00:02:24I was actually thinking about this the other night.
00:02:26I'm sorry to say I was like lying in bed and I'm thinking about Hunter and these interviews he's doing and how he's playing off this little Pollyanna routine of his and it's just sickening.
00:02:35But I was like, why aren't people asking him like this question and that question?
00:08:35Then it didn't come back up. And it took them three days to get me working again. And I was
00:08:40just like, that's it. I'm just not doing this anymore. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I think a lot of
00:08:44us are going to end up with Starlink. I'm not mad about it. I have two in my house just for that
00:08:49reason. Oh, and also in case I need one or the other. All right. So that's amazing. I mean,
00:08:55I can't wait to see. They're going to bring the first building blocks for the moon to start
00:09:01building the base on the moon. I mean, now I picture China going up there and being like,0.81
00:09:06aha. And they're going to like take our things and like move them over to their part of the moon1.00
00:09:10and start building. We're going to start colonizing the moon. Um, okay. So let's get into Steve here
00:09:17because Steve, I, uh, I, so I'm so moved, you know, with, with all of the stories you're telling
00:09:21and they're important stories. And I love that you do this. So I'm going to play, actually,
00:09:27why don't you tell us where you went and then I and then set me up for the clip of the angel moms
00:09:33so I went to Fond du Lac Wisconsin for folks who don't know Fond du Lac it's a wonderful sort of
00:09:38typical midwestern small town small to medium sized town it's a middle class place but very
00:09:43pleasant uh you know sort of white picket fences it's on a huge lake like Winnebago one of the
00:09:48biggest lakes inland lakes in Wisconsin and this this really pleasant community very traditional
00:09:53Wisconsin community, unfortunately, believe it or not, has had inflicted upon it a scourge of
00:09:59illegal alien crime. And I mean really significant crimes. I mean, there's sort of the more lifestyle0.93
00:10:04crimes of like petty theft and bad driving, that sort of thing. But then there's way more serious
00:10:10crimes like attempted murders and molestations of children going on in Fond du Lac. And when I read
00:10:15about several incidents in Fond du Lac, because I happen to know this town, I said, this is nuts.
00:10:19How is this happening here so far from the U.S.-Mexico border in a seemingly safe place and a seemingly, you know, well, not seemingly in what is a wonderful community?
00:10:31And so I went there to Fond du Lac and I made this documentary Danger in the Heartland because I want to make sure that voters are aware,
00:10:38that all Americans are aware that just because you live far from the U.S.-Mexico border doesn't mean that you are not subject to the pain and the agony and the consequences of an open border,
00:10:48you know, particularly Biden's open border. And so this doc, by the way, too, in terms of attention
00:10:52span, Erica, this was only 13 minutes. We really made this one pretty short on purpose. And we did
00:10:58that because in some sense, it's almost a long commercial. You can think of it that way. But we
00:11:02do find roughly 20 minutes is kind of our sweet spot. But this one, we went even shorter, but we
00:11:07just had guests who were so concise and punchy, including law enforcement and angel moms. And so
00:11:13far, it's doing just fantastically well, particularly in Wisconsin. And obviously part of
00:11:19why we did this is the upcoming election, because we want to convince and persuade voters that Tom
00:11:23Tiffany, sitting U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin, who's running for governor, that he needs to be
00:11:28the next governor of Wisconsin. He's running against David Crowley, who is the county manager
00:11:32of Milwaukee County. He's an open borders radical, just like the current Democrats who run Wisconsin
00:11:38are, and the consequences of being a so-called sanctuary city or sanctuary state, the consequences
00:11:44are severe, and that's what we show in this documentary. All right, let's take a look at
00:11:48the clip with the angel moms, bless our souls. Okay, here we go. Yep. She had been previously0.83
00:11:55arrested more than one time. This is not the first time she had been pulled over for drunk driving,
00:12:03And she didn't even have a driver's license. Why is she still out on the road?0.97
00:12:09Right. So, Allison, in addition to the criminal herself, who, of course, she's principally responsible for killing your children.0.84
00:12:15But do you also blame radical politicians who allowed her to stay in this country after breaking into our country and then being arrested on top of that initial crime?
00:12:26definitely do and i think jen and i have both said this would never have happened if she was
00:12:35not in this country she shouldn't have been here and if she wasn't here she wouldn't have been
00:12:40driving drunk on the wrong side of the interstate and our kids would be here so for those of you
00:12:47that didn't watch yet i did post the the link to the full 13 minutes on my page these are the
00:12:53parents of a young couple, uh, a boy and a girl, I think one was in high school and one was just
00:13:00out of high school that were dating. Right. And so their, their children were killed. Go ahead,
00:13:07Steve. Yeah. So, uh, and by the way, I posted, so we used about three minutes of their very moving
00:13:12commentary and storytelling about three, four minutes in the 13 minute documentary. But I also
00:13:18posted the full 16 minute documentary of just these two moms, you know, so not the rest of
00:13:22documentary because i thought it was so moving so compelling they were so braved and they've done
00:13:27this several times to tell their story publicly that that you know the voters out there should
00:13:32get a chance to look at it so that's all been posted on my social media and at cortesinvestigates.com
00:13:37um on my youtube page we put it everywhere but you know these two brave moms who had you know
00:13:42the worst imaginable tragedy thrust upon them uh jen lost her son brady allison lost her daughter
00:13:49Hallie, you know, an unspeakable tragedy that was preventable. That was one. This wasn't just bad
00:13:55luck. OK, this wasn't just, you know, hey, this is life sometimes in a fallen world. No, this was a
00:14:00totally preventable tragedy because the repeat offender, illegal alien who killed their children,
00:14:06she was previously arrested repeatedly for drunk driving while illegal in the United States. But
00:14:13Dane County, Wisconsin, which is where the University of Wisconsin is, where the capital
00:14:17state capital of Madison is one of the most liberal parts of not just Wisconsin, but probably
00:14:21America. They repeatedly protected her. ICE lodged a detainer saying, hey, she's an illegal. You0.58
00:14:27arrested her. We want to deport her. They said no. Okay. And this happens again and again in these0.87
00:14:32so-called sanctuary jurisdictions. She then went on to drive wrong way down the freeway, smashed1.00
00:14:38headfirst into this wonderful young couple. These two were high school sweethearts. They were
00:14:43planning on getting married. They were deeply in love with each other, deeply in love with the
00:14:47lord they were both very devout christians they shared bible verses in the morning uh they were
00:14:52good looking athletic just wonderful just an all-american young couple who were planning a
00:14:56life together only 18 and 19 years old and yet in a preventable chat tragedy they were taken from
00:15:03this world their lives were taken the family's grief of course is still intense but i so credit
00:15:09these two women with trying to turn something positive out of their unspeakable tragedy they
00:15:14don't want it to happen again. And they're willing to speak out and they're willing to be political
00:15:19and say, hey, this is a political crime, essentially, that was inflicted upon our families.
