Shutdown Standoff, Filibuster Facts, and Border Drop

Todd flies solo with Oz out and digs into day ten of the government shutdown, breaking down how Senate filibuster math—not a simple majority—keeps a “clean CR” from a final vote. He walks through the latest cloture dynamics, why extending current spending short-term may be the only practical move, and where he parts ways with Rand Paul on tactics. Todd also reacts to news about New York AG Letitia James facing an indictment, emphasizing equal justice over political revenge. In the final segment, he highlights sharp declines in illegal immigration and a reported drop in the foreign-born population since January—contrasting it with years of media spin.

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Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yes, my friends, Oz is out today. Oz is out today.
I know some of you think I can't do anything
without Oz here. We're going to find that out today.
My friends, Oz is out with her sister in law
in New York City for a couple of days doing
some things that the two of them are just wanting
to do, and they're having a good old time. So

(00:58):
she'll be back on Monday. My friends, it's Friday here
in the studio, Friday everywhere, and it's my pleasure to
be here today. If you will be part of the conversation,
as always, you're welcome. Todd at Toddefshow dot com. That's
my email address. You can also text us three one
seven two one zero twenty eight point thirty thoughts, questions, feedback. Look.

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I always say the appropriate amounts of adoration and praise,
and I tell you it's ten to fifteen percent more
than you might think that I need. But the truth is,
if I'm being candid, I'm not worthy of any adoration.
I just do that. You know why I do that.
I do that because the left, I'd say journalists are
a lot of personalities. In general. They do the fake

(01:43):
humility sort of thing, when in reality, that's how they
want you to treat them. They think that they're doing
you a favor by giving you information and their opinion
on stuff. I just kind of mock that a little bit.
I'm a guy with the microphone who has ideas that
I want to talk about and share with you, folks,
and it's a play to connect with you, no matter
what you believe. I used to say, I don't care

(02:03):
what you believe. I do care what you believe in
the sense that I want to persuade well. I want
you to receive and hear truth, just like I want
the same thing for myself. I want to believe what
is true, what is accurate, and I want to help
people the best as I can my friends, help them
to hear and receive that truth. How are they going

(02:24):
to know it if we don't proclaim it, my friends,
truth is too often not spoken, and then that void,
that void that's found in the silence, is filled by lies.
And so that's why we do what we do here
on the program, I want to talk about a couple
of things here to day. I want to talk about
the government shut down. What are we on day number
ten of the government shut down? No imminent end in sight.

(02:47):
We will see. Things can change quickly, but there's no
end in sight. I want to talk about that. I
want to talk about Letitia James and her indictment. I
want to talk about that. And then in the final segment,
time permitting, I want to talk about illegal immigration. The
population of illegal aliens living in this country has dropped dramatically,

(03:07):
dropped dramatically since January, since Trump's inauguration. So that's where
we're headed today, my friends. Before we get down that path, folks,
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matter and so does your money. All right, let's talk
here about the government shutdown. We're on day ten, as
I mentioned here off the top, and let me explain
what's going on, because there are people out there, and
when I say people out there, I don't even necessarily
mean to this in this listening audience. There certainly could be,

(05:01):
but I'm saying people that I've encountered in other places,
typically on social media or I'll read things, read articles
where people have just completely incorrect assessment of reality. And
that's what's going on here. So the Senate has voted

(05:21):
in the most recent as of the time i'm speaking
right now, the most recent vote on the clean Continuing Resolution,
which basically means it's a resolution that would fund the
government at levels when it went into shutdown mode on
October first, at midnight midnight that morning of October first,

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whatever those levels were, you can the Republicans have put
forth bills clean CR. So there's nothing else to it.
There's no other cuts to anything, there are no other additions.
It's just basically to keep the government running as it
was on September thirtieth. The funding is the same and

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so forth. That's been voted down most recently fifty five
to forty five. Now fifty five voted in favor of it,
and forty five voted against that continuing resolution. So some
folks out there might think, well, what's the problem. Well,
because in the US Senate there's something called the filibuster.

