The Great America Show - February 01, 2022


CHANG:BIDEN BLIND ON CHINA - VAUGHN:OPEN BORDER BIDEN’S FAULT


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour

Words per Minute

140.55318

Word Count

8,561

Sentence Count

425


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America Podcast with Lou Dobbs,
00:00:04.200 always in the fight for truth, justice, and yes, our American way of life.
00:00:09.220 And now, here he is, the Peabody award-winning voice of truth, the great Lou Dobbs.
00:00:14.440 Hello, everybody. Wonderful to have you with us for this edition of the Great America Show.
00:00:19.160 We're still growing this little acorn by leaps and bounds thanks to you.
00:00:23.900 We appreciate your support and sharing part of your day with us as together we fight for truth and justice in the American way.
00:00:32.600 Please be sure to tell your family and friends about us, about the Great America Show, and please listen in.
00:00:38.820 We call the show the Great America Show because that's exactly what America is.
00:00:43.960 We're proud of this great country, and we say so without apology to anyone, to President Biden, to Dr. Fauci, or whomever.
00:00:52.380 And we're here to make sure all who would drag us down fail, and all who are in uniform, who work so hard,
00:01:00.000 who put their lives on the line to keep this land free and our nation great,
00:01:04.900 all have our support and whatever it takes to succeed in keeping this republic of ours vibrant and vigorous and God-willing in perpetuity.
00:01:14.400 And yes, we're dedicated to those working men and women, those small business people in this country,
00:01:19.660 who are the very heart of the nation, our middle class, and all who aspire to it.
00:01:25.280 God bless you, and God bless this great country of ours.
00:01:29.380 Now, you might be getting the impression I'm a little fired up today, and you would be right.
00:01:34.020 And my guess is you'll understand why when we take up some of the events that are taking place,
00:01:38.940 some of the issues facing the country right now,
00:01:41.820 and this hapless, heartless aggregation of leftists who mean to reshape the country,
00:01:47.820 to remove our rights as citizens, to crush Christianity,
00:01:51.340 while destroying the American family, our capitalist system,
00:01:55.740 that brought prosperity to not only hundreds of millions of Americans,
00:01:59.560 but to people all around the world.
00:02:02.340 And now, to the matters at hand.
00:02:04.620 Communist China's President Xi is at it again,
00:02:08.160 trying to intimidate the world,
00:02:10.740 while his own country is threatened by another wave of perhaps two variants
00:02:14.960 of the Wuhan coronavirus he unleashed on an unsuspecting world.
00:02:21.180 This is the Beijing Winter Olympics approach.
00:02:23.880 President Xi telling the West,
00:02:25.820 do not engage in a cold war with all-powerful communist China.
00:02:30.160 He did everything but tell President Biden to bow down
00:02:34.440 when he hears the words President Xi spoken.
00:02:39.380 Joining us now is one of America's foremost experts on China,
00:02:43.160 indeed on global security and geopolitics,
00:02:46.000 and a great American, our good friend, Gordon Chang.
00:02:50.040 Gordon, great to have you with us.
00:02:52.160 Well, thank you so much, Lou.
00:02:54.480 Let's start with President Xi,
00:02:56.840 deciding it was time for him to tell the world not to even think about a cold war,
00:03:01.740 much less a hot one,
00:03:04.680 with the all-powerful communist Chinese People's Liberation Army at hand.
00:03:12.580 What do you make of it?
00:03:14.120 Your thoughts.
00:03:15.620 Yeah, when Xi Jinping talked to Davos,
00:03:18.620 which he has a habit of doing,
00:03:20.520 he always has these 30,000-foot generalities
00:03:23.640 about how the world needs to come together,
00:03:26.320 how everyone needs to cooperate,
00:03:28.400 how we shouldn't have trade wars,
00:03:30.160 how we shouldn't do this,
00:03:31.580 how we shouldn't do that.
00:03:32.860 And that's exactly what we heard a couple days ago.
00:03:36.000 But I think that even Davos is starting to get a little tired of that
00:03:40.160 because the reality is very different.
00:03:42.580 Just to give you an example,
00:03:44.320 while China was ravaged by at least two variants,
00:03:49.560 the Omicron and the Delta,
00:03:50.840 and maybe a new one,
00:03:52.720 what they were trying to do, Lou,
00:03:54.300 was to say,
00:03:55.000 well, look,
00:03:55.640 this Omicron came from Canada on the surface of an envelope,
00:03:58.780 and so therefore don't buy foreign products anymore.
00:04:01.980 Oh, I'm sorry.
00:04:03.520 I've got to say here,
00:04:04.700 if I may interrupt you,
00:04:05.920 I apologize.
00:04:07.180 But I mean,
00:04:07.860 that's so ludicrous and so stupid
00:04:10.520 that it's unbecoming President Xi.
00:04:14.580 It's unbecoming anyone who gives a damn about truth.
00:04:18.600 How dare he?
00:04:20.040 And isn't his country,
00:04:23.000 those who know about it,
00:04:24.640 embarrassed by such a proclamation?
00:04:26.360 You know,
00:04:27.880 I think that Chinese officials below him
00:04:30.400 must be embarrassed,
00:04:32.140 but he's certainly not.
00:04:34.200 And what he's doing by saying these things
00:04:36.220 is he's expecting foreigners like Biden
00:04:38.920 to repeat them as a sign of obedience.
00:04:42.440 So, yes,
00:04:43.620 China does have all of these absurd statements
00:04:45.920 that the ruler makes,
00:04:47.520 but we're expected to not only listen,
00:04:49.920 but to follow and tremble and obey.
00:04:52.200 My gosh.
00:04:54.180 And what's, of course,
00:04:56.160 disconcerting is we don't have a good read
00:04:58.880 on Biden's,
00:05:01.240 we know something about his state of mind,
00:05:03.220 and it's not either good or pleasant.
00:05:05.940 But we don't know what he's thinking about China,
00:05:09.300 what he's agreed to,
00:05:10.360 and what he's not,
00:05:11.680 if anything.
00:05:12.300 So he is really,
00:05:15.380 it's an incredible thing to say,
00:05:17.760 he's an unknown quantity
00:05:19.280 as we are faced
00:05:20.500 with these national security threats
00:05:22.800 from Beijing.
00:05:24.000 Yeah.
00:05:24.720 One thing that we do know
00:05:26.360 in terms of broad outline
00:05:28.080 is that Biden does not consider China
00:05:30.600 to be America's number one
00:05:32.340 national security threat.
00:05:34.160 He believes that climate change is.
00:05:36.980 But climate change hasn't killed
00:05:38.780 855,000 Americans
00:05:40.820 in the last couple of years.
00:05:42.540 But the virus did.
00:05:44.260 And we know, Liu,
00:05:45.560 that this virus probably came
00:05:47.500 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:05:49.840 We know that, let's say, 95%.
00:05:51.680 But there's something 100% we do know,
00:05:55.240 and that is Xi Jinping made decisions
00:05:57.620 to spread this disease
00:05:59.380 beyond China's borders
00:06:00.800 once it got out into the Chinese public.
00:06:03.900 They lied about transmissibility.
00:06:05.960 And while they were locking down
00:06:07.240 their own country,
00:06:08.220 they were trying to force other countries
00:06:10.240 to take arrivals from China
00:06:11.580 without travel restrictions
00:06:12.880 or quarantines.
00:06:14.220 You put just those two things together,
00:06:16.400 and there are more.
00:06:17.240 But just those two things together,
00:06:18.740 it shows that they wanted
00:06:20.280 to spread this disease.
00:06:21.740 This is the first time in history
00:06:23.300 that one nation has attacked
00:06:24.820 all the others.
00:06:26.560 Yeah, it's really true.
00:06:28.400 And as I said at the time,
00:06:30.100 and you know this,
00:06:31.840 in early 2020,
00:06:34.920 I said this is the moral equivalent
00:06:36.820 of murder
00:06:38.740 to allow this virus
00:06:41.800 to be spread across the world
00:06:45.260 without a warning
00:06:46.700 when they knew precisely
00:06:48.160 what they were doing
00:06:49.080 and the impact of it
00:06:51.280 and the lethality of that virus.
00:06:54.900 You're absolutely right.
00:06:56.080 This is murder.
00:06:57.120 So 5.5 million people
00:06:59.640 around the world,
00:07:00.760 outside China,
00:07:01.520 who died from this disease,
00:07:03.780 we should consider
00:07:04.520 each one of those
00:07:05.760 a murder.
00:07:07.720 No question about it.
00:07:09.380 And we also should consider
00:07:11.840 what in the world
00:07:13.360 is to be done
00:07:14.760 if there are now,
00:07:17.460 as it appears there will be,
00:07:19.460 subsequent waves
00:07:20.620 that look like
00:07:22.440 they're going to,
00:07:23.480 if they do not
00:07:24.700 appear first in Europe,
00:07:28.060 it appears
00:07:29.060 that they're going
00:07:29.840 to be present
00:07:31.240 in China
00:07:32.140 just as the Beijing
00:07:33.720 so-called winter games
00:07:35.540 begin.
00:07:36.900 This has got to be
00:07:37.860 a nightmare
00:07:38.360 for President Xi,
00:07:40.220 for the Communist Party,
00:07:41.580 and for China itself.
00:07:44.880 Yes.
00:07:45.260 I mean,
00:07:45.640 in Beijing,
00:07:46.760 they're reporting
00:07:47.360 Omicron cases.
00:07:48.760 But some people
00:07:49.600 are saying,
00:07:50.080 that this is
00:07:51.480 a new variant,
00:07:53.180 one that has
00:07:53.820 yet to be identified.
00:07:55.660 And we don't know
00:07:56.600 its virulence,
00:07:57.340 and we don't know
00:07:58.080 its transmissibility.
00:07:59.740 Now,
00:08:00.140 these reports
00:08:01.040 are unconfirmed,
00:08:02.780 but the point is
00:08:03.660 that China
00:08:04.120 is not cooperating
00:08:05.340 with the United States,
00:08:06.700 with the World Health Organization.
00:08:08.280 It's not cooperating
00:08:09.180 with anybody
00:08:10.040 in trying to get
00:08:11.360 to the bottom
00:08:11.940 of what's occurring
00:08:12.820 in Beijing.
00:08:13.660 So we have
00:08:14.260 all these athletes,
00:08:15.520 reporters,
00:08:16.660 journalists,
00:08:17.700 officials,
00:08:18.560 all going over
00:08:19.680 to China.
00:08:20.840 And they're going
00:08:21.280 to come back
00:08:21.860 perhaps with something
00:08:22.860 even more nasty
00:08:23.900 than what we've seen
00:08:24.760 up to now.
00:08:26.500 Yeah,
00:08:26.620 and I'm really
00:08:27.360 sort of surprised
00:08:28.280 at Comcast
00:08:29.340 and NBC,
00:08:31.380 the broadcasters
00:08:33.380 of the Olympics,
00:08:35.060 that they're not
00:08:36.040 saying more
00:08:36.880 about the Uyghurs,
00:08:38.300 their captivity,
00:08:40.100 their slaughter,
00:08:41.540 their awful
00:08:43.000 human rights abuses.
00:08:45.080 Because, you know,
00:08:46.320 every time you look
00:08:47.160 at an NFL football game,
00:08:48.660 it says,
00:08:49.320 be love,
00:08:50.480 stop hate.
00:08:51.580 but there's
00:08:52.920 absolute silence,
00:08:55.040 silence from NBC
00:08:56.520 on the oppression
00:08:58.940 of the Communist Chinese
00:09:00.700 against the Uyghurs,
00:09:02.560 the concentration camps,
00:09:05.120 the abuse,
00:09:06.500 and the deaths.
00:09:07.860 Aren't you shocked
00:09:08.980 that they have not
00:09:10.080 not responded at all
00:09:13.500 to the host country's
00:09:16.320 absolute barbarism?
00:09:19.980 Yeah.
00:09:20.720 To be clear,
00:09:22.200 what China is doing
00:09:23.200 is committing
00:09:23.740 acts of genocide,
00:09:24.780 as defined in Article 2
00:09:26.760 of the Genocide Convention
00:09:27.940 of 1948,
00:09:29.180 and is engaged
00:09:30.060 in other crimes
00:09:31.140 against humanity,
00:09:31.940 which includes
00:09:33.000 the mass detentions,
00:09:34.340 the killings,
00:09:35.200 the rapes,
00:09:36.220 the forced slavery,
00:09:37.760 organ harvesting,
00:09:39.080 the imprisonment
00:09:39.820 of children.
00:09:40.920 These are atrocities,
00:09:42.320 Lou,
00:09:42.580 that are comparable
00:09:43.460 to what the Third Reich
00:09:44.640 was doing
00:09:45.200 prior to the mass
00:09:46.220 exterminations of 1941.
00:09:48.940 You know,
00:09:49.180 we always talk about
00:09:50.100 never again,
00:09:51.480 but we have
00:09:52.220 a political class
00:09:53.560 in our country
00:09:54.580 and in other countries
00:09:55.780 that are saying
00:09:56.860 we don't care.
