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00:00:00.000Let me just begin today's show by pointing out that last night, the first of the Jeffrey Epstein papers dropped.
00:00:05.000That would be the core paper surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, notorious underage sex trafficker, who is connected with just about every famous person in the West.
00:00:12.000And everybody's been very curious as to who exactly went to Epstein Rape Island.
00:00:17.000Well, so far, the paper is kind of a dud.
00:00:19.000Most of what we saw yesterday has already been seen.
00:00:21.000Bill Clinton being mentioned in the context of quote-unquote, liking young girls, Prince Andrew grabbing an underage breast, allegations about Alan Dershowitz, all the rest of this kind of stuff.
00:00:29.000More is going to drop over the coming days and we'll cover it when it does because not much has dropped so far.
00:00:38.000The 2024 election is coming and right now it is advantage Donald Trump.
00:00:41.000Trump is leading by 2.2% in the RealClearPolitics polling average.
00:00:45.000That doesn't sound like a lot until you realize that Trump trailed Joe Biden in that same average on Election Day 2020 by 7.2%.
00:00:50.000He only lost the popular vote by 4.5%, a difference of 2.7%.
00:00:52.000Or that Hillary Clinton was leading in that same average by 3.2% on Election Day 2016 and only won the popular vote by 2.1%, a miss of about 1.1%.
00:00:57.000or that Hillary Clinton was leading in that same average by 3.2% on election day 2016
00:01:02.000and only won the popular vote by 2.1%, a miss about 1.1%.
00:01:07.000In other words, Donald Trump almost always outdraws his real clear politics polling average numbers.
00:01:13.000So if he's up 2.2, that means he's actually up more.
00:01:15.000What's more, Joe Biden is totally stuck.
00:01:18.000As political scientist Roy Tashara, who is not a right-winger, writes today in the Washington Post, quote, in his 2020 campaign for the nomination, the longtime former senator had a better sense than other Democratic candidates of the normalcy that voters were looking for after more than six months of a pandemic accompanied by lockdowns and an economic crash.
00:01:36.000After Joe Biden clinched the nomination, says Teixeira, he felt it was necessary to incorporate the views of the party's left into his campaign's policy stances and outlook.
00:01:45.000Now, with the next campaign about to begin, Biden and his party are struggling.
00:01:48.000In other words, Joe Biden lied to his voters.
00:01:51.000He campaigned as a moderate in the primaries, he capitalized on that moderate image in the general, and then he pushed steadily to the left, and then he governed from the left.
00:01:59.000Now, says Teixeira, Biden is polling behind Trump nationally and in every swing state with the possible exception of Wisconsin.
00:02:04.000Trump is preferred to Biden by wide margins on voters' most important issue, the economy and inflation, as well as their second most important issue, immigration and border security, and on crime and public safety.
00:02:15.000Biden's approval rating at this point in his presidency says Teixeira is the lowest of any president going back to the 1940s, when the era of modern polling began.
00:02:23.000So what could Joe Biden do to turn that around?
00:02:25.000Well, Biden thinks that bashing Trump is going to save him.
00:02:28.000That's presumably why he's going to go on a Trump bashing tour beginning this week, labeling Donald Trump a racist and a fascist.
00:02:35.000According to the Associated Press, quote, President Joe Biden is starting the campaign year by evoking the Revolutionary War to mark the third anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S.
00:02:43.000Capitol and visiting the South Carolina church where a white gunman massacred black parishioners.
00:02:48.000Seeking to present in the starkest possible terms an election he argues could determine the fate of American democracy.
00:02:55.000He's basically going to turn January 6th into a national holiday so that everybody has to remember how horrible January 6th day after day after day because that's what America must fight and Trump can't be president because of January 6th.
00:03:08.000So on Saturday, Joe Biden is going to travel near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where George Washington and the Continental Army spent a bleak winter nearly 250 years ago, presumably to talk about spending a bleak winter this year.
00:03:18.000But it will swing into a wondrous summer under a second Joe Biden term.
00:03:23.000There, he's apparently going to decry Donald Trump for the riot by a mob of his supporters who overran the Capitol, says the Associated Press, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
00:03:32.000So Valley Forge speech to talk about January 6th.
00:03:41.000Two days later, the president is going to visit Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, where nine people were shot and killed in a June 2015 white supremacist attack.
00:04:02.000And it's not going to be anything quite shocking from Joe Biden, given the fact that this is the same guy who once suggested that Mitt Romney was a vicious racist who wanted to re-enslave black people.
