Episode 4721： The Rumble In The West： Texas Redistricting Fight
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Summary
Alex Blumberg and Adam Carolla discuss California Gov. Gavin Newsom's hilarious response to President Donald Trump on social media. They also discuss Texas Gov. Rick Perry's victory in his re-election campaign and why he should win the 2020 election.
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I think that Governor Newsom is absolutely showing us all a masterclass right now
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in how government social media should be functioning.
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It's funny, it's quick, it's culturally relevant, it's cutting through the noise, and it's landing.
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And it's sort of a win-win because it's energizing Democrats while really frustrating Republicans.
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They're sort of not sure how to react to someone meeting them where they are and copying their playbook.
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And Democrats really aren't used to someone standing up, calling Republicans out constantly,
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and landing punch after punch after punch without flinching.
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And that's exactly what Governor Newsom is doing right now, and that's why it's just so exciting to see.
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Just hours from now, Texas Republicans are poised to give Donald Trump exactly what he's been asking for,
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a new congressional map that adds five Republican seats to the U.S. House,
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a shift that could help lock in a GOP majority before a single vote is cast next year.
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Lawmakers are debating the new maps right now on the floor of the Texas House,
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and a final vote is expected in just a few hours.
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The Republican-drawn map breaks apart Democratic strongholds in Austin, Dallas, and Houston,
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while making the battleground districts in South Texas even redder.
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You're right, it's provocative, it's ostentatious, and it meets the moment.
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You know, I think if you're looking for something for him to do that is intellectually stimulating,
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But what's better is that there's an emotional reaction, even if it's just a laugh,
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even if it's like, that's crazy, because it got you to do something
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and react to politics in a way that you may not have done before.
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And it is true that it does hold up a mirror to what's happening on the right.
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You know, because you have, if you're saying to yourself,
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To be able to turn it back around and say, well, do you see how ridiculous this is?
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But for this moment, given all of the heavy stuff that we're dealing with,
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Apparently partisan ones drawn up mid-decade by Republicans at the request of Donald Trump
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attempting to gobble up more seats in Congress.
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Of course, the truth of the matter is that today's long-awaited result is all but certain.
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Barring a lobotomy on the part of the Republicans or some sudden moral awakening,
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But the victory for Democrats today may rest not on a near certain result in Texas.
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But in the fight and the grit and the awakening and the willingness to do whatever it takes now
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That's why images like this one from yesterday are so powerful.
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Texas Democrats ripping up permission slips, which amount to hall passes.
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They were made compulsory by Texas Republicans just for the privilege of leaving the building.
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Of course, the reason those passes were deemed necessary and the reason Texas troopers are
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following Democratic lawmakers around everywhere they go, including to the grocery store,
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is because those Democrats made the decision to leave the state, to leave Texas,
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You have this, you know, making fun of Donald Trump, the trolling of Donald Trump,
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I mean, anybody who tries to come after him, he posts back just in the same way that Donald Trump does.
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How do you take that, though, and then say, this is satire.
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This is me trying to show you how ridiculous this is.
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Yeah, there's absolutely a way for him to do that.
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I think we saw this last week when he held his press conference on redistricting.
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He's not all talk and not following it up with any action.
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And I'm sure that they'll continue to balance that.
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So he is doing all of these crazy, ridiculous, fun things.
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It draws people in, and then they're going to see more of the serious from him.
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So people are going to be seeing a lot more of that in their feeds.
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So the people that are maybe seeing it, Adam, are they going to be beyond the Democrats?
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Is it going to be the folks the Democrats need?
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The Times had a great takeout today showing that voter registration for Democrats, and Basil, I'll get you on this, is plummeting.
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I mean, they're just hemorrhaging voters every single year.
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You know, what's interesting is I talked to a New Hampshire Democrat, Jim Demers, whose job it is with Stand Up New Hampshire, to sort of bring some of these 2028 candidates to this early primary state.
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And he told me that in the context of redistricting, Newsom is really breaking through to Democratic primary voters there.
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They see him as a counterweight to Donald Trump.
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They see him as a Democrat who is fighting Trump.
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And this account, I think, is of a piece with that.
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It's framing him as someone who is taking Trump head on.
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The White House is officially responding to it with their own memes.
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And so I think it's breaking through beyond just people who are super online and, you know, real early state primary voters are hearing of what Newsom is doing around redistricting.
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And the X account sort of dovetails with that in a way that does break through.
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The conversations I've had with Democratic governors throughout this country and all of our Democratic elected officials.
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Apparently, I can't be on the floor or in the bathroom.