00:09:58.440 Matter of fact,
00:09:59.320 we don't care
00:10:00.220 was what the CEO
00:10:02.260 of Social Capital
00:10:04.140 actually said,
00:10:05.640 Chamath Palihapitiya,
00:10:08.080 in that All In podcast,
00:10:10.240 where he said,
00:10:10.980 no, I don't care
00:10:11.700 what's going on
00:10:12.480 with the Uyghurs,
00:10:13.220 and then went on
00:10:14.280 to say that
00:10:15.060 human rights abuses,
00:10:16.440 quote unquote,
00:10:17.020 in the U.S.,
00:10:18.000 were comparable
00:10:18.580 to those in China
00:10:20.140 and then said
00:10:21.120 the Chinese Communist Party
00:10:22.480 was perhaps
00:10:23.380 not a dictatorship.
00:10:25.380 This is unspeakable.
00:10:29.560 I mean,
00:10:30.260 it's unspeakable
00:10:32.960 and he is part owner
00:10:34.720 of the Warriors,
00:10:36.100 the NBA Warriors,
00:10:37.480 for crying out loud,
00:10:39.180 who have been
00:10:40.800 at the forefront
00:10:41.580 of running this country down
00:10:43.460 and the disgusting
00:10:45.740 social justice warrior,
00:10:47.800 whatever they call it,
00:10:48.620 social justice war.
00:10:50.500 This is just outrageous
00:10:52.580 that the NBA
00:10:53.600 would behave like this,
00:10:55.140 have an owner
00:10:56.020 or anyone
00:10:56.880 who would sit there
00:10:57.900 and compare
00:10:59.040 the United States
00:11:00.180 and communist China.
00:11:02.580 It's sickening,
00:11:03.440 it's disgusting,
00:11:04.140 and there hasn't been
00:11:04.960 a word of protest.
00:11:06.380 And LeBron James,
00:11:07.360 I expect you
00:11:08.240 to make some statement
00:11:10.080 about this fool
00:11:11.220 and what he said
00:11:12.660 because I know
00:11:13.760 you've got to be
00:11:14.440 as upset as I am
00:11:15.700 that anyone
00:11:16.680 would demean
00:11:17.420 this country
00:11:18.160 as he did.
00:11:20.300 What do you think?
00:11:21.600 Should we expect
00:11:23.040 a strong memo
00:11:24.920 from the NBA
00:11:25.980 to their owner
00:11:28.380 of the Warriors?
00:11:30.300 Yeah.
00:11:30.860 LeBron James,
00:11:31.760 in particular,
00:11:32.300 has a lot to answer for
00:11:33.700 because,
00:11:34.880 as you point out,
00:11:35.760 Lou,
00:11:36.140 he is so easy
00:11:38.140 off the trigger
00:11:38.960 to criticize
00:11:40.200 the United States.
00:11:41.960 But he was endorsing
00:11:43.120 a product,
00:11:44.080 Nike,
00:11:44.880 that was knowingly
00:11:45.980 using essentially
00:11:47.720 slave labor
00:11:48.680 of Uyghurs,
00:11:49.940 of a racial minority.
00:11:52.100 Now,
00:11:52.340 this occurred
00:11:53.080 in Qingdao,
00:11:55.780 and it was done
00:11:56.460 through a South Korean
00:11:57.300 subcontractor.
00:11:58.200 But this subcontractor
00:11:59.140 had a long-term
00:11:59.840 relationship with Nike.
00:12:01.580 Nike was auditing
00:12:02.620 these premises,
00:12:03.580 and it was clear
00:12:04.620 just from looking at them
00:12:05.820 that this was
00:12:06.340 a concentration camp
00:12:07.380 where Uyghur women
00:12:08.540 were transported
00:12:09.440 across China
00:12:10.360 to this place
00:12:11.160 from the western part
00:12:12.400 of China
00:12:12.780 to the eastern part
00:12:14.280 of China
00:12:14.700 to work in
00:12:15.880 concentration camp-like
00:12:17.320 facilities.
00:12:18.600 So LeBron James
00:12:19.400 should talk to
00:12:20.220 the American people
00:12:20.880 about that
00:12:21.340 because he's told us
00:12:22.640 that he actually
00:12:23.540 is knowledgeable
00:12:24.320 about all these issues,
00:12:26.120 and so therefore
00:12:26.700 he has a right
00:12:27.600 to lecture us.
00:12:29.640 Well,
00:12:30.240 he has got a right
00:12:31.260 to lecture us
00:12:33.440 with false facts.
00:12:36.120 Well,
00:12:36.240 actually,
00:12:36.620 he does have the right,
00:12:38.400 but he really shouldn't
00:12:40.340 be sitting there
00:12:41.420 talking nonsense
00:12:42.320 and blathering
00:12:43.460 with all these
00:12:44.880 virtue signals
00:12:45.860 when in point of fact
00:12:47.460 what he's saying
00:12:48.180 ignores the very big reality
00:12:51.620 here that the NBA
00:12:53.720 is taking hundreds
00:12:55.360 of millions
00:12:55.980 of dollars
00:12:56.680 from China
00:12:57.420 to compromise
00:12:58.780 its principles
00:12:59.960 and, frankly,
00:13:02.840 its debts
00:13:03.480 to the United States,
00:13:06.140 its home country.
00:13:07.520 It's outrageous.
00:13:09.520 And LeBron James,
00:13:11.040 whatever his politics,
00:13:12.200 that's fine.
00:13:13.500 It's not fine
00:13:14.560 to, you know,
00:13:16.960 well, I'll put it this way.
00:13:18.520 If LeBron James,
00:13:19.820 this is the only thing
00:13:20.860 that concerns him,
00:13:22.060 then there's something
00:13:22.740 really skewed
00:13:23.780 about his moral compass
00:13:25.860 because what the Chinese
00:13:27.680 are doing
00:13:28.360 with the Uyghurs
00:13:29.660 is offensive,
00:13:31.460 it's wrong,
00:13:32.220 it's criminal,
00:13:33.320 and it's disgusting
00:13:34.420 and appalling.
00:13:35.340 And by the way,
00:13:36.420 LeBron James
00:13:37.140 is a minor item
00:13:38.160 in this
00:13:38.580 compared to
00:13:39.260 corporate America
00:13:40.020 and Wall Street.
00:13:40.920 Wall Street
00:13:41.620 that's inviting investors
00:13:43.100 to pour their capital
00:13:44.360 into China.
00:13:46.820 Corporate America,
00:13:48.120 which is,
00:13:48.560 whether it's Walmart
00:13:49.300 or Amazon,
00:13:50.780 bringing in their products
00:13:52.140 by the trillions
00:13:54.760 of dollars
00:13:55.580 to the American
00:13:59.680 consuming public.
00:14:00.820 It's just awful
00:14:01.920 to think about
00:14:02.940 the situation
00:14:03.600 that China is in.
00:14:06.020 And by the way,
00:14:06.980 we Americans
00:14:07.860 are the reason
00:14:08.940 that we are
00:14:11.200 the ones to blame
00:14:12.080 for the position
00:14:13.340 of dependence
00:14:14.060 that we put ourselves in,
00:14:15.560 this position
00:14:16.260 of supporting
00:14:17.040 a communist nation.
00:14:19.440 It's insane
00:14:20.820 that we have gotten
00:14:21.780 ourselves into
00:14:22.640 this mess.
00:14:24.500 Your thoughts?
00:14:25.580 Oh, absolutely.
00:14:26.900 Just before
00:14:27.740 talking about that,
00:14:29.180 the one thing,
00:14:29.960 though,
00:14:30.220 in the NBA,
00:14:31.300 we do have
00:14:32.060 Enos Cantor,
00:14:33.360 who on the day
00:14:33.960 he became
00:14:34.560 an American citizen
00:14:35.500 last year,
00:14:36.600 changed his name
00:14:37.360 to Enos Cantor
00:14:38.480 Freedom
00:14:38.960 because he was
00:14:40.140 so grateful
00:14:40.880 to the United States.
00:14:42.520 And he has spoken
00:14:43.360 out on these Uyghur
00:14:44.520 and other issues.
00:14:46.180 And so,
00:14:46.660 at least there is
00:14:47.560 one player
00:14:48.740 who has stood
00:14:50.020 for what's good
00:14:51.140 in this world
00:14:51.820 and has become
00:14:53.140 and proud
00:14:53.820 to be an American.
00:14:54.560 On your bigger
00:14:56.420 point,
00:14:57.000 Lou.
00:14:57.120 In his Cantor
00:14:58.440 Freedom,
00:14:59.660 it's incredible
00:15:00.880 that he
00:15:02.140 has this kind
00:15:03.800 of courage
00:15:04.360 and he is
00:15:05.100 to be respected
00:15:06.040 mightily
00:15:06.620 by all of us
00:15:07.400 for what he's done
00:15:08.160 and we owe him
00:15:08.940 a great debt
00:15:09.480 of gratitude.
00:15:10.760 But his courage
00:15:12.520 speaks to the cowardice
00:15:14.620 of the NBA
00:15:15.420 and its craven greed
00:15:17.500 to put money
00:15:18.900 ahead of principle
00:15:20.120 and the interest
00:15:21.340 of the nation.
00:15:22.880 It's awful
00:15:23.940 and the NBA
00:15:25.080 should be excoriated
00:15:26.640 on Capitol Hill
00:15:28.020 for what it's doing.
00:15:29.980 The problem there
00:15:31.020 is, of course,
00:15:31.780 the radical Dems,
00:15:33.180 the lost left
00:15:34.960 in this country
00:15:35.740 is aligned
00:15:37.300 more with China
00:15:38.440 than it is
00:15:39.220 with American principles.
00:15:41.100 And that is,
00:15:42.220 of course,
00:15:42.900 not only dangerous
00:15:43.780 but disgustingly so.
00:15:46.120 When you talk
00:15:46.860 about Wall Street,
00:15:47.960 corporate boards,
00:15:49.460 Walmart and Amazon,
00:15:50.480 as you pointed out,
00:15:51.860 they do see
00:15:53.120 their interests
00:15:53.880 more closely aligned
00:15:55.420 with the elite
00:15:56.340 in communist China
00:15:57.500 than they do
00:15:58.120 with their fellow Americans.
00:15:59.840 And we know this
00:16:00.740 because of what they do.
00:16:02.300 The shipping of jobs
00:16:03.660 by the tens of millions
00:16:05.140 over to China,
00:16:06.180 which has meant
00:16:07.040 the impoverishment
00:16:07.900 of Americans,
00:16:09.080 which has meant despair,
00:16:10.640 which has meant
00:16:11.160 drug addiction,
00:16:12.400 which has meant
00:16:12.900 the destruction
00:16:13.520 of communities
00:16:14.620 and the small businesses
00:16:16.080 that you talk about.
00:16:17.640 This is critical.
00:16:19.320 And in this coronavirus epidemic
00:16:21.780 that China flew,
00:16:23.500 we have seen,
00:16:24.640 because of economic forces,
00:16:26.920 small businesses
00:16:27.740 in the U.S. fail.
00:16:29.680 And they've failed
00:16:30.540 because we have
00:16:32.340 the likes of Amazon
00:16:33.320 being able to take advantage
00:16:35.100 of the situation.
00:16:36.420 So you have Amazon,
00:16:37.640 you've got Walmarts,
00:16:38.700 but you don't have
00:16:39.780 those family businesses
00:16:40.980 that built America.
00:16:44.080 It's true.
00:16:44.620 And by the way,
00:16:46.300 just an article
00:16:47.300 came out
00:16:48.060 from a former
00:16:48.740 executive director
00:16:52.520 of the Black Caucus,
00:16:55.000 Congressional Black Caucus,
00:16:56.540 talking about
00:16:57.720 illegal immigration
00:16:58.940 has crushed
00:17:00.100 Black Americans
00:17:02.140 and their job prospects
00:17:03.480 and wage prospects
00:17:04.700 over the course
00:17:06.060 of the last 30 years
00:17:07.500 because that illegal labor
00:17:09.520 has diminished wages,
00:17:11.960 diminished benefits,
00:17:13.280 and economic opportunity,
00:17:16.000 whether it be
00:17:16.540 in the creation
00:17:17.300 of a small business
00:17:18.360 or large,
00:17:19.520 for Black Americans
00:17:21.520 who otherwise
00:17:22.820 would have had
00:17:23.420 that opportunity,
00:17:24.480 those wages,
00:17:25.360 those higher wages,
00:17:26.520 and wealth.
00:17:28.420 And now,
00:17:29.000 there's a greater disparity
00:17:30.380 in income
00:17:32.860 and net worth
00:17:34.460 in this country
00:17:35.140 than would otherwise
00:17:37.600 have been the case.
00:17:38.440 And I've been talking
00:17:40.040 about this,
00:17:40.500 as you know,
00:17:40.920 for 30-some-odd years.
