00:04:21.200I'm so excited and just on time for one of our favorite returning guests,
00:04:25.240mr steve cortez welcome back thank you so good to have you here so steve you're infamous for having
00:04:34.760these amazing documentaries just short like 20 to 25 minute documentaries on all sorts of
00:04:42.840important and interesting topics and um for those of you that were here yesterday you saw the trailer
00:04:49.400from steve's latest one the basilica or the mosque and this is oh we have people in maine
00:04:56.200in the chat by the way for those of you living in maine or if you have family in maine just uh
00:05:03.560drop a little emoji and let us know you're here so we can um see you i know our sandy candies in
00:05:09.960maine um so anyway this was so interesting to me and important and um not talked about enough like
00:05:18.120for as far as like a countrywide issue things that are happening so i'm going to play the trailer
00:05:23.320and then if you could just take it away after that um but let's let's just watch the trailer
00:05:28.360okay look at all the maniacs okay here we go the basilica and the mosque two structures two houses
00:05:36.600of worship blocks apart on a map but oceans apart in worldview and in the consequences for our0.60
00:05:43.960country they bring their politics with them they settle down and they're just like boomer leftists
00:05:49.480going crazy in these really wealthy enclaves where they're insulated from the consequences0.99
00:05:54.440of the political party that they support awful immigration policies brought hordes of third world1.00
00:06:00.760muslims to rural maine of all places the benefits programs have just gotten way way out of control0.95
00:06:07.320with the medicaid fraud the activities of catholic charities in maine are indiscernible from a human0.56
00:06:12.440trafficking organization. What we have is this murky term called asylum seeker. This is the
00:06:17.980term that the NPR crowd has created out of thin air. And they broke it on purpose. They broke it
00:06:23.000on purpose because it accomplished their objectives. I was on mute. So you guys, so Steve,
00:06:39.080the full uh documentaries on your twitter page and where else can people find it yes it's also
00:06:45.320on my youtube it's at cortesinvestigates.com it's also on my sub stack which is free uh sign up
00:06:51.080there so it is everywhere uh but if you can't remember cortesinvestigates.com it's also pinned
00:06:55.880to the top of my twitter 24 minutes long i'm not asking for a huge commitment of time but i guarantee
00:07:01.560you uh you will be informed angry and i hope motivated if you watch these 24 minutes and
00:07:07.640And you'll probably be shocked, frankly, because, you know, when most people think of Maine, they think of lobster, they think of the Northwoods and they think of hardy, self-sufficient New Englanders.
00:07:15.800And all of that is true. And all of that is absolutely there and part of what defines Maine.
00:07:19.760But unfortunately, there's a very new insidious element to Maine, and that is mass migration, which has come to even small town Maine and particularly Lewiston, which is where we shot that.
00:07:30.220And by the way, I want to right away acknowledge Steve Robinson, who you saw there. He is the star of this documentary.
00:07:35.020It's not Steve Cortez. It's Steve Robinson who runs the Maine Wire, which is an outstanding, independent, journalistic operation.
00:07:43.020And they have been exposing so much of the abuses of the citizens of Maine and so many of the frauds,
00:07:47.840the systemic frauds that are being perpetrated against the citizens of this country,1.00
00:07:52.580but particularly there in Lewiston, Maine, overwhelmingly by Somali migrants.0.90
00:07:57.140It's a smaller version of what's going on in Minnesota.
00:07:59.860So it's not quite into the billions and billions of dollars of scale of what the Ilhan Omar crowd is doing to the Twin Cities.
00:08:06.340But it's still just as awful, just as criminal, just as unjust.
00:08:10.740And because Maine is a much smaller state, unlike Minnesota, they don't have the financial wherewithal to deal with a scam at this scale.
00:08:17.320We're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars being stolen primarily through health care scams.
00:08:22.600It's mostly through Medicare, Medicaid abuse, just like they're doing in the Twin Cities.1.00
00:08:26.500and the Somali migrant crowd, unfortunately, really excels at this kind of a scam. Most of1.00
00:08:32.880the money, by the way, it's not, you know, of course, they're using and enjoying some of the
00:08:37.080ill-gotten gains there in Maine, but most of it is not really for them on the ground in Maine.
00:08:41.520Most of it is going back to Somalia. I read that more money is being sent to Somalia than
00:08:48.520their entire GDP. That's correct. Yes. Remittances for some of these countries, Rwanda is the same1.00
00:08:53.760now, remittances from the United States, stolen remittances, right? Not earned money. Stolen
00:08:59.560remittances have become the number one source of revenue to these failed countries, to these
00:09:04.200countries that don't have real industries and real businesses. The business effectively of the
00:09:07.880country now is get your people, get your diaspora into the United States, engage in systemic levels
00:09:14.240of scamming and funnel that money back home. And in the case of Somalia, what's it going to back0.86
00:09:19.880home in Somalia, mostly to a civil war. So believe it or not, the working class citizens of Maine who
00:09:25.600right now are having a hard time affording their life, they are funding a civil war in a place0.89
00:09:30.120called Jubaland, which most Americans have never heard of. I didn't before I started doing research
00:09:34.440for this doc. It's a semi-autonomous state in the south of Somalia, and they are at war effectively
00:09:40.520with Mogadishu. That war being largely funded by Maine, believe it or not, by loggers in Maine
00:09:47.620funding. So I want to shine a light on this. I also went there. Look, I'm political. I'm involved
00:09:51.960in campaigns. I went there because there was a Senate election in Maine. And by the way, some
00:09:56.400of us, you know, who consider ourselves pretty right wing, we may not be the biggest fans of
00:09:59.920Susan Collins, but holy cow, she has to win this election because she's literally facing America1.00
00:10:04.940hating communists who will only make this situation worse. Troy Jackson is just as radical as Graham
00:10:10.620Plattner, who he replaced on the Democrat ballot. And so I hope that I motivate patriots in Maine
00:10:16.460that even though Donald Trump's not on the ballot, it's really important for you to get out. It's
00:10:20.120important for you to vote for Susan Collins. And then more importantly, though, even than that,
00:10:24.340I just hope that I can educate Americans that this is a widespread problem in this country.1.00
00:10:28.540We have third world migrants who are not assimilating, who actually hate our country,1.00
00:10:32.340who are systemically stealing from us. And many of them, of course, organized and motivated by1.00
00:10:36.640Islam, which I believe is incompatible with the American way of life. And I know that's1.00
00:10:40.960a controversial thing to say. I know it's provocative, but I think it's true. And that's
00:10:44.640not being, by the way, racial. I'm talking about a system of beliefs, a system of beliefs which
00:10:49.320is antithetical to the American way of life. And mass Muslim migration has done enormous damage to1.00
00:10:54.960Europe. It's starting, I don't think it's reversible in Europe. It's starting to do that1.00
00:10:59.100kind of damage here in the United States. And my message is to America, wake up. This is not healthy
00:11:03.360for our country. We can do something about it, though. I don't think it's too late like it is
00:11:07.560in England and France and some other places. And I hope that by shining a light on it, I'm going to
00:11:12.000both anger and motivate people yeah so you know it's funny it's started in 2015 where if you
00:11:19.920voted for trump what were we we were we were like nazis and fascists and stuff i'm like i gotta look
00:11:25.960i gotta look this up am i a fascist like what does that even mean i've never been called that0.71
