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📰 Main Topics Covered
1. ICE Raids and Protests
- Protests erupted in cities like Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., in response to federal ICE raids and troop deployments.
- A curfew was lifted in downtown LA, where protests were concentrated.
2. Senator Alex Padilla Incident
- Padilla was forcibly removed and handcuffed during a press conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
- The speaker criticizes Padilla for interrupting but also condemns the excessive force used against him.
3. Critique of Democratic Leadership
- Gavin Newsom and Alex Padilla are accused of playing into Trump’s hands by appearing weak on law enforcement and immigration.
- The speaker argues that Democrats are failing to present a “winning hand” and are instead engaging in performative politics.
4. Critique of Republican Leadership
- Donald Trump is criticized for labeling protesters as “insurrectionists” while pardoning actual January 6th rioters.
- The speaker calls out the hypocrisy and divisiveness of Trump’s rhetoric.
5. Call for Unity and Competent Leadership
- Advocates for leaders like Wes Moore, Josh Shapiro, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley—figures seen as more policy-focused and less chaotic.
- Emphasizes the need for compromise, unity, and sincere leadership over political theater.
🎯 Tone and Style
- Passionate, confrontational, and reflective.
- Uses rhetorical questions and direct address to engage the audience.
- Balances criticism with calls for constructive change.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Let's talk about the latest on the federal ice raids
and the subsequent protests happening around the country. The flashpoint
happened in Los Angeles, California, when overnight curfew was lifted
at nine a m.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Eastern.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
The curfew covered about one square mile in downtown LA
with a protest against ice raids and troop deployments in
the city had been concentrated. Similar protests took place in
other cities, including in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Texas,
Las Vegas, and of course, the nation's capital, Washington, DC. Meanwhile,
three Democratic governors defended the state's immigration enforcement policies before
(00:39):
the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Illinois Governor JB.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Pritzkert, Minnesota governor and former Democratic Vice presidential nominee Tim Wallas,
and New York Governor Cathy Hockel testified at what the
committee describes as quote a hearing with sanctuary state governors.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
End quote and check this out.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
This was the sea in Los Angeles just this afternoon,
as Homeland Security Secretary Christy nom was speaking.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
About the raids and protests.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's Democratic Senator Alex Badia of California, who was confronted
by security and forcibly removed from that press conference. Badia
spoke out during nomes initial remarks to reporters and attempted
to shout questions at the secretary. The senator was shoved
out of the room, taken to the ground, and handcuffed.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
End quote. You see, ladies and gentlemen, you see that
right there.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
That's why they've been talking about Steven Aate Smith being
a candidate for president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's why you should be looking at Governor Wes Moore
of Maryland.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You should be looking at Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania.
You know, the people that don't engage in this kind
of nonsense.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You talking about propping yourself up.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's all nonsense. It's all used as a tool to
divide us. On one hand, we have the President of
the United States focusing our attention on illegal immigration and
really highlighting it to the umph degree to make himself
look good. Because you can't point to the terrorists right now.
You can't necessarily point to the economy right now. You
(02:24):
can't you can't look at the war in Ukraine with Russia.
You can't point to that right now. You can't point
to doge in what they're doing because Elon Musk and
you have had your little tiff over the last week,
week and a half, So you can't point to that
right now. So what's a winning hand to play? It's this,
it's immigration, it's migrants, it's those who are undocumented or
(02:49):
here illegally. That's a winning hand and that's what he's doing.
So you got that side. And on another side here
you have this, Senator Alex Badia, can Christy Nole speak?
Could you have waited till she finished to ask your questions?
