00:00:00.160Katie, I think the biggest tell that this is an effort to sell a narrative as opposed to a truly legitimate law enforcement investigation or other national security kind of effort to move or improve our national security is the fact that this effort, from what we know, was so rushed.
00:00:19.180These millions of documents that a team of advisors working out of the White House collected was reviewed and declassified within three weeks.
00:00:31.140And it appeared to be a very rushed effort to kind of grab things without them fully being, without seeing the full picture.
00:00:40.720In fact, a White House official told me that they were still reviewing many of the things, that they didn't have answers to some of the questions that we posed.
00:00:48.700And so I think what we are seeing here is an effort to create confusion, but also to let the person who believes that these elections were stolen so dearly, the president, continue to say that.
00:01:04.160And we're seeing how he's able to use federal resources, use investigative resources to try and fit that narrative.
00:01:10.940And I think one of the most important things is that the very people that would be helpful in kind of assessing some of this information, the very national security analysts who cover China, who cover Russia, those people were fired weeks before.
00:01:26.740So we have lost so much of the kind of intelligence infrastructure that allows us to evaluate whether or not this is accurate information and what should be done.
00:01:37.160So I wonder if it if it really was just an attempt to find people who would go with whatever the president wanted them to say, regardless of whether the evidence was there in any form at all.
00:01:49.240And I ask that because there's an interesting article about Bill Pulte, Donald Trump's current acting DNI and the lengths he was willing to go, but then getting cold feet about it.
00:02:01.900Here's what Pulte said. He got really scared, according to the Politico piece, by the whole thing and pulled back, said one of the two senior officials.
00:02:10.400He got POTUS all spun up and then was incredibly scared when he realized people could die with his reckless behavior.
00:02:19.320This is regarding revealing the names of intelligence officials who they were going to accuse of concealing election interference with Trump.
00:02:31.900I think it reflects you have the difference between kind of having these conspiracy theories when you're out of government and being in the position of having to make these tough choices.
00:02:41.400And I think the fact that that cold feet that happened very, very late in the game here, because our understanding from White House officials is that there were plans for others to make statements.
00:02:53.440There were plans for additional kind of high-level cabinet officials to say more about the fact that they allegedly were misled.
00:03:03.500And then we didn't see any of that, most notably Director Radcliffe's statement.
00:03:07.600So I think that this reflects a, you know, a difference between understanding the ramifications of what this material means and being outside of government and being able to, you know, spin a narrative or believe, you know, not have that raw intelligence to understand.
00:03:25.220And I think that's a really important point. Much of this was really raw intelligence that was later in the same documents demonstrated to not fit the conclusions that the White House was telling us that it fit.
00:03:38.140And so I think that that is the danger here. That's why we have such a kind of exhaustive and multi-tiered process, why we have multiple agencies who review information and make recommendations.
00:03:50.680It's so that we can, with certainty, make sure that raw intelligence is translated into something that is usable and actionable in a way that doesn't harm our national security.
00:04:03.200Listen to some folks that Alex Tabbit talked to in Iowa.
00:04:07.820First one is a three-time Donald Trump voter,
00:04:10.480and the second is a 22-year-old man who did vote for Donald Trump in 24.
00:04:57.880And then, as you were just showing in that that great reporting, that they're firing multiple missiles at targets.
00:05:03.260They're somehow learning to evade American air defenses.0.82
00:05:06.180And the vulnerability in Jordan is that Jordan is is fairly close to Iran.0.67
00:05:10.140So these are ballistic missiles that travel at incredibly fast speeds.0.95
00:05:13.560And apparently, you know, the Rhyans have found a way to get them in there without being intercepted by American defenses.
00:05:20.060That's very concerning. And, you know, we can talk about this more separately.
00:05:22.920But a separate really alarming development is that the Houthi rebels who are based in Yemen, they're allied with Iran, they're supplied and backed by Iran.
00:05:32.520They're now threatening to shut down a second waterway, one on the Red Sea, to blockade Saudi oil exports through that route.
00:05:44.620And essentially, you know, the Trump administration is on the precipice of all out war again with Iran.
00:05:52.920Sam, he's not focused on the things that people want him to focus on.
00:05:56.400I wonder if part of it is because he just doesn't have the ability to sell it any longer.
00:06:01.380Paul Waldman writing. I believe this is in The Atlantic as well.
00:06:05.960It's a sub stack. I'm sorry. Public notice sub stack.
00:06:08.840He compared President Trump to President Biden, who lost the ability to be an effective spokesperson for his own agenda.
00:06:16.320Didn't have the bully pulpit any longer. And he says Donald Trump has reached that same point.
