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00:01:57Anyways, I'm missing the rain in Phoenix, which seems to be my usual routine, which is why I don't believe it rains like Blake thinks it does in Phoenix.
00:02:07Listen, I want to start the show off with a little order of business.
00:02:11Blake and I sort of debated whether we should even go into it at all, but we got flooded with emails from you guys, so we know that it's on your mind.
00:02:20And then, listen, the story went mega viral yesterday on social media.
00:02:23I was aware of it, I was watching it play out.
00:02:26I haven't really dove into it too much, but of course, I'm talking about some of the allegations that were made against Candace Owens.
00:02:33Obviously, she's made many allegations against us, and therefore, a lot of you were, I think, enjoying the story as it unfolded.
00:02:51In general terms, I don't love the salacious aspect of politics where if you have disagreements with somebody, you dumpster dive and you try and scandalize all of their past.
00:03:04I think this should be a conversation about ideas, about the future of the country, about values.
00:03:09But in this instance, I will say I understand and I relate to a lot of your emails because of the manner in which.
00:03:16Said person has attacked us, has attacked the organization, has attacked Erica.
00:03:21Ultimately, even when it's funny, the purpose of this show and the purpose of this organization is to save America, not to make jokes about carpets.
00:05:10This is literally lower immigration than pre-heart seller.
00:05:15So when it comes to naturalizations every month, and you see it just drop like a rock.
00:05:20And I remember that Secretary Mullen took some fire for basically saying a million were naturalized, but he was actually, that was part of the Biden backlog, and they'd already been approved, and they had to kind of get through that.
00:05:31This is the new normal under a Trump administration.0.87
00:05:35So, all you black pillars, all you accelerationists, all you let's go third party, You horseshoe people.0.96
00:05:47Blake, in living memory, we have never seen net migration out of the country, which we currently have.
00:05:52We've never seen this many actual interior enforcement deportations.
00:05:56We've never seen naturalizations that low.
00:05:59And this is what matters the most because a lot of people who they only ever engage with the world as sound bites and podcast episodes would freak out because sometimes Secretary Mullen would say something that they interpret as too pro immigrant.
00:06:14And that's frankly something, honestly, it might be a strategy to distract and lull people who freak out about these things.
00:06:21That is why, and we've always heard the opposite.
00:06:24We've heard incredibly based takes from someone who then goes and does the same policies that we've had for decades that have been wrecking the country.
00:06:33That is why you have to pay attention to the facts on the ground.
00:06:37And what are the facts that we've seen play out over the course of 2026?
00:06:41It's every month getting record new numbers of arrests.0.51
00:06:45Record new numbers of deportations, hundreds of flights sending people back to their home countries or to third countries that have agreed to take these illegal immigrants.
00:06:54And then we're seeing lower new arrivals for every type of visa student visa, work visa, H 1B.
00:07:01We're seeing fewer people getting naturalized.
00:07:04Everywhere across the board, Trump is delivering on his promises to fix our nation's immigration system.
00:07:12The thing that he came down the escalator promising to do.
00:07:18It is going to have a transformative effect on this country, quite literally, because for decades we were transforming this country through the opposite.
00:07:28That was the left's plan to just continue this unabated until you had a third world crap hole that only elects Democrats.
00:07:36President Trump has stopped that cold, and it's a huge win.0.57
00:07:40And there's other wins that are going on in the background, as we've been discussing, Andrew.
00:07:57Do you want to keep adding gallons and gallons to the bucket, or do you want to start dealing with the problem and scraping back these hard fought wins that we're doing right now?
00:08:16Nothing says that someone is addicted to losing and wants to lose than facing something like record border security, record deportations that are, in the case of deportations, escalating month over month, and they just whine, it's not an ith.
00:08:33When the situation is better than it has ever been and getting better, and you can't recognize that win, you can't celebrate that win, you can't go, This is incredible, more, more, more.
00:08:45Someone who's going to have a negative reaction to that is someone who wants to lose.
00:08:49And you should recognize that when someone does something like that.
00:08:53Well, and listen, if the stakes weren't already extraordinarily clear for you out there in the audience, please consider that right now there is a migrant caravan.
