Off The Cuff Declassified： Fake News, Immigration ,IG report, Mueller, Conservative women
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The left's fake news narrative on immigration is crumbly. We'll analyze. And the Left's vitriolic war on conservative women continues. President Donald Trump is fighting back against the fake news on immigration being pushed by Democrats and left-wing media. And he has an unlikely and inadvertent ally in Jed Johnson, former Homeland Security chief, the former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under President Barack Obama.
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Today on Off the Cup Declassified, the left's fake news narrative on immigration is crumbly.
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I'm going to tell you what many missed in DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's testimony
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to Congress. Is Mueller's entire investigation a Fourth Amendment crisis and violation?
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We'll analyze. And the left's vitriolic war on conservative women continues.
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President Donald Trump is fighting back against the fake news on immigration being pushed by
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Democrats and left-wing media. And he had an unlikely and inadvertent ally in Jed Johnson,
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Obama's former Homeland Security chief, the former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security
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under Barack Obama. I'm going to get to all that in just a minute. But Trump finally, finally had
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enough. Now, I'm reading from a Daily Mail story that did a very good job summarizing all of this.
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But Trump has finally taken the gloves off and he's tweeting. And I love when the president
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tweets and he says, Drudge Report, referring to a story on the Drudge Report. Obama kept them in
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cages, wrapped them in foil. We do a much better job while at the same time maintaining a much
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stronger border. Mainstream fake media hates this story. Read it again. It's very sad that Nancy Pelosi
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and her sidekick, crying Chuck Schumer, want to protect illegal immigrants far more than the
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citizens of our country. United States cannot stand for this. We want safety and security at our
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borders. Now, the images that the president was talking about showed, you've probably seen the
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images by now. They show what looked like a warehouse with some very basic like foam pads,
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not even really mattresses on the floor on these illegals in these cages, cells where they should
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have been because they're illegal, wrapped in those foil space blanks. And it was very it was very bright
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in there. Many of them were young kids. Now, look, I've said time and again, nobody is out there
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gloating about young children being held in any kind of facility. No one is. No one is. But this is a tough
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issue. Now, from the Daily Mail story, that's actually printing some honesty. In 2014, Obama responded
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to a huge rush of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America by establishing large centers to hold
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the youngsters while they were being processed. And it goes to say those are the images to which Trump
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is referring in his tweets. Now, he's trying to show the difference in conditions. Obama really did have
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these kids in pretty abysmal conditions. And these are little kids. I don't blame the kids. It's
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heartbreaking. I blame their parents because not all of these people are seeking asylum.
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And not all of the people seeking asylum are legitimate. The vast majority are not. The vast
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majority of these asylum seekers are, well, illegals trying to use the claim of asylum to
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get into the United States illegitimately. We know all this, but I'm glad to see the president
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finally, finally fighting back. Now, they're supposedly, according to far left, corrupt woman
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with her own problems. Well, I say allegedly corrupt because of the Awan Brothers scandal.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a woman with her own problems. And there's another story here in the
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Miami Herald. There's babies separated from parents or an immigrant shelters near Miami,
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lawmaker says. Now, that lawmaker is, of course, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And it says at least 10
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babies and toddlers taken away from their parents after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are being
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housed in, quote, tender age shelters in Miami-Dade. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the Miami
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Herald on Saturday. Now, the Miami Herald doesn't go into the Awan scandal, doesn't go into all of
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz's problems. Miami Herald is now using Debbie Wasserman Schultz as some kind
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of hero, some kind of crusader for these babies. Now, they're saying that these kids who range in
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age from newborns to five-year-olds are being sheltered at his house children's home in Miami
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Gardens and Catholic Charities Children's Village in Cutler Bay, formerly known as Boys Town. I've
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driven by the latter facility. I've never driven by the former. But both of these facilities
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apparently are certified to house, shelter, feed, care for little kids. Far better, far better than
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the conditions they would otherwise be in coming across the border. Now, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is
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saying that she was given a document by federal officials and she's making all kinds of
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claims. But a guy named Mark Weber, who says spokesman for the Department of Health and Human
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Services, would not immediately confirm the figures provided by Wasserman Schultz. He later described
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tender age shelters as facilities for kids 12 and under. And he said, quote,
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these are specialized facilities licensed by the state that are fully capable of taking care of very
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young children. Very young children, of course, separated by at the border because their parents
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broke federal law. Now, one of the priests, I'm sorry, a woman named Mary Ross Agosta,
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she's the spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Miami. She said, quote, I cannot, they run the Boys Town,
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they run another facility, the one down in Cutler Bay, which is, Cutler Bay is on the east side of
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Miami-Dade County. It runs along Biscayne Bay South. And you get pretty, Cutler Bay is pretty far south
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before you hit areas like Homestead, eventually winding up in the upper Florida Keys. So it's down
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there. It's pretty far down there. It's actually a very, very nice area, very safe area. Parts of
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the area, you're very, very affluent. So it's not like these kids are being sent to some kind of
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detention center in a bad neighborhood. There are mega mansions down there near Cutler Bay.
