BORDER APPREHENSIONS AT 22-YEAR HIGH AS DRUGS, CRIMINALS & GANGS CONTINUE TO POUR IN UNDER BIDEN ADMIN
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Former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan is back on The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs and Luke Roskopf to talk about Elon Musk's new role as the world's richest man and his thoughts on the Texas school shooting.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show.
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Great to have you with us, and I don't know why Elon Musk, the world's richest man,
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has decided in the last few months to step into the public arena. But I, for one,
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am absolutely delighted that he's done so. I think most of us are inherently suspicious
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of American oligarchs. That's what they are, all of these billionaires, billionaires who
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occasionally spend what to most of us would be vast fortunes to simply improve their PR image
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or to push a political agenda. And we'd be right most of the time. But then there is this Elon Musk,
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who's now a champion of free speech and fair play. He's already being lionized as a brilliant
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entrepreneur and businessman, as he should. He's also almost single-handedly awakened the almost
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more of a NASA space agency, and single-handedly built rockets to take our astronauts up to the
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space station, rather than for the United States to depend on hiring rides on Russian rockets.
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And in the wake of the horrible tragedy in that Texas school this week, Musk asked one question,
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why do we give these killers the publicity they crave? The answer is, we shouldn't. And we must stop
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the madness of at least our media. It really needs to stop now. I think that would be a very good
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beginning in the new fight to make America great again. Well, crime rates are rising in nearly all
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of our big cities. It's all part of the Biden New Deal. Defund the police, don't prosecute the
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criminals, screw everything up as much as possible. And those crime rates will only get worse,
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believe me, because the Marxists want still to defund police. They want to end prosecution
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of some of the most violent criminals. Biden insists that the drug cartels be allowed to control our
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southern border, because he will not. He refuses to stop deadly drug smuggling, sex trafficking, and
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human smuggling. He wants millions more illegals in our country. And this year, he gets his wish,
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five to seven million more, because our border is wide open. No one is more concerned than the man
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who, under President Trump, was responsible for border security, former Customs and Border Protection
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Commissioner, Mark Morgan. Mark, great to have you back with us on the Great America Show.
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Luke, thanks for having me, as always. I hope you've been well. There's a lot going on,
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and this country right now is in deep trouble, it seems like, in almost every quarter, but certainly
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at our southern border. Yeah, Lou, I couldn't agree more. And look, we just, the recent numbers this
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past month just came out, 234,000 encounters. You know, the month before was a record-breaking month,
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the month before that was a record-breaking, the month before that. And now this month,
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it's the highest recorded encounters that's ever been recorded in our country's history, Lou.
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It's stunning. And you warned us about it at the beginning of the year, and here we are.
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What do you think the judge will do on Title IV, the CDC, you know, regulation that permits a lot
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of immediate returns, if you will? Yeah, so, and again, for your listeners, it's very important.
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Title 42 is a public health order that allowed Border Patrol to remove illegal aliens that have
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broken in our country to reduce the further introduction and spread of COVID-19 into our
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country. Look, when we instituted this early on in the Trump administration, it has no doubt
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saved countless American lives and untold suffering. And so right now, as you know, the judge
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initially instated a TRO, a temporary restraining order that prohibited the Biden administration from
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ending this very important policy. And they heard then the merits on the TRO. But what's very hopeful
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for me is the judge hasn't made his decision. He's got to come down within the next couple of days.
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But until he's made his final decision, the TRO remained in place. And that's why I'm hopeful,
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Lou, because I think if he was leaning towards letting the Title 42 elapse, I think he would
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have gotten rid of the TRO as well. But, you know, we have no crystal ball, but I'm hopeful that he
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will order that Title 42 remains. You know, I'm not entirely sure about this judge. His name is Summer
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Hayes. He has a terrific academic background and record. He is a smart and diligent judge. So I'm
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hopeful, too, because he's a man of integrity, intellectual integrity. And so the rest of it
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will just have to, as you put it, wait and see. The idea that we're talking about encounters here,
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it's another, it sounds like another one of those mushy, deep state, permanent bureaucracy
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expressions to cover up any number of things under the term encounters for crying out loud. I remember
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when we talked about apprehensions, we actually talked about arrests at the border for crying out
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loud. That's how long I've been covering the border and illegal immigration. Yeah, I think
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why migrant encounters. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. We used to talk in terms of arrest. And so
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what's happened, I think, is there may be some deep stuff, state stuff going on by some, I can't
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disagree with that. But it's also to really get an accurate representation of what's going on. Because
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if someone illegally enters, meaning they enter our country in between the lawful points of entry,
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and border patrol comes across them, that is called an apprehension. Unfortunately, that only tells
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part of the story, because illegal aliens are also coming up to our lawful point of entry. And they're,
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they're, they're undocumented, they have no verification of who they are, where they came
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from, those are considered inadmissibles. So really, by the law, they should not be admitted
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into the United States. But because of our broken immigration laws, and because of the open border
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policies of this administration, otherwise, illegal aliens are otherwise inadmissible are also being
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allowed in. When that happens, that's considered an encounter. So we when we see the total numbers
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each month, it's the border patrol apprehensions, plus those encounters of otherwise inadmissibles
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Plus, so encounters include the inadmissibles, but the inadmissibles are admitted. So this is getting
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about as Orwellian as you need it really to get right that that's exactly right. I mean, it's broke.