00:11:29.780um you know and racist and this and that and now call me an islamophobe i'm just embracing it i'm0.56
00:11:37.200just going to embrace it. Sure. I'm an Islamophobe. That's fine. That's good. And it's accurate.0.98
00:11:45.000It's accurate. So yeah, this is happening all over the country. And yeah, when I think about
00:11:51.520Maine, I think about all the little lighthouses and people selling blueberry pies on the side
00:11:57.040of the road because no one's going to steal them and run away with your little cash box. It's like
00:12:01.320so sweet there. And now to think about what's happening and that it's to go to fund a civil
00:12:07.100war in Somalia. It's just the insanity. It never ends. But President Trump would read that snake
00:12:15.140poem. And I loved the first time he read it because when 9-11 happened, I started, of course,
00:12:22.800looking into what is happening. Who are these people? What's the plan? And they always said
00:12:29.500they will come in slow and steady. They're here for the long haul. They will plant themselves
00:12:35.180little spots all over and no one's paying attention no one's looking and don't say
00:12:40.880anything bad about these people or we're going to call you a name and that's back when you cared
00:12:44.880about being called a name i don't care anymore call me anything um but now they've just sprung
00:12:51.200up everywhere and they're in our politics they're in our police they're in positions of power and
00:12:56.920they have an agenda and it's not an american agenda steve yes 100 oh go ahead on did you
00:13:02.800well i i was just gonna say like i i think it it just strikes me as like you need to have strong
00:13:09.920defenses you need to have strong ways of detecting and prosecuting crimes and stopping the scams
00:13:18.000stopping the corruption and it just seems like anything you don't have strong defenses on is
00:13:23.280going to be exploited it's it's kind of like any system it's one of the reasons i think we need a
00:13:27.920a strong defense, even though I don't want war. Because when I was in the military, I was like,
00:13:33.020well, I don't want to go to war. I kind of reluctantly went through ROTC to get my college
00:13:37.260paid for. But I actually was kind of convinced by some of the training we went through that
00:13:43.040as officers, they kind of teach you, here's the justification for war. And a lot of it is focused
00:13:48.180around if you have a strong capability for defense and they know they can't roll right over you and
00:13:55.080that they're going to get crushed if they try, then they're not going to try. And the same is
00:14:00.340true with this scam stuff. It's like if we had the right controls over Medicaid and Medicare,
00:14:05.300where you couldn't scam them and you would just end up in prison if you tried,
00:14:08.920then people wouldn't do it. But I think we have the opposite right now where it's easy to exploit.
00:14:13.980And I wonder if it's intentional. I saw a story that I posted today that says 89%
00:14:20.420on a poll say the government is corrupt. And I think they're right. I think it's in our government
00:14:27.660too. Yeah. A couple of points that I think are important. First, why Maine? Because Somalis
00:14:33.580didn't move there for the climate. They didn't move there for the... If there's any saving graces
00:14:37.440that at least they had to endure that first Maine winter, which must have been hell on them. I still
00:14:42.000don't feel badly for them because they're scamming us wholesale. But they didn't move there for the
00:14:45.560climate. Why did they go to Maine? Because I think to that point of the defenses, Maine was
00:14:51.680and is somewhat still a very high trust society, right? This is a place where people said, you
00:14:57.580know, live and let live. They had that very sort of, like I said, hearty, self-sufficient New
00:15:01.560England mentality. Very, very high trust society, Erica, where you mentioned, yes, people could
00:15:06.560leave things out for sale and know that somebody would leave the money and not steal it. That kind
00:15:10.800of a place. Well, that kind of place is particularly vulnerable then to being manipulated and exploited
00:15:16.400by awful people, which is the case. So the Somalis went there very intentionally, largely, by the way,0.99
00:15:22.620with the direction and help of Catholic Charities, which is why we mentioned them in the trailer and
00:15:26.580we get into that in more detail in the doc. I am Catholic, by the way. I am a committed Catholic
00:15:30.180and it gives me no pleasure to reveal that Catholic Charities has been instrumental in so
00:15:36.180many of these migrant abuses in America, but particularly this one in Somalia. And by the way,
00:15:41.080these Somalis, this isn't recent. We actually can't blame this one on Biden. Most of these
00:15:45.660folks came. This is Black Hawk Down era. So this is the unfortunate long-term U.S. trend of invade
00:15:51.140the world, invite the world, right? So when Somalia was so destabilized and we decided to0.96
00:15:56.760intervene there with disastrous consequences, what did we do? We then invited lots of Somali1.00
00:16:00.960refugees to move to the United States. And even though they've been here for decades,1.00
00:16:04.560they have not assimilated. Economically, they're still doing terribly. Let me give you a statistic0.66
00:16:08.860on that, by the way. This is from the center. Steve, are they here illegally?
00:16:13.760Most of them are not. So in this case, we're not talking illegals. Because again,
00:16:17.300even the ones born here, even the ones born here are clearly then United States citizens. And I
00:16:22.960have problems with birthright citizenship, but that's a different issue. For now, that means
00:16:26.380you're a US citizen. But even those are doing incredibly poor economically. So here's a
00:16:32.340statistic. For people who, for Somalis who have been here for 10 years, this is from CIS, which
00:16:36.780does an excellent data work. For Somalis who have been here for 10 years, this was actually in
00:16:40.500Minnesota, not Maine, but in Minnesota, 78% are on welfare after 10 years. In total, 54% of Somalis
00:16:49.280in the United States are on food stamps. 54% are on food stamps. So they don't assimilate. They
00:16:55.640generally don't work. They hate the United States. And in the case of the Lewiston main crowd,
00:17:01.220they're systemically scamming Maine. And by the way, so why Medicaid? Like why healthcare? Why
00:17:06.060the Medicaid? And it's to your point, oh, and this I think is really important, Medicare and
00:17:09.580Medicaid. It's because it's a massive budget, okay, that is allocated by the federal government,
00:17:14.760but then not really controlled by the federal government. I mean, there are rules, yes,
00:17:18.120but the states administer it. So it's sort of perfect to be manipulated, especially in blue
00:17:22.400states. So in other words, we have all this largesse coming from Washington, DC, but you've
00:17:26.540got leftist governments in Maine, in Augusta, Maine, and in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that are
00:17:32.200administering it. People who will never ask questions if the people scamming them happen to
00:17:37.900be minorities, if they happen to be immigrants, right, in this case, both, right, for the force0.94
00:17:43.900field protection to steal at will, and they're not going to be called on it. Now, in terms of0.93
00:17:47.800solutions, and Steve Robinson gave a great one, I think, which, and the Trump administration,
00:17:51.480I hope, will at least look at this, is what you can do is decertify, you have to be, you have to
00:17:55.900be certified as a licensed provider for Medicare, Medicaid, decertify everyone. Just say no one is
00:18:02.080certified. You must all reapply. All right. As of tomorrow, you know, give a reasonable date,
00:18:06.280obviously. But that that could do a lot just to rooting out the scam. And then obviously be
00:18:11.140diligent about, wait, who's reapplying? Is this real? And by the way, we're not again, we're not
00:18:15.560talking about small amounts of money. For example, like part to get specific about the scam, somebody
00:18:20.480will say they are a caregiver, right? They'll say I'm caring for an aged person in our community.
