Episode 2805： Mainstream Meltdown Over Holes In Trump Document Case
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Summary
Former President Donald Trump speaks publicly for the first time publicly since his arraignment on federal felony charges. What does he say about the charges against him? Is he a crook, a criminal, a spy, a leaker, or something else?
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
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these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
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had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything
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the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do people
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like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these people
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had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to save my
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country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k bannett
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neil katyal he uh was able to stay quiet in the courtroom but uh there he is tonight the
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actually the first person to speak in his defense publicly uh since the courtroom today since his
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lawyers didn't say a word of defense today yeah lawrence i mean watching those excerpts from trump
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tonight at ben minster i feel like i have to scrub my eyeballs and cleanse them uh i can't can't unsee
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what i just saw but it was ludicrous i mean the idea that he's complaining about the presidential
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records act what language in the presidential records act is he citing i mean i've i wrote one
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of the authoritative memos on that act and it's just not in there i mean he's complaining that the
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indictment doesn't cite the presidential records act i mean give me a break the indictment doesn't
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cite the bankruptcy code of 1978 either that's because it has nothing to do with this case and
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bankruptcy may have a lot to do with donald trump but not with respect of this particular indictment
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and so the upshot is tonight we have a two-time indicted two-time impeached now two-time arrested
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uh you know person in donald trump and of course he's entitled to the presumption of innocence but at
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this point i haven't heard any defense from donald trump that i think is going to hold up i mean in
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court you can't just someone send someone to the witness stand and start screaming about hillary's
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email or about joe biden's garage you can't start making up mind declassification powers that don't
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exist i mean these defenses may work for trump's base but they're not going to work in a court of law
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i need to say that former president trump has just started uh making public remarks just as he did on
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the evening of his first arraignment on criminal charges that was april when he was booked on 34
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felony counts brought by the state of new york now tonight after his arraignment on federal felony
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charges he's speaking again this time to an audience of his supporters that's gathered for a campaign
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fundraiser tonight at his his golf club and summer home in new jersey um we knew heading into this that he
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was planning to make these remarks we are prepared for his pre-fundraiser remarks tonight to again be
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essentially a trump campaign speech because of that we do not intend to carry these remarks live
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um as we have said before in these circumstances there is a cost to us as a news organization to
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knowingly broadcast untrue things we are here to bring you the news it hurts our ability to do that
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if we live broadcast what we fully expect in advance to be a litany of lies and false accusations no matter
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who says them and i do not say this with any glee i hope it is clear that this is not a glib decision
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we take our responsibilities seriously we revisit decisions like this all the time we make the best
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call that we can in real time every time but tonight our call is this we will monitor that speech by the
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newly indicted former president we will not carry his remarks live if he says anything newsworthy we
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promise we will turn that right around and bring it back to you indictment versus the damage of the
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allegations is proven true and it's just not even a fair way senator marco rubio's evolution
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absolutely not on donald trump's access to and handling of classified documents yeah i agree it's not even
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a close call uh you weigh whether uh you believe as the 11th circuit said that the foundational principle
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of this country that no man is above the law and you balance that uh against whatever marco was saying
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we should balance it against and that's right but you know willie i just i just you will notice
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you will notice of all of the noise out there of all the ground noise nobody is saying he is innocent
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nobody is saying he did not commit the crimes that will put him in jail like for over a hundred years
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if convicted in all things i can't think of one person who has said this man did not do it so what
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they say is but what about hillary and i mean but they had a long time to do that we had a smart
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lawyer yeah we have should we i'm just a simple but no because i'm just a simple country i don't really
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know the way you do things sequentially or whatever but i will tell you this willie
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what is so fascinating we've got a great group oh do we really yeah what's so fast
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what's so fascinating is they don't say he's innocent no they all basically say he's guilty
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first of all yes the obama administration under james comey twice closed the case
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today we witnessed the most evil and heinous abuse of power in the history of our country
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very sad thing to watch a corrupt sitting president had his top political opponent arrested on fake and
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fabricated charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty right in the middle of
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a presidential election in which he is losing very badly
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this is called election interference and yet another attempt to rig and steal a presidential election
