3 U.S. service members were killed in a drone strike on a base in northeast Jordan, and many more were wounded. It was only a matter of time before this happened. Iran has been attacking Americans all over the Middle East, from Iraq to Syria and now to Jordan. And at every turn, Joe Biden made clear that he was not going to hit them hard enough to make them stop. And when you show your neck, they get more aggressive with you. Joe Biden has been showing America s neck largely since October 7th, when he decided to take the Houthis off the terrorist watch list. Since then, he has spent every day since then trying to make nice with Iran, demonstrating that his true interest in the Mideast has nothing to do with American interests, but rather, to advance his electoral interests. And as the doors began to close around Iran, Iran started to buck against that, and they started to use their terror proxies as a way of upending the burgeoning relationships in the region. Who do you think is more fearful of war with Iran than the United States? War with Iran or peace with Iran? And if it comes to it, who do you fear more, Iran from going to war with the U. S. or war with us? I don t think anyone wants to spend their blood in their right mind on it, and no one thinks that is a good idea. But if war is all they want to spend all their treasure on the Red Sea, and everybody is rooting for peace and prosperity, then they should be rooting up the Good Cape of Good Hope of the Red sea of their casked to go to war, right now, because that s all they can get a better chance of getting all of their oil and all of the good things they could get. by going to peace and a good port in peace and tranquility in the Red Seas, right there in the middle of the Persian Gulf, right by the Meddling Sea by the White House, right in front of them. by listening to this episode of The Good Morning America is a must-listen to this week's episode of Good Morning Folks. Thank you for listening to Good Morning Joe! Good morning, Good Morning, and Good Morning Africa! by . by Good Morning and Good Evening America by Good Morning Baltimore by , by , and Thank You, by .
00:00:00.000So, first of all, to start the show, for those people who are hip-hop fans and are just here, for the number one hip-hop artist in America, I'll get to it a little bit later in the show.
00:00:40.000Jordan is officially an American ally.
00:00:42.000So this would be an attack by an Iranian proxy force into an American allied space on Americans.
00:00:48.000The strike, carried out by one-way attack drone, signals an escalating in fighting in the region.
00:00:53.000The President and Secretary of Defense did put out a statement suggesting retaliation.
00:00:57.000President Biden's statement was this quote today America's heart is heavy last night three US
00:01:01.000service members were killed and many wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on our
00:01:05.000forces stationed in northeast Jordan near the Syria border while we are still gathering the
00:01:09.000facts of the attack we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in
00:01:13.000Syria and Iraq and then there is the language about grieving for the fallen service members
00:01:19.000and how wonderful the soldiers are all of which I'm sure is true.
00:01:21.000Also, if you had not spent every day since October 7th trying to make nice with Iran, demonstrating that your true interest in the Middle East has nothing to do with American interests, but to do with your electoral interests, this would not have happened.
00:01:36.000Here's the very simple math in the Middle East.
00:01:37.000If you do not punch terrorists directly in the mouth incredibly hard and incredibly often, they get more aggressive with you.
00:01:43.000And when you show your neck, they attack.
00:01:45.000Joe Biden has been showing his neck largely since October 7th.
00:01:49.000In fact, long before that, Joe Biden has been showing America's neck in the Middle East since he decided that he was going to take the Houthis off the terrorist watch list.
00:01:58.000Since he decided that he was going to start appeasing the Palestinian Authority.
00:02:02.000Since he decided that he was going to reorient away from the alliance-driven model that President Trump had embraced, the Abraham Accords model, that really brought a lot of Sunni Arab countries into the fold, ranging from Saudi Arabia and UAE and Morocco to Egypt and Jordan.
00:02:18.000He decided to move away from that, did Joe Biden.
00:02:20.000And instead, he was going to seek the Barack Obama-esque idiocy of, what if we try to pursue a deal with Iran?
00:02:26.000And when you do that, what you end up doing is appeasing the largest terror sponsor in the region.
00:02:32.000And naturally, as the doors began to close around the Middle East to Iran, Iran started to buck against that.
00:02:38.000And they started to use their terror proxies as a way of upending the burgeoning relationships in the Middle East, as a way of scuttling any possibility of the broadening of the Abraham Accords to directly include Saudi Arabia.
