Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) joins CNN's Dana Bash (D) to talk about the government shutdown and why she thinks illegal immigrants should get access to government funded health care. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and CNN's Maria Cardona join the conversation.
00:14:35.980Well, this is just fun because, honestly, the Democrats are right where the Republicans want them.
00:14:42.360They are just making clowns out of these fools.
00:14:44.660In fact, now, again, people that normally would not follow this kind of thing are now following it.
00:14:49.420So, the White House releases a new memo exposing Democrats' demand for nearly $200 billion in taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants, all while gutting reforms that protect American citizens.
00:15:04.440So, now, people are starting to find out, really, what's behind it, that the Democrats really aren't working on their behalf at all.
00:16:19.120I am just so glad that we have President Trump that's correcting all of this because we were on a very dangerous path, as everyone knows.
00:16:27.800I mean, you couldn't get any worse than what we were all experienced with Joe Biden, who now, of course, they've got the—you remember those note cards?
00:16:35.860I mean, now that we have a competent president, can we please talk about how incompetent Joe Biden was?
00:16:41.800They have unearthed Biden's cheat sheet, the note cards.
00:16:49.580So here are the note cards, and we've talked about it on this show before because a lot of people would get camera shots that the media didn't want.
00:16:58.640They were—they didn't mean to expose the note cards, but they did.
00:17:03.620The documents show that Biden was briefed with cue cards containing the photos and the bios of top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer.
00:17:13.920I cannot wait until they start talking about the auto-pin situation.
00:17:19.840Now, this you can actually add to the mix.
00:17:23.780He said seven months ago he's got stage four prostate cancer, and nobody's ever mentioned it again on his team.
00:17:28.640No one wants to mention Joe Biden, Kat.
00:17:31.740They want to forget that that even happened.
00:17:56.120So, you've got these palm cards, which are hand-sized note cards.
00:18:01.340They are frequently used by politicians for quick reminders or talking points during public events.
00:18:06.700But when you talk about the fact that he doesn't even know who some of the top Democrats are, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, we've got a problem.
00:18:17.340And they have a bigger problem because...
00:20:41.660Ed Martin is going after dirty Andrew Weissman.
00:20:45.640He has until October 7th to turn over information on the Oedbrecht plea from 2016.
00:20:52.720So this is what investigative reporter Catherine Herridge reported on Wednesday night that the director of the DOJ weaponization working group is giving Andrew Weissman until October 7th to provide the answers and records about this plea in 2016.
00:21:11.380He's the largest foreign bribery case in history, described by the Justice Department as the largest foreign bribery case in history.
00:21:19.340Leave it to a Democrat to be connected to it.
00:21:24.160So Ed Eagle Martin, he is the he's the U.S. pardon attorney, associate deputy attorney general and director of the weaponization working group, sent this request to Weissman on September 24th, 2025.
00:21:40.780And he wants to find out everything that Weissman supervised.
00:22:31.340And of course, Caroline Levitt, she fires back after the Pope, Pope Leo the 14th.
00:22:38.660He had a swipe at President Trump on immigration.
00:22:43.440None of it really makes sense with his point.
00:22:46.320I mean, they were talking about, you know, whether you're pro-life or not.
00:22:51.160He said, if you if you believe in if you believe in if you're pro-life and you still believe in the death penalty for criminals, you're not pro-life.
00:23:05.680Well, I think she handled the question beautifully because she started talking about what really is not pro-life.
00:23:14.260And that's what happened to illegal aliens in our country, illegal immigrants that were being smuggled across the border, that were being raped, that were being murdered.
00:23:23.720Is that the kind of life you think that they should have been subjected to?
00:23:28.380I mean, she turned the tables on him big time.
00:23:35.120She says, I would reject that there is inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the United States under this administration.
00:23:42.940There was, however, significant inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants in the previous administration as they were being trafficked, raped and beaten in many cases, killed over our United States southern border.
00:23:55.980You also look at the inhumane treatment at the hands of some of these illegal immigrants that took place under the previous administration as well.
00:24:04.920Laken Riley comes to mind, a beautiful American citizen who was killed at the hands of an illegal immigrant.
00:24:11.900So this administration is trying to enforce our nation's laws in the most humane way possible.