00:09:02Gathering steam coming up through Guatemala, up through Mexico, because they think that the polling is going to prove accurate.
00:09:10They think that Democrats are going to win the midterms in some landslide fashion.
00:09:13They think that they're going to impeach President Trump, that they're going to be able to get back into this country.
00:10:32A little breaking news here Jack Smith is getting grilled before Congress.
00:10:36We're actually going to have Senator Eric Schmidt on in just about.
00:10:4013 minutes, so I'm going to ask him about this.
00:10:42But according to Julie Kelly on X, Jack Smith just admitted to Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz, that he subpoenaed records of ad buys on Fox News made by conservative organizations such as TPUSA.
00:10:56Smith claims the subpoenas were related to false statements they were investigating.
00:11:54And so this went, they've announced this a while ago.
00:11:58I think the actual rules were rolling out in July, but it went mega viral a couple days ago.
00:12:0326 million views for a New Republic post about it on X, a bunch of other spinoffs.
00:12:09And what it basically is, they frame it this way Trump is banning students from majoring in degrees that don't make enough money from taking out college loans.
00:12:17Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aids, and music will be hit the hardest.
00:12:22They present it as though the Trump administration.
00:12:26As they say, banning students from majoring.
00:12:28Like they have this thing like, no one's allowed to major in music anymore.
00:12:32No one's allowed to study religion anymore.
00:12:36The default for ages has been that the federal government will let people take out huge amounts, basically infinite amounts of student loans to study anything they want.
00:12:47And as we know, this has entrapped and hurt millions of Americans because they've taken out money for degrees that it turns out don't translate to a higher paying job.
00:13:01They win because they get all of the money and they have no accountability for making sure that the person they were educating actually has a career at the end of this.0.84
00:13:14And so the Trump administration says, wait a minute, why are we funneling taxpayer money to pay loans that often won't be repaid and that will make the recipient worse off?
00:13:25And so they say, we're going to find programs, not even degrees, just programs at specific schools.
00:13:32Where they say consistently, the people who study this, the person studying social work at this university, is not getting a job where they do any better than a person who never got a degree at all.
00:13:44And they're going to say, well, in that case, we're not going to have loans go to that.
00:13:48We're only going to have loans go to something where there is some sort of value add from that degree.
00:13:53And this is something Charlie harped on over and over again that so many college programs were a scam.
00:14:00And the Trump administration is saying, we still have student loans.
00:14:04But it's only going to go to things that are not obviously a scam.
00:14:08This is something to protect young Americans.
00:14:11And it says everything that the left is freaking out about this.
00:14:14And here's why they're freaking out about it they are freaking out because their clients, the people they care about, are universities.
00:14:22These universities, they've gotten rich for decades off of the student loan scam.
00:14:57By borrower count, more than 9.3 million recipients of federal loans are in default out of 40.5 million with outstanding federal student loans.
00:16:00We have talked about the French Revolution, we have talked about other revolutions throughout history, and they are led by these low elites people with college degrees that are downwardly mobile, that are angsty and ticked off, and they're just smart enough to cause a bunch of problems.
00:16:58But what happened, Brian, is that the entire value proposition was turned on its head.
00:17:04Whether it be the $200,000 plus of cost that it occurs for over four years, the bad ideas, the woke ideology, we're really playing with some very dangerous elements here.
00:17:15And so I encourage young people to think twice before going to college, and not everyone needs to go to college to succeed in America.
00:17:24And this will actually, in the long run, This will make college better because we'll actually encourage the schools themselves to have programs that are useful.
00:17:34Or if they are not going to be as lucrative, then they'll at least be cheaper.
00:17:39If you're going to study something just for your edification, you need a professor and a blackboard and a reading list, and you can read those books online these days.
00:17:47You don't need to be spending $75,000 a year to study it, which some of these schools charge.
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00:20:50He ignored the advice of, That even the department Biden's Department of Justice, uh, public integrity unit by filing things so close to the election, this was all about making sure President Trump never got to the White House again.
00:21:03So, perhaps the biggest case he ever lost, and he's lost a lot of them, is the one the American people got to weigh in on in November of 2024 and sent President Trump back to office.
00:21:12Man, that's a great point, mic drop moment for me right there.