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Well, you told me I was only allowed to be here in the bathroom.
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Representative Collier in the bathroom has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
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What they're trying to do right there is silence an American leader, silence a black woman.
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The fact that she can't even let her voice be heard is freaking outrageous.
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I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that.
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
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I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
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If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
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Here in the war room, it's Wednesday, August 20th in the year of our Lord, 2025.
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But we're going to start with what I think might be the best action, action, action call that the war room posse has ever received.
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I'm honored to bring on our first guest, August Takala, who has been tweeting up and doing just an entire media firestorm.
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Not just about the scam, frankly, the racket that is the whole H-1B visa scam, but particularly how Americans can fight back and certainly enrage these big tech companies that are trying to replace us.
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And yes, Media Matters, I'm using the word replace because that's what they're trying to do.
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I saw Revolver was picking up a lot of coverage.
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But you've really just been dropping truth bombs about the scam that is the H-1B visa.
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Can you sort of run our audience through what exactly Jobs.Now is and how it is pushing back against H-1B visas flooding this country?
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Yeah, so what they're doing is they're posting job listings that primarily big tech companies don't want Americans to find.
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They don't want them to find them because it disrupts their hiring process for so-called perm workers, people who have timed out of the H-1B process and are seeking green cards to win American citizenship.
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When Americans apply, it sets into motion a whole host of effects where it changes how they have to consider their applicants.
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And the Department of Labor also gets involved in the process to determine if these H-1B workers can be granted citizenship on the alleged grounds that these companies can't find qualified American employees.
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And as we all know, generally, there is a qualified American worker, especially in this economy.
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That's why they have to go to extraordinary lengths to try to hide these postings.
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So Jobs.Now is trying to make those available for people to apply and to make it more cumbersome for these companies to hire foreign nationals without any objection or resistance.
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They always play an interesting, I think, kind of shell game with the data, particularly on visa overstays.
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They're very cagey about releasing the real data.
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Obviously, the original studies that they use to cite to justify a lot of these weird visa cutouts and carve outs, adding on the spouses, it's sort of bogus science.
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But just from the numbers that we can ascertain, I think, you know, it's 1.7 million, what is it, Chinese, Indians, and other foreign nationals working here in the United States.
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Can you just sort of walk us through, of the available data, just how vast a problem this really is?
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Well, let me start by saying the 1.7 million figure is not set in stone.
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We actually don't know because the federal government is not publishing, doesn't publish the overall number.
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They publish the annual number of applications they've approved and reauthorizations, but they don't publish the overall figure.
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So it does beg the question, if these people aren't taking American jobs, why can't we have transparency?
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India, for the last year, fiscal year, 2024, Indians were the primary beneficiaries.
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They had 283,000 applications approved or renewed.
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One of them is a totalitarian regime, and they're both allied with the world's worst regimes via BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
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So if these are the countries that the H-1B program is benefiting, we should be asking, how does it benefit the United States?
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It benefits these big tech companies, but does it benefit anyone else?
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And really, you could say that American citizenship itself is a large part of the compensation that these companies are dangling in front of prospective workers.
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The Trump administration obviously has put a dollar figure on it of $5 million.
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So in essence, it seems like they're offering a $5 million bonus package to their workers, and Americans are paying for it in a lot more ways than we can quantify economically.
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I think both these sort of quantitative data, but also the sort of more abstract in terms of how you conceive of what it means to be an American citizen, the idea, at least mine, of the social contract,
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and that your government shouldn't be actively working to replace you and suppress your wages and create less safe streets with illegal truck drivers that seem to get rammed through their driving permits,
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even when they're, what, passing like two out of 14 on the driving test, it just makes no sense.
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And then you compound that with the fact that big tech is, you know, clandestinely posting these job, you know, listings.
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They don't want Americans to be able to apply to them.
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But how, more importantly, can Americans actually fight back and I'm sure cause a huge thorn in the side to these big tech companies?
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Can you just walk us through one more time the site where people can go and how easy it is to apply?
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But I do think conservatives are in a strong position right now because the Trump administration is not doing a lot, almost anything, to fight back against this phenomenon at the moment.
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For example, with family members of H-1B workers, those make up up to 700,000 of those 1.7 million people.
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And there's been a lawsuit since 2015 pending over that issue.
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And the Trump administration has taken the same side as the Obama administration.
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Pam Bondi's Justice Department has taken the same side in fighting against the Americans on behalf of the Indians.
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So the Justice Department is not doing what it could be there.
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It also falls on the Justice Department to prosecute or, I should say, file lawsuits against these companies when they discriminate against American workers.
