On today's show, Steve and George are joined by Anthony Aguero, Ben Berquam, and Lt. Col. Ben Castro to discuss the latest on the situation in East Palestine, Ohio, and the situation at the southern border.
00:01:25.000So as we mentioned, when we send out an air system, we send out an air quality monitor.
00:01:29.000So a lot of residents and businesses have been getting back the data for us.
00:01:33.000And we've been seeing a difference between 85% in the particulate matter from outdoor readings provided by the EPA and public monitors versus the indoor where we have our air systems.
00:01:44.000And we also saw a 50% improvement in the total VOCs.
00:01:47.000So it just proves the fact that, you know, there are some environmental pollution, some conditions out there, but the air systems are doing the job.
00:01:54.000And we're happy for the folks that keep sending us the data, allowing us to analyze it and kind of give it back to them.
00:01:59.000So we just wanted to share that update because we think it's very positive.
00:02:02.000George, just hang on, because I'm going to get you in.
00:02:05.000I want you to hang through this block because I got you to the border and I'm going to lose Cortez.
00:02:08.000So George, just hang that. I just want people to get a headline of what the results have been from East Palestine.
00:02:14.000And it is unacceptable that Joe Biden has not been out there to address the situation in East Palestine when East Palestine,
00:02:21.000the folks in East Palestine are underwriting the bailout of the oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
00:02:27.000So George, just hang on for one second. Let's go.
00:02:31.000We have our own Ben Berquam down with Lieutenant Castro in in in in La Jolla, Texas.
00:02:37.000We're going to go to both. First off, Anthony Aguero. Tell us what's going on.
00:02:41.000This was basically a rush through an invasion, an outright invasion of the southern border yesterday with no holds barred.
00:02:49.000What's the latest? So yesterday, what happened, Steve, was a new wave of migrants arrived to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua,
00:02:56.000and they were carrying a rumor that they were going to be allowed in as soon as they came and turned themselves over into the international port of entry.
00:03:05.000And it not just happened here at this particular location that you see right behind us.
00:03:10.000It happened at two additional port of entries at a smaller scale.
00:03:14.000And unfortunately, the reality is that, as we reported yesterday, it was not 1,000 migrants.
00:03:22.000Confirming this morning, County Judge Richard Samaniego said it was capped the size was at around 2,000 illegal aliens consisting of mainly males coming from Venezuela.
00:03:34.000The minute that they were not allowed to come in, the port of entry had to be shut down.
00:03:39.000There is financial losses for both sides of the businesses of the border.
00:03:44.000And they were closed down for hours and it impacted a lot of the people that were trying to come back and forth.
00:03:49.000As a matter of fact, there was an American citizen that was assaulted on the bridge because she was trying to coincide with the illegal aliens that were trying to come across.
00:03:59.000She was pleading to be let in and she ended up being assaulted.
00:04:02.000And I think I sent a picture of the damage that they did to her arms.
00:04:06.000Anthony, hang on for one second. We're going to come back to you also.
00:04:11.000Amazing reporting from there. Let's go to Ben Burquam, Lieutenant Casas.
00:04:14.000He used to be Sergeant Casas, joins us from La Jolla, Texas.
00:04:18.000Ben, how bad is it in Texas? What's the update?
00:04:21.000Well, as you saw there with Anthony, it's the same thing across the entire border.
00:04:28.000I think they're going to be playing there in Denver that shows what what these guys are dealing with.
00:04:33.000And it's all tied back to the open borders.
00:04:36.000These are the rollovers. These are the deaths that you're seeing as Oscars in San Diego today.
00:04:40.000We just had eight die in a boat out there.
00:04:42.000He's going to be bringing that footage out there.
00:04:44.000This is what's going on on the southern border from West Coast to East Coast.
00:04:48.000It is just completely out of control. And on top of that, you got guys like Lieutenant Casas out here fighting the fight.
00:04:53.000And they can't even keep the guys in uniforms. Lieutenant Casas?
00:04:58.000Yeah, that's correct. You know, one of the things that we've been having a problem with is the loss of officers who go work on other jobs where they're so fed up with it.