00:03:19.000No one is interested in war with Iran.
00:03:21.000But if it comes down to it, who do you think has more to fear, Iran from going to war with the United States or the United States from going to war with Iran?
00:03:28.000Again, that's not something that I'm calling for.
00:03:30.000I don't think anyone in their right mind thinks that that is a good idea.
00:03:34.000No one wants to spend blood, no one wants to spend treasure, and that is exactly correct.
00:03:37.000But containment can and should be pursued.
00:03:40.000Containment is a policy of deterrence that is Applied in various regions surrounding Iran.
00:03:46.000You don't have to go to war directly with Iran to, for example, secure shipping in the Red Sea, which is deeply necessary considering that container shipments have now cost twice what they used to, and everybody is now rooting around the Cape of Good Hope instead of going up through the Red Sea.
00:04:01.000Their oil is getting more expensive because of all of this.
00:04:04.000Suggesting that Israel be supplied the munitions that it requires in order to take out the Iranian proxy Hamas and to deter the Iranian proxy Hezbollah in the north or take it out.
00:04:13.000That has nothing to do with America going directly to war.
00:04:16.000When Americans get killed, the proper response to that is to make sure the other side of the f-around find-out equation actually applies.
00:04:26.000That does not mean that you have to directly attack Iran.
00:04:28.000Doesn't mean that you're going to have F-22s flying over Tehran or anything like that.
00:04:33.000There are ways the United States can apply force in the face of the death of Americans that actually establishes deterrence.
00:04:39.000And if you're not going to do that, you shouldn't have troops there.
00:04:43.000If you think that the United States should completely pull out of the region, which is a whole other argument, and also I think a specious argument considering the United States does have deep and abiding reasons to care about the Middle East, ranging from oil supply to shipping strategy to democracy.
00:05:00.000There are many reasons to care about the Middle East.
00:05:02.000But even if you were to argue that the U.S.
00:05:04.000should not have troops there at all, if U.S.
00:05:06.000troops are there, you have to protect them.
00:05:08.000It is immoral and wrong not to protect them.
00:05:10.000And Joe Biden has been in the business of trying to appease The people who have killed thousands of Americans since the day he took office.
00:05:18.000He's been in a delusional state about Iran, the same delusional state embraced by Barack Obama, and that led to the rise of Iranian power throughout the Middle East.
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00:07:18.000So right now, Joe Biden is trying to walk this tightrope to quote unquote, protect American troops
00:07:23.000without creating the possibility of a broader conflict with Iran.
00:07:28.000Now, again, the reality is that that is quite doable.
00:07:32.000But Joe Biden is so scared, he's so all-fire scared of a continuing conflict in the Middle East that he's going to sleepwalk right into one.
00:07:37.000Because there are two ways the conflict happens.
00:07:40.000One is we retaliate, and then Iran retaliates, and then we retaliate, and then Iran retaliates, and then it escalates.
00:08:29.000His policy has been to pressure our allies.
00:08:31.000Literally, the moment he stepped onto the world stage as President of the United States, he decided that he was going to destroy relations with the Saudis.
00:08:38.000Forget about what he's doing with Israel.
00:08:39.000What he did with the Saudis at the very beginning of his administration is despicable.
00:08:44.000He decided that as a virtue signal to all of his journalist friends, he was gonna cut off the Saudi regime.
00:08:49.000And then right before the midterms, he had to go on bended knee to the Saudi king and basically ask, The de facto Saudi King Mohammed bin Salman to lower oil prices to which MBS was like, why would I do that?
00:09:01.000You've been campaigning against me since the day you got into office.
00:09:05.000Joe Biden's entire policy has been oriented against our allies in the Middle East and in favor of trying to bring Iran into the family of nations, which again is the most specious and idiotic goal of any goal in the Middle East period.
00:09:18.000I mean, the number of attacks on Americans is going to continue to rise here.
00:09:21.000Because again, Joe Biden has basically done nothing.
00:09:51.000It says three years ago, Iran was weak, broke, and totally under control.
00:09:55.000Thanks to my maximum pressure policy, the Iranian regime could barely scrape two dollars together to fund their terrorist proxies.
00:10:00.000Then Joe Biden came in and gave Iran billions of dollars, which the regime has used to spread bloodshed and carnage throughout the Middle East.
