Rod Arquette Show: Joe Biden Addresses Nation About Why He Dropped Out; Kamala's Border Czar History

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We got a little bit more informationout of the FBI today on the attempted
assassination of Donald Trump, and we'vegot a lot of other things to talk
about. And oh oh, bythe way, there was this rather very
important announcement made in Paris early thismorning. Joan twenty seven forward. Well,

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that was a that was an announcementthat was to be expected. But
it's certainly good to hear that itis now official in Salt Lake City again
will host the Winter Olympics in twentythirty four, ten years from now.
It was kind of fun to watchthat video today because you have this this
row of representatives from Utah to theOlympics, including the governor, Mayor Mendenhall

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I believe was there, Lindsay,the Olympic skier was there when the announcement
was made. They all kind oflike jumped up in unison, started hugging
each other. Looked like a bunchof giddy ten year olds for crying out
loud. But it is an excitedannouncement for the state of Utah. When
it was here in two thousand andtwo, this date put on a fantastic
show. Remember what had happened.They were almost considering canceling the Olympics in

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two thousand and two because of theattacks of nine to eleven. We had
the scandal coming out, of courseinvolving the Olympics, and that's when Mitt
Romney stepped in and organized the games, and I think did a very very
good job, and the games arekind of fun. I mean, I
was fortunate enough to have the opportunityto run the torch. I still have
it and my home. It's mountedin my home in my office, and

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you look out and you realize,you know, not a whole lot of
people get a chance to do that, but I was afforded that opportunity and
it was absolutely great. We wentto some of those events. My only
hope, well, I want youto hear from Stuart Adams. He's President
of the Utah Senate. He waspart of the delegation that was in Paris
for the announced today. Here's whathe said about the Olympics coming back to
Utah on twenty thirty four. Whatan exciting day we're in Paris just announced

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the twenty thirty four Olympics. Ithink you'd be more exciting. And then
all the people showed up at WashingtonSquare. I think all of you decided
we're ready. We're William, We'reable, Our venues are ready right now,
nobody's going to do it better thanUtah. Twenty thirty four, ten
years away. We're going to enjoythe next ten years and we're got bought.
But on an Olympic it's like noone else has Newtown Senate President Stuart

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Adams and his remarks part of thatdelegation over in Europe today in Paris today
for the Olympic announcement. You know, there's such a volunteer effort here and
it is a fun event to beinvolved in. It's ten years down the
road. You know, we've gota lot of work to do. But
fortunately many of the venues are stillin place. I think they'll be using
most of them. They may needan upgrade because of the technology that we

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have today that we didn't have whatwas it twenty two years ago, So
there'll be some upgrades made. Butit'll be interesting to see how Utah is
able to pull off this. It'sten years from now. My only hope,
and I know it's ten years fromnow. My only hope as far
as the Olympics are concerned, isthat some way the Olympics, the people

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involved in the games can make someof it affordable for Utah families or Utahs
to go see. There was astory today I saw where they were talking
about ticket prices. Ticket prices forthe big, big events are astronomical,
and I you know, I doget that, even though it'd be nice
that a portion of the tickets couldbe reasonably priced for average Utons to be

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able to go to the games andsee it, because they are wonderful.
When back in two thousand and two, I think we were able to see
the opening ceremonies, but then ofcourse the ski jumping competition, which is
absolutely fantastic, and I think oneof the hockey games. I mean,
it's really really a great thing tosee. And hopefully ten years from now
they'll figure out a way to makethe games, you know, there are

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a lot of events. Going tosome events and making them affordable for people,
that would be my only hope,and hopefully we'll be able to do
that. Now. As I mentioned, there's a lot of news going on
today. We are finally starting toget tidbits of information about the attempted assassination
on President Donald J. Trump.They're in Pennsylvania. The head of the

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FBI, Chris Ray, appeared beforea House Judiciary committee to answer some questions,
and he actually answered some of thosequestions, unlike the director of the
Secret Service, who blew it andis now out of a job. But
Ray and there were a couple ofinteresting things that came out today. Probably
the most interesting was that the gunmanidentified as Thomas Crooks apparently searched online as

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to how far away was Oswald whenhe attempted to assassinate or when he assassinated
John F. Kennedy. Yeah,he he disclosed that today. Apparently the
gunman who tried to kill Donald DA. Trump searched online for details about the
Kennedy assassination a week before the shootingtook place. That was according to Chris

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Ray. Today. He also revealeda lot more information today. And I
put together a little audio montage ofsome of the highlights of Christopher Ray's comments
today and answers to questions before theHouse Judiciary Committee. There's a whole lot
of work underway and still a lotof work to do in our understanding of
what happened and why will continue toevolve. But we're going to leave no

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stone unturned. We have recovered adrone that the shooter appears to have used.
It's being exploited and analyzed by theFBI lab. The drone was recovered
in his vehicle, so at thetime of the shooting, the drone was
in his vehicle with the controller aroundthree point fifty pm four o'clock in that

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window on the day of the shootingthat the shooter was flying the drone around
the area. We did not haveany information about the shooter. He was
not in our holdings before the shooting. I think it's fair to say that

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we do not yet have a clearpicture of his motive. We have tried
to be transparent with both Congress andthe American people as we're going along in
the investigation. Frankly, unusually sofor an ongoing investigation, given the sheer
nature of it. FBI Director ChristopherRay appearing before the House Judiciary Committee today,

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so were There were three very interestingthings that came out of that meeting
today. First of all, youknow the disclosure that the gunman searched how
far away Lee Harvey Oswold was fromJohn F. Kendy when he assassinated him
in Dallas back in nineteen sixty three. He wanted to see the distance and
what kind of a shot it wouldtake. Second, he confirmed today that
there was a drone. Now,the most disturbing thing about the comments made

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as far as the drone is concerned, is that, several hours before the
rally for the former president took place, apparently Crooks was flying the drone around
the area to get an idea asto what it looked like and possibly where
he could be. Wouldn't you thinkthat somebody in security would raise the question,

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what's that drone doing up there?Flying around taking a look everywhere?
I mean, But apparently none ofthose questions were raised. But that's one
of several questions that need to beanswered by the FBI. Why didn't someone
spot it and say, you knowwhat, we better go see who's flying
that darn thing. And the thirdrevelation that came today, a lot of
people are saying, all right,how did Thomas Crooks get up on that

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roof? And a lot of peoplehad speculated he used a letter. Well,
the FBI director indicated today that therewas no letter used. What had
happened was apparently he climbed down tosome equipment and somehow shimming up a pipe
to get on that little roof betweenthe two buildings and then climb up on
the roof where he did the shooting. So a little bit more information coming

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out today about all of this.Of course, there's still a lot of
unanswered questions, and we may sooneror later get to the bottom of what
happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, justa week ago Saturday. All right,
we've got a lot to get totoday. When we come back, we'll
talk about the economics of early voting, and a little bit later on we'll
talk about how the Democrats hid thetruth from the American people about Joe Biden's

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health and mental stability. That's allcoming up right here. Great to be
with you on the rod Arquitcho onthis Wednesday afternoon. No wingman Wednesday today.
I meant to mention that mister Hughes, Citizen Hughes taking a break with
his family. He'll be back nextWednesday if you're wondering where citizen Hughes is
today. All right, more comingup on the rod Arno as we roll

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along into this Wednesday. Just areminder coming up tonight at six o'clock we'll
provide you with live coverage of PresidentJoe Biden's address to the nation about his
decision to drop out of the race. That's all to come right here on
the rod Arcan Show in Utah's TalkRadio one o five to nine k and
rs. Donald Trump is giving hisor his participating in the first rally since

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Joe Biden announced he was leaving therace in the twenty twenty four race for
the White House. He's in NorthCarolina tonight and a reminder for our President
Joe Biden, we'll be speaking tothe nation to night at six o'clock about
his decision to exit the race,and we'll carry that live for you right
here on Utah's Talk Radio one ohfive nine k n RS. All Right,
a lot of people now are talkingabout how they reposition how the Trump

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campaign repositions itself now that it's notgoing against Joe Biden, but most likely
Kamala Harris. I think all theyreally need to do is look at a
record and tell the American people whata record is late, and the American
people will run for the voting book. Well, what about voting in twenty
twenty four and what about this wholeidea of early voting. It seems in
the past Democrats have been able totake advantage of this, but now people

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are saying for Republicans, early votingcould be good for Donald Trump and his
bid to get back into the WhiteHouse. Joining us on our Newsmaker line
to talk more about that is ourgood friend Ned Runyon, then, of
course, is a founder and CEOof the American Majority, also writes often
for American greatness seem on Fox Newsall the time. Ned, how are

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you welcome back to the Rod Arquetciow, Thanks for joining us, Ed,
Yeah, absolutely, Rod, goodto be back with you. Yeah.
No. I think that there's adefinitely very good trend taking place in Republican
politics in which a lot of peoplehave realized we got to start playing the
game by the rules that are laidout for us, and the rules of
the game have actually changed significantly overthe last couple election cycles. Democrats were

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quick to seize upon them, butI think Republicans in many ways now because
Donald Trump has embraced the idea ofabsentee ballots and early voting, I think
we're seeing a positive trend. Butthere's also a lot of different dynamics that
I think people need to understand thatyou're going to save money if you really
are for Donald Trump, you'll savemoney for him for his campaign, for
outside groups like myself, by gettingyour ballot and as quickly as possible.

