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00:01:26.000Charlie, this is Robert who emails us.
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00:01:30.000Charlie, this has taken me months, almost a year, but finally I got my mother to vote, my brother to vote, and my sister, my sister who has voted since Reagan, is now voting again.
00:01:40.000My brother has never voted, neither has his sister.
00:01:44.000I'm trying to do my part as a part-time truck driver.
00:02:55.000We will require in federal elections, that in federal elections only, to respect federalism, but in federal elections, that states would check for
00:03:04.000citizenship and for providing documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote.
00:03:09.000We put in all sorts of safeguards to make sure nobody would be disenfranchised, trying
00:03:13.000to balance the interests of enforcement, but also not being a burden for someone who shows
00:04:07.000Well, I think Elon's been a great voice for what we need to do to preserve and protect our republic, and he gets it, frankly, more than a lot of Americans.
00:04:14.000Frankly, I find that a lot of Eastern Europeans, a lot of people that understand why it's important for us to save and preserve a strong, sovereign, free country, they get it.
00:04:25.000And he's not wrong That it is, I think, problematic and dangerous.
00:04:31.000Not sure if I'd say treasonous, but you know, you could argue it.
00:04:34.000It's certainly anti-American and against the rule of law to say that we should be having non-citizens vote in elections.
00:04:46.000We've got Oakland, San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., other Democrat-led jurisdictions that are purposely trying to register non-citizens to vote in state and local elections, and they say, don't worry, they won't vote in federal elections.
00:04:59.000But we have evidence that across the country, people have been, and we've been registering people through Medicaid rolls, the DMV, and so now we're pushing back on that.
00:05:08.000That's why this bill is so critically important.
00:05:09.000So Elon is right that it is certainly un-American.
00:05:13.000And you cannot say that you're for the rule of law or for sovereignty or for saving American elections and make sure they're secure if you voted against this bill.
00:05:28.000So, Congressman Roy, help me understand this.
00:05:30.000And I'm going to ask you to speculate.
00:05:32.000I know this is a hard question, and you're doing hero's work.
00:05:35.000In Texas, Joe Biden has allowed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people that are now in the interior of Texas that otherwise were not.
00:05:43.000Now, it's important to note that while Texas is a border state, Joe Biden has been sending these guys all over the country, right?
00:05:49.000And so, but Texas really feels the carnage more than almost any, I mean, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, but really Arizona, Texas, as far as the human smuggling, the trafficking.
00:05:59.000Do we believe that some of these people are now being registered to vote in Texas, potentially?
00:06:05.000Well, certainly because federal law requires that these places where you have, for example, Medicaid rolls, and they require that the documentation be there, it's certainly a problem.
00:06:16.000I know that the state leadership in Texas is doing what they can to ensure that that's not the case.
00:06:20.000They've been working to clean the voter rolls.
00:06:23.000The secretaries of state over the last two or three terms have been working to do that.
00:06:34.000And we know that the paperwork by federal bureaucrats is put in front of people when they come forward.
00:06:39.000So the state of Texas is having to fight that.
00:06:41.000Just like, for example, Arizona has two different systems for voting, right?
00:06:46.000They've got one system for state and federal and one state, I'm sorry, one system for state and local and one system for federal because of the federal law problem.
00:06:54.000That's what our bill sets out to fix and then take it a step further to ensure that we're checking for citizenship.
00:07:00.000This should be an absolute no-brainer, and in some ways we are a victim of our own model.
00:07:06.000Because we have federalism and every state can do elections as they see fit, and we don't want the federal government to be overly involved in our elections, but it presents several problems here.
00:07:18.000Do you think this has a chance of passing in the U.S.
00:07:23.000Well, look, I mean, this will depend on the leadership.
00:07:26.000I know Mike Lee, who, you know, authored the bill in the Senate, he's one of the key leaders on it.
00:07:30.000And he's working to make sure that we get maybe amendments or consent requests.
