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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
And as you know, I am on vacation, but never fear,
Emily Compano is here the Human Happy Hour.
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Nice Jimmy Fayla, thank you for that, guys. Emily Companno
in for the great Jimmy. Huge shoes for me to fill.
But we know we're going to have a great time
today and we know there's going to be a lot
of classic rock, a lot of eighties rock, maybe some reggae.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
In there too.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I told these guys, thank you so much for joining
me on Fox Across America. We're going to hit the
ground running with this second Hour with Congressman Rick Crawford.
He represents Arkansas's first congressional district and he's a Republican
Steady Committee member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chairman,
and House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure member, and House
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Committee on Agriculture member.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You bet, thanks for having me all right.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So we know that there's a lot going on on
the Hill today and this weekend especially, so talk to
us about your slice of the pizer and how you
take it all.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, I mean, there's lots to talk about. As chairman
of the Intel Committee, obviously, there's been some pretty high
profile issues, most notably the strikes on Iran, and you
know some of the fallout subsequent to that with regard
to some information that was leaked, and so you know,
those just seemed to be the hot topics right now
for us on the Intel Committee.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, and so why don't we talk about that a
little bit more in deep dive. So there are some
critics that say that obviously that initial report one of
seventeen intelligence agency committees, essentially it was non verified, it
was non corroborated, it was a low confidence report, and
it was leaked so out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It seemed presumptive.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And would you say that this sort of culture fostered
in the media, especially in the mainstream media, is one.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Kind of like you know, some that they have to get.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Something out now, and it seems in such stark contrast
to the then general understanding that it might take a
little bit to understand the confirmation of the exact impact
of that bunker buster about that in the interim instead
of there.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Being patients, it was a pounce on something.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And it seems that the leak element was overlooked, especially
to that particular reporter that has a very sordid history
of running with stories that were deeply damaging and untrue.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
What say you, Congressman, Yeah, no, I thank you pretty
much summed it up right there. So what it appears
that there was a real quick sort of effort to
try to blunt the effects of this strike as applied
to success for President Trump. So he was chatting, you
know what a great success this was. And look, you
you don't have to love President Trump, but you should
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at least love your country enough to recognize you don't
want to jeopardize the safety and security of people who
are on the ground, who are responsible for planning and
executing that mission, for people that are collecting intelligence that
may help inform better decisions on on the behalf of
American people and.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So you know, let's just pump the brakes a little
bit here. What are you trying to achieve? And so
the person who received the report, a CNN reporter, and
as you suggested, you know a history there of you
not having a problem with leaking information or of taking
a false narrative and running with it. Probably if you
really want to be taken seriously, I think you probably
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would have to look at, you know, the low confidence
nature of this report in question. That should have been
a red flag right there if you're receiving if you
first off, you don't need to be receiving classified information,
but if you're receiving it with a variety of disclaimers,
you probably might want to rethink that and maybe you know,
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reconsider the value of attacking the president in the immediate
app map of this strike.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And Congressman, obviously you are a United States Army veteran,
but you are in United States Air Force BRATT. So
my question to you, sir, is talk to us about
the pride throughout the military and really about the caliber
required and the collaboration required to pull off what seemed
effortless to us but was certainly the result of such
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a massive colossal effort on the US military's behalf talked
to us about the operation.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So I don't think this plan came off in days
or weeks or months I think this is probably something
that was developed as from a strategic perspective that if
we were ever going to do anything, this is what
it would have to look like. It's probably been planned
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and practiced and drilled and so on, because that's how
the military works. And so number one, I think you
have to give credit to, you know, the planners of this.
It was a strategic masterpiece. It was you know, practically
executed brilliantly. And then I think Ke's talked about the
families back home at Whiteman Air Force Space and some
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of the other places where you know, moms and dads
are deployed on these secret missions and you don't know.
All you know is they're gone for forty eight hours
and then they come home. And what a relief that
is to those families that they all came home unharmed.
And the effort that went into that that not just
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at Whiteman Air Force Space, but all the logistics that
were required, all the players across the d D spectrum,
everybody that made a contribution, and this was a multi
service effort that we just well, we may never know
the full depth and breadth of who the players were
and what role they all played, but no other military
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could have done this. And I mean, you really have
to credit President Trump for having the intestinal fortitude to
actually do it and support the military and executing this mission.
And so to those folks who were in the airplanes
in the air for thirty six hours plus, I mean,
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God bless them, the families that support them. I've been there.
You know, parents are deployed and you're just sort of
anxiously waiting to hear from them or you know, wondering
where they are, what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Are they okay?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You just can't say enough about this effort and the
heart that went into it, and not only that, but
you know, just the technical expertise and planning and all
that kind of stuff that we're able to deliver such
an effective blow to Iran and really ending the Iran
Israel war and bringing Iran to the table and resetting
the Middle East and possibly setting us a course for
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peace in that region. So, you know, all credit to
the Trump administration and the leaders in the military who
executed a brilliant, brilliant strike.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And I I will take that a step further to that,
you know, being being the loved one of people who
deploy its it. It feels different being that loved one
under this administration versus the prior administration, because that feeling
when you're holding down the home front, it is a
twenty four hour a day low level or sometimes spiked
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level of anxiety.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's just it's like it's like it's constantly with you.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's it's an albit It's sort of hard to describe,
but it's like an albatross on your shoulders all the
time when you have a dear loved one deployed, and
it feels different under this administration, knowing the commander in
chief has the military priorities and a piece through strength application.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Let's say you well, I would say this, you know
as a kid, you know watching my dad was deployed
several times and you know, served under multiple administrations. You know,
I'm I'm getting all myself. You know, I can remember,
you know when I was when when I was a kid,
my dad served in Vietnam and was deployed multiple times
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to other locations, and we didn't have Facebook, we didn't
have text messaging, we didn't have Snapchat, we didn't have
the ability to communicate in real time, and the best
we could hope for is a letter and it might
be days or weeks old by the time we got it,
and you know, you might sit around and watch the news,
and of course, back then, the news came on once
a day for half an hour, and you'd sit around
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and watch the news and kind of hoped that you
might get a glimpse of what was going on, but
really in the back of your mind thinking, I don't
really know that I want to see what's going on.
But that's what it was like for families then, and
a lot of it had to do with, you know,
did our president have maintain faith with the military. And
over the years, I've watched that sort of ebb and flow.
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Back in the day, there was really no question about that.
But as you've seen politics change over time, I've questioned
whether or not our commander in chief really have the
backs of our military. And I don't think you can
question that about Donald Trump. And that's why I think
it's a morale booster for those folks at home who
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know and understand that this is a president who absolutely
supports the military, has their back, is maintaining faith with
the military, and that's the difference maker for at least
some measure of peace of mind for families.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
At home and switching topics.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Congressman, you are a huge proponent and advocate for agriculture
and rural developments. You've sponsored and co sponsored a ton
of bills in those arenas. And my question is, how
does the Big Beautiful bill, how would it affect those
in rural communities or in the agricultural sector, or if
you want to take inversely, you know, how would they
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be affected if it doesn't pass? So that the American
people know.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, so rural community is are an awful like the
rest of America, and that basic tax policy impacts them
just as much as it does anybody else. So if
you want to see a what is it ast sixty
eight percent tax hike on across the board for Americans,
then you know, don't support this effort. But I don't
think Republicans feel that way generally speaking. Now as it
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applies to rural America. You know, the heart and soul
of rural communities is agriculture. And so if you take
the tax provisions, for example, the death tax and what
they call the estate tax, we actually call it the
death tax, that has a huge impact on agricultural operations
when you're basically transitioning those from one generation to the next.
