On today's show, Glenn talks about the California cop who was killed by an illegal immigrant, Elizabeth Warren announces her 2020 presidential bid, and the government shutdown continues, but Lindsey Graham says there may be a deal to reopen the government.
00:43:39.340Yeah, that's one of the things that struck me early on was that agents at the level of deputy assistant
00:43:48.380director and on up were affiance and were leading this investigation. Historically, the FBI, although the FBI headquarters generally will get involved, it's generally for approval for like FISA's and Title III wiretaps, which are the ones that they use for pure criminal investigations.
00:44:11.580They go up the chain of command in the field office. And then they do have to go to headquarters and the Department of Justice for authorization and approvals. But the boots on the ground investigations, the collection of the evidence that would lead you down the road of getting a Title III or a FISA application,
00:44:31.280that's all done by the agents in the field office. And in this case, it would have been the Washington field office. So the fact that the affiance and the lead investigators on this were headquarters executives, if you will, that struck me as odd. Right at the beginning, I worked in the Washington field office for 13 years. So I had never seen that.
00:44:56.520What do you make of Andrew McCabe's firing, the recommendation from within the FBI? What did that tell you that they were, you know, how egregious were his actions that he was actually terminated so close to retirement?
00:45:09.140Well, you have to trust the process. And in my 30 years with the Bureau, you know, you trust the process. And sadly, I knew people over the years that got themselves into problems. And it always comes down to the same thing.
00:45:26.520The term is called lack of candor. It's one thing to do, make mistakes in your investigations and do things that are unacceptable at the FBI standards. But the FBI usually can get to the punishment stage and suspensions and so forth.
00:45:44.640But in the end, if you lie about what you did, the the Office of Professional Responsibility who conducts the internal affairs for the FBI, that's the one level that's intolerable.
00:45:58.060And from what I understand, that's what he was let go for lack of candor.
00:46:03.380That's a standard that is that you can never bypass a professor.
00:46:11.520Professor, Professor Steve Hooper is joining me. He's with the College of Security and Intelligence at Embry-Riddle University, 30 years with the FBI and also has a company called Tripwire Security Solutions.
00:46:20.100Let me shift gears for a moment, Steve, because the number one story, according to the AP last year, was the Parkland school shooting in South Florida.
00:46:27.440But there was also a report that was critical of the actions of people on campus that should have done something quicker and implemented some steps.
00:46:33.960You've actually started a company that that advises schools and other places.
00:46:37.580How has the the police the way the police respond to shooters and what people should be doing, whether it's in the corporate situation or the school situation?
00:46:47.100How is this change with these active shooter situations that have been happening?
00:46:51.920Well, the part that has to change, we've changed it on a national level.
00:46:57.300You know, back, I always say before 2001, the FBI was your standard federal law enforcement.
00:47:06.860You know, crime happens, FBI shows up, investigates, identifies who did it, hopefully prosecute and conviction.
00:47:14.080After 9-11, that became unacceptable in the terrorism world.
00:47:17.900We weren't allowed to show up after the terrorist attack.
00:47:21.700And now the mandate was to prevent it from happening in the first place.
00:47:25.380So what we've done is taken the same approach to not just school shootings, but small businesses.
00:47:31.100We see this happening routinely at small businesses where fired employees come back or angry employees or people who feel like they they didn't get the promotion and so forth.
00:47:41.880So whatever button that gets pushed to pushes them over the edge and these the the incidents are there.
00:47:49.980The FBI calls them concerning behaviors.
00:48:33.480But what we're looking at, what we consult on is how do we identify the behaviors ahead of time?
00:48:39.040And so you're not just responding to when it does happen, but how about you try to prevent it from happening in the first place?
00:48:45.480And we were I was trained as a crisis manager in the FBI, and it was all about there was a whole prevention piece on how to identify something before it happens.
00:48:57.960The Joint Terrorist and Task Force forces in the FBI, they live this every day.
00:49:02.940They spend all day, every day looking for information that would prevent a bad act from happening.
00:49:08.160And so we're taking that same concept where we train a crisis manager on the campus, someone who owns suspicious activity.
00:49:22.760And then and if this threat should bubble up, they have actions they take outside the campus, off campus that can help prevent it from happening in the first place.
00:49:35.480So in your opinion, when you look at not just what happened in this case, but moving forward, whether it's like a school or an organization, they should have someone kind of on point who is assessing, looking for threats, someone that kind of coordinates things and make sure that law enforcement has the knowledge of something because they can't be.