00:07:35.000You might see a Federman or you might see somebody who's willing to break and go with us.
00:07:39.000You know, you've got Kyrsten Sinema and others.
00:07:42.000But remember that there is a legitimate federal role here.
00:07:45.000The elections clause specifically says Congress has a role when you're talking about the time, place, and manner of congressional elections.
00:07:52.000Secondly, we control, uniquely, naturalization.
00:07:56.000Frankly, the court has probably said we control it more than maybe even constitutionally we do.
00:08:01.000The point is, Congress has a unique role there.
00:08:03.000And I would also point out, 15th Amendment, 19th, 24th, 26th, all talk about protecting the right of citizens to vote.
00:08:12.000The Constitution contemplates that we have the power to do this.
00:08:18.000If Schumer won't do it, Republicans should find every way they can to force consideration and move to proceed to the bill and make sure we get a vote on this before the election.
00:08:27.000So I'm going to ask you just some palace intrigue stuff, Chip.
00:08:31.000The top priority right now in Congress doesn't seem to be anything legislative.
00:08:34.000It seems as if your Democrat colleagues are hustling and bustling to find if they want to still have Joe Biden as their nominee.
00:08:42.000Just as a guess, using hallway chatter and inside baseball, if Joe Biden was up against a secret ballot with Democrats within the House, how would he do?
00:08:56.000I think Democrats very much see and observe that he should not be the nominee, frankly, that he shouldn't be the president.
00:09:05.000They recognize that he's not all there.
00:09:07.000But they are, I think, split and divided about how much to call it out.
00:09:11.000I think now you've got now 10 Democrats who have called him out.
00:09:14.000Nancy Pelosi was pretty circumspect yesterday.
00:09:17.000I haven't seen any of her commentary today.
00:09:18.000I think Hakeem Jeffries just did a press conference where he said that, oh, you know, I think he was trying to defend Biden.
00:09:25.000Like they are torn and pulled apart on this.
00:09:27.000And look, I personally believe we have an obligation as Republicans to keep pushing on this point because the leadership around the president, they're complicit.
00:09:37.000They're not trying to say that you can have a president by committee.
00:09:40.000You're a scholar of our founding and our history.
00:10:03.000All the Democrats know it, including Hakeem Jeffries, including Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and all of the staff in the White House and his doctor.
00:11:59.000We can't say that because Democrats are in control of the Senate, we don't have to do everything possible, everything within our power to get this thing passed.
00:12:08.000Because the fate of the Republic is on the line.
00:12:09.000The significance of the vote is on the line.
00:12:13.000You can't proceed to this election with Joe Biden just having let in an additional 10 million illegal aliens just since he's been president and pretend that nothing has changed.
00:12:25.000And you can't leave the SAVE Act unpassed without creating the inevitability that a whole lot of non-citizens are going to be voting.
00:13:13.000And this is a major influx into our country and Democrats seem largely either okay with it or not interested in fixing it.
00:13:22.000What are exactly in the details of the SAVE Act?
00:13:25.000Educate our audience so we know exactly what is in it.
00:13:28.000Okay, so bottom line, it requires proof of citizenship when you register to vote.
00:13:34.000If you're going to be eligible to vote in a federal election.
00:13:38.000Under current law, you can register to vote simply by applying for a driver's license.
00:13:44.000Now, Charlie, keep in mind, of the 30 million non-citizens in this country, literally every state issues driver's licenses to non-citizens.
00:13:56.000And under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, by filling out a little federal form that goes along with the driver's license
00:14:32.000So anyway, look, the SAVE Act closes that loophole by requiring proof of citizenship when you register to vote in a federal election.
00:14:39.000It also provides things like penalties.
00:14:42.000Penalties for what happens, criminal penalties, if you register an illegal alien to vote.
00:14:50.000Now, the Democrats are opposing this, and I submit to you, Charlie, there is one and only one reason you could provide that would make logical sense as to why you would oppose this.