00:17:42.960 And finally,
00:17:43.960 some people
00:17:44.500 are starting to listen,
00:17:45.680 but it's sure
00:17:46.220 taken a lot of pain
00:17:47.600 and economic loss
00:17:49.440 for them
00:17:49.860 to appreciate
00:17:50.700 the reality
00:17:51.520 of what I was saying
00:17:52.780 30 years ago.
00:17:54.500 Yeah.
00:17:55.420 Those Americans
00:17:56.260 who are most against
00:17:57.740 this open border policy
00:17:59.260 of the Biden administration
00:18:00.300 are the poorest Americans
00:18:02.800 for the reasons
00:18:03.660 that you point out.
00:18:04.560 But, you know,
00:18:05.720 we have another couple
00:18:06.840 of critical vulnerabilities.
00:18:10.920 We have fentanyl
00:18:12.000 from China
00:18:12.700 coming across
00:18:13.480 our southern border
00:18:14.260 in record quantities.
00:18:16.160 And a country
00:18:17.560 that can't defend
00:18:18.480 its borders
00:18:19.020 doesn't have sovereignty,
00:18:20.800 as you've pointed out.
00:18:22.200 And we know
00:18:22.940 that there have been
00:18:25.200 some very disturbing cases
00:18:26.880 of people
00:18:28.240 who are wanting
00:18:30.140 to attack the U.S.
00:18:31.660 coming across
00:18:32.440 that southern border
00:18:33.500 in recent months.
00:18:35.240 So this is going
00:18:36.360 to be a terrorism issue,
00:18:37.920 especially as the Iranians
00:18:39.520 and others
00:18:40.220 take advantage
00:18:41.180 of this open
00:18:42.600 southern border.
00:18:44.760 And speaking
00:18:45.560 of the Iranians,
00:18:47.080 we're in another mess
00:18:50.500 because there is
00:18:52.560 no doubt whatsoever
00:18:53.700 that they are proceeding
00:18:54.960 quickly and profoundly
00:18:57.800 with their uranium
00:18:58.920 enrichment program,
00:19:00.080 which is to weapons grade.
00:19:01.740 we also know
00:19:03.480 that they are aligned
00:19:05.000 with communist China.
00:19:08.340 And that is being felt,
00:19:10.080 that new and stronger bond
00:19:12.580 between those two countries
00:19:13.920 is being felt strongly,
00:19:16.240 whether it be
00:19:16.840 Southeast Asia,
00:19:19.220 whether it be
00:19:20.060 the Middle East,
00:19:21.540 whether it, in fact,
00:19:22.940 be the Western Hemisphere.
00:19:26.640 Yes.
00:19:28.620 And in the last three
00:19:29.480 or four days,
00:19:30.160 the Iranian foreign minister
00:19:31.280 has actually went to Beijing
00:19:32.620 because they're talking
00:19:33.960 about their strategic
00:19:34.880 partnership deal,
00:19:35.940 which has been in existence
00:19:37.180 for a couple of years,
00:19:38.100 but was announced
00:19:38.820 only last year.
00:19:39.800 This is the deal
00:19:41.420 where China will invest
00:19:42.800 somewhere upwards
00:19:44.080 of $400 billion,
00:19:45.900 maybe a little bit less.
00:19:47.300 But also,
00:19:48.340 this involves
00:19:49.520 Chinese purchases
00:19:50.780 of Iranian oil and gas
00:19:52.840 in violation
00:19:53.760 of UN sanctions,
00:19:55.340 as well as,
00:19:56.260 I'm sure,
00:19:56.840 military cooperation,
00:19:58.280 some of which
00:19:58.740 has been announced.
00:20:00.020 Other parts of that
00:20:00.760 military cooperation,
00:20:01.900 I'm sure,
00:20:02.340 have been kept secret.
00:20:03.560 We know that
00:20:04.600 over the course of decades,
00:20:06.360 China has directed
00:20:07.900 its nuclear weapons
00:20:10.160 technology
00:20:10.820 to the Iranians
00:20:12.320 through the Pakistan
00:20:13.600 Black Market Network
00:20:15.220 of AQ Khan,
00:20:16.140 which Beijing supported.
00:20:18.180 When we look at
00:20:19.100 the Iranian nuclear weapons
00:20:20.480 program,
00:20:21.280 it really has been
00:20:22.720 aided substantially
00:20:23.980 by Beijing.
00:20:26.040 Right.
00:20:26.480 And we know
00:20:28.120 that that relationship
00:20:29.620 is likely to get
00:20:32.000 only stronger
00:20:33.280 and more difficult
00:20:34.180 for the United States
00:20:35.400 and for Europe
00:20:36.440 to contend with.
00:20:38.980 We also know
00:20:40.080 that if President Biden
00:20:41.760 talking about
00:20:42.920 climate change
00:20:44.980 is the great
00:20:46.180 national security issue,
00:20:48.260 yet he still ignores China
00:20:50.240 even on that level
00:20:51.460 because he's not saying
00:20:53.620 anything about
00:20:54.460 China's coal production
00:20:55.700 that's at record levels
00:20:57.140 as they try to
00:20:58.560 avoid an energy crisis
00:21:00.940 in their country
00:21:01.860 if they possibly can
00:21:03.680 by burning ever more coal.
00:21:05.700 And yet there's
00:21:07.080 no protest
00:21:07.840 from the organizations,
00:21:10.180 climate change organizations,
00:21:12.140 climate crisis
00:21:15.320 countries that are
00:21:17.280 focused on this mightily.
00:21:19.120 There's not a word,
00:21:20.540 not a peep from them
00:21:21.680 about what China
00:21:22.940 is doing
00:21:23.440 to their environment
00:21:24.380 and to the world's.
00:21:26.020 The last couple days,
00:21:27.580 Lou,
00:21:27.780 we learned that
00:21:28.800 China's coal output
00:21:30.100 for 2021
00:21:31.100 was up 4.7%
00:21:33.560 over the previous year.
00:21:35.500 And when we talk
00:21:36.440 about climate change,
00:21:37.980 if one says,
00:21:39.420 as Biden does,
00:21:40.460 that climate change
00:21:41.220 is the number one
00:21:41.940 national security threat,
00:21:43.420 then what he should be doing
00:21:45.540 is bringing our factories
00:21:47.440 back to this side
00:21:48.940 of the Pacific
00:21:49.520 because the transportation
00:21:51.880 of materials
00:21:53.040 to Asia
00:21:54.520 and the transportation
00:21:56.600 of finished products
00:21:57.640 from Asia
00:21:58.340 to the United States
00:21:59.560 accounts for
00:22:01.120 a very substantial portion
00:22:02.760 of the world's
00:22:03.800 carbon dioxide emissions.
00:22:05.720 15 of the largest
00:22:06.700 container ships,
00:22:07.540 it is often said,
00:22:08.940 pour as much carbon
00:22:09.980 into the air
00:22:10.940 as all the world's cars.
00:22:13.620 Now,
00:22:14.000 one can argue
00:22:14.720 about that statistic,
00:22:16.180 but the point is
00:22:17.180 that if you really believe
00:22:18.980 climate change
00:22:19.720 is the number one threat,
00:22:21.020 then we should be hearing
00:22:22.060 the President
00:22:22.640 of the United States
00:22:23.440 every single day
00:22:24.580 talking about
00:22:25.560 bringing our factories back.
00:22:26.780 And by the way,
00:22:27.760 that would solve
00:22:28.580 many of our
00:22:29.540 supply chain disruptions
00:22:31.540 which are now
00:22:32.200 resulting in
00:22:33.180 bare shelves
00:22:34.180 in the United States
00:22:35.260 as well as inflation.
00:22:37.120 Yeah,
00:22:37.240 and no one should forget
00:22:38.340 who's responsible for this.
00:22:39.940 It's easy to blame China
00:22:41.460 and they do
00:22:42.620 obviously deserve
00:22:45.940 part of that blame,
00:22:47.160 a large portion of it.
00:22:49.240 But it was,
00:22:50.080 after all,
00:22:50.900 U.S. multinationals,
00:22:52.580 U.S. corporate America,
00:22:54.700 U.S. Wall Street,
00:22:56.780 that decided
00:22:58.480 it'd be just a grand idea
00:22:59.960 to shift those expensive
00:23:01.380 to corporations,
00:23:03.960 middle-class jobs
00:23:05.000 from the United States
00:23:06.220 and leave millions
00:23:08.120 of Americans jobless
00:23:09.520 and put those jobs
00:23:10.560 in cheap foreign labor markets
00:23:12.480 to put our production
00:23:14.100 in cheap foreign labor markets,
00:23:16.360 cheap markets
00:23:17.540 that didn't have
00:23:18.660 environmental controls
00:23:20.880 and regulations
00:23:22.280 that had no labor
00:23:24.880 restrictions whatsoever.
00:23:26.780 So what we have,
00:23:28.480 what we sowed
00:23:30.240 30 to 40 years ago
00:23:32.400 is now paying off
00:23:33.920 in something called,
00:23:35.000 so quaintly,
00:23:36.380 supply chain disruption.
00:23:38.420 It is,
00:23:39.320 this contraption
00:23:41.400 is, frankly,
00:23:43.240 collapsing around us.
00:23:44.900 And the CEOs
00:23:46.440 of the companies,
00:23:48.040 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
00:23:49.240 the Business Roundtable,
00:23:50.380 the Business Lobby,
00:23:51.660 Wall Street,
00:23:52.240 all deserve
00:23:53.000 most of the blame
00:23:54.720 for everything
00:23:55.420 that this country
00:23:56.300 is experiencing
00:23:57.040 right now.
00:23:58.540 Yeah,
00:23:59.140 this is greed
00:23:59.900 over patriotism.
00:24:01.440 This is greed
00:24:02.380 over the welfare
00:24:03.120 of fellow Americans.
00:24:04.660 We absolutely
00:24:05.500 have to reverse this.
00:24:07.080 You've been talking
00:24:07.700 about this
00:24:08.260 for decades,
00:24:09.260 and now people
00:24:10.920 are listening
00:24:11.800 because it's so obvious
00:24:13.580 that everything
00:24:14.620 you said,
00:24:15.260 Lou,
00:24:15.400 about this
00:24:16.040 was 100% correct.
00:24:18.400 Well,
00:24:19.140 you know,
00:24:19.680 and there hasn't
00:24:20.260 been a moment
00:24:21.180 when I was speaking
00:24:22.980 to these issues
00:24:23.940 that I wasn't hoping
00:24:26.060 that I was wrong.
00:24:28.580 It's just,
00:24:29.560 the pain
00:24:30.540 that it's caused
00:24:31.140 this country,
00:24:31.820 the economic loss
00:24:32.840 that it's caused
00:24:34.140 this country
00:24:35.240 is deep,
00:24:36.940 it's profound,
00:24:37.840 and we hope
00:24:38.740 can be overcome
00:24:39.600 in the next,
00:24:41.080 in the next decade,
00:24:42.580 perhaps.
00:24:43.420 But we have to
00:24:44.340 turn our minds
00:24:45.100 to it.
00:24:46.220 Let's turn
00:24:47.260 to Hong Kong,
00:24:48.740 flight attendants
00:24:50.360 being blamed
00:24:51.060 for bringing
00:24:51.580 the Wuhan virus
00:24:53.660 variant
00:24:54.440 to Hong Kong
00:24:55.860 and a police
00:24:57.340 action taken.
00:24:58.660 We're watching
00:24:59.380 quite a different
00:25:00.080 Hong Kong now
00:25:01.100 that there's
00:25:01.880 no veil around it,
00:25:03.580 there is no
00:25:04.260 fiction about
00:25:05.820 two systems
00:25:06.780 now that Beijing
00:25:08.260 is in control,
00:25:09.960 right?
00:25:11.120 Absolutely.
00:25:12.440 In 1984,
00:25:13.600 China agreed
00:25:15.880 to provide,
00:25:17.080 to allow
00:25:17.620 50 years
00:25:19.160 of a high
00:25:19.680 degree of
00:25:20.200 autonomy
00:25:20.660 in Hong Kong
00:25:21.580 under the
00:25:22.520 one country,
00:25:23.080 two systems
00:25:23.540 formula.
00:25:24.020 That was to start
00:25:25.080 on July 1st,
00:25:26.000 1997,
00:25:26.660 when Britain,
00:25:28.040 as they said,
00:25:28.820 handed over
00:25:29.460 Hong Kong
00:25:30.200 to Beijing.
00:25:32.240 And with the
00:25:33.420 adoption of the
00:25:34.220 national security
00:25:34.920 law on June 30,
00:25:36.520 2020,
00:25:37.040 we have seen
00:25:38.300 Beijing
00:25:38.920 basically take
00:25:41.040 over Hong Kong
00:25:41.840 and eliminate
00:25:43.120 all forms
00:25:44.460 of autonomy.
