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00:01:46.000My administration would be Donald Trump's worst nightmare.
00:01:50.000And you don't need to take me at my word or take Andrew Cuomo at his.
00:01:55.000You need to only look at the actions of the Trump administration since I won the Democratic primary.
00:02:01.000How else can you describe a president who has proposed denaturalizing the Democratic nominee of New York City?
00:02:10.000How else can you describe a president who has sought to entertain suggestions of deporting me, of arresting me, of taking control of the city over the will of New Yorkers?
00:02:21.000Those are the actions of a president who is afraid of the fact that I will actually deliver in a manner where he is simply betrayed.
00:02:40.000I mean, here's a kid that has funny money and he's running like he cares about people.
00:02:45.000I heard the you know, did you hear the rumor that the first action he's going to take if he wins is to change the name of New York to New Havana?
00:02:52.000Because that's exactly what's going to happen.
00:02:55.000He says he wants to run grocery stores.
00:02:56.000He should go look at the grocery stores in Havana.
00:06:08.000Look, Miami has a lot of problems, but it's in a far better place, a far safer direction, a far more prosperous direction, a far more livable direction.
00:06:17.000Because you and Florida, Senator, you guys went all in and you guys reached out to the Venezuelan community, the Cuban community, but also you had a pro-freedom agenda.
00:06:27.00020 years ago, Miami-Dade was the blue stronghold of the American Southeast, and now it is a Republican county.
00:06:36.000What can we learn from the Miami takeover or switch, I should say, and apply it to other blue cities?
00:06:50.000I spent week after week after week talking to everybody in Miami about what I wanted to accomplish, how I wanted to get them a job, improve their kids' education, make sure they were safe.
00:06:59.000And we went from losing Miami bid to in the 2020-24 cycle, we were able to win by 10 points.
00:07:08.000And we have our new sheriff as Republican, the supervisor election Republican.
00:07:13.000I mean, all of our constitutional officers at the county level are all Republicans now because we went all in for what we believe in.
00:07:20.000So this is all doable all across the country.
00:07:23.000Have the right message, the right candidates, and show up and talk to people.
00:07:27.000They agree with this all across this country.
00:07:43.000And it's, again, the transformation of Miami-Dade County.
00:07:46.000I remember as it was happening, James Carville was freaking out, as he should, because it changed the entire dynamics of the state of Florida.
00:07:55.000And so we now look at New York, we look at D.C. I do want to get your comments on this, Senator.
00:07:59.000President Donald Trump has now invoked the home rule designation.
00:08:04.000He is federalizing Washington, D.C. And quote, we will bring the military if needed.
00:08:10.000What is, I mean, you spend a lot of time in Washington, D.C. Is D.C. safe?
00:08:22.000People don't just walk the streets in D.C. and feel safe anywhere around D.C. I mean, I've got to be careful in what I do, but we've got people in my office that are very careful about where they go.
00:08:32.000So this is great what Donald Trump is doing.
00:08:35.000I'm on a bill with Mike Lee that we would, that Congress would take this back.
00:08:40.000So the prison is doing what Congress should be doing.
00:09:26.000And I think we should give Washington, D.C. to Maryland for a very important reason.
00:09:30.000It takes off the 51st state conversation, except for the national monuments.
00:09:36.000I want to dive more into this, but for no other reason than if you do not have control over your nation's capital, you are not a nation.
00:09:45.000And you have almost every day, you have young, innocent people that are mugged, carjackings, crime.
00:09:53.000It is an outrageous testament to the failure of our ruling class as they are willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars abroad on foreign wars while our own nation's capital is unlivable.
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00:11:09.000Senator, I do want to get your thoughts.
00:11:11.000We had Senator Mark Wayne Mullen on last week.
00:11:13.000I know that there are going to be some changes potentially to Senate rules because Chuck Schumer completely messed this up.
00:11:19.000We still have over 150 of President Trump's nominees that are in paralysis, that are frozen.
00:11:26.000Senator, what is going to be the plan come September to unfreeze and to move President Trump's necessary nominees?
00:11:34.000Because here's the way that I view it and the audience views it: it is a disgrace and a subversion to the Democratic process when you win an election, but you can't staff your government for almost an entire year.
00:12:27.000Number two is we're going to have to shorten the time.
00:12:30.000What they are doing is not really using it to vet these nominees.
00:12:35.000They're using it just to slow things down.