00:10:07.000This attack would never have happened if I was president, not even a chance.
00:10:09.000Just like the Iranian-backed Hamas attack on Israel would never have happened, the war in Ukraine would never have happened, and we would right now have peace throughout the world instead, we are on the brink of World War III.
00:10:18.000This terrible day is yet more proof that we need an immediate return to peace through strength, so there will be no more chaos, no more destruction, no more loss of precious American lives.
00:10:25.000Our country cannot survive with Joe Biden as Commander-in-Chief.
00:10:28.000Now, peace through strength for all those isolationists in the Republican Party.
00:10:31.000Peace through strength is not what many isolationists are talking about.
00:10:34.000Many isolationists are just like, let's withdraw within our own borders.
00:10:37.000Let's pretend that foreign threats don't actually exist.
00:10:39.000Let's pretend that if Russia takes over Ukraine wholesale and takes over a huge supply of wheat to the world, for example, and then threatens NATO's borders, that has no impact on Americans.
00:10:47.000Let's pretend that if we shut down the Red Sea and shipping can't come through there, then China won't take advantage and go after Taiwan and shut down the Straits of Taiwan and all the rest of it.
00:10:54.000And I think that is a very short-sighted policy.
00:10:57.000But most of all, what Donald Trump is calling out is the cowardice and vacillation of the Biden administration, which is totally correct.
00:11:04.000Which is why Republicans today are really pushing hard for the President of the United States to do, you know, his job.
00:11:11.000Joe Biden's job is not to assure equity in all public policy.
00:11:14.000Joe Biden's job is to protect America's interests, particularly abroad, because the President is given outsized impact when it comes to foreign policy.
00:11:25.000Under Article 2, the President has the ability to really shape America's foreign policies in ways that he does not American domestic policy.
00:11:33.000And the fact that he has used that to make the world a significantly more chaotic place, where conflagration is on the horizon in nearly every direction you look.
00:11:43.000Senator Tom Cotton, excellent senator from Arkansas, he put out a statement saying,
00:11:46.000Joe Biden emboldened Iran for years by tolerating attacks on our troops,
00:11:49.000bribing the ayatollahs with billions of dollars and appeasing them to no end.
00:11:52.000He left our troops as sitting ducks and now three are dead and dozens wounded,
00:11:54.000sadly, as I've predicted, would happen for months.
00:11:56.000On behalf of Arkansans, I deeply extend my condolences to the families of our brave and
00:12:03.000May God comfort them as he welcomes their loved ones into his embrace, and may God quickly and completely heal their wounded comrades.
00:12:09.000Senator Cruz of Texas also blasted Biden, he said that for making, quote, a day one decision, not just to appease the Iranian regime, but indeed to enable the Ayatollah to attack Americans and American interests across the Middle East.
00:12:28.000Okay, because no one is interested in a full-scale war, as I say.
00:12:32.000Now, Iran should be more scared than we should.
00:12:35.000And the reason I say that is because that's how deterrence works, folks.
00:12:37.000Not because I want to go to war with Iran.
00:12:39.000Like I said, for the fifth time in the show, no one wants to go to war with Iran.
00:12:43.000When it comes to deterrence, the whole idea of deterrence is you, the bad guy, you have to fear me more than I fear you.
00:12:50.000Otherwise, deterrence is not established.
00:12:52.000If I fear you more, then you know that you can attack me with impunity.
00:12:56.000You have to believe that if you eff around, there will be a find out on the other end of that equation.
00:13:00.000Now, what Biden's team is doing is basically the same thing that Barack Obama used to do.
00:13:06.000Barack Obama, every time he used to talk about the Iranian nuclear deal, which was a sham and a way of presenting the Iranians with a pathway to a nuclear weapon with a bunch of money, it was one of the worst deals in American history.
00:13:17.000Every time Barack Obama used to discuss this, he'd say, what do you want, war?
00:13:25.000But that is what Joe Biden is trotting out his own officials to say right now.
00:13:30.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:14:46.000Here he was trying to explain the Biden-Iranian policy, which again, makes no sense.
00:14:51.000When you walk this fine line of not wanting it to escalate, what would you say to those people who are critics, who would say, look, they're not being tough enough on these militants.