00:18:25.180Now, if that happens legitimately, it actually can save Medicare or Medicaid money, right? It really can versus putting somebody in an institution to allow them to stay home and have care. But that same person, and it's usually a Somali, will supposedly be caring for 20 different people, right, which is impossible, and claiming all of that, right, and then collecting all of that money.0.58
00:18:43.860And by the way, I show this in the doc right next door to that mosque, that pathetic, falling down, dilapidated mosque in Lewiston, Maine, right next to it.0.71
00:18:53.320I mean, feet away is the NGO, the non-governmental organization run by American leftists that facilitates the entire scam.0.72
00:19:01.160So they have American leftists literally next door.
00:19:04.060That's not chance. That's not coincidence.
00:19:06.160Assisting the members of the mosque in wholesale stealing from the United States.1.00
00:19:10.140And then blocks away from that pathetic mosque is this glorious Catholic basilica.0.99
00:19:15.100And this is part of the reason it's important for me to go to these places.1.00
00:19:17.940I did a lot of research on Lewiston, but I had no idea it had such a stunning, gorgeous church until I got there.
00:19:22.920And I was blown away. And again, especially as a Catholic.
00:19:25.660And I knew it was a French Catholic town who had founded it.
00:19:27.960They clearly modeled this local church in a small town after the grand French cathedrals.
00:19:32.700And it really looks like a smaller version of Chartres or some of the grand French cathedrals.
00:19:39.500And so we filmed there. And then that inspired me to do this contrast of let's look at what these migrants did.1.00
00:19:44.600They took the best of the old world. They brought it to America. They fully assimilated.
00:19:48.160They loved their new land and they built beautiful things, enduring beautiful things that are tribute both to their heritage,
00:19:55.280but also to the new country that they so love. And contrast that with the difference with what these third world migrants are doing now.1.00
00:20:01.460They are not coming here to make. They are coming here to take. And if they do build anything at all, it certainly isn't something beautiful and enduring.1.00
00:20:08.620In fact, it can be something that is pathetic in many ways and even sinister to our values.
00:20:13.800All right, Marcella, I know you have a burning question at this point.
00:20:18.020So my question to you, Steve, is, you know, they're here.
00:20:23.180Mostly most of them are legally here because in 1991 they were able to immigrate and they were able to get legal residence or birthright or whatever it is you want to call it.
00:20:33.480there's a thousand of them that are not in the entire country and they're president trump
00:20:39.920initiated the removal of them but beyond that what can be done um so one of the things that i wish
00:20:48.200would be done for for asylum seekers and i think president trump tried is to have it be if you were
00:20:56.000from somalia and then you travel all the way here there was many countries in between that they
00:21:00.740could have asked for asylum. That needs to be Congress. Congress has to pass it. The other
00:21:06.000thing that I was thinking about, I couldn't recall, but in Germany or somewhere else, I think when
00:21:11.300Germany, World War II or the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a lot of American, you know,
00:21:20.200Americans still were still there, but they had classes for Germans to become more like assimilated.
00:21:29.540So I think one of the things I'm not sure if this is possible, but have a simulation classes of what America is and and become more like that.
00:21:40.100One of the things that people might not know about the Somali immigrants, they come from the south of Somalia, which is still under a lot of issues.
00:21:51.300Just recently, they have a, I believe, president, and he was supposed to give power in May of this year, and he stayed on.
00:22:04.640so they still have like a dictatorship and they come from different clans they don't really ever
00:22:12.220had any laws or any kind of idea they come from a tribal nation so you're it's like basically
00:22:21.100having somebody from you know they don't the reason they can't really assimilate is because0.94
00:22:27.120they're so it's not even like religiously it's just that they are so they don't understand
00:22:33.880laws or anything like that so what do you suggest that we can do now that we're in this today yeah
00:22:41.500so listen a great question or a really kind of series of questions there of what can be done
00:22:45.820because yeah i'm also you know very much of that line of thinking of we can't we do it to expose
00:22:50.260what's going on but that's not enough right we can't stop at the outrage one of the solutions so
00:22:54.180uh there's you know a few things here yes you know as you have indicated this group unlike a
00:22:58.500lot of the other migrant groups that are abusing the united states this group mostly has legal
00:23:02.760status many of them actually born here because this group has been here for quite a while so1.00
00:23:06.840they are citizens so deportation for most of them is not really an issue now they're still coming
00:23:10.920and i would absolutely stop that of course uh the new arrivals but most of them are not so but this1.00
00:23:15.160is very different from for example the haitians and the venezuelans you know mostly who are here
00:23:18.920on so-called temporary status temporaries lasted for decades for many of them and thankfully trump0.97
00:23:23.880administration is now winning in court and uh now they'll also a difficult job of getting them out0.63
00:23:29.160with that group, but that's different from this Somali group. So what can be done with this group?1.00
00:23:32.800You know, I mentioned decertifying Medicare and Medicaid providers, you know, so let's do0.60
00:23:37.520everything possible to cut off the spigot of fraud revenue from hardworking Americans to third world0.99
00:23:43.360scamsters, even if they call themselves Americans or have sort of the papers to call themselves0.81
00:23:47.220Americans. I don't think they have ever culturally bought in to what our nation is. So let's stop0.99
00:23:52.240them. Let's do everything we can to make it hard to steal from the United States. You know, that's
00:23:56.920the first thing. But to me, then the bigger answer is I believe that it's time for an immigration0.99
00:24:02.880moratorium. It's time for a legal immigration moratorium. And I know that is not yet a majority0.70
00:24:07.180position in this country. I do a lot of polling. That is not yet a majority position, although
00:24:11.380it's a growing position. And look, my father immigrated here. I don't believe it's not that I
00:24:16.300in theory am against immigration. I think if it's done right and done well, it can be fantastic for
00:24:21.840this country. And it used to be fantastic for this country, but we demanded assimilation. So1.00
00:24:26.020there were two big differences in sort of the heyday of immigration. Number one, we demanded0.82
00:24:29.540assimilation. Number two, there was no safety net for the migrants, which is why a lot of migrants1.00
00:24:34.280went back. That's sort of part of the immigration story, which isn't always told. The Ellis Island
00:24:37.860story is how many went back, right? Because it wasn't easy to come to the United States. And
00:24:42.680there was no help, no public assistance for you. If you came here from Italy or Ireland or wherever,
00:24:47.980it was sink or swim, you know, quite literally. And assimilation demanded. Neither of those0.98
00:24:51.800factors exist today. In fact, the opposite, right? We, particularly in places like Maine and
00:24:56.480Minnesota, we've been over backwards to make life comfortable for you, even if you're not really
00:25:00.140trying to, you know, to swim, even if you would sink on your own, we'll give you the life raft
00:25:05.620and pay for it, even if you hate us. That's, you know, sort of where we are now. So I believe
00:25:09.220that a pause, an immigration moratorium makes a lot of sense. Let's assimilate the tens of1.00
00:25:15.300millions of migrants that we, legal migrants, not the illegals, of course, the legal migrants that
00:25:19.040we have here already in this country. You know, we are at a higher percentage now than we have
00:25:23.200been of foreigners in the United States, between legal and illegal, than we have ever been in our
00:25:27.360history. We're higher than we were in the heyday of Ellis Island during the Industrial Revolution
00:25:32.620days. We are higher now. And of course, we're higher numerically. There's about, I think,
00:25:37.300credible estimates. There were about 50 million foreigners total in the United States between
00:25:42.400the legal ones who are allowed to be here and the illegal ones. That is a massive, massive group of1.00
00:25:47.400people. That's basically the population of the entire West Coast. It's actually a little more
00:25:51.140than the entire West Coast of the United States. Now, many of them want to be Americans. Many of
00:25:58.020them mean well. Many of them work hard. Some of them do not. Some of them are incredibly
00:26:01.720problematic. And again, particularly when it comes to Muslim migration, I would argue that1.00
00:26:07.220one of the filters, if Steve Cortez could decide we take a pause, immigration moratorium, once we
00:26:13.440decide to restart immigration and it is up to us we're under no obligation to take in migrants but
00:26:17.660once we decide to restart migration my one of the suggestions i had would have certainly in terms of1.00
00:26:23.440a filter is uh that the adherence of islam um are not welcome and that would at least be a strike0.98
00:26:30.580against you if not a disqualification from coming to the united states because we we know from the0.98
00:26:36.840record the record of mass muslim migration how terrible it has been in europe where it's been0.98
00:26:40.840We tried here, like Minneapolis, Dearborn, Michigan, Lewiston, Maine.1.00
00:26:44.920Texas is growing, unfortunately, with the Islamic group.1.00
00:26:48.080We know how harmful it has been to this country as well.1.00
00:26:52.300And we'll get called bigots for even saying that.