00:06:20.480He can still command attention, but he can no longer convince anyone who isn't part of his cult of anything.
00:06:25.920Not that the Iran war is a great victory, not that the economy is better than ever, not that there were respect were respected around the world and not that when Republicans lose this election, it was stolen from them.
00:06:36.880And the fact that he has lost whatever power of persuasion he once had will go a long way to keep the election safe from his attempts to undermine it.0.67
00:06:46.460So that's a that's an optimistic view of what might happen in November.
00:06:49.820But I think the thing that I find so compelling here is that Donald Trump does not have that power of persuasion any longer.
00:07:04.460Two is essentially what is happening with Bill Pulte, which is there's a difference between being outside the government and then being inside the government.
00:07:11.720So Trump's able to talk about deep state conspiracies, he's able to talk about, you know, the need to get rid of, you know, open up the Epstein files and lowering energy costs by 50 percent and bringing an end to the war in Ukraine within 24 hours when he's not president.
00:07:26.000But then when you are president, you know, you sort of have to answer for those those issues.
00:07:30.320And I think that's a problem. But, you know, why do he why is he obsessed with the stuff when when the voters don't really seem to care that much?
00:07:37.220it's because he's just this is the stuff that tickles him it's the stuff that gets him going
00:07:41.680he's long been a conspiracy theorist around the election he can't give it up and that's something
00:07:46.340he's never going to give up frankly because it's it's what animates him it's not i will just say
00:07:51.720it was notable that fox news didn't cover this the next day part of that's litigation obviously
00:07:57.020because they don't want to deal with another defamation suit but i think that they also
00:08:01.300recognize that this isn't the stuff that animates the base as much as it used to i think the entire
00:08:05.580purpose of that speech that he gave last week was to lay the predicate for doing stuff in the
00:08:11.180election now will it pass muster i don't know uh but you know you can make the case that he wants
00:08:16.200to nationalize the elections or that even after the elections are done he'll say well this was
00:08:20.140contaminated by foreign interference or non-citizen voting and therefore we can't trust or seek these
00:08:25.760people uh who rightfully won the election we have plenty of history of trump meddling in elections
00:08:31.720Look back to January 6th. Right. Like, I don't think that this is no longer an issue to be concerned about.
00:08:37.800Tom, do you think there are levers of power that he's going to be able to use?
00:08:42.660Yes, I do. And look, I think that this analysis saying that, well, Trump has lost his powers of persuasion and his whole focus on the election.
00:08:50.080This is all signs of desperation. I don't buy any of that.
00:08:53.780I think he has a profound core belief that the 2020 election was stolen and he wants to just keep riding that horse.
00:09:01.720That's what we've seen. I also disagree with the idea that maybe some in the White House hold that the road to midterm success for the Republicans is by relitigating the 2020 election.
00:09:13.100I tend to agree with Senators Cornyn and Cassidy that it is not something that's going to motivate voters.
00:09:18.720But I don't think that's what's motivating the president to keep raising the issue here.
00:09:22.380I don't think he sees this as something where he is going to persuade large numbers of people to come out and vote Republican because of what he's doing.
00:09:29.820I think, if anything, what he's doing is seeding the bed, is creating the conditions under which it will make it easier for him either to take steps in advance of the election to secure the integrity of the election, or if the election doesn't turn out the way he would like it to turn out, to take post-election steps, either by asserting greater federal control, recounts, changing outcomes, that sort of thing.
00:09:51.740So I think that's his game here, rather than any sign of desperation or because he's lost his powers of persuasion.
00:09:58.100We've written his political obituary many times, and I don't think we need to write one here.
00:10:02.180But can I try and go to the bigger picture and what's happening?
00:10:07.160What I think is going on right now, and you've got to take a look at the operational campaign of both nations.0.65
00:10:12.620So instead of merely destroying weapons, the U.S. bombing things and striking things, the U.S. now appears to be attacking the systems and encircling the cities that allow Iran to regenerate military power.0.64
00:10:28.020That's also an attempt to reduce their societal will because the Trump administration believes there's a split between the Republican guards and the Ayatollah and the citizens.0.60
00:10:39.040So they are bombing places like Bandar Abbas and Isfahan, transportation hubs, bridges, fuel distribution sites.
00:10:48.800And that's not, yes, that's separating the IRGC from its support system, but it's also increasing economic pressure, so they think, on the Iranian government.
00:10:58.600And they believe they're trying to force a strategic decision that would present Iran's leadership with that decision on whether they continue the conflict or go back to the negotiating table.
