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January 9, 2025 43 mins

President Donald Trump continues to talk about expanding into places like Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal. What's really going on here? Jesse Kelly gives his thoughts on it all. This comes as the House and Senate return to Washington. Jesse speaks with members from each chamber. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert reveals her plans to abolish the ATF while Senator Marsha Blackburn reveals top priorities for the GOP-led Senate. Plus, a conversation about the viral H1B debate with Auron MacIntyre. 

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What's with all this greenland Panama Canal talk from Trump
renaming the Golf of Mexico. We'll talk about that tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Plus we have some guests. We'll see if any of
them have anything to say.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
All that coming up, and I'm right, okay, before we
get to all the greenland, renaming, the Gulf of Mexico,
Panama Canal talk, let's talk about these wild fires in

(00:33):
California here briefly. First, we're gonna give it a day
to breathe. You have to excuse the pun on that.
I wish i'd put that differently. We're gonna give it
a day, give the story a day, Give these fires
a day to breathe so we can track down accurate information.
We will tackle it tomorrow in depth.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
On the show.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
It felt like pouncing on a terrible tragedy to dig
into it now.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Now is a time to pray.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
To help people. If you're around there and you're in
any way able to help people. This is a time
where people's homes are still on fire, people are missing.
It's just wildfires are horrifying things. I grew up in
Montana and just they were happening all around. I was
always fine but they're always part of life there and

(01:22):
when they went tearing through, it just moved so fast,
and putting them out is dangerous. You can think you're
safe and then you're not. It's just pray, Just say
a prayer. People are going through terrible things and we
will tackle all the failures and facts and all those
other things tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's just it's time to say a prayer. All right. Now.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I wanted to talk about something else because there's something
else all over the news and it's going to remain
all over the news. Donald Trump every down that. Look,
we're used to Donald Trump throwing out something, dropping a
bomb on social media, calling somebody horse face or something
like that. That's how Donald Trump does things.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
It's who he is, that's how he does things.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
But Donald Trump has been saying things recently and it's
not a one off.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's not a one am ahaha, look at her, she's ugly. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Donald Trump has been out there talking about doing big things,
radical things, crazy things. I guess it depends on your perspective.
He's out there talking about renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a
beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory. The Gulf
of America. What a beautiful name, and it's appropriate. It's appropriate.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, he's out there talking about the Panama Canal. This
is not a one off. He's brought it up several
times here he is.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Can you assure the world that as you try to
get control of these areas you are not going to
use military or economic coercion.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
No, I can say this. We need them for economic security.
The Panama Canal was built for a military I'm not
going to commit to that now. It might be that
you'll have to do something. Look, the Panama Canal is
vital to our country. It's being operated by China. China,

(03:33):
and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn't
give it to China, and they've abused it. They've abused
that gift that should have never been made. By the way,
giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the
election in my opinion, more so maybe than the hostages.
The hostages were a big deal.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, it's not stopped there. Greenland is something he brought
up during his first term, now before the election. After
the election, it continues to bring up America taking possession
of Greenland, just so you know, in case you don't.
Most people already know this. Greenland is a block of ice.
It's not green at all. It's a block of ice.

(04:11):
It's like fifty thousand people that live there. But it
is in an incredibly important strategic location. And Trump is
on this thing.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, we need.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Greenland for national security purposes. I've been told that for
a long time, long before I even ran. I mean,
people have been talking about it for a long time.
You have approximately forty five thousand people there. People really
don't even know if Denmark has an illegal right to it,
but if they do, they should give it up because
we need it for national security. That's for the free world.