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It's not just broke, you know, in between the ports of entry, but but the policies are also
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allowing the cartels and smugglers and migrants themselves to exploit those policies and laws at
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the ports of entry, as well as in between the ports of entry. So why don't we just do the honest and
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honorable thing here? And just turn, you know, flip the keys at each port of entry, uh, to the cartels
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because they're in charge now. Uh, they're the ones bringing in their drugs. They're the ones
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traffic, sex trafficking, children, women, uh, human smuggling. Uh, this is outrageous what this
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country is doing. And by the way, we've got a bunch of mouth breathers who are just sitting there
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watching, not saying a word. They're just plotting along. And they're mostly people that are a
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congressman or a Senator are working for the United States government, taking home a nice paycheck and
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doing nothing good for the American people. Look, look, I think that's exactly right. If you look right
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now, uh, where we're at, let's just say, so, so last year was the worst year on record, uh, for,
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for open borders and, and, and total encounters. But, but this year is believe it or not worse than
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last year. I mean, right now, uh, the first seven months of this fiscal year, we're already at 1.5
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million encounters. If you keep going at this pace, we're easily going to be at 2.5 million encounters
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for a single fiscal year. And then you add in the gotaways, those that break into our country and
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evade apprehension and make their way to every town, city, and state, that's going to be around six
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to 700,000 plus the 400 or so thousand turnbacks that just as the name suggests, they turn back to
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avoid apprehension. You're looking at about 3.5 million illegal aliens have tried to illegally
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enter our border and just a 12 month period. It's unconscionable. And Lou, and you know this,
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but we talked about it before. And why is that important? Why, why should people say, Oh, well,
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Hey, they're looking for a better life. The problem is, is that as illegal immigration increases,
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especially to the unprecedented levels we're seeing now, it degrades our ability to protect
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and secure our borders. And then just as you said, Lou, those borders are wide open as a border
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troll agents are pulled off the line to be travel agencies for the illegal aliens. Drugs are pouring
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in. Criminals are pouring in. Gang members are pouring in and there's an increase to our national
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security vulnerability. That's why it matters. That's why it's important. It's about border security.
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So let's take a look at these ports of entry. How many of them are there across the Southern
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border? Some 2000 miles worth, you know, there's, there's a couple hundred, there's about 324
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throughout the entire country. Um, and look what, like, for example, one of the things we did under
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president Trump is we instituted what was called metering. Uh, and we really locked that down.
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Uh, we only allowed individuals in that, that one, we had the capacity to take in and then again,
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met a certain threshold. And then when we finally were able to implement, and you know, very well,
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the remain in Mexico program, we applied that to those that illegally entered in between the ports
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of entry, as well as those that were coming to our ports of entry that were otherwise, uh,
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inadmissible. We applied it to them too, and remove them back to Mexico as they were going through
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their asylum process and chapter by February of 2020. And you know, we saw a reduction of 75%
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in illegal immigration and the remain of Mexico was a leading reason for that.
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Right now we have a number of interests that are all lined up, but lined up with the Mexican drug
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cartels, uh, transnational cartels, if, uh, one prefers. Yep. But nonetheless, the people are bringing
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in death and devastation to this country every single day. And the people are lined up with that
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open border, that wide open border are the Marxist Biden white house, the Marxist dem democratic party,
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uh, the corporate, uh, the corporate is throughout the country. Uh, that is the business round table,
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the chamber of commerce. They're aligned. They have entire operations that are lined up with the cartels
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to keep that commerce and that illegal and legal commerce flowing across that border, as well as
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sex trafficking, drug trafficking, human smuggling. And right now, everybody knows that, but no one's
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doing anything about it. The, the, the Joe Biden stands up and moralizes, uh, as best you can tell
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from his incoherent babblings, but he is trying to, uh, virtue signal and, and to just with his gibberish
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embrace, uh, all the consequences of open borders and no one is dealing with the issue. There's not one
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person that I know of right now in the corporatist media, who's talking honestly about the border, the
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consequences of wide open immigration and these distributions, uh, these overnight distributions to
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cities, communities all across the country. And it's a story that is sort of a phantom that no one wants to
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grasp and hold up to the light. Yeah. Well, I tell you what the mainstream media, uh, when, when we were, uh, when,
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when I was still there under the Trump administration, it was, it was unbelievable. I mean, uh, it was, um,
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you know, uh, the, the, the typical, you know, cable shows were out there just eviscerating us every
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single day. Um, talking about what we were doing was unconscionable and unacceptable and et cetera.