00:15:25There is a political solution. And so I give them a lot of credit. It was a really moving
00:15:30interview. I encourage folks to not just watch the documentary, please, but to also watch the
00:15:34interview of these two ladies, because I think it will move you. And if you happen to live in
00:15:39Wisconsin, I hope it will persuade you to vote for Tom Tiffany. If you have friends and family
00:15:43in Wisconsin, please, you know, make sure they see it and make sure that they vote. Because again,
00:15:48this stuff really matters. I mean, this is the tangible reality of the tangible consequences of
00:15:53radical policies that prioritize narrative over just common sense, you know, and the moms say in
00:16:00the interview with me, they say, this shouldn't even be political, right? I mean, this is really
00:16:04a law enforcement safety, common sense principle. If somebody breaks into your home, and then commits
00:16:10additional crimes while in your home, they cannot stay. They simply cannot stay. Just breaking in
00:16:17should be enough. But when you break in and then commit additional crimes and prove to the community
00:16:22that you are dangerous and you are not removed to protect the political narrative and it puts
00:16:28the lives of Americans at risk, that's totally unacceptable. We can't live this way. And
00:16:34Wisconsin shouldn't be forced to live this way. So they were moving, compelling. I give them a lot
00:16:39of credit for doing it for speaking through their pain there's a lot of tears as you might imagine
00:16:44in the interview and um and it was tough for them i'm sure to get through but they want to see
00:16:51something bigger come out of this and they don't want families to suffer the way they did and what
00:16:55i'm telling you is there's a political solution to this tom tiffany has been as strong on the
00:17:00border as anyone in the congress okay this is a guy who means it this is a guy who is a common
00:17:05sense conservative law and order public official. He'll be a fantastic governor of Wisconsin. It's
00:17:12a really tight race, by the way, Eric, a really tight. I poll like crazy and I show him just
00:17:17barely down within the margin of error, but consistently down two to 3%. So we've got work
00:17:23to do in the next five weeks. Five weeks from today is election day, but it is an absolutely
00:17:28winnable race. And I think this issue might be the lever that puts Tom over the top where
00:17:35Wisconsin, I'd say, Hey, we've got to protect our people. Oh my gosh. It's such important work. And
00:17:39I'm wondering, you know, I'm like, Oh, you know, come here, Steve, you know, New Jersey, we have
00:17:44so many problems. And I see people in the chat, you know, come to Montgomery. I think it was
00:17:50Maryland. Uh, you know, but I, I guess right now I was going to ask you, how do you decide where
00:17:55to go? I'm assuming right now it's coming down to elections. So where you can be helpful. Is that
00:18:00How you decide. Yeah, correct. So we did do a New Jersey documentary trying to help Chittarelli, which unfortunately didn't work. But I thought he was a wonderful candidate. And we did go and make a documentary about New Jersey moving right, which it is moving right now.
00:18:14There's so much fraud, though, Steve. I mean, as you saw, all of the votes that were put in that were cast by illegals, it is North Jersey is so corrupt. Not that the rest of New Jersey isn't, but there's a lot of foreign money and influence.
00:18:30and cheating and it's a shame because really new jersey should be fully republican there's so many
00:18:37people that live here that work in the city that are like in finance and these are like you know
00:18:42people that are really you know capitalistic and and then now we've got our new um patterson's0.83
00:18:49turned into like little islam and uh so you know even though we're going right we're going radical0.86
00:18:57at the same time so i don't know what's going to happen you know we have that's happening in a lot
00:19:00of places in america yes where you know formerly blue places are on the whole turning right however
00:19:05the radical left is becoming a marxist jihadi left right this is not your parents or grandparents
00:19:11democrats right it's a totally different america hating christianity hating western civilization
00:19:16hating kind of left the abdul al-sayed what you're talking about in patterson new jersey
00:19:21what you let me highlight last time i was on your show in lewiston maine right this is happening by
00:19:26By the way, I filmed in Patterson. I filmed at that beautiful Patterson Falls.
00:19:29It was a really cool backdrop. A lot of people know it because of The Sopranos.
00:19:32So I actually filmed there. But I saw it. And the point of this doc wasn't the Muslim issue.
00:19:37But I saw firsthand just how Arabic and Islamic Patterson has become.1.00
00:19:42And I think that's really, really alarming.1.00
00:19:45And by the way, my next upcoming documentary that's being edited right now will be out next week.
00:19:49I went to Dearborn, Michigan and shot a documentary on exactly that topic in Dearborn, Michigan.
00:19:54But in terms of answering your question about how we select the places, it's very election based.
00:19:58So we have a very tight gubernatorial election in Wisconsin.
00:20:02We also have next door in Michigan. I'm very focused on the Great Lakes right now as far as sort of battleground races in Michigan.
00:20:09We have a very tight Senate election there where I think Mike Rogers can beat Abdul Al-Sayed.
00:20:15But again, kind of like Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin is slightly down right now.
00:20:19So work to do, some wood to chop, but I think a very winnable race.1.00
00:20:24Abdul Syed hates America, has substantial ties to the most radical elements of Islam, including the Muslim Brotherhood.0.99
00:20:31He's not somebody who ever belongs in the United States Senate.
00:20:35And so I'm doing everything I can to try to expose that.
