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more kinds of food. We switch a we hit a switch,
the lights come on, we turn a foscet on. We
get clean cold water, clean hot water. You have bathrooms
in your home. You have mobility in cars. You go
on a plane forty thousand feet in the air. You
may not like the peanuts you're getting, but think about
what's actually happening. You compare this. This is a result
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of America. This is the result of a society where
power is distributed properly and where the individual, the individual
is the sovereign and the people of the sovereign. Conversely,
seventy percent of the world lives in tyranny and poverty,
and what do they have. Are they flourishing republics or democracies?
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Do they believe in consensual government or participatory Of course not,
And so you have to compare something with something, not
something with their ideology.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
When you wrote this book, and it's a book that
I would encourage you to grab by the way. If
you haven't read other books by Mark Levin, you should
grab them. They're incredible, this new one on power, exploring
the nature of power. It's historical use is its impact
on liberty and really democracy and authoritarianism and disguised as representation,
especially what we're witnessing in New York City with this
(24:28):
mayor Kennet there. When you were writing this book, were
you writing it for a specific person? Were you writing
it for young and oh what was your mindset when
you were writing it?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
First of all, I wanted to write it differently, in
a way where I could take some complicated subjects and
make them very digestible, understandable actually find and enjoyable to read,
and yet challenge people's thinking or somebody might say, oh, yeah,
I thought about that. I never really developed my thoughts
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on it though, that sort of thing and yeah, that's
a different way of putting this, and it's an important
way of putting it. So my view is this book
is written for anybody, particularly people who are trying to
figure out the swirl of Marxism and Islamism in our country,
why it's starting to take hold, how we confront it,
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how we address it. But also, as one fellow told me,
it's going to give it to his kid who's going
into college, so they have something to counter what all
these professors are going to tell them. And you'll also notice,
Bend that the book is more compact than most of
my books. It's two hundred and eight pages long, and
again I wanted to make it accessible to anybody and everybody.
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And so this book on power, it cuts to the chase,
and it explains that in fact, when you go to
the ancients or more modern history or today, it is
a constant struggle over who exercises power, how power is exercised,
whether power is going to be exercise by you or
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over you. And the term that I use now to
describe the democrats and these Marxists and Islamis is authoritarian democrats.
In other words, they'll go through the voting process as
long as they win. But if they don't win, they'll
try and sabotage, you know, a Trump or Republican. They
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will use the unelected bodies, the bureaucracy. Mostly, they created
these lower court federal judges that aren't in the Constitution
to counter or to usurp the electorate. They don't really
care about the electorate except if it gives them power.
They don't really care about the well being of the
average person unless they can persuade them to support them.
And we know this because Marxism has only killed one
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hundred million people. You know that's pretty bad. In Islamism
today hasn't gone through the Reformation or the Enlightenment. It's
stuck in the seventh century. It's primitive, and our nation
was founded on Judeo Christian values. And the bottom line
is is Marxism or what I call American Marxism and
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Islamism are absolutely incompatible with Americanism. And that's what the
other side is peddling. And this is what we need
to confront.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Speaking of power, I want to get your take on
what Democrats have just decided to do in Texas flee
the state. They have run to other states that are
basically advocating for socialism and communism and Marxism. You got
the governor of Illinois saying, come on over, will how's
you will love on you? YadA, YadA, YadA, And they say,
(27:34):
this is what power now looks like to the left,
how dangerous is that?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Well, this jerrymandering is is you're talking about pretty much. Yeah, yeah,
it's very dangerous. But let's point out I have a
whole chapter on language, and they're proving the point in
the chapter and all that people read it themselves. But
take a look at this the twenty twenty census. They
quote unquote mathematical errors which resulted in Democrats having five
(28:01):
more seats than they should have had, and the sentence
admits it made a mistake. So let's start at that baseline.
Then you look at Massachusetts. They don't have a single
Republican member of the House of Representatives. Then you look
at Maryland, they have one Republican out of eight in
the state of Maryland. Then you look at California fifty
two seats, forty three Democrats and nine Republicans. Then you
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look at Illinois fourteen Democrats and three Republicans. And I
could go on and on and on. So this party,
the Democrat Party, it embraces Marxism, it embraces the Islamis
against the Israelis, it embraces propaganda of the worst sort. Again,
I discussed this in the chapter in the book. And
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their purpose is what they corrupt the public debate, so
people don't even know what to debate. They come up
with slogans and repetition, which is a big deal for them,
like any other authoritarians do. So people get in their
minds that it's the Republicans are trying to steal the
midterm elections. They have a media behind them, and so
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so many people who don't focus on this day in
and day out have no idea what's actually going on
except the drum beat that they hear over and over
and over again. So it is very dangerous what these
people are doing, but it has to be countered. We
can't just wring our hands about it. What was me?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
What was me?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
And the way we counter it is again we go
to the core of this book and rather than making
superficial arguments, we say they want to grab power. This
is why they want to grab it, and the book
explains why and how they do it and how to
respond to it.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
All Right, I want to get to another important issue.
