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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We have got a lot to chat about, including the
fact that the Department of Homeland Security is now identified
four hundred migrants that were brought into the United States
of America by an ISIS affiliated human smuggling network. That's right,
ISIS affiliated human smuggling network has been able to identify.
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They've been able to identify at least four hundred migrants
broad in the US. Now, we're also going to deal
with the debates coming up in some new news that's
coming out about some lawyers that we're working within our
government to actually help Joe Biden when last time your
tax dollars are going for that. I'm going to get
to that other big story, but this one deals with
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national security, and I want to start here. I want
you to take a listen to this clip from NBC
Nightly News. Their investigation that these ISIS individuals are bringing
in hundreds of people into the US that we know about.
This does not count ones we may not know about.
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As a whistleblower from the US Border Patrol has come.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Forward tonight, NBC News has learned more than fifty migrants
with potential ties to an ISIS affiliated smuggling network are
at large in America. Many illegally cross the border and
were released into the US by border patrol because there
was no information suggesting terrortize at the time. Now their
whereabouts are unknown as immigration agents look to arrest them.
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US officials tell us saying they're among a group of
over four hundred migrants DHS identified in the US from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Kyrkistan, Georgia,
and Russia as subjects of concern because they were brought
to the US by an ISIS affiliated smuggling network, something
the FBI director warned about earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have
ISIS ties that we're very concerned about.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Ice IS located and arrested over one hundred and fifty
of the four hundred migrants so far, with some already
deported from the US. Officials say, adding authorities are not
panicking because their ties to ISIS are not certain, but
they're prioritizing their arrest out of an abundance of caution.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The problem is the volume of people coming across the
southern border. Individuals from ISIS and other affiliated groups have
recognized it as a weak point in our defense, and
they're using this opportunity to try to sneak in.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
NBC News was first to report on a similar arrest
of a newsback man in Baltimore whose country alerted the
US he was affiliated with ISIS. That man, like the
others apprehended so far, was arrested on immigration charges, not
terrorism related charges. Isis K has claimed responsibility for deadly
terror attacks in Russia and Iran in the past year,
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and recently the DHS Inspector General sharply criticizing vetting at
the US southern border, saying DHS is a risk of
admitting dangerous persons into the country or enabling asylum seekers
who may post significant threats to public safety and national
security to continue to reside in the United States. To
senior law enforcement officials told NBC News they are not
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tracking a terror plot from this group of migrants, but
their arrest on immigration charges come out of an abundance
of caution.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Bluster, abundance of caution, right. I love how they say that.
At the very in it, I go, it's just an
abundance of caution. No, this is a moment where you
should absolutely be angry and also incredibly concerned that over
one hundred and fifty have been arrested, but the whereabouts
of over.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Fifty remain unknown.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Officials are confirming, so they could be out in this
country getting ready to do anything. By the way, if
they weren't concerned that these people were terrorists, they wouldn't
be out there looking to arrest them on quote immigration
charges when they are found, because they let people go
every single day for doing the same thing, by the
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literal millions of people, so they know the government knows
that this is very clearly that these people are actual terrorists.
Now here's the other thing that you got to look
at when you talk about we've arrested one hundred and
fifty the whereabouts of over fifty remain unknown, is let's
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go back and just put this into context with nine
to eleven, the worst terrorist attack on our soil in
American history.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And let's look at the man.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Power it took to carry out that attack on the
ground America. Now, I'm not counting the manpower receipts like
clead shake Muhammad for for example, as a mastermind of
nine to eleven. I'm not talking about Asama bin Laden
or the couriers and then people over that were raising funds, okay,
to fund al Qaeda and fund the attack. I'm just
talking about men on the ground. It took nineteen hijackers,
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there's total to actually conduct the nine to eleven attack.
On nine to eleven, right now, there are fifty unaccounted
for individuals with direct links to an ISIS human smuggling network,
and another one hundred and fifty that had been arrested.
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Joe Biden clearly understands, or at least his administration the
people around him clearly understand the scale of this problem
in the threat, but they're still not closing the southern border.
Why would you not close the southern border if you
know now that this is out there and this is happening,
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the over one hundred and fifty that we're arrested, you
don't run around the country because they're not only one place.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Let's talk about these arrests as well.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You don't run all over the country trying to grab
up one hundred and fifty people if you're the Biden
administration when you're letting millions in illegally every day, including
some on the terrorists watch lists.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Outside of these people we're.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Talking about now, you don't run around and grab them
unless you truly believe that they are real national security threat. Okay,
you can call them, as they describe them, subjects of
concern because they were quote brought by an ISIS.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Affiliated human smuggling network. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You went out, you found one hundred and fifty of them,
you arrested them. The whereabouts of over fifty remain unknown.
The officials are confirming you have all hands on deck,
you have immigration customs enforcement out there looking to arrest
these men, and you're going to charge them with charges
that you could charge millions of others with right, immigration
charges when they're low, kid, is what you're going to
get them for. That's no different than the immigration charges
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you could go after twenty million other people who have
broken in this country. They understand this is a major
national security threat. Let's also talk about why NBC News
is wearing the story because they're trying to get ahead
of the bad news, and they're trying to look like that, Hey,
the administration didn't know this was somehow a problem, but
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as soon as they found out it was a problem,
they went to work right away to find them all.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
And they've alread gotten one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So good news, good news, right like, this is a
half the glass half full type of scenario. Great news.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
We love it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
This is such good news, you know, great news, good news.