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Professional athletes live there. This is a nice, nice part of Miami-Dade County, middle-class parts
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as well. But some very, very affluent areas there, very low crime, very safe. And so if you were going
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to send children somewhere, this is a place you had to send them. This is a place where they'd be
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very safe if you sent them. She said, Mary Ross Agosta, spokeswoman for the Archdiocese of Miami,
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I cannot confirm the exact age of the children, but I do know that we do have children who are younger
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than what we normally have. We normally take in children who are past the age of 10. I do know
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that we have children from the border who are younger than that, quite a bit younger than 10.
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She also says this facility is capable of handling 81 children. That's the capacity.
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She doesn't know how many recently came in. Now, this facility was originally opened
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over five decades ago to house kids coming in from Cuba. So it was built from the ground up
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for child immigrants without their parents. Again, if you're going to send a kid somewhere to be safe
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while we try to get things in order here in terms of immigration, their status, their parents,
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this is a place you'd want to send them. Again, no shelter is a better option for a child than being
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with their parents, unless the parents are abusive or harmful in some way. But the parents chose to
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break federal immigration law here in the U.S. So this is a good, good way to handle a terrible,
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terrible situation. Now, of course, no matter what Debbie Wasserman Schultz saw, no matter what she saw,
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she was going to find a reason to politicize it, to criticize Trump administration. And as expected,
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the far left Miami Herald is going to help her along. So they write,
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following Wasserman Schultz's tour of the Homeland Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on
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Saturday, Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on Saturday, Wasserman Schultz,
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just this past Saturday, a few days ago, Wasserman Schultz criticized the Trump administration's
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lack of clear instruction on how to reunify more than 2,300 children separated from their parents
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at the U.S. border since Trump's zero tolerance policy was enacted in April by U.S. Attorney Jeff
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Sessions. Now, now, how does she know that? That is classic far left political lip service.
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Let's read it again. He said, the administration lacks clear instruction on how to reunify the more
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than 2,300 children separated from their parents at the U.S. border since Trump's zero tolerance policy
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was enacted in April by U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions. How does she know that? She's in the minority party.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz has a ton of her own legal issues right now. A ton.
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I think she should be indicted for what she let the Awan brothers do. I believe they've always been
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under the thumb of Pakistani intelligence, the ISI. I believe that she gave them access to
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congressional computers that compromise national security. But she's not sitting in meetings,
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the Department of Homeland Security. She's not read in on this. She doesn't know any of the things she's doing.
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Now, Wasserman Schultz is also saying that the three Miami-Dade shelters appeared to be the only ones
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in Florida currently housing migrant children separated from their families.
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As of Friday, there were 1,179 migrant children aged 13 to 17 at the Homestead, Florida shelter.
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That's down on the southern end of Miami-Dade County Homestead.
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792 boys, 387 girls, including 70 who had been separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Let's think about that. Not the story that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is telling.