00:05:08.000They want to make more money. They just get out of this.
00:05:10.000And we're losing people at a very steady rate.
00:05:13.000But it's happening. And it's a big problem for us to be able to maintain the peace and stop the smuggling and drug drug going through our city.
00:05:25.000It's just a problem that is unstoppable. It's for us being a small community.
00:05:30.000It's almost virtually impossible, but we're able to still keep up. But we're having a very hard time with that.
00:05:36.000And it all goes back to what you're talking about, Steve, from the banking collapse, what they're doing with the energy sector to the abandoning East Palestine to the abandoning these communities.
00:05:45.000It's the little guys that always get crushed by these Washington elite policies.
00:05:50.000And it's not stopping. It's only getting worse.
00:05:52.000Ben, can you ask Lieutenant Casas, because the Biden administration, the media is telling us things have gotten so much better since they put this humanitarian parole, which is just a scam.
00:06:02.000That's just a parole people in Mexico flying on a plane into the interior of the country.
00:06:08.000But has it really gotten better for the border communities like La Jolla, Texas, down in even inland Texas?
00:06:14.000Has it gotten any easier for them since Biden's been actually gaming the system to fly illegal aliens deeper into the country, sir?
00:06:23.000No, absolutely not. Actually, it's gotten worse because every single day we know that the smuggling is going through here because since they know they're going to get caught, they're not going to be allowed to come in.
00:06:38.000Now all the smugglers, together with the cartels in Mexico, are making sure that these people get across through our cities and then across these checkpoints and then make it to Houston, wherever they're going to make it.
00:06:53.000It's not gotten better. It's gotten worse.
00:06:55.000And because of that, people are dying.
00:06:58.000Pursuits are happening with us, the Texas Highway Patrol and Border Patrol, whoever it is, and people die.
00:07:04.000People lose their lives because of this. It's not true.
00:07:08.000That right there, what you asked me, it's not true because we're actually seeing the truth.
00:07:12.000We're out here seeing it every single day.
00:07:17.000Lieutenant Costas, Ben, can you guys just hang on for a second?
00:07:24.000Cortez, I want you to connect some dots here.
00:07:26.000I want you to do some interlocking things.
00:07:28.000You've said that, number one, until we come out with full-spectrum energy dominance, the inflation is not even going to begin to stop.
00:07:35.000And, of course, these massive budgets.
00:07:37.000But you've also said the time bomb here is the invasion of the southern border in this massive influx of what CIS says is going to be 12 to 15 million illegal aliens by the end of the regime's term.
00:07:55.000Because I've got to tell you, on Monday, 13 March, in the year of our Lord, 2023, in living color, it looks like you're seeing the collapse of the United States of America, sir.
00:08:25.000They're going to work in the American labor market where they compete illegally and unjustly against American workers, particularly blue collar American workers, because most of these folks coming in are not coming in with special skills.
00:08:38.000And by the way, if they were competing against, say, lobbyists or news anchors, that border would be sealed in a New York second, believe me.
00:08:46.000But because they're coming in to compete against the deplorables, to compete against blue collar Americans, the oligarchs and the power brokers in this country simply do not care.
00:08:54.000Steve, tomorrow we're going to get out CPI, Consumer Price Index.
00:08:58.000In all likelihood, it is going to show that inflation continues to persist well above wage gains.
00:09:05.000What that means is, and we'll find out tomorrow morning, it would be the 23rd consecutive month of crashing real wages, the worst streak in all of American history, where if you are getting a pay raise, and I hope you are, it's not enough.
00:09:19.000It's not enough to keep pace with the soaring costs of the goods and services that you need to live your life.
00:09:25.000So in an era of crashing real wages, the worst possible idea is to import millions of illegal workers to compete against Americans and further depress those wages for hardworking citizens in this country,
00:09:39.000many of whom, by the way, happen to be brown and black Americans who are disproportionately harmed.
00:09:45.000Look, I don't care what color you are.
00:09:47.000If you're an American citizen, you shouldn't have to deal with illegal workers in the job market competing against you, no matter your color or your ethnicity.
