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00:02:05.000She was a third-year student at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
00:02:11.000And her and a friend, a friend in the Glenview, Illinois area, that's where we live, took the train down to Urbana, Illinois to visit some friends at the University of Illinois over the weekend of January 18th.
00:03:39.000Now, on top of this, in the country using an alias and false documentations, identity theft or whatever you want to call it, he flees.
00:03:49.000They finally apprehend him two days after Donald Trump is in office on the 20th, shuts down the border.
00:03:56.000Truly believe if Mjorkis and Biden were still running things, he would have never been apprehended.
00:04:02.000So thank goodness for Donald Trump coming in, shutting the border down, allowing U.S. Marshals and Border Patrol to do their jobs, unlike the prior administration.
00:05:34.000And Illinois is right now trying to erase us, silence us, make us disappear.
00:05:41.000We're so inconvenient to their nonsense stories about how there are no illegals in the country, that everyone is good.
00:05:51.000And it just goes against human nature how they approach things.
00:05:55.000It's really rather disgusting and insidious.
00:05:59.000Well, and Joe, you know, CNN, MS Now refused to air that ceremony that was honoring your families, that was honoring Katie and Lake and Riley and so many others before.
00:06:09.000And I was reading your op-ed here and you sent a letter to J.B. Pritzker with 11 questions and he's, I believe, still not gotten back to you, it sounds like.
00:06:18.000But you've written here the pain our family has experienced in the last 12 plus months since Katie's death is beyond description.
00:06:44.000Compare what you've seen from the state of Illinois and President Trump in that ceremony yesterday.
00:06:49.000Oh, you can't even, you can't even believe the difference.
00:06:52.000You know, J.B. Pritzker loves to talk about Donald Trump being an authoritarian, this, that, and the other.
00:06:58.000If my firsthand experience is Donald Trump has welcomed us to the White House more than once, has looked me in the eye, father to father, and said, this has been a mess.
00:08:05.000Somehow, I think he doesn't, you know, need the voters.
00:08:10.000He certainly doesn't, he's not accountable to the voters.
00:08:13.000He's, to me, I think, you know, people are leaving Illinois in droves and he's backfilling them with this free-for-all immigration policy because I think he needs warm bodies.
00:10:10.000So another judge ruling came down, a motion.
00:10:14.000It basically, suffice to say that they denied the defense's motion, and the death penalty is still very much in place and on track in this case.
00:11:08.000For literally decades, we've gradually built up this incredibly long backlog of cases in our immigration courts, which is obviously deliberate.
00:11:19.000While you're waiting for your day in court, you, of course, have the right to just live in America, do whatever you want, work in America.
00:11:26.000And the Biden administration sent that into overdrive.
00:11:28.000They were giving people court dates two years, three years.
00:11:31.000I believe in one case, a court date 10 years out and then releasing people into the country.
00:11:37.000And I know people are sometimes frustrated that things feel like they're going slow in the Trump administration or that things, you know, it'll be two steps forward, one step back.
00:11:46.000But this is a great example of how in the background, they're getting the job done.
00:11:52.000They've hired, they're hiring dozens of new immigration judges, and they've been training them up.
00:11:59.000And apparently, this month is when they're finally getting into action.
00:12:03.000And that's important because, as is already in the past year, the backlog of cases, the total number of cases they have to process has fallen by 341,000.
00:12:13.000And this next year, maybe that'll be half a million, 600, a million.
00:12:17.000And that's really important because when you adjudicate those cases, it goes really fast.
00:12:21.000Almost all of these you can handle in a matter of hours, if not less.
00:12:26.000And once you're doing that, that is what allows ICE to just go and say, oh, you have an order of removal.
00:12:31.000We're taking you, getting you out of the country.
00:12:33.000Bam, You make it so much easier for ICE to just grab people, get them out.
00:12:40.000They just have these quotes where, like, you know, they put this guy, Darren Margolin, in charge of training up the new hires.
00:12:48.000He was an immigration judge and he quit in 2024 because he said, quote, I felt like a co-conspirator in treason regarding the Biden administration's policies.
00:12:58.000Now he is taking leadership of the Executive Office of Immigration Review and he is ramming this through.
00:13:04.000So I wanted to flag that for people to show there are stories that are not getting front page headlines.
00:13:10.000They're not getting covered on CNN that we are getting the work done for mass deportations in the years to come.
00:13:18.000You just purge those cases, get it done.
00:15:48.000They don't like the men's hockey team losing teeth and then draping themselves in the American flag and then going to a club in Miami because they get rerouted to a warmer climate with the Northwestern coming in.
00:15:59.000I'm telling you, what they really have a problem with is unabashed, masculine energy, victory.
00:18:58.000I want to hear about the national debt.
00:19:00.000I'd love to hear Trump talk about a spending freeze.