Everything's good, everything's fine, everything's gonna work out, everything's okay,
everything's good, good news. It's all good news, folks, nothing bad,
all good. And then if something does happen, Heaven forbid,
they're gonna say, well, we knew about the problem, we
were working on the problem. They evaded a resk, we
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were doing everything we could. We clearly have even when
we catch people. Have you noticed the last several stories
that I've done on this, We've had the people in
Cuscy and we release them. Let me rephrase that, the
Biden administration had them in Cussy and they released them.
And then after we're releasing people that on the tarifs
squatch list, are these people that are involved in an
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isis human smuggling scenario? Then and only then is it changing? Okay,
then and only then is it then the administrators going Okay,
we let these guys go. We shouldn't have let's go
find them. And so far we've been lucky, blessed that
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we've found them before they've committed attacks. But we also
know that there's people in this country. We just the
other day arrested a bunch of others who are directly
connected to isis K, the same isis K group that
has had now multiple attacks in Russia. Now, let's talk
about the politics of what I just told you and
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my advice before the debate, which is going to happen
in what twenty four hours the debate, and this is
a moment where Donald Trump is going to have to
be very cool, very calm, and assume that ninety nine
point nine percent of the people that are watching do
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not know about this story. He's going to have to
educate the audience first on this subject, and then he
is going to need to challenge Joe Biden specifically on
this issue.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
If I was helping Donald.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Trump with debate prep and he doesn't do traditional debate prep,
I think it's a I think it's a mistake. But
he's his own man and he is going to do
what he wants to do how he wants to do it.
But what I will say is this, if we were
doing traditional debate prep, what I would say is, MS President,
you need to bring this up and quote NBC News.
You need to bring this up and the others that
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were just arrested that were allowed into this country illegally,
that were members of isis K and quote ABC News
or CBS News or CNN or MSNBC, and you need
to paint a clear picture to the American people that
you have decided to have Joe Biden an open border policy.
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Not only has it allowed for twenty million plus illegal
immigrants to come into this country and become a major
drain on our society economically and hurting Americans, but there's
a national security side of this, mister President. You keep
catching people on the Terrace watch list, and you keep
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letting them go, mister President, because you're so hell bent
on allowing maximum number of illegal immigrants to come into
the United States of America, you keep catching these illegals
who have ties to ISIS human smuggling organizations, and now
you're scrambling to find over fifty potential terrorists who could
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be planning to do harm to us right now. I
would then say, mister President, you and I were both
there and very much remember what happened on nine to eleven,
and I would remind him in comparison, it only took
how many people. And I would ask the president the question, beg, Joe,
do you remember how many people were involved in the
attacks on.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Nine to eleven?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I would ask that question because I don't believe that
Joe Biden could answer that question. I don't think he
would remember. And then he could say, Joe, it's nineteen.
You had nineteen hijackers that conducted the nine to eleven attack.
You now have fifty that we know about that are
unaccounted for, with direct ties to ISIS human trafficking, human
smuggling network. That on top of the countless people that
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you've allowed in this country that are on the terrorist
watch list. Mister President, you're putting America's national security at risk,
in people's lives at risk. We know that they want
to do harm to us, the American people. Why are
you allowing for an open border that is allowing for
this to take place? And then I would shut up
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and I would just let Joe Biden defend himself. But
I also think bury himself. I really do believe that
he would bury himself on the information that I just mentioned.
I think he would bury himself so fast because he
would get angry and just let him talk. I wouldn't
interrupt him. And even if he lies early on, I
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wouldn't interrupt him. I just wouldn't. I wouldn't interrupt him.
I would just let him talk. And then at the
end I would say, mister president, this is a problem
my family, your family, whether you're a Democrat or Republican,
your lives are now at risk because of your open
border policy. And then I would make the point, this
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has nothing to do with gang members or cartel members
or the fetnyl coming across. This is direct ties to
al Qaeda, to Isis, to people that want to kill men,
women and children. We witness it on nine to eleven.
You have opened up the door for them to come
in this country. We know for a fact they are.
Your administration has so overrun the border with your policy
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that we cannot even when we catch them, apparently doing
a good enough background check before we let them go,
to then realize that we just let terrorists go, people
on the terrorists watch list.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So, mister president, there is a terroist.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Tech and heaven forbid that there is, and I hope
there's not, but will you at least admit at that
point that you put our lives at risk. And then
I would say that and I would shut up again,
and I'd let Joe Biden get angry. I'd let jacked
up Joe during this debate have to defend that, because
if you do it in a calm and a systematic manner,
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the way that I just did it, what I think
Joe Biden will find is that he's uncomfortable. I think
you'll see Joe Biden get angry. I think you'll see
Joe Biden get extremely defensive and probably stumble or just
lie of the American people. Sometimes beating someone in debate
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is not actually smacking them around and beating them that way.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Sometimes it's just bringing up.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
A subject that is that puts them in an indefensible situation.
If you lay it out the way that I just
described it, I think Joe Biden is in an indefensible position.
I don't think you have to get angry. I don't
believe that you have to get in his face on it.
