JD Vance Visits the Border

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• The Vice President visits the border

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Now here's Jimmy Barrett. All right, So yesterday on the show,
we didn't really cover the passing of former Houston Mayor
Sylvester Turner. And there's a couple of reasons behind that.
I want. First of all, I I don't have anything
nice to say about Sylvester Turner. We brought up this way.

(00:51):
Did your mom ever say if you don't have something
nice to say about somebody, don't say anything at all,
or never speak ill of the dead. So two kind
of always, you know, stuck with me. So I have
to allow myself a little breathing time, if you will,
between the death of somebody who I really didn't respect

(01:11):
or care for, before I make any commentary on that,
because again the voice is sell my head. Don't speak
ill of the dead. If you haven't got anything nice
to say, don't say anything at all. And so I
didn't have anything nice to say, because I never knew
Sylvester Turner on a personal basis to have any good stories.

(01:32):
I'm sure, like everybody else, I'm sure he had a
sense of humor. I don't know if his sense of
humor is anything like my sense of humor. All I
know about Sylvester Turner is based on my limited time
here in Houston. I've been here about eight years now,
and of course I remember him from you know, two
terms as mayor while I was here. I don't really

(01:53):
go back to his days as a state senator, although
I have seen a few. Interestingly enough, I've seen a
few clips on local news the last couple of days
of a younger Sylvester Turner who didn't who seemed to
be at least semi reasonable on some of the things
he voted for. He didn't seem that wackier way out there.

(02:16):
And then again, Democrats weren't that whacking way out there
twenty years ago, you know, twenty thirty years ago. So
I'm sure he evolved, like the rest of the Democrats
for the most part of evolved. But here's the thing
that has kind of struck me about this, and that
is just the news coverage now I would expect the
news to cover his death. After all, like him or

(02:38):
hate him, he was a prominent Houstonian and therefore you're
going to have coverage that that goes without saying. But
I was, I guess a little bit taken back by
all of the fawning, the sort of the overtop the
legacy of Sylvester Turner, as if somehow, you know it
kind of like a sister, you know, erasa kind of

(03:02):
kind of a thing like like what we're we gonna
do is we're gonna turn this guy into a saint.
I mean, you know, for what I remember about him,
I mean, he he had some you know, some things
that I wouldn't be too proud of. I mean, you know,
paying an intern ninety thousand dollars a year to work
at the airport, you know, somebody he obviously had a
personal relationship with and denied. But the biggest thing I

(03:25):
think is just the shape that he has left the
city of Houston in. I mean, we are we are
in debt as a city. We're we're three to four
hundred million dollars in debt, and that is because Sylvester
Turner failed to say for a rainy day. He failed.
He failed to take into consideration that federal money, COVID money,

(03:47):
and that kind of stuff was going to dry up.
And he could have and should have been taking measures
during his second term in order to try to write
the ship financially. And he never did that. He never
did that. He kicked He kicked the can down the road.
He left that for his successor, John Whitmyer, who's had
nothing but nice He must have had the same time mom,

(04:08):
I did, because he's had nothing but nice things to
say about Selvester Turner and we were friends and blah
blah blah, blah blah, when the reality is he probably
could have said if he wanted to, Yeah, well, you know,
I like Sylvester Turner, but I don't appreciate what he did,
you know, leaving this city in the shape that he
left it in. You know, our infrastructure is a mess.

(04:29):
You know, we have problems in our police department. You know,
there's been there were some bad hires during the Sevester
Turner routine. He's you know, he's accused of all forms
of different cronyism, as far as basically stealing taxpayer dollars,
which he never was. You know, never went to trial for,

(04:49):
never never had to answer for, and now, of course,
the only thing he has to answer to is what
we all have to answer to when we died. Now,
I will say this because I have similar feelings, not
quite maybe not as strongly on a negative way for
Sylvester Turner as for Sheila Jackson Lee. But I have

(05:11):
a sneaking suspicion that those two ended up in the
same place. I'm not saying where that place is. I'm
just saying that I think it's safe to say that
Sheila Jackson Lee was there to greet Sylvester Turner when
he passed. Although here's here's my favorite, here's my well,
I'll share this in a moment, my favorite headline after
Sylvester Turner's death. First, though, we asked the question about

(05:33):
the Turner legacy to our listeners this morning, and I
think a lot of you were raised by my mom
because you if you couldn't think of anything good to say,
you didn't want to call and say anything that wasn't good.
But we had a couple of people who chimed in.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
This is Cliff calling from the West Park toll Road.
I met Mayor Turner at a tree lighting theme event
at at Ali Theater. Wasn't a fan of his. The
only thing that I really liked was his fill in
the pothole policy with dialing or the seat click fix app.