And the idea should be that you've been paying tax
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all along on all those assets, and then you know,
the operator or the you know, the patriarch or the
matriarch of the family taxes away and they transition that
family to the to the children, and insult to injury,
not only have they lost a parent, but now they're
getting taxed for it. And in what we say in
rural America with farmers, I mean they might be asset
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rich but cash poor. And what that means is we've
got a lot of equipment out there in the shed,
We've got a lot of grand we own, and now
what are we going to have to sell off to
be able to pay our estate tax? And how does
that impact our operations from a Class A cash flow standpoint?
And what does it do to our equity and our operations?
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And when we're talking about economic conditions that we've endured
over the last four years under Biden, the equity position
of these farmers has been really really impacted negatively. And
so what we can do here is shore that up
by passing this bill and addressing those kinds of things.
So that's sort of the heart and soul of rural
communities is the agriculture part of it. And then we
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have it's not just it's not just a lifestyle or
you know, it's this is their lives, this is how
they drive their livelihoods. And so, you know, fixing some
of the policy issues as it applies to production agriculture,
bringing those reference prices up into the modern era, if
you will. I mean, look, we're dealing on data that's
fourteen years old, and the economy has changed an awful
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lot in fourteen years, and most notably in the last
four under the I Did administration, and so we do
need to address those reference prices, get them up to
reflect real world economic demands. This bill does that, and
it really makes it easiest easier for us to go
forward and address the Farm Bill because a lot of
the heavy lifting that we would ordinarily deal with in
the Farm Bill is being taken care of in this
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one big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I am the daughter of a like serial business owners entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
My dad a US Navy veteran, and we have a
family farm and it's a small winery. We grow all
the grapes ourselves. He does everything himself. You know, he's
almost eighty and he's out there, he's spraying, he's doing everything,
and it's it's farming and the I don't think I
can ever really overstate the restrictive and suffocating nature of
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regulations and compliance, and especially because we operate in an
organ so it's it's sort of a I don't know,
it's sort of a used to be more of a
mixed state and now it's just so democratic. But you
know when feds come onto your land and they tell
you that you're oh, this is half a degree off.
Oh you know what this label that Nope, you got
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to redo like it can be gut wrenching and totally
devastating financially. And that's on top of you know, we
lost when you're thirty percent of our crop because of
bird damage.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You know, not to mention seasons in the weather.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And when the government comes in too and makes you
tithes for the privilege of owning your own property and
then working it, I mean that can be generationally suffocating
impact because many of these small farms and small businesses
can't survive that.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Well. I think this is the good news about this president.
He understands that a country that can't fade and clothe
itself is vulnerable, and so it doesn't matter if you're
a smaller scale operation or a large scale operation. Bottom
line is, we don't need the United States to be
a net food importer and then balance right now sort
of peetering on that brain. We're not in danger of
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not being able to produce for ourselves from the perspective
of staple items, but we like things. You know twenty
four seven three sixty five. You may already know this, Emily,
but the best selling item in Walmart is bananas. We
don't grow bananas in the United States, but this is
just an indication of what we like here in the
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United States. So we want bananas twenty four seven three
sixty five, and so we have them because we trade
with foreign countries. And where I'm going with this is
our balance sheet already reflects that we're a net food
importer because we import certain things because we like to
have them year round. Bottom line, though we can produce
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for ourselves, we just may not have every single thing
we want whenever we want it, all year round. Contrast
that to a country like China. China can't feed and
feeding clothes themselves. Less than twenty percent of the land
mass is airble and suitable for agriculture production, which is
why they have to go elsewhere to feed and clothe themselves.
That accounts for a lot of the reason why they're
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so economically belligerent, because they know they're people depend on it,
they're desperate for it, and it's manifesting a real economic belligerence,
and that, backed up with just their communist ideology, makes
them a difficult nation to work with. Here at home,
we don't need to make those policy mistakes. We need
to make sure that we're allowing producers to produce. It's
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in their interest to take care of their land. And
so the EPA comes at you with this fundamental misunderstanding
of agg producers, and fundamentally it's in the interests of
farmers to care for their land because they derive their
livelihood from it. So give us a break. One time.
I talk to farmers every day in my district and
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they'll all tell you the same thing. Get the Feds
off our land, reduce the regulatory burden, and open up
markets and will be fine. And that's really all they're
asking for.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, amen, and do you do you see that, You
see that on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Do they see that on the horizon.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I think they feel a heck of a lot better
about it with this president, and so some of the
policy achievements in one beautiful Bill, or OB three as
we call it, actually help address those very issues. I
think the President has been very proactive on trade, and
so he is he is America first, and fair trade
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and free trade are not necessarily the same thing. He
recognizes that. I'm a big advocate of fair trade, but
I do think we ought to put our American farmers
in a position of being treated fairly and not used
as leverage or not being bargained away for some other
grand trade deal. And you know, most trade deals start
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and end with agriculture considerations because they're very sensitive, and
so a lot of times American farmers are, you know,
basically sold out. And this President's not going to do that.
And I think American farmers steel that understand it, and
they know that even with all the tariff talk, tariff
and you know, and the you know, the traditional dialogue
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has really been almost heresy to suggest tariff. But I
don't necessarily think we need to shy away from and
I think the President has demonstrated the value of tariffs
and how they can be used to affect positive outcomes.
And I think we're seeing that now. That's right. I
think farmers while we have historically heard farmers say no,
we don't want tariffs, but but that's what we have.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Congressman, thank you, thank you so much for joining Fox
Across America and most importantly for your service or this
was incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Thank you. We'll be right back. Guys, stay with us,
don't go anywhere. Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayla.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Welcome back to Fox Across America with Emily Companya today
in for Jimmy Fayla. My next guest is an incredible
human being and it is President Trump's borders are Tom Homan, sir,
thank you so much for being on Frocks across America.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Figure that to me on Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Part of something that we've been discussing all morning is
the frightening vulnerability that this new ice block app renders
toward our ice agents. We know that they've been suffering
from an over five hundred percent increase in ambushes.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Proponents of this app seem to want to protect the
monsters that our ICE agents are putting their lives on
the line for to get out, while also rendering them
extra vulnerable by alerting these neighborhoods to ICE's presence.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
What's the user I'd.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Say, I started doing this job in nineteen eighty four,
and I cannot believe where we're at. We're the ones
who enforce laws. So men and women out there trying
to enforce laws of this country or the bad guys
and those who no longer broke the law are the victims.
