Matt Gates joins the show to discuss who should be Trump s next VP pick. Then, Ton Bensman talks about the border invasion and what we can do to try and stop it. What Joe Biden is trying to do to win four more years.
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00:03:10.000Matt, I want to get your thoughts here on the vice presidential selection.
00:03:15.000We got Bergham, Marco, Vance, Tim Scott, that is in the final four based on all public and private conversations.
00:03:21.000Matt Gates, what are you thinking about for the vice presidential selection?
00:03:25.000I'll start by suggesting that I don't think it's just down to that four.
00:03:29.000I actually think there's some wildcard picks that are still out there and reverberating in the mind of President Trump.
00:03:35.000President Trump's going to make this pick, but let me argue on behalf of the senators on that list.
00:03:40.000And, you know, I know Senator Vance and Senator Rubio, the best of that group, and they would be at the top of my list.
00:03:46.000But when we get into the White House and get control of the Senate, having a vice president who understands the procedure and rules of the Senate, who is able to preside over the Senate and seize the Senate calendar is going to be critical to getting President Trump's appointees actually confirmed and in office and doing work.
00:04:05.000Like, remember, we have four years to do this, okay?
00:04:08.000We don't have a forever schedule to get everybody confirmed.
00:04:12.000And so we will need a vice president who can preside over the Senate, who can set the Senate calendar.
00:04:17.000And look, there are going to be some of these three-letter agencies, Charlie, where we might need to make recess appointments.
00:04:22.000And so having a vice president who's playing ball, who's got that in their hand, it is going to be the difference between getting people at DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA that will execute our mission versus those who will work to undermine President Trump, as we've seen in the past.
00:04:37.000It's like the 100 first senator, right?
00:04:59.000I have spent a lot of time with J.D. when he was in his primary against Josh Mandel.
00:05:03.000We did a tour across all of Ohio together.
00:05:05.000And what I really came to admire is that JD is a great listener and he would take feedback that he received from a crowd in the morning and he was weaving it into his ideas and his presentation later that afternoon and into the evening.
00:05:22.000And people say that about politicians all the time, but the reality is we probably have a lower average IQ than a person walking down Main Street.
00:05:29.000And J.D. is legitimately a genius and someone who I think President Trump sinks with because they're both so intellectually engaged in everything that's going on.
00:05:39.000And let's not forget the most important thing.
00:05:41.000You have to have a vice president who could be president.
00:05:44.000In the event that that would have to be the constitutional role that they would fulfill, JD Vance could serve as president of the United States and thus would be a fully qualified pick for vice president.
00:05:54.000But as great a guy as I'm sure Doug Bergham is, and I bet there'll probably be a spot in the cabinet for him somewhere.
00:06:00.000I worry about someone like Doug Bergham being thrown into the lion's den that is the United States Senate, not knowing the procedures like the back of his hand, not able to really guide that institution to the execution of President Trump's agenda and the approval of his nominees.
00:06:30.000Yeah, it was great to leave like the third world mess that the United States is descending into and go to a place like El Salvador where they're actually changing the country with conservative populist ideas that put order and security first.
00:06:43.000President Bukele has been able to drag that country out of a mire pile.
00:06:48.000And now they are the safest country in the Western hemisphere.
00:06:50.000They've reduced the murder rate by 97%.
00:06:53.00018% of the GDP in El Salvador right now is construction.
00:06:57.000So that country is going to be like the Singapore of the Western Hemisphere through this type of populist, conservative, and I just think sensible policy.
00:07:06.000And there was a moment when I was with President Bukele, Charlie, recently, where one of the Democrats on the delegation trip said to him, well, you know, Mr. President, you've achieved security now.
00:07:47.000You and I talk about foreign policy a lot.
00:07:49.000I just think we should care about our neighborhood more.
00:07:52.000I think that what happens in El Salvador and in Mexico and in Latin America impacts quality of life for Americans far more than which dude in a sweatsuit gets to run crisis.
00:08:03.000It's so interesting because he won a couple years ago and was super chill for like the first year.
00:08:24.000He didn't just like take office and do this.
00:08:26.000He understood what he was in office because look, almost everybody in El Salvador was bought by the cartels or cartel-affiliated gang members.
00:08:38.000And then he just is like, yeah, we're not going to put up with it.
00:08:39.000We're going to go arrest math swaths of people.
00:08:42.000El Salvador is now the safest city, a safest country in Central America, one of the safest now on the planet.
00:08:51.000So why is it that American streets are more dangerous than ever, but we look to the third world for safety and for prosperity?
00:08:59.000Sometimes our toughest challenges have the simplest solutions.
00:09:04.000If your communities are being overrun by gangs, you just arrest the gang members and lock them up.
00:09:09.000But instead, in the United States, we have this perverse theory of having a struggle session with the people who are repeat violent criminals who are making life impossible in a lot of the blue jurisdictions in the United States of America.
00:09:23.000And what people in New York and in LA and in Chicago are learning is that if you don't have security, there is no prosperity.
