Episode 3356： Rooting Out The Enemies Of This Republic
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Impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has reached the House of Representatives, where a committee voted on articles of Impeachment and a vote will be taken on the House floor. Kelly's attorney says he will fight the process, and constitutional experts have weighed in on the matter.
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don't actually talk about them. Those who do talk about them don't actually know.
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But when it comes to impeachment, do you think your conference will be lined up
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Well, the process was pretty heavy last night. Personally, I believe it's appropriate. It's
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been a year long process, very thoughtful and detailed. And you've got a you've got
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the head of Homeland Security who is charged legally with securing our southern border.
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And Phil, he's not only failed to do that, he's willfully disobeyed existing law, which
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requires that you detain certain individuals. And instead, he's created this mass catch and
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release program, which has resulted in things like in my home state. About a year ago, they
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had a individual on the terrorist watch list come across the border. They had him and they
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released him into the country. He was here for a year before he was picked up. He's a member
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of Al-Shabaab, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab. He was picked up in Minneapolis recently.
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So the process is moving forward. And I expect the articles will pass out of committee and
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When it comes to the process, the precedent here, there hasn't been a cabinet official
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impeached in 148 years. And you've had several constitutional scholars weigh in, including
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one who said, whatever else my work is may or may not have done, he has not committed bribery,
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treason, or high crimes and misdemeanors. I urge principled Republicans who care about
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the Constitution to oppose those in their party who are seeking to impeach and remove
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Mayorkas. That's Alan Dershowitz, who was a defender of Donald Trump in the first impeachment.
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I don't think they have established any of those bases for impeachment. The fact is impeachment
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is not for being a bad cabinet member or even being a bad person. It is a very narrow standard.
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That was Jonathan Turley, who also agreed with your assessment during the Trump impeachment
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efforts, which they were political. There wasn't enough due process and lacked precedent. How do
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you respond to that? Oh, I think there's been plenty of due process. You've got an individual
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who's testified before every other committee in the Senate, in the House, perhaps more than any
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other cabinet member. And yet he won't come in and testify in front of the Homeland Security Committee
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to explain why it is he has literally been violating, willfully violating the Immigration and
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Naturalization Act by failing to detain individuals who are coming across our southern border illegally.
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And there are other legal violations. I have great respect for all of these constitutional
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experts. But but the facts speak for themselves. And I think what you'll see coming out of committee
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now, because I'm assuming those interviews have been taking place before all of the debate,
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what you're seeing coming out of committee is I believe they will find that he has willfully
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disobeyed existing laws. He's willfully violated or abused and ignored the parole law in this
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country. And that's why I think ultimately he should have resigned a long ago. He you've got
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8.3 million people that come up across the border under his watch. Right. 1.57 million gotaways.
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This is outrageous. Remember when Jay Johnson, who was under the Obama administration,
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said a thousand a day was was a crisis. There is no question. This is well beyond that.
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The solution among some of your Republican House colleagues is to impeach Homeland Security
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Secretary Mayorkas. They had that long 13 hour hearing yesterday. Perhaps it did come out of
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that committee. We'll see if there's enough votes to get it done in the larger House. But what is your
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reaction to that process, to that attempt when even the Wall Street Journal this morning saying
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this does not qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors? You should not impeach someone
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based on policy disputes. You have Republican senators saying this is a distraction, a waste of
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time. Let's take this border deal that's being put in front of us. What's your response to that vote
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out of that committee in the House yesterday to impeach Mayorkas? The House Republicans are engaged in
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another partisan political stunt. They apparently have been ordered to do so by Donald Trump and Marjorie
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Taylor Greene because these are the individuals who are basically running the House.
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Yep. OK, thank you. Couldn't even get to the end to open the show because remember Willie Geist and
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Morning Mika are telling you the Republican senators say take that just take the deal. Take take take
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this border security deal. There's so much going on today. We're going to break it all down for you.
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And here's why. Because you are the protagonist. You're the driver of action, this audience. And we got a lot
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of work to do. I want to thank Parker Sig, Rob Sig, the entire team, Real America's Voice,
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folks in Denver, everybody for making the last two days at the Republican, the precursor to the
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Republican National Committee. A lot of updates on that. We're going to get to it. But we got to deal
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with it. Remember, by the way, it's Wednesday, 31 January, year of our Lord, 2024. 150 years we have
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not impeached. And they keep saying all the headlines is it moved forward. It approved. No, they voted to
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impeach Mayorkas last night. 18 to 15, I think it was. A hat tip. And I realize she's quite controversial.
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And I realize a lot of times the war room itself and the war room posse get sideways with her. But this is
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100% the work of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Back a year ago, she said she was going to bring, she brought
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the first impeachment effort up. And she said she was going to call a vote every day if she had to
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to finally drive this. I can't tell you, and I've been the first to say, we can't chase shiny toys.
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This is not a shiny toy because it cuts to the heart of what they're trying to do in the Senate.