00:09:54.000But I think it is also important for us to highlight that it does particularly inflict pain upon minority communities in the United States, which is a part of why it's a ridiculous liberal narrative to presuppose that insisting on a border is somehow racist.
00:10:08.000There's nothing racist about insisting on the sovereignty of the United States.
00:10:12.000So the open border that Joe Biden has inflicted upon this country is incredibly reckless in so many ways.
00:10:18.000It's a national security nightmare for our country.
00:10:21.000It's a straight street safety nightmare for our country.
00:10:24.000But it is also massively harmful to the economy of this country at a time when Americans are struggling simply to afford the necessities of life.
00:10:33.000An open border that is teaming with new workers to come in and compete in the labor market is simply an outrage.
00:10:39.000And for that reason alone, for that reason alone, Joe Biden must be replaced.
00:10:44.000And I believe Mayorkas and perhaps Biden must be impeached for this complete derelation of duty.
00:10:50.000And it's a derelation of duty with many ramifications, but including, to your point, Steve, very serious economic ones.
00:10:56.000We had under Clinton, you know, when she ran, we talked about the managed decline of our nation.
00:11:08.000I'm at CortezSteve on the Twitter, Cortez with an S.
00:11:12.000And you can link to my Substack there at stevecortez.substack.com.
00:11:16.000I explain in plain English for the financial layman exactly what is happening regarding this bank failure, what it means for you, and what it portends going forward.
00:11:34.000I explained everything about the capital markets and how we got into this situation, particularly the debt trap, because remember, it's about the debt ceiling and not giving a penny.
00:12:15.000And if we put the footage up, this footage yesterday was so shocking of just this absolute rush and invasion of our nation.
00:12:22.000Explain exactly what happened, Anthony.
00:12:25.000There was a new wave of migrants that was arriving into Ciudad Juarez coming from the southern border of Mexico, Steve.
00:12:33.000They were carrying a rumor stipulating that they would be allowed into the country if they simply just showed up to the international port of entries.
00:12:43.000Many of these migrants are currently complaining that CBP1, the application for them to come into the country, quote unquote, legally, is crashing on them.
00:12:53.000And they're really upset because at some point when they all sign up as a family, only one or two people from that family unit are allowed to come into the country.
00:13:03.000And so they are upset and they are complaining that they are separating families at the border.
00:13:08.000And so part of this rumor was part of the manifestation that was happening yesterday was also frustration of the migrants that have been stuck in Juarez because hundreds continue to arrive on a daily basis.
00:13:21.000So it is creating a huge bottleneck that is potentially going to burst these.
00:13:26.000But unfortunately, we don't have the manpower.
00:13:28.000Yesterday, CBP was under scrutiny because it was not just happening simultaneously in one location.
00:13:36.000It was happening simultaneously in two other locations, just like the footage that you're seeing right on the screen right here, only in just a smaller scale of what you're seeing.
00:13:45.000And so these migrants continue to arrive to the southern city in Ciudad Juarez, and it's only causing more frustration in case crime is creeping into the city of El Paso, Texas.
00:13:57.000And once all these migrants were pulled away from this area, they began going into different breach points.
00:14:03.000One, as you are very familiar with, Steve, where we build the wall, what structure is put up, they actually have the gate for access open.
00:14:13.000It is chained open still. So a lot of the migrants began going through there, causing over 2,000 arrests just on Sunday alone in the El Paso sector, Steve.
00:14:23.000Unbelievable. We built that wall and you keep that gate closed. Nobody can get around it.
00:14:29.000It's the best model wall ever built on the southern border. And one thing I am so incredibly proud of.
00:14:34.000And what they do is they chain open the gate so people just stream through.
00:14:39.000You're seeing a total absolute collapse of your nation. An invasion of the southern border.
00:14:45.000Officers like the Lieutenant Casas. Nobody has their back. And you see a complete collapse.
00:14:51.000They're not going to East Palestine. They're not going to Yuma. They're not going to El Paso.
00:14:55.000They're going to Silicon Valley or Kyiv and rubbing up on them.
