00:02:39.340We're going to do something different.
00:02:40.060We're going to go to Matthew Taylor right now at Liberty Plaza
00:02:42.780and discuss kind of, I think, this new appreciation of nationalism
00:02:48.500that is coming up as one of the great things about the 250th reconsideration
00:02:55.420and commemoration and celebration of our revolution.
00:02:59.440But in the next block, we're going to do a cold open, and the cold open's got Ezra Klein and one of his guests on his podcast that explains better than anyone why what President Trump released last night in voter integrity and stealing of elections in the stolen 2020 election is inextricably linked to the invasion of our country and the taking over of our country by illegal immigrants.
00:03:26.880these phony quote-unquote legal immigrant deals and the people behind them the nations behind
00:03:33.080them the power behind them the corporate power behind them the oligarchs behind them the money
00:03:38.980on wall street behind them and the dark money behind them this is kind of the gordian knot we
00:03:44.720have to we have to cut and we're going to have to do it they had this off-site thing at the you know
00:03:51.960they axio said all the leaders are coming up for you know president trump's campaign and they came
00:03:56.660out yesterday and put out that what they're really going to emphasize the big beautiful bill
00:04:01.040the um no tax on tips no tax on overtime and no tax on social security those are all populist
00:04:09.200wins and they were great elements of the big beautiful bill but it's like you're seeing in
00:04:14.320the polling for the sealing the border the president trump sealed the border in 60 days
00:04:18.900maybe 90 days it's unbelievable it's heroic but voters they take that as yes he's serious if he
00:04:26.440tells us something is going to be serious in the future. So we'll give him credit for that.
00:04:29.640But look, it's just human nature. I would like to say it's something different, but it's like,
00:04:36.500okay, what have you done for me today? That was yesterday. It resonates, but it doesn't resonate
00:04:41.480enough to actually win. It's powerful because it shows you, if you say you're going to do something,
00:04:48.760I'm going to do it. And closing the border was absolutely essential to stop the invasion that
00:04:53.820Biden and the NGOs and the Biden, these radicals, as you see, work on every day. So we're going to
00:04:59.980tie all this together and show how it impacts exactly where we are today as a country. Most
00:05:05.740importantly, the solutions. And we're going to have Mark Morgan on here. We're going to talk
00:05:09.460about internal enforcement, mass deportations, all of it. But I want to go down. Matthew,
00:05:15.640once again, tell us where you are and why is this so important? This is kind of,
00:05:19.740I believe in the entire celebration in the states, everything on the mall, everything has been done because this is an ongoing process that this may be the most important legacy of everything that we've done up to date for the commemoration of the revolution, because it gets back not just to simply core values.
00:05:38.660It does it in an artistic manner, right, that calls us to our higher purpose.
00:05:45.000It's very powerful, and it's going to be there for a while.
00:05:47.960And you can go and tell the stories and talk about the spirit of liberty.
00:05:53.080And it's just – it's the great legacy of President Trump of this celebration, although it's gone under the radar somewhat.
00:06:01.120The New York Times today has an incredible piece.
00:06:04.560If we can put that incredible piece on you, Matthew, as I've told people for years, you're one of the most serious artists in the MAGA movement, right?
00:06:12.820As I told the New York Times, you're an artist first and kind of MAGA conservative second.
00:06:17.680But the manifestation, and this comes also from Vince Haley.
00:06:23.020And Vince is one of the biggest brains, been in the White House forever, a speechwriter, head of the Domestic Policy Council, one of the smartest people we have.
00:06:30.520but also understands how you have to kind of call people to raise up their inner greatness, embrace it, and use that as the fight ahead.
00:06:44.420So tell us where you are and why is this kind of the most important pivot point we have now in the imperial capital to talk about our revolution and what it means for us today and in the future, sir?
00:06:56.420well steve i'm here at freedom plaza and freedom plaza is right next to the white house
00:07:03.720at the top of the monumental core in washington dc and we're standing among an amazing new
00:07:10.080installation of 21 actually 22 statues and 21 original statues that basically tell the entire
00:07:17.400story of the revolution from the perspective of the common man a lot of these statues in this in
00:07:23.840this park are people that are either unknown or lesser known founding fathers like Caesar Rodney.
00:07:31.140But it shows that ordinary citizens and ordinary people can do extraordinary things.
