October 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity opens the hour with a powerful interview featuring Elie Sharabi, who spent 491 days held hostage by Hamas following the October 7th terrorist attacks. Sharabi shares his extraordinary story of survival, the loss of his family, and the lessons he learned about strength, faith, and evil. Hannity also breaks down the chaos in the New York City mayoral race, the growing panic among Democrats, and why this election could become a turning point for the city and beyond.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All of you for being with us. Right down are
toll free telephone number. If you'd like to be a
part of this extravaganza, it's eight hundred and nine to
four to one, Sean. If you want to join us,
I will introduce you today to Elie Sharabi. He was
held for four hundred and ninety one days by Hamas
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after October seventh. He lost his wife and child that
day they were murdered. He didn't know it the whole
time he was in captivity. He has written a book, Hostage.
It's debuted as a New York Times bestseller. His story
is beyond compelling and one that everybody needs to know,
especially that those that really seem to have absolutely no
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clue about what it means to what radical Islamic terrorists
and terror groups like Hamas are all about. He will
give you a first hand account four hundred and ninety
one days and he was one of the lucky ones
that was released and survived.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
How did he survive? What did he learn? What did
he know?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
How did he eat? I mean he gives every every
chapter verse in detail. If think of anybody puts themselves
in his shoes, and you ask yourself well, how do
you think you would survive?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I mean that that's the long and the in the
short of it. We have a lot of political issues,
A lot is raging in New York now over this
mayoral race. I'm not sure why you know, this last
minute panic is set in, but it has. And the
panic is, oh, mom, Donnie can win. I'm like, yeah, no,
Adam Schiff, You're no kidding. I mean you people just
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finally getting a hold of this. We've been talking about
this idiot every single day warning New York City, every
single day. We've gone over as a record exhaustively on
this show. I'm not going to repeat myself here today.
And now the focus seems to be this last minute,
last gasp attempt. Let's prop up Andrew Cuomo and try
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to force Curtis leewill. First of all, there have been
many polls that have come out head to head Mamdani
versus Cuomo, and there's not one that's even well, I
mean relatively close if you consider four or five points close.
And there's absolutely zero chance that every Curtis supporter is
going to be voting for Andrew Cuomo, who's out there
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trying to court these votes.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You know, with all due respect, the.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Wake up call for all of you in New York
City should have come after the primary. The wake up
call for Andrew Cuomo, who really seems to have been
phoning it in the whole time, should have come after
the primary. And it even took him a while to
decide to get in. And you know, the idea that
you're putting all the pressure on Curtis is if Curtis
is somehow responsible for this, he's running as a Republican
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in a democratic city like Rudy Giuliani did, and Rudy
Giuliani won I think by two points.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It was a very close race, and it's very difficult
in a city where you have Democrats out numbering Republicans
like nine or ten to one.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But everybody's kind of hitting the panic button on all
of this, and it's a little too little, too late
for all of you, to be very honest, and if
you really wanted to build an effort, the five alarm
fire should have gone off in your head after the primary.
And this guy won in spite of his radicalism. That
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should have been everybody's wake up call. You know, in
an interview I guess, you know, with Sid I guess
that Andrew CMO was on yesterday and Andrew he was
asked the question, well, would you consider reaching out to Curtis?
I haven't thought of that. I'm like, why not? I mean,
this is the point he took off those New York
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Post reports como in the middle after losing the primary
to Mom Donnie. If that wasn't a wake up call
to get him to get his assing gear and start
running a real campaign and raising money and hitting the
streets shaking hands. I mean, did anybody ever learn anything
from Ed Kotch. Ed Kotch was a man of the
people in New York City, and he would be there
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even the day after election. He'd be out, you know,
at subway station, shaking hands, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Before the election.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How am I doing? How am I doing? And being
in touch with people? And I don't see any of
that with these candidates. The only one that actually is
doing that is Curtis Sliwap. I'm Donnie's all controlled events
and you know, arrogant and super confident. At this point,
there was one interesting poll which you know, talks to
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the issue of immigration, published by Patriot Polling, and this
is what they start out this article by saying that
decades of massive illegal immigration to New York City, New
York has now propelled zoron COMI marxismm Donnie's campaign to
be the city's next mayor. In other words, foreign born voters,
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they go on, are lining up in droves to support
Mam Donnie, an immigrant himself, and his socialist agenda. And
you know, if you look at the polls right now,
it's forty three percent Mumdanni, thirty two percent Cuomo, nineteen
percent Curtis. You know, it's just an assumption that I
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think is beyond a stretch. They'll have their final debate tonight,
and let me predict what's going to happen exactly what
happened in the last debate. And you know, zoron Marxist
COMMI Mum Donnie is going to be smiling away and
acting likable as can be. And I get everybody's in
a panic. I'm just I'm just looking at the timing
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of it and saying, excuse me. You know, we've been
trying to warn everybody for a long time. This is coming,
and nobody should be surprised here, and nobody should be
blaming Curtis Sliwa for this. Uh and the idea that
it never occurred to Andrew Cuomo to reach out to
Sleea and form a coalition is a little breathtaking to me.
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And taking ten days off and doing everything else in between. Now,
I will say this, I don't have a lot of
confidence that that Mamdani can be beaten. Myself, I think
this is a fate of complete hope.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I've been surprised in elections. You don't know till the
votes accounted. But if you're looking for a potential huge
upset Republican victory, calm election day, I'd be looking to
the state of New Jersey and Jack Chidarelli, who's running
against Mikey Cheryl. Now this probably will be I'm just
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telling all you in New Jersey, this is their last shot.
