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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and Load from
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
As a guy who spent thirty four years deporting illegal aliens,
I got a message to the demands of illegal aliens
that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of
federal law. You better start packing now. You're damn right,
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because you are going home.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We have seen one estimate that says it would cost
eighty eight billion dollars to deport a million people a year.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't know if it's accurate or not.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What price you put on a national security? Is that
worth it?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without
separating families?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Of course, yes, families can be deported together.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
There's a wonderful book called Chasing Daylight by a guy
who was head of one of the big thing was
accounting firms like a Price Waterhouse Coopers or Cooper's, a
librand or whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
At the time.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And he's diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and he only
has a finite period of time to live. It is
not much. Let's say it's three months. He goes home
and he's a planner. He builds plans, he makes lists,
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he executes what he does, and he's risen up through
the ranks of this company to be the head of it,
international well respected, blue blood, blue chip firm. So just
like an engineer or a scientist, he writes things down.
Is he plant plan, he executes him. And one of
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the things he talked about of this diagnosis, he called
it the gift. And the reason he said it was
a gift is if you die. My brother died of
a heart attack two years ago, and we didn't get
to say by properly. Although I have lived my life
for years such that if I never see you again,
you know how I feel about you. You know that
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I'm clear, I emote, I communicate, no regrets. So he
talked about this gift because now he got to say
to people the things that were that mattered to him,
and he got to do the things that were important
to him. Because he said, if I were to have
lived twenty five more years, I'd slow roll this thing.
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I'm going to do what matters most, which is tell
people I love how much I love them and why
I love them. And he went back through his life
and did that he started with people he grew up
with in high school than college and early jobs. And
he said, this has been a great gift for me,
and then of course he died, but he talked about
the purpose he had, and he talked about the fact
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that this accelerated what he would have never otherwise done.
Because it's weird, right if you're just sitting around and
you start calling everybody from high school and said, hey, Bobby,
I just want you to know remember that time you
gave me a ride when you didn't have to, and
it really helped me out.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And that's what you know. That's meant a lot to me,
my whole life.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, you okay, you dying now, I just watching a
football game had to be weird, right, But when he
knew he had a finite number of hours left to
spend on this earth, it gave him a purpose, an
accelerated time schedule to accomplish things. Donald Trump knows four
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years will come and go fast. It'll be gone before
you know it. He's done it before. He knows he
can never be president again. He knows he didn't just
say this to win your vote. He knows how messed
up things are in this country and that he's got
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a brief moment to fix them. It's Joe Montana having
to drive ninety yards to score on the Cowboys in
the championship game. It's John Elway before the big drive.
It's Aaron Rodgers taking his team down the field to score.
You know you got whatever. It is thirty eight seconds
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and you're on your own five yard line.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You don't have time to mess around.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
So Donald Trump, the minute he won, started making announcements,
Here's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Here's what we're doing. Here's what we're doing. Here's what
we're doing.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And I love it. There is a sense of urgency.
I have a friend named Russell Lebar. It's a very
successful restaurant tour. He has over twenty restaurants and growing.
And if I ask him for a check or a
charitable cause like Camp Hope or Saint Jude, he will
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drive it over. His office is forty minutes from my
office for my studio, and he'll arrive in thirty five minutes.
And I'll say, Russell, you could have mailed it, and
he says, sense of urgency. It's something is worth doing,
it's worth doing right now. And I've taught my kids
sense of urgency and they know that comes from mister Obara. Well,
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that's what Donald Trump is doing. He is building the
team to execute on the orders. He has named Stephen
Miller as his deputy chief of staff. Stephen Miller is
a guy. I don't know that he could fist fight
and win. Anybody win a fistfight, but man, this guy's tough.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
He is unafraid. He knows that the media hates him
and is out to defeat him.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
So this is a reporter asking for facts and figures,
facts and figures to back up the need for mass deportation.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Children are dead and you are wasting my time. Do
you have any remorse for the dead children? Do you
care all about the dead children? Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Then that's what I want to leave you with, is
that Donald Trump will figures.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Donald Trump is going to be elected president and the
migrant gangs are going to be sent home. Children's lives
will be saved, and you know who will benefit the
most are the working class Hispanic communities that are besieged
by gang violences. So you're the schools that are being
overtaken by migrant gangs.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You have emas thirteen. That is brutalizing children.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
You have Kayla Hamilton, who is a twenty year old
autistic girl who was raped and murdered, beaten to death.
That will end. That will stop, and our children's lives
will be saved. That is the most virtuous thing that
can possibly be done. We are going to save the
lives of our children. We will not let Kamala Harris
condemn them to a life of misery, suffering and death.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
If you really understand what's happening in this country, you
have to have a fire under your booty. You have
to be ready to get after it. And you know what,
I love Donald Trump does. He absolutely does. He is
seventy eight years old, and he knows my time on
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this earth tomorrow is not promised. He's been shot in
the head within a few months ago. He knows they're
out to get him. He knows there are powerful people
out to get it, and he's out to save this country.
And he ain't wasting a moment. He's going to hit
the ground running on day one with the right team
in place. I'll tell you some more of who those
are coming up. I truly believe that the worst thing
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that ever happened to America was slavery.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
To Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
And the best thing that ever happened to slavery was
America and the Republican Party reports that President Trump will
attend the UFC this weekend at Madison Square Garden in
New York City. Per UFC fighter bau Nicol, this will
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be his first public event since being elected.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And let me tell you something.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You've never seen a crowd go more wild than they
are going to go for Donald J.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Trump when he walked in there.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
President Trump has been a UFC guy since before most
people knew what UFC was.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It is going to be so over.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
The top, just insane love for this man.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And he's not running for office now.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You do want your mandate, You do want people to
support what you're doing. So in a sense, you're always campaigning.