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And I wrote a piece recently fromAmerican Greatness in which I explained the economics
of early voting. Well, talkabout that, yes, talk about that
a little bit, ned if youwould. How do you save money in
early voting? What does that do? So? I'm the head of an
outside organization, America Majority Action rC four. We do a lot of
field work. We know that whena ballot drops, if we can contact

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you and have actually gotten you ontoan absentee ballot request list, and the
day of ballot drops, let's sayit's North Carolina, which, by the
way, we're odd those ballots dropsSeptember sixth. Okay, wow, we're
literally just about six weeks away fromballots starting to drop in some of these
key states. The day of ballotdrops, we contact you and say how
wonderful it would be if you wouldreturn your ballot. Now, the whole
process of getting on a bout listand contacting you first, you know,

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for a couple times that day itdrops, it's going to cost us maybe
ten or eleven dollars you return it. That's fantastic. If you decide after
a week or two of early votein person voting started, and we've had
to contact you by phone, someperiod to peer text, maybe a postcard,
maybe a door knock, the costsstart to accumulate to get your vote
in. And let's say it's nowtwenty bucks. All right, if you

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decide that you were going to know, I'm an election day only voter.
I'm going to vote on election daybecause that's what I do. Groups like
me, Donald Trump, everybody else, they're not going to stop because we
know that we need that vote.They will continue to call, they will
continue to text, they will continueto send mailers, door knocks, et
cetera. By the time it comeselection day, it might have cost one

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hundred dollars for that vote to comein on election day, when if you
had voted the day ballots drop orearly in person voting starts, it'd be
a tenth of that price. Andso I'm trying to explain to people,
if you like your candidate, ifyou like the outside groups like me and
one actually give us essentially more money. Please vote early and save us the
money so that we can refocus iton more of than mid to low propensity

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voters that actually might require more contactsthat get them to turn out and vote.
Now, why have conservatives been reluctantto get involved in early voting?
Ned a whole host of press.So listen, okay, let me explain
Rod. In a perfect scenario,we would not have mail in ballots.

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France outlawed mail in ballots in nineteenseventy five, right, we would not
have sixty one days of voting asthey do in North Carolina. And I
tell people, by the time youhit election day in North Carolina, eighty
five to ninety percent of the peoplewill have already voted. That we're an
election season era of American politics,not election day. So it's not a

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great way to run elections at all. It is right for fraud. At
the same time, these are therules. And I tell people all the
time, we might question the rules, we might resent the rules, but
we put better play these rules tothe max and to the hilt if we're
going to win this game. Andso I tell people it is what it
is. Let's win this game.By these rules and win the game.
Let's have a conversation about these rulesand what we actually want to see moving

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forward for free and fair elections inthis country. So in the meantime,
these are the rules. The ballotsare dropping sixty one days out in North
Carolina and Pennsylvania. In person votingstarts fifty days out in Virginia where I'm
out ballots, and in early inperson voting start forty five days out.
We should maximize the rules to getthe vote in as early as possible,
save money, but also rob theother thing that I made this argument and

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this piece I wrote, it startsa narrative. And you and I both
know that narratives can be very powerfulin influencing elections. And the narrative that
I want to see happen this timearound is Republicans are actually matching Democrats ballot
for ballot, early in voting forearly in voting. Because I know this.
Statistically, we come into an electionday, Guess who crushes the other

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side on election day voting? Wedo, so we have to keep it
close. And I want to changethe narrative that it is all of a
sudden Republicans have figured out how tocollect all these ballots, get the mid
to low prop people to come in. And that's going to be the dynamic
this year that people need to understand. Donald Trump turns out by the very

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nature of who he is, moremid to low prop voters. If he
does that, and we can actuallyencourage more of them with our efforts of
talking to them doors, phones,texts, etc. I think he's going
to pull some of these Senate candidatesacross the finish line. First. People
had better be praying at the NationalSenatorial Committee that Donald Trump has coattails of

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about four to five points, andif he does in places like Pennsylvania and
other in Wisconsin and maybe even Ithink Ohio's a much sure bet he'll pull
these guys across the finish line.First. So, ned are you basically
saying to Republicans and conservatives out there, if you're in a state that allows
early voting, you may have beenreluctant to do so in the past,
go do it now because there arebenefits in the early voting. Is that

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the message you're carrying today one hundredpercent. There's the economics of it.
You save money significantly between the firstday ballot drop versus election day. You
change the narrative. I've had somepeople push back on me, Rod and
say, well, they'll see uscoming. I would like to give a
memo to everybody listening. They alreadysee you coming. They already are trying

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to figure out how to collect moreballots than us. And I said this
on Twitter today or x Now.My NED talk was the dynamic of who
wins the White House this fall.Remove the names. It is whether the
rights ballot collection machine can beat theless ballot collection machine in six or seven

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states that will decide the White House. Wow. Wow, Ned. Final
question for you, we haven't chattedfor a while. Your take on the
coronation of Kamala Harris. It isas terrif excitement that she is somehow a
cultural phenomenon, when in fact weall know that she is a far left

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I mean, I just remind peoplewhen she announced in January twenty nineteen to
run for the White House, almostimmediately she was already on the left.
She went out and staked as farleft position on almost every policy issue so
that nobody could out flank her onthe left. And people need to be
reminded of that. And I thinkthe thing. That's a little troubling to
me in some ways. They weretrying to sort of have a masquerade with

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Joe Biden that somehow a quasi moderateguide. You know, we're not really
that radical, but we all knowhe was a trojan horse for the far
left with Kamala Harris. The masquerade'sover. This is a far left candidate.
They are embracing the far left roots. And I think this is even
raised the stakes if they couldn't havebeen high enough already for November fifth,
that they have decided we are embracingthe far left. We're not even going

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to be shy about it. AndI hope the American people are paying full
attention to what's taking place. Yeah, I sure am as well. Ned
is allways great chatting with you.Love seeing you on with Laura Ingram on
the Fox News Channel quite often.Thanks, Ned, I know we'll be
talking again. Sounds all right.That's Ned Ryan, Ned, of course
a contributor to American Greatness, alsothe founder and CEO of American Majority.

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You can often see him on FoxNews with Laura Ingram. All Right,
More coming up here on the rodArk Kent Show and Utah's Talk Radio one
oh five nine knrs. Before wego to our next interview, Donald Trump
is continuing to address a rally inCharlotte, North Carolina, jam packed house
again today. I think the FBIhas now requested he does not do any

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more outdoor venues. I'll see ifhe wants to stay with that. But
he's sticking right now to the toa in auditorium address a rally inside to
folks in North Carolina. Now weknew this was going to happen sooner than
later, right, I'm talking aboutKamala Harris and making a bit of a
mistake. Well, she was onthe campaign trail today and made this statement

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about American and Korean security. Sothe United States shares a very important relationship,
which is an alliance with the Republicof North Korea, and it is
an alliance that is strong and enduring. I didn't know we had an alliance
with North Korea. I understand wehave one with South Korea, but apparently

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we have one with North Korea aswell. Donald Trump was heavily criticized during
his time in the White House fortrying to set up some sort of a
relationship with North Korea. But wealready know now that we have a very
strong alliance with North Korea according toVice President Kanala Harris, who's to me
and I think to many of youas well, well, what about the

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race for the White House? Imean, you know, Democrats are now
trying to reframe to recreate Kamala Harrisin light of the fact that she'll be
the nominee for the Democratic Party.Well, Conservatives for a long long time
been telling the truth about Joe Biden. Democrats, of course, failed to
listen to that truth. Joining uson our Newsmaker line to talk more about

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that is our good friend Ingrid jackieasshe is a columnist at USA Today.
Ingrid, thanks for joining us.First of all, let's talk about this
coronation in Kamala Harris. How upsetshould Democrats be out there for not having
a chance to weigh in as towho they really want to run for the
White House against Donald Trump? Howupset should they be, Jack guess,

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I think they should be extremely upset. I mean, if I were a
Democrat, I would be furious becauseDemocrats they want you to primary process.
They voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden,and they were denied a competitive primary because
Biden had insisted, and his partyhad backed him in this, that he

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was fully capable of another four yearsin office, even though the signs had
been clear for a least a yearor more that the president had been struggling
both mentally and physically. So Democratswere not given the option to really get
to vet a robust out of candidates. And now, as you said,

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it's pretty much the coronation of VicePresident Kamala Harris, who herself ran four
years ago for president and didn't goanywhere for her. She was not a
good candidate. But yet now we'regetting this new narrative that she's the best
possible candidate the Democrats could ever havecome up with. So it's quite a

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situation. Would it have been differentif Joe Biden realized several months ago that
he couldn't serve anymore, that hewasn't fit either physically or mentally to serve,
and to open up the nomination toall Democrats? How would that have
gone? Do you think, Ingrid? Well, I think it's absolutely what
he should have done, and it'swhat his close advices, his family should

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have all encouraged him to do.If he had said late last year even
that he was not going to seekre election. That would have given time
for other Democrats to get in therace and to debate the issues that are
so important to the country, youknow, whether the economy, immigration,

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and you know, we were deniedjust I mean as a I'm not a
Democrat, but I would have likedto hear more from some other candidates as
well. But I've written about thismultiple times. I mean, between Biden's
advisors, the White House, manyin the media, they all tried to
portray Biden as ready to go,fully capable to undertake the task of president

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for four more years, when thatwas clearly not true. And now we're
in this situation where just a coupleof weeks before the Democratic National Convention,
in just months ahead of the election, we have Joe Biden dropping out.
And so it's just it is avery undemocratic process to just suddenly anoint Kamala

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Harris, who has up until thispoint been even less popular than her boss.
I think everyone is forgetting that herapproval ratings have been lower than Biden's
consistently the last three and a halfyears. So it's just a bit shocking
to think that she's really going toturn that around in just a few weeks.