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And today what we see happening in our Southwest border pales in comparison to anything we experienced.
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And back then we were trying to actually stop the flow of illegal immigration and secure our borders,
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you know, just, just a few minutes ago, I, I was sent a picture by one of the correspondents,
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you know, that that's on the border of another dead migrant, another dead migrant loop. One of
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about 700 dead migrants that have been recovered under this administration's watch. We know that,
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that, that, that the, uh, the, uh, trafficking, as you mentioned has exponentially increased under
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this administration. We know that young women and children that, that make their way here in this
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country illegally are sexually abused and assaulted. We know those numbers are going up.
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I can keep going on and on. Where's the mainstream media? Not a peep, Lou, not, not a peep. They're,
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they're not only are they not talking about the drugs pouring into this country. Look, 107,000 last
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year, year before a hundred thousand. If you think about that, a hundred thousand drug overdoses in a
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12 month period is more than all Americans have died from every single terrorist attack on our soil.
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The Iraq war, Afghanistan war and Vietnam wars combined in a 12 month period. We know that the
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leading cause of death of adults from 18 to 45 is fentanyl. And the DEA's own reporting says that 95%
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of fentanyl comes from the wide open Southwest border. Why in the heck is this a right or left thing?
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This is an American thing. As you said, where are our elected leaders to be standing up and pushing
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back? Yeah. It isn't a right left. I don't for a moment think that it is right and wrong. I do
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believe that strongly. Yep. And I also believe it is the Marxist left that has lined up its sights on
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taking over this country, destroying our system of government, destroying our heritage, destroying
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the public square so that it's unrecognizable because of all the cordite smoke and powder rising from
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every day's battles in which it's a, mostly a disinformation campaign by our own government
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toward our own people. And nobody wants to recognize this. It's sickening. And we, we,
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we have a military that is filled with such a, a, a dis an appalling, uh, general, uh, officers,
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flag officers who are, I mean, they're more interested in ESG and CRT. And I wonder that
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we have ever been able to successfully fight. Uh, I know it's because of our brave young men and women,
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but I know also that it sure is heck not because of our generals and our admirals who have led this
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country to this point without comment on the deep, deep, uh, losses within their ranks because of
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drug overdoses. I don't hear, I, and I look, I don't hear a lot of communications from the drug
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enforcement agency. I have barely a peep actually from the ATF. What happened to all of these agencies
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that should be vitally engaged at our border? Yeah, I, I think that's right, Lou. And I, I think
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I would say the same thing about the FBI and, and, and ATF and, and DEA, you know, the DEA
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administrator lately has come out and engaged a couple of things, Director Wray a couple of times,
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but look, in year 2022, you, you, you can't do what we used to do 25 years ago in, in a law
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enforcement community is we have to get out there. We have to engage. We have to engage directly with the
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public. We have to reassure them what we're doing, why we're doing it and what the solutions are.
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And we have to be honest and transparent. That's not coming from this administration across the
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board. Um, you know, Americans are trying to understand what's going on and trying to,
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to understand how their safety, security, national security is being impacted, but they're not getting
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the full truth. And Secretary Mayorkas, the secretary of DHS, I mean, look, Lou, he's a bald faced liar
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and he's dangerous because I'll give an example, you know, during a congressional hearing,
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he was specifically asked, he was read the legal definition of what operational control means.
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And he asked if he had operational control of the borders. And he said, yes, it's a, it's a
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bold faced lie. I mean, 750,000 gotaways, uh, that they're broken into our border and invaded
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apprehension under his watch. That's larger than the entire population of the state of Vermont.
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And again, gang members and murderers and rapists and pedophiles and aggravated felons, uh, are among
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that 750,000 who knows how many are on the FBI's terror screening database. And so, you know, when
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Americans are trying to understand their, well, well, but the secretary says he's got operational
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control. I don't understand. So it's, it's frustrating. Not only substantively have their
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policies opened our border and negatively impacted every aspect of our nation's health, safety and
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national security, but they're lying to the American people about it.
