5⧸8⧸17 - Who owns you？ (Gov.Greg Abbott Joins Glenn)
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1 hour and 43 minutes
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Summary
Greg Abbott signs a bill that could lead to more ICE raids in so-called "sanctuary cities" in the United States. The Russians hacked into the Democratic National Committee and released thousands of documents stolen from the DNC. Lawrence Jones takes on Wanda Sykes and she calls him a racist.
Transcript
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Hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program. Glad you're here.
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Mac Brown has won the historic French election.
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Now the hard work begins and the Russians hacked in in the last two days.
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There's a blackout in France, so the media can't cover anything that is happening in the last two days.
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The Russians hacked in and did pretty much a WikiLeaks release exactly the way they did it here in the United States.
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We know the Russians did it. We know exactly who did it.
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And it is exactly the same group of Russians that did it to the DNC.
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Also, Folds of Honor, a way for you to honor our vets.
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It's going on now live, and we'll tell you all about it.
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And Lawrence Jones, who works for The Blaze, he was on Fox and Friends today.
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And he took on Wanda Sykes, the comedian, if you can call her that.
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And she was saying that anybody who stands against health care, well, you're a racist.
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Lawrence, who is black, says, no, that's not true.
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Wait until you hear what happened to Lawrence this weekend for taking that stand.
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I will make a stand. I will raise my voice. I will hold your hand.
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Because we are one. I will be my drum. I have made my choice.
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We have Greg Abbott coming on in just a few minutes.
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Last night, Greg Abbott signed a ban on so-called sanctuary cities,
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which allows police to ask about a person's immigration status
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and threaten the sheriffs with jail if they don't cooperate with federal authorities.
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He did so here in Texas over intense opposition from immigrant rights groups and Democrats
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Let's face it, the reason why so many people come to America is because we're a nation of laws
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and Texas is doing its part to keep it that way.
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He did this last night because there were going to be big protests today as he was signing it.
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I think Greg Abbott is the most reasoned, sensible, just right down the line governor I have ever witnessed
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or I've ever lived with or voted for in a state.
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I've never seen somebody as even-keeled as Greg Abbott.
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He's just like, no, this is not right, and here's why.
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And he reasons it out, and then he just does it.
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So we have him coming up in just a few minutes.
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One thing they have to do as that kind of works its way through not only through Texas
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but through a lot of states who are dealing with this,
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and obviously the president has made it a big priority,
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they have to define actually what a sanctuary city is
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because there's a lot of – a sanctuary city isn't a real term per se.
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It's something that we've kind of, like, talked about to summarize the city
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But you have to come up with an actual definition for these cities to comply with.
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And now, because it's a priority of the president in particular,
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a lot of these cities are saying, hey, well, what is it?
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The cities have asked the administration, hey, what do we have to do?
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And they're like, well, we don't have that fully fleshed out yet.
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Well, there's also some things that judges are in the middle of ruling on,
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so it's not like they're just ignoring the responsibility to figure out a definition.
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And, of course, at that point, whatever that definition is,
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is the absolute maximum any of these cities will do.
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So you have to try to encompass as much of these problems as possible in that definition
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They're not going to work on the spirit of the law, that's for sure.
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Here's what he said about the Obamacare replacement bill.
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when they're touched by the consequences never before.
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they were all, mostly all, men and white men at that.
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Women's health issues arguably are going to be disproportionately affected.
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preventative care, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, birth control.
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Congresswoman Diane Black, the chair of the Budget Committee,
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These are prominent individuals who are leading in this area of health care.
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have the kind of coverage that they want for themselves and for their families,
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Can I just say I am so tired of the gender stuff.
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Aren't we all supposed to just look at each other as brothers and sisters?
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Right, and judged on the merit of what things are.
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But this stuff makes me want to defend the people who did even write the bill.
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you don't make decisions on the bill based on people's genitals.
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I really respect your opinion, but you got the wrong genitals.
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Unless you ask them how they identify on a particular day.
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Andrea, are you judging these people by the way they're dressed?
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Are you identifying their genders by the way they look or the way they dress?
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You don't know how many of there identify as a woman?
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Remember I used to say, spit yourself out of the system?
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The only way to survive is to spit yourself out of the system?
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Here's the big loogie that you're spitting yourself out.
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Everybody turns their head as you're getting ready to spit it out.
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Because there's nothing good that comes from any of this.