00:04:11.000Joe Biden's kicking off 2024, says the Associated Press, by delving into some of the country's darkest moments, rather than an upbeat affirmation of his record, is meant to clarify for voters what his team sees as the stakes of November's election during both events.
00:04:23.000He will characterize his predecessor as a serious threat to the nation's founding principles, arguing that Trump, who has built a commanding early lead in the Republican presidential primary, will seek to undermine U.S.
00:04:32.000democracy should he win a second term.
00:05:00.000Everyone knows that Trump's 2020 post-election activities, even if they despise them and think they're really bad, didn't actually change the outcome of the election.
00:05:07.000Joe Biden, after all, is the president and has been the president since January of 2021.
00:05:11.000What's more, the pitch that Trump is more racist than Biden, that he's some sort of Crypto white supremacist.
00:05:26.000So this idea that Trump is more racially polarizing than Biden?
00:05:31.000That's not what the polls are showing.
00:05:33.000The pitch that Trump is a fascist isn't gonna work either, because as even George Will, a Trump opponent of high ardor, points out, quote, Joe Biden is, like Trump, an authoritarian recidivist, mostly stymied by courts.
00:05:44.000That is from a person who really, really, really dislikes Donald Trump.
00:05:47.000George Will says, quote, instances of Trump's anti-constitutional behavior have been amply reported and applauded, Biden's less so, although they, for example, the eviction moratorium, the vaccine mandate, the cancellation of student debt, and judicial reprimands of them, have been frequent.
00:06:01.000And then George will point out that Joe Biden has been attempting to overrun the Federal Vacancies Reform Act by basically attempting to appoint somebody, that person being rejected by the Senate, and then him waiting for some sort of break in the action to reappoint that same exact person.
00:06:17.000Most of all, Joe Biden's hope that hatred for Trump will somehow save him, that's predicated on another false idea.
00:06:22.000And that idea is that Donald Trump will jog Republican turnout, but he will really, really, really jog Democratic turnout.
00:06:29.000And that's, you know, an arguable proposition.
00:06:32.000The truth is that in every election since 2016, Democratic turnout has been up because of Trump.
00:07:29.000That is a massive increase and also a massive outlier.
00:07:32.000And Joe Biden went incredibly narrowly based on that massive outlying increase in voter turnout.
00:07:38.0002020 saw a voter turnout increase of 23 million voters to 160 million total voters.
00:07:42.000to 160 million total voters. That is opposed to 137 million in 2016 and 129 million in 2012.
00:07:50.000So do we really think that that number is going to replicate?
00:07:53.000Do we think we're going to get 160 million total voters again in 2024?
00:07:56.000Is it going to look more like 140 million voters?
00:08:00.000And if there is a 20 million vote gap between, say, 2020 and 2024, in the negative direction, 20 million fewer people vote in 2024 than 2020, who do we think that's going to hurt?
00:08:14.000If those voters disappear, those marginal voters, do we think those marginal voters were Trump voters or Biden voters?
00:08:19.000The answer in 2020 was almost certainly Biden voters because the Democratic turnout machine was extremely heavy because Joe Biden relied heavily on an on-the-ground operation months in advance of the election to get people to vote absentee ballot.
00:08:31.000The changing rules because of COVID meant that Joe Biden's entire turnout operation was predicated on not voting on election day.
00:08:38.000That is why you saw that blue shift happen over the course of election night, because all of the in-person votes got counted.
00:08:45.000And Donald Trump did really well with the in-person votes.
00:08:47.000And then all of the mail-in ballots started to be counted.
00:08:49.000And then Joe Biden overtook Trump in all of these various states.
00:08:52.000But what happens when the number of mail-in ballots is way, way, way lower because people aren't staying home because of COVID or voting from home because of COVID?
00:09:01.000What happens if the Republican Party doesn't shoot itself directly in the leg by suggesting that people should not vote from home?
00:09:51.000In just one second, we'll talk about Joe Biden's being held hostage by his own left and why this is absolutely Crushing his re-elect chances.
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00:10:04.000They can stitch together detailed profiles, which include your browsing history, online searches, location data.
00:10:09.000Then they sell that profile to a company that delivers you a targeted ad.
00:10:13.000Well, you might be surprised to learn these same data brokers are also selling your information to the DHS and the IRS, which is really bad.