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Well, I don't think that a lot of people paid much attention to this fella,
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Mayorkas secretary of DHS, but they did when suddenly there was a ministry of truth, uh, that
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they decided they were going to run on the American people. And this is the arrogance and the ignorance
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of this, this fella. Uh, and I mean, I'm talking about gold plated, agitated, full on electric and
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driven ignorance on the part of this fella. Uh, he is a, he's a Marxist creep and he's got it stamped
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on him. If you can't recognize it just in the flesh, you look at what he's done, what he says,
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this man makes no sense. He's not speaking to the American people. He is speaking to his converts to
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Marxism and those that he expects to join him in the long march toward the destruction of this country.
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There is no doubt of this. And when he started with the, he came out with his nonsensis disinformation
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governance board, he couldn't even figure out what to say about it because all that he wanted from it
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was absolute control over what is true and what is false in the public arena. And he would have given
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government the power to determine that even this Biden radical dem radical Marxist administration,
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couldn't figure out how to run this one across the goal line. And they had to back off after three
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weeks of being pummeled, but it took a miracle. I think a public relations, uh, communications miracle
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for the American people to have been alerted to this. Uh, and God bless everyone who did their part to do so.
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But I mean, we were on the verge of the final phase of driving this country toward abject, uh, absence
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of free speech. Yeah. And I look, I I'm a skeptic, uh, Lou. And I tell you, I think part of the reason
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why, uh, they got rid of this one, I think they're the regroup and they're going to try to rebrand it.
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But one, I think they realized they're, you know, their, their biggest client, uh, under the ministry
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of truth would have been themselves. I mean, secretary Mayorkas, they would have been called
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upon the carpet every single day. He opened his mouth about border security because everything
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he's saying was disinformation. Everything he has said is disinformation. I mean, when he continues to
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look at the American people and say, the borders are closed and we know the drugs are pouring in every
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single day, killing Americans. When we know the number of gotaways and gang members, pedophiles
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escaping apprehension. I mean, it's just absurd that this man can look Congress in the eye and
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American people in the eye and continue to lie. And I agree with you. Look, he is an ideologue.
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He is driven purely on his personal ideology and he does not care. He's in it to refuse to accept the
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truth and reality of what's going on because of the open border policies and the negative impact
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that's happened on this country. He only cares about the pursuit of his personal ideology,
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the second order order effects. He doesn't care. He doesn't care. I want to, I want to quibble with
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you on something. Uh, you're a skeptic. You don't buy into any of their BS, but here, here's,
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here's the question. Uh, they're going to come back. I, by the way, I agree with you a hundred
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percent that you're going to try it again. Uh, they never give up on this. This is, this is their
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program. They, and people can laugh at me. They can mock me. They can yell at me. Here's the truth,
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folks. The truth is we have an entire organization within the Biden administration that is Marxist
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is determined to carry out the first tenant of the Obama administration, which is the fundamental
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transformation of America. And they mean to do it in whatever way is necessary. You're seeing all
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sorts of examples. Uh, the ministry of truth was just the most recent and shockingly they were
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unprepared for what, uh, they were insufficiently prepared to carry it out, but they will be back
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and they will be prepared. Then this is a, and this government, this department of home, uh,
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Homeland security is the last place where I believe you have leadership committed to securing the
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homeland defending America. First of all, I have never liked the department of homeland security
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title. This is not, this should be the department of defense. This and the department of defense
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should be the department of war. Uh, and, uh, and it's just silly because we're trying to,
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we changed the name of America to homeland. Are you kidding me? This sounds like some 1930s movie
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homeland, but that's a story for another day. Uh, I'm with you. I think DHS is a failed experiment.
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So I I'm with you a hundred percent there. And you know, look, I, I, I agree with you. I mean,
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I actually call secretary Mayorkas, the secretary of department of homeland insecurity. Um, they have
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shown again and again and again, it's very much just like what we're seeing, you know, across this
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country now with law enforcement and criminals is that you have woke DAs and judges, et cetera,
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that seem to be more concerned about the rights of the, of the criminals than the victims. Right.
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Um, and we see that happening across, you know, just about every major metropolitan city in this
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country. And it's the same thing with illegal immigration. Uh, every single individual in a
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leadership position, uh, in DHS, uh, a political appointee position is more concerned with the rights
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and concerns of the illegal alien that's breaking into our country in violation of the rule of law
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and the sovereignty of our country, rather than what that cause and effect is. And again,
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pulling resources off, open our border, drugs pouring in, killing Americans, gang members,
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uh, criminals pouring in. And again, committing crimes against American citizens here. The list goes
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on. It's just unconscionable Lou. And at the end of the day, I think they're doing it because,
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because they see a perceived political benefit. They think that every single illegal alien,
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they find a pathway to citizenship is going to equate to a democratic vote. And it's disgusting.