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I had Eric on Thursday and Thursday on television.
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How do we find people on the left or the right that just will surrender?
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There is a little bit of a chicken and egg to it that you can't start that cycle until you start that cycle.
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In this moment right now, I will own my piece of it.
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I think the amount that Eric Liu has contributed to the toxicity and polarization of our political culture today is a small fraction of that which perhaps Glenn Beck, who has a much larger voice and platform, has contributed.
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But it's really not about whether it's 95-5, 99-1, 60-40, whatever, right?
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My piece of this is I certainly over the years have not only contributed to a polarization of the rhetoric where, you know, there's been a...
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I wrote a piece where I said libertarians are the new communists, right?
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They preach not control, but they just want to control what they're not control, right?
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Because we understood that in this media environment that we just said, yeah, not my responsibility.
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I'm just playing in the game that, you know, that I walked into.
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That in this game, we both knew that if we dialed it up that way, and I called you a communist, and you called me a communist back or something, you called me a fascist, that on each side we'd get...
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There have been times where I watched a debate unfold and watched people on my side start hardening into these positions that are kind of a caricature, right?
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You know, I know they've got a good heart, and I'm going to let that slide.
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Or to take a very live example right now, plenty of folks, you and I have talked about this, are saying to me, hey, Eric, it's wonderful that you're now quite alert to the dangers of executive overreach.
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But why didn't you say anything when President Obama was using executive orders willy-nilly and saying outright that he would do so to bypass Congress?
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Like, during those years, I didn't say anything.
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Because I liked the outcomes that Obama was advancing through his executive orders.
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And that is so refreshing, and for my side, that was against all of the executive orders.
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To watch them now say, well, we have to do something.
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No, what we have to do is abide by our principles in the Constitution.
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Nobody sees that the game has just switched chairs, switched sides, and we've switched arguments, and it's going to switch again.
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Because everyone knows that the other side, whichever side you're on, doesn't mean it.
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You and I have this thing in common, which we probably maybe, you know, many years ago wouldn't admit so readily.
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But that is, you and I are both actually earnest believers in ideas.
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There are lots and lots of folks in politics right now, especially national politics, for whom it really is a game or performance art or just, you know, positioning.
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And it will flip the moment circumstances flip.
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And I think the thing that, going back to your question, like, how do we break this cycle?
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You've just got to start reaching out and saying...
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I keep telling people you're just going to have to kiss a ton of frogs.
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You're going to kiss a frog and they'll swear to you they're a prince and then you're going to go, nope, that wasn't you.
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And I think this is one of the things that people sometimes imagine.
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Because our politics has become this tribalized, polarized, kabuki theater game, people think that it's all zero sum, that it's a battle to the death.
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And that if your side makes a gain, that must mean that my side is losing.
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Like, you know, the word you used a few minutes ago I think is extraordinary.
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Like, I think one of the deepest insights that we're all going to wake up to eventually as a country is there are lots and lots of times in politics where you advance by yielding.
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Instead of jamming through and thinking, my job is to grind this other guy to dust.
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If I say, hey, my job is to recognize that politics is a game of infinite repeat play and you win some and you lose some and I'll concede this point, I won't fight this point, and I know next time I'm going to get the point or whatever, that's a different mindset.
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Yielding is saying we share responsibility for this thing.
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We're actually, you and I, 1791, you know, you're saying we are stewards of something called the Bill of Rights.
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You know, if I started a clothing company, it would be 1868 because I like the 14th Amendment.
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I like the way in which the 14th Amendment redeems promises that have been made in the original Constitution but not actually delivered upon.
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Everything past really the first 10 amendments are just, no, stupid, listen, this is what we were saying.
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The other amendments are just like, oh my gosh, do I really have to spell this out?
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You've just done con law in 30 seconds right there.
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No, the 14th Amendment, but again, I mean, this idea that fundamentally, you know, whether you're thinking about the Bill of Rights or you're thinking about the 14th Amendment and this idea of a new birth of freedom,
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Like, you and I are meant to disagree on stuff and we are meant to...
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But we disagree because we both actually believe in ideas and we both love this country.
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When's the last time you heard somebody like that?
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And those are the people who are spitting themselves out of the system.
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And we'll be able to make progress if we can find those people in your own life.
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So, Eric Liu was the audio that I just played from last Thursday's television show on The Blaze TV.