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more importantly it's a political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation
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this day will go down in infamy and joe biden will forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt
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president in the history of our country but perhaps even more importantly the president who together with
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a band of his closest thugs misfits and marxists tried to destroy american democracy
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wednesday 14 june year of the lord 2023 it's flag day we're gonna come back and get into the flag day
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commemoration that will offset that desecration that took place by the biden regime on saturday
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at the at the white house more about that in a second rachel mattis says oh but msnbc we would
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never we could never have anybody on here to lie we had to make a tough decision uh shifty shift
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there'll be a vote on the house floor 230 today going to try to get dc drain on here
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anna polina luna's resolution expulsion and and finding a shift comes to the house floor
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uh congressman massey's already said he's not going to vote for it thinks it's unconstitutional
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202-225-3121 went to man the ramparts uh house and a house uh homeland security i think my york
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is today about an investigation there's a lot going on we're going to get you a lot of actionable
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information because you're moving the needle but we have requested the presence of donald trump
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jr here to put this into the perspective stephen collinson the smartest guy over at cnn
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has a quite brilliant piece as the lead story in cnn that really talks about the stakes here this is
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you can't bridge this gap you can't negotiate this away one side is going to win this argument
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and one side is going to lose uh and the argument is yes yesterday by the way the reason
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they're melting down about the presidential uh elected elected uh presidential records act is
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that president trump had full authority of that watch our lips not only is he innocent
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he's beyond innocent we're not doing what about isn't about hillary clinton
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we're focused on offense right with marco polo and these other groups are focused on offense
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on uh the traitorous and treasonous activities of joe biden in the biden crime family to sell our nation
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out to the chinese communist party and others for money cash money donald trump jr uh joins us uh don
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jr put this in perspective for our audience what do we have here what is this all about
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well listen i think actually what it's all about is what tucker actually said last night
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uh which is that the one thing you're not allowed to do in washington dc is stop the forever wars that
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seem to get everyone so rich you're not allowed to go up against china that the billionaire donor
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class from both sides benefits so much from you're not allowed to call out those kinds of things
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you can do a lot you can say a lot but when you actually start putting that into action that's where
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they draw the line and the uni party takes over uh that's the unforgivable offense uh that has
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culminated in seven years of trying to destroy uh my father for doing what's right for the american
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people for putting america first uh and you know i mean we are witnessing the end of the republic if
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this is allowed to go through uh this is the stuff that we've seen come out of the communist and
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socialist regimes and dictatorships around the world these are the kinds of things that if they were going
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on in other countries uh america would be talking about doing an invasion and getting into another war
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to prevent it from happening and yet it's happening right here in our backyard steve
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with your father's campaign and this is why we are saying that the primaries over the kibler elves
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uh are totally and completely irrelevant and now instead of being a nuisance they're going to cause
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problems because they're diverting attention away from this what is your recommendation what is your
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action plan uh what do you think we ought to be focused on on action uh going forward because i think
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you tucker others have have definitely laid out what the case is uh what do we do about it now sir
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listen i think we have to get everyone being very vocal about this i think that every dollar spent to
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help someone that's polling at 0.2 percent right now is a dollar that we don't have to go up against
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the regime machine uh it's a dollar that we don't have to fund the ballot harvesting operations that
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we're going to need to have to win uh and that's why some of these people are going to stay in the
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race again their consultants their donors they don't want donald trump to win and these are the
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republicans that we're up against but they're okay to be in there to drain the coffers to make sure we
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are ill-equipped to fight the battle from the democrats whether you know the soros funded billions
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that are going to go in to harvest ballots in the inner cities where there's going to be people you know
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giving ballots that have no idea who's even on the ballot those are going to be votes counted for an
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incompetent leader like joe biden bringing us to the brink of world war three bringing us to economic
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ruin ceding to china you know we're going to be up against a lot like it's not that oh americans see
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it their eyes are opened people have no idea what's actually going on and every dollar spent to drag out
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this ridiculous primary to give someone a you know a chance at a msdnc contributorship as the
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the republican voice uh is is a dollar wasted uh it's a dollar that's going to go towards destroying
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the future of our country and all of the values and beliefs that we so truly believe in steve