(04:43):
I'm talking about protecting the free world. You look at
you don't even need binoculars. You look outside. You have
China ships all over the place. You have Russian ships
all over the place.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
We're not letting that happen.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Okay, So let me explain.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Because a lot of people get caught in the weeds
and there's so much noise out there. It's very very
difficult to make sense of what's going on, why it's
going on. So let's stop with the screaming and yelling,
let's stop with the criticizing, let's stop with the pom
pom waving, Let's stop with all this childish ridiculousness, and
discuss exactly why Donald Trump continues to say these things,

(05:24):
because there are two gigantic reasons why he's doing them.
First and foremost, and this is one of the biggest reasons.
Really could probably split the two. But the first of
the reasons is this negotiation.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
When you have any kind of a.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Negotiation in your life, whether it be personal, business, political,
whatever it is, it is so so important to stake
out a position that is extreme to begin with. If
if it's in the business world. Let's say it's in

(06:02):
the business world, and I am about to have a
negotiation with somebody and I want him to pay me
a million.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Dollars for my business.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, he wants to buy Jesse Kelly Berger's and I
want him to pay me a million dollars. And I
walk in and sit down. What I do not do
not do not do ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. If
I think it's going to be a negotiation is sit
down at the table and say.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
I want a million dollars.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Why Because a million dollars is my starting position. He's
going to negotiate from there. He's going to say no,
I'll give you fifty thousand dollars, and I try to
counter with no, I want seven hundred and fifty thous
and you see, on and on and it goes wherever
we end up from there. What I am not going
to get is a million dollars because I walked in

(06:56):
and staked out a position that put me in a
week position immediately. And Donald Trump has been negotiating deals
foreign and domestically forever. He wrote a book on it,
The Art of the Deal. Donald Trump understands negotiations. Whether
you love Donald Trump or hate Donald Trump, that's what

(07:16):
he does. He does it very very well. So if
I want a million dollars for Jesse Kelly Berger's, I
don't walk in and ask for a million dollars. I
walk in and ask for ten million dollars, and then
the negotiations begin.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
And if I stake.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Out that position initially, well my chances of actually walking
away with a million increase dramatically. You understand, right, now
we have things going on in the world. Let's talk
about the Golf of Mexico. We're going to rename it
the Golf of America. Why even tackle that? Why even

(07:50):
bother with that? Well, I'll get to the second reason
in a moment.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
But for the first reason's purposes.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Do you know what Donald Trump wants to do, has
promised to do.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Demand? He demands that he's going to.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Deport people in mass and Mexico just elected a communist
woman as president. You've probably already seen her in the
news if you pay attention at all, and of course
you do, because you watch I'm right every night of
course Monday through Friday. And she's already trying to push back. No,
we're not going to do this. No, we're not going
to do this. No, we're not going to do that.
Why would Donald Trump get up at a press conference

(08:25):
and say Golf of Mexico, that's the Gulf of America. Baby,
It's a negotiating position.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Is staking out a position.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Why would you walk in and tell Canada they're going
to be the fifty first state. Why would you do
such a thing. Well, he's going to demand Canada lower
some fees for us, lower some terras for us, treat
us fairly.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
So what do you do.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
You take some crazy sounding position like we're going to
make Canada for a state, putting yourself in a good
negotiating position to go from there when it comes to Canada.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I mean, at least he announced he's not going to
be sending in the military.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
I'm also considering a military force to annex a.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Acquire no economic force because Canada and the United States,
that would really be something. You get rid of that
artificially drawn line and you take a look at what
that looks like, and it would also be much better
for financial security. You don't forget we basically protect Canada.
But here's the problem with Canada. So many friends up there.

(09:39):
I love the Canadian people, they're great, but we're spending
hundreds of billions a year to protect it. We're spending
hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada.
So why are we losing two hundred billion dollars a
year and more to protect Canada.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
It's a negotiating position. Now, that's the first reason.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
The second reason is this, and this is may be
something you have a hard time understanding.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I have a hard time understanding.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
People want to leave something behind, They want to leave
a legacy of some kind.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
They just do.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
You know, my father just died recently, and you start
going through his stuff and you start looking at what
he left behind last time he came down, in fact,
the last time I saw him, when he came down
to visit us here. My dad always loved hunting knives.
He loves hunting. He was a big outdoorsman. He brought
my sons, James and Luke, two of his best hunting knives,