(06:24):
We've talked about this before. Many of you know this,
some may not, and that's okay. We're all at different spots.
We've got seasoned professionals, the hardened vets who can see
these things coming. They know how to read, as Rush
used to say, the stitches on the fastball. They can
tell if it's going to curve, if it's a slider,
if it's a fastball, if it's going to break at
the last second, whatever. They can read the stitches and

(06:47):
see it coming. They followed this for a long time,
and they kind of understand the game of politics. There's
people who who have been following it for a while
who have a pretty good understanding but still are learning.
Right to some extent, we're all learning. But then there's
the people who are brand spanking new right. They've they're

(07:08):
either younger and they just haven't had much exposure to it,
or maybe they've been living their life and they've been
forced to face the reality of the political scene. In
twenty twenty five and they you don't know, and that's okay,
that's part of the reason why we do this program.
So you might think, how does the majority in the

(07:30):
Senate not get something out of the Senate. Well, the
filibuster is a rule that this it's a rule. It's
not in the Constitution. It's it's just the rule that's
employed by the Senate every every new Congress every two years,
when there's new leadership that is elected, they go through
and they create new rules. And sometimes there's a fight

(07:53):
about discontinuing the filibuster. It's a it's a contentious topic.
But the filibuster is a rule in the Senate specifically,
the House does not have this. That's why the bill
passed the House, even though they have tight margins in
the House as well. In fact, by percentage, it's tighter
in the House, I believe. I haven't done the math,

(08:13):
but it stands to reason. Given the House is bigger
and it's still a tight margin, the House has a
shorter percentage a smaller percentage of Republicans than the Senate
does currently, and so the Senate is fifty three to
forty seven. By the way, fifty three Republicans. There's actually
forty I think it's forty five Democrats, two independents, but

(08:36):
the two independents caucus with the Democrats. They're effectively they
are Democrats in the US Senate. So you might wonder,
what is this filibuster. Well, the idea is. The idea
is that the Senate is supposed to be is supposed
to be the more learned and measured and methodical branch

(08:57):
of our Congress. We've got not brand of Congress, but
the Chamber of Congress. So the House of Representatives is
designed to be it's the people's house. Right, every two years,
every single member in that body is up for election
or re election. So we can, in theory, although this
won't happen, we can, in theory, have four hundred and

(09:17):
thirty five new Congress people be elected next midterm. Again,
that's not going to happen. I'm just saying they're all
up for election, and technically, in a theoretical sense, they
could all lose. They won't, but that's you get the point.
The Senate is a different type of animal. In fact,
the US Senate, as I've shared on here before, when
the Constitution was framed by our founders the US Senate.

(09:40):
They were not directly elected by the people. They were
elected by this state legislature. So originally, for example, I'm
in the state of Indiana, Indiana's legislature would elect to
US Senators. Those were for six year terms. Since there's
six year terms and since we have elections federal elections

(10:02):
every two years, basically one third of US Senators are
up for re election every two years, and it's roughly
thirty three or thirty four of them. Sometimes there's special elections,
but you get the idea, so it's there's longer terms. Initially,
they were selected by a different group, which I think

(10:23):
is a actually a brilliant way to do it, because
you've got the people represented by the representatives. You've got
the state which has you know, we elected the representatives
in the state and our state legislature, so it's by proxy,
I guess you could say, still representing the people, but
it's it's a different type of accountability to a smaller

(10:46):
legislative body who has a more intimate understanding of the
interests of the state, you know, and how it affects
the operation of the state. It just it just was
a good alternative on how to how to manage the
run the government anyway. That was changed through an amendment,

(11:07):
and now we directly elect these senators. But the point
is it's still it's still considered genuinely or generally, I
should say the same in the sense that the House
is viewed as more of the emotional chamber, and the
Senate is more supposed to be the more reserved, the
more stately statesmanship sort of thing. Division of Congress, the

(11:31):
bicameral branch, if you will, House of Congress. So, but
they have different rules, and one of those rules is
the filibuster, and the filibuster says there must be three fifths.
Three fifths of the Senate must effectively say that the
thing that we've been debating, this piece of legislation, this
continuing resolution in this case, can be brought to the

