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00:01:21.000Negative 45 degrees is what it's going to feel like in Minneapolis, St. Paul.
00:04:32.000And I'll be frank, I'm glad I was a little worried that the first person they would try to arrest would be Don Lemon, Donald Mon, because it's the most high-profile one.
00:05:19.000Go for the more legally sound stuff because it's so easy to seize on what is emotionally cathartic.
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00:11:39.000We got to get to this five-year-old, you know, the Democrats, literally the Democrats, their handle on X is tweeting out in Minnesota, Minneapolis.
00:11:48.000ICE arrested a five-year-old coming home from preschool and tried to use him as human bait.
00:11:54.000His teacher describes him as a bright young student.
00:12:46.000This is all, so partly we should mention this is all happening because ICE, everything they do, they're relentlessly being stalked and followed and scrutinized.
00:12:56.000And so they are immediately spinning up these claims.
00:12:59.000And so their claim is that the child, they made an arrest when a person drove into their driveway.
00:13:09.000And you can see the little joints where they're being a little bit dishonest.
00:13:13.000So for example, so they detained, apparently what happened is they tried to arrest the father of this five-year-old who then fled the scene.
00:13:19.000And then they'll describe in even in the left's own telling, another adult begged to take custody of the child, but ICE refused.
00:13:31.000Would we know if it's the child's parent?
00:13:34.000Like, all these things that are obvious questions you're supposed to ask if you're a law enforcement agent, but they're mad that ICE is not omniscient and omnipotent in their powers.
00:13:43.000And so they have to follow police procedures.
00:14:40.000If you break the law, you are putting your children in danger and you should stop breaking the law.
00:14:46.000It's pretty obvious in today's day and age that if you are here in the country illegally, you're breaking the law and there will be consequences for it.
00:14:54.000Did you know that you could receive a free flight?
00:14:58.000No, a free flight and $2,600 with the CBP home app.
00:15:04.000If you just use the CBP home app, he wouldn't have been arrested.
00:15:08.000His poor five-year-old kid, he wouldn't have abandoned him.
00:15:12.000By the way, that's the big E on the eye chart here.
00:15:14.000This peach of a father is the best father I've seen since, you know, Maryland dad.
00:15:21.000This is not the type of, if you have an illegal alien that is going, is willing to abandon his son when federal law enforcement approaches him, first of all, he's a terrible dad.
00:15:33.000Let's just get the biggie on the eye chart out of the way.
00:15:39.000Second of all, you're not going to want that quality of human being in this country as a second thought.
00:15:44.000If that's what he's teaching his kid, that you just abandon people, you run away from your family.
00:15:48.000And third of all, if you're in the country illegally, I'm sorry, you're putting your whole family in jeopardy.
00:15:54.000So, yes, to your point, this DHS, I don't know if it was ICE or, yeah, I think it was an ICE officer, remained with the child because that's what police officers do.
00:16:04.000That's what federal law enforcement does.
00:16:06.000Like, it's just, it's such an important thing that you can't concede the ground to them.
00:16:09.000Like, the left wants you, they want to get you into this psychological state of mind where if like you have a child under the age of 10, you're immune from law enforcement because this child is sad and you feel sad when you see children.
00:16:22.000And so, you shouldn't do things that you obviously should do.
00:16:25.000Yeah, Charlie had a great tweet on this.
00:16:37.000One of the reasons you shouldn't do bad things, one of the reasons you shouldn't commit crimes, one of the reasons you shouldn't be a drug addict, one of the reasons you shouldn't be a loser, if you're a parent, or even if you're not, it will hurt the people around you who are dependent on you.
00:16:51.000That is a reason you shouldn't do bad things.
00:16:57.000He chose to remain here when it was very clear enforcement was happening, when there was a way he could have gotten free money to return to his home country.
00:17:06.000For that matter, he would have never been separated from his kid if he had not fled from ICE.
00:17:58.000That's what's going to make my job really difficult.
00:18:00.000But just because something is legal doesn't mean it's moral.
00:18:03.000Oh, so they didn't break the law at all.
00:18:05.000It's entirely legal to detain children when you're arresting their parents for illegally being in the country.
00:18:10.000And in fact, if you're going to deport them, as ICE has pointed out, they're going to get two options.
00:18:15.000If that child is a citizen, they can be placed with someone that they trust, a trusted adult, or you can choose to have them deported with you if you would prefer to remain with them.
00:18:24.000And you have to understand the subtext here, is they are going to claim that what they're really communicating here, and I want you to see the sleight of hand, is that they're basically saying that this guy was illegal, but he's not a criminal.
00:21:52.000And one of the great ways to touch grass, be surrounded by it.
00:21:54.000Kind of the only way to touch grass here is go play some golf.