This is it for you. If you don't, if you
don't make the pivot, now, you basically have have given
yourself a sentence of you know, forever blue state, radical
defund dismantle no bail law, you know, gender identity crap
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that you're going to get from the Democrats. That you've
been getting from the Democrats and the highest taxes in
the country. You know this, this is a turning point. Now,
we did have Matt Towery and Robert Kahaley. They they
have polled that race and they have it had a
one point lead for the Democrat Mikey Sheryl, that's the
one that couldn't graduate with her Naval Academy class and
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has given given conflicting answers as to why. Obviously there
was some cheating scandal. But she said on the one
hand that she didn't get to walk with her class
because she wouldn't rat out the people that she knew
were involved. And she said, I told them everything. Well,
it can't it's it's only gonna be one.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Of the other.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't wish this on the people of New York.
I don't wish this on the people of New Jersey.
Uh And you know, President Trump even said I'd rather
have a Democrat than a communist. That's gonna be up
to the people of New York. But I don't tell
people what to do. And but I am telling people
in New Jersey in particular, you do have a real
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opportunity if you show up. It's all gonna it's all
going to count on turnout, all of it and every
bit of it.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Now we can go to Spanberger, who is down in
the Commonwealth of Virginia, where she is voted to protect radical,
the radical d C crime build, even that Biden opposed
in twenty twenty two. I mean, Spamburger, you know, championing
the right of men to be in women's locker rooms
and play women's sports, taking all sorts of other extreme
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and radical left positions. Now we're learning that when DC
passed the new crime bill, that even dozens of Democrats
in the House and Senate voted to strike it down
and Biden agreed. Abigail Spamberger is, you know, voted to
defend it. He's not showing up for next to any
votes there at all, but on you know, of the
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important issues you know, for the people.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Huge.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
She won't promise not to raise taxes in the Commonwealth.
She won't promise anything and win some seers, would be
a very good governor. Now, I do think that race
is close, but it's favoring the Democrat at this time.
I mean, I think Virginia is a blue state because
ninety percent of Northern Virginia. Are all people in the
bureaucracy that work in Washington, d C. We'll see what happens.
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By the way, in New Jersey, Jack Chitdarelli, Donald Trump
did weigh in on this UH taken to truth social
touting that Chittarelly doing very well in the polls urged
his supporters in the Garden state to go vote for
Jack Chittarelly. He will not let you down. And I
do know that there are National Republicans now, I will
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tell you that behind the scenes, panics set in in
both New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Virginia and the
Democratic DNC. They are pouring millions of dollars into both
races in the final weeks of this camp because they
are on the ropes. They see the polling and they
know it's much closer than it should be. I mean,
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these are all all three of these races, New York City,
New Jersey, Virginia. You know, Glenn Youngkin was the exception.
And Glenn Youngkin, it was almost like the perfect timing,
perfect candidate, perfect moment. And the good news is is
the people of Virginia can keep that going with win.
Some seers, but you know, then we have this controversy
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that has may merged in Maine. You have a Democratic
US Senate candidate, Plattner is his name, promising, Oh, he's
going to get his Nazi tattoo removed. Bernie Sanders endorsed
this campaign, defended his decision to get the Nazi tattoos,
saying Platner was going through a dark period. Oh I
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wonder if he'd say the same thing about a Republican anyway,
The hopeful grand Platner expressed red on Tuesday over getting
a tattooed nearly two decade day, two decades ago that
appears similar to a Nazi symbol. The problem for him
is this is not the only controversy this guy has.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
He has He said he.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Had no idea of any Nazi link when he got
the tattoo. I'm not sure I believe that one either,
but you know, I'll let you decide. But there have
been a whole series of other posts that have emerged
in that campaign in Maine, and according to deleted posts
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that were first reported by the k Files, Platner went
by the Reddit user named p Hustle. In his posts,
he said that all police are bastards and rural white
Americans are actually are racist and stupid. He also responded
to twenty thirteen post about asking people from other races questions. Apparently,
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Platner also questioned in one Reddit reply quote, why don't
black people tip? And the political candidate ones worked as
a bartender at tune in in Washington, d C. Sense
apologized for the comments it's not reflected for who I
am now, who the person that I am today? Like, Okay,
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so Democrats now are beginning to distance themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
They're just in trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Generally, they might be thinking, I mean, the radicals that
run the party, I guess they're the big victors here.
But in terms of what should be, you know, layup
races for Democrats in New Jersey and in Virginia are
not going to be. And I'm just telling you, if
you live in Virginia, if you live in New Jersey,
take it seriously. And if you live in New York City.
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I'm a believer. You fight to the very end, you
don't give up. But apparently Chucky Schumer is abandoning an
appearance of neutrality as these controversies pile up around Plattner
and anyway Apparently he favors main governor Janet Mills to
take on Susan Collins, but he avoided a public endorsement
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in the competitive race. That flew out the window today
when Schumer said Mills is the best candidate to retire
Susan Collins, Bernie Sanders said, like many others, went through
a dark period of his life and he's just standing
up for the guy. But all of this points to
a Democratic Party just absolutely dominated by strange people. A
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racist Democrat donor told Jamaican American veteran and Republican gubernatorial
candidate win some sears to go back to Haiti lost
his job with Lockheed Martin a subsidiary after his viral breakdown.
I mean pretty sick. And you know this. This is
the state of where politics is in the country today.