(10:43):
and he gave it to the boys, passing something along,
a legacy, leaving something behind.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
For me, because I'm not.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
A general politician, a world leader, I lived the kind
of life you live. For the most part, It's caused
me to start looking at what am I going to
leave behind? What am I going to leave from boys?
What kind of boys am I going to leave behind?
What am I going to leave them? Should I get
them a nice watch? This is how people like you
and I think. But people like Donald Trump Alexander the Great,

(11:13):
And then I realized that I'm not comparing the two,
but big important people like that, world leaders, generals, conquers,
They want to do the same thing. Just on a
much grander scale. Donald Trump has already been president for
four years. He's already a billionaire, is already the most
famous person on the planet. He has another four years.

(11:37):
He's seventy some years old. He doesn't have forever left
on this planet. I realize he's in good health, and
I'm glad he is. But Donald Trump has his name
on hotels and golf courses around the planet. That's how
this human being thinks. Donald Trump intends to do big things.

(12:02):
Some of these big things you may love. Maybe you'll
love all of them. Some of these big things you
may hate, or you think you're crazy. Why are we
buying Greenland? Big things? And people who want to do
big things are almost always called crazy. You can think
he's crazy or not.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'm not here to wave palm poms for the man.
But when you think about buying Greenland, and he's dead
serious about that, I should note he already sent his
son over there, dead serious about He's talked about it forever.
It sounds crazy when you maybe we've lived in a
fifty state United States of America for the longest time.
What get We're just gonna add a country We can't

(12:43):
do that. It belongs to Denmark. We don't think like that.
I don't think like that. If you had asked me
the last year, would never occur to me to take
a big block of ice up there by the UK.
I don't give a crap about Greenland. But Donald Trump
guys like that think like that.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Is that serious? Once? Take back the Panama CAA now,
No it's ours? Now?

Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's serious about Greenland? No, it's mine now. That's how
people like that think. He intends to do gigantic things
with his last four years as president and leave something
lasting behind. That's how guys like that. That's how their
mind works. You can love it, you can hate it,

(13:30):
you can relate to it or not. But that's how
their mind works.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
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Speaker 2 (14:42):
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Speaker 1 (14:51):
You know what, I love cutting the government. So I've
never had it in my life. It's not like it's
something I've ever experienced in my forty three years on
the planet.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
But maybe, just maybe, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
We might get some sort of cuts out there. At
least somebody's trying. Lauren Bobert's trying. Joining me now, Congresswoman
from the great State of Colorado, state which the comedies
are destroying.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Lauren Bobert.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Okay, Lauren, you have a bill out there to abolish
the ATF which is music to my ears. That sounds
like a good start. The question is where's it going
from here?

Speaker 7 (15:25):
Yes, well, Congressman Eric Burlison and I have this bill
to abolish the ATF because we know for far too
long that rogue partisan bureaucrats at the ATF have absolutely.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
Run them up.

Speaker 7 (15:37):
They've been infringing and trampling on our Second Amendment rights.
Anyone who remembers Project gun Runner and Operation Fast and Furious,
they know exactly how rogue this agency is and has
the potential to.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
Be in the future.

Speaker 7 (15:55):
The fact that the ATF allowed thousands of guns to
end up in the hands of Mexican cartels and criminal
organization and lost thousands of those guns, and that one
of these guns was actually able to be used to
kill a Border patrol agent, Brian Terry, all through the

(16:16):
same brilliant government program is absolutely outrageous. And this is
just one of the reasons why the ATF needs to
be defunded and abolished. We can put this kind of
agency in the hands of our local sheriffs, who do
a much better job keeping their communities safe than federal
agents ever could, and this is one way to just

(16:40):
reduce the size and scope of government. Get rid of
some of these militant parts of our federal agency. And
come on, Jesse, alcohol, tobacco, firearms. We all know that
this should be the name of a gas station, not
a federal agency.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You're here now.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
Question is, with this slim majority and the gigantic bunch
of weenies we have in the GOP and the House,
is this something we can get done? What can we
get done with this Congress? You'll have to forgive me
if I'm not extremely hopeful.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
Hey, I understand your pessimism here. I get it.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
We had a majority with President Trump before, a lot
of the things that he wanted to get done were
actually blocked in the Senate and not in the House,
and the House had a much larger majority than right now.
We have a very slim majority, and we know the
history of a lot of these folks that.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
I serve here in Congress with.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
But hopefully they'll look at things like Fast and Furious
and question where the records went to that were in question,
that a judge found were not covered by privilege, and
that they were supposed to be.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Released to the American people.