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And that number came from the program director at the shelter, a woman named Leslie Wood.
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But Debbie Wasserman Schultz is saying that all these kids are separated from their families
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and the Trump administration lacks clear direction to reunify them.
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The director of the shelter where their kids actually are, the person in the know, is saying no.
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Of the 1,179 migrant kids aged 13 to 17 at my shelter, only 70 were separated from their families at the border
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because their parents either weren't trusted to be able to take care of them, the kid was in danger,
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the parent committed another crime, or authorities couldn't prove it was the parent or legal guardian.
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70. So 1,100, 1,109 kids at that shelter, out of the 1,179, the 1,109 were already alone.
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70 of that number. 70. It's about 5% of the 1,100. 70. Just around 95% were not separated from their families at the border.
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Wow. Does that throw a wrench in the Democrats' gears? A big wrench in the Democrats' gears.
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Wow. There are another 125 children separated at the border in the shelter up in the Miami Gardens area of Florida
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So of the about 1,500 to 2,000 kids being sheltered in the Miami-Dade area,
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now this says 2,300 children separated from their parents at the border,
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But just in the Miami area, let's say there are 1,500 kids separated from their families,
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1,500 kids being sheltered, only 265 of those were separated at the border.
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That really throws a wrench in the left's narrative.
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But there's more. Here's a story from Breitbart.
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Nine times MS-13 gang members, that is documented, these are the ones who were caught.
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Nine times MS-13 gang members posed as minors or used kids who entered the U.S. illegally.
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Number one, MS-13 gang member smuggles himself and a child into the U.S.
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Border Patrol apprehended an adult male who was traveling with a one-year-old son.
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He is a known MS-13 gang member who was previously removed from the country in 2012.
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The kids have another legal guardian here in the U.S.
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Number two, MS-13 gang member who posed as an unaccompanied minor accused of murder.
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Border Patrol apprehended an unaccompanied alien child.
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He was given a notice to appear and released in the United States.
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On September 2016, the subject was one of the 11 MS-13 gang members involved in the killing of teenage girls in Long Island, New York.
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I brought you that story and you saw the families of those girls sitting with President Trump at his immigration and MS-13 roundtable in Long Island last month.
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Number three, MS-13 gang member uses her, the woman, child to try to enter the U.S. illegally.
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So, May 8th, May 1st, rather, 27, 2018, Border Patrol apprehended a known female MS-13 gang member who was traveling with her minor daughter.
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After being processed, both mother and child were released under their own recognizance after 18 days.
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MS-13 gang member illegally enters U.S. as an unaccompanied minor.
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Unaccompanied alien child, known MS-13 gang member.
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He was also listed on the state of Texas' 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list compiled by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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He was located and arrested in Virginia and is currently awaiting trial for the murder of two people in Houston, Texas.
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MS-13 gang member brings child to the border, gets released, May 9th, 2018.
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Female MS-13 gang member traveling with her minor daughter.
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Previously deported, illegal alien rapist, used immigration loophole to try to enter the U.S.
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Several more about MS-13 gang members bringing their kids to the border and being released.
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But no, we're not separating every family indiscriminately.
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Now, you would think, if you only listen to the media and the Democrats, that Trump is doing something unprecedented.
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Big, bad, evil Donald Trump is in an unprecedented fashion removing kids from their parents, creating orphans, basically, right?
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So, Fox News Sunday, yesterday morning, Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, Jed Johnson, on Chris Wallace's show on Fox News, freely admitted.
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Obama DHS Sec Jed Johnson freely admits that detained children and families, they detain children and families.
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Jed Johnson, Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, said this, quote,
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Without a doubt, the images and the reality from 2014, just like 2018, are not pretty.
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I still believe it is necessary to remain a certain capability for families.
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Johnson also addressed another phrase that has come up many times in the last week, saying directly, we can't have catch and release and stating that under his Department of Homeland Security, the Obama administration, quote, deported or repatriated over a million people.