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Unbelievable eight ninety four one, sean, if you want to
be a part of the program, Okay. So I went
back and I look to this poll. So just because
there is and the story in the New York Post
is is New Jersey going red? Why in the headline
is why New Jersey Governor Poles that shows Mikey Cheryl
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up five points is actually really bad news for her.
You think, what are they talking about? Well, okay, this
poll was done by Rutgers Eagleton. Let's look at Rutgers
Eagleton record, shall we It's a garbage polster. They missed
the race. And by the way, Jack Schitdarelli only lost
by what three points? I think in the last time
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that he ran. Okay, they missed it by five and
they missed it. They missed the race in twenty twenty
four by fourteen one. Guy Matt Rooney quoted laughing about
the survey saying, well, if that means that Jack is
plus two at this point, I'm just telling you, based
on Matt Towery and Robert Kahley that pulled it, it's
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a one point race, and of this saying it's a
one point race, that's a winnable race. That now that
means this is a turnout race for New Jersey. Now,
I mean, I don't want to be pollyannish. I'm just
telling the people in New Jersey you've got a shot.
You've got a real shot, you know, to stop the idiocy.
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I mean, this woman can't even tell you why she
was not allowed to march with her class. That should
be disqualified in New Jersey, and you know she won't
commit to not raising taxes that should be disqualifying. I mean,
if you want to go back to you know, men
in women's locker rooms and playing women's sports and in
the Commonwealth of Virginia, which propelled Glenn Youngkin to office,
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you know, then then I guess vote for Abigail Spamberger.
But I think you win some seies will be an
awesome governor there. I wish I could give you a
little more hope. Is this driving you crazy? I mean, Linda,
you see the numbers. I mean, we're not Pollyannish, don't
we don't be asked this audience. And the numbers are
what the numbers are in New York City. I you know,
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when you have Democratic registration outnumbering Republicans in New York
City eight nine, ten to one, I mean, it's it's
the math is hard. Math matters in politics. And even
the people saying well, if Curtis gets out of the race,
at least Cuomo is a shot. I don't see any
poll that shows that. Show me a poll where it's
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neck and neck.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I think even more so, Cuomo should get out. Let
Curtis stay, put the proper money behind him instead of
bashing him and telling him to give out, give him
the money that he needs to combat the money that's
being given to this lunatic, and then show everything he's
ever said, every stupid rap video he ever did, everything
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he's ever done, which is a whole hell of a
lot of nothing.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, you had the right idea in the beginning, and
you said they ought to get together and they all
team up. And at that point I think you were
talking about Adams, Kliwa and Cuomo if they want to stop,
if your goal is to stop mom Donnie, that was
your idea.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
That was a very clever idea and that.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But they're never going to do it. Yesterday, you know,
too many egos.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, Cuomo, his answer was, oh gee, I never thought
of that.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'm like, well, that's your problem, you know, taking ten
days off after labor day, that that is like, that's
that's Polow ticking one. Oh Oneymo's not the guy beggins.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, I mean the problem is.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I mean he's got a hangover from his years as
governor and a lot of resentment over how he treated
COVID in the nursing home. Scandal and his book scandal,
and you know the allegations against them scandal which he dismisses.
I'm just saying the fact that he didn't think about
that possible unity ticket is on him. That's not on Curtis.
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You know, he you know, loves to brag he's number
one anyway. So I'm more optimistic that you have a shot.
And I've ben pay close attention. I'm not saying I
am just saying Jack Chittarelli can win if you people
in New Jersey get your act together and get your
ass out and go vote.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Well, can we.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Talk about Passaic County? Can we talk about the fact
that the GOP is trying to get cameras and trying
to get information and make sure every vote is counted
because there seems to be a business and Passaic, I
mean that's a baia.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You had the Demo Democratic what is it city council.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I believe they voted against it when because they they
they've had early voting, and they voted against putting cameras
in the room where the ballots are, and they voted
against putting cameras outside to know who goes in and
out of that room and to me, that's unforgivable because
both Democrats and Republicans have claimed. You know that these
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elections don't have proper integrity. If you want integrity in elections,
I sound like a broken record.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'll repeat my self.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And that is voter ID signature verification, chain of custody controls.
That means cameras on ballots when they reach a voting
a polling place, and cameras the whole time. And nobody
gets to go in there and mess with the ballots
that are in a room somewhere, and you need to
know who has access to it, who doesn't have access
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to it, and should be on camera the whole time.
Then of course updated voting roles, partisan observers, watching the
vote counting all day. Oh sorry, the voting all day,
the vote counting all night, I mean, simple stuff. Then nobody,
no Republican or Democrat, will have any any leg to
stand on and say, oh, this was an unfair election.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
They were cheating, they were cheating, et cetera. They won't
won't work.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
A car ram ramming incident yesterday at the White House.
A driver of a great Accura arrested after smashing the
vehicle into the White House security gate, damaging several you
know of the You know they have these cement blocks
by the way, It is impossible. You're not going to
get in through that perimeter. I've been there too many times.
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Good luck if you're trying anyway. They drove the vehicle.
This was the seventeenth Street and East Street Northwest. I've
actually been in that area. I've been there, so uh no,
just pretty amazing. And the Left is still melting down
over the ballroom, even though we went through an entire
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history of renovations to the White House by all these presidents.
Nobody seems to care at all. The Schumer shutdown continues.
Now get this, you know he's he Schumer's leader in
name only, Hakeem Jeffrey's leader in name only, and Hakim
Jefferies celebrating his parties no kings insanity over the weekend.