00:15:03.000And the reason would be if you just want to make sure that non-citizens vote, perhaps because you want to influence the outcome of the election.
00:15:12.000That's what we're dealing with here and that's why I'm so glad the House passed the SAVE Act yesterday and why I'm going to do everything I possibly can to get it passed in the Senate.
00:15:40.000By that logic, Charlie, it would make no sense to have laws on the books requiring ID to prove your age eligibility when you buy beer, liquor, or cigarettes.
00:16:03.000In fact, to choose an argument more near and dear even than that to progressive Democrats,
00:16:10.000Let's look at something like, say, I don't know, our laws governing background checks for the purchase of firearms.
00:16:17.000It's already against the law under 18 U.S.C.
00:16:21.000922g for a convicted felon to purchase or possess a firearm.
00:16:27.000So why would we need a background check?
00:16:30.000Their own logic collapses under its own weight.
00:16:33.000Every one of the arguments that they throw out there, and that's the most substantive one they've used, I want to play a piece of tape here.
00:17:07.000This bill is essentially a poll tax because I am not aware of a single proof of citizenship document that does not cost an individual money to get it unless we are requiring every state to provide one for free and then it's on unfunded mandate.
00:17:23.000This is the 2024 version of the Jim Crow poll tax and we should vote against it.
00:17:29.000I mean, these people are so unoriginal.
00:17:32.000I could write their talking points for them regardless.
00:17:35.000I mean, we could have a bill that says, you know, happy 4th of July and they'll say it's Jim Crow 2.0.
00:17:57.000With that, this makes absolutely no sense.
00:18:00.000And one of the reasons it makes no sense is that number two, under this bill, there's no finite list of ways that you can prove your citizenship.
00:18:12.000Now, when you fill out an I-9, when any American starts new employment, they have to fill out an I-9.
00:18:21.000And you've got only a couple of options.
00:18:30.000Now, understanding that not every American may have it.
00:18:34.000There may be some Americans who, for whatever reason, don't have, never had, or lost irretrievably a birth certificate or some other verifying documentation.
00:18:47.000There's enough flexibility built into the law.
00:18:50.000We made it so that somebody lacking those documents can still provide other means by which they can prove it.
00:18:57.000People who can vouch for when and where they were born, there are other means by which you can prove it.
00:19:09.000And it's the kind of lie you would expect to see coming from the party of Jim Crow.
00:19:14.000It's so harmful to political discourse and dialogue where everything harkens back to this.
00:19:21.000Representative Summer Lee says that requiring only American citizens vote is a xenophobic attack.
00:19:30.000It is under attack right now, right here, with this very bill.
00:19:35.000Republicans want to throw up barriers because when people vote, they lose.
00:19:39.000Let me be clear, they don't want you to vote.
00:19:42.000They don't want to hear black voices, brown voices, LGBTQIA voices, young voices.
00:19:47.000Our fundamental access to our democracy is being politicized.
00:19:51.000And this xenophobic attack that we're debating today will make it harder for Americans to vote.
00:19:56.000My Republican colleagues will claim that requiring IDs is a small ask, but nearly 30 million people lack a valid driver's license, and about 15 to 18 million adults don't have access to documents proving their birth or citizenship.
00:20:33.000I've seen some absolutely absurd responses, including and especially President Biden's response that came out of the White House on Monday about this.
00:20:41.000That one that you just showed, From a congresswoman representing Pennsylvania's 12th district, has to take the cake.
00:20:51.000This is the absolute worst that I've seen.
00:20:55.000Now, to suggest that, first of all, that we somehow can't limit the franchise, the voting franchise, to citizens, which is, I think, where her argument is going, it's what she's saying, to suggest that you can't limit it that way, It sort of rejects not only existing federal law, which says that non-citizens can't vote, but it also rejects the basic premise of what it means to be a country.
00:21:29.000And it's also race-baiting and fear-mongering.