I don't think it has to turn into a loud,
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yelling debate.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Okay. I think all you have to do.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Is lay it out for the American people and then
let the American people decide, are you safer off now
than you were four years ago?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
This president?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And look, I think Joe Biden can also or Donald
Trump can also hit some points here on. You know,
the President, you said many times that your hands are
tied and Congress us act. So what's the difference between
you and me? Why is it that I was able
to stop terrorists from coming across the border and millions
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and millions of illegals didn't cross when I was the president,
But when you're the president, everything changes. Unlimited illegals and
really unlimited terrorists coming across the southern border.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
What changed, mister president?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
The only thing that changed, and you know this, Please
don't lie to the American people while you're putting their
lives at risk. What change, mister president is he should say,
is that you became the president and you took out
a pen, and every single executive order that was protecting
us you undid because you wanted to import future voters,
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you wanted an open border.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
You did it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And now these are the consequences for that open border.
And then I'll say it again, and then I would
shut up and I would let him defend that, because
I think if you do it in a way that
just is so transparent and so honest with the people
that are watching. I think you're going to have an
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amazing moment. I think that's one of those campaign moments
where you actually do it in such a calm way
that it resonates with people, because, look, everybody's expecting Donald.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Trump to come in their guns a blazing.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
If he comes in there and has a couple of
moments the way that I just describe them, I think
people will actually pay even more attention because of my
holy craft, this is not the joke. This is not
the Donald Trump I thought was going to be on
stage tonight. Wow, Like, this is completely different than what
I was expecting. And they'll probably end up listening to
what you're saying instead of it just being a Republican v.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Democrat debate.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Now you've taken politics out of it, and now you're
actually talking about national security issue.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Use that's the difference.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
There's a very interesting, by the way new poll that
goes back to the mentality of Americans right now. They're
concerned about the economy, they're concerned about national security, they're
really concerned about inflation. And Democrats have had have tried
to tell Americans that if Donald Trump gets re elected
that he is a threat to democracy.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I could play you a montage of this, but I
think you guys have heard it enough from the left
over and over again. They're like, oh, Donald Trump's threat
to democracy. He will in this country as we know
it if he gets if he gets elected again, well,
this country will be unrecognizable. Right, it's a threat to democracy.
He's a threat to democracy. Everything's a threat to democracy.
If there's a Republican's a Republican next to a person's name.
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That rhetoric seems to have now backfired in a major way.
A Washington Post poll, not a conservative publication. This is
the I would say, communist Washington Post has now come
out with a shock poll that Donald Trump is stronger
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than Joe Biden on the issue of protecting the democracy.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
This is very interesting.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Now David Axerod went on TV and is trying to
now flip this because he was one of those guys like, oh,
this is a threat to democracy, right, Donald Trump's a
threat to democracy. Now he's basically saying that if you're
worried about a democracy, you're a rich white person, and
that's a conversation that you have at the dinner table
as a rich white person trying to flip the narrative.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Listen, Look, I've said before, I mean, I'm Jake, you
know this. I'm the son of a Jewish refugee from
Eastern Europe, and I still love this democracy and I
think this is a central concern. But I've also said,
if you are talking about democracy over the dinner table,
it's probably because you don't have to worry about the
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cost of the food on your dinner table.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So that's a pretty big change, right, If you're talking
about democracy over the dinner table, it's probably because you
don't have to worry about the cost of food on
your dinner table. So, in other words, he's saying democracy
is for rich people.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Now, that is very different.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
From what the left has been saying about this issue,
like extremely different. Let me just remind you of Hillary
Clinton when she was doing an interview recently.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Alito struck me almost immediately upon sitting down to talk
with him as a radical, as a fanatic about his
views of culture and the role of religion.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
In our society, and his religion not maybe yours or
mind marks, but his religion, and I found him scary
and I said so on the floor of the Senate
when I voted against him.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
So now we're going back to we're going to undermine
people that actually stand up for democracy, right, And you
notice the switch here. Michael Cohen, by the way, on MSNBC,
this is the guy that stole from Donald Trump. This
is a guy that's a convicted felon. This is a
guy that lied in court and has been to jail.
But he's the favorite love child of the of the left.
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They're obsessed, they are absolutely obsessed with with Michael Cohen
because he hates Trump. He has Trump derangement syndrome. And
he goes on MSNBC and says this about the judge
partially lifting Trump's hush money gag order, which is a
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victory for Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
An update out of the New York hush money election
interference case. Today, Judge wanmershawan partially lifting that gag order
placed upon Donald Trump, the disgrace now criminally convicted ex
president is able to comment on the witnesses who testified
against him in that case. Witnesses like his former attorney
Michael Cohen and the woman Cohen paid the hush money
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to Stormy Daniels. Judge Merechawn did not lift the part
of the order barring Trump from going after court staff,
individual prosecutors, and family members of any council staff member,
the court, or the district attorney. That part stays in
place until Trump's sentencing on July eleventh. Michael Cohen's response
to this quote. For the past six years, Donald and
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his accolytes have been making constant negative statements about me.
Donald's failed strategy of discrediting me so that he can
avoid accountability did not work then and won't work now.
Joining us former Trump fixer and attorney Michael Cohen, host
of the Maya Kulpa and Political Beatdown podcast. He is
the author of the Book's Revenge, How Donald Trump Weaponized
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the US Department of Justice against his critics and disloyal
memoir Now classic both of them. Michael Cohen, how are
you doing and how are you feeling about this scaggarder
being lifted?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I love this so like. Oh both classics.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Now, Oh, let's just give you this amazing that knows
they don't mention you're a convicted fellon, that you stole
money from Donald Trump and you had admit that under
oh don't forget you. No, no, no, you're a fixer,
Like fixer is like the gangster word of the left. Now, like,
oh man, that guy is a fixer. Yeah, he's a fixer.