00:07:36.020It also shows that basically we are back to building big things again. This idea that we
00:07:41.480cannot build things and we cannot build big things, we cannot install statues and do these
00:07:45.600things. That's the America of the past. That's been given to China and these other places.
00:07:52.640This place stands as a monument to the fact that America is America first in building, America first in art.
00:08:00.460We are back and we are building bigger than ever.
00:08:03.560And, of course, under the president, he has great visions for Washington and great visions for building big things.
00:08:08.480And so come here and bring your family.
00:08:10.460I come here almost every day just to see citizens from across the country and actually also globally.
00:08:16.140Come here and read these stories of these individual soldiers.
00:08:19.980We have six black patriots and six white patriots. We have a resurrected Caesar Rodney statue.
00:08:25.800We have the largest prison ship martyr memorial in the country. One of I think of only two.
00:08:33.240And of course, the plaza itself has been restored because of the vision of this administration to make D.C. beautiful again.
00:08:39.160And of course, as a local, I greatly appreciate that. But this is just the beginning.
00:08:43.500This is just the start of reasserting America's dominance in creativity and in building and in aesthetics.
00:08:52.140And so, you know, art to me is very important, as you said. Culture is very important to me.
00:08:56.080And this was an opportunity, thanks to Vince Haley, to allow me to be a sculptor again and design things and build things for the citizens.
00:09:04.400And so I'm eternally grateful to Vince, and I'm eternally grateful to the American people for coming here and visiting this beautiful gift that we've given them.
00:09:13.500this reawakening, reawakening of American nationalism, because we're a populist nationalist
00:09:19.380movement. And the emphasis in the first part has been a little more populist, although,
00:09:23.220as you know, I'm the first to say it ain't populist enough, particularly on the economic side.
00:09:27.480The nationalism now, the American first part of this, the nationalism, I think, is taking,
00:09:32.380deservedly getting more traction. I've worked for you for, I don't know, 18 years or so. Dave
00:09:38.200Bossie worked with Dave Bossie. Very early on in our first films, what we were talking about was
00:10:37.100We go back to the founding revolutionary generation.
00:10:39.820We go back to the nation builders of this country. We look at the arc of our story. Imperfect as it is, you get the inspiration that, yes, this country is a solution for mankind, but we have to do it here in the United States.
00:10:53.780That's why Freedom Plaza, you've done the prison ships, you've done the soldiers, right?
00:10:58.820You've got that magnificent statue, if you can give us a second, on the spirit of liberty.
00:11:06.440It's a great kickoff to the great fight.0.79
00:11:09.940If you're going to fight what Mandami stands for and all the other Marxist jihadists, you better get it together to take the high ground first and then hit them, sir.
00:11:19.600well absolutely you brought up the spirit of liberty and the spirit of liberty is one of the
00:11:26.140focal points of this exhibition she is a 21st century icon of liberty and freedom that follows
00:11:33.260in the tradition of the statue of liberty and the statue of freedom you know we have these statues
00:11:38.080and we look back and we go oh that's a long time ago that's 100 150 years ago she is now she holds
00:11:43.800the declaration of independence in one of her hands a complete replica of the declaration and
00:11:48.640She holds a sword in the other side of her hand, and on her base, it tells the entire story of the revolution.
00:11:55.220There's a relief of the signing of the Declaration.
00:11:58.740There's a relief of the crossing of the Delaware, and there's a relief of the surrender at Yorktown.
00:12:04.240And what she is here to do is create a brand-new 21st-century icon of something that represents what all of the people in this plaza fought and died for,
00:12:14.540This freedom that is always, as Reagan said, one generation away from disappearing.
00:12:20.300And so, again, the first thing you do if you want to destroy a civilization like this is destroy their statues, tear down their past, eliminate the past.
00:12:29.760And Caesar Rodney, of course, was torn down in 2020.
00:12:32.840He was actually not taken down by rioters.
00:12:35.200He was actually taken down by the government in Delaware and put in a box.
00:12:39.440So we went and we found him and we re-erected him in this plaza. And so everything about this plaza from the citizen soldier to the spirit of liberty to Caesar Rodney's ride to the prison ship memorial, it basically exemplifies American exceptionalism embodied in a space, in a civic space.
