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00:02:22.000I will also give them credit in the days that have ensued since the initial strikes, they've done a better job of explaining the why and the why now.
00:02:32.000But so, two things can be true at once.
00:02:38.000When President Trump lauds the military, when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth explains just how lethal and precise and incredible they are, all those things are true.
00:02:49.000Our military men and women are the best in the world.
00:02:53.000And our aerial assault has proven to be the best in the world.
00:03:45.000Afghanistan, 95% support for that war, goes down from there.
00:03:49.000Iraq, probably 65, 70% support for that war when it began, goes down from there.
00:03:55.000This is different where we seem to be starting with at best 50-50, maybe less support.
00:04:02.000And the plan is that they can sell it through how successful it is.
00:04:06.000And by the way, I do want to say this could end up proving, and I said this yesterday, to be the absolutely right geopolitical national security.
00:04:17.000And you would be a fool not to see the potential upside of controlling the Strait of Hormuz, of getting rid of a malignant actor and a terrorist, the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East.
00:04:31.000If Trump can say you're never going to be hearing about Iran like you've been hearing from them for the past 45 years ever again, that's a good thing.
00:04:38.000But we have an obligation to make this point because some people are saying, people are saying, oh, actually, the base is super united behind this.
00:06:22.000Are you seeing people gathering in the square, in the quad?
00:06:27.000What kind of activities are you seeing this manifest in?
00:06:31.000I'm mostly seeing things through online platforms, people on Instagram or Twitter, just, you know, really going in at President Trump and being upset that gas prices might go up and forever war.
00:06:48.000Like people really, really do not want boots on the ground in this circumstance.
00:06:52.000Are you seeing that even from people that you know voted for Trump in 2024?
00:06:57.000Or is it more, is it still mostly from people you know would be left-wing regardless?
00:07:03.000I think the idea of starting a new foreign war is really, even for Trump voters, really deterring people from wanting to align with the administration and their actions.
00:07:15.000That should be a flashing red light to everybody that supports President Trump, which we completely support President Trump.
00:07:22.000I mean, candidly, where I'm at, Democrats are completely unacceptable in any way, shape, or form.
00:07:28.000The entire reason this matters is you do not want to alienate the voters who did vote this last year or two years ago to get the illegals out, to secure the border, to put America first.
00:07:41.000And all of those things matter more than ever.
00:07:43.000The left has gone more insane than ever on issue after issue.
00:07:47.000And mark my words, they are going to try and impeach this president if they get the House.
00:07:54.000And that's where we're going for in the second half of this hour.
00:07:57.000And you can be upset with me for telling you the truth, but I know this to be a fact, put it that way, that they are going to use different, let's call them controversies within this administration.
00:08:12.000And they are telegraphing their moves here.
00:08:16.000They understand that going after Trump was politically a disaster for them.
00:08:20.000And that's probably one of the reasons why we have President Trump in the first place.
00:08:24.000They're going to go for some of the lieutenants.
00:08:27.000And if they can keep the popularity of this war down, if even our own conservative students are alienated, then they've got a great chance of taking back the House.
00:08:43.000You talk about this now so that it doesn't become a reality later.
00:08:48.000And we are completely supportive of our military.
00:08:50.000When the mission was, when they pressed go, when the green light was hit, we're all in for success and we're praying for success, but we have to be honest about the political ramifications as well.
00:09:04.000This year, it marks a very critical moment in our country's history.
00:09:09.000As the opposition grows more aggressive and unapologetic and insane, the fight now reaches into everyday decisions we make.
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00:10:51.000U.S. Central Command, meanwhile, is asking the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters in Tampa, Florida to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days.
00:11:05.000According to a notification obtained by Politico.
00:11:08.000Now, obviously, we don't trust the media automatically, but if they say a notification, my guess is they have some source who showed them basically the request being made and for how long it was.
00:11:20.000So if this report is true, again, let's go back.
00:11:49.000But when there is a political calculation that you're also making in a midterm year, then when the timeline starts getting dragged out to 100 days, to September, there is going to be a political fallout.
00:12:08.000The independents, normies, young people, these are contingencies that are sick of being at war, and we need to consider them and keep them in mind.
00:12:57.000But if they take the Senate, very likely that the Democrats will say, we are just going to categorically not confirm any appointees by the Trump administration.
00:13:06.000In-House, no more judges, no more cabinet secretaries, no more undersecretaries.
