The Charlie Kirk Show - August 03, 2026


Charlie and Capitalism + Canada's Illegal Immigrant Pipeline


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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:23.000 Welcome, everybody.
00:01:25.000 Andy Biggs and a very, very special guest.
00:01:28.000 Are in studio with Blake, and I believe I'm told that they have my mic flag.
00:01:34.000 So that's a little disconcerting.
00:01:36.000 Nevertheless, let's get started here.
00:01:40.000 Yes.
00:01:41.000 Andy Biggs, the next governor of the great state of Arizona, State 48, has brought in Sina Kerr, the next lieutenant governor, the first lieutenant governor.
00:01:52.000 Andy Biggs, why don't you introduce your guest?
00:01:56.000 Yeah, thanks, Andrew.
00:01:56.000 It's good to see you.
00:01:58.000 Good to be with you and Blake in this very special studio.
00:02:02.000 I've brought with me Sina Kerr, former state senator, former Trump Department of Agriculture leader.
00:02:14.000 I will tell you, she is a tremendous, tremendous pick.
00:02:18.000 She's an expert in water law.
00:02:21.000 She knows the rural areas of the state, she knows the agricultural industry.
00:02:25.000 She is beloved all over the state, and she's a dairy farmer.
00:02:32.000 Married to Bill.
00:02:33.000 They've been married for 46 years and they've been dairy farming that long.
00:02:39.000 So it's an honor to have her serve with me or run with me.
00:02:46.000 So there's a backstory here.
00:02:48.000 This is the first time that we've had a lieutenant governor.
00:02:52.000 What changed and what is the goal in Arizona?
00:02:56.000 So a constitutional amendment came in by the voters three years ago or so and they said, We don't want to just have a Secretary of State anymore.
00:03:07.000 We want to have a Lieutenant Governor, too.
00:03:09.000 And the Lieutenant Governor will run with me like a Vice President runs with a President.
00:03:16.000 And that's where Sina comes in.
00:03:17.000 And then she will probably have a responsibility over a department or an agency that's contemplated.
00:03:25.000 And quite frankly, the constitutional amendment is so broad that we get to kind of determine it.
00:03:33.000 And I'm looking forward to that.
00:03:35.000 Because I think Sina's got some good ideas, and I've got some ideas on how we make that run for the state.
00:03:41.000 So that's like an option for you?
00:03:42.000 You can just sort of, you could simultaneously appoint her to, I guess, I don't know what the cabinet agencies are at the state level, but that would make sense.
00:03:50.000 Yeah, like head of department of administration or ag or, you know, just whatever.
00:03:54.000 Yeah.
00:03:56.000 So, Sina, welcome to the studio.
00:03:59.000 I'm sorry that I can't be in there with you, but tell us about yourself in your own words.
00:04:03.000 We're excited to have you introduce yourself to our audience.
00:04:08.000 Thank you so much, Andrew.
00:04:09.000 So, I was here for the grand opening, and so it's amazing to see how the campus has grown.
00:04:16.000 And of course, being in here in the studio is really emotional for me.
00:04:20.000 It's just really special to be here with you.
00:04:23.000 So, yeah, I grew up in Buckeye.
00:04:26.000 My dad moved us there in 1964 when he retired from the Army.
00:04:31.000 I have been there ever since, absolutely love it.
00:04:34.000 True small town girl.
00:04:36.000 I think there were only 4,000 or 5,000 people.
00:04:38.000 In Buckeye at the time, and I believe we're well over 100,000 today.
00:04:43.000 And so I grew up in, it was largely agriculture, and that's where I fell in love with ag.
00:04:49.000 My family was not in farming.
00:04:52.000 And then my mother, when my mom and dad got married, you know, she immigrated from Mexico and became a naturalized citizen.
00:05:01.000 She was incredibly proud to be a U.S. citizen.
00:05:05.000 And so, you know, they taught me to love our country, to step up for her, you put your life on the line for her, and to appreciate the opportunities that we have here in America.
00:05:19.000 And so, anyway, you know, Went through grade school, high school.
00:05:25.000 I met my future husband Bill, and we were in student government together.
00:05:29.000 And, you know, I didn't know at the time he was a third generation dairy farmer.
00:05:33.000 So that was the bonus.
00:05:36.000 That sealed the deal.
00:05:37.000 And so we got married right out of high school.
00:05:40.000 I was 18, he was 19.
00:05:42.000 We started our dairy business and, you know, grew it from there, then grew our family.
00:05:47.000 We have one son and three daughters, and they have blessed us with 12 grandchildren.
00:05:53.000 And during that time, you know, I was involved with.
00:05:57.000 Ag industry leadership, being involved in United Dairymen of Arizona Farm Bureau.
00:06:04.000 And that's where I learned to really study and know the policy that affects us every single day on our farms and became passionate about that.
00:06:15.000 Passionate about electing leaders that really understood what we needed to keep us in business, keep food on our table, keep our freedom to farm, and food security across the nation.
00:06:28.000 Tyler was really gushing about you.
00:06:30.000 Just he was very excited about this pick.
00:06:31.000 And he was pointing out you have like a lot of expertise with managing water resources, as any agriculturalist does in Arizona.
00:06:38.000 And that matters a lot because there was news over the weekend.
00:06:41.000 If you're in Arizona, you're kind of, it's maybe entered your head a few times.
00:06:45.000 This is not a place that naturally has a lot of water, yet we usually are able to obtain it when we desire it, but we can't take that for granted.
00:06:53.000 And there was big news this weekend where we are like losing some water to the state.
00:06:59.000 That's related to mismanagement from our current governor, correct?
00:07:03.000 Yeah, in my opinion, she waited too long to engage.
00:07:07.000 We've known this was coming.
00:07:09.000 This is actually an extension past the timeframe of the drought contingency plan.
00:07:15.000 She should have been engaged and she should have been putting pressure on and working with the administration.
00:07:20.000 She's incapable of working with the administration, just so you, Blake and Andrew, just so you guys know.
00:07:26.000 But yeah, so the Bureau of Reclamation has given us a new plan.
00:07:30.000 I don't think it's time to panic.
00:07:33.000 I'm not a panic guy.
00:07:34.000 I'm an optimist guy about trying to work this thing out some more.
00:07:38.000 But with the current governor, she's not really taking the steps, in my opinion, to actually resolve what you do now between now and October because the Bureau of Reclamation would like to put this into play October 1st.
00:07:53.000 Now, that would require us to make a reduction off the river itself, but most of that's going to go to the Central Arizona Project.
00:08:02.000 So, without getting into the details too much, there are things that can be done now.
00:08:07.000 I'm working at the federal level trying to do it.
00:08:11.000 We need this governor to step in, and I don't think she's capable of doing it.
00:08:16.000 This is what I mean when I say she is dangerously incompetent because this will impact the state.
00:08:21.000 But we can fix it as much as we can.
00:08:23.000 But I think both Sean and I have some plans to put in place with infrastructure, et cetera, and policy when we are governing the state.
00:08:34.000 Yeah, I mean, that's the my, you know, my mother works in this field and she says that, you know, the Colorado River is a huge, huge issue.
00:08:43.000 What is behind this and what are the real world stakes for Arizona's farmers, for the business community, for home building, population growth, if we ultimately get our water share from the Colorado River cut this dramatically?
00:08:57.000 Yeah, so I'll comment on that, Andrew.
00:09:02.000 So, you know, we have to look at our past because it clearly dictates, excuse me, where we are today.
00:09:10.000 So, Arizona has been a leader in water management, not only.
00:09:14.000 Across the nation, but around the world, we have water leaders come to see how in the world we are so productive and effective in our water management and the products we produce, you know, in the ag industry.
00:09:29.000 And so, in our early days, even before statehood, it was our farmers and our ranchers that had the wisdom and the foresight to map out how we can best utilize our water resources.
00:09:42.000 And so, they did a very fantastic job laying that foundation.
00:09:46.000 So, we've continued on that.
00:09:49.000 We have saved millions of acre feet of water.
00:09:52.000 And just, it's incredible the geographic makeup, the geology of Arizona, that we have these incredible basins that can store a lot of water.
00:10:01.000 So we have to look at that and know that we need to manage those resources effectively.