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So for the first time in 150 years since I think the Secretary of War Belknap
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was impeached back after the Civil War, I think it was in 1876. Man, there was some wild stuff
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happening back then, wasn't there? It doesn't get covered enough in American history. They had so
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many contested presidential elections, they had to pass the Electoral Count Act of 18, was it 1887?
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Of course, Mitt Romney, those guys, changed that law, tried to change it. It's unconstitutional what they
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tried to change it in an omnibus, tuck it into an omnibus a couple of years ago, that showed
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what everybody was doing on that day of January 6th to bring the Green Bay sweep to the floor of
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the House and the Senate was absolutely 1,000% appropriate. And Judas Pence was the guy that
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didn't understand the law. He and his team didn't understand it or just violated it. Once again, back to
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that era, we have now impeached, the Homeland Security Committee has impeached
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Mayorkas and sent it to the floor. Buried lead, here's the signal. The Senate is so freaked out
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about this. Red State Democrats, Tester, Casey, the entire crowd are so panicked, so panicked,
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the guys down in Georgia, they want to bury this thing. They're going to send it to a committee first.
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They're not going to go up and put it on trial, which they're supposed to,
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after the House vote. So this thing is getting heated. Here's the reason. It cuts to the heart
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of this amnesty bill that the Senate, that Lankford and the traitors in the Senate have pushed forward
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because here's where they messed up. Everything in that Senate bill is that is to be done. And right
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now Biden could do all of it. Okay. He can do all of it if he wanted to. We know that he could do all
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of it. Just listen to President Trump. Right now it all depends upon Mayorkas's desire to implement
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it. So not just is it a phony codification. Is it a total codification of the invasion of the United
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States of America? And any Republican that votes for that should be turfed out. And this is all driven
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by Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell, the NRSC, deigns that entire crowd. Okay. They are not our allies.
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They are not MAGA. In fact, I would respectfully submit that they are enemies of this Republic.
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They kowtow to the big donors. And this is a big donor bill because it gives the work permits
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immediately to, I don't know, six, seven, eight million illegal alien invaders. And that will crush
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the black working class or crush the Hispanic working class in this country. So hat tip to her.
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She drove this thing through. And this is what we're talking about. Action, action, action.
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You just can't continually talk. Sometimes you have to get in there and plow through it.
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And last night was not pretty. It was ugly. They won ugly, I think at midnight. The vote
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finally went down after battling the Democrats the entire time. Vote was 18 to 15.
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So this whole, we have three aspects that are moving forward on Capitol Hill that you're in the
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middle of the fight. Let me break down this fight for a second so you can see the battle space.
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We have the overall budget and the CR and they continue to tap that along, right? We're going
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to get another CR, that battle right there with the $2 trillion deficit. At the same time,
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you have the supplemental. That's another $100 billion. And that supplemental, they've held
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our border hostage to get through your crane money. Well, guess what? As the world has predicted
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for many years, there's now an active coup underway between the military and Zelensky. And Ben
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Harner was going to be here in a minute to explain that to me. And Mayorkas is getting impeached here
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at the same time that Texas is throwing down and other states are coming to their back,
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are coming to their back on a constitutional crisis on the southern border. This is all merging
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in together into one thing. We're going to get Ben on in a second. I want to go to Todd
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Benzman, though. Todd, you've got another report up that's going to make people's head
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blow up. But I want to kind of go through some pieces so the posse can understand what
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our marching orders are today. I want to go to Mayorkas. I'll come back to your great
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piece about how the American... Just understand something, folks. You are, and this is about
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this budget and about not fighting and the woken and weaponized. Your tax dollars, the great
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tragedy here is the American people are underwriting the destruction of their own country. The most
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patriotic people in the country, the most patriotic, that pay their taxes, raise their family, send
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their sons and daughters to volunteer to go into the military, and then they get transferred
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out. They get sent all over hell's half acre and protecting other borders, like protecting
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the border between Jordan and Syria, right, to die there from the Georgia soldiers who were
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deployed there, to die protecting that border instead of our own border. But let's talk about
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this impeachment for a second. Todd Bensman, the Democrats are flapping around. We started
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that with Tom Emmer. Tom Emmer is not a fire breather. He is the whip. He's a guy that tried
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to run for a speaker, and President Trump came out against him. He's not fully MAGA. He's
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100% willfully violated, willfully violated, willfully violated. We have all the laws and the books
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we need. And right now, while they're trying to push this phony bill, Todd Bensman, we have
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for the first time in over 150 years, a cabinet secretary impeached at a committee level for
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willfully violating the laws of the United States of America. Your thoughts, sir?
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Well, all of this reminds me, you probably remember just a few years ago when Barack Obama
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was in office. He was asked, why do you keep deporting and detaining people? Why won't you
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stop doing that, illegal immigrants? And Obama turned around to him and said, because it's
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the law. I have to do this because the law says I have to do this. And I am not a king.