That's how MSNBC introduces the guy.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Keep listening. I'm hanging in there, and.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Nicole, you know, like I said before, for six years,
he and his acolytes have been doing this. Let's not
forget the number of members of Congress and other acolyte
friends of Trump's that showed up to the courthouse when
I was testifying and the first chance that they had
to go to run out to do Donald's bidding. They're
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right there in front of the camera, including people like
the number two guy in our government, Maga Mike Johnson
out there carrying Donald's water for him.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So, look, is it? Is it stressful?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Sure? Do I feel bad for myself and other witnesses
that Donald intends to go after Who knows, maybe they'll
even do it at the upcoming debate. Yes, I feel
bad for them. I feel bad for myself. But it's
what could he say that he has not said already
a thousand times. I mean, that's what Donald does he
repeats himself over and over and over. So what's he
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gonna say. Michael Cohen's a liar, Michael Cohen is a gloat.
Michael Cohen didn't tell the truth. He's my lawyer. He
did it all on his own. We all know the
truth already. It's six years of me telling the same
story and Donald can't keep track of what story.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
You know, he's saying.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Next, this is a guy that's been convicted of lying
and had to ammt under oath. Recently, he actually stole
from Donald Trump, pocketed cash, tens of thousands of dollars,
and MSNBC puts him up there, and now he says
that Trump he's dangerous to democracy, He's dangerous to just
the world.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
So there's his one liner.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So Democrats now seem to be very divided over this, right,
do we bring up like democracy or do we kind
of just shut it down? That there's even a conversation
of how do we save democracy? On pod Save America.
It's a hardcore liberal podcast. Here's what they were saying recently.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
Why is there such a disconnect? Why do people think
I mean, gosh, by.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
The way, this is Katie Kirk. You're listening to in
this voice, keep listening.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
This is what's left a lot of people scratching their
heads ever since twenty sixteen. Why do people think that
Donald Trump is going to make their lives better? It
is confounding to me.
Speaker 11 (24:38):
Yeah, what I've come to think is for a lot
of voters, they don't think that either party or any
politician is going to necessarily make their lives better. And
so what they see in Donald Trump is someone who
is just going to smash the system. And that makes
them feel good, right, because it like, well, at least
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he's gonna at least he's my guy. He's going to
like fight for me where he can, and I don't
necessarily expect him to help me. But you know, he's also,
as Tommy was saying, he's very good at blaming others. Right.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
And so if Donald Trump tells you, well.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
You know you would you'd be making more and we'd
have more jobs. If we just got rid of all
these undocumented immigrants, then your life would be better. If
we just cleaned up the crime and we got tough
and let the police get tough on crime in these cities,
your life would be better. And you know, unlike even
Mitt Romney or the Republicans of yesteryear. Donald Trump doesn't
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talk a lot about giving huge tax cuts to corporations,
giving huge tax cuts to the wealthy, at least not publicly.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Not publicly, right, No, that's all in their agenda fundraisers. Yeah,
but they have.
Speaker 11 (25:46):
You know, Trump has taught most of the Republican Party
to sort of hide the economic agenda that is not
very popular with most people in this country, and to
really lean on sort of the cultural resentment, the racial resentment,
the xenophobia that does unfortunately work with a lot of
you know, working class and middle class people of all races.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
By the way, by the way, they hate you. You
hear that how to save democracy?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Is the conversation they're having, like, well, how is he
getting away with this? Well, he really hates you, you know,
he really just stands up for the big corporations. Okay,
show me the evidence that that's what he did during
the four years when he was actually the president. Well,
if you tell people to hate immigrants and their life
will be better off, they'll believe you. When did he
say that? He's saying you can come into this country legally.
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But he's also said that you don't get rewarded for
breaking American laws.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
So he's a law and order guy.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And where they say, oh, well, that's that's, you know,
xenophobic and this is but he's taught them to be
quiet on that, right, like not talk about that. That's
that's where you're just going to have to be quiet.
So I go back to this poll. This poll that
has just come out is the poll that Democrats are
now going to freak out over internally going into this debate,
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because what it's saying is former President Donald Trump is
the strongest candidate to protect democracy. After the last year,
Democrats have been saying that Donald Trump is a threat
to democracy. Polling of six s wing states that President
Joe Biden won in twenty twenty now show that voters
believe Trump is a greater defendive democracy than Joe Biden,
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outpacing the current president by a staggering double digit lead
of eleven points.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Here's the question, which candidate do you think.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Will do a better job of handling each of the
following threats to democracy in the US? The Posts says
in their question Trump forty four percent, Biden thirty three percent,
Neither sixteen percent, both seven percent.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
This was a big poll, by the way.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It was a poll of more than three thousand, five
hundred registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevauta, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
So this is a poll now that Democrats like, holy crap,
we screwed it up with Bidenomics. That's been a disaster
with voters. They don't believe that it's working. They believe
it's hurting them. And then we try to say, well,
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Donald Trump's a threat to democracy, and the voters actually
smart enough to say no, no, no, We actually think
that Donald Trump is better for democracy than the current
president of the United States of America is. And that
is why I think Donald Trump could have a very
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and I'll see you back here tomorrow.
We have got a lot to chat about, including the
fact that the Department of Homeland Security is now identified
four hundred migrants that were brought into the United States
of America by an ISIS affiliated human smuggling network. That's right,
ISIS affiliated human smuggling network has been able to identify.