And as you said, the taxancite ages sup over five
hundred percent. Apps go allow criminals to escape. They go
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let nowhere ICE is operating, which means the bad guys
get awake, they get they get heads up that you
know ICE is comment. It also put to ICE an
extremely dangerous position because people, you know, there won't be
one one guy that's going to happen soon, there's laying
and wait, who's going to you know, wait for Ices
show up and attack them. So this is a dangerous,
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dangerous situation. I've sent that information over the dog Asset
take them act whatever legal action they can take to
take because this is unprecedented attack, even by media outlet,
on the safety and security of those who's trying to
force all this country.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And I agree it's it's criminal.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, if you actively participate in that that is
obstructing then an ongoing and active investigation and certainly on
the execution of their duties.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So to me, it's it's I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It should be DJ referred all day and hopefully the
app itself is rendered totally impotent and take it off, sir,
have you I'd like to focus for a moment on
the messages of families that have been positively affected by
the incredible work the ICE agents are doing. Can you
share for a moment what you're hearing from the voices
that do matter in this country that we are trying
so desperately to protect.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Well, if you look at who ICE is arresting. I
looked at the numbers this morning. I think just over
one hundred and thirty thousand illegal aliens arrested in the
interior in our interior cities, and the vast majority of
these are public safety threats, which makes our community stafe
for every day. I mean the operations I've been out on,
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every operation I've been out on with the Manuel Ice,
retaking child predators health street. And these are people who
sexy assault for the child. I don't know, if I
don't know, if you get worse than that, They've rest
a lot of sexual deviants, of those who committed serious
crimes like murder, kidnapping, sexual so armed robbery. I mean,
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these are people that are walking the street to this
country said the other day, there are over six hundred
thousand illegal aliens with criminal convictions walk in the streets
right now that we're trying to okay. And that's why
I've been pushing for this big beautiful bill. We need
more agents on the street, we need more detention beds,
we need more transportation, we need more technology to find
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people don't want to be found, and this big beautiful
bill do it. That's why I've been working every day
to get this pass because well, you said, we're doing
incredible work already, but with more money, we can do more,
which means we take public safety threats and natural security
threats out of our communities quicker.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And on that note, the Alligator Alcatraz, as it's been
known the conversion of this sort of former airfield or
starting to become an airfield that is now going to
be used in collaboration with the State of Florida for
these criminal illegal immigrants to be held. What are your
thoughts on that and will that help at least from
the interim before OBII gets passed.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Well, because this is giving us beds pretty quickly, and
you know, and hats off to Governor Sances. He's been
a tip of the spirit of helping the Trump administration
and immigration enforcement. He came through this facility and it's
it's the right facility at the right times going to
hold to know several thousand criminal aliens down there, and
it's great, you know, Florida's doing it. Just again, he's
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a tip of this spirit. He's also passed along Florida
where it's required every share from or chief of police
in the State of Florida has to assist ice with
you know, identifying significant public safety threast walking the street.
To Florida Governors Stances is really shown. He's a leader
down there. And what we can't wait for this facility
be up and running and we need those beds. I mean,
I woke up this morning. I think we have currently
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like seventeen one hundred empty beds. Well we'll fill them
in three days, if you know, even accounting the people
were We do removal plates every day, but we got
to stay ahead of this and those beds in Florida,
Gon and keep us ahead of the game.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
And I have to say, sir, I was personally struck by,
you know, as we discuss all of these ICE agents
putting their lives lives on the line, all of these
incredible men and women that without even thinking, are protecting
American citizens first and foremost, and you too, suffer such
horrific threats. I read you're you're unable to even live
with your family at this moment. And what kind I
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mean the level of service and sacrifice that is. I
just cannot overstate that how grateful we are as a
country to you for that service and dedication, because that
seems to be that that's no way for any American
to live, and yet that's how you live in service
to protection of those of us who live here.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, look, they want to they want to, they want
to threaten attack, They want you to go away, they
want you to shut up, they want us to stop
doing what we're doing. What Tom Holman is going anywhere,
Tom is going to shut up. Luckily my favor, my
family's safe. They're off someplace else. So you know, direct
me all you want. I'm not going away. We're not
going to stop what we're doing. What we're doing matters
to this country. The men and win advice that they're
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taking threats every day, they're being docks every day, and
they stand ready to keep doing their job. So it
despite all the hate, despite all the threats, despite all
the fault story, if being pushed my media, Ice is
going to be on the streets today. Ice going to
be on the streets tomorrow. LA. We got over one
hundred teams in LA working right now. We've got over
one hundred teams in New York City working right now.
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And not only that, we're going to double and triple
down these numbers. So the more the more you want
to yell and scream, the more we're going to do
our job. Look, you got your first memory rights. You
can protes us all you wanted. You have that right.
No shame on you for pushing back into Ice, for
simply enforced the laws and acted by Congress. If you
don't like Rice does, go yell, go yell at Congress.
But all the threats and all what they think is
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intimidation isn't going to work. Ice is going to get
this job done for the American people. They put President
tumping office on this issue, and we're going to keep
President Tran's promised to American people. We're not going to stop.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And the final question, sir, is that the topic of
the potential of Iranian sleeper cells in the United States
now under the prior administration, we have hundreds of known
terrorists or watch lists that we're not sure at the
end of the encounters, we don't know where they are.
We have reports from people like Sam Woman I just
linked on his last name, and Sarah Adams, former CIA targeter,
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who talked about the horrific weapons that might have gotten
across the southern border under the prior administration, like surface
to air missiles in the Lake. So talk to us
about that threats and how Americans can either help protect
themselves or help you to enforce the laws and to
get these bad guys out.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Look. I've been screaming about this for four years the
Bide administration, and I woke up every day upside of
what this administration did when they unsecured the most secure
boarder who ever had on purpose. I knew it's sex trafficking,
is cost Kyrocket, I knew vatanas about was colost Kyrocket.
But my number one issue, as you know, I worked
for Fox Cntebuary for four years. My biggest concern was
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the open border create the biggest national security vulnerability this
country's ever seen. And four years of Trump forty five
we had a total of fourteen people on terrace wash
lists that were apprehended Joe Biden over four hundred. But
the biggest concern, we got over two million known goutaways.
Two million people across the border. We don't know who
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they are, where they're from, why they're here, or where
they are right now. If we arrested four hundred people
on terror squa wash list, how many that two million
people came from a country sponsor in terror. If anybody
thinks that number is zero, then you're a moron. So
this is a huge national security of channel ices out
there trying to identify these national security thrists. FBI is
out there intelligence communities working very close with DHS and
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the Bureau However, you're exactly right. We don't know where
everybody's at. That's why we're putting everything we got on
this right now. This is a huge, I'll say it again,
the biggest national security mistake this nation has ever seen.
And it was done on purpose. They opened the border
on purpose, not mismanagement, not incompetence, by design, and now
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we're trying to fix this mess, which is again the
reason we need this big, beautiful bill paid. We need
the money to increase assets, to increase intelligence, to find
these people wherever they're at in the United States. We
need to arrest them, we need to detain them, we
need to port them. So it's we're we're gonna be
dealing with this for a decade. On what Joe Biden
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did to the board the last four years.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Is there anything else that the American people can do
that listeners can do besides voicing support for the bill
to provide those resources for you guys, Is there anything
else that we can do that will help you in
this effort? This is now ten years ahead of US
effort of this massive national security.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Threat called you can always call it the DHS hotline.
Nice hotline, And if you see something you know, report it,
not only just you know sufficient people who may be
a n security threat. If you see any you know, illegalaning, criminals,
you see the criminal activity area, let us know it.
