On today's show, Glenn and Pat discuss the funding of the migrant caravan headed toward the southern border. They also discuss President Trump's speech at the White House on immigration and border security. And they discuss the latest on the economy and gas prices.
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00:00:40.380On today's podcast, we are going to talk about the funding of the caravans.
00:00:47.100You know, I know the media says, no, this is just grassroots. This is nothing. Really?
00:00:51.800Because Project Veritas has come out with something pretty darn interesting about the Beto campaign actually funding some of the bus tickets, some of the airplanes and also food.
00:01:08.100Caravan. This is against the law to use your campaign funds to do that.
00:01:12.860They're on tape and it is really quite astonishing.
00:01:16.620Also, my answer to Don Lemon. Don, I don't believe is a racist, but Don, you're acting like one right now.
00:01:24.920Your comments about white people being the most dangerous terrorists in America is just flat out wrong.
00:01:33.480I will show you the stats using the stats he pulled from.
00:01:38.260I'll show you how it was cherry picked to make it look that way.
00:02:21.580So yesterday, last night, President Trump gave a speech at the White House addressing the migrant caravan that is slowly approaching the American border.
00:02:31.180The same caravan that everybody on TV says, don't worry about it.
00:03:11.340Let me give you the big takeaway from the speech.
00:03:14.000In my personal opinion, this was a speech given as an affirmation to the people who voted for him, just saying, yep, I got it under control.
00:03:30.200One moment that encapsulated, I think, the entire speech is probably when a reporter asked President Trump whether or not the troops will fire on migrants in the caravan.
00:03:49.180Anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico and the Mexican military and Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm.
00:03:59.640Because there's not much difference when you get hit in the face with Iraq, which, as you know, it was very violent a few days ago, very, very violent.
00:04:10.880And that break-in, it was a break-in of a country.
00:04:16.000And you look at what's happening in Guatemala, just to mention Guatemala, along with El Salvador and Honduras.
00:04:23.720It's disgraceful that those countries aren't able to stop this, because they should be able to stop it before it starts.
00:04:29.880And the United States pays them a fortune, and we're looking at not doing that anymore, because why should we be doing that when they do nothing for us?
00:04:38.500Wow, is that a John Wayne, Clint Eastwood moment.
00:04:45.920The first time I've ever heard him self-edit.
00:05:08.500This is a message for the people in Honduras, the people in Guatemala, the people in Mexico.
00:05:17.940It is also a message for anybody who is funding all of this, perhaps Venezuela.
00:05:25.140There are reports, we have not verified them, but there are reports that leftists here in America are also helping the funding now on the buses, etc., etc.
00:07:28.980I look at people, when they talk about Donald Trump, I look at them the same way I would look at somebody who says, McDonald's is horrible.
00:09:14.300And it's exciting to live in these times.
00:09:17.540If we don't kill each other, this is a time where we all get to figure out who we really are, what we really believe in, how great we actually can be.
00:09:28.700Historic times are often turbulent times.
00:15:39.700So we'll do it because the media won't.
00:15:42.460During his, sorry, but not really sorry, mayor, culpable refusal, Lemon quoted GAO report, finding that from September 12, 2001, until the end of 2016, there have been, I'm giving you the actual facts he just alluded to them.
00:15:59.460There have been 85 extremist attacks and 73% of those documented attacks were committed by right-wing people.
00:16:44.100The white man is the most responsible for domestic terror.
00:16:48.640But the GAO report lists cases that don't have anything to do with domestic terrorism.
00:16:54.940The GAO counted every single case where a fatality occurred and the attacker had an affiliation with right-wing or white supremacist affiliation.
00:18:03.040So the report that Cory Booker—by the way, it's about to get much better.
00:18:07.140The report that Cory Booker and Don Lemon are using to show that white men are the most dangerous terror threat includes prison and gang crime, where many times race or bigotry wasn't even the motive.
00:18:21.760So does that say they're skewing this?
00:18:25.920They're not really telling you the truth?
00:18:29.420If your case is built around this report, and you try to label an entire race of people as dangerous terrorists, that's not just insanely dishonest.
00:19:20.320Now, I also found an even more interesting fact here.