(00:24):
They've been able to identify at least four hundred migrants
broad in the US. Now, we're also going to deal
with the debates coming up in some new news that's
coming out about some lawyers that we're working within our
government to actually help Joe Biden when last time your
tax dollars are going for that. I'm going to get
to that other big story, but this one deals with
(00:45):
national security, and I want to start here. I want
you to take a listen to this clip from NBC
Nightly News. Their investigation that these ISIS individuals are bringing
in hundreds of people into the US that we know about.
This does not count ones we may not know about.
(01:06):
As a whistleblower from the US Border Patrol has come.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Forward tonight, NBC News has learned more than fifty migrants
with potential ties to an ISIS affiliated smuggling network are
at large in America. Many illegally cross the border and
were released into the US by border patrol because there
was no information suggesting terrortize at the time. Now their
whereabouts are unknown as immigration agents look to arrest them.
(01:31):
US officials tell us saying they're among a group of
over four hundred migrants DHS identified in the US from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Kyrkistan, Georgia,
and Russia as subjects of concern because they were brought
to the US by an ISIS affiliated smuggling network, something
the FBI director warned about earlier this year.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Some of the overseas facilitators of the smuggling network have
ISIS ties that we're very concerned about.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Ice IS located and arrested over one hundred and fifty
of the four hundred migrants so far, with some already
deported from the US. Officials say, adding authorities are not
panicking because their ties to ISIS are not certain, but
they're prioritizing their arrest out of an abundance of caution.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
The problem is the volume of people coming across the
southern border. Individuals from ISIS and other affiliated groups have
recognized it as a weak point in our defense, and
they're using this opportunity to try to sneak in.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
NBC News was first to report on a similar arrest
of a newsback man in Baltimore whose country alerted the
US he was affiliated with ISIS. That man, like the
others apprehended so far, was arrested on immigration charges, not
terrorism related charges. Isis K has claimed responsibility for deadly
terror attacks in Russia and Iran in the past year,
(02:51):
and recently the DHS Inspector General sharply criticizing vetting at
the US southern border, saying DHS is a risk of
admitting dangerous persons into the country or enabling asylum seekers
who may post significant threats to public safety and national
security to continue to reside in the United States. To
senior law enforcement officials told NBC News they are not
(03:13):
tracking a terror plot from this group of migrants, but
their arrest on immigration charges come out of an abundance
of caution.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Bluster, abundance of caution, right. I love how they say that.
At the very in it, I go, it's just an
abundance of caution. No, this is a moment where you
should absolutely be angry and also incredibly concerned that over
one hundred and fifty have been arrested, but the whereabouts
of over.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Fifty remain unknown.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Officials are confirming, so they could be out in this
country getting ready to do anything. By the way, if
they weren't concerned that these people were terrorists, they wouldn't
be out there looking to arrest them on quote immigration
charges when they are found, because they let people go
every single day for doing the same thing, by the
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literal millions of people, so they know the government knows
that this is very clearly that these people are actual terrorists.
Now here's the other thing that you got to look
at when you talk about we've arrested one hundred and
fifty the whereabouts of over fifty remain unknown, is let's
(04:26):
go back and just put this into context with nine
to eleven, the worst terrorist attack on our soil in
American history.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And let's look at the man.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Power it took to carry out that attack on the
ground America. Now, I'm not counting the manpower receipts like
clead shake Muhammad for for example, as a mastermind of
nine to eleven. I'm not talking about Asama bin Laden
or the couriers and then people over that were raising funds, okay,
to fund al Qaeda and fund the attack. I'm just
talking about men on the ground. It took nineteen hijackers,
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there's total to actually conduct the nine to eleven attack.
On nine to eleven, right now, there are fifty unaccounted
for individuals with direct links to an ISIS human smuggling network,
and another one hundred and fifty that had been arrested.
(05:22):
Joe Biden clearly understands, or at least his administration the
people around him clearly understand the scale of this problem
in the threat, but they're still not closing the southern border.
Why would you not close the southern border if you
know now that this is out there and this is happening,
(05:45):
the over one hundred and fifty that we're arrested, you
don't run around the country because they're not only one place.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Let's talk about these arrests as well.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
You don't run all over the country trying to grab
up one hundred and fifty people if you're the Biden
administration when you're letting millions in illegally every day, including
some on the terrorists watch lists.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Outside of these people we're.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Talking about now, you don't run around and grab them
unless you truly believe that they are real national security threat. Okay,
you can call them, as they describe them, subjects of
concern because they were quote brought by an ISIS.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Affiliated human smuggling network. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You went out, you found one hundred and fifty of them,
you arrested them. The whereabouts of over fifty remain unknown.
The officials are confirming you have all hands on deck,
you have immigration customs enforcement out there looking to arrest
these men, and you're going to charge them with charges
that you could charge millions of others with right, immigration
charges when they're low, kid, is what you're going to
get them for. That's no different than the immigration charges
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you could go after twenty million other people who have
broken in this country. They understand this is a major
national security threat. Let's also talk about why NBC News
is wearing the story because they're trying to get ahead
of the bad news, and they're trying to look like that, Hey,
the administration didn't know this was somehow a problem, but
(07:09):
as soon as they found out it was a problem,
they went to work right away to find them all.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
And they've alread gotten one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
So good news, good news, right like, this is a
half the glass half full type of scenario. Great news.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
We love it.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
This is such good news, you know, great news, good news.