00:21:58.000But Kane, I would be remiss if I did not say, congratulations to the Indiana Hoosiers for pulling off one of the truly all-time great college football stories.
00:22:31.000There are a bunch of alkies up in Hanover.
00:22:34.000But yeah, I was a little annoyed, Kane, I have to admit, because I didn't have a strong pull between the two teams, but I was slightly hoping that Miami would get a last-second touchdown, just so I could have said if Indiana had redistricted, they would have stopped that touchdown.
00:23:38.000Well, yeah, I was going to, before you said it, I was going to mention the Maryland thing because I just put it in the stack like 30 minutes ago.
00:23:44.000Wesmore, the governor, is trying to get rid of the only Republican seat that in the in the Maryland congressional delegation.
00:23:54.000I'm trying to, I think Maryland usually is about 60-40 in governors races.
00:24:00.000So, I mean, if you're getting 40% Republican votes, it would be nice to have at least one Republican seat.
00:24:09.000Going back to the game, that final drive, Blake, you know, that if Miami had scored, I completely thought they were.
00:24:16.000I actually thought Signetti made a mistake in kicking that field goal because if you get a Miami was out of timeouts, you get a first down, that game's over.
00:24:27.000And so I thought, you know, I always think negatively, and it has not hurt the Hoosiers at any point in the college football playoffs, but I thought for sure we were going to give up a touchdown.
00:24:38.000So, so yeah, that would be brutal as hell that if that, you know, if we lost because our state representatives didn't have the whatever, they got their feelings hurt.
00:24:49.000There were all kinds of reasons that the Indiana reps did not vote to redistrict.
00:24:55.000You know, one last thing I'll throw on the redistricting.
00:24:57.000I put a story up maybe a month ago that talked about how the five seats in Texas may not even end up being five seats, that it might be four seats because we're getting slightly lower numbers with Hispanics.
00:25:10.000So, yeah, so Democrats, there's a track.
00:25:14.000I guess one last thing, there's a tracker that I keep, I bring to the top near the stack that sort of shows what's going on in every single state.
00:25:22.000And they still say that we may gain three if everything plays out correctly, but you guys are probably on top of it.
00:26:18.000You know, President Trump had basically a landslide victory, won the popular vote, ran the table on the swing states, and we eke out this tiny little majority in Congress, in the House.
00:26:54.000The other thing, you know, yes, I want to reiterate, or I want to, you know, confirm what you were saying, 10 to 15 seats if we can stop counting illegals in all states.
00:27:05.000The numbers, you know, that gives us a much bigger majority right there.
00:27:08.000And then also remember that I don't think it's happening until maybe it's happening this summer, but the Voting Rights Act, right?
00:27:16.000That's going to be the other component of redistricting.
00:27:18.000A lot of these congressional districts, most, well, not just in blue states, but in all states, a lot of them are going to be thrown out.
00:27:26.000So they say that may be a plus 19 number, but it's not going to affect the 2026 midterms.
00:27:33.000As you know, to get something like the SAVE Act passed, you have to get it through the Senate.
00:27:37.000You've got the filibuster problem in 60 votes, right?
00:27:40.000So that was the whole debate during the government shutdown, whether we should finally throw out the filibuster, knowing that Democrats went the next time that they do take the Senate, that they're going to do this, that without whatever Manchin and Kirsten Cinema, they can get that vote through.
00:27:55.000So everybody was sort of anticipating that the January shutdown would be our opportunity to get rid of the filibuster.
00:28:04.000And what happened this week or last week was they, oh, it was early this week.
00:28:10.000So there's not going to be a shutdown, which means there will not be a movement to get rid of the filibuster, which means this, I don't know how he gets a save act passed.
00:28:19.000You tell me with, you know, over 60 votes.
00:28:22.000Well, it doesn't seem like it doesn't seem.
00:28:24.000I'm getting, by the way, I'm just getting breaking news here that Don Lemon has been charged.
00:28:40.000And he tried to hide behind his journalistic, okay, breaking Trump Justice Department charges journalist Don Lemon along with seven others over church protests aimed at ICE.
00:28:54.000Even if he's not convicted, guys, even if he's not convicted, the process is the punishment, the legal fees, the worrying at night about, you know, about the charges that you're facing and the potential jail terms.
00:29:06.000So even if Lemon doesn't get, doesn't get convicted, whatever.
00:29:13.000It's sort of looking, it's like the same thing with James Comey and Letitia James.
00:29:17.000Sure, those indictments were thrown out, but hey, at least we put him through some sort of process punishment.
00:29:53.000It's just he knew that if he did it to Muslims, he would get ripped to shreds for it.
00:29:58.000If you had a big mob of people go in to intimidate a group of Muslims about something, a group of Jews in a synagogue about something, there would be consequences for it.