Speaker 7 (17:54):
But then Nancy Pelosian Democrats ended the House lawsuit when
they took control into one nineteen and further buried the scandal,
and it's absolutely shameful. So hopefully I can get my
colleagues to look back on dangerous programs that the ATF
has been involved in and.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Maybe come alongside of us and shut this down.

Speaker 7 (18:16):
But we also have Pete Hegseth, we have cash Betel,
and hopefully these will be strong voices in this pursuit
to reduce government, to limit government, and really get rid
of unnecessary agencies. Spending is going to be one of
our top issues in this Congress. Of course, we need
to release American energy and become energy dominant so we

(18:40):
can begin to lower inflation, but there has to be
spending cuts as well, and this is a great way
to begin to save money right here in the beginning
of the Congress by eliminating this agency, and I hope
we can eliminate many others. There's already been talk of
eliminating the Department of Education, which is completely unconstantitutional, and

(19:01):
we should.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
Be giving that power back to the states.

Speaker 7 (19:05):
And even more so the school districts rather than the
federal government.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Lauren, let's talk about Colorado because It's a state I
absolutely adore.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
I've been there so many times.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
I just spent a lot of time there growing up
in the Rocky Mountains myself. People are constantly stunned because
they view it as, you know, a Western cowboy, freedom
loving state. They see people like you from there at
the left wing lurch of that state. Democrats almost have
a super majority in the state House there. How did
that happen? What's going on in Colorado?

Speaker 7 (19:39):
Well, in Colorado, you can look back to universal voting,
the universal mail in ballots. That's really when we started
to go blue. Of course, paired with that was the
legalization of marijuana.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Maybe that had something to do with it.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
Maybe that started inviting Californians at the time, who brought
with them their policies. Hope those who were coming for
that reason weren't coming there to vote, but maybe. But
really we saw Democrats start to get involved financially at
very local levels. They're on just about every board you
can imagine, whether it's a water board, an electric board,

(20:15):
or a school board. And then also they were starting
to spend money in these House Senate, State House and
Senate races and begin to flip our state legislature, and
they did so successfully. Now this year in Colorado, we
were able to flip some of those Democrat seats, avoiding
this super majority by the Democrats, but it wasn't enough.

(20:38):
We still need to be persistent and our GOP needs
to come together as well. There are many fractured areas
in that and I'm hoping as the most senior Republican
and the congressional delegation that I can help bring some
unity in common sense. I have a record of working
with the other side without compromising my principles, and it's
very possible to keep a conservative voting record and a

(21:02):
conservative platform and still deliver for the people that you represent.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
I've brought our.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
Democrat senators on board to pass legislation for water storage
projects and even job creation, So this is possible. But
we have got to stop the bickering within and if
you're not going to be on our team, then don't
be on our team. Don't come in and say that
you're a Republican and then vote with Democrats or support Democrats.

(21:29):
That's what's really happening to Colorado. But in two years
we have a gubernatorial race and another Senate race, So
maybe if these two years are successful as they should
be at a federal level, that would create enough momentum
to begin to gain ground again in Colorado.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Lauren speaking of our team, pretty much every person in
the gopage just about voted for Mike Johnson.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
He's now the Speaker of the House.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
Here you were, father, Speaker Johnson.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Don't let me down. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
What are we expecting from Mike Johnson two point zho
because one point oh was not something I want to
see again.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
Yes, well, first of all, I do not envy his
position and his first term as Speaker. He was thrust
into this and I may or may not have had
something to do with that. We were running out of
options and I nominated Mike Johnson as Speaker. Now, he
is a really great man, and I know that he
did try. He has brought a lot of people to
the table for discussions on policy. Now, I was disappointed

(22:41):
with a lot of it, because we would come to
an agreement within the Republican Party where the Freedom Caucus
and the Ukraine Caucus would would agree on legislation moving forward,
and then the meeting would disperse and maybe staff got involved,
and an even worse deal would come to the floor, which.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
Was extremely frustrating.