(11:55):
floor for a vote, and so debate is not concluded
on a matter. And in today's world, it doesn't mean
they're sitting there debating at the microphone. Back in the day,
it meant that they were at the podium and people
could call for a vote ofure. Cloture means you got
to have sixty votes, three fists to say we're ending debate,

(12:17):
and we're going to vote on this issue. So even
though a majority of the Senators have voted for basically
to call this bill to a final vote, there's still
a five votes short. So there's fifty three Republicans. One
of those Republicans has not voted for this continuing resolution.
That's Rand Paul. A word about that really quickly, Ran Paul.

(12:39):
I like a lot about Rand Paul. I think he's
wrong on this. I definitely connect with him on the
thinking as what as far as what the government spending
needs to what needs to happen there, We've got to
cut it dramatically. I think the right thing to do.
And I'll get into this as we get to the
end of the segment here, but the right thing to
do in my mind now is to extend the status quo,

(13:03):
which wasn't it's not good right, extend the spending that
we had on September thirtieth, have that run through whatever date.
November twenty first is what I've seen in legislation so far.
That date may have to change because if you know,
there needs to be time to negotiate the negotiations as
to what needs to be cut. Can happen in between

(13:24):
the new deadline, which might be November twenty first, and now,
so you pass that, you reopen the government, and you
have your negotiations and you set some hard lines. I'll
get into that in the moment. But so fifty two
Republicans and three Democrats voted for this. By the way,
I'll tell you the three Democrats who voted for this,

(13:47):
John Fetterman, who is a Democrat from Pennsylvania. Catherine Cortes Masto,
she is a Democrat from I believe, New Mexico. And
Angus King, he's independent from Maine, but he's caucuses with
the Democrats. So those are the three Democrats, or the
case of Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats.

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So so the Democrats are the ones that are keeping
this open, the keeping this the government shut down, keeping
this this chaos ensuing because that we can't reach Even
though Republicans have control of the Senate, they cannot reach
enough votes sixty votes to vote cloture and to call

(14:32):
this bill to a final vote. It's gotten so bad.
In fact, even the Washington Post editorial board has called
out the Democrats called out the Democrats for refusing to
accept some spending cuts. The Washington Post editorial board basically said,
there's so much fat here. There's plenty that we can trim.
Of course there is, of course, my friends, there's plenty

(14:57):
of fat that can be cut. So that award on
that really quickly. You know, about a year ago. That
was probably a little more than a year ago. I
made the comment. It might have been two years ago.
I can't remember, but I feel like it might have
been a last last year's campaign, I said that we
have won the argument on illegal immigration. We had won

(15:20):
the argument on illegal immigration. But I said, even though
we had won the argument, we hadn't yet won politically,
meaning we hadn't won an election to do anything about it.
And we still have to get people who are politically
who have the political will to carry out what the
people want. And I would say, that's precisely what happened.

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And I eluded off the top of this program that
we're going to talk in the third segment about how
many fewer illegal aliens we have in this country today
in October of twenty twenty five than we did when
Trump came into office back in January, about ten months ago,
so or nine months ago. I guess.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
So the.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Problem here is clear. What needs to happen. For those
who say that it's the Democrats that is to see
me the Republicans for wanting to cut things and make
it hard on Americans and so forth, that's incorrect. That's
not why the government is shut down. They can continue
with a continuing resolution as though how things were operating
on September thirtieth could be allowed to happen. Now there's

(16:28):
pain out there. You've heard me ask on this program.
I think the average American is bothered, not nearly, not
nearly as much as they have been bothered throughout the
course of time by these shutdowns. There was a time
when this bothered virtually everybody, but we've been through this before,
We've had some intense political fights. I think the average
American knows that the size and scope of government needs

(16:51):
to be reduced dramatically. What we're spending is out of
control and unsustainable. And I would say we realize too
that our lives don't change that much. Now, that's for
the general population. There are people who absolutely and I
want you to hear me say this, that are absolutely
impacted by this. People who aren't getting paychecks, people who

(17:14):
are furloughed, people who work for the federal government or
do business with the federal government, different people that this
absolutely impacts. And I want you to know that I
recognize that I'm not cheering for this. I'm saying that
I understand that it impacts a small portion of the
people directly, while also understanding that the bulk of people

(17:38):
are not impacted much and candidly, they're not bothered by this.
Chuck Schumer's out there saying that he is what's he saying.
He told the Punchable News in an interview, reportedly that
every day that this goes on, it gets better for them,
for the Democrat Party. So Chuck Schumer's out there celebrating this.