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Let me ask you this ingrid priorto June twenty seventh, when it
all started coming apart during that debate, how was the administration and Democrats why
were they so successful in covering uphis condition? I mean, conservatives knew
this, You wrote about it,I talked about it, but generally the
public didn't seem to pick up onthis. How were they so successful in

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covering up what Biden his current statuswas. Well, they tried to keep
him out of unscripted moments as muchas possible. I mean, Biden had
given the fewest solo press conferences andinterviews of any president in modern history.
And we know the reason, rightbecause whenever he did, he often struggled

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and misspoke. And so it wasa concerted effort to try to keep his
condition from the public. But youknow, as you mentioned, I mean,
there are plenty of us saying,hey, there are warning signs here
that not all as well with thepresident, you know, And that was
very clear months ago, back inFebruary, when Special Counsel Robert Hurt came

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out with his report saying he wasnot going to continue prosecuting the president on
the classified documents case, in partbecause he came across as a well meaning
elderly man with a poor memory.I mean that that was a huge story.
But everyone tried to say, oh, you're you're just biased against the

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president and everything is fine, andif there's a video that makes them look
bad, it's a quote, cheapfake. And now now God is very
clear that was these things were allvery much true. We have learned in
a examination of her record that sheis even more left than Bernie Sanders.
I can't believe anything one could bethat left, but she is. How

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do Republicans, who appear to bevery united now, how do they go
after Kamala Harris in the next onehundred and five one and four days.
There is a lot of material towork with Kamala Harris. I did go
back just to the when she wasa candidate herself four years ago. She

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said, as you said, asyou say, extremely progressive things, and
you know, whether seeming to bein favor of defunding the police to some
other extreme ideas. There are alreadya lot of clips of her from debates
and speeches that I think we're justgoing to see you start circulating even more

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so, Republicans certainly have a lotto work with. It is. I
mean, it's going to be acompletely different ground game now. I think
for former President Trump to face KamalaHarris than it was for Biden. I
think Trump is maybe getting a littlecomfortable thinking this would be pretty easy if
he were facing Biden. So youknow, Republicans are going to have to,

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I think slightly rethink their strategy.But as far as what democratic messages
to be attacking, I don't thinkthat changes. I think Kamala Harris is
even further to the left, asyou said, and so a lot of
those things won't change. Joining uson the runner can't show Donald Trump,
of course, still addressing the commentsthat he is making at a rally there

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in North Carolina. That's Ingrid Jaquaztalking about the truth being hidden from the
American people when it comes to JoeBiden. More coming up here on the
Rodar kentcho in Utah's Talk Radio oneO five to nine knrs. You know
a lot of people are wondering aboutthe polls. The polls are just starting
to come out. There was aReuter's poll out showing that the rates between

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Donald Trump and presumptive nominee for theDemocratic Party, Kamala Harris to be very
very tight. But it was aReuter's poll and they oversampled Democrats and undersampled
Republicans. So you can see thebasis of that poll on CNN. The
political analyst there, his name isHarry Enton, broke down the Biden Harris

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scenario and found some rather interesting numbersthat you may want to hear what he
had to say. In the nationalpopular vote, Democrats tend to do better
there than they've done in the electoralcollege, at least when Donald Trump has
been running for president. So lasttime around went and Joe Biden barely won
in the electoral college. He actuallywon the national popular vote by four points.
So at this point Donald Trump isrunning five points better five that's a

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five of some sort, five pointsbetter than he was four years ago against
Joe Biden. So at this particularpoint, whether you look at the federal
ratings, whether you look at thehorse race polling, we see that Donald
Trump is doing significantly better than hewas doing four years ago. At this
point, Kamala Harris is going tohave to do better than this, of
course, if she wants to winthe popular vote, but more than that,

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if she wants to win the electoralcollege, which she'll likely have to
outperform how she's done nationally, becausethe fact is, if you got to
tie it in the national popular vote, that is probably not good enough if
you were Kamala Harris. Donald Trumpstronger politically than ever before. According to
the new surveys. He broke downthe numbers, rehashing what many of us
know. Biden was heading for totaldefeat. There was no way to salvage

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his campaign. And that's why youthink he's dropping out. And he'll explain
all of that to the American peoplecoming up at six oh five tonight or
six o'clock tonight, and you'll hearit live right here on Talk Radio one
oh five nine knrs. So afew of the remarks being made by former
President Donald Trump at a rally therein North Carolina. She copied him,

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don't everyone say, don't want,don't remember, don't don't don't On my
very first day back in the WhiteHouse, I will terminate every single open
border policy of the Biden Harris administration. And we will see on the border
and we will stop. Kamala Harrisinvasion without delay. It'll happen immediately,

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all right, we will do itimmediately under borders on illegal aliens are pouring

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in by the millions and millions andmillions. It's going to be twenty million,
maybe more than that by the end. They ever hear of gotaways,
they don't include goataways. You knowwhat the gotaway is the people that get
in, which is probably most ofthem. Think it's probably already over twenty
million. You know, we're losingthree hundred thousand people a year defending all

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that comes through our border. Wehad it down to the lowest number,
and now it's worse than it's everbeen. We had the best border,
the most secure border we've ever had, and now in just a short period
of time, we have the worstnumbers in history. They're coming not just
from South America, but from Africa, from Asia, from the Middle East,

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They're coming from everywhere. They're comingfrom all over the world, from
prisons, in jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums. You know,
they go crazy when I say thelate great Hannibal elector Okay, they say,
why would he mention hornrible lucter?He must be cognitively in trouble.

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No, no, these are realstories. Had an elector from Silence of
the Lamb. He's a lovely man. He wants to have you for dinner.
He'd like to have you for dinner. These people are coming into our
country and terrorists are coming in atthe highest levels that we've ever seen.
You know. In twenty nineteen,Border Patrol put out a chart and I

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don't believe this chart, but Ilike it. I use it all the
time. It said, during twentynineteen, we had zero terrorists. It's
impossible, I think, but theysaid, I'll take it. Where is
Bredon Brandon? Is that right?Twenty nineteen, the Great Brandon Judd twenty
nineteen from Border Patrol twenty nineteen,they had zero terrorists coming in. I

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think it has to be. I'msure some got in a little bit,
but not very many. But theyhad it down at zero. So I
used that all the time. Butnow we have hundreds and hundreds and thousands
of terrorists coming into our country,coming in from all over the world.
Meanwhile, our crime rate is goingup, despite the fact that they like

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to say it's that chumn Well,crime statistics all over the world are plunging
and you know why they're plunging becauseother countries are taking their criminal elements and
they're bringing them into the United Statesof America and they're dumping them in our
We're a dumping ground. We're astupid country that's run by stupid people.
And we're going to make this countryso great again. But we have to

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fix it. In Venezuela, whichwas written with crime, crime is down
seventy two percent because they're sending allof their criminals to the United States of
America. Now, think of itnext year. What we'll do. Oh

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if they win. Look, Inever want to say, you know,
I never say we're going to it. They cheat like hell, we got
to get out, we got atoo big to rig and all that stuff.
But if they ever got in,we will have another meeting. We'll
do it in Venezuela because it'll bemuch safer than any place in the United
States because by that time we'll haveall the criminals from all over the world
in our country. Because that's what'shappening. You're not going to teach a

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criminal not to be a criminal.It's not gonna happen. Maybe a little
bit, but you're not gonna happenone of the countries. The president of
the country. I don't want toreally mention the name, but he's a
nice guy. I know every oneof them. They're very smart people,
they're very sharp. They're at thetop of their game. Our guy was
not at the top. And thisone is just she never could be by

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the way, lousy student failed herlog exam. Said you know that she
couldn't pass a bar. She couldn'tpass her bar exams. Okay, does
anyone know that they're not going todo they say that an NBC News ladies
and gentlemen, we are breaking news. Kamala Harris could not pass bar exams,
but she's going to be a greatpresident right now. She couldn't pass

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the bar exams. She couldn't passanything, couldn't pass everything. She couldn't
pass anything. But those are afew of the remarks being made by former
President Donald Trump at a rally therein North Carolina. Of course, it's
obvious the strategy of the Trump campaignhas turned. It is now to attack
Kamala Harris on her record. AndI want to play for you. This

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is an ad that was put together, a television ad that was put together
by Dave McCormack. Now Dave McCormickis running for the Senate in the critical
state of Pennsylvania. He decided toput together an ad basically laying Kamala Harris's
record bear and it has a lotof people talking. Now, listen to

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what this ad has to say andall the issues when it comes to Kamala
Harris and what Republicans can attack cortHere's the end. Kamala Harris is inspiring
and very capable. The more peopleget to know her, they're going to
be particularly impressed by her ability.A nonpartisan gum Track has rated you as
the most liberal senator. I amprepared to get rid of the filibuster to

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pass a Ring the Deal. There'sno question I'm in favor of banning Track.
Would you ban off shore drilling?Yes? What is the solution for
voters in the fossil fuel industry?Giving the workers an ability to transition?
We're not going to treat people whoare undocumented cross the borders criminals, That's
correct. Raise your head if youthink it should be a civil effect rather
than a crime across the border withoutdocumentation abolished ice. Yeah, is that