00:21:33.000But more than anything else, Charlie, it reflects something else, an absolute form of terror that exists today within the Democratic Party.
00:21:42.000The party of Jim Crow is finally suffering the consequences of what the Democratic Party perceives as its own successes, but are experienced by all Americans as failures.
00:21:56.000Black Americans are moving to the Republican Party in record numbers.
00:22:01.000The Democrats are scared to death of this.
00:22:04.000And so it's sad to me that they're resorting to this kind of of condescending fear mongering, it's going to backfire.
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00:26:31.000But of course, Brandon Johnson would not take responsibility that Democrats have had monopolistic control over Chicago.
00:26:41.000And this is a divide between leftists and conservatives.
00:26:45.000When we hear that a bunch of criminals and thugs take out their firearms and start opening fire indiscriminately into crowds, shooting 100 people and killing 18 people, we blame them.
00:27:03.000And we certainly don't blame Richard Nixon, who was president 52 years ago.
00:27:08.000But this is the Democrat Party, that you'll never have to take responsibility for your own choices.
00:27:13.000That's how you get student loan debt relief.
00:27:15.000You don't have to take responsibility for your choices.
00:27:17.000It's somebody else's fault that you wanted the debt.
00:27:18.000It's somebody else's fault that you studied Eastern Asian poetry.
00:27:24.000It creates a cult of victims, and that is the base of the Democrat Party.
00:27:29.000Brandon Johnson could say, knock it off, we're going to have more police, more people on the streets, we're going to have anti-crime units, but Brandon Johnson refuses to do that because his concern is not the safety of Chicago.
00:27:42.000They're going to keep on breaking records, by the way, all summer.
00:27:45.000100 people shot, they're going to break those records.
00:27:48.000Chicago is an all-out war zone in these neighborhoods.
00:27:59.000He's about pandering to the worst elements of the Democrat Party.
00:28:05.000So it'll be fascinating to see when the Democrats come rolling into Chicago, all of a sudden the Chicago crime rates are going to go down.
00:28:16.000If the Chicago crime rates go down, it shows that they can fix this.
00:28:20.000But they're beholden to ideology, so they would rather have the downfall and the decay and the collapse of a once great American city, even though they have the power, the ability, and the knowledge and the capacity to solve it.
00:28:35.000But for that one week, when Democrats come prancing into Chicago in August, you'll be able to eat off the streets.
00:28:41.000You'll be able to walk mag-mile again.
00:29:04.000In the last couple of hours, there is now a new betting favorite of who is the Democrat nominee.
00:29:10.000Now, these betting markets, you understand, this is not talk, this is real money in the game.
00:29:16.000And if you know anything about politics, you're not supposed to do this, but I have known people that have done this and I don't support it, but a lot of insiders will trade on insider information and make a lot of money.
00:29:29.000Staffers, consultants, donors, they will trade on their inside information.
00:29:34.000So there is a new frontrunner now in this fluid Democrat operation.
00:30:12.000If they can convince Joe Biden from backing off, which is highly unlikely, because Joe Biden is a very, very, let's just say, he is a strong-willed individual.
00:30:25.000And by the way, you know who's going to be doing some insider training?
00:30:42.000New York Times, front page of the New York Times, the embattled Biden campaign tests Kamala Harris' strength versus Trump.
00:30:49.000The campaign is quietly carrying out a head-to-head survey of voters between the Vice President and Donald Trump in a sign of uncertainty even atop the Democrat Party.
00:30:57.000Now let me say this, whatever number that you show Kamala Harris v. Donald Trump, that will be her ceiling.
00:31:04.000This is before we have properly introduced the country to the horror.
00:32:54.000We were talking to some Democratic donors, and they have told us that should something befall President Biden and he is not able to run, that there would be a free-for-all for who would run as president.
00:33:12.000You are in the spot that that would be unnatural for you to step up, but we're hearing from donors that they would not naturally fall into line.