00:15:04.000They're not being tough enough on Iran.
00:15:08.000I would also ask, do they want a broader conflict?
00:15:13.000And that's the goal is to deter them, and we don't want to go down a path of greater escalation that drives to a much broader conflict within the region.
00:15:25.000Did you know that Iran might escalate?
00:15:27.000Okay, now, I might note to you at this point that Iran has already had its proxy Hamas kill 1,200 Israelis and take 240 of them captive, and now they refuse to surrender.
00:15:37.000I might note also that Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel on the northern border consistently for four months at this point.
00:15:43.000I might note that, again, the Houthi pirates have been literally capturing shipping in the Red Sea and have shut down shipping through that strait.
00:15:49.000I might note that Iranian proxies have now killed three Americans.
00:15:52.000So, exactly what would it look like if they escalate?
00:15:55.000What would escalation look like to you?
00:15:58.000Seriously, what would escalation look like?
00:15:59.000Are we talking about, like, full-scale Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps brigades going up against American military targets?
00:16:12.000Joe Biden has basically said to the Iranians, guys, as long as you don't go to full-scale war, as long as you don't go to full-scale war, you can do whatever you want.
00:16:34.000He's gonna let us shut down the shipping in the Red Sea.
00:16:36.000He's gonna let us attack American allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel and now Jordan with impunity.
00:16:42.000And he's going to do all of that because he's afraid that if this thing goes hot in any way, shape or form, it'll hurt his reelect efforts.
00:17:26.000This of course was under Ronald Reagan.
00:17:28.000The Americans retaliated by taking down One frigate, one gunboat, three speedboats, another frigate crippled, two platforms destroyed, one fighter damaged.
00:17:38.000The United States basically found every military asset that Iran had in the Persian Gulf, in Iranian territorial waters, and just sank all of them.
00:17:48.000Said, okay, well, you can't bother American shipping anymore, it turns out.
00:17:51.000It turns out that you can't bother American ships because all of you are underwater now.
00:17:55.000It actually led to Iran basically ending the Iran-Iraq war.
00:17:59.000It had a major impact on the end of the Iran-Iraq war because Iran was like, oh, I see.
00:18:03.000We probably shouldn't F around and find out.
00:18:25.000There are a bunch of other things that we could do.
00:18:26.000The United States military facilitated the ouster of ISIS in under a month.
00:18:31.000Are you telling me the United States couldn't use our aerial bombardment power, for example, without even putting troops on the ground and just wholesale destroy Iranian terror proxy positions in, say, Iraq or Syria?
00:18:45.000Certainly the United States could do that.
00:19:09.000They're using all of their terror proxies because they understand that if they actually triggered a war with the United States, the mullahs would not have heads attached to their bodies tomorrow morning.
00:19:17.000They would be in little bitty pieces all around Tehran if they actually declared war on the United States.
00:20:01.000Well, one of the reasons is because one of the first things Joe Biden did when he took office is he said to the Saudis, you need to stop your operations against the Houthis in Yemen.
00:20:20.000Nearly a decade of civil war in the Arabian Peninsula country has driven millions of people from their homes deep in poverty and spread starvation.
00:20:25.000Now a new conflict, Houthi fighters are firing missiles on American shipping and American and British forces are striking back is disrupting tentative efforts at peace.
00:20:33.000Well, it turns out that you cannot make peace with people who are attacking shipping in the Red Sea.
00:20:38.000What do they think is going to happen?
00:20:40.000And if they think what's going to happen is good, what does that say about Western strength?
00:20:44.000By the way, speaking of which, Iran-linked groups are vowing more attacks on U.S.
00:20:47.000forces in Iraq, according to the Genre France press.
00:20:50.000Iran-allied armed groups vowed on Friday to keep up attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq.
00:20:56.000Washington has forces in Iraq as part of the international coalition against ISIS.
00:21:01.000The volatile situation has pushed Iraq's prime minister to call for the coalition to leave.
00:21:05.000Because the coalition in Iraq is reliant on Iran.
00:21:08.000And the greatest sin of the Iraq war was not the actual Iraq war itself.
00:21:11.000The greatest sin of the Iraq war is that it turned it into an Iranian proxy state.
00:21:16.000The destruction of the Iraqi military and the handing of the state over to basically Shia militia groups sponsored by Iran was a terrible, terrible decision.