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They did that on the last Trump administration in cases that settled under Biden against Apple and Facebook.
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Apple, by the way, paid a settlement of $25 million over that.
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So the Trump administration could be doing a lot more to pursue these companies that are discriminating against Americans.
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And the Trump administration needs to be doing a lot more on this.
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This is the fight itself, what it means to be an American.
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You can't say you put America first if you're actively discriminating against American workers.
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I think we'll have time to get into that on today's show as well.
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We've got a quick call-in, then we're going to wrap the H-1B discussion, but we're going
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to go real quick to Brian Harrison because he is, Representative Brian Harrison, he's
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on the floor in Texas awaiting a vote that you might have to drop.
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So we had a cold open giving us the latest as to what's going on there with the redistricting
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Can you give us all the updates we need, please?
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So the Democrats, after totally sabotaging, I mean, completely victorious, destroyed the
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entire first special session, have finally come back on their own terms to the
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state of Texas, and we are now on the floor of the Texas House, and the map is before
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So we hopefully will be voting on the map soon.
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The only problems are we should have voted on this by now, but the Texas House rhino leadership
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has been giving the Democrats motions to extend their time.
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So after the last three weeks where they've been on every media outlet in the world calling
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us racist and every other possible pejorative and ridiculous name, the rhino leadership
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in the Texas House has been going out of their way to give the Democrats more time to continue
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So it's just one in a long line of indignities where the Republican leadership in the state
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of Texas is falling down on the job and not fighting the Democrats with every tool that
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But the good news is I do think we're probably going to be voting here in very short order.
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In fact, I may have to drop any second to do that.
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But the bad news is that even after all of the talk about arrests, no Democrats were arrested,
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no seats were vacated, they're all here, and all the talk, including from our governor, saying
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we could add 10 more Republican seats in Texas.
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The map that was filed by the leadership down here only has five new Republican seats.
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And believe me, five is definitely better than nothing.
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We should have gotten this done by now, but I think we should have added at least one more
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Republican seat for every week the Democrats were gone.
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So it's a little bit of a disappointment that we're only adding five and not at least seven.
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The Democrat states are fighting as aggressively as they can, and Republican states need to fight
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But that's about as quick as I can make the update now.
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I'll know more a lot more in a few hours for you, but I just want to say a special thank
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Y'all been with us since before this became the biggest story, one of the biggest stories
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So you guys and the posse and Steve and Natalie, you guys have been just a driver.
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And I don't think what I think I do believe without the pressure from the posse blowing
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up the phone lines in the Capitol, this might, you know, we might not be doing anything.
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So major credit and words of appreciation for all of y'all.
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Although humbly, the posse is the best political force that I think exists, not just in MAGA
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world, but in the political history of this wonderful country.
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They're the best, you know, they always have your back.
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If people want to follow you, get the updates on the vote.
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Yeah, go, go to the, the most hated feed into the Texas Capitol, uh, do your civic duty
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and piss off a rhino today by following me on Twitter today at Brian E. Harrison on X
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at Brian E. Harrison and, uh, at Brian E. Harrison.
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I know I'll be talking with you guys soon, but I really appreciate it, Natalie, everything
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Some, something tells me you'll be back on pretty soon.
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And speaking of feckless rhino Republicans, I think that brings us back to the previous
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topic of discussion, which is H1B visas and the cheapening of American citizenship, just
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so big business, big tech corporates can, you know, maximize their profits and root out
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this country and destroy this cultural fabric while they're at it.
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Sorry, we had to interrupt that, but just pick up where you left off.
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If you were, you know, advising the Trump administration on what they can actually do to
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make a difference, whether it's publishing the data sets using the courts.
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I know there's a, an issue working its way up to the Supreme court, I think coming from
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a lot of the U S tech workers that those, that group of great patriots.
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Um, but just hit us with, with what you were talking about before.
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So in terms of what, you know, what we can do to call attention to this issue or get some
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movement on it, uh, there is a lawsuit pending with the Supreme court because the DOJ is still
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Um, but since, since they have time to work on that, uh, we should also call on them to
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investigate Apple, Microsoft, and some of these other companies that are using, um, so many
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H1B workers, Amazon, which has 40,000 H1B workers.
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There are just so many questions about why these companies need these people.
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Uh, you know, for one, Microsoft has offices in India, they could hire these people in
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their own countries, but again, it seems like they're dangling a $5 million bonus in front
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of them and in the form of American citizenship.
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If the justice department has time to prosecute Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and a lot of other
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patriots, they should have time to look into this.
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They've had more than 30 H1Bs in the last seven years.