00:25:45.500 We have seen
00:25:46.240 the jailing
00:25:46.940 of Jimmy Lai,
00:25:48.300 the founder
00:25:49.180 of Apple Daily,
00:25:50.140 which is Hong Kong's
00:25:51.000 main newspaper.
00:25:52.320 And now,
00:25:52.980 in the last couple
00:25:53.680 of weeks,
00:25:54.540 independent news
00:25:55.360 sites,
00:25:56.200 Citizen News
00:25:56.780 and Stand News
00:25:57.660 have been
00:25:58.520 shut down.
00:26:00.480 This is really
00:26:01.480 the end of Hong Kong
00:26:02.740 as we know it.
00:26:04.360 People,
00:26:05.120 both expatriates
00:26:06.860 and Hong Kong
00:26:07.840 Chinese are
00:26:09.080 leaving.
00:26:10.240 And this is
00:26:11.060 really a lesson
00:26:12.600 of the value
00:26:14.000 of the word
00:26:14.640 of Beijing.
00:26:16.040 You can't trust it.
00:26:17.620 And this is important.
00:26:18.780 It goes well
00:26:19.480 beyond Hong Kong,
00:26:20.260 as you know,
00:26:20.960 because we've got
00:26:21.620 a president
00:26:22.120 in the United States
00:26:22.900 right now
00:26:23.380 who wants a
00:26:23.900 climate change
00:26:24.440 agreement
00:26:24.860 with China.
00:26:27.360 And whatever
00:26:28.200 one thinks
00:26:28.720 of climate change,
00:26:29.860 if you want
00:26:30.600 to clean
00:26:30.940 the environment,
00:26:31.760 the last thing
00:26:32.340 you do is
00:26:32.960 you come to
00:26:33.420 an agreement
00:26:33.920 with Beijing
00:26:34.680 because Beijing
00:26:35.660 will not honor it.
00:26:36.860 as we've seen,
00:26:37.840 for instance,
00:26:38.320 with this output
00:26:39.200 in coal
00:26:39.980 up 4.7%
00:26:41.580 last year.
00:26:43.140 I think the American
00:26:43.980 people are coming
00:26:44.860 to terms.
00:26:45.520 And by the way,
00:26:46.780 when I say
00:26:47.260 American people,
00:26:48.080 I mean,
00:26:48.860 including the radical
00:26:50.580 dams,
00:26:51.140 even the lost
00:26:51.920 left in this country
00:26:53.000 is now cognizant
00:26:55.020 of the limitations
00:26:56.980 of this president
00:26:58.140 and the inadequacy
00:27:00.060 of the people
00:27:00.620 that he's brought
00:27:01.320 with him
00:27:01.860 to Washington,
00:27:03.020 D.C.,
00:27:03.620 no matter how
00:27:04.820 strongly
00:27:05.640 and compellingly
00:27:07.640 they feel
00:27:09.160 they should be
00:27:09.800 supporting him,
00:27:10.820 they understand.
00:27:12.180 And I think,
00:27:12.980 as I said,
00:27:13.680 most Americans
00:27:14.380 understand this
00:27:15.760 president has
00:27:16.980 no business
00:27:17.600 authoring any
00:27:18.500 initiative,
00:27:19.260 authoring any
00:27:19.920 legislation,
00:27:21.300 authoring any,
00:27:22.460 any significant
00:27:24.160 step on the part
00:27:26.100 of the federal
00:27:26.540 government.
00:27:27.160 He was elected
00:27:28.560 to be not,
00:27:29.660 he was not
00:27:30.280 elected with a mandate.
00:27:31.260 He was elected
00:27:32.040 with a clear
00:27:33.580 expectation
00:27:34.120 that he would
00:27:34.800 be a placeholder,
00:27:36.160 a transitional
00:27:37.200 president,
00:27:38.080 and it is time
00:27:39.300 for him to
00:27:39.960 chirp down,
00:27:41.300 not up.
00:27:42.620 It is time
00:27:43.340 for him
00:27:43.880 to take it easy
00:27:45.360 in the White House
00:27:46.180 and relax.
00:27:47.280 And it is time
00:27:48.240 for the left
00:27:48.980 and the cartel
00:27:50.340 of the far left
00:27:51.320 that controls
00:27:52.040 this presidency
00:27:52.940 to simply stand
00:27:55.200 down,
00:27:55.880 because the American
00:27:56.640 people are going
00:27:57.340 to put up with it.
00:27:58.360 More than half
00:27:59.120 the people think
00:27:59.860 that he has
00:28:01.260 his country
00:28:01.700 in the wrong
00:28:02.180 direction
00:28:02.640 on nearly every
00:28:03.620 major issue,
00:28:07.360 but nearly every
00:28:08.160 issue period
00:28:08.920 in this country.
00:28:10.260 So I don't think
00:28:11.540 we're going to see
00:28:12.320 much more from him,
00:28:13.760 nor for that matter
00:28:14.740 from Schumer
00:28:15.620 and from Pelosi,
00:28:18.060 because he is
00:28:19.320 obviously incapable
00:28:21.640 of leading the country.
00:28:23.740 This last speech
00:28:24.640 was a disgusting
00:28:26.360 assassination attempt
00:28:29.120 against conservatives
00:28:31.120 and moderates
00:28:32.140 and Republicans
00:28:33.700 and anyone
00:28:35.540 who is not
00:28:36.600 on the extreme
00:28:37.800 left of the
00:28:38.460 Democratic Party.
00:28:39.580 Your thoughts?
00:28:41.320 When I think
00:28:42.620 about Biden,
00:28:43.480 I think about
00:28:44.520 his responsibilities
00:28:45.480 to protect
00:28:46.120 the American people
00:28:47.060 from an obvious
00:28:48.800 Chinese enemy.
00:28:51.580 Biden did not
00:28:52.980 raise the issue
00:28:53.840 of the origins
00:28:54.580 of COVID-19
00:28:55.520 during his two-hour
00:28:56.660 phone call
00:28:57.380 in February
00:28:58.000 of last year
00:28:58.700 when he spoke
00:28:59.280 to Xi Jinping.
00:29:00.560 He didn't raise it
00:29:01.480 in his November
00:29:02.160 virtual meeting
00:29:02.960 with Xi Jinping.
00:29:04.160 He probably
00:29:05.200 didn't raise it
00:29:06.040 during his 90-minute
00:29:06.940 phone call
00:29:07.600 last September
00:29:08.260 with Xi Jinping.
00:29:09.720 We're talking
00:29:10.520 about the deaths
00:29:11.300 of over 850,000
00:29:13.140 Americans, Lou.
00:29:15.000 And Biden's
00:29:16.420 highest,
00:29:17.220 most solemn
00:29:18.040 responsibility
00:29:18.740 is to defend
00:29:19.860 the American people
00:29:20.880 from foreign attack.
00:29:22.580 China attacked
00:29:23.600 the American people,
00:29:24.640 took 850,000
00:29:26.840 Americans
00:29:27.560 from us
00:29:28.200 and Biden
00:29:29.120 doesn't raise
00:29:30.000 the issue
00:29:30.560 with Xi Jinping
00:29:31.700 at all.
00:29:32.380 This is a dereliction
00:29:33.420 of duty.
00:29:34.500 And for this reason
00:29:35.260 alone,
00:29:35.840 plus the other reasons
00:29:36.880 that you talk about,
00:29:38.160 but for this reason
00:29:39.140 alone,
00:29:40.140 he should not
00:29:41.200 be president
00:29:41.780 of the United States.
00:29:42.680 If he doesn't
00:29:43.020 want to defend us,
00:29:43.840 that's fine.
00:29:44.840 But he should
00:29:45.420 make sure
00:29:46.000 that he's not
00:29:46.980 inhibiting
00:29:47.740 us from
00:29:50.180 protecting ourselves.
00:29:51.120 The weakness
00:29:53.340 and the vulnerabilities
00:29:54.460 of the United States
00:29:56.280 right now
00:29:56.820 and its national
00:29:57.400 security team,
00:29:58.320 its commander-in-chief
00:29:59.320 are so manifest,
00:30:03.220 so obvious
00:30:04.340 to world leaders,
00:30:05.840 but particularly
00:30:06.380 to Putin,
00:30:07.560 to Xi,
00:30:08.600 that it is
00:30:09.240 a very dangerous,
00:30:11.200 difficult period
00:30:11.880 for the United States
00:30:13.000 as we try
00:30:14.540 to get through
00:30:15.200 this period
00:30:15.820 where we are
00:30:16.580 without question
00:30:17.460 leaderless.
00:30:18.600 We are
00:30:19.280 without question
00:30:20.380 in an extremely,
00:30:22.800 extremely
00:30:23.460 dangerous position.
00:30:25.900 We always conclude,
00:30:28.040 as you know,
00:30:28.660 Gordon,
00:30:29.060 with our guest's
00:30:31.000 final word.
00:30:32.180 You get the final word
00:30:33.100 always on this show.
00:30:34.820 We appreciate
00:30:35.700 you being with us.
00:30:36.740 Your thoughts?
00:30:38.940 Lou,
00:30:39.980 China declared
00:30:41.020 a people's war,
00:30:42.020 quote-unquote,
00:30:42.660 on the U.S.
00:30:43.400 in May 2019,
00:30:44.600 and we have
00:30:46.000 a political establishment,
00:30:47.720 which is
00:30:48.260 Wall Street,
00:30:49.300 the corporate boards,
00:30:50.380 and Washington,
00:30:53.500 which doesn't
00:30:54.840 understand the
00:30:55.520 maliciousness
00:30:56.220 of the regime.
00:30:57.680 You,
00:30:58.180 from the very beginning,
00:30:59.280 have talked about
00:31:00.280 China in blunt terms.
00:31:02.560 You were the one,
00:31:03.340 you were the only one
00:31:04.520 talking about
00:31:05.320 red China,
00:31:06.460 and now
00:31:07.520 the American people
00:31:08.780 are coming around.
00:31:10.520 But, you know,
00:31:11.160 Lou,
00:31:11.580 we are at risk.
00:31:13.140 We are a far
00:31:13.820 stronger country
00:31:14.560 than China,
00:31:15.240 but if we don't
00:31:16.040 defend ourselves,
00:31:16.960 we are going to
00:31:17.980 lose our republic.
00:31:19.380 So, Lou,
00:31:19.840 thank you so much
00:31:20.780 for all that you've
00:31:21.860 done in protecting
00:31:23.100 our great America.
00:31:25.720 Well, Gordon,
00:31:26.340 that's kind of you,
00:31:27.260 and I thank you
00:31:28.680 for everything
00:31:29.360 that you do
00:31:30.120 for this country.
00:31:31.760 And we will
00:31:33.000 stay in the fight,
00:31:33.900 my friend.
00:31:34.560 That's all we can do.
00:31:36.260 Gordon Chang,
00:31:37.120 thanks for being with us.
00:31:38.340 We appreciate it.
00:31:39.220 Look forward
00:31:39.580 to seeing you next time.
00:31:40.800 We're still
00:31:42.440 hearing a lot
00:31:43.360 about how much
00:31:43.980 you enjoyed
00:31:44.500 our interview
00:31:45.000 with President Trump,
00:31:46.360 and I can tell you
00:31:47.720 I certainly enjoyed
00:31:48.760 it immensely.
00:31:50.080 Simply put,
00:31:51.220 Mr. Trump
00:31:51.780 is the president
00:31:52.740 who never quits
00:31:53.540 working for working
00:31:54.820 men and women
00:31:55.480 for small business
00:31:57.360 folks in this country,
00:31:58.620 and he's still
00:31:59.540 putting America first
00:32:00.780 in every way.
00:32:02.420 And man,
00:32:03.240 do I miss
00:32:04.240 our greatest president.
00:32:05.500 I know you do
00:32:06.240 as well.
00:32:07.340 Just think how differently
00:32:08.480 we'd be looking
00:32:09.340 at the world right now
00:32:10.520 were he in the White House
00:32:12.320 instead of Mr. Joe Danger.
00:32:15.160 Biden is a one-man
00:32:16.840 national security threat.
00:32:18.580 He is truly dangerous
00:32:19.980 to have in the Oval Office.
00:32:22.800 And if you haven't heard
00:32:24.060 our talk with President Trump,
00:32:25.900 just check out
00:32:26.520 our podcast list
00:32:27.660 and click on
00:32:28.820 President Trump
00:32:29.680 on Biden's blunders,
00:32:31.300 rhinos, and winning.
00:32:33.000 President Trump
00:32:33.800 left office,
00:32:34.800 as you well know,
00:32:35.880 having made huge progress
00:32:37.220 in securing
00:32:37.900 our borders,
00:32:39.160 I've often said
00:32:40.440 that no president
00:32:41.700 in four years
00:32:43.240 has done more
00:32:44.320 than President Trump.
00:32:46.580 I still believe that.
00:32:48.640 Building much
00:32:50.280 of the promised wall,
00:32:51.600 despite the fierce
00:32:52.680 and subversive opposition
00:32:54.660 of the radical Dems,
00:32:56.380 is no small achievement.