00:21:25.000We're going to review the history here, but the bottom line is that Iran-linked groups are saying they're going to escalate their attacks.
00:21:31.000They're not lowering their attacks, they're escalating.
00:21:33.000We'll get to more on this in just one second.
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00:22:33.000By the way, Iran is escalating everywhere.
00:22:35.000They're escalating with regard to Pakistan.
00:22:38.000Yesterday, according to Reuters, unidentified gunmen killed nine Pakistani workers
00:22:41.000in a restive Southeastern border area of Iran on Saturday.
00:22:44.000They just went and murdered a bunch of Pakistanis.
00:22:49.000Iran is upping the ante everywhere because they sense weakness.
00:22:52.000They sense weakness because the United States is acting weak.
00:22:56.000They put out a trial balloon over the weekend, for example, that they might consider slowing weapons to Israel to put pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back the war in Gaza.
00:23:19.000So it's not only that the United States refuses to directly engage with these groups, which again, the United States should only engage with groups that have attacked the United States or United States troops.
00:23:28.000But it's not just that they're telling American allies they can't engage from Saudi Arabia with the Houthis to Israel with Hamas.
00:23:34.000You want to talk about why Iran sees weakness?
00:23:59.000So here, for example, is MSNBC over the weekend comparing support for Israel to supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine, which is totally insane.
00:24:07.000Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip in 2005.
00:24:09.000Hamas then took it over and used it as a staging ground for literally thousands of rocket attacks over the intervening 18 years, and then proceeded to murder 1,200 Israelis by rushing over the border and murdering children in the cribs where they slept.
00:24:22.000And the morons at MSNBC are comparing Israel trying to protect its own population to Russia invading a sovereign country.
00:24:31.000So for people who have been alarmed by this and have felt, you talk to us about human rights, about the international rules-based order when it came to Ukraine, what about brown people in Palestine?
00:24:42.000I'd say the judgment is also really important in that it says Palestinians in Gaza are a protected group, which is really important because there's a lot of denialism over the idea that Palestinians are a group at all.
00:24:56.000Again, the MSNBC is suggesting this is like Russia or it's just it's all insane.
00:25:00.000But that wing of the party is who Joe Biden is trying to appease.
00:25:03.000He's not just trying to appease the Iranians.
00:25:05.000He's trying to appease that wing of the party who have common interests in many cases with the Iranians.
00:25:12.000None of this should be surprising because Joe Biden's staffed up with people who are sympathetic to the wrong sides in the Middle East.
00:25:17.000For example, one of the first people that Joe Biden actually appointed to his administration was a former Palestinian UNRWA official.
00:25:26.000He appointed him Director of NSC Intelligence.
00:25:30.000This guy's name is Maher Al-Bitar, and he was on President Barack Obama's National Security Council as Director for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs, which is totally insane in the first place.
00:25:41.000And in the intervening time, he worked with the UN Relief and Works Agency.
00:25:45.000Well, what exactly does that tell you?
00:25:47.000It should tell you something because it turns out that the UNRWA is a Hamas front group.
00:25:53.000This guy now works at a high level inside the Biden administration.
00:25:56.000How do we know that UNRWA is a Hamas front group?
00:26:00.000According to a brand new Wall Street Journal report, around 10% of the UNRWA's 12,000 staff in Gaza have links to Hamas.
00:26:10.000Fully 10% of the staff of the UNRWA have direct ties to Hamas.
00:26:15.000By the way, the organization has way more ties than that.
00:26:17.000Those are just people with direct links to Hamas.
00:26:19.000If you're talking about tangential links to Hamas, or providing areas where Hamas could theoretically put weaponry, for example, you're talking about nearly all of the UNRWA.
00:26:28.000According to the Wall Street Journal, at least 12 employees of the UN's Palestinian Refugee
00:26:32.000Agency had connections to the October 7th attack directly.
00:26:36.000Around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups, according to
00:26:40.000intelligence reports reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
00:26:44.000Of the 12 UNRWA employees with links to the attacks, seven were primary or secondary school
00:26:49.000As we've talked about before, the UNRWA, which is a relief and works agency directed for one population, one population only.
00:26:54.000It is the only UN agency that is directed only at one population, the Palestinians.