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00:11:25.000 So, Sina, you were just working, or maybe you're perhaps still doing it with USDA, which we love Brook.
00:11:31.000 We love what they're doing there for farmers.
00:11:33.000 Explain why that's so important to a state like Arizona.
00:11:36.000 A lot of people think it's just a wasteland desert.
00:11:38.000 That's not true at all.
00:11:40.000 Explain why that's so critically important, not only to Arizona, but you mentioned food security, water security for the entire nation.
00:11:48.000 Exactly.
00:11:48.000 So, I did resign from my position, loved it, absolutely was deeply honored to.
00:11:56.000 Have been appointed by the president, working under Secretary Rollins.
00:12:02.000 Talk about just a next level administration who cares deeply.
00:12:09.000 When they say, when the president says he wants to put farmers and ranchers first, he's not kidding.
00:12:14.000 And then to have Secretary Rollins deploy that message in very tangible ways.
00:12:20.000 She listens, as we've had, she's attended roundtables with farmers and ranchers across the nation.
00:12:27.000 The one she held here, and she's held a couple now here in Arizona.
00:12:30.000 To see her just so intently listening, taking notes, she wants their numbers.
00:12:35.000 She's affecting change every single time she's meeting.
00:12:39.000 Then, in my former position, I got to deal with her cabinet members, everyone who's serving with her, and her administrator, the undersecretary, so much of the staff.
00:12:53.000 They're real farmers.
00:12:55.000 And that makes all the difference in the world.
00:12:58.000 When I took the position, I was worried.
00:12:59.000 I thought, wow, am I going to be dealing with D.C. bureaucrats who don't have any idea which end of the cow to milk?
00:13:07.000 And I'm going to have to be working with them.
00:13:10.000 I was anticipating some frustration.
00:13:13.000 None of that.
00:13:14.000 They have the real solid farmers and ranchers in there, such a pleasure to work with.
00:13:20.000 And it meant so much for our state.
00:13:22.000 As I promoted and implemented the administration and the secretary's policies and priorities for Farm Service Agency, it was just a real blessing to go out across the state, tell our farmers and ranchers listen,
00:13:37.000 the administration is really listening, they care deeply.
00:13:41.000 About what you need, what's working for you, what's not working.
00:13:45.000 The secretary, very engaged, very hands on.
00:13:48.000 It was an incredible blessing to serve the administration in that way and then to serve our farmers and ranchers.
00:13:57.000 Congressman, future governor Andy Biggs, so this is actually the first time we've had you on since your massive landslide victory in the primary.
00:14:05.000 Talk about the state of the race.
00:14:07.000 This is a huge, I think, boon for you and this campaign, having seen it join the ticket, as it were.
00:14:15.000 Where are we at right now?
00:14:17.000 How's it looking?
00:14:18.000 What are our action items?
00:14:20.000 Give us some things to do that we can help make sure you get into office in November.
00:14:26.000 Hey, thanks, Andrew.
00:14:27.000 And, you know, that was a big primary win.
00:14:30.000 And here we go.
00:14:33.000 We're almost dead even in the polls.
00:14:36.000 We're within the margin of error of a sitting incumbent who spent more than $10 million on this campaign so far, Andrew.
00:14:44.000 And they've laid down another $10, $15 million.
00:14:49.000 Through the end of the cycle, and we anticipate they're going to spend more.
00:14:53.000 But they can't seem to pull away.
00:14:55.000 We think she's reached a ceiling because she is hopelessly incompetent.
00:14:58.000 And so for us, the big thing for us is we had a big rally on Friday in the West Valley of the Phoenix metro area.
00:15:07.000 It was fabulous.
00:15:08.000 Hundreds and hundreds of people attended, and we are all over the state campaigning and working with folks.
00:15:17.000 For us, this is a voter turnout.
00:15:19.000 You guys know this.
00:15:20.000 It's a voter turnout election.
00:15:22.000 Because it'll be down.
00:15:23.000 You don't have a president.
00:15:24.000 You don't even have a U.S. senator on here.
00:15:26.000 This is the race that's going to drive the turnout.
00:15:28.000 So we need to keep knocking on doors.
00:15:31.000 We need to keep visiting with people.
00:15:32.000 We need to get our yard signs out.
00:15:35.000 If you've got donations, that helps us too.
00:15:38.000 It helps us put stuff on the air.
00:15:40.000 And we're actually targeting, Andrew and Blake, the roughly 17% of people who are undecided who will help decide this race.
00:15:50.000 And we're sending them messages regularly.
00:15:53.000 And that's where we're focused right now because.
00:15:56.000 We've got a tremendous Republican base.
00:15:58.000 We've got a numerical advantage.
00:16:02.000 We have 300,000 more Republicans voters than Democrats do.
00:16:07.000 What matters for us is getting those people to the polls.
00:16:10.000 That takes funds.
00:16:11.000 Bigsforarizona.com.
00:16:14.000 That does it.
00:16:15.000 But we just need people out there spreading the word.
00:16:18.000 That's the main thing.
00:16:19.000 What happens in the state if Katie Hobbs stays in office versus what happens if you win?
00:16:26.000 Well, just take a look at what she's vetoed.
00:16:28.000 She's vetoed more than 70 election integrity bills while at the same time opening up the border to the South.
00:16:35.000 Kind of a weird coincidence, I think, Andrew, you might think, but that's one thing.
00:16:41.000 We've also gone from being one of the most affordable states in the country when she came in to now we're in the bottom five for least affordable states.
00:16:50.000 She's driven up the price of housing.
00:16:52.000 That makes it very unaffordable.
00:16:54.000 She's not supportive fully of the police.
00:16:57.000 And so we have, just so you know, there's only two states with a rising fentanyl overdose death rate.
00:17:05.000 Arizona is spiking.
00:17:06.000 We are the leader in the overdose rate, and that's because of Her policies.
00:17:10.000 She actually put moratoriums on building houses in the two fastest growing communities in the state, in the West Valley and the East Valley, which were, by the way, two of the top 10 fastest growth places in the country.
00:17:23.000 That's the difference that you get.
00:17:26.000 She's actually tried to raise taxes multiple times.
00:17:31.000 And this is the key here this gets to trustworthiness.
00:17:34.000 She is the only governor in America who is currently being criminally investigated for.
00:17:42.000 Pay for play schemes, corruption.
00:17:45.000 That's the difference you'll get right there, Andrew.
00:17:48.000 Bigs for Arizona.
00:17:49.000 Bigs for Arizona.
00:17:51.000 Sina Kerr, thank you for joining us.
00:17:52.000 God bless you both.
00:17:53.000 We have your back.
00:17:54.000 Thank you.
00:17:54.000 Thank you, man.
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00:18:59.000 All right.
00:18:59.000 Well, this all goes back to last week's Thursday discussion on thought crime.
00:19:05.000 And we were discussing a viral clip of Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary where he was gushing at length about a Rolex watch he was incredibly excited about.
00:19:19.000 And then that turned into a discussion basically.
00:19:22.000 Is our billionaires going on podcasts and talking about their favorite watches and really, really glowing, almost like worshipful terms?
00:19:31.000 Is that going to put capitalism in danger?
00:19:33.000 Is that fueling democratic socialism?
00:19:36.000 And it caused, it felt like an almost throwaway line to me at the time.
00:19:40.000 But Jack, who was on the show with us, he stated that he, I believe, what was it, Andrew, that he doesn't believe in capitalism and he believes in nationalist populism instead.
00:19:53.000 Populism, yeah.
00:19:55.000 And so let's play the clip and we'll go from there because it did cause a bit of a stir online.
00:20:00.000 And we wanted to make sure that we talked about it because I actually think it's a really, really important topic more broadly to make sure that we as conservatives understand what we mean when we say capitalism.
00:20:10.000 Go ahead and play cut 20.
00:20:12.000 We should absolutely be.
00:20:13.000 We are capitalists.
00:20:15.000 We are fundamentally pro somebody spending their wealth how they want to spend their wealth.
00:20:21.000 I don't think we should center our country around capital.
00:20:25.000 I think that's not Christian.
00:20:27.000 All right.
00:20:27.000 So the big line there is that he said, We are not cap.
00:20:31.000 I'm not a capitalist.
00:20:33.000 Now, I've talked to Jack about this, and I think that he would probably state it differently and be more clear if he had an opportunity to do it.