00:13:11.000Anyone who leaves is just an empty slot.
00:13:23.000And so we have to say, if this has political consequences, if this is going to be, if they need to do a good job of selling it, they need to know that.
00:14:57.000We need to go in clear-eyed and understand the ramifications of the decisions that have been made.
00:15:03.000And I'm telling you, that segment with our young people yesterday, turning point students, at Appalachian State of all places, records didn't surprise me as much.
00:15:14.000No, it is a blue-ish college town, but nevertheless, it's still not an Ivy League.
00:15:18.000But look where they're sourcing their students.
00:16:26.000He cared about their opinions and he wanted to know what they were, both because that's the only way you can convince them, but also because they are the future.
00:18:12.000Christy No is head of DHS and she went to Congress this past week for two days of hearings before the Senate and the House on a whole raft of things.
00:18:24.000And we'll be blunt, what stands out about it is she got tough questions, obviously, from Democrats, but also from some Republicans.
00:18:58.000But what the Secretary took heat for is really from multiple angles is, you know, ethics issues.
00:19:05.000And it came from Republicans and Democrats and primarily related to the contracting process.
00:19:10.000And in doing so, the thing that jumps out at me the most as an oversight guy, I run the Oversight Project is the implication of the president of the United States, President Trump, in that, because she was taking on heated questions about a $200 million ad buy on Fox News telling illegal aliens to self-deport.
00:19:28.000Not a lot of illegal aliens watch Fox News where that advertisement was primarily played.
00:19:33.000And she said the president told her to do it.
00:19:35.000And so if I'm a White House lawyer, knowing that the president is most likely going to be impeached if Democrats win the House, I have a lot of concern about the fact that one of my cabinet secretaries just implicated the president and a vector of that.
00:20:05.000How do you square that concern for waste, which I share with the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements that feature you prominently.
00:20:28.000Sir, the president tasked me with getting the message out to the country and to other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from with putting commercials out that told them that if they were in this country illegally, that they needed to leave or we would detain them and remove them and they'd not get the chance to come back to America the right way.
00:21:11.000We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people across the I'm asking you, sorry to interrupt, but the president approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently.
00:23:16.000We aren't seeing big detention facilities and manpower increases stood up.
00:23:21.000Instead, the money first was spent on these kind of marketing and communications ploys, which I call mass communications instead of mass deportations.
00:23:31.000Now, you add to that failure on the operational side, the ethical scandal that is brewing.
00:23:37.000And it opens up a vector for Democrats and even a lot of Republicans to attack the president's central mandate of his administration, which is the secure the border and mass deportations.
00:23:49.000And then to make matters worse, you can imagine when these impeachment inquiries into the secretary open, it's going to go right to the president's desk.
00:23:56.000And Senator Kennedy is a really smart lawyer.
00:23:59.000He understood the importance and the liability of what the secretary laid out there when she implicated the president.
00:24:06.000And I think he was trying to do the White House a solid by making them see very clearly where this trail would inevitably lead.
00:24:15.000The reason we're emphasizing this is this is clearly, it's basically the most important department within this president's administration.
00:24:22.000It is his most important campaign promise is to deliver on border security deportations.
00:24:27.000And as we know from what happened in Minneapolis, it's inevitable we're going to get a lot of pressure on the stuff that needs to happen.
00:24:34.000We need ICE agents out there arresting people.
00:25:25.000One example is the border wall contracts.
00:25:28.000Those only left the secretary's desk a few months ago because they were being held up in this type of contract approval procedure that has come under this ethical scandal.
00:25:39.000And so the result was, President Trump got very upset that the wall wasn't being built.
00:25:43.000We saw the reports of it not going up.
00:25:45.000There was a finger-pointing exercise within the department as to whose fault that was.
00:25:49.000It ended up that the contracts were sitting on the secretary's desk as the price of steel increased massively.
00:25:56.000And then ultimately, after some hearings a few weeks ago, the contracts finally moved.
00:26:16.000What's happened is, and this is unusual, and the secretary has told lawmakers this, that she approves all contracts over a certain amount, which has led to, you know, removal of authority from CBP, ICE, and elsewhere, and centralized it at headquarters.
00:26:30.000And that has led to some of the infighting, and I call it drama and again, not commas, in the deportation number.
00:26:35.000And that's why so many people at DHS are at each other's throats as of late.