00:11:11.660Now, on the other hand, Iran, they're keeping the straits closed.0.60
00:11:15.880They're continuing to deplete U.S. defense capabilities, especially the rockets or the air defense systems that we have in the region.0.89
00:11:23.840They're dividing the U.S. from their allies in the region, as we've seen in Jordan and Qatar and Kuwait and the UAE.
00:11:31.480They are hurting us tactically because they know that the U.S. will focus on individual combat deaths, as we did this weekend,
00:11:40.320three combat deaths while there have been thousands killed inside of Iran.
00:11:46.180They're opening new fronts for the proxies, like David just mentioned, especially the Houthis in the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
00:11:52.780That could close another waterway and could cause even more economic problems.0.92
00:11:58.780So what the Iranians are doing while we're bombing locations, they're trading space for time and they're putting our allies and internal elements in the United States against us.0.98
00:12:09.420So when you look at not the what that they're doing, but the why they're doing it, it becomes pretty clear to me if I'm analyzing this conflict that Iran still has the upper hand.0.97
00:12:21.320Do you think he'll declare it a national emergency?0.70
00:12:24.740I don't. I don't. That said, I think that he will take or pull whatever federal levers of power he has, both in advance of the election and subsequent to the election.
00:12:37.100And look, a lot of these powers that he could exercise don't require him declaring a state of emergency.
00:12:42.740So I'm not convinced that that's the road he's going to take. But do I think he is going to explore and this White House is going to explore whatever they can do before and after the election? Yes, I do.
00:12:52.800it's monday 20 july in the year of our lord 2026 there's more than enough evidence already
00:12:59.940to declare a national security emergency there's more than enough evidence been laid out as a
00:13:05.280predicate for actions the president has taken now the president still has and they're they're here
00:13:11.960until august 10th i think so they're here for a couple more weeks and they're discussing i don't
00:13:18.260want to call them gimmicks. Let me call them alternatives. Alternatives to a U.S. Senate
00:13:22.880that is basically treating the president of the United States as a lame duck. You can read any
00:13:27.440article you want. The Republican establishment has absolutely zero interest in election integrity.
00:13:33.200They have zero. This is why it's been crickets from places like the Republican establishment
00:13:37.540in Georgia, right? And of course, on Capitol Hill and Fox News. Fox News is not going to step in,
00:13:45.000folks, because they called the Arizona election at, what, 8 o'clock at night and then paid
00:13:51.540an $800 million fine to a company that obviously didn't need to pay a fine for?
00:13:59.740And quite confusing why, of course, Murdoch's association with the CCP, his kowtowing to
00:14:06.760the CCP all the time, but they have not covered one second of that.
00:14:10.680That being said, the evidence is overwhelming and more evidence is going to come out laying the predicate why you have to have either an executive order or some type of executive action, either from DHS or the intel agencies or the FBI to secure the 2020 election.
00:14:31.700Obviously, ICE has to be there. The situation with illegal aliens and quote-unquote alien non-citizens on the voter rolls, 278,000.
00:14:43.620We're going to get to all that. We're going to break it all down as it heats up today in Washington, D.C.
00:14:48.460Steve Cortez is going to join us and talk about the invasion, not just simply of the United States, but the great state of Maine.
00:17:42.900Mr. Arabaka was looking to injure people and harm people.
00:17:47.940He had two axes, a hammer, a machete, and three knives, fixed-blade knives.
00:17:57.740He had, as I said earlier, six incendiary devices or fireworks, and he had some other destructive items.
00:18:04.560On his cart, he had a cart. He had anti-ICE literature on it.
00:18:10.900When he was being arrested, he yelled derogatory terms to ICE, used bad words, obviously.
00:18:16.420he is an anti-american anti-government extremist we know that from what he said
00:18:24.540we know that from what he has said post arrest and we know that from what his actions that he
00:18:30.720tried to take today his goal was to target the building he said that in a i'm not going to get
00:18:36.700into all the details of a post-arrest interview but he was mirandized i read his rights he did
00:18:43.720agreed to talk in that post-arrest interview. He did say he was targeting the building and he was
00:18:50.820okay if he hurt or killed people going in and out of the building, whether they were federal
00:18:55.940employees or civilians. I would mention a lot of business was killed, not by the Federal
00:19:03.080Protective Services, Federal Protective Services, once they mitigated the situation. The building
00:19:07.840remained open, employees could come and go, and we continue to do work. But some agencies decided
00:19:13.600to close business for the day. There was a naturalization ceremony scheduled for today
00:19:19.240that was canceled. And the one civilian victim was an immigrant that had a hearing today
00:19:25.940for their immigration status. So that's quite unfortunate and quite ironic at the same time.