And Trump understands that. But I think he genuinely feeds
off of the crowd and the love. I think it
sustains him. I think it nourishes him. Congressman Mike Watts
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is a retired colonel and National Guard combat decorated Green
Beret and former White House and Pentagon policy advisor. Has
named him his National Security Advisor. Here is Mike Waltz
when he was a congressman, questioning Anthony Blincoln, who, by
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the way, is the devil about the Biden administration's foreign
policy failures.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I just have a simple question for you.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Is the world safer under your tenure as Secretary?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
I think the world is an incredibly dangerous place, but
we're able to deal with it more effectively and in a
more secure manner because we've rebuilt our alliances, created new ones.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
We have more partners's our alliance with our Afghan partners.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
No how's that going? Ones?
Speaker 7 (10:33):
That the many that we've brought to the United States
since with throwing from afghanisty.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Did deterrance failed?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Putin from invading Ukraine?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Putin was prevented because of our leadership in not erasing
preventing from race Ukraine from the man?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Could the invasion have happened? Did deterrence fail?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
We had a whole panoply of threatened sanctions, isolation, diplomatic isolation.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But at the end of the day, he's still invaded.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
He did indeed failed, And Noah has the terms failed
Iran supporting terrorism and its terrorist organizations and.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Attacking is fortunately horrifically Haurana supported terrorism for decades.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Mister Secretary, I have here the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, the
invasion of Ukraine, the unholy alliance between Russia and China,
Hamas and Hezbela attacks on Israel, Huti attacking international shipping
hostages in Gaza, Iran flush with cash, the re emergence
of isis k now six thwarted attacks in Europe, increased
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Chinese aggression, and the collapse of our influence in Central
Africa and the Sahel. And you're we get five minutes
for the million people I represent, a public hearing, and
you're going to tell the American people with this list
they're safer.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Go let's go down that list. We ended American War.
We're better off for that Russian invasion of Ukraine. We
repelled it by bringing fifty countries together, getting the Ukrainians
what they need to make sure that it couldn't be
erased from the map, the cooperation between Russian and China.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
I mean, at some point you have to look back,
take a step back, look in the mirror and say
our policies are failing, is crumbling. Fully, the American people
do not feel safer, totally disagree around the world.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
You know, Anthony Blinken, John Bolton, Brennan, Dick Cheney. These
men are the types of men that are the reason
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our loved ones died in Vietnam. They are the reason
that Marcus Latrell lost his three buddies and the Chinook
that came to save them. We absolutely took a swath
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of an entire generation out in Afghanistan and.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Iraq, and what do we have to show for it.
These men are evil.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
They sold more bullets and more guns, and they built
more embassies, and some generals got some promotions. A lot
of people won, but America lost, and a lot of
families were hit hard. CNN Scott Jennings called Tom Homan
Trump's borders are the exact right choice.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You probably noticed because I've been talking about it yesterday
and today. I'm fired up over this Tom Holman choice.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Well, first of all, i think mister Homan is the
exact right choice, and I'm glad the President has moved
on that so quickly because it was such a big
part of his campaign. Number two, Look, there's a whole
bunch of people in this country that don't need to
be here. In fact, there's I think one point three
million people who've already received deportation orders from federal courts.
They've already had due process, they need to leave, and
so there's a good place to start. There's a whole
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other bunch of people who are here that we know
have committed violent crimes, either where they were or since
they've been here.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
They need to be sent away as well.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
So there are large numbers of people that need to
be taken out of this country, and I think mister
Homan is going to be the person who's most capable
of getting that done. And for those who think that
this is somehow unusual, it's not. Every administration deports people.
Barack Obama deported all kinds of people, lots of people
in fact, And so it's something that the executive branch
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can and should do when due process has occurred, or
when we know there are people in the country who
wish harm on American citizens. This should not be controversial,
and in fact, in the campaign it wasn't. Polling repeatedly
showed that people supported Trump's viewpoint on this issue.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And just so you know, it's the right choice. This
will take us to break an a.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Navarro on the view, is very unhappy about this choice,
and that when you're making the right people mad, that
makes me happy.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Look, Donald Trump won the electoral vote. He won, he's
going to win the House. He won the Senate. For
all effects and purposes, He's got the Supreme Court. They've
given him immunity. This is what the country voted for.
This is you know a lot of people thought that
when he talked about mass deportations he wasn't being serious.
I don't know how many times he had to say
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it for people to realize he was being serious. Well,
if you thought he wasn't being serious, the appointment of
Tom Homan today as borders are and he will be
in charge of a mass deportation program, the largest the
country has ever seen, they say. And now Stephen Miller
as deputy chief of staff should let you know that
he was absolutely serious. And when you talk about mass deportations,
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people think, oh, it's just going to be the criminals.
There's not enough criminals aliens in the federal prison system
for it to be mass deportations. What it means as grandmothers,
what it means as brothers and aunts, What it means
is auelas auelas. It means dreamers, it means your family members,
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it means you're for your colleagues, it means your friends,
it means people who are part of the society. And
look America, you.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Know, don't you come here illegally? The Michael Berry Show,
Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Show, arrogant, pretentious, false people every night on television claim
to know what the people think. They claim to know
what women think, and what Hispanics think, and what Blacks think.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And they love to.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Speak for the peasants because that's how they view us.
We're out here in the hinterland. But they don't know.