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00:11:39.000And by the way, that does not include getaways.
00:11:42.000Meanwhile, the DOJ, as we mentioned yesterday, is suing Texas to stop Texas from enforcing immigration law.
00:11:49.000And meanwhile, the United States is about to reopen four legal U.S.-Mexico border crossings today, according to Reuters, as high levels of illegal immigration have receded and freed up personnel.
00:12:03.000is going to resume operations at an international bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, two crossings in Arizona, another near San Diego, California.
00:12:09.000That's according to Customs and Border Protection.
00:12:12.000border authorities struggled in December to process migrants as apprehensions reached nearly 11,000 in a single day, which several current and former officials said was near or at a record high.
00:12:22.000Now remember, when they say that these border apprehensions are happening, That does not necessarily mean that these are people who are crossing between crossings and then CBP is picking them up.
00:12:30.000Very often an apprehension is somebody who actually shows up at a border crossing and then is quote-unquote apprehended awaiting further review for asylum or refugee status.
00:12:41.000But we know that the vast majority of people who are claiming that status are not actually eligible for that status.
00:12:45.000And then the administration basically catches and releases those people.
00:13:10.000And now, hilariously, in Chicago and New York, fighting mad because it turns out that when the chickens come home to roost, when you back really bad border policy and call yourself a sanctuary city, and then all of a sudden, oh no, it's the consequences of my own actions, people start arriving en masse in New York and Chicago, straining your social services and sleeping on the streets, you get ticked too.
00:13:30.000So this is a boiling issue for the White House.
00:13:33.000So what is the White House doing about it?
00:13:38.000So according to Politico, the Biden administration is attempting to flip the blame for the migrant crisis at the southern border onto Republicans.
00:14:03.000For those who are not familiar with this meme from the internets, it's a meme in which one character shoots another character in the chest and then turns to camera and says, who could have done this?
00:14:13.000That is the Democratic Party when it comes to illegal immigration.
00:14:16.000According to Politico, in anticipation of Speaker Mike Johnson heading to the U.S.
00:14:19.000southern border on Wednesday, the White House issued a statement accusing House GOPers of ducking the chance to address the issue they've been attacking.
00:14:25.000Actions speak louder than words, said White House spokesperson Andrew Bates.
00:14:33.000The F is defined by attempting to cut Customs and Border Protection personnel.
00:14:37.000No, what Republicans didn't want to do was increase the amount of processing power.
00:14:42.000They wanted to increase the amount of enforcement power, meaning turn people away at the border.
00:14:46.000They didn't simply want to increase the size and scope of the processing Apparatus in order to allow in more people illegally, which is what Joe Biden wants to do.
00:14:57.000But Joe Biden wants to basically what you have here is you have a hose with a spigot.
00:15:22.000Alejandro Mayorkas, the Department of Homeland Security head, which is such an Orwellian notion that he is the head of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:15:29.000What homeland security has Alejandro Mayorkas been providing?
00:16:08.000citizenship and immigration system services, the agency within the Department of Homeland Security that administers our legal immigration system was financially gutted during the prior administration.
00:16:23.000Again, what he wants to do is increase the processing power.
00:16:26.000He does not actually want to cut off the flow.
00:16:28.000If you want illegal immigration to stop, you need to cut off the flow, but that's exactly what the Biden administration is unwilling to do.
00:16:34.000According to Politico, Senate negotiators are trying to land a bipartisan agreement on policy to help stem the flow of migration, and House Republicans are now considering impeaching Mayorkas, as they should, because he's not doing his job.
00:16:43.000I mean, you don't have to be guilty of any sort of crime to be quote-unquote impeached.
00:16:48.000We found that out when Democrats impeached Donald Trump twice while alleging no actual criminal activity.
00:16:53.000Dereliction of duty would be a big one for Alejandro Mayorkas, who has not secured the border in any way, shape, or form.
00:16:59.000It is hilarious that... So Mayorkas was asked, why exactly do you think that there's been this massive outbreak of illegal immigration?
00:17:06.000Like, way higher than it was during Trump, way higher than it was during Obama.
00:17:10.000So he blames climate change and poverty, which are systemic problems in the Northern Triangle and Latin America generally.
00:17:17.000He blames that, which is weird since climate change, according to the left, has been taking place for decades and poverty has been endemic to this region for, again, decades.
00:17:28.000The answer, by the way, is that illegal immigrants will tell you themselves Joe Biden is president.