00:20:40.000 So let's just say it outright.
00:20:42.000 We are capitalists, we're very much pro capitalism.
00:20:45.000 Charlie would often say that capitalism is the most proven, moral, and effective economic system ever, and it's lifted billions of people out of poverty.
00:20:54.000 The alternative, obviously, is going to be socialism or Marxism, which leads at best to stagnation and malaise, but at worst to authoritarianism, poverty, misery.
00:21:05.000 And mass death.
00:21:06.000 In the 20th century alone, over 100 million people died as a result of communism.
00:21:11.000 But you also have to balance that with we are Christians, right?
00:21:15.000 We don't believe that we should be worshiping money.
00:21:19.000 We serve God, not money.
00:21:20.000 You cannot serve two masters.
00:21:22.000 And that's a very important thing to keep in mind.
00:21:24.000 And as Blake pointed out, Jack was reacting to a Kevin O'Leary clip in which he, I guess, claims that he was begging on his knees for this Rolex, this very rare Rolex worth $1.8 million.
00:21:37.000 Now, I just want to say, very.
00:21:40.000 Out front here, I don't have a problem with a system that allows somebody like Kevin O'Leary to do that.
00:21:46.000 I do not have any issue with him being successful.
00:21:51.000 We love capitalism because it is freedom ultimately.
00:21:54.000 Capitalism is not a system that man really invented at all.
00:21:57.000 It's a system that just emerges when people are free to exchange goods and services and when there's a financial system behind it to exchange dollars, currency for those goods and services.
00:22:08.000 And we celebrate success, but we also shouldn't worship material.
00:22:12.000 Wealth, right?
00:22:13.000 We shouldn't worship the greed, right?
00:22:18.000 We shouldn't worship materialism.
00:22:20.000 We worship God.
00:22:21.000 And here's the big difference.
00:22:22.000 And I think this is a nuanced approach that has come into the conversation essentially since 2015, more and more so with the rise of President Trump and populist, more populist conservatism.
00:22:36.000 And that is that conservatives should not measure the success of our nation on GDP alone.
00:22:42.000 This was a common Way that conservatives would say, hey, look at the GDP's going up.
00:22:47.000 Well, that's all well and good, but your industrial base and your manufacturing core has been hollowed out and shipped off to China.
00:22:54.000 So instead of good paying jobs, you get a lot of cheap plastic junk from China that's just going to end up in the garbage can, right?
00:23:02.000 So, what is that balance?
00:23:03.000 There are limits to capitalism, pure unadulterated capitalism, that is totally worthwhile to consider and ask questions about.
00:23:13.000 A great example of this, Blake, and perhaps this is where you should jump in.
00:23:17.000 Is immigration right?
00:23:19.000 If you just let big business get exactly what they want when it comes to immigration, you would have a flood of cheap labor coming in and that would harm the country.
00:23:28.000 Conservatives have rejected this model for capitalism.
00:23:32.000 We say, no, we don't want unfettered mass migration just because you can get cheap labor out of it.
00:23:38.000 That is not in the best interest of the country.
00:23:41.000 So there are limits and we need to have an ongoing conversation about just what those limits are.
00:23:47.000 Blake, do you agree?
00:23:47.000 Well, I think.
00:23:48.000 Going back to what Jack said, people flipped out about him saying he's not a capitalist.
00:23:52.000 But I think the more important line he said is we shouldn't center our country on capital.
00:23:57.000 And you'll sometimes run into that where people will angrily point out that the U.S. should not just be an economic zone, a free trade zone.
00:24:07.000 It exists, it is an actual country with people.
00:24:11.000 And when you're an actual country with people, that carries additional values besides merely the increase of wealth for people by any means necessary.
00:24:21.000 And as you said, yeah, we're also Christian as well.
00:24:23.000 So Charlie was a big fan of capitalism.
00:24:26.000 He was a big defender of it, certainly against alternatives like socialism, Marxism, communism.
00:24:32.000 But he also, what was his chief value?
00:24:35.000 His chief value, and also I should mention socialism sucks, one of the earliest lines that Turning Point uses.
00:24:41.000 But his big goal in life was religious revival.
00:24:45.000 He wanted to have a revival of American faith, he wanted to have a revival of American identity.
00:24:51.000 And those are things that come before capitalism.
00:24:54.000 You would want to have those as your bedrock.
00:24:56.000 And then on top of that, you implement a free market capitalist system because that is by far the best way to ensure.
00:25:04.000 Broad based wealth in your society.
00:25:07.000 And pointing it out with Jack, since people got mad at Jack over that line, Jack wrote the book Inhumans, which is basically a best selling book about how communism and Marxism are completely rotten and have killed millions upon tens of millions of people in the past century.
00:25:24.000 So the idea that he's becoming a shill for Marxism, which some people have alleged, I think that's bonkers, to be frank.
00:25:32.000 Although he can say more on that in his own right, too.
00:25:35.000 But I think that's the key thing to emphasize.
00:25:39.000 Charlie said a lot.
00:25:39.000 I think let's throw it up here.
00:25:42.000 The image here, I think it's 18, where Charlie's talking about socialism versus communism.
00:25:49.000 Let me get it here.
00:25:50.000 And he basically says that, or not social, capitalism versus communism and socialism.
00:25:55.000 It's like capitalism is the best system we have to have an unequal distribution of blessings, of prosperity, and it's going to be unequal.
00:26:04.000 That's the nature of it.
00:26:06.000 And when you have socialism, you have an equally shared amount of misery and suffering.
00:26:12.000 I think that's channeling a line from Churchill, who Charlie greatly admired.
00:26:15.000 And it's completely true that we have a system that is unequal.
00:26:19.000 We have to make sure that inequality doesn't spiral out of control.
00:26:22.000 That's what the discussion was about last week.
00:26:25.000 Is too much in your face inequality going to cause people to have an angry reaction?
00:26:31.000 And then they're going to impose socialism on us and ruin it for everybody.
00:26:36.000 That is why we warn everyone about Mamdani.
00:26:38.000 That is why we warn everyone about democratic socialism.
00:26:41.000 That people who are taking advantage of populist anger.
00:26:45.000 Are going to destroy the American experiment and impoverish all of us.
00:26:49.000 Because make no mistake, America has become the country that the entire planet wants to move to because of capitalism, because we have a free market system that has made this country so wealthy and so successful.
00:27:01.000 So we just need to emphasize those points, Andrew.
00:27:04.000 Like, obviously, we remain a very pro free market organization, but we're not the Cato Institute here.
00:27:10.000 We are not capitalism above all else and to the exclusion of all else.
00:27:16.000 Yeah, we don't worship the GDP.
00:27:18.000 And ultimately, that is the distinction that needs to be made.
00:27:21.000 Is that, listen, we became a country that got really good at capital markets, and we should keep it that way.
00:27:27.000 Let's just be very clear.
00:27:28.000 Our capital markets are the envy of the world for good reason.
00:27:31.000 They create so much opportunity from financing new business startups and the like.
00:27:36.000 But we also became a little too over reliant on financial instruments.
00:27:41.000 Many, many people on Wall Street got obscenely rich by basically inventing pieces of paper that could swap derivatives a different way, right?
00:27:49.000 And what Charlie loved was people like Elon Musk that actually used the financial markets to their benefit to build real things of actual value and innovation, right?
00:27:58.000 That is the difference.
00:27:59.000 So while a lot of people on Wall Street got very rich, we saw our manufacturing core get hollowed out.
00:28:04.000 Now, we've got to find a balance in there because, again, we are not just an economy attached to a country.
00:28:11.000 We are a country, we are a people, we have a heritage, we have a history.
00:28:14.000 And we've got to be sure that the way that we are regulating those markets.
00:28:20.000 Serves the interest of families, of the American people writ large.
00:28:25.000 Capital should absolutely be free to pursue profits and growth.
00:28:29.000 And the government should absolutely work to ensure that the capital is working in the interest of the people.
00:28:34.000 That's all.
00:28:35.000 We shouldn't worship capital markets, that we should make sure that the capital markets serve the people.
00:28:41.000 And that's basically the big delineation here.
00:28:44.000 And I don't really see too much of a controversy here, maybe in the way it was expressed.
00:28:49.000 Sure, whatever.