Sometimes they just make it up. But one thing you
learn when you're in that business is that whatever you say,
regardless whether it's credible or not, regardless whether it's based
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in reality or any particular inside knowledge, is you seem
very confident. And in so doing, people at home who've
not learned to lie or be a fraud or pose,
they don't know that. One of the things about elections
is then you get to actually learn what the people
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do think. So there's a very interesting Hispanics are an
interesting group or let them knows, whichever you prefer.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
They're an interesting group to study as voters because blacks
tend to vote as a block, closer than any other group,
certainly closer than whites or no matter whether they're rich
or poor. They have in the past. Now there was
a change this time. A large large portion of Blacks
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will vote the same or have voted the same. His
fanics not so much, because you've got, first of all,
you've got Hispanish from Mexico, which are very different than
those native to Cuba, which is very different than those
native to Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico. And you got
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the Texas versus Florida versus New York, Vibe Arizona and
California thrown in there. But an interesting thing has happened
this election in my home state of Texas, where Star
County ninety seven percent Hispanic went Republican majority Republican first
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time since eighteen ninety two. I read a good piece
by a fellow named Layton Woodhouse. Don't know him, but
it's well written. It appeared in the Free Press, which
I subscribed to, and it was entitled the Latino Democrats
who Flipped for Trump. A report from the Border Star County,
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Texas hasn't voted for Republican president since eighteen ninety two.
Now quote the GOP is what the Democrats used to be.
Alberto Olivaris is a fourth generation Tehano who worked for
Customs and Border Patrol for twenty six years. He's also
been a Democrat most of his life. He says, I
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was a Democrat because I was told I was, said Olivares,
a square jawed, fifty four year old in a cowboy
hat and boots. I didn't want to be different than
my parents and my brothers and my sister. But he
said he was so turned off by what he saw
as President moroacc Obama's failure to support law enforcement that
he switched parties. He said, I had to deal with
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the feeling of divorcing my family, he told me over
a Coca Cola and Rio Grand City, the seat of
Star County. This year, he became the first person, as
far as he knows, to run for local office as
a Republican here.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Since the eighteen eighties.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
During his campaign for county sheriff, he was careful not
to mention Donald Trump, fearing an association with the former
president could hurt him In this traditionally Democrat area, but
he said voters kept bringing up Trump themselves, telling Olivares
how much they liked the billionaire from Queens. I saw
this myself more than once when I heard drivers honk
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their horns in town at trucks waving flags for Trump.
A tectonic transformation is underway in the Rio Grand Valley,
which is a reflection of what's happening nationally. Olivares said.
The GOP is what the Democrats used to be. Star
County is almost one hundred percent Latino. In years past,
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that should have made it a lock for Democrats and
for generations it was Los democratas isay portolos pobdes. That's
their catchphrase, said Olivaris of the local Parti's mantra, which
roughly translates to Democrats will represent the poor. For decades,
there simply was no Republican party in the area. In
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twenty ten, when Olivaris's wife voted wanted to vote in
a Republican primary, poll workers had to make phone calls
and send her to numerous polling stations just to track
down a GOP ballot. But last week the county flipped
to the Republican party for the first time in one
hundred and thirty years, voting for Trump by about fifty
eight percent. The last time Star County voted for Republican
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presidential candidate was in eighteen ninety two for Benjamin Harrison.
There's no better place to witness America's political realignment than
the small Texas border towns along the Rio Grand. Across
the country, the swap from Democrat to Republican has been
unfolding for decades, but it went into overdrive with Trump's
arrival in US politics in twenty fifteen. In twenty twenty,
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it became clear that a seismic political shift was underway
when Trump almost won Star County, taking forty seven percent
of the vote in a county that had voted for
Hillary Clinton four years earlier in twenty sixteen by seventy
nine points and for Barack Obama by seventy three points
in twenty twelve and eighty four points in two thousand
and eight. Olivaris said, of Trump almost winning in twenty twenty,
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we were so close. Everyone was ready to flip in
Star County. You can see the change happening across two
key access class and race.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Rio Grand City is a poor town, with the.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Median income of forty four thousand, barely half the median
income of the country as a whole. Almost everyone has
a Spanish surname, and most people are bilingual. But Star
County has found itself increasingly out of place in the
progressive Democrat Party of the twenty first century. As Olivari's says,
people here are conservative. Although Olivaris lost the sheriff's race
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this time, if he tries again, it's highly likely he
could win and become the area's first Republican public servant
since the age of westward expansion.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
It's only a matter of time. The Rio Grand Valley
is now Trump Country.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I spent last weekend in spent last weekend in Rio
Grand City, asking people there how they voted in this
presidential election, whether their choice represented a departure from the past.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
The pattern was unmistakable.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
The region is full of lifelong Democrats who are now
stalwart Republicans.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I was raised in a Democrat family.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
A forty eight year old Mexican American man told me
as he leaned against the tailgate of his pickup truck
about to go for an afternoon run, he was reluctant
to give me his name, but he told me he
grew up a farm worker, toiling in the fields with
his parents when he was twelve or thirteen. Now he
says he works as an EMT and he's been in
the Rio Grand River many times, saving the migrants from drowning.
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Today he's a Republican and he's happy that Donald Trump
will be our next president. Tradition, Values, rules was how
he described his worldview. I'm going to skip down because
I'm running out of time, But it's stories about people
with a deep connection to Mexico put an even deeper
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connection to Texas. And it's really only in South Texas
that you feel these things, that you experience these things,
and it's hard for people outside of Texas to understand
these people. They are deeply Texan, deeply proudly Latino, and
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deeply proud of their heritage back in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And guess what. They don't want a legal immigration, they.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Don't want boys playing girls sports, they don't want the
nonsense of the life. And frankly, I'm glad the Democrats
are disrespected because I'm honored to have them vote for
Donald Trump. And the words of those chordsmen aren't shore and
the words that were taken by robint FP.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
These children speak Chinese ambatic.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I like to tell stories to make a point. You
probably figured that out, so let me tell you a
quick story.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
So in two thousand and one, I was the youngest
city councilor ever elected in the city Houston, and the
first Republican elected citywide. We had single member districts forever,
and then they added some at large districts well. To
win at large in the city. You would think of
Houston as very conservative if you don't live in Houston,
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but the urban environment is really Detroit, Chicago, La New York, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami, Miami.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Less so today. But anyway, so.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
We get I get elected and there is a fellow
who is brought in to be the dollar a year
transportations are n It was David Sapristin, and I chaired the airport,
Transportation and Infrastructure committees. It was three different committees. They
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gave them all to me because that was where I
geeked out that in the budget. So he and I
had to work together. He did not have a city position,
he didn't need one. He's a billionaire. But he immediately
asked me for a meeting, and he said, look, I
don't intend to overstep your role as the chairman of
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the Transportation Committee. I'm only going to do this for
a year and I want to get some things accomplished.