00:32:59.360 Fighting the rhinos
00:33:00.700 and his own party,
00:33:01.820 the deep state,
00:33:02.640 and the cartels,
00:33:03.540 of course.
00:33:04.020 No one likes to mention
00:33:04.980 the cartels
00:33:05.800 when we talk about
00:33:07.320 the corruption
00:33:08.840 on the border.
00:33:10.180 It is, believe me,
00:33:11.200 on both sides
00:33:12.080 of that border.
00:33:13.400 The situation
00:33:14.100 on our southern border
00:33:15.140 is quite different
00:33:16.360 after only one year
00:33:17.740 of President Biden
00:33:18.880 and his betrayal
00:33:20.340 of our national sovereignty.
00:33:22.300 Biden's complete sellout
00:33:24.120 to corporate America,
00:33:25.480 his bended knee
00:33:26.580 to the cartels
00:33:27.660 who are carrying on
00:33:29.260 their sex trafficking
00:33:30.440 and smuggling
00:33:31.280 of illegal immigrants
00:33:32.360 and deadly drugs
00:33:33.360 across that border
00:33:34.320 in never-before-seen numbers
00:33:36.760 and quantities.
00:33:38.560 Our national sovereignty
00:33:39.780 obviously means nothing
00:33:41.420 to the Biden administration
00:33:42.960 nor the safety
00:33:44.320 and security
00:33:45.300 of the American people.
00:33:48.140 Former Customs
00:33:49.520 and Border Protection
00:33:50.340 Commissioner Mark Morgan,
00:33:52.040 just to give you a sense
00:33:53.020 of how bad it is,
00:33:54.720 says three million
00:33:55.780 illegal immigrants
00:33:56.940 have tried to cross
00:33:57.940 that border
00:33:58.460 in the first year
00:34:00.160 of the Biden administration
00:34:01.780 and there has been
00:34:03.140 no sign
00:34:03.880 of any easing.
00:34:06.040 We are obviously
00:34:07.360 a nation in distress
00:34:08.760 on many fronts,
00:34:09.780 obviously, as well.
00:34:11.420 Whether it's
00:34:12.080 our open borders,
00:34:13.100 our runaway
00:34:13.600 illegal immigration,
00:34:14.900 unstoppable sex trafficking,
00:34:16.860 massive drug overdose deaths,
00:34:18.980 or runaway levels
00:34:20.380 of violent crime
00:34:21.900 in our major cities,
00:34:23.280 the border,
00:34:23.920 the border plays
00:34:25.400 a fundamental part
00:34:26.720 in it all.
00:34:27.560 To take up this crisis
00:34:29.600 we have with us today
00:34:30.900 a good friend,
00:34:33.640 an old friend,
00:34:34.460 Jessica Vaughn.
00:34:35.500 She's the Director
00:34:36.320 of Policy Studies
00:34:37.400 at the Center
00:34:38.040 for Immigration Studies.
00:34:39.900 Jessica,
00:34:40.860 great to have you with us.
00:34:42.200 Thanks for being here.
00:34:44.060 Thanks so much, Lou.
00:34:44.980 I'm delighted
00:34:45.460 to be talking with you.
00:34:47.020 You know,
00:34:47.320 as we go through
00:34:48.340 the litany
00:34:49.880 of issues
00:34:51.280 that are fundamentally
00:34:52.880 about that border
00:34:54.740 being wide open,
00:34:56.620 illegal immigration
00:34:57.540 un-checked,
00:35:00.360 not even slowed down
00:35:01.660 in point of fact.
00:35:03.360 It's really stunning
00:35:04.800 that no one wants
00:35:06.080 to think,
00:35:06.860 in my judgment,
00:35:08.160 about the corruption
00:35:09.560 that has to exist
00:35:10.700 on both sides
00:35:12.100 of that border,
00:35:13.500 in the states
00:35:14.720 that border Mexico,
00:35:16.700 and, of course,
00:35:17.760 in the northern states
00:35:18.880 of Mexico.
00:35:20.000 Your thoughts
00:35:21.480 about the current
00:35:22.380 crisis?
00:35:24.080 Well,
00:35:24.940 we have witnessed
00:35:26.160 the fastest
00:35:27.400 controlled collapse
00:35:28.580 of border security
00:35:29.440 in American history
00:35:30.980 in the 12 months
00:35:33.260 that Joe Biden
00:35:33.980 has been president,
00:35:34.740 and we're going
00:35:35.920 to be paying
00:35:36.380 the price for it
00:35:37.300 for decades to come
00:35:38.740 in so many ways.
00:35:40.620 in the resettlement
00:35:43.020 of all of these
00:35:44.220 illegal aliens
00:35:45.240 into the country,
00:35:46.500 the enormous costs
00:35:47.720 for states,
00:35:49.000 the cost
00:35:49.560 in public safety,
00:35:51.420 especially from
00:35:52.700 the million
00:35:53.940 or more
00:35:54.420 gotaways
00:35:55.080 who've come through
00:35:55.880 that we have
00:35:56.300 no idea
00:35:57.040 who they are,
00:35:58.040 whether they're
00:35:58.720 terrorists,
00:35:59.440 criminals,
00:35:59.760 or whatever,
00:36:00.500 and in the strengthening
00:36:02.440 of the
00:36:03.740 transnational
00:36:04.900 criminal enterprises
00:36:06.440 that are facilitating
00:36:08.620 and managing
00:36:09.760 and profiting
00:36:11.100 off
00:36:11.660 these Biden
00:36:13.560 policies
00:36:14.080 that have opened
00:36:14.800 up our border.
00:36:15.880 They are just
00:36:16.940 getting stronger
00:36:17.740 and stronger,
00:36:18.540 and they're going
00:36:19.620 to fight like
00:36:20.860 heck to hold
00:36:21.860 on to
00:36:22.580 this lucrative
00:36:23.940 business.
00:36:25.560 And they can...
00:36:26.300 Who is they?
00:36:26.940 I think we really
00:36:27.620 need to name names
00:36:28.640 here.
00:36:29.520 Who is the
00:36:30.520 they
00:36:31.120 that are
00:36:33.240 profiting
00:36:33.920 from these
00:36:35.320 overdose
00:36:35.780 deaths
00:36:36.820 from the
00:36:38.020 addiction
00:36:38.500 that results
00:36:39.280 from the
00:36:39.860 majority
00:36:40.480 of the
00:36:41.380 major
00:36:41.980 deadly
00:36:42.500 drugs
00:36:43.000 that
00:36:43.220 cross
00:36:43.500 that
00:36:43.740 border
00:36:44.060 every year?
00:36:45.840 Without
00:36:46.380 that border
00:36:47.180 being wide
00:36:48.220 open,
00:36:49.000 at least
00:36:49.820 the majority
00:36:50.640 of drugs
00:36:51.200 being brought
00:36:52.060 into this
00:36:52.600 country
00:36:53.000 would be
00:36:53.840 stopped.
00:36:54.920 Who is it
00:36:55.900 that's profiting?
00:36:57.420 It's the
00:36:58.400 several
00:36:59.040 transnational
00:36:59.860 cartels
00:37:00.920 that run
00:37:01.840 Mexico
00:37:02.300 and the
00:37:03.260 politicians
00:37:03.760 and a lot
00:37:04.840 of the law
00:37:05.240 enforcement
00:37:05.640 agencies
00:37:06.200 there,
00:37:06.620 whether it's
00:37:07.140 Sinaloa
00:37:07.660 or the
00:37:08.040 Gulf
00:37:08.280 cartel
00:37:08.920 or the
00:37:09.300 ones that
00:37:10.380 splinter
00:37:10.820 off,
00:37:11.280 they all
00:37:11.660 have a
00:37:12.140 piece of
00:37:12.840 the territory
00:37:13.620 that is next
00:37:14.740 to the
00:37:15.060 border and
00:37:16.400 the smugglers
00:37:17.880 have to pay
00:37:18.760 them for the
00:37:20.380 privilege to
00:37:21.340 bring people
00:37:22.060 through.
00:37:22.620 Nobody crosses
00:37:23.360 on their own.
00:37:24.120 You can't just
00:37:24.560 wake up and
00:37:25.200 say, I think
00:37:25.580 I'll walk
00:37:26.000 across the
00:37:26.480 border today.
00:37:27.320 You have to
00:37:28.140 pay a smuggler
00:37:28.960 who is paying
00:37:29.840 a cartel for
00:37:30.700 that plaza,
00:37:31.760 that territory
00:37:32.540 next to the
00:37:33.500 border.
00:37:33.780 But you
00:37:34.500 know, there
00:37:34.940 are also
00:37:35.780 people on
00:37:36.460 the U.S.
00:37:37.000 side profiting
00:37:37.760 as well.
00:37:39.100 Yes, I do
00:37:39.640 know.
00:37:40.300 Whether it's
00:37:41.740 the kids
00:37:43.140 who are
00:37:43.420 getting paid
00:37:44.080 by the
00:37:44.500 smugglers
00:37:45.020 to bring
00:37:45.600 people across
00:37:46.400 in their
00:37:46.740 cars or
00:37:47.340 transport them
00:37:48.140 on the
00:37:48.360 other side
00:37:48.760 of the
00:37:48.980 border,
00:37:49.220 or whether
00:37:49.920 it's the
00:37:50.340 NGOs
00:37:50.840 that are
00:37:51.840 getting
00:37:52.180 huge
00:37:52.940 contracts
00:37:53.680 from the
00:37:54.580 federal
00:37:54.840 government
00:37:55.420 to
00:37:56.100 transport
00:37:56.920 and
00:37:57.680 counsel
00:37:58.380 and
00:37:59.420 relocate
00:38:00.600 all of
00:38:01.080 these
00:38:01.440 illegal
00:38:01.920 border
00:38:02.260 crossers
00:38:02.880 who are
00:38:03.220 getting
00:38:03.480 resettled
00:38:04.040 into
00:38:04.320 American
00:38:04.760 communities
00:38:05.480 by the
00:38:06.940 Biden
00:38:07.220 administration.
00:38:08.240 They're paying
00:38:09.000 people, you
00:38:09.700 know, to
00:38:10.120 bring them
00:38:10.560 by planes,
00:38:11.360 trains,
00:38:11.780 automobiles,
00:38:12.740 charter bus,
00:38:14.080 you name it.
00:38:15.360 That's how
00:38:15.800 they're getting
00:38:16.560 around to
00:38:17.580 different parts
00:38:18.080 of the
00:38:18.300 country.
00:38:18.620 And you
00:38:19.700 said the
00:38:21.620 real, I
00:38:23.940 think, the
00:38:24.400 touchstone,
00:38:26.120 those NGOs
00:38:27.300 that are
00:38:28.020 operating on
00:38:29.280 both sides
00:38:29.820 of the
00:38:30.120 border under
00:38:31.340 the pretext
00:38:32.760 of being
00:38:33.460 accommodating
00:38:34.540 humane
00:38:36.040 organizations
00:38:38.260 only there
00:38:39.340 to be
00:38:39.740 helpful to
00:38:40.480 those who
00:38:41.000 might need
00:38:42.740 be troubled
00:38:44.340 or need
00:38:45.420 medical
00:38:45.780 attention,
00:38:46.340 the NGOs,
00:38:47.220 the non-government
00:38:48.600 organizations.
00:38:50.300 These NGOs
00:38:51.240 are running
00:38:52.400 what the
00:38:53.340 cartels
00:38:54.020 aren't.
00:38:54.920 Is that a
00:38:55.300 fair statement?
00:38:56.900 Well,
00:38:57.240 absolutely.
00:38:58.400 And they
00:38:59.200 are
00:38:59.820 incentivizing
00:39:01.020 the migrants
00:39:01.680 to come
00:39:02.060 take advantage
00:39:02.780 of this
00:39:03.240 criminal
00:39:03.560 infrastructure.
00:39:04.960 The UN
00:39:05.660 is paying
00:39:06.320 organizations
00:39:07.040 to hand
00:39:07.800 out cash
00:39:08.980 cards in
00:39:10.200 southern
00:39:10.920 Mexico and
00:39:11.820 northern
00:39:12.160 Mexico to
00:39:13.380 support these
00:39:14.140 migrants on
00:39:14.820 their journey.
00:39:15.580 They're
00:39:15.960 counseling
00:39:16.440 them on
00:39:17.280 how to
00:39:18.320 make a
00:39:19.860 false
00:39:20.180 asylum
00:39:20.760 claim.
00:39:21.920 They're
00:39:22.460 organizing
00:39:23.880 buses to
00:39:25.740 bring them
00:39:26.320 from southern
00:39:27.180 Mexico to
00:39:27.980 northern
00:39:28.400 Mexico.
00:39:29.640 They run
00:39:30.260 shelters in
00:39:31.400 the border
00:39:31.880 towns to
00:39:32.860 house people
00:39:33.680 until the
00:39:34.860 smuggler that
00:39:35.700 they're paying
00:39:36.240 can organize
00:39:37.440 their crossing.