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This is what patriotism looks like. I didn't see anything
patriotic when up you hear people call for assassinating Donald
Trump and sucking the assassination of Charlie Kirk or talking
about shooting ice agents and a bunch of weirdos dancing
and singing and you know, dressing up as mascots and
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furry animals. I'm not sure what the point of it was,
you know, and I've heard these commentators, well, this is
an indication it's just like the Tea Party movement in
twenty ten. No, it's nothing like the Tea Party movement
in twenty ten. I was I think it was April fifteenth.
We did Hannity from Atlanta that night. We had like
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twenty thirty thousand people show up. Who were they? They
were moms and dads and kids and families and hard
working men and women in Atlanta that came that just
were fed up with big, bloated, bureaucratic overregulation and high taxation,
and they were saying that they had enough. Nobody can
give me the messaging of what this weekend was supposed
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to be about. It there's no kings, you know, insanity.
You know, Schumer's begging for another meeting with Donald Trump
anywhere in in place, anytime. Okay, what so you're going
to demand your one point five trillion dollars and then
walk out and say that President's being unreasonable. By the way,
John Fetterman is on TV with US tonight. He's urging
the GOP to use the nuclear option to reopen the government. Uh,
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and he said, I don't want to hear any Democrat
clutching pearls. I probably disagree with him on that method
because eliminating the filibuster, Republicans at some point are not
going to be in power, and that would be unbridled
control for Democrats. I have my issues with changing, you know,
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the rules of the Senate for this now the worst
story of the day, and it is the worst story
of the day, has to do with immigration. On a
side note of Republican Florida state lawmaker my state proposing
a bill that would open up opportunities for families to
sue local governments over killings committed by illegal immigrants. And
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we had Attorney General Upmire on TV the other night.
He's suing California, Washington State over that incident with it
where the eighteen wheeler, the driver there that couldn't read
English or read road signs, you know, killed three Florida residents.
But the Shane Jones Act would expand the Sunshine State's
staunch immigration laws, authored in honor of its namesake, killed
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in the traffic accident involving in a legal immigrant. This
one in twenty nineteen, and Representative Bernie Jacques. Jacques, who
introduced the bill, said that jones widow wife Nicki, helps
inspire the bill. For too long, American families have been
left to pick up the pieces after their loved ones
are taken from them by crimes that never that could
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have been prevented. And now this would allow this would
be a turning point and hold local governments accountable when
they don't enforce immigration laws. That would be great.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The Los Angeles City Council, on the other hand, a
Democrat is praising the illegal immigrant who rammed his car
into ICE agents yesterday as a pillar of our community.
You can't make this stuff up. And now this was
on foxnews dot com. Democrats are planning to launch a
master ICE tracker on their website. Understand what this means.
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In other words, citizens are tracking ICE agents in real
time for the purpose of aiding and embedding people that
didn't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty to get away
from ICE agents. Let me go to cut twenty here
and this is I don't think I have the right one.
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What cut is it?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Play it?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I share this with the mayor over the course of
the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be
launching on their website a master ice tracker where we
can We're going to be essentially tracking every instance that
we can verify that the community will send, you will
send us information.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
On Okay, let me tell you what that is.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
The ice tracker that is putting a target on ICE agents.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You are identifying.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
This is the like the ultimate in doxing here, uh
and you have you know, all these activists California to
New York. Activists are using apps to track ice raids.
And this surveillance. You know, some people say is lawful?
I have how is it not aiding in a bedding?
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The Trump administration thankfully is exploring ways to prosecute these activists.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I mean the idea that.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You are going to alert illegal immigrants to the fact
that ICE is on its way?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
What does that mean? What does that do?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
That takes away the element of surprise that is needed
for the safety of law enforcement agencies. Agents are literally
putting a target on them. It's the ultimate in doxing.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Pam Bondi slamming Democrats for putting ICE agents at risk
with this new tracking website, you know, she said at
Robert Garcia and that Senator blooming Law trying to put
ICE agents at risk for doing their jobs. It is,
according to the Supremacy Clause, the jurisdiction of the federal government,
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not state governments, to enforce federal immigration law. ICE agents
their job is to enforce that law by arresting people
that are in this country illegally. And she said, the
Department of Justice will have zero tolerance for any violence
against law enforcement, and we will prosecute any person who
physically assaults our agents. The problem is Democrats now are
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orchestrating and organizing an effort that will directly put these
ICE agents, put a target on them and put them
in the line of fire, you know. And as she
points out, with the Mayor of Los Angeles and their
website being announced, over the course of the next couple
of weeks weeks, there's going to be investigations into this
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master ICE tracker where we can get essentially tracking every
single instance that they can verify that the community will
be able to send us information on it. And that's
when Bondi fired off this. You know, ICE detaining one
hundred and seventy US citizens is not them doing their jobs.
I don't even know what these people are talking about.
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President Trump. You know, at some point here they're going
to all have blood on their hands because if one
of these ICE agents, in the course of doing their job,
which they are mandated to do enforcing the laws of
our country, and that they walk into some type of
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situation where they get fired at, it's these people that
will be partly responsible for this by removing the element
of surprise and purposely putting them in harm's way, aiding
and abetting those people that are not in the country legally.
This is your new modern radicalized extreme democratics, Socialist Marxist Party.
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Welcome to twenty twenty five. Here we go anyway. Eight
hundred and ninety four one Shawn is a number if
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All of you for being with us. Right down are
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four to one, Sean. If you want to join us,
I will introduce you today to Elie Sharabi. He was
held for four hundred and ninety one days by Hamas
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after October seventh. He lost his wife and child that
day they were murdered. He didn't know it the whole
time he was in captivity. He has written a book, Hostage.