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00:16:23.000We've got a lot to get through. We're also, obviously, continuing coverage of this financial crisis.
00:16:29.000The Biden bonds and the Biden banks. The Biden bonds that are blowing up the Biden banks, right, that are being bailed out by MAGA.
00:16:37.000Hmm. We're going to get the oligarchs being bailed out by MAGA. Just remember, when you hear all of this, it is 100% a taxpayer bailout. Don't let them lie to you.
00:16:47.000And here's what's the worst thing about it. The venture capitalists that are the sponsors of all the depositors have more than enough money to do credit facilities to allow them to make payroll and to fund operations.
00:17:02.000They don't want to do it because they'll get lower overall returns. And management doesn't want to do it because they'll get diluted. This is all about their upside.
00:17:11.000So, once again, just like in 2008, we have socialized the downside. In other words, the taxpayer, the person making $40,000 a year, shoulders the burden, while the oligarchs and their elites that run these companies that hate you, the woke companies, deplatform you, debank you, all of it, they get all the upside.
00:17:32.500And you pay for it. So, if you prefer to sit there and take it, just take it. If not, you've got to get the Republican House has the ability to stop this, but they've got to get off the dime here.
00:17:42.140Just too slow. Not on edge. Not on point. Not sharp enough. Not understanding the problem enough. If you need better staff, get better staff. But it's just not good enough. Not even close.
00:17:59.500The thing on Friday, I love the Freedom Caucus. That's just not good enough. The response is budget. Not good enough. None of it's good enough right now. It's okay, but it's got to get so much better. It's got to be world class right now.
00:18:12.140East Palestine. You talk about a tale of two cities. I can add a couple more cities in there now. La Jolla, Texas, Yuma, Arizona, where we had the committee meeting, right?
00:18:25.360The field committee from the judiciary talked about the financial collapse, the healthcare collapse, the hospital collapse because of the invasion of the southern border.
00:18:33.520We've got El Paso, Texas. We've got our own Oscar Blue Ramirez in Tijuana. Eight illegal aliens died at sea off the coast of California over the weekend. We're going to get to all that.
00:18:43.540I want to go back to you about East Palestine. George Negron from Enviroclins.
00:18:48.160I just want to – our Ben Berquan was there. You had Ed Henry, Karen Turk, Harry Oates, the great producer, did a couple of great days. Fantastic.
00:18:55.300We've been covering it. We talked about for everybody, given the situation where EPA is not protecting you, there's burning the stuff in the atmosphere, about making sure, since you guys are in Navy ships, and I'm quite familiar with that, that you check out all the information about your product and your service.
00:19:16.860And you guys throw in an air monitor when you buy one of the products. It turns out, I guess, George, people around East Palestine or in East Palestine did this.
00:19:25.640Walk us through exactly what happened and what have been the results so far, we know, from the data we're getting in.
00:19:31.320Absolutely. Not only did people do it in the hundreds, so not only in East Palestine but surrounding areas, and did they take advantage of this offer, not only to get the air system to mitigate and protect them, but also to monitor what was in the air.
00:19:43.860And folks started sending us back the data. We started aggregating, pulling in this data from the cloud.
00:19:49.020And what we saw is the comparison of 85% reduction in particulate matter from indoors to outdoors with the residents and businesses that use our air system.
00:19:58.540And we saw a 50% reduction in the total volatile compounds.
00:20:02.340So it was really, you know, it's great to see. It just reinforces that there is technology out there that can help with this.
00:20:09.280Everyone should take caution when it comes to their air, especially with these environmental pollutions and what they're facing, specifically in East Palestine.
00:20:16.880And as you can see, the numbers are that big blue graph on the top is the outdoor reading.
00:20:20.640The green-yellow is the ones below. You'll see a periodic spike, but you'll see it quickly come down.
00:20:25.920And that's measured in a room size with our air system.
00:20:28.440So those that took advantage of it, set up the air monitor, utilized us as a resource.
00:20:33.520We're always happy to, Steve. Anyone that comes from your show or comes through to us, we're happy to share and speak through the data.