00:12:37.000So we've got to say, okay, so what we're going to do is we'll stove the vote, but we're going to do these votes every 10 minutes.
00:12:43.000We're just going to roll through these every 10 minutes and we'll get them all done because it's just being used as obstruction not to actually do their job to vet the candidates.
00:13:04.000It is an outrage that we have not been able to do it.
00:13:07.000Senator, one final question here as we proceed.
00:13:12.000What are the other big fights, spending fights, rescission packages, things that we need to know of on the Senate calendar for the remainder of this calendar year?
00:13:20.000Because unfortunately, as you know, the Senate is full of a bunch of gutless wonders that as soon as an election year kicks in, very little will happen.
00:13:27.000So we have a little bit of time left on the clock.
00:13:29.000What are the big things that we need to know about the U.S. Senate and fights looming into the fall?
00:13:34.000Well, the big fights are going to be these.
00:13:35.000Number one is that we're going to have a budget done by the end of September.
00:13:40.000Well, we haven't passed our budget bills.
00:13:43.000So that'll be the government will be shut down if we don't then do a continued resolution.
00:13:49.000Historically, under Mitch McConnell, what the Republicans and Democrats together would do is they would say, oh, we'll talk about it for the next couple of months.
00:15:40.000And it looks like we might have another opportunity on the reconciliation, but we could, we could take the things back under the budget process and say, we're going to look at these things every year, just like you do.
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00:17:57.000Joining us now is editor-in-chief of Breitbart News to go over A variety of topics, but the breaking news today is the federalization of Washington, D.C. This really seemed to have been triggered by the young man working for Doge being mugged, but President Trump has been alluding to this for a couple months.
00:18:15.000He's been talking about how D.C. has become a slum.
00:19:02.000This is the outside the box thinking that I love about Donald Trump, because why would he tolerate something that's second tier in America?
00:19:10.000And if you look at the way D.C. has gone in recent years, it's gotten more crime-mattled, more dirty, and somehow more expensive at the same time.
00:19:38.000By the way, if you go to Singapore, you go to Tokyo, you go to Seoul, South Korea, you go to any of the great Asian capitals, they wouldn't put up with what we have here at all, period, whatsoever.
00:19:48.000And why have we put up with such crime, endangerment, slum activity all throughout?
00:19:55.000And it's a combination of not just the homelessness and the drug use and the maniacs, because I was just in D.C. recently and it was just a bunch.
00:20:13.000So if they choose to start actually prosecuting crimes, they start trying to hold people to account and to not release all the criminals onto the streets, then what that's going to lead to is a short-term uptick in crime statistics, which is bad.
00:20:30.000So politically, they have to allow for all of the crime to continue because to address it would necessitate admitting that it was bad to begin with.
00:20:38.000They're never going to do that because the left is so political.
00:20:41.000They would rather see crime than have a short-term, you know, hit in the polls over this issue.
00:20:46.000The other thing is the left, they love chaos.
00:20:50.000They don't want to see a law and order society.
00:20:52.000They don't want to see our nation preserved and conserved in terms of the values you and I champion on a daily basis, Charlie.
00:20:58.000So they're not going to be the ones to take the initiative.
00:21:01.000The only chance you've got is conservative Republicans doing it from the perch of the presidency, to be honest with you.
00:21:07.000And any prior Republican president that we've had in my lifetime would never have been able to fight through any of the name-calling and the outrage and the hand-wringing that we're about to witness.
00:21:23.000How will this be received politically where the media will call him a fascist, home rule, and all that?
00:21:30.000And also, no one's talking about the tourism angle.
00:21:33.000Hundreds of thousands of young kids visit Washington, D.C. every year on school trips, high school trips, middle school trips.
00:21:39.000We want them to see something they're proud of, and it does something to the psyche.
00:21:43.000I could say this as someone who's been to D.C. You, Alex, I mean, numerous hundreds of times.
00:21:47.000When you get off of Reagan and you drive through Erdullah, where you fly in, and you just see slums and you see tents, and it just, it brings down your soul.
00:21:59.000So I lived in the, yeah, I lived in the foggy bottom area for about four years or so.
00:22:04.000And my typical day would involve me rolling out of my apartment, running down to the Lincoln Memorial, running along the Potomac River, running through iconic Georgetown with the cobblestone streets on Prospect Avenue, which was, you know, from the scenes from the exorcist.
00:22:19.000I always love used to doing that in the fall.
00:22:47.000And I'll tell you, if he succeeds, he'll get a lot of credit because even people on the left, I think, will admit to some degree that this could be done and the people in charge now will not address it.