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00:27:19.540Is it possible legally to, because I dealt with the question because of freedom of religion under the Constitution,
00:27:27.520and you know that they're going to, by they, I mean like the left is going to, you know, sue or whatever it is,
00:27:34.620And stop any kind of law. But I would say if the focus was on Islamic beliefs that are anti-American, because there is Egyptians, there's Jordanians, and they're all very different.
00:27:53.040um if you get you know if you go and and and you know talk to the different uh muslim communities0.98
00:28:01.160um somalia comes from this idea they have al shabab they have all these very very recalcitrant0.51
00:28:10.160uh ideas of how they're supposed to very anti-american ideas so i'm wondering if part
00:28:17.080of that can be defined as terrorist. And, and that through that lens can be we can stop that
00:28:26.440type of immigration because really, you're basically, you know, when when we were fighting0.71
00:28:32.720World War Two, you wouldn't allow Germans to come in. The same with this, you you're basically
00:28:38.960allowing your own enemy to come in uh al-shabab is technically a al-qaeda al-qaeda uh kind of
00:28:47.840terrorist group in somalia and they are funded semi-funded by by iran but it's like one of those
00:28:56.640things that i wish that we would separate from religion to um ideology and be able to claim it's
00:29:06.240it's anti, you know, anti, an enemy, basically. Yeah. No, I understand what you're saying.
00:29:13.280Also, though, too, regarding migrants, remember, you know, to a foreigner who's potentially going0.99
00:29:17.860to become an American, you know, they don't have our rights as citizens, right? So, I mean,0.99
00:29:22.060you know, we have, I believe, every legal and ethical right to determine the filters for
00:29:27.280letting somebody in and even filters that could never be used internally, right, within the United
00:29:31.380States because they don't have rights until they get here. But you're right. If you don't want to
00:29:37.900make it a sort of religion test, what you certainly could do is just do it by country, but also by U.S.
00:29:42.700statute. And this is actually interesting. And I've read the immigration laws. I'm not an attorney
00:29:46.960like you, but I've read the immigration laws and I understand them, I think, quite well.
00:29:50.660The president of the United States, any president, not just Trump, any president has basically king
00:29:55.220like powers when it comes to immigration by law, by statute. The president of the United States at
00:30:00.800any time can exclude any foreigner for any reason, for any reason at all. It can be for a silly,0.86
00:30:07.120capricious reason. I mean, I just don't like him or her, you know, or I don't want people with red1.00
00:30:11.020hair. That would be legal, okay? Now, again, it would never be legal to do something like that1.00
00:30:15.320against American citizens. But when you talk about foreigners who are abroad, once they get1.00
00:30:20.660to the United States, by precedent, they have a lot of rights. I have problems with that, but1.00
00:30:24.000regardless, that's right now precedent. But they have essentially no rights as foreigners outside1.00
00:31:24.760they're asking for their parents or their sister, and they're able to get them here under a legal
00:31:32.000status, not through asylum seeking, but through that way, that also needs to be cut off. I always
00:31:39.380believe that even for any other nation, because that allows so many more people in than you're
00:31:48.780thinking. No, chain migration has been a disaster. That has been the primary method of immigration
00:31:53.900to this country since 1965, since the absolutely disastrous Immigration Act of 1965 that changed
00:32:00.840this country in very, very permanent ways. And I would like to see the 1965 Act undone. Now,
00:32:06.520that's clearly not going to happen in the current Congress, which gets almost nothing done despite
00:32:10.000having the Republican majority and an incredibly weak speaker, unfortunately. But that is something
00:32:15.220I think we should work toward. But there's a lot we can do before we undo 1965. I mentioned my own
00:32:20.160father being an immigrant to this country, he came in the 1950s before 1965, when there was almost no
00:32:25.460immigration to the United States in the 1950s. It was extremely difficult. And you had to get here
00:32:30.360on merit. There was no chain migration. It wasn't just because you had a relative here. You had to
00:32:34.560prove that you loved our country, that you were bringing skills that were going to be very valuable
00:32:38.860to the country, and that you were going to be self-sufficient. And the process, I mean, it was
00:32:43.260like getting into a really tough college, basically, right, to get in the United States. And my own
00:32:46.440father, by the way, had come here for school. So he had come on a student visa. That wasn't very
00:32:50.080hard in those days. But when the student visa ran out, applied for permanent residence, he didn't
00:32:55.400get it for whatever reason. But again, it was really hard in the 1950s. Pre-1965, we took in
00:32:59.920very few. So between sort of that Ellis Island period and 1965, there was almost no immigration
00:33:04.520to the United States. It was extremely difficult anyway. And so he was in that period, at the
00:33:09.180latter end of that period. Went back to Columbia, where he's born and raised. And I asked him once,
00:33:13.660by the way, I said, did you ever think of staying here illegally? And he said, I would never do that.
00:33:17.300He said, you know, I love this country. I wanted to be part of it. I didn't want to be looking over
00:33:21.180my shoulder, but also I wouldn't disrespect this land that I wanted to be part of. He had already
00:33:25.100met my mother, was already in love. So he was in love with America, in love with mom. And literally
00:33:29.380the day he was allowed back, because he kept reapplying, the day he was allowed back, he was
00:33:33.320back and never left again. And, you know, became an American citizen himself and had six children,
00:33:38.140one of which is me. And by the way, my father has been deceased for a long time, but he wasn't
00:33:43.240particularly political. But when he would talk about illegal migration, holy cow, did it get him
00:33:47.840hot and angry because he knew how hard it was, how hard it was for him. He wanted to be here.