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Uh, are you telling me you can't find American journalists, uh, to do that work?
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Like, I know plenty of journalists who are not fully employed right now.
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Uh, I, I think there's strong cause for, uh, an investigation into those organizations.
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Um, the second question we should ask is why do H1Bs lead to green cards at all?
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Uh, so if that really isn't part of the compensation package, why doesn't the Trump
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administration just end employment-based citizenship?
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That's the second thing we could be calling for.
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Um, a third thing is this is, goes beyond the scope of H1Bs.
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It goes into H2As, um, but these are agricultural workers.
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Those visas aren't, are, don't have any cap at all.
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All of the people we're deporting could come back and apply for that visa and get into the
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country legally if they want to fill out the paperwork.
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And calling for a cap on that is something we should think about doing.
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I, I have Freedom of Information Act requests in to find out, uh, the number of H1Bs in the
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country and the number of their family members right now, because we don't have that information.
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Um, and we'll see if the Trump administration wants to provide it.
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But if they don't provide it to me, they should at least, in the long term, begin to make that
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number public, because we need more transparency on these issues.
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So I think those are a few simple steps that the Trump administration could be taking, um,
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Um, and that's, those are, that's just the lowest hanging fruit, but it's not being done.
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August, thank you so much for being at the forefront of this.
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If people want to follow you and stay up to date with everything you're working on, where
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Frankly, I would add, too, that I don't even think we want, like, caps, or maybe we'll make
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I think people who are coming in, let alone from some of the most hostile countries, are
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sworn foreign adversaries, particularly China, which, like I always say, is the second highest
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While our big tech overlords try to lie to us and spin to us that the reason why we need
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to import a bunch of Chinese nationals is so we can have a better edge over China, it's
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absolutely asinine, especially when you compound that with the fact that China's Article 7 of
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their national intelligence law literally demands that any Chinese national, for whatever reason,
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whatever purpose, wherever they may be, whatever they may be doing, can be requisitioned by the
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state, by the Chinese Communist Party for national security purposes to help achieve whatever
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Gee, I wonder why the Chinese Communist Party is always caught with their hand in the cookie jar
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stealing IP theft from virtually every single American company.
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What is it about how Microsoft was outsourcing not just their any work, but work with the DOD,
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work with the Pentagon to a bunch of Chinese engineers in Shanghai, because that makes sense.
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Well, I guess it would also make sense that Windows, China Government Edition, that's right,
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they actually built the operating system that the Chinese Communist Party uses to administer all
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of China. And in the press release where they announced that they were contracting and working
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directly with the highest levels of Beijing leadership, that they were actually using the
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same technological systems that they had set up here in the United States.
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It's really disgusting. And for all of the talk that we've heard from the Trump administration about
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how important these tariffs are to secure the American worker, their wages, their rights to a
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decent living, securing the border, it all goes to two sides of the same coin, right? Immigration is not
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just something that's about taxes and fiscal policy, and obviously, the negative impact that a bunch of
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illegals have on this country, but it's cultural too. And the H-1B stuff gets to the heart of that,
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right? In the same sentence, in the same breath, where we're pushing tariffs because we want to
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protect American workers, you can't then justify expanding H-1B visa caps, frankly, any H-1B. I'd
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deport all of them. I'd deport all of them yesterday, and I'd throw in the Chinese students while we're at
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it, and probably all Chinese nationals too. Because you know why? We don't need these people.
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And we never did, and America wasn't built because we imported a bunch of Chinese nationals and a bunch
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of Indians and a bunch of people who don't speak this language. It's the spirit of the American worker,
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of the American people, and it's extremely disgusting that these big tech companies are
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running roughshod, like they have for decades, and continue to, and feel the need. They get away with
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hiding the job postings. They know what they're doing. They have blood on their hands. They know exactly
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what they're doing. They're purposely posting these certain jobs on a website that you, as an American,
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someone whose taxes built these stupid companies from the ground up, that you can't even apply for.
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And now, oh yeah, sorry, tech bros. Yeah, you're America first. I don't think so.
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Screw you guys. There's no issue that gets me more upset because it's so disgusting
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and just evil than what happens on the H-1B visa front when you see what American workers and the
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American people are going through. It's jobs.now. You, your grandkids, your children, your friends,
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send it around and give a big middle finger to the people who deserve it most. The people who want
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to replace you and replace your grandchildren with a bunch of Indians and Chinese. No, thank you.