00:49:51.240Like you said, they react to a situation, but there should be somebody proactive in every organization that kind of takes responsibility for that.
00:50:05.480But, yeah, somebody who, you know, everyone when there's a problem, everyone wants to call the principal or the vice principal.
00:50:11.940Well, they've got, you know, six other jobs they're trying to accomplish.
00:50:14.800And what we see is the problem on campuses, many of them, no one owns the threat.
00:50:22.460No one is in that position where that's their job every day to monitor concerning behavior that maybe a sophomore or junior is starting to show a senior or even at grammar schools.
00:50:36.780Grammar schools, although we don't expect third and fourth graders to be the threat, although there is a couple of examples of the sixth and seventh graders doing some pretty horrific things.
00:50:48.740And but they what they are should be concerned with and what they could be looking at is what's going on off campus.
00:51:03.700Did a did a, you know, someone in the family die?
00:51:08.260Are they going through a nasty divorce, a custody suit and so forth?
00:51:11.900So there's there's lots of things that can be going on in people's personal lives that can cause the angst in the and cause a threat to the school to start bubbling up.
00:51:25.100And those are the things you need to be aware of to prevent it.
00:51:28.980Well, Steve, as always, it's good talking to you when you're on with me in Phoenix or here on Glenn's show.
00:51:43.780A wealth of information when it comes to security in this issue and also when it comes to how the process works with the FBI.
00:51:50.760What we're going to do coming up in just a moment is more about this idea of the shooting, the school shooting, the Parkland shooting, the number one story in 2018.
00:52:01.380Well, an update, a report, the very critical of how that was handled and lessons we should learn from all of it.
00:55:40.240The people that were supposed to be monitoring the hallways, one of them hid.
00:55:43.380They didn't do the things they were supposed to do within the school.
00:55:46.000And then the police response from the sheriff's office was not what it was supposed to be either.
00:55:50.340And when you look at these mass shootings, the lessons that we should be learning about this is they all were preventable in many cases because there were warning signs that were very evident to family members and to friends and to people around them.
00:56:04.500Whether you're talking all the way back to Columbine, you want to go talk about the Virginia Tech shooter.
00:56:10.020The Virginia Tech shooter, if you remember that shooting, that was somebody who was told not to come back on that campus until they had some mental health counseling.
00:56:17.760Jared Loeffner, who did the devastating shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that incapacitated to a large degree and took a long road to recovery for former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
00:56:30.640If you remember, many of you may not know this, Gabrielle Giffords and her husband now are very staunch anti-gun advocates, but she was a rated by the NRA when she was a Democrat in the Congress in Arizona.
00:56:47.180Now, I don't necessarily blame her for changing her mind on the issue, but she was a staunch defender of the Second Amendment for a long time.
00:56:54.540Jared Loeffner, much like the Virginia Tech shooter, was told not to return to college until he had mental health evaluations and counseling.
00:57:03.280His family and friends knew he was dangerous and spiraling out of control.
00:57:09.320You look at what happened with the Colorado shooter, Holmes.
00:57:14.820He was on campus in Colorado and there was an intervention team that was going to come to him in the graduate program and they were going to intervene for mental health reasons.
00:57:26.340He dropped out of school and that intervention team felt that it was no longer their jurisdiction to intervene.
00:57:48.480This shooter in the Parkland High School, the people there called him the crazy kid.
00:57:54.020One of the counselors at the school that didn't institute this code red fast enough said that if anybody was going to shoot up the school, it was going to be this kid.
00:58:03.480How many times had he been contacted by law enforcement?
00:58:07.380The point I'm making is if you want to address the issue of this solving this problem, and we all do, it should start with the constitutional argument about HIPAA laws.
00:58:20.380When can you forcibly medicate someone?
00:58:25.140How do you possibly take someone into custody for crimes they might commit?
00:58:30.200So then you have to wait until they shoot up a school to take them to jail.
00:58:35.500You know, you you start now talking about mental health issues and when the courts can step in and remove someone's guns.
00:58:43.120Can you say that because you're in the middle of a divorce or maybe you're what's what if you're depressed?
00:58:48.720What if you're clinically depressed because of a bad situation and you are being medicated, whether you're taking some kind of medication for depression?
00:58:55.800Should the government be able to come in and remove your guns just for safety's sake?
00:59:00.600What does that do to the reporting of mental illness?