00:19:32.900On the scene was recovered, among other things, two airsoft rifles and the container
00:19:37.740with the flammable liquid. Also affixed to the suspect's cart was a sign reading
00:19:43.180ice off our streets. During the incident, the suspect was wearing a military-style
00:19:49.060helmet. This incident occurred along federal property, and the NYPD is supporting the
00:19:54.720federal government in their investigations. Charges are yet to be filed. Our work with
00:20:00.400the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Southern District of New York is critical to keeping our
00:20:05.200city safe, and I commend the federal agents and contractors and officers who responded to the
00:20:12.140We are still awaiting a lot of details. I think you are expectant that there could be.
00:20:17.680Okay, guys, thank you. Normally the key is when I first start talking. Okay, thanks.
00:20:25.620Steve Cortez, is his rhetoric, his actions are, but his rhetoric is only slightly less inflammatory
00:20:34.740than the mayor of New York City and the people around the mayor, right?
00:20:38.080I mean, they're open and defiant about ICE coming in on federal law.
00:20:43.000You know, we keep talking about Mandami saying he's going to arrest Netanyahu, he's going to do this, he's going to do that.
00:20:49.180But so far, we've let him get away with, and all these sanctuary city mayors, basically, except for the worst hombres, and I'm not even sure we do that in New York City.
00:20:58.600There's no effort to go in and confront these elected officials.
00:21:03.300And what you end up having is then a lack of respect for ICE.
00:21:08.000And you have a guy like this today that wants to, you know, either blow up the building or blow apart the building or injure people as they come out and target these heroic patriotic ICE agents, sir.
00:21:21.420They are patriotic, and this is a stark reminder of the dangers that these brave ICE agents face.
00:21:27.140Speaking of bravery, I commend that law enforcement group there.
00:21:30.560They ran toward the danger, which, of course, is what brave cops do.0.99
00:21:33.340They apprehended and neutered this scumbag, thankfully, very, very quickly.0.97
00:21:37.040But they go toward the fire, toward the literal fire in this case and toward the danger to protect our country.0.99
00:21:41.680But you're exactly right. It's not just this cretin who is responsible.0.99
00:21:45.780It's also the inspiration for him coming from the mayor of the most important city in the entire world.0.97
00:21:52.400Zoran Mamdani is effectively engaged in a nullification project.
00:21:56.780where he is nullifying federal law and saying your laws don't pertain to my city and my left-wing
00:22:03.700Marxist jihadi approach is going to run this city, not the people of the United States. We need to
00:22:09.780come to terms with just how dangerous that proposition is because the U.S. hasn't faced
00:22:13.720something like this since the days leading up to the Civil War, where you had renegade local
00:22:19.040leaders saying your laws don't pertain to me. So we have not faced this in a very long time
00:23:13.020No, this is an opponent to be vanquished, an opponent that would ruin the United States, that seeks to,
00:23:18.360An opponent that increasingly uses violence as a means of political power acquisition.
00:23:24.240We see it right here, unfortunately, in brutal display in the middle of Manhattan today.
00:23:29.480And all of us who are patriotic citizens need to back ICE even more.
00:23:33.720So not only is this not a time to slow down enforcement, in fact, it's a time to accelerate enforcement in this country.
00:23:40.800Let's have ICE's back even more. Let's get even more aggressive.
00:23:44.720We should be going to more workplaces.
00:23:46.280Of course, to your point, I should be at the polling places to make sure that we have a clean election in November and that foreigners don't change the votes in these cities because we know that people like Mondani are trying to get them to do exactly that.
00:23:58.300So, you know, in a strange, twisted sense, perhaps it's good for the country to see something as shocking as what we saw today.
