As the battle rages over separating illegal immigrant children from their parents at the border, we ll discuss. Political analyst Ned Ryan joins me to discuss the latest on the Mueller probe, immigration, and Congress s war with the DOJ. A mass shooting in New Jersey that you didn t hear about, and the New Jersey Governor s ludicrous response. We ll talk all about it.
00:21:46.240Ned, real quick, I want to cover, because I did it in my first segment today, this debate over illegal immigration and the lies being told by the left.
00:21:54.060I thought that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen did an outstanding job of explaining that if you come to the border or any port of entry and you legally request asylum, your children will not be separated.
00:22:07.500The people whose children are being separated.
00:22:09.700And by the way, kids in these shelters, only 10% of them are separatees.
00:22:13.420These are people who are either committing crimes, are not the parent or a custodial guardian of the child, or authorities feel the kid is in danger in some other way, correct?
00:22:28.980And I think the thing that people have to be reminded of is get a little perspective.
00:22:32.700I mean, some of this legislation that we're dealing with right now was signed into law by Bill Clinton.
00:22:38.400The Obama administration, I think, at a certain point was doing twice as many of these separations.
00:22:45.400And so it's amazing to me, again, kind of highlights the hypocrisy of the mainstream media and some on the left with all of a sudden they're losing their minds over practices that were implemented and actually conducted by Democrat presidents in the very recent past.
00:23:10.020Build the wall, one of the top three reasons he was elected.
00:23:13.360And so when you look at this whole issue, again, it highlights the hypocrisy.
00:23:17.320I would actually argue, John, it's a little frustrating.
00:23:20.420I think the White House got caught a little flat-footed on this.
00:23:23.340Again, they should have been aware that the mainstream media was going to come after them in their usual hypocritical way.
00:23:32.300Kind of what I would like to see in some ways is maybe go back to that Obama-era detention center where families are kept together until they're deported.
00:23:40.180But at the same time, we've got to start making deals here and say, if we're going to do that, we'll give you that.
00:23:45.480You're going to give us a wall, a full funding for a wall in border security.
00:23:48.940You're going to stop chain migration, and we're going to deal and really get this immigration issue dealt with.
00:23:54.800Because I'm making the point, I made the point on CNN on Friday.
00:23:57.920You know, we're having all these conversations.
00:24:03.440At some point, we have to understand 10 or 15 years from now when mass automation hits
00:24:09.440and we have millions and millions more of low-skilled or unskilled labors in this country that are thrown out of work.
00:24:16.200There's either going to be bloodshed in the streets or they're going to be thrown onto our already massive welfare systems.
00:24:22.440And then the only way that those welfare systems actually function is people like us are going to get hit with life-crushing, draconian taxes.
00:25:08.220We want to have the ability to say as a sovereign nation we can choose who to accept or not to accept to come into this nation to be a citizen of the United States.
00:25:17.100And all that we are asking is that you come legally and that when you come, you love this country
00:25:22.380and that you do your best to be an actual contributing citizen to the betterment of society.
00:25:33.880But the immigrant classes who came in the past, my great-great-great-grandparents on one side of the family and great-great on the other,
00:25:45.100they looked at this thing a little differently.
00:25:48.620My great-grandfather, actually, one of my great-grandfathers was born in Italy, but he came here young and his dad, my great-great-grandfather,
00:25:56.920before they emigrated, bought a building in Queens.
00:25:59.920Not an expensive building, but he wanted to at least own something in America, know he could establish a building.
00:26:06.980He had an ice business back before we had home heating oil, right?
00:26:09.860On a horse-drawn cart, they would bring ice around.
00:26:13.600But at least he knew his family had a place to live, his business had a facility, and he had a way to feed his family.
00:26:22.080Entitlements were never in the mindset.
00:26:27.480And the thing that concerns me is, especially with the whole issue of chain migration,
00:26:32.160there's an estimate that we'll have 7 to 8 million new immigrants coming through chain migration in the next 20 years that will actually vote.
00:26:39.580And this is why Democrats are never going to give this up, and this is why we have to get to a point where we've got to solve this.
00:26:44.500Democrats don't want to give it up because they view that as their path to political dominance for decades to come.