00:27:00.000It has been completely hijacked and taken over by Hamas.
00:27:03.000Hamas runs the education of the UNRWA.
00:27:06.000Which is why it shouldn't be shocking that primary- that you're talking about, like, third grade teachers, guys, who have actual ties to Hamas and direct links to the October 7th attacks, including two math teachers, two Arabic teachers, and one primary school teacher.
00:27:19.000A bunch of other countries, including the United States, have now suspended aid to UNRWA.
00:27:23.000They shouldn't just suspend it, they should kill it.
00:27:25.000UNRWA is one of the most despicable organizations in the world.
00:27:28.000It's like the most despicable part of the most despicable UN Mos Eisley garbage organization on the planet.
00:27:36.000The UNRWA is now being defunded by a bunch of countries, which is amazing because five seconds ago, it was the Biden administration and the entire European world that was calling for Israel to ship aid to, wait, wait, wait for it, the UNRWA.
00:27:49.000And it was Israel saying, if you ship aid to the UNRWA, Hamas is going to hijack it because the UNRWA is in fact an arm of Hamas.
00:27:57.000And now Israel provided the proof and the rest of the world's like, oh, maybe we shouldn't give them money.
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00:29:12.000Meanwhile, speaking of Trump era policies that were done away with just because Joe Biden hated Donald Trump and because the Democratic Party decided that everything Trump touched had to be destroyed, whether it was good or whether it was bad.
00:29:24.000The border continues to be an absolute bleep show.
00:29:27.000And the chief policies at the border are entirely executive branch driven.
00:29:31.000No additional legislation is needed to secure the American border.
00:29:34.000It is in fact a duty of the federal government to arrest people who cross America's southern border and to send them home if they do not fulfill the requirements for asylum.
00:29:44.000Joe Biden has changed the interpretation of the rules.
00:29:48.000One, he suggested that he would get rid of day one, remain in Mexico.
00:29:52.000Remain in Mexico was the policy whereby Donald Trump had an agreement with the country of Mexico that if you came to the border and said that you wanted asylum, we would say, okay, you can have a court date.
00:30:15.000Because they knew that the entire game was to get into the United States and disappear into the interior.
00:30:20.000And that if you actually had to wait in Juarez, you weren't getting into the United States.
00:30:22.000You would show up for your asylum hearing, you'd have no proof that you needed asylum, and then you'd get kicked out anyway.
00:30:27.000So why make the long walk all the way up to the American border, via drug smuggler, and then be let off at the border to be rejected, sent back to Mexico, come back for your court date, get rejected back home?
00:30:43.000The other policy that Joe Biden changed that was huge is that Joe Biden decided that the way to adjudicate asylum was that if you claimed asylum, we would simply catch and release you.
00:31:15.000The border is wide open because Joe Biden decided that he was going to staff nearly all of Border Patrol on busing and administrative duty.
00:31:22.000Their job is to go to various areas of the border, pick up illegal immigrants, bring them to the detention center, maybe a couple miles away.
00:31:31.000Meanwhile, the border is left wide open for drug smugglers and criminals to get through, which is why you're seeing the kind of numbers that you are seeing right now.
00:31:37.000And this is also why the state of Texas is doubling down.
00:31:40.000According to CBS News, the unprecedented standoff between the state of Texas and the federal government at the southern border continues.
00:31:46.000On Monday, the Supreme Court said that the federal government had the authority to remove razor wire Texas had installed at the southern border.
00:31:52.000And then Homeland Security said Texas had until Friday to give federal authorities access to Eagle Pass.
00:31:56.000Governor Abbott, for his part, said that he would increase state patrol of the border.
00:32:00.000And he added more barriers and more razor wire.
00:32:02.000Here, in fact, is some tape of more razor wire going up at the border.
00:32:05.000It is now an actual wall that is being ad hoc in Eagle Park over at the border.
00:32:43.000When we spoke with Brandon Judd, who's the head of the Border Patrol Union, When we spoke with him, he said, this is not a question of resources.
00:32:49.000This is a question of misallocation of resources.
00:32:52.000We have enough Border Patrol agents already.
00:32:54.000They're being told actively not to do their job.