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And Joe Biden is not a king anymore than Barack Obama was on this issue. And he certainly doesn't
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have any, you know, Mayorkas is certainly not one of the king's men who can just decide not to
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follow the law. The president has it, well, you mentioned already, the president has it within his
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authority to order his appointee DHS to do the same thing under INA 212F. Go look it up. The section 212F
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says that the president can on a whim shut down the border 100 percent, returning 100 percent of all
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illegally entering aliens into Mexico. This is not something that, you know, he can't do or has to,
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you know, make a law about. It's already there. Like you mentioned, he's not a king who can just
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decide what not to do and what what he wants to do. And that's what they're that's what's going on
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here, really. I mean, that's what this is about. I don't think the impeachment. I mean, obviously,
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the numbers aren't there to succeed. They can't get it. They'll never remove him in the higher
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chamber. That's not. But hang on. But hang on. But hang on. But hang on. Hang on. This is a tough
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vote. We now know and everybody on Capitol Hill is talking about it. The Democrats are not just going
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to take this up and say, oh, they have no support. The red state Senate Democrats are panicked about
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having to take this vote. This is how much the American people worked up right now about this guy
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and about the border. So, hey, it's is it is he going to be removed in a trial at the Senate?
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Highly unlikely. OK, but it doesn't mean that you're not going to have a ton of these red state
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Democrats to save themselves because they understand how Biden has opened up the border to an invasion.
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The purpose of the trial in the Senate is just like the purpose of the debate in the House, folks.
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Don't don't lose the plot here. The purpose. And this is why we need platforms to adjudicate.
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You're going to put through you're going to put in front of the nation in this debate in the House
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over the impeachment of Mayorkas, not something that's on a committee that you're watching on
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C-SPAN or you're seeing because you come to the signal, not the noise of the war room.
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You're going to put before the nation to galvanize all the media. You're going to they're going to debate
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exactly why Mayorkas willfully violated what you just said, the laws of this country,
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what you just said, Todd, 0.0001 percent of the United States knows that this this vote in the House
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does that end the trial in the Senate. And I'm telling you right now, the Democrats are going to
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try to bury this. They're going to try to put it to a committee instead of coming up for a vote right
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away. Ben's been hang on for a second. You've been all over this for years. And now it's it's culminating
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in a in a massive fight on Capitol Hill. Also, Ben Harnwell from Rome on the coup in Ukraine.
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Okay, we've got Richard Stern. We're gonna try to get Dave Brad up. He's on the road. We got
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Philip Patrick. We got a lot to go through on the economy, tax cuts, all this deficit to make sure
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that you're insiders. Harnwell's up. Harnwell's been all over this. I really want to give a hat tip
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to Ben about how he's, you know, we've been talking about this for over a year, but it's happening in
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real time in Ukraine right now. So the globalists and capital have a big problem. This whole thing
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they've been pushing on to codify the opening of the border and to ship $60 billion of your money
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over to Ukraine is falling apart in real time before our eyes because if we keep hammering and
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hammering and hammering and hammering, all of the facade of their lives will crack and crumble. And you're
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seeing this now. This thing in Ukraine and have prayers for the Ukrainian people because the hell
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they've been put through, I don't think is anything like the hell they're about to be put through.
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And this is 1 million percent on the doorstep of the Atlantis, Atlantic Magazine, Stavridis,
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all these scumbags at MSNBC, all these people, consultants, all this, the Davos crowd, the city of
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London, Brussels, Jake Sullivan, Blinken, Biden, the blood of the Ukrainian people are in your hands.
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If this thing breaks out to a civil war between the Ukrainian people, which looks like it could
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be happening, that's 1 million percent on you guys. President Trump said he could do this in 48 hours.
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I think President Trump could do it in 12 hours. But this is Boris Johnson, Blinken, this entire crowd.
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And you compare what we have told you on the show from the day of the invasion, you compare that what you
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heard on CNN and Fox News and MSNBC, the incompetence, the malfeasance, the lies, all of it.
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And you see where Ukraine is right now, where you essentially have a military coup. They can call it
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anything they want. But when a guy is the president in a country that the military is supposed to report
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to the president, and Zelensky's a world figure, right? They made him into this, you know, the mini
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Churchill. And by the way, a lot of conservative fanboys were in back of that too, this little
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scumbag. When the military says, when he says, hey, you're fired, call a meeting, fire a guy, and they go
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in the room. No, I don't think so. I don't think we're going to do that. That's called a coup, okay?
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Kind of what somewhat happened to President Trump with the scumbag military leaders and generals.
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You've got leading the greatest troops in the world, the United States military. We're going to
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come back to that in a second. Benzman, I want to go to the second historical, because folks,
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we are living in historical times. Don't take it from me. Take it from the main actors in this.
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There's a constitutional crisis brewing on the southern border about the concept of the sovereignty
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of our nation. It gets down very simple. The sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the
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United States of America, what they argue to put all that money in Ukraine, we said,
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was the most important on the southern border. And now you have a major constitutional crisis.
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Todd, you've spent your career, in fact, most of your career, you've been with Texas DPS,
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and you've been in the intelligence operation down there. You know it better than anybody.