00:12:59.800So you can experience it and you can be inspired by it.
00:13:03.000You can walk out saying, wow, that guy, he was just a professor and he faced off against 2,000 British soldiers and then they killed him and we won the war anyway.
00:13:11.960So that's really what you need to leave here with.
00:13:14.540You need to leave here with this idea that this is real.
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00:16:46.260Great article on the New York Times. We'll
00:16:47.880push it out, and I'll talk to you after the show. Thank you. We got an amazing cold open this
00:16:52.600morning. We want to start kickoff today with Matthew. Let's go to the cold open. I will
00:16:56.940read you afterwards. The Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Jim Jordan,
00:17:03.000is now asking Trump's DOJ to investigate former special counsel Jack Smith. Late last night,
00:17:09.340Jordan sent a criminal referral to Todd Blanche, accusing Smith of lying to Congress about his
00:17:15.180investigation into Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election.
00:17:19.200Now, folks, let's be clear. There's no evidence, non-zero, not a nilch that Jack Smith lied about
00:17:28.020anything under oath, period. But we do know the president and his allies want to punish Smith
00:17:34.200for telling the truth about the president's actions. And the stunt follows repeated calls
00:17:39.960for Trump, by Trump, and from others around Smith to be prosecuted. Tonight, Smith's legal team is
00:17:47.320fighting back. Smith's lawyers have sent a letter to Jordan and Blanche saying this absurd criminal
00:17:52.940referral, quote, reflects a chilling eagerness to weaponize the justice system. You've got a
00:17:59.440statement from Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskins on vindictive criminal referrals. This is what
00:18:06.160He said yesterday, this referral deliberately distorts and misstates the facts, including what questions the Republicans actually asked at Mr. Smith's interview.
00:18:18.380The Republicans fault Mr. Smith for not reading the minds of congressional investigators and not for volunteering information they didn't ask for.
00:18:32.360And this is all out of this, you know, effort now, as we saw with Josh Hawley and his crazy, leaving out a significant part of the point in the question, you know, saying that Mr. Smith deliberately lied, that he, you know, lied before Congress.
00:18:52.180Everybody looking at this know that didn't happen.
00:18:55.320What's your take on that, knowing Jack Smith, having been in that process and that crucible with him?
00:19:05.840I just observed the man from a great distance.
00:19:09.460And he strikes me as someone you just don't want to trifle with at the end of the day.
00:19:13.600At the end of the day, this is a brother you just don't want to get in close quarters with because you will find out otherwise.
00:19:19.120And I think that that's that is more threatening to Trump than anything else, because he is relentless in his pursuit of justice.0.77
00:19:30.280And that's why this criminal referral crap is being leveled up right now.
00:19:35.540Yeah. So I've I've known Jack Smith for a long time when he was chief of the chief of the public integrity section.0.81
00:19:43.760Then I was a spokesman for the for the criminal division.
00:19:46.360So he is somebody that just does what he should. Right. He follows the facts. He follows he does the right thing in the right way.
00:19:55.780And if he felt that he could walk away from from that case, he would have.
00:20:00.300And so I think what people what people see is they they are trying to manufacture anything they can to make life difficult for him because the president has multiple times said he wants Jack Jack Smith to be criminally indicted about this.
00:20:20.360But just to be clear as day about this, just tell us what you make of the allegations Republicans are making in this referral.
00:20:26.740sure because this is one of these instances where i know that usually we're very careful to say
00:20:34.440you know it seems like or it appears but this is one where there's just no two ways about it that
00:20:42.340this is preposterous and the easiest way to do that is to just tell you what is alleged
00:20:48.420what is alleged is that jack smith lied in response to the following question he was asked
00:20:55.680Did you get the content of text messages from members of Congress through a search warrant?
00:21:05.160Did you get the content of text messages of members of Congress through a search warrant?
00:22:47.260And they're all active pushers of election denialism altogether, not just for the 2020 election, for the 2022 election, for the 2024 election.
00:22:55.540Basically, any time Democrats win, it must have been stolen from them.
00:22:58.540It's not just that they have horrible politics and they're horrible politicians.
00:23:01.800But fact is, you know, if these guys win by some sheer miracle, because I don't think they are.0.99
00:23:06.120This is pretty much a slate of losers.