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reporting something you didn't report on previously and making believe the prior incidents didn't happen because they were perpetrated by those who share your political beliefs.
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And like I said, I didn't mind when Obama did it.
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Obama's Department of Homeland Security enforced the law.
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The shame on Democrats and the mainstream media.
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For telling two entirely different stories about the same policy carried out in an almost identical, if not an identical way.
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Many conservatives, especially those of us who had experience in law enforcement or law or working in a prosecutor's office, were very upset when we saw the inspector general's report on the FBI and DOJ's behavior with regards to Trump-Russia collusion, the Hillary email investigation, etc.
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Well, it's a great story from americangreatness.com.
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It's a really good site with some very smart commentary.
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And it's written by a woman named Julie Kelly entitled What You Missed from Michael Horowitz's Testimony.
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And as I was reading this, I said the author makes some great points.
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Now, what Ms. Kelly basically quotes, her argument is that Horowitz is investigating many more things right now and that we should all take a breath because there may be some bombs dropping on Comey and McCabe and the entire cabal up there.
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Now, a lot of what she wrote in the first part of the article are things we've analyzed, how Horowitz basically said, you know, I see all this wrongdoing, but I can't prove bias.
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He writes something very interesting, though, about midway through.
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He writes, but one reason Horowitz might have punted in his recent report is because he knows the real bombshells are yet to come.
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He is investigating the FISA warrant on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, the cozy relationship between justice and FBI officials in the media, including perks for scoops, ex-FBI director James Comey's handling of classified information and the potential doctoring of official documents.
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And, of course, that would be whether or not the 302s, we spoke about it last week, the FBI witness statements were tampered with.
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And if that was the case, people need to go to jail.
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In fact, Horowitz told Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, a Republican, very vocal Republican, conservative guy.
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Quote, we've got lots of investigations going on.
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Now, the writer of this piece, Julie Kelly, and I happen to agree with her, says the most explosive revelations might very well be how the FBI, in concert with the DOJ, obtained that FISA warrant on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
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Because, as she writes, quote, the FBI's application largely was based on the infamous Christopher Steele dossier, a compilation of political opposition research that was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.
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According to the House Intelligence Committee, quote, neither the initial application nor any of the renewals disclose or reference the role of the DNC, the Clinton campaign, or any party or campaign in funding Steele's efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials.
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The FBI and the DOJ knew that the Steele dossier was a matter of opposition research.
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Something that could have mattered to a federal judge issuing that FISA warrant, a FISA court judge.
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But the FBI and the DOJ never told the judge, this report is not our investigative work product.
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This report was compiled and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign via her law firm, Perkins Coey.
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The first FISA application was renewed three times.
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Andrew McCabe, who's now under criminal investigation, signed one.
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And current Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, also signed at least one.
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Now, in his biannual report this last month, Horowitz acknowledged that his office is, quote,
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reviewing information that was known to the DOJ and the FBI at the time the applications were filed
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from or about an alleged FBI confidential source.
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Additionally, the OIG, Office of Inspector General, is reviewing the DOJ's and FBI's relationship
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and communications with the alleged source as they relate to the FISC, the FISC application,
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Then we get into, then we get into the pages and the strokes and all of the text messages.
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So, let me read you from the article again because the analysis is spot on.
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We know that Peter Stroke and Lisa Page are sending 50,000 text messages back and forth
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Judge Rudolph Contreras, who was a central figure in all this, is Peter Stroke's good friend.
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And Peter Stroke was in communication with this judge.
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He may very well have been the judge that approved the warrant.
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He was also the judge on General Mike Flynn's case.
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The case where Stroke was the lead investigator.
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The case where we haven't heard from the other investigator, FBI Special Agent Joe Pienka.
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The guy that many reports suggest did not believe General Flynn lied.
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This is also the case that Michael Horowitz is investigating as to whether or not on that
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case, the 302s, the witness reports, were changed, presumably by Peter Stroke or Andrew
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McCabe, maybe with or without James Comey's knowledge.