00:09:32.000If you can't let your loved ones walk down the street and engage in commerce and enjoy life, you already are a prisoner.
00:09:48.000And so to do that, it's the baseline meeting of people's needs of just being able to live your life that I think is so important.
00:09:55.000And I also heard from President Bukele sharp criticisms of the U.S. State Department because you know what, when the Russians and when the Chinese are messing around in Latin America, they're worried about their interests.
00:10:47.000I just saw like celebration of family on Sunday.
00:10:50.000People were in the streets with their flowers.
00:10:52.000They were lighting candles to their saints in worship and in reverence.
00:10:56.000And then I look at what we're doing in June and I'm having to like deal with whether or not the Air Force base in my district is going to have some sort of drag queen story hour or some other odd circumstance.
00:11:09.000El Salvador, which, you know, we always make fun of the third world.
00:11:13.000They have safe streets, no gay groomers twerking in kids' faces, and they pray on Sunday.
00:11:23.000We need to get President Bukele to one of our great turning points so that he can inspire young people that there is a better way.
00:11:30.000Like oftentimes when you and I have these interviews, we browbeat each other, we browbeat our own party, and we sit here and think, how do we get out of this?
00:11:38.000And to come from a place like El Salvador, where just five years ago, no person would even consider walking the streets to now seeing a place that is flourishing.
00:11:46.000It actually gives me hope that the American people, we have the right values.
00:14:03.000We might be the wealthiest country on earth, but if you can't leave your home at night in LA, Portland, Seattle, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, D.C., Atlanta, are we really the greatest country still in the world?
00:14:24.000There's this article where the State Department was saying that El Salvador is a threat to democracy.
00:14:32.000When they say that, it means that you might run a country in a certain way where crime goes down and family formation goes up.
00:14:42.000If you can't take your kid to a little league game, if you can't get a hospital room or talk in your native language to get simple services, are you still a free country?
00:14:54.000This is exactly what's on the ballot here in the entire Western world.
00:16:59.000It's because cheap money, hyperinflation, and mass migration are the ingredients in the recipe to create a populist revolt.
00:17:11.000Add cheap money, add mass migration where your dollar is worth less and you can afford nothing and you own nothing and you are ticked off and you see your country collapse and fall apart as foreigners overrun the nation state.
00:17:29.000You see, this is happening in the streets of New York and the streets of London.
00:17:36.000This is happening all across the Western world and people are hungry for a response.
00:17:42.000Some celebrities are starting to say out loud that Joe Biden is going to lose.
00:17:46.000Now, you better not celebrate anything.
00:20:35.000So this is mainly an executive order that will, in his view, or at least in his narrative, reduce the number of illegal immigrants crossing the border and give him the powers and authorities to what he says close the border.
00:20:56.000But the problem is that he already has the authorities to close the borders.
00:21:01.000He already has the executive orders to do it.
00:21:05.000What this is, in my opinion, is a way to draw attention again to the narrative that the Senate and the Republicans and Trump and MAGA will not fix the border, will not give him the legislation that he supposedly needs to fix the border.
00:21:27.000They've gotten a ton of traction on that narrative.
00:21:30.000It's a false narrative, but it has gotten a tremendous amount of traction.
00:21:34.000So what will happen is there will be immediate lawsuits.
00:21:39.000All of his people on his side have already promised they're going to sue on this.
00:21:45.000There's nothing really to sue about, but they're going to do it.
00:21:48.000And he'll be able to say, well, if only I had that piece of legislation, I would be able to shut the border down.
00:21:56.000And I believe that this is all kind of a ploy to be able to keep pointing to that piece of legislation that has now been killed twice, rightfully so.
00:22:06.000I know this is complicated, but I believe that's what it is.
00:22:10.000Now, if the president and his campaign actually want to use this to shut the border down, they won't be able to because there are clauses in it that allow border patrol on the ground to let them in and not deport them.
00:22:32.000If they just say the magic words of, I am afraid to go back to Mexico, they're in anyway.
00:22:39.000So they'll always have this discretion to, you know, not close the border.
00:22:44.000It makes it look like they're closing the border, but God, are you afraid to go back to Mexico, immigrant number one?
00:23:05.000That policy survived all the legal challenges.
00:23:08.000It is right there like a bullet in the chamber.
00:23:12.000All they got to do is pull on that and remain in Mexico would actually significantly slow the border, but they don't really want to do that in this case.
00:23:23.000Let me just ask, I want to make sure how many people currently daily are crossing into the into the country through asylum or gotaways daily.
00:23:31.000I mean, it ranges, but the ones that are coming through illegally right now is about maybe 4,000 a day in the last couple of weeks, ranging up to 7,000 a day.
00:23:42.000That's still off from its November, December highs of 12, 13, and 14,000 a day.
00:23:50.000What I call the media interest level, you know, MIL.
00:23:57.000If it's if it's anywhere above 7,000 or 8,000 a day, the media gets interested.