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Yeah, it is disgusting. And again, I, you know, I don't know that, I don't know what the percentage
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break will be between those who in one generation, uh, will decide, I think for the first generation
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of, uh, these illegals who are here, probably Democrat is correct. Uh, but I think after that,
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as they wise up, get acclimated, accultured, uh, they're going to see that there is a reason
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For this great Republic, uh, because it is a bastion of freedom and liberty that if
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successfully assailed, uh, by these, uh, radical Marxists, uh, you know, it will be with the
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greatest loss to civilization, uh, uh, you know, in, in, in these millennia, uh, let, let's,
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let's turn to one other thing too. And there's this sort of, uh, you know, acceptance of not only
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the violence, the high crime rates in this country, the death rates, the, the death toll
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from, uh, fentanyl from other drugs, from gang violence, all of that is now spilled onto our
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streets. And it is obviously just racking, uh, our minority communities and without even comment,
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but some simply pats on the head, uh, figuratively from the great leader, Joe Biden. It is, it is
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racist on its, on its face. I don't understand why these communities put up with the Biden,
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the Biden ask, uh, what would I call it? Uh, condescension.
00:25:45.140
It's just accepting that this violence is going to be part of your life, except that these drugs
00:25:51.300
are part of your life, except the fact that your public schools are nothing but crap and that your
00:25:56.980
teachers are horror show, uh, uh, cast members. I mean, it's just disgusting what this is happening
00:26:04.580
in this country and no one wants to talk about it. Almost no one. And certainly no one from the left,
00:26:11.460
what in the world has happened to this country that the Democrat party has devolved to such an
00:26:19.380
ugly, into such an ugly abyss. And it is so grotesque in what it is tolerating.
00:26:26.020
Yeah. Look, look, what happened to, to, you know, uh, uh, president Biden supposed to be in the unifier
00:26:31.300
in chief. I mean, it couldn't be the farthest from the thing he's acting on the same worn out talking
00:26:35.860
points, you know, uh, being, you know, again, what those that, that, that subscribe to the
00:26:42.020
make America great again, we're once again, deplorables, uh, we're, we're basically terrorists.
00:26:46.580
The list goes on and on. And look, you know, to go to your point too, that, that they're,
00:26:50.580
they're intentionally hiding the truth from American people. I'll give you an example.
00:26:54.420
So that the West Point candidates that I know most of us are familiar with, they were on down
00:26:58.340
Florida on spring break. Now look, they made a horrible, tragic mistake. They did.
00:27:02.180
They took some drugs, but those drugs should not have killed them, but it did. It killed the two
00:27:07.300
of them. Why? Because the cocaine unbeknownst to them was laced with fentanyl and they died. Well,
00:27:12.500
I read dozens and dozens of articles about that. And the articles that I read, only a single article
00:27:18.500
mentioned the border. And of that was only one line. There's no mention of that. The fentanyl is
00:27:26.260
pouring across the Southwest border, making their way to every town, city and state,
00:27:30.260
poisoning the youth, uh, uh, and young adults of this country. And that's just one example of many,
00:27:35.380
how, how not only their policies detrimental to, to this country, but they're lying to the American
00:27:40.900
people. They're not being honest. And, um, I, that's, that's why I'm always so fired up.
00:27:46.500
Well, God bless you for being fired up and God bless you for everything you do for this country,
00:27:51.380
because just, you know, another walk in the park, this ain't, uh, and people just really need to
00:27:57.300
understand that. And largely because of you, people do understand that are beginning to
00:28:02.580
comprehend it. By the way, I want to give the border patrol great credit. Uh, well, I, I compliment,
00:28:09.460
uh, uh, Congresswoman Kat Kamek out of Florida, who was challenged by the, the Biden white house,
00:28:17.300
uh, saying that she was lying when said that they were sending a formula down there.