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a position you agree with? Andwe need to probably think about starting from
scratch outdated. It is wrong headedthinking to think that the only way you're
going to get communities to be safeis to put more police offices on the
street. What do you support changingthe dietary vibace? Yeah, you know
the food pairent. What would peopleadded? Yes? To reduce red meat
specifically, yes, people who areconvict in prison, like the Boston a

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Marathon policy on death row, peoplewho are convicted of sexual assault, they
should be able to vote. Ithink we should have that conversation. We
have to have a buyback program,and I support a mandatory buyback program,
so for people out there who liketheir insurance, they don't get to keep
it. Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on. I'm opposed to
any policy that would have denied anyhuman being public health period. The more

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people get to know her, they'regoing to be particularly impressed by her ability.
We did we did it, Joe, We did it, Joe.
She certainly has now. As thatad was playing, I wrote down some
of the comments that she made,and here's where she stands on many of
the critical issues in this country today. First of all, she was identified

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as the most liberal far left senatorin the US Senate today, beating Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. So she'svery very liberal. Second of all,
she would get rid of the filibusterto incorporate the New Green Deal in everything

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we do in this country, andyou know what a disaster that would be.
She also talked about fracking and offshoredrilling. She wants to kill the
American energy industry and replace it withsustainables like wind and solar. And for
those involved in fossil fuel right nowin the American energy industry, if they

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lost their job, they would betrained in transition to understand wind and solar
energy and to service it. Shealso talked about criminals and allowing criminals,
mass murderers who are behind bars,people like the folks in Boston who attacked
the Boston Marathon several years ago.She feels they should be allowed to vote.

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She has called Ice the KKK shewants to get rid of. She
thinks, as she said in thatSoundBite, I think we need to rethink
this and maybe start over again.She wants to defund the police. There
again, she's saying we need tore examine what police do and what their

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role in society should be today.So she wants to defund police. She
wants this one I love. Shewants to change our dietary habits. She
thinks we should no longer eat meat, and if she were president of the
United States, she would launch aneffort to change our dietary habits and to

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eliminate meat from our diets. Andshe wants to allow again illegals who come
into this country illegally free healthcare andthe ability to vote in our elections.
That's what Kamala Harris is all about. And that's what you need to tell

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people who may be excited right nowabout Kamala Harris. Write down that list
and then present it to people whosupport Kamala Harris and say, is this
what you want in our presidency whenwe come back. I want to take
your calls about how we attack KamalaHarris and get your thoughts on this as

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well, because you know a lotof us may be thinking right now,
okay, overthinking, so to speak, how do we go against What is
the case against Kamala Harris. Well, I think I just outlined a pretty
straightforward case against her. When itcomes to the border being liberal filibuster on
and on your calls and comments onthis, How do we take our case?

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Are republican case against Kamala Harris eighteight eight five seven eight zero one
zero triple eight five seven oh eightzero one zero, or on your cell
phone dial pound two fifty and sayhey, Rod, your calls and comments
coming up right here on the RodArquet Show. She's considered maybe the most
liberal senator in the US Senate whenshe was there, only there what a

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couple of years, maybe did nothave to run against a Republican when she
ran for the US Senate in California. And I'm talking about Kamala Harris.
Of course. Another one of herpositions is she thinks we should restrategize or
examine our dietary standards in this countrytoday and eliminate the consumption of meat.

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Just some of the wacky things she'sproposing. So how do we attack her?
I mean, we can't overthink this. I think we just be straightforward
with the American people and tell theAmerican people who she actually is, because
if you notice now, the mediais trying to claim, well, she
was never really designated as the bordersare, yet there are quotes from Joe

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Biden out there saying, Kamala Harrisis my borders are The media is trying
to reframe her now and take thatdistinction away from her because they know she
has failed miserably on the border.So how do we attack her? How
do we go after her? Whatis the case against Kamala Harris? In
your opinion? If you ran intoa friend of yours or a family member

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who is now just giddy about KamalaHarris at the top of the ticket,
how would you explain to him orher that's really not a wide's decision for
the American people to make. Eighteight eight five seven oh eight zero one
zero triple eight five seven oh eightzero one zero or on your cell phone
dial pound two fifteen and say hey, Rod to the phones we go.

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We begin with Drew in Salt LakeCity tonight. Drew, how are you
thanks for joining us tonight, HiRod, to answer your question, here's
my take on this. So Iwas a police officer and a lawyer for
a combination about fifteen years. Uhhuh, semi retired now, and what
I learned during that career is itfacts and logic are not a very effective

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way at condensing people of anything.So I think I think it's I think
that it's all we can do tostick to the facts. Sometimes I don't
like to do it because it's alogical fallacy, but I think sometimes you
have to appeal to emotion. I'msure that will be done. But I
think what really concerns me about thisKamala Harris campaign is this is really bait

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and switch two point zero. Becauseyou remember back to twenty twenty. Oh,
Biden's never going to make it,he's too old, nobody wants him.
He ends up being the nominee KamalaHarris. Oh, they didn't get
along during the campaign. He's notgoing to pick her. He picks her.
Then we come to hear and it's, oh, yeah, he's not
going to drop out, or ifhe does, it'll be Gavin Newsome,
Michelle Obama, and now it's KamalaHarris. I think there is something very

(42:45):
very sinister lurking beneath the surface thatwe are unaware of, and I think
we're going to see more blind sides, more bait and switches, many many
more times. Ture, what doyou think is lurking out there that you
know we can't see, may notbe able to put our fingers on as
of yet. But what do youthink is lurking out there that the What
are the Democrats up to? Inyour opinion, Drew, I think I

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read an article back in twenty twentythat said the title of it was Joe
Biden, we need you for nothingmore than your corporeal form. And so
Biden was, as you and Iboth know, a puppet president. He
did what he was told. Hewas just there to fill the slot.
I think it's very possible that KamalaHarris is yet another corporeal form presidential candidate.

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Someone else is calling the shots,someone else is making sure that she
wins. Someone else is making surethat those ballots get to where they need
to go or are marked however theyneed to. I know we're into conspiracy
theories now, but I think there'snothing nothing's off the table after twenty twenty,
and I think we need to becareful. Yeah, I'm with you

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on that, Drew. First ofall, as Ted Cruz said, the
other day, do not become overconfident. Donald Trump is on a roll right
now. But we've still got alot of work to do. And what
are we one hundred and four,one hundred and five days from the general
election, so there is a lotof work out there to do. There
was an article and this goes alongwith what Drew was just saying here on

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the show. Something is up.We aren't quite sure what it is,
but something is up. Do notput it past the Democrats to do whatever
they can to retain power. Andof course we all know that Joe Biden
wasn't running this country. Somebody elsewas. Those within his administration were running

(44:34):
this country, and he was justa puppet. A lot of people are
now saying the exact same thing aboutKamala Harris, that she is really just
a puppet. I mean, lookwhat has happened. There is not going
to be a primary, so tospeak, to select a Democratic nominee.
It is a coronation. She alreadyhas enough of the delegates to be to

(44:58):
be declared the Democratic nomine for theWhite House when they hold their convention in
Chicago in a couple of weeks.So the party bosses have already worked this
up to put Kamala Harris in frontof the American people and working with the
media to try and reframe her maybenot as liberal as conservatives are saying that
she is. Maybe she wasn't.Actually the borders are. No one ever

(45:22):
designated her the borders are, Ohyeah, Joe Biden did on several occasions.
So something is up out there andyou need to be aware of it
and open your eyes to what's goingon now. You know, as Drew
was just explaining, we can pushthe facts in the American people, but
they may be overwhelmed or excited aboutthe fact that Kamala Harris could be the

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first woman president and the first blackwoman president, and that excitement may be
someone similar to the excitement that wasmade and we saw over the election of
Barack Obama, the first black president. See that America, we have grown

(46:07):
up, we have overcome our originalsin of slavery, and now we have
a black man who's president. Ithink people voted for him just because of
that fact, not because he wasalso extremely liberal. All right, let's
go back to the phones. Let'stalk with Brian, who's in Bluffdale tonight
here on the rod or catch o. Brian, how are you? Thanks
for joining us? Brian? Hey, Rod, If we the Republicans need

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to just mass a advertising campaign forsomeone else other than her because we have
the convention coming up. The conventionis an open slate, It's an open
source situation. If the Republicans startpushing some somebody else, who knows,

(47:00):
just pick a name, doesn't matter. But if it draws attention away from
her, it gives other people.It gives people a reason to maybe give
her a second thought. I don'tknow, I'm just spitballing here. So
you're saying, let's come up,let's somehow throw out another name that may

(47:21):
be attractive to Democrats to distract allthe attention that is now being given to
Kamala Harris's I'm trying to read whatyou're saying. Is that basically it?
No? No, you captured itcorrectly. Yes, And I apologize for
not articulating it the way I shouldhave. But that's exactly right. You
know, they want to coordinate her. How about the Republicans or the Republican

(47:45):
Party coordinate someone else and give peoplea reason to think differently. Interesting Interesting
theory, Brian, Interesting theory whenit comes to that, with the party
boss so in control of Themocratic Party, I mean they were in control of
Joe Biden. I mean Joe Bidenput up a good fight, but we

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knew in the end. In theend, guess what would happen. Joe
Biden was going to leave. Nowthey've got Kamala Harris and working with the
media, they're going to portray KamalaHarris as the next Barack Obama. She's
here to save the country, tosave it from the threat of democracy that

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Donald Trump poses to the American people. That's the battle we've got, folks.
And something is cooking out there.Something is cooking out there, all
right, Mari, your phone callscoming out eight eight eight five seven eight
zero one zero triple eight five seveno eight zero one zero on your cell
phone dial pound two fifty and sayhey, Rod Mario Colson Cummings coming up

(48:50):
on the Rod Arcquet Show. Ifyou're just joining in us now we're talking
about you know, we need tobe cautious and not overthink how we attack
Kamala Hara. I think if welook at her record, the case against
Kamala Harris is pretty straightforward. Whatsay you eight eight eight five seven oh
eight zero one zero on your cellphone dial pound two fifty and say hey,

(49:10):
Rod, in your opinion, whatis the best way to explain why
Kamala Harris should not be elected president. Let's go to Boyd and Provo tonight
here on the Rod or Canto.Boyd, how are you thanks for joining
us, hi Rod, how areyou doing today? I'm doing well,
Thanks Boyd. That's a good thing, especially on a pioneer day. And

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I was the one that called inI think it was last week or a
couple weeks ago for Wingman about ifhe only had of Brien. I think
he probably realized that. Yeah,but I think the best thing that the
Republicans can do is helped help RKAJunior go back to the Democrat Party.