00:28:51.000 But we absolutely, to Blake's point, need to be very cognizant of the fact that great wealth inequality and a hollowing out of our manufacturing core is going to radicalize our politics.
00:29:03.000 So, all right.
00:29:04.000 Actually, do we have Jack now?
00:29:05.000 I think we do have him.
00:29:07.000 So, Jack, there you are.
00:29:09.000 Tongzeman, Sinkula, Sinkula, Tongzeman.
00:29:13.000 Okay, Jack.
00:29:15.000 I have a question for Jack.
00:29:17.000 Jack, are you a capitalist?
00:29:20.000 I am a nationalist populist.
00:29:23.000 So, explain the difference and why there is a confusion out there.
00:29:28.000 Well, I think there's a confusion, right?
00:29:30.000 Because the system, there's a difference between the system of capitalism and the perception of capitalism that exists in the popular mind.
00:29:37.000 And people view the system of capitalism that we have today, which is very, very much not, you know, this pure capitalism or laissez faire capitalism, which has never existed.
00:29:49.000 We have crony capitalism.
00:29:50.000 We have a system where, you know, it has produced a K shaped economy, where you've got, as you were saying, guys were saying very expertly, I think, in the past segment, that people, and actually we said on Thought Crime, of course,
00:30:06.000 people love to clip things out of context.
00:30:08.000 That's what we were talking about, and Blake, you remember because you were there.
00:30:11.000 Somebody was on vacation.
00:30:12.000 We're not going to name who.
00:30:14.000 And we were talking about how, in the K shaped economy since 2008, there's been a certain segment of the population that has done incredibly well.
00:30:22.000 And there's another segment of the population below median income line that's basically living in recession conditions since 2008.
00:30:31.000 So almost 20 years now, 18 years.
00:30:33.000 And that's created this instability, or we talked about the Gini coefficient.
00:30:38.000 In there, and I was specifically saying, and as we wrote about in On Humans, the secret history of communist revolutions and how to crush them, a New York Times bestseller, that the communists, like Mandami, who I confronted to his face in the Oval Office, just want the instability.
00:30:54.000 They want to use that to rise up and tear down everything.
00:30:58.000 So it actually serves their purposes.
00:31:00.000 And what a nationalist populist believes is that free enterprise, innovation, business, these are all great things.
00:31:07.000 We love these things, but not at the expense of the nation.
00:31:11.000 Right.
00:31:12.000 So you need to have borders.
00:31:13.000 You can't have open borders as well, because if you don't have that, then you lose your nation.
00:31:17.000 If you lose your nation, you erode everything that you've built, everything that the founders fought for.
00:31:22.000 The founders wanted us to be a nation state, after all.
00:31:26.000 And so it's that understanding that these are all tools that our country should be using to better everyone's lives.
00:31:33.000 And absolutely, do I support Elon Musk?
00:31:36.000 100 percent, 100,000 percent.
00:31:38.000 But when Elon bought X, he didn't do that just out of pure market necessity or market interest.
00:31:43.000 He did it out of Public interest because he knew that it would be better for the nation that we have freedom of speech in the digital sphere, which is something that, had we not had that, we would have lost 2024.
00:31:55.000 We all know we would have if we hadn't unleashed that, which produced this sort of anti censorship effect.
00:32:02.000 So, but what you're not claiming is that you are pro socialism, pro Marxism.
00:32:07.000 Just for the sake of clarity, I would love to find anyone, I would challenge anyone out there to have found anyone.
00:32:18.000 On the right, or even in politics, who is more anti communist than the guy who literally invented Franco Friday?
00:32:27.000 Okay.
00:32:28.000 But I just, this stuff gets clipped on social media and it gets taken a thousand different ways.
00:32:34.000 And I just want to be very clear.
00:32:36.000 Charlie loved capitalism.
00:32:37.000 He loved markets.
00:32:39.000 He believed that it was the most proven, moral, and effective economic system that has ever been used anywhere in the world and that it's essentially an outgrowth of human nature, that we naturally want to trade goods and services.
00:32:52.000 Your clarification here is that you want it to work for the good of American families, the good of American.
00:32:59.000 The American people, communities, and that there are certain limitations, regulations that do make sense.
00:33:04.000 You mentioned immigration, which is one that I referenced in the previous segment.
00:33:08.000 Immigration and trade.
00:33:09.000 We would love to have unfettered mass migration for cheap labor.
00:33:12.000 And by the way, I've gone to something we've rejected right now.
00:33:16.000 I gave a speech at CPAC two years ago where I laid all this out.
00:33:20.000 I said, this is the biggest difference between sort of the old right and the new right, and that we have more of an emphasis on immigration and trade, specifically those two issues.
00:33:31.000 And you can't separate the old right, which wanted open borders, free markets, which included the free flow of peoples, because they were saying that people are like a world market.
00:33:42.000 And we said, yeah, we don't agree with that.
00:33:43.000 And then, of course, when we talk about trade, that brings up the question of China, that brings up the question of so many things that we've done, which obviously President Trump has confronted and something that I've been talking about for 20 years now, going back to when I lived in China and worked for the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce,
00:33:59.000 American Chamber of Commerce, and saw how incredibly imbalanced that was.
00:34:03.000 And, of course, saw that there were people who were.
00:34:06.000 You know, the Kevin O'Leary's of the world were getting fabulously wealthy off of this by exploiting the Lao Beijing of China and then also screwing over the middle Americans, of which JD Vance is, of course, a member.
00:34:18.000 And really, I think that these forces are the forces that brought the MAGA movement to the fore in the first place.
00:34:24.000 This is why Donald Trump won in 2016.
00:34:26.000 This is why he won the Rust Belt.
00:34:28.000 This is why JD Vance has his political career.
00:34:31.000 If you look back at Hillbilly Elegy, it's because of all of these forces that we're talking about.
00:34:36.000 I mean, this isn't a separate issue, this is the issue.
00:34:39.000 I just think it's just worth emphasizing, guys.
00:34:42.000 Socialism sucks was one of the earliest lines from Turning Point for a reason.
00:34:47.000 It does suck.
00:34:48.000 We love free markets.
00:34:50.000 But remember, you cannot serve both God and Mammon.
00:34:53.000 Serve God.
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00:35:56.000 We have to draw your eyes and your attention to the wonderful state of Wisconsin.
00:36:04.000 And there is a race up there that we haven't spent a whole lot of time talking about.
00:36:07.000 But the star of this part of the hour, this part of the show, is going to be a woman named Francesca Hong.
00:36:15.000 She is a radical Looney Tunes lefty who is likely going to be the Democrat nominee for governor.
00:36:23.000 And we use the word Democrat loosely here, Blake, because she's legitimately as far left as they come.
00:36:30.000 She is a Zoran Momdani lookalike, and her last name's Hong, and she's going up against Tom Tiffany, who's a great guy who is running as the Republican nominee for governor.
00:36:41.000 And we just got to play some of these clips, Blake, because the more you see, the more you hate her.
00:36:46.000 And I really do mean that.
00:36:48.000 You've got to play her back in her own words.
00:36:50.000 So I'm going to start here, and then I'll have you react on the other side, Blake.
00:36:53.000 Sot 7.
00:36:54.000 You championed in the legislature trans inclusive legislation.
00:36:59.000 Even as public opinion has shifted, big majorities now support bans on trans females and women's sports and medical interventions for minors.
00:37:06.000 So what are you going to tell Tom Tiffany when he calls you a radical trans activist?
00:37:12.000 What's radical is that we still have a $725 minimum wage.
00:37:17.000 All right.
00:37:17.000 So radical trans activists instantly pivots to economics.
00:37:22.000 That has got to be poll tested, Blake.
00:37:25.000 100%.
00:37:26.000 But the thing is, she actually has just such a history of radical ideas.
00:37:30.000 This is the classic play where now she's the front runner for governor in no small part because all of her potential rivals are getting taken out.
00:37:39.000 There was a more, I hesitate to say moderate, it's still a Democrat, but a more moderate front runner who had a scandal with her financial reporting.
00:37:47.000 Poof, taken out.
00:37:48.000 There was another rival, Mandela Barnes.
00:37:50.000 He dropped out.
00:37:51.000 It's basically everyone's quit.
00:37:52.000 So they're almost certainly going to be stuck with this woman.