00:17:32.000There's lots of video of people chanting Joe Biden's name as they head for the border.
00:17:36.000Here's Alejandro Mayorkas trying to blame this on systemic factors.
00:17:39.000By the way, when politicians tend to blame quote-unquote systemic factors like this, usually that's a way of them avoiding accountability and responsibility.
00:17:46.000Because how exactly is anyone supposed to solve climate change or poverty?
00:18:04.000So we are seeing the greatest number of displaced people, not only at our southern border, not only in the Western Hemisphere, but across the globe.
00:18:16.000You know, I am involved in bilateral and multilateral meetings with my counterparts from foreign countries in Europe, in Asia, in the Indo-Pacific, all over the world.
00:18:29.000In migration, the challenge of displaced people is a subject that comes up in every single conversation.
00:18:38.000We have the effects of climate change, poverty, increasing level of authoritarianism, the very many challenges that are at the root cause of the displacement of people around the world.
00:18:53.000So question, why does the chart for illegal immigration look like this?
00:18:58.000Okay, why does it spike when Joe Biden becomes president?
00:19:02.000No one in the Biden administration is willing to answer that question and the answer is perfectly obvious.
00:19:04.000It's because Joe Biden is soft on illegal immigration and his party is soft on illegal immigration.
00:19:09.000And again, they are in hock to the left wing because there's no reason for this.
00:19:12.000Democrats on the border understand that leaving the border wide open is totally insane.
00:19:18.000This has to be an ideological thing, truly.
00:19:21.000Because the reality is that even labor-first Democrats, people who are for unions, for example, it used to be they were very much opposed to illegal immigration and migrant labor generally because they believed it was undercutting the wage base in the United States.
00:19:31.000But now, the Democratic Party has been so captured by college-educated white liberals that they seem to believe that leaving the border open is some sort of moral requirement.
00:19:40.000They're going to follow that all the way into Joe Biden losing the presidency is what's going to happen here.
00:19:44.000In just one second, we'll get to the continuing Democratic attempt to blame Republicans for what is, in fact, a Democratic problem.
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00:21:06.000He's the head of the Department of Homeland Security, refusing to enforce border law.
00:21:11.000And here he is blaming Texas' governor, Greg Abbott, for actually attempting to enforce border law.
00:21:16.000We have taken action on the border and we've taken action with respect to the challenges that cities across the country are facing.
00:21:24.000Let me identify one fundamental problem here and that is the fact that we have one governor In the state of Texas, who is refusing to cooperate with other governors and other local officials and coordinate efforts to address a challenge that our country, which this country should stand united to address, that our country is facing.
00:21:51.000And it's a remarkable failure of governance to refuse to cooperate with one's fellow local and state officials.
00:22:01.000Again, it is the federal government currently suing Greg Abbott to stop him from enforcing federal immigration law.
00:22:06.000Meanwhile, Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's worst press secretary over at the White House, she says that Joe Biden still has confidence in his DHS secretary.
00:22:12.000They're going to run this playbook right into the ground.
00:22:16.000I mean, what's happening here, just from any objective point of view, if you're an alien from outer space and you arrived in the United States and you saw a crisis at the southern border, a president in the low 40s, high 30s approval rating, in a reelect fight, where the border is going to be a major issue, shouting that his opponents are responsible and we're going to basically leave things in place, you'd be like, what in the world is even happening here?
00:22:35.000But that's what the Biden administration is doing.
00:22:37.000The House committee is moving ahead with impeachment proceedings against Secretary Mayorkas.
00:22:42.000There's a hearing scheduled for next week, so I'd just like to get the White House response and also just to clarify, does the President still have confidence in the Secretary?
00:22:52.000Absolutely, the President has confidence in the Secretary.
00:22:55.000I think, and I've said this moments ago, I said it at the top as well, we believe that what they're doing, the House Republicans are doing, Well, why aren't you doing any of them, then?
00:23:18.000So Joe Biden, for his part, he says this is all about Republicans refusing him money to do immigration.
00:23:22.000Now, we all know what's actually happening here, is that the money he wants for immigration is not to actually reject illegal immigrants at the border.
00:23:30.000He does not want a remain in Mexico policy.
00:24:02.000The federal government has only a couple of actual original purposes.
00:24:05.000Then it has a bunch of crap that it does that literally has nothing to do with its constitutional duties.
00:24:10.000The size and scope of the federal government is so insanely beyond anything the Founding Fathers ever would have comprehended that it's absolutely maddening.
