The Culture War - Tim Pool - December 07, 2025


Rep. Burchett Slams the CIA & Joe Biden For Disastrous Immigration Policy, Americans Are Dying


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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Representative) joins me to discuss the recent shooting of two White House National Guards, as well as the President Trump's executive order that temporarily halts all immigration from Afghanistan and other third countries.

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00:00:00.000 I was told by the president, former president of Afghanistan, that we have over a thousand members
00:00:05.500 of the Taliban that are in our dadgum country. We don't know where they are. And this bunch of 1.00
00:00:09.500 knuckleheads, you know, all we do is move on to the next shiny object. We better wake up or we're 0.94
00:00:14.120 going to lose everything. Good afternoon, everybody. I am Elad Eliyahu, the White House
00:00:19.880 correspondent for TimCast. And today we have a very exciting episode for you because we are in
00:00:23.640 Congress today and I have Representative Burshit next to me. Thank you so much for taking the time.
00:00:28.560 Awesome. Thank you so much for taking the time. So I know we're limited on time,
00:00:33.260 so I wanted to jump right into the conversation. One of the first stories that I wanted to bring
00:00:37.580 up and get your thoughts on was that I know it was about a week ago where we had the two
00:00:40.980 National Guards by the White House. Both were shot. One was murdered. Sarah Beckstrom was killed
00:00:47.620 and Andrew Wolfe, both West Virginia National Guard. Mr. Wolfe is still in critical condition
00:00:52.720 now. What's your reaction to all this stuff? I'm not surprised. I have a bill dealing with
00:00:59.920 the Taliban, defund them. We sent them about $40 million a week currently under NGOs and other
00:01:06.240 things. We have totally disrespected this country out of our own greed because some of that money
00:01:14.160 flows back into this country through politicians and dark money. Yeah. And we're funding these people.
00:01:22.360 We allowed them to come in here. We were told that they were loyal to this country. I was told by
00:01:28.180 the president, former president of Afghanistan, that we have over a thousand members of the Taliban
00:01:33.420 that are in our dadgum country. We don't know where they are. And this bunch of knuckleheads,
00:01:37.840 you know, all we do is move on to the next shiny object. We better wake up or we're going to lose 0.61
00:01:41.900 everything. Well, as I understand, the perpetrator of these murders was a collaborator with U.S.
00:01:48.880 troops fighting against the Taliban. Yeah, he was connected with the CIA. And then we ended up
00:01:54.260 bringing him in as a refugee because he was a collaborator. Sure he was. Do we owe anything 1.00
00:01:58.660 to those who collaborate with American troops? Yeah, but we owe it to America that we don't
00:02:02.980 bring in a bunch of knuckleheads and murdering thugs because what they did is, and this will come 0.91
00:02:08.820 out, act surprised when you hear it. But we had a special group that was, they were a bunch of 0.96
00:02:16.380 murdering thugs, and they were probably trained by the CIA. And so we brought those guys in here.
00:02:23.260 You don't just turn that switch off. You know, if you bring them back, you better make sure they're,
00:02:27.700 and we brought them all back. And we don't know where they are. And I don't know if this guy was part
00:02:32.640 of that, but we've got a bunch here. And, but you multiply that all over the world with this, you
00:02:38.280 know, open door policy. Absolutely. And it's wrong. It is completely wrong. We better start
00:02:43.660 paying attention. We better start paying attention. In a Truth Social post regarding this situation,
00:02:49.760 the president said, I will permanently pause migration from all third world countries to allow 1.00
00:02:54.340 the U.S. system to fully recover. Only reverse migration can fully cure this situation. What's your
00:02:59.240 reaction to that statement from the president? A hundred percent. Donald Trump is right. And he
00:03:03.680 is right to say that. And the reason he has to do it through executive order, because this dadgum
00:03:08.800 Congress, I don't care who's in power, Republicans, doesn't have the guts to do anything. We'll write,
00:03:13.460 well, let's do a hearing. We're going to have a hearing on something in six weeks. And then let's
00:03:18.340 write somebody a strong letter. And, you know, and I'm sick of it. That's why I've got over 20
00:03:23.580 executive orders in the form of law that are sitting in, languishing in a committee. And this
00:03:30.680 bunch, you know, they can't, they can't, you know, they're, we're going to rush up here and name a
00:03:34.980 bunch of post offices or something. And it's just, it's, it's very frustrating to me, dude.