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horrors of the H-1B visa program. It is my personal enemy. It's just the absolute worst thing that I
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think exists in this country, frankly, in the world. But speaking of other very bad things that
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exists, that is the concept, the newfound concept of preemptive presidential pardons. Of course,
00:30:35.020
it's the Biden regime that came up with that one. But Ed Martin over at DOJ has been really pushing
00:30:42.820
forward, doing some great work, uncovering some documents that you guys are highlighting
00:30:46.400
over at the Oversight Project. Can you walk us through on the auto pen front what we've discovered?
00:30:55.360
Right. So yesterday we put out some bombshell documents, and they were produced to us by
00:31:00.260
Ed Martin. Quickly on him. You know, I know a lot of the posse have been frustrated at the pace,
00:31:05.020
and lack of accountability in this administration. But so long as Ed Martin is there, there is a
00:31:09.980
fighting chance, whether it's Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and now the auto pen. And so basically,
00:31:16.180
the auto pen has been at a little bit of a standstill. There's been these announcements
00:31:19.480
of government investigations, but no real progress. But then walks in Ed Martin, who is the pardon
00:31:24.700
officer and has access to these documents, and produces to the Oversight Project an email from
00:31:30.800
one of Merrick Garland's top, if not the tippy-top-est career official in the Department
00:31:35.320
of Justice, who the day after Joe Biden issued these sweeping pardons to what he was saying
00:31:41.600
were nonviolent criminals, this lawyer on a Saturday morning pulled the fire alarm, issued
00:31:47.240
this lengthy email saying this whole thing is bogus. It can't work for all these different
00:31:52.440
legal reasons. The president, not an auto pen, needs to actually weigh in and answer these
00:31:56.960
things. And oh, by the way, you should stop saying that these are nonviolent criminals,
00:32:01.360
because guess what? They're some of the worst violent criminals that you're actually releasing.
00:32:06.280
So that's the document we put up. This breaks the thing wide open again. And I think the Trump
00:32:11.200
administration is poised for action now, because they have, guess what? The Biden administration
00:32:17.060
agreeing with them and their own DOJ. Well, speaking of the DOJ and transparency,
00:32:22.580
I know you guys have also been at the tip of the spear on all things Epstein. I'm just curious if
00:32:27.260
you guys have gotten any documents or any movement on that front.
00:32:31.380
So no, is the short answer. You know, we were obviously very vocal. We thought that the rollout
00:32:37.020
of the announcement to close it down was clearly botched. And I think that's not even controversial
00:32:41.400
to say right now. I think everyone agrees it was botched. But there was a development today.
00:32:45.960
You might recall a month or so ago, there was this theory that was put out there that DOJ would ask a
00:32:51.320
grand jury to release documents and to take everyone's kind of eye off the ball for a little
00:32:56.540
bit. And then today, the judge overseeing that basically said, hey, guess what, guys? There's
00:33:01.380
not really any documents here. There's no witnesses who even testified to the grand jury
00:33:05.880
or victims, rather. Only one government witness who had no idea what was going on.
00:33:10.320
There's only a few dozen pages of documents. And furthermore, hey, Department of Justice,
00:33:14.740
you're the one who have all the information. You can release it if you want. Now, they've said,
00:33:19.220
the DOJ, they're going to start giving things to Comer. As I've long been saying,
00:33:23.840
this thing's a mess. It'd be great if the U.S. government could just come clean if, you know,
00:33:28.040
Epstein was an intel asset of either ours or somebody else. I think everyone kind of knows
00:33:32.700
what's going on at this point. And it wouldn't hurt just to be candid about that, you know,
00:33:36.400
one very basic fact and maybe a little promise never to take advantage of a, you know, sex trafficker
00:33:42.620
in this regard again. I'm curious what you make of the appointment of former AG Andrew Bailey to
00:33:51.840
the co-deputy director of the FBI. Yeah, well, look, AG Bailey is a superstar. He, you know,
00:33:59.660
actually was involved in the beginning of our auto-dependent investigation because he brought
00:34:03.660
the issue back to the forefront when he challenged all of Biden's basic actions based on competency
00:34:08.500
issues. So I've long been a fan of his. I'll say it's highly unusual for there to be a co-deputy
00:34:13.320
director of the FBI. So I think it kind of points to a potential shakeup there. You know, there have
00:34:19.520
been some, you know, missteps along the way. We haven't seen the FBI substantially reformed.
00:34:25.740
Instead, we've kind of been told it's great now that there's new leadership there and we shouldn't
00:34:29.700
worry and we should just applaud. That's not to say Cash and Dan haven't done some good things,
00:34:34.460
but when you bring in a new senior leader at this point, I think it, you know, tends to confirm
00:34:39.860
what it looks like that there's going to be some changes at play. I don't know if that's ultimately
00:34:44.320
personnel. I don't know if that means the FBI is going to change the tactics and actually work
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towards some serious prosecutions instead of just, you know, papering over old things.