00:24:18.000The Founding Fathers legitimately fought a revolution based on the size and scope of government and lack of representation within that government.
00:24:26.000If they could see the federal government as it currently stands, what do you think they would think of this?
00:24:30.000I mean, I got Joe Biden walking around spending $7 trillion a year, and he's like, I don't know.
00:25:18.000Except that we know that that's not true.
00:25:19.000Because right now, Joe Biden is requesting another giant supplemental bill.
00:25:23.000That giant supplemental bill includes, like, $60 billion in aid to Ukraine, $14 billion in aid to Israel, some billions of dollars in aid to Taiwan.
00:25:32.000And Republicans said, OK, well, we're going to add some border security here.
00:25:43.000So here is Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority, the Senate Majority Leader yesterday talking about this and saying, well, if Republicans want H.R.
00:25:59.0002 as the only solution, which every Democrat has voted against, I believe both House and Senate, certainly every Senator voted, every Democratic Senator voted against it.
00:26:09.000I think every Democratic House member voted against it as well.
00:26:17.000Okay, so he says, by the way, that there is agreement among Democrats and Republicans about need to fix the border, but they won't actually propose anything that systemically changes the problem on the border.
00:26:29.000Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut is the lead Democrat in the border talks.
00:26:32.000He says, I think if the Senate gets something done in a bipartisan way, it'll put enormous pressure on the House to get something done as well.
00:26:38.000Well, so far, they haven't done a very good job of it.
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00:28:17.000It would re-establish Trump-era border policy, including restarting construction on the border wall.
00:28:21.000It would reinforce the definition of operational control as the profession of all unlawful entries into the United States, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, instruments of terrorism, narcotics, and other contraband.
00:28:33.000So, all unlawful entries, that would be now the goal of operational control.
00:28:37.000It would require the DHS Secretary to incorporate physical barriers, infrastructures, and technologies to achieve situational awareness and operational control of the U.S.-Mexico border.
00:28:45.000It would increase the number of full-time Border Patrol agents to at least 22,000.
00:28:47.000By the way, that gives the lie to the idea that the Republicans don't want to increase Border Patrol agents.
00:28:53.000They just don't want to increase the number of people who are going to be involved in processing illegal immigration forms as opposed to the number of people who are on the border catching the gotaways.
00:29:04.000Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations resources to transport non-citizens who will not be detained into the country's interior.
00:29:11.000In other words, we shouldn't be spending federal dollars to bust people all around the country via CBP.
00:29:17.000Border Patrol to put together a strategic plan based on information provided by border community stakeholders like hospitals, farmers, ranchers, property owners, victims of crimes, and others negatively impacted by illegal immigration.
00:29:27.000All of this sounds absolutely reasonable.
00:29:29.000It would also restrict access for asylum.
00:29:32.000You'd raise the initial screening standard, so a non-citizen would have to prove they were more likely than not to ultimately qualify for asylum, to continue pursuing their protection claim, and not be just kicked out.
00:29:49.000They're like, well, maybe there's like a 1% chance this person needs asylum, probably should release them into the interior of the United States.
00:29:55.000Or should, by what we call a preponderance of the evidence, 51% shot, you're actually gonna get asylum.
00:30:01.000You want to come in, make your asylum claim.
00:30:04.000We'll let you in because the chances are pretty good you're going to receive asylum.
00:30:07.000That is a smart policy the Democrats oppose.
00:30:10.000It would ban the vast majority of asylum seekers from requesting protection at U.S.
00:30:14.000border if they traveled through a third country en route to the United States and had not already been denied asylum there.
00:30:19.000By the way, this is the same policy that Mexico holds.
00:30:21.000So the basic idea here would be that if you come up to the U.S.
00:30:23.000border and you did not request asylum in Mexico first, you need to go back to Mexico and request asylum there.
00:30:28.000And then if they deny that, then you can come to the United States and request asylum.
00:30:31.000But you shouldn't be able to, like, pick and choose the best country just because it is the best country.
00:30:37.000If you are truly requesting asylum, meaning you're trying to avoid the worst possible scenario, that does not give you automatic access to the United States.
00:30:45.000It would restrict asylum claims generally to migrants who arrive in the U.S.
00:30:49.000So you can't, like, go between the border crossings, cross the Rio Grande, run into the United States, and then claim asylum.
00:30:54.000You have to actually go to a border crossing in order for us to process you normally.