00:03:40.020 To follow up on that, though, some critics of the president say that he's painting with too broad
00:03:47.400 of a brush. And just because one of these collaborators who helped out Americans when we
00:03:51.980 were fighting the Taliban, just because he went crazy, doesn't mean we should ban visas of all
00:03:56.600 Afghani citizens. In the Wall Street Journal editorial, they wrote, Afghan refugees shouldn't
00:04:00.500 be blamed for the violent act of one man collective punishment of all Afghans in the U.S. won't make 0.92
00:04:04.960 America safer. Is this BS? What do you think about this stuff? I guarantee you, they got a guard on
00:04:10.400 their front, front office. You can't just walk into the Wall Street Journal. You can walk in here,
00:04:16.120 there's a guard, but you can still get in. And that's bogus. They, that's, that's, that's,
00:04:21.600 that's the stuff that gets Americans killed again. We need to quit worrying about what these so-called
00:04:27.380 opinion makers think. We better start doing what's right. And that, and that is not right.
00:04:32.280 We need to, they need to call every one of their asses in and they better, they better interrogate 1.00
00:04:36.960 them. They better figure out who they are, who's paying them. We, we allow people to go back America, 1.00
00:04:42.760 they become American citizens and go back and join the Taliban and then come back to this country. 0.91
00:04:46.760 I was just briefed on it just an hour ago. Where's the outrage on that? It's ridiculous, man.
00:04:55.780 This place is so wide open. We better start protecting Americans. Absolutely. It seems that 0.87
00:05:00.320 we're coming to a head on Americans when it comes to the immigration issue. The president was promoting
00:05:07.480 reverse immigration. What do you think about this stuff? Should we have net zero immigration?
00:05:11.500 Should we start? We better stop it. We got a hole in the boat and this bunch up here,
00:05:15.360 they just want to bail. You better plug the hole first and then bail. And that's exactly what Trump
00:05:20.800 wants to do. And I, I'm all about it. Again, he's going to have to do it because Congress
00:05:25.760 sure as hell won't do it. Absolutely. And it's not only the illegal immigration that I think many
00:05:29.820 Americans or people in the MAGA base have an issue with. There's this one thing, H-1B visas that's
00:05:34.820 recently come to the limelight. It's like any other good program in this country. And H-1B 0.69
00:05:39.160 is probably a good thing starting out. It needs to revert. We need to, they need to have like a
00:05:44.080 $50,000 or $100,000 fee to make it worthwhile. Because what they, it was supposed to be high
00:05:48.740 tech. They're bringing in all this stuff and it's putting Americans out of work. They're paying them
00:05:52.860 less. Somebody's getting fat, bringing them in. And the whole thing just stinks. They figured out,
00:05:58.840 they've taken a good program and they've wrecked it. I believe it's roughly 700,000 active H-1B visas
00:06:04.720 filling in positions of what I believe should be American jobs. That we know of. That we know of.
00:06:10.020 Are Americans incapable of filling a majority of these positions? No, no. We're very capable of it,
00:06:16.540 but we're not going to do it for a dollar an hour. And they figured out a loophole and they're taking
00:06:23.500 full advantage of it and they're doing something illegal. I believe the president said though that
00:06:27.440 some of this immigration was necessary. Recently he cited like a South Korean battery plant manufacturer.
00:06:33.140 There's some individual, yeah, they have some specific technology, but when you're getting
00:06:37.060 down to people working in restaurants and things like that, they've abused this system again.
00:06:41.900 And that's particularly common in the tech industry, as I understand. Yeah, it is. And
00:06:45.920 there's specific industries that we have no knowledge of, but we can learn from that. We can
00:06:50.640 bring them in. But again, if it's worthwhile, put a $100,000 fee on top of it and then they're not
00:06:58.480 going to bring somebody in to undercut some construction worker. Absolutely. I also understand
00:07:03.440 that one of the top priorities of the administration obviously has been immigration and the big,
00:07:07.900 beautiful bill, I believe almost tripled the funding to ICE or DHS or some associated agencies.
00:07:13.480 Are you satisfied with the current status of the mass deportation effort of the administration? And
00:07:17.860 do you believe ICE can go further than it already is?
00:07:19.860 Yes. I'm very satisfied with it. Tom Holman is my spirit animal.
00:07:24.820 Do you think they are going to ultimately reach the goals? I believe they want a million a year.