00:34:53.000
But I'm hopeful. In Bailey, we trust and we've trusted before, though.
00:34:57.640
I was walking around D.C. yesterday. I saw a bunch of the trucks, the MRAPs, the National
00:35:05.020
Guard, I think FBI agents, they were pooling and talking to each other and I think sort of
00:35:09.920
dispersing around. I'm curious how you think they are doing and the rollout of what is, you
00:35:20.920
Yeah, I think it's largely performative, unfortunately. There is an opportunity for the Trump
00:35:26.200
administration really to take control of Washington, D.C. in a full-throated way and that opportunity
00:35:32.240
kind of diminished last Friday in court when to the DOJ's lawyers, Yakov was one of their names
00:35:38.640
and Paul Perkins went in there and kind of, you know, laid down is from what it looked like from
00:35:43.020
the outside where they basically told the judge they had no issues with the constitutionality of
00:35:46.980
home rule, which is a little complicated maybe for those who haven't been following it. But if you're
00:35:51.320
teeing up the reassertion of federal constitutional control of D.C., you certainly should take
00:35:56.180
an issue with the constitutionality of a statute that takes it away. And then they left court
00:36:01.120
with a basically co-parenting agreement with MPD. And then you have Attorney General Bondi
00:36:07.700
speaking in terms such as partnership, having a barbecue with the MPD. You have these watered
00:36:13.640
down agreements and you aren't seeing kind of the full-throated broken windows policing
00:36:18.600
and forcing that D.C. needs. You're seeing photo ops and some stats that are questionable in
00:36:24.200
nature. There's still time to fix it and it should be fixed. This is the capital city. It's a federal
00:36:29.020
responsibility. America's 250 is coming up and it needs to be cleaned up, but it's not going to be
00:36:34.260
cleaned up with this kind of weak willy-dilly co-parenting. The photos are great. I live and work in D.C.
00:36:41.700
It doesn't look like a federal takeover. I'll tell you that much.
00:36:44.160
I remember the post-January 6th days, the fencing, and not that I'm calling for that to come back,
00:36:50.940
but I've seen the city be essentially taken over federally. Mike, last question before we let you
00:36:58.660
go, bringing it back to, I think, the other issue. You're getting all the good topics today on the
00:37:03.440
issue of deportations. We've seen some new detention facilities opened, but you have some numbers on how
00:37:11.880
many people they can actually detain there and how this is actually going to roll out. Can you kind
00:37:15.740
of walk the audience through where we stand on that regard?
00:37:18.940
Well, we're living through what I'll call mass communications, not mass deportations.
00:37:23.700
The numbers are low. They're Obama-level low. Instead, we're seeing this focus on, I'll say,
00:37:29.300
quality over quantity. It's like the Department of Homeland Security only wants to talk about,
00:37:33.740
what they'll say is the worst of worst. And look, they need more detention beds and they're getting
00:37:38.160
some, but they're rapping in fanfare of this new announcement out in Nebraska. And I was excited.
00:37:42.820
I love deportation beds more than Joe Biden loves ice cream. But I clicked the press release and I
00:37:47.560
see the numbers 280. That's not a lot of detention beds. And then I read a little further and see it's
00:37:53.300
only to house what they'll call criminal illegal worst of the worst. Translation, it's not for mass
00:37:58.960
deportations, which obviously expands far beyond this really subset of illegal aliens in the country who go
00:38:05.340
want to rape and murder or do other crimes. I mean, Nebraska has a lot of illegal farm labor.
00:38:10.760
And so they're basically saying, like, those people won't be in this Nebraska facility.
00:38:15.020
And they're just going to try to meme their way through it on a very online way.
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I want to see commas in my deportation numbers. I want them in the millions.
00:38:23.680
Right now, we're not close to that. I think President Trump wants to get there, but it's not
00:38:28.440
going to happen until the policy changes where they have this really narrow Obama and Biden strategy
00:38:33.740
of focusing just on, quote unquote, criminal illegals. It needs to be mass deportations.
00:38:39.980
Mike Howell, always bring in the fire. If people want to follow you, stay up to date with everything
00:38:44.240
you guys have got going on over there. Where can they go to do that?
00:38:47.880
We're on X at It's Your Gov, and I am at M Howell Tweets.
00:38:56.680
Of course. And happy to bring you guys a little bit of good news on the deportation front.