00:59:02.940It's already something that people don't feel comfortable talking about.
00:59:06.520And let's be honest, there are so many different levels of mental illness to say mental illness and lump that into dangerous is unfair.
00:59:14.080Just like saying a common cold and cancer are on two ends of the spectrum of illness.
00:59:21.300The same thing happens with mental illness.
00:59:24.040But that's where the solution to this problem lies is the conversation about mental health and the conversation about forcible medication or incarceration because someone is dangerous.
01:12:53.020It's it's interesting, the the politics that's involved in what we're seeing in immigration right now and how each side wants to say it's not political when it absolutely without a doubt is political.
01:13:07.020I don't I can be very critical, have been very critical of this president, both when he was candidate and as president.
01:13:14.460But what I'm not going to do is wish defeat on him.
01:13:16.780I'm not going to cut off my nose to spite my face.
01:13:19.300And the press has a job to do that they're not doing.
01:13:22.560And the more people are vocal about it, they're just not doing their job.
01:13:27.760And being honest, you just have to be honest.
01:13:32.160I've been as as intellectually honest and consistent on this issue, complaining about, you know, the unaccompanied minors and what was going on and the policies that led to this going all the way back to the Obama administration.
01:13:43.580Law enforcement, law enforcement, everyone says we hold law enforcement in such high regard when President Trump was critical of James Comey.
01:13:50.800They said, how dare you damage the character of the FBI?
01:13:53.580And they attack law enforcement on a daily basis.
01:13:56.340You've got the sheriff in California talking about this officer, Singh, who was gunned down, an immigrant, a legal immigrant to this country, leaves behind a wife and a five month old.
01:14:07.400So at every turn, when it comes to the illegal immigration conversation, the left will remind you that two children have died in custody under the Trump administration.
01:14:18.980They are laying this at the feet of President Trump.
01:14:22.520Well, I'm not laying the death of this cop.
01:14:27.440At the feet of Barack Obama, but he snuck into this country during the Obama administration.
01:14:32.900That doesn't mean I only bring it up to say it doesn't matter when it happened.
01:14:49.400It's the lack of common sense that has most people furious.
01:14:54.780The sheriff of Stanislaus County, Adam Christensen, just quickly, what he had to say about the way we do business as a country, about the politics involved here and how angry he is.
01:15:10.840Because I want the nation to know, I want your viewers to know, he said this on Fox, that Officer Singh really should be the focus of this investigation and his sacrifice.
01:15:21.840But I also want everyone to know that immigration is good for America if done legally.
01:15:28.720Immigration is good for America if done legally.
01:15:34.080Illegal immigration does not serve our communities, especially criminals who victimize and exploit our communities.
01:15:41.620Whether you hate the president or love the president, border security goes hand in hand with national security, the safety of our communities and public safety.
01:15:51.340We need to know who is in our communities that shouldn't be.
01:15:54.320We should be focused on criminal activity without political interference.
01:15:59.440He is being very critical of the sanctuary laws in the state of California.
01:16:08.580Law enforcement was prohibited because of sanctuary laws that led to the encounter with Officer Singh.
01:16:15.640The outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn't restricted, prohibited or had their hands tied because of political interference.
01:16:25.240The tables turned for many people on how they were going to talk about President Trump.
01:16:33.660When that sheriff in California, when he was talking about illegal immigration and she spoke up and said to the president that they can have a known MS-13 gang member.
01:16:43.500And unless they meet a certain threshold, she is not allowed to report them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
01:16:49.080To which President Trump responded that these people are animals.
01:16:53.800The media, all of those cable news networks I've mentioned before and some of ABC, NBC, CBS, but MSNBC, CNN.
01:17:02.140They all twisted that video and made it look as if the president, because they edited the video to make it look like the president was talking about all illegal immigrants.
01:17:43.960Coming up this hour, Lindsey Graham floats an idea that may give the president five billion dollars for the wall and offset by giving 700,000 work permits.
01:17:52.380But will the Democrats come to the table?
01:17:54.820Also, the media I've been talking about that refuses to tell both sides of the story.
01:17:59.940Going to give you a fine example of that as well.
01:18:11.980You know, not everybody agrees with me, but even though Bitcoin is down significantly right now, I believe in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology that's behind them.
01:18:20.640They're going to play a significant role in our future.
01:18:23.240And while it may end up in the end being crazy, I'm actually investing more in Bitcoin.