(18:00):
He thinks that it's a good thing. So for those
people who are in pain, Chuck Schumer is, I guess
okay with that to have his political wishes met. He
doesn't mind that you're in pain. The Democrats, listen, they
want to present present themselves as this group of loving
and caring people. But let me remind you that they

(18:23):
say stuff like this, say stuff like what ram Emmanuel
said all these years ago, never let a crisis go
to waste. In other words. Anytime there is a crisis,
even though there's real hurt in American families, within individual
Americans and so forth, look for a way to politically capitalize.
It's sick, it's disgusting, But that's what we're up against,

(18:44):
my friends. We've got to we've got to recognize that
and come to grips with that. Chuck Schumer thinks he's
winning and every day it gets better by closing the
government down. So they own this as the point. They're
admitting it. They admit that it's they think that it's
in their favor. I don't think it's going to be politically,
but also they have the power to put an end

(19:04):
to this, the shutdown. And again, for some people, this
is a huge deal because it impacts them personally. For
a lot of other people it doesn't, and it's not
that big of a deal. But the right thing to
do here, and I'll tell you that now. The right
thing to do, I've alluded to this already, is to
and I'm against Rand Paul on this. I'm for what

(19:24):
he's trying to do overall, but the right thing to
do right now is to continue the current spending through
some date November twenty one December. First, whatever the rule,
you know that the timing has to be for government.
And then you say, and this is where we have
to then step in and listen to me say this,
because that's when Rand Paul is definitely right. We have

(19:46):
to say. Look, and I would go to the podium
if I was the Speaker of the House, if I
was the Senate Majority leader. Trump, I'm sure is going
to be out there and say, listen, be advised, be
advised if the government, if the Democrats don't negotiating good
faith here, right, And this goes back to my comment

(20:06):
about we've won the issue of budget cuts. I said,
we won the issue of legal immigration last year. We've
won the issue on reducing government spending this year. We've
won this. There's no doubt. The Washington Post is out
there again, as I referenced, basically saying the Democrats can't
refuse all spending cuts because there's plenty of fat to cut.

(20:28):
And there absolutely is. And so that to me, that's
the takeaway here. That's a takeaway. And you say, listen,
we're going to extend it. This is the last time,
and you got to get all these guys in a
room and you say, listen, I know you all have
elections coming up. We got midterms next year. This there's
not going to be you know, any negotiating. Well, we're

(20:50):
going to negotiate, but there's not going to be any
moving of the line in the sand. We're going to
come up with a figure that needs to be cut. Now.
Is this going to happen? History tells me probably not,
But this is what needs to happen. You sit down
and you say this is We're gonna let everybody know
leading up to this, that the American people know that

(21:11):
we have to cut spending, federal spending. If we don't
cut x percent whatever dollar a figure, If that isn't cut,
then the people who refuse to negotiate and come to
sensible decisions on this cut, they bear the next shutdown.
And we're not budgeting on that if it's shut down

(21:33):
because these people refuse to make budget cuts. And I
know that these folks squirm in their chair when they
think about this sort of stuff. This is the right
thing to do. We're going to negotiate in good faith.
If people can come together. Heck, I'd be fine if
we said let's cut x percent across the board, whatever
like this. This is doable. Whatever has to be done

(21:54):
to achieve this, and that's exactly what has to be done.
And there's not gonna be any more moving of the
goalpost because this has happened so many times before. This
has to be set up properly. This has to be
seen through, had has to be followed through, the future
of our republic. Hinges my friends. Upon this, the lufts
out there to crying Trump's danger to democracy. But reality