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Texans are not going to back off this. Now we've got the lieutenant governor, other people,
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and you've got other governors, Noam, Stitz, others, I think, DeSantis, others prepared to send,
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and actually prepared to call their National Guard back from sub-Saharan Africa, right, or East Africa,
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and to call them back and to send them to the Texas border. Right now, although the Supreme Court ruled,
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it looks like the federal government hasn't gone and cut any wire. Give us an update. And do you agree
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I wouldn't call it a crisis, but it's definitely a dispute. This is all about control of the dirt
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down there along the riverbank. Who gets to do what with that dirt and on that dirt?
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is saying, that dirt is mine. I'm the state. That's state dirt. And I'm
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going to put concertina wire and deploy my forces all along that. And he's right, really. But the
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federal government is saying, well, you know, that's our dirt. And, you know, we're going to
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do what we want with it. And to a certain extent, at least the Supreme Court has temporarily ruled that
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they're right. So the question is, what's going to happen as a result of it? And I think,
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Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Put a pin in it for a second. Hang on. We say it's not a crisis.
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They did what Andrew Jackson did. When he says it's not a crisis, the Supreme Court has ruled,
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and the state of Texas goes, yeah, I think we overrule you on that. And the government,
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because Biden understands the optics here will look terrible when his federal authorities go down
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and cut the razor wire to allow more processing. Because folks understand something. What Langford
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has done, everything on this bill is about processing more illegal alien invaders into this
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nation quicker and deeper. Don't let... Here's how much money Langford has allocated to President
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Trump's wall. The wall that we know will at least be an interim barrier. We didn't say it was a final
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solution, interim barrier, and this entire thing. Here's what Langford thinks of President Trump.
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Here's what Langford and McConnell think of the MAGA movement. Here's what they think about the
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sovereignty of this nation and the sovereignty of our citizens. Not one penny to the wall. That's
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just in your grill. That's just to show you, hey, Trump, yeah, you had a couple years there, fine,
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but we got our own way and we're going to codify an invasion for our donors. So Todd,
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when you say it's not a crisis, you've had... I don't remember... And now they're talking about
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on Morning MECA, they're going to nationalize the National Guard. They're going to federalize the
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National Guard. They're actually going to sit there and go, well, Christy Noem, you want to send troops
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and Stitch, you want to send troops and DeSantis, you want to send troops. The 25 governors have backed
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up Babbitt. They're going to say, hey, tough guy, those are actually our troops. Not just is the dirt not
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yours. Your people are not yours. They may be in the Texas National Guard, but they're going to be
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cutting the wire on our side. How do you say that's not a crisis, sir? Yeah. Just, I mean, the way I
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define crisis is if, you know, guys who have guns pull them or start having fisticuffs over,
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you know, where there's use of force down. But that's my definition. I don't see that happening.
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I think this is going to... But I do think that there are, you know, far-reaching implications
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about having to do with what the Supreme Court ultimately rules here. Like who can do what on
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the dirt and whose authority supersedes whose authority down there. And that's going to matter
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a lot. Those matters are not settled right now, but I'm just not going to... I'm not... I have heard
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people say, oh, yeah, they're... And actually, there have been cases of, you know, there have
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been heated moments where they're like nose to nose, these guys saying, this is my... These are my
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immigrants. No, they're not. You turn those immigrants over to me. You know, that sort of
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thing has been going on there. But, you know, people kind of ultimately stand back. But I do think
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that there will be long-term implications here, depending on what goes on.
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Well, hang on. I did say... I love your Texas analysis of a crisis, and I agree. When they
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start pulling out the guns and they start beating each other, that's a true crisis. But that...
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You don't get to that until you get to the middle. I said constitutional crisis. And you
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got one right now. Chip Roy. And I realize a lot of people have a problem with Chip because
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of this situation, just like with the MTGO and Herb McCarthy thing. And I got that. I understand
00:24:33.060
that. And I understand the anger. I understand the mistrust. I got it. I fully understand
00:24:37.240
that. However, there are people that drive the action. And when you drive the action,
00:24:43.440
he's, you know, Chip's very admired in the House because he gets stuff done. Chip's saying
00:24:50.600
that the Supreme Court, that what's happening down on the border, that if it continues to
00:24:56.980
go forward and continues to rule not on an interim basis, he compares that, Benzman, to
00:25:01.900
the Dred Scott decision. Right? And he makes the case now, if Dred Scott was done now, would
00:25:08.300
people obey it? They understand that if they'd fought it back in, what, 1857, 1858, you might
00:25:15.100
not have gotten, to your point, to a shooting war amongst brothers. So do you think we're in
00:25:22.400
a constitutional crisis down there? I mean, tell me the way out right now.