00:26:49.400But they're coming and they're voting Democrat because they have a view that government should take care of them.
00:26:55.780And I think that's the troubling issue we're seeing.
00:26:57.980Again, as you were pointing out, with these new immigrants that are coming in, they're coming in and they're voting Democrat because they believe that there should be massive social welfare systems.
00:27:06.760And the conversation that has to be had, John, is social welfare systems are to be used as a backstop, not a permanent residence.
00:27:14.360And I think that we've completely lost this perspective.
00:27:17.280Listen, Republicans, conservatives, we understand that there are hard times in life, that there are people that hit hard times that have to have some help from society.
00:27:24.740It's not meant to be for the next decade or two that you're residing in social welfare programs.
00:27:30.140And so that's the other debate we have to have of how do we get to the point where we say this is a backdrop, not a permanent residence.
00:27:36.420You can be on here for a certain amount of years.
00:27:38.160And then after that, we're going to work on getting you towards actually being a self-sufficient contributing citizen of this country.
00:27:47.340Let's switch gears to the last five or six minutes we have.
00:27:49.500I want to talk about the DOJ war with Congress.
00:27:52.440Real quick, I want to touch on Christopher Wray, what I thought not was only a tepid speech last week.
00:27:58.380I thought it was an embarrassment, foolish.
00:28:01.680I'm really glad, though, Ned, very, very glad that the FBI only accepts 5% of their honors interns.
00:28:07.580Maybe they can backflip and shoot somebody in a crowd with their gun.
00:28:10.400And he didn't address any, any of the problems in the FBI.
00:28:14.500As a former law enforcement guy, that was one of the weakest policy statements I'd ever heard from a chief law enforcement officer.
00:28:21.240If you had not read the Office of Inspector General's report and were listening to Christopher Wray, you would have thought, you know, some FBI agents, they misused the photocopy machine.
00:28:31.700They made some damage for their faces and their butt cheeks.
00:28:41.300What happened, and this is the part that was not only nauseating but in some ways chilling about Christopher Wray's press conference, he didn't address the fact that we had FBI agents, senior FBI agents, stating explicitly, in so many words, we'll stop it, meaning we will use our law enforcement system to stop a potential presidential candidate from becoming president of the United States.
00:29:06.820We call that weaponizing the police state, the law enforcement state against political opponents.
00:29:11.840That is completely and wildly unacceptable.
00:29:13.880And I think the thing that's insulting, John, about all of this, a gentleman by the name of Peter Strzok not only has his security clearance still, he is still employed by the FBI.
00:29:22.860With a badge and a gun and powers of arrest.
00:29:25.880By the way, by the way, in HR and Ed, which we all know, where he has access to the personnel file of files of others that he can use to strong arm them.
00:29:35.180I mean, this is one of the most egregious situations.
00:29:39.820I think you retweeted it, and it really is true.
00:29:42.660An FBI agent that were to use their official government vehicle to go to Walgreens to get their sick child cough syrup, if their other car is in the shop, summarily, instantly, without any administrative proceeding, loses 30 to 60 days.
00:30:06.240Do you think they would actually start issuing subpoenas and draft articles of impeachment for Rod Rosenstein if the DOJ and FBI do not comply with Congress and congressional demands?
00:30:16.820I have a hard time believing Gowdy, seeing he's all over the place.
00:30:19.780Of course, he said some really good things yesterday on Fox News Sunday that I think he was absolutely outraged by stuff that he saw in the Office of Inspector General.
00:30:46.580And you saw this tweet yesterday, John.
00:30:48.300I think after seeing that Office of Inspector General's report, which in its very nature basically demonstrated and showed massively preferential treatment, which by any other definition is biased, for Hillary Clinton and her cronies to get away with not going to jail.
00:31:02.600Because you and I would be in jail right now if we had done that.
00:31:13.780Or a select committee of the House and the Senate to have open proceedings in which we bring and we have full transparency and accountability.
00:31:21.700And the other thing I would offer is this, John.
00:31:24.100As the head of the executive branch, Donald Trump has the ability to have massive transparency by doing radical, declassifying a lot of things that took place for eight years.