00:28:23.860
And so she tried to find some and the border patrol border patrol agent sent her
00:28:32.660
great pictures of, I mean, the pictures of all of the, uh, baby formula stacked up and,
00:28:38.580
and we haven't heard a retraction or a correction from the Biden white house, uh, the disinformation
00:28:45.780
agency that we call the Biden white house, uh, at all. Uh, but God bless the Congresswoman and God bless
00:28:52.980
the border patrol for insisting on truth. And, and I tell you, I know her and it's funny. So I was
00:28:59.380
getting, uh, uh, pictures, uh, at the same time she was Lou and, and, uh, I went out there and, and,
00:29:04.820
and I put them out there and, you know, but, but of course this white house says, oh, well,
00:29:08.660
it's the law, right. Uh, uh, people that come in our custody, we have to feed them. That that's not
00:29:13.620
the question. I mean, I w I was insulted and we should all be insulted by the condescending response
00:29:18.980
such as that. The issue is, is that what we should do is take immediate action to stop bringing in
00:29:26.020
individuals in the country. They're going to need depleted resources that Americans need and can't
00:29:32.340
get. There were border patrol agents who could not find baby formula for their children and grad
00:29:38.020
children. Meanwhile, they were going and providing formula to illegal aliens. How about this for a,
00:29:43.380
for a solution? Stop allowing the illegal aliens in that's going to take the precious resources
00:29:49.220
that American mothers have to drive six hours to find. You didn't hear that from this administration.
00:29:54.340
No, you sure didn't. And they would never say it, but because they, the last, their, their last,
00:29:59.700
it's not even a priority. The last place that is worthy of the attention of the lying Joe Biden is,
00:30:08.500
is the American people. Now, a lot of people say, oh, that's just too strong.
00:30:13.060
You don't mean that. Yes, I do mean that. And I'll prove it. I'll prove it every day.
00:30:18.260
He can't open his mouth without lying. And that's not exaggeration. That's not hyperbole.
00:30:24.100
He can't get, first of all, he can't get it straight, but even when he can get it straight,
00:30:29.220
he chooses to go the crooked path. He lies and lies some more. And by the way, this is the lying
00:30:37.380
president. As you know, Mark, he lied in the third debate. And the reason he is president,
00:30:43.700
certainly the major reason he is president is that he lied about his son, Hunter Biden. He lied about
00:30:50.660
the laptop from hell and the, and William Barr, the attorney general of the United States knew he
00:30:56.580
was lying as he did so and didn't say a damn word and shame on him. Uh, I, you know, I can't even
00:31:05.460
imagine a man without significant, without just the decency to do the right thing. And what,
00:31:13.540
yeah, I mean, it's not a question of courage. It's not a question of being noble about the,
00:31:19.220
the, you know, a man's trying to steal election, trying to lie his way to it and doing so in front
00:31:25.460
of millions of Americans are going to go to the polls. When in God's green earth, would he stand
00:31:32.260
up for America? When would it be correct to intervene? As he put it.
00:31:37.620
Yeah. I tell you a little, I share some frustrations generally in the sense that,
00:31:41.940
you know, a lot of these individuals that were in the Trump administration,
00:31:44.900
they've gone out afterwards and written tell all books, you know, and, and some of these individuals,
00:31:50.580
I was in the room with them and, you know, um, I, I can tell you, I, I never saw them object and,
00:31:57.940
and, and, and raise, uh, issues, uh, like that they afterwards, after the fact raise in their,
00:32:04.020
their book, you know, uh, secretary Esper comes to mind too, Lou. Um, you know, he is right. He,
00:32:10.740
he writes this book and, and oh, by the way, he waits and never mentions a thing until he's going
00:32:16.900
out peddling his book. I mean, I, I find that disingenuous at best and, and, and, and extremely
00:32:22.740
frustrating. And look, with respect to Joe Biden, I agree with you. I think there are things that he's,
00:32:26.740
he's absolutely blatantly lying. He knows there is, but I also know there's, there's certain things,
00:32:31.060
especially when it comes aboard, because I know this issue and, and I know that, that I, he,
00:32:36.420
he doesn't even know what he's talking about. He's just reading a script in a
00:32:40.340
teleprompter that somebody else wrote for him. So I don't even think in some areas,
00:32:44.020
he knows he's lying. I just think he has no clue what's going on. And I can tell he doesn't have
00:32:49.140
a clue by what he says and how he interacts the very few times he does with the reporters.
00:32:53.940
But I tell you one man that does, he knows what he's doing. That's secretary Mayorkas.
00:32:58.740
He's got his wits about him. He has his mind with him and everything that come out of that man's
00:33:03.860
mouth is an absolute blatant lie. Yeah. It's all a Marxist program.
00:33:09.700
He is nothing more than an apparatchik, uh, of, of the left. And it is appalling to watch him
00:33:17.540
perform. And what is more appalling is that the left wing media knows what the, what he is and what
00:33:24.740
an evil son of a gun. He is. I, I just, this man is evil. This, this administration is evil.
00:33:33.380
And there's no other way to describe this because at every, every, uh, objective that they
00:33:41.860
set for themselves, for their policies is a disservice to the American people.
00:33:48.820
They're working against America, not for America. They're working for everybody, but Americans.