I don't get paid for this. I don't need to
do this. He lived at the time in Malibu, at
three houses in California. He had kids, adult kids in
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New York. He had apartments all over the world. But
he had built his empire in Houston. And how he
had built his empire was he had owned a Ford
dealership in his early twenties in Baltimore, where he was from,
and he would drive into work every day into downtown Baltimore,
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and some days it would take him twenty minutes and
some days it would take two hours. So he said,
what if somebody could tell me about the traffic patterns. Now,
for you young folks, you go, oh yeah, just look
at your Apple mounts, or hey, just go to Way's
or just look.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It wasn't that simple back then.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
You didn't know how long it was going to take
to commute into town back in the day, because there
wasn't any way to tell you. There was no traffic
on the radio So what he did is he went
in and he figured out he put he rented a helicopter,
and he put the helicopter up in the air, and
the helicopter would communicate with a person that he hired
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to sit in his office at his Ford Dealership in
downtown Baltimore, and then he would sell that to the
radio station. And how he sold that is a whole
different things. It's fascinating, And it was called Metro Traffic,
and Metro Traffic grew to go nationwide and Westwood One,
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which is one of the competitors of the company I
work for, which is iHeartMedia. Westwood One bought them for
one point two billion dollars. They had one shareholder, It
was David david Is David Sapristein became a mentor of mine,
and I learned a lot working beside him. We flew
to Seattle to see what they were doing. We flew
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all over the country to see what people were doing
with parking, what people were doing with how to tow vehicles.
So he commissioned a study from a wonderful group in
college station at the Texas A and M University Transportation Institute,
and we learned why traffic was so bad in Houston,
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and that was the number one issue.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
People wanted the traffic fixed. Will nobody ever fixed his problems.
They just talk about it.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Right, We've got unwed mothers, and we've got people in poverty,
and we've got people without insurance. But nobody ever actually
solves the problem. They just talk about it. Well, David
wanted to solve it, and that was right up my alley.
So we start doing these studies and we find out
in very short order that fourteen percent of traffic delays
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are from cars on the side of the road and
causing accidents. So what if we get those cars moved off. Well,
the toe industry has a lock on that, and we
had something at the time called the tow truck. So
when a car would go down on the side of
the road, if there was a tow truck literally driving
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behind it instead of pulling right up in front of it,
locking it up and hauling it off, couldn't do that.
Anybody who got to the accident before an officer arrived
would be part of the group.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
The lottery. They would literally draw straws.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Once the officer arrived, they said, all right, there's four
of y'all waiting here, So here we go, and whoever
was pulled out of the hat would get the toe
because they would get paid.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Well, that would cause people to drive dangerously to get
to the accident before the officer did to have a
chance to get the toe, because that's the big money
is a downed car on side of the road and
take them off. So we created something called safe Clear,
which was we created zones on the highway and you
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had to respond and we got real time data on
how fast the cars moved. Guess what, Now we had
accountability built in. Now we had people getting the cars
out of the way, moving the cars.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Off the track of the off the side.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
We had training done for the police departments the city,
the county, the Metro who were working the roads and saying, hey,
when there's an accident, unless there's a fatality.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Get the damn accident off the road.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
But see officers, God love them and I do, they
got nowhere to be they're on duty. So how many times,
especially on the Texas highways, I would tell you it
probably happens where you live. It takes you two hours
to get up past an accident, and then you get
past it and you realize the cops are just standing
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around talking to each other. What do they care if
you arrival on time? But that means people don't get
to the hospital on time. That means products don't arrival
on time. That means the eighteen wheeler driver, the long
haul driver who needed to go from California to Florida
and get back on time now isn't going to be
able to drop his load on time. And that pushed
everything in the supply chain back.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Well.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I say all that to say this Time magazine declared
that the two cities in the world, after one year
of us working on this, the two cities in the
world with the most innovative approaches to reducing traffic congestion
where Tokyo, Japan and Houston, Texas. I was so proud
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because David would study the issue, we would collaborate on
a solution, and it was my job to get it
through city council and the mayor would get all the credit,
which was how it should be. He's the mayor, he
gave me authority to do this. I got to do it.
He's a Democrat. I'm a Republican, but he understood it.
David Sapristin's a Republican fact. His nephew was head of
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the RNC, David Cypristin brought a body of knowledge in
problem solving. He brought a crazy desire that whatever needs
to get done will get done to get to the solution.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Why do I tell you that there's nobody in the.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Government of over twenty thousand people would have been able
to accomplish any of that. So bringing in an Elon Musk,
who doesn't need a job to lead government efficiency is
an indictment and an embarrassment to every federal government employee
and the media who defend them. And that's why, as
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you'll see coming up, they want Trump or they want
Musk deported.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
That's why they're tearing down Musk.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
That's why Musk must not succeed, because Musk proves that
entrepreneurs are problem solvers, they're visionaries, they accomplish things just
like Trump does, and they don't want that to happen.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Coming up, mm hmm,
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and Load from
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
As a guy who spent thirty four years deporting illegal aliens,
I got a message to the demands of illegal aliens
that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of
federal law. You better start packing now. You're damn right,
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because you are going home.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
We have seen one estimate that says it would cost
eighty eight billion dollars to deport a million people a year.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I don't know if it's accurate or not.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Is that what American taxpayers should expect?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What price you put on a national security? Is that
worth it?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without
separating families?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Of course, yes, families can be deported together.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
There's a wonderful book called Chasing Daylight by a guy
who was head of one of the big thing was
accounting firms like a Price Waterhouse Coopers or Cooper's, a
librand or whatever it was.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
At the time.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
And he's diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and he only
has a finite period of time to live. It is
not much. Let's say it's three months. He goes home
and he's a planner. He builds plans, he makes lists,
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he executes what he does, and he's risen up through
the ranks of this company to be the head of it,
international well respected, blue blood, blue chip firm. So just
like an engineer or a scientist, he writes things down.