It's a big one and it's one that so many
Americans have, especially the media, have really really, really overlooked
it completely. That's part what I like to do here
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is bring you different information that others are refusing to cover.
And this one is one that is really interesting because
the number of arrests of migrant gotaways continuing now in
Texas despite record low apprehensions at the border. The media
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doesn't want you to know how many bad own brais
we have right now in this country. The Texas Department
of Public Safety troopers, the National guardsmen, and the Border
Patrol agents are continuing to arrest migrants to illegally cross
the border between the ports of entry and made their
way into the US interior. The Trump administration has just
released more info. Recent arrests include three Chinese nationals who
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got away from the border after crossing near Mission Texas.
What we now know is that this was an operation
that Texas DPS did. They posted video to social media
is showing the continuing activities of the troopers, the garment
and Border patrol agents who despite these record low apprehensions
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of the border said now their job is to fine
migrants being smuggled into the interior Texas after not being
apprehended at the border. Law enforcement teams, they say are
real problems are having facing real problems because they're going
after and continue to size drugs that are being smuggled
into Texas. You have human smuggling arrests that are are
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are still happening each and every day. You have canine
teams now that are actually being able to do their
draw jobs by tracking and assisting US Border patrol in
the tracking of these drugs. We're seeing drug seizures, they said,
in Brownsville, Texas, stolen vehicles that are being used by
the cartels, and others that are being that are that
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are grabbed in Laredo, Texas, for example. This is just
some of what is happening at the border. We also
know this past week that smugglers were sentenced to ten
years in prison. You've got pursuits to ranch tracks to
all these missions that are happening, and they're wanting people
to understand what's going on here now. One example that
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was reported was on July the thirty first. One of
the videos they put out show border Patrol mounted patroled
teams tracking migrants in Duval County, Texas. The team tracked
the illegal alien to attempt to escape by using thick
brushes cover. That's where the Texas DPSK nine team managed
to apprehend the two legal aliens and turn them over
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to Border patrol agents.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Now, they weren't able.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
To do this type of work before because they were
babysitting illegal immigrants at the border under the Biden administration.
Earlier on Thursday, for example, they reported the arrests of
these three Chinese nationals that were apprehended your Mission Texas
after clearing the border without encountering a border patrol agent.
And this is part of the problem. Now the troopers say,
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we're getting to do our jobs. Now they were to
stop the and smuggling attempts. Last week, also in Dement County, Texas,
they pulled over a Florida driver. The troopers fround two
Mexican nationals illegally president in the US, hiding in the
rear cargo area of the suv. Again, another example of
the bad own braids that we're talking about. On July third,
for example, it was reported the arrest of ten illegal
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aliens in near mission. These included four migrants from Uzbekistan.
Now why does that matter, Well, it's a hotbed for terrorism.
That's one of the big concerns here is that how
many people have come in this country illegally that are
terrorists and wanting to do things and do real harm
inside the United States of America. Now, in June, to
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put this in perspective of where we are now because
of a strong border security from this President Donald Trump,
border patrol agents apprehended three thousand, nine hundred and ninety
five migrants who illegally crossed the border into five Texas baseds.
Let me just explain to you the difference between June
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of this year and June of twenty twenty four, when
Joe Biden was like, everybody, come in, we have an
open border. They caught thirty thousand, seven hundred and sixty
six compared to three nine hundred and ninety five one
year apart.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
What changed? A president that is enforcing the law.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
The Southwest Land border encounters that were reported and published
by the US Customs and Border Protection said, this is
now going back to a point that we can manage
and protect the border. Compared to what it was now
if you do the math on that, this represents a
drop of now more than eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Percent year over year.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
The June apprehension numbers are also down from five four
hundred ninety one migrants apprehended in May. So this is
also sending a message around the world you probably don't
want to try because you're going to get caught. And
it's not an open border that we had under the
radicals in the Biden regime. Border apprehensions in the Texas
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based sectors in June accounted for approximately sixty six percent
of all migrants apprehended along the southern border with Mexico.
Nearly four thousand, six hundred migrants were apprehended in all
nine border patrol sectors along the southwest border in July
that mark she had another historic low for the Trump administration.
(35:33):
So Christyome put it out this way, and she said
in her tweet where she was going through all these
numbers and again, why is the media not telling you
how safe the border has become? Because they don't want
you to know this? Okay, history made again is how
Christy Nome put it. The numbers don't lie. This the
most secure the border has ever been. President Donald Trump
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didn't just manage the crisis, he obliterated it. No more excuses,
Ynomes said, no more releases. We put the cartels on
defense and taken our border back. She then said, in
July the lowest nationwide encounter number ever twenty four thousand,
six hundred and thirty. That is down two point four
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percent from June. But here's the number that you're going
to care about. It's ninety percent lower than the monthly
average under the last administration. The lowest border patrol apprehensions
nationwide also six thousand, one hundred and seventy seven. That shattered,
by the way, June's all time low as well. She
(36:39):
went on to say, this the lowest Southwest border apprehensions
we've ever seen, four thousand, five hundred and ninety eight,
nearly five hundred fewer than the daily average under the
last administration, which averaged five thousand, one hundred and ten
apprehensions per day from February of twenty twenty one to
December of twenty twenty four. We also have the lowest
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daily apprehension average, just one hundred and forty eight per day.