01:18:27.820It just makes sense that a trackable digital form of money will replace fiat money one day.
01:18:33.800It's important that you understand these and ask these questions and find the answers because you have a chance right now to invest in this technology before it happens.
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01:20:08.200This standoff that's happening, this government shutdown, what really does it mean?
01:20:12.640Well, Lindsey Graham is posing a solution.
01:20:14.740And when I am going to stay on the mantra, at least for the duration of the time that you'll hear me here today, but also if you listen to my show in Phoenix, the mantra has been about the media not doing its job, at least not completely.
01:20:29.960It's not a 100 percent game, but you're looking largely at not hearing the whole story.
01:20:35.500Here is Lindsey Graham still working hard, still trying to broker a deal, had lunch with the president, posing an idea, trying to broker something.
01:20:44.060On the other side of this, Nancy Pelosi, an $800 a night resort.
01:20:49.140An Arizona congresswoman I mentioned in the first hour, because I live in the state of Arizona, Debbie Lesko.
01:20:58.840And the congresswoman saying, I'm ready to go back to D.C. on a moment's notice.
01:21:03.520The minute the Democrats say they're ready to come back to the negotiating table, I'm going, I'm ready to go.
01:21:08.460But we're not hearing both sides of this.
01:21:16.680Lindsey Graham's idea is if the president, if they write it into law and the president legislatively guarantees the protection of the 700,000 dreamers, and then the offset would be $5 billion for the wall, that might be a compromise.
01:21:35.420The president sitting down and listening, the Democrats are not.
01:21:41.040The idea of fixing immigration is on the minds of many people in this country.
01:21:47.740Making it very clear, I am an advocate for a very, the word robust is so silly because it's only used when you talk about politics, but a robust immigration program in America, immigration system.
01:22:32.800That we are better when we have immigrants in our society.
01:22:37.220If we shut our doors and we don't allow people in, we become we become then the elite that doesn't let others in.
01:22:44.540We give everyone a chance at the American dream.
01:22:46.780We believe that they add they aren't taking away.
01:22:49.920Now, there's an element of society that said every generation of immigrant.
01:22:53.120The difference with this, what's happening right now, the difference, I would say, is that we have a segment of our society, the liberal, not all Democrats, but the very liberal, that believe that illegal immigration is exactly the same as legal immigration, that they all are called migrants.
01:23:12.420You've got the newly elected Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that's reminding you that Jesus was an immigrant.
01:23:18.380And they want to oversimplify and then question.
01:23:22.900Now they're going to question my faith and call me a hypocrite to my faith because I don't see the illegal immigrants as the same type of refugee that Jesus was.
01:23:39.320And it's not a fair assessment of what I believe or what probably most of you believe.
01:23:44.980I can give you firsthand accounts of my interactions throughout my entire life with immigrants.
01:23:53.580One of my best friends in the entire world is a guy named Adam.
01:23:58.580We grew up together and I'm visiting my hometown.
01:24:02.620And we worked together in the trades, but his father, an immigrant, mother, who has passed away, immigrant, father, not necessarily classically educated in schools, but reads and writes and is one of the most brilliant, hardworking businessmen I've ever met.
01:24:22.060Growing up, that family literally saved my life.
01:24:24.860And his father went from working in migrant fields to owning migrant fields, what's called a packing house and packing and shipping produce across the country and made a very nice living for his family and for himself.
01:24:40.340And is now semi-retired, but still works very hard and set an example for his son, who was one of the hardest working people I've ever met and is for his two daughters and their husbands.
01:24:54.500A very proud, hardworking man that saved his money and lived the American dream.
01:25:00.240I worked in those fields in the summers.
01:25:07.040I've been in those fields where the tomatoes are being picked, where you're picking a bucket of tomatoes and you hand it to a guy like me sitting on the edge of a container and dumping the tomatoes in and putting a token in that bucket.
01:25:18.660And at the end of the day, all those workers cashing in those tokens for money.
01:25:22.100I've worked on a tomato packing machine where the tomatoes are cleaned and sized and the bad tomatoes are culled out and then the Department of Agriculture inspects and then you load them onto trucks to ship them out for the grocery stores.
01:26:11.100We, conservatives, we have to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration and make sure the distinction is clear.
01:26:23.700And what we do and how in what high esteem we hold legal immigrants that do it the right way.
01:26:30.840The families that come to this country respecting what this country has to offer.
01:26:36.680Becoming proud Americans and living the American dream.