Everything's good, everything's fine, everything's gonna work out, everything's okay,
everything's good, good news. It's all good news, folks, nothing bad,
all good. And then if something does happen, Heaven forbid,
they're gonna say, well, we knew about the problem, we
were working on the problem. They evaded a resk, we
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were doing everything we could. We clearly have even when
we catch people. Have you noticed the last several stories
that I've done on this, We've had the people in
Cuscy and we release them. Let me rephrase that, the
Biden administration had them in Cussy and they released them.
And then after we're releasing people that on the tarifs
squatch list, are these people that are involved in an
(08:03):
isis human smuggling scenario? Then and only then is it changing? Okay,
then and only then is it then the administrators going Okay,
we let these guys go. We shouldn't have let's go
find them. And so far we've been lucky, blessed that
(08:27):
we've found them before they've committed attacks. But we also
know that there's people in this country. We just the
other day arrested a bunch of others who are directly
connected to isis K, the same isis K group that
has had now multiple attacks in Russia. Now, let's talk
about the politics of what I just told you and
(08:47):
my advice before the debate, which is going to happen
in what twenty four hours the debate, and this is
a moment where Donald Trump is going to have to
be very cool, very calm, and assume that ninety nine
point nine percent of the people that are watching do
(09:07):
not know about this story. He's going to have to
educate the audience first on this subject, and then he
is going to need to challenge Joe Biden specifically on
this issue.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
If I was helping Donald.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Trump with debate prep and he doesn't do traditional debate prep,
I think it's a I think it's a mistake. But
he's his own man and he is going to do
what he wants to do how he wants to do it.
But what I will say is this, if we were
doing traditional debate prep, what I would say is, MS President,
you need to bring this up and quote NBC News.
You need to bring this up and the others that
(09:46):
were just arrested that were allowed into this country illegally,
that were members of isis K and quote ABC News
or CBS News or CNN or MSNBC, and you need
to paint a clear picture to the American people that
you have decided to have Joe Biden an open border policy.
(10:07):
Not only has it allowed for twenty million plus illegal
immigrants to come into this country and become a major
drain on our society economically and hurting Americans, but there's
a national security side of this, mister President. You keep
catching people on the Terrace watch list, and you keep
(10:28):
letting them go, mister President, because you're so hell bent
on allowing maximum number of illegal immigrants to come into
the United States of America, you keep catching these illegals
who have ties to ISIS human smuggling organizations, and now
you're scrambling to find over fifty potential terrorists who could
(10:52):
be planning to do harm to us right now. I
would then say, mister President, you and I were both
there and very much remember what happened on nine to eleven,
and I would remind him in comparison, it only took
how many people. And I would ask the president the question, beg, Joe,
do you remember how many people were involved in the
attacks on.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Nine to eleven?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I would ask that question because I don't believe that
Joe Biden could answer that question. I don't think he
would remember. And then he could say, Joe, it's nineteen.
You had nineteen hijackers that conducted the nine to eleven attack.
You now have fifty that we know about that are
unaccounted for, with direct ties to ISIS human trafficking, human
smuggling network. That on top of the countless people that
(11:36):
you've allowed in this country that are on the terrorist
watch list. Mister President, you're putting America's national security at risk,
in people's lives at risk. We know that they want
to do harm to us, the American people. Why are
you allowing for an open border that is allowing for
this to take place? And then I would shut up
(12:00):
and I would just let Joe Biden defend himself. But
I also think bury himself. I really do believe that
he would bury himself on the information that I just mentioned.
I think he would bury himself so fast because he
would get angry and just let him talk. I wouldn't
interrupt him. And even if he lies early on, I
(12:23):
wouldn't interrupt him. I just wouldn't. I wouldn't interrupt him.
I would just let him talk. And then at the
end I would say, mister president, this is a problem
my family, your family, whether you're a Democrat or Republican,
your lives are now at risk because of your open
border policy. And then I would make the point, this
(12:45):
has nothing to do with gang members or cartel members
or the fetnyl coming across. This is direct ties to
al Qaeda, to Isis, to people that want to kill men,
women and children. We witness it on nine to eleven.
You have opened up the door for them to come
in this country. We know for a fact they are.
Your administration has so overrun the border with your policy
(13:06):
that we cannot even when we catch them, apparently doing
a good enough background check before we let them go,
to then realize that we just let terrorists go, people
on the terrorists watch list.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
So, mister president, there is a terroist.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Tech and heaven forbid that there is, and I hope
there's not, but will you at least admit at that
point that you put our lives at risk. And then
I would say that and I would shut up again,
and I'd let Joe Biden get angry. I'd let jacked
up Joe during this debate have to defend that, because
if you do it in a calm and a systematic manner,
(13:42):
the way that I just did it, what I think
Joe Biden will find is that he's uncomfortable. I think
you'll see Joe Biden get angry. I think you'll see
Joe Biden get extremely defensive and probably stumble or just
lie of the American people. Sometimes beating someone in debate
(14:05):
is not actually smacking them around and beating them that way.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Sometimes it's just bringing up.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
A subject that is that puts them in an indefensible situation.
If you lay it out the way that I just
described it, I think Joe Biden is in an indefensible position.
I don't think you have to get angry. I don't
believe that you have to get in his face on it.
I don't think it has to turn into a loud,
(14:34):
yelling debate.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Okay. I think all you have to do.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Is lay it out for the American people and then
let the American people decide, are you safer off now
than you were four years ago?