That's lower than the average rate of one hundred and
fifty two apprehensions every two hours under the Biden administration
last July alone. So we're doing one hundred and forty
eight a day in apprehensions. They were doing one hundred
and fifty two every two hours, every hour of the
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day twenty four to seven last July. And then she
finally says, this the lowest single day apprehensions in history
eighty eight at the Southwest border, one hundred and sixteen
nationwide on July the twentieth. Now look at the calendar
right now and where we are. What you're hearing and
what we're seeing from border patrol agents and from the
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Trump administration is that the word is getting out. Do
you really want to go into incredible debt to try
to come to America to immediately get caught and then
be sent home? Do you want to pay these smugglers
to get you in and you're going to get caught?
You look at the lowest single day apprehension in history
eighty eighth the Southwest border.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
And one hundred and sixteen nation one on July twentieth.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Now I say that because you may say, well, okay,
hold on, maybe there was a bad weather day. No,
it wasn't It was actually a great weather day. Why
nay On July twentieth, did you have these numbers drop
that much? Because that's the last day we have reported
and public access to. What Donald Trump is doing is
he's going after and using ICE and they're going after
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the illegal immigrants everywhere they are, including sanctuary cities. Word
is getting back to the smugglers and the human traffickers
and those that were paying them that it may not
be worth you paying them because you're probably not going
to make it. And that is how Trump is making
America safe again.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
Don't forget.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Share this podcast with your family and friends, share it
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Donald Trump promised that he was going to put America first,
and he promised that he was going to do it,
especially when it came to trade deals where America was
being taken advantage of by countries literally all over the world,
and he was going to do it by imposing more
tariffs to make it fair trade. He was tired of
American jobs disappearing, American manufacturing disappearing, and again America just
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being taken advantage of by countries that had no problem
importing their goods in the US, but weren't even taking
our goods, and even in places like the UK, a
strong ally of ours. Well, now we're hearing that Donald
Trump could impose more tariffs on China over Russian oil.
But here's the point that I want to make before
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we get to that the media was wrong. They claimed
it was all doom and gloom, that the tariffs weren't
going to work, that it was going to be bare
shelves for the Americans as you went to your favorite
store to get basic necessity, and then it was going
to put us into a recession. None of that happened.
Larry Kudlow at Fox News Channel saying this.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, and you know, I remember when everyone said the
market would crash, inflation would skyrocket because of these terrorists.
But that's not what's happening. And now you've got billions
of dollars coming in. Larry, I want to go, I
want to pivot in here, because yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
An important point though, just to you know, we're thirty
seconds here. All the gloom and doom, tariff inflation, tariff recession,
tariff catastrophe, none of that has happened. Okay. And in fact,
as you noted earlier, the tariff revenues are pouring in. Okay,
he could do as much as four hundred billion this
(01:47):
year alone in tariff revenues. Imports from China, or let's say,
Chinese exports to the United States, all right, their lowest
point in over twenty years. Our trade deficit through June
is at its lowest point in the last two years. Okay.
(02:07):
These are all positives. And basically what he's saying is
he wants to level playing field and he wants to
protect the American economy. People have been taking advantage of
the United States and that's coming to an end now.
Instead of warfare, you know, set of retaliation or the
so called world tariff war. No, it's deal making, deal
(02:29):
making everywhere the deal maker in chiefe place, Yes, exactly.
And you know a place like Japan which is difficult,
or South Korea which is difficult, or the European Union
which is difficult. So I would say he's gotten off
to a great start on this policy.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Not only has he gotten off to a great start,
but other countries are starting to come to the table
quickly to make sure they get their deal done as
fast as they can.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The President has also talked about what he's going to
do with pharmaceuticals, making it clear that he is going
to be putting tariffs on pharmaceuticals. Why because he wants
the maid in our country and not us depending on
other nations like China from a national security standpoint.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Listen to President on CNBC on.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
That chips We'll be putting a initially small tariff on pharmaceuticals,
but in one year one and a half year's maximum,
it's going to go to one hundred and fifty percent,
and then it's going to go to two hundred and
fifty percent because we want pharmaceuticals made in our country
and that's not the chipsack like Biden did because he
(03:37):
didn't know what he was doing, where they gave billions
of dollars to companies that had more money than they
knew what to do with.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Which brings me to the new point that Donald Trump
is making the new frontier on tariffs. We're now being
told from the White House the President Trump is now
saying he will announce further tariffs on China, similar to
the twenty five percent duties announced earlier on India over
its purchases of Russian oil, depending on what happens. He said,
(04:07):
it could happen, Trump told reporters after saying he expected
to announce more secondary sanctions aimed at pressuring Russia to
end its war in Ukraine, he said, quote, it may happen.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
I can't tell you yet.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
We did it with India, We're doing it probably with
a couple of others. One of them could be China.