But again, and we had one more thing. We're looking
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forward three hundred thousand missing children that were smuggling in
this country released by the last administration to unvetter sponsors.
We're trying to these children. We know some are in
forced labor, we know some in forced sex trafficking. Some
are going to be with family members as parents, your listeners,
anybody's a parent, you haven't any ability any you know,
we all as parents, we all have that ability to
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recognize when something's not right with a child. If you
see a child is working at a place where much
too young to be working there. If you see a
child doesn't have freedom and woman, a child is with
an adult that just you just something clicks. It just
isn't right. Make a call to the hotline, even if
one lead in a hundred turn out to save a child,
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it's worth it. So we're asking them to well to look, observe.
If you see something, report ice tip line. And we're
running down orders.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Our Tom Homan, thank you sir, it's such an honor
to have you on the program, and thank you for
your incredible service.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Thank you so much, thank you, God bless you.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
All Right, guys, more Fos Across America when we return.
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Today.
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They're keeping me straight and arrow.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Here before I start rocking out in the studio, we
have a caller that I would like to bring in
because earlier, guys, all right, we were talking about this
whole thing that apparently gen Z does, which is they
go to a bar and they pay for a drink
one at a time, which is obviously really annoying, and
then a bartender was quoted by saying, well, every generation
has its quirk, So I was curious, what quirks do
you think that you have?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I'm gen X. I feel like I don't know what
is ours. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So let's take Vinnie from Connecticut, who has something to
share with Fox across America.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
While welcome Vinnie.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Hey, Emily, you're doing a great job doing in for
Jimmy today.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Now, as far as the whole generational thing goes, I'm
the same age as Kennedy, and what I am finding
out is the older I get, the more nostalgic I get.
That's one reason why I like Jimmy's show because I
get most of his references. And another reason why I
enjoy show is because he's very sincere, just like his friends,
which are people like you Kennedy didn Kennedy didn and
(30:27):
Joey Jones. Do you get most of Are you old
enough to get Jimmy's references?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Of course I am. I'm like, I'm all, I'm are
you Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yes, guys, guys, let's just set the record straight. Number one,
I was born in the seventies. Number two, I'm gen X.
Number three. I have two older sisters, so my influences,
like I am, I am much, I don't. I don't
understand a thing about anyone that is younger than me.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I grew up without the internet.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I didn't have an email until college, and I didn't
even know what it was. So and I feel like
the deepest influences on my life are my older sisters,
which were squarely, you know, total eighties kids. So yes, sir,
I do.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
That's funny. That's funny. So you lived through them when
you were younger, is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, yeah, and like Havy, you know had I had
a tail. My haircut was a tail in kindergarten. You know,
I was five in nineteen eighty four, rocking the eighties gear.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
So yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Eighties speak is my first language. So what do you
think our annoying thing at the bar is? What do
you think our cork at the bar is? Besides being
too awesome? If such a thing?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
You know, I don't you know my age. I don't
go to bars much anymore, you know what I mean?
So I don't do that too much anymore. But you know,
I do want to ask you a question. Are you
coming to any car shows in Connecticut this year. I
knew you were here like one or two years ago.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, I came to one.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Are you coming to any of this year?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Not?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Thank you so much for asking.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
So, guys, but he's talking about is the Dream Ride
has a dream show. It's one of the one of the,
if not the largest car show in the country, an
incredible show that covers like all of these polo fields
in Connecticut, and they have exotics, vintage, classic, I mean,
it's just an amazing array. And then they do a
whole ride benefiting those with special needs.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
YEP, A really amazing show.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
At my car one first place in her class and
she also won the Judge's Choice Award, and both of
those trophies hang proudly in my office. And then when
I go to other car shows, I like display them
with a car. So that was really a once in
a lifetime exceptional feeling for me there in Connecticut. But
I don't think I can make it this year because
my schedule is just so sort of crazy that I
wish I could. Every time I do something, I'm like,
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I can't wait to do this again next year, And
then the reality is it's hard for me to sort
of be everywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
At one time.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Now I live two towns away. That was at the
Farmington Polo Grounds you were at. Yeah, I literally lived
two towns. When I was going to go, I ended
up losing motivation. And then I saw when you did
the Outnumbered thing and you talked about that that you
were there. I was so disappointed that I didn't go,
because I definitely would have noticed your car and I
would have looked for you. I was so disappointed that
I didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Sorry, you were so kind. Well, don't be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
There will be many car shows in the future. And
I'm you know, there was a lot of traffic, so
sometimes it's just easier to stay home.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I totally understand that.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
But I do hope that you get to go this
year because it is such an incredible car show for sure.
So all right, you're Kennedy's age. So what's your favorite
eighties movie?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Favor eighties movie?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
There were there were so many. There were so many
of them. I know, you know what I liked, you know,
I think Uncle Buck was that eighties or was that nineties?
I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Was that tail end of the eighty nine says the
stroll Room. Let's look up standards and practices.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Yeah, I enjoyed, I enjoyed Uncle Buck. Yeah I liked
uh oh, Firis Ruler's Day Off. Did you enjoy that movie?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Of course, totally say Harris, Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I didn't watch the Miley Ringwild movies. I didn't watch
any of that stuff. But i'd like John Candy. I
loved Farris Buller's Day Off. And that's all I can
really remember. You know, I'm I'm you know, Jimmy's on
a lot of stations and he's going to be on Harford,
He's going to be in you know, on New York
and w R tonight, and I am a little nervous.
So got to forgive me a little bit here.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh you're great, now, you're doing awesome. It's just like
chatting with a friend.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
So again, since I have all these sisters, we were
we weren't. All the Molly ring World movies were and
you know, we did like all of it. Pretty in
Pink and The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles and all
of this stuff. But all of those soundtracks I had
on tape. I think they're still they are still somewhere
in the house, you know, in shoe boxes or whatever.
But certainly like that's how also we cut. I cut
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my teeth on all of that music.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Back in the day. It was all of the soundtracks.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
And then we would go to the Tower Records at
the bottom of the hill and get I was allowed
to pick out like one tape and a poster, so
we had.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
It was so great.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It was such a the simpler times. Like you said,
you sort of feel nostalgic. So do I believe me
if the world could just go back to the way
it was.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
But of course in some ways, Hey, we're more awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
We've got coyote illuminator engines, we've got improvements on the
three point fifty one. I think that's going to be
the most controversial statement that I've said all day.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Don't at me, guys, but thank you, Vinnie, Thank you
for the chat. Guys.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Call in eight eight eight seven, eight, eight, nine, nine
ten and tell me anything you want within reason. All right, guys,
more Fox across America after this stay with us.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
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Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayla. What's Up, America. It's
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
And as you know, I am on vacation, but never fear,
Emily Compano is here the Human Happy Hour.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Emily, you are cleared for takeoff.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Nice Jimmy Fayla, thank you for that, guys. Emily Companno
in for the great Jimmy. Huge shoes for me to fill.
But we know we're going to have a great time
today and we know there's going to be a lot
of classic rock, a lot of eighties rock, maybe some reggae.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
In there too.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I told these guys, thank you so much for joining
me on Fox Across America. We're going to hit the
ground running with this second Hour with Congressman Rick Crawford.