00:33:52.380He had a girlfriend that he wanted to marry. And but he was respecting the rules of this country
00:33:57.880and Americans. And he believed Americans had every right to determine how people come in.
00:34:02.240And thankfully, in that case, you know, they did the right thing. They selected a guy,
00:34:06.720Alfonso Cortez, who loved this country, was incredibly productive, produced a large American
00:34:11.840family with an American woman. And, you know, they couldn't have gotten sort of a better return
00:34:16.180on investment as it were by letting him in. And there's a lot of those stories, of course. And I
00:34:19.720think we can get back to those stories, but I think we should take a break first. And because
00:34:24.100we're not doing it right at present. And the worst example of that maybe is what's going on in
00:34:30.020Lewiston, Maine. It's funny you bring up your father. My father was, he passed away in El
00:34:38.080Salvador, but he, he, my mom asked him for us to move over here when he was alive. And he said,
00:34:44.260no, we're not moving there. Do you know what this is going to cost? This is an invasion.
00:34:49.180This immigration to the United States is going to collapse the United States because all of these1.00
00:34:55.280people are immigrating there. And he would talk about like, and this was in the eighties, right?1.00
00:35:01.300And it was amazing to see that how his prediction came true, unfortunately, and is still coming true. And, you know, El Salvador, where I came from, brought basically MS-13 started in the United States.
00:35:18.600Instead of having welfare fraud, there was tons of crime that Salvadorians brought and their children created in Los Angeles and in other states of the United States.0.84
00:35:32.400But, you know, it's unfortunate. We were forced to immigrate because of political reasons, but you can see it all.1.00
00:35:42.940And it was known. And it's unfortunate, you know, and I know, Eric, I was supposed to. Sorry, I cut you off.
00:35:49.980Oh, no, not at all. I'm just looking at a comment. Ray Green says taking a break just puts a pause until the Dems reopen the borders does nothing to reverse the issue.
00:35:59.480But we have to win elections, you guys. So if we, you know, like if Congress can't put in laws that say so it's like what you said, Marcella.
00:36:12.940from Somalia to here, they bypassed a ton of countries, you know, and that's not the way
00:36:18.460it's supposed to go. It's not, that's not how it's supposed to be. So if we had, if we were0.54
00:36:23.700following the laws where, you know, if you want to, if you want asylum, you're supposed to go to1.00
00:36:28.260the next country, not, you know, be like, Hey America, you know, so we don't want everyone's0.68
00:36:32.920issues coming here. But if we don't pass laws with the Congress we have now, it's only going
00:36:39.360to get worse because more and more extremists are going into Congress and into positions of power.
00:36:45.540Like we keep talking about the DSA is on the rise. AOC probably wants Chuck Schumer's job.
00:36:52.640Somebody should take Chuck Schumer's job because where is he with Mitch McConnell? I don't know
00:36:56.460what's going on there. But, you know, so they're they're the Democrats that are supposed to be
00:37:02.760traditional Democrats, which are now out of their mind Democrats. They are living with suicidal
00:37:09.240empathy. They're too afraid to speak up and stand up. You know, they're like, oh, no, we're party
00:37:14.100people. No, you're you're basically traitors to America and the Constitution because you're
00:37:19.340allowing everything to be trounced on. So if we don't start passing laws now, Steve, I don't know
00:37:25.180how we pass anything later that's a benefit for our country. Yeah, no, I hear you. And believe me,
00:37:31.380I get the the frustration, right, which I'm certainly hearing from you. And, you know,
00:37:35.800I guess I'm voicing it as well. The asylum part, by the way, the Trump administration has done a
00:37:40.080fantastic job on asylum. So that those abuses are pretty much done for now. I know, of course,
00:37:45.240it would restart immediately with a Democrat president. I mean, I get that point. And again,0.57
00:37:48.800I want to I want to overturn the 1965 Immigration Act that that takes Congress to do. But let me
00:37:54.020give you the let me give you this. I mean, and there are reasons, very valid reasons to be
00:37:57.860frustrated and even negative. Right. Right now, given what's happening. But let me also say this
00:38:02.980bigger picture you know how how this can and i think will get fixed but we've got to win
00:38:08.120in 26 and 28 if we if we at least hold the line at these elections coming up in just a couple of
00:38:13.740months if we win the presidency in 2028 and then and i know this is several ifs okay but these
00:38:18.740aren't implausible and then if we do the census correctly in 2030 and if we do not count illegals
00:38:24.600right which we have been counting for successive censuses right we know that the 2020 census even
00:38:32.060the Census Bureau itself admits that it was done completely incorrectly because of the chaos of the
00:38:37.500COVID panic. So if we do the census scientifically and correctly, and we don't count illegals,
00:38:43.140I would also argue we should not count foreigners, even though there's a lot of debate over that.0.76
00:38:46.900And traditionally, we have counted legal foreigners in the U.S. Census, even though they can't vote,
00:38:51.260we've counted them for apportionment. That would be an even further game. But given where the0.95
00:38:56.920demographic trends of where America has moved, given the great sorting that has gone on, right,
00:39:01.200of the red states getting much bigger in population, people like me who have gone from Chicago to
00:39:05.800Tennessee, right? Tennessee's going to add congressional seats. I mean, no matter what,
00:39:09.660Tennessee's going to add congressional seats. It's a matter of how many. It was always going
00:39:12.660to lose seats, right? New Jersey's going to lose seats. Florida's going to gain. You know, that0.99
00:39:16.960will happen regardless of how we do the census. But my point is, if we really do it correctly and
00:39:21.480scientifically, and there's a Republican president, I hope it's President Vance, but whoever you hope
00:39:25.860it is, whoever the Republican president is. And if we do that correctly in 2030, there is a reasonable
00:39:32.140projection then. And I think a reasonable hope that this isn't being Pollyanna just, you know,
00:39:37.880saying, oh, everything will always be fine. But I'm telling you, if we can win 26 and 28,
00:39:41.980do the census correctly in 30, I think we win for decades. I truly do. You know, and I think that
00:39:48.160the trends would then be so favorable for us. We would have such political tailwinds, such
00:39:53.600demographic tailwinds, given what has happened in this country in terms of where people have moved
00:39:57.960and what states have gotten stronger and are thriving as red states. Also, on top of that,
00:40:02.380this is really big picture. But when you start looking sort of the mid 2030s out, by the time,
00:40:08.140you know, guys like me are old, only religious and conservative people are having children.