To shout your questions? You are a senator, right, you
(03:12):
couldn't wait? So that was just you out of control
because you were just losing it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Hup. You are United States senator.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Couldn't compose yourself and let the head of Homeland Security
finish her thoughts before you ask the question?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Couldn't do that? Harm? Couldn't do it? Hah.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I know you got an explanation for it. I know
you got an explanation for it. And in fairness to you,
because that's what we do here.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Or to Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Smithsrow, I'm gonna be fit to you by making sure
the people hear what you have to say. Go ahead,
Senator alexbdir, go ahead, let's hear you.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
If this is how this administration responds to a senator
with a question, If this is how the Department of
Home mad Security responds to a Senator with a question,
you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers,
to cus to daily abords out in the Los Angeles
(04:08):
community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will
hold this administration accountable.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Really, how are you gonna do that unless you win
at the post? How are you gonna do that? I'm
all lives, take your time away. How are you gonna
do that?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Because I don't see how it's gonna happen. Senator Alex
for did did you recognize that you sound a bit
similar to a couple of other people. Let's take it
to consideration. California Governor Gavin Newsom, according to a Wall
Street Journal, reading from an article right here, hitting all
of the greatest resistance hits democracy is under assault before
(04:47):
our eyes. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are
at least able to defend themselves, who are at least
able to defend themselves. He's assaulting the First Amendment. He's
taking a wrecking ball to our founding father's historic project.
This is what Gavin Newsom was saying about the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Doesn't that sounds similar to you? Sounds similar to me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm just looking at certain things like this and I'm
saying to myself, where's that gonna get you? Because at
the end of the day, when you bring up the
fact that you don't like what Trump is doing, and
you're coming to the defense of migrants of immigrants, while
it's admirable from a humanitarian perspective, all of us as
human beings, as God fearing individuals, we don't want to
(05:33):
see anybody suffering the way some of these migrants have
been suffering. Make no mistake about that. This is not
what that's about. This is about playing a winning hand
or creating a winning hand, or incorporating a winning formula.
Are you doing that? Set it up a deal? Are
you doing that? Governor Newsom? Because this ain't a winning argument.
The polls showed that. I don't want to hear anything
(05:56):
about how there's no mandate with Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He didn't win fifty percent of the vote. Ain't either.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He won a popular vote, he won an electoral college vote,
he won every swing state. He increased his votes with
young voters, black voters, Hispanic voters.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Facts.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was an indictment against you as a party. And
what has happened since that time? Now he's gotten into
office and you're raising Holy hell because he's engaging in
a level of extremism. To my degree, I feel this way.
I don't like what I see Trump doing in Los
Angeles at all. You heard Kevin Fraser come on the
(06:34):
show just the other day and point out how overblown
some things are. Right now, had this conspicuous presence that's
been placed on the city of Los Angeles, where you
got four members of the National Guard, four thousand members
of the National Guard, and at least seven hundred members
of the United States Marines protecting federal property, etc. Is
all of that necessary? It does seem a bit extreme,
(06:57):
But if you're a politician and you're trying to play
a winning hand, if there's nobody in the streets throwing
stuff at you, if there's nobody in the streets viewing
hatred at you and being a bit belligerent, what would
they have to show for the cameras. What would they
have to show? And you, as a Democratic party, you
have to remember what the backdrop of all of this
(07:19):
is law and order from Trump, because they didn't appear
to be law and order when Biden was in office.
Open borders, you set nothing. Migrants coming through the streets
of America, you set nothing. We got medical in Los
(07:41):
Angeles paying over a billion dollars for migrants, but don't
have some don't have enough for Los Angeleans who are
born right here in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
What argument do you think is going to win.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
No one what sins believes that President Trump is totally right.
This is not about right and wrong with him. This
is about him knowing he has the benefit of the
doubt on his side because of what you did over
for over four years when he was out of office.