01:26:39.820We should applaud it at every chance we get.
01:26:43.260And then we should turn and say, when you have cop killers mixed in with people that are coming here illegally for noble reasons, we have to end illegal immigration.
01:26:55.560So Lindsey Graham is posing a one solution to the dreamer issue.
01:27:01.280Along with a compromise on the wall funding.
01:27:05.500But I don't think the Democrats are coming to the table.
01:27:08.520I don't think there's a chance in the world that the Democrats are coming to the table on this.
01:27:14.580At least until public opinion turns and they're shown as the obstructionist that they're being.
01:27:19.160But it's time that people like us stop being lectured on what immigration looks like and being called hypocrites to our faith because we differentiate between legal and illegal immigration.
01:27:34.020Because we do point out the problem with the system has been immensely pointed out with the death of a police officer who is a legal immigrant.
01:27:43.020A legal immigrant who became a police officer leaves behind a wife and a five-month-old.
01:27:48.260Why? Because someone that comes into the country illegally had been arrested multiple times for DUI, was never reported to the federal government for deportation because California's sanctuary laws.
01:28:05.080I want to give you an analogy about that in a few moments.
01:28:08.800About the private sector and how it's handled when there's negligence.
01:28:11.900You're also coming up, also you'll hear a couple of people whose voices you'll recognize and what they've had to say about illegal immigration.
01:28:22.160And I keep playing it because I want you to hear it multiple times and it's on social media.
01:29:29.860And now, the same people that were leading the charge 10 years ago, myself included, we are being lectured by the left and how heartless we are.
01:29:39.780If that is not a slap in the face, I don't know what is.
01:29:45.040I won't be lectured because I know where I stand.
01:30:17.120So, I refuse to be lectured by those that would tell me what immigration is and isn't.
01:30:25.500I am painfully aware of how the disaster that can come from illegal immigration.
01:30:32.140And I am ecstatically aware of the greatness of legal immigration to this country.
01:30:37.020In a moment, you'll hear from two former presidents and a current member of the United States Senate what they've said about illegal immigration.
01:30:44.100And an analogy for you after the death of this police officer.
01:30:47.660That's happening here in just a moment.
01:32:12.300In just a short time now for Glenn, before I'm done, it is, let me give you the analogy before we hear anything else.
01:32:19.720In the private sector, it's fascinating the disaster that it would be if a private company did anything similar to what the government is allowed to get away with.
01:32:32.800If you own a company, let's say you're a contractor like I was.
01:32:36.680You own a service contracting company and you have an employee that's working for you that you know was a criminal.
01:32:43.840Let's say a burglar in his past, her past.
01:32:47.260And you send that employee to work in people's stores or in people's homes and you know what past this person has.
01:32:57.460And then as a result of that, this employee of yours is breaking into people's homes that you've sent them into to work.
01:33:06.500Or worse yet, you put someone to work that you know is a sexual predator.
01:33:11.840And then that employee preys upon someone as an opportunist at a place of business or in someone's home.
01:33:22.020What do you think is going to happen to you?
01:33:26.000If a private company, let's go with agriculture.
01:33:31.400If a company that manufactures food, whether it's beef or it's vegetables.
01:33:37.940What would happen if you allow tainted food to go into the market and you didn't recall the food and took a chance and people got sick?
01:33:49.980What do you think the government would do to you?
01:33:53.120They would shut you down in a minimum.
01:33:54.920They'd fine you to death and they'd probably lock you up.
01:33:57.680But the state of California and other places have laws on the books that shield known criminals from federal investigation.
01:34:08.460But when those individuals that are shielded by sanctuary laws commit worse crimes against people, what's the recourse for the private citizen?
01:34:17.520This officer, Singh, was murdered by someone who had no business in this country, should have been deported a long time ago because of the crimes he committed.
01:34:31.060But because of the laws created by the sanctuary city advocates, he's dead.
01:34:38.180Don't you think that his wife should have some recourse against the people that make those laws?
01:34:44.440Should the lawmakers that were in favor of this, do they have blood on their hands?
01:36:12.420We should be shaming the media into asking these questions.
01:36:15.760All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
01:36:36.460The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.
01:36:41.360The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
01:36:44.340That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards,
01:36:51.740by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
01:37:01.220In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes,
01:37:07.900to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace, as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
01:37:16.220We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.
01:37:20.940It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years,
01:37:32.840Not only is he a racist, but how about all those Democrats that were applauding what he just said, right?