00:31:34.880One of those three things or all of those three things need to happen, because if we cannot have faith and trust in the DOJ and the FBI, the supposed guardians of the rule of law and even-handed justice, it calls into question a lot of things in society.
00:31:47.020Our whole system falls down, and Americans, everyday Americans, start to say, well, if the protected class doesn't have to follow the law, why do I?
00:32:30.240Now, the FBI typically defines a mass shooting as three or more people shot.
00:32:34.160Well, there was a pretty significant mass shooting that you probably haven't heard about or heard very little about in Trenton, New Jersey, over the weekend.
00:33:30.680Reports that that 13-year-old boy was shot in the head.
00:33:35.480Why didn't you hear about this mass shooting?
00:33:38.000Well, because it was two gangbangers shooting it out, hitting people in the crowd, complete disregard for life, with illegal guns in, essentially, gun-free New Jersey.
00:33:51.280New Jersey, some of the most draconian gun control laws in the United States.
00:34:18.520They're doing it in this old converted building.
00:34:20.860And, you know, we see this quite a bit in bad areas in New York, like Red Hook, where they've converted these old buildings into these warehouses where you have all these hipster businesses.
00:34:40.620You know, the gangbangers are going to act like savages.
00:34:43.220So they come in when people are there just trying to look at art and overnight, probably having a few drinks, start shooting the place up because they can't function in society like normal human beings.
00:34:53.920But this story isn't top of the headlines.
00:34:57.300There aren't a massive protest in the streets of Trenton.
00:34:59.580And why, again, gangsters, gangbangers, they were non-white, that does play in, with illegal guns.
00:35:06.160These were not white men in states where it was easy to obtain a firearm.
00:35:11.580This completely debunks the narrative.
00:35:13.920So you can't have a mass shooting on the books or 17 are shot.
00:35:18.040You can't have that in gun-free New Jersey, perpetrated by gangbangers with illegal guns.
00:35:25.360It completely kills the narrative that only places were, and by the way, it wasn't an AR-15 or an AR-15 variant used in this shooting.
00:35:33.540So it's a further nail in the coffin of it getting national media attention.
00:35:38.000But one of the suspects is dead, and the main suspect is dead.
00:35:48.040Everybody ran to the door, and the people fighting and shooting got mixed with the crowd that was running, and they went out the door shooting.
00:36:48.240But here's the bigger problem for New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy.
00:36:52.340Let me read it to you from another Fox News story.
00:36:58.520A suspect, a suspect, a suspect, a suspect's gang membership and early release from prison after Murphy took office may have been bigger factors.
00:37:33.880He was one of the bad guys that Phil Murphy's policies released from prison early.
00:37:40.940The second suspect, he's identified, his name is Amir Armstrong.
00:37:45.960He's hospital and in stable condition, facing weapons charge.
00:37:49.000He should be facing charges of shooting these people.
00:37:51.620A third suspect is in critical condition.
00:37:53.540Murphy was a Goldman Sachs banker, really liberal guy.
00:37:59.680He was also Barack Obama's ambassador to Germany.
00:38:01.960He's a very wealthy, very, very wealthy, very liberal guy.
00:38:05.740And, of course, just began calling for gun control.
00:38:09.780Didn't address that they were illegal guns.
00:38:11.940Didn't address the rampant gang and crime problems in Trenton, New Jersey.
00:38:15.900The nation's, New Jersey's capital, by the way.
00:38:18.320Most importantly, didn't address the early release program in New Jersey prisons for violent offenders.
00:38:25.980No, he's blaming guns that are all but impossible, especially handguns, all but impossible to get in the state of New Jersey.
00:38:34.040His quote, Murphy's quote, quote, it is yet another reminder of the senseless gun violence, even having signed six stringent gun laws last week.
00:38:44.340He said that in a news conference, following a service at a local church, he went on to say, these are not, well, he wrote on Twitter.
00:38:55.360These are not inappropriate times to talk about gun policy.
00:38:58.400These are the most important times to talk about gun policy.
00:39:03.920Let's look at why the bad guy, Tahajie Wells, was on the street able to shoot 17 people.
00:39:09.020Well, Wells had been released from prison in February, despite receiving an 18-year date prison sentence in 2004 for aggravated manslaughter in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man.