He represents Arkansas's first congressional district and he's a Republican
Steady Committee member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chairman,
and House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure member, and House
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Committee on Agriculture member.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
You bet, thanks for having me all right.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So we know that there's a lot going on on
the Hill today and this weekend especially, so talk to
us about your slice of the pizer and how you
take it all.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Well, I mean, there's lots to talk about. As chairman
of the Intel Committee, obviously, there's been some pretty high
profile issues, most notably the strikes on Iran, and you
know some of the fallout subsequent to that with regard
to some information that was leaked, and so you know,
those just seemed to be the hot topics right now
for us on the Intel Committee.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, and so why don't we talk about that a
little bit more in deep dive. So there are some
critics that say that obviously that initial report one of
seventeen intelligence agency committees, essentially it was non verified, it
was non corroborated, it was a low confidence report, and
it was leaked so out of the gate.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
It seemed presumptive.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And would you say that this sort of culture fostered
in the media, especially in the mainstream media, is one.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Kind of like you know, some that they have to get.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Something out now, and it seems in such stark contrast
to the then general understanding that it might take a
little bit to understand the confirmation of the exact impact
of that bunker buster about that in the interim instead
of there.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Being patients, it was a pounce on something.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And it seems that the leak element was overlooked, especially
to that particular reporter that has a very sordid history
of running with stories that were deeply damaging and untrue.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
What say you, Congressman, Yeah, no, I thank you pretty
much summed it up right there. So what it appears
that there was a real quick sort of effort to
try to blunt the effects of this strike as applied
to success for President Trump. So he was chatting, you
know what a great success this was. And look, you
you don't have to love President Trump, but you should
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at least love your country enough to recognize you don't
want to jeopardize the safety and security of people who
are on the ground, who are responsible for planning and
executing that mission, for people that are collecting intelligence that
may help inform better decisions on on the behalf of
American people and.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
So you know, let's just pump the brakes a little
bit here. What are you trying to achieve? And so
the person who received the report, a CNN reporter, and
as you suggested, you know a history there of you
not having a problem with leaking information or of taking
a false narrative and running with it. Probably if you
really want to be taken seriously, I think you probably
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would have to look at, you know, the low confidence
nature of this report in question. That should have been
a red flag right there if you're receiving if you
first off, you don't need to be receiving classified information,
but if you're receiving it with a variety of disclaimers,
you probably might want to rethink that and maybe you know,
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reconsider the value of attacking the president in the immediate
app map of this strike.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And Congressman, obviously you are a United States Army veteran,
but you are in United States Air Force BRATT. So
my question to you, sir, is talk to us about
the pride throughout the military and really about the caliber
required and the collaboration required to pull off what seemed
effortless to us but was certainly the result of such
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a massive colossal effort on the US military's behalf talked
to us about the operation.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
So I don't think this plan came off in days
or weeks or months I think this is probably something
that was developed as from a strategic perspective that if
we were ever going to do anything, this is what
it would have to look like. It's probably been planned
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and practiced and drilled and so on, because that's how
the military works. And so number one, I think you
have to give credit to, you know, the planners of this.
It was a strategic masterpiece. It was you know, practically
executed brilliantly. And then I think Ke's talked about the
families back home at Whiteman Air Force Space and some
(05:13):
of the other places where you know, moms and dads
are deployed on these secret missions and you don't know.
All you know is they're gone for forty eight hours
and then they come home. And what a relief that
is to those families that they all came home unharmed.
And the effort that went into that that not just
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at Whiteman Air Force Space, but all the logistics that
were required, all the players across the d D spectrum,
everybody that made a contribution, and this was a multi
service effort that we just well, we may never know
the full depth and breadth of who the players were
and what role they all played, but no other military
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could have done this. And I mean, you really have
to credit President Trump for having the intestinal fortitude to
actually do it and support the military and executing this mission.
And so to those folks who were in the airplanes
in the air for thirty six hours plus, I mean,
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God bless them, the families that support them. I've been there.
You know, parents are deployed and you're just sort of
anxiously waiting to hear from them or you know, wondering
where they are, what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Are they okay?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You just can't say enough about this effort and the
heart that went into it, and not only that, but
you know, just the technical expertise and planning and all
that kind of stuff that we're able to deliver such
an effective blow to Iran and really ending the Iran
Israel war and bringing Iran to the table and resetting
the Middle East and possibly setting us a course for
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peace in that region. So, you know, all credit to
the Trump administration and the leaders in the military who
executed a brilliant, brilliant strike.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And I I will take that a step further to that,
you know, being being the loved one of people who
deploy its it. It feels different being that loved one
under this administration versus the prior administration, because that feeling
when you're holding down the home front, it is a
twenty four hour a day low level or sometimes spiked
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level of anxiety.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's just it's like it's like it's constantly with you.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's it's an albit It's sort of hard to describe,
but it's like an albatross on your shoulders all the
time when you have a dear loved one deployed, and
it feels different under this administration, knowing the commander in
chief has the military priorities and a piece through strength application.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Let's say you well, I would say this, you know
as a kid, you know watching my dad was deployed
several times and you know, served under multiple administrations. You know,
I'm I'm getting all myself. You know, I can remember,
you know when I was when when I was a kid,
my dad served in Vietnam and was deployed multiple times
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to other locations, and we didn't have Facebook, we didn't
have text messaging, we didn't have Snapchat, we didn't have
the ability to communicate in real time, and the best
we could hope for is a letter and it might
be days or weeks old by the time we got it,
and you know, you might sit around and watch the news,
and of course, back then, the news came on once
a day for half an hour, and you'd sit around
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and watch the news and kind of hoped that you
might get a glimpse of what was going on, but
really in the back of your mind thinking, I don't
really know that I want to see what's going on.
But that's what it was like for families then, and
a lot of it had to do with, you know,
did our president have maintain faith with the military. And
over the years, I've watched that sort of ebb and flow.
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Back in the day, there was really no question about that.
But as you've seen politics change over time, I've questioned
whether or not our commander in chief really have the
backs of our military. And I don't think you can
question that about Donald Trump. And that's why I think
it's a morale booster for those folks at home who
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know and understand that this is a president who absolutely
supports the military, has their back, is maintaining faith with
the military, and that's the difference maker for at least
some measure of peace of mind for families.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
At home and switching topics.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Congressman, you are a huge proponent and advocate for agriculture
and rural developments. You've sponsored and co sponsored a ton
of bills in those arenas. And my question is, how
does the Big Beautiful bill, how would it affect those
in rural communities or in the agricultural sector, or if
you want to take inversely, you know, how would they
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be affected if it doesn't pass? So that the American
people know.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well, so rural community is are an awful like the
rest of America, and that basic tax policy impacts them
just as much as it does anybody else. So if
you want to see a what is it ast sixty
eight percent tax hike on across the board for Americans,
then you know, don't support this effort. But I don't
think Republicans feel that way generally speaking. Now as it
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applies to rural America. You know, the heart and soul
of rural communities is agriculture. And so if you take
the tax provisions, for example, the death tax and what
they call the estate tax, we actually call it the
death tax, that has a huge impact on agricultural operations
when you're basically transitioning those from one generation to the next.
