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00:02:14.000But just keep your eye closely on that.
00:02:18.000There's an outrageous story that is bubbling up here.
00:02:21.000And if it is real, and I believe it is real because we have evidence from the last administration that is correct.
00:02:25.000This is why the transition is so important.
00:02:28.000This is why we've moved our entire operation down to Florida to try to help any way we can.
00:02:35.000The government is already voicing to the media that they will undermine Donald Trump if he were to make decisions that they do not like.
00:02:46.000According to CNN and MSNBC, CNN has a story That has not been independently verified by NBC News, which add that, quote, defense officials have held, quote, informal discussions about how the DOD would respond if Donald Trump issues orders to deploy active duty troops domestically and fire large swaths of apolitical staffers.
00:03:08.000The commander-in-chief has the right to fire anybody he wants in the federal government, let alone the Department of Defense.
00:03:22.000Now, many of you think we have three branches of government, but the fight now, now that we won the election, the fight in front of us is not just about winning elections.
00:03:32.000It's what is the form of government we are going to have.
00:03:36.000The first option is that we'll continue this super government of administrative unelected bureaucrats, or we will restore the form and the structure and the promise and the intent of the founding fathers.
00:03:50.000We have civilian control of the military for a reason.
00:03:53.000Blake is making some very, very good points here.
00:04:10.000Well, in third world dictatorships, the military just controls the country because they have the weapons, they have the guns, they have the tanks, they have the drones, they have the missiles.
00:04:17.000So we're in charge, the military says.
00:04:19.000But no, the founders were so smart, they said, no, we can't just have a bunch of generals running the country because that's bad.
00:04:26.000And they're not accountable to the people.
00:04:29.000So we put the people's representative, the president, in charge of...
00:04:36.000When defense staffers think that they have the right to ignore a president, that is mutiny, and it can only be responded by firing them immediately.
00:04:46.000These unelected staffers in the Pentagon They did not win an election.
00:04:52.000They did not campaign and get elected by people.
00:04:54.000But they want the people at the Pentagon, they want Donald Trump to play president on TV and allow the administrative state to run the government.
00:05:04.000And this is the tension that is unfolding right in front of us, everybody.
00:05:07.000This is the game that is unfolding right in front of us.
00:05:12.000Will Donald Trump be able to fulfill the mandate?
00:05:14.000Or are we going to go the way where Donald Trump is swallowed and enveloped and suffocated by an unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government?
00:05:23.000Trump has the legitimacy to run the U.S. government.
00:05:26.000Now, mind you, when you defy a commander-in-chief, it could very well be treason.
00:05:33.000And now Trump has a mandate to take the reins of this fourth branch of government and to restore us back to our constitutional intent.
00:06:35.000One of the most important and underrated things that George Washington ever did was after he wins the Revolutionary War, he just resigns and he goes home.
00:07:14.000You had the senior generals who would shut this down and they would say, we are fighting to have a civilian control of the military.
00:07:21.000And now we have these bureaucratic urchins in Washington who are – they're literally saying, oh, what if Trump – what if he fires our career apolitical staffers?
00:07:33.000Well, as we've seen the last few years, one of the problems with the Pentagon is a lot of the apolitical people are not very apolitical.
00:08:07.000Remember, this was Chuck Schumer right during the Trump transition.
00:08:10.000Everybody, the bad guys are trying to recreate 2017 all over again.
00:08:14.000They're trying to recreate where Donald Trump is not the elected sovereign president.
00:08:18.000And if we are not flawless, there is no margin of error for us to be able to thread this needle right into January 20th, then the intel agency is going to win.
00:08:26.000It's the intel community right now that is plotting against Donald Trump.
00:08:30.000The NSA, the Central Intelligence Agency, the FBI, the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, the Pentagon, they're leaving little landmines for Donald Trump all around the government right now.
00:08:42.000This is exactly what Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us of.
00:08:45.000And Donald Trump won a mandate to fight all of this.
00:09:08.000When you devote so much of your budget and your national attention to the defense industry, the powers inside that establishment calcify and get corrupted over decades.
00:09:43.000And remember, they made good on that threat.
00:09:45.000Russiagate and the entrapment of Lieutenant General Michael Flynn six days into the first Trump administration was foreshadowed on that clip.
00:09:54.000Everyone, we have to be on our guard right now.
00:09:58.000Because the intel community is not just going to roll over and hand the keys to the kingdom of Donald Trump.
00:11:41.000The United States Senate, they've been leaking stories back at us, those of us that have been pushing Rick Scott, basically saying, oh no, we won't be bullied into being told what to do.