Is he plant plan, he executes him. And one of
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the things he talked about of this diagnosis, he called
it the gift. And the reason he said it was
a gift is if you die. My brother died of
a heart attack two years ago, and we didn't get
to say by properly. Although I have lived my life
for years such that if I never see you again,
you know how I feel about you. You know that
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I'm clear, I emote, I communicate, no regrets. So he
talked about this gift because now he got to say
to people the things that were that mattered to him,
and he got to do the things that were important
to him. Because he said, if I were to have
lived twenty five more years, I'd slow roll this thing.
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I'm going to do what matters most, which is tell
people I love how much I love them and why
I love them. And he went back through his life
and did that he started with people he grew up
with in high school than college and early jobs. And
he said, this has been a great gift for me,
and then of course he died, but he talked about
the purpose he had, and he talked about the fact
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that this accelerated what he would have never otherwise done.
Because it's weird, right if you're just sitting around and
you start calling everybody from high school and said, hey, Bobby,
I just want you to know remember that time you
gave me a ride when you didn't have to, and
it really helped me out.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And that's what you know. That's meant a lot to me,
my whole life.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Yeah, you okay, you dying now, I just watching a
football game had to be weird, right, But when he
knew he had a finite number of hours left to
spend on this earth, it gave him a purpose, an
accelerated time schedule to accomplish things. Donald Trump knows four
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years will come and go fast. It'll be gone before
you know it. He's done it before. He knows he
can never be president again. He knows he didn't just
say this to win your vote. He knows how messed
up things are in this country and that he's got
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a brief moment to fix them. It's Joe Montana having
to drive ninety yards to score on the Cowboys in
the championship game. It's John Elway before the big drive.
It's Aaron Rodgers taking his team down the field to score.
You know you got whatever. It is thirty eight seconds
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and you're on your own five yard line.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
You don't have time to mess around.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
So Donald Trump, the minute he won, started making announcements,
Here's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Here's what we're doing. Here's what we're doing. Here's what
we're doing.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
And I love it. There is a sense of urgency.
I have a friend named Russell Lebar. It's a very
successful restaurant tour. He has over twenty restaurants and growing.
And if I ask him for a check or a
charitable cause like Camp Hope or Saint Jude, he will
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drive it over. His office is forty minutes from my
office for my studio, and he'll arrive in thirty five minutes.
And I'll say, Russell, you could have mailed it, and
he says, sense of urgency. It's something is worth doing,
it's worth doing right now. And I've taught my kids
sense of urgency and they know that comes from mister Obara. Well,
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that's what Donald Trump is doing. He is building the
team to execute on the orders. He has named Stephen
Miller as his deputy chief of staff. Stephen Miller is
a guy. I don't know that he could fist fight
and win. Anybody win a fistfight, but man, this guy's tough.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
He is unafraid. He knows that the media hates him
and is out to defeat him.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
So this is a reporter asking for facts and figures,
facts and figures to back up the need for mass deportation.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Children are dead and you are wasting my time. Do
you have any remorse for the dead children? Do you
care all about the dead children? Absolutely?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Then that's what I want to leave you with, is
that Donald Trump will figures.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Here's what's going to happen.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Donald Trump is going to be elected president and the
migrant gangs are going to be sent home. Children's lives
will be saved, and you know who will benefit the
most are the working class Hispanic communities that are besieged
by gang violences. So you're the schools that are being
overtaken by migrant gangs.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
You have emas thirteen. That is brutalizing children.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
You have Kayla Hamilton, who is a twenty year old
autistic girl who was raped and murdered, beaten to death.
That will end. That will stop, and our children's lives
will be saved. That is the most virtuous thing that
can possibly be done. We are going to save the
lives of our children. We will not let Kamala Harris
condemn them to a life of misery, suffering and death.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
If you really understand what's happening in this country, you
have to have a fire under your booty. You have
to be ready to get after it. And you know what,
I love Donald Trump does. He absolutely does. He is
seventy eight years old, and he knows my time on
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this earth tomorrow is not promised. He's been shot in
the head within a few months ago. He knows they're
out to get him. He knows there are powerful people
out to get it, and he's out to save this country.
And he ain't wasting a moment. He's going to hit
the ground running on day one with the right team
in place. I'll tell you some more of who those
are coming up. I truly believe that the worst thing
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that ever happened to America was slavery.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
To Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
And the best thing that ever happened to slavery was
America and the Republican Party reports that President Trump will
attend the UFC this weekend at Madison Square Garden in
New York City. Per UFC fighter bau Nicol, this will
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be his first public event since being elected.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And let me tell you something.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
You've never seen a crowd go more wild than they
are going to go for Donald J.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Trump when he walked in there.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
President Trump has been a UFC guy since before most
people knew what UFC was.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It is going to be so over.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
The top, just insane love for this man.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And he's not running for office now.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You do want your mandate, You do want people to
support what you're doing. So in a sense, you're always campaigning.