00:25:28.360
I mean, I think the way out is that they're going to fight this out in court and the justices
00:25:33.360
are going to rule, the Supremes are going to rule. The fact that this is all happening
00:25:38.300
at the Supreme Court level, that these decisions all have to, they go quick. I mean, they're
00:25:43.100
like mainlined straight to the Supreme Court, these things. So that does indicate that this
00:25:48.360
is very legally serious. These questions are legally serious. And I guess you could call
00:25:56.460
But hang on. Okay. But hang on. Hang on for a second. If you're, this is what, this is
00:26:01.880
what Chip Roy's saying and kind of what Abbott's saying. If they take it all the way to the court
00:26:05.340
and the court goes, hey, we thought about this and, you know, we concluded with, you know,
00:26:09.200
Roberts and Comey Barrett and some others, it looks like they've been intimidated by the
00:26:13.420
mob up there saying, no, Texas got to let them cut. The feds got to come down and cut
00:26:17.600
the wire. According to everybody that's saying it right now, from Chip Roy to Lieutenant Governor
00:26:22.840
Patrick, to Attorney General Paxton, to the governor of the state Abbott, who's no fire
00:26:28.160
breather, they're going to say, hey, we hear you, but it ain't happening. So if that's the
00:26:37.380
Right. Well, then it gets interesting. I don't think there'll be violence still, but it does
00:26:41.680
get interesting because Abbott and his people, and I've talked to senior state leaders, so
00:26:48.700
I know what their thinking is right now, is that there is nothing in any of these rulings
00:26:54.760
that says that we can't put wire down. The rulings are just that the federal government
00:27:01.660
can take the wire down if they want. And so that's their loophole. That's their, so they're
00:27:09.160
going to keep building the, if the feds come in and tear it down, they're going to come
00:27:12.820
in and they're going to rebuild it. And it'll be like this. Right.
00:27:17.580
If, but here's, but here's the problem. I tell you, we're going to go to break. Todd, please
00:27:20.780
hang on. We've got Ben, we've got Stern, we've got Ben Smith. We have nothing but hitters
00:27:24.660
this morning. Here's the issue. If Biden allows that to happen and he allows MAGA and Patrick
00:27:32.380
and Paxton and Abbott and the great folks in the Republic of Texas to say, Hey, we can
00:27:39.360
put the, they, they interpreted it that way. He doesn't move. His approval among Democrats
00:27:44.300
will crater. He will show, and he will show the world. That's what I'm saying. He, he's
00:27:49.480
tried to be a wise guy. He got his bluff called. He got his bluff called and he's got his bluff
00:27:54.960
call. I believe by people that understand the sovereignty of the state of Texas, the territorial
00:28:00.380
integrity of the state of Texas is more important than what Joe Biden wants to do to get reelected.
00:28:18.020
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00:28:23.640
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00:29:08.120
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00:29:14.160
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00:29:37.280
Okay, Lou Murray's going to join us a little later, I think this morning. I'll try again. He's got a
00:29:48.640
great piece in the Boston Herald about every town of Bordertown, about what's happening to Boston,
00:29:53.760
right, because of this. I've got Todd Bensman. Ben Harnwell's going to join us about this coup
00:30:01.980
that's going on, but I got Richard Stern from Heritage. Let me get Richard in for a minute,
00:30:05.540
and then I'm going to come back to Harnwell and to Bensman. Richard, and I want to talk about this
00:30:12.160
tax, this other tax fiasco they got going, but I've got Harnwell in Rome who's going to be reporting
00:30:19.240
from the Times of London and the Guardian and all this. I mean, there's a coup going on right now
00:30:24.880
in Ukraine. Zelensky has had a fall now with his top field commander, the military head of the
00:30:31.540
uniformed services, told him in a meeting to his face, I'm calling for your resignation or the step
00:30:36.700
down. Guy goes, I got to think about that, but I don't think I'm going to do it. Zelensky talked
00:30:40.860
to a couple other guys and said, no, we're not going to, you can't do that. So the military has
00:30:44.420
actually stood up to him. So in the middle of trying to push this Ukraine $60 billion, as we've
00:30:49.060
said for a long time, the government over there is coming apart because they're not winning the war.
00:30:53.900
The spring offensive failed. At the same time, we've had Bensman on here about the
00:30:58.120
impeach Mayorkas who's central to this fiasco, this, this sellout on the border bill, which is
00:31:03.460
really an amnesty bill. You got Texas in a standoff. You got a constitutional crisis down
00:31:08.600
there. You got Mayorkas the first time in 150 years. Just tell me, you know, this city better
00:31:13.400
than anybody. How can they continue to go forward with these massive spending programs on these topics
00:31:19.180
where everything they've told the people about it are a lie and it's all collapsing around them,
00:31:24.320
sir? Well, you know, as you know, this wouldn't be the first tyrannical government that we funded
00:31:29.440
and then collapsed under its own weight. But you know, you hit the nail on the head, right? The
00:31:33.260
DC cartel does this. They steal your money through taxes and through inflation, and then they blow it
00:31:38.360
on their donors, right? We've known from the get-go on this, this money isn't really about Ukraine.