00:20:38So in terms of how we select the states, yes, generally in an election year like this, we're very, very election focused.
00:20:44And I also really up the pace. So the frequency increases a lot.
00:20:48I've been super busy. My editing team has been super busy. My camera crew.
00:20:53Once we shift into next year, post-election, then we're a little more issue-based, and
00:20:57I'm sort of a little freer to go wherever in the United States, and we can focus more
00:21:02on issues, and it doesn't have to be quite so election-specific, but in the even years,
00:21:06basically, when we've got, you know, a lot of, there are, of course, odd-year elections,
00:21:10but most of the elections in the United States are even years, so in the even years, I'm
00:21:14doing this mainly, I mean, of course, I want to motivate people, hopefully educate people,
00:21:18even entertain them sometimes when the topic is fun.
00:21:20This one wasn't fun at all, of course. But sometimes, but the end end goal that I'm after and the folks who work with me are after is to move votes ultimately.
00:21:31So, you know, we hope to educate and enlighten and motivate. But all that toward the aim of, hey, let's win this election and let's make sure we get the right people in office.
00:21:40And listen, I'm honored that I get to do it. I meet amazing people. I go to some really cool places. I go to tough places, too.
00:21:46I mean, you know, I've filmed in some bad neighborhoods.
00:21:48I filmed a lot of the border in the summertime, which is not pleasant.
00:22:08I just want to say one more thing, Owen, before I ask you to jump in.
00:22:11But I saw a post from Ari Fleischer this morning.
00:22:14um he put up a flyer that the democrats for mike rogers put up but anyway ari wrote the soros
00:22:22foundation paid for abdul to go to medical school and now they're raising money for him he's owned
00:22:29by the soros family and their stepson hassan piker and then he has a flyer that the democrats put up
00:22:36but it says you know abdul for u.s senate please join and it says katherine and jeffrey soros
00:22:42amos hassan john favreau ed redlich sarah timberman then you got uh let's see oh ben
00:22:49rhodes another winner tommy veder great so you know this is what uh michigan has to look forward
00:22:57to uh is a soros backed terrorist backed america hating backed puppet and is he a doctor i don't
00:23:06know i don't care um well yeah no he's not licensed i mean he did go to medical school0.92
00:23:10but he always calls himself a doctor and he has never practiced. He's never gotten licensed.
00:23:16You know, almost everything about him is phony. And listen, I'll be the first to admit he's skilled.
00:23:20OK, he's a smart guy. He's got some media savvy. He's pretty good on camera. He's got a little bit
00:23:25of a silver tongue. So, I mean, I get it. I get some of the appeal. But at the same time, I would
00:23:31ask and encourage the voters of Michigan, take a real look at who he is and what he actually
00:23:37believes. And by the way, you're exactly right. And who are his allies? Right. He had Hassan
00:23:41Piker. This isn't some, you know, extended association. He had Hassan Piker visit Michigan
00:23:46and physically campaign with him. OK, so this is not arm's length transaction. They are boys. OK,
00:23:53this is his BFF. And Hassan Piker is even more overt than I think they believe the same things.
00:23:59Right. Abdul and Hassan. But Hassan Piker is even more overt about how much he hates the United
00:24:05states is there anyone in the chat is there anyone in the chat that doesn't know hassan piker and
00:24:10maybe maybe steve you know for the people that don't how do we explain hassan piker yeah so
00:24:17hassan piker he was unfortunately born in the united states as an anchor baby i don't believe
00:24:22that anchor baby should be citizens but technically at least for now he is a u.s citizen but it spent
00:24:27his entire youth in turkey some turkish descent and uh and very much has the mindset of a turkish
00:24:34left-wing Islamist radical, came back to the United States and started podcasting. He is
00:24:40unfortunately very successful. He has a very big following on the very hard radical left.
00:24:46And again, kind of like Abdul, I'll admit he has some media skills. He's got a bit of a silver
00:24:52tongue like Abdul does. And he can be funny at times, but he is an absolute to the core1.00
00:24:59America-hating radical. And we see this really toxic marriage right now in the United States
00:25:04of the hard, radical Marxist left with the Islamist jihadis. And even though they actually
00:25:12would disagree on a whole host of issues, they have formed this red-green alliance nonetheless
00:25:16that at least for now will last. And the reason it does, because you might say, well, wait a second,
00:25:22you know, they disagree on so many issues, especially social or, you know, sort of moral
00:25:25issues. You know, why this alliance? Well, what they have in common is an enemy. They have a
00:25:30common enemy in America, in Western civilization, in historic Christianity. And so they unite in who0.95
00:25:37their enemy is. And they want to destroy our country, and they're not shy about it, right?
00:25:42And they want to destroy all the things our country produces, like to be specific on that.
00:25:46Looking at Abdul, I've posted this several times on my social media. He's running to be the senator
00:25:50from Michigan, okay, from the auto state. And he says that the automobile is like a cigarette
00:25:56and that they should be similarly reviled, that the automobile doesn't belong in our society.