00:30:57.000Like, none of this seems wildly crazy.
00:31:02.000It would also explicitly end the existing presumption against detaining a non-citizen child accompanied by family, making it easier for families with minor children to be held in detention, because right now...
00:31:12.000One of the big problems is that you're not allowed to hold a child in detention facilities with family, which leads to separations at the border between children and parents, which has then been used as a lever to release the parents.
00:31:23.000So now it's saying, OK, well, you know, how about we just keep the families together?
00:31:28.000It would require DHS to actually reestablish family detention, requiring parents and kids who enter together without authorization to be held together in immigration detention.
00:31:38.000And then say that this satisfies the Flores Settlement Agreement.
00:31:41.000The Flores Settlement was an agreement come to by the Clinton administration and the federal judiciary with regard to non-separation of children from families.
00:31:50.000Again, all of this is perfectly normal and natural.
00:31:54.000This is the stuff that Joe Biden is opposing.
00:31:56.000This is the stuff Chuck Schumer is opposing.
00:31:58.000So much opposing, by the way, that they would rather kill Ukraine than pass it.
00:32:02.000The bill would criminalize overstaying a legal visa, so if you overstay your visa, that makes it a criminal penalty.
00:32:08.000They want you to be able to just, I don't know, pay a fine or something.
00:32:11.000They want to redefine what it means for parole to be granted on a case-by-case basis, so you can't categorically just declare that people are paroled, like DACA.
00:32:19.000And all of this, and it would add e-verify, so employers would actually have to check the immigration status of the people they employ.
00:32:26.000Why is any of this remotely controversial?
00:32:28.000If you pulled each one of those propositions, I guarantee you those are 70% propositions.
00:32:33.00070% of Americans probably agree with every single thing that I just said.
00:32:52.000He says, I'm not rid of I'm not in favor of changing parole and asylum in favor of Ukraine aid.
00:32:58.000I mean, first of all, you should be in favor of it just without Ukraine aid.
00:33:00.000But the fact that Democrats are willing to take what they say is the top national security priority, not allowing Ukraine to be eaten by Russia.
00:33:07.000and subject it and subjugate that, subsume that, get rid of that, sublimate that to
00:33:13.000the open border policy is totally crazy. Here's Ro Khanna.
00:33:18.000How crucial is that aid for Ukraine right now?
00:33:21.000It's absolutely crucial and we should have a standalone up or down vote on the aid to Ukraine.
00:33:27.000And I strongly support the aid to Ukraine.
00:33:30.000But what I don't support is getting rid of America's commitment to asylum or parole just to give aid to Ukraine.
00:33:38.000I mean, we're not going to compromise our entire values as a nation over that.
00:34:42.000And everybody who's going to vote for Trump basically understands this.
00:34:45.000Trump has some very good political instincts and he has some very bad habits on Twitter.
00:34:50.000And then, if he surrounds himself with the right people, he tends to implement some pretty good policy, which is why, again, he's leading in the polls.
00:34:55.000We'll get to Donald Trump's proposed border policy.
00:34:57.000Again, he's skunking Biden on this issue.
00:34:59.000It's amazing to me that Biden won't compromise with the Republicans and attempt to at least neutralize the issue.
00:35:13.000Well, because you can trust that when we say that we put our kids in front of this content, it's gonna be good for your kids as well.
00:35:19.000And there's no one more protective of their kids than I am with my kids.
00:35:22.000Like literally no one on planet Earth does not exist.
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00:36:16.000Okay, meanwhile, as you say, when it comes to immigration policy, Joe Biden is blowing it and it's playing right into Donald Trump's hands.
00:36:22.000He has a good piece over the Des Moines Register, obviously not written by Donald Trump, doesn't matter.
00:36:32.000We ended catch and release and removed over 1 million illegal aliens in my first term.
00:36:35.000I negotiated unprecedented agreements with Central American nations and brokered remain in Mexico to stop the flow of migrants to our border.
00:36:41.000I got the Mexican government to deploy tens of thousands of soldiers to the border free of charge.
00:36:45.000Every step of the way, we fought obstructionists, left-wing judges, and radical Democrats who tried to stop us, and we won.
00:36:50.000And he says, now you're witnessing the disastrous results of Joe Biden.
00:36:54.000Biden came in, canceled the border wall, ended Remain in Mexico, ripped up my asylum bans, ended Title 42, and began resettling millions of migrants into American communities at taxpayer expense.