And the idea should be that you've been paying tax
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all along on all those assets, and then you know,
the operator or the you know, the patriarch or the
matriarch of the family taxes away and they transition that
family to the to the children, and insult to injury,
not only have they lost a parent, but now they're
getting taxed for it. And in what we say in
rural America with farmers, I mean they might be asset
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rich but cash poor. And what that means is we've
got a lot of equipment out there in the shed,
We've got a lot of grand we own, and now
what are we going to have to sell off to
be able to pay our estate tax? And how does
that impact our operations from a Class A cash flow standpoint?
And what does it do to our equity and our operations?
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And when we're talking about economic conditions that we've endured
over the last four years under Biden, the equity position
of these farmers has been really really impacted negatively. And
so what we can do here is shore that up
by passing this bill and addressing those kinds of things.
So that's sort of the heart and soul of rural
communities is the agriculture part of it. And then we
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have it's not just it's not just a lifestyle or
you know, it's this is their lives, this is how
they drive their livelihoods. And so, you know, fixing some
of the policy issues as it applies to production agriculture,
bringing those reference prices up into the modern era, if
you will. I mean, look, we're dealing on data that's
fourteen years old, and the economy has changed an awful
(11:57):
lot in fourteen years, and most notably in the last
four under the I Did administration, and so we do
need to address those reference prices, get them up to
reflect real world economic demands. This bill does that, and
it really makes it easiest easier for us to go
forward and address the Farm Bill because a lot of
the heavy lifting that we would ordinarily deal with in
the Farm Bill is being taken care of in this
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one big, beautiful bill.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I am the daughter of a like serial business owners entrepreneur.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
My dad a US Navy veteran, and we have a
family farm and it's a small winery. We grow all
the grapes ourselves. He does everything himself. You know, he's
almost eighty and he's out there, he's spraying, he's doing everything,
and it's it's farming and the I don't think I
can ever really overstate the restrictive and suffocating nature of
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regulations and compliance, and especially because we operate in an
organ so it's it's sort of a I don't know,
it's sort of a used to be more of a
mixed state and now it's just so democratic. But you
know when feds come onto your land and they tell
you that you're oh, this is half a degree off.
Oh you know what this label that Nope, you got
(13:12):
to redo like it can be gut wrenching and totally
devastating financially. And that's on top of you know, we
lost when you're thirty percent of our crop because of
bird damage.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
You know, not to mention seasons in the weather.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And when the government comes in too and makes you
tithes for the privilege of owning your own property and
then working it, I mean that can be generationally suffocating
impact because many of these small farms and small businesses
can't survive that.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Well. I think this is the good news about this president.
He understands that a country that can't fade and clothe
itself is vulnerable, and so it doesn't matter if you're
a smaller scale operation or a large scale operation. Bottom
line is, we don't need the United States to be
a net food importer and then balance right now sort
of peetering on that brain. We're not in danger of
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not being able to produce for ourselves from the perspective
of staple items, but we like things. You know twenty
four seven three sixty five. You may already know this, Emily,
but the best selling item in Walmart is bananas. We
don't grow bananas in the United States, but this is
just an indication of what we like here in the
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United States. So we want bananas twenty four seven three
sixty five, and so we have them because we trade
with foreign countries. And where I'm going with this is
our balance sheet already reflects that we're a net food
importer because we import certain things because we like to
have them year round. Bottom line, though we can produce
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for ourselves, we just may not have every single thing
we want whenever we want it, all year round. Contrast
that to a country like China. China can't feed and
feeding clothes themselves. Less than twenty percent of the land
mass is airble and suitable for agriculture production, which is
why they have to go elsewhere to feed and clothe themselves.
That accounts for a lot of the reason why they're
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so economically belligerent, because they know they're people depend on it,
they're desperate for it, and it's manifesting a real economic belligerence,
and that, backed up with just their communist ideology, makes
them a difficult nation to work with. Here at home,
we don't need to make those policy mistakes. We need
to make sure that we're allowing producers to produce. It's
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in their interest to take care of their land. And
so the EPA comes at you with this fundamental misunderstanding
of agg producers, and fundamentally it's in the interests of
farmers to care for their land because they derive their
livelihood from it. So give us a break. One time.
I talk to farmers every day in my district and
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they'll all tell you the same thing. Get the Feds
off our land, reduce the regulatory burden, and open up
markets and will be fine. And that's really all they're
asking for.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, amen, and do you do you see that, You
see that on the horizon.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Do they see that on the horizon.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I think they feel a heck of a lot better
about it with this president, and so some of the
policy achievements in one beautiful Bill, or OB three as
we call it, actually help address those very issues. I
think the President has been very proactive on trade, and
so he is he is America first, and fair trade
(16:29):
and free trade are not necessarily the same thing. He
recognizes that. I'm a big advocate of fair trade, but
I do think we ought to put our American farmers
in a position of being treated fairly and not used
as leverage or not being bargained away for some other
grand trade deal. And you know, most trade deals start
(16:50):
and end with agriculture considerations because they're very sensitive, and
so a lot of times American farmers are, you know,
basically sold out. And this President's not going to do that.
And I think American farmers steel that understand it, and
they know that even with all the tariff talk, tariff
and you know, and the you know, the traditional dialogue
(17:14):
has really been almost heresy to suggest tariff. But I
don't necessarily think we need to shy away from and
I think the President has demonstrated the value of tariffs
and how they can be used to affect positive outcomes.
And I think we're seeing that now. That's right. I
think farmers while we have historically heard farmers say no,
we don't want tariffs, but but that's what we have.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Congressman, thank you, thank you so much for joining Fox
Across America and most importantly for your service or this
was incredible.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Thank you. We'll be right back. Guys, stay with us,
don't go anywhere. Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayla.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Welcome back to Fox Across America with Emily Companya today
in for Jimmy Fayla. My next guest is an incredible
human being and it is President Trump's borders are Tom Homan, sir,
thank you so much for being on Frocks across America.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Figure that to me on Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So, sir.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Part of something that we've been discussing all morning is
the frightening vulnerability that this new ice block app renders
toward our ice agents. We know that they've been suffering
from an over five hundred percent increase in ambushes.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
And I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Proponents of this app seem to want to protect the
monsters that our ICE agents are putting their lives on
the line for to get out, while also rendering them
extra vulnerable by alerting these neighborhoods to ICE's presence.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
What's the user I'd.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Say, I started doing this job in nineteen eighty four,
and I cannot believe where we're at. We're the ones
who enforce laws. So men and women out there trying
to enforce laws of this country or the bad guys
and those who no longer broke the law are the victims.