00:20:48.240You know, this is something that if you have the opportunity to take advantage and go to ekpure.com, take a look at the information we put up there, take a look at the air system, call us up if you have any questions.
00:20:59.880We'll ship you an air monitor for free so you can measure your device.
00:21:03.100You can call us up to help you read it.
00:21:04.620But we're happy to help service the community of East Palestine and across the U.S.
00:22:19.540As soon as I went down to the border to cover that event you talked about in Yuma, everything went away.
00:22:24.300As soon as I went back, I started tasting that kind of sweet necrotic smell that's coming out of the river there, especially as we started turning the water.
00:22:32.440And immediately I got a sore throat, trouble breathing, sinus, headache.
00:22:35.980And, again, I was only there for four days.
00:22:37.660I can only imagine the people that are having to live through this.
00:22:41.020It's terrifying, especially if you have a family.
00:23:38.660They reportedly called the Coast Guard, and they said that two boats were discovered on the side of the United States as they crossed illegally into the United States.
00:23:48.260One of the boats was carrying seven women and five children.
00:23:51.640They were rescued and taken to shore, but the other boat, they found it capsized as they send the Coast Guard, send a helicopter in a boat to rescue the other migrants.
00:24:01.000They were inside of this capsized boat.
00:24:03.360Eight of them, they were found dead in the sea.
00:24:07.460James Spittler, the head chief commissioner of the Coast Guard in Southern California, has said that this year they have had a humongous increase of illicit and illegal activity crossing through the sea.
00:24:19.900Only 717 percent of an increase of people crossing illegally being trafficked into the Southern California, and only on the year 2021, 23 people have died crossing through this particular area, sir.
00:24:41.000That is what James Spittler has said, that it has been an increase since a couple of years from now, crossing and trafficking people through this part and this area.
00:25:57.420The United Nations and these leftist NGOs like Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services, all of these organizations.
00:26:03.980So as Anthony's talking about these people coming up that are expecting to be led across, the reason they're expecting to be led across is they're being lied to and told by these leftist activists.
00:26:13.280And as Joe Biden and as the left out of Washington, D.C. say they're doing something to fix it, he knows damn good and well they're not doing it because he's not in control of it.
00:26:22.780It's these leftist activists that are really driving the ship.
00:26:26.200They're the ones pushing the policies out of Washington, D.C.
00:26:31.340Everywhere from Venezuela, all around the world right now, you have these same organizations that are telling people, just keep coming, keep coming, keep coming.
00:26:38.660And what you see everywhere from Venezuela to right here in La Jolla, Texas, they're dying on the way.
00:26:45.460Lieutenant Costas, we've got about a minute to you.
00:26:48.040Do you feel that any, does law enforcement there feel, does anybody have your back?
00:26:51.860Does the governor of Texas, the president of the United States, does anybody, do you feel, you on the front line, feel anybody has your back?
00:26:59.740Well, to be honest and sincere with you on that, you know, we, I feel that we don't.
00:27:07.540A lot of this stuff that we're coming across, there's thresholds that the federal government needs to meet.
00:27:14.200And I don't want to really get into that, but I will say this.
00:27:17.340They will not prosecute certain individuals.
00:27:19.420So on a state level, we have to do it.
00:27:21.860If we don't do it, all of this stuff continues.
00:27:24.700And it goes, right now as we speak, there's people crossing and they're going through.
00:27:29.240And if we chase them, there's going to be pursuits.
00:27:31.960And in those pursuits, people end up dying.
00:27:33.840And that's the cause and effect of all of this.
00:27:37.260And going back to do they have our back?
00:27:47.360But if we really ask for the help that we need to get intel and all of that, on all of these people we're catching, we're not getting that.
00:27:54.200And that's frustrating to us as a law enforcement agency.
00:28:27.880After I've stolen the title, borrowed against it, or sold the property, it's 60 to 90 days to even figure out that they're the victim of this crime.
00:28:36.100You know, by that point, you start getting foreclosure notices.
00:28:38.880You've got four mortgages on your house.
00:29:36.000Not to be lost in the bailout, your bailout of the oligarchs in Silicon Valley.