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And what he said was, there's a lot of people that are playing the games.
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He said, but you and I both believe deeply in something.
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And so we can meet on the battlefield of ideas.
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I think there are a lot of people that believe this kind of stuff on both sides.
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I hope every GOP-er who voted for Trumpcare sees a family member get long-term condition,
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GOP-ers only gain empathy when they're touched by the consequences.
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Or is that something that he actually believes?
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I think it's something that he actually believes.
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Because they've never reached out and sat down with somebody.
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They've just seen the caricatures, the cartoons on TV, you know, or in sound bites.
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They don't necessarily know anyone because they live in their own little bubble.
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I'll show you the consequences of this in somebody who's standing up, Lawrence Jones.
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Standing up as a black man for his own community.
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You played that great clip from Eric Liu from last week where he is saying,
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I think everything that every conservative wants to hear about someone who was on the left defending Obama all those years.
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Now that you're critical of Trump, well, where were you during Obama?
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I should have been there during Obama and I wasn't.
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And it's going to be an interesting thing to see play out because I don't want to downplay how difficult that is for someone like Eric Liu to do.
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Because it's going to take time to see, and I think people rightfully should be skeptical of anyone on the left who's saying now,
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Trump is doing the wrong thing and I was wrong for Obama.
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Because it's going to take time until you see a Democrat in office to see the other way.
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Yeah, because they accused us of only saying that.
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And we've been critical of Trump for many of these things as well throughout.
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So it's going to take time for that to actually happen.
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Yeah, and I think, by the way, that's totally fair.
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It was totally fair of the left to be skeptical of us during the Obama administration.
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Because it could have been just political lines.
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In the same way, we should be skeptical of someone like Eric Liu.
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However, you have to recognize how important that is as a first step to go out there and say, you know what?
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My side, when they were doing these things, was wrong.
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And being able to maintain that when your side regains power is the real test of whether you meant it or not.
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So one of the guys who is taking a really hard stand, and it's not going to matter who's in office, is Lawrence Jones, who works for The Blaze.
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And over the weekend, he went on to Fox to eviscerate Wanda Sykes for labeling Obamacare repeal as racist.
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And here is what Lawrence said over the weekend.
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They hate having a black president, and they want to get rid of it.
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Well, I just think it's quite comical that the liberals are so concerned about black America when they have filled my community for years.
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I think it's important to know, Abby, that that 30-hour rule in Obamacare affected my community harshly.
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A lot of us weren't able to get jobs and couldn't get the necessary hours because of that 30-hour rule.
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So I think it's really comical that the liberals are all of a sudden concerned about black America.
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This one guy said, a white-loving black person that is a traitor to his people, he deserves to be strung up.
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So a very compassionate white progressive was advocating for lynching.
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And I finally figured out why they're doing this now.
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Because it used to be some black folks saying, you know, you're Uncle Tom.
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And now those people are starting to die out because I've started to really connect with my community.
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Got trained by the left, went to D.C., hung around Nancy Pelosi, all of them.
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And so it's kind of comical to me to watch the left try to attack me and say, hey, you're a shield for the right.
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Well, because they see me connecting with my community and they have this hold on them right now where they continue to make emotional arguments that the right is racist.
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And so they seek to discredit me, say I'm a shield.
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Are they starting to, are people in the black community starting to say, like you did under Obama, you know, I think both political parties are full of crap.
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The paychecks that they're receiving, the loss of health care, jobs leaving America.
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I think when you have a party that makes everything about emotions and then you look at your bank statement, when you when you're feeling being in poverty, I think it starts to wake you up real quick.
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And so for a while they were able to survive to survive on President Obama because he was the first black president.
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Say Donald Trump hates you when Donald Trump is advocating for a lot of black folks with his new deal for new deal for black America.
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He's talking about immigration, which a lot of black folks are upset that they prioritize illegal immigrants and give them jobs.
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You know, it's really funny because you only hear on the immigration front, you only hear that this is about racism, that whites are racist taking the jobs.
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But they completely ignore the black community, which is the first to get hit by this for the lower paying jobs.
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They call the border control, the slave catchers.
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And so if there's anything that's I don't think there's anything more offensive to suggest that the experience of illegal immigrants that came here willingly is like slaves that were brought on a slave ship that couldn't go back to their country.
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Do you hear that, though, from people that are not like you?