00:39:02.840
Huge Trump victory. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just given President Trump the
00:39:06.480
green light to revoke legal status for 60,000 migrants, legal aliens, whatever you want to
00:39:12.160
call them, from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal. This was previously blocked by a Biden-era
00:39:19.060
judge, Trina Thompson. So I guess we can say bye-bye. Fire up those deportation planes.
00:39:26.140
And let's get on it. We are joined now by Alex DeGrass. Alex, we had Brian on. He was live from
00:39:37.180
the floor. I think they might even be voting right now. Can you sort of hit us with the latest where
00:39:42.160
we stand on that redistricting front? Yeah, so they're on the floor. It looks like, obviously,
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like Brian mentioned, they're voting, which is huge. You've got California, which I know Steve's
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been talking about. They're gearing up. That's going to face voters on the ballot.
00:39:56.140
It's sort of imperative that we defeat that. I think there's a lot of videos coming out.
00:40:01.440
Obviously, the DCCC, I mean, this is hardball, just like Steve's been saying, the DCCC, the
00:40:06.420
Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, actually, they're so blamed, they openly said
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they even drew the lines, actually, in California and sent them over to Newsom and sort of the
00:40:16.140
state legislators. While legally they're claiming they drew the lines, of course, they
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didn't. And so that's the whole thing. And that will be on the ballot. So actually, if we can defeat
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that in the polling, some polling had the maps being defeated by 30. Now Newsom's pollster has
00:40:31.440
come out and says that they're winning by 10 points. So that will face the voters. And those are very
00:40:37.080
high stakes for Newsom, of course, that Steve's been focusing on sort of Newsom, obviously, trying to
00:40:42.560
run for president. So we've got where this is getting passed on Texas, which is huge. You saw Indiana.
00:40:48.160
It looks like, you know, Senator Jim Banks came out strongly in support of President Trump's
00:40:53.160
effort. I believe the governor did as well. And you saw the congressional delegation come out in
00:40:57.760
support of, you know, mid-decade of redistricting in Indiana. Florida is talking about it. So these
00:41:04.180
states that we've been talking about are starting to come online. But I think it's imperative that
00:41:08.880
people move faster, Natalie, like everything else, obviously.
00:41:11.940
Can you talk to us, too, on sort of the flip side of it, what Democrats could potentially
00:41:19.260
be doing to sort of push back? Like, do you have any insight on what their efforts to redistrict,
00:41:25.420
for example, in California could look like from a seat perspective?
00:41:30.080
Yeah. So in California, so I think the reason why there's this massive panic in that what we
00:41:36.100
talked about is the Democrats have tied their hands to an extent on two fronts. A, they've already
00:41:41.760
really redistricted themselves to the maximum capacity for the most part, okay? And then the
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second thing is states like New York, states like California, they've got this extra step of
00:41:52.200
constitutional sort of requirement on the independent, quote-unquote, redistricting. And so that's why
00:41:57.880
in California, they're facing, they have to face the voters, because they essentially have to tear
00:42:02.360
apart their constitution, which forces an independent process. And so, you know, that's being challenged
00:42:07.940
in court, and that's interesting. I think in California, you're going to look at five or six
00:42:12.460
seats wiped off the board. And I think that we, so it kind of nets out on Texas, right? And that's why
00:42:18.980
these follow-up states were so important, you know, the Missouri, the Indiana, Florida, you're looking
00:42:26.060
down in the South in general. So I think that is what's really key. I think New York, they can't,
00:42:32.180
they're looking at two cycles from now, or sorry, the next cycle. So, you know, 2027, there'd be a
00:42:38.260
ballot referendum to then open up the redistricting process for 2028. And so that's why they're panicking
00:42:43.940
is because they don't have the tools to really answer. And so we have the ability, if we fight
00:42:50.360
this out, to pick up, you know, about 10, 15 seats if we lose in California.
00:42:55.300
Alex, if you can hang with us through the break, I got a few more questions. I know the posse is
00:43:01.580
eager to call, burn down the phone lines of all these states. We need another redistricting fight
00:43:06.980
since apparently our, most of our elected Rhino Republicans won't do that for us. We're in posse.
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Welcome back to The War Room. Denver giving me a little bit of attitude in the breaks. We press
00:45:07.340
on. We still got Alex deGrasse. Alex, obviously the big news too with what President Trump is doing
00:45:13.260
on the mail and ballot front, trying to get rid of them. And I loved all the adjectives he used to
00:45:18.940
describe the voting machines. Walk us through what you think that looks like and just the details there.