And as you said, the taxancite ages sup over five
hundred percent. Apps go allow criminals to escape. They go
(19:03):
let nowhere ICE is operating, which means the bad guys
get awake, they get they get heads up that you
know ICE is comment. It also put to ICE an
extremely dangerous position because people, you know, there won't be
one one guy that's going to happen soon, there's laying
and wait, who's going to you know, wait for Ices
show up and attack them. So this is a dangerous,
(19:23):
dangerous situation. I've sent that information over the dog Asset
take them act whatever legal action they can take to
take because this is unprecedented attack, even by media outlet,
on the safety and security of those who's trying to
force all this country.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And I agree it's it's criminal.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
I mean, if you actively participate in that that is
obstructing then an ongoing and active investigation and certainly on
the execution of their duties.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So to me, it's it's I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
It should be DJ referred all day and hopefully the
app itself is rendered totally impotent and take it off, sir,
have you I'd like to focus for a moment on
the messages of families that have been positively affected by
the incredible work the ICE agents are doing. Can you
share for a moment what you're hearing from the voices
that do matter in this country that we are trying
so desperately to protect.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Well, if you look at who ICE is arresting. I
looked at the numbers this morning. I think just over
one hundred and thirty thousand illegal aliens arrested in the
interior in our interior cities, and the vast majority of
these are public safety threats, which makes our community stafe
for every day. I mean the operations I've been out on,
(20:33):
every operation I've been out on with the Manuel Ice,
retaking child predators health street. And these are people who
sexy assault for the child. I don't know, if I
don't know, if you get worse than that, They've rest
a lot of sexual deviants, of those who committed serious
crimes like murder, kidnapping, sexual so armed robbery. I mean,
(20:57):
these are people that are walking the street to this
country said the other day, there are over six hundred
thousand illegal aliens with criminal convictions walk in the streets
right now that we're trying to okay. And that's why
I've been pushing for this big beautiful bill. We need
more agents on the street, we need more detention beds,
we need more transportation, we need more technology to find
(21:19):
people don't want to be found, and this big beautiful
bill do it. That's why I've been working every day
to get this pass because well, you said, we're doing
incredible work already, but with more money, we can do more,
which means we take public safety threats and natural security
threats out of our communities quicker.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And on that note, the Alligator Alcatraz, as it's been
known the conversion of this sort of former airfield or
starting to become an airfield that is now going to
be used in collaboration with the State of Florida for
these criminal illegal immigrants to be held. What are your
thoughts on that and will that help at least from
the interim before OBII gets passed.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Well, because this is giving us beds pretty quickly, and
you know, and hats off to Governor Sances. He's been
a tip of the spirit of helping the Trump administration
and immigration enforcement. He came through this facility and it's
it's the right facility at the right times going to
hold to know several thousand criminal aliens down there, and
it's great, you know, Florida's doing it. Just again, he's
(22:20):
a tip of this spirit. He's also passed along Florida
where it's required every share from or chief of police
in the State of Florida has to assist ice with
you know, identifying significant public safety threast walking the street.
To Florida Governors Stances is really shown. He's a leader
down there. And what we can't wait for this facility
be up and running and we need those beds. I mean,
I woke up this morning. I think we have currently
(22:42):
like seventeen one hundred empty beds. Well we'll fill them
in three days, if you know, even accounting the people
were We do removal plates every day, but we got
to stay ahead of this and those beds in Florida,
Gon and keep us ahead of the game.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
And I have to say, sir, I was personally struck by,
you know, as we discuss all of these ICE agents
putting their lives lives on the line, all of these
incredible men and women that without even thinking, are protecting
American citizens first and foremost, and you too, suffer such
horrific threats. I read you're you're unable to even live
with your family at this moment. And what kind I
(23:16):
mean the level of service and sacrifice that is. I
just cannot overstate that how grateful we are as a
country to you for that service and dedication, because that
seems to be that that's no way for any American
to live, and yet that's how you live in service
to protection of those of us who live here.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, look, they want to they want to, they want
to threaten attack, They want you to go away, they
want you to shut up, they want us to stop
doing what we're doing. What Tom Holman is going anywhere,
Tom is going to shut up. Luckily my favor, my
family's safe. They're off someplace else. So you know, direct
me all you want. I'm not going away. We're not
going to stop what we're doing. What we're doing matters
to this country. The men and win advice that they're
(23:56):
taking threats every day, they're being docks every day, and
they stand ready to keep doing their job. So it
despite all the hate, despite all the threats, despite all
the fault story, if being pushed my media, Ice is
going to be on the streets today. Ice going to
be on the streets tomorrow. LA. We got over one
hundred teams in LA working right now. We've got over
one hundred teams in New York City working right now.
(24:16):
And not only that, we're going to double and triple
down these numbers. So the more the more you want
to yell and scream, the more we're going to do
our job. Look, you got your first memory rights. You
can protes us all you wanted. You have that right.
No shame on you for pushing back into Ice, for
simply enforced the laws and acted by Congress. If you
don't like Rice does, go yell, go yell at Congress.
But all the threats and all what they think is
(24:38):
intimidation isn't going to work. Ice is going to get
this job done for the American people. They put President
tumping office on this issue, and we're going to keep
President Tran's promised to American people. We're not going to stop.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And the final question, sir, is that the topic of
the potential of Iranian sleeper cells in the United States
now under the prior administration, we have hundreds of known
terrorists or watch lists that we're not sure at the
end of the encounters, we don't know where they are.
We have reports from people like Sam Woman I just
linked on his last name, and Sarah Adams, former CIA targeter,
(25:11):
who talked about the horrific weapons that might have gotten
across the southern border under the prior administration, like surface
to air missiles in the Lake. So talk to us
about that threats and how Americans can either help protect
themselves or help you to enforce the laws and to
get these bad guys out.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Look. I've been screaming about this for four years the
Bide administration, and I woke up every day upside of
what this administration did when they unsecured the most secure
boarder who ever had on purpose. I knew it's sex trafficking,
is cost Kyrocket, I knew vatanas about was colost Kyrocket.
But my number one issue, as you know, I worked
for Fox Cntebuary for four years. My biggest concern was
(25:49):
the open border create the biggest national security vulnerability this
country's ever seen. And four years of Trump forty five
we had a total of fourteen people on terrace wash
lists that were apprehended Joe Biden over four hundred. But
the biggest concern, we got over two million known goutaways.
Two million people across the border. We don't know who
(26:10):
they are, where they're from, why they're here, or where
they are right now. If we arrested four hundred people
on terror squa wash list, how many that two million
people came from a country sponsor in terror. If anybody
thinks that number is zero, then you're a moron. So
this is a huge national security of channel ices out
there trying to identify these national security thrists. FBI is
out there intelligence communities working very close with DHS and
(26:33):
the Bureau However, you're exactly right. We don't know where
everybody's at. That's why we're putting everything we got on
this right now. This is a huge, I'll say it again,
the biggest national security mistake this nation has ever seen.
And it was done on purpose. They opened the border
on purpose, not mismanagement, not incompetence, by design, and now
(26:55):
we're trying to fix this mess, which is again the
reason we need this big, beautiful bill paid. We need
the money to increase assets, to increase intelligence, to find
these people wherever they're at in the United States. We
need to arrest them, we need to detain them, we
need to port them. So it's we're we're gonna be
dealing with this for a decade. On what Joe Biden
(27:15):
did to the board the last four years.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Is there anything else that the American people can do
that listeners can do besides voicing support for the bill
to provide those resources for you guys, Is there anything
else that we can do that will help you in
this effort? This is now ten years ahead of US
effort of this massive national security.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Threat called you can always call it the DHS hotline.
Nice hotline, And if you see something you know, report it,
not only just you know sufficient people who may be
a n security threat. If you see any you know, illegalaning, criminals,
you see the criminal activity area, let us know it.