00:19:03.000When you watch Trump every day and have to sort of, because of your job, watch all the press conferences like you guys do, like I do, you know, you hear a lot of the same themes repeated.
00:19:13.000And so I'm a little bit fearful that, you know, as a junkie, that I will have heard everything that Trump's going to talk about tonight in terms of emphasizing how the economy is better than people say, et cetera, et cetera.
00:19:28.000Two headlines in green italics where I linked to Scott Bessant when he was on Maria Bardaroma's show on Sunday morning talking about the national debt.
00:19:36.000So I would love, you know, that is the part of what I hope for in, you know, in Trump 2.0 is having control of both Congresses that maybe we could finally realistically take a look at the big three programs of Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, start getting the conversations going about how to fix those programs.
00:19:58.000And also, well, and I threw it in as my second headline as a message to Trump yesterday, specifically to him, because I know he reads the site that, you know, that make this his legacy.
00:20:11.000Make, you know, fixing the national debt his legacy.
00:20:44.000I'm just, I think a way that he could maybe at least gesture towards that, the past six months, we've had story after story of massive fraud in government, massive fraud of federal programs, Medicaid, every federal program getting looted in Minnesota, in Maine, in Washington, in California.
00:21:03.000I think if he made that a big theme of his address about, oh, we're going to have a detailed auditing task force that will identify, arrest, stop the fraud, deport the people committing it.
00:21:15.000I think that would be a good way to at least make gestures towards the debt, even if I'm skeptical this administration is ready to, they're not going to, I don't think they're going to take big steps on Social Security or any of those big items.
00:21:26.000Well, you know, I go back to Kane and you're a financial guy.
00:21:30.000People don't know that your background is in finance, but the tweet from Mark Halperin that we actually made a lot of, we actually had Mark Halperin on the show to talk about it.
00:21:40.000Apparently, Fabrizio, one of the main pollsters for President Trump, did a whole presentation and he outlined these sort of, I would call them populist economic wins and how to message, how to get through, because this sticky issue of the economy, people still don't feel the momentum.
00:21:58.000I mean, we're coming out of four years of Biden inflation and they're still not feeling that relief.
00:22:04.000So Fabrizio's got these ideas of like, you know, ban stock trading for Congress, right?
00:22:08.000You get these scalps, these actionable wins that would start kind of piercing the noise and getting into the population, the voting population.
00:22:17.000What do you think about the economic messaging, Kane, specifically tonight?
00:22:22.000Yeah, well, I read the Fabrizio stuff last week and it was good.
00:22:26.000And he makes a good point about getting some wins.
00:22:29.000Getting to what Blake said, Blake is right.
00:22:35.000Mark Mitchell of Rashminson has sort of talked about it.
00:22:37.000He had a piece up talking about how Trump was doing the best, actually doing the best poll-wise when Doge was in the, was Doge was in the news.
00:22:45.000And then, you know, that maybe the missed opportunity in Minnesota was instead of concentrating on the on the deportation and the ICE part, maybe concentrating more on the fraud part because all, you know, a lot more of America can get behind the fraud stuff.
00:22:58.000In terms of, you know, a bold move towards Social Security, which Blake also mentioned, yeah, I don't expect that.
00:23:04.000I just want the conversations to start.
00:23:06.000You know, let's start talking about how we slowly raise the retirement age from 67 to 70 over 30 years.
00:23:13.000You know, nothing quick, you know, so that people don't freak out.
00:23:17.000Another, you know, a thought I have about why people don't really feel the economy getting better is, to be honest, it's interest rates.
00:23:25.000I've got my neighbors across the street who are stuck in their house.
00:23:38.000Because of interest rates, their homes at three percent loan, and and so anyway, I think that'll be huge.
00:23:43.000I put a headline in today about Austin Goolsby, who used to be Obama's you know economic guru, about how he's, you know, still saying he won't lower rates.
00:23:52.000Thank goodness Kevin Warsh will be able to so.
00:23:54.000And, by the way, you know, I watch CNBC on mute most of the day, and you know this, the 30-year mortgage has finally dipped under six percent.
00:24:04.000That's still big, you know, those are still a big number compared to three and the three and a half percent, but it's going to get better and I think that'll help.
00:24:12.000Um well so yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing.
00:24:16.000There was a story at a FOX Business this morning that the purchasing power of home buyers is up over thirty thousand dollars uh, under Trump, partly because of interest rates, but also partly because of rising incomes, and so, as those interest rates continue to tick down, people are going to experience a little bit more flexibility.
00:24:34.000I think the Zillow quote in there was, it's the difference between having to settle and being able to actually choose a home you want to live in.
00:24:40.000So it makes a huge, huge difference for home buyers just to have even 30, 50 000 more money on the table to be able to buy a home.