If you were Gavin Newsom, as the Wall Street Journal
(08:17):
alluded to, you know what you could have done to
alleviate this. Since you want to take the Trump administration
to court and say that he had no business federalizing
the National Guard, you could have caught.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The National Guard.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You could have made sure that law enforcement throughout the
city of Los Angeles had a very strong, vibrant, conspicuous
presence where there it might have alleviated the possibility of
him calling in, meaning Trump calling in the National Guards
in the Marines.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You could have done that, but you didn't. And because
you did it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You gave him the opening to do it, because it
makes you look like you're week on on crime, you're
weak on lawlessness, you're weak on borders, all the things
that got him elected.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You're playing into his hand. And not only did you
do it, Governor News now.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Set it up a deer did it because we all
know you could have waited for her to finish speaking. Now,
I will say this, they had no business putting cuffs
on Senate upidea escorting him out of the room, even
forcibly was within bounds. The Secretary for Homeland Security was speaking.
(09:50):
You let her finish. You don't want to let her finish, then, hey,
they definitely should have removed you from the room.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
They didn't need to put you on the they didn't
need to handcuffed you.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
All they needed to do was keep you out of
the room.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You are a United States senator, very disrespectful, comes across
as authoritarian President Trump.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Cross of the line, without question, without question.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
But they didn't arrest him. They did let him go,
and within minutes he was outside holding his own press conference.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That is Senate up a deal. So let's take that
into consideration.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Now that I've said what I had to say about
the Democrats, who I think I'm playing right into Trump's
hands and looking like absolute fools doing so, that doesn't
absolve the Republicans, especially the number one member of the
GOP these days, that is the forty seventh President of
the United States. I want to race everybody out there listening.
(10:55):
I almost caught a heart attack when I heard President
Trump say what I'm about to show you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
He said, play that tape please. We have a great
country and we're going to keep it that way.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And when it comes to Los Angeles or other cities,
if we see other cities are gearing up and these
people are agitators, they're paid, they're professionals, they're insurrectionists, their troublemakers,
they're all of those things. But I believe they're paid,
and we're going to find out through Pam Bondi and
her great staff are great people.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Justice who they are. Oh no you didn't, No, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is that President Trump that just called somebody insurrectionists. People
who are protested in the streets. Dare I say looterers,
people that are defacing property with graffiti and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You called them insurrectionists.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But those folks that stormed the US Capitol in twenty
twenty one, bulldozing through barricades and capital security, they warn't surrectionists.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But you're calling these folks directionists. Really, really?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
January sixth, defendants pardoned by Trump. Over one thousand and
five hundred of them were pardoned by Trump. Where video
is everywhere of them starming the United States Capital, going
into chambers, sitting behind the desk of Nancy Pelosi, chanting,
(12:39):
killed former Vice President Mike Pence. One woman was shot
by Secret Service. There were a couple of people who died.
And you call these folks in Los Angeles insurrectionists.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
See, ladies and gentlemen. This is what I meant by
when I.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Said, this is what the politicians have done to us,
not all of them. There is good on both sides,
there's bad on both sides. But this is what the
nation's capital, the elected officials legislating and holding purview over
our country, has done to us. They serve to divide us.
(13:25):
They're not about bringing us together. They're about keeping us
divided so we can butt heads with one another, create
and then living the chaos we do create while they
chill up on Capitol Hill having dominion over our lives.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
This is why these parties need to be purged. This
is why there needs to be a cleansing in the
nation's capital.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I myself, I'm a fan of Governor Wes Moore Maryland.
I'm a fan of Jos Shapiro of Pennsylvania. I'm a
fan of Marco Rubio, as crazy as that may sound
to some of you because of what you see him
doing as Secretary of State and heading our national security
intelligence as well national security Rather, I get it. But
(14:16):
seasoned politicians that know how to articulate themselves and are
about legislation, are about policies and about laws in our
land as opposed to creating chaos is what I'm down for.
Guys like John Kasick, former governor of Ohio, Chris Christi,
former governor of New Jersey. Not popular with a lot
(14:38):
of people, popular with me. Nikki Haley, I would have
voted for her. You don't need this chaos, This is
exactly what I was afraid of, exactly what I was
afraid of. Gavin Newsom clearly believes his strategy is to
be antithetical to anything that is Trump. By showing his
(15:02):
behavior can remen can emulate Trumps, and other Democrats are
gonna follow suit. Maxine Waters, God bless her. In her eighties,
she goes to some event daring federal officials to shoot her.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Really, really, that's how we're going to behave.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Like I said when I started, no wonder folks have
me as a candidate for the presidency of the United
States of America. Now, to be clear, I might cust
some people out from time to time, ain't no doubt
about that. But I would be about bringing people together
(15:49):
and working on compromise. That's the kind of candidate we need,
not me, but somebody committed to galvanizing instead of polarizing.