00:29:42.040Remember, all their venture capital funds have enough money to do this, but they're coming to you because you're going to bear the burden of the risk of the downside.
00:30:07.580I think we're trying to get clear with Pascal.
00:30:09.080Grant, you've got a new book, When China Attacks.
00:30:11.680Tell me about this bombshell that happened over the last couple of days, the Persian-Tehran-Saudi Arabia deal cut in Beijing, unbeknownst to the Biden regime,
00:30:28.380that now looks like they're bringing in allies on the entire Eurasian landmass to basically get ready to drive the United States out of the Western Pacific.
00:30:38.580Grant Newsham, the author of the book, When China Attacks.
00:32:34.560Make the case of why they're heading towards a kinetic war that they think they can win, sir.
00:32:39.160Well, they've had 30 years at least of weakening us.
00:32:44.420They've hollowed out our manufacturing.
00:32:46.340Just tons of millions of jobs have gone to China.
00:32:50.020Our financial class, our business classes are falling all over themselves to do business in the People's Republic of China.
00:32:57.600They're providing the Chinese with convertible currency by probably at least a couple hundred billion dollars a year that allows the Chinese to build up their military.
00:33:10.060There's the biological attack they've launched on us and the chemical assault, the fentanyl, that killed 70,000 Americans last year in one year.
00:35:04.260She's done amazing reporting and laying out.
00:35:07.300We talk about the Eurasian landmass, but we're forgetting the Caribbean, South America, and particularly the islands in the Western Pacific, the South Pacific, the Polynesia, Micronesia, all of it.
00:35:21.680And you've released these letters that talk about the pressure they're putting the political folks down there under.
00:35:26.640Is the Chinese Communist Party trying to sweep through what the second island chain, I think it's called, and make sure they envelop the United States of America?
00:35:38.300The overt goal has been to push the U.S. back to Hawaii.
00:35:42.420So that means not just the first and the second island chain, but leapfrogging, as the Japanese wanted to do kinetically using political warfare, and, in fact, unrestricted warfare.
00:35:53.780And the letter that's just been released by the president of the Federated States of Micronesia, which is a geographically very large country in the Central Pacific, which has a compact or free association with the United States, which means that the U.S. uses it as part of the expanded defense perimeter.
00:36:12.940The U.S. is responsible for its defense and security, is a textbook case of unrestricted warfare.
00:36:20.980He goes through all of the ways that China has tried to put pressure on him and on his government, bribes, threats, funding succession movements.
00:36:34.000And it's really—it can't be ignored.
00:36:37.300It's a president of a country saying, this is happening to us, and we really need help, and what we want to do to get out of it, he offers a solution, is actually to flip recognition from China to Taiwan, would be one of the first countries to do that in a very long time.
00:36:53.620And so it would reappropriate the narrative that China has been pushing, that Chinese expansion is inevitable.
00:37:29.700And it's what the president of the Federated States of Micronesia has said.
00:37:34.400This was something that was testified to, I think, in 2008, if I'm not mistaken, by Admiral Keating in front of, I think, Senate Armed Services Committee, but I need to check.
00:37:46.560But what he said, I'm very sure of, which is that a senior Chinese official had come up to him and suggested that the U.S. take Hawaii East and China will take Hawaii West.
00:37:57.480And don't worry about it, China will make sure everything's nice and calm in that part of the Pacific.
00:38:02.440And now we're seeing that come to life.
00:38:04.740And if you take a look at what they've done with the Solomon Islands, you know, which is they basically won Guadalcanal without firing a single shot, almost on exactly the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal.
00:38:18.080Their political warfare has been incredibly effective.
00:38:24.040Real quickly, when you say that his recommendation is to flip it to Taiwan, would the United States have to then go forward, which I'm an advocate of, and say, hey, the one challenging policy that we've been beholden to since the early 70s is no longer operative, that we'd have to look at Taiwan as an independent republic, ma'am?
00:38:45.280I'm in the country of Taiwan at this very moment.
00:38:47.920I don't quite see what the confusion is.
00:38:50.040And the U.S. has been sending incredibly mixed messages.