(22:18):
tells us that the main problem is what's happening here
with spending. It's got to be addressed now, friends, really quickly.
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(23:04):
Welcome back, my friend. Segment two of today's program. It's
good to be here on this Friday. I set off
the top that OZ is out, and again we're going
to see how well I do with OZ being out.
So far i'd say so good. We'll see. Time will tell.
Time will tell. So we left off talking about this

(23:26):
continuing resolution, talking about what I think is the next
thing that needs to be done as it pertains too,
as it pertains to the government shutdown and so forth.
So that's where it stands. I don't want to say
much more about it now because I want to get
to other topics that I told you we were going
to get to here off the top of the program.

(23:48):
But I do want to say to you again the
right thing to do, in my estimation, I don't mean
morally right, I just mean the right thing to do
strategically here and from a position of just something that
makes sense, is to pass a clean continuing resolution, something
that doesn't have any new spending or any new cuts.

(24:09):
Extend that for a period of time through November twenty first,
whatever that time needs to be. And then you say
this is the negotiation period between now and here. We
have to cut this much. The American people have spoken,
The American people have agreed. We are all in agreement
that budget cuts need to come. And this is where
you need to do your job, Congress. This is where

(24:30):
we need to hold them accountable. And I know they're
gonna kick, they're gonna scream, they're gonna squirm. They don't
want to do the work. Some of them do, most
of them don't. And so we have to hold these
folks accountable. That's just the way that it is. And
we have to realize it's a negotiation, and I mean
cutting a percentage across the board. I don't know, but

(24:53):
any all options need to be on the table. And
then when it gets to the eleventh hour and it's
on November twentieth, and it's almost midnight turning into November
twenty first, or whenever the deadline is for the next shutdown,
there is no more extensions. That needs to be made
clear every second of every day, Speaker Mike Johnson, a

(25:14):
Republican leadership in the Senate, all these for Trump. That
is what needs to happen, That is what needs to happen.
We have to wrestle control of this government back from
the elites and the status and the lovers of big
government and get this thing back to what it needs
to be. This may be listen, it may be our
last chance to do this. You just you just never know.

(25:36):
So that's all I want to say about that. Right now.
I told you I want to talk a little bit
about Letitia James. Leticia James has been indicted. Actually before
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(27:04):
I mentioned here that I'm going to talk about the
New York Attorney General, Letitia James. She's been indicted by
a federal grand jury on bank fraud and false statement charges.
Now let me pause. Let me pause, because this is
something that matters even outside of you know, today's timeline.

(27:26):
These these sorts of things are important. How we handle this,
this sort of thing. I'm on record, and I'll stay
on record, continue to repeat what I've said on the
record here that I what happened to President Trump, what
happened to him regarding the weaponization of government, the law fair,

(27:48):
a lot of what Eric Trump and I spoke about
earlier this week on the program, A lot well what
he wrote about in his book Right under Siege, and
his family has been the Trump himself, the president even
when he was the former president, in that period between
his first and second terms, he was the He was victimized.
He was victimized by our government. And it's it's obvious

(28:10):
if you just spend a little bit of time looking
at this. The politicization of this is off the charts.
They threw everything at this man to stop him. They
were terrified of him. They don't want him in the
Oval office. It's not because he's a fascist and a Nazi.
It's because he's the greatest threat to what they've been
building in this nation for generations. He says what he means,

(28:31):
and means what he says. Although he's not always literal,
he always means. He always means what he's for and against.
Now he's a negotiator. He's willing to throw throw out ideas,
and he's you know, he's he's not the standard kind
of statesmanlike negotiator. He'll just you know, make he'll make

(28:54):
sometimes quick decisions, but it doesn't mean he's not been
thinking about these for a long time. He's got great
instincts on that sort of stuff. But anyway, but he's,
you know, he's not a perfect individual. Nobody is, and
you don't have to like everything that he says and
stands for his personal style or like him, you know,