00:37:56.000 And she just has.
00:37:58.000 One loopy thing after another.
00:38:01.000 She has this long history of endorsing abolish the police.
00:38:05.000 She has a long history of endorsing anti white resentment.
00:38:08.000 And now she's trying to drag it back and say, oh, this is just about economics.
00:38:12.000 Her economics are still loopy as well, but it at least is not as obviously deranged to ordinary voters as all of the abolish the police stuff that's going on.
00:38:23.000 And I want to highlight a few of those things.
00:38:25.000 It's like she has a tweet from 2020 where.
00:38:28.000 Kid, why are you eating dad's chicken bones?
00:38:30.000 And she goes, because I'm not white.
00:38:33.000 For real, though, it's alarming how differently we consume tricking drumsticks.
00:38:37.000 She's called to, in 2020, she called to abolish Thanksgiving and said this should have been done in 1621.
00:38:44.000 She said they had to leave a culverts.
00:38:46.000 There's a million culvers in Wisconsin.
00:38:48.000 I feel like it's a state law.
00:38:49.000 You got to like it to run for governor.
00:38:51.000 And she says, I had to leave mostly just because I was on the verge of an anxiety attack.
00:38:57.000 Too many old white people who didn't think we spoke English, which I don't know if there's any evidence of that.
00:39:03.000 I think she probably just invented that in her head.
00:39:05.000 And on top of that, she's given interviews where she's talked about having a bipolar mental breakdown where she was cutting herself late in high school.
00:39:14.000 And now she's going to run to run an entire state.
00:39:17.000 Mental health can be a real problem, and you should get help if you have problems.
00:39:21.000 You should get help.
00:39:22.000 You probably should not run a state if you have a history of psychotic breaks.
00:39:28.000 That's what I would say.
00:39:31.000 It looks like we have Alex Marlowe.
00:39:33.000 Joining us now.
00:39:34.000 Alex is the editor in chief of Breitbart and hosts the Alex Marlowe Show.
00:39:39.000 Alex, how crazy is this Hong character and how worried should we be that she might be running Wisconsin in a few months?
00:39:46.000 I'm super worried.
00:39:47.000 I've done a lot of research on Wisconsin.
00:39:49.000 This is one of the breeding grounds for left wing activist violence in the country, Madison in particular, but it really is a hub for a lot of the most radical elements of the American left.
00:39:58.000 It's a purple state in general, and I think there's a ton of salt of the earth people there, but in some of these, They have huge university systems that are incubators for far left people.
00:40:07.000 I want to go through some of her stuff.
00:40:09.000 Blake did a great job, and I'm going to even add to more of it.
00:40:12.000 She's not just for defunding police, she wants to abolish the police.
00:40:16.000 And this is 2020.
00:40:17.000 This is not a million years ago.
00:40:18.000 This is recent.
00:40:20.000 She said, in a perfect world, we would be without prisons.
00:40:23.000 She called to cancel Thanksgiving.
00:40:25.000 She was mad about Culver's, which is a really good fast food place, that there are too many white people there.
00:40:29.000 You got to remember the whole Democrat Party is run by people who care about identity more than anything else.
00:40:34.000 And she's tipping a lot of those boxes as best she can.
00:40:38.000 Of course, she hates ICE.
00:40:39.000 She's called to abolish the Senate, the U.S. Senate, which means she doesn't even like states, which is ironic that she wants to run a state.
00:40:46.000 She doesn't even like states.
00:40:48.000 So it's all of this extreme socialist, extreme lawlessness.
00:40:52.000 Extreme identity politics.
00:40:54.000 And I think we should not gloss over Blake's point about mental disease.
00:40:57.000 I looked up to see if she has any diagnosable mental conditions, and there's none available, but she certainly seems like someone where you would think, I don't know if this woman's right in the head.
00:41:07.000 Well, we can actually answer that.
00:41:08.000 She's not.
00:41:09.000 Alex.
00:41:09.000 Like, was she diagnosed?
00:41:10.000 She says in an interview, and I believe this is 23, it was a few years ago, and she says, I was diagnosed with bipolar disease.
00:41:17.000 She calls it bipolar disorder.
00:41:19.000 I was taking SSRIs.
00:41:20.000 I overdosed on lithium.
00:41:23.000 So, this is what she herself has said about her own background in mental health, Andrew.
00:41:29.000 But think about how this gives her a victim status that actually has currency in the Democrat Party.
00:41:34.000 That it's no longer about, are you sharp?
00:41:36.000 Are you accomplished?
00:41:38.000 That's not even a good thing.
00:41:39.000 They actually dine out more on their victimhood and being able to say how they were oppressed.
00:41:45.000 They're obsessed with privilege.
00:41:47.000 If you have mental health issues, then this is the opposite of privilege.
00:41:50.000 Remember, Asian women are the most educated demographic in the country.
00:41:53.000 So she comes from a privileged demographic, and she's probably thinking about that when she's leaning into other stuff that does not, that makes her seem like more of a victim.
00:42:02.000 Listen to this.
00:42:03.000 This is her talking to Hassan Piker, who, of course, has endorsed her candidacy.
00:42:09.000 Sat 9.
00:42:10.000 Can I be honest?
00:42:11.000 Yeah, be honest.
00:42:13.000 I was crying during Congresswoman Omar's speech, so I went up like trying to get my together.
00:42:21.000 But I think overall, I'm just very grateful.
00:42:25.000 She was crying during Ilhan Omar's speech because that's a totally normal thing to do.
00:42:29.000 Ilhan Omar, who is the ingrate who hates America, this is the new breed of Democrats, and it's terrifying and it should be.
00:42:38.000 And they're all mental cases.
00:42:40.000 True.
00:42:41.000 And it just reminds me of Ilhan Omar, I guess, married her brother.
00:42:44.000 I guess it's the I say I guess because I want to caveat it in case there's any legal issues.
00:42:48.000 And then we learn that Troy Jackson is making kids with his second cousin out in Maine.
00:42:53.000 Is there a sane Democrat who's on the national stage right now?
00:42:56.000 Is there someone who's like a genuine Democrat?
00:42:58.000 A relatable human being.
00:42:59.000 We got the cartoon character Haley Stevens in Michigan who is affected.
00:43:03.000 That's not really how she talks, by the way.
00:43:04.000 That's all an affectation.
00:43:06.000 It's just a race to be who can be the nuttiest person.
00:43:09.000 And that is what's, I know why, because that makes it so that for fundraising, it's easier because you go viral.
00:43:16.000 And every time we talk about these people on their shows, they fundraise off it and they make money.
00:43:20.000 So we're building up these characters that are incredibly compelling and horrifying, but also pose a real threat if they get actual power.
00:43:30.000 Oh, geez.
00:43:31.000 I mean, there's so much clip, so many clips that we can play here.
00:43:34.000 And by the way, I think it's worth you mention Maine, Second Cousins.
00:43:40.000 It truly is.
00:43:41.000 Talrico is saying more and more insane stuff.
00:43:45.000 It is difficult to look at the Democrat national candidacy map and see anybody that you would want to actually invite into your family home.
00:43:53.000 Like, that is the benchmark for me when I'm talking about do I like these people?
00:43:58.000 Do I trust these people?
00:44:00.000 And there really is a dearth of normal people on the left of this country.
00:44:07.000 Gotta play some clips here, Alex, because it's just, I mean, these people are, it's just like a clown show.
00:44:14.000 Let's not forget about Abdul El Sayed, who is in Michigan.
00:44:18.000 He's probably going to be the Democrat senator.
00:44:21.000 There was a candidate for Senate from Michigan.
00:44:24.000 Play Cut 13.
00:44:25.000 I also want to remind you guys that there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad today.
00:44:31.000 So, like, I just don't want to comment on Khomeini at all.
00:44:36.000 Like, I don't think it's worth even touching that.
00:44:41.000 And not to be outpaced by James Talrico, Sot 16.
00:44:48.000 God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.
00:44:54.000 God is non binary.
00:44:58.000 God is non binary.
00:45:00.000 We don't want to comment on Khomeini.
00:45:04.000 It's truly remarkable.
00:45:06.000 The candidates that have been fielded on the Democrat ledger this cycle, Alex, this is historically awful.