00:07:29.960 Well, they're going to run out eventually. I mean, we got 15, allegedly 15 million, which is
00:07:34.740 kind of daunting when you figure the population of the state of Tennessee is 8 million. But
00:07:41.260 there's probably more than that because we've been sleeping with a switch for a long time. Again,
00:07:45.840 immigration was a great program. Had people come in and work, migrant labor, they work,
00:07:51.260 farms, other things, factories, and then they'd go home. They're not doing that. They figured out
00:07:55.880 a loophole and they're staying in. Again, another government program that probably started out well.
00:08:01.220 These things need to have a sunset on them where they need to end and then Congress comes back and 0.96
00:08:05.680 reevaluates it. Absolutely. I wanted to hit on another important topic that's been on the president's
00:08:10.960 plate and that is dealing with the narco-terrorist regime, the illegitimate regime in Venezuela.
00:08:15.660 Just to get started. I'm all for it. We've lost more people to just fentanyl alone than we have
00:08:22.320 to the Vietnam War. They're saying it's an act of war. We're not at war. If you want to declare war,
00:08:29.720 Congress doesn't have the guts to do it anyway. Look, I'm sick of it. We're not talking about some
00:08:35.760 guy smoking a little weed in his house or something, growing a little weed behind his house. We're
00:08:39.840 talking about people that are bringing in something that literally the head of a pen could kill everybody
00:08:45.420 in this room. Should the president come to Congress for approval for any of these strikes?
00:08:50.160 No, because if they do, Congress will alert the enemy, as we've seen. Under Pelosi's reign of terror,
00:08:56.440 we had a group. They took Soleimani and some of them out and they were ticked off because they
00:09:03.240 weren't told they're allowed to give a prior approval. That's ridiculous. Trump did it what a leader 0.96
00:09:09.300 needed to do. He didn't take him out in an airport. He didn't take him out in a village where innocent
00:09:13.080 people died. He took him out on the street. And the way they identified that guy, you know how
00:09:16.920 they identified him? How? By his ring finger. Because he had this, that's about all that was
00:09:20.720 left. His shin bone was up again. I saw some classified pictures of it. It was pretty gruesome,
00:09:25.000 but it took him out. And nobody died. It's like the early days of Las Vegas, brother. Nobody died
00:09:29.340 that shouldn't have died. Just to follow up on this point, though, many argue that the mass majority
00:09:33.760 of the fentanyl that is coming into our country and drugs that are coming into our country aren't coming
00:09:38.220 from Venezuela. So even if there were to be total regime change there, there will still be a fentanyl
00:09:42.220 and drug issue in the country. Yeah, well, you got a problem. You got a horrible dictator there. But
00:09:45.780 also, that sends a message to everybody else. Would you support regime change or troops on the ground
00:09:51.520 in Venezuela? Currently, no. No, I don't want... Trump understands this, but most people don't
00:09:56.820 as a leader. He understands the first most powerful thing we have is our military. The second
00:10:02.400 is our economic power. Economic power. That's what we bring them down with. 0.91
00:10:09.000 Absolutely. And this is my last question that I just really wanted to quickly get to here.
00:10:13.600 Many Democrats are accusing what Secretary Pete Hex said and our Department of War of what they're
00:10:18.740 doing in the Venezuelan waters to be war crimes. The Washington Post alleged that we did a so-called
00:10:24.080 double tap after the Venezuelan drug runners. They detect their sources, but the reality is that
00:10:30.640 those dirtbags will not be spreading murder and death through drugs into our country again. 0.66
00:10:36.900 Senator Mark Kelly and Van Hollen from Connecticut suggested that if the reporting is true, that
00:10:42.140 these are war crimes. What's your reaction to that? And then Mark Kelly also was, you know,
00:10:46.160 encouraging service members to disregard so-called illegitimate orders. How should we feel about this?
00:10:51.060 I think if we listen to them, they'd be just... It'd be open borders. They'd be in our country. 0.99
00:10:55.920 And they got no guts. They have no guts. We need to take it. We need to protect this country first
00:11:02.280 and foremost. We call on our military, the best people in the country to do some of the most awful
00:11:08.380 things. But they do it because they have an oath to this country. Absolutely. Representative Bersha,
00:11:13.120 thank you so much for your time. And we appreciate you. Thank you, brother.
00:11:25.920 Thank you.