00:26:39.000And it's no secret that the camps have been fighting.
00:26:42.000At first, it was internal, but it's spilled over into the press with targeted leaks of blaming each other back and forth.
00:26:50.000But why I care is because we're here to get mass deportations done.
00:26:54.000And if these facilities aren't stood up, ASAP and many are waiting to go, then we are not going to execute the mass deportation agenda.
00:27:02.000And so, like, that's what I care about.
00:27:04.000But when you open up an ethical flank to that, that gives recalcitrant Republicans and Democrats an angle to make sure that we can't even at a later date get that money spent, it's a disaster.
00:27:15.000And I think that's why the president's so upset about it.
00:27:18.000I mean, I've been very clear on this show.
00:27:54.000President Trump told Reuters he did not sign off on a $200 million ad buy featuring DHS Secretary Christy Noam and had nothing to do with it.
00:28:09.000When President Trump, I mean, that means that President Trump is aware of the machinations and the scheming against him and is concerned enough about this to set the record straight.
00:28:24.000It's President Trump saying he's had enough of this.
00:28:26.000And look, obviously he did not sign off on $200 million ad buy to play on Fox News to tell illegals to self-deport, which, by the way, only less than 100,000 ended up using the application CBP1 to actually do that.
00:28:42.000But this is the president and his lawyer saying we're not going to get dragged down into this impeachment inquiry just because she brought up his name.
00:28:51.000So there was a contract that was supposed to go out, I think was part of this marketing budget to recruit ICE agents, new ICE agents, because we had 10,000 plus to fill, correct?
00:29:05.000And I'm told that those numbers got filled pretty quickly, and yet without much of the budget being spent, have you heard the same?
00:29:14.000Yeah, I think ICE recruitment numbers are good right now.
00:29:17.000These ads, though, I think related to the CBP1 app and the self-deportation.
00:29:21.000If you recall, they featured the secretary prominently and almost predominantly aired on Fox News at night, which again, legal aliens don't watch.
00:29:30.000And so they initially grabbed a lot of attention as being unusual.
00:29:33.000And then you add into it the allegations that the contract was like a sole source emergency funding deal that went to someone with political connections to the secretary.
00:29:43.000And that was the feature of hearings yesterday and the day before, allegations of corruption there.
00:29:54.000They had the money to recruit ICE agents.
00:29:56.000They got the recruits they needed and they just kept spending it, which might have the implication that someone really wanted, you know, they could have returned that money, used that for something else.
00:30:49.000If you're referring to the airplanes that the Department of Homeland Security has purchased and are purchasing, we're using them for long-range command and control aircraft that is dictated in statute by Congress for the Department of Homeland Security to have a plane.
00:31:18.000We don't want Sheldon Whitehouse and the Democrats ever to be right or have a leg up.
00:31:22.000But here, like, not doing them any favors when money that was supposed to be spent on deportation aircraft are being used for luxury travel for the secretary and others.
00:31:33.000And, you know, the Axios story checks out.
00:31:35.000I mean, one of these jets they claimed was for deportation usage and the contract is being used for like international junkets and travel.
00:31:43.000And you juxtaposed that against a secretary who spent very little time at DHS headquarters.
00:31:48.000By some counts, less than like a month of time there, and is instead focused on traveling the globe and elsewhere.
00:31:55.000It kind of begins to just look like what it is.
00:31:58.000And it's the use of the emergency funds and the one big beautiful bill money, which was supposed to be getting illegals out, is being used to get the Secretary of the Homeland of Security around the world in the country in style.
00:32:09.000And it just gives Democrats such high ground to make these types of argument.
00:32:13.000And I don't want to be watching Sheldon Whitehouse and others have that high ground.
00:32:35.000The thing is, okay, let's say the president dismisses her, appoints someone new to the position.
00:32:41.000Are we able to continue doing deportations, doing the wall, doing the things that need to be done while that position goes unfilled, possibly for months on end?
00:32:53.000Will that person be able to deliver on all the things we care about?
00:32:57.000Or would we want to maybe have the president give her a stern tongue-lashing, but keep her around purely because we can't afford that two-month pause?
00:33:05.000Yeah, so on the first part of the question, yes.
00:33:08.000I mean, if you recall in Trump won, we basically ran on acting secretaries while the border wall was being built, which isn't without its problems.
00:33:16.000The OBB money is insulated from the shutdown and all of that.