The way this is going right now, times are only
(16:11):
gonna get uglier before they get better. Because who's really
sincere when they're talking about how we need to get better.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I don't see any evidence of it. I just don't
Let's talk about the latest on the federal ice raids
and the subsequent protests happening around the country. The flashpoint
happened in Los Angeles, California, when overnight curfew was lifted
at nine a m.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Eastern.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
The curfew covered about one square mile in downtown LA
with a protest against ice raids and troop deployments in
the city had been concentrated. Similar protests took place in
other cities, including in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Texas,
Las Vegas, and of course, the nation's capital, Washington, DC. Meanwhile,
three Democratic governors defended the state's immigration enforcement policies before
(00:39):
the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Illinois Governor JB.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Pritzkert, Minnesota governor and former Democratic Vice presidential nominee Tim Wallas,
and New York Governor Cathy Hockel testified at what the
committee describes as quote a hearing with sanctuary state governors.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
End quote and check this out.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
This was the sea in Los Angeles just this afternoon,
as Homeland Security Secretary Christy nom was speaking.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
About the raids and protests.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's Democratic Senator Alex Badia of California, who was confronted
by security and forcibly removed from that press conference. Badia
spoke out during nomes initial remarks to reporters and attempted
to shout questions at the secretary. The senator was shoved
out of the room, taken to the ground, and handcuffed.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
End quote. You see, ladies and gentlemen, you see that
right there.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
That's why they've been talking about Steven Aate Smith being
a candidate for president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's why you should be looking at Governor Wes Moore
of Maryland.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You should be looking at Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania.
You know, the people that don't engage in this kind
of nonsense.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
You talking about propping yourself up.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's all nonsense. It's all used as a tool to
divide us. On one hand, we have the President of
the United States focusing our attention on illegal immigration and
really highlighting it to the umph degree to make himself
look good. Because you can't point to the terrorists right now.
You can't necessarily point to the economy right now. You
(02:24):
can't you can't look at the war in Ukraine with Russia.
You can't point to that right now. You can't point
to doge in what they're doing because Elon Musk and
you have had your little tiff over the last week,
week and a half, So you can't point to that
right now. So what's a winning hand to play? It's this,
it's immigration, it's migrants, it's those who are undocumented or
(02:49):
here illegally. That's a winning hand and that's what he's doing.
So you got that side. And on another side here
you have this, Senator Alex Badia, can Christy Nole speak?
Could you have waited till she finished to ask your questions?
To shout your questions? You are a senator, right, you
(03:12):
couldn't wait? So that was just you out of control
because you were just losing it.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Hup. You are United States senator.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Couldn't compose yourself and let the head of Homeland Security
finish her thoughts before you ask the question?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Couldn't do that? Harm? Couldn't do it? Hah.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I know you got an explanation for it. I know
you got an explanation for it. And in fairness to you,
because that's what we do here.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Or to Stephen A.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Smithsrow, I'm gonna be fit to you by making sure
the people hear what you have to say. Go ahead,
Senator alexbdir, go ahead, let's hear you.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
If this is how this administration responds to a senator
with a question, If this is how the Department of
Home mad Security responds to a Senator with a question,
you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers,
to cus to daily abords out in the Los Angeles
(04:08):
community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will
hold this administration accountable.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Really, how are you gonna do that unless you win
at the post? How are you gonna do that? I'm
all lives, take your time away. How are you gonna
do that?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Because I don't see how it's gonna happen. Senator Alex
for did did you recognize that you sound a bit
similar to a couple of other people. Let's take it
to consideration. California Governor Gavin Newsom, according to a Wall
Street Journal, reading from an article right here, hitting all
of the greatest resistance hits democracy is under assault before
(04:47):
our eyes. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are
at least able to defend themselves, who are at least
able to defend themselves. He's assaulting the First Amendment. He's
taking a wrecking ball to our founding father's historic project.