It's debuted as a New York Times bestseller. His story
is beyond compelling and one that everybody needs to know,
especially that those that really seem to have absolutely no
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clue about what it means to what radical Islamic terrorists
and terror groups like Hamas are all about. He will
give you a first hand account four hundred and ninety
one days and he was one of the lucky ones
that was released and survived.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
How did he survive? What did he learn? What did
he know?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
How did he eat? I mean he gives every every
chapter verse in detail. If think of anybody puts themselves
in his shoes, and you ask yourself well, how do
you think you would survive?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
You don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I mean that that's the long and the in the
short of it. We have a lot of political issues,
A lot is raging in New York now over this
mayoral race. I'm not sure why you know, this last
minute panic is set in, but it has. And the
panic is, oh, mom, Donnie can win. I'm like, yeah, no,
Adam Schiff, You're no kidding. I mean you people just
(01:39):
finally getting a hold of this. We've been talking about
this idiot every single day warning New York City, every
single day. We've gone over as a record exhaustively on
this show. I'm not going to repeat myself here today.
And now the focus seems to be this last minute,
last gasp attempt. Let's prop up Andrew Cuomo and try
(02:00):
to force Curtis leewill. First of all, there have been
many polls that have come out head to head Mamdani
versus Cuomo, and there's not one that's even well, I
mean relatively close if you consider four or five points close.
And there's absolutely zero chance that every Curtis supporter is
going to be voting for Andrew Cuomo, who's out there
(02:22):
trying to court these votes.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
You know, with all due respect, the.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Wake up call for all of you in New York
City should have come after the primary. The wake up
call for Andrew Cuomo, who really seems to have been
phoning it in the whole time, should have come after
the primary. And it even took him a while to
decide to get in. And you know, the idea that
you're putting all the pressure on Curtis is if Curtis
is somehow responsible for this, he's running as a Republican
(02:48):
in a democratic city like Rudy Giuliani did, and Rudy
Giuliani won I think by two points.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
It was.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It was a very close race, and it's very difficult
in a city where you have Democrats out numbering Republicans
like nine or ten to one.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's insane.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But everybody's kind of hitting the panic button on all
of this, and it's a little too little, too late
for all of you, to be very honest, and if
you really wanted to build an effort, the five alarm
fire should have gone off in your head after the primary.
And this guy won in spite of his radicalism. That
(03:26):
should have been everybody's wake up call. You know, in
an interview I guess, you know, with Sid I guess
that Andrew CMO was on yesterday and Andrew he was
asked the question, well, would you consider reaching out to Curtis?
I haven't thought of that. I'm like, why not? I mean,
this is the point he took off those New York
(03:46):
Post reports como in the middle after losing the primary
to Mom Donnie. If that wasn't a wake up call
to get him to get his assing gear and start
running a real campaign and raising money and hitting the
streets shaking hands. I mean, did anybody ever learn anything
from Ed Kotch. Ed Kotch was a man of the
people in New York City, and he would be there
(04:08):
even the day after election. He'd be out, you know,
at subway station, shaking hands, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Before the election.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How am I doing? How am I doing? And being
in touch with people? And I don't see any of
that with these candidates. The only one that actually is
doing that is Curtis Sliwap. I'm Donnie's all controlled events
and you know, arrogant and super confident. At this point,
there was one interesting poll which you know, talks to
(04:37):
the issue of immigration, published by Patriot Polling, and this
is what they start out this article by saying that
decades of massive illegal immigration to New York City, New
York has now propelled zoron COMI marxismm Donnie's campaign to
be the city's next mayor. In other words, foreign born voters,
(04:59):
they go on, are lining up in droves to support
Mam Donnie, an immigrant himself, and his socialist agenda. And
you know, if you look at the polls right now,
it's forty three percent Mumdanni, thirty two percent Cuomo, nineteen
percent Curtis. You know, it's just an assumption that I
(05:21):
think is beyond a stretch. They'll have their final debate tonight,
and let me predict what's going to happen exactly what
happened in the last debate. And you know, zoron Marxist
COMMI Mum Donnie is going to be smiling away and
acting likable as can be. And I get everybody's in
a panic. I'm just I'm just looking at the timing
(05:42):
of it and saying, excuse me. You know, we've been
trying to warn everybody for a long time. This is coming,
and nobody should be surprised here, and nobody should be
blaming Curtis Sliwa for this. Uh and the idea that
it never occurred to Andrew Cuomo to reach out to
Sleea and form a coalition is a little breathtaking to me.
(06:04):
And taking ten days off and doing everything else in between. Now,
I will say this, I don't have a lot of
confidence that that Mamdani can be beaten. Myself, I think
this is a fate of complete hope.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I've been surprised in elections. You don't know till the
votes accounted. But if you're looking for a potential huge
upset Republican victory, calm election day, I'd be looking to
the state of New Jersey and Jack Chidarelli, who's running
against Mikey Cheryl. Now this probably will be I'm just
(06:41):
telling all you in New Jersey, this is their last shot.