00:45:13.000 Their bench is very, very weak, and yet these people really could win.
00:45:18.000 Exactly.
00:45:19.000 And Saeed's got that same slate of issues where he wants to abolish ICE.
00:45:22.000 He wants to defund the police.
00:45:24.000 He is buddies with Hassan Piker, who thought the USA deserved 9 11.
00:45:29.000 He does all sorts of different pandering, but I'll tell you, don't underestimate Saeed because he's got some real political skills.
00:45:34.000 When he goes on the stump, he's very likable and he sticks with this message we're getting money out of politics, we're doing Medicare for all.
00:45:40.000 These things pull very well, and he's very good at staying on message.
00:45:43.000 So I think he's going to win by a lot tomorrow in the primary, and he'll be a formidable general candidate.
00:45:48.000 But he has so many holes in his game because he's a socialist who also wants an open border, which is impossible.
00:45:54.000 You can't do that mathematically.
00:45:55.000 And he's a socialist who made over 700K last year and has a bunch of international real estate holdings, which is really tough because he should theoretically be donating all that money to socialist causes, right?
00:46:05.000 I mean, he's got enough, right?
00:46:06.000 Why does he need hundreds of thousands of extra dollars plus a bunch of real estate income every year?
00:46:11.000 It is something I don't know why the socialists are tolerant of this, but they will be because they've tolerated much worse Bernie Sanders' three houses.
00:46:17.000 Tala Rico this weekend, it was someone said to him in a QA.
00:46:23.000 That Carmelo Anthony's death was a tragedy, or the Carmelo Anthony situation was a tragedy.
00:46:27.000 He's not dead.
00:46:28.000 But he murdered a guy in cold blood and got convicted.
00:46:31.000 And it's not a tragedy, that's a murder.
00:46:33.000 And it's just one of these things where he does not know how to pivot away from the hard left.
00:46:39.000 And the Democrats are obsessed with trying to flip Texas.
00:46:42.000 And these are just, I don't think Cal Rico's the guy to do it.
00:46:46.000 I want to nitpick one thing, Andrew, which is just only their bench.
00:46:51.000 I wouldn't say it's very weak.
00:46:52.000 I think they're very nutty, I think they're very crazy.
00:46:55.000 But a lot of these people, this is what political talent is on the left.
00:47:00.000 This ability to spout really radical rhetoric in a way that's engaging to young people.
00:47:07.000 They're going on Hassan Piker.
00:47:08.000 Hassan Piker, he's a very popular guy.
00:47:11.000 And I think we always put ourselves in danger when we emphasize that this could be politically damaging.
00:47:17.000 I think it could be.
00:47:18.000 But I don't know.
00:47:20.000 This is a thing I've seen over and over on the right for years where they run a crazy person and we think that's made our lives easier when what we've First of all, we need to think is this putting our country in grave danger because all of these people, as messed up as they are,
00:47:34.000 even if they're having these psychotic breakdowns like Ms. Hong is, once they're in office, they will be very good at one thing, which is executing on their actual political agenda.
00:47:46.000 And we need to make sure everyone is fully aware of what that agenda is that prison abolition, radical increase in leniency on criminals, that's a very real thing that they'll roll out.
00:47:57.000 Abolishing ICE, they're going to go all out on that.
00:48:00.000 A lot of them have found ways to make a free Palestine an issue, even in state politics.
00:48:05.000 So you're going to see them pursuing third world foreign policies as state level officials.
00:48:11.000 All of this is on the table with the left and it's only getting stronger.
00:48:16.000 This is an opportunity for us to warn moderates and say, look, you need to get on board.
00:48:20.000 You need to make sure that we hang on, or very radical stuff will be unleashed, or it will get absolutely out of control.
00:48:27.000 Yeah, I don't disagree with you, Blake, at all.
00:48:29.000 I believe that they have a massive opportunity to win in this cycle specifically, but there has to be an acknowledgement from our side that when wealth inequality becomes so extreme, and I blame COVID for that, I blame.
00:48:42.000 Printing money more than anything, by the way, because it sparks inflation, which helps the economic incumbents that own assets, that own real estate, that own stocks and bonds.
00:48:52.000 Those people benefit really a tremendous amount during those types of cycles, and the working class gets hosed.
00:48:59.000 So, this becomes a really big problem that can radicalize our politics, and you're seeing those chickens come home to roost in the rise of DSA.
00:49:06.000 So, our messaging has to acknowledge some of those issues, and it has to say, we're fighting for nationalist populist policies that are going to onshore manufacturing, onshore wealth creation.
00:49:17.000 Here at home, and we need to be real about that.
00:49:19.000 But we love capitalism, but we have to acknowledge that there are people that are being left behind right now, and there are reasons for that.
00:49:25.000 And it's bad policy.
00:49:26.000 It's not capitalism, it's bad policy.
00:49:28.000 Alex, final minute to you on that topic specifically.
00:49:31.000 What do we need to do from a messaging standpoint?
00:49:34.000 Yeah, perfect place to end the discussion because every minute we're not talking about making life more affordable for Americans is a minute that's wasted.
00:49:43.000 And I see a lot of wisdom in a lot of the stuff that President Trump is taking on right now, and I see a lot of lack of wisdom.
00:49:50.000 In a lot of the Democrats' agenda.
00:49:51.000 But it really is a race to who can talk the most about affordability for working class Americans.
00:49:56.000 That is the coalition that the Republicans have rode to victories over the past decade.
00:50:01.000 And the Democrats have ceded that.
00:50:03.000 They think they're going to win with a lot of identity stuff.
00:50:05.000 But whoever can effectively talk about how to make life more affordable, whether it be health care or housing, for us, the messaging is we're sealing down the border.
00:50:14.000 We're going to do deportations.
00:50:15.000 We're going to protect American workers, our wages, and our home prices.
00:50:19.000 If we do that, we're winning.
00:50:20.000 And if we're talking about other stuff, we're wasting time.
00:50:22.000 And that's why Saeed, to his credit, he doesn't really talk about this stuff as much as he talks about getting money out of politics and Medicare for all, which would make life cheaper for certain people.
00:50:30.000 That's what he's trying to do.
00:50:32.000 The gender non binary stuff, I think that's a loser for them.
00:50:35.000 But the point is affordability, affordability, affordability.
00:50:38.000 That's the big thing to discuss.
00:50:40.000 Amen.
00:50:41.000 Amen.
00:50:42.000 Well said, Alex Marlowe, Breitbart, host of the Alex Marlowe Show, great friend of the show.
00:50:46.000 Great to see you, my friend.
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00:52:07.000 All right.
00:52:07.000 So without further ado, we've got Taylor Hansen, Frontlines reporter.
00:52:10.000 You can find him on X at TaylorUSA, T A Y L E R USA, and Keon Simone.
00:52:18.000 And he's another Frontlines editor.
00:52:20.000 They have a huge story here out of Canada and how the Canadian border is now getting exploited.
00:52:27.000 And they've brought some much needed attention to this.
00:52:29.000 So, Taylor, let's start with you here.
00:52:32.000 What have you found?
00:52:33.000 Paint the big picture for us, and then I'm going to play some of these clips that prove the thesis of your argument.
00:52:38.000 Yeah, well, we've found quite a bit, to say the least.
00:52:41.000 And I'll start putting it this way there is a.
00:52:44.000 I would describe it as a massive decentralized network that is highly organized all the way from India to Brampton and other areas of Canada that are actually facilitating what you would call mass illegal immigration into the United States of almost individually and specifically Indian illegal immigrants through the North border.
00:53:04.000 And these are Indian smuggling gangs as well that are facilitating this.
00:53:07.000 So you usually have the fixer in India, and they basically connect you with human smugglers in Canada that have abused Canada's largely broken immigration and visa system.
00:53:18.000 And then they then Essentially, just pour over our border because there is non existent RCMP or CBP responses.
00:53:25.000 And those acronyms are the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
00:53:30.000 Yeah, Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
00:53:31.000 Explain the acronyms.
00:53:32.000 Yeah, so you have the Royal Mounted Canadian Police, and that's essentially what we would describe as our border patrol here in the United States.
00:53:40.000 And then you have CBP, which is basically immigration customs.
00:53:43.000 So that is our side of the border.
00:53:45.000 So on either side of the border, there is next to no actual security.