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don jr the brachel maddow said the quiet part out loud the other day on when the the indictment was
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announced on uh lawrence o'donnell that she said oh one of the strategies here if if trump would quit
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and go home and go away that all this would drop uh do you believe that that's their core thing that
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this is all to stop donald trump in the trump movement all this whether it's in new york city
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atlanta georgia coming from these uh the jack smith that this is all about stopping trump politically
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100 again you know republicans have said some of the things that trump was saying uh for decades
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they just haven't acted on them they just actually haven't gotten them accomplished if you look at
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trump's record of success and you look at all of a sudden the people on the republican side who
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believed at least in words all of those things that then turned against him that wouldn't go forward
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with it right paul you know the wall was very popular it elected the people but paul ryan wasn't
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going to bring that to the vote in the house so you could have the house you could have the senate you
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could have the presidency and still not get those things done there's a difference between talk and
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action and the american people saw that trump was about action but so did the deep state
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so did the unit party so did permanent washington dc and that was what was unforgivable again we see it
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from all of these guys they can talk they can talk and in the end they do nothing uh so that's what this
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is all about you see them talking well we're not going to cover his speech because it it's just a
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campaign contribution you're not going to cover a the leading leader of the political
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dissident party to the leadership uh being thrown in jail by said leadership like are we really doing
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this we're we're going to pretend that that doesn't matter you see you know joe biden essentially saying
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we're not going to comment on this and you know of course the media will go right in line oh they
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they must have nothing to do with jailing their political opponents if they're not going to talk about
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it steve i mean they're obviously uh big believers and firm believers in democracy and the republic
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uh it's all one big game to them it's all nonsense and donald trump's the only threat
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uh again to permanent washington dc that's why both sides are going after him the way that they are
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don jr how did they get to your podcast how did they get to your aggregation site
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uh you you can check me out on rumble uh i'm live uh mondays and thursdays at 6 p.m that stuff's up
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there afterwards i had a great segment of cash patel talking about the details of the prosecutors
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in this case just monday night so they can check it out there or check me out on literally any of
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welcome to the white house thank you happy pride month happy pride year happy pride life
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transgender children you are beautiful you are heard you belong you're understood you are loved
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and you belong one of the bravest the most inspiring people i've ever known
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i mean you're welcome i mean you're welcome can we take a little video hi mr president it is an honor
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We want our kids just to be kids running around and, hey, eating too much sugar.
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To laugh with the friends that we wish we saw more often.
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To find solace in the arms of people who see us for who we are.
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To celebrate the beauty and the resilience of this community.
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On the exposure incident on the South Lawn, having received the statement that the White House believes that was inappropriate,
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disrespectful, is there going to be a greater effort in the future to communicate a code of conduct for White House guests?
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Look, as you mentioned, the statement that we put out, you heard from us earlier today, the behavior was simply unacceptable.
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It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to celebrate their families.
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So, you know, we're going to continue to be clear on that.
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And that type of behavior is, as I said, unacceptable.
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And let's not – it really does not reflect the event that we hosted to celebrate the LGBTQ plus families.
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Everything you did, everything you did was beyond disrespectful.
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If we can get up the still shot of – if Denver can put up the still, put up the still of the old glory, and we're going to go momentarily to the Flag Day commemoration in a moment.
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I want to thank Don Jr. for changing his schedule around to join us and put it in perspective.
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But this is about actionable items, and it's about information that's actionable.
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That flag in the middle, we've got – oh, that's the Democratic Party flag.
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This whatever, this progressive LGBTQ plus, that flag in the – that's their flag.
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You're – you're – you're – you're – you're – you know, make those decisions.
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And Jean-Pierre caught out – the whole thing was a desecration.
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And Joe Biden to sit there and say the bravest people I've ever met on the grounds of the White House in front of the American flag.
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79 years ago in Normandy, courageous, dedicated, patriotic young men were being thrown into the charnel house of the Battle of Normandy that were not well-trained.
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There was so much focus on just getting across the beach and taking the beach and getting a beachhead that they didn't spend a lot of time, virtually no time, training for the rest of the battle.
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This is why a lot of people don't talk about the Battle of Normandy.
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In fact, we have Congressman Colonel Keith Self on this afternoon talk about the victory yesterday on the pistol brace, but also talk about this.
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Those are the bravest that gave it all for old glory, not this freak show.
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Hey, one side is going to win and one side is going to lose.