Trump on Wednesday imposed an additional twenty five percent tariff
on Indian goods on top of a twenty five percent
tariff announced previously, citing its continued purchases of Russian oil.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Now, the White House order did.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Not mention China, which is another big purchaser of Russian oil.
Last week, the Treasury Secretary Scott Dessent warned China that
it could also face new tariffs if it continued buying
the Russian oil. So China is also responding to this
as well, and there is escalation between the two countries
(05:06):
as China pushes back at the US with their own
comments against the president.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Here's what they said.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
China quote will always ensure its energy supply in ways
that serves our national interests, is what the Chinese Foreign
Ministry posted on acts following two days of trade negotiations
in Stockholm. Responding to the US threat of one hundred
percent tariff coercion and pressuring will not achieve anything, China
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will firmly defended sovereignty, security and development interest, the ministry went.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
On to say.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Now the response is notable at a time when both
Beijing and Washington are signaling optimism and goodwill between the
two countries when it comes to well getting a deal
done after climbing down from sky high tariffs and harsh
trade restrictions. It also underscores china confidence in playing hardball,
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the country says when dealing with President Trump and his administration,
especially when trade is linked to its energy and foreign policies,
the President saying I'm not afraid and making it clear
that if you're buying from Russia, it's going to be
a problem for the United States of America, which brings
us to the bigger picture, and the question is what
(06:24):
can you expect from new tariffs on imported goods? Well,
American businesses and consumers will soon have a better idea
of how President Donald Trump's foreign trade agenda might actually
affect you directly. What US customers can expect from the
new tariffs on imported goods is also something that the
Associated Press is saying is quote turning real American businesses
(06:47):
and the consumers, they say, will have a better idea
of how President Donald Trump's foreign trade agenda will affect them.
When the imposed higher tariffs on products from dozens of
countries hit the shelves. It's it's been nearly one hundred
years since the nation had an overall import tax rate
as high as the one set today, but the individual
(07:08):
impact on businesses, costs, and consumer prices could vary as
much as the tariffs applied to goods of nearly seventy
US trading partners from complicated economies like the European Union
to small African nations as well. Experts from a majority
of them are getting tax at fifteen percent. For a
(07:31):
handful of countries in Asia the rate is nineteen percent.
Products from the rest of the world are subjected to
taxes of twenty to fifty percent. Meanwhile, there's still a
fifty five percent tariff on Chinese made goods is scheduled
to take effect next week if a US China trade
deal has not agreed to on or before then. Now,
(07:53):
businesses in the US and abroad have been dealing in
various ways since February with the tariffs. But what we
found is that many Americans are happy with what they're
seeing in the stores. Why because many companies are actually
absorbing the costs for now. A great example of that
is automakers. They appear to be leading the pack and
(08:14):
have absorbed the costs at this point instead of passing
it on to you the consumer. Now, recent government data
indicated that retail prices for groceries, furniture, and appliances have
started to creep up minimally in June, far less than
what the experts claimed when they said there was going
to be doom and gloom because tariffs, sorry, tax on imports.
(08:38):
Economists had expected US customers to foot the bill. And
guess what that is not what has happened at all.
The projections were all based on analysis of duties implemented
this year through Wednesday, and they said it was going
to be terrible. But the actual price increases a bit
about one point eight percent in the short term. And
(09:00):
the US government has been collecting billions from the countries
that the present decided to put tariffs on. So at
the end of the day, as President Trump unveiled the
sweeping import tax on goods coming into the US from
sixty six countries, the European Union, Taiwan, the Falkland Islands
in April, what did he say? He said, the reciprocal
(09:21):
tariffs were meant to boost domestic manufacturing. That has happened.
It's also meant to restore fairness to global trade. That
has also happened. And here's the point that matters to you.
The present pause the country specific tariffs a week later,
but applied to ten percent tax to most imports. In
early July, he began notifying countries that their exports would
(09:44):
be subject to higher tariffs on August one unless they
reached the trade deals. A week ago, he pushed the
start date to Thursday. So here we are. It is Thursday,
and it's real. In the meantime, Trump has also announced
a third five percent tariff on imports from Canada, but
delayed action on Mexico while negotiations continue. However, a free
(10:07):
trade agreement reached with Mexico and Canada during Trump's first
term shields most of those countries' products from punishing duties.
The president also ordered a fifty percent tariffs on goods
from Brazil this week. He also signed executive order to
take India's tarif freight from twenty five to fifty percent,
all because of, as I mentioned earlier, the purchases of
(10:28):
Russian oil. So the President's not playing, and what we
now know is the present's telling you the truth. If
you're one of these countries around the world, you either
come to the table and get a real deal done
or it is going to hurt your country more than America.