Speaker 7 (23:00):
But now with President Trump rightfully back in the in
the White House soon to be anyway, I believe that
we will have the right leadership for Mike Johnson to
lean on.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
And I really do hope.

Speaker 7 (23:14):
That this will be one of the most successful speakerships
and House House congresses in history.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
That would be wonderful.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
We know that we have some some folks who resist
our Republican agenda at times, but we have a mandate
and we have to deliver on that, and it's President
Trump's policies that we have to deliver on. I didn't
want to have a drawn out speakers race, knowing that
President Trump needed his Electoral College certificates certified and and

(23:47):
of course the inauguration coming up.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
So this is what we did to get it done.

Speaker 7 (23:52):
And I hope that Mike Johnson will be a stronger
speaker in this Congress than the last.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Appreciate you come back soon. All right, Let's talk about
sleeping at night, because when I think about Mike Johnson
as Speaker of the House, I have trouble sleeping at night.
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
You're laying there, You're thinking, Wow, I hope the GOP
can do something, but well, that worthless, weenie. Mike Johnson
is a Speaker of the House. Now I'm never gonna
sleep again. That's when you reach for some dream powder
from Beam.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
You see Beam healthy, It's natural.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
You see, it's a cup of hot chocolate, but it's
got melatonin and things like that in it. I know
there are a million things that will help you sleep.
They all make you feel like garbage when you wake
up the next day, but not dream powder from Beam.
Even with Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House, you
can sleep like a baby with one cup of hot chocolate.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
How good does that sound?

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Go to shopbeam dot com slash Jesse Kelly get up
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Speaker 2 (24:55):
We'll be back. What about the United States Senate? What
can we expect from them?

Speaker 1 (25:08):
Well, the first bill looks like they're going to take
up is this Lake and Riley bill. And I can't
believe I'm about to say these words, but it looks
like it's going to have some Democrat support.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
What is happening in the.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Year twenty twenty five? Joining me now to talk about
that and other things? Great Senator from the state of
Tennessee Senator Marshall Blackburn, Senator, Okay, this Lake and Riley.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Act, what is it? And how in the world are
you getting Democrats to vote for it?

Speaker 8 (25:37):
And this is one of the border control bills. People
are so tired of illegal aliens committing crimes, and the
Laco and Riley Act is specific to deportation of these
criminal illegal aliens that are committing these sexual assaults and

(25:57):
being able to move the immediately to deportation.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Senator, Honestly, I'm thrilled this is a bill. I'm thrilled
it's a bill. It looks like it's going to pass.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
But I have a.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Little taken it back that we needed a new bill
to deport any illegal immigrant, let alone sexual predators.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Why do we need a new bill?

Speaker 8 (26:20):
And you know, Jesse, we have had for years the
two eighty seven g program that has been on the books.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
This is through the Department.

Speaker 8 (26:28):
Of Justice and our local law enforcement. State enforcement can
actually apprehend and then call on ice to deport criminal
illegal aliens. And for years I've had to build the
Clear Act that would codify that and would add to
it rob removing from these sanctuary cities the ability to

(26:55):
get federal law enforcement funds if they're not going to
stand by and followup the law.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Senator, Okay, so that takes care of part of illegal immigration.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
What about the rest of it?

Speaker 1 (27:08):
We're told there's going to be mass deportations, We're told
to I mean, all these things sound great, and I'm
all on board for all of them.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Do we need new laws?