00:26:03He's somebody who said that football, I mean, football, in a state with Michigan State and
00:26:07the University of Michigan, he said that football was racist, misogynistic. He hates football. Okay,0.53
00:26:13this is the kind of guy he is. Now, he still showed up at the Wolverine tailgate and pretended
00:26:17to like football, but we have the tapes. Okay. We have the receipts. These things are, are on the
00:26:21record. Uh, he's an America hating radical. Um, and I'm exposing that I hope. And what's happened
00:26:28in Dearborn, here's the thing too, which I think is interesting. And part of why I went there is
00:26:31because I was polling Michigan and I was frankly surprised at how honest Michigan citizens are
00:26:36willing to be now at saying there's too much Muslim mass migration into Michigan. Uh, and I
00:26:42show this in my upcoming doc, so please look for it. But, you know, the town of Dearborn has been
00:26:46completely overtaken by Arabic and by Islam to the point where prayer calls are blasted throughout1.00
00:26:53the town. This is Dearborn, Michigan, by the way, the home of Ford Motor. That's how most people,
00:26:57if they know Dearborn, they know it from Henry Ford and really in some ways the birthplace of
00:27:01the American auto industry, Dearborn. It is now fully Islamic. The women walking down the street0.98
00:27:06in Dearborn in the Midwest of the United States are fully in the hijabs, most of them covering1.00
00:27:10everything, you know, even covering the face and the eyes. There are various mosques there,1.00
00:27:16including the biggest mosque in America, all of which share allegiance and pledge allegiance to
00:27:21the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States0.99
00:27:26government for good reasons. These are radicals who hate the United States, and they have been1.00
00:27:30very overt, by the way, that what they are seeking to do for the country is what they've done for
00:27:35Dearborn. In other words, they don't want to coexist alongside us. You know, the leftists
00:27:39love those bumper stickers coexist. The Islamists have no interest in coexisting. They want to1.00
00:27:45overtake. Right. And it's part of their religion. It really is. It's part of their ideology that you0.95
00:27:51must seek political power so that you can institute Sharia law. They have largely done that in0.97
00:27:56Dearborn, Michigan, believe it or not. And they're trying to make it even more stringent. The point
00:28:00is, and this is what I'm trying to reveal for the country and for Michigan voters, is let's stop
00:28:05this. Okay. We've had, we've had enough of this. Now listen, people who are here who are American
00:28:09citizens, they have every right to practice their religion, whatever it is, including Islam,
00:28:14of course. But what I am saying is let's also be smart about who we decide to invite into our
00:28:19country because there we do decide, right? And elect who we invite in and, and inviting in mass
00:28:24Muslim migration, I don't believe makes sense for this country. And my polling tells me a super1.00
00:28:29majority of Americans and Michigan voters agree with me. Um, well, part of that movement then
00:28:34has to be rejecting Abdul El-Sayed. And rejecting suicidal empathy and being
00:28:40afraid to speak up. That's a big problem that we were taught. Owen, I'm so sorry. I've just
00:28:45been yammering on, Steve. Go ahead. That's all right. No, I mean, well, if I go back to the
00:28:50documentary clip we just saw, I certainly think it's a huge tragedy anytime a parent loses a
00:28:55child. And I don't think there's any way you can minimize the pain that they're going through. So
00:29:00i do think they're very brave to even speak about it um because i think if i try to put myself in
00:29:06those shoes i hope i certainly hope i never have to face that but um you know i would just be
00:29:11devastated i don't know how i would even continue it's like you know you it's like you've lost
00:29:17everything and um you know i i get angry when people on the left try to justify it or or make
00:29:27it's not so bad where they're like oh the crime rates are they they try to make a case where the
00:29:31crime rates are lower for immigrants than they are for citizens or something like that and i'm like1.00
00:29:36no if they're an illegal immigrant you should be comparing it to what it would be if they weren't0.99
00:29:40here which is zero right there's no there's no other thing to compare it to if they weren't here0.93
00:29:45there would be none of that and that those kids would be alive today yeah and um so you know it
00:29:52just it gets me angry when they try to change the conversation to something that really shouldn't be
00:29:56And I definitely agree with you that this is a problem everywhere in the country, not just in the border states.0.99
00:30:03And it's been an orchestrated thing from start to finish, from bringing the caravans all the way up through our southern border to letting them go once they get here to shipping them all over the country and setting up these communities like in Minnesota with the Somalis and with, you know, in Ohio as well and other places and with all these Islam communities.0.97
00:30:24and it seems very intentional to me it doesn't seem like this would just happen by accident0.85
00:30:29it's like they decided where to put these people and they decided to concentrate them in places
00:30:35where they would not assimilate and they would keep their culture and they would have a foothold
00:30:39to try and start taking control and it seems like a very orchestrated campaign to try and make this
00:30:46all happen and i think we do need to take back our country and we need to stop this and and get rid
00:30:53of the people especially like you said the people who have already committed additional crimes on
00:30:57top of just getting here illegally to begin with that if you've demonstrated that you're not willing
00:31:02to follow the laws and you're not willing to do the things we would expect a good citizen to do
00:31:07then of course you shouldn't be here i mean i i personally think we should go farther than that
00:31:12and say if you shouldn't be here you just shouldn't be here but um you know i certainly also agree
00:31:17that we should start with the worst of the worst and start with the people who have already committed
00:31:21other crimes while they've been here and so that i don't think there's any justification for that
00:31:25so i certainly would encourage anybody listening yeah i want to um i want to address one person on
00:31:32youtube i i've noticed this person when i go back to the after show this is coke machine 55 10 he's
00:31:40just dying to know who by who who's orchestrating this you know like how is this being orchestrated
00:31:46so steve or owen whichever one of you want to take this because poor coke machine needs an answer
00:31:50i'll be happy to yes because and i do cover this in my main documentary but i'm happy to talk about
00:31:56this uh look there are a lot of ngos non-governmental organizations that get a tremendous
00:32:01amount of tax dollars and then they also get a lot of charitable and or religious contributions as
00:32:05well and unfortunately they have become in many ways almost human trafficking organizations and
00:32:11again we cover this uh in my main documentary so i encourage you to go to that on my youtube page
00:32:16also at cortesinvestigates.com. And I say this part, by the way, with no pleasure as a Catholic,
00:32:23and I try to be a very faithful Catholic, but unfortunately, the Catholic Church in the United
00:32:26States has become largely a human trafficking organization, particularly Catholic Charities
00:32:31specifically. You know, the Catholic Church is a very big umbrella. Catholic Charities specifically,
00:32:36which is an organization within the Catholic Church that's run by the Catholic Bishops out
00:32:39of Washington, D.C., who are unfortunately very left-wing, very pro-open borders. They get hundreds
00:32:45of millions of dollars and actually at times into the billions of dollars from the government
00:32:49taxpayer money in addition to what they're collecting from the pews from the faithful but
00:32:53taxpayer money to quote resettle migrants and the specific case of the Somalis in Lewiston who have
00:33:00been so problematic who have not remotely assimilated who are stealing at scale from
00:33:06the state of Maine much like is happening in Minnesota just not quite as big a deal because
00:33:11there's just not as many of them in Maine, but a similar kind of mass systemic scam, mostly via
00:33:16healthcare fraud, via Medicare and Medicaid abuse. Those Somalis in Lewiston, Maine, they were0.99
00:33:22literally installed, planted there by Catholic charities in the United States. So that is the0.98
00:33:28kind of group that's doing it. Lutheran Family Services is doing a lot of it. So it's not just
00:33:32a Catholic problem. A lot of these so-called religious organizations are doing it. There's
00:33:35some Jewish groups that are doing it. And then there's also just some secular NGOs that are
00:33:39doing it, but it's, it's a hat in hand to the federal government saying, well, we will take
00:33:44your money. We will then do your bidding, meaning not, not the people, of course, I mean, you know,
00:33:49democratic operatives and Democrat politicians will do what you want done, which is put these
00:33:54people and listen, you're right. It's all over the country. You know, Owen mentioned Ohio and
00:33:58Springfield, Ohio, Charleroi, Pennsylvania in Western PA. Of course, this has happened. It's
00:34:04happened at scale in Minneapolis in the twin cities. And that's a better sort of known story.