00:53:49.000 This is how bad it is.
00:53:50.000 SOT 22.
00:53:53.000 The lake.
00:53:55.000 The lake?
00:53:56.000 She said that we would be taking to a lake that you want to walk across.
00:54:00.000 So you just counter it without crossing any swimming or doing boating, you just go on boat and go on boat.
00:54:06.000 Okay, so we see it.
00:54:07.000 Yeah, we're gonna back on the checkpoint and you are gonna cross this.
00:54:09.000 I'm a journalist.
00:54:12.000 Are you guys interested in giving me a comment on why you guys are illegally smuggling humans into America?
00:54:19.000 Oh, really?
00:54:21.000 Yes, really.
00:54:22.000 Got him.
00:54:23.000 What's happening in that clip?
00:54:25.000 Yeah, we actually had just met with a human smuggler in person that we were connected with through a fixer that we had been speaking to for a few days.
00:54:32.000 And this fixer was located in India.
00:54:35.000 He connected us with a multitude of smugglers actually in Canada that were on Canadian visas through Indian.
00:54:42.000 And they then essentially met up with us in person.
00:54:45.000 My backstory was that I'm going to be smuggled into the United States as well as my wife and my nine year old child.
00:54:51.000 We met up with him in person.
00:54:53.000 And this was actually after the fact.
00:54:55.000 We basically were just dragging them along, saying, Oh, I need to convince my wife.
00:55:00.000 You know, she's scared, trying to pull as many details out as possible.
00:55:03.000 And once we had enough details and had actually met with him face to face, got his face on camera, seen how large this one specific network was, you had over three different cars show up.
00:55:13.000 An actual taxi showed up to deliver us to the Northern Board where we'd walk across.
00:55:18.000 And that was us actually calling him and trying to confront him.
00:55:21.000 And he actually did give us a comment, surprisingly enough.
00:55:24.000 We were very surprised.
00:55:25.000 And he just kind of tried to play it off as, you know, they were good Samaritans helping.
00:55:29.000 People that were struggling in Canada get to the United States illegally, but that it's not illegal because these people are in trouble.
00:55:37.000 Yeah, it was so remarkable.
00:55:39.000 I was just re watching your footage this morning, and just I think it's important to impress this upon people.
00:55:44.000 We've heard about the Mexican border for ages, and it's actually a pretty involved process.
00:55:49.000 There are walls along there, we have constant CBP patrols all along it.
00:55:54.000 We have, and it's harsh landscapes.
00:55:56.000 So you get these coyotes and they're walking you across this desert landscape.
00:55:59.000 It's difficult, you can die in a variety of ways.
00:56:02.000 And we've been so used to Canada being this developed country with a sane system.
00:56:08.000 So, we don't have as many protections along that border.
00:56:11.000 We haven't seen as many people illegally come over this.
00:56:14.000 And I just want to play this clip because it drives home how wide open it actually is and how word is getting out about that, where it just takes a few minutes to cross the border up there.
00:56:23.000 Let's play clip 24.
00:56:25.000 Hello?
00:56:27.000 You got the car, brother?
00:56:28.000 What, brother?
00:56:30.000 Are you guarding the car?
00:56:32.000 I'm just, I'm still kind of trying to talk my wife into it.
00:56:34.000 She's just getting scared.
00:56:37.000 How fast does somebody pick us up in New York?
00:56:42.000 Like.
00:56:42.000 Only five minutes, brother.
00:56:45.000 Like you walk for 10 to 15 minutes, then within five minutes, there will be a car come to pick you up.
00:56:53.000 So that's all it is to my understanding.
00:56:55.000 You walk through the woods for 10 to 15 minutes, and there's a car on some backcountry road, pick it up, and presumably there are maybe hundreds, thousands of people who've done that.
00:57:05.000 And you can describe this how you were basically offered some new job that you could show up, no paperwork, imagining you were one of these foreigners.
00:57:13.000 And I think it was in Chicago, like you just walk across.
00:57:16.000 15 minutes, five minutes, a car picks you up, bam, you have an illegal job in America.
00:57:21.000 Yeah, well, it's not just a job.
00:57:23.000 And that, you know, the H 1B debate has been kind of widely brought up among the right in the recent years because it's just been, it's not used for what it is actually supposed to be used for anymore.
00:57:33.000 It's just being abused in mass.
00:57:35.000 And this kind of renders the H 1B idea, you know, kind of useless at this point because that's obviously a system that's being abused in mass right now.
00:57:44.000 But it proves that you don't even need an H 1B to either live or work in America at this point.
00:57:50.000 And they hadn't just offered jobs.
00:57:51.000 They actually offer free housing, a job to pay any additional bills.
00:57:57.000 They offer you free food and free transportation.
00:58:00.000 So these people are illegally walking across.
00:58:02.000 And who knows the realistic numbers?
00:58:04.000 I mean, I'm in multiple of these group chats.
00:58:06.000 And I get, I'd say, just in one group chat a day out of the dozen that I'm in, are 10 to 15 successful crossing videos and stories that are happening.
00:58:15.000 So this is happening a lot more than people think.
00:58:18.000 And then they are being funneled into places like Chicago, Newark.
00:58:22.000 New Jersey.
00:58:23.000 The demographic change we've seen in New Jersey isn't a happy coincidence.
00:58:28.000 These are people illegally coming across.
00:58:30.000 They may have people on H 1Bs already in these cities, or they have an understanding that, hey, I came from an area like Brampton, which is a massive Indian enclave in Canada.
00:58:40.000 I want to be around the same people that are also from India in the United States.
00:58:45.000 So they funnel into a place like New Jersey and even all the way down to Texas.
00:58:49.000 So they're going to these places and they're connected with even deeper networks.
00:58:53.000 That are in America, operating in America as well.
00:58:56.000 So it's an entire pipeline all the way from India to Canada and into the United States.
00:59:03.000 So, Kian, you were part of this reporting as well.
00:59:07.000 What did you notice?
00:59:09.000 What were the big takeaways from you?
00:59:10.000 What shocked you the most?
00:59:12.000 I mean, I'm sitting here kind of my jaws on the floor because it's just so infuriating.
00:59:16.000 What did you notice that really took you aback?
00:59:20.000 That's the funny thing.
00:59:21.000 I'm actually Canadian myself.
00:59:23.000 I'm not shocked at this.
00:59:25.000 I've known that this is happening.
00:59:26.000 This has happened for the last 15, 20 years.
00:59:29.000 Obviously, it's gotten worse through the peak years of, I'd say, the last six, and then it kind of quieted down now.
00:59:35.000 But the story really manifested is because I've been trying to get my US visa and I've been having a hell of a time, which might make your viewers happy.
00:59:46.000 But because I've had so much time, such a hard time, when I tell my friends or family what's going on, I've had multiple people say, just get an Indian to bring you across.
00:59:57.000 And that's how widely known and open and just nonchalant that conversation is here.
01:00:03.000 So, when I was like, we because we talk about this and we don't look at it from an American angle.
01:00:07.000 So, when I brought this story to Taylor, I'm like, this is like, this is an American story.
01:00:12.000 This is not a Canadian story at all.
01:00:15.000 What shocked me the most is we have a student visa program where we brought in literally millions of Indians, which millions is a lot for Canada because our population is so low.
01:00:28.000 It's like 40 million.
01:00:32.000 So, we brought in, I think it was like 2 million.
01:00:34.000 Student visas for Indians.
01:00:35.000 And the whole idea was because they went missing.
01:00:39.000 Like there were like 50,000 people missing that didn't go to school, that came here for a student visa, never showed up to class once.
01:00:48.000 My theory was like, I think that they're gone to the States, and we kind of ran with it.
01:00:52.000 And I think that theory proved itself to be true.
01:00:57.000 I think that's very true, Kian.
01:00:59.000 And I was just joking with Andrew with that mighty red green show beard there.
01:01:03.000 I feel like you're the last Canadian who's still.
01:01:05.000 Looks like a Canadian, but maybe we'll get you into the United States.
01:01:09.000 We like the good Canadians, folks.
01:01:11.000 But yeah, that 50,000 number is crazy.
01:01:14.000 So I want to put that in perspective, guys.
01:01:16.000 Remember, America is about 10 times the size of Canada.