00:19:26.200The GAO report did not include any attack unless it included a fatality.
00:19:33.500Now, how many—and remember, I don't ever ask a question that I don't know the answer to—
00:19:40.880How many multiple attacks have happened from Islamic extremists that don't show up because they didn't kill anyone or they were thwarted by the FBI?
00:19:56.360Now, if you're going to call all white people terrorists, you might want to have the information to back it up more than a flawed study that includes prison and gang violence.
00:20:08.800So we went to the Department of Homeland Security.
00:20:11.280From 2001 to 2013, there were 53 Islamic terrorist attacks here in America that were foiled by law enforcement.
00:20:22.280From 2014 to 2016, with ISIS alone, there were 101 foiled attacks.
00:20:33.280So, in the span of the GAO study that Don Lemon is quoting from, there were 154 foiled attacks from Islamic extremists.
00:20:45.240That's a lot more than the entire 84, if you're keeping track at home, or 85.
00:20:54.780So you combine that, you combine the right-wing attacks and the Islamic terrorist attacks, including the prison and gang violence, and there are still only 85 incidences?
00:25:32.380These guys are admitting to federal crimes.
00:25:35.640And they're talking about taking money from the campaign and buying bus tickets, buying, I think they did say, airline tickets and food and blankets and helping people from Honduras get to the United States.
00:25:53.020And there's also another field manager, Andrea Reyes, a field manager for the Beto campaign.
00:26:00.160And she's talking about how she's got proof that she shared this with the campaign manager.
00:26:58.080So, so what she's saying is she informed Jody, the campaign manager for Beto, that they were sending these funds to, I guess, the Honduran caravan people.
00:27:11.140And they were, and she told the campaign manager about it and they were fine with it.
00:27:15.920And she has the text messages to prove it.
00:27:18.640I can't, I mean, I just don't understand how Texas, how this guy is even close.
00:27:26.420First of all, he is a democratic socialist.
00:27:28.900I mean, he is, he is as left as they come out of line with Texas.
00:27:34.980He is a post-modernist kind of guy out of line with Texas.
00:27:40.760Now, taking campaign funds, and even if they were low staffers, this has been out since yesterday.
00:27:50.160There's been no move to get rid of these staffers.
00:27:53.820No move of him having to come out and say, oh, we would never do that.
00:28:53.660And, you know, he may still, and I'm not throwing him under the bus or anything, but I was concerned about how sloppy they were at times.
00:29:02.720And that he would sometimes, I felt, creatively edit things.
00:29:09.280And, for instance, when the New York Times caught the O'Keefe reporter, do you remember that one, where they were trying to get inside of a, into the New York Times, and the New York Times reporter figured it out and just really just embarrassed that person?
00:29:30.640It was just sloppy, and he shouldn't have done that.
00:29:34.420Now, I think he's cleaned that up, and he's gotten smarter, because the stuff that he's coming out with now is really, really important, really important.
00:29:46.740And if he is as buttoned up as I think he is right now, this is stuff we have to pay attention to.
00:29:55.620And we've got to bring it to our friends who are Democrats on the other side of the street, not the other side of the aisle, because the aisle implies a politician.
00:30:57.180The question is, how do you excuse this?
00:31:00.660Because there's no way to take what they said out of context unless what they said right before was, okay, I mean, if I were doing this stuff and, you know, I wanted us to look bad, what I would say is, roll tape.
00:32:24.960If staffers were caught on tape by media matters, okay, and they were caught on tape and they were saying, yeah, well, don't say this.
00:32:38.400We don't want people to know, but we've taken some of Ted's campaign cash and we're actually paying patriots to come down and live on the border and have their guns
00:32:48.700and make sure these Hondurans and make sure these Hondurans are not getting coming across.
00:32:51.700Do you think every single operation in America would be on those tapes?
00:33:00.680And even if they said media matters, and none of them would, but media matters has an axe to grind.
00:33:08.100Media matters is not a credible source.
00:34:29.780He could have said, look, you know, white men and people who are in these white extremists, they are a real problem that we should address.
00:34:38.340And he didn't qualify it like that at all.