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Rachel Maddow – talk about Rachel Maddow would not cover – they would not cover one second of President Trump's speech last night from Bedminster.
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We told you all day it was the most important event of the day.
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And what her justification was – her justification, we can't put out knowing falsehoods.
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Rachel Maddow was the person that platformed Shifty Shift every second of every day during the whole nullification project of the Russia hoax.
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Every day, Shift would come out, look the American people in the eye and say,
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I just came out of a skiff and I can't give you the specific details, but I have seen absolute proof of Russian collusion, absolute hardcore proof of Russian collusion, all a lie.
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Hey, and I got a legal bill from the Moeller Commission in House Intel.
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I spent 16 hours getting a proctology exam by Shifty Shift, okay, and the traitor Swalwell, right?
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She gave a platform to her stone-cold liar, and it takes a freshman, APL, Anna Polina Luna, to hold him to account.
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And today's the day is going to be held to account.
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Why is this – why are we even whipping this vote in the – I'm confused, D.C. Drano, so you've got to help me out here.
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Why are we even having a – why are we whipping this vote?
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I don't know why anyone's even hesitating on this.
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This is a guy that for years tormented the American people with this farce.
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And now we found out after the Durham report that they were illegally spying on the U.S. president.
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The FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, they were all involved.
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He weaponized his position to bog down the government to go after President Trump.
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And what I'm hearing, which is boggling my mind, is that there are House Republicans that we fought like hell to put in there and stop this stuff who are wavering on their commitment to hold him accountable.
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It shows how deep the swamp is, and it's just frustrating as a voter.
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It takes moral courage to do this vote, but that should be easy for these guys.
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So you're telling me right now, by the way, the number is 202-225-3121.
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Light them up today and say you must vote for Anna Paulina Luna's resolution.
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He would go into the skiff and he would come out as House of Intel and say,
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I can't give you the details, but I have seen inconvertible truth and facts that Donald Trump is a puppet of Putin and a puppet of the Russian government.
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So to my knowledge, the leader of the resistance is actually Representative Thomas Massey, who put out a tweet this morning saying that he's objecting to this vote on two grounds,
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the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution and the 27th Amendment.
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The Eighth Amendment protects against unreasonable fines and punishments, cruel and unusual punishments.
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There is a $16 million fine in this bill for Adam Schiff, who was the House Intel chairman, and that investigation costs over $32 million.
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Representative Anna Paulina's justification is that he should pay for at least half of these wasted tax dollars that were spent on Russian collusion.
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And then Thomas Massey also thinks the 27th Amendment, which prohibits increasing or decreasing a congressional salary during that term, right?
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So this was kind of put in place that Congress couldn't just jack up their payments.
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And he is saying, well, I'm currently in litigation against Nancy Pelosi because she fined me for not wearing a mask.
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The House Ethics Committee issues fines, sometimes tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars against members of Congress all the time.
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I'd say illegally spying on a U.S. president while he's in the Oval Office is worthy of the biggest fine of all time.
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And then to say that, you know, you know, this is so he can pay this in the resolution, give Representative Paulina Luna a lot of credit.
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They can actually pay this with campaign funds.
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So this is a little different than just his salary.
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And, you know, this is just a referral to the House Ethics Committee.
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This isn't, you know, an automatic fine that he has to pay.
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So we're referring him to the House Ethics Committee to get censured for what he did, which is unprecedented.
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They just indicted the leading candidate for the 2024 election yesterday.
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And we have Republicans in the House who will not even censure someone that illegally spied on a U.S. president.
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D.C. Drano, what is your social media coordinates?
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I'm going to be publicizing names, phone numbers today.
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I would love for the War Room Posse to get involved, put some heat on these guys to do the right thing.
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We need to hit back after what they did to us yesterday.
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Well, make sure D.C. Drano, make sure Moe and Captain Bannon and Grace, if you can push D.C. Drano's.
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Tell your representative to support and vote yes with Anna Polina Luna.
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Okay, we got a lot of work to do and catching up.
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We got Jan and Benzman together in a massive illegal alien city in the United States of America that the Biden regime is nurturing.
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We're going to chop a lot of wood between now and noon.
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The reason we see a border in crisis and chaos is simple.
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The Biden administration has dismantled all of the proven and effective policies put in place under the last administration.