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Are the laws already in place and we're good to go?
Is Congress going to somehow obstruct these things? Where are
we at on all that?

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Because that's very much what the American people voted for.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
You're so right about that, And there is so much
that President Trump can do day one by using existing law.
We can return to building the wall. We can reinstate.
President Trump can reinstate the remain in Mexico policy. Will
make certain that we're going to be able to look

(27:52):
at the asylum laws and make certain that people that
are claiming asylum are going to a port of entry
or they're going to the embassy. They're in their home
country in order to claim that asylum and try to
come here. So laws are on the books, they need
to be enforced.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Senator, what else is the Senate going to do? We
have a slim majority in the House, actually a little
bit better in my mind, in the Senate. Should we
anticipate good bills being passed? I'm really cringing when I
say that, because it's hard to find a good bill.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Are the good ones? Though?

Speaker 5 (28:30):
You know what, Jesse, why don't we do this?

Speaker 8 (28:32):
Why don't we focus on putting the federal government into
a posture where it actually does more with less, where
it responds to the needs of the American people, and
that the laws on the books, that we review these
and then all of the work that is being done

(28:55):
by the agencies. Let's put every agency through the dose
process and see exactly what we need. And as we
go through that, we can freeze federal hiring. We can
freeze federal salaries. We can through attrition, do a lot

(29:15):
of reduction in the federal workforce. Part of my Doze
acts is across the board spending cuts. So let's return
to the twenty nineteen pre pandemic spending levels and from
there do one, two or five percent across the board
spending cuts. Let's make certain that employees who are getting

(29:37):
a promotion are getting that promotion on merit. Let's have
a return to work policy that federal employees have to
show up and do their job. Right now, only about
ten percent of the federal workforce is working in person
full time, and only twelve percent a federal office space

(30:00):
is being occupied.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Well, praise god, we at least have one senator who
wants to cut spending. How does this work with those
Obviously it's easy for people who aren't in the Senate,
aren't in the House to talk about it. We've got vivek,
we have Elon must sounds like they want to do
great things.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
I'm applauding them for it.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
But they don't have any actual power. Right, how does
this work?

Speaker 8 (30:24):
Trying They're going to bring forward ideas and people in
Congress have a lot of good ideas too. Waste that
we can reduce what the federal government is spending in
different departments, whether it's the irs, and removing extra agents
that are needed, making certain that when it comes to

(30:46):
health and human services, that services and benefits are going
to people who actually qualify, making certain that in every
agency we're rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. And we
will do this through government oversight, through the budget process,
through the appropriations process. And I'm really looking forward to

(31:10):
people bringing ideas to me. I can't tell you the
number of people that have said, Marshall, we know you're
going to be working on dose. Let's here's an idea
for you, and we need people to contact us. They
can find me on social media at Marshall Blackburn, they
can go to our website Blackburn dot Senate dot gov.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
And if they know of.

Speaker 8 (31:33):
A place where there is waste fraud, abuse of the
federal taxpayer dollar, they need to be weighing in and
giving us that information.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Senator, Let's move on and talk about what you've got
going with Christopher Ray and the FBI and the DEI
hiring policies. I believe the federal law enforcement arms they
even do it too.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
What's going on.

Speaker 8 (31:58):
I wrote a letter to Director Ray after the attacks
in New Orleans. You know, Jesse, what we need to
do is find out how they could have missed so
many clues when you look at this individual who had
been in the military, who was being radicalized, who had

(32:21):
made these trips abroad, who had affiliated with this mosque,
you look at the fact that social media had allowed
these videos up and did not take them down until
after the attack. Looking at what is happening with the FBI,
and hopefully they're spending their time chasing bad guys and

(32:46):
not spending their time going after parents that show up
at PTA meetings or agents out counting the number of
Swifty bracelets.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
That they have acquired.

Speaker 8 (33:00):
They need to be focusing on crime and keeping this
country safe. We've got a lot of good men and
women in the FBI that are in these field offices,
but getting their attention off on DEI and looking at
that instead of looking at keeping Americans safe. We need

(33:24):
to recenter them on their mission. Cash Patel will do that, is.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Cash Pattel to your mind. Maybe you haven't tallied up
all the votes yet. Is he going to have the
votes to get confirmed?