01:37:44.700How is what you just heard from our former president in the 90s at a State of the Union address any different from what you're hearing from this president?
01:37:52.700My argument on social media with a newspaper reporter in southern Arizona,
01:37:57.080closer to the border than I am in Phoenix, down in Tucson, says he doesn't see any flip-flop in these videos because Trump is talking about a wall.
01:38:06.220So they are going to try and say it's the wall aspect.
01:38:10.940We all are in favor of border security, but the wall and what this is about is if the president says,
01:38:16.620you show me a better plan on border security than a wall where it's necessary, I want to see it.
01:38:21.620And if he caves on this, they will use it against him.
01:38:27.160They're already saying, Mexico is going to pay for it.
01:38:40.840What the senator had to say about the good people that have done it the right way in America versus the people that did it the absolute wrong way.
01:38:53.940And wonder why, again, the only place you're hearing this is from me or from talk radio.
01:39:11.860You know, not everybody agrees with me, but even though Bitcoin is down significantly right now,
01:39:16.360I believe in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology that's behind them.
01:39:20.460They're going to play a significant role in our future.
01:39:23.040And while it may end up in the end being crazy, I'm actually investing more in Bitcoin.
01:39:27.260It just makes sense that a trackable digital form of money will replace fiat money one day, doesn't it?
01:39:33.640It's important that you understand these and ask these questions and find the answers because you have a chance right now to invest in this technology before it happens.
01:39:41.960And if I'm right, and I could be wrong, you could make game changing money from a very small investment.
01:39:47.360But I want you to do your own homework and begin with Wall Street hedge fund manager Tika Tiwari.
01:39:52.360He's an expert in the cryptocurrency space.
01:39:54.380He's created a course that takes you through all of the basics and makes buying or selling of crypto as simple as buying and selling stock.
01:40:01.760For a limited time, you can take a risk-free 30-day trial of his course by going to smartcryptocourse.com.
01:40:07.380Do it today, smartcryptocourse.com or call 877-PBL-BECK.
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01:40:30.760My name is Mike Broomhead in just a bit longer, and we appreciate you spending part of your day with us.
01:40:36.700So this is – just to wrap a bow around this before I move on to anything else, I want you to hear one more person.
01:40:41.920You've heard Bill Clinton now give a huge defense for stopping illegal immigration back in the 90s, demanding Congress give him a budget that does all of the above, that expedites deportation, more border security, all of those things.
01:40:58.680Chuck Schumer, a very small piece of what Chuck Schumer had to say, the six-minute video I've put up on all of my social media outlets.
01:41:05.880But former President Obama – now, as Senator Obama, before he was elected president, and even when he was president, there was a time when he was a critic of illegal immigration.
01:41:18.460As a matter of fact, they boasted about how many more deportations happened under Barack Obama than happened under George W. Bush, that they led the country in deportations, and they changed their tune.
01:41:30.280And I've got a theory on that, which I'll tell you in a moment, but I want you to hear what Barack Obama sounded like one more time.
01:41:37.540This is what Barack Obama said of illegal immigrants in comparison to legal immigrants.
01:41:44.280We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants.
01:41:52.760You know, we are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
01:42:08.200We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.
01:42:27.740So how has it changed? First, let's ask the obvious question.
01:42:31.280Not the flip-flop of the Democratic Party yet. That's obvious.
01:42:44.900When he said that, it was before he was president.
01:42:48.920Now the Democratic Party is indicating that the border is plenty secure.
01:42:54.700I've got a newspaper reporter in my home state of Arizona, down in Tucson, much closer to the border than where I am, saying he doesn't see a flip-flop from the Democrats.
01:43:22.740They want to lay this at the feet of Trump, but they don't want to question anybody else who has the power to do something about it.
01:43:31.720Chuck Schumer is not allowing the Democrats to get the votes needed to get to 60 votes because of the very small majority in the Senate.
01:43:41.760The holdup is Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, period.
01:43:46.040Nancy Pelosi, to gain the speaker's job, had to cave in to the incoming freshmen, the very progressive.
01:43:52.420Not only are they illegal immigration advocates, but these are the abolish ICE advocates that in order for her to get the votes necessary to become speaker again, she had to cut a deal.
01:44:06.500I believe there will be no movement from her on this because the people that are coming in, the freshman class coming in, wants to do what they want to do on the issue and not fix it now.