(06:08):
But I shook his hand and it was very awkward.
He did not say anything. I just said time, mister
mayor hey, Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
His major legacy that he did was put the city
in a huge amount of debt at seber mic and sorry, Scymick,
I got nothing for yet, have a good day.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah the dead thing, the dead thing in the intern
thing and the airport thing, and yeah, yeah, I realize
that mayors can be controversial. A lot of what they
do is not necessarily popular. But at the end of
the day, I don't think there's anybody there's hard I'm
sure we could find a few people who can wax

(06:49):
nostalgic about Sylvester Turner and all the great things he did.
But at the end of the day, if you were
to take a look at a list of things he
accomplished for the City of Houston versus things that, you know,
problems he left the City of Houston with which ledgerd
do you think is going to be longer I think
the problem list is going to be longer. Oh yeah,
my favorite, my favorite headline. Then we'll leave it to

(07:09):
that favorite headline I saw, because you know, he had
just taken ironically, Sheila Jackson Lee's seat in Congress, and
he was at the presidential speech the other night. He
died shortly thereafter, evidently in Washington, DC. And I love
the headline about him. He said, Turner dies after Trump's speech.

(07:33):
You know, as if somehow, you know, hearing Donald Trump's
speech is what killed him. I don't. I don't think
that's what killed him, but if it did, then I
will be happy to give President Trump all new credit
for that. Listen, we'll take a little break. We'll be
right back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett Show
here on AM nine to fifty KPRC. All right, don't

(08:14):
we talk a little little foreign policy here in this
segment of our show, with our neighbors to the north
and our neighbors to the south. Let's start with our
neighbors to the south in Mexico. Of course, I think
there has been some progress with Mexico's president as far
as you know, toughing things up at the border. I

(08:35):
think they are at least acting like they want to
cooperate now, not enough obviously to get Trump removed the
twenty five percent tariffs, but they're at least acting like
they want to do better. The other thing that's happening
at the border is on our end of the border.
Jd Vance, the Vice President, in Eagle Pass yesterday along
with Tulca Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, and they were there

(08:59):
to talk about the border. And I think think about
it this way, I mean, think of all the uh,
you know, the lack of anybody other than my Yorkists
going to the border, and even in my Yorcus's case,
it was few and far between. The borders are never
really went to the border. Kamala Harris. Certainly Joe Biden

(09:20):
wanted nothing to do with the border. You know, I
saw some video earlier this morning showing Eagle Pass yesterday
with JD Vance there and you know, nobody is there,
I mean nobody, I mean nobody is there trying to
cross the border basically. And then they showed December of
twenty twenty three, you know, with thousands and thousands and

(09:42):
thousands of people there at the border. You know, coming
across illegally, and and what a difference that has made.
And just in just a few short weeks, the Trump
administration has been able to shut this thing entirely down.
It's no longer an issue. It ended boom just that fast.

(10:03):
Now that's the people of the border, that's the people
trying to come across illegally. But there are other issues
at the border, and that's what the Van's visit was
all about. Yesterday, here's Vice President jd Vance talking about
future problems at the border, dealing with the cartels.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
Some bad news and some good news. And the bad
news is that because of what Joe Biden did at
the southern border for four years, we had record increases
in migrant crime, in fit and old deaths, and in
just floods and floods of people who shouldn't be in
our country who came into.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
The United States of America.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
We also have a number of ways in which the
cartels became more advanced, better warfighters because Joe Biden opened
up the American southern border and allowed the cartels to
turn it into their playground.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Now that's the bad news. The good news is.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
As President Trump said last night at the State of
the Union. It turns out we didn't need new laws,
we didn't need fancy led legislation. We just needed a
new president of the United States. And thank god, that's exactly.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
What we have.