00:23:08.000But if they win, they will actually do whatever this president wants them to do in order for them to secure the 2028 election for Republicans.0.94
00:23:18.040So, you know, I'm glad that we have a slate of Democrats going to stop these guys.
00:23:22.460These are probably the worst of the worst Republicans that are running.
00:23:25.720Luckily, the Arizona voter is fairly moderate, believes in democracy, whether Democrats or Republicans are independent.0.95
00:23:31.560And they're going to stop these crazies from being elected.
00:23:33.580But it does not mean that we can really trust the DOJ, DHS, or anything that is going to be led by Donald Trump is not going to act in a nefarious manner come 2026 election.
00:23:44.680So we have to prepare for every possibility.
00:23:47.280But you see them, especially Donald Trump, he has tied everything to the SAVE Act.
00:23:52.360He goes, affordability, it's a made-up word, affordability housing, big yawn, I'll only do it if you attach the SAVE Act.
00:24:00.600So the SAVE Act is one big component, right?
00:24:02.980Save Act, essentially voter suppression. All right. So we got one one act right there.
00:24:07.180Why the obsession with mail-in ballots? Well, this has been a long running
00:24:12.640fascination amongst the election denier movement. It the one of the central as I see it,
00:24:23.020there are two central pillars of MAGA ism. One is election denial around the 2020 election that
00:24:29.480Really, to be MAGA, you have to believe that the 2020 election was rigged.
00:24:36.280There are all sorts of activists, right-wing activists, anti-voting activists, who spent
00:24:44.260years saying that they had found evidence of ballot stuffing.
00:24:50.740There were documentaries that ended up being later totally debunked about...
00:24:59.480um, people acting as mules to stuff ballots. And, and really what that, um, started as was,
00:25:06.680uh, a backlash, a reaction to measures to, to pro voting measures that emerged, uh, when a big
00:25:15.540thing happened in 2020, which was the pandemic. And so it was harder to go to the polls. People
00:25:21.160were stuck at home. Congregating in poll sites was going to be riskier. And so all sorts of
00:25:29.660states and municipalities around the country enacted measures to make it easier to vote,
00:25:35.500either absentee or early voting or through the mail. And all of those are anathema to people
00:25:43.120who want to make it harder to vote. And so those pro-access measures were sort of transmuted
00:25:50.560into this broad conspiracy to steal the election from Donald Trump. And so that's one
00:25:59.060basically like constant pillar of the MAGA movement. And the other one is being anti-immigrant,
00:26:08.000Which goes back to Trump's, you know, going coming down the escalator. And although these things may seem like disparate issues, they are, in fact, intimately linked through the racist Great Replacement theory that was popularized by Fox News for a very long time and now has become just a given on the right.
00:26:31.900Yeah, it's everywhere. And for people who aren't familiar, the great replacement theory posits that democratic or liberal elites sometimes coded as Jewish people are are, quote unquote, importing foreigners typically understood as brown or black skinned from from places that Trump and others refer to in ways that I'm not going to repeat here.
00:26:58.520And that that that that those liberal elites are bringing in foreigners to, quote unquote, replace white people by voting and by giving them the vote.
00:27:11.380And so these two pillars that seem disparate are, in fact, intimately braided together. And that's why you can understand Trump's twin obsessions with saying that the 2020 election was rigged and unleashing ICE on all these cities throughout the country.
00:27:28.880These are not separate issues. They are absolutely one in the same. And that is also why you hear people like Steve Bannon saying that we need to have ICE and Border Patrol at polling sites for the coming midterms because they they see these as the same issue just looked at in slightly different ways.
00:27:49.140uh that would be correct they are the same issue now you take out the phony charge of racism all
00:27:56.300that that's about american citizens whether you're hispanic american african-american this is about
00:28:01.360american citizens they get to vote and the uh invasion was to destroy them and particularly
00:28:09.200destroy their way of life and the little bit of wages they currently get short break back in the
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00:29:53.060Okay. That was Ezra Klein doing the bad imitation of President Trump, but he's one of the
00:29:58.180key elements on the left, a pollster and someone that oftentimes has blinding insights,
00:30:06.020although he's the first to admit he missed the MAGA movement and the rise of populist nationalism.