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That includes well-known policies like the Remain of Mexico and the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Northern Triangle.
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But it also includes more than two dozen lesser-known but effective policies, such as a third-country transit asylum bar, a humanitarian asylum review process, a prompt asylum claim review, a regulation to end fake families in the cruel recycling of migrant shelter.
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This is a live hearing of Homeland Security about my Yorkers.
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By comparison, this administration has embraced ineffective and unlawful policies that have made American communities dangerous and have enriched the Mexican cartels.
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These policies include a nationwide catch and release scheme that incentivizes millions and millions of other illegal aliens to enter illegally.
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A 100-day deportation freeze for all illegal aliens, including criminals.
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Releasing illegal aliens on an honor system to self-report to ICE field offices.
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Exempting 99% of illegal aliens from deportation.
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This is dangerous and this is an inhumane approach that need not occur.
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The laws did not change between administrations, just the decision by this one not to follow the laws.
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The reasons cited here and others I'm happy to discuss, it is my professional opinion that this administration is derelict in its duty to faithfully execute the laws as written and protect American communities.
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Thank you, and I look forward to your questions.
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I now recognize Mr. Edlow for five minutes to summarize his opening statement.
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Thank you, Chairman Green, Ranking Member Thompson, and distinguished members of this committee.
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I appreciate the opportunity to present testimony today regarding the continuing threats to the integrity of our immigration system caused by the Secretary and the Department of Homeland Security's willful disregard of our country's immigration laws.
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The Biden administration, through the Secretary, has seen fit to ignore the law, instead favoring poorly conceived and poorly executed policy decisions.
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Actions through executive orders, departmental memos, and rules lay waste to the INA and congressional intent.
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It has eroded our immigration system and propelled the crisis to current levels.
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As the Chairman said, Section 102 of the INA charges the Secretary of Homeland Security with administration and enforcement of the Act,
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and further vests in the Secretary the power and duty to control and guard the boundaries and borders of the United States against the illegal entry of aliens.
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The massive number of encounters recorded by CBP and the small number of alien removals by ICE, however,
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suggest that this Secretary has failed to faithfully execute the laws entrusted to him.
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Since day one of the administration, the Department has taken aggressive action to undermine immigration enforcement.
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Nowhere is that clearer than Secretary Mayorkas' September 30, 2021 memorandum outlining the appropriate instances in which DHS was authorized to take action against aliens,
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either unlawfully present or unlawfully present but removable.
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Specifically, Secretary Mayorkas outlined three main buckets for removal.
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Threats to national security, threats to public safety, and threats to border security.
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While in theory this would seem to encompass many aliens, in reality the numerous carve-outs, loose definitions, and required factors for consideration
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made it nearly impossible for ICE to move forward with most enforcement actions.
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These poorly defined categories gave even some of the most serious of criminal aliens a free pass in the interest of equity.
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There is a time and a place for prosecutorial discretion which has been recognized by the Supreme Court.
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However, memos targeted at whole groups and not on a case-by-case basis do not comply with contours of such discretion.
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Categorical prosecutorial discretion is not discretion at all.
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It is instead an effort to undermine the enforcement mechanisms clearly found in the law.
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The Department's failure to enforce the full INA in the name of prioritization and discretion is a dereliction of duty.
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The rampant parole abuse that we now witness is exactly why Congress saw fit to change the law in 1996.
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Replacing emergent reasons or for reasons deemed strictly in the public interest with,
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on a case-by-case basis for humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit,
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Congress signaled its intention to clamp down on the process.
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It specifically wanted to guard against ad hoc programs meant to supplement existing immigration programs.
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Regardless of the plain language as it currently stands, parole has become a favorite tool of the administration.
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While first used as an alternative to detention,
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parole programs have subsequently played a large role in artificially decreasing border numbers.
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The expanded categorical parole programs for nationals of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Haiti are wholly unlawful.
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While certainly the previous administration utilized programs,
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the number of parolees were a small fraction compared to what we have seen on a monthly basis over the past two and a half years.
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I would be remiss if I did not mention the Department's regulatory agenda,
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which seeks to upend the credible fear process in the name of orderly processing.
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Starting with the presumption that every economic migrant is entitled to protection,
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in 2022, DHS issued an interim final rule on credible fear screening.