As for the president, he has the backing of the
American people. New pulling data shows, and that's exactly why
(10:51):
the President's continuing to keep the course. Because the tariffs
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describe me as someone he mentors, but I'm just gonna
throw it out there anyway.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
He has had an incredible impact on my career.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
A sincere and genuine Uh, someone I look up to
and I'm so thankful to have people like this in
the radio community.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
But also in this world is Mark Levin.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I've had the honor of filling in for him for
several years now, and he is a man that writes
books that when he writes them, you need to pause,
you need to buy them, and you need to read them.
There's a reason why they're always a bestseller. And he's
got a new book out called On Power. It explores
the nature of power. It's historical uses, good and bad,
the impact on liberty. Mark, thank you for coming on
(14:02):
and I'm excited about this book. I got an advanced
copy Reddit cover to cover, and I don't think the
timing of this book could have been any better, especially
coming after what we just saw with the Biden regime
and the auto pen and the abuse of power. It
can be used for good and bad, There's no doubt
about it.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
First of all, thank you for that intro. You are
a terrific person and a great radio talent as well,
and I really appreciate it, brother, And it's always a
thrill to be back in your community, Memphis. Yeah. So
I wrote this book On Power, and I'll tell you why, Ben,
Because in addition to the point two raise, which I
definitely want to get into, I just started the thinking,
(14:44):
started thinking that I'm not sure we're addressing this issue
of tyranny in our liberty properly, because when you really
think about it, the Revolutionary War wasn't photover liberty. This
photover power in order to acquire or preserve liberty. And
I got to thinking, you know, liberty without rights is
(15:05):
non existent. Rights without powers non existent. So power is
the bottom line. And you bring up what they've done
to Trump, but they're trying to do to Trump, the
Obama Hillary scandal and others. It's all about power. In fact,
this whole battle over budgets, that's about power. Open borders
so they can swamp us with new congressional districts for Democrats,
(15:27):
same thing, trying to control the Supreme Court and potentially
pack it. It's the same thing. You see the Democrats,
the Marxists, the Islamis, they get it. They're for power
and they try to do everything they can to acquire it.
We are on defense. We're trying to defend power versus power,
that is divided power, separation of power. We're trying to
(15:47):
defend the origins of our founding, which is really not
about powers, about God the sovereign, We the children of
the sovereign, and on earth where the sovereign, where the
people is in individuals and as a society. And then
we fuse that with the enlightenment which we embrace, to
apply that kind of sovereignty which is is Mondesquez said
(16:10):
in other's power versus power. So we we don't explain this,
we don't think it's through in my humble opinion, and
doing this all these years to just throw out, you know,
shibbles or something at a surface level, it isn't going
to do it anymore. So this is why I argue
that we have got to really understand we are for
(16:32):
positive power, their negative power. What does that mean? Their
abuse and use of language? What's the purpose thought control?
And so for coercion, obedience, manipulation. What do we really
mean by liberty in the sense of power? What do
we really mean by rights? And I feel with all
these things going on the rise of Marxism and Islamism,
(16:53):
including in our own country a far more aggressive Democrat
party that is unmoored completely really from our found and
our requirement as citizens now to teach our children and
grandchildren and other people what it is that we should
stand for because we don't get it in the schools.
That's the point of the book.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
You mentioned the schools there, and look, I'm getting older
now I say that, and I'm not joking.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
I'm going to hit gosh, was it forty four in
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I've got three sons, I know, right, I got twins
or six and a nine year old turned nine couple
days ago. And what terrifies me the most now is
the education that they're going to get from someone that
wants them to have the power over them, to make
them hate this country. You look at the report that
came out even last week, Mark, and it talked about
(17:41):
how the Chinese Communist Party has in essence completely infiltrated
our education system at the highest levels, including the ivy leagues,
buying access to the minds of our young people. That
is something that concerns me. I know, you don't have
to do this anymore. You could retire if you wanted to.
I know why you do it. You love this country.
It's why you write these books. But how concerned are
(18:04):
you about the abuse of power coming from other influencers
who are grabbing our kids' minds in the public schools
and also at our universities.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Very and when you read the chapter on language, the
nature of the language that's used, what's allowed to be said,
not allowed to be said, new words, new definition of words,
This whole idea of wokeism and DEI and CRT, it's
all intended to destroy our connection with our founders and
the belief system that brought us to where we are today.
(18:34):
And that's why I write these books so people have
relatively easy access to the information, the tools, the arguments.
Because we have to go around the teachers' unions, we've
got to go around the college faculty, we've got to
go around the media. We've got to inform ourselves and
educate ourselves. And we as parents and grandparents, we have
an obligation. And sometimes you'll succeed and sometimes you'll fail.
(18:56):
To try and pass this on to our kids and
our grand it's because they're not getting it from these institutions. Now.
I'm all for school choice. I think what the President
Trump's doing with these colleges and universities is absolutely fantastic,
and those that's a battle that's fought, say over here,
but the battle that's fought in our private lives needs
(19:19):
to be a different kind of battle. And I mean,
I hear young people going on about this, mondamie, why
don't we try socialism? What's the problem, what's the you know,
what's the Because they haven't been told anything, they haven't
experienced anything, they haven't lived in a certain circumstances that
tell them what's wrong with it. So we have to
do that. And that's what I'm trying to adjust here,
(19:41):
not just for young people, but for all people among ourselves,
and in terms of projecting it to other people, we're
going to get down to the crux of the matter.