Speaker 4 (14:50):
This president?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And look, I think Joe Biden can also or Donald
Trump can also hit some points here on. You know,
the President, you said many times that your hands are
tied and Congress us act. So what's the difference between
you and me? Why is it that I was able
to stop terrorists from coming across the border and millions
(15:12):
and millions of illegals didn't cross when I was the president,
But when you're the president, everything changes. Unlimited illegals and
really unlimited terrorists coming across the southern border.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
What changed, mister president?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
The only thing that changed, and you know this, Please
don't lie to the American people while you're putting their
lives at risk. What change, mister president is he should say,
is that you became the president and you took out
a pen, and every single executive order that was protecting
us you undid because you wanted to import future voters,
(15:51):
you wanted an open border.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
You did it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And now these are the consequences for that open border.
And then I'll say it again, and then I would
shut up and I would let him defend that, because
I think if you do it in a way that
just is so transparent and so honest with the people
that are watching. I think you're going to have an
(16:17):
amazing moment. I think that's one of those campaign moments
where you actually do it in such a calm way
that it resonates with people, because, look, everybody's expecting Donald.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Trump to come in their guns a blazing.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
If he comes in there and has a couple of
moments the way that I just describe them, I think
people will actually pay even more attention because of my
holy craft, this is not the joke. This is not
the Donald Trump I thought was going to be on
stage tonight. Wow, Like, this is completely different than what
I was expecting. And they'll probably end up listening to
what you're saying instead of it just being a Republican v.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Democrat debate.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Now you've taken politics out of it, and now you're
actually talking about national security issue.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Use that's the difference.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
There's a very interesting, by the way new poll that
goes back to the mentality of Americans right now. They're
concerned about the economy, they're concerned about national security, they're
really concerned about inflation. And Democrats have had have tried
to tell Americans that if Donald Trump gets re elected
that he is a threat to democracy.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I could play you a montage of this, but I
think you guys have heard it enough from the left
over and over again. They're like, oh, Donald Trump's threat
to democracy. He will in this country as we know
it if he gets if he gets elected again, well,
this country will be unrecognizable. Right, it's a threat to democracy.
He's a threat to democracy. Everything's a threat to democracy.
If there's a Republican's a Republican next to a person's name.
(17:50):
That rhetoric seems to have now backfired in a major way.
A Washington Post poll, not a conservative publication. This is
the I would say, communist Washington Post has now come
out with a shock poll that Donald Trump is stronger
(18:10):
than Joe Biden on the issue of protecting the democracy.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
This is very interesting.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Now David Axerod went on TV and is trying to
now flip this because he was one of those guys like, oh,
this is a threat to democracy, right, Donald Trump's a
threat to democracy. Now he's basically saying that if you're
worried about a democracy, you're a rich white person, and
that's a conversation that you have at the dinner table
as a rich white person trying to flip the narrative.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Listen, Look, I've said before, I mean, I'm Jake, you
know this. I'm the son of a Jewish refugee from
Eastern Europe, and I still love this democracy and I
think this is a central concern. But I've also said,
if you are talking about democracy over the dinner table,
it's probably because you don't have to worry about the
(19:02):
cost of the food on your dinner table.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So that's a pretty big change, right, If you're talking
about democracy over the dinner table, it's probably because you
don't have to worry about the cost of food on
your dinner table. So, in other words, he's saying democracy
is for rich people.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Now, that is very different.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
From what the left has been saying about this issue,
like extremely different. Let me just remind you of Hillary
Clinton when she was doing an interview recently.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Alito struck me almost immediately upon sitting down to talk
with him as a radical, as a fanatic about his
views of culture and the role of religion.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
In our society, and his religion not maybe yours or
mind marks, but his religion, and I found him scary
and I said so on the floor of the Senate
when I voted against him.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
So now we're going back to we're going to undermine
people that actually stand up for democracy, right, And you
notice the switch here. Michael Cohen, by the way, on MSNBC,
this is the guy that stole from Donald Trump. This
is a guy that's a convicted felon. This is a
guy that lied in court and has been to jail.
But he's the favorite love child of the of the left.
(20:23):
They're obsessed, they are absolutely obsessed with with Michael Cohen
because he hates Trump. He has Trump derangement syndrome. And
he goes on MSNBC and says this about the judge
partially lifting Trump's hush money gag order, which is a
(20:43):
victory for Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
An update out of the New York hush money election
interference case. Today, Judge wanmershawan partially lifting that gag order
placed upon Donald Trump, the disgrace now criminally convicted ex
president is able to comment on the witnesses who testified
against him in that case. Witnesses like his former attorney
Michael Cohen and the woman Cohen paid the hush money
(21:05):
to Stormy Daniels. Judge Merechawn did not lift the part
of the order barring Trump from going after court staff,
individual prosecutors, and family members of any council staff member,
the court, or the district attorney. That part stays in
place until Trump's sentencing on July eleventh. Michael Cohen's response
to this quote. For the past six years, Donald and
(21:26):
his accolytes have been making constant negative statements about me.
Donald's failed strategy of discrediting me so that he can
avoid accountability did not work then and won't work now.
Joining us former Trump fixer and attorney Michael Cohen, host
of the Maya Kulpa and Political Beatdown podcast. He is
the author of the Book's Revenge, How Donald Trump Weaponized
(21:48):
the US Department of Justice against his critics and disloyal
memoir Now classic both of them. Michael Cohen, how are
you doing and how are you feeling about this scaggarder
being lifted?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I love this so like. Oh both classics.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Now, Oh, let's just give you this amazing that knows
they don't mention you're a convicted fellon, that you stole
money from Donald Trump and you had admit that under
oh don't forget you. No, no, no, you're a fixer,
Like fixer is like the gangster word of the left. Now, like,
oh man, that guy is a fixer. Yeah, he's a fixer.