00:39:38.740 They are
00:39:39.700 deeply into
00:39:41.100 this game.
00:39:43.580 And, you
00:39:43.760 know, talk
00:39:44.560 about the
00:39:46.200 morality of
00:39:46.960 all of
00:39:47.280 this.
00:39:47.560 I think
00:39:48.340 there's
00:39:48.560 nothing more
00:39:49.180 immoral than
00:39:50.140 having
00:39:50.520 policies that
00:39:51.640 enable these
00:39:53.420 criminal
00:39:53.920 organizations and
00:39:55.280 others to
00:39:55.860 make a
00:39:56.180 profit off
00:39:57.120 of people
00:39:59.120 who've been
00:40:00.240 incentivized to
00:40:02.340 come to the
00:40:02.820 border, who've
00:40:03.220 turned over
00:40:03.640 their life
00:40:04.080 savings to a
00:40:04.880 criminal
00:40:05.160 smuggling
00:40:05.560 organization to
00:40:06.600 try to get
00:40:07.180 here to take
00:40:08.340 advantage of
00:40:09.200 the Biden
00:40:09.600 policies.
00:40:10.240 That's
00:40:10.680 immoral to
00:40:11.340 have people
00:40:11.880 putting
00:40:12.680 themselves in
00:40:13.520 danger and
00:40:14.300 taking advantage
00:40:14.960 and trying to
00:40:16.480 do this, putting
00:40:16.980 their kids into
00:40:18.140 the hands of
00:40:18.820 smugglers to
00:40:19.900 come here.
00:40:20.680 Is it
00:40:21.180 immoral,
00:40:22.380 Jessica, for
00:40:23.700 the national
00:40:24.420 corporate media
00:40:25.660 to be in
00:40:27.460 complicity with
00:40:28.640 the Biden
00:40:29.120 administration,
00:40:30.140 with corporate
00:40:30.820 America that
00:40:32.220 encourages these
00:40:33.280 open border,
00:40:34.920 wide open
00:40:36.720 legal immigration?
00:40:39.780 Is it
00:40:40.300 immoral for
00:40:41.160 a national
00:40:42.140 media that
00:40:42.680 ignores the
00:40:43.640 terrific human
00:40:45.000 toll that
00:40:46.500 is paid
00:40:47.320 every day
00:40:48.200 because of
00:40:48.840 those drugs,
00:40:49.620 because of
00:40:50.500 what these
00:40:52.360 illegal immigrants
00:40:53.600 are actually
00:40:54.280 doing to
00:40:55.760 our wages
00:40:56.600 for
00:40:57.620 Americans,
00:40:58.960 hardworking
00:40:59.520 Americans,
00:41:00.280 often the
00:41:01.360 most low
00:41:02.280 paid Americans
00:41:03.700 in the labor
00:41:04.820 force?
00:41:05.840 It is
00:41:06.500 immoral for
00:41:07.560 them to take
00:41:08.240 part in this
00:41:09.060 big lie of
00:41:10.240 characterizing
00:41:11.160 this as
00:41:11.800 some kind
00:41:12.260 of a
00:41:12.600 humanitarian
00:41:13.200 crisis,
00:41:14.940 of turning
00:41:17.060 their backs
00:41:17.700 on the
00:41:18.840 Americans who
00:41:19.600 are harmed
00:41:20.120 by these
00:41:21.060 policies,
00:41:21.680 as you
00:41:22.020 said,
00:41:22.940 and
00:41:23.240 participating
00:41:24.100 in this
00:41:25.880 attempt to
00:41:28.500 dupe
00:41:29.300 Americans
00:41:29.940 into thinking
00:41:31.120 this is
00:41:31.760 something that
00:41:32.360 it isn't,
00:41:32.900 and acting
00:41:33.260 like this is
00:41:33.800 a force of
00:41:34.420 nature,
00:41:34.840 when it's
00:41:35.620 actually a
00:41:36.320 predictable
00:41:36.760 outcome of
00:41:37.700 deliberate
00:41:38.500 policy choices
00:41:39.660 that the
00:41:40.080 Biden
00:41:40.280 administration
00:41:40.820 has made,
00:41:42.480 and knowing
00:41:44.060 that they are
00:41:44.760 going to reap
00:41:45.300 certain benefits
00:41:46.120 from it
00:41:46.740 politically,
00:41:47.700 and even
00:41:48.880 financially.
00:41:50.060 You and I
00:41:50.860 have been
00:41:51.080 talking about
00:41:51.980 these issues
00:41:53.560 for decades,
00:41:55.280 and I would
00:41:57.880 like to
00:41:58.480 just,
00:41:59.340 everybody to
00:42:00.020 focus on
00:42:00.680 some realities
00:42:01.880 here.
00:42:02.620 You talked
00:42:03.480 about this
00:42:04.060 crisis, but
00:42:05.020 it's a crisis
00:42:05.660 of our
00:42:06.560 making.
00:42:07.280 It's a
00:42:07.920 crisis of
00:42:09.100 our making
00:42:09.620 because our
00:42:10.580 taxpayer money
00:42:11.480 goes to
00:42:12.040 those NGOs
00:42:12.900 who are
00:42:14.400 supporting
00:42:15.040 criminal
00:42:15.540 enterprises,
00:42:16.580 and transnational
00:42:18.340 cartels, as
00:42:20.240 you put it,
00:42:20.660 the Mexican
00:42:21.140 drug cartels,
00:42:22.220 is what we're
00:42:22.640 talking about.
00:42:24.040 They have
00:42:25.000 relationships and
00:42:26.720 networks with
00:42:27.780 the Chinese
00:42:28.900 triads as
00:42:30.340 well, and
00:42:30.900 that's where
00:42:31.280 most of the
00:42:32.320 fentanyl is
00:42:33.380 trafficked,
00:42:33.900 from China
00:42:34.640 to Mexico,
00:42:36.400 into the
00:42:36.900 United States,
00:42:38.040 and the
00:42:38.340 result are
00:42:39.200 at least
00:42:39.580 100,000
00:42:40.580 overdose deaths
00:42:41.480 every year,
00:42:43.180 killing Americans
00:42:44.120 without comment,
00:42:45.440 and the fact
00:42:46.020 of the matter
00:42:46.480 is the
00:42:47.300 Democrats know
00:42:48.120 it, the
00:42:48.460 Republicans
00:42:49.000 know it,
00:42:50.400 guess what?
00:42:51.360 Every mayor,
00:42:52.960 every governor
00:42:53.860 in this country
00:42:54.820 knows it,
00:42:55.640 and they
00:42:56.240 are, well,
00:42:57.420 with great
00:42:58.260 exceptions,
00:42:59.080 including the
00:43:00.280 state of
00:43:00.680 Texas, the
00:43:01.940 state of
00:43:02.400 Florida, where
00:43:03.720 they are
00:43:04.260 making every
00:43:05.140 effort to
00:43:06.100 try to
00:43:07.160 stem the
00:43:08.400 flood of
00:43:10.260 illegal
00:43:10.600 immigration,
00:43:11.760 sex trafficking,
00:43:12.460 and deadly
00:43:13.200 drugs across
00:43:14.100 that border
00:43:14.680 and into
00:43:15.180 their states,
00:43:16.440 right?
00:43:17.580 Absolutely
00:43:18.140 right, and
00:43:19.340 it goes
00:43:20.020 further than
00:43:20.620 a lot of
00:43:20.940 people realize.
00:43:21.880 I sat at
00:43:22.520 a hearing a
00:43:23.680 few months
00:43:24.120 ago put on
00:43:25.620 by Senate
00:43:26.080 Republicans and
00:43:26.920 listened to a
00:43:27.660 mother of a
00:43:29.700 young woman who
00:43:30.540 had overdosed
00:43:31.660 on fentanyl
00:43:34.120 that had
00:43:34.860 been cut
00:43:35.400 into ordinary
00:43:36.820 sort of
00:43:37.780 recreational
00:43:38.320 street drugs
00:43:39.280 that are
00:43:39.680 marketed to
00:43:40.520 young people
00:43:41.380 making bad
00:43:42.300 choices who
00:43:43.340 have no idea
00:43:44.060 that they're
00:43:44.480 ingesting
00:43:44.920 fentanyl.
00:43:45.700 They think
00:43:46.000 they're taking
00:43:46.760 some kind of
00:43:47.340 a party
00:43:47.780 drug and it
00:43:48.420 turns out to
00:43:49.060 be laced
00:43:50.140 with fentanyl.
00:43:51.360 I mean,
00:43:51.520 there is a
00:43:52.140 human cost
00:43:53.060 to allowing
00:43:54.660 this open
00:43:55.320 border.
00:43:56.300 100,000
00:43:57.040 people dead
00:43:57.840 alone from
00:43:59.980 opiates and
00:44:00.740 fentanyl.
00:44:02.120 The state
00:44:03.820 of Rhode
00:44:04.160 Island not
00:44:05.020 long ago
00:44:05.760 made a
00:44:06.480 bust where
00:44:07.140 they found
00:44:07.820 someone with
00:44:08.780 41 kilos
00:44:10.740 of fentanyl.
00:44:12.420 Good Lord.
00:44:13.360 Which is an
00:44:14.320 extraordinary
00:44:15.200 amount of
00:44:16.060 it, and of
00:44:16.740 course it was
00:44:17.460 being trafficked
00:44:18.300 by, in this
00:44:19.500 case, Dominicans,
00:44:22.080 illegal aliens
00:44:23.040 from the
00:44:23.420 Dominican
00:44:23.740 Republic,
00:44:24.660 with fake
00:44:25.580 IDs that
00:44:27.180 they got
00:44:27.700 from stealing
00:44:28.420 the social
00:44:28.880 security numbers
00:44:29.740 of U.S.
00:44:30.700 citizens from
00:44:31.360 Puerto Rico
00:44:32.060 that enabled
00:44:33.440 them to hide
00:44:34.120 in plain sight
00:44:34.840 here and get
00:44:35.380 driver's licenses
00:44:36.280 and so on.
00:44:37.360 But yeah,
00:44:37.860 it's a horrible
00:44:39.520 tragedy that is
00:44:40.760 occurring before
00:44:42.160 our eyes and
00:44:43.360 that is being
00:44:43.860 ignored by the
00:44:45.780 open borders
00:44:46.520 advocates.
00:44:47.980 The open
00:44:48.340 borders advocates.
00:44:49.820 You know,
00:44:50.020 there was one
00:44:50.640 president who
00:44:52.020 decided to take
00:44:53.420 on the cartels.
00:44:54.660 And that, of
00:44:56.500 course, was
00:44:56.960 Donald Trump.
00:44:58.220 The 45th
00:44:59.160 president is the
00:44:59.960 only president
00:45:00.740 who's had the
00:45:01.540 guts to say
00:45:02.720 that he was
00:45:04.260 going to take
00:45:04.880 on these
00:45:05.400 cartels.
00:45:06.660 And guess what
00:45:07.480 the result is?
00:45:08.800 Every corporation,
00:45:10.460 seemingly,
00:45:11.180 every corporation,
00:45:12.820 every business
00:45:14.980 on those borders,
00:45:16.580 every commerce
00:45:17.880 lobbyist,
00:45:19.160 every business
00:45:21.460 roundtable
00:45:22.100 lobbyist,
00:45:23.380 Wall Street
00:45:23.960 lobbyist,
00:45:24.860 went after his
00:45:25.620 hide.
00:45:26.560 And they don't
00:45:27.460 want to talk
00:45:27.980 about the
00:45:28.360 cartels.
00:45:28.940 They don't
00:45:29.160 want to talk
00:45:29.640 about the
00:45:30.040 human cost.
00:45:30.880 And by the
00:45:31.200 way, just
00:45:31.940 recently, the
00:45:33.140 former executive
00:45:34.120 director of the
00:45:35.220 Black Caucus
00:45:36.180 Foundation talked
00:45:38.340 about something you
00:45:39.100 and I have been
00:45:39.600 talking about for
00:45:40.400 decades.
00:45:41.440 The cost to
00:45:42.820 American minorities
00:45:44.460 who then find
00:45:47.360 themselves in
00:45:48.060 competition with
00:45:49.000 these illegal
00:45:49.620 immigrants.
00:45:50.640 And by the way,
00:45:51.080 that's just the
00:45:51.680 most benign damage
00:45:53.260 that's being done
00:45:54.360 to the country.
00:45:55.640 It's not as
00:45:56.700 violent as the
00:45:58.040 overdose deaths.
00:45:59.180 It's not as
00:45:59.720 profound for the
00:46:04.020 country in some
00:46:04.880 respect as all of
00:46:07.440 the other economic
00:46:08.500 impacts.
00:46:09.440 But for African
00:46:11.440 Americans in
00:46:12.260 particular, it's
00:46:14.280 devastating.
00:46:15.460 It's a big
00:46:16.260 deal.