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You think they'd accepted he was forcedout because yeah, would they accept them?
That they would? But that wouldthat'd be a smart thing do because
he was forced out by the DemocratParty because they didn't give him a good
chance to run against Biden. Yeah, they now he's out, so why
not? Yeah, interesting take,Boyd, it would be. It's going
to be interesting to see how RFKplays in all of this. He wanted

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to run as a Democrat, butas boy just explained, the party apparatus
wouldn't let him do that. Matterof fact, he was basically kicked out
of the Democratic Party because they hadtheir man in Joe Biden, and they
didn't want to give him a chanceto talk about the weakness of Joe Biden
as President of the United States,so he wasn't allowed to be in the

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party. Wouldn't it be interesting.It's not going to happen. The party
bosses won't let this happen, butit would be interesting what kind of a
reception RFK Junior would get if,in fact, he decided to get back
into the Republican Party or the DemocraticParty and run for the White House.
I want you to I want youto listen to this. The folks at

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MSNBC decided to go into Wisconsin andtalk to some voters there during a focus
group, and they asked the votersin Wisconsin, very critical state by the
way, what they thought of KamalaHarris. These are all women, how
do you perceive Vice President Harris comparedto President Biden in terms of competency and

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experience. I think she's worse.She doesn't even know what's going on at
the border, right, and that'swhat she was supposed to be doing doing
and in charge of. I mean, as a school teacher, if I
did not do what I was supposedto be doing. You better believe my

(51:43):
job would be in jeopardy. Wellit isn't it. Not only was her
job not in jeopardy, she wasjust handed a promotion. Is there anyone
that Kamala Harris could appoint as hervice president that you would find reassuring,
would make you consider voting for mNo? No, no, no.

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I would know our FK Jr.Way before that. Yeah. I would
vote for our FK Junior way beforeI would vote for Kamala Harris. Those
are some women in a focus groupconducted by MSNBC in Wisconsin sharing their thoughts
about Kamala Harris. All right,let's go back to the phones. Let's
start with Craig in Kgeville tonight hereon the rod ar Kitcho. Craig,
how are you thanks for joining us? Good? Thanks? I was just

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thinking maybe we ought to have areview of all the expenditures that Biden and
Kamala has done. The eighty billiondollars equipment left in Afghanistan, the raised
in taxes, the two hundred andforty million dollar bridge that didn't work.
I think if people knew how muchthey had to pay in tax money for

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the rest of their life because ofsome of the processes and policies they put
in. I mean, electric cars, no infrastructure, and they've build all
these charging stations that didn't work.I mean they're spending money like it's for
you know, free of charge.Well it's not. Yeah. Well,
let me ask you this, Craig. How about the cost of illegal immigration

(53:14):
in this country? I mean,how much money are we spending too to
educate children who came into this countryillegally? How much money are we spending
to provide them with health care,food, clothing? I mean, think
about that. The hidden costs theyeah, cell phones, driver's licenses,
is the hidden cost of illegal immigrationin this country today. That number would

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be staggering, wouldn't you think?Yeah? Absolutely would Yeah, it would
be. I mean if you addup all the costs that they have put
on the American people today with youknow, you've got what was it,
the Inflation Reduction Act, which wasreally the Green New Deal, and what
happened with all of that and thatmoney that we're spending on charging stations that

(53:58):
don't even work, charging stations thatwere never built eight eight eight five seven
eight zero one zero on your cellphone dial pound two fifteen and say,
hey, Rod, let's go toEd in provo tonight here on the Rod
Arcuto, ED, how are you? Thanks for joining us. I'm good,
but I'm a bit concerned, allright. I remember when Obama was

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running, there was a whole lotof if you're not voting for him,
you're racist. And I think it'llbe worse because now you've got her athleticity,
plus the fact that she's female,and they're gonna play that to the
hilt that you're either a bad personor racist or a combination of everything.

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You know what, Ed, thathas already started as a matter of fact,
on some of the cable news channelsnow, if you know, she
is often referred to as the DEI. Vice President Burgess Owens, our congressman,
referred to her today as the DEI, and people will refer to her
as that the liberal media is nowcalling them a racist. So guess what,

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Ed, it has already started.I believe it. Yeah, Amen
to that, right, ED?All right, more of your calls and
comments coming up. Plus, PresidentJoe Biden speaks to the nation about his
decision to drop out bailout on theDemocratic nomination we'll carry that live coming up
at six right here on the rodricco in Utah's Talk Radio one o five

(55:27):
to nine knrs. In just aboutten minutes, we'll go to Washington,
DC, the Oval Office, wherePresident Joe Biden will face the American people
and explain for the first time whyhe has decided to drop out of the
race to be the Democratic nominee forthe White House in November. The presumptive
nominee now is Vice President Kamala Harris, who by all counts, has shown

(55:52):
that she has enough Democratic delegates towin the nomination and become the Democratic dominee
again for the election on November fifth, he will address the nation, not
sure how long he's going to speak. It will be a nationally televised remarks
coming out of the Oval Office,and you'll hear it live right here on

(56:12):
Utah's Talk Radio one oh five ninek and rs. Before we go to
that, a couple of other notesabout Kamala Harris, because we need to
educate ourselves and educate everybody out thereas to why she should not be voted
in for the White House in twentytwenty five. There are a lot of

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issues out there. I outlined it, her stand on the energy industry,
her stand on ICE, defunding thepolice, allowing criminals murderers to vote in
this country and in elections, hereffort to redefine our dietary standards in America

(56:53):
today by not eating meat and allowingpeople who are pouring into this country now
illegally. Now everyone's saying, well, look at the numbers. The numbers
are down. You know how hotit is out there right now, and
that's expected during the summer. Thenumbers will go back up this fall,
especially if people feel that Kamala Harriscould in fact win the presidency. Those

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numbers are going to go up becauseshe believes in open borders. But there
are cases out there. One onething you have to look at and just
be aware of this, because Ithink this gives us a little bit of
insight as the type of person KamalaHarris is. Her office has averaged a

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staggering ninety one point five percent turnoverrate. Basically, nine out of ten
people who work for Kamala Harris havesince left her office since she became vice
president. That was an investigation conductedby Open the Books and Adam and Ngiefsky,
who we've had on the show before. Of the forty seven staff members

(58:00):
hired when Kamala Harris was vice presidentbecame vice president in twenty twenty one,
only four out of forty seven,only four remain in her employment as of
March, as a staggering figure.The report comes as a Biden's ax account

(58:27):
announced that he will stand down fromthe election. But that's an amazing number.
Excuse me, I got something stuckin my throat. So forty seven
staff members who were hired when shebecame vice president, only four still work
for her. Now. I knowthere's changeover, and in the White House

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and the government, there's a lotof turnover. I mean, following the
president and the Vice president is atwenty four seven, three hundred and sixty
five day a year job. Imean, you're you're never really off the
clock. Sounds like broadcasting, Butto have that high of a turnover rate

(59:13):
says something about her character and howshe likes to run her office. When
it was announced back in twenty twenty, after Joe Biden had won the Democratic
nomination that Kamala Harris was going tobe her running mate, there were a
lot of questions raised about her abilityto be vice president and was she even

(59:39):
fit to be vice president? Remember, this is a woman who didn't even
get one primary vote when she ranfor president. This is a woman who
called Joe Biden a racist during oneof the debates. That is something that
has angered Joe Biden ever since thatThe date took place in the Apparently Jill

(01:00:00):
and Kamala are not the best offriends right now. So you have all
kinds of these issues when it comesto Kamala Harris. But I remember talking
with a couple of people in Washingtonwho had worked for members of congressional delegations,
not our lawmakers, but others fromother states who I knew, and

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I asked them, you know,we don't know a lot about Kamala Harris,
so share a few thoughts of yours. And here's here's the words that
came up. Do not cross her. She is very vindictive and she will
get at you if you in anyway attempt to cross her. And why

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I mentioned that to a couple ofpeople I knew, women I knew about
that. They blew it off,saying, oh, they're just saying that
because she's a woman. No,it's obvious with this report by openbooks dot
Com that ninety one point five percentof the staff that she brought into the
Vice President's office when she was electedand took over in twenty twenty one have

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now left. Only four of theoriginal forty seven are still there. Now,
Okay, there is turnover. There'sturnover in every industry. I understand
that, but that is a veryhigh percentage rate. A lot of people
have described her office as unorganized orchaotic. I love how they claim that

