Corrine Jean-Pierre is reinventing herself as an independent. Elon Musk is publicly slamming President Trump. The White House is sticking to its guns as the legislation makes its way through the Senate. Plus, Jim Acosta holds a town hall that is so bad, it has to be seen to be believed.
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00:00:48.280Elon Musk publicly slamming President Trump's big, beautiful bill.
00:00:51.680But the White House is sticking to its guns as the legislation makes its way through the Senate.
00:00:56.280Plus, Jim Acosta holds a town hall in Washington, D.C. that's so bad, it has to be seen to be believed.
00:01:05.320Unfortunately, no one did see it because no one showed up.
00:01:07.700What happens when you throw a party and no one comes?
00:01:09.480It's basically his high school experience relived all over again.
00:01:14.860We're going to get to all the news today with Mark Halperin, host of Next Up with Mark Halperin on the MK Media Podcast Network, which is crushing it,
00:01:23.580along with former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and former Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine.
00:01:29.580Together, they are the hosts of Morning Meeting, the morning meeting on the two-way YouTube channel.
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00:02:55.500All right, so we're going to talk about the big, beautiful bill and the Elon meltdown and all that.
00:02:59.380Well, we got to start with the news that just hit on Corrine Jean-Pierre reinventing herself as an independent.
00:03:09.920This from, it's everywhere, but this is just from the New York Post write-up.
00:03:13.080That she claims she's no longer a Democrat.
00:03:16.540She's coming out with a book, a memoir, hyping, says the New York Post, a, quote, broken Biden administration.
00:03:26.380They go on to say that it's a tell-all she's working on now.
00:03:30.020And it's going to be a look inside, independent is the name of it, a look inside a broken White House, outside the party lines, due in October.
00:03:40.420Hachette, which is publishing, it says she didn't, Jean-Pierre did not come to her decision to be an independent lightly.
00:03:45.720In this book, she may focus on her, focus her ire on figures aside from Biden.
00:03:53.740Quote, she has served two American presidents, Obama and Biden.
00:03:56.260She takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a second term
00:04:01.540and the betrayal by the Democrat Party that led to his decision.
00:04:07.540The tease goes, and she's going to regale us with a hard-hitting yet hopeful critique,
00:04:15.000defining what it means to be part of the growing percentage of our fractured electorate that is independent,
00:04:20.120why it can be worthwhile to craft, to carve a political space more loyal to personal beliefs than a party affiliation,
00:04:25.920and what questions you need to ask yourself to determine where you fit politically.
00:04:29.620Absolutely. You've got to be kidding me, guys.
00:06:51.360I mean, it'll be interesting because as you and your viewers may know, she was in a lot of hand-to-hand combat with people within the White House who didn't think she was qualified, who didn't think that her performance was very good.
00:07:03.960They basically said she often had to read from the briefing book and struggled to answer on her feet.
00:07:09.880And, you know, she took a lot of pot shots.
00:07:13.000And so is she going to attempt to, you know, settle scores with people that she thought were not supportive of her performance?
00:07:21.100Obviously, she's going to talk about, you know, those those three weeks and what they were doing.
00:07:25.420But to Mark's point, I mean, I'm going to be very curious which direction she goes.
00:07:30.500And of course, this is just going to bring it back to the center as the party heads into the midterms and tries to move past the debacle of Joe Biden and have to relitigate what was going on inside.
00:07:41.420It certainly sounds, Sean Spicer, like she's going to stick a knife in the people that helped push Biden out from this line, again, from Hachette.
00:07:52.080She takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden's abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision.
00:08:02.360It certainly sounds like she's still on Team Biden.
00:08:05.400And I guess we're going to get a bunch of nonsense about how he could have done it.
00:08:09.920Yeah, no, no particular order, but a few points on this.
00:08:13.000When you've lost Kryn Jean-Pierre as a Democratic Party, you're in big, big trouble.
00:08:17.740I mean, it should not be this easy for us because I can't believe if she doesn't stick with them.
00:08:23.580I don't know who that leaves you with, David Hogg.
00:08:40.340If you buy this book, then you should take singing lessons from me.
00:08:44.920And if you saw me dance, the singing's way worse.
00:08:48.360Because if you are dumb enough to believe that she's giving you any insight into what was really going on, then you really should turn to me for singing lessons.