00:45:25.300
Well, I think national voter ID is very important. I think you'll see some of these states crumble
00:45:32.360
politically, California, New York, where they don't require it. I mean, for the New York posse
00:45:36.420
members, I mean, it's totally wild. You go in there to vote. They don't ask anything. They ask you to
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sign, but there's no verification process. You can't even really challenge the votes now because of the
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way the election system works with the bipartisan board of elections. They can kind of cancel each other's
00:45:55.180
vote out in order to proceed with any type of questioning of a ballot. So the crux of
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everything, as well with the illegal immigration issue, is obviously the voting system. And I think
00:46:07.120
a lot of people are hoping that President Trump can get this done. And I believe he can, of course,
00:46:11.740
because it is one of the core issues facing this country is we have to clean the voting rolls.
00:46:17.560
We have to secure the elections. We need the paper ballots. And of course, look, we support
00:46:22.240
legal absentees. If our people can't vote, their people can't vote. You've got something going on.
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You're sick. There needs to be a process. You need to have checks on that, submit an application,
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say where you're going to be on, all that type of stuff. But these sort of unregulated,
00:46:36.760
unfeathered mass mail-in ballots, where in New York State, you can go online and just go on a website
00:46:42.620
and just get a ballot sent to you. I mean, that's what it is now. You go online and you get a ballot sent to
00:46:47.140
you as long as you know all you need is your birth date. I mean, there's nothing stopping
00:46:52.480
criminals and bad actors from going in and requesting. I mean, little, you'd have no idea.
00:46:57.060
Obviously, it's illegal, but there's no enforcement mechanism and there's no way
00:47:01.240
to really protect against this stuff. And you've got California, New York, these major,
00:47:06.240
major states that are the crux of a lot of seats for Congress. And we looked at what happened with
00:47:12.340
California last election and people, we were going crazy on the show and we were on the ground doing
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the best we can. And a lot of people have actually confronted me and said, hey, you guys don't have
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a handle on it. And I would agree, of course. But you look at California where the ballots are coming
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in for like a month, a month and a half ballots appearing. I mean, you don't need a postmark. So
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people say, hey, it's states' rights. They've got to, you know, and it's clear on that. But
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honestly, it's not the case. And you have a federal right here looking at Congress, looking at
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people's equal representation across all the states, just like with the census and the
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reapportionment on the redistricting where, yeah, there's a federal angle. And if your state is
00:47:52.960
allowing illegal immigrants and canceling out the votes and representation of Congress of legal
00:47:58.440
citizens elsewhere, it sort of is a legal issue. So I think there is a federal angle for President
00:48:03.200
Trump to take. And I think he is. And I'm very excited about it because it really, if we can get
00:48:08.140
national voter ID, if we can get, you know, guardrails up on the absentee ballot process without
00:48:14.320
sort of mass, unfeathered mail ballots, right? And they're saying, oh, he wants to ban absentees.
00:48:19.700
That's not true. He's talking about the mass mail-in ballots where you don't need anything and
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they're just sent out the door. I mean, it's really crazy that it's come to this in this country.
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Nowhere else is like this, Natalie, obviously. No other first world country.
00:48:33.760
I always say it's actually, I think, insulting to third world countries to compare it to third
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world election systems. Alex, I think we've got to bounce to our next guest. We've got a few minutes
00:48:43.480
left. In the meantime, before we have you back on, where can people go to follow you and stay up to
00:48:47.360
date with everything you're working on? Thank you, Natalie. So I'm at DeGrass81 on X on Getter Truth.
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Thank you, guys. Thank you, Natalie. You're doing great. I look forward to being back on.
00:48:56.380
Of course. Thank you, sir. We'll have you back on soon.
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And hey, all I'm saying from the narrative warfare perspective, what was it, I think,
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today, what was it, just two days after President Trump's true social post declaring no more election
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fraud? A lot of steps to get there, but you know. All of a sudden, the New York Times is a long,
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winding, long-winded profile piece about how Democrat voter registration across like every
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state is hitting record lows. Almost like they're pre-gaming the narrative when we can finally see
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that all of these ghost votes that never actually existed aren't there. Well, they're going to blame.
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I guess it's believable that the Democratic Party is so out of touch. Their registration is record low,
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which, of course, it is. But they're also, what is it? I think we've never been able to find,
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what is it, the 10 million missing votes from 2020 to 2024? Yeah, I won't hold my breath on that one.
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And while you're at it, Warren Posse, you should go to jobs.now and give, like I said,
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And I don't know, call me a radical. Call me, I'm sure there's a whole bunch of attacks that they will
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