00:39:22.080So this guy had already killed somebody.
00:40:57.840They coddle criminals at the expense of the safety of you and your family.
00:41:02.300The privacy advocates are a little concerned over police in Hagerstown, Maryland, using the state's driver's license database combined with facial recognition technology to solve a crime.
00:41:25.800This is a story from the Wall Street Journal, and I actually think this is very smart policing.
00:41:32.700When you obtain your driver's license, you know that you're putting your name, your date of birth, many other things about you, your address, and your photo into a state database.
00:41:40.580So in this case, what happened was police had an Instagram photo of a robbery suspect.
00:41:47.940They fed that Instagram photo into the facial recognition software they had tied to the driver's license database.
00:41:54.840The Instagram photo was reconciled against driver's license photos.
00:41:58.240A facial recognition comparison was made, and the suspect was found.
00:42:03.740Now, 31 states are now allowing this from the Wall Street Journal, police to allow driver's license photos in facial recognition searches.
00:42:13.620Civil liberties advocates say that giving police unfettered access to photos of people who have committed no crimes infringes on those civilians' privacy.
00:42:20.140Kind of an argument that falls on deaf ears, though, because police have all of our registration information and driver's license information already in their computers.
00:44:44.220You paid a fee to give government that information.
00:44:47.180Well, you can't cry foul when government shares it with other government agencies.
00:44:50.380Now, in New York City, the police are saying they want to get access to driver's license photos, which are currently limited to mugshots.
00:44:57.240But if faced opposition from privacy advocates, New York State is not playing ball with the city.
00:45:02.340Maryland police are using what they call Maryland's image repository system to compare images with more than 7 million driver's license photos and more than 3 million mugshots.
00:45:10.440Look, the privacy is – your privacy is not going to be infringed upon anymore.
00:45:18.100In other words, your driver's license information is not going to be any less secure if shared with law enforcement.
00:45:24.060There's a law here in the United States that's been acted for many, many years called the DPPA, the Driver Privacy Protection Act.
00:45:29.580And it puts very, very strict criteria on what even law enforcement can use your driver's license information for.
00:45:38.760So this is one case where the safeguards actually predate the Internet.
00:45:44.480They predate the mass digitization of records.
00:45:48.300And I really don't have any problem with this.
00:45:51.020I said – you know, I think this is sound law enforcement.
00:45:54.120Look, if this were law enforcement, a good example is that we found out states like Delaware, Maryland, states with strong gun control laws, were using – were accessing databases of those who had concealed weapons licenses and reconciling those against license plates.
00:46:13.660And then pulling over vehicles from those states, especially as they were driving through these states.
00:46:19.260You know, a lot of people drive from the northeast down to Florida on vacation.
00:46:23.540And they were saying, okay, there's a plate from – or back and forth from Florida.
00:47:04.640I've got a massive, massive problem with that.
00:47:07.920That is a blatant Fourth Amendment violation because now you're using data to essentially entrap a person who's not doing anything illegal.
00:47:16.580And Peaceable Journey, pretty much that standard, pretty much allows that person to have the firearm anyway.
00:47:23.280Sure, it should be in the trunk, but they're not a criminal.
00:47:25.620This situation is a little bit different.
00:47:27.640Somebody who committed a crime is suspected in a crime.
00:47:31.780Somebody has identified an image of the person.
00:47:34.560There's an Instagram photo of the person.
00:47:36.240We're trying to find out where the person lives, where we have an ID on the person or some form, maybe a first name.
00:47:42.900You reconcile that image of a suspect with a lot of supporting evidence against a driver's license photo that they voluntarily submitted.
00:47:50.580You find out they live at 321 Elm Street.
00:47:56.940Now it's not, you know, a fishing expedition.
00:47:59.460You have a suspect in a specific crime.
00:48:01.900You have complaining victims, witnesses, evidence, and you're simply using another tool, another investigative tool to find the person to go arrest them or interview them.
00:48:12.800So while I'm a strong privacy advocate, especially in the age of big data, I think using driver's license photos against photos of suspected criminals to find those criminals, I don't have a privacy concern with it.
00:48:25.440I think it's really sound, really effective law enforcement.
00:48:28.360I think it's really sound, really effective law enforcement.