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And I think that's when the shift started to come, because I put all the left on notice.
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I mean, how can you say the Congressional Black Caucus?
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How can you say you advocate for the black community and use this type of language?
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But I have found so much contradiction over the last 40 years.
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I mean, you look at you look at the black community and they do not vote their values.
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They were the strongest family unit in the country.
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Now we're told because, you know, slavery broke up families, everything else.
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They had you guys came together and you made your family stronger.
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The strongest family unit in the country was the black family unit.
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The the left has dismantled and destroyed the community.
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And I mean, I've heard the stuff, you know, your your traditional values, but you voted against those values for 40 years.
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I think the right does a terrible job in connecting with the community.
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I think we have to take some ownership as well.
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I think because the black community has voted 90 percent of the time for the left, we don't show up.
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And we're just like, OK, it's just not worth it.
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And if you win two or three, four people a day, I consider that a win.
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There was a time where I would go on social media and I felt like my community hated me because they didn't feel like I was fighting for them.
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You were you were an investigated investigator for Dallas police.
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You've started to do these investigative pieces now in the blaze.
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You did one that's caused a lot of controversy recently on medical marijuana.
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And it is the smartest piece I think I've ever seen on medical marijuana.
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It's it's it's not about everybody else takes the pot smokers and they take the the angle of, you know, those people who want to get high.
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You actually made it about medicine and you have.
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I might even talk to the governor about it today.
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Hey, my daughter has seizures and they can't make them stop.
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And the head of one of the big I don't want to stick him out, but head of one of the big hospitals here in Texas, one of the biggest.
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And he is the the head guy said, I mean, the first thing, if you can get your hands on it, that I would try would be marijuana oil.
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I think a lot of people are dealing with the law system and I was a private investigator and worked a lot with Dallas police.
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I went to the Reserve Academy and I respect the law.
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And when you get to see my video, you see a guy with cerebral palsy do kickboxing.
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But what's the difference between that and this and a and a sanctuary city?
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Well, this is these poor people that, you know, are escaping oppression.
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I mean, that's why I'm advocating for the state to change the law.
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Dallas just passed the ordinance where if you have below five ounces, they'll just give you a ticket.
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In fact, it is it's it's for medical use is is the real difference.
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But but my argument is, is that where is the line?
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And we're seeing a veteran suicide rate drop when they use it.
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It's interesting because, I mean, medical marijuana is not a controversial topic.
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Most recent poll on should you be able to use marijuana for medical purposes?
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No, I think the issue here is and you saw this in certainly in California, which is the slippery slope argument has never been more accurate.
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We're going to have these dispensaries where they were.
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You walk in there and get your card and you get your pot for recreational purposes.
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Now, I don't personally care, honestly, about recreational use.
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But still, I can understand the argument because, you know, people say, well, you can have it for medical purposes.
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So it is an interesting debate from that perspective.
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But I don't see how I don't see how you don't have it legal for medical purposes.
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It's going to be legal for recreational purposes.
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I mean, I was talking to a guy who's dying with cancer yesterday.
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And he said, have you heard about the mother's breast milk thing going on?
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And he said, a woman has had this theory for a long time that breast milk could cure cancer.
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And tried to go in and get people to do research.
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But because it didn't involve big pharma or big money anywhere, nobody was interested.
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And finally, she got enough people to back a study.
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But it shows at least real strong leading indications that breast milk actually goes right to cancer and destroys a lot of the cancer.
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But they're still in progress on that, by the way.
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And we've got to get the business side out of the way.
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And we have to get the FDA side out of the way.
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And especially when it comes to death, start moving these things along a little faster, perhaps.
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Stu is instantly a skeptic on the breast milk thing.
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I'm always skeptical of the claim of, well, you know what?
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This one mom decided she was going to cure cancer with paper airplanes.
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And no one wanted it because you can't make money off of paper airplanes.
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I don't believe that, you know, car companies have kept, you know, the flying car down or
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I mean, that's fact where they'll put you out of business if you try to disrupt their
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I mean, I think though, I think any company that saw the idea, and collusion, it's possible,
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less likely today than back in the Tucker days.
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I mean, with the internet and everything, it's almost impossible.
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But the idea that companies, first of all, that there's not enough good people who just
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don't want human beings to die from cancer because they want to enrich themselves.
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And they do see the benefits of curing cancer financially.