00:30:11.140And I think we refer to MAGA, we need to go back and refer to it always as a populist
00:30:17.280nationalist movement, a populist, and take your number two pencil out, it's a populist
00:30:22.140nationalist movement uh and we've gone too long with not enough nationalism and that is now
00:30:28.700at the core of what we have to do to turn this around so let's take this in five parts
00:30:34.220or a couple parts to break that down we'll bring on mark morgan in a second
00:30:37.640in coming up to the 14 and 15 uh or the the presidential election in 16
00:30:43.880the the harbinger that something was a foot given all the work we had done at breitbart and all the
00:30:51.640work we had done with people like the people in the mass deportation coalition today uh in the
00:30:56.520in the victory of dave bratt i think in june of 2014 where he beat for the first time in american
00:31:03.460history never happened before in the history of the republic and hasn't happened since
00:31:06.660a sitting majority leader eric canter who spent more on one campaign dinner i think 125 000 bucks
00:31:14.080than bratt raised overall a complete total unknown economics professor from randolph
00:31:20.220Macon College with the support of Breitbart, which I ran, and Laura Ingram's radio show,
00:36:02.220First off, your background in all of this, your expertise in this, before I ask you the question,
00:36:06.980can you bifurcate the ongoing, the greatness of our border security, what's happening,
00:36:12.280what's ongoing from what we call interior enforcement, sir?
00:36:18.140Yeah, see, look, I think you've already done a pretty good job. Let's take border security first. And I agree with you. You know, I thought that we had achieved the most secure border in history, Trump 45, when I was commissioner. And now it's hard for me to say it's better now than even when I was commissioner.
00:36:35.880But we still have a ways to go with border security, right?
00:45:42.700Mandami exists because of the rot in our education system.
00:45:48.180It's turned into an indoctrination system to turn people to hate this country,
00:45:53.540hate what this country stood for, to hate capitalism because really there's no capitalists in our system.
00:46:00.520It's a system with 80% of the people are outside the capitalist system, which has to be rectified,
00:46:05.760and there's ways to rectify that, and it's not universal basic income,
00:46:09.140which is just another oligarch's method of giving you tip money, socialism giving you tip money,
00:46:15.920where they take all the wealth and the power.
00:46:19.360mandami's core strength comes from the invasion in the in the immigration laws that we have
00:46:25.940and ej antonio i think he's going to try to join tomorrow morning we've got more working age men
00:46:30.780out of the workforce than ever in the history of the united states and you know victor davis
00:46:35.420hansen gave something oh man he's got the stats i don't have the stats wrong bro i've forgotten
00:46:39.400more about this than you'll ever know just stick to your neocon bad advice in iran in the middle
00:46:44.960least okay stay in your lane um but we now have mandami he's they're very up front they look at
00:46:52.440minneapolis and as we said the time they look at minneapolis as a surrender and they're and
00:46:56.820they're dug down this so when the house republicans go out and we're going to now have this thing
00:47:01.300compare and contrast socialism with what we offer you got to offer something and one thing is not
00:47:06.320some theoretical let's go read carl marx right it's practical and you see the failures of uh of
00:47:12.320communism and Marxism throughout history. However, in right today, you see that it is in back of
00:47:18.080this invasion of the United States of America, and that has to be taken care of. And if we blink on
00:47:22.680this, you're not going to have a country, full stop, okay? This is kind of where the rubber
00:47:27.460meets the road. Mark Morgan, what do we need to do? You have these officials in the greatest cities
00:47:33.620in the world, in the United States, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis,
00:47:41.260Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and many more, Denver, many, many, many more that are defying
00:47:46.800federal law and saying, guess what? It doesn't matter. These people are going to stay here.
00:47:51.400We're going to get them on welfare. They're going to be part of the system. And we don't care
00:47:54.940what you have to say about it, sir. So first of all, Stephen, I think that to some degree,
00:48:01.280the Republicans have created individuals like this. And this is what I mean. We saw what happened
00:48:05.960in Minneapolis. And what did we do? I think to a large degree, a lot of Republicans in Capitol
00:48:10.880Hill, they blinked, they backed down, right? And I think it was purely political. They were saying,
00:48:17.720hey, this is going to impact us in the midterms. Instead of just taking a step back and saying,
00:48:21.440hey, let's rethink our strategy, let's improve our strategy, but keep going 100% to mass
00:48:26.540deportations for all the reasons you articulated, which I agree, we blinked. And so now some of the
00:48:33.460Democrats like this individual feels empowered, feels that they can do stuff like this. So now
00:48:38.340I think what this requires is there should be no question if somebody interferes with a lawful federal operations, they should be arrested.
