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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thank you Scott Channon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Right down our toll
free telephone number if you want to be a part
of the program, it's eight hundred and ninety four to one, Shawn,
if you'd like to join us. I honestly could not
stop watching the President's Cabinet meeting from earlier today because
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the level of detail, depth, and transformational change that is
going on in this country is so dramatic, and it's
every single cabinet member. The President went around the table
and Elon Musk was also in the in the room
as well, talking about Doze. Doze now have found at
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least one hundred and fifty billion dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, corruption,
and again they're saying it's the tip of the iceberg.
And so there's there's so much good going on in
terms of everything into this that that every every single
institutionalist item that you can think of is being fought
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anew It is an entirely different approach from government. I mean,
to a certain extent, we would use the term uniparty.
I mean, there's not much difference, not much daylight between
Republicans and Democrats, that's been a fault of Republicans and
the criticism of mine for many, many years, and it
infuriates me when you know, Republicans are basically the Democratic
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Party light and it just is, you know, sort of
like a slow creep towards radical socialism and American weakness
on the world stage. And anyway, so the President spoke
first and then went around the room, and every cabinet
secretary was more impressive than the next. I actually think
we're going to play a big part of this. I
like the idea of maybe playing this in the final
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hour of the show today because if you want to
know why, I keep making the prediction that, if things
go right, this can be the most transformational, consequential presidency
in one hundred, one hundred and fifty years now. I
say that because we're rethinking everything right now with the
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President is in the process of undoing what is fifty
or sixty years worth of Americans being ripped off, abused,
and taken advantage of by friend and foe a like.
And he's doing it by challenging the unfair tariffs that
these countries have been putting on our country. And it's
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so deeply ingrained in the mindset of an institutionalist or
an establishment person that they have a hard time thinking
out of the box.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know the idea that Donald Trump betook him.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, we're going to build the wall, we're going to
become energy dominant, we're going to have free and fair trade,
or you can have reciprocal tariffs.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But the choice is yours.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And then you watch people they can't believe that an
American president would dare stick up for American workers. Think
of all of the trillions of dollars over the decades
that Americans have had to pay out in tariffs. Because
even our friends in Europe, are friends in Canada, are
friends in Taiwan, are friends in South Korea, Japan have
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all taken advantage of us, and they've been allowed to
do so because that is the institutionalist mindset, that is
the establishment mindset. And nobody wants to dare rock the
boat or take a chance or show American strength. And
what the great fallacy in all of this is every
single one of these countries, if they don't want their
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economies to tank, if they don't want if they want
access to our markets and your money, they have to
make a deal with President Trump. One way or the other. Now,
I don't like when it gets too complicated. In other words,
people can understand free and fair trade your choice, or
reciprocal tariffs your choice to other countries.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's a pretty simple concept.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Now there are more complicated economic issues that are associated
with it, and I'm sure as part of negotiations we
now have By the way, we report today that the
White House Economic Director Kevin Hassett says that Trump perceived
nearly twenty specific trade deal offers so far. He said
this on CNBC, where a bunch of idiots that know
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nothing about the economy work.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
But you know, led by that.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Idiot Kramer, I don't know why anybody would take economic
advice from him. It's like one or two people that
have half a brain on that network. The rest of
them are just as dumb as the people on ms DNC.
But anyway, he added that these deals are moving fast,
and my prediction is this is that the President is
going to announce deal after deal after deal after deal
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after deal. There will be some other factors brought up
with some countries, for example, intellectual property theft that's a
huge problem with China, or currency manipulation another huge problem
with China, but also with other countries. I personally, my
own decision is, you're gonna have trade surpluses with some countries,
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you're gonna have trade deficits with other countries.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And I look at Europe for example.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
The best thing that Europe could do for their national security,
of which we pay a majority of moneies for NATO,
and they're gonna need our military might in technology Supposedly,
you know, Europe and NATO form for the purpose of
aligning against the former Soviet Union now Russia against any
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military threat. And that's got thrown to hell, and then
we end up paying the bulk of moneies. And then
the reward we get for being the big defense country
that they're going to depend on if God forbid anything
happens is they hit us with tariffs. They hit us
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with bat taxes, and you know, European Union, for example,
ten percent tariff on our automobiles. We only charge them
two point five percent, and then they've got a thirty
percent I'm sorry, twenty percent vat tax. Well, that adds
thirty percent to the final sticker price. If you want
to sell an American car, let's say in Germany, one
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of these European Union countries. All right, that's thirty percent higher.