00:40:13.500So like demographically, we are going to win, especially if we if we hold a line on immigration,
00:40:18.560right? So if we don't have so much mass migration to this country, and if we're relying on our0.67
00:40:22.180eternal reproduction and our eternal growth for this country. The good news is the crazy leftists0.68
00:40:27.880don't have kids. They don't believe in children. They may not get married at all. Or if they do1.00
00:40:31.040get married, they don't have children. If they happen to have a child, it's one at most. Whereas
00:40:34.740who's having four or five, six kids? It's religious and conservative people, right,
00:40:39.240who are. So anyway, I'm just giving you the bigger picture. None of that matters if we don't win 26
00:40:44.900and 28, though, right? Because if we lose 28 and the Democrats are in charge of the census,
00:40:49.060they'll probably do it even worse than they did in 2020, right? Count every illegal and probably
00:40:53.860triple count every illegal, right? So the stakes, though, I think are that high. But I also think,
00:41:01.180you know, while I'm really angry, right, because of what I document there in Maine, I mean,
00:41:06.040I'm angry about it, right? By the way, I'm going to Dearborn, Michigan next. I'll have security
00:41:10.380for that one. And a Xanax, I hope. And a translator. Going into the belly of the beast
00:41:15.420for that. But I'm going to highlight that because we've got a serious Senate race,
00:41:18.580obviously there as well. Believe me, I'm as angry as anybody about what's going on. But I also do
00:41:25.340believe that there are some really valid data based reasons, evidence based reasons to be really
00:41:31.540hopeful about the future and to just work our tails off for 26 and 28. Yeah, I've said the same
00:41:36.800thing. And I, you know, I think it's moving in the right direction. But I do, you know, I always
00:41:41.820think about second order thinking. And my real question that I come out with is what happens to
00:41:46.600the democrat party because at a certain point if they're losing every election they're not just
00:41:53.420gonna stay the same way right either another party's gonna replace them or they're gonna
00:41:59.520have to totally reinvent themselves to be closer to where the american people are
00:42:03.360which is a good thing i mean you know maybe it will be that they'll move more towards the center
00:42:08.480or you know however you want to define that but i i just think you know it our our government is
00:42:15.320kind of this back and forth between the parties system. And if one of them keeps losing, losing,
00:42:20.540losing consistently, I don't think people will keep donating money to them, right? They're going
00:42:26.280to, they're going to demand a completely different party. Well, the Democrat party of today is
00:42:31.060incredibly different from the Democrat party of, you know, Bill Clinton's presidency, right?
00:42:34.700So yes, to your point, it can change massively. It's changing. It's lurched massively to the left.
00:42:39.380And is it possible that it gets back, you know, to the center? Yeah, absolutely. You know,
00:42:42.620absolutely possible, but let's make them do that is my, my answer. Let's, let's be the forcing
00:42:47.140function to make them get reasonable again. And then if they start winning elections as reasonable
00:42:51.060people, well, okay, that's actually fine, I guess, you know, for our country, you know, let's,
00:42:54.780let's get there. But, you know, that's also what I think brings up a good point that right now,
00:43:00.440and listen, again, I'm not being Pollyanna about right now. Okay. Because, you know, like I said,
00:43:04.160I do a lot of polling and right now, pretty much every one of these statewide races that are
00:43:09.100significant, these Senate races and the governor's races that I'm polling, we're down in all
00:43:12.540of them, okay? Now, we're not way down, okay? We're within striking distance, but we're losing
00:43:16.480all of them. If the election were today, holy cow, would I be nervous? I mean, I think the Dems would
00:43:20.200have a heck of a night because people don't like the economy right now, and they really don't like
00:43:24.840the war. That's just the truth out there, okay? And this is my polling. This is not left-wing
00:43:29.620polling. I'm not trying to put my thumb on the scale. Either way, by the way, I don't also want
00:43:33.380just pro-MAGA, pro-America First results just for the sake of it. No, I want scientific results as
00:43:38.080best I can get. And we are we are absolutely behind. We are the underdogs right now in these
00:43:43.320races. What what we have going for us, though, thankfully, is that them party is so radical
00:43:48.020and they have nominated such extreme, unlikable, unrelatable candidates that I think even with a
00:43:54.960tough macro environment of people not liking the economy, not supporting the war, I think we've got
00:43:59.420a good chance to beat a lot of these candidates. And I think we will, in fact, beat a lot of these
00:44:03.980candidates. Once Americans really start paying attention, which for most normal people like
00:44:07.420this audience is very different, right? Super dialed in. But for most normies out there,
00:44:12.040they're not going to really start paying attention until after Labor Day, maybe not
00:44:14.600really, really until October, right? And once they do, if guys like me and organizations like
00:44:20.720mine and affiliate organizations, if we do a great job of exposing just how nuts these Democrats are,
00:44:26.380and they are, Troy Jackson in Maine and Elsa Ed in Michigan and a lot of others,
00:44:31.160then I think we win these elections, but they're going to be tight. They're going to be narrow.
00:44:34.920So look at Tallarico in Texas, too. I mean, this is insanity. The guy's a mess. Yeah. And it's like Texas, you know, I don't think they understand what's happening there either. So like how what's the call to action? Like what's our call to action, Steve? What do we need to do today? Because I'm also concerned with all this like early voting and, you know, then information comes out later and people have already thrown their ballot in.
00:44:58.600so what what is the call to action for the scott adams school uh for all of us here that we should
00:45:06.460be doing and thinking about and saying yeah what what do you suggest well let me be real specific
00:45:12.000and then a little more general as specifically it's interesting you mentioned early voting
00:45:14.600because so i was just in the studio um finishing up some doc some documentary work for documentaries
00:45:19.100that are they're being edited right now they're uh they're they're in the can as we say in the
00:45:22.820kind of the film world um so i was in the studio and one of the things i filmed this will be out
00:45:27.020within days because this is a quick one. It's not really a documentary, but I did an interview with
00:45:30.060Ned Ryan, who a lot of you probably know is on Fox News a lot. He runs American Majority. He's
00:45:35.200a fantastic, very influential, you know, right wing political campaign operative. And we did a
00:45:40.660video together trying to encourage our people to early vote. And that's a hard task, OK, because
00:45:45.560a lot of our people do not want to early vote. They want to vote on game day. And I totally
00:45:48.880understand it. And I used to be a game day only voter. And I realize how much of us hate the
00:45:54.140current procedures for good reasons, for valid reasons. We hate the way elections are structured.