00:08:56.860I mean, she was literally the most epically unqualified person to hold that position.
00:09:03.800So if you are looking for her for any kind of insight or understanding as to what was going on, considering how unqualified and lack of access that she'd gotten, that's on you for wasting the $27.99.
00:09:14.880The way they pitch this is like, it's incredible how they're talking about her.
00:09:21.560I don't recognize the person they're describing.
00:09:23.940They write from the promo from Hachette on this, a hard-hitting yet hopeful critique.
00:09:32.520She defines what it means to be part of the growing percentage of our fractured electorate that is independent, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:09:38.120And then she says, they say, as a history maker, veteran public servant, political analyst, and independent thinker.
00:09:49.120Political analyst and independent thinker.
00:09:50.680By the way, the pitch went something like this.
00:09:53.760All right, if Jake Tapper can sell a book about the original sin, then why can't I be independent?
00:10:00.340I mean, that's how that went down, just to be clear, because there's no way that anybody thinks she's any of those things.
00:10:44.580You will see a complete moron up there.
00:10:46.940So there is literally nobody in the country who wants to hear her political analysis on anything.
00:10:54.360And just in case you doubt me, we just put this short little clip just to remind you of what we were subjected to during those very, very painful four years.
00:11:12.280We did it in in in clearly in in step with Canada.
00:11:17.140Three U.S. winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, who won the Nobel Prize in physics, who won the Nobel Prize.
00:12:34.100October. So I wonder if it's done because most publishers demand this ridiculous three months in the can before they can publish a book.
00:12:41.600So so clearly she's been working on it for a while.
00:12:44.960And I wonder if she had a ghostwriter.
00:12:47.240But I know for a fact that there are lots of people in the White House who will be worried about this because they recognize that it was a mistake to give her the job.
00:12:57.140They tried to work around it. They wanted John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, to do more briefing.
00:13:03.140She was very territorial about that. So there are people who did not treat her great.
00:13:07.920And I suspect there may well be a correlation between who comes off poorly in the book and who didn't give her the respect she thought she deserved.
00:13:17.920I just I just want to say this. If you are a person.
00:13:21.460Look, I will admit I made several mistakes during my tenure.
00:13:24.320I've been very open about that. You and I actually had a very frank discussion back when when I published my first book about this.
00:13:31.920But I'll say this. If you are concerned about how I describe certain things and then don't share equal criticism about her complicity in covering up the cognitive decline about Joe Biden and lying about it,
00:13:47.960And the idea that all these people that when I left the White House talked about banning me and canceling me and then are now trying to figure out how what opportunities to give her after she blatantly lied about his cognitive abilities and his physical abilities.
00:14:02.960Because remember, one of the quotes was he runs circles around me. He tires me out.
00:14:07.360I actually think maybe she should get some like checked by a doctor, because if that's the problem, then she's got some serious health issues.
00:14:14.200Not Joe Biden's doctor, though. No, think about that. Let me just stay with you for a second on this, Sean.
00:14:18.720After the Trump administration, Trump 1.0, they put Trump's staffers through hell.
00:14:26.040They had more subpoenas dropped on them. They were dragged into these phony criminal cases.
00:14:33.020Look what happened to poor Hope Hicks. They made her take the stand at that ridiculous show trial in New York City,
00:14:40.060made his former staffers testify against him, not to mention just all the subpoenas around January 6th.
00:14:45.960They got dragged in front of Congress, all these hearings.
00:14:48.360Where are the congressional hearings on the cover up of the Biden mental decline and the subpoena and the shunning of Kareem Jean-Pierre?
00:14:56.420Mark clearly wants to weigh in and then I'll go back to you, Sean. Go ahead.
00:14:58.580Well, just they may be those subpoenas may be coming.
00:15:00.720But the thing that's not on your list is employers in Washington and New York were told, do not hire these people.
00:15:07.740If you hire these people, you will be in trouble.
00:15:10.260People wanted to give people with Trump 1.0 experience positions at universities and they were told, no, you cannot work at a university.
00:15:20.080And now it's a totally different story.
00:15:22.340I mean, I got I got protested everywhere I went when I did get one or it was like, hey, can we run this agreement through a shell company, you know, in Abu Dhabi?
00:15:30.180And then we'll allow you to do it after you sign the NDA.
00:15:32.