00:31:42.980
In fact, truth be told, most of the money doesn't physically go to Ukraine. It goes to US defense
00:31:47.140
contractors. So that it's money that doesn't go to the private sector, money that doesn't go to
00:31:51.480
producing goods and services that benefit Americans. Instead, it goes to companies whose
00:31:56.800
headquarters are in DC, whose lobbying arms are almost larger than what they actually produce,
00:32:01.320
who take this money and produce things and send it abroad. And that's part of how we've ended up
00:32:05.480
with $260,000 in debt per household. And you know, this tax bill we're looking at,
00:32:10.860
it's another one of these as well. Okay, I've got to get to this. And this is where I really
00:32:16.300
appreciate you change your schedule. Come on. I've mentioned a couple of times, but quite frankly,
00:32:21.140
I knew something was wrong, but I couldn't figure it out. The Hill newspaper today, which is people
00:32:26.320
understand, we quote the Hill a lot because it's kind of the tip sheet of what's going on up there,
00:32:30.340
but it ain't MAGA by a long shot. The Hill newspaper this morning, and I want to lay out,
00:32:35.460
you've got a child tax credit, an additional child tax credit, and you've got this then some
00:32:41.400
temporary relief for entrepreneurs. And we love entrepreneurs. We're the entrepreneur show.
00:32:46.180
We love the fact entrepreneurs out there, and we understand they need regulatory relief and tax relief.
00:32:50.060
But that's a fig leaf over what they want was this child tax credit. They're saying,
00:32:56.100
oh, well, we're just taking it from the COVID money, right? And we used to have some of the
00:32:59.940
COVID companies on here that get the tax relief. You know, if you've had employees go there and get
00:33:04.160
it, they got to pull that capital and they think it's tapped. They think all those claims are
00:33:08.280
basically gone. So it's about $50 billion. They're trying to use that. But this is a Keynesian
00:33:14.000
infusion. At the exact moment, we shouldn't be doing any more Keynesian infusions of more federal
00:33:19.660
stimulus. Number two, this is the most direct payoff for Biden's constituents that I've seen since
00:33:28.500
they try to get the working class people in this country to pay for the debt on colleges.
00:33:34.360
Now the Hill, and that's why I asked you, they've come up and said, yo, yo, guys, you're not really
00:33:38.720
counting this correctly. That because all these guys in the committee saying, oh, this thing kind
00:33:42.860
of pays for itself. You got the COVID tax release. It's $400 billion. Not me. I knew something was
00:33:50.520
wrong, but the Hill guys did it. Richard, $400 billion added to the deficit if you pass this bill
00:33:57.960
for the child tax credit. Is that directionally, are you guys at Heritage coming up with the same kind
00:34:03.020
directional number? We will be lucky if it is that low. So you hit the nail on the head on that one.
00:34:10.160
You know, this is the old thing that Milton Friedman talked about, that there's nothing so
00:34:13.640
permanent as a temporary government program. So you're absolutely right. This quote pay for
00:34:18.300
is a fixed pot of money. It is the $78 billion they're talking about, and there's not another dime
00:34:24.320
you can take out of that. So JCT, the formal scorekeepers within Congress, Tax Foundation,
00:34:30.100
the Hill, their numbers you talked about, they're looking at hundreds and hundreds of billions of
00:34:34.400
these things are made permanent, out all the way to $1.5 trillion of new deficits. And so that's
00:34:40.640
asking the Fed to print money. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
00:34:46.900
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on. Stop, stop, stop. Go back. The Hill's saying this child tax,
00:34:53.680
I'm going to explain it to people, that this is not going to be, they're just not going to be able to set
00:34:58.300
it off the side. And for, okay, for the COVID tax relief stuff, if programmatically there's nobody
00:35:04.140
else qualified, and that's what they're kind of saying, they've got to basically everybody,
00:35:08.460
the $70 billion shouldn't be an offset. The $70 billion should just be wiped out and say,
00:35:12.660
hey, guess what? We took our first thing in trying to get the deficit down, but $70 billion that we're
00:35:17.620
not going to spend. But even the offset, the Hill's saying $400 billion. You just said 1.5 trillion.
00:35:25.540
How do you get from something they're telling the people that it's offset, you don't have to worry
00:35:31.380
about this, we're not going to increase the deficit because it's an offset with the COVID tax money.
00:35:35.720
How do you get, they're at $400 billion. How did you get to $1.5 trillion?
00:35:41.520
Well, I will say, even in the Hill article, they say it's between $400 and $1.4 trillion,
00:35:47.320
depending on exactly what happens. And that speaks to the uncertainty of what's going on.
00:35:51.260
Tax foundations figures are $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. So everyone's kind of in the same
00:35:56.980
ballpark of that range. It's a huge range because of that uncertainty. So to the point you were
00:36:02.020
bringing up there, what this bill does is it provides really slight partial things through
00:36:07.520
the next 20 months. But we all know these are going to be permanent things. Now, I will say
00:36:12.600
the core of the business provisions, those are good for small businesses, for large businesses.