00:45:59.100You know, particularly the most egregious example is the states that mail ballots to every
00:46:03.400supposedly valid voter. Right. And they're essentially mailing the political version
00:46:07.620of live live ammunition. Right. I mean, just begging for abuses and ballot harvesting by
00:46:12.500the Democrats. So I get that people hate the system and say, no, I'm voting only in person
00:46:16.800on Election Day. But here's the problem. It gives us a huge disadvantage versus the Democrats
00:46:21.720because their constituency has fully embraced early voting whether it's in person or by mail
00:46:26.520so we go into almost every election day we go on a game day with gigantic deficits even in
00:46:31.320elections that we end up easily winning we go in with massive deficits it's too much pressure for
00:46:35.960us to make up at the last minute in general can it work yes it worked in 2024 obviously but the
00:46:41.800point is uh the earlier you bank your vote what i do is i go in person i don't like doing the mail
00:46:46.840thing. I go as early as I can, early in-person voting so that I have presented myself. I have
00:46:52.320shown my ID. Thankfully, here in Tennessee, they do check ID, make sure American citizen. I know
00:46:56.680that doesn't happen in a lot of places, but it does here. And get that vote banked. And what I
00:47:00.680will tell you is, and this is the part that people may not realize if they're not involved in
00:47:03.700campaigns. And Ned Ryan and I really get into this in the interview. It'll be out in just the next
00:47:08.100couple of days. And it's only about, I think, 10 minutes long by the time we're done. It's like a
00:47:11.420long commercial, basically. And he really explains this, is one of the reasons it gives the Democrats
00:47:16.000at such a big advantage is because groups like his that are chasing the ballots, the get out the vote
00:47:22.020group, GOTV, it's not public information who you voted for, but it's public information when you
00:47:27.300vote. And in most states, it's instant. So we know, the left knows too, they know their voter
00:47:31.160voted, right? So they literally check it, take that guy off the list. Don't keep chasing this
00:47:34.980woman. Number one, they'll stop bothering you, okay? So you'll stop getting the texts and the1.00
00:47:38.920calls and potentially door knocks. But more importantly, it saves so much money. So Ned
00:47:43.520makes the case, for example, if you vote as early as you can in the window, early in-person voting,
00:47:48.880generally to chase your vote, if we believe you're our voter and we're going to remind you and pester
00:47:54.140you, frankly, to vote, his group will spend on average about $15 per voter. If you wait all the
00:48:00.060way to game day, they're going to spend over $100. Wow. So literally more than six times as much,
00:48:05.500you know, and roughly six times as much they're going to spend on you. And the Dems, because
00:48:09.020their people love to vote early, they are banking a bunch of those 15 buck per voter. And so think
00:48:14.860of the difference, right? Then think of the firepower they have then to go after the remaining
00:48:18.080voters, to do more ads on television. So it's a financial issue as well. So that's the tangible
00:48:25.420thing to answer your question, Erica. I want to please encourage everybody and everyone you know
00:48:29.000who thinks like you, please vote early. And even if you hate the system, I do too, okay? I don't
00:48:34.040want vote by mail. But the only way we change it is by winning elections, right? In other words,
00:48:38.480We can't change the rules of the game until we've earned the power to change the rules of the game in the current rules.
00:48:43.200So that's my tangible thing, you know, sort of more practical.
00:48:46.080The kind of more general thing is be as informed as you can possibly be.
00:48:50.280Right. Watch the show. Please watch my documentaries.
00:48:53.320Make sure that you know the truth. And then whatever your sphere of influence is, you've got to talk to people and encourage them.
00:48:58.680Right. You know, and do it in a positive way. You don't say, you know, you moron, you don't know anything about this.
00:49:04.020I'm going to instruct you. No, just, you know, constructively say, hey, have you ever thought of this?1.00
00:49:07.560Did you know what's going on here? Would you be willing to read this article? Would you be able
00:49:10.560to watch this short documentary? Whatever your sphere of influence is. And it might be massive.
00:49:14.720You might have a huge sphere of influence, right? Maybe you're the pastor of a huge church or you're
00:49:18.060CEO of a big company. Or it might be a relatively small sphere, right? Maybe you just know a few
00:49:22.360people at your book club, but that's fine. Or just the neighbors on your street. But whatever it is,
00:49:26.700please do your work. Be a force multiplier. Be a political evangelist for us. So vote yourself.
00:49:32.740Convince people who think like you to vote early. Vote early yourself. Get other people to do that.
00:49:36.680And then more generally, be informed and be a force multiplier within your sphere of influence.
00:49:42.040And if we do that and convince people, and especially, you know, who needs a lot of convincing are people who are not terribly political.
00:49:48.080So, you know, we call them low propensity. Low prop is sort of the term. Low prop Trump voters.
00:49:52.640So they came out and voted in droves for Trump in 2024. They're fired up.
00:49:56.240They hated what was happening with the border. They couldn't stand Biden's inflation.
00:49:59.460But they're not particularly political people. They're just, you know, they're not like us.
00:50:02.960They're just not involved in the way we are.
00:50:06.180By the way, I don't say that as a negative. I'm not looking down on them. People are busy lives.
00:50:09.320They have lots of things to do in their life that they don't choose to get that involved in politics. Fine.
00:50:12.700But when it comes to election time, let's convince them that it matters. Right.
00:50:16.140Let's let's persuade them. Let's twist their arms. Let's nudge them a little bit pestering if you need to make sure they're registered.0.99
00:50:22.060First of all, you can check that. It's online. Right.
00:50:24.020So you can check if they're registered at their current address and then encourage them to vote early and bug them a little, quite frankly.
00:50:30.380So both the persuasion game of, hey, here's why you should care, but then also the get out the vote game of, you know, have you voted yet?
00:50:37.700Hey, I didn't see you checked off the list yet.
00:50:57.180So if you know anyone, you guys that moved recently, or even if they moved like a year
00:51:02.140ago, that's a good intro to just be like, Hey, you know, you recently moved, let's check to make
00:51:07.480sure that you're registered to vote at your current address. Cause this election is so
00:51:11.060important, you know, like that's like an opener and then you can actually check with them and
00:51:14.800make sure. Um, and also I think it's important to say vote early in person because obviously
00:51:21.960there's not one person watching this that thinks if you mail in your vote, that it's going to be
00:51:26.520counted accurately i mean we just we just have every reason to believe it won't be so i like
00:51:32.340that i like that um i have a random question what does i see you on uh with steve bannon a lot what
00:51:40.580is his you know two minute assessment on what's happening for like right now with the elections
00:51:46.620and the midterms how does he see it going sure and by the way yeah i'm gonna be on his show after
00:51:51.160this so uh i i wouldn't tell people to go watch if you were still on but since you're done thank
00:51:56.200Thank you. Tell him I said hello. Okay. I will. I think about 11, 15 Eastern, so shortly after this.
00:52:04.140Okay. Busy day for me, which is good. I mean, I love to be busy. I'm trying to help, you know,
00:52:08.360we all are to save this country and I'm, believe me, I'm honored and blessed that I have a role
00:52:11.940in the fight that I can do it for a living and get, you know, that I can get paid to do something
00:52:15.240I love and really care about and make these kinds of documentaries and try to help this country.
00:52:19.160But to ask you a question about Steve, he's where I am. He is optimistic, but realistic,
00:52:24.660you know, guardedly optimistic and realizes that right now we're down. I mean, we are,
00:52:28.700we are down in these races. Let's not sugarcoat it. Okay. Uh, you know, most of the polling is
00:52:32.860good, not all of it. Uh, but most of it is good. It's at least a snapshot of where we are right
00:52:36.580now. Uh, but there are also legitimate reasons to believe we're going to do better. You know,
00:52:40.280for example, you might've read about, and this is accurate. I, you know, I know this is a pollster
00:52:43.500Democrats tend to poll better in the summertime, uh, in every cycle they just do. And the main
00:52:49.560reason for that is they're more obsessed with politics generally, they are, than our voters
00:52:54.940are. Our voters have a lot of things going on in their lives. Like jobs. Jobs, families, religious
00:53:00.300faith, right? They're not obsessed with politics generally, our side. We don't view politics as
00:53:05.300our God. It's not our faith generally. On the left, it is. I mean, it truly is. They are a
00:53:10.820secular humanist crowd that views politics the way religious people view their faith. That's
00:53:16.940just reality. And so for them, they're more dialed in in the summer than most right wing or center
00:53:22.640right voters are. So there's always a bit of an exaggeration. So their leads are probably not
00:53:27.480quite as substantial as they look right now, even in my own polling. But here, by the way,
00:53:31.420let me give you a polling preview. I've told no one this yet. Okay. Yes, yes, yes. This morning
00:53:36.440from Minnesota, because I was pretty curious. I'm a huge football fan. So I've been following
00:53:40.780Michelle Tafoya as a football broadcaster forever. And I'm hoping, hey, is there a Democrat state we
00:53:46.240can pick off right i think we're going to pick off michigan with i'll say and i do but is there
00:53:49.460another one is it minnesota is it another you know midwest state uh and because i think defoy
00:53:54.320is running a very good campaign now again she's not exactly my kind of candidate i mean she's not1.00
00:53:58.960a hardcore america first or like me but probably the right kind of candidate that can win there
00:54:03.100and um and minnesota people are ticked off and a lot of things that happen in minnesota especially
00:54:08.040the somali scam at scale in minnesota so anyway uh i just pulled minnesota none of this is public
00:54:13.520Look, I haven't even told my colleagues at work, but I'm going to tell you she is down two in my poll.