And Trump understands that. But I think he genuinely feeds
off of the crowd and the love. I think it
sustains him. I think it nourishes him. Congressman Mike Watts
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is a retired colonel and National Guard combat decorated Green
Beret and former White House and Pentagon policy advisor. Has
named him his National Security Advisor. Here is Mike Waltz
when he was a congressman, questioning Anthony Blincoln, who, by
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the way, is the devil about the Biden administration's foreign
policy failures.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I just have a simple question for you.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Is the world safer under your tenure as Secretary?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
I think the world is an incredibly dangerous place, but
we're able to deal with it more effectively and in a
more secure manner because we've rebuilt our alliances, created new ones.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
We have more partners's our alliance with our Afghan partners.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
No how's that going? Ones?
Speaker 7 (10:33):
That the many that we've brought to the United States
since with throwing from afghanisty.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Did deterrance failed?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Putin from invading Ukraine?
Speaker 7 (10:43):
Putin was prevented because of our leadership in not erasing
preventing from race Ukraine from the man?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Could the invasion have happened? Did deterrence fail?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
We had a whole panoply of threatened sanctions, isolation, diplomatic isolation.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
But at the end of the day, he's still invaded.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
He did indeed failed, And Noah has the terms failed
Iran supporting terrorism and its terrorist organizations and.
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Attacking is fortunately horrifically Haurana supported terrorism for decades.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Mister Secretary, I have here the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, the
invasion of Ukraine, the unholy alliance between Russia and China,
Hamas and Hezbela attacks on Israel, Huti attacking international shipping
hostages in Gaza, Iran flush with cash, the re emergence
of isis k now six thwarted attacks in Europe, increased
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Chinese aggression, and the collapse of our influence in Central
Africa and the Sahel. And you're we get five minutes
for the million people I represent, a public hearing, and
you're going to tell the American people with this list
they're safer.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Go let's go down that list. We ended American War.
We're better off for that Russian invasion of Ukraine. We
repelled it by bringing fifty countries together, getting the Ukrainians
what they need to make sure that it couldn't be
erased from the map, the cooperation between Russian and China.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
I mean, at some point you have to look back,
take a step back, look in the mirror and say
our policies are failing, is crumbling. Fully, the American people
do not feel safer, totally disagree around the world.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
You know, Anthony Blinken, John Bolton, Brennan, Dick Cheney. These
men are the types of men that are the reason
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our loved ones died in Vietnam. They are the reason
that Marcus Latrell lost his three buddies and the Chinook
that came to save them. We absolutely took a swath
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of an entire generation out in Afghanistan and.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Iraq, and what do we have to show for it.
These men are evil.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
They sold more bullets and more guns, and they built
more embassies, and some generals got some promotions. A lot
of people won, but America lost, and a lot of
families were hit hard. CNN Scott Jennings called Tom Homan
Trump's borders are the exact right choice.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Folks.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You probably noticed because I've been talking about it yesterday
and today. I'm fired up over this Tom Holman choice.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Well, first of all, i think mister Homan is the
exact right choice, and I'm glad the President has moved
on that so quickly because it was such a big
part of his campaign. Number two, Look, there's a whole
bunch of people in this country that don't need to
be here. In fact, there's I think one point three
million people who've already received deportation orders from federal courts.
They've already had due process, they need to leave, and
so there's a good place to start. There's a whole
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other bunch of people who are here that we know
have committed violent crimes, either where they were or since
they've been here.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
They need to be sent away as well.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
So there are large numbers of people that need to
be taken out of this country, and I think mister
Homan is going to be the person who's most capable
of getting that done. And for those who think that
this is somehow unusual, it's not. Every administration deports people.
Barack Obama deported all kinds of people, lots of people
in fact, And so it's something that the executive branch
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can and should do when due process has occurred, or
when we know there are people in the country who
wish harm on American citizens. This should not be controversial,
and in fact, in the campaign it wasn't. Polling repeatedly
showed that people supported Trump's viewpoint on this issue.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And just so you know, it's the right choice. This
will take us to break an a.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Navarro on the view, is very unhappy about this choice,
and that when you're making the right people mad, that
makes me happy.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Look, Donald Trump won the electoral vote. He won, he's
going to win the House. He won the Senate. For
all effects and purposes, He's got the Supreme Court. They've
given him immunity. This is what the country voted for.
This is you know a lot of people thought that
when he talked about mass deportations he wasn't being serious.
I don't know how many times he had to say
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it for people to realize he was being serious. Well,
if you thought he wasn't being serious, the appointment of
Tom Homan today as borders are and he will be
in charge of a mass deportation program, the largest the
country has ever seen, they say. And now Stephen Miller
as deputy chief of staff should let you know that
he was absolutely serious. And when you talk about mass deportations,
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people think, oh, it's just going to be the criminals.
There's not enough criminals aliens in the federal prison system
for it to be mass deportations. What it means as grandmothers,
what it means as brothers and aunts, What it means
is auelas auelas. It means dreamers, it means your family members,
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it means you're for your colleagues, it means your friends,
it means people who are part of the society. And
look America, you.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Know, don't you come here illegally? The Michael Berry Show,
Michael Berry.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Show, arrogant, pretentious, false people every night on television claim
to know what the people think. They claim to know
what women think, and what Hispanics think, and what Blacks think.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And they love to.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Speak for the peasants because that's how they view us.
We're out here in the hinterland. But they don't know.