00:21:16Um, so there's this clip that I just saw in the last segment, Senator, and it is for me, it's shocking, right?
00:21:23Because it feels like It's almost like you're coming after Charlie again, all over again.
00:21:29Senator Cruz was asking if he subpoenaed Turning Point, which apparently he did.
00:21:34Some of the records related to Turning Point.
00:22:44This was not like some case from 10 years ago of some petty robbery in a small town somewhere.
00:22:51This was perhaps the biggest case ever brought in the history of our country because it was meant to, again, go after the President of the United States and not just him, actually.
00:23:01I think what he wanted was this enormous show trial.
00:23:03To bring in people whose only crime was that they were Republicans.
00:23:15I mean, this was a net that was cast far and wide just to sort of scoop up whoever they could for, again, their only crime being Republicans or conservatives.
00:23:25Jack Smith, I guess, just to get into the psychology a little bit, he thought he was going to ride in and be a hero.
00:23:32But the truth is, this guy was the ultimate villain.
00:24:26Why is it top of the list for you right now?
00:24:28Yeah, look, I think college sports are a uniquely American thing.
00:24:32You know, it really doesn't exist anywhere in the world where you have these traditions, whether it's at Mizzou games or Florida games or Ohio State games.
00:24:39Those are things that are passed down for generation to generation.
00:24:42And really, college sports is at this inflection point right now where There are no rules.
00:24:46I mean, 27 year olds can compete against 17 year olds.
00:24:50People are going pro and they're coming back.
00:26:14ICE has just announced a jaw dropping fraud bust saying 10,000 foreign students are involved in federal government's OPT, optional practical training.0.84
00:26:24In theory, this is what it's supposed to be.
00:26:26And then you get a job related to your major, right?0.99
00:26:30I think it's a total crap, by the way.1.00
00:26:31Like, sorry, we shouldn't be importing all of these foreigners to take spots away from Americans just to give more money to these institutions.1.00
00:26:40And then they take spots from Americans, okay?0.99
00:27:09But we don't talk enough, I don't think, you do, I do, about legal immigration and the challenges and the fraud and the sort of raw deal that Americans get because of our legal immigration system.
00:27:59So we're actually subsidizing American companies to not hire American workers, but hire foreign workers who can do the same job after they graduate.0.77
00:28:21This, so that's like if it's done the correct way under the law.
00:28:25This is a massive scam that was uncovered where people probably aren't even working in the places and the companies that are getting the tax break because they're supposed to be hiring, I guess, phantom OPT folks.
00:28:35So there's a lot of fraud out there, but the program in and of itself has been a total joke.
00:28:41It displaces American workers just like the H 1B program, and by the way, also displaces American students.0.91
00:28:47Because those are spots at universities that aren't going to Americans but are going to foreigners because they pay full freight.0.81
00:28:57You know, I checked around on this story, Senator, and you mentioned in your tweet thread that the Trump administration might assess like a $100,000 fee, similar to it with the H 1B, if you want to do one of these things.
00:29:10But I've checked around, and there's some people that believe that you could just get rid of this by presidential executive order or empowering the DHS to just remove this because it's not an order by Congress.
00:29:41I just, you know, if we're trying to empower young people, right, like if people want to feel like they have more opportunity in this country, they can be part of an ownership society where they own things and they want to be able to get a job, we should not be putting foreigners at the front of the line.0.98
00:29:55Who don't have any special skill above an American worker, or they don't, they're not a better student.0.95
00:30:00It's just we've created a system where it's more lucrative to do that.
00:31:01What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in Atlanta at a Warrior Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024, the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair?
00:31:18I don't think you know that we have this stuff.
00:31:27So you had text messages from his team confirming that he was going to a Hawks game, and he sat there acting dumbfounded and completely clueless.
00:31:35It was the only NBA or NCAA men's game going on at that time in Atlanta.
00:31:39He claimed later that he was at another game.
00:31:42I don't, you know, here's the thing my job is to ask the questions.
00:31:45He's already, and if that's what his answer is, then that's what his answer is.
00:31:50But he also said that he also took the advice of the public integrity unit, and he didn't because he was filing briefs within the 60 day window.
00:32:01Jack Smith has lied under oath time and time again.