That makes it cost prohibitive to sell American cars in
Germany and many other European Union countries. And so they've
taken full advantage of US and right now with reciprocal tariffs.
So it is a pause, but we'll see what happens.
But we got a deal. Value added tax is still
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a tariff, I'm sorry, and that's going to have to
be dealt with this. There is going to be some
fine tuning here. And however, the trade deficit aspect is
not as important to me, just personally, because I do
believe that if America achieves the president's goal of energy dominance,
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that it would be wise for every allied country to
be taking on our coal, our natural gas, our oil,
and wean itself off any dependence on Russia. Brought this
up yesterday Chancellor Merkel. Angela Merkel, when she was in
charge in Germany, Donald Trump during his first term handed
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her a white flag and she said, what's this? So
what it's the white flag a surrender? Well what's this for? Well,
you just made a multi multi billion dollar deal to
make Vladimir Putin rich, and you just allowed him to
basically hold the keys to your entire economy because you're
getting all your energy from Russia, and that's a pretty
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dumb decision. Turns out, it was a dumb decision, and
the President was more right than we even knew at
the time. So there's a lot going on behind the scenes.
But I do predict, I'll even take it a step further.
I predict there's going to be country after country after
country that's going to come in, and those that make
their deals first will probably get the best deals. And
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if you're the last ten countries to make a deal,
probably Donald Trump will be a little bit tougher in negotiations.
If I was them, I'd get right to it. You know,
yesterday there was a little dip in the market today,
but nothing, you know, compared to the massive, biggest one
day gain on the Dow yesterday up eight percent, the
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biggest point increase in American history. NASDAG went up yesterday
twelve percent. Markets down a little bit today, but it's
been topsy turvy. I don't think, you know, we got
a difference here between Wall Street and Main Street. And
I don't really care about the people on Wall Street.
Many people on Wall Street. Little secret. They make money
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whether the stocks go up, with the stock go down,
and they spend a lot of time. You know, when
the stocks are down, let me tell you, most of
these guys know it's going to go back up. They're
buying while everybody else is in the country's panicking. But
it's it's it's going to settle out, and it's going
to settle out in a way. I predict that we're
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going to have more free and fair trade. Now, who
gets hurt when they put tariffs on our products? Well,
that incentivises companies to move their products abroad, and then
they're hitting us with tariffs on American products. That that
has reduced American manufacturing, you know, to levels that are
way too low that I would even argue become a
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national security risk. You know, why are we allowing imports
of pharmaceuticals? For example, we learned during COVID we didn't
we weren't manufacturing a lot of the medicines that we
should have been manufacturing right here in this country. Why
are we importing so many semiconductor chips, Well, now we're
going to be building them here in America. And with
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the twenty five percent auto tiff. Considering these countries, I
predict that that's probably going to end up staying in place,
because if you look at Japan, for example, ninety four
percent of their automobiles that are purchased in their country,
they're all made in Japan. And this similar protectionist activity
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in countries like Germany and other countries that produce automobiles,
and so that's going to be a big part of it. Anyway,
what the President did here is he decided to shake
the current system, be in the iconoclass disruptor that he is,
and showed American strength. He drew a clear light in
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the sand, and he made a profound and deep statement
that the days of ripping off America and abusing our
country and hurting Americans are over, the days of taking
advantage of us are over. So now seventy five countries
begging for access, and soon American goods will be more
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competitive across the globe. He's already gotten commitments for seven
trillion dollars from big, big companies and manufacturers. He also
has talked about creating incentives that if you build a
factory or manufacturing center, you might be able to deduct
to cost one hundred percent of it in year one.
You know, these countries would be wise, I think, to
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seek out a deal as quickly as possible. Donald Trump
knew these countries what he was betting on, and it
proved to be right because so many countries acted so quickly.
We can we have a deal, You dude, No, you're right,
You're right. It's unfair. We're gonna we're willing free and
fair trade. Sure, Okay, Why did that happen? Because those
countries desperately need access to our markets and your money.