This is it for you. If you don't, if you
don't make the pivot, now, you basically have have given
yourself a sentence of you know, forever blue state, radical
defund dismantle no bail law, you know, gender identity crap
(07:04):
that you're going to get from the Democrats. That you've
been getting from the Democrats and the highest taxes in
the country. You know this, this is a turning point. Now,
we did have Matt Towery and Robert Kahaley. They they
have polled that race and they have it had a
one point lead for the Democrat Mikey Sheryl, that's the
one that couldn't graduate with her Naval Academy class and
(07:25):
has given given conflicting answers as to why. Obviously there
was some cheating scandal. But she said on the one
hand that she didn't get to walk with her class
because she wouldn't rat out the people that she knew
were involved. And she said, I told them everything. Well,
it can't it's it's only gonna be one.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Of the other.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't wish this on the people of New York.
I don't wish this on the people of New Jersey.
Uh And you know, President Trump even said I'd rather
have a Democrat than a communist. That's gonna be up
to the people of New York. But I don't tell
people what to do. And but I am telling people
in New Jersey in particular, you do have a real
(08:05):
opportunity if you show up. It's all gonna it's all
going to count on turnout, all of it and every
bit of it.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Now we can go to Spanberger, who is down in
the Commonwealth of Virginia, where she is voted to protect radical,
the radical d C crime build, even that Biden opposed
in twenty twenty two. I mean, Spamburger, you know, championing
the right of men to be in women's locker rooms
and play women's sports, taking all sorts of other extreme
(08:40):
and radical left positions. Now we're learning that when DC
passed the new crime bill, that even dozens of Democrats
in the House and Senate voted to strike it down
and Biden agreed. Abigail Spamberger is, you know, voted to
defend it. He's not showing up for next to any
votes there at all, but on you know, of the
(09:01):
important issues you know, for the people.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Huge.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
She won't promise not to raise taxes in the Commonwealth.
She won't promise anything and win some seers, would be
a very good governor. Now, I do think that race
is close, but it's favoring the Democrat at this time.
I mean, I think Virginia is a blue state because
ninety percent of Northern Virginia. Are all people in the
bureaucracy that work in Washington, d C. We'll see what happens.
(09:26):
By the way, in New Jersey, Jack Chitdarelli, Donald Trump
did weigh in on this UH taken to truth social
touting that Chittarelly doing very well in the polls urged
his supporters in the Garden state to go vote for
Jack Chittarelly. He will not let you down. And I
do know that there are National Republicans now, I will
(09:46):
tell you that behind the scenes, panics set in in
both New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Virginia and the
Democratic DNC. They are pouring millions of dollars into both
races in the final weeks of this camp because they
are on the ropes. They see the polling and they
know it's much closer than it should be. I mean,
(10:08):
these are all all three of these races, New York City,
New Jersey, Virginia. You know, Glenn Youngkin was the exception.
And Glenn Youngkin, it was almost like the perfect timing,
perfect candidate, perfect moment. And the good news is is
the people of Virginia can keep that going with win.
Some seers, but you know, then we have this controversy
(10:30):
that has may merged in Maine. You have a Democratic
US Senate candidate, Plattner is his name, promising, Oh, he's
going to get his Nazi tattoo removed. Bernie Sanders endorsed
this campaign, defended his decision to get the Nazi tattoos,
saying Platner was going through a dark period. Oh I
(10:53):
wonder if he'd say the same thing about a Republican anyway,
The hopeful grand Platner expressed red on Tuesday over getting
a tattooed nearly two decade day, two decades ago that
appears similar to a Nazi symbol. The problem for him
is this is not the only controversy this guy has.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
He has He said he.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Had no idea of any Nazi link when he got
the tattoo. I'm not sure I believe that one either,
but you know, I'll let you decide. But there have
been a whole series of other posts that have emerged
in that campaign in Maine, and according to deleted posts
(11:33):
that were first reported by the k Files, Platner went
by the Reddit user named p Hustle. In his posts,
he said that all police are bastards and rural white
Americans are actually are racist and stupid. He also responded
to twenty thirteen post about asking people from other races questions. Apparently,
(11:57):
Platner also questioned in one Reddit reply quote, why don't
black people tip? And the political candidate ones worked as
a bartender at tune in in Washington, d C. Sense
apologized for the comments it's not reflected for who I
am now, who the person that I am today? Like, Okay,
(12:20):
so Democrats now are beginning to distance themselves.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
They're just in trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Generally, they might be thinking, I mean, the radicals that
run the party, I guess they're the big victors here.
But in terms of what should be, you know, layup
races for Democrats in New Jersey and in Virginia are
not going to be. And I'm just telling you, if
you live in Virginia, if you live in New Jersey,
take it seriously. And if you live in New York City.
(12:48):
I'm a believer. You fight to the very end, you
don't give up. But apparently Chucky Schumer is abandoning an
appearance of neutrality as these controversies pile up around Plattner
and anyway Apparently he favors main governor Janet Mills to
take on Susan Collins, but he avoided a public endorsement
(13:10):
in the competitive race. That flew out the window today
when Schumer said Mills is the best candidate to retire
Susan Collins, Bernie Sanders said, like many others, went through
a dark period of his life and he's just standing
up for the guy. But all of this points to
a Democratic Party just absolutely dominated by strange people. A
(13:30):
racist Democrat donor told Jamaican American veteran and Republican gubernatorial
candidate win some sears to go back to Haiti lost
his job with Lockheed Martin a subsidiary after his viral breakdown.
I mean pretty sick. And you know this. This is
the state of where politics is in the country today.
(13:53):
Unbelievable eight ninety four one, sean, if you want to
be a part of the program, Okay. So I went
back and I look to this poll. So just because
there is and the story in the New York Post
is is New Jersey going red? Why in the headline
is why New Jersey Governor Poles that shows Mikey Cheryl
(14:14):
up five points is actually really bad news for her.