00:24:18.360And we're upholding the law and we're doing that on the behalf, on the behalf of the people of our country who live here.
00:24:30.040I mean, you don't get better than that.
00:24:33.460And I think everyone would agree, anyone truly, that really was looking at what has happened under Biden.
00:24:40.060And you see, I mean, the way that they were able to just run all over everybody, that what President Trump is doing is the best thing possible, the most humane thing possible for all involved.
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00:34:48.560I mean, think, roughly 750,000 federal workers are furloughed without pay with essential employees forced to keep working for now without a paycheck.
00:35:02.420Active duty military service members could soon see missed salaries if the impasse drags on, raising real world stakes far beyond Capitol Hill.
00:35:52.740Democrats rejected a Republican stopgap measure to fund the government at current levels through November 21st, insisting on an extension of Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidy, illegals and all,
00:36:06.440and limits on the administration's practice of withholding federal funds.
00:36:39.000He played a character on a TV show who taught people how to make deals, and he hasn't really done that as president, but this is his opportunity to do that.
00:36:55.140And Republicans are saying, hey, look, you know what?
00:37:00.860You're the ones that are holding the government hostage.
00:37:03.420We're not going to discuss and negotiate it while they're holding hostage the federal government.
00:37:10.880This is what John Thune said on Tuesday.
00:37:13.380He said, look, release the hostage, and we'll have that conversation about how to keep these exchanges up and going.
00:37:20.440But I think they're doing way too well.
00:37:25.280They should be able to get 100 percent of what they want so that the Democrats aren't just placed on the stage as, you know, wearing dunce caps or in their or in this case, sombreros.
00:37:38.640Like I said, they give in to that 5 percent of their base.
00:37:41.380It's loud and won't shut up and threatens them.
00:37:45.640And so the middle of the road, Democrats for the last 10 years, they don't got nowhere to go.
00:38:12.540Well, I think we should just keep our exactly what we want and just continue down this road and make fun of the Democrats, call them out, show the fact that they were the ones that were saying at one point that they were on the same side as Donald Trump and other Republicans about giving illegals health care and everything else.
00:39:08.880So it's exposing the whole the whole charade and how the game works, because they are losing with blacks and with minority groups, with Hispanics.
00:39:20.960President Trump has got those now on the Republican side, on the conservative side.
00:39:26.220The Democrats are just bombing out and they can blame Schumer all day long and they can blame Dime Store Obama all day long.
00:39:36.540But at the very end of the day, it is the Democrat Party as a whole that has taken on this side, on this issue.
00:57:14.560You have played a crucial role in amplifying Charlie's voice and building his historic movement to save our country and reclaim the sacred ideals of faith, family, and freedom.
00:57:27.040We know that Charlie was incredibly proud of you and your contributions to the values we all share.
00:57:32.780We will never stop fighting to advance the movement he built.
00:57:38.620And as the nation mourns this devastating loss, we are confident that you will carry forth his noble mission in the years ahead.
00:57:47.440We pray that God will grant you and everyone who knew and loved Charlie comfort peace during this difficult time.
00:57:55.420May God bless you and the Charlie Kirk and the Kirk family, and may he continue to bless the United States of America.
00:58:08.340And you've got the Trump administration who will be offering support for future Turning Point USA events by having Vice President J.D. Vance and Donald Trump Jr. speak at them.
00:58:21.020He goes on to say, I would expect to see both of them turn up at TPUSA events over the next several months and long after that.
00:58:33.060They understand fully that Turning Point is now Charlie's political legacy, and they both want to help grow it to be bigger and more influential than ever before.
00:58:44.520And before we go, I do want to, um, so it was floating around that, uh, at the thing, because somebody mentioned having turd stock at the Kennedy Center in Washington would be funny.
00:58:58.880And, um, and, um, and so everybody thought for some reason we were switching the venue from Nashville to the Kennedy Center in Washington, which isn't true.
00:59:07.220So to be honest with you, we might do a show there, but it's going to be an addition, not, um, it's not going to be, you know, replacement.
00:59:15.740The third stock for will be in Nashville where it's always at.
00:59:21.580It'll always be in Nashville at John's Bar, always.
00:59:24.080But, uh, we might do something at the Lincoln Kennedy Center.