00:24:04.420we have you know we're ramping up uh these uh and i think the military analysts described it
00:24:12.280um you know accurately in that we're going we're system active we're going through the systems in
00:24:17.760iran going through their systems their cities are trying to break off their their leadership from
00:24:22.420these um from these central locations of commerce and capital and uh and you know where their people
00:24:29.180are here in the united states it just can't be ice we have to have a whole of government
00:24:33.460you're a capital markets guy that came from chicago worked there and then worked in new york
00:24:38.240we have boston new york chicago minneapolis portland uh seattle san francisco los angeles
00:24:47.140and others some of the greatest cities in world history that are under control of people that
00:24:53.320just sit there and thumb their nose to federal law and we've backed down there's no enforcement
00:24:57.700i mean maybe we're going after some of the bad hombres right but there's you know i've talked
00:25:01.860to the mass deportation people i've talked to numbers usa people people inside the government
00:25:06.820now over dhs it's adam it's they're saying no we're not we're not we're there is no mass deportation
00:25:12.340program underway you know mullins can come out and say anything he wants it's just not happening
00:25:16.580how this is just festering it's not going to get better and a midterm election doesn't matter
00:25:22.960because the people that voted for president trump support this in fact many of the independents and
00:25:29.320modern Democrats support it. This is why they voted for President Trump. What has to happen
00:25:33.880here? The whole government, in one of the reconciliation bills, there's a billion dollars
00:25:38.480for rebuilding the tunnel in New York City or Penn Station or something. We're continuing to
00:25:46.260fund them. If you look at the budget bill, we're giving New York City, these metropolitan areas,
00:25:50.960and all the social welfare programs, they're fully funded. If we don't shut it all down,
00:25:55.740it ain't going to shut it down itself, sir. No, absolutely not. It will not happen from just
00:26:00.140inertia or, you know, the patriotic goodwill of these folks because they're not patriots and
00:26:04.660there's no goodwill. They're violent nihilist leftists and we need to realize that. So yes,
00:26:09.540what do we do though? What's the action plan? First of all, get as tough as possible on
00:26:13.520deportations. No more talk like this ridiculous headline about the Secretary of Homeland Security0.59
00:26:18.180cooperating with big business because big business is worried about losing its illegal migrant
00:26:22.620workforce. No, no more of that BS. But in terms of affirmative action that can be taken,
00:26:28.620accelerating deportations, particularly at work sites. We also need to, to your point,
00:26:33.300cut off the funds to these renegade cities. You need to choke the beast because they're0.94
00:26:37.500totally dependent on federal dollars. We have earned federal power, earned it through the
00:26:42.300ballot box, through an amazing 2024 win, including the popular vote win. Let's now use the power that
00:26:47.880was entrusted to our movement. And immigration, by the way, immigration control remains by far0.80
00:26:53.280the strongest area in all of my polling for President Trump, for the Republican Party,
00:26:57.640for our movement. It is by far the best issue. And yet it's the first issue where establishment
00:27:02.480Republicans want us to cave and go soft. But then let me give you an additional action item,
00:27:06.500Steve, that I think is very necessary. It should have already been used. In the case of these
00:27:10.600mayors, we've got to go arrest some of these mayors. For example, Jacob Fry, that scumbag0.99
00:27:15.560in Minneapolis. He should have been arrested when he was clearly instigating revolts against1.00
00:27:21.300federal law enforcement, against ICE agents, against Customs and Border Patrol in his city
00:27:25.600of Minneapolis. Go arrest these guys. Arrest Mamdani. They are committing crimes when they
00:27:31.520encourage this kind of illegality. Steve, hang on for one second. We're going to get into
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00:29:45.420...cathedral in Lewiston, Maine. French Catholics founded and settled this place and they built
00:29:52.160amazing structures to glorify God. They brought the best from the old world to the new world.
00:29:58.480Very different reality now with tens of thousands of African third world migrants arriving in this country,1.00
00:30:03.980especially Somalis settling here in Lewiston.1.00
00:30:08.040They're not building these kinds of structures.1.00
00:30:10.340They're not coming here to make great things.0.91
00:30:12.400They're coming to take from the United States through schemes, through frauds, not assimilating.1.00
00:30:18.720That's the kind of immigration we used to have.1.00
00:30:22.860So I'm here in Lewiston, Maine, in small town, rural Maine.
00:30:26.720And there is a mosque that might surprise you, but that's because there are thousands and thousands of Somalis in Lewiston, Maine.0.92
00:30:35.000This is not working at all for this community, not working at large for the United States, this mass migration from the third world, particularly Muslim mass migration.
00:30:44.300I'm filming a documentary. A lot more content ahead.0.78
00:30:48.740Steve, it's known if you talk to people up there, they're stealing with both hands.
00:30:52.980they got these bogus social world for us how did they end up they want to go to places like
00:30:58.160minneapolis or and they want to go to places like maine because what people won't bother them they
00:31:03.100can congregate they get then they can get political power while they're there it kind of seems
00:31:08.300far-fetched that if you're from somalia why would you end up in maine which the climate has to be
00:31:14.300absolutely brutal correct right right they didn't go for the main winters but no but you ask a great
00:31:19.260question. And the answer, I think, both in the case of Minnesota and Maine, is that you had
00:31:23.180these left-leaning states with extremely high-trust societies. And so that level of trust
00:31:29.380was then manipulated. And that level of self-guilt was manipulated by American NGOs
00:31:34.120and by these third-world migrants themselves. In the case specifically of the Somalis in Maine,1.00
00:31:39.100they're a bit different than the Minnesota story. Most of them have been here for some time. Most
00:31:42.780of them came here in the Black Hawk Down era. So this is a classic, awful, tragic case of
00:31:49.120invade the world and invite the world because we had so destabilized Somalia. And because we0.98
00:31:54.500injected ourselves into that conflict, we then felt somehow compelled to allow refugees to come0.60
00:31:59.640to the United States. Most of them first came to Atlanta, Georgia, but they weren't welcomed
00:32:03.880with open arms. It wasn't easy for them to scam and cheat the system there. And so they then
00:32:08.440went in mass to Maine, believe it or not. And Lewiston is a town of only 38,000 people, Steve.