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So that's why these countries came begging to get this
deal done. And now we've got ninety days, and my
guess is you're probably gonna hear a lot of announcement
in the next ninety days about trade deal that are
made with individual countries. You have dozens of foreign countries.
Multinational businesses have announced all their investment in America because
they know that under President Trump, it's going to be
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in their best interest to produce goods here, which is
great for Americans because it'll create those high paying career
jobs you always hear me talking about. That means more industry,
less dependence on other nations for necessary items, like pharmaceuticals,
semiconductor ships, et cetera. And what people are not quite
understanding is if they think this pause is out of weakness. No,
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it's just to kind of take our breath and see
how many deals we can get done quickly. And this
will be forever the new normal at least I guess
until the liberal comes in and one day and is elected.
Then yeah, sure we'll pay tariffs. How much you want
us to pay? I mean, how stupid would that be?
And I predict by the end of all of this,
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in spite of all of their bluster, the China you
know now that they're being held accountable, and even Europe
is holding them accountable. Europe is now tariffing China big
time because they want to be able. They don't have
any access to China's markets. I don't think the communist
Chinese are going to lift their trade barriers or stop
their intellectual property theft with Europe. Europe really doesn't have
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any other option. They're going to have to do business
with America. China has no interest in good faith negotiations.
They started a trade war that they promise you they're
not going to win. President she is playing chicken with
the wrong guy. And now I think the tariffs went
up to one hundred and forty five percent. They just
keep going up. And now if you look at China,
it's their currency is now at its lowest points since
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two thousand and seven and going lower. And I think
President Shees is going to have to beg for mercy
and come on in and try and make a deal
with the United States. The President said he's open to
doing that. China's economy depends on America's lucrative market. They
need us to buy their cheap products in bulk, and unfortunately,
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millions of Chinese citizens will be out of work. Not
that they're the best jobs in the world. Do you
have these Chinese sweatshops? China's retaliatory retaliatory tariffs don't have
a huge impact on the US. They've been ripping us
off for decades and their intellectual property theft. The money
that it's cost us is incalculable. Never mind what they
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did to the world with COVID nineteen. But this is
the this is the state of affairs.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You want an American president that's going to fight for
American jobs and fundamental fairness in terms of international trade.
Or do you want America to surrender, because that's basically
the option. There's two options here. Inflation, by the way,
continues its decline. I'm sure the state run legacy media
mob won't focus on this, but consumer prices falling in
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March to April to two point four percent. That is
close to the two percent goal in terms of inflation numbers. Now,
let's see the borders now secure. Last week's unemployment report
from March showed job growth that was booming, the handcuffs
of being taken off our energy industry, government waste fraud
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and abuses being cut. Elon Muskin announced one hundred and
fifty billion doses found. China has been confronted economically, so
as the rest of the world. The Iranians have been
put on notice militarily. The inflation rate has declined since
President Trump became president, from three percent now to two
point four percent, and the European Union is now we
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want to give negotiations a chance. At the head of
the European Commission on Thursday, she mirrored President Trump's move
to suspend tariffs worldwide. The European Union only passed its
retaliatory duties on Wednesday, afternoon, a response to Donald Trump's
steel and aluminum tariffs, which had been watered down from
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earlier proposals that came in at a fraction. They're going
to need access to our markets. This was big news
too that I bet everybody ignored. Apple is now in
talks with customers on ways to respond to US terrorists
by shifting more production outside of China. Now, remember, we
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have a five hundred billion dollar commitment to build out
facilities all over the United States, but especially in Texas.
I mean, that's a big deal. Now, the remarks by
the Chinese company, which assembles iPhones and makes AirPods, provide
a glimpse into deliberations by companies around the world scrambling
to tackle, you know, the fact that America has been
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abused and taken advantage and ripped off. If there's a
commercial guarantee and we're able to conduct a good evaluation
and we don't rule out having some products being localized
to meet the needs of the US market, They're going
to do it. And why shouldn't they Dozens of new
factories and now being built across the country. This news
out of industry select dot Com. Apple announced plans for
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the two hundred and fifty thousand square foot AI server
manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas, but they're also going to
be building out other facilities around the country. They're going
to produce AI servers to support Apple Intelligence, that's their
AI driven personal assistant for iPhone, iPad, mac computers or
Bullish on the future of American innovation and proud to
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build on our long standing US investments with this five
hundred billion dollar commitment to our country's future. I mean
they're making smart choice, some smart choices. ELI Lilly and Company.