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But I also think that some pharmaceutical companies will hold on some things because
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they've got another one that needs to run its course.
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Greg Abbott last night went on Facebook and signed a new bill into law stopping sanctuary
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Well, some say the problem is Texas doesn't have any real self-declared sanctuary cities.
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Greg Abbott, the governor of the great state of Texas, joins us right now.
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I think the best governor in the entire United States.
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So last night, you go on Facebook and you sign a bill.
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This is the first time I think anybody has ever done this on Facebook.
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We've seen an evolution with regard to digital media, with regard to the way that elected officials are communicating directly with their constituents.
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We saw it first with what Barack Obama did with digital media.
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And it's important that I be able to connect directly with them unfiltered through other media.
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Obviously, other media across the entire country has picked this up and spread the story, which we are proud that they did.
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But you can expect going forward, there'll be many more ways in which we are communicating directly with the people who are our citizens,
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the people that I have to answer to every single day.
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I have to tell you, Governor, I'd love to spend some more time talking to you about that.
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But I know that we are living in, everybody knows, we're living in a time now where you don't need a middleman anymore.
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And I'd love to talk about the ramifications of that if we have more time.
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Texas doesn't have any self-declared sanctuary city.
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And the Trump administration is having a hard time defining what a sanctuary city is.
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Then if you don't mind, let me correct you a tiny bit.
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A synonym of a sanctuary city is an outlaw city.
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It is a city or county that refuses to follow the law.
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And in the state of Texas, it is my opinion that we do have a self-declared sanctuary city in Travis County.
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For your listeners, Travis County is the county in which Austin, Texas is located.
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And the sheriff of Travis County has a written policy that is tangible for anybody to put their hands on that says that Travis County is not going to comply with ICE detainer request.
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In fact, the Travis County policy is such that if a person who is in the United States illegally
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and has either committed or been accused of a very violent crime such as sexual assault, sexual assault of a minor, armed robbery, working in conspiracy with the drug cartels, any of those crimes and far more,
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the sheriff of Travis County, who is responsible for upholding the law and keeping our citizens safe,
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is going to release them even if the federal government has a request to hold them for the federal government to come and take them.
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That, I think, is the quintessential definition of a sanctuary city.
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Travis County is the target and subject of this law that I signed last night.
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Okay, so now, what happens to Sheriff Fernandez?
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What happens to, I mean, Dallas is also a city that kind of plays games with sanctuary.
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The new Texas law imposes very serious penalties.
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One is going to be fines that can add up to $25,000 per day.
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Two is that these officials, let's say in this case, the Travis County Sheriff, can be subject to forced removal from office by the Texas Attorney General.
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Three is these officials can be subject to jail time if they have sanctuary city policies or if they refuse to comply with the ICE detainer requests.
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Excuse my ignorance on this, but I remember hearing this a long time ago, and it may be complete bunk,
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that the sheriff is the only one that actually answers directly to the people.
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Police officers, police commissioners, et cetera, et cetera, don't.
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But this is a separate office that doesn't really answer to any chain of command.
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Correct in this regard, and that is police officers are not elected by the people.
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That said, sheriffs are one of the county officials who have to work in conjunction with county governance,
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which in the state of Texas, the leader of county government is called the county judge,
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and then there's a county commissioner's court that the sheriff must work with.
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It's the county commissioner's court that sets the budget for the sheriff.
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How do you respond to people who are saying this is going to terrorize the Latino community?
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Well, first, let's be clear about something, and that is that just because someone is here illegally
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Remember this, Glenn, and that is more than half of the people who have been coming across their border illegally this past year
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Second is that Texas is an open and welcoming state.
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In fact, even before Texas was Texas, we've been a blend of Anglo and Hispanic culture.
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And as you know, my wife is the first Hispanic first lady, and so we are very supportive and open to immigration.
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They say that laws like this are anti-immigrant.
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The only people who are subject to being apprehended under this new law are people who are here illegally
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who have committed a crime that ICE has caused them to put on their detainer list.
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If you are here and you've committed no crime whatsoever, you're never even going to be subject to this
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because ICE will not have you on their detainer list.
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So, Governor, here's one thing that I think that I can't solve in my own head.
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And I know you're a compassionate man, and I know this has had to cross your mind.
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There are those people who are here illegally who are good, decent people and whatever their situation is, yada, yada, yada.