You think, what are they talking about? Well, okay, this
poll was done by Rutgers Eagleton. Let's look at Rutgers
Eagleton record, shall we It's a garbage polster. They missed
the race. And by the way, Jack Schitdarelli only lost
by what three points? I think in the last time
(14:36):
that he ran. Okay, they missed it by five and
they missed it. They missed the race in twenty twenty
four by fourteen one. Guy Matt Rooney quoted laughing about
the survey saying, well, if that means that Jack is
plus two at this point, I'm just telling you, based
on Matt Towery and Robert Kahley that pulled it, it's
(15:00):
a one point race, and of this saying it's a
one point race, that's a winnable race. That now that
means this is a turnout race for New Jersey. Now,
I mean, I don't want to be pollyannish. I'm just
telling the people in New Jersey you've got a shot.
You've got a real shot, you know, to stop the idiocy.
(15:21):
I mean, this woman can't even tell you why she
was not allowed to march with her class. That should
be disqualified in New Jersey, and you know she won't
commit to not raising taxes that should be disqualifying. I mean,
if you want to go back to you know, men
in women's locker rooms and playing women's sports and in
the Commonwealth of Virginia, which propelled Glenn Youngkin to office,
(15:46):
you know, then then I guess vote for Abigail Spamberger.
But I think you win some seies will be an
awesome governor there. I wish I could give you a
little more hope. Is this driving you crazy? I mean, Linda,
you see the numbers. I mean, we're not Pollyannish, don't
we don't be asked this audience. And the numbers are
what the numbers are in New York City. I you know,
(16:08):
when you have Democratic registration outnumbering Republicans in New York
City eight nine, ten to one, I mean, it's it's
the math is hard. Math matters in politics. And even
the people saying well, if Curtis gets out of the race,
at least Cuomo is a shot. I don't see any
poll that shows that. Show me a poll where it's
(16:29):
neck and neck.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I think even more so, Cuomo should get out. Let
Curtis stay, put the proper money behind him instead of
bashing him and telling him to give out, give him
the money that he needs to combat the money that's
being given to this lunatic, and then show everything he's
ever said, every stupid rap video he ever did, everything
(16:51):
he's ever done, which is a whole hell of a
lot of nothing.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Well, you had the right idea in the beginning, and
you said they ought to get together and they all
team up. And at that point I think you were
talking about Adams, Kliwa and Cuomo if they want to stop,
if your goal is to stop mom Donnie, that was
your idea.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
That was a very clever idea and that.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But they're never going to do it. Yesterday, you know,
too many egos.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Well, Cuomo, his answer was, oh gee, I never thought
of that.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I'm like, well, that's your problem, you know, taking ten
days off after labor day, that that is like, that's
that's Polow ticking one. Oh Oneymo's not the guy beggins.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, I mean the problem is.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I mean he's got a hangover from his years as
governor and a lot of resentment over how he treated
COVID in the nursing home. Scandal and his book scandal,
and you know the allegations against them scandal which he dismisses.
I'm just saying the fact that he didn't think about
that possible unity ticket is on him. That's not on Curtis.
(17:57):
You know, he you know, loves to brag he's number
one anyway. So I'm more optimistic that you have a shot.
And I've ben pay close attention. I'm not saying I
am just saying Jack Chittarelli can win if you people
in New Jersey get your act together and get your
ass out and go vote.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Well, can we.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Talk about Passaic County? Can we talk about the fact
that the GOP is trying to get cameras and trying
to get information and make sure every vote is counted
because there seems to be a business and Passaic, I
mean that's a baia.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
You had the Demo Democratic what is it city council.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I believe they voted against it when because they they
they've had early voting, and they voted against putting cameras
in the room where the ballots are, and they voted
against putting cameras outside to know who goes in and
out of that room and to me, that's unforgivable because
both Democrats and Republicans have claimed. You know that these
(18:53):
elections don't have proper integrity. If you want integrity in elections,
I sound like a broken record.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I'll repeat my self.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And that is voter ID signature verification, chain of custody controls.
That means cameras on ballots when they reach a voting
a polling place, and cameras the whole time. And nobody
gets to go in there and mess with the ballots
that are in a room somewhere, and you need to
know who has access to it, who doesn't have access
(19:21):
to it, and should be on camera the whole time.
Then of course updated voting roles, partisan observers, watching the
vote counting all day. Oh sorry, the voting all day,
the vote counting all night, I mean, simple stuff. Then nobody,
no Republican or Democrat, will have any any leg to
stand on and say, oh, this was an unfair election.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
They were cheating, they were cheating, et cetera. They won't
won't work.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
A car ram ramming incident yesterday at the White House.
A driver of a great Accura arrested after smashing the
vehicle into the White House security gate, damaging several you
know of the You know they have these cement blocks
by the way, It is impossible. You're not going to
get in through that perimeter. I've been there too many times.
(20:05):
Good luck if you're trying anyway. They drove the vehicle.
This was the seventeenth Street and East Street Northwest. I've
actually been in that area. I've been there, so uh no,
just pretty amazing. And the Left is still melting down
over the ballroom, even though we went through an entire
(20:28):
history of renovations to the White House by all these presidents.
Nobody seems to care at all. The Schumer shutdown continues.
Now get this, you know he's he Schumer's leader in
name only, Hakeem Jeffrey's leader in name only, and Hakim
Jefferies celebrating his parties no kings insanity over the weekend.