00:34:08It's happening in Texas with entire Islamic communities that are practicing Sharia law.
00:34:13So that's that's sort of the the installed migration, if you will.0.95
00:34:18What I covered in Wisconsin, to get back to my current documentary about danger in the heartland, that's more just Biden throwing open the border and saying, hey, come on in, whomever.
00:34:27Right. So there it wasn't really as organized, but it's every bit as sinister and destructive to the United States.
00:34:33And the illegal migrant who killed Hallie Helgeson and Brady Hyling, this wonderful young American couple who was doing absolutely nothing wrong.
00:34:42They were coming home from a concert. They were driving correctly.
00:34:45They were sober, seatbelts on, driving correctly, smashed into headfirst by a repeat offender drunk driver who didn't belong in this country,
00:34:53who was protected by the leftist politicians of Wisconsin and Dane County, Wisconsin specifically.
00:35:02So there's various sort of flavors, right, of the assault on America, on our safety, on our wages, on our national security, our sovereignty.
00:35:09There's a there's a highly organized part where unfortunately churches or so-called church groups are deeply involved.
00:35:16And then there's more sort of just the chaos part of, hey, open the border, whoever comes, comes.
00:35:21And then they go to. And by the way, the migrants aren't dumb. OK, they know this.0.96
00:35:24They go to sanctuary jurisdictions because they know they're not going to get punted.
00:35:27right they know if they go to Chicago or they go to Dane County Wisconsin and they go to these
00:35:32liberal jurisdictions they go to New Jersey guess what even if we get picked up for doing something
00:35:36else we're not going to get sent back so of course they go there right I mean it just makes sense
00:35:40unfortunately you know another documentary I did not far from Wisconsin just across the border in
00:35:45Chicago was the Sheridan Gorman one she was the beautiful young woman student at Loyola University
00:35:50in Chicago she and her friends were out late one night but doing you know nothing crazy they were
00:35:55going to literally watch the Northern Lights because it was a rare day where you could see
00:35:59them over Lake Michigan from Chicago. So they were out of these rocks right next to Loyola
00:36:03University at Loyola Beach, a place that is seemingly really safe. It's not a dangerous
00:36:08part of Chicago. There's plenty of those. I'm from there and you'll know it very well. And an
00:36:13illegal migrant came up and without any provocation, without any cause at all, shot her and killed her0.97
00:36:18just because he hated his heart and he was perhaps mentally unstable. By the way, that illegal0.99
00:36:24migrant lived just a couple of blocks from there. And guess what? We paid his rent. The taxpayers
00:36:30were paying his rent for him to live on the Chicago lakefront where a lot of Chicagoans
00:36:34can't afford to live. Okay, pretty high rent area. The taxpayers of Illinois were paying the rent
00:36:40of the illegal alien scumbag who decided to kill Sheridan Gorman in cold blood, a college freshman0.98
00:36:49who was a wonderful young lady, deeply involved in her Christian group at Loyola University,1.00
00:36:55gone. And her family, like these brave women that I interviewed, her mother and her family,
00:37:00they've been brave too about speaking out, about testifying before Congress and giving some
00:37:04interviews, which I'm sure is anguishing every single time. But they don't want to repeat it
00:37:08as well. The Gormans don't, the Helgesons don't, the Heilings don't. Those are the two families0.95
00:37:12that I interviewed in Wisconsin. But we have a choice. I mean, look, I mean, that's all horrible,
00:37:18awful news the good news is in five weeks we have a choice you know you know we have we have candidates
00:37:23in these races who will continue that kind of mayhem will protect the predators and then we
00:37:28have candidates who say no law and order common sense um sovereignty of the united states and so
00:37:34let's do everything we can i you know i'm sure this audience is going to vote uh but let's make
00:37:39sure that everyone you know everyone in your sphere of influence is similarly motivated to
00:37:43to vote. And honestly, be a bit of a pest, okay? I'm going to ask you, step out of your comfort
00:37:47zone a little bit. Friends and family you know who you think are voting our way, make sure they're
00:37:52registered. There's still time in most places to get registered. That's the first thing. You can
00:37:56check that publicly, by the way. That's probably available if somebody's registered. So you don't
00:37:59have to ask them. You can just check on your own. You can do a little snoopy. And then once they're
00:38:05registered, bother them a little bit to make sure they vote. And I encourage them to vote early. I
00:38:10know there's probably a lot of folks in this audience who don't believe in that. I wish we
00:38:13only had game day voting, but we don't. And so in person though, in person. Yeah. Voting early in
00:38:18person. That's what I do. It's what I encourage everybody on the right to do. Vote early in
00:38:23person. You never know what can happen on election day, whether a personal issue, a health problem,
00:38:28a childcare crisis, all kinds of things can happen on election day. So please, please vote in person
00:38:34early. Bank that vote. The left is way better at this game than we are in terms of banking early
00:38:40votes even outside of the cheating i mean of course they cheat and i know the system facilitates
00:38:43cheating and i want the system changed but we can't change the system unless we win by the
00:38:48current rules you know devised for the system so these are going to be tough elections and like
00:38:52make no mistake i i think we are underwater in really all of these tight races now i don't think
00:38:57they're unwinnable okay i'm not trying to be pessimistic i'm not being uh debbie downer here
00:39:02i think they are all winnable but we can't sit it out we are down in all of them basically that
00:39:07races that really matter. And we, we need to rally to win. If you look at where Trump's going to
00:39:13rally, you're like, Oh my God, look, why are you going to these States? You shouldn't have to be
00:39:18going to these States, but he he's going because it's bad right now, you guys. So, you know,
00:39:24Owen and Steve, you know, what do you, for me, I think the two issues with the midterms are the
00:39:32wars and illegal immigration. Um, the war is not going to end soon. Um, not, and things aren't
00:39:42going to turn around fast enough to make that. Like if that's somebody's issue, it's not going
00:39:46to turn it around, but the illegal immigration, well, and the war goes with the economy. So that's,
00:39:52let me just put that together. So what people are, you know, and I have people like, Oh, you know,
00:39:56they're, they're mad at me because I'm not willing to just like take one for the team.