They announced plans to more than double their US manufacturing
investment to one point seven billion. That's going to create
thousands of jobs. The investment will expand Lili's manufacturing facilities
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in North Carolina and Indiana, focusing on producing active pharmaceutical
ingredients and new metow We need our medicines made here.
We learned that during COVID Overland. AI has inaugurated their
new factory in South Seattle that's designed for end to
end development and rapid production of both crude and uncrewed
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ground vehicles.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Toyota officially opened a new automotive battery manufacturing plant in
North Carolina, following on the heels of Nissan and Honda,
and the nearly fourteen billion dollar facility is Toyota's eleventh
manufacturing plant in the US. It's expected to create five
thousand jobs. I don't even know how to say this name.
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It's oarsl Or Middle has announced plans to construct a
new advanced, non grain oriented electric steel manufacturing facility in Alabama.
One point two billion investment there thirteen hundred jobs during
the construction phase, then permanent positions thereafter. Aero Vernment has
announced the establish than of Freedom Works, which is a
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state of the art advanced manufacturing facility in Salt Lake
City two hundred thousand square feet and that's going to happen.
That's going to create hundreds and hundreds of high paying jobs.
ZM Trucks has selected Sam Bernardino, a pretty dumbness stay
in California for its first North American manufacturing plant and
new regional headquarters. The companies leased to two hundred and
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ten thousand square foot facility in Fontana, California. By the way,
did you see in and out Burger is moving to Franklin,
Tennessee and Nashville.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I did it's pretty cool. Yeah they are. Does that
mean you're a Tennessee. It's warm there.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
It's not as form as Florida, and it's not as coastal.
That's a little problem for me. I like the coast.
But I've actually had conversations I begged in and out
to move to Palm Beach, Florida and surrounding areas West Palm.
I'm trying to get him down here to get them
all over Florida.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Are they not able to get the meat right or
oh they just that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
But this is a company that is never planned on
going east of Texas, and that's a big problem anyway.
Orbis Corporation announced that their new manufacturing facility in Greenville,
Texas four hundred and twenty thousand square feet of manufacturing
space two hundred and forty thousand square feet of warehouse
space dedicated to producing reusable packaging. The Diego North America
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announced four hundred and fifteen million dollar investment. And this
is a Montgomery, Alabama, three hundred and sixty thousand square
foot facility. I mean, I can keep going on. I
got more and more. You just keep going. Seven trillion
dollars plus and county Now interesting. Two bloggers linked to
the Chinese government floated the idea of upping the flow
of deadly fentanyl into the US and retaliation to the
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President's tariffs. Well, that's pretty sick, that's pretty ugly, that's
pretty evil, pretty dark, pretty twisted. Anyway, the President explained
his ninety day pause for most countries, with the exception
of China. China is going to have to come to
the table. US inflation drop to a six month low
in March. Why isn't this Why isn't Wall Street paying
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attention to that? Because that helps everyday Americans. The global
bond investors rallied behind President Trump's trade push. That's good
news as well. Trump's tariff pause is the latest example.
I mean, what people want to understand is Donald Trump
has now given them time. And with Donald Trump's in
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a perpetual state of negotiation, how many times do I
have to explain this. I don't know why I have
to keep explaining this, but it is what it is.
There's a sad story in the New York Post today
about the It's called Chinese tsunami swamps, and you should
see these sweatshops these condition and it talks in at
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length about how a one point nine trillion dollars in
industry is that is coming from China, and that the
communist country of one point three billion people have shifted
all this cash into amping up its factories in just
four years in an effort to overwhelm manufacturers around the
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world with an influx of their cheap goods. Meanwhile, they
treat their citizens like Adam Schiff, and they abuse them
in these sweatshops, and they pay them next to nothing,
and they live in poverty. I mean, I really am
not interested in buying, you know, when people are abused
like that. I kind of care about human beings and
human souls, and you know, the balance between profits and
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take care. I've always thought the answer is profit sharing.