00:33:20.000And so it really comes down to policy changes at the department that need to happen.
00:33:25.000One is, you know, open the aperture of the deportation program.
00:33:28.000You know, we got to move from this near-exclusive focus on criminals to getting the numbers up, which means work site enforcement, you know, to get into the millions, which, you know, President Trump promised to meet Eisenhower, and that's what it'll take.
00:33:40.000So that policy change isn't going to happen under current leadership.
00:33:43.000And then second is this process, which has just hunkered down the moving of this critical $40 billion worth of money.
00:33:51.000And now it's going to be even harder to move that money under current leadership with everybody just so focused on the perceptions of ethical issues in that contracting process.
00:34:00.000Politically speaking, of course, it's the president's decision to make.
00:34:04.000And, you know, he's got the insight into what needs to be done there.
00:34:08.000But there are people that could come in and get confirmed by the Senate rather quickly.
00:34:11.000And if you've seen their names floating around, I mean, Jason Schaffetz could fly through the Senate and he's got a lot of experience and wants the deportation numbers up.
00:34:19.000Mark Morgan, the former head of CVP and ICE in Trump won, he's an operator who knows how to get things done, has law enforcement experience and rank and file support.
00:34:30.000So these are all things that I'm sure the White House is weighing with their optionality of having more insight into the various variables in this moving exercise.
00:34:43.000Thank you for a dispassionate presentation of the facts.
00:34:46.000We don't want to rush to judgment, but certainly this is troubling because we have an electorate, a base, a coalition that wants to focus on local domestic issues.
00:34:56.000Meanwhile, we've got a war in Iran, strikes ongoing.
00:35:02.000It's going to be a grueling campaign, even if it is the right geopolitical move to make.
00:35:09.000Meanwhile, the domestic number one issue, the issue that basically unites the entire base, the entire coalition is deportation, sealing the border, getting tough on immigration.
00:35:20.000And it seems to be just a complete mess.
00:40:28.000I mean, like, I'll be just perfectly honest.
00:40:30.000Like, I haven't thought about it recently.
00:40:32.000I mean, there's been a couple people that have brought it up here and there, but I mean, you have some of these B-roll images, and I don't even think these are the worst.
00:40:40.000There was whole swaths of town that were just mud.
00:43:42.000And meanwhile, we're giving away billions of dollars to Ukraine, and we were funding all these nonprofits to help illegals get in the country and gain the system.
00:43:54.000Actually, and it's important that we tell those stories because we need to remember how we got here and what actually put President Trump in office, I think.
00:46:35.000Right then, when they go into the room, apparently it was Kushner and Witkoff.
00:46:39.000They go into the room with their negotiating counterparts from Iran, and they're like, we have 60% enriched, and we have enough to make 11 bombs of nuclear material, right?
00:47:09.000So how long does it take to go from 5% to 60%?
00:47:12.000So it works on like a to go from zero to, let's just say, 0% enrichment to 5% enrichment takes almost as long, it depends, as going from, let's just say, like 60 to 90%.
00:47:24.000So there's a very long lag time at the beginning.
00:47:28.000And so that process could take you 10 years.
00:47:52.000But Iran's doing it with centrifuges because they're pretending that they want it for nuclear energy, which they're not.
00:48:00.000Again, if you have anything over 10%, you're going for something.
00:48:03.000Okay, so you're, as a nuclear scientist, you're hearing and looking at these stats, these figures that are being reported, and you're instantly calling garbage on nuclear energy.
00:48:14.000You know they're going for a nuclear weapon.
00:49:21.000And so, because that's another whole storyline in this.
00:49:26.000So you could theoretically make a dirty bomb by saying, let's just say you have 60% enriched uranium.
00:49:34.000The reason you want to enrich it to 90% is to make the bomb as small as possible so you could put it on a rocket.
00:49:41.000Otherwise, you have this gigantic bomb that you couldn't even put on a plane, right?
00:49:47.000So the idea is to get, you know, get it as small as possible.
00:49:50.000And then the explosion is much bigger.
00:49:51.000It's like a giant domino effect at 90% enrichment versus at 5% enrichment, you're looking at like a slow meltdown, which is why it's perfect for energy because you just have the sustained energy over time versus it's like gasoline versus diesel.
00:50:06.000If you've ever like lit one versus the other, it's the same idea.