(29:14):
his personality. A lot of people just don't. They won't
talk to someone earlier this week who says, I just
don't like the man, but you know, also can see
that there's good and at least some of what he's
of what he's doing. So but going after him because
we don't like him, or going after by the way,

(29:35):
Letitia James as well because we don't like him or
her because we don't like their policy, because we want
to get even I completely and one hundred percent reject
that that cannot happen. In fact, I've had arguments with
conservatives who said we got to play by their rules.
They did it to us, we got to do it
to them. And I understand the sentiment. I do, but

(29:55):
I also understand that we are not going to fix
this the real problem by just repeating what they've done.
It's gonna get ratcheted up. This becomes the status quo,
and it's going to get more intense over time. So
the right way to do this is to is to
just follow the law. Now, you should not be targeted
because you're part of the political opposition, the party that's

(30:17):
on the other side, so to speak, the party that's
in the minority. You shouldn't be targeted when you don't
have political power to protect yourself. But you also shouldn't
be able to be shielded from justice. And that's the
fine line, and that's why context matters, and that's why
what's happening to Leticia James in this case is not
law fair. And I'm gonna explain what's happening here. Although

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the charges are not the charges, but the the sentences,
the maximum sentences on these on these charges, and this
is not the trumpet. This is what's on the books.
It seems a little bit disproportionate to me, but I'm
gonna get through this and be as fair here as
I know. How So, she has alleged, she has been
alleged to have I've misrepresented a Virginia property that she has,

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that she bought, that she got a mortgage for, that
she classified as a second home. She also allegedly has
been renting the home. And because of okay, so really quickly,
and I don't have a lot of time, I want
to get to this as the best I can, and
I want to get to the last segment what I
want to get. There's too as well. But when you're

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a mortgage company, let's just you know, try to be
fair and understand this. For a moment, mortgage company says, look,
we're going to loan out money to someone to purchase
their own home. That's typically how most people think about
a mortgage. There's some people who have a mortgage on
a second home. There's some people who have mortgage on
investment properties. Investment properties are properties that you don't live

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in that are primarily designed to be income streams or
to be you know, you're building your wealth, you're accumulating
real estate and you're having either passive income or at
least the the cost of the home being paid for
by the renters and so forth. Right, So the issue
is is that loans for that type of investment uh

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for banks are riskier and why are they riskier? Well,
if you're living in a home, it's your first resident
or residence, or even to a certain degree, the second residence.
This is this is where you your family live. Like
you have a you have skin in the game. You
are you'll do anything possible to save that home. You

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don't just want to walk away from it and have
it taken away and not have a place to stay
like you've you've you've invested there, that that's that's where
you live. So there's it's less of a risk for
a bank to loan those folks money because they're going
to do whatever they can to keep it. If it's
an investment property, if it's not cash flowing itself, or worse,

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it's a it's a you know, it's just a drain
on your finances, it's a money pit that a lot
of you're more inclined to walk away and you don't
have anything else to lose but the investment. But it
wasn't paying for itself anyway, So that's a riskier. Not
to say that people want to do that, some people,
I don't think here, but the banks say, look, we're
going to we're going to have a higher interest rates

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on those and on investment property. So if it was
an investment property and not a second home, as she
says that it was, she basically saved about nineteen thousand
dollars in favorable loan terms. I don't know if that's
the difference in interest, but she would have paid about
nineteen thousand dollars more to the bank if she had

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if this was a rental property and she classified it
as a rental and not as a second residence. So
that's what's at stake here, a type of fraud, misleading
the mortgage companies basically saying it's a bigger risk than
what it really was. So I want to get into
that after the break, I got to take one real
quick sit tight. My friends back in just a minute.