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This is what we expect is going on from the evidence we have.
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We're not we we're not conclusively sure, but that's what it seems to be via Horowitz's testimony.
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And when you look at all the actors involved with these cases.
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Now, of course, Contreras was recused for unknown reasons from the Michael Flynn case.
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Probably figure out why the judge was best buddies with the lead investigator who's got 50,000 of his own problem.
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It's also interesting to note that since the new judge, Emmett Sullivan, came on to the case, Judge Sullivan, I've told you this on the show, is a an absolute stickler, a stickler for the rules of evidence.
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Especially he gets especially upset when the government withholds exculpatory evidence.
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It sure looks, and that's evidence beneficial to the defense, it sure looks like the government withheld or played games with exculpatory evidence in General Flynn's case.
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There's an investigation into whether or not they tampered, they tampered with evidence to make General Flynn look guilty when he wasn't.
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And Mueller now has twice delayed General Flynn's sentencing.
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Now, supposed to be for the end of June at this point.
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This piece in American Greatness says, and I love this line,
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if someone were writing a screenplay about D.C. corruption, he could not do better than to invent this script.
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Fusion GPS and the relationships between Bruce Orr, a senior figure at the Department of Justice,
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who was instrumental in driving the Trump-Russia investigation.
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Well, of course, we now know his wife, Nellie Orr, was the Russia specialist over at Fusion GPS that worked with Christopher Steele on this dossier.
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He intends to keep investigating unauthorized leads to the media.
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Quote, although FBI policy strictly limits the employees who are authorized to speak to the media,
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we, the OIG, found this policy appeared widely to be ignored during the period we reviewed.
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We identified numerous FBI employees at all levels of the organization and with no official reason to be in contact with the media,
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who were nevertheless in frequent contact with reporters.
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I mean, this is just, there was no control at the FBI under James Comey.
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And the way this piece closes is very interesting.
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If Horowitz exposes the players and potential crimes related to the page warrant,
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only the page warrant, now I'm adding my words, only the page warrant.
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What are the words about 302s being tampered with?
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We only, only find out that the FBI played games with the page warrant.
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This could potentially be one of the most egregious uses of federal investigatory power.
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Against a private citizen in the department's history.
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Any misconduct uncovered in the DOJ's effort to spy on Carter Page for political reasons,
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also throws the credibility and necessity of Robert Mueller's probe into question.
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However, there's an outstanding story in the Wall Street Journal on just that,
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that I'm going to bring to you in my next segment.
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There's an outstanding piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled,
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And basically, the piece is arguing that even if Mueller is this legendary man of integrity,
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The FBI's mishandling of pretty much everything surrounding Trump and Hillary,
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Peter Stroke, Lisa Page, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, all these people,
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all these people that apparently weaponized the FBI against the Trump campaign
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well, they all tainted Mueller's investigation from the outset.
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Now, the beginning of the piece starts off by going through
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all of the things I analyze on the show every day.
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You know, Stroke and Page text and the statements,
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And just the 50,000 text messages between them,
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Now, the concept of Fruits of the Poisonous Tree is pretty simple.
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An investigation cannot be launched on painted evidence.
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that caught his vehicle four blocks from one another.
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between those two buildings, well within the speed limit.
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We also have another camera with sound from over here
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that says you never were given consent to search.
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So the gun and the drugs you found doesn't matter.
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You violated this person's Fourth Amendment rights
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those misleading bits of evidence and statements
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who I think have done an incredible, incredible job.
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of everything that preceded this paragraph in the article.
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and inundated with for months and months and months
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In this case, meaning Peter Stroke and Lisa Page
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The mid-year exam was the investigation into Hillary Clinton.
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he inherited the inherent Fourth Amendment violation.
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and stacking the deck against Trump doesn't matter.
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Even if Mueller is a completely ethical and honest actor,
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because if Robert Mueller is an ethical and honest actor,
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And if he handpicked biased people for his team,
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it is required to use fundamentally fair processes.