00:32:14.200And like a lot of the towns where this kind of invasion happens, it was a down-on-its-luck town.
00:32:19.660It was a former mill town. It thrived in the era when American factories were humming.
00:32:23.320Particularly there, it was textile mills, mostly staffed by French immigrants, either from France itself or that came down from French Canada.
00:32:30.900And though it was a working-class place, it was a beautiful place.
00:32:33.540And that's why I really wanted to show your viewers, and I'll highlight this in the documentary itself, the contrast.
00:32:38.460That basilica, Steve, it's one of the most beautiful churches I've seen in the United States.
00:32:42.180I would put the basilica in troubled Lewiston, Maine.
00:32:45.760I'd put that basilica up against some of the great cathedrals I've seen in Europe.1.00
00:32:49.760And clearly, these French migrants wanted to bring the best of the old world.
00:32:53.660And again, as I mentioned there, they were makers, not takers.1.00
00:32:56.900We now see the exact opposite with these Somalis, even the ones who've been there for decades.1.00
00:33:00.880They have not assimilated in any sense.1.00
00:33:03.260The schools in Lewiston, Maine, the public schools are now majority foreign language learners.
00:33:08.580test scores, as you might guess, have absolutely plunged. Gun crime has skyrocketed. And right
00:33:14.620next to that pathetic mosque, I wanted to show that building, too, because I think it's important,1.00
00:33:18.580what the prior immigrants, what they built versus what this new group is building,1.00
00:33:23.380that dilapidated pathetic mosque, right next to that, Steve, I mean, feet away is the main NGO1.00
00:33:29.880that serves as the funnel for all of the scams that the Somalis are running. And they're in Maine.1.00
00:33:35.740And by the way, I interviewed the head of the main wire, Steve Robinson, who's just doing fantastic work, and he is exposing what these Somali migrants are doing in the scams.1.00
00:33:43.920It's a lot like Minnesota, not quite as big, but the same kinds of scams, mostly related to health care, Medicare, Medicaid fraud.1.00
00:33:51.920And a lot of it in this case, which is really appalling, Steve, is being sent back to Somalia to fund a civil war to the semi-autonomous state known as Jubaland.
00:34:01.680Now, most Americans probably have never heard of Jubaland, okay?
00:34:04.360But it's an area, semi-autonomous area, in the south of Sudan that is effectively at war with Mogadishu.
00:34:09.460And guess what? The taxpayers of Maine are paying for this conflict through scams.
00:34:15.600So not only do the good people of Maine have to deal with these unassimilated Muslim migrants in their community,1.00
00:34:20.920but on top of it, their money is getting sent to the homeland of these problematic Somalis to fund a civil war.1.00
00:34:27.760And by the way, Maine, all of a sudden, which has a balanced budget requirement, Maine all of a sudden has a huge budget shortfall.0.98
00:34:33.460And the main reason is excessive unplanned spending in Medicaid and Medicare and a lot of that coming through scams from the Somalis.1.00
00:34:43.640So my message is, you know, and I hope through this film is to wake people up.1.00
00:34:47.840And this isn't only happening in Minnesota. It's happening in a lot of small towns in America.
00:34:51.800I previously went to Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Very similar story there.
00:34:54.880It's Haitians, but a very similar story and much more recent arrivals. Joe Biden did that to Charleroi, Pennsylvania, another working class town that was having a tough time and then had this absolute disaster thrust upon it.
00:35:06.380So trying to give a voice to these people who are fighting back, who are proud of their communities and expose the scam for what it is and make the case, Steve.0.83
00:35:14.720And I know this is provocative and controversial that we shouldn't have Muslim migration into the United States.0.98
00:35:19.700It is not compatible with our society, with our values, with our constitution and with Western civilization.1.00
00:35:26.340What is are the folks up there? How are they fighting back?
00:35:30.140This seems so over the top and so obvious. It should be pretty straightforward to shut down.
00:35:33.840Why is it not being shut down? And and what are you doing with this documentary to have the backs of the people that want to shut it down?