00:48:48.600They should be tried and prosecuted for that criminal violation.
00:48:52.360We should be going after not just threatening that, but actually doing that.
00:48:56.380You know, we saw that happen to a judge in Minneapolis, although she was really given a slap on the hand.
00:49:01.320But we need to see more of that when it happens for him to come out.
00:49:03.980that's just political posturing. It's not going to happen unless we cave politically. And I think
00:49:09.480we have been seeing some of that in certain areas and across the board strategically, Stephen.
00:49:16.180When you look at the numbers, so I'm going to have to grasp on Monday because we've been working on
00:49:19.760this for a couple of days. So I'll take over the weekend to get it. If you look at the overall
00:49:23.220numbers, the numbers themselves are not as bad as they were as far as generic ballot. And, you know,
00:49:29.140it's much closer than people think. And of course, this whole fight is over right now.
00:49:33.660about 15 to let's say maybe 20 swing districts 11 or think 11 or 13 of those districts trump won in
00:49:40.54024 folks come on the difference the big gap the difference that the republicans do not want to
00:49:47.820talk about is intensity the intensity gap the democrats are fired up like never before small
00:49:53.900donors are fired up why they see the ability they see the end of trumpism and they see it in 100
00:49:58.760days. They see that if they take the House, they will impeach Trump. They won't start the trial
00:50:04.000until 2028. But they see the ability to stop Trump, to impeach him, Russ Vogt, and many other people,
00:50:10.300not just the president. They see a way to end Trumpism and to end the MAGA movement. It's 100
00:50:15.120days away. That's why they are jacked up like nobody's business. And it's incumbent upon us
00:50:20.680to get the intensity up. How do you get the intensity up? Well, let me think for a second.
00:50:25.040oh, yeah, let's go back to core values. Let's go back to the things that won for us. And why did
00:50:30.040they win? They resonated with the American people. Mark, what would you say the couple of building
00:50:35.840bucks, what's a couple of things we would have to do right now to get interior enforcement up
00:50:42.220enough that it started to resonate with the American people we were actually getting the
00:50:46.100job done, like President Trump has done so magnificently on the border?
00:50:50.620I think you just said it perfectly about the intensity. That's what I'm hearing.
00:50:55.040And one of the things that they're frustrated is the lack of mass deportations.
00:50:59.120And this is easy. Look, I'll go back. You cannot devote 75 percent of your resources going after 9 percent, a small subset of the illegal angling population.
00:51:10.260It does not add up. You have to shift your strategy from a quality base to a quantity base, just like Eisenhower did.
00:51:16.920Look, when I spent 20 years in the FBI, we had a multitude of threats, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, public corruption, traditional violent crime.
00:51:25.220The list goes on and on. Can you imagine if we told the public that we're going to take 75 percent of the FBI resources and only target one of the vast complex threats that we have against this country?
00:51:36.180That's absurd and it's ineffective. But that's essentially what's happening now.
00:51:39.680So what I would suggest is we have to fundamentally change our strategy from that quality base to a quantity base.
00:51:45.480And we have to look and go after the core issues driving illegal immigration.
00:51:50.100We have 1.5 million illegal aliens in this country with final orders of removal from a judge.
00:51:55.180We should be aggressively and actively targeting them, as well as the criminals.
00:51:59.860We have hundreds of thousands of visa overstays that we should aggressively target.
00:52:03.340And the number one thing that we should target, worksite enforcement.
00:52:07.340We know the greatest incentive that drives illegal immigration is those coming here to work illegally.
00:52:12.960We should be targeting those employers.
00:52:14.440We should be prosecuting those employers and we should be aggressively targeting worksite enforcement.
00:52:21.060If you do that, I promise you the numbers will skyrocket and the numbers of those voluntarily departing will go up and fewer will start coming because they know they're no longer going to be able to infuse our laws.
00:52:33.020Morgan, what are your coordinates on social media? People want to know more about this and know more about your thinking. Where do they go?
00:52:38.400You know, right now, I think that I'm supposed to be this season, so just you and me.