00:37:02.000And now you are witnessing the disastrous results.
00:37:04.000We have the highest number of illegal border crossings in history by far.
00:37:08.000On my first day back in office, I will terminate every open borders policy of the Biden administration and immediately restore the full set of strong Trump border policies.
00:37:15.000Then, we will begin a record-setting deportation operation.
00:37:25.000To achieve this goal, I will make clear to every department and to state and local governments, we must use all resources and authorities available.
00:37:30.000We will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement, including parts of the DEA, ATF, FBI, and DHS.
00:37:38.000I will use the Alien Enemies Act to remove known or suspected gang members, drug dealers, or cartel members from the United States, and we'll use Title 42 to end the child trafficking crisis at last.
00:38:34.000The Federal Reserve obviously has historically been in the business of trying to jog the economy just before presidential elections.
00:38:39.000This goes all the way back to the Nixon administration.
00:38:42.000Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve officials thought they were done raising interest rates when they decided last month to hold them steady, but minutes of the meeting didn't reveal a meaningful debate about when to start lowering rates.
00:38:52.000While nearly all officials anticipated policy rates would eventually be lowered before the end of this year, the written account of their December 12th and 13th meeting, released on Wednesday, underscored heightened uncertainty over how to navigate the next interval of monetary policy after the most rapid increase in interest rates in four decades.
00:39:07.000So they're really not sure how much they're going to reduce the rates.
00:39:10.000I guarantee you they're going to try to reduce the rates this year, because if they don't, the economy is going to start to stagnate.
00:41:31.000What you would expect is that Jerome Powell, before the election, probably drops the interest rates to try to jog the economy a little bit.
00:41:35.000Is that going to be too little, too late?
00:41:36.000Probably, given the fact that, again, all this stuff is embedded.
00:41:40.000It's not as though when we say inflation goes down, the actual amount of money that you are paying goes down.
00:41:48.000Deflation would be things are less expensive today than they were yesterday.
00:41:53.000Even best case scenario, talking about a continued inflation rate of 2%, which is what the Federal Reserve aims for, that's on top of the already embedded 17 to 20% increase that you've seen over the course of the Biden administration.
00:42:04.000Meanwhile, the possibility of more shocks to the global economic system are very, very real.
00:42:10.000Shipping in the Red Sea continues to be a complete disaster area.
00:42:13.000I don't know what the point is of having a multi, multi, tens of billions of dollar military if you are not going to be able to stop Houthi pirates from stopping shipping through the Red Sea.
00:42:26.000Joe Biden's international policy is going to have some dramatic impacts on the American economy.
00:42:30.000One of the big factors in price inflation over the course of the last several years has been supply chain bottlenecks left over from COVID.
00:42:36.000That has been a very real phenomenon in the economic world.
00:42:40.000Well, that was driven by a global pandemic and shutdowns in particular countries, labor shortages, and all the rest.
00:42:46.000What happens when you have, again, a bunch of ragtag pirates who are shutting down an entire shipping methodology that lowers cost for the entire globe on products ranging from oil to clothing.
00:42:57.000An enormous amount of shipping goes through the Red Sea and yet here we are today with the US and its allies having to give the Houthis warnings.
00:43:06.000Now you know that could have been prevented by the United States taking a very anti-Iran position from the get-go under Joe Biden.
00:43:12.000Donald Trump had basically ostracized Iran from the international community.
00:43:16.000The Houthis were listed as a US A US-labeled terrorist group.
00:43:52.000I mean, now that the can has been opened against Israel by Iran, with regard to Hamas and Hezbollah, There's the possibility that the only way to close that can is to go after Hezbollah, which is another major issue for the Biden administration.
00:44:04.000Joe Biden's re-elect effort requires there to be some level of calm in the Middle East re-established.
00:44:08.000What they're hoping is to contain the Israel-Hamas issue to Israel and Hamas, that Hezbollah does not come in.
00:44:13.000The only way that's going to happen is if the United States makes very, very clear to Hezbollah that if Hezbollah gets involved, the United States finishes Hezbollah.
00:44:20.000That is actually what would be in Joe Biden's political interest.
00:44:23.000Because if that war opens up, that's very bad for Joe Biden, politically speaking.
00:44:31.000Probably Iran does not want that, because if it starts to broaden into a larger war, then the Iranian mullahs are probably not in leadership at the end of that day.