00:22:56.000We have long said here on this program, the future of MAGA and the future of this movement will go through the reclamation of our major cities.
00:23:03.000That doesn't mean we have to make New York MAGA or LA MAGA, but you must be able to have dominion and control and authority over America's greatest cities.
00:23:12.000If we want to just be an outskirt movement, look, if we want to just control the Midland Texas, the Oklahoma cities, there's nothing wrong with that, but it's incomplete.
00:23:22.000It is incomplete because then basically you are the master of the hinterlands, which again is not an insult, beautiful parts of the country, but we need to go into the fire.
00:23:32.000Is it time then, Alex, if we have a successful model in Washington, D.C., to replicate this in other cities?
00:23:39.000It's a little bit harder, obviously, because you have home rule designation in D.C. But is it time for us to start to roll in the tanks to Chicago?
00:23:47.000Is it time for us to sign the Insurrection Act in Los Angeles?
00:23:54.000Talk about how this might be the entry point to a broad reclamation project of the third worldification to liberate New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, LA.
00:24:05.000So yeah, I'll talk philosophically and then I know some lawyers are going to have to back me up on the legal side because I don't know how much of this could actually get done.
00:24:12.000But from my perspective, it doesn't make sense that we have the strongest, most advanced, most technologically savvy fighting forces in the world, and yet we allow for our cities to be war zones.
00:24:24.000And I'm not saying that we want to have a massive military presence in our city because that'll defeat the purpose of what I'm talking about anyway, which is that I would like for our cities to be a place where culture is thriving, not where people are fearing for their lives when they walk down the block, get a sandwich.
00:24:39.000But the point is, is that if we have resources that are able to clean up some of these problems, maybe it's the fentanyl issue because it's connected to the illegal immigration.
00:24:47.000Maybe it's what they're doing with ICE in Los Angeles.
00:24:50.000But I would look for opportunities around the edges first and then maybe broader from there to try to set the standard that in this country, we have great thriving cities.
00:24:59.000I'll tell you, I live a suburban life where I walk to school with my children and I don't live near a major metropolitan center.
00:25:06.000I'll tell you on weekends, Charlie, when you want to eat and shop, you go down to the city and you're fearful there.
00:25:12.000They got better restaurants, but you're worried about whether or not something is going to happen to you when you're in your car.
00:25:17.000If something's going to break into your car, that shouldn't be the case in this country.
00:25:20.000We should have a higher standard than that.
00:25:22.000And for Republicans, we can't just opt out.
00:25:40.000Why is if we articulate, if we are articulating the domestic MAGA doctrine, this nationalist populist project that you and I have been under, you know, working on 10 years, why do the cities matter?
00:25:53.000And why should, how do you respond to a skeptic, they're blue, they're Democrats, let it burn.
00:26:00.000Yeah, so first of all, I think the premise of the city, even though I don't like some of the walkable cities, some of the green stuff, and some of the hideous architecture in a lot of our modern cities, so there's a lot of negative stuff I can say.
00:26:10.000But overall, when a lot of us think nostalgically at our favorite era of America, we weren't just, it wasn't just because we had a great government.
00:26:18.000And a lot of that culture does take place in the cities and that's exported around the world.
00:26:22.000And I think that that's generally a good thing in a vacuum.
00:26:26.000And so to abandon the cities is to abandon the opportunity for us to be the cultural leaders on the earth.
00:26:31.000So I think that that's a major premise.
00:26:34.000But another thing is more of a practical human populist level, which is that a lot of jobs, you need to either be in a city or be in proximity to a city.
00:26:59.000Maybe one day, But there's so many of us here who have the same values as you who are living a peaceful suburban or rural life.
00:27:06.000So I don't think you should abandon your fellow man because a thriving American city provides economic opportunity, provides cultural opportunity.
00:27:13.000And I just like the idea that we want to be excellent.
00:32:09.000I don't think anyone's listening to him, but it's an interesting thought exercise with Mamdani in particular because the nature of the rest of the field is that it feels like Andrew Cuomo is just such a uniquely horrible candidate.
00:32:22.000And this is what disturbs me about this whole race is that Curtis Lewis seems like a nice guy.
00:33:47.000Coleman Young was the mayor of Detroit.
00:33:50.000And his stated goal, well, not stated, but his whole idea that we get revealed later was that kick every basically make it so unpleasant, but I hold on to power.