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But somehow or another, a bad guy gets into their life and is abusing them, beating them, raping them, whatever.
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And if they fear that they are going to be, you know, sent back home and something's going to happen to them
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or they just don't want to be on anybody's radar because they're pretty invisible,
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And crime could go through, really horrible kinds of crime could go through the roof in those communities.
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How do you solve that, and do you believe that's true?
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We solve that in this law because we put specific exceptions in this law.
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If you are a victim of a crime, if you are a witness to a crime,
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you will not be asked about your immigration status if you report that crime.
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We wanted to make sure that those people would be accepted from these provisions.
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Now, they're calling this the papers, please, Bill, but that's not what this does.
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You don't ask for papers if somebody's on a routine stop, right?
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Let me be very clear about this because a lot of critics misconstrue this as being the Arizona law.
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In the Arizona law that was reviewed by the United States Supreme Court,
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they specifically, quote, required law enforcement officers to ask about immigration status.
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First, I will tell you that part of the law was upheld by the United States Supreme Court,
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even the liberals on the United States Supreme Court.
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What the Texas law does is it allows but does not require law enforcement to ask about immigration status.
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And that is when a police officer pulls over somebody, let's say in a car,
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and they do it for driving too fast, whatever the violation may be.
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Let's say they walk up to the car and they look in the car,
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and the person in the car has tattoos on them that clearly indicates they are a member of MS-13,
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which, by the way, is growing in number in the state of Texas.
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It would be right for the police officer to ask that MS-13 member,
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And so it allows them in situations where this person could be the subject of an ICE detainter request,
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which an MS-13 gang member most likely would be, to make that inquiry.
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But it simply and absolutely does not require law enforcement officers to ask about immigration status.
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Anybody who says otherwise either doesn't know the law or they are misrepresenting the law.
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Governor, what do you think about the progress that,
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and I don't want to get this into a Trump thing,
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about the progress of illegal immigration and the border wall, etc., etc.,
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with this administration without, because I don't want to put you in the middle of something here,
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are we moving the way we should be, or have we surrendered this?
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Well, we've had a problem for decades now with regard to the legal immigration process.
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We have a completely flawed immigration system that must be fixed.
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And nothing has been done in the last few administrations,
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and nothing has yet been done under the current administration to fix our immigration process.
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Texas, and I think America, strongly supports a robust legal immigration system.
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What must be done is we must implement reforms that overhaul our legal immigration system
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and couple that with strict enforcement against illegal immigration.
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I said a few years ago that what President Obama was doing was sending a message all around the world.
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And if I lived across the border in poverty, in a drug-ridden,
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if I lived in a place where I knew my kids had no future,
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and the President of the United States was saying,
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we're not going to enforce this, and if you get here, you're going to be here forever,
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I would absolutely take my kids across this border for the promise of America.
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And I said at the time, a lot of this is our fault
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because we're telling them we don't care about this law.
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And if you are in their situation, you're going to roll the dice for a piece of this.
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Barack Obama's approach to border security was the Olay system,
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such as the matador saying Olay to the bull charging at them,
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why is it that so many people want to come to America
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as opposed to, let's say, go to Venezuela or some other place?
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The reason is because the United States of America,
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more than any other country in the entire world,
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continue to ensure that America remains a nation of laws
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so that we will be the aspiration for people around the entire globe.
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Has our immigration here in Texas, our illegal immigration,
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There actually has been a decline during this calendar year,
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a very meaningful decline during this calendar year,
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where people who are coming across the border illegally
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In this last calendar year, before the one we're in right now,
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there were more or about 1,000 people crossing the border a day.
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And now that has shrunk dramatically compared to where it was before.
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But we'll need to see, because as most people know,
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the increase in cross-border activity typically increases
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Have we moved our border agents closer to the border since Obama?
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I mean, there was this huge gap for a long time.
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the best place to secure the border is at the border.
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One of the policies of the Obama administration
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was to remove more into the interior the border security operations
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so that people would have already crossed the border.
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And so, yes, one of the changes is to move border security closer to the border.
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Another is to increase and enhance border security efforts.
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But that is something that the state of Texas is also doing.
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We're about to close out our new budget here in the coming weeks
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where we continue to add more money from the state of Texas to secure the border
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because it is important that we be a state as well as a nation of laws.
