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00:00:30.000Big show today. Senator Rand Paul, Randy Clark on the border and Donald Trump went back on Meet the Press over the weekend, talked about RFK Jr., vaccines, Ukraine and so much more.
00:00:42.000We go over all of it on today's Best of Podcast. First, let me tell you about Lear Capital.
00:08:53.340But I should get to see all the information.
00:08:55.460And really, in this case, the American public should see all of the information.
00:08:59.280Anything to do with Russiagate, anything to do with the abuse of the FBI to go after Donald Trump,
00:09:03.620all that has to be publicly released as well.
00:09:05.980Well, on Friday, here in Fort Worth, Texas, there was a judge that ordered Pfizer to release and produce all of its emergency use authorization file
00:09:18.800to a group of scientists that want to look through it.
00:09:22.240And they've been saying, well, we can't do it.
00:15:05.960I've had this under—I've had this bill for years.
00:15:08.940And both Mike Lee and I have fought on this out of principle.
00:15:12.840Nothing to do with who the president is.
00:15:14.420I don't want any president to have this kind of power.
00:15:19.720We have got to reduce the power of the president of the United States.
00:15:24.040And if he goes in and does everything by executive order, we lose because the next guy will come in and do exactly what Biden did and just cancel it all.
00:15:35.960We've got to get back to a debate, to reason, and to Congress and the Senate actually doing their job.
00:15:45.400This is something that people need to realize that it's not new because people get caught up in the situation.
00:15:51.440They think it's about one person or another.
00:15:53.540The constitutional position of conservatives and limited government advocates has always been that, as Madison said,
00:16:01.840we divided the powers, we separated the powers, and we wanted to pit ambition against ambition.
00:16:07.360In other words, the ambition of people to try to take power would be pitted by the others trying to keep them from taking power.
00:16:14.200But over the last hundred years since FDR, the power of the presidency has gradually expanded,
00:16:20.500and what we need now is a stronger legislature and less power for the central authority to balance that power again.
00:16:28.420This was sort of Montesquieu saying that when the executive legislates, when he has both the power to execute and legislate,
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00:18:22.500From Breitbart News, a Border Patrol retiree, Randy Clark, a guy who's really been following what's going on in the border, is on with us.
00:18:33.520I wanted to talk to him about a couple of things.
00:18:38.340First of all, Randy, welcome to the program.
00:18:40.320Have you seen any difference in Mexico and on the border since Donald Trump, I think it was last week, talked to the president of Mexico and said, you know, things are going to change?
00:18:56.080Is the military of Mexico, have they done anything different?
00:18:59.300So we haven't seen a significant posture change.
00:19:04.180They are still actively keeping a lot of migrants in southern Mexico, from Mexico City all the way to Tapachula.
00:19:11.560There's been some loosening from my sources in Mexico on the highway checkpoints, but the train, that La Bestia train that we have seen thousands and thousands of migrants use to get to the border, it's basically void.
00:19:25.880You know, they are still very strongly doing that.
00:19:29.000So my sources unofficially have said the number has reduced for November apprehensions to less than 50,000, which is important because that's the threshold.
00:19:38.920Remember the 2,500 threshold per day that President Biden said in his executive order to deny asylum?
00:20:12.860What we know is we're seeing caravans assemble.
00:20:15.640We're seeing the Mexican government allowing them to walk for a few days, get tired, and then dispersing them to cities around southern Mexico, urging them to wait for a CBP-1 appointment or to use the CHVN parole program right now.
00:20:31.480But that's the complicating factor, Glenn, is that's definitely going to end as soon as the hand hits the Bible and President Trump is sworn in.
00:20:39.980We're assured that that's going to end.
00:20:42.000So that's 1,450 people allowed in daily through ports of entry along the southwest border and another 1,000 a day through the airport.
00:20:52.700So you're looking at nearly a million people a year under those two programs alone.
00:20:57.520They're going to shortly find out that they're not going to get any appointments scheduled after January the 20th.