00:32:03And so, you know, the purpose of today is just to get him to answer a bunch of questions and see if he ensnares himself in more lies because he's done that before.
00:32:12Do you think there's the appetite to pursue any actual accountability here?
00:32:18Here's what I say about this I just don't know how.
00:32:23You know, if people who did all this, who conspired, you know, even from the very beginning with Clapper and Comey and Brennan on the whole Russiagate stuff, I mean, you've got to think about this, Andrew.
00:32:36From the very beginning, they hated Trump for what he stood for.
00:33:10I don't view, like, there's a difference between weaponization, which is what they did, and accountability, which is I think people ought to be held accountable for this kind of stuff.
00:33:19And so Jack Smith was tip of the spear, man.
00:33:21His career, he was known in prosecutor circles as somebody who had been super aggressive and wrong all the time.
00:33:28He had cases where he overcharged things and the courts sort of threw him out.
00:33:34And that's exactly why Merrick Garland and Joe Biden wanted him for this because they didn't care.
00:34:14I think that when you have something of this size and scope, this level of import to the body politic, that you have to pursue accountability when so many potential crimes have been uncovered by your questioning today, whether that's Perjury, or just the way that the case was pursued by Jack Smith, you have to send a message.
00:34:40And I know that you, as an attorney, understand that.
00:34:42Yeah, and if you zoom out, what they were really trying to do, they used January 6th as a justification for everything, everything under the sun.
00:34:52And if you boil it down, what they were trying to do was take out the political opponent, disenfranchise half of America who wanted to vote for this guy.
00:35:03And also ruin the lives, ruin the lives of anybody who was quote unquote MAGA.
00:35:11They wanted to make it so toxic that they thought the brand and the ideology was so wrong that they were willing to go to these links and use our legal system to go after people.
00:35:21And we just can't have that in this country.
00:36:15People in Missouri, but people of Kansas, Iowa, Ohio that are similarly based with agricultural workers, the price of diesel is killing everybody, function of the Ukraine Russia war mostly.
00:36:28What is your message to everybody as we're 36 days, we're 35 days out from polls?
00:36:34Yeah, the elections in our republic are about a choice.
00:36:37You've got a choice about an administration that has gone after waste and fraud and abuse, closed the border, deporting people who shouldn't be here.
00:36:46You know, wages are outpacing inflation now.
00:36:49Now, there's more work to do, but we don't have 9% inflation like we had under Joe Biden.
00:36:55Do we want to go back to a wide open border?0.80
00:36:56Do we want to go back to this DEI and CRT nonsense where our country's divided by race and these struggle sessions?
00:37:03Do we want to go back to a place where the Democrats care more about, well, they still do, illegal immigrants more than they do about American citizens?
00:37:10In this America Last agenda, I think that we've got more work to do, but the Democrats' solution to these problems are much worse.
00:37:31We've got an opportunity to keep going to work for the American people.
00:37:34And what we should always do is be fighters, never be afraid of the fight, get another opportunity, and take the fight again to the Democrats to protect American workers out there and bring back industry to this country.
00:39:50One of the great ironies of my life, Steve, is that Charlie was a great, huge Ducks fan.
00:39:56And if you know anything about Washington Husky football, the Ducks, we don't use a D in front of that, in front of the name, if you're a Washington fan.
00:40:05So, it's a lower down on the letter list if you're grading.
00:40:09Anyways, so we just had to kind of come to grips with it.
00:40:12After losing Charlie, I've had to be begrudgingly become like kind of a quasi Ducks fan, and you know, Lanning's a great coach, so it is what it is.
00:40:20Steve, you made a lot of news, and I will tell you because I'm in our nation's capital today.
00:40:26Blake's holding it down at the Y Refi Studios in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:40:29But I, so I'm sitting at a meeting yesterday, and we're talking about midterms like, how do we feel about it?
00:40:36And, and you know, I actually said I was feeling quite negative about it, and we had Mark Halpern on the show, you know, he said, Blake will remember this well.
00:41:19So let me just say from the outset that if I had received that information like two weeks before the election, I'm probably not going to share it because the reason I do everything is to win.
00:41:33So if I'm sharing it six weeks out from the election, it's because I still think there's a chance to do something about it.