00:40:00when my, I have a business that runs strictly on diesel. Um, I have a fleet of trucks and
00:40:06equipment that literally burn diesel all day long. So they're like, you know, well, you have to like
00:40:12take one for the team. And I'm just like, you know, it's easy to say for you, but my business
00:40:16costs actually it's, they're up over 70% now, my cost of doing business. And I can't push that all
00:40:22to a customer. I can't, I really don't want to push any of it to a customer, but, um, you know,
00:40:27so it's, I'm, I'm like, we'll be okay. Like we'll be okay. I don't love it. It's going to
00:40:33definitely change the trajectory of some things we want to do, but, um, there are people where
00:40:38that's not okay. Like they can't, they can barely get through today. So having that attitude of
00:40:45like, you know, people saying like, just take one for the team. I think people, even if you feel
00:40:50that way, you need to show empathy to people, sympathy to people. Like I can't imagine how you
00:40:56feel like hopefully the war will, will end after the midterms. Like, I think you need to like hear
00:41:01people, like meet them where they're at, acknowledge how they're feeling and then say,
00:41:06but let's just rally because the thing that could happen after that is so much worse than what we
00:41:11have to temporarily deal with now. So I just think that coming at people hard, isn't the way to go.
00:41:16So, um, you know, what, what do you guys think the issues are? Oh, and I'll come to you first
00:41:22for, you know, people that they're, they're probably going to sit it out. A lot of people
00:41:26are going to sit it out and that's a problem. Yeah. I mean, I, I do think the economy is going
00:41:30to be the dominant factor because I just see, I just think it, it, it's something you face every
00:41:35day, right? Like you go to the grocery store, you go to the gas station, you see the prices
00:41:39and if they're a lot higher than you're hoping or expecting, then that's going to make a difference
00:41:44in your mind in terms of how you feel about how the government is doing because like it or not,
00:41:49And to whatever extent they either are or are not really to blame for those things, that's how people are going to see it.
00:41:55You know, we'd love on the right to be able to say, oh, it's all because of that Biden, you know, bill back better trillion dollar spending bill.
00:42:02And maybe that's true, but no one's going to think that.
00:42:05You're not going to convince for any people that, you know, we should just pretend like Trump's been doing all the right things when he promised to say he's going to make things more affordable.
00:42:16And so I think that's going to be one of the main issues. But I do think immigration is an important one. And I hope we can highlight that as a big issue, because as Steve's been pointing out with those documentaries, it is a big difference in terms of what's going to happen.
00:42:31And I think the economy, I do think it would be worse under Democrats.
00:42:37And I think it is important to understand that the midterms are important for that reason, because a lot of people do just not vote in the midterms because they just don't think it matters.
00:42:45And I think it does matter because every year, Congress at least has to pass a budget.
00:42:50They have to say, what are we going to spend our money on?
00:42:56And so what happens right now is going to determine that and how much leverage each side has to make those deals or whatever compromises they have to make to be able to put that budget through.
00:43:07So if the Republicans keep control of the House and the Senate, then Trump can probably get the budget he's looking for and we can make things move in the right direction.0.95
00:43:15But if we don't, then we're going to have to either make some compromises or we're going to have more government shutdowns and all the stupid games they play.0.87
00:43:23And certainly the objective of the Democrats is to obstruct every possible thing they can.0.95
00:43:28And so that's what we're going to see if they take control of the House or the Senate or both,
00:43:32is they're just going to try and grind everything to a halt they possibly can that Trump is doing
00:43:37in the hopes that then they can, you know, try and take control in 2028.
00:44:21No, there may have been a time in his career when he was a moderate, but not by the time he was president or whomever was making the actual decisions while he was president was clearly not a moderate.
00:44:31So let's realize that if the Dems are handed the reins of power, they destroy.
00:44:45What the Democrats do is destroy. And if they're handed the reins of power, all they will do is seek to destroy, in this case, Donald Trump and his administration will be nothing but recriminations, investigations, you know, basically show trials before the country instead of addressing the very real problems that we face.
00:45:01Right. Problems like this massive deficit, which is a bipartisan creation, by the way, I think Republicans and Democrats are equally to blame for that as one big example of a huge problem that needs attention rather than just Democrats playing the game of political destruction.
00:45:15And, you know, to this point more broadly, look, I have been critical of the war since the very beginning of it.
00:45:21OK, I didn't just come around to this now. I believe that a crucial part of the America First platform is a foreign policy of realism and restraint.
00:45:28I thought that was that was closely adhered to in Trump's first term.
00:45:32It's to me very regrettable that he took a big detour away from that this term.
00:45:36But he did. That's, you know, at this point, spilled milk. I hope we can wrap up that war as quickly as possible.
00:45:42I think Iran, unfortunately, knows that that he faces a political problem at home.
00:45:47And so they're not much of a mood to to they unfortunately do get a vote, even though we've utterly destroyed their military and caused tons of damage to the country.