00:35:42.620Yeah, well, the first thing is exposure, of course.
00:35:45.020And as I said, MainWire is the premier alternative media source up there, and they're doing a fantastic job.
00:35:50.460So the more that we can make people aware of them nationally, I think that's important.
00:35:54.560But to answer your question, no, right now, not much is being done.
00:35:57.220There are some indictments, thankfully.
00:35:58.540The Trump administration has indicted people.
00:36:00.680So it's not going to happen, I think, unfortunately, from Maine.1.00
00:36:03.340They have a terrible governor, Janet Mills, an awful Democrat who is so unpopular she couldn't even win her own primary.0.92
00:36:08.440It's hard for a sitting governor to not win the primary for the Senate race.0.97
00:36:12.000That's why Plattner ran away with that nomination until he got, of course, upended by the Democrat establishment.
00:36:18.040But no, not much is going on, unfortunately, at the state level.
00:36:21.560But we do need more federal indictments, more federal scrutiny about what's going on there.
00:36:26.420And by the way, too, there are a lot of connections between that Lewiston Somali community and the much larger Somali community in Minnesota.
00:36:33.320But I'd also say this. In some ways, it's even worse for Maine.0.76
00:36:36.480and here's why. Maine only has 1.4 million people. It's a giant state in land, but it's tiny in
00:36:41.220population. They don't have a big budget. They have a shortfall now projected of $200 million.
00:36:46.540For them, that's massive. Minnesota is a much bigger state. And look, the steel's not okay.
00:36:52.000Of course not. The fraud, the systemic larceny in Minnesota is still awful, but at least it's
00:36:57.200a large state that financially is capable of absorbing it. That's not the case in Maine.
00:37:01.540If this continues at this level in Maine, the state will be bankrupt.0.51
00:37:05.200And old folks in Maine who deserve and need quality medical care, they're not going to get it because too much of it is being funneled to the Somalis and ultimately out of the country to buy guns for a conflict for a state that no American has ever heard of.0.54
00:45:40.100now from the invasion of the country are going to overwhelm us. One of the best news sites,
00:45:44.900as you know, here we try to curate the best of news and analysis to show the war and posse every
00:45:51.580day. Sean Davis joins us. I just got to give a hat tip. I mean, The Federalist is an extraordinary
00:45:56.720site. The level of work that you guys put into it is extraordinary. I tell people I get to get
00:46:01.440six or eight articles every day off The Federalist and just roll with that. It's so good.
00:46:07.420You've particularly been very good on the invasion, on border security, on the whole issue of birthright citizenship.
00:46:16.800Give me your perspective on that, because we just had Steve Cortez for 30 minutes about what's happening up in Maine.0.85
00:46:22.340And it's an example of how the nation's being shattered, particularly working class people and their society and their culture is being destroyed before us.
00:46:30.500And it seems like it seems like we're powerless to stop it, sir.1.00
00:46:51.180And the great thing is that if you bring in the right people, they can become Americans one day.
00:46:55.940It doesn't happen overnight, and it certainly doesn't happen after 20 or 30 or 40 years if the people you're letting in don't actually want to become Americans.
00:47:03.880Instead, they just want to be in America.
00:47:06.860And the Democrat Party has taken advantage of what has happened in this country over the last 50, maybe even 70 years,
00:47:13.880where it's been flooded with people who want all of the bounty of America,
00:47:17.620but aren't really interested in becoming Americans or joining in any of the obligations that make the country what it is.
00:47:24.680And so what Democrats have realized is, hey, we can just import a whole bunch of people.
00:47:28.100We no longer actually have to worry about convincing people in this country to go along with us.
00:47:33.260We're just going to import our own voters. We're going to throw government money at them over time.
00:47:38.080We'll eventually legalize them. And when they can vote, they're going to keep us in power.0.72
00:47:41.420That's the entire game. So unless we get serious about deporting people who aren't here legally,1.00
00:47:47.680deporting people who invaded our country and then rapidly, maybe even completely shutting down legal immigration0.98
00:47:54.140until we can get a hold on everything, our country is lost.
00:47:57.380So to me, it's a simple math problem. And it's a question of do we have the will or do we not have the will
00:48:02.920to remove people who don't belong here and actually put a premium on American citizenship.0.77
00:48:09.420We live in the greatest country on earth, and it's the greatest country on earth,
00:48:12.620the greatest country in history because of the people here.
00:48:16.200The American people make America great.
00:48:19.420And if we have suddenly decided that we actually don't need Americans to make America great,
00:48:23.660then we're not going to have America anymore.