00:36:17.800
Here's the rub, though. The way they're actually written in this bill, most of that money is
00:36:22.780
retroactive payments, i.e. corporate welfare, to a handful of large companies. In fact, 57% of the
00:36:29.980
net benefits in the bill are going to go to companies that use the interest deduction. These are tech
00:36:36.720
startups. These are financial companies and Wall Street. These are not your ma and pa small business
00:36:41.080
firms, right? So the bill here is pretending as if it's giving permanent, long-term, broad-based
00:36:48.840
expensing provisions. It's really not. It's really written to mostly be this corporate welfare.
00:36:53.400
Then as you brought up on the child tax credit part of it, 91.5% of it isn't the actual child tax credit.
00:37:00.060
It's the additional part. That's all welfare money. And illegal aliens can get access to that
00:37:05.380
because you only need an IIT, an identification number, not a social security number as the tax
00:37:10.880
filer to claim that credit. So this is a massive expansion of welfare benefits that illegal aliens
00:37:17.000
get access to. And, you know, when Trump was in, he did a lot to close that, but he got as much as
00:37:22.020
he could. He couldn't close that loophole all the way. This bill is driving a Mack truck through it.
00:37:25.960
Richard, explain to our audience how this happens on Capitol Hill. You've got the hardest working
00:37:33.460
audience out here that's, you know, they want to be fair. They're decent, hardworking Americans.
00:37:38.860
But how do we get in a situation? We have two and a half, we have two to two and a half trillion
00:37:43.260
dollars deficits on this fiasco of the federal budget, and they're spending all their time
00:37:48.900
on this supplemental to get $160 billion to Ukraine, to put some more money to process illegal
00:37:55.840
aliens quicker, not one penny to the wall. And now they're coming up, oh, we're going to help
00:38:00.200
children, and it's going to be all set. It could be up to a trade and a half additional to the
00:38:05.280
deficit of money we don't have. And at the same time, you find that the tax thing's not really to
00:38:10.320
the mom and pop entrepreneurs that support this show. It's basically the Wall Street firms and
00:38:14.960
Silicon Valley tech startups. How does this happen? Tell us how the swamp works, because this is
00:38:21.180
the core of the problem in our nation right now.
00:38:24.540
It absolutely is. So the thing, the swamp, but I like to call them the DC cartel, but either works,
00:38:28.920
right? The thing they figured out decades ago is if you tax somebody, they're aware that you're
00:38:33.620
taxing them. But if you print money out of the Fed, if you run deficits, if you crowd out private
00:38:38.580
borrowing, it shows up as inflation. It shows up as mortgage rates that spike, but that doesn't feel
00:38:44.220
direct. In fact, if you poll most Americans right now, they don't think that's why mortgage rates are
00:38:49.080
unattainable for most people. They don't think that's what's causing inflation. They think it's
00:38:52.740
corporate price gouging more than anything else. So what's happening here is they figured out this
00:38:58.020
way where they can steal your money through inflation, through boxing out private firms
00:39:03.160
from growing, through boxing out people from buying homes in credit markets. And that's how they're
00:39:08.240
stealing. And it's not the money, it's your purchasing power. They're stealing the value in
00:39:12.620
the money and then spending it. So that way, it gives them this ability from a political standpoint
00:39:17.660
to give as much value as they want to their friends, their donors, their special interests,
00:39:22.640
and to not get blamed for having directly taxed somebody. And I'll give you one even better on
00:39:27.400
this. Taxes a lot of times are on the wealthy, they're on big corporations. Now, I believe that
00:39:33.080
trickles down the people, but it feels like it's on those people. Inflation, it's on the lower income
00:39:38.920
people. It's on the middle class, right? In fact, the middle class and lower income Americans
00:39:42.800
feel inflation spikes more than anybody else in the country. So they have managed to figure out a way
00:39:48.640
to tax the middle class and to tax the working poor in a way that no one had figured out how to
00:39:54.620
do politically before. And that's why we got to stop them. That's why we got to shine a floodlight
00:39:58.520
on this. Okay, Richard, what should our audience do today? How did they get out? First of all, I want
00:40:04.440
to get people smart in this and I want to do it quickly. This thing, Johnson said he's going to bring it to
00:40:08.340
the floor this week. And I mean, it's mind boggling because the illegal aliens get access
00:40:13.380
to this. Where do people go right now, either your social media, what you're working on heritage
00:40:17.600
to get smart about this? Well, you can go to my Twitter at Rich A. Stern. You'll find work there
00:40:23.580
done by my colleagues, Preston Beshears, Robert Rector, Joel Griffith. And we've done a lot of work,
00:40:28.740
put a report, a few op-eds out on this. I got some sad news for you though. So it's now formally,
00:40:33.880
I think about 20 minutes ago, formally on the suspension calendar for tonight in the House
00:40:39.300
of Representatives. For your audience, by the way, the suspension calendar is exactly what it
00:40:42.840
sounds like. It is a suspension of the rules of the House of Representatives, waiving all of the
00:40:48.640
things against it that would prohibit its consideration of the normal rules. This is where
00:40:52.860
they try to cram this through without a real vote on it, without real debate or consideration on it.