This is what Gavin Newsom was saying about the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Doesn't that sounds similar to you? Sounds similar to me.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm just looking at certain things like this and I'm
saying to myself, where's that gonna get you? Because at
the end of the day, when you bring up the
fact that you don't like what Trump is doing, and
you're coming to the defense of migrants of immigrants, while
it's admirable from a humanitarian perspective, all of us as
human beings, as God fearing individuals, we don't want to
(05:33):
see anybody suffering the way some of these migrants have
been suffering. Make no mistake about that. This is not
what that's about. This is about playing a winning hand
or creating a winning hand, or incorporating a winning formula.
Are you doing that? Set it up a deal? Are
you doing that? Governor Newsom? Because this ain't a winning argument.
The polls showed that. I don't want to hear anything
(05:56):
about how there's no mandate with Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
He didn't win fifty percent of the vote. Ain't either.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He won a popular vote, he won an electoral college vote,
he won every swing state. He increased his votes with
young voters, black voters, Hispanic voters.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Facts.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It was an indictment against you as a party. And
what has happened since that time? Now he's gotten into
office and you're raising Holy hell because he's engaging in
a level of extremism. To my degree, I feel this way.
I don't like what I see Trump doing in Los
Angeles at all. You heard Kevin Fraser come on the
(06:34):
show just the other day and point out how overblown
some things are. Right now, had this conspicuous presence that's
been placed on the city of Los Angeles, where you
got four members of the National Guard, four thousand members
of the National Guard, and at least seven hundred members
of the United States Marines protecting federal property, etc. Is
all of that necessary? It does seem a bit extreme,
(06:57):
But if you're a politician and you're trying to play
a winning hand, if there's nobody in the streets throwing
stuff at you, if there's nobody in the streets viewing
hatred at you and being a bit belligerent, what would
they have to show for the cameras. What would they
have to show? And you, as a Democratic party, you
have to remember what the backdrop of all of this
(07:19):
is law and order from Trump, because they didn't appear
to be law and order when Biden was in office.
Open borders, you set nothing. Migrants coming through the streets
of America, you set nothing. We got medical in Los
(07:41):
Angeles paying over a billion dollars for migrants, but don't
have some don't have enough for Los Angeleans who are
born right here in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
What argument do you think is going to win.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
No one what sins believes that President Trump is totally right.
This is not about right and wrong with him. This
is about him knowing he has the benefit of the
doubt on his side because of what you did over
for over four years when he was out of office.
If you were Gavin Newsom, as the Wall Street Journal
(08:17):
alluded to, you know what you could have done to
alleviate this. Since you want to take the Trump administration
to court and say that he had no business federalizing
the National Guard, you could have caught.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
The National Guard.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You could have made sure that law enforcement throughout the
city of Los Angeles had a very strong, vibrant, conspicuous
presence where there it might have alleviated the possibility of
him calling in, meaning Trump calling in the National Guards
in the Marines.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
You could have done that, but you didn't. And because
you did it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You gave him the opening to do it, because it
makes you look like you're week on on crime, you're
weak on lawlessness, you're weak on borders, all the things
that got him elected.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You're playing into his hand. And not only did you
do it, Governor News now.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Set it up a deer did it because we all
know you could have waited for her to finish speaking. Now,
I will say this, they had no business putting cuffs
on Senate upidea escorting him out of the room, even
forcibly was within bounds. The Secretary for Homeland Security was speaking.