Sometimes they just make it up. But one thing you
learn when you're in that business is that whatever you say,
regardless whether it's credible or not, regardless whether it's based
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in reality or any particular inside knowledge, is you seem
very confident. And in so doing, people at home who've
not learned to lie or be a fraud or pose,
they don't know that. One of the things about elections
is then you get to actually learn what the people
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do think. So there's a very interesting Hispanics are an
interesting group or let them knows, whichever you prefer.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
They're an interesting group to study as voters because blacks
tend to vote as a block, closer than any other group,
certainly closer than whites or no matter whether they're rich
or poor. They have in the past. Now there was
a change this time. A large large portion of Blacks
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will vote the same or have voted the same. His
fanics not so much, because you've got, first of all,
you've got Hispanish from Mexico, which are very different than
those native to Cuba, which is very different than those
native to Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico. And you got
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the Texas versus Florida versus New York, Vibe Arizona and
California thrown in there. But an interesting thing has happened
this election in my home state of Texas, where Star
County ninety seven percent Hispanic went Republican majority Republican first
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time since eighteen ninety two. I read a good piece
by a fellow named Layton Woodhouse. Don't know him, but
it's well written. It appeared in the Free Press, which
I subscribed to, and it was entitled the Latino Democrats
who Flipped for Trump. A report from the Border Star County,
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Texas hasn't voted for Republican president since eighteen ninety two.
Now quote the GOP is what the Democrats used to be.
Alberto Olivaris is a fourth generation Tehano who worked for
Customs and Border Patrol for twenty six years. He's also
been a Democrat most of his life. He says, I
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was a Democrat because I was told I was, said Olivares,
a square jawed, fifty four year old in a cowboy
hat and boots. I didn't want to be different than
my parents and my brothers and my sister. But he
said he was so turned off by what he saw
as President moroacc Obama's failure to support law enforcement that
he switched parties. He said, I had to deal with
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the feeling of divorcing my family, he told me over
a Coca Cola and Rio Grand City, the seat of
Star County. This year, he became the first person, as
far as he knows, to run for local office as
a Republican here.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Since the eighteen eighties.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
During his campaign for county sheriff, he was careful not
to mention Donald Trump, fearing an association with the former
president could hurt him In this traditionally Democrat area, but
he said voters kept bringing up Trump themselves, telling Olivares
how much they liked the billionaire from Queens. I saw
this myself more than once when I heard drivers honk
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their horns in town at trucks waving flags for Trump.
A tectonic transformation is underway in the Rio Grand Valley,
which is a reflection of what's happening nationally. Olivares said.
The GOP is what the Democrats used to be. Star
County is almost one hundred percent Latino. In years past,
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that should have made it a lock for Democrats and
for generations it was Los democratas isay portolos pobdes. That's
their catchphrase, said Olivaris of the local Parti's mantra, which
roughly translates to Democrats will represent the poor. For decades,
there simply was no Republican party in the area. In
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twenty ten, when Olivaris's wife voted wanted to vote in
a Republican primary, poll workers had to make phone calls
and send her to numerous polling stations just to track
down a GOP ballot. But last week the county flipped
to the Republican party for the first time in one
hundred and thirty years, voting for Trump by about fifty
eight percent. The last time Star County voted for Republican
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presidential candidate was in eighteen ninety two for Benjamin Harrison.
There's no better place to witness America's political realignment than
the small Texas border towns along the Rio Grand. Across
the country, the swap from Democrat to Republican has been
unfolding for decades, but it went into overdrive with Trump's
arrival in US politics in twenty fifteen. In twenty twenty,
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it became clear that a seismic political shift was underway
when Trump almost won Star County, taking forty seven percent
of the vote in a county that had voted for
Hillary Clinton four years earlier in twenty sixteen by seventy
nine points and for Barack Obama by seventy three points
in twenty twelve and eighty four points in two thousand
and eight. Olivaris said, of Trump almost winning in twenty twenty,
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we were so close. Everyone was ready to flip in
Star County. You can see the change happening across two
key access class and race.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Rio Grand City is a poor town, with the.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Median income of forty four thousand, barely half the median
income of the country as a whole. Almost everyone has
a Spanish surname, and most people are bilingual. But Star
County has found itself increasingly out of place in the
progressive Democrat Party of the twenty first century. As Olivari's says,
people here are conservative. Although Olivaris lost the sheriff's race
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this time, if he tries again, it's highly likely he
could win and become the area's first Republican public servant
since the age of westward expansion.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
It's only a matter of time. The Rio Grand Valley
is now Trump Country.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
I spent last weekend in spent last weekend in Rio
Grand City, asking people there how they voted in this
presidential election, whether their choice represented a departure from the past.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
The pattern was unmistakable.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
The region is full of lifelong Democrats who are now
stalwart Republicans.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I was raised in a Democrat family.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
A forty eight year old Mexican American man told me
as he leaned against the tailgate of his pickup truck
about to go for an afternoon run, he was reluctant
to give me his name, but he told me he
grew up a farm worker, toiling in the fields with
his parents when he was twelve or thirteen. Now he
says he works as an EMT and he's been in
the Rio Grand River many times, saving the migrants from drowning.
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Today he's a Republican and he's happy that Donald Trump
will be our next president. Tradition, Values, rules was how
he described his worldview. I'm going to skip down because
I'm running out of time, But it's stories about people
with a deep connection to Mexico put an even deeper
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connection to Texas. And it's really only in South Texas
that you feel these things, that you experience these things,
and it's hard for people outside of Texas to understand
these people. They are deeply Texan, deeply proudly Latino, and
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deeply proud of their heritage back in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And guess what. They don't want a legal immigration, they.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Don't want boys playing girls sports, they don't want the
nonsense of the life. And frankly, I'm glad the Democrats
are disrespected because I'm honored to have them vote for
Donald Trump. And the words of those chordsmen aren't shore and
the words that were taken by robint FP.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
These children speak Chinese ambatic.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
I like to tell stories to make a point. You
probably figured that out, so let me tell you a
quick story.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
So in two thousand and one, I was the youngest
city councilor ever elected in the city Houston, and the
first Republican elected citywide. We had single member districts forever,
and then they added some at large districts well. To
win at large in the city. You would think of
Houston as very conservative if you don't live in Houston,
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but the urban environment is really Detroit, Chicago, La New York, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami, Miami.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Less so today. But anyway, so.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
We get I get elected and there is a fellow
who is brought in to be the dollar a year
transportations are n It was David Sapristin, and I chaired the airport,
Transportation and Infrastructure committees. It was three different committees. They
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gave them all to me because that was where I
geeked out that in the budget. So he and I
had to work together. He did not have a city position,
he didn't need one. He's a billionaire. But he immediately
asked me for a meeting, and he said, look, I
don't intend to overstep your role as the chairman of
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the Transportation Committee. I'm only going to do this for
a year and I want to get some things accomplished.