00:50:09.000So you want to get it to 90% enrichment, you get it on like a very small bowling ball size.
00:50:14.000You could put it in a rocket and it hit someone.
00:50:16.000Otherwise, you're just like, how would you transport something that big?
00:50:19.000So 60% enriched uranium, you could definitely make a bomb.
00:50:23.000Nobody's saying, but you couldn't send it anywhere.
00:51:12.000It would be really tough to do that and have a.
00:51:15.000Yeah, that'd be tough, but what they could be doing is, if you're at 60% enriched uranium, like I said, like there's a very long lead time for for getting uranium up to the point where you could make a bomb.
00:51:28.000So if they've already gotten it up to 60% I think this is what I keep hearing from the administration you're pretty close, you know you're.
00:51:37.000So if they've just got centrifuges somewhere that we don't know about and that are spinning away and 100% is possible yeah, interesting and yeah, I mean so.
00:51:48.000John Solomon, remember that on the Saturday stream we did after the initial strike, he said that you wouldn't even have to get it out of FORD.
00:51:55.000You could get it off of potentially, the Black Market, or there's other if someone handed them really like high, so anything above, let's just say 10% is highly enriched uranium.
00:52:05.000Low-enriched uranium is used for nuclear reactors, then yeah, you're on your way for sure.
00:52:11.000So, I mean, the more you know, like, okay, so you're being an educated person in this field.
00:52:19.000This is what you know, this was your career.
00:52:22.000When you're hearing about this, you're instantly going, yeah, that makes sense.
00:52:26.000They could, they could hurt a lot of people real quickly.
00:52:28.000Like, this is a you got to take this extraordinarily seriously for sure.
00:52:32.000And I don't think I think a lot of the skeptics don't understand just how close we were basically existing all the time with Iran's nuclear program.
00:54:33.000So it just, as you can see, if it's, you know, you need about 1,300 total units of, it looks like they're measuring energy or effort somehow, and you're at 1,200 by the time you get to 40%.
00:54:44.000So the last 50% is less than 10% of the total effort.
00:54:53.000So basically, when you talk about enrichment and they say that it's 60% enriched, based on this graph, getting from 60 to 90 happens way faster than going from zero to five.
00:55:03.000Yeah, and I think when they bombed Ford, they said that they were somewhere around like 60% enriched uranium, which if you were to just take Iran at their word, the amount of centrifuges that they have, that could actually be one week.
00:55:21.000So when they say they set them back, they probably really did set them back pretty far.
00:55:25.000But if they still kept 60% enriched uranium around and hit it, you know, God knows where, and they have other centrifuges we don't know about, then yeah, that would actually be a big problem.
00:55:37.000So listen, this is where you go into the, you got to trust the people that we helped get elected to kind of make decisions, tough decisions that could be difficult politically, but man, you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
00:55:51.000President Trump has been very adamant about that, consistent about that.
00:55:55.000I want to pivot a little bit here, though, Matt, because, you know, one of the things, if you follow Matt online, you live in a state that had a terrible, gruesome murder.
00:56:05.000It was showcased at the State of the Union.
00:56:08.000And of course, we are talking about Irina Zarutska.
00:56:11.000She was a Ukrainian war refugee that moved to North Carolina and was brutally killed in a video, I think, that shocked the conscience of so many Americans.
00:56:24.000And what's interesting about that, it strikes close to home, and Blake will remember this, that, you know, she died just before Charlie was killed.
00:56:31.000And Charlie was absolutely on top of this.
00:56:35.000He tweeted about it a lot because this was a story that never should have happened.
00:57:06.000So she's ridden the light rail quite a few times.
00:57:10.000And I'd been kind of reporting on Charlotte crime at that point because it was just, I mean, if anyone wants to go report on Charlotte crime, it's a free-for-all.
00:57:18.000Like, the media is not covering this whatsoever.
00:58:09.000And there's something very profoundly insightful about, I think, left-wing psychology that they would feel the need to do that, to trash murals of an innocent woman who was murdered by someone who should not have been on the street.
00:58:25.000And as we know, she has become a symbol, but a lot of people could be this symbol.
00:58:32.000There's a story that's been going on in Fairfax County, right outside D.C., where there was a murder there where it was, I believe, Abdul Jallow, a illegal immigrant from Africa, let out after, I think, five different malicious woundings, keeps stabbing people.