00:30:06.000Much more rapid and much more total and with much more support from a Democratic government.
00:30:11.000There is an entire permission and support structure in place to attack white men to attack Christians.
00:30:18.000And it's important that we tear down that support structure, brick by brick, piece by piece, because what Don Lemon did to that church, city's church in Minneapolis, was disgusting.
00:30:29.000And all of those people, there's seven other indictments, apparently, as well.
00:30:34.000They all deserve to be charged so that this never happens again.
00:30:38.000And if it does happen again, you come down even harder.
00:31:58.000You know, I think Trump, maybe early on, a week ago, could have benefited by explaining this to the people a little bit better about why we need, you know, why we need Greenland.
00:32:07.000And I think his whole plan the whole time was to get the deal, the framework of a deal that he's talked about now.
00:34:57.000I honestly don't think we're going to hold the House.
00:35:03.000And then what is that going to lead to?
00:35:04.000It's going to lead to impeachments in the House.
00:35:07.000The Senate is virtually impossible to lose just based on the map.
00:35:13.000It would take some big, some huge upsets.
00:35:17.000So that's part of why I was talking about the filibuster and getting back to the SAVE Act.
00:35:22.000For people who don't know, the SAVE Act is the Voting Reform Act, to require citizenship, to register to vote, to require voter ID nationwide, all these things.
00:35:35.000And I think it actually eliminates mail-in ballots, which is an interesting thing because as you know, Andrew and Blake, Charlie sort of picked up that matchup, you guys.
00:35:44.000That was one of the keys to success in Arizona and a few other states that we really pushed on the mail-in ballot.
00:35:50.000Well, Kane, really quick here, yeah, it would require proof to be presented in person in most cases, which would effectively eliminate or at least severely restrict online voter registration, mail-in voter registration.
00:36:04.000So many automatic voter registration systems like Motor Voter, when you get a driver's license, which we know a lot of illegals are doing in these states where they're giving illegals driver's licenses.
00:36:14.000Voter registration drives, since you couldn't just fill out a form on the spot without showing documents to an official, right?
00:36:20.000So, you know, by the way, turning point action, we did voter registration drives.
00:36:25.000We use the exact same laws that everybody else does.
00:36:28.000But if they're going to restrict this, which is, I think, a good thing, then, you know, it's going to hamper some of these, these, especially the libs, man.
00:36:35.000They get way more volunteers for this stuff because remember, they're not going to church.
00:36:53.000They would do the whole spiel with the students at Dartmouth.
00:36:56.000They would say, you can change your vote day of.
00:36:59.000You don't need to vote in your home state.
00:37:00.000They would explicitly say, oh, if you're from a state that's deep blue, most of them were a lot of people from Massachusetts, California, New York, switch your vote here, day of, vote in this race.
00:37:10.000And I often thought, I once did the math, and if they'd built that college on the other side of the river in Vermont, we would have won that state in 2016.
00:37:19.000We would have won Kelly Ayat's Senate race in 2016.
00:37:32.000So that's one of the reasons we're going back.
00:37:34.000So we'll just, you watch that space because it's key when we're talking about New Hampshire, which is a state that has more conservatives than, or Republicans than Democrats, but it's always that independent vote in the middle, right?
00:37:47.000That's what's going to determine that state.
00:37:50.000And to Blake's point, you know, they're always talk about Massachusetts University's busing students across the state line just on election day and doing same-day registration.
00:38:03.000The thing is, how the heck do we get the SAVE Act passed with the filibuster?
00:38:07.000And if you have to get rid of the filibuster, because you know Democrats are going to do it, not this term when they, because they aren't going to get the Senate in 2026, but they will eventually, and they do drop the filibuster.
00:38:20.000There's just no motivation to get rid of the filibuster now.
00:38:24.000And so I don't see how, again, the SAVE Act gets passed.
00:38:27.000Another thing on midterms, you know, I always pay attention to the generic congressional stuff.
00:38:31.000And in the New York Times poll that I put in the stack today, they've got the generic congressional at 4843, which 4843 Democrats.
00:38:40.000And I know that's a negative five number for us, but there was also like the Atlas Intel generic congressional poll from about three weeks ago was 12 points, you know, plus 12 for Democrats.
00:38:53.000So this plus five number from New York Times is actually not that bad.
00:39:26.000Rasmussen reports is requiring photo ID to vote a reasonable measure to protect the integrity of elections.
00:39:34.000All voters altogether, 73% say yes, which is huge.
00:39:40.000So, you know, here's the issue: what I'm told, I've been back-channeling with some senators.
00:39:44.000There's these 10 to 15 senators basically think it's constitutionally problematic for the federal government to weigh in on states the way they conduct their elections, right?
00:39:54.000But the legal question then is: can they weigh in on federal elections that are conducted by the states?