I don't get paid for this. I don't need to
do this. He lived at the time in Malibu, at
three houses in California. He had kids, adult kids in
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New York. He had apartments all over the world. But
he had built his empire in Houston. And how he
had built his empire was he had owned a Ford
dealership in his early twenties in Baltimore, where he was from,
and he would drive into work every day into downtown Baltimore,
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and some days it would take him twenty minutes and
some days it would take two hours. So he said,
what if somebody could tell me about the traffic patterns. Now,
for you young folks, you go, oh yeah, just look
at your Apple mounts, or hey, just go to Way's
or just look.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
It wasn't that simple back then.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
You didn't know how long it was going to take
to commute into town back in the day, because there
wasn't any way to tell you. There was no traffic
on the radio So what he did is he went
in and he figured out he put he rented a helicopter,
and he put the helicopter up in the air, and
the helicopter would communicate with a person that he hired
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to sit in his office at his Ford Dealership in
downtown Baltimore, and then he would sell that to the
radio station. And how he sold that is a whole
different things. It's fascinating, And it was called Metro Traffic,
and Metro Traffic grew to go nationwide and Westwood One,
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which is one of the competitors of the company I
work for, which is iHeartMedia. Westwood One bought them for
one point two billion dollars. They had one shareholder, It
was David david Is David Sapristein became a mentor of mine,
and I learned a lot working beside him. We flew
to Seattle to see what they were doing. We flew
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all over the country to see what people were doing
with parking, what people were doing with how to tow vehicles.
So he commissioned a study from a wonderful group in
college station at the Texas A and M University Transportation Institute,
and we learned why traffic was so bad in Houston,
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and that was the number one issue.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
People wanted the traffic fixed. Will nobody ever fixed his problems.
They just talk about it.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Right, We've got unwed mothers, and we've got people in poverty,
and we've got people without insurance. But nobody ever actually
solves the problem. They just talk about it. Well, David
wanted to solve it, and that was right up my alley.
So we start doing these studies and we find out
in very short order that fourteen percent of traffic delays
(29:46):
are from cars on the side of the road and
causing accidents. So what if we get those cars moved off. Well,
the toe industry has a lock on that, and we
had something at the time called the tow truck. So
when a car would go down on the side of
the road, if there was a tow truck literally driving
(30:06):
behind it instead of pulling right up in front of it,
locking it up and hauling it off, couldn't do that.
Anybody who got to the accident before an officer arrived
would be part of the group.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
The lottery. They would literally draw straws.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Once the officer arrived, they said, all right, there's four
of y'all waiting here, So here we go, and whoever
was pulled out of the hat would get the toe
because they would get paid.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Well, that would cause people to drive dangerously to get
to the accident before the officer did to have a
chance to get the toe, because that's the big money
is a downed car on side of the road and
take them off. So we created something called safe Clear,
which was we created zones on the highway and you
(30:55):
had to respond and we got real time data on
how fast the cars moved. Guess what, Now we had
accountability built in. Now we had people getting the cars
out of the way, moving the cars.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Off the track of the off the side.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
We had training done for the police departments the city,
the county, the Metro who were working the roads and saying, hey,
when there's an accident, unless there's a fatality.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Get the damn accident off the road.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
But see officers, God love them and I do, they
got nowhere to be they're on duty. So how many times,
especially on the Texas highways, I would tell you it
probably happens where you live. It takes you two hours
to get up past an accident, and then you get
past it and you realize the cops are just standing
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around talking to each other. What do they care if
you arrival on time? But that means people don't get
to the hospital on time. That means products don't arrival
on time. That means the eighteen wheeler driver, the long
haul driver who needed to go from California to Florida
and get back on time now isn't going to be
able to drop his load on time. And that pushed
everything in the supply chain back.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Well.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
I say all that to say this Time magazine declared
that the two cities in the world, after one year
of us working on this, the two cities in the
world with the most innovative approaches to reducing traffic congestion
where Tokyo, Japan and Houston, Texas. I was so proud
(32:33):
because David would study the issue, we would collaborate on
a solution, and it was my job to get it
through city council and the mayor would get all the credit,
which was how it should be. He's the mayor, he
gave me authority to do this. I got to do it.
He's a Democrat. I'm a Republican, but he understood it.
David Sapristin's a Republican fact. His nephew was head of
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the RNC, David Cypristin brought a body of knowledge in
problem solving. He brought a crazy desire that whatever needs
to get done will get done to get to the solution.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Why do I tell you that there's nobody in the.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Government of over twenty thousand people would have been able
to accomplish any of that. So bringing in an Elon Musk,
who doesn't need a job to lead government efficiency is
an indictment and an embarrassment to every federal government employee
and the media who defend them. And that's why, as
(33:40):
you'll see coming up, they want Trump or they want
Musk deported.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
That's why they're tearing down Musk.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
That's why Musk must not succeed, because Musk proves that
entrepreneurs are problem solvers, they're visionaries, they accomplish things just
like Trump does, and they don't want that to happen.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Coming up, mm hmm,
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