00:45:55They have a lot of leverage in this process. And they know that the mullahs are evil, but they're not dumb.0.96
00:46:00So here we are in this predicament. And what I would also tell folks, though, is, look, this war is not going to last forever.0.91
00:46:06And I think I believe it will be open sooner rather than later once we get past the midterms, because I think the Iranians will then get much more reasonable about what they want to end this because they actually need to end it, too.0.50
00:46:17And if you look at the, you know, the economy is my main lane.
00:46:21I was a bond trader for 25 years before I got into politics with Trump 10 years ago.
00:46:25And if you know, I watch the data really, really closely.
00:46:28If you look at the trajectory pre-war economically, things were actually starting to head in a really good direction.
00:46:34real wages, meaning your pay adjusted for the cost of goods and services in your life.
00:46:39Real wages were starting to grow again. They had crashed under Joe Biden. They were really
00:46:43starting to grow. By the way, part of that is immigration. Immigration and the economy are
00:46:47interlinked because taking out all those illegal workers, what was it doing? It was raising pay0.98
00:46:51for Americans. We had reasonable inflation pre-war. The inflation was trending down. The
00:46:56wages were trending up. That's what you want. That's prosperity in this country. And then
00:47:01we made the decision, I think, you know, foolishly to go to a war of choice. And, you know,
00:47:05obviously there's well-meaning folks who disagree with me on that. But regardless, I think what you
00:47:09can't argue with is it's spiked inflation clearly. But I believe that will be temporary once we wrap
00:47:16up the war. If we get back to that pre-war trajectory, again, that trend of expanding0.97
00:47:21real wages for households, that's going to be really significant. And then bigger picture,
00:47:26by the way, what I would also point to is this announcement about this Iowa steel plant yesterday,
00:47:58The iron ore is going to come from Minnesota. There's a new mining facility opening in Minnesota, which hasn't happened in a half century.
00:48:06So this is amazing stuff in the American heartland. By the way, both those states, Iowa and Minnesota, very much in play for the election.
00:48:12So this is well-timed politically, this wonderful economic news. But you're talking thousands of jobs on the Minnesota side.
00:48:18The iron ore then shipped down the Mississippi to Iowa. There's going to be 6,000 construction jobs almost immediately.
00:48:25That will happen. And of course, these kinds of plants take years to build. So this is, you know, this is multi decades. We're talking about the benefits here, but on a lasting basis, looks like about 2000 jobs. And these are high paying family sustaining jobs, domestic productivity of the items we need, the national security we need to be able to produce our own steel. We need to make our own steel, our own semiconductors, our own medicines in the United States, not just for an economic imperative, but for a national security imperative as well.
00:48:53So this is amazing news. It's a tangible success of the America First trade agenda of an America First on-shoring policy.
00:49:01Now, like I said, the benefits are going to be, you know, are slowly unrolling.
00:49:05We don't we don't unfortunately get the snap benefits, whereas the war, the costs are immediate. Right.
00:49:09So this is the conundrum that we face politically right now.
00:49:12But I do believe that once the war wraps up, real wages start growing again.
00:49:16That's sort of the near term story of success, I think. And Donald Trump showed that pre-war.
00:49:20And then the bigger picture is the onshore and the investment into the United States.
00:49:25It has just been massive. But we don't really feel it yet because these are big, multi-year, even multi-decade projects that take time to truly unfold.
00:49:35But but the benefits will be felt long after Donald Trump is no longer president.
00:49:40I mean, and and from that perspective, I think we can actually talk the economy from a place of strength.
00:49:45And I think that announcement yesterday couldn't have been better time for this election season.
00:49:51It's just great news for America, but it's also great news for those of us trying to win races.
00:49:55I agree with that. Owen, did you want to jump in before I start talking my head off again?
00:50:30And do you think he's changed from who he was to who he is now?
00:50:36uh so to the first question yes he absolutely regrets it and i i i can i think say with some
00:50:44confidence i know he regrets it at this point you know that's not something he's going to say
00:50:48publicly right it's not his style but yes uh internally in his head and certainly when the
00:50:53cameras and microphones aren't there he regrets getting into this war uh he does now has he
00:50:58fundamentally changed from his america first mentality when it comes to foreign policy no
00:51:03I don't believe he has. I believe he made a really serious error here.
00:51:07I think he was misled by some really, unfortunately, convincing but sinister people around him, both Americans and overseas actors.
00:51:16But look, I'm not excusing him, by the way, just because he got bad advice.
00:51:21I mean, the buck stops with him, right? He is the commander in chief who made his decision.
00:51:25By the way, I understand why he made it. And don't get me wrong. I mean, I get the pro war argument.
00:51:30I can totally understand it. It's not totally unreasonable. I just don't agree with it.
00:51:36And what I also know, though, and I think this part, again, really can't be debated by anybody reasonable, is it's a big problem for the elections.
00:51:42OK, so even if you think it's worth doing, I think if you're reasonable, like, you know, if you're a Ben Shapiro or Mark Levin type,
00:51:49if you're being honest, you have to at least admit and neither of them is honest, in my view.
00:51:54But you have to admit, OK, you have to say this is worth doing, but it's a real problem for the election.
00:51:59OK, I mean, that at the least you have to say is a cost. But to me, too, if a war is worth getting into.
00:52:04And I think this was also an error, not just the decision strategically to go to war.
00:52:08But, you know, I would point to George W. Bush, OK, somebody for whom I have almost no respect.
00:52:13I think one of the worst presidents in American history. I truly believe that.
00:52:16But one thing George W. Bush did when he went to the disastrous Iraq war is he at least had the respect for the American people to sell it to them.
00:52:25If you remember back then, I mean, it was weeks and weeks of effectively a campaign to sell the American people on why we needed to do this.
00:52:33Now, he sold it with a lot of lies, with a lot of shoddy intelligence, with a lot of propaganda.
00:52:38But the point is, he went into the war with a lot of public approval for the war.
00:52:44And the American people tired of the war and ultimately really turned on it in terms of public opinion.
00:52:49But he went into it with a significant mandate from the people to do this.
00:52:54He also went to Congress, by the way, and got Congress to approve. None of that happened here, right? None of that happened. There was not a respectful case made to the people, did not go to Congress. And so all of that is problematic. But again, I'm not trying to engage. This is election season. I don't believe this is the time to be punching at Republicans, to be punching at potential allies.