00:41:37But I just don't think you ever win by not acknowledging reality.
00:41:42I think you have to acknowledge reality in order to win.
00:41:46And I think that sometimes in our business, that maybe what audiences want to hear. Is not necessarily what they need to hear.
00:41:55That would be, and it might get you an immediate win in terms of some immediate clicks and feedback and engagement, but long term won't lead to the ultimate win.
00:42:04And to me, I want us to get the ultimate win here.
00:42:07And so I think there's a chance to still change the trajectory we're on.
00:42:42And it's causing everything else to be too darn high.
00:42:45And it's killing us from a strategy standpoint because we could realistically pivot to every other long term economic indicator and say, We inherited this mess from the people that you put us in place of, and we're working on it.
00:42:59And look at the things like the 140,000 new jobs that were just added, right?
00:43:02We've severely curtailed both legal and illegal immigration in the country.
00:43:06Back to those 140,000 jobs, more jobs are going to native born Americans than we've seen in the last few years.0.95
00:43:12There are some very good long term metrics there.
00:43:15But when the touchstone for how people feel a lot of things are not good, you don't get to that second level of conversation, especially when, frankly, again, just being honest, it's the kind of war that people voted for us thinking they weren't going to get that is actually causing the issue.
00:43:32So we're accepting a level of blame here by our own decisions.
00:43:37Maybe the president and what he said to Lori Ingram over the weekend is right.
00:43:40Maybe losing a midterm, maybe victory in Iran, whatever that would look like.
00:44:25The fuel thing, trying to argue around that is a loser.0.99
00:44:28And just even having the argument is a loser.0.92
00:44:31The biggest strength we have is who we're running against.
00:44:34And that moment in 2022 when Biden came out in front of the red curtain, we all mocked it at the time, I did too, and said, that just goes to show they're out of talking points and they were.
00:44:42But it also demonstrated that they had a base problem and it rallied their base and it got them to kind of a draw.
00:44:48And the biggest number one issue we have right now is we have coalition depression, right?
00:44:53And we're not all agreed on Iran and we're not all agreed on this or that.
00:44:56What we all do agree on, though, is who we're up against.
00:44:59And I think running a hard negative on who we're against, what they will do if they gain power, to me, that is the path Democrats use to drive down normie turnout, drive up their base turnout in 2022 and get a draw in a tough environment.
00:45:13That's the exact game plan that I think we ought to pursue.
00:45:17And I think lying about or to each other about where we truly are, I don't think that gets us to a win.
00:45:23I think that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy in another direction.
00:45:27We've had those discussions about how a lot of really transformative wins that seemed far more than we could have hoped for that the border is totally fixed, that we actually are getting record levels of deportation.
00:45:41The number of foreign born people in America is going down.
00:45:43They're tremendous wins, and the people who Supposedly, we're getting those wins on behalf of are not expressing the gratitude they ought to.
00:45:54The way you bring that back to the fore is you point out all these Democrats who are running around to their own base and saying, We need to get back in power so we can have amnesty for all of these people, so that we can fly back in the people we deported.
00:46:10They will pay money to fly someone who was deported, who wasn't illegal, back into this country, and then they will give them a government settlement of millions of dollars for the harm they suffered.
00:47:05I'd hammer that case more and more down the stretch here than trying to tell people that this is worth the trade when they don't, the Iran war is worth the trade off when they don't know what the trade off is, or pointing out that long term economic indicators are good on several fronts when in the short term, most Americans are only living paycheck to paycheck these days.
00:47:25And I look at my own home state of Iowa and why I think in particular this is vital because this is the state.
00:47:31I mean, the president's been the most popular politician in my home state for a decade.
00:47:35He took over 30 Iowa counties that voted for Obama twice.
00:47:38They have now turned around and voted for Trump thrice in my home state of Iowa.
00:47:42And so when the tariffs began and our farmers' exports were getting tariffed back in retaliation, they were still in.
00:48:09And so now they kind of feel like they're the most loyal voters he has, but they're getting squeezed on both ends.
00:48:13Let's remind them of why they love the president in the first place.