But again, and we had one more thing. We're looking
(27:52):
forward three hundred thousand missing children that were smuggling in
this country released by the last administration to unvetter sponsors.
We're trying to these children. We know some are in
forced labor, we know some in forced sex trafficking. Some
are going to be with family members as parents, your listeners,
anybody's a parent, you haven't any ability any you know,
we all as parents, we all have that ability to
(28:13):
recognize when something's not right with a child. If you
see a child is working at a place where much
too young to be working there. If you see a
child doesn't have freedom and woman, a child is with
an adult that just you just something clicks. It just
isn't right. Make a call to the hotline, even if
one lead in a hundred turn out to save a child,
(28:33):
it's worth it. So we're asking them to well to look, observe.
If you see something, report ice tip line. And we're
running down orders.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Our Tom Homan, thank you sir, it's such an honor
to have you on the program, and thank you for
your incredible service.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Thank you so much, thank you, God bless you.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
All Right, guys, more Fos Across America when we return.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
You're listening to the show that Stay four describes as
standard and four.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to
do that because that's not nice.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
This is Fox Across America.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
With Jimmy Fake Oh sorry, guys, I got distracted by
the amazing music.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
They're afraid to stippen. It's Emily Comfino.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
You are listening to Fox Across America and I'm filling in.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
For Jimmy Fela. You're right, the inmate is running the asylum.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Today.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
We've had an array of an incredible guess, really amazing,
and so they're keeping me.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
They're keeping me straight and arrow.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Here before I start rocking out in the studio, we
have a caller that I would like to bring in
because earlier, guys, all right, we were talking about this
whole thing that apparently gen Z does, which is they
go to a bar and they pay for a drink
one at a time, which is obviously really annoying, and
then a bartender was quoted by saying, well, every generation
has its quirk, So I was curious, what quirks do
you think that you have?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I'm gen X. I feel like I don't know what
is ours. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So let's take Vinnie from Connecticut, who has something to
share with Fox across America.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
While welcome Vinnie.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Hey, Emily, you're doing a great job doing in for
Jimmy today.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Thanks.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Now, as far as the whole generational thing goes, I'm
the same age as Kennedy, and what I am finding
out is the older I get, the more nostalgic I get.
That's one reason why I like Jimmy's show because I
get most of his references. And another reason why I
enjoy show is because he's very sincere, just like his friends,
which are people like you Kennedy didn Kennedy didn and
(30:27):
Joey Jones. Do you get most of Are you old
enough to get Jimmy's references?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Of course I am. I'm like, I'm all, I'm are
you Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yes, guys, guys, let's just set the record straight. Number one,
I was born in the seventies. Number two, I'm gen X.
Number three. I have two older sisters, so my influences,
like I am, I am much, I don't. I don't
understand a thing about anyone that is younger than me.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I grew up without the internet.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I didn't have an email until college, and I didn't
even know what it was. So and I feel like
the deepest influences on my life are my older sisters,
which were squarely, you know, total eighties kids. So yes, sir,
I do.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
That's funny. That's funny. So you lived through them when
you were younger, is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, yeah, and like Havy, you know had I had
a tail. My haircut was a tail in kindergarten. You know,
I was five in nineteen eighty four, rocking the eighties gear.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
So yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Eighties speak is my first language. So what do you
think our annoying thing at the bar is? What do
you think our cork at the bar is? Besides being
too awesome? If such a thing?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
You know, I don't you know my age. I don't
go to bars much anymore, you know what I mean?
So I don't do that too much anymore. But you know,
I do want to ask you a question. Are you
coming to any car shows in Connecticut this year. I
knew you were here like one or two years ago.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, I came to one.
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Are you coming to any of this year?
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Not?
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Thank you so much for asking.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
So, guys, but he's talking about is the Dream Ride
has a dream show. It's one of the one of the,
if not the largest car show in the country, an
incredible show that covers like all of these polo fields
in Connecticut, and they have exotics, vintage, classic, I mean,
it's just an amazing array. And then they do a
whole ride benefiting those with special needs.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
YEP, A really amazing show.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
At my car one first place in her class and
she also won the Judge's Choice Award, and both of
those trophies hang proudly in my office. And then when
I go to other car shows, I like display them
with a car. So that was really a once in
a lifetime exceptional feeling for me there in Connecticut. But
I don't think I can make it this year because
my schedule is just so sort of crazy that I
wish I could. Every time I do something, I'm like,
(32:46):
I can't wait to do this again next year, And
then the reality is it's hard for me to sort
of be everywhere.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
At one time.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Now I live two towns away. That was at the
Farmington Polo Grounds you were at. Yeah, I literally lived
two towns. When I was going to go, I ended
up losing motivation. And then I saw when you did
the Outnumbered thing and you talked about that that you
were there. I was so disappointed that I didn't go,
because I definitely would have noticed your car and I
would have looked for you. I was so disappointed that
I didn't make it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Sorry, you were so kind. Well, don't be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
There will be many car shows in the future. And
I'm you know, there was a lot of traffic, so
sometimes it's just easier to stay home.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
I totally understand that.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
But I do hope that you get to go this
year because it is such an incredible car show for sure.
So all right, you're Kennedy's age. So what's your favorite
eighties movie?
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (33:34):
Favor eighties movie?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
There were there were so many. There were so many
of them. I know, you know what I liked, you know,
I think Uncle Buck was that eighties or was that nineties?
I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Was that tail end of the eighty nine says the
stroll Room. Let's look up standards and practices.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Yeah, I enjoyed, I enjoyed Uncle Buck. Yeah I liked
uh oh, Firis Ruler's Day Off. Did you enjoy that movie?
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Of course, totally say Harris, Yeah I didn't.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
I didn't watch the Miley Ringwild movies. I didn't watch
any of that stuff. But i'd like John Candy. I
loved Farris Buller's Day Off. And that's all I can
really remember. You know, I'm I'm you know, Jimmy's on
a lot of stations and he's going to be on Harford,
He's going to be in you know, on New York
and w R tonight, and I am a little nervous.
So got to forgive me a little bit here.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Oh you're great, now, you're doing awesome. It's just like
chatting with a friend.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
So again, since I have all these sisters, we were
we weren't. All the Molly ring World movies were and
you know, we did like all of it. Pretty in
Pink and The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles and all
of this stuff. But all of those soundtracks I had
on tape. I think they're still they are still somewhere
in the house, you know, in shoe boxes or whatever.
But certainly like that's how also we cut. I cut
(34:47):
my teeth on all of that music.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Back in the day. It was all of the soundtracks.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
And then we would go to the Tower Records at
the bottom of the hill and get I was allowed
to pick out like one tape and a poster, so
we had.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
It was so great.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It was such a the simpler times. Like you said,
you sort of feel nostalgic. So do I believe me
if the world could just go back to the way
it was.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
But of course in some ways, Hey, we're more awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
We've got coyote illuminator engines, we've got improvements on the
three point fifty one. I think that's going to be
the most controversial statement that I've said all day.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Don't at me, guys, but thank you, Vinnie, Thank you
for the chat. Guys.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Call in eight eight eight seven, eight, eight, nine, nine
ten and tell me anything you want within reason. All right, guys,
more Fox across America after this stay with us.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
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