Speaker 5 (11:05):
And I will say that the most heartening message that
I take away from my visit here at the Texas
border is the number of border patrol agents who have
come up to me and said thank you, or said,
because of this, we've cut the number of border crossings
from fifteen hundred a day to thirty a day, or
the people who have come up and said we've seen
a reduction and eighty five percent of the number of

(11:28):
people who are dying at the American southern border. And
every single day that we continue to keep this border safe,
that means less migrant crime, that means less fit and
all coming into our communities. That means more safety and
security for the people of the United States of America.
And of course we know the border problem, the border
crisis under Biden's administration was a national crisis, but it

(11:50):
acutely affected the communities right here. And I've already heard
heartbreaking stories of people who are still picking up the pieces.
Local mayors who are still dealing with the budgetary consequences
of what the Joe Biden administration allowed to happen at
the American southern border, and that too, is something that
President Trump is going to help address, help fix, and

(12:11):
help solve.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Now.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
I wanted to bring Secretary Hegseth and Director Gabbart at
d and I down here because one, I obviously enjoy
their company and it's good to have them down here,
down here with.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Me looking around today.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
But unfortunately, we know that because of what's happened, the
border crisis has become a matter of national intelligence and
it's also become something that requires the Department of Defense
to engage with. I was talking with Paul Perez earlier.
The drone technology that the cartels are using requires, unfortunately,

(12:46):
a military response and military support.

Speaker 2 (12:50):
A military response and military support to deal with the
cartel drones. That's what we're talking about here. So that's
why Pete Hegseth there right, That's why Tulsi Gabbert, that's
why both of them are they're they're they're there to
formulate a plan to basically shoot down drones. That's what's
going to be happening. So as the cartel uses those

(13:12):
drones they able to be shooting down drones. Now the
question becomes, of course, whether or not they are just
going to shoot down drones that are on the US
side of the border, or if they're willing to, you know,
shoot down drones that approach the the US border, and
how close they have to be. How does Mexico react

(13:35):
if we, you know, if we actually shoot something down
that's on their side of the border. It's gonna be
interesting to see how this works out. I don't think
I don't think. It's not like I think that Mexico
is good if that happens. You know, how's Mexico going
to defend itself from the standpoint of saying, well, you
can't shoot down drones on our side of the border.

(13:57):
I don't know that they want to go there. We'll
see if that happens. But you know, as quickly as
they've gotten the control of the border as far as
people crossing the border, it'll be fascinating to see how
long it takes to get control of the cartel at
the border, because that's obviously the next big step, at
least at our southern border. At our northern border, well,

(14:19):
we got a different situation going on, don't we Yes,
we do. We've got We've got Trudeau. Try. By the way,
you've heard Prime Minister Trudeau, right, he's got this, he's
got this soft little voice, in this little accent, and oh,
there's just no way to make him sound tough. No, well,
most Canadians don't sound tough. I can't think of a

(14:40):
single Canadian that they just sounded tough. I can't remember
the last time I saw an angry Canadian. I don't
think they get very angry generally speaking. There's you're sort
of laid back, eh, you know, just kind of hanging
out up there in the border. Hey, just trying to
keep away from the snow, that kind of stuff. And

(15:00):
so it's it's almost it's almost kind of makes you
laugh a little bit when they try to act tough.
I know, the Premiere of Ontario. The problem where Toronto is,
which is, you know, borders. Obviously the United States. They
provide some power evidently to upstate New York, to Michigan

(15:22):
and to I think Minnesota is the third state, and
the premiere there saying we're gonna put a twenty five
percent tariff on electricity that we ship to the United States,
hope you're ready to pay some big bills, you know.
So they're trying to talk tough when it comes to
that kind of stuff. Now, in reality, what we should
be doing in Upstate New York and Michigan, in Minnesota

(15:44):
and here in Texas, by the way, is generating enough
of our own power that we don't need any power
from Canada. Yeah, that should be. That should be something
we are exporting to Canada, not something that we are
importing from Canada. So now's a good Now's a good
time to get on board in those states with getting

(16:04):
more power generation so they don't have to import any
of that stuff from Canada. Senator John Kennedy, though, was
talking about Canada. It's the same thing. The reason why
we're talking about Canadian terrors twenty five percent Canadian tariffs
is because Canada, even less than Mexico right now, seems
to be willing to do more northern border enforcement, more

(16:28):
work on keeping fentanyl from getting into this country. And
until that changes, we're going to continue to be tough.
Here's Senator John Kennedy with some advice for Canada.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Well, what I heard the President say today is that
it's about border security and fentanyl. Now, I love the
people of Canada, I don't have a lot of confidence
in mister Trudeau. I wouldn't put him in charge of
a Ham sandwich. If I were mister Trudeau, I would

(17:00):
take the fentanyl problem seriously. I would do more than
he's been doing, and I would tighten up border security.
In terms of the impact of the tariffs, Greta, you
know I've heard. I've listened to experts all day saying
this will happen, but that'll happen. My experience in Washington
has been that for every economist, there's an equal and

(17:24):
opposite economist, and they're both usually wrong.