00:53:15mistakes were made clearly I believe firmly that post-election this war will wrap up and relatively
00:53:21quickly and even if you are even if you are very frustrated right now with the war and I know a lot
00:53:29of people who are and I'm one of them realize that our opponents on the other side are radical
00:53:36America hating Marxist jihadi extremists and I'm not exaggerating those are a lot of loaded words
00:53:42I'm not exaggerating when I say that. And we need to defeat these anti-American radical extremists on the other side.
00:53:50And I believe we will ultimately, but it's not going to be easy.
00:53:53A hundred percent. And I just think it's important that we understand, you know, because there's so many people that are just like, you know, we had to do the war.
00:54:01It's like, listen, the war was not explained to us. And I think it's better for our morale, you guys, to just acknowledge what Steve said.
00:54:10Like, yeah, he regrets it. I know he regrets it. He regrets it. He's in it now. He's got to finish
00:54:17what he started in the best way that he can save face and get out of this. He's not on the ticket.
00:54:24I don't think he should say vote like he is on the ticket. I think he should say just vote like
00:54:30you want to keep America America because a lot of people are disappointed with him. And it doesn't
00:54:35take away any of the amazing things he's done. But when it comes down to voting, people are
00:54:40going to, they're not going to be like, oh, I'm so happy about this. It's, you know, people focus
00:54:45on the negative. Like this is killing me. Like this is, I can't do this anymore. So, um, you
00:54:51don't believe Steve, I don't know what you don't believe about. Tell us what you don't believe
00:54:54about. Um, but I think, you know, sometimes I wonder, would it be better if he was just like,
00:54:59yeah, you know what? I wish I didn't go in and, but we're here now and we're going to finish the
00:55:03job. Like, I just feel like I don't want to it's not like to say you're admitting defeat, but it's
00:55:08like I'm acknowledging the people that I let down because I feel like he's been doing the exact
00:55:13opposite by amplifying Mark Levin. You know, it's like we're not stupid. So and I just want to0.72
00:55:19address one of their things, Steve, if you can, because there are, you know, just one just one
00:55:24person made a comment and I just want her to understand. So there was not compelling evidence
00:55:30to go into this war there was compelling evidence not to go into this war but trump was convinced
00:55:37to go into it and so people feel like well he must have known something we didn't know and
00:55:41that's why he did it if he knew something we didn't know i believe he would have told us so
00:55:47we could understand you know so i just want to say that i don't think there was some secret thing
00:55:52that you know he knows that we don't you guys i there are our intelligence our people actually
00:55:59begged him not to do it is what happened and he went in because he was convinced by other people
00:56:04am i am i right with that steve i think that's exactly correct and it was mostly people outside
00:56:09of the administration that convinced him yeah um it was foreigners and donor folks not uh national
00:56:15security people within the government that's correct so you know i know i and it's like it's
00:56:21a tough pill to swallow and you guys listen tomorrow i'm gonna play for you a clip about
00:56:25a lot of the amazing things he's done. And I mean, thrilled, thrilled that he could do a lot
00:56:30of the things he did. But I think that the war started so fast after he got into this second
00:56:36term and it just really derailed things. And, you know, it put a bad taste in people's mouths
00:56:41right away. And yeah, there's a lot of snakes. There's a lot of snakes in this world, not just
00:56:47DC, you guys, you know, and they all want to get to the head honcho, which is Trump. So they'll do
00:56:54whatever they have to do to persuade him. And sometimes it works. And, you know, we'll have to
00:57:01see how it shakes out. Owen, would you like to say something, my friend? That's all right.
00:57:07No, I mean, I would just say at this point, certainly the message is get out and vote,
00:57:11get everybody you know to get out and vote and just, you know, try and make a difference because
00:57:15I think it is really important. And it may be that there are local issues that are more important
00:57:21this time around rather than some of the federal issues but even the federal offices like senator
00:57:25and house representatives are going to make a huge difference over what happens over the next two
00:57:29years and what you know at least what you're experiencing and i think certainly part of that
00:57:34message to me on the affordability topic is to say like it's going to be worse if we have democrats
00:57:40in control it's going to be worse they're going to try and make it worse actively they're going
00:57:45to try and make it worse to try and say oh look it was all trump's fault when they're the ones
00:57:49doing it. And they're already doing things like that. They recently made sure to kill a bill
00:57:56that was meant to say data centers can't raise your electricity prices. They killed that.
00:58:01They want your electricity bill to be higher. And the reason they want that is because they
00:58:05don't want Republicans to have a win. And they're going to do the same thing over the next two years
00:58:09if they get control of Congress. Yeah. So you guys, I think the message, the takeaway is
00:58:14don't focus on trump don't focus on dc focus on your state focus on your state because this is
00:58:22not like a federal type of election this is what's happening in in my state my hometown
00:58:27what's going to happen to me in my life unless you're planning on moving which most people
00:58:32aren't because it's very expensive to move um think about your state when you go to the polls
00:58:38and go to the polls and bring a friend and steve for sure the last word please
00:59:04But much more serious than baseball, than sports is saving our country.
00:59:10And part of doing that is now I also want to encourage you, please, not just to vote and convince people to vote, but do it early, early in-person voting.
00:59:19I know a lot of you don't like that. I don't like it either, the current rules.
00:59:23But under the current rules, it's really, really important that we don't hand a massive advantage to the Democrats because they bank their votes early and we don't.
00:59:31And then we have to rely on a massive game day rush.
00:59:34I actually did a whole short, not a documentary, but an interview with Ned Ryan, who a lot of you
00:59:38probably know about this exact topic. If you're curious to hear our thoughts on this, neither of
00:59:42us like the current system, but you got to win by the rules of the current system so that you can
00:59:45then change the system. So please get out there, not just vote, but vote early and encourage all
00:59:50the people in your spheres of influence who you think are going to vote our way to do the same,
00:59:54please. A hundred percent. Thank you, you guys. I think, I hope this was informative for you guys.
00:59:59Just definitely take it to the state level because that's where we're at right now.