(01:01:29):
if Donald Trump would become president,chaos would return. Will chaos exists in
her office as well. So allthese factors I think we need to take
into account as we continue to considerwhether or not Gomala Harry should be President
of the United States. I don'tthink she is qualified. I don't think
she is ready. I don't know. Her views runs so against what America

(01:01:52):
really wants that you need to standup against her. Don't get caught up
in Hollywood and the machine just inthe media glowing about her. She is
a dangerous person to put into theoffice at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue. I
think he's got a lot of explainingto do. You know why he ran

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in the first place. You know, he why he decided to run in
the first place. I think that'sa real question that has to be asked.
So the President about to address thenation and explain that we're just waiting
for him. The address will comefrom the Oval Office. It will be
a live address to the nation.I'm not quite sure what he's going to

(01:02:35):
say, but I think he's gotto clear up some questions about what's going
on. That's a very important speechfor his legacy. This is his dismount.
He has been in public service forwhat more than fifty years now,
and I think he's got to explainwhat prompted his decision. If you know,

(01:02:57):
if you the American voter, theAmerican people will accept that. We
do not know that for sure,and it is a very very tough speech
for him, and to explain againto the American people why he decided not
to run again. You know,a lot of people are saying, why
didn't he make this decision in thefirst place. The other question will be

(01:03:20):
if he is going to try toexplain to the American people why he feels
he is fit to run the countrynow until next January when a new president
is inaugurated. Why is he fitenough to do that, but not fit
enough to serve out another term asPresident of the United States. So there

(01:03:42):
are a lot of questions out thereto be asked. And here we go
now to President Joe Biden from theOval Office. I'm speaking tonight from behind
the resolute tesk in the Oval Office. In this sacred space, I'm surrounded
by portraits extraordinary American presidents. ThomasJefferson wrote the immortal words that guide this

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nation. George Washington, who showedus presidents are not kings. Abraham Lincoln,
who implored us to reject malice,Franklin Roosevelt, who inspired us to
reject fear. I revered this office, but I love my country more.

(01:04:23):
It's been the honor of my lifeto serve as your president. But in
the defense of democracy, which isa stake I think is more important than
any title. I draw strength andI find joy in working for the American
people. But this sacred task ofperfecting our union, it's not about me.

(01:04:44):
It's about you, your families,your futures. It's about we the
people, and we can never forgetthat, and I never have. I
made it clear that I believe Americais that a selection point on those rare
moments in history, when the decisionswe make now determine our fate of our

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nation and the world for decades tocome. American's gonna have to choose between
moving forward or backward, between hopeand hate, between unity and division.
We have to decide, do westill believe in honesty, decency, respect,

(01:05:27):
freedom, justice and democracy? Inthis moment we can see those we
disagree with, not as enemies orbut as as I'm in fellow Americans.
Can we do that? Does characterand public life still matter? I believe
I know the answer these questions becauseI know you, the American people,

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and I know this. We area great nation, because we are good
people. When you elected me tothis office, I promise to all with
you to tell you the truth andthe truth. The sacred cause of this
country is larger than any one ofus, and those of us who cherry

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that cause. The cherishes so mucha cause of American democracies itself, must
unite to protect it in all.In recent weeks has become clear to me
that I need to unite my partyin this critical endeavor. I believe my
record as president, my leadership inthe world, I vision for America's future,

(01:06:36):
all merit of a second term,but nothing, nothing can come in
the way of saving our democracy.That includes personal ambition. So I've decided
the best way forward is to passthe torch to a new generation. That's
the best way to unite our nation. You know, there is a time

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and a place for long years ofexperience in public life. There's also a
time and a place for new voices, fresh voices, yes, younger voices,
and that time and places now.Over the next six months, I'll
be focused on doing my job aspresident. That means I'll continue to lower

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costs for hard working families, growour economy. I'll keep defending our personal
freedoms and our civil rights, fromthe right to vote to the right to
choose. I'll keep calling out hatingextremism. Make it clear there is no
place, no place in America orpolitical violence or any violence that ever period.

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I'm going to keep speaking out toprotect our kids from gun violence,
our planing from climate crisis that isthe existential threat. And i will keep
fighting for my cancer moonshot so wecan end cancer as we know it because
we can do it. And I'mgonna call for Supreme Court reform, because

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this is critical to our democracy.Supreme Court reform. You know, I'll
keep working to ensure American remains strong, secure, and the leader of the
free world. I'm the first presidentof this century to report to the American
people that the United States is notat work anywhere in the world. We'll

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keep rallying a coalition of proud nationsto stop puting from taking over Ukraine and
doing more damage. We'll keep NATOstronger, and I'll make it more powerful
and more united than any time inall of our history. I'll keep doing
the same for allies in the Pacific. You know, when I came to
office, the conventional wisdom of theChina would Inevitace would inevitably past the UNI,

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so pass the United States. That'snot the case anymore, and I'm
gonna keep working and the war onGaza, bring home all the hostages had
been, peace and security to theMiddle East, and end this war.
We're also working around the clock tobring home Americans being unjustly detained all around
the world. You know, it'dcome so far since my inauguration, and

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that day I told you as astudent that winter we are student in a
winter of peril and winter possibilities,perilel possibilities. We're in the group of
the w We were in the groupof the worst pandemic in the century,
the worst economic crisis since the GreatDepression, the worst attack on our democracy

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since the Civil War. But wecame together as Americans. We got through
it. We merged stronger, moreprosperous, and more secure. Today we
have the strongest economy in the world, creating nearly sixteen million new jobs a
record, Wages are up, Inflationcontinues to come down, the racial wealth
gap as the lowest has been intwenty years. We're literally rebuilding our entire

(01:10:08):
nation, urban, suburban, rural, tribal communities. Manufacturers come back to
America. We're leading the world againin chips and science and innovation. We
finally beat Big Farm after all theseyears to lower the cost of prescription drugs
for seniors. And I'm gonna keepfighting to make sure we lower the cost
for everyone, not just seniors.More people of health care today in America

(01:10:31):
than ever before. And I signedone of those significant laws helping millions of
veterans and their families who are exposedto toxic materials. You know, most
significant climate law. Ever ever inthe history of the world, the first
major gun sectory long in thirty years. Today, violent through violent crime rate

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is at a fifty year low.We're also securing our border. Border crossings
are lowered today than when the previousadministration left office. I've kept my commitment
to appoint the first black woman tothe Streme Court in the United States of
America. I also kept my commitmentto have an administration that looks like America

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and be a president for all Americans. That's what I've done. I ran
for president four years ago because Ibelieved and still do that the soul of
America was a stake, the verynature of who we are was a stake,
and that's still the case. Americais an idea. An idea is

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stronger than any army, bigger thanany ocean, or powerful than any dictator
of tirant It's the most powerful ideain the history of the world. That
idea is that we hold these truthsto be self evident. We're all crazy
equal in dw market are certainly analienble rights, life, liberty, pursuit

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of happiness. We've never fully livedup to it. To this sacred idea
but we've never walked away from iteither, and I do not believe the
American people will walk away from it. Now in just a few months,
the American people will choose the courseof America's future. I made my choice,
I made my views known. Iwould like to thank our great Vice

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President Kamala Harris. She experienced,she's tough, she's capable. She's been
an incredible partner to me and theleader for our country. Now the choice
is up to you, the Americanpeople. When you make that choice,
remember the words of Benjamin Franklin's hangingon my wall here in the Oval Office,

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alongside the bust of doctor King andRosa Parks, and says, our
shove is When ben Franklin was askedas he emerged from the K the con
the K, the convention going on, whether the founders I've given America a
monarchy republic? Frank of a responsewas a republic if you can't keep it,

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a republic if you can keep it. Whether we keep our republic is
now in your hands, my fellowAmerican, has been the privilege of my
life, the service nation of overfifty years. Nowhere else on earth could
acciped the stutter from modest beginning toScranton, Pennsylvania, and Claimont, Delaware.

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One day sit behind the resolute deskin the Oval Office as President the
United States. But here I am. That's what's so special about America.
We are a nation of promise andpossibilities, of dreamers and doers, of
ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things. I'vegiven my heart and my soul to our

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nation, like so many others thathave been blessed minion times in return with
the love and support of American people. I hope you have some idea how
grateful I am to all of you. The great thing about America is here.
Kings and dictators do not rule thatpeople do. History is in your

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hands. The power is in yourhands. The idea of America lies in
your hands. He is had tokeep faith, keep the faith, and
remember who we are. We're theUnited States of America. And there's simply
nothing, nothing beyond our capacity whenwe do it together. So let's act

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together, preserve our democracy. Godbless you all, and may God protect
our tips. Thank you. PresidentJoe Biden in an address to the nation
tonight, and I don't think heexplained anything to be real honest, it
sounded a lot more like a campaignspeech. He did not. He briefly
talked about his decision to not seekreelection, basically saying, look it,

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I've served a long life and haveserved willingly to this country, but it
is time to pass the torch.And I don't know about you and those
of you who may have been listeningin as well. I don't know if
he explained anything to be real,honest, I mean, I look back.
I jotted down a couple of notesas he was speaking. He says,
you know, we need to workto perfect the union. And he

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mentioned we're atn inflection point in thiscountry. Do we move forward or do
we go backward? You know,do we want hope or do we want
hate? And he rattled off alist of those contradictions. He said character
matters, obviously a reference to DonaldTrump without mentioning his name. He said
he ran to unite the party.Well, the party started pulling away from

(01:15:50):
him after that debate on June twentyseventh, But he did say today it
is time for new voices. Itis the time in the place to introduce
those new voices now. And obviouslyhe's talking about Kamala Harris. He says
political violence in this country still hasno place today. Yet we saw what

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happened at Union Station in Washington,d C. Today where there were pro
Hamas and pro Palestinian demonstrators who arepainting slogans on monuments in front of the
Washington Monument, who are burning anAmerican flag. This taking place, well,
the head of Israel, Benjamin netinYahoo, was making a very strong

(01:16:38):
case of why Israel needs America andwhat they're doing to eliminate Hamas. But
outside they're burning an American flag,defacing monuments and basically saying, you know,
the heck with Israel, we needGaza, we need a Palestinian state,
We need to wipe Israel off themap. And he mentioned he's going

(01:17:03):
to continue working on gun control,He's going to continue working on reform of
the Supreme Court. But I don'tknow if Joe Biden has realized this as
of yet, but he is nowa lame duck. Very little gets done
when a politician is a lame duck. All right, Mark coming up here
on the rod Ar Kentho and Utah'sTalk Radio one oh five nine knrs.