Speaker 5 (33:38):
I think he will.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
What about Pete Haig Seth john Thune when on television
said he ze way.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
He's sounded confident to me. Hopefully we can get him
through too.

Speaker 8 (33:50):
I think so. PAMBONDI doj She'll get through Tulsea Gabbard.
She's going to get through Linda McMahon over at Department
of Education, who's going to do a good bit of
restructuring and recentering over there. She's going to get through
everyone I've met with OURFK Junior, They're all going to

(34:10):
get through.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Well, that is outstanding, new Senator, Thank you so much.
I appreciate it. All right, we'll keep going. I go.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Well's gone for the holidays Christmas time. Took little vacation
with the families, so I missed the news cycle to
address it with you, which is near and dear to
my heart, and that is the topic of immigration, both
legal and illegal. You see, immigration does not suddenly become
magical and wonderful just because some scumbag politician or his

(34:53):
CEO benefactor decides to make it legal. Mass importation of
people from across the planet has watered down and broken
this country, and that's just the way that is. Anyway,
I want to hear what Arn McIntyre has to say
about it, since I never addressed it with you. Joining
me now, my friend, author of the book The Total State,
Arn McIntyre. All right, Aaron, Apparently the strain of the

(35:19):
love of immigration from all over the planet still runs
pretty strong and the GOP sadly, I don't know that
that's going to change anytime soon.

Speaker 9 (35:30):
Well, the good news is we're seeing a shift in
the discussion right before it was illegal immigration, and no
one was willing to tackle the problem. Now Trump has
won with a mandate on illegal immigration and ending it,
and so that doesn't even seem to be up for
discussion anymore. I hope he follows through. I hope he
makes good on all of those promises. But now we've
shifted to a much more difficult topic, which is legal immigration.

(35:54):
And some of the people who joined the Republican Coalition,
like Elon Musk, while they favored crackduns on illegal immigration,
use the H one B VISA program to bring in
a large amount of tech workers at low pay in
order to run his companies. And he's far from the
only CEO to abuse the policy in that way, and
so they want to continue to have that option open,

(36:17):
even though they'refore ending the illegal immigration that the rest
of the Trump coalition opposed. But that's not what Trump
voters wanted. They wanted a reduction of immigration across the board,
both illegal and legal. They don't see any reason why
good middle class jobs should be given to people who
aren't in this country. While there are plenty of Americans
who want this, The whole thing we always heard about

(36:38):
immigration is these are jobs Americans won't do well. Guess what,
These are jobs that Americans want to do, but instead
these people are looking to hire outside the United States
to keep wages low.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Aran, Why is this not something that was always the
case in the United States of America? And I'm aware
we have always had legal immigration of some kind, But
why do we have to fight against this now, even
within our own party when we didn't have to do
this as much back in the day. Is it a
lack of patriotism? Is America just a profit loss sheet now?

(37:10):
I don't understand well.

Speaker 9 (37:13):
Elon Musk likened America to a sports team, But the
problem with the sports team analogy is most people hate
this aspect of sports now right, that it's so mercenary
that the teams and the players are in no way
loyal to the people that actually support them. That's not
a great model for my country. I don't want a
government that sees me as some kind of interchangeable widget
that they can bring in and bring out whenever they

(37:34):
find someone else who plays the position better. We want
a government that cares about the people of the United States.
But so many in the Republican Party have bought into
the idea that we have to have immigrants to make
the economy run, that we are a nation of immigrants. No,
we are a nation of Americans, and those who would
like to come and become part of that have been
given the opportunity opportunity graciously by the American people from

(37:57):
time to time.

Speaker 6 (37:58):
But that doesn't mean that there's some blome.