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Under the new process, a positive credible fear determination by an asylum officer
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will lead to a non-adversarial asylum interview before another DHS asylum officer.
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This impermissibly changes the process and undermines congressional action
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by shifting adjudication authority from DOJ to DHS.
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Even more concerning, written summary of the original credible fear interview
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rendering moot the requirement that an alien file one at all.
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This shifts the burden to present and prepare a meritorious claim for protection.
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it certainly provides a path for fraud and renders certain anti-asylum fraud measures moot.
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A second final rule issued last month appears to be tough on illegal border crossers,
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However, the number of exceptions and the easily rebuttable presumptions belie its stated purpose.
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This rule will have the opposite effect, as it will ultimately incentivize aliens
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to make the dangerous trek northward with families in tow.
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Mr. Chairman, we would not be sitting here today if the secretary and the department
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Instead, the department has, in an effort to remove barriers and to create a subjectively orderly system,
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conflated law and policy, and ensured that when the two were in conflict, that policy won the day.
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A return to the rule of law is the only cure at this point,
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and it is incumbent upon Congress to use its oversight and lawmaking authority
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Thank you, and I look forward to your questions.
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I now recognize Mr. Scott for five minutes to summarize his opening statement.
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Chairman Green, Ranking Member Thompson, members of the committee,
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The career professionals at DHS, and specifically Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Border Patrol,
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Todd, you're on special assignment down in the Houston area.
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But tell me, what are we listening to right there?
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I believe this is the start of the formal investigation into Mayorkas that will lead to his impeachment.
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What you're hearing there is a very appropriate and accurate description of policies
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that an executive branch undertook for the first time in U.S. history
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that caused the greatest mass migration crisis in the history of the country, broke every single record.
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That was a very accurate, albeit partial description of the policies and the attitude and the shell game processes that they put in place
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in order to just bring in as many people, foreign nationals as possible into the country.
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From everything I heard right there, it was very accurate.
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And I hope that, you know, you bring back that hearing.
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But tell me, when you say partial, give me the parts that were not hit.
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Well, I think CBP won the use of humanitarian parole.
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The abuse, the mass abuse of humanitarian parole just needs a little bit more description.
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The administration is relying on complexity to hide what it's doing.
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These policies are probably the biggest secret in American government.
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People do not understand how they're hiding the ball.
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And what I mean by CBP won is that, you know, they are processing, they're handing out entry permits
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to tens of thousands of foreign nationals in Mexico and beyond and bringing them over the bridges
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and bringing them over ports of entry and flying them from foreign airports into U.S. airports.
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All of that has to be described in greater detail.
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I've advocated that they have at least one full hearing about CBP-1 and its mass abuse
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and hiding what they're doing from the American public.
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Now, just remember, for the traitors, the 149 that voted for the debt ceiling, right,
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I don't want to hear the happy talk on appropriations and going back to 22.
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The woke and weaponized itself is still in there.
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Your tax dollars, your hardworking Americans right now on the way to work, at work,
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are coming back from work if you've got the overnight shift or if you're trucking across the country.
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Remember, your money is paying for your own destruction, paying for your children's destruction,
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They're taking your money because they're giving them the tickets in here.
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They're giving them the food stamp cards, the cell phones, all of it.
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Tell us, we're going to have Jan on this afternoon.
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He's been on night patrol, but you guys are down there on a tag team.
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Are you in Mexico or are you in the United States of America?
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I'm about 45 miles northeast of Houston in a county of Texas called Liberty, Liberty County,
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which is the site of the largest city of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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Probably between 75,000 and 100,000 illegal immigrants are settling in this county right here,
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My book, Overrun, dedicates an entire chapter, the final chapter to this community.
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And I came out here because there is a vast expansion underway.
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Government officials are saying that the developer here has purchased another 35,000 acres.
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Already there's at least 40 square miles of this illegal alien settlement here.
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We had our drones up yesterday just showing just, I mean, it had to have been thousands and thousands of acres of clear-cut forest still being bulldozed.
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Maybe you can play it or put it up on the site of what this looks like, just how vast this is.
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And I believe that this warrants its own hearing because it's not just who's coming over the border.