00:32:56.000I talked to some Border Patrol agents down at the border, on background, and they were telling me morale has never been lower, that they have been forced basically into this administrative duty job by the Biden administration.
00:33:07.000They're not even allowed to do their job anymore.
00:33:23.000It needs to be the kind of legislation that increases the number of administrative law judges so that we can process more people and let them into the interior faster.
00:33:31.000The real key is to let people in faster.
00:33:34.000Not to limit the flow, but to increase the flow.
00:33:37.000According to the Associated Press, President Biden on Friday pressed Congress to embrace a bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures with Ukraine aid.
00:33:44.000House Speaker Mike Johnson suggested the compromise on border and immigration policy could be DOA in his chamber.
00:33:50.000So Biden is trying to shift this off by pretending, effectively speaking, that what he is doing right now is giving, he's trying to come to a compromise.
00:34:16.000Now, last I checked, 5,000 is a lot of border encounters.
00:34:20.000In fact, if you had 5,000 border encounters a day, on average, you'd be talking about almost 2 million people, 1.8 million people entering the country every year.
00:34:33.000Republicans, being the, you know, hard-hearted people they are, They were apparently thinking about a 3,000 border limit, which would still be almost 1.1 million people a year, which is still too much.
00:34:50.000How about you come and you show actual evidence you require asylum, and then we'll consider whether to let you in?
00:34:55.000How about you show up with like an actual set of job skills that enriches the United States and makes America stronger, and then maybe we let you in?
00:35:02.000How about you don't get to come here and then just throw up your hands, claim asylum, be released into the interior?
00:35:39.000Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel, and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy.
00:35:48.000So we actually locked arms together and said, we're not going to give you money for this.
00:36:47.000He's not doing either of those things.
00:36:48.000In just one second, we will get to Democrats trying to make this case.
00:36:51.000First, America is currently experiencing an unprecedented invasion, as we've said, with millions of illegal immigrants flooding over our border.
00:36:57.000The drug cartels are doing the invading.
00:36:59.000They're doing it under the Biden administration's watch.
00:37:01.000As Texans are shouldering the fight against the surge, Arizona's governor remains eerily silent because Joe Biden continues to pursue this nonsense.
00:37:07.000I traveled to America's southern border to uncover the shocking truth and the real depths of this crisis.
00:38:42.000Well, I think you have to deal with the cards that are dealt.
00:38:44.000You've got to deal with the reality on the ground, and you have to have a comprehensive conversation around this across the spectrum, the push and the pull.
00:38:50.000And that's around the fundamental issue of immigration reform.
00:39:15.000That's what the President of the United States has put up in front of Congress and they refuse to act.
00:39:18.000They're just promoting an agenda to disrupt and find a crowbar to put in the spokes of the wheels of the Biden administration to disrupt any progress on this because they don't want progress.
00:39:29.000No, actually what Democrats want is to open that spigot further to let in more illegal immigrants.
00:39:33.000They just want to do so with faster administering of the law as opposed to, you know, keeping people in Mexico to wait for their asylum hearings, for example.
00:39:41.000So Democrats, in order to actually pass this particular logical bar, they have to establish that Joe Biden can't just unilaterally close the border today, which he can.
00:39:49.000So they trotted out Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut to make this particular case, suggesting that Joe Biden does not actually have the legal authority to close the border.
00:40:01.000Senator, Republicans, including the House Speaker, argue, a lot of them, not the ones you're dealing with, but a lot of them argue that President Biden already has the authority that he needs to secure the border.
00:40:12.000And they're criticizing this deal that you've been negotiating.
00:40:17.000What do you make of that, of the notion that President Biden already has tools and he doesn't need more yet?
00:41:25.000So again, the entire Democratic case here is they're going to try and blame the impasse on Donald Trump.
00:41:29.000So here is Chris Murphy suggesting that this is all Donald Trump's scheme, that he doesn't want legislation passed because he wants chaos at the border.
00:41:38.000We're finishing the text right now, and the question is whether Republicans are going to listen to Donald Trump, who wants to preserve chaos at the border because he thinks that it's a winning political issue for him, or whether we are going to pass legislation which would be the biggest bipartisan reform of our border and immigration laws in 40 years, and would give Okay, so they're trying to blame Trump.
00:42:09.000They're trying to blame Trump for the lack of legislation.