00:48:17And it's the cultural differences he represents compared to the Democrats that they have rejected, who still hold on to those very anti American cultural ideals.0.64
00:48:28If we hadn't done Iran, you would be cruising to midterm victory.0.55
00:49:45Is there a way to thread this needle with the base, or do you just pivot and don't talk about it at all?
00:49:49Right now, I wouldn't talk about it at all.
00:49:51I think for, you know, the two groups that won us this last election that Trump had the greatest growth with were Hispanic men and young men.
00:49:59In all time, best finish with Hispanic men, and then the best finish with young men, maybe going back, certainly at least until since 2000, maybe even going back to the 1980s by some surveys you look at.
00:50:34I keep having guests on my show and trying to find anybody, maybe you guys know somebody in our circles, who thinks that they would sacrifice these midterms given what Democrats will do and are capable of and already proven and demonstrated.0.89
00:50:45You do that for some long term victory in Iran.0.62
00:50:48I can't find anybody that says yes to that because nobody I know knows what that looks like.
00:50:52I mean, so we topple the regime, but what takes place?
00:50:55And I think the president, to his credit, in a way, is guilty of his own success here.
00:51:00I go back to texting with Charlie in June of 25, the night of Operation Midnight Hammer, and he was concerned about this, you know, causing a spillover war.
00:51:08And so, what we proved with the devastating precision, the president and his team, and Secretary Hegseth and everyone else there at the Pentagon proved that we could, if any centrifuges get above ground, we could go over there and mow the lawn in the dead of night, right?
00:51:23And take out those weeds and move on with the rest of our lives and not have some kind of prolonged engagement.
00:51:28And so, I think our people are also kind of confused as to why.
00:51:31We already proved we can devastate their capabilities when and if we have demonstrations that they're acting on it.
00:51:41And there may, frankly, not be good answers right now that might not be good politically to give.
00:51:46For example, let's say Iran had greatly increased.
00:51:49We got into this conflict with them and we found out they had greatly increased their drone and missile capacity way beyond what our intel had indicated.0.64
00:51:56Remember, they had tested a medium range missile early on that had gotten further than anything that our public understanding of their capabilities.
00:52:04So maybe we got into this and found out that they were way more of a threat to the broader region than even we thought.0.83
00:52:10And this explains why the Israelis and the Sunni Arab countries are aligned with each other against Iran.0.86
00:52:15Well, that would make a lot of sense, except to people, a lot of the same people would think, so we're going to prioritize fighting a foreign war over fighting the war at home again.
00:52:23And so even if that's true and a valid reason, it's a talking point that doesn't help you.
00:52:27To me, the talking point that helps you is the cultural contrast between who the Democrats are and they're not even trying to hide it and what we represent and what the president has represented in the past.
00:52:55The president has historically been lucky.
00:52:57And so they didn't make that crucial step of selling an extremely skeptical public on the conflict.
00:53:03And once they got in, it's been difficult to get out.
00:53:06I think our best bet at this point is, as you say, Steve.
00:53:10Focus on incredibly radical, nation damaging things that the left will do and try to minimize the degree that the war, the conflict is consuming people's thoughts.
00:53:22And you do that by trying to get gas prices down.
00:53:24You try to get trade routes flowing as well as possible so people aren't thinking, oh, there's something that in my life is being affected by this thing I didn't vote for.
00:53:34But it's going to be tough no matter what.
00:53:36Yeah, I mean, I think right now, if Washington were serious about solving this.
00:53:42Problem in the short term, at least, they need to rally the troops, get everybody back in Washington, pass a moratorium on the national federal gas tax, which would lower gas prices by about 50 to 60 cents a gallon.
00:53:55Give us six months while you sort out Iran right now.0.64
00:53:59Listen, Blake and I privately, we took some flack for this because we didn't tuck tail immediately and turn our backs on President Trump.
00:54:07We don't believe that's what Charlie would have done.
00:54:09He's not here to defend himself, whatever.
00:54:12We were left reacting and responding to the news.