If somebody says I can't afford food, and we respond
with liberty, it goes in one ear and out the
other ear. If somebody says, look this guy, mandamie, we're
gonna have public rice stores, and I said, well, that's great.
(20:02):
So now he'll have the power to decide whether you
eat or you don't eat. And he'll have the power
to decide what you do eat and what you don't eat.
Is that okay with you? Or whether your shelves are
filled or they're not filled, so there are ways to engage.
And I think when you get down to the core
of it, it is about the distribution of power, a
positive distribution or a negative distribution of power.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
You mentioned power, and one of the things that I
think is very scary about where we are in twenty
twenty five is going back to the point you made
a second ago. How easily people are willing to just
give up their own power and say, here, government make
all the decisions for me. Did we get to this
point because we become lazy as society or is it
(20:46):
because of indoctrination in society or a little bit of both.
And also there's now a new culture. Let's be clear
that is hate America. America is evil, America is bad.
So therefore communism or socialism or Marxism must be tried.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I think these are two points and they're very good.
I think that first point, you know, de Tgfolk kind
of talked about it. When government gets involved in all
things small and large, you're creating a different kind of people,
a different kind of mentality, and you are kind of
reverse engineering human nature. Whereas you know you want free will,
certain things motivate you, and so forth. It wears you down.
(21:23):
It gets you used to subsidies, it gets you used
to being pounded on about what's wrong with you, what's
wrong with your ancestry, what's wrong with your race, that
sort of thing. I think the second point you raise
is very it's a very nefarious problem, which is the
poisonous leakage into our system of these ideologies that have
(21:44):
as their purpose not to compete, but to destroy not
even the government, the society and to destroy the culture.
And this is what people need to understand. We are
trying to defend limited government, which is very important. They're
destroying everything that undergo it, a civil society which comes
before government, and they're trying to grab control of it.
(22:06):
So they're about centralization of power, the imposition of their ideology.
They're about brainwashing, fear mongering, while they promise redistribution, while
they promise more liberty, while they you know, it's like
the People's Republic of China. I think they're about the
people or a republic. They'll take the word democracy democratic socialism.
(22:29):
Those two words are oxymorony. They don't work together. Socialism
about the government controlling the means of production and the
distribution of resources and material and wealth that has nothing
to do with democracy in any way. We've got to
challenge this, We've got to break it down and say,
excuse me. We're the ones who believe in participatory democracy, republicanism.
(22:50):
We're the ones who believe in the free, voluntary commercial
activity among people. And then we need to explain what
that creates. What that creates is a massive middle class
like no other society ever on the planet has experienced,
where we live better than any king or queen one
hundred and fifty years ago. We have more access to
(23:12):
more kinds of food. We switch a we hit a switch,
the lights come on, we turn a foscet on. We
get clean cold water, clean hot water. You have bathrooms
in your home. You have mobility in cars. You go
on a plane forty thousand feet in the air. You
may not like the peanuts you're getting, but think about
what's actually happening. You compare this. This is a result
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of America. This is the result of a society where
power is distributed properly and where the individual, the individual
is the sovereign and the people of the sovereign. Conversely,
seventy percent of the world lives in tyranny and poverty,
and what do they have. Are they flourishing republics or democracies?
(23:54):
Do they believe in consensual government or participatory Of course not,
And so you have to compare something with something, not
something with their ideology.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
When you wrote this book, and it's a book that
I would encourage you to grab by the way. If
you haven't read other books by Mark Levin, you should
grab them. They're incredible, this new one on power, exploring
the nature of power. It's historical use is its impact
on liberty and really democracy and authoritarianism and disguised as representation,
especially what we're witnessing in New York City with this
(24:28):
mayor Kennet there. When you were writing this book, were
you writing it for a specific person? Were you writing
it for young and oh what was your mindset when
you were writing it?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
First of all, I wanted to write it differently, in
a way where I could take some complicated subjects and
make them very digestible, understandable actually find and enjoyable to read,
and yet challenge people's thinking or somebody might say, oh, yeah,
I thought about that. I never really developed my thoughts
(24:59):
on it though, that sort of thing and yeah, that's
a different way of putting this, and it's an important
way of putting it. So my view is this book
is written for anybody, particularly people who are trying to
figure out the swirl of Marxism and Islamism in our country,
why it's starting to take hold, how we confront it,
(25:19):
how we address it. But also, as one fellow told me,
it's going to give it to his kid who's going
into college, so they have something to counter what all
these professors are going to tell them. And you'll also notice,
Bend that the book is more compact than most of
my books. It's two hundred and eight pages long, and
again I wanted to make it accessible to anybody and everybody.
(25:42):
And so this book on power, it cuts to the chase,
and it explains that in fact, when you go to
the ancients or more modern history or today, it is
a constant struggle over who exercises power, how power is exercised,
whether power is going to be exercise by you or
(26:02):
over you. And the term that I use now to
describe the democrats and these Marxists and Islamis is authoritarian democrats.