00:42:15.000Now, Trump's response to this should be, Joe Biden doesn't need legislation.
00:42:22.000But Donald Trump is Donald Trump, so here is Donald Trump's response to all of this.
00:42:26.000President Biden is backing a Senate deal to clamp down at the border, while Trump wants Republicans to oppose that deal and deny Biden any political win.
00:42:36.000A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they're blaming it on me.
00:43:05.000Like, if you are a fan of Trump and you would like for Trump to be the president of the United States again, or if you just don't want Joe Biden to be president of the United States again, You need to blame Joe Biden.
00:43:29.000It is the fault of Democrats who want the border open and are presenting bad compromises in the Senate and then pretending that Joe Biden doesn't already have the legal authority to make sure that our border is safe and secure, which of course he absolutely does.
00:43:41.000He already has all of the necessities in order to make sure the border is secure.
00:43:47.000Meanwhile, President Trump, again, the entire case the Democrats are going to make against President Trump is that he is unelectable, that he's crazy, and all of the rest.
00:43:55.000They're also going to try and bankrupt him.
00:43:56.000I mean, that is one of the big things that is happening right now is that legally they're just going after him in every way, shape, form that they can.
00:44:03.000Letitia James over in New York is trying to go after him for hundreds of millions of dollars based on just an absolutely specious and ridiculous judgment based on him inflating real estate values with no actual damages, by the way, to the lender.
00:44:15.000They're going after him for like hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:44:17.000Meanwhile, another jury has now given Donald Trump an $83.3 million defamation penalty to E. Jean Carroll on top of a $5 million penalty he was already ordered to pay her.
00:44:28.000So just to get this straight, she claims, at an unspecified time, in a department store, in the middle of the day, in an unspecified season, Donald Trump raped her.
00:45:03.000Meanwhile, in that other case that I was talking about with Letitia James, Judge Arthur Engron is going to issue his decision on financial penalties.
00:45:11.000James wants Trump and his companies to be ordered to pay $370 million.
00:45:15.000You're talking about, in total, $450 million removed from President Trump if this judgment were to go through.
00:45:24.000So Trump is appealing all of this, obviously.
00:45:27.000But the effort to bankrupt Donald, not just to criminally prosecute him, but to bankrupt him as well is truly an astonishing, astonishing thing.
00:45:34.000And the goal here is obviously to make him so toxic that it's not possible to vote for him.
00:45:38.000This is the case that the estimable AOC is making, that Trump can't win a general election because his primary numbers are so low and all the rest of it.
00:45:47.000But I do want to ask you about the president's re-election campaign.
00:45:52.000As you know, in some of these key battleground states, he has some real vulnerabilities.
00:45:57.000Why do you think he is struggling against former President Donald Trump, someone who's been indicted four times and who's now been slapped with this $83 million civil suit?
00:46:10.000Well, you know, I think we can take a look at the overall landscape here.
00:46:13.000It's not just what we're talking about with President Biden, but former President Trump also has extraordinary vulnerabilities.
00:46:22.000The fact that he is a former sitting president, head of his party, virtually everyone else has dropped out and endorsed him.
00:46:29.000And still, as we just saw, Nikki Haley came, you know, she cleared about 43% in New Hampshire.
00:46:38.000Very not well for Donald Trump and his ability to win a general election.
00:46:44.000Now again, with all of Donald Trump's foibles, with all of his failures, with all of the rest of this sort of stuff, Donald Trump is still the leader right now.
00:46:49.000If you look at the polling data, right now he is up in the RealClearPolitics polling average by more than four points.
00:46:55.000Which really means five or six because the polls tend to underrepresent Donald Trump's base of support.
00:46:59.000The latest Reuters Ipsos poll that came out the 24th had Donald Trump up five on Joe Biden.
00:47:05.000In fact, there has not been a national poll in which Joe Biden leads it since the beginning of the year.
00:47:11.000And when you look at the state polling data, things start to get a little more interesting.
00:47:14.000If you look at, for example, Wisconsin, It hasn't been polled all that much.
00:47:18.000Latest poll was in, like, beginning of December.
00:53:01.000So while I'm out here living the sweet life, you know, as America's favorite hip-hop star, let me just remind you, America, it's where anyone can do anything, baby.