00:24:02.000But if it's below that number, then the media goes away.
00:24:08.000So they want to get that down below the media interest levels.
00:24:14.000They have succeeded already in doing that by going to the Obrador administration in Mexico and cutting a secretive deal with the Mexican government to deploy 35,000 troops to round up all the immigrants across from Texas and ship them back down to the Guatemalan border.
00:24:37.000They've been doing that now constantly for four months since Christmas.
00:24:44.000And that is what reduced the numbers to below the media interest level.
00:24:51.000The media is kind of, the mainstream media has kind of gone away a little bit on that.
00:24:56.000And so that's why I think that this whole thing is a bit of a ploy.
00:25:00.000It looks like it's an election ploy to be able to, again, point to, God, if they just gave us the legislation that I really need, but they won't.
00:25:10.000The Republicans keep turning us down and it's MAGA's fault.
00:26:26.000His party, though, the one that he created, is still very much in power and they've expanded their electoral authority beyond just Mexico City to all the gubernatorial races.
00:26:40.000And, you know, they really, that party runs the show down there.
00:26:45.000I believe that at some point they will get a payoff.
00:26:49.000I don't know if they've been paid off yet.
00:26:51.000Nobody knows if they've been paid off yet, but they're going to get something and they have all the leverage.
00:26:58.000The Mexicans are in the pilot seat until November.
00:27:03.000So this is something that our lawmakers ought to be demanding to know what's going on.
00:27:10.000How did you get them to deploy all those troops to blockade the rail yards down there to put them on expensive air flights for the 1,500-mile flight back down to Tapachula and via Hermosa?
00:28:09.000But this administration is all more about carrots than sticks.
00:28:14.000So, you know, remember, Trump, when he was in office, said, you know, do our bidding on all of my policies or we'll have 28% progressive trade tariffs on all your exports to the U.S.
00:28:41.000Out of all the issues that Trump was struggling on in 2020, masks, masks, COVID, according to polling, CNN polling, Trump was actually behind Biden by a point on who handles immigration better.
00:28:55.000Now Trump beats Biden by 27 points on the same question, play cut 74.
00:28:59.000So this is a better job on border security and immigration, which tends to be one of former President Trump's best questions.
00:29:06.000But I think the key thing here, Kate, to look at is the timeline and look at the trend line here.
00:29:11.000Because back in June of 2020, Biden was actually trusted more on the question of border security and immigration by a single point.
00:29:41.000The fact that you see a 30-point shift, I'm used to seeing 10, 15, maybe 20-point shift, but basically a 30-point shift, 28 points, if you want to be exact.
00:29:49.000That is very, very different from a lot of other polling questions.
00:30:20.000You can't avoid millions and millions of people that are all there with their hands out, busting your budget, driving your city into bankruptcy and diverting to your pockets all of the funding that black communities and Latino communities have been asking for for 50 years, investment in their communities.
00:30:44.000People are really pissed at the grassroots around the country over this, and they can't deny it.
00:30:49.000Yeah, and no matter what Biden does, I think that this is, I think this is largely baked.
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00:32:01.000With the ear of the White House, President Lopez Oberdor proposed his fix: that the United States commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo, and legalize millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S. If they don't do the things that you've said need to be done, then what?
00:32:42.000I mean, that's about the most blatant.
00:32:44.000I almost can't even believe he went on 60 minutes and said that.
00:32:49.000But in case anybody was wondering if he didn't really mean it, if you kept playing it, the interviewer goes on and says, that sounds like blackmail, diplomatic blackmail.
00:33:41.000And then, you know, there's more to it because further south in Panama, something to watch.
00:33:47.000I wrote a lengthy analysis of this for the American mind just last week that the new president of Panama is threatening to and vowing to close down the Darien gap, which is a good thing.
00:34:03.000You want these governments to shut it, shut things down.
00:34:07.000You don't want them to demand extortionary costs for it, but you want them to do these things.
00:34:16.000It's good for America to not have millions of people coming through.
00:34:20.000But if the Panamanian president closes the Darien gap, 800,000 are expected to come through there in 2024.
00:34:28.000That also will help the Biden administration, the campaign, bring those numbers down to below the media interest level quite a bit.
00:34:37.000But that is definitely something else to watch.
00:34:41.000We don't want mass migration here, but what the Biden administration is, their newfound intense interest is not for the American people.
00:34:54.000It's for the preservation of power in November.
00:34:58.000And after November, you can expect those 13 and 14,000 days again for four more years.
00:35:16.000You want to talk about foreign interference in our election?
00:35:18.000There is pure extortion from the Mexican government who is calling our shots.
00:35:22.000I'll tell you, if Donald Trump becomes president, God willing, and we're working very hard towards that end, he's got to put a tariff on immediately.
00:35:29.000Say, oh, nice car factories, nice automobile manufactories.
00:35:32.000By the way, we got to bomb these cartel drug manufacturing centers.