00:54:19.460So a total horse race that is within the margin of error.
00:54:22.640I think of this. I think the margin of error on this one is two point six.
00:54:25.940I have to look. I mean, I literally just got these numbers and I didn't have time to dig in in detail before I got in the air with you.
00:54:31.560But anyway, that tells me, like, OK, interesting. Do we need to start working on Minnesota?
00:54:36.080You know, it tells me Steve Cortez, at least, should probably try to do what he can to pitch in.
00:54:39.620And I'm going to try to talk to some of my other folks and some of the large donors who might have interest that, hey, we've got a horse race in Minnesota.
00:54:45.460Can we make the Dems? And even if we don't win it, can we make them play defense there?
00:54:49.360That matters to remember a lot of this is sort of a chess game. Right.
00:54:51.880And where did the money go? Because the money is not infinite. Right.
00:54:54.720Even with mega donors on the left and right, it's not infinite. Right.
00:54:58.220So where you deploy the capital can matter a ton. And if the Democrats all of a sudden say, crap, we've got to defend Minnesota, just like Republicans are saying, crap, we've got Texas.0.99
00:55:06.260right yeah or ohio i mean don't get me wrong this goes both ways obviously this sort of tic-tac you0.96
00:55:12.180know uh tiff attack game but anyway according to my poll minnesota's in play and i i think
00:55:18.140michelle tofoia who again i'm not totally with ideologically but i think she's an excellent
00:55:22.620candidate she's obviously amazing on television i mean it's her life right i think she's one of
00:55:26.540the better um and i think has some pretty good ideas and ideologically probably fits the state0.94
00:55:33.420pretty well. So anyway, is that, is that an opportunity? Gosh, I hope so. That would be
00:55:37.380a big reason to be optimistic if we've got a horse race in Minnesota. Yeah. If Minnesota can't,
00:55:43.420I mean, if they haven't been through enough to be like, we got to change what we're doing. I don't
00:55:48.160think they're ever coming back. Cause that is some next level insanity. We've never seen the
00:55:52.880likes of in this country ever, um, between Tim Waltz and everything else going on there and
00:55:58.600Don LeMond stunt in the church and all of that stuff. I mean, crazy town. Um, I like, I like
00:56:05.920Michelle. I think she's a, I think she's got like that balance to maybe appeal to a wider variety0.86
00:56:12.740of people in Minnesota than being hardcore one way or the other. Um, yeah, she's kind of a common0.69
00:56:19.420sense person, right? She's not, she's not as right wing again, as I would prefer, but you know,
00:56:23.460she's, she's not running in Tennessee where I am. She's running in Minnesota. And I agree. I think0.99
00:56:27.380she's just a common sense person and she's largely running on the uh the gender nonsense right that0.99
00:56:32.780the leftist gender and particularly when it comes to sports because of course that's her world right0.80
00:56:36.900and that's i think what really motivated her to get political was you know seeing you know men
00:56:40.700and boys abusing girls in sports is outrageous and the left has lost its mind on that issue
00:56:46.000and that compelled her to get involved in politics and i think she's a very sort of
00:56:49.260she would be a common sense center-right senator and wouldn't that be a big win over what we have
00:56:55.360people like Tim Walls being elected statewide in Minnesota.0.72
00:56:59.640Yes, for sure. Owen, sorry, I haven't gotten to you.
00:57:03.940No, I mean, I am very concerned about the midterms, and I think we need to do everything
00:57:07.800we possibly can. I think it's critical. I am more
00:57:11.720concerned about 28, frankly, just because
00:57:15.780I think, you know, in big picture, what I see if we
00:57:19.840lose midterms in terms of Congress control is, okay,
00:57:23.800nothing happens in Congress, but nothing's happening anyway. And I still think it's bad
00:57:28.880because you know what's going to happen. They're going to impeach Trump three times. They're going
00:57:35.020to have hearing after hearing after hearing, trying to, you know, grill people. And it's
00:57:39.920going to be a big distraction. But largely speaking, Trump will still be able to do his
00:57:44.060executive orders and will still be doing a lot of what we have been doing. And I'm guessing it's
00:57:48.760not going to be bad enough that Democrats would have like, you know, super majority control. But
00:57:53.380even if they did, Trump would just veto everything. So I'm more concerned about 28 just because
00:57:59.120that's what's really going to set the direction. That's really what's going to do that. And again,
00:58:04.860I'm not trying to say don't go vote. Of course, do everything you just said. I mean, I really
00:58:08.520would love to have Congress remain in Republican control and maybe even gain some seats. But
00:58:14.440I see that as the bigger risk is that if we get a Democrat in Congress, it could just totally
00:58:20.980undo everything trump did and you know because so much of it is executive orders it's not law
00:58:26.580and so like that to me is just like it would be a disaster to have
00:58:31.780a radical democrat like aoc or somebody become president
00:58:38.260never never never never wait i'm really i'm actually the opposite i'm really hopeful for
00:58:44.1802028 we have great candidates great uh jd vance um marco rubio you know ron de santis there's so
00:58:54.100much talent that i am not afraid like i am not afraid maybe the scent maybe steve cortez um
00:59:03.860let's go steve but you know what i mean like i there's so much talent like there was there was
00:59:10.420a point in time between bush and trump that there was not as much talent there but right now there's
00:59:17.300so many young people and younger candidates that can run and can last for longer so i'm very but
00:59:23.540i think one thing that i do want to point out that steve said is very key is vote early because when
00:59:29.540the voting comes in and they talk about it in the news you start feeling like oh we're just losing
00:59:35.140well i'm not going to show up um to vote you know so go early uh don't give up until you know it's
00:59:42.980over you know yes there's cheating yes there's fraud but don't let that set you behind go ahead
00:59:50.180steve yeah no i agree 100 if that can you know please uh implore the audience with marching
00:59:56.340orders it's that vote early yourself work your sphere of influence uh we're down in these races
01:00:01.860so have a sense of urgency but not despondency we can win we can win all these races within
01:00:06.020striking distance the good news you guys we're going to see steve a lot from now until the
01:00:11.300midterm so get used to it and we're very excited about that and i will post the full episode or
01:00:18.900the full documentary today after the show for steve's latest documentary and um steve thank
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