00:21:04.120So the question is, how is Mexico going to kind of keep a lid on that pressure cooker they're going to have in a few short days?
00:21:13.140We are talking to a retiree of the Border Patrol and a great reporter for Brightport News who is really an expert on this, Randy Clark.
00:21:22.700Randy, the drug cartels have made so much money.
00:21:28.960They've doubled the price since Donald Trump got into office of getting across.
00:21:34.580I personally think this is just my opinion, but I think that we're almost in bed with these drug cartels and almost in business with him in some ways.
00:21:46.180Donald Trump has said he's going to take him take him on, and I think he will militarily.
00:21:54.360What's going to happen to, let's say, the new president of Mexico if she has to start cracking down on these cartels?
00:22:01.780People usually die in her position in Mexico.
00:22:04.720And I think we're seeing, you know, not an acknowledgment that she's going to be somewhat different than the predecessor in Mexico who believed in the hugs and not bullets.
00:22:17.340There are still some battles between the Mexican government and the Sinaloa cartel going on, although it's not highly publicized.
00:22:25.620But the murder rate there is through the roof.
00:22:29.260So if she doesn't cooperate with the United States, they're still sitting on top of a horrible death rate for Mexican citizens in every state, really, in their union.
00:22:40.120So I think it behooves her to cooperate, but we must act.
00:22:44.140When you look at how many children and young adults are dying from fentanyl, it's marketed poisoning of our youth.
00:22:51.940So it's something that, you know, I take the president and his word, too.
00:22:54.980My last year before I retired was under, you know, Donald Trump and the same folks he's nominating to run this Department of Homeland Security were involved in the policies and practices that saw us reach the lowest number of border crossings.
00:23:10.640They've got this all on the drawing board already.
00:23:13.300I think they're just going to enhance it and run it into high gear as soon as they get in January and be very creative about how we undo this mess we've seen over the last three years.
00:23:22.220Yeah, Randy, I, too, know a few people that he has hand-selected that are no-nonsense people that are gearing for this.
00:23:31.620What would the reaction of Mexico and the Mexican people be if we just started sending SEAL teams in to take these cartels out?
00:23:45.300Well, you know, I think in some Mexican states they would probably welcome that because, you know, if you look to see what El Salvador is doing right now and you see the phenomenal impact Bukele's, you know, policies are having on crime there and the murder rate, that's the way we all want to live.
00:24:05.540None of us want to live in a place where you can't enjoy your surroundings and move and your children aren't safe.
00:24:10.560So I think you'd have some people in Mexico saying it's about time.
00:24:14.820The question is, can we push them to do for themselves?
00:24:19.580And I think we've seen that since January.
00:24:22.180Right now, border crossings here in Eagle Pass that everybody witnessed on the news are down 80 percent.
00:24:29.660They were 250,000 in a month across the southwest border in December of last year.
00:24:36.380They are about 46,000 a month right now.
00:24:39.160So we can see what Mexico can do if you if you really put the pressure on and nobody better than President-elect Trump knows the leverage that he possesses and how to use it.
00:24:50.620So I think we can get a lot out of them without having to do that military intervention directly by declaring them terrorist organizations, by seizing that money, by stopping remittances to Mexico that are to the tune of 60 billion dollars a year.
00:25:04.380So there's a lot that that President Trump understands and his crew understands they can do to get a handle on a lot of these things.
00:25:12.220And I think the government of Mexico is already preparing for that or they would have undone some of their enforcement efforts once they found out Kamala Harris lost.
00:25:20.940You know, if you ask the average person who has deported more more people than any other president, maybe they would say Eisenhower.
00:25:29.980They, of course, would probably say Donald Trump here soon.
00:25:32.960But the one that is way over everybody else, everybody else is in the two, three million kind of number.
00:25:41.000The one that is the highest at 11 million is Bill Clinton.
00:25:46.680And, you know, nobody said anything about that.
00:25:49.680I didn't even I was shocked when I read that.