Speaker 6 (17:28):
The truth is, we don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
We haven't had a president in recent memory who feels
this passionately about tariffs. The President and posed tariffs in
his first term. They didn't cause inflation. These are a
second set of tariffs and they're different. Could they cause inflation, Sure,
and if they do, I think you'll see the President
back off. But there's no guarantee that they'll cause inflation.

(17:53):
Here's what we do know. We do know at this juncture,
whether you like him or you don't, Donald Trump is
serious as four heart attacks on Trump and a stroke.
And if I were were mister Trudeau, who will be
hurt by these chairs, I would get cracking on trying
to stop the illegal immigration in.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
The sentinement bar Gate cracking. You know, he's just barely
clinging onto power right now. In fact, for the president,
President Trump has basically accused him of, you know, of
trying to cling to power. That the reason why all
of a sudden, justin Trudeau's talking so tough is he's
he's trying to hang on to power, which he probably
won't be successful at. I think it's this weekend where

(18:38):
their party needs to select whoever the next prime minister
is going to be, and then they have to that
prime minister calls for elections in October, and I suppose
they could decide to stick with Trudeau, who technically resigned
back in January. Maybe that's what he's trying to make happen.
Who knows. Anyway, we'll see what happens with all that.
We're back with more in a moment. Jimmy Barrett show

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here on name of nine fifty KPRC. I think one

(19:22):
of the things that has really stood out and maybe
the most memorable memorable pardon me. Most memorable thing from
the President's speech the other night was how he honored
DJ Daniel, the thirteen year old boy battling brain cancer
from here in Houston and made an honorary US Secret

(19:45):
Service agent, and in how the media reacted to it.
So we'll start with this because I had not heard
this young man speak. I'd not heard him speak before.
I will say this right up front. He is not
an easy interview. First of all, he's thirteen years old.
He spent most of the last few years battling brain cancer.

(20:09):
You don't know number one, what kind of impact that
has had on his ability to communicate number one, And
number two, I don't think he's very media savvy. But
it was got a little bit painful to watch the
host on News Nation try to interview him. And I
mean he was being very pleasant and asking questions. He
wasn't getting very long responses. But I thought I would

(20:31):
share that with you because we haven't really heard from
the young man before. So here is DJ Daniel, that
thirteen year old, brave, little thirteen year old young man
who's now honor a US Secret Service agent thanks to
President Trump Scale one to ten.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
Last night, How surprised, were you when you heard you
were going to become a Secret Service agent?

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Peter Trump?

Speaker 6 (20:54):
Very surprise? Find the mumbody almost dropped to the floor.

Speaker 7 (20:59):
It's still thinking about it. What do you think about
when you look back at that moment.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
I ain't gonna liest like my soldiers left my body.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Really that's fun. What'd you do today?

Speaker 6 (21:16):
I'm gonna be honest, not really nothing yet.

Speaker 7 (21:20):
So tell me what it was like. You knew you
were coming to Washington. What'd your dad tell you about
why you were coming Washington?

Speaker 6 (21:28):
He said, because Donald Trump requests for me to come
down here. And as soon as he said that, I
ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I was just.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
Standing up by our couch and my legs just leg
all moneyes. It's like my kneecaps just ran on it
ran down the street.

Speaker 7 (21:45):
You said you didn't do much today, but we have
video of you meeting President Trump.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
What I did meet him. He was happy to see me,
and he held the word a cat well, he said
he ain't. He said he ain't gonna put on a
cowboy had because I don't want to, because he don't
want to mess up his good hair. I already knew
that before I came here.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
What you guys talk about nothing much.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
I wrote him a note, though, what did say? Listen,
Donald Trump is the best president in the world of
the United States to America.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Not not not an easy interview. I've done a lot
of interviews for a lot of years, and I got
to say that, Uh, you know, I've had some really
good interviews, and I've had some other views, other interviews
that that got to be a little painful. And and
I'm and and I could feel for the host reduced
nation because I'm sure he was going to thinking he