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I think people were ready to listento Joe Biden and understand why he decided
to not seek election seek reelection,and he didn't answer any of those questions
tonight. I think people were wantedto hear him give a speech that would
say, hey, I'm just youknow, I don't have it anymore,

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but he wasn't about to say that. What really happened were the Democrats,
led by Nancy Pelosi, who finallytold Joe he couldn't win, forced Joe
Biden out of this race. Hedid not go willingly because I think he
and his family still believe he couldwin. But tonight I think that speech
was rather hollow. I don't thinkit answered any questions that the American people

(01:18:11):
were looking for, and he didn'thelp Kamala Harris at all either. So
we'll see reaction to this over thenext twenty four hours. We'll be talking
about it tomorrow, But obviously Idon't think it achieved what Joe Biden was
hoping it would achieve. All right, let's move back to the issue of
Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris, thedebate is now and I mentioned this earlier
that the media is trying to reframeKamala Harris as the fact that she wasn't

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really the borders are, even thoughthat's what Joe Biden called her when he
announced that she would be the pointperson on his effort to do something about
the border. Remember, she toldimmigrants or migrants when she was first put
in that they should not come tothe United States, but eight million people

(01:18:55):
showed up anyway. Joining us onour Newsmaker line to talk more about that
is Jenny Tay. Jenny is areporter with the New York Post. She
wrote about that today. Apparently,Jenny, first of all, thank you
for joining us tonight. She said, do not come, but eight million
of them have come. Apparently theydidn't listen. Jenny, Well, right,
this issue that she took on whileserving in the Biden administration and continues

(01:19:17):
to lead on, which is migrationand quote unquote the root causes leading people
to leave Central America. You know, during this time, as what Republicans
call her is as the borders are, she has been trying to tell these

(01:19:38):
migrants not come. And of course, like you stated, probably her most
famous instance was in Guatemala in twentytwenty one. This was just before she
actually went to the southern border inthe United States. But she told these
migrants not to come. She triedto send the message by just plainly stating,
do not come. And of coursewhat followed that was record years of

(01:20:00):
illegal immigration totaling you know, morethan eight million people coming, which includes
individuals caught by border patrol, butalso those that snuck into the United States
that were detected through you know,our sensor systems along the border. And
that's you know, a pretty conservativenumber when you consider the fact that there

(01:20:25):
are people who get away that don'tset off sensors. So eight million plus
people came into the country did notheed her calls to not come. Jenny,
has she done anything when it comesto securing the border? Has she
done anything? So one of thebiggest accomplishments that the White House house is

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the investments that have been made.So the goal is to invest four billion
dollars in Central America to take careof a number of issues, include opening
up job opportunities that include, youknow, enhancing efforts to crack down on

(01:21:09):
trafficking in the region and crime andcorruption as well along the border. She
visited once in June twenty twenty one, and I spoke to forces about this
yesterday, about what that trip waslike, and it was very rushed from
their accounts, and it was alsovery sanitized. They were told to clean

(01:21:30):
out the area for migrants before shearrived. So she hasn't really honestly seen
the extent of the border issue,and so from that not much has been
done. Of course, the Bidenadministration has taken some new policies, introduced
this asylum crackdown in early June,and that was the leadership of President Biden

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as well as Secretary of MAJORCA.She really wasn't, how it as leading
that effort. She hasn't really beenworking on border policy itself, even though
she did go to the border,even though she does talk about the border
being at the forefront of her portfolio. Jenny, there have been reports out
there. I don't know, youprobably have seen these reports have been circulating

(01:22:18):
for quite some time that she wasnot real happy about getting this job to
begin with. You know, thiswas almost a no win situation. Some
felt for her, but she wasgiven this task. You have you seen
or heard reports of that at all? Jenny, I can tell you that
when border agents and ICE agents rightnow see that she is now clinching the

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nomination for the Democratic ticket in thetwenty twenty four race. That worried them.
Those are the people who are reallyworried about this that what if their
job, you know, look likewith someone at the helmet of the ship
who was previously stated that I needto receive less funding for detention space for

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officers to be able to invest intoyour immigration enforcement, which is completely opposite
of you know, the former presidentDonald Trump saying to carry out to the
largest deportation in this history. She'spreviously as a prosecutor in California, led

(01:23:25):
efforts to not only be laxed oncriminals, but also to be laxed on
criminal illegal immigrants. Those are anumber of things that are very terrifying to
these federal law enforcement officers dealing withimmigration that have been totally tasked by this
administration currently, and so their hopeis that Trump will be in office and

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that they will have the power togo back to the jobs that they signed
up for. Currently, morale isso low that those hanging by a threat
are hoping for that that's really thelight at the end of the tunnel for
them. So for at the endof the day, the people really disappointed
with Paris being a lead ticket forDemocrats. Is the potential of the policies

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that she previously supported coming back,Jenny, Has there been any indication that
the billions of dollars that America haspoured into Central America, Guatemalo, Honduras
and El Salvador has been successful instemming the flow of illegal immigrants coming into
this country from those countries they're beingindicate any indication that this money has done

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anything to stop them? Yeah,I mean we have seen again continued record
illegal immigration. What has changed thingsis just this last minute policy that came
to place, but it's about threeand a half years too late, according
to you know, those several lawenforcement officers on the on its border.

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So up until that, it reallyhas good record years as funds to illegal
migration and the issues causingble to fleeare still profistent in Central and those are
the issues that Harris is tasked withaddressing. From the New York Post,
Jhn Easier joining us on our newsmakerline talking about Kamala Harris and her failed

(01:25:24):
effort to be the borders are morecoming up here on the rod Arcutcho and
Utah's Talk Radio one oh five ninek NRS. All right, let's change
the topics. You know, oneof the issues right now, of course,
one of the top issues in thecountry is illegal immigration. Now,
for a long long time, youknow, Utah has been considered one of
the reddest of red states. Idon't agree with that. I think we're

(01:25:45):
much more moderate than we say weare. But we have a kind heart,
and because of that kind heart,you know, we have been maybe,
as my next guest describes it,one of the stealthiest sanctuary states in
the country. Today, I'm talkingabout Ron Mortensen wrote a terrific cardo.
He's a fellow today at the Centerfor Immigration Studies, wrote an article about

(01:26:11):
America's reddest, stealthiest sanctuary state,and that's the state of Utah. Ron's
joining us on our Newsmaker line.Rod. As I mentioned, we're a
very kind people here in the stateof people, state of Utah. We
like to reach out, we liketo help people. If that's true,
Could that lead us to be astealthy sanctuary state. No, I don't
think so. We've always been veryreceptive to outside people coming into the state.

(01:26:38):
And it goes all the way backto the early history of the Church
of Jesus Christ of the Latter daySaints because they had been driven, the
pioneers had been driven from state tostate and then actually even out of the
country. And so there's a longhistory of understanding and emphasizing with people who

(01:26:59):
have been refugees and who have beenthat had problems, and so that ties
all into this. I think,Ron, let's talk about this sanctuary state
story that you did for the Centerfor Immigration Studies. People out there will
declare, we are not a sanctuarystate. You know there are most cities
are not sanctuary cities. But youknow, in a way we have been,

(01:27:20):
have we not from what you've beenable to find out, Well,
we have, and we've known itfor a long time because if you look
at the definition of sanctuary, it'sa place of refuge and protection. And
Utah's provided great protection for illegal immigrantsfor decades now, with all kinds of
special program ringing from in state tuitionto driving privilege cards, and it was

(01:27:45):
always kind of kept under the greatordinary thing. And the thing that really
made it out in the open wasthe KUTV story when they broke the fact
that Denver was which is a sanctuarycity and an official sanctuary city by their
own designation, decided to send individualscrossing the border to Utah. And that

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raises a question, of course,if you're in a sanctuary city, with
all of the protections and all ofthe benefits, why would you volunteer?
Why would you leave and go toUtah? And yet we know that over
two thousand individuals have gone from DenverLoan into Utah. And if you take
that a step further, when youlook at the immigration court filings, we've

(01:28:30):
had about eighty thousand individuals come intoUtah just in the last three or four
years. And ron this shouldn't bea surprise to anybody, should it or
should it be? I mean,has this been going on for quite some
time without people really getting on topof this story. Well, it's been
going on, and I say theUtah way is to do it and deny