00:48:26.120the polling and everything shows that the trump voters who would turn out in the midterms and
00:48:33.480secure the house uh support these policies overwhelmingly but they continue to show the
00:48:38.220president this polling today had dhs uh secretary i think leaked to the wall street journal that
00:48:44.660they're reaching out to the business community because the business community's concerned that
00:48:48.680they're not getting these low wages uh workers in here that are not citizens there's a bill up in
00:48:54.340the House. It won't get passed with the bill in the House by, I think, 42 Republicans gives amnesty
00:49:00.940to farm laborers who are not citizens. Since this is such a winning issue for us,
00:49:07.180has been a winning issue for us, why are we blinking now?
00:49:11.420Well, it's a problem that we've had for a long time in the Republican coalition,
00:49:15.440where a lot of the money comes from big business, from big corporations who've gotten their money0.92
00:49:20.080by not hiring Americans, instead by functionally hiring slave labor, which is immigrants who they0.90
00:49:25.580can pay in cash, they're off the grid, they can pay them below market wages, and that's all they0.99
00:49:31.500care about. They don't actually care about protecting the country. They don't care about
00:49:35.300protecting our culture, our way of life, revering our history, protecting our traditions. They care
00:49:40.580about their bottom line, and they've basically made clear, you know, the business interests
00:49:46.700on the right, all we care about is the bottom line. We don't actually care about the country.
00:49:51.820And the great thing about Donald Trump, why he was such a revolutionary politician,
00:49:56.460is that he came in and said, no, we actually have to save the country. We have to close the border.
00:50:01.120We have to get rid of the illegals. They're destroying the country. And we are in the midst1.00
00:50:05.640of, we're not at the beginning. We're not at the end. We're in the midst of an existential battle
00:50:10.300for the party. And there are a lot of people who thought when Trump won again in 2024,
00:50:14.580that that battle was over, but it's not.
00:50:17.220We're in the middle of it, and if we give up now, we have no chance.
00:50:21.280So we have to keep fighting, and we have to keep fighting against people
00:50:24.160who care far more about their pocketbooks than they actually do
00:50:26.560about the American people or the continued success of the American project.
00:50:32.060The speech the other night from the president, the remarks from the East Room
00:50:35.600were historic, never been done before by our president,
00:50:38.060but part of it centered on the Chinese Communist Party
00:50:40.480and what they've done to try to steal elections,
00:50:43.000steal the 2020 election away from Trump and get rid of him, but also the issue of illegal aliens
00:50:49.080and alien non-citizens registering to vote. A couple of the major networks decided not to
00:50:56.380carry it all. The other one cut away. You've made the case that you believe we should start the
00:51:00.600process to call into question, pull their licenses, their broadcast license, which would
00:51:05.960essentially destroy their business model. We got about 90 seconds. Your thoughts on that, sir?
00:51:10.280Yeah. So the thing that people need to remember is the broadcast networks, which are ABC, CBS, NBC, and I think Fox, they have a monopoly on airwaves that are owned by the public. The airwaves belong to the American people.
00:51:24.480And in exchange for the networks doing certain things like doing actual news programs, doing programming that's to the benefit of the whole country, we allow them to have that monopoly. They don't have a birthright to it.
00:51:37.280We don't believe in birthright broadband monopolies here in this country.
00:51:42.140They have the privilege of a limited monopoly on the airwaves and under the rules that we have.
00:51:47.200We're not talking about new rules or new laws.
00:51:49.320They are supposed to do certain things that they do not do.
00:51:52.900Instead, they act like Democrat Party super PACs, like Democrat Party organs, and they go and they treat their news programs as if they are Democrat Party commercials.
00:52:02.380It's how you have Stephanopoulos at ABC and all this left-wing propaganda nonsense for Democrats.
00:52:07.720They're abusing their monopoly control of the airwaves, and it needs to stop.
00:52:13.620Sean, where do we go to get The Federalist every day?
00:52:15.860Where do we go to get your social media served?
00:52:18.500Yeah, come find us at thefederalist.com.
00:52:21.400They can find us on X at F-D-R-L-S-T, and they can find me at SeanMDAV on X.
00:52:28.880You come in a little hot every now and again on X.
00:52:31.560I just want to warn people a little hot Sean Davis the site's amazing
00:52:35.700thank everybody over there you guys do an incredible job thank you sir
00:52:39.240thank you Steve okay the next hour we're going to
00:52:43.480actually pivot and go to talk about Arizona and talk about Michigan
00:52:47.500and the stealing of elections what is actually being done
00:52:51.600about it now to make sure this does not happen in the
00:52:55.0202026 midterm elections which are about 100 days away