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We welcome people here who want to immigrate to the United States legally,
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but we want to make sure that if there's anybody who's not following the law,
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I'd love to have you back and talk a little bit about the culture of Texas
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and how or if we're doing anything to protect the culture of Texas.
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It's one of the only states left that has or almost, I can almost say,
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It's just because this massive influx from people all over the world
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But let me leave you with just this one question here.
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Have we signed on now officially to the Convention of States?
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As of last week, Texas became the 11th state to sign on to the Convention of States.
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And Texas will be in the vanguard of leading that effort.
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Now that Texas passed it, I think many more states will come behind us.
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This is a common-sense opportunity to return power to the people
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away from the entrenched forces in Washington, D.C.
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I have to tell you, I think you are the best governor in the country right now.
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But the best governor I think I have ever lived under.
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Emmanuel Macron is the new president of France.
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It was the largest margin of victory since Jacques Chirac beat out her father in 2002.
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Everything went really pretty much exactly as expected.
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Hours before the polls opened, Macron was predicted to take a 30-point lead.
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It ended up in being just slightly more than that.
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Pollsters are right more often than that is noticed, right?
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I mean, a lot of times, everyone likes to point out the times that they're wrong, but they're
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This is the first time I've ever paid attention to the French president.
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Because, I mean, the Le Pen election in 2002, we paid attention to, we talked about on the
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But, you know, that's really, it's only been that movement.
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I know one of them had a model, a really hot model wife.
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And, you know, if our system was working right, that would be really all that the rest of the
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For the direction of France and the rest of the world.
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Of the 47 million registered voters in France, 11.4 million chose to sit this one out.
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That is more people abstaining and staying home than voted for Le Pen.
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This is the most successful election Le Pen's National Front has ever had.
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And as much as this is an increase, they're actually going to change the name of the party, reportedly.
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Right, because they're just too tied to their father.
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I mean, that's good that everybody knows who they are.
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But now they're going to try to cover up some of this stuff.
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Delay the coming storm and maintain the status quo, which is probably what, well, definitely what I would have voted for.
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Or, or I probably would have set it out because I wouldn't have liked either candidate.
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Or given into the old world, you know, European nationalism.
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The status quo is what got them to this place in the first place.
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And so they've just sealed their fate for another five years.
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The Russians know this, I think, better than anybody else.
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A couple of hours before France entered their 48-hour media blackout, before the election,
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a massive leak of Macron's campaign and financial dirty laundry hit the internet.
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Now, why would you do it just before the media blackout?
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Because you would know that no media is going to be able to pick this up.
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And that could work to your advantage or disadvantage.
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The way to really affect it would be to release it a little bit earlier.
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Well, they thought that the media would fight back against it.
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So they had no opposition here because of the ban.
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So, 48 hours before, France has a media blackout.
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Nobody can say anything about the election or anything.
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Now, it was almost a carbon copy of the DNC Podesta hack.
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Investigators over in France have traced it back.
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Fancy Bear, who's a surrogate for the Russian military intelligence.
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Why would you use the same people, the same DNS?
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Perhaps, as Stu said, it is because they wouldn't have any opposition.
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But I believe it's because they knew, just like the rest of the pollsters,
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that there was a massive trouncing coming to Le Pen, no matter what.
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And 11.4 million people are probably going to sit out.
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Can we lead to more people sitting out and being disenfranchised and just saying,
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Not to help Le Pen win, but to add to the discontent.
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Releasing the information pours gasoline on a bonfire.
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The French already feel like, I've got to settle for the status quo.
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But now this guy's coming in, he's facing a lame duck five-year presidency.
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The French and the global media are going to have a field day now,
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You'll notice, did you hear much fanfare that the Clinton Global Initiative closed on April 15th?
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This would be the time you'd want to turn it on, right?
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Apparently, all of the big countries, like Saudi Arabia and Qatar and everybody else,
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they decided that they didn't want to do any more goodwill.
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Or, they decided there was no access to be purchased.
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I think what you're referring to is a report that they were downsizing.
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How can the Clinton Foundation make this move and nobody notice?
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Nobody in the press is even noticing about their donations from these countries.
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WikiLeaks would be exposing all kinds of things.
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And I believe the Russians will eventually expose Trump for all kinds of things as well.
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I think they would have done the same thing here.
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The leftists, the Islamists, the alt-right are playing that game as well.
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The Czech Republic is taking in refugees and they oppose it.