00:33:54.740
Yeah. It's, it's America last. It's their, their agenda is America last policy. It's very clear
00:34:00.580
across the board. Um, you know, again, I mean, I, I keep going, I mean, there's lots of stats. Again,
00:34:05.940
we talked about them, but, but again, the, the, the fact that our, we know, we know the leading cause
00:34:12.100
of the fentanyl epidemic, we know the leading cause of death from 1845 is fentanyl. And we know that 95%
00:34:18.500
of the fentanyl comes from our wide open Southwest border. That stat, that issue alone should be enough
00:34:24.260
for everybody in this country to say, okay, enough is enough. Let's stop the BS. Let's stop the politics.
00:34:30.820
Let's secure our border, reduce fentanyl from coming in, killing Americans. It's not any more complicated
00:34:38.740
than that, but no, it's all about politics. It is all about politics and the politics of death
00:34:45.060
and the politics, by the way, of race. There should no, no person of no one who cares about this country
00:34:56.100
should ever permit any American citizen to die because of what we know to be the cause and can
00:35:03.860
control. We are letting people die in this country and we know how to stop it.
00:35:10.500
We are letting people, they're, they're being killed by cartels. They're being killed by China.
00:35:16.340
They're being killed by the cartels of Mexico. There's nothing, there's, there's no sophisticated
00:35:23.620
analysis required here. There's no geopolitical map that has to be drawn out for people.
00:35:29.700
The source, we know who's doing it and they are the ones who should be dying, not Americans.
00:35:37.380
And by the way, not black Americans, not, uh, not African Americans, not, uh, uh, Hispanics or
00:35:44.260
Asians, not Caucasian or whatever other race there is. There is one simple statement that's required
00:35:52.340
of our, of the people we put into government, protect Americans, Americans. We don't really
00:35:59.780
give much of a damn about skin color. We don't really give much of a damn about, uh,
00:36:10.580
And think about it. You know that the irony here is, so first of all, everything you just said, I,
00:36:15.140
I couldn't, I couldn't agree more. Couldn't have said it better myself. And we know that,
00:36:19.140
that, that, that it's actually minority groups that are actually leading the cause of drug overdoses,
00:36:25.300
right? So, so where, where, where, where, where is the mainstream media on that? Are you right?
00:36:29.940
So we know, we know, here's the facts. China is sending precursor chemicals to directly to Mexico.
00:36:36.100
They're taking the precursor chemicals. They're making fentanyl themselves and other synthetic drugs,
00:36:40.660
pouring them across our wide open border. And it killed 107,000 Americans of every race,
00:36:45.700
creed and color and mainly minorities in this country. As you said, it's not even more complicated
00:36:51.860
than that. Why in the heck are we not coming together on the right, the left, middle, whatever
00:36:57.300
you subscribe to and say, okay, that's probably not a good thing. We probably should do something
00:37:03.620
to eliminate the poison from coming in. And look, I always hear this excuse. Well, it's because there's
00:37:09.540
this demand. Yeah. Well, one way to fix that and at least help that is to reduce the availability
00:37:16.100
of the demand. Fentanyl right now is cheap. It's the most inexpensive drug and the most potent.
00:37:20.980
So how about we take that off the market and we reduce the availability on the market and access to
00:37:27.220
it? You know, there's no constitutional right to satisfy your addiction to whatever drug.
00:37:33.860
Uh, there's no constitutional right, uh, to have the, the society American society,
00:37:41.220
just accept drugs, deadly drugs in our society and to destroy young lives, to eliminate a hundred
00:37:49.540
thousand people every year. That's collateral damage says the Marxist left. That's all part of
00:37:56.340
the program they've got. And Americans patriots have to stand up and say, this will not continue.
00:38:06.180
And we've got to find somebody with the guts, either they're in Congress or the Senate, or they're not,
00:38:12.340
but we need to get them into the Congress and the Senate if they're not so that they will start
00:38:18.180
working for the American people and for this constitution. And we, we've got to hold them
00:38:23.540
accountable. Look, I was part of a coalition of about 16 conservative think tank organizations
00:38:29.060
and 12 former governor officials that served under president Trump from the department of justice,
00:38:33.860
homeland security, and, uh, and the department of state. And we signed onto this coalition letter,
00:38:39.860
Lou, that really set out a roadmap, uh, for the Republican, uh, uh, uh, house committee
00:38:45.540
that really shows here's some legislative actions and action items that if they pass,
00:38:50.260
we would absolutely be able to secure our border. Um, and so look, we, we not only provide them
00:38:54.900
the roadmap, but hopefully in January 23, um, we should then be able to use that in part to hold
00:39:00.980
them accountable. So the, the rhinos that are out there that remain in the shadow are still are
00:39:06.020
beholden to the chamber of commerce individuals. We're going to be able to hold them accountable,
00:39:10.980
uh, for their part in this as well. Right now, I agree with you. This is about the Democratic
00:39:15.460
party, but the Republicans are going to have a chance here. They blew it. And the first two
00:39:20.740
years on a Trump administration that the white house, the house and the Senate, they failed to
00:39:24.340
pass a piece, single piece of meaningful legislation. Uh, and, and now we're at the
00:39:28.180
worst catastrophic crisis on our border. This is going to test the Republicans here coming in 2023.