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It's what they're doing once they're here, how we are, what we're dealing with on the interior.
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And I know you've got responsibilities starting at 11.
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This is a city of 75,000 to 100,000 illegal aliens.
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They removed Paxton because Paxton was on top of this.
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They just bought 35,000 acres to bring in more in the state of Texas.
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And you don't think they're using this to turn Texas blue?
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Todd Benzman is going to join us after the break, give us more details.
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He was on night patrol about this because it's crime infested.
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But I got Benzman's going to hold for a second.
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Mike Lindell is on the courthouse steps of a federal court.
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I don't know if this is legal or not, but we'll give it a shot.
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This is the 8th District Court of Appeals, everybody.
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And this is about my cell phone and our First Amendment rights.
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This appeal presents an important First Amendment issue.
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The government may not retaliate against individuals who bring to the public attention a matter as vital as unlawful interference in our elections.
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The actions by the government against me clearly intended to punish me for discovering illegal activity
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and the efforts by the Secretary of State of Colorado to destroy evidence of that illegal activity.
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And then they wanted to deter me and others for continuing to let the public know of illegal activities.
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Steve, we really need to win this appeal today because it's not just about my phone.
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It's about protecting our rights so we don't get our doors bashed in by the FBI
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and we don't get our devices taken away to cover up crimes.
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The biggest crime this country's ever seen and the biggest cover-up this country's ever seen.
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Can you commit to us when you come out on the – when you finish this this afternoon, you'll come back on the afternoon show?
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I sure will. I better get back in there before I get in trouble, Steve.
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Okay, Mike. Mike Lindell reporting from – laying out his case from the Federal Appeals Court up there in Minneapolis, I think.
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Okay, Mike, thank you very much. Don't do anything illegal there.
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Only Mike Lindell. Trump one day, Lindell the next.
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Look, they're coming for everybody, so you understand that.
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And here's the thing. I want to go back to Benzman.
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There's a hearing going on right now about beginning the process on the impeachment of Mayorkas.
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That's what this testimony is today, about a fundamental investigation about his impeachment.
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In fact, if we can get ready, maybe I'll dip back into that.
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But, Benzman, I want you to explain, because we've got to make this place famous.
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There's 100,000, 75,000 to 100,000 illegal aliens right now in one area of Houston, Texas.
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Remember when O'Keefe broke the story, had the government whistleblower that talked about Houston and talked about the 80 –
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I think they had 80 houses there where they were hiding the kids, stashing the kids?
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This is where the human trafficking takes place.
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And this is a no-go zone, you're telling me, Benzman, for police.
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Authorities won't go in there. It kind of runs itself.
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That's right. I regard this as the ultimate sanctuary city.
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When I interview the illegal immigrants who live here, one of the attributes of this place, in addition to the fact that they're allowed to buy land, you know, direct from the developer, is that ICE doesn't bother them here.
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They can live peacefully without having to look over their shoulders.
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They can, you know, work illegally in the underground black market, labor market.
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And that's one of the reasons, as well as the land purchase prospect for them, that so many are coming here.
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It boomed starting about five or six years ago.
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It is absolutely booming like I've never seen it.
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And I came back yesterday, put the drones up, and it is just this vast expanse of cleared land.
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I mean, the immigrants coming over the border now are going to live here.
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Many thousands of them are going to be living here.
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New acreage are always approved for new sales of land plots.
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Now, the illegal aliens are buying this all cartel money.
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This is how the money laundering, they're taking the illegal cash and money laundering into property in the sacred soil of Texas.
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When everybody, all the patriots out of Texas understand this, you're being sold out right now.
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The Biden administration, this is another reason he's got to be impeached.
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We're going to have, hopefully, Jan on Saturday and you again.
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Tell us, where do people go to follow what you're doing right now?
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Because this is one of the most important assignments you've done of all the important assignments you've done.
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This is the interior, transformational interior impact of the mass migration that Biden did.
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Todd, look forward to having you on in Benzman this afternoon.
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This is, if you support, by the way, this is what this election is about.
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We're going to spend time on that because the absurdity, they show you the absurdity, but we're on offense.
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They're transforming your country on your nickel.
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You take what happened at the White House on Saturday, the freak show.
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They're taking the sacred soul of Texas and allowing the cartels to buy it.
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