00:58:49.000The police sent an email to the Fairfax prosecutor's office saying, you guys let this guy out again.
00:58:57.000He's going to randomly stab someone again.
00:58:59.000And a week or two ago, he stabbed to death a woman, Stephanie Minter, on a bus, which the police had warned he was going to, and the prosecutor ignored it.
00:59:08.000We can endlessly find cases like this.
01:00:20.000And the truth of the matter is, if you go and look at any of the major cities, they are letting violent criminals out at an insanely high rate.
01:00:28.000Like there is a juvenile in Charlotte that has been arrested 150 times and he's still out.
01:00:37.000Like he's still committing crimes, like breaking into.
01:01:13.000Now, it depends on which sheriff's office and a lot of different things.
01:01:19.000But in Charlotte, at least, there's an option to click the word Hispanic if it's in a Hispanic person.
01:01:29.000There's an option to click the word white or black.
01:01:32.000And an insane amount of the time, Hispanic people are classified as white in arrest reports.
01:01:41.000There was one so egregious that I remember this one very clearly.
01:01:46.000It was clearly a Hispanic male with black hair.
01:01:50.000And in the arrest report, it was a white male with blonde hair.
01:01:54.000And if you didn't have the photo of this person, you'd be like, you know, clearly.
01:01:58.000So this bothers me greatly because the truth of crime stats matters.
01:02:05.000And people constantly post the crime stats per race of individuals.
01:02:12.000And if my assumption is that if you were to go and look at the true crime stats based on actual verified race data that is not biased, the white crime rate would be insanely low.
01:02:41.000So I think there's possibly two reasons.
01:02:44.000One is maybe, and I've been told this by police officers, that the white button is first on whatever system.
01:02:50.000So if they're trying to do it quickly, it's just, you know, we'll just leave it at that.
01:02:54.000In other places, the, you know, Hispanic is an ethnicity, technically not a race, but it depends on, again, like the system that you're in.
01:03:03.000Sometimes there's not even an option for police officers to tap the word Hispanic.
01:03:09.000So they'll just, they'll just, you know, you have no option.
01:04:45.000I am pleased to announce that the highly respected United States Senator from the great state of Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen, will become the United States DHS Secretary effective March 31st, 2026.
01:04:58.000The current Secretary, Christy Noam, who has served us well and has had numerous and spectacular results, especially on the border, will be removing to be special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere.
01:05:12.000We are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida.
01:05:15.000I thank Christy for her service at Homeland.
01:05:18.000And then he has a lot about how great Mark Wayne Mullen is and all of that.
01:05:22.000But yeah, that's breaking in the last matter of minutes.
01:05:26.000So we spent a lot of time in hour one talking about some of the controversies that have been swirling around DHS, stuff that we don't want to see because it's too critically important to the mission, to reelection, to the coalition.
01:05:42.000I'm pleased to see that the president is taking decisive action.
01:05:46.000And Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is a friend of this show, very, very well respected, understands the base, but he also understands the, let's just say, the intricacies of working with blue states and understands working with senators from blue states, what these negotiations, these high wire acts really entail.
01:06:07.000We talk about crime in blue cities, the ideologies that run these blue cities.
01:06:49.000Takes way fewer agents to get those transfers accomplished, and you get them deported immediately.
01:06:55.000You get violent criminals instead of releasing them back into the streets, you get them out of your country.
01:06:59.000So that's going to be goal number one for Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is to exert enough effort and force and coercion if you have to, political pressure, to get blue cities to cooperate.
01:07:13.000Now, the good news here is that Tom Homan has already given us a model for this in Minneapolis.
01:07:18.000Minneapolis was spiraling out of control.
01:07:20.000President Trump sent Tom Homan into Minneapolis, got them to heal, and now he's got cooperation from 95% of county jails, local jails, Minneapolis to hand over these detention requests.
01:09:35.000You know, we've got to see what Senator Mark Wayne Mullen does.
01:09:38.000It sounds like the future secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
01:09:42.000But I'm curious your perspective here, Matt, as somebody that is newer in this space.
01:09:48.000You know, your perspective is probably more on the FEMA angle.
01:09:52.000But what do you make of something like this?
01:09:55.000Well, I don't have any sources in the administration, but I do think that people, especially on the right, me too, have been frustrated with the slower pace of deportations.
01:10:07.000It's the number one issue of anyone you talk to is, why are we not deporting more?