In other words, they'll go through the voting process as
long as they win. But if they don't win, they'll
try and sabotage, you know, a Trump or Republican. They
(26:23):
will use the unelected bodies, the bureaucracy. Mostly, they created
these lower court federal judges that aren't in the Constitution
to counter or to usurp the electorate. They don't really
care about the electorate except if it gives them power.
They don't really care about the well being of the
average person unless they can persuade them to support them.
And we know this because Marxism has only killed one
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hundred million people. You know that's pretty bad. In Islamism
today hasn't gone through the Reformation or the Enlightenment. It's
stuck in the seventh century. It's primitive, and our nation
was founded on Judeo Christian values. And the bottom line
is is Marxism or what I call American Marxism and
(27:06):
Islamism are absolutely incompatible with Americanism. And that's what the
other side is peddling. And this is what we need
to confront.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Speaking of power, I want to get your take on
what Democrats have just decided to do in Texas flee
the state. They have run to other states that are
basically advocating for socialism and communism and Marxism. You got
the governor of Illinois saying, come on over, will how's
you will love on you? YadA, YadA, YadA, And they say,
(27:34):
this is what power now looks like to the left,
how dangerous is that?
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Well, this jerrymandering is is you're talking about pretty much. Yeah, yeah,
it's very dangerous. But let's point out I have a
whole chapter on language, and they're proving the point in
the chapter and all that people read it themselves. But
take a look at this the twenty twenty census. They
quote unquote mathematical errors which resulted in Democrats having five
(28:01):
more seats than they should have had, and the sentence
admits it made a mistake. So let's start at that baseline.
Then you look at Massachusetts. They don't have a single
Republican member of the House of Representatives. Then you look
at Maryland, they have one Republican out of eight in
the state of Maryland. Then you look at California fifty
two seats, forty three Democrats and nine Republicans. Then you
(28:25):
look at Illinois fourteen Democrats and three Republicans. And I
could go on and on and on. So this party,
the Democrat Party, it embraces Marxism, it embraces the Islamis
against the Israelis, it embraces propaganda of the worst sort. Again,
I discussed this in the chapter in the book. And
(28:45):
their purpose is what they corrupt the public debate, so
people don't even know what to debate. They come up
with slogans and repetition, which is a big deal for them,
like any other authoritarians do. So people get in their
minds that it's the Republicans are trying to steal the
midterm elections. They have a media behind them, and so
(29:07):
so many people who don't focus on this day in
and day out have no idea what's actually going on
except the drum beat that they hear over and over
and over again. So it is very dangerous what these
people are doing, but it has to be countered. We
can't just wring our hands about it. What was me?
Speaker 5 (29:24):
What was me?
Speaker 4 (29:25):
And the way we counter it is again we go
to the core of this book and rather than making
superficial arguments, we say they want to grab power. This
is why they want to grab it, and the book
explains why and how they do it and how to
respond to it.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
All Right, I want to get to another important issue.
It's a big one and it's one that so many
Americans have, especially the media, have really really, really overlooked
it completely. That's part what I like to do here
(30:01):
is bring you different information that others are refusing to cover.
And this one is one that is really interesting because
the number of arrests of migrant gotaways continuing now in
Texas despite record low apprehensions at the border. The media
(30:21):
doesn't want you to know how many bad own brais
we have right now in this country. The Texas Department
of Public Safety troopers, the National guardsmen, and the Border
Patrol agents are continuing to arrest migrants to illegally cross
the border between the ports of entry and made their
way into the US interior. The Trump administration has just
released more info. Recent arrests include three Chinese nationals who
(30:47):
got away from the border after crossing near Mission Texas.
What we now know is that this was an operation
that Texas DPS did. They posted video to social media
is showing the continuing activities of the troopers, the garment
and Border patrol agents who despite these record low apprehensions
(31:07):
of the border said now their job is to fine
migrants being smuggled into the interior Texas after not being
apprehended at the border. Law enforcement teams, they say are
real problems are having facing real problems because they're going
after and continue to size drugs that are being smuggled
into Texas. You have human smuggling arrests that are are
(31:30):
are still happening each and every day. You have canine
teams now that are actually being able to do their
draw jobs by tracking and assisting US Border patrol in
the tracking of these drugs. We're seeing drug seizures, they said,
in Brownsville, Texas, stolen vehicles that are being used by
the cartels, and others that are being that are that
(31:50):
are grabbed in Laredo, Texas, for example. This is just
some of what is happening at the border. We also
know this past week that smugglers were sentenced to ten
years in prison. You've got pursuits to ranch tracks to
all these missions that are happening, and they're wanting people
to understand what's going on here now. One example that
(32:13):
was reported was on July the thirty first. One of
the videos they put out show border Patrol mounted patroled
teams tracking migrants in Duval County, Texas. The team tracked
the illegal alien to attempt to escape by using thick
brushes cover. That's where the Texas DPSK nine team managed
to apprehend the two legal aliens and turn them over
(32:33):
to Border patrol agents.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
Now, they weren't able.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
To do this type of work before because they were
babysitting illegal immigrants at the border under the Biden administration.