00:44:38.000But With that said, a little bit of strength right now would go a long way.
00:44:42.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S., Britain, and key allies issued what officials described as a final warning to the Houthi Yemeni rebel group Wednesday to cease its attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea or bear the consequences.
00:44:52.000The statement was issued by more than a dozen nations.
00:44:53.000Quote, ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly destabilizing.
00:44:57.000The Houthis were better the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, and the free flow of commerce in the region's critical waterways.
00:45:06.000One of the challenges is that a lot of the weapon systems are mobile.
00:45:07.000the Houthis, according to U.S. officials.
00:45:09.000Should the U.S., Britain and other nations use force, potential targets could include launchers
00:45:12.000for anti-ship missiles and drones, targeting infrastructure such as coastal radar
00:45:16.000installations and storage facilities for munitions.
00:45:18.000One of the challenges is that a lot of the weapon systems are mobile, they're also very cheap.
00:45:24.000The Biden administration has been cautious about using force,
00:45:26.000seeking to protect the prospects for diplomatic resolution Yeah, good luck with that one.
00:45:31.000Houthi fighters overthrew the Yemeni government in 2014.
00:45:33.000There's been an ongoing, very bloody war between the Houthis and the Saudi government and other Arab nations attempting to oust the Houthis, who, again, are an Iranian-backed terror group with a slogan talking about death to America, death to Israel, glory to Allah, and all the rest.
00:45:51.000John Kirby says the President has made clear the United States does not seek conflict with any nation or actor in the Middle East, but neither will we shrink from the task of defending ourselves, our interests, our partners, or the free flow of international commerce.
00:46:01.000As of Tuesday, the Houthis have already carried out 24 attacks on commercial ships since mid-November.
00:46:06.000And of course, it's not just the Houthis.
00:46:07.000You have Iranian-backed terror proxies in Iraq that are striking at American forces.
00:46:12.000You have Hezbollah, which again is warming up on Israel's northern front.
00:46:17.000What is going to push Iran off the ball is going to be the West actually doing something.
00:47:22.000There's nothing there that suggests that this was some sort of American-Israeli operation, either together or alone.
00:47:28.000It's actually much more likely, in fact, that it was some form of Iranian rebel group attempting to generate ire at the Iranian administration.
00:47:39.000Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the attackers will face a harsh response.
00:47:42.000He didn't name any possible suspect, probably because the Iranians know that if they try to turn this into an American-Israeli thing, that it actually increases the chance of war.
00:47:51.000Again, Iran wants wars using its proxies.
00:48:02.000In the theory of world war, okay, here's a quick theory of world wars.
00:48:06.000World wars begin when you have a series of popping popcorn kernels and no one actually turns down the heat.
00:48:12.000When the series of popping popcorn kernels start to increase, when the heat increases, it's like a pop here and a pop here and a pop here and then all of a sudden everything's popping all at once.
00:48:20.000That's what you're starting to see in the Middle East.
00:48:21.000It started off with this Hamas attack.
00:48:33.000And eventually, eventually, if this continues, someone in the Iranian government is going to authorize a strike against an American target.
00:48:40.000They're going to sink an American ship or something, and then America is going to pummel them.
00:48:44.000There's one way to stop that, which is stop the popcorn kernels from popping.
00:48:48.000And you can't stop them from popping simply by appealing to them to stop.
00:48:52.000You're going to have to actually quash them where they are.
00:48:55.000You have to let Israel finish off Hamas.
00:48:57.000You have to threaten Hezbollah that if it gets involved, that America will finish off Hezbollah directly.
00:49:02.000That's the reason we have aircraft carriers stationed in the Mediterranean.
00:49:05.000It's not because I or anyone else wants America at war with Iran.
00:49:09.000It's because I want America not at war with Iran.
00:49:17.000It's why the United States is gonna have to blow away the Houthis.
00:49:20.000Because if they continue to achieve quote-unquote victories against international shipping in the Red Sea, do you think that incentivizes more attacks or does it disincentivize more attacks?
00:49:30.000Again, Sunnis are probably responsible for what just happened in Iran.
00:49:34.000According to the AP, Sunni extremist groups, including the ISIS group, have conducted large-scale attacks in the past that killed civilians in Shiite-majority Iran.
00:49:43.000That's probably what is happening here.
00:49:45.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest on Harvard, where Clouding Gay now has a piece out talking about how hard it is to be Clouding Gay, how she's really a victim.