00:46:16.940 It's the denial
00:46:18.000 of job
00:46:18.920 opportunities because
00:46:20.020 of unfair
00:46:20.600 competition from
00:46:21.720 employers that
00:46:22.500 would rather hire
00:46:23.320 cheap illegal
00:46:24.020 labor.
00:46:25.360 It's, you know,
00:46:26.460 cutting off these
00:46:28.080 kids' opportunities
00:46:29.240 to build a life for
00:46:30.620 themselves of good
00:46:31.980 employment.
00:46:33.120 And it's destroying
00:46:34.480 their schools and
00:46:35.580 neighborhoods, too.
00:46:37.100 Yeah, I mean,
00:46:37.780 it's devastating.
00:46:39.720 That's all there is
00:46:40.520 to it, to every,
00:46:41.780 every American.
00:46:43.100 one way or the
00:46:44.860 other, except for
00:46:46.060 those who are in
00:46:46.800 direct profit of
00:46:47.880 it.
00:46:49.080 And so what are we
00:46:50.700 going to see
00:46:52.660 happen?
00:46:53.780 Greg Abbott, the
00:46:55.020 governor of Texas,
00:46:55.960 has done a marvelous
00:46:57.040 job of mobilizing his
00:46:58.640 state and trying to
00:47:00.900 secure that border.
00:47:03.260 Anybody else come to
00:47:05.040 mind in the states
00:47:07.020 with particularly
00:47:08.260 interesting initiatives
00:47:09.780 to try to stop
00:47:11.620 this illegal
00:47:12.260 immigration?
00:47:14.020 Yes, there are.
00:47:14.800 And yes, Governor
00:47:15.900 Abbott in Texas is
00:47:17.300 doing a good job.
00:47:18.360 He's trying to
00:47:19.480 prevent people from
00:47:20.780 getting into the
00:47:21.540 country to begin
00:47:22.400 with and to
00:47:23.180 backstop the border
00:47:24.260 patrol in catching
00:47:26.460 the gotaways and so
00:47:27.800 on.
00:47:28.340 But there are some
00:47:29.280 other states, you
00:47:29.960 know, every state, of
00:47:30.860 course, is a border
00:47:31.600 state.
00:47:32.580 You know, when the
00:47:33.680 border is not
00:47:34.180 controlled, that's
00:47:34.780 almost a cliche
00:47:35.440 nowadays.
00:47:35.980 So other governors
00:47:37.520 are trying things
00:47:38.320 as well.
00:47:38.920 Governor DeSantis
00:47:39.680 in Florida has
00:47:40.720 issued a series of
00:47:42.260 executive orders that
00:47:44.180 are doing a number
00:47:45.020 of important things.
00:47:46.260 And one of them is
00:47:47.060 to try to prevent
00:47:48.300 these illegal
00:47:50.940 border crossers from
00:47:52.040 being transported
00:47:53.060 into Florida, not
00:47:54.880 only to stop the
00:47:55.720 smuggling, but also
00:47:56.960 to stop the NGOs
00:47:58.660 from getting
00:47:59.320 contracts with the
00:48:00.400 federal government to
00:48:01.360 bring them in.
00:48:03.540 And so that's
00:48:04.340 really important to
00:48:05.180 just not play
00:48:05.980 along with this
00:48:07.780 catch-and-release
00:48:08.840 policy and say,
00:48:09.900 you know, they're
00:48:10.300 not coming here
00:48:10.940 that easily.
00:48:12.260 He's also going
00:48:13.140 after employers.
00:48:14.540 He's empowering
00:48:15.720 law enforcement
00:48:16.460 agencies to
00:48:17.280 enforce state
00:48:18.260 laws that, if
00:48:20.740 enforced, help
00:48:21.880 disrupt illegal
00:48:23.300 employment and
00:48:24.420 identity theft of
00:48:26.260 the kind that we've
00:48:26.920 been talking about.
00:48:27.940 So there definitely
00:48:29.040 are things that
00:48:30.000 states can do
00:48:30.840 beyond the
00:48:31.780 lawsuits, which
00:48:32.820 are also important
00:48:33.820 as well.
00:48:34.580 I don't want to
00:48:35.500 discount them to
00:48:36.960 fight it out in
00:48:37.720 court to try to...
00:48:40.300 Don't you think
00:48:41.800 we can discount
00:48:42.460 just about
00:48:43.080 everything that's
00:48:44.540 been done to
00:48:45.120 this point?
00:48:45.660 Because we're
00:48:46.240 looking at a
00:48:47.320 crisis, a
00:48:48.680 disaster on our
00:48:49.720 border.
00:48:50.180 We are watching
00:48:51.460 illegal immigrants
00:48:52.560 by the millions
00:48:53.480 coming into this
00:48:54.520 country, and what
00:48:57.100 are they doing?
00:48:57.840 They're going to
00:48:58.360 be counted, and
00:48:59.640 we're counted, in
00:49:00.880 the census.
00:49:01.320 Those states
00:49:02.560 where those
00:49:03.160 illegal immigrants
00:49:04.080 are will attract
00:49:06.400 more districts
00:49:07.580 for Congress,
00:49:08.580 more representation
00:49:09.480 in Congress
00:49:10.440 against every
00:49:11.860 citizen in the
00:49:12.620 country who
00:49:13.640 simply, simply
00:49:15.380 will be
00:49:15.840 underrepresented
00:49:16.720 because of these
00:49:17.940 millions of
00:49:18.580 illegal immigrants
00:49:19.400 who are coming
00:49:19.920 into the country.
00:49:21.200 And by the way,
00:49:22.680 how many of them
00:49:23.560 will be able to
00:49:24.180 vote illegally?
00:49:25.240 Because no one
00:49:26.360 is watching it,
00:49:27.160 certainly not the
00:49:27.800 Republican Party.
00:49:28.760 Well, that's
00:49:30.100 a two-pronged
00:49:32.460 strategy they
00:49:33.120 have, is to
00:49:33.760 flood the
00:49:35.020 districts with
00:49:35.980 new people who
00:49:37.480 aren't here
00:49:38.160 illegally to
00:49:39.100 boost certain
00:49:40.000 districts, but
00:49:40.740 also to pass
00:49:41.980 voting laws that
00:49:44.040 make it tough to
00:49:45.020 crack down on
00:49:46.080 illegal voting
00:49:47.000 itself.
00:49:48.160 So put the two
00:49:48.880 together, and
00:49:49.800 that's a recipe
00:49:50.580 for diluting, if
00:49:53.980 not denying, the
00:49:55.000 votes and the
00:49:55.740 will of Americans.
00:49:56.960 Yeah, it's
00:49:58.600 absolutely
00:49:59.540 horrific.
00:50:01.780 Why don't we
00:50:03.960 have somebody in
00:50:05.400 Congress that is
00:50:06.160 a champion of
00:50:07.840 the middle-class
00:50:09.600 working man and
00:50:11.640 woman, a champion
00:50:13.560 of small business
00:50:14.560 who says, this is
00:50:15.700 tearing us to
00:50:16.400 pieces.
00:50:17.340 Oh, sure, there
00:50:17.820 are some small
00:50:18.380 businesses that
00:50:19.160 benefit, principally
00:50:20.120 in Texas,
00:50:20.880 Louisiana, a
00:50:21.760 number of other
00:50:22.260 places, because
00:50:23.880 they are in
00:50:25.220 residential sales
00:50:27.220 there, and the
00:50:29.020 rental business,
00:50:29.860 whatever it may
00:50:30.400 be.
00:50:32.720 It's just
00:50:33.420 stunning to me
00:50:34.340 that no one
00:50:35.120 wants to see the
00:50:36.280 real result of
00:50:37.480 all of this.
00:50:38.960 And by the way,
00:50:39.860 why don't we ask
00:50:40.440 ourselves at the
00:50:41.280 same time, who's
00:50:42.580 paying off the
00:50:43.620 border patrol?
00:50:45.080 What does it
00:50:45.940 cost to bribe a
00:50:48.880 border patrol agent,
00:50:49.920 and how many are
00:50:50.720 taking bribes, and
00:50:52.060 why can't we
00:50:52.880 get a border
00:50:54.820 patrol that
00:50:55.940 stands up
00:50:56.660 against this
00:50:58.120 onslaught?
00:51:00.060 Well, there's
00:51:01.160 always a risk of
00:51:02.580 corruption, but I
00:51:03.400 think we can get a
00:51:04.940 border patrol that
00:51:05.680 stands up against
00:51:06.680 this, as long as,
00:51:07.840 first of all, we're
00:51:08.380 not constantly
00:51:09.040 enriching the
00:51:09.760 cartels, giving
00:51:10.620 them more money
00:51:11.880 with which to
00:51:12.840 corrupt public
00:51:13.740 officials, but
00:51:14.980 also through
00:51:15.520 policies and not
00:51:16.940 overwhelming the
00:51:18.000 border patrol with
00:51:19.380 all of this
00:51:20.040 illegal migration
00:51:21.540 so that they
00:51:22.960 can, if they're
00:51:23.880 not overwhelmed,
00:51:24.600 they can do
00:51:25.060 their job, and
00:51:26.400 they can take the
00:51:27.160 time to train and
00:51:28.660 monitor.
00:51:29.640 How many more
00:51:30.180 border patrol agents
00:51:31.140 do we have today
00:51:32.140 that we had a
00:51:32.840 decade ago, or
00:51:33.960 two decades ago?
00:51:35.420 We actually have a
00:51:36.280 lot more now than
00:51:37.340 we used to, and
00:51:38.340 most people think
00:51:40.200 that the answer is
00:51:40.800 not more border
00:51:41.660 patrol agents, but
00:51:43.040 letting them do
00:51:43.840 their job, and
00:51:45.340 not having policies
00:51:46.380 that undermine them.
00:51:47.580 I don't want to
00:51:48.100 let them do their
00:51:49.820 job, I want a
00:51:51.020 border patrol that
00:51:51.820 wants to do its
00:51:52.880 job, a leadership
00:51:54.320 who makes certain
00:51:55.740 that they're doing
00:51:56.360 their job, a
00:51:57.160 Congress that has
00:51:58.240 oversight, a
00:51:59.520 president who
00:52:00.360 demands it.
00:52:01.760 This is madness
00:52:03.180 what we're
00:52:03.680 watching.
00:52:04.360 We're building
00:52:04.920 another giant
00:52:06.160 bureaucracy in the
00:52:07.460 federal government,
00:52:08.360 and people walk
00:52:09.300 around on the
00:52:10.760 border saying, I'm
00:52:11.460 a border patrol
00:52:12.120 agent.
00:52:12.800 The only problem
00:52:13.300 is they're not
00:52:14.100 patrolling anything,
00:52:15.160 they're not
00:52:15.580 apprehending anyone,
00:52:17.280 and if they do,
00:52:18.320 they're released
00:52:18.920 into the
00:52:19.360 country.
00:52:19.800 And by the
00:52:20.280 way, it's
00:52:20.840 not like the
00:52:22.020 illegal immigrants
00:52:23.660 or the sex
00:52:24.500 trafficking, those
00:52:25.760 people sort of
00:52:26.520 hide in the dark
00:52:27.500 and make their
00:52:28.080 way north.
00:52:29.260 They're being
00:52:30.000 picked up by
00:52:31.000 government-chartered
00:52:32.080 aircraft and
00:52:33.400 deposited in the
00:52:34.440 dead of night in
00:52:35.900 communities all over
00:52:37.180 this country by the
00:52:38.280 Biden administration,
00:52:40.040 and nobody wants
00:52:41.260 to focus on it.
00:52:43.580 Well, we have to
00:52:44.880 have hope that there
00:52:46.180 are enough people
00:52:47.020 out there, whether
00:52:47.780 they're in the
00:52:48.420 border patrol or
00:52:49.560 in ICE, who are
00:52:50.960 going to outlast
00:52:52.000 the Biden
00:52:52.640 administration and
00:52:54.180 remember what
00:52:55.680 oath they took
00:52:56.560 and know what
00:52:59.140 they owe to the
00:53:00.600 citizens of this
00:53:01.380 country who pay
00:53:02.120 their salaries and
00:53:03.220 who they want to
00:53:05.260 serve.
00:53:06.900 I like to think
00:53:08.120 that they're going
00:53:09.260 to outlast these
00:53:10.280 bad policies.
00:53:11.300 It's going to
00:53:11.660 take a while,
00:53:12.340 it's painful, and
00:53:13.280 some of this
00:53:13.720 damage, frankly,
00:53:14.500 can't be undone.
00:53:15.420 But, you know,
00:53:16.900 we have to get
00:53:17.420 up and go to
00:53:17.840 work every day
00:53:18.520 and keep fighting
00:53:19.180 for it.
00:53:20.280 Yeah, I understand
00:53:22.240 what you're saying,
00:53:23.000 I understand why.