01:01:19.000 So you think of those minors who showed up at our border, half a million of them going missing.
01:01:24.000 Canada's version of that is 50,000 student visas.
01:01:28.000 They show up here to study in Canada and they poof away.
01:01:32.000 There's literal just TikTok guides.
01:01:33.000 Call us, go here, and you can, as we just learned, Get a car in five minutes, drive into the United States to a job.
01:01:42.000 And I suspect that's happening all over the country.
01:01:45.000 Yeah, and it can't be said enough that they're going to places like New York because we have bastions of lawlessness in our own country.
01:01:54.000 So they create magnets and a place where these people can then go and get illegal employment because these are bastions of lawlessness, of illegal immigration.
01:02:04.000 They fight ICE, they fight CBP, they fight the Trump administration.
01:02:08.000 And I want to talk about the social media of it all as well and how blatant and brazen this is on social media.
01:02:14.000 Yeah, that was us actually meeting with the human smuggler, as we kind of touched on earlier.
01:02:19.000 This is the exact same thing and the same tactic that the cartels on the southern border use they would blatantly advertise on platforms like TikTok and Instagram with very specific keywords and basically to acquire Americans to smuggle illegal immigrants over.
01:02:36.000 And this is the exact same thing they're doing.
01:02:38.000 All you need to do, and I implore every viewer that's watching this to do it.
01:02:42.000 Go on Instagram and type in Canada to USA safe.
01:02:47.000 And you will almost immediately see, just keep scrolling, you'll see hundreds to thousands of blatant ads targeting these Indians on visa programs that have essentially just flooded Canada to cross the border illegally.
01:03:01.000 And it's as simple as it shows a WhatsApp message.
01:03:04.000 You shoot that person a message.
01:03:06.000 That's going to be the fixer, usually located in India.
01:03:09.000 And within the exact same day, sometimes almost even immediately, They will connect you to an entire network of human smugglers operating in Canada.
01:03:18.000 So, yeah, you say, you just search, yeah, you search US, Canada.
01:03:21.000 What was that exact search term?
01:03:23.000 I want to see if we can get someone to find one real quick.
01:03:26.000 It's Canada to USA safe.
01:03:28.000 Thousands of these.
01:03:30.000 Did you see, are they in a bunch of languages?
01:03:33.000 What sort of prices are they quoting?
01:03:35.000 I know you guys had one that was, it was $9,500 to pay the drivers because, of course, the guy who was smuggling, you said he was just doing this as a do gooder thing.
01:03:43.000 But what was maybe the lowest price you saw?
01:03:46.000 That you thought was a real offer?
01:03:49.000 Were they strung out all along the border?
01:03:51.000 Like, were there ones in Canada or in Vancouver and then Manitoba and then maybe out in New Brunswick?
01:03:57.000 Just, I want to really give people the sense of what the scale of this is.
01:04:02.000 What's fascinating about it?
01:04:04.000 Yeah, I'll hand it one off to you.
01:04:06.000 It's what the other provinces.
01:04:08.000 The lowest that we found was $3,000, but they don't actually advertise the price.
01:04:13.000 You have to talk to them.
01:04:14.000 And that's what Taylor and I found out while we were investigating this is like they will, when the fixer fixes you with the other smugglers, that you can kind of barter with them.
01:04:25.000 And it's not like a fixed price, you can negotiate down.
01:04:29.000 But yes, this does happen in, it's called Surrey.
01:04:32.000 It's right beside Vancouver.
01:04:33.000 It's our second largest Indian population.
01:04:36.000 And that is right above Washington, I believe.
01:04:41.000 That's also just a very easy crossing.
01:04:44.000 It happens in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, not so much, but it does happen enough to notice.
01:04:54.000 It kind of stopped in Manitoba because a few people died through the winter because it's so dang cold there.
01:05:00.000 But usually it just happens in.
01:05:03.000 Quebec and then more east, just because the border is so easy.
01:05:10.000 I hate saying it.
01:05:10.000 It's so easy to, there's so many points and cross.
01:05:13.000 Like there's not that many official crossings, but there is a ton of ways to get over literally just crossing over through a forest or you walk across a river or you walk across someone's beach, which we discovered.
01:05:26.000 So it does happen all over the country.
01:05:28.000 Not so much Ontario because of the Great Lakes and the only way to get across is through official crossings, but it happens through the entire country.
01:05:38.000 And it's a huge border.
01:05:39.000 It's absolutely massive.
01:05:41.000 Let's play this clip.
01:05:41.000 We have not played this one.
01:05:43.000 Sot 23.
01:05:44.000 Smuggler number one is directly adjacent to me in this parking lot in the motel, driving a gray Honda Civic.
01:05:51.000 He was an Indian guy, probably about 20 years old.
01:05:55.000 We spoke extensively about it.
01:05:56.000 He seemed pretty sketched out at first, realizing, you know, I'm a white guy.
01:06:01.000 But we kind of smooth talked him down, just said that my wife is worried.
01:06:04.000 You know, we have our kid with us.
01:06:06.000 And he ended up actually showing me the location on the lake that.
01:06:10.000 That we were going to cross.
01:06:10.000 He said, We don't have to cross the lake.
01:06:12.000 We're going to basically, it's a 10 to 15 minute walk, is what he said, through the woods to the right of a border checkpoint.
01:06:18.000 And then they would then pick me up in the United States of America and then they would drive us into basically upstate New York City.
01:06:25.000 It's just unbelievable.
01:06:28.000 There's so much land.
01:06:29.000 I just think about how vast that border is.
01:06:31.000 And the fact that there are 50,000 missing Indian students out of Canada, they're probably got some job at some bodega in New York City right now.
01:06:41.000 Did you track any of these people that have made it to the United States?
01:06:44.000 Do we know anything about some of these people that have used this smuggling service?
01:06:50.000 Well, I'd say the large majority of them are usually ending up either in Vermont or New York.
01:06:55.000 Those are the two major crossing points that we were investigating.
01:06:58.000 I mean, we were offered a job, a full time job in housing in either Milwaukee or Chicago.
01:07:03.000 And then you see, literally yesterday it came out.
01:07:05.000 I don't know if you guys were aware of it, but it was this massive video of this huge Palestinian.
01:07:12.000 A caravan basically backing up a highway for hours at a time, and they're waving foreign flags, basically asking for their own independent state in Punjab in India.
01:07:21.000 And this is a great example.
01:07:23.000 This is in Indiana out of all places.
01:07:25.000 So it's not just centralized to one area.
01:07:28.000 Of course, the majority of them do end up in New York, in places like Vermont and Indiana.
01:07:34.000 New Jersey is a very big hotspot as we've seen that enclave grow.
01:07:38.000 But it goes all the way down to Texas.
01:07:40.000 It even comes to Utah.
01:07:41.000 It goes to Washington.
01:07:42.000 Washington is facing a really big issue with that.
01:07:46.000 And on top of that, Washington is also facing a lot of fentanyl tracking from these similar and adjacent groups as well.
01:07:52.000 So it doesn't just end with human smuggling en masse.
01:07:55.000 It also extends to bringing poison into our country through the northern border now that the southern border has been a little more secure.
01:08:03.000 Ken, final thoughts to you as the resident Canadian.
01:08:09.000 You said this has been going on for years.
01:08:11.000 How do we stop it?
01:08:13.000 Build another wall.
01:08:17.000 He's like, you'd have to cover that mass, that land mass, with so much security.
01:08:26.000 You would need drones.
01:08:26.000 You would need all of the stuff that you have on the southern border.
01:08:29.000 You would have to put that up north, too.
01:08:31.000 There's no other way.
01:08:33.000 Our country is lost.
01:08:34.000 Our immigration is overridden.
01:08:36.000 We literally, that 50,000 number is only a number because those people never once showed up to class.
01:08:44.000 You could show up to class once.
01:08:46.000 Then you would be compliant, and then they would lose track of you until they have to come try to find you again to make you're compliant again.
01:08:52.000 There's other visas that
01:08:56.000 you can just come in and leave, and we don't track you.
01:09:02.000 Keenan Taylor, thank you for your great reporting here.
01:09:05.000 I'm going to be sending this to my friends over at DHS right away.
01:09:08.000 So, God bless you both.
01:09:09.000 We'll see you guys tomorrow.
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