00:40:57.740
So tragic news, to be honest. Well, this is where, hold it, they suspend it because it's all
00:41:02.840
Democrat votes. Johnson swore an oath to heaven he wasn't going to use the suspension. He's used it
00:41:09.720
every time he's got to get something that's massive spending, he uses Democrat votes. Then he just gets
00:41:14.460
the weak, the worst of the worst in the Republican Party to back it. He swore he wasn't going to do
00:41:20.720
suspension. Anytime they're using the suspension rule, you understand something's up. They're trying
00:41:25.060
to, they're trying to jam you. So anyway, then we'll get to work here. People should go there.
00:41:29.760
Richard, thank you so much for making this clear. Always a pleasure. Thank you for having me on.
00:41:33.360
You guys do a fantastic job. Fantastic. This is the fight you got to have if you want to get to a
00:41:38.800
balanced budget, folks. 202-225-3121. I would strongly recommend you call your representatives,
00:41:46.220
and particularly Speaker Johnson's. And this may be any bill blaster from, from Grace. So Grace,
00:41:51.380
you're going to get in the chats and with Carly Bonet and our team over at Telegram,
00:41:54.280
all the chat rooms, and make sure people sign up for Bill Blaster because I'm sure Speaker Johnson's
00:42:00.620
going to have you on Muzak, right? Not going to want to hear the outrage. Remember, on this child
00:42:05.740
tax credit, which is giving Biden a gift in an election year, why would you do that? Tell me why.
00:42:12.640
One, giving him just a total freebie. Two, it's more Keynesian stimulus at the exact time you don't
00:42:20.740
need more Keynesian stimulus. You have fiscal irresponsibility, right? This is going to add
00:42:27.000
to that. You have monetary irresponsibility that the Fed can't even justify now why they're going
00:42:34.140
to cut rates additionally. And you've got Janet Yellen jamming the system in the most sophisticated
00:42:39.700
quantitative easing ever to put liquidity in the system. Why? Why do you ask this happening right
00:42:45.600
now? Let me think for a second. Let me cogitate on this. It's to stop Donald Trump. It's to give a
00:42:51.920
temporary high to the economy to stop Trump. And Republicans are now going to go along with this.
00:42:58.420
Johnson, and this shows you the big donors in back. I remember the mom and pop, and that's why I knew
00:43:02.300
something stunk about this. I said, I can't figure out the entrepreneur side of this tax bill, which
00:43:06.600
supposed to be the goodies for the conservatives and Republicans. It's really not there.
00:43:10.560
But the other illegal aliens are eligible for this. Benzman's going to hang on. I'm going to bring
00:43:18.360
him back at the next break. He's going to talk to you about more that you're paying for, folks,
00:43:22.660
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Okay, we know from Grace that you call Johnson and it goes directly to voicemail, so they're
00:45:01.300
hiding from you. That's where you got to get Bill Blaster. Let's go directly to it.
00:45:05.300
Other updates. Cliff Bentz, who's not exactly a fire breather from out in Oregon, has really been
00:45:12.600
kind of opposed, on the fence, but opposed to the impeachment of Mayorkas, just said,
00:45:17.520
hey, seeing what he saw yesterday, he's kind of coming down the side and impeaching Mayorkas. So
00:45:23.180
this thing is historic and it may actually go through. And it ties. It's not a shiny toy because
00:45:28.960
it cuts to the heart of Biden doesn't need anything. He's had every tool he's needed. He
00:45:34.620
initiated this. They planned it. They executed it. They organized it. Also, Community Bank of New York,
00:45:40.760
a financial fiasco there. I'm going to get more to that in a second hour. Philip Patrick's going to
00:45:45.900
join me. I noticed yesterday, in the last couple of days, the people in Nevada, in Las Vegas, for the
00:45:52.360
RNC, for the Charlie Kirk term, couldn't have been a better crowd. Love you guys, the county heads.
00:45:58.960
The precinct strategy people, the precinct, all of it, just fantastic. I did notice
00:46:03.000
when I asked for a show of hands on my End of the Dollar Empire,
00:46:07.020
there were a lot of my dog ate the homework. So I need you guys
00:46:11.060
to go free. It's totally free. I signed a couple of copies yesterday, by the way,
00:46:18.420
as the guys who work on Wall Street, we just do, or the people that fund the DC cartel
00:46:23.100
or work as the political operatives, because you are the counterweight to that.
00:46:26.220
End of the Dollar Empire from Birch Gold slash Bannon. Just get it right now. Read it. If you
00:46:32.280
don't understand it at all, it's fine. Just get it. Get used to the nomenclature, the terms, all that.
00:46:37.540
That's how you get smart. This is a Socratic process to work you through.
00:46:43.120
Benzman, I need you to explain to the American people exactly what they're underwriting and how
00:46:50.580
it's being done off the books with these NGOs, and particularly the religious
00:46:53.880
organizations. Not just your taxes, your charity donations