01:44:16.220Now, the problem is she doesn't have the power yet, so it's Schumer.
01:44:25.100This falls on the shoulders of Chuck Schumer and his flip-flop on illegal immigration.
01:44:32.820And here is my two cents on why they're doing it.
01:44:37.120We know that the labor unions in America give the vast majority, well over 90% of their donations go to Democrat candidates in the Democrat Party.
01:44:50.840And for a long time, it was the belief of the Democratic Party from the labor unions that it was illegal immigration that was driving down wages, that it was illegal immigrants.
01:45:03.460They're coming in this country and they're stealing jobs from Americans.
01:45:08.240And there were those in the Republican Party that said, no, they're not.
01:45:12.160Illegal immigrants in this country are doing jobs Americans don't want to do.
01:45:16.200And the Democratic Party, because of the union, said that's not the case.
01:45:19.660The labor unions want to drive up the minimum wage because they use the minimum wage as a basis for their negotiation with management, because we all know that minimum wage is largely geared towards non-skilled labor, what's considered non-skilled labor.
01:45:34.500So labor unions use the minimum wage and say, well, if non-skilled labor or unskilled labor is valued at $12 an hour, then we've got to be at least twice that amount for skilled labor.
01:45:49.940And so the reasoning behind the Democratic Party and a disdain for illegal immigration was because the mantra was illegal immigrants are coming here at the behest of the evil Republican corporations that are employing illegal immigrants as housekeepers.
01:46:18.440And all of that is being done in hotels and resorts and places across this country and driving down the wages for Americans was the mantra we heard for a very long time.
01:46:31.040And then the labor unions, the SEIU and the service industry labor unions decided, you know, what we could do is we could actually become an advocate for these people.
01:46:41.780If you can't beat them, join them and let's organize them.
01:47:15.320Let's get them legal and let's organize them.
01:47:17.740I don't believe it's just because they vote Democrat.
01:47:20.860If you look at and I'm again, this is part of a stereotype, I guess.
01:47:25.300But if you look at the Hispanic voters, you look at Mexico and Central America, largely Catholic, pro-family, anti-abortion, pro-life.
01:47:35.800They fit a lot socially with what the Republican Party stands for.
01:47:40.240So I don't think that it's just because they're going to get them to vote Democrat.
01:47:43.880I think that that's a benefit to a lot of them.
01:47:46.700But the shift in policy was because of the shift in policy of the labor unions.
01:47:52.220You don't hear the labor unions screaming about illegal immigration anymore, do you?
01:47:56.660When was the last time you heard labor unions screaming that illegal immigrants are driving down wages?
01:48:01.680So it's my theory that this is tied to that mantra.
01:48:12.000They have flipped 180 degrees on the illegal immigration issue.
01:48:15.540And the funny thing is, of the three groups of people crossing the border, one would be those that are coming here to work for noble reasons.
01:48:24.440The other would be criminals looking to prey upon the United States, you know, the wealthy Americans.
01:48:31.680The least feared are the only ones they're paying attention to, which are the people coming to work.
01:48:38.660Like Lindsey Graham's idea of a guest worker program or not a guest worker of the 700,000 people being guaranteed under Dreamer and acting, making the Dream Act law, then morph that into a guest worker program does some good things.
01:48:57.060But it does nothing to secure the border from the two things that are the most dangerous, the criminals and the terrorists.
01:49:03.320All this talk today about illegal immigration, it starts with a cop killer that should have been reported and deported and was not.
01:49:39.740The drug cartels setting up shop on top of the hills in the Zvico Valley in Arizona, and they are watching law enforcement and reporting the movement of law enforcement over the radio to their cartel members.
01:49:51.660Law enforcement in Arizona, listening to radio chatter, talking about their location.
01:50:01.340Being watched by the cartels in the hills.
01:50:05.940Directing their cartels away from rival cartels that would rob them and law enforcement that would take them to jail.
01:50:12.840It still happens every single day as we speak.
01:50:37.260Children should be safe in our custody.
01:50:39.380Children should be safe in America, even if we disagree that they're here, even if their parents brought them here and shouldn't.
01:50:46.380Whatever those reasons are, children should be safe in America.
01:50:49.600But while you're screaming from the rooftops about two children that have died, how about a legal immigrant with a wife at a five month old who died because an illegal immigrant was hiding behind sanctuary laws in California?
01:51:00.820And it cost a legal immigrant his life and his family, their husband and father.