That's how MSNBC introduces the guy.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Keep listening. I'm hanging in there, and.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Nicole, you know, like I said before, for six years,
he and his acolytes have been doing this. Let's not
forget the number of members of Congress and other acolyte
friends of Trump's that showed up to the courthouse when
I was testifying and the first chance that they had
to go to run out to do Donald's bidding. They're
(22:46):
right there in front of the camera, including people like
the number two guy in our government, Maga Mike Johnson
out there carrying Donald's water for him.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
So, look, is it? Is it stressful?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Sure? Do I feel bad for myself and other witnesses
that Donald intends to go after Who knows, maybe they'll
even do it at the upcoming debate. Yes, I feel
bad for them. I feel bad for myself. But it's
what could he say that he has not said already
a thousand times. I mean, that's what Donald does he
repeats himself over and over and over. So what's he
(23:22):
gonna say. Michael Cohen's a liar, Michael Cohen is a gloat.
Michael Cohen didn't tell the truth. He's my lawyer. He
did it all on his own. We all know the
truth already. It's six years of me telling the same
story and Donald can't keep track of what story.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
You know, he's saying.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Next, this is a guy that's been convicted of lying
and had to ammt under oath. Recently, he actually stole
from Donald Trump, pocketed cash, tens of thousands of dollars,
and MSNBC puts him up there, and now he says
that Trump he's dangerous to democracy, He's dangerous to just
the world.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
So there's his one liner.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
So Democrats now seem to be very divided over this, right,
do we bring up like democracy or do we kind
of just shut it down? That there's even a conversation
of how do we save democracy? On pod Save America.
It's a hardcore liberal podcast. Here's what they were saying recently.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
Why is there such a disconnect? Why do people think
I mean, gosh, by.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
The way, this is Katie Kirk. You're listening to in
this voice, keep listening.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
This is what's left a lot of people scratching their
heads ever since twenty sixteen. Why do people think that
Donald Trump is going to make their lives better? It
is confounding to me.
Speaker 11 (24:38):
Yeah, what I've come to think is for a lot
of voters, they don't think that either party or any
politician is going to necessarily make their lives better. And
so what they see in Donald Trump is someone who
is just going to smash the system. And that makes
them feel good, right, because it like, well, at least
(24:59):
he's gonna at least he's my guy. He's going to
like fight for me where he can, and I don't
necessarily expect him to help me. But you know, he's also,
as Tommy was saying, he's very good at blaming others. Right.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
And so if Donald Trump tells you, well.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
You know you would you'd be making more and we'd
have more jobs. If we just got rid of all
these undocumented immigrants, then your life would be better. If
we just cleaned up the crime and we got tough
and let the police get tough on crime in these cities,
your life would be better. And you know, unlike even
Mitt Romney or the Republicans of yesteryear. Donald Trump doesn't
(25:36):
talk a lot about giving huge tax cuts to corporations,
giving huge tax cuts to the wealthy, at least not publicly.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Not publicly, right, No, that's all in their agenda fundraisers. Yeah,
but they have.
Speaker 11 (25:46):
You know, Trump has taught most of the Republican Party
to sort of hide the economic agenda that is not
very popular with most people in this country, and to
really lean on sort of the cultural resentment, the racial resentment,
the xenophobia that does unfortunately work with a lot of
you know, working class and middle class people of all races.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
By the way, by the way, they hate you. You
hear that how to save democracy?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Is the conversation they're having, like, well, how is he
getting away with this? Well, he really hates you, you know,
he really just stands up for the big corporations. Okay,
show me the evidence that that's what he did during
the four years when he was actually the president. Well,
if you tell people to hate immigrants and their life
will be better off, they'll believe you. When did he
say that? He's saying you can come into this country legally.
(26:35):
But he's also said that you don't get rewarded for
breaking American laws.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
So he's a law and order guy.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
And where they say, oh, well, that's that's, you know,
xenophobic and this is but he's taught them to be
quiet on that, right, like not talk about that. That's
that's where you're just going to have to be quiet.
So I go back to this poll. This poll that
has just come out is the poll that Democrats are
now going to freak out over internally going into this debate,
(27:03):
because what it's saying is former President Donald Trump is
the strongest candidate to protect democracy. After the last year,
Democrats have been saying that Donald Trump is a threat
to democracy. Polling of six s wing states that President
Joe Biden won in twenty twenty now show that voters
believe Trump is a greater defendive democracy than Joe Biden,
(27:25):
outpacing the current president by a staggering double digit lead
of eleven points.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Here's the question, which candidate do you think.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Will do a better job of handling each of the
following threats to democracy in the US? The Posts says
in their question Trump forty four percent, Biden thirty three percent,
Neither sixteen percent, both seven percent.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
This was a big poll, by the way.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
It was a poll of more than three thousand, five
hundred registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevauta, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
So this is a poll now that Democrats like, holy crap,
we screwed it up with Bidenomics. That's been a disaster
with voters. They don't believe that it's working. They believe
it's hurting them. And then we try to say, well,
(28:14):
Donald Trump's a threat to democracy, and the voters actually
smart enough to say no, no, no, We actually think
that Donald Trump is better for democracy than the current
president of the United States of America is. And that
is why I think Donald Trump could have a very
good night. Don't forget share this podcast wherever you are
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.