(09:50):
You let her finish. You don't want to let her finish, then, hey,
they definitely should have removed you from the room.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That is it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
They didn't need to put you on the they didn't
need to handcuffed you.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
All they needed to do was keep you out of
the room.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
You are a United States senator, very disrespectful, comes across
as authoritarian President Trump.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Cross of the line, without question, without question.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
But they didn't arrest him. They did let him go,
and within minutes he was outside holding his own press conference.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That is Senate up a deal. So let's take that
into consideration.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Now that I've said what I had to say about
the Democrats, who I think I'm playing right into Trump's
hands and looking like absolute fools doing so, that doesn't
absolve the Republicans, especially the number one member of the
GOP these days, that is the forty seventh President of
the United States. I want to race everybody out there listening.
(10:55):
I almost caught a heart attack when I heard President
Trump say what I'm about to show you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
He said, play that tape please. We have a great
country and we're going to keep it that way.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And when it comes to Los Angeles or other cities,
if we see other cities are gearing up and these
people are agitators, they're paid, they're professionals, they're insurrectionists, their troublemakers,
they're all of those things. But I believe they're paid,
and we're going to find out through Pam Bondi and
her great staff are great people.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Justice who they are. Oh no you didn't, No, you didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Is that President Trump that just called somebody insurrectionists. People
who are protested in the streets. Dare I say looterers,
people that are defacing property with graffiti and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You called them insurrectionists.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
But those folks that stormed the US Capitol in twenty
twenty one, bulldozing through barricades and capital security, they warn't surrectionists.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But you're calling these folks directionists. Really, really?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
January sixth, defendants pardoned by Trump. Over one thousand and
five hundred of them were pardoned by Trump. Where video
is everywhere of them starming the United States Capital, going
into chambers, sitting behind the desk of Nancy Pelosi, chanting,
(12:39):
killed former Vice President Mike Pence. One woman was shot
by Secret Service. There were a couple of people who died.
And you call these folks in Los Angeles insurrectionists.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
See, ladies and gentlemen. This is what I meant by
when I.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Said, this is what the politicians have done to us,
not all of them. There is good on both sides,
there's bad on both sides. But this is what the
nation's capital, the elected officials legislating and holding purview over
our country, has done to us. They serve to divide us.
(13:25):
They're not about bringing us together. They're about keeping us
divided so we can butt heads with one another, create
and then living the chaos we do create while they
chill up on Capitol Hill having dominion over our lives.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
This is why these parties need to be purged. This
is why there needs to be a cleansing in the
nation's capital.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I myself, I'm a fan of Governor Wes Moore Maryland.
I'm a fan of Jos Shapiro of Pennsylvania. I'm a
fan of Marco Rubio, as crazy as that may sound
to some of you because of what you see him
doing as Secretary of State and heading our national security
intelligence as well national security Rather, I get it. But
(14:16):
seasoned politicians that know how to articulate themselves and are
about legislation, are about policies and about laws in our
land as opposed to creating chaos is what I'm down for.
Guys like John Kasick, former governor of Ohio, Chris Christi,
former governor of New Jersey. Not popular with a lot
(14:38):
of people, popular with me. Nikki Haley, I would have
voted for her. You don't need this chaos, This is
exactly what I was afraid of, exactly what I was
afraid of. Gavin Newsom clearly believes his strategy is to
be antithetical to anything that is Trump. By showing his
(15:02):
behavior can remen can emulate Trumps, and other Democrats are
gonna follow suit. Maxine Waters, God bless her. In her eighties,
she goes to some event daring federal officials to shoot her.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Really, really, that's how we're going to behave.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Like I said when I started, no wonder folks have
me as a candidate for the presidency of the United
States of America. Now, to be clear, I might cust
some people out from time to time, ain't no doubt
about that. But I would be about bringing people together
(15:49):
and working on compromise. That's the kind of candidate we need,
not me, but somebody committed to galvanizing instead of polarizing.
The way this is going right now, times are only
(16:11):
gonna get uglier before they get better. Because who's really
sincere when they're talking about how we need to get better.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I don't see any evidence of it. I just don't
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