00:11:51.000Wait a second, so you won't listen to your voters?
00:11:54.000You won't listen to what the voters want and what they are demanding?
00:12:01.000The United States Senate is not some sort of super government that is immune from the will of the people.
00:12:10.000And this goes back to the fundamental point that we talked about in the first segment, where can the military subvert and undermine the will of the American people?
00:12:25.000This is exactly what Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against.
00:12:31.000Is it we the people or we the bureaucrats?
00:12:34.000This is why, even though we do not have a president right now, we have Joe Biden who's not a president, You don't really notice because Joe Biden's not writing anything.
00:12:42.000He's a ceremonial role who eats ice cream and sits on a beach.
00:12:47.000The real power is in the unelected Play cuts 363 from CNN. Look, I don't like this because what's Donald Trump supposed to think?
00:12:58.000You know, he's sitting down there, he's the president-elect, and now he's got to read in the newspaper tonight that the unelected bureaucracy of the federal government is having meetings at some level about how to thwart or countermand the commander-in-chief.
00:13:11.000If you were in his shoes and you just won the popular vote with a clear mandate and now you've got to read that these unelected bureaucrats are plotting against you, What would you think?
00:13:22.000But I think there's a reason for that, though.
00:13:24.000Well, I agree that that's maybe not the best way to do it.
00:13:26.000However, Trump has set them up to be in this situation where they think that he's coming after them.
00:13:31.000And he's talked about using the military.
00:14:17.000But Woodrow Wilson, over a hundred years ago, started a different form of government, which was, as we call it, the administrative state, otherwise known as the deep state.
00:14:28.000We're that a council of experts that went to the best schools who know better than you will be able to plan out the economy, plan out scientific affairs, plan out pandemic response, plan out education, plan out transportation, plan out your daily life.
00:14:45.000And that's how we got all these different departments.
00:14:46.000Department of Education, Department of Interior, Department of Homeland Security.
00:14:50.000So the departments are these expert class that are supposed to be running your world, your country.
00:14:58.000The Trump mandate is that we're going to tear it all down, that the experts don't share your values, number one, and they're not even good at their job, number two.
00:15:05.000But they feel as if they are the sovereign.
00:15:08.000They believe that no matter what the American people think, they look at you as an annoyance.
00:15:13.000That's why they're okay with sending $200 billion to Ukraine and keeping tens of millions of people coming across the southern border illegally.
00:15:20.000Because they think of you as an annoyance.
00:15:22.000And what Trump is up against Is a realignment that is greater than just politics.
00:15:29.000It's, can he change the form of government back to what the founding fathers designed?
00:15:35.000That is the Herculean effort of what the transition team is trying to do.
00:15:39.000That is the Herculean effort of what Donald Trump is trying to do, what he's trying to embark on.
00:15:43.000It's not just about being a great president and delivering for the American people.
00:15:47.000It's, for example, when the great Tom Homan Gives an order and says we're going to deport XYZ people who are murderers and rapists.
00:15:56.000What if someone decides not to follow the order?
00:16:23.000And this is going to take an hour by hour fight on this program and on our social media to make sure That what the people want, the people get.
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00:17:33.000Okay, joining us now is the new border czar, a great man and a great American, Tom Homan.
00:17:40.000Tom, welcome back to the program and congratulations.
00:19:31.000If you look at immigration court data, it clearly says 9 out of 10 people.
00:19:35.000Nine out of 10 people who claim asylum at the border end up getting an order of removal because they simply don't qualify for asylum.
00:19:41.000So Remain in Mexico is a game changer.
00:19:43.000The first state country agreements, that was a game changer.
00:19:46.000President Trump had three triangle countries in Mexico agree that if you're really escaping fear of persecution from your home government in El Salvador, And you get to Mexico, have you not escaped that fear and persecution?
00:19:58.000You should be claiming asylum in the first free country coming.
00:20:12.000We've got to get the border wall finished.
00:20:14.000A lot of the wall that's already up, the Biden administration didn't finish the technology that goes in that wall, the technology that tells us someone's climbing it, digging under it.
00:20:23.000Most important, the communications equipment inside that wall where Border Patrol agents can talk to one another because there's a lot of mountains and valleys where they lose radio contact.
00:20:33.000So we got to get technology and existing the wall and finish building the wall according to the Border Patrol's operational plan.
00:20:42.000Every place we built a wall, and anybody can go to CBP.gov and look at it, every place there's been a structure put up, illegal immigration went down, illegal drug flow went down, but most importantly, for those that think Trump's inhumane, the border wall saved lives because the most vulnerable, the women and children can't get over that wall, which means they go to a place where there's not a wall, and guess what's waiting for them?