00:54:15But we didn't turn on President Trump.0.88
00:54:17But privately, we were lobbying for Iran not to happen.0.94
00:54:20We were worried about all the same things Charlie was worried about that this spilling over into sectarian violence, refugee crisis, that it would be a quagmire, it would be drawn out.0.94
00:54:29So we're calling on Washington get your butts back in gear, pass a moratorium.0.94
00:54:33If you're serious about winning the midterms, pass a moratorium on the gas tax.0.92
00:54:38Get back to D.C. Tell people that you hear them, tell people that you understand that they're going through pain at the pump and that they can't afford their daily groceries.
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00:56:24Many of these cities saw an oversupply of new housing, multifamily housing, after and since the pandemic, but deportations.
00:56:33Are a common factor in all of these markets where rent prices are dropping.
00:56:39And since 2025, there have been more than 600,000 deportations and nearly 2 million self deportations.
00:56:46So, how could something of that magnitude not have an impact?
00:56:51Deportations, it's a huge, huge answer to many of the problems we're facing as a country.
00:56:56And we're finally, for the first time in my lifetime, we're seeing actual progress when it comes to cleaning up that mess.
00:58:16Another one asks, Christy just asks, what would be the best way of laying out, you think, in an ad, in a pitch, that message of the talking point about whether you want to call it communism, radical socialism, wokeism?
00:58:30What's the best presentation to make that case that, yeah, even if you don't want to say this out loud, but even if you're mad about things, you have to realize a very hostile anti American ideology is coming back the second Democrats have the ability to impose it?
00:58:49That's exactly what I wanted to address when we come back because the inverse is also true.
00:58:53If we're struggling to find people on our side who are like, hey, would you trade these midterms if it meant a long term victory in Iran?
00:59:00Because no one really knows what that looks like or can define it.
00:59:03Well, the inverse is true as well, which is, hey, would you trade higher gas prices for your daughters not being chest bound and your sons not being castrated?0.97
00:59:13Would you trade higher gas prices for your country no longer being overrun by foreigners as another migrant caravan makes its way to the border?0.92
00:59:21See, the question can be asked both ways.1.00
00:59:24And I think we need to be asking that question the other way.
00:59:26The moral calculus here does not, or even the political calculus, does not just work one way, guys.
00:59:31It works in the other direction as well, which is why, even though I was on your show seven months ago expressing a great amount of pessimism and skepticism about doing this as we were thinking of launching it, it's also why I'm every bit sitting here seven months later as eager to turn on our vote and to win because there is another calculus at work here, not just Iran, which is the alternative.0.97
00:59:53We know what they will do to our children.0.95
00:59:56We know what they will do to our borders.0.95
00:59:57We know that they're the party of Lindsey Clancy.0.71
01:00:55The time to end it was the thing that the vice president was criticized for the ceasefire before the 4th of July, as if he just did that unilaterally, whether the commander in chief is sign off.
01:01:05But that was the time, that was our off ramp right there.
01:01:09That was the off ramp to say, and by the way, another thing if we find one centrifuge above ground, it's going to be Operation Phillips Screwdriver, Operation Crescent Wrench.
01:01:17We'll mow the lawn every week if we have to and send a warning and then come home and focus on home.
01:01:23And so now we're, if we're going to be honest with each other, just walking away right now, it's not so much what Iran and the regime there will think because we've killed over 100 of their high command.0.58
01:01:34It's, does it say to China, we're weak, so take Taiwan?
01:01:37Does it say to Putin, we're weak, so nuke Ukraine?
01:01:40That's what we have to be concerned about now.0.93
01:01:42And so there is an argument, and I don't disagree with the president here, that allowing the Iranians to make it look like they waited us out, they're down to their third string quarterback, basically, because we killed everybody else.0.87
01:01:52So they're down to their third string quarterback, and they waited out the great Satan because we were concerned about the midterms.0.85
01:01:58That could make us look weaker in ways we don't even want to contemplate globally right now.
01:02:03So to me, just take the issue off the table.
01:02:06The Iranians ought to be told the worst thing that could happen to you is if we lose these midterms, because then Trump's going to be really pissed.
01:02:11And then he really won't care, and he'll never face the electorate ever again, and he might just wipe you completely off the map.
01:02:16That's actually the messaging I would use to them.0.90
01:02:18I would message this separately to the American people take Iran off of the burner as much as you can between now and the first Tuesday in November, and make the broader cultural calculus we cannot elect an Islamist to the United States Senate out of my former home state of Michigan.0.92
01:03:28Well, I mean, let me answer that email right there.