(22:49):
was going to get longer answers than what he was
going to get. But you know, it is what it is.
I learned. I learned one thing from that interview. He
ain't gonna lie. That's for sure. That kid ain't gonna lie.
But you know, I think everybody was impressed with a
young man. Everybody seemed to enjoy I mean, everybody was

(23:12):
at the crowd enjoy the moment. To me, it was
the most memorable thing that happened from the speech, and
I think to most people that's the case. So it
just irks the hell out of me when I see
you know, these talking heads on TV, the people who
work at places like MSNBC. Uh, you know, try to
politicize this. Why can't why can't you feel good for

(23:35):
the young man and leave it at that? Why does
why do we have to politicize this? Why do we
have to roll anything else into this? Why does this
have to be about Trump? It wasn't about Trump. It
was about It was about a thirteen year old boy
who's enavered with being a police officer, who has been
fighting a brave battle against brave can a brain cancer.

(23:55):
And you know, was was there to to become a
he didn't know it, to become a US Secret Service agent.
That's really what was all about. But this, I think
this comment in particular has gotten a lot to play
Nicole Wallace. You know, she is supposedly at one time
she was a Republican, but she must have been a
Mitt Bromney Republican, right She's she must be John Cornyn Republican.

(24:18):
She's she's certainly not a mega Republican or never was.
She's she's an anchor on MSNBC and she just had
the comment about about this thirteen year old kid and
somehow figure out how she could bring this all back
to Donald Trump in January the sixth, What yeah, listen
to this?

Speaker 8 (24:36):
It was a genuinely beautiful moment. Beauty of that child
is the tragedy of the Trump presidency because he's We
don't know how he survived pedirectric cancer, but is likely
he benefited from some sort of cancer research, and it
is a.

Speaker 9 (24:50):
Fact that Trump has slashed cancer research. I know if
he lives and the life he wants to live, he
wants to be a cop. He knows what he wants
to do, and maybe when you have childhood cancer that
crystallizes for you. And I hope he has a long
life as a law enforcement officer.

Speaker 8 (25:06):
But I hope he never has to.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
Defend the United States Capital against Donald Trump's supporters. And
if he does, I hope he isn't one of the
six who loses his life to suicide. And I hope
he isn't one who has to testify against the people
who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then live
to see Donald Trump pard than those people.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
What kind of crazy crap is that.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Show?

Speaker 2 (25:29):
You know? As if you needed a reminder, you know,
the Trump derangement syndrome at least at this point, I
think we have to declare it incurable. That thirteen year
old has a better chance of being cured of is
brain cancer than these Trump derangement syndrome people. There is
no cure for them. I'm hoping that the end result

(25:54):
is is that they just you know, it takes their
life at some point, because that's the only way you're
the only way you're going to get rid of them
is by Trump disappearing from the world stage, and we
got a little while before that's going to happen, or
them passing from the world stage themselves. Maybe maybe that's
the answer, right for the Nicole Wallaces of the world,

(26:16):
to not have a stage on MSNBC or anywhere else.
As far as that goes, that's that's just crazy stuff.
All right. One more little thing I'm going to be
keeping an eye on because I want to see if
this happens. President Trump. I missed this on Tuesday. Evidently
he said Tuesday that he wants to make interest payments
on car loans tax deductible, but only for vehicles made

(26:37):
in America. There's a couple of things about that that
will be interesting. Number One, that's going to be a
hit of about ten billion dollars per year, which I
guess in the grand scheme of the federal budget is
not that much money, right, But that's ten billion per year.
Number one? Number two only for vehicles made in America?

(27:00):
Are we going to define made in America? Because virtually
every vehicle contains foreign parts? Not every vehicle. There are
foreign vehicles like Toyota, for example. I think they come
to mind that have as many or more US made
parts as a Chevy or a Ford does. So how

(27:22):
are we going to make that definition? Is it just
for vehicles that are manufactured here? And by manufacturer there,
do we mean assembled here? Is it just for automotive
US automotive or automakers that have US assembly plans? How's
this going to work? Number one? And number two is
are we going to go back now and bring back

(27:43):
even more tax deductible interest? Do you know there was
a time when credit card interest was tax deductible up
until nineteen eighty six. President Ronald Reagan was the one
who did away with you being able to deduct your
credit card interest. I think that's part of the reason
why people still getting into credit card troubles. They could
deduct the interest on their taxes, and when that when

(28:04):
that stopped to be the case, it started costing them
a whole lot more money. Hey, listen, you all have
a great day. What's left of your Thursday. I'll see
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