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Welcome back, my friends, third and final segment of the week.
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back on Monday as well. So I want to get
to this here final segment. We're talking about Letitia James,
Attorney General for New York, and of course she handled
Trump atrociously. She was way out of can control with
what she did in regards to the way that she
pursued Trump actually campaigned basically saying she was going to
get it. So this is not about retribution though, this

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is about following the law. So when we left off,
we kind of explained what she is alleged to have done.
So the sentence for this, now, this is what got
me sentence if she's found guilty of misrepresenting what she's
using the property, for defrauding the mortgage company whatever the

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legal term here is, if she's found guilty of this,
she can serve a maximum of thirty years. But in reality,
in reality first time is sort of situation, the sentence
would be much much less, potentially just just probation. So
this cannot be though, this cannot be a gid even

(35:54):
or I want you to pay the price because of
how you handle Trump. That's not what she was being
charged for. I'll go back to this. When I was
on a jury. I've talked about this back in twenty eighteen.
It's hard to believe seven years ago, but I remember
we were dealing with the guy that the defense attorney
knew that we were going to read some of these
texts and think this guy is a terrible person. That

(36:16):
was the conclusion that most people would make if they
I'd say almost all people would make if they read
some of his text messages. He and his girlfriend were ultimately,
I believe, responsible for the death of their five her
five year old son. It was terrible. It wasn't a

(36:36):
murder trial. It was a conspiracy trial. It was tough.
But the point here is the defense attorney told us,
and it's the same thing that applies here. You're gonna
find out that my attorney or excuse me, that my client,
he said, is you're not going to like him. Basically,
he's done some bad things, but he's not on trial
for that. He's on trial for these specific charges, and

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you have to be able to be fair and he's right.
Can't say, well, this person's just bad. They need to
go to jail for something. Letitia James handled Trump inappropriately,
so whatever she gets here is justice. That's not justice,
my friends, It's not justice at all. So but what
is justice? And again, this seems to be pretty black

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and white to me. There is a gray area. If
it was a secondary residence and she was renting it
out occasionally, that is a bit of a gray area.
But if she said it was a second residence, this
shouldn't be hard to prove. I wouldn't think right. And again,
know what else about this case is true, that's not
true in the Trump case. It's easy to understand. I

(37:38):
just explained it. I still can't explain what they alleged
Trump to the things that they had to do with
Trump with these so called thirty four felonies, it doesn't
make sense. They never proved that underlying felony was being
covered up with something that's typically a misdemeanor, and then
he was charged it was upgraded to a felony because

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he was accused of covering up a felony that was
never charged or proven. All this sort of stuff, All
this sort of stuff, the first first example of all
sorts of things, and trum Trump's history here with his
legal issues. But this is very cut and dry. Did
she tell the mortgage company that this was a second
residence and then she used the second residence as a

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rental property, and if she did, she defrauded the bank
because banks would charge more because of things I talked
about last segment. So that's what the stake here. I
want justice. I don't want retribution. I don't want a
political witch hunt. I want justice for this case. And
that's the same as whatever comes from other investigations as well. Again,

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we shouldn't target people because they're in the political opposition
the other side of the aisle, because they're in the
political minority. That should be universally, universally condemned if that happens.
But you all so cannot behave however you want and
think that you're going to be protected because you're in
the political class. And then if the opposition actually pursues

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justice and goes after you for charges that are legitimate,
you can't say, well, they're targeting me because of political differences,
which is effectively what Letitia James is out here out
here saying. So that's all I want to say about that,
because I promised you one more thing and this is
just something I can get too quickly. DHS has announced

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the government has announced that over two million. Listen to this.
Illegal immigrants have reportedly been removed, voluntarily and forced since January.
According to a CIS analysis of CPS data, the forem
moorn population dropped two point two million from January through

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July of twenty twenty five. Non citizens down two point
six million. Illegal immigrant estimates fell about one point six million.
Border crossings are sharply down. US border patrol encounters reach
the lowest level since nineteen seventy. We're talking about reductions

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year over year. If you look August twenty five compared
to August of twenty four, year over year, it's going
to be in the nineties ninety percent less, ninety percent fewer.
And remember what we were to We were lied to,
lied to by the media, the Democrat Party, the Biden
administration saying he could not do anything without a piece
of legislation. Remember that as we tie this back into

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what we talked about off the top with this government
shut down, they are deceitful, they are lying, They're looking
for a political advantage, and I'm out of time, folks,
thanks so much for listening. Have a wonderful weekend. I
made it as SDG