00:21:03.000United States Border Patrol, who's going to take care of the humanitarian health piece first, then they're going to deal with immigration issues.
00:21:10.000Trump has already proven the most successful president in my lifetime, most unprecedented success on the border, 45-year low in illegal immigration.
00:21:17.000Illegal immigration has done as much as 90%.
00:21:20.000We had the game plan, but this time we've got to finish the game plan.
00:21:23.000At the same time, kick off the biggest deportation operation this country has ever seen.
00:21:55.000No one's going to stop ICE and take them into custody with them.
00:21:58.000I said this this morning on the show, you know, I see all these, you know, the governors and mayors speak up, they're going to put, you know, they're going to put all these roadblocks up for the administration.
00:22:06.000Look, I can't believe any elected official, whether you're a mayor or a governor, would stand on stage and say, I'm going to block ICE from doing what they do.
00:22:14.000Because under the Trump administration's first four years, nine out of ten Nine out of ten people we arrested was a convicted criminal or pending criminal charges.
00:22:23.000I don't understand why any elected official would say, no, I don't want a public safety threat taken off my streets.
00:22:29.000I don't want a national security threat taken off my streets because that's going to be the priorities on the internal enforcement operation.
00:22:36.000We're going after the public safety threat and the national security threat first because they propose the most dangerous to the United States.
00:22:42.000Any politician wants to stand in the way Go ahead and stay in the way.
00:22:52.000You don't want to let our officers in the jail?
00:22:54.000You want to lease them into the public?
00:22:55.000Okay, so I'll double the manpower for that city because now we've got to go in the neighborhood and find them because you put my officer at risk, you put the community at risk.
00:23:02.000They're not going to stop ICE. We're going to take the handcuffs off ICE that's been on them for the last four years and let them do their job.
00:23:09.000At one point, You know, they kept saying the Biden administration, Alejandro Mayorkas, who should have been impeached and removed three years ago, he says, ISIS is going to concentrate on the worst of the worst.
00:23:18.000We're going to concentrate solely on the criminals.
00:23:19.000If you didn't commit a criminal offense, you're free and ISIS can't arrest you.
00:23:23.000However, if you look at the stats, the government's own data, the removal of criminal aliens, those convicted of crimes, is down 74% under this administration.
00:23:33.000So we got a huge target area we need to go attack right away.
00:23:37.000So just to be technically clear, let's just say if the city of Oakland declares themselves a sanctuary city, is there anything that they can legally do to prevent the federal government from coming in and removing a rapist who has a deportation notice on him or her?
00:24:20.000Of course, the left went nuts when I said something on a Fox interview, and I said this.
00:24:26.000When I was a special agent, I arrested a lot of US citizens for harboring illegal aliens, either in their place of employment or their homes.
00:24:35.000Harboring an illegal alien is a felony.
00:24:38.000So what I said on a news show one day, I said, okay, so how is it different From a U.S. citizen harboring somebody, it's a felony, but a county jail who has illegal aliens in there that won't let ICE in that jail?
00:24:55.000President Trump actually filed a lawsuit against sanctuary cities to pull all their federal funding and take legal action.
00:25:01.000However, he didn't win the It's a second time around, and Joe Biden, when he wrote those 94 executive orders establishing everything we created to give us the most secure border, he told DOJ to drop that lawsuit.
00:25:12.000So that lawsuit has to get back in place.
00:25:14.000But I cannot believe any law enforcement agency is going to refuse another federal law enforcement agent to get into a county jail and talk to the guy that you locked up.
00:25:24.000You locked him into jail, so it's obviously a public safety threat.
00:25:27.000Why are you going to give us access to it?
00:25:28.000Now, some of these sanctuary sharers say, Well, we're a sanctuary city.
00:25:32.000We want victims and witnesses of alien crime to feel free to come to us without thinking we're working with ICE. That is just a stone-cold lie because the victims and witnesses of alien crime, they don't want the bad guy released either.
00:26:57.000How we're going to go And have the U.S. Army going through neighborhoods to look for people different than us and have the Army arrest people.
00:27:58.000One who intends to come take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior.
00:28:40.000And even if they're not a criminal alien, when you cross that border and you overwhelm the Border Patrol, just because you're a simply illegal alien, not a criminal, when you overrun the Border Patrol, that's when they get busy changing diapers, making baby phones, making hospital runs, making transportation runs.
00:28:57.000That's when the fat enough comes across to kill a quarter million people.
00:28:59.000That's when you got 600% increase in sex trafficking.
00:29:02.000That's when you have a record number of terrorists crossing the border and people on terrorist watchpoints.