00:25:52.240And I don't remember anybody saying anything about deporting, but he did it the right way.
00:25:58.460And he got 11, 11 million people out from actually physically deporting and making it so uncomfortable that they would self deport.
00:26:07.320What do you think Trump's move in policy is going to be like to deport all of these people?
00:26:14.980Well, I'm going to take him at his word.
00:26:17.180I think we're looking at mass deportation because it has to be a big program.
00:26:21.160I've stood on the Mexican side of the river and watched a single group of over 2,000 cross the border in one single group.
00:26:30.060I had never seen that in 32 years, never in that same area.
00:26:34.400It would have been a big deal five, six years before to see 20 people, 30 people in a group perhaps crossing.
00:26:40.940It would have created cry to stir amongst the workplace.
00:26:43.660Let's get over there and let's find these folks.
00:26:47.820So if the removals are not going to be on a pace to match what we saw coming in, it would take decades to get this done.
00:26:56.040But I think there's, you know, we own the parole that we have granted out.
00:27:00.560We know it was for folks that were unvetted.
00:27:03.200So there are a ton of people that are out of status right now that were released, some released with notices to report to ICE offices across the country that have disappeared.
00:27:13.040So I think no one's going to be more creative than the staff in January on how to get this done.
00:27:20.640I think they need to look at the enforcement of employer sanctions provisions because if you disrupt the economy, people will stop hiring undocumented workers.
00:27:31.600Tom Holt knows that better than anybody else.
00:27:34.380And if you were advising the president, what would your policy be?
00:27:37.400What would you push for for the punishment of sanctuary cities?
00:27:42.600Well, you know, I think if you look at the existing laws, you cannot harbor.
00:27:47.200You can't harbor, aid, abet, whether it's in a building.
00:27:50.340Anybody that you have reason to believe is in the United States in violation of law, right?
00:27:55.060So when ICE gives these detainers to these sanctuary cities for someone accused of rape that we know has already been removed, they are harboring when they don't let the ICE agents in there to do their job and they release them on the street.
00:28:07.720So they're not only endangering their communities.
00:28:10.020I think clearly you could say that is aiding and abetting.
00:28:14.040When you say you can't come in this building because we don't want you to do your federal job.
00:28:18.300So I think with a Congress installed, it's a Republican, my advice is to get everybody together and harden this and make it very clear, just like everybody has pushed for how many years to prosecute January 6th violators, take the same impetus and go against folks who fight this federal government to the letter of the law and say,
00:28:39.400hey, if you're a sheriff and you don't allow them in your county jails, if you release folks that we have told you, ICE has told you, are in the country illegally, you have harbored, aided, and abetted.
00:28:49.000And we've seen rogue police officers get put in jail for violating criminal statutes while on the job.
00:28:55.480Well, that should pertain to everybody.
00:28:59.680All of these states like California receives over $160 billion in federal assistance.
00:29:05.240Maybe not penalize students, but maybe you can turn around and say, hey, maybe some secondary education programs at the liberal universities aren't going to get money if you don't abide by federal law.
00:31:18.500Because I think they correctly realized that there were a certain amount of people who were very worried about a candidate that couldn't do an interview, right?
00:31:32.100And so they tried to solve that by doing interviews.
00:31:35.660And what they should have done is just let those people go.
00:31:38.900Like, realize they're not going to vote for you and hope.
00:31:40.820Has anybody noticed, and I am biased because I've been talking to him off air and watching him talk to a lot of people, you know, without cameras around.
00:31:53.740And his grasp on deep subjects has changed a great deal.
00:32:02.300Have you noticed Donald Trump in interviews is not the same guy he was in 2020?
00:32:20.440Now, yeah, no, it does seem like he, you made the description, I think it was last week, which has been sticking with me, which is after 2020, he just spent four years just like, this isn't going to happen to me again.
00:32:30.760Like, I'm going to make sure these things, if I get a president, if I'm able to become president again, I'm not going to be hit by all of these.
00:32:40.080I'm not going to be surprised ever again.