Earlier on Thursday, for example, they reported the arrests of
these three Chinese nationals that were apprehended your Mission Texas
after clearing the border without encountering a border patrol agent.
And this is part of the problem. Now the troopers say,
(32:57):
we're getting to do our jobs. Now they were to
stop the and smuggling attempts. Last week, also in Dement County, Texas,
they pulled over a Florida driver. The troopers fround two
Mexican nationals illegally president in the US, hiding in the
rear cargo area of the suv. Again, another example of
the bad own braids that we're talking about. On July third,
for example, it was reported the arrest of ten illegal
(33:20):
aliens in near mission. These included four migrants from Uzbekistan.
Now why does that matter, Well, it's a hotbed for terrorism.
That's one of the big concerns here is that how
many people have come in this country illegally that are
terrorists and wanting to do things and do real harm
inside the United States of America. Now, in June, to
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put this in perspective of where we are now because
of a strong border security from this President Donald Trump,
border patrol agents apprehended three thousand, nine hundred and ninety
five migrants who illegally crossed the border into five Texas baseds.
Let me just explain to you the difference between June
(34:04):
of this year and June of twenty twenty four, when
Joe Biden was like, everybody, come in, we have an
open border. They caught thirty thousand, seven hundred and sixty
six compared to three nine hundred and ninety five one
year apart.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
What changed? A president that is enforcing the law.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
The Southwest Land border encounters that were reported and published
by the US Customs and Border Protection said, this is
now going back to a point that we can manage
and protect the border. Compared to what it was now
if you do the math on that, this represents a
drop of now more than eighty seven.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Percent year over year.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
The June apprehension numbers are also down from five four
hundred ninety one migrants apprehended in May. So this is
also sending a message around the world you probably don't
want to try because you're going to get caught. And
it's not an open border that we had under the
radicals in the Biden regime. Border apprehensions in the Texas
(35:08):
based sectors in June accounted for approximately sixty six percent
of all migrants apprehended along the southern border with Mexico.
Nearly four thousand, six hundred migrants were apprehended in all
nine border patrol sectors along the southwest border in July
that mark she had another historic low for the Trump administration.
(35:33):
So Christyome put it out this way, and she said
in her tweet where she was going through all these
numbers and again, why is the media not telling you
how safe the border has become? Because they don't want
you to know this? Okay, history made again is how
Christy Nome put it. The numbers don't lie. This the
most secure the border has ever been. President Donald Trump
(35:55):
didn't just manage the crisis, he obliterated it. No more excuses,
Ynomes said, no more releases. We put the cartels on
defense and taken our border back. She then said, in
July the lowest nationwide encounter number ever twenty four thousand,
six hundred and thirty. That is down two point four
(36:17):
percent from June. But here's the number that you're going
to care about. It's ninety percent lower than the monthly
average under the last administration. The lowest border patrol apprehensions
nationwide also six thousand, one hundred and seventy seven. That shattered,
by the way, June's all time low as well. She
(36:39):
went on to say, this the lowest Southwest border apprehensions
we've ever seen, four thousand, five hundred and ninety eight,
nearly five hundred fewer than the daily average under the
last administration, which averaged five thousand, one hundred and ten
apprehensions per day from February of twenty twenty one to
December of twenty twenty four. We also have the lowest
(37:02):
daily apprehension average, just one hundred and forty eight per day.
That's lower than the average rate of one hundred and
fifty two apprehensions every two hours under the Biden administration
last July alone. So we're doing one hundred and forty
eight a day in apprehensions. They were doing one hundred
and fifty two every two hours, every hour of the
(37:25):
day twenty four to seven last July. And then she
finally says, this the lowest single day apprehensions in history
eighty eight at the Southwest border, one hundred and sixteen
nationwide on July the twentieth. Now look at the calendar
right now and where we are. What you're hearing and
what we're seeing from border patrol agents and from the
(37:47):
Trump administration is that the word is getting out. Do
you really want to go into incredible debt to try
to come to America to immediately get caught and then
be sent home? Do you want to pay these smugglers
to get you in and you're going to get caught?
You look at the lowest single day apprehension in history
eighty eighth the Southwest border.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
And one hundred and sixteen nation one on July twentieth.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Now I say that because you may say, well, okay,
hold on, maybe there was a bad weather day. No,
it wasn't It was actually a great weather day. Why
nay On July twentieth, did you have these numbers drop
that much? Because that's the last day we have reported
and public access to. What Donald Trump is doing is
he's going after and using ICE and they're going after
(38:28):
the illegal immigrants everywhere they are, including sanctuary cities. Word
is getting back to the smugglers and the human traffickers
and those that were paying them that it may not
be worth you paying them because you're probably not going
to make it. And that is how Trump is making
America safe again.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
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Speaker 1 (38:50):
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