00:38:53.480I was just in Palau, which is a country that recognizes Taiwan.
00:38:57.740And they held a big oceans conference recently.
00:39:00.600And they would have liked to invite President Tsai, but were told that President Tsai couldn't come if Kerry came.
00:39:09.160So they were given this choice of Tsai or Kerry.
00:39:12.700And because of the compact and their relationship with the U.S., this is the location of the Battle of Peleliu.
00:39:19.180This is a place where American blood is soaked into the soil for the sake of liberty and freedom.
00:39:24.880But they are being told that they can't have the president of Taiwan come and visit their country, the democratic representative of the Chinese peoples, if you want to put it that way.
00:39:37.300So, you know, the U.S. needs to be much more clear, I think, on how important democracy is, not just to itself, but the U.S. as a symbol of democracy for the region.
00:39:53.700Grant, do the people, the folks in Taiwan, our allies there, do they believe that the United States can actually defend them militarily on the kinetic side from either an air or naval blockade of the island or an amphibious assault, sir?
00:41:11.520They go hard, fast, cut off, isolate Taiwan electronically and cut the Internet, et cetera, learn from what the Russians did in Ukraine and don't make those mistakes.
00:41:23.500And then tell the administration, look, you stand clear.
00:41:27.100This is domestic matter or else we go nuclear.
00:41:30.600And this administration, I am not at all sure what they would do.
00:41:35.080I have a feeling they might crawl up behind the desk, unfortunately.
00:41:40.300So we've got to take this seriously and show we're serious.
00:42:08.560Cleo, your reporting has been amazing.
00:42:10.320I want to have you back on to go through the tragedy of the 80th anniversary of the blood we spilled in the Solomon Islands and through the South and Western Pacific.
00:42:19.560And what we're doing, giving up politically right now to the CCP, where do people go to get all of your – what's your social media occurrence and how do they get all your reporting?
00:42:29.540I'm sort of on Twitter, at Cleo Paschal, and through there you can find the other stuff.
00:42:47.100Okay, we're going to take a short – by the way, the Silicon Valley Bank bailout that you're doing, that MAGA is doing, you're bailing out the Chinese Communist Party also.
00:42:57.420I think up to a third of the companies are associated with the CCP.
00:43:01.820Are we asking the CCP to throw any money here?
00:43:04.020Are the venture capitalists putting any money in for their companies?
00:45:17.900We're going to spend, obviously, so much time this afternoon on the Silicon Valley Bank bailout.
00:45:22.900I'll be doing more rants, doing more analysis, deconstructing the whole thing because it affects your life.
00:45:28.280I want to make sure today you're calling.
00:45:30.420Make sure you call 202-225-3121 for the Senate, 202-224-3121 for the House.
00:45:38.660I want to hear by the closed business of the day that's been epic about you getting in the grill of these legislators that will not draw online in the sand and say,
00:45:49.820no way, impossible, we're not going to do this.
00:45:51.680Because MAGA and the American people are not going to bail out the oligarchs on what was really like the cool kids table in junior high school.
00:46:02.320With corruption and graft and the CCP and all of it, we'll be going to more details.
00:46:06.580And also, the Biden regime's economic plan, we've got to be tougher in going back against this $6.8 trillion budget and plus not one penny more for the debt limit.
00:46:17.160You've got to draw – this is the inflection point.
00:50:08.440Talk to us, Lieutenant, what's going on here.
00:50:10.960Yeah, remember I was telling you, Steve, that as we're speaking, there's actually smuggling going on behind us.
00:50:17.620And just as we were speaking, one of our officers just right now got engaged on a vehicle, ended up catching a smuggler and some undocumented immigrants in that vehicle.
00:50:30.180So we just made that arrest just as we were speaking.
00:50:35.560So this is a constant battle that we're battling.
00:50:40.380No, it's constant right now as we speak, and you see those cars coming across, there's probably somewhere in between somebody smuggling undocumented immigrants and bringing them into the United States, putting them in stash houses.
00:51:13.500Right now I'm going to get with ATF about a case that I'm working with right now about a female who was moving illegal aliens here in our area in La Jolla.