Speaker 9 (38:00):
I think at open door policy where anyone who happens
to be slightly better at computer programming and does a
little bit cheaper can come in and make sure that
they get the American dream instead of the people who
actually live here.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Okay, let's go across the pond for a few and
talk about the UK. Now, anyone who's been paying attention,
people like you people who watch the show, that they've
been aware of the Muslim rape gangs in the UK
for quite some time, but most Normans and Normas have
found this out in about the last fifteen minutes. So,
doing the best you can, would you explain how when

(38:35):
the world a bunch of barbarians got into the UK
and began mass raping British girls.

Speaker 9 (38:42):
Yeah, the sad news is, like you said, this has
been going on for well over a decade. The UK
government was aware that large grooming gangs were operating inside
the country, mostly made up of Pakistani Muslim immigrants, and
because of the immigrant community that was central to this operation,
they turned a blind eye. Police regularly ignored what was

(39:05):
going on. Sometimes they would arrest the girls who were
being abused and not the abusers themselves, and the excuse
was always multiculturalism. We don't want to expose this community
to racism and hatred. If people found out what was
actually happening, then they might be angry at Muslims and
not want them in their country. Well, Elon Musk has
you know, to his credit now on the other side

(39:27):
of this, has been tweeting repeatedly about this. After new
evidence came out after someone who was at a trial,
they actually read out the transcript of what was done
during this and it was so gross, so horrific. That
outraged Musk and he started sharing this far and wide.
And so now, like you said, the average person is
suddenly discovering this.

Speaker 6 (39:46):
And this is.

Speaker 9 (39:47):
Why there were riots in the UK after a knife
attack from an immigrant, because this is a long history
of abuses. It didn't just start with that one attack.
There have been a long history of abuses the British
government of its people, of its citizens under the name
of multiculturalism, and they are fed up with it, and
that's why there's all this heat all of a sudden.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
Do you see any similarities to what's happening there and
what's happening here.

Speaker 9 (40:14):
Oh, of course we know that in the United States,
after the BLM riots, we got what we call the
Ferguson effect. Right, Black communities were less policed because so
many people in the United States were terrified of being
called racist. Nobody wanted to be the next Derek Shouv
and nobody wanted to have their career railroaded because they
arrested the wrong guy or got caught on video, you know,

(40:35):
being rough with a suspect.

Speaker 6 (40:37):
And so these neighborhoods simply were not policed.

Speaker 9 (40:39):
And what we saw was that crime went up, traffic
accidents went up, more Black people actually died because of
the BLM movement, because we were unwilling to police a
community because it might be racist, because it might look
bad on television. And of course that is what the
UK is experiencing. They refused to police a community, they
refused to what was happening in that community because they

(41:02):
were too scared of the racial backlash, and so they
simply allowed the mass rate of young British women for
over a decade and just continued to do nothing in
the face of the obvious evidence that was going on.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Arn I've got a problem with how we do presidential
transitions now. Obviously it hasn't been a problem in the past,
but of course we have one very weak, very stupid
party that would be the GOP in one party, completely evil,
trying to burn the country down, and they've put their
foot on the gas during this transition period between the
election and when Donald Trump actually gets sworn in.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
Do we need to shrink that period of time.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
How in the world can we survive when we have
three months of just no breaks, all gas, burn it all.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (41:51):
I actually tried to explain this scenario to a British
friend of mine and he thought that it.

Speaker 6 (41:56):
Was absolutely insane.

Speaker 9 (41:57):
You mean, you win an election, but you're not in
power and the guy who lost gets to do every
once consequence free for months. And it's a particularly annoying
because transitioning from who we know that Joe Biden is
not in charge of the white House. So who's actually
transferring power to Donald Trump in this entire process, We
don't actually know. And in the meantime, like you said,

(42:19):
they're burning down the country as fast as they can.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Arm.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Thank you, my brother, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
All right, lighten the mood. Thanks all right, it is
time to lighten the mood. And before we lighten the mood,
I need to remind you go subscribe to the YouTube channel.
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Speaker 2 (43:00):
Just pick up your phone and scan that little thing
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