00:39:34.420
It is. And it's, uh, and, and let's say this is a straightforward from my, uh, my heart,
00:39:41.460
uh, this collateral damage that we are paying for here, uh, in the, in the war on drugs,
00:39:49.140
which is no longer a war. It's not even frankly, a battle. Uh, if we don't fix it, you know, we're
00:39:54.420
going to be paying to, to a higher power for our indolence and our aversion to our responsibilities,
00:40:01.540
just to, to one another, uh, just common decency to stop it. I want to say one other thing as we wrap
00:40:08.420
up here. And then I'm going to give you as always the last word, our guests always get the last word,
00:40:13.620
as you know, Mark. Uh, but I just want to point out one other thing that is coming from south of
00:40:19.060
the border. And that is a way to fix our elections. Mexico doesn't have, uh, it has horrible problems,
00:40:27.780
but it doesn't have our problem with elections. And one of the reasons is that Mexico has what used
00:40:34.740
to be called a matricula card. Do you remember those? Uh, but they have a photo ID card. It's
00:40:43.060
required for everyone who votes in Mexico, everyone, the cards are free. They're printed.
00:40:50.900
They're granted by a federal autonomous, uh, agency, and everyone has to have the tamper proof photo ID
00:40:58.900
card with their thumbprint and an embossed hologram. Now we're talking about who's the third world
00:41:05.860
country here, Mark, real quick. Is it the United States or is it Mexico? It's the United States.
00:41:12.100
And you know why? Because the Marxist Dems won't have it any other way. They're tearing this country
00:41:19.300
apart and they know very well that a workable solution is right across that border. And we should
00:41:26.340
be following the leadership of the Mexican government and applications. You know, applicants have to
00:41:32.820
personally return and collect their voting credential. They have to have proof of birth
00:41:39.220
and citizenship. Are you telling me that the Republican party and the democratic party couldn't
00:41:44.660
do this? We're getting played ladies and gentlemen by both parties and don't doubt it for a minute.
00:41:52.020
Uh, we'll be talking about this a great deal. As a matter of fact, we'll be talking about
00:41:56.340
the Mexican solution, uh, through the election. Uh, Mark Morgan, you are a great American, a great
00:42:04.820
friend, and God bless you. Uh, your concluding thoughts. Yeah, it's real quick. I'm gonna go
00:42:10.580
with something you said about solutions. Look, when it comes to border security and protecting our
00:42:15.300
nation's, you know, national security, public safety, and health, but we, we have to stop right now.
00:42:20.340
It's, it's, we have to get beyond just saying right now the Biden administration sucks. We have to get
00:42:25.460
past, uh, calling out them for all their failures. It's time that the Republicans actually step up
00:42:31.860
and do exactly what you said and come up with solutions. And that's why this coalition letter
00:42:36.900
we put together, it's a roadmap of solutions. So let's stop pointing fingers. Let's stop talking
00:42:42.260
about all the things they screwed up. Instead, I want to hear from Republicans that they should be
00:42:47.220
communicating American people. Here is how we're going to fix it. And we know how we did it under
00:42:52.020
Trump. Take that playbook out, dust it off, reinstitute it, and there's your solutions.
00:42:58.020
Well said, Mark. Thanks so much for being with us here today on the great America show. Uh,
00:43:03.220
Mark Morgan is one of the reasons that this country is great. Uh, he's served this country, uh, many a year,
00:43:09.940
uh, in various capacities, uh, including acting commissioner of, uh, customs and border patrol.
00:43:17.540
Mark Morgan. Thanks for being with us on the great America show. This week among our guests will be
00:43:23.620
Congressman Byron Donalds and radio talk show host, Mark Simone, Mr. New York himself, and Chad Robichaux,
00:43:31.540
who is doing great things, amazing things, trying to help the people of Ukraine. And also joining us,
00:43:38.820
Michael Gabelman, Wisconsin special counsel in charge of investigating what he calls widespread
00:43:45.540
election bribery in the 2020 Wisconsin election. All of that here on the great America show till then.
00:43:53.300
Thanks for being with us. God bless you. And God bless America.