00:24:49.000So, but continue, you were, you were going well whatever, I think that's going to help.
00:24:53.000Uh I, I really think that'll help people's.
00:24:56.000You know sentiment towards the economy and uh look, I think that you know I think Trump is doing okay.
00:25:02.000I pay attention to Rasmusson approval.
00:25:04.000I don't really read, I mean I look at all the other approval numbers that come out, but I really pay attention to Rasmusson's daily tracker and you know Trump slash Republican.
00:25:14.000Let's say it's Jd Vance in three years or in two years.
00:25:17.000You know he can win, we can, we can pull it off in these numbers.
00:25:20.000You guys know that i'm not super optimistic about the midterms right, because what did, how many did Trump lose in 2018?
00:25:27.000He lost almost 40 seats, or he did lose 40 seats in the House.
00:25:30.000So the House is going to be very tough.
00:25:32.000I think we hold the Senate just because of the numbers and and you know it's so vital for our movement, so vital that we um that you know that we win in 2028, that JD wins.
00:25:43.000And last thing i'll say before I throw it back, I thought it was a great discussion on that Atlantic article that you guys had that.
00:25:49.000You know that, if I have that in the stat from yesterday, if you care about America, you're obviously a Nazi, like that's how far you know.
00:26:00.000Well okay, since you kind of brought it up and then, by the way, Huffing AND POST said, if you you're feeling uncomfortable being patriotic, you're not alone.
00:26:30.000I'm not interested in being part of this.
00:26:34.000I'm not interested in being part of this when he doesn't.
00:26:36.000He is not a patriot and he doesn't care about this country.
00:26:39.000He doesn't care about the people of this country.
00:26:41.000He certainly doesn't if you look at the citizens who are being rounded up, if you look at what he's doing to the economy, what he's done to healthcare.
00:27:12.000He's about as popular as month-old convenience store sushi.
00:27:17.000I don't know dude, I don't Don Lamont, I mean I It.
00:27:22.000By the way, there's some awesome, there's some awesome, hilarious videos about Don Lamont on Twitter, going back about 10 years, excuse me, on YouTube.
00:28:25.000What it is, it's going to be nine years on May 1st for this website.
00:28:29.000And running this website, I didn't realize it when I showed up in Detroit last summer.
00:28:34.000I lost like 20 pounds slowly by just basic attrition because, you know, you let's say you wake up in the morning and you think, do I need food or do I need to check the headlines?
00:28:45.000And when your office is like 14 feet away from your bed, like you end up in that, in the office.
00:28:52.000And then, and then, right, you work until the there you go.
00:29:15.000People will be happy to know that the last year and a half, I've been getting back in the gym three, four days a week.
00:29:22.000I sneak out of the CFP headquarters, get in the gym.
00:29:28.000You know, that beard is why I never appear on camera for the, I don't, you know, I don't even get showers until like five or six o'clock at night because you wake up.
00:29:39.000I don't want to say I wake up in a panic every morning, but you sort of wake up and you know that like you missed headlines during the six hours while you're sleeping.
00:31:02.000Look, I would say that Iran has been given fair warning.
00:31:07.000You know, Trump doesn't, Trump is well aware of that, what they say about him on Wall Street, the taco trade.
00:31:14.000And when it comes to these foreign policy things, Trump doesn't fool around.
00:31:19.000So I think Iran better, you know, I put it in the stack yesterday.
00:31:23.000There's going to be meetings in Geneva.
00:31:24.000I think on Thursday, Iran supposedly has a new proposal on getting rid of nukes.
00:31:30.000But if they don't do it, you know, Trump, this will be the last thing I'll say.
00:31:34.000You know, there was that Axio story yesterday that said that Trump's bigot, you know, his top general, Raisin Kane, maybe was showing a little bit of caution about bombing in Iran.
00:31:45.000And then Trump himself almost immediately put out a long message on True Social that you alerted me to, by the way, Andrew.
00:31:54.000And I hadn't seen Trump's response to that.
00:33:28.000And I think Blake made a good point yesterday when he said that we haven't really been sold on the case for this conflict yet either.
00:33:35.000Blake, I don't know if you have any thoughts there because you're great on this.
00:33:38.000Yeah, I think, honestly, if they need to make a case, State of the Union is as good a time as any.
00:33:44.000But I think as things stand out, I think this is what Charlie would be most frustrated about is if you are going to launch a regime change war, which I think at this point, strikes of the magnitude they seem to be planning would have to be, you need to be able to, in a handful of sentences, say why this is invaluable for America's national interests and national security.
00:34:09.000And right now, I think if it were to happen, I think people would just be confused and they would say, why now?
00:35:16.000And by the way, today at 3 p.m., CIA Director John Ratcliffe is set to join Secretary of State Marco Rubio for a classified briefing on Iran.