(01:28:53):
it. And it has been goingon for a long time since at least
twenty twenty one, when the uptickcame if you look at the immigration court
filings and so it started back then. But it's interesting the legislature and the
governor pride themselves on having data drivenpolicies. But when it comes to immigration,

(01:29:16):
there's no data. They don't collectany of this information out there,
and so you have to get itfrom third sources like the immigration court filings.
So no, we shouldn't be surprisedthat we have seen an uptick in
immigrants coming in here. But thefact is that it's just swept under the
rug and nobody wants to talk aboutit. For example, the Chemiscy Gardner

(01:29:41):
Institute, they are the source ofall kinds of great studies and they have
the population information there and you haven'tseen a study at all come out of
that. So it's known, butit's kept the swept under the rug.
And Utah taxpayers are paying for thecare of these people who come into the
state, though we don't have realindication as to how they're being treated or

(01:30:02):
how much money is being spent onthem. Do we run No, we
don't have any idea. Well,we could guess how much, but we
don't have any figures because the statewon't collect any information. But if we've
got tens of thousands of non Englishspeakers coming into our schools, that is

(01:30:23):
creating a cost on those schools,not only in monetary terms, but it
also impacts the learning of native Englishspeakers because a lot of the time is
devoted to the non English speakers.If you look at food banks and everything
else, if people are benefiting fromthe food banks and from homeless shelters,

(01:30:46):
and Governor Cox is very proud tosay that no money from the state is
going into this, but that begsthe question, how about state and local
money? How about our property taxesgoing into these other things? And so
it is very costly, and evenmedical care, they're getting medical care.
The legislature passed the bill that givescertain the children of certain illegal immigrants healthcare

(01:31:15):
insurance, and I think they puta way four million dollars for that.
So there's tremendous impact on the taxpayer. But it's all hidden and this great,
great data driven state refuses to collectthe data and put it out there.
Ron you list in your article nineteenlegislative actions that could be taken.
We can't go through all nineteen,but what are some of the more critical

(01:31:38):
ones that you think would have animmediate impact on this. Yeah, well,
the very first one I listened waswe a couple of years ago,
the legislature gutted Utah's fairly weak heverified law. The main thing that would
be to do is pass a verystrongly verified law that requires all employers to
use everify and give anybody if somebodyis using another person's social security to get

(01:32:04):
a job and not and the personwas and the employer wasn't using you verify,
allow that person to bring a privatecourt of action against the course of
action against the employer since they area victim of identity theft. Also allow
other employers if an employer is notusing you verify and undercutting the cost of

(01:32:29):
another employer, that let the otheremployer bring a course of action against that
employer in order to recover the costand take care of the unfire competition.
So that would that would be onegreat thing because it is drive the job
the jobs. The other thing Ithink we could do is we could we
could start collecting data, find outcollect data how much is it costing us

(01:32:54):
to provide medical insurance to non citizens, how much is it costing us for
education, and start gathering all thatinformation. We could start requiring a positive
identification of people sending remittances and transferringmoney overseas because a lot of that money
is going to the cartels and otherthings. So we could do that,

(01:33:15):
and then we could just start takingaway a lot of the benefits. Why
are we giving in state tuition,why are we giving health insurance? Why
are we doing these other things?We can look at that. Have any
lawmaker, I know you spend alot of time up on Utah's Capitol Hill
to this point, have any lawmakersreached out to you and said, Ron,
thank you for that information. Here'swhat we're going to do in the

(01:33:38):
upcoming legislative session. Or is everythingall quiet right now on the legislative front.
Well, this article just came outtoday, so none of them.
I don't know if they've seen ityet. They haven't reached out to me
on this. I had had someinterest from a lawmaker and they asked me
to provide some information on possible legislationseveral months ago, and I provided that.

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I don't know concern about it upthere. Ron Mortensen, he wrote
an article in the Center for ImmigrationStudies website today. He is a fellow
there, talking about why Utah hasreally become a stealth sanctuary state. Now,
there's been some real challenges going onbetween the sheriffs here in the state

(01:34:25):
and Ice and what they can andcannot do. But as Ron points out,
you know, this is a statethat's very friendly, very warm,
wants to help people, and Ithink we're being taken advantage of that the
story, you know, concern wasraised about that several weeks ago when there
was a report on our news partnerKUTV claiming that Denver was sending illegal immigrants

(01:34:47):
to this state and we were acceptingthem. And there were government officials who
came out and said, we can'tbelieve that, even though a lot of
that has been going on for quitesome time and nobody has said anything about
it until that report from KUTV.All right, Mark, coming up here
on the rod Ark Kent Show andUtah's Talk Radio one oh five nine knrs.

(01:35:08):
What about the future of the DemocraticParty in light of everything that has
happened with Joe Biden didn't explain tonightwhy he's dropping out of the race.
Kamala Harris is going to be thenominee. Joining us on our Newsmaker line
right now is Terry Jones, Editorof Issues and Insights. Terry, you
right about the end of the DemocraticParty. What do you mean by that,
Terry? No, I don't necessarilybelieve it's the end of the road,

(01:35:30):
but it certainly shows a party that'sin disarray, completely willing to ignore
its own blandishments about democracy and allthe other things to remove Joe Biden from
the picture after lying about him forthree and a half years. I think
they're going to have a very toughtime rebuilding confidence even in their own party

(01:35:55):
members, much less the thirty fiveto forty percent of people out there called
themselves independents. They're going to havea tough time gathering those people and enthusing
them about whomever they put forward,even if it's Kamala Harris, whom they're
in they're now apparently backing wholeheartedly.So you know, in a few words,

(01:36:17):
I think it's a party in disarrayand in serious trouble right now.
But you know, I would Iwould just go very deep into history to
to you know, recognize that earlyin the or in the middle of the
nineteenth century, the Whigs experienced asimilar kind of problem, and they became

(01:36:41):
the Republican Party eventually, and theRepublican Party eventually ended slavery. So you
know, things can happen like that. In the case of the Democrats,
I don't know what would happen withthem, because I think they're losing votes
across blue states right now, Wiscons, In, Michigan, Ohio, states

(01:37:02):
that used to be at least somewhatreliably Democratic in their in their leanings,
and I think they're they're they're hemorrhagingsupport. Terry, when you say they're
going to have a tough time buildingconfidence back in the Democratic Party, what
do you mean by that? Wherewhere's the confidence issue do you think right
now? And how do they rebuildit? Well, if you look at

(01:37:24):
their their their main candidates, youknow it was Joe Biden, but now
it's Kamala Harris that both of themhave very low confidence ratings, and I
think it's largely because the performance hasbeen so bad. If they performed up
to people's expectations and hopes, Ithink they would be a much more successful

(01:37:45):
party. But instead they keep voistingdei nonsense on us. They keep suggesting
that higher taxes and more spending wouldbuild our economy, which they won't.
Uh, And in general, they'vemade an utter mess of our foreign policy
overseas. I think if you knowanywhere you look, there's trouble on the

(01:38:08):
horizon, whether you're a Democrat orRepublican, and the Democrats just seem to
have abdicated any responsibility for that.They think they can just rely on their
friends and the media to tell theirstory over and over and over again and
people will be dumb and blieve.But people are not that dumb, and
people will, I think, catchon to the fact that they're less well

(01:38:30):
off today than they were four yearsago, and that they deserve something better.
You know, Terry, what Ithought was so hypocritical this weekend was
the fact that you here, youhave all these party leaders just begging and
almost pulling and forcing Joe Biden toget out of this race. What he
eventually does, but then all ofa sudden they're calling him the greatest president
ever. What a courageous act itwas his on his part. How hypocritical

(01:38:54):
is that, Terry? I justshoot my head at that. It's completely
hypocritical, and it's all also anattempt to foist a easily repeatable talking point
on all Americans about what a wonderfulpresident Joe Biden was. Joe Biden was
a disaster and unmitigated disaster for America, both from the economic standpoint, and

(01:39:16):
inflation, Businesses closing excessive debts,people are running up their credit cards in
order to pay for basic goods.It's been an utter disaster. And so
when they start, you know,like I say, foisting these talking points
on us that this was really,in fact a wonderful four years, you

(01:39:41):
just have to push back because it'ssimply not true. It's a factually false
statement. When they say something likethat. Final question for you, Terry,
what do you make of the queenof the word selling, Kamala Harris?
Most likely she'll be the pick,even though it's still open right now.
But what do you make of her? And how to does Trump approach
her if in fact she is thenominee. Well, I you know,

(01:40:04):
my my own opinion is that TrumpTrump will find a way to get under
her skin. And I think thatthat at some point is going to be
her undoing because once she starts talkingin a free wheeling fashion, she starts,
you know, as we've said before, you know, everybody has said
this, the word salads start comingout, and she starts saying things that

(01:40:28):
are you know, non sequiturs andtautologies, things that are just don't make
any sense. So I think theone thing he can do is, you
know, to to engage her straightup in a debate, hopefully on a
at least a reasonably friendly media outlet, and and let the public see what

(01:40:49):
she's really liked, because I think, you know, vice presidents often get
lost in the shuffle and they getsort of tucked under the you know,
under the you know, under theplate, so to speak, and so
she's you know, I think themain thing that the that the Republican Party
and Trump and specific need to bedoing is they need to be finding a

(01:41:14):
way to engage her and let her, you know, do do the damage
that I think she would do toher own campaign already did a little damage
today. Say in the US hasa strong alliance with North Korea. Oops,
I don't think we do, dowe

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