00:53:24.860 But getting up and
00:53:25.780 going to work every
00:53:26.700 day and fighting,
00:53:28.180 when we've been
00:53:29.180 doing the same
00:53:29.800 things over and
00:53:31.040 over and over,
00:53:32.240 since 1986,
00:53:34.620 when the Reagan
00:53:35.940 amnesty took
00:53:37.760 place, we have
00:53:39.660 been absolutely
00:53:41.780 deceived by the
00:53:43.840 Democratic Party,
00:53:44.860 which has become
00:53:46.160 nothing more than
00:53:46.920 an agency for
00:53:47.860 illegal immigration
00:53:48.740 for the drugs
00:53:49.680 that are being
00:53:50.640 shipped by the
00:53:51.380 cartels, sex
00:53:52.720 traffic, and make
00:53:53.460 no mistake, they're
00:53:54.340 aligned with the
00:53:55.260 cartels, whether
00:53:56.460 intentionally or
00:53:57.560 otherwise.
00:53:58.780 They're aligned.
00:54:00.020 Corporate America
00:54:00.660 is aligned with
00:54:02.620 those cartels, and
00:54:04.680 their obscene,
00:54:07.320 corrupt profits.
00:54:10.400 It's disgusting.
00:54:11.560 It is, but I
00:54:13.800 mean, I'm
00:54:15.460 optimistic.
00:54:16.720 Donald Trump
00:54:17.280 showed people
00:54:18.080 that.
00:54:18.380 Let me finish
00:54:19.560 one thing.
00:54:20.340 Okay.
00:54:21.660 Why should we
00:54:23.340 not be direct and
00:54:24.980 honest about what
00:54:25.740 we're dealing with
00:54:26.400 here?
00:54:27.140 We have a corrupt
00:54:28.860 America that is
00:54:30.280 permitting this.
00:54:31.160 You mentioned the
00:54:31.900 Dominicans, the
00:54:32.700 gangs that come up
00:54:33.740 from the Dominicans,
00:54:34.720 primarily on the
00:54:35.820 East Coast.
00:54:37.340 But we've also
00:54:38.660 got MS-13, all of
00:54:40.480 the Central
00:54:40.980 American gangs
00:54:42.060 that are operating
00:54:42.980 here.
00:54:43.560 And when I say
00:54:44.680 gangs, I'm
00:54:45.300 talking about
00:54:46.100 transnational
00:54:47.300 gangs and
00:54:49.760 cartels that
00:54:50.860 have invaded
00:54:53.760 every city and
00:54:55.320 are part of this
00:54:56.320 crime wave that
00:54:57.960 is sweeping
00:54:58.640 America.
00:54:59.680 We've got to be
00:55:00.760 honest about
00:55:01.360 what's going on
00:55:02.100 here.
00:55:02.580 We've got to do
00:55:03.380 more than say
00:55:03.920 this is a policy
00:55:04.840 issue.
00:55:05.780 This is a
00:55:06.380 damn
00:55:06.780 existential
00:55:08.020 issue for
00:55:08.920 American society.
00:55:11.040 It really is
00:55:12.600 when you
00:55:13.380 consider the
00:55:14.280 corruption and
00:55:15.580 the violence
00:55:16.260 that enables
00:55:17.740 it can
00:55:18.960 infect our
00:55:20.660 government and
00:55:22.740 our communities,
00:55:23.840 particularly, you
00:55:24.840 know, with the
00:55:25.280 likes of MS-13
00:55:26.940 and their
00:55:28.460 extortion
00:55:29.360 rackets and
00:55:30.500 the way that
00:55:31.300 they can, you
00:55:32.960 know, because
00:55:33.380 they make so
00:55:34.120 much money and
00:55:35.180 instill so much
00:55:36.220 fear in
00:55:36.840 communities, they
00:55:38.320 can become
00:55:40.080 extremely powerful
00:55:41.300 because people are
00:55:42.460 afraid of them.
00:55:43.200 And we need to
00:55:44.280 say, we need to
00:55:45.060 say that something
00:55:46.400 like 40% of the
00:55:48.140 unaccompanied
00:55:48.720 minors, excuse
00:55:49.780 me, 40% of the
00:55:50.960 MS-13 members
00:55:52.200 arrested by ICE in
00:55:53.480 recent years
00:55:54.260 originally came
00:55:55.340 here as unaccompanied
00:55:57.300 minors.
00:55:57.800 And so to the
00:55:58.760 extent that we
00:55:59.480 allow these
00:56:01.580 kids to keep
00:56:02.980 coming here and
00:56:03.880 released into our
00:56:04.740 communities, we're
00:56:05.980 enabling MS-13 to
00:56:07.440 grow its ranks.
00:56:08.600 And the more
00:56:09.020 they become
00:56:09.760 entrenched here,
00:56:11.260 the harder they're
00:56:11.980 going to be to
00:56:13.000 uproot.
00:56:14.200 There have been
00:56:15.180 towns in
00:56:15.740 California where
00:56:16.960 political leaders
00:56:19.020 have been
00:56:20.320 bought off by
00:56:22.000 MS-13, perhaps
00:56:23.280 not directly,
00:56:24.420 and maybe
00:56:25.480 they're too
00:56:26.120 dim-witted to
00:56:26.960 realize where
00:56:28.160 this money is
00:56:28.740 coming from, but
00:56:29.520 it is a
00:56:30.300 corrupting and
00:56:31.020 can be a
00:56:31.660 deadly corrupting
00:56:32.740 influence, the
00:56:34.160 same way that
00:56:35.280 the mob and
00:56:36.860 other gangs and
00:56:40.080 criminal
00:56:40.840 organizations have
00:56:41.760 done it in the
00:56:42.440 past throughout
00:56:43.140 our history.
00:56:44.840 But yeah, we
00:56:46.080 can't sugarcoat
00:56:47.600 it, we can't
00:56:48.360 deny it's
00:56:49.000 happening, we
00:56:49.620 can't cover it
00:56:50.640 up by saying
00:56:51.280 these are just
00:56:51.900 kids seeking
00:56:52.620 asylum or
00:56:54.100 people fleeing
00:56:55.200 for a better
00:56:55.700 life.
00:56:56.900 We are
00:56:57.700 allowing criminal
00:56:59.480 enterprises to
00:57:00.260 flourish here.
00:57:01.160 And of course
00:57:01.880 that is the
00:57:02.420 fantasy perpetrated
00:57:03.620 by the
00:57:04.060 Chamber of
00:57:04.520 Commerce, by
00:57:05.180 the Business
00:57:05.640 Roundtable, the
00:57:06.900 NGOs that you
00:57:08.200 spoke of.
00:57:08.980 It is the
00:57:09.540 fantasy that so
00:57:11.540 many people want
00:57:12.320 to believe because
00:57:13.060 that's easier than
00:57:14.200 believing their
00:57:14.940 lying eyes as
00:57:15.900 they watch family
00:57:17.280 after family be
00:57:18.380 destroyed by these
00:57:19.580 drugs and
00:57:21.000 lives.
00:57:21.660 devastated if
00:57:24.220 not destroyed.
00:57:25.680 It's just, it's
00:57:26.900 a terrible thing.
00:57:27.960 And we have an
00:57:28.760 administration, as
00:57:30.360 we conclude here,
00:57:31.280 Jessica, and I
00:57:32.280 want to give you
00:57:32.720 the last word as
00:57:33.720 we try to do
00:57:35.840 every podcast, I
00:57:38.200 want to give you
00:57:38.940 the last word
00:57:40.020 because the
00:57:41.000 Biden administration
00:57:42.080 is trying to
00:57:43.080 break our
00:57:44.040 border.
00:57:45.040 No doubt about
00:57:46.060 it, our
00:57:46.360 immigration system.
00:57:47.840 They want the
00:57:48.760 open border
00:57:49.580 society to
00:57:50.520 prevail.
00:57:51.540 They're defying
00:57:52.560 federal law, the
00:57:53.660 Supreme Court, the
00:57:55.360 remain in Mexico
00:57:56.340 policy.
00:57:57.900 You know, you
00:57:58.680 know the numbers
00:57:59.260 far better than I
00:58:00.100 ever will, but we're
00:58:01.340 talking about
00:58:01.700 hundreds instead of
00:58:02.860 tens of thousands
00:58:04.100 who should be in
00:58:07.200 Mexico on the
00:58:08.220 remain policy.
00:58:11.660 This administration
00:58:12.900 is flouting the
00:58:13.920 law, flouting its
00:58:15.980 responsibility to act
00:58:18.840 in the national
00:58:19.540 interest.
00:58:20.080 It is absolutely
00:58:20.900 a crisis, but
00:58:22.220 it's also a
00:58:23.060 disgusting
00:58:23.880 abandonment and
00:58:25.820 betrayal that the
00:58:27.300 American people
00:58:28.220 are the, right
00:58:30.560 now, the passive
00:58:31.880 victims of.
00:58:33.480 Your last word.
00:58:35.600 Well, you're
00:58:36.620 right.
00:58:36.900 I mean, it is
00:58:37.940 disturbing to see
00:58:39.200 that the Biden
00:58:40.840 administration is
00:58:41.760 willing to even
00:58:43.700 behave in contempt
00:58:45.440 of federal courts
00:58:46.540 after having been
00:58:47.420 ordered to restart
00:58:49.160 the successful
00:58:50.520 remain in Mexico
00:58:51.500 program, only
00:58:52.660 subjecting 300
00:58:54.380 people to it when
00:58:56.180 there were more
00:58:56.960 than 170,000
00:58:58.620 people caught at
00:58:59.880 the border.
00:59:00.620 This is how far
00:59:01.720 they're willing to
00:59:02.500 go to enact
00:59:03.740 their no borders
00:59:05.220 agenda, to defy
00:59:06.620 federal court
00:59:07.360 orders all in
00:59:08.500 service of
00:59:09.120 something they
00:59:09.620 think that is
00:59:10.480 going to keep
00:59:11.080 them in power for
00:59:12.880 years to come.
00:59:13.840 But we're also
00:59:15.020 seeing a realignment
00:59:16.280 of even some
00:59:17.500 mainstream politicians
00:59:19.200 who understand what
00:59:20.500 Donald Trump
00:59:21.300 showed, which is
00:59:22.200 that Americans
00:59:23.320 think borders are
00:59:24.980 fundamental to our
00:59:26.060 sovereignty and want
00:59:26.940 to see them
00:59:27.420 enforced, and that
00:59:28.500 that's a politically
00:59:29.960 winning position
00:59:31.640 that they all need
00:59:33.080 to adopt if they
00:59:34.220 want to stay
00:59:34.760 employed in
00:59:36.140 government and
00:59:38.040 representing American
00:59:39.300 voters, that
00:59:39.880 ultimately the
00:59:40.940 people's voice
00:59:41.940 has to be
00:59:43.360 followed if
00:59:45.180 they want to
00:59:45.720 keep their jobs.
00:59:47.460 Yeah, unfortunately
00:59:48.020 the people are
00:59:49.740 being told by
00:59:50.560 by government
00:59:51.860 that they are
00:59:53.320 the people's
00:59:54.660 enemy, whether
00:59:55.960 it's the attorney
00:59:56.540 general saying
00:59:57.480 that he is
00:59:59.120 going to go
00:59:59.780 after parents
01:00:00.580 and school board
01:00:01.280 meetings as
01:00:01.860 domestic terrorists,
01:00:03.360 whether it's the
01:00:04.100 January 6th
01:00:05.120 committee, which
01:00:06.500 is just a rank
01:00:07.360 sham Soviet
01:00:09.020 style.
01:00:11.040 Soviet era
01:00:12.780 show trial.
01:00:14.480 It's disgusting.
01:00:15.620 It's disgusting
01:00:16.340 how corrupt
01:00:16.980 this country is
01:00:17.940 and the
01:00:18.680 passivity with
01:00:19.600 which we
01:00:21.240 seem to be
01:00:22.000 checked by
01:00:23.760 our government.
01:00:27.540 Jessica, thanks
01:00:28.280 for everything
01:00:28.740 you do.
01:00:29.240 I hope you'll
01:00:29.920 come back soon.
01:00:30.820 We've got a lot
01:00:31.480 to talk about.
01:00:32.420 This crisis is
01:00:33.200 only going to
01:00:33.840 get worse and
01:00:35.000 much bigger.
01:00:36.420 Thanks so much
01:00:37.180 for being with
01:00:37.740 us.
01:00:38.040 Jessica Vaughn,
01:00:39.240 the Center for
01:00:39.780 Immigration Studies.
01:00:40.900 Thank you, Jessica.
01:00:42.360 My great pleasure.
01:00:43.380 Thank you.
01:00:44.220 Thank you.
01:00:44.780 Join us again
01:00:45.380 tomorrow for the
01:00:46.300 Great America
01:00:46.940 podcast.
01:00:47.940 Stay in the
01:00:48.440 fight.
01:00:48.900 Truth, justice,
01:00:49.940 and the American
01:00:50.400 way will prevail
01:00:51.520 against all
01:00:52.380 enemies, against
01:00:53.360 all odds.
01:00:54.320 Thank you.
01:00:54.520 Thank you.