I really think that's the answer. Anyway. Trump secured the
release of another American hostage abandoned by Biden. The Daily
Wire pointed out that they successfully negotiate negotiated the release
of a Russian American dual citizen, an amateur at ballet
dancer from a Russian prison.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
So that's good news.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
What are we up to, like fifteen sixteen people now
that Donald Trump has negotiated the release of the House
has passed the Save Act, requiring proof of citizenship to
register to vote.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That is good news.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Doose discovered that millions of dollars in unemployment claims are
going to fake people. Now this came up in this
cabinet meeting that that was so impressive. Today we're going
to run a lot of it in the final hour
of the program today. Dose claimed it reviewed an initial
survey of unemployment claims since twenty twenty. They found ninety
seven hundred people whose birth dates aren't for another fifteen
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years who have claimed sixty nine million dollars in benefits.
In one case, a person whose birthday was listed as
the year twenty one fifty four claimed forty one thousand dollars. Gee,
your tax dollars at work. The House also, by the way,
passed their budget resolution, which is key to the President's agenda.
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It was a close vote, as expected, but they have
a small majority and the President he praised on the House.
And this is all because of the reconciliation process, which
is complicated. I've spent a lot of time on it.
I won't do it now, and you know, I want
to know what the horrible discovery Doge made is President
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Trump said this on Air Force One and Caroline Levitt
stated that they made a massive discovery. Trump called it horrible,
But they haven't told us yet. I'm dying to know
with that. I always want to know what they're not
telling us. Always I want to get to the bottom
of everything. The President has been on a court winning streak.
He now has notched his fourth victory at the Supreme
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Court since Friday, a remarkable feat. In other words, this
is putting an end to the law fair and judge
shopping that is been used by the Democrats that are
you know, they can't win at the ballot box, they
can't win legislatively, so this is what they're left with.
On the immigration front, we have a lot of updates today.
The Texas Texas tough guy who vowed to open fire
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on ICE agents. Yeah, he was crying in court today. Interesting,
you threaten ICE agents. Sorry you, as far as I'm concerned,
Lock you up, throw away the key.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
You're done.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Thousands of illegal immigrants facing potential and voluntary removal from
the US are now self deporting through an app provided
by the US Customs and Border Protection. Number of illegals
who have opted to self deport And I brought this
up before the election. I turned out to be right.
I told you that this would happen once people know
that they're not going to get away with it, They're
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going to be like, I'm getting out of here on
my own. Christy Nome has reopened ice office to support
families who's lost loved ones to illegal immigrant crime. Good
for her Venezuela and Opposition promises reparations to Lake and
Riley's family and other victims of trende Iragua violence. Thousands
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leave the country voluntarily. That's a big, big headline to
the ideo jay to dismiss a Virginia case against the
Salvadorian accused MS thirteen leaders said to be deported. The
illegal aliens attorney wants the judge to delay the dismissal,
citing concern for his client's deportation without due process. If
you're in the country illegally, you don't get due process. Now,
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sanctuary jurisdictions, Now, guess which one released the most criminals.
Which sanctuary jurisdiction? This is the Tesland to release the
most amount of criminals without questions.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
We have done more under Trump with gnome with what
they're doing with Tom Holman is no, no, no, what jurisdiction? Where?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
What area of the country? What do you mean what
George DC Now California leads the pack. New York City,
by the way, welcomes back, welcomes ice back to Rikers Island.
On the other hand, this idiot governor New Jersey Phil
Murphy has ordered local police to stop working with immigration
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for officials.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Good.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
That's going to be a lawsuit for Pam Bondy. That'll
be number three if my count is correct. Illinois Democrat
minimizing violent acts committed by illegals is just a few
little crimes, that's all. You tell that to Lake and Riley,
Rachel Moren and Joscelyn Nungary's family, thousands leave. I would
just hit that. I mean, we got a lot of
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news today. We had a ton of news. Then, of
course the left is going absolutely insane. Pernie Sanders beat
the crap out of Anderson Cooper last night. That was
pretty funny, and I thought that was interesting. Biden administration
quietly waived by America rules on a seven billion dollar
program to help out China, just like they tipped off China. Well,
we don't want the American people to know about the
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spine balloon. Yeah, it would be really bad for our
bilateral relations.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Can you believe that?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And then it just they institutionally lied about everything. Do
you think it might have had to do with the
deal that? What's that message? I'm sitting here next to
my father, between everybody that he knows and my ability
to hold a grudge.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
No, don't leave it. Well, why didn't you act the
way you did?
Speaker 1 (28:24):
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