00:29:06.000Illegal immigration is not a victim of crime.
00:29:08.000We're going to enforce the law without apologies.
00:29:10.000And the day Donald Trump takes that oath, we're in a go mode.
00:29:14.000And if any government wants to stand in the way, go ahead and do it.
00:30:46.000He walks into the outer room of the Capitol building and sitting on his desk are a bunch of executive orders waiting for him to sign.
00:30:53.000If you get your way, what are those executive orders, Tom Homan?
00:30:57.000When we discussed in the beginning, we're going to end catch-release.
00:31:00.000We're going to file lawsuits in sanctuary cities.
00:31:05.000We're going to reprioritize the ICE priorities that the Secretary destroyed.
00:31:12.000One of the things I think he needs to really look at is building the detention capacity and having DOD issue in Title V, which allows DOD to assist us in many ways.
00:31:24.000The more we have, the better we can do.
00:31:26.000So DOD has helped the President on the border many times.
00:31:29.000So by issuing the Title V Declaration, DOD can do the transportation, whether it's ground or air.
00:31:34.000They can help build the infrastructure of soft-side facilities.
00:31:37.000The Army Corps engineers can help build that wall.
00:31:41.000And what that does, when they can do the transportation, they can do the intelligence, they can do the infrastructure, that releases our badges and guns to the street.
00:31:49.000Because right now, a lot of Border Patrol agents, a lot of ICE agents are doing administrative type stuff that needs to be done, but it doesn't need to be done by badge and gun.
00:31:56.000We need an executive board to vastly contract out processing.
00:32:01.000It doesn't take a badge and a gun to process somebody in a criminal database and take their fingerprints and run an NCIFC. We can contract that work out again, taking thousands of borbeter lasers off their desks and getting back on the field and contracting out the feeding, carrying of these people.
00:32:18.000There's a lot of things the president can do on day one to release the guns and badges To do their national security duty, rather than all this administrative garbage they've been forced to deal with under the Biden administration.
00:32:28.000So, Tom, in closing here, again, the audience is just thrilled, and so am I. And we have this opportunity to fix this.
00:32:38.000President Trump is going to Washington, D.C. tomorrow as a triumphant return.
00:32:44.000What, if anything, realistically, would you like to see Congress do?
00:32:47.000We're going to have a slight majority in the House, a reasonable majority in the Senate.
00:32:51.000One of the first bills they're going to pass is going to be some sort of a border bill.
00:32:54.000What would you like to see from a funding perspective or from a policy change perspective that makes sure that we can close the southern border and make these changes permanent?
00:33:04.000Because what we do, what we're seeing is executive order, executive order, executive order, and every president can overturn the other president.
00:33:10.000There are three things that Congress can do that would fix 85% of this border.
00:33:14.000They need to change the TVPRA, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
00:33:22.000If it's as retained, that you're a child of trafficking, you have certain rights and certain appeals to the government that you can stay here.
00:33:33.000If it's as retained, you are not a victim of trafficking.
00:33:39.000If you're from Mexico, you're immediately removed.
00:33:41.000If you're from Canada, you're immediately removed.
00:33:43.000But if you're from any other country, even though we ascertained you're not a victim of trafficking, you've got this whole process that takes years.
00:33:49.000You're going to end up to stay here forever.
00:33:52.000That is a magnet that has increased the unaccompanied alien children trafficking.
00:33:57.000Over 500,000 children have been trafficked across this board by criminal cartels, and this administration can't find them.
00:34:02.000That's another thing President Trump's going to do on top of securing the border and doing deportation operation.
00:34:07.000We're going to fine those children and save them because many of them are in forced labor, many of them are in sex trafficking, many of them are living with pedophiles.
00:34:14.000These children are living a life of hell.
00:34:16.000We're going to go fine them and save them.
00:34:17.000The second thing Congress can do is change the asylum law.
00:34:20.000The asylum law, when you first get to the border, you make an asylum claim.
00:34:24.000The burden of proof is very, very low.
00:34:27.000Because if we don't want somebody back to their home country to be persecuted, so they set the threshold so low, it's ridiculous.
00:34:33.000The cartels would teach these people a few key phrases to say, pass that first interview, you get released.
00:34:38.000Then when you get to court, if you show up in court, that threshold of proof is much higher, and 90% fail in court.
00:35:42.000I agree with you, and I would love to meet with you privately about a communication strategy.
00:35:46.000I don't know the border stuff like you do, but I know how to win the information war, and whenever you're around here in the Winter White House, I'd love to chat with you because it's going to be an information war as much as anything else.