01:03:30I mean, I was just in a meeting yesterday looking at some polling, and you know, in the state of Ohio, I don't know what it's at in Iowa right now, Steve.
01:03:37Maybe you got that offhand, but you know, Trump, according to some polls, is upside down 22 points in Ohio.
01:04:31A, I want to give people the image of watching him get his f whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do.
01:04:37With all due respect, if they go low, we don't go high.0.88
01:04:40We take them to the mud and choke them out.0.98
01:04:42First kid who stepped to me, I was like, I am going to beat you mercilessly as a message to everybody else.0.97
01:04:48Like, that's going to be the last fight you've ever had.0.99
01:04:50We should bash the f out of Trump because he's a terrible human being who does awful things, who's exploited a lot of pain in a lot of people.0.99
01:06:17We have to be prepared for the moment we're actually in, not the one we're prepared for or we prefer or we want, but the moment we're actually in.0.99
01:06:26And I mean, this guy, Al Said, represents a religion that circumcises girls.0.99
01:06:31And so, this is just as Charlie would say, it's just not compatible with Western civilization.1.00
01:06:37And that's the case that needs to be made.
01:07:42But it is a real possibility that blacks in Detroit could go our way in major ways.0.99
01:07:48Steve, if you had one message, we got this email from a listener.1.00
01:07:55Phyllis says that if we lose both the House and the Senate, we should look in the mirror because of the influence of this show and of the platform.
01:08:04Listen, I will always look in the mirror and own what I could do better and what we could improve upon.
01:08:10But I kind of liken it to what we do at Chase the Vote.
01:08:41It doesn't mean that it wouldn't have necessarily even been the right geopolitical decision to make, that maybe that was the right call.
01:08:47And we'll look back and history will look back and say Trump made the right decision and it was worth it as a country to suffer through a short period of gas prices for long term geopolitical gains.
01:09:04What is the message right now, Steve Days?
01:09:07I think the message is that the deportation agenda, the immigration agenda that you voted for, is being executed.
01:09:16And it might get executed if Democrats win the midterms.
01:09:20And that's the ground that we've made on every single other front, other than whatever we all think about this war, is all at risk.
01:09:28But furthermore, it's possible that the next two years, the last two years of the Trump presidency, Become stillborn because all Democrats are doing is bogging the country down.
01:09:39Impeachment of not just Trump, Hegsteth, Rubio, pick anybody in the RFK Jr., they're all getting impeached.
01:09:45That much of what we voted for in 2024, the answer to I don't think we've made enough progress or I don't like where our focus is after 2024, is to not just essentially hand over the last two years of the Trump presidency to the Democratic Party.0.96
01:10:09A lot of that has come not just from the public, it's 100% been fueled by various podcasters who've come out and they love to say, You've been betrayed.
01:10:20They love to say, This administration is finished.
01:10:32What should our messaging on that be towards the many different personalities who seem to Always be most energetic about embracing the negative, and they almost seem very willful about rejecting any positive news.
01:10:45Well, I love the vice president's line, which is despair is a sin.
01:10:49So, you know, you guys operate in this sphere.
01:11:36Why do you call me Lord if you do not do what I say?
01:11:39Ultimately, it is what we do that defines us because we do what we believe out of the heart, the mouth speaks.
01:11:47So, if you're listening to voices that take you further away from Christ, further away from doing the right thing, further into the darkness, turn those voices off.
01:11:55If you're hearing a message that might convict you, that might challenge you, but it also encourages you to do better and inspires you to stand up all the more, those are the kinds of messages that you want to be making sure you're following.
01:12:57If you're undercounting Republicans, what's the last time, Steve, you, Mr. Poll Watcher, or at least you used to be, what's the last time we saw a poll oversample Republicans?
01:14:51And when everyone loves to feel down, one of our great challenges is to be upbeat and cheerful.
01:14:57And you saw in the opening of the show today, Andrew, there's so many things to be cheerful about.
01:15:02We have a duty, among other things, to be happy, to be going out and bragging about the amazing things that we've done for this country because there are so many of those, and there will be so many more if we don't become a bunch of whiners.