(20:51):
This is what patriotism looks like. I didn't see anything
patriotic when up you hear people call for assassinating Donald
Trump and sucking the assassination of Charlie Kirk or talking
about shooting ice agents and a bunch of weirdos dancing
and singing and you know, dressing up as mascots and
(21:12):
furry animals. I'm not sure what the point of it was,
you know, and I've heard these commentators, well, this is
an indication it's just like the Tea Party movement in
twenty ten. No, it's nothing like the Tea Party movement
in twenty ten. I was I think it was April fifteenth.
We did Hannity from Atlanta that night. We had like
(21:32):
twenty thirty thousand people show up. Who were they? They
were moms and dads and kids and families and hard
working men and women in Atlanta that came that just
were fed up with big, bloated, bureaucratic overregulation and high taxation,
and they were saying that they had enough. Nobody can
give me the messaging of what this weekend was supposed
(21:54):
to be about. It there's no kings, you know, insanity.
You know, Schumer's begging for another meeting with Donald Trump
anywhere in in place, anytime. Okay, what so you're going
to demand your one point five trillion dollars and then
walk out and say that President's being unreasonable. By the way,
John Fetterman is on TV with US tonight. He's urging
the GOP to use the nuclear option to reopen the government. Uh,
(22:17):
and he said, I don't want to hear any Democrat
clutching pearls. I probably disagree with him on that method
because eliminating the filibuster, Republicans at some point are not
going to be in power, and that would be unbridled
control for Democrats. I have my issues with changing, you know,
(22:38):
the rules of the Senate for this now the worst
story of the day, and it is the worst story
of the day, has to do with immigration. On a
side note of Republican Florida state lawmaker my state proposing
a bill that would open up opportunities for families to
sue local governments over killings committed by illegal immigrants. And
(23:01):
we had Attorney General Upmire on TV the other night.
He's suing California, Washington State over that incident with it
where the eighteen wheeler, the driver there that couldn't read
English or read road signs, you know, killed three Florida residents.
But the Shane Jones Act would expand the Sunshine State's
staunch immigration laws, authored in honor of its namesake, killed
(23:25):
in the traffic accident involving in a legal immigrant. This
one in twenty nineteen, and Representative Bernie Jacques. Jacques, who
introduced the bill, said that jones widow wife Nicki, helps
inspire the bill. For too long, American families have been
left to pick up the pieces after their loved ones
are taken from them by crimes that never that could
(23:46):
have been prevented. And now this would allow this would
be a turning point and hold local governments accountable when
they don't enforce immigration laws. That would be great.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The Los Angeles City Council, on the other hand, a
Democrat is praising the illegal immigrant who rammed his car
into ICE agents yesterday as a pillar of our community.
You can't make this stuff up. And now this was
on foxnews dot com. Democrats are planning to launch a
master ICE tracker on their website. Understand what this means.
(24:20):
In other words, citizens are tracking ICE agents in real
time for the purpose of aiding and embedding people that
didn't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty to get away
from ICE agents. Let me go to cut twenty here
and this is I don't think I have the right one.
(24:45):
What cut is it?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Play it?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I share this with the mayor over the course of
the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be
launching on their website a master ice tracker where we
can We're going to be essentially tracking every instance that
we can verify that the community will send, you will
send us information.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
On Okay, let me tell you what that is.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
The ice tracker that is putting a target on ICE agents.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
You are identifying.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
This is the like the ultimate in doxing here, uh
and you have you know, all these activists California to
New York. Activists are using apps to track ice raids.
And this surveillance. You know, some people say is lawful?
I have how is it not aiding in a bedding?
(25:35):
The Trump administration thankfully is exploring ways to prosecute these activists.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
I mean the idea that.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
You are going to alert illegal immigrants to the fact
that ICE is on its way?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
What does that mean? What does that do?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
That takes away the element of surprise that is needed
for the safety of law enforcement agencies. Agents are literally
putting a target on them. It's the ultimate in doxing.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Pam Bondi slamming Democrats for putting ICE agents at risk
with this new tracking website, you know, she said at
Robert Garcia and that Senator blooming Law trying to put
ICE agents at risk for doing their jobs. It is,
according to the Supremacy Clause, the jurisdiction of the federal government,
(26:26):
not state governments, to enforce federal immigration law. ICE agents
their job is to enforce that law by arresting people
that are in this country illegally. And she said, the
Department of Justice will have zero tolerance for any violence
against law enforcement, and we will prosecute any person who
physically assaults our agents. The problem is Democrats now are
(26:50):
orchestrating and organizing an effort that will directly put these
ICE agents, put a target on them and put them
in the line of fire, you know. And as she
points out, with the Mayor of Los Angeles and their
website being announced, over the course of the next couple
of weeks weeks, there's going to be investigations into this
(27:13):
master ICE tracker where we can get essentially tracking every
single instance that they can verify that the community will
be able to send us information on it. And that's
when Bondi fired off this. You know, ICE detaining one
hundred and seventy US citizens is not them doing their jobs.
I don't even know what these people are talking about.
(27:33):
President Trump. You know, at some point here they're going
to all have blood on their hands because if one
of these ICE agents, in the course of doing their job,
which they are mandated to do enforcing the laws of
our country, and that they walk into some type of
(27:54):
situation where they get fired at, it's these people that
will be partly responsible for this by removing the element
of surprise and purposely putting them in harm's way, aiding
and abetting those people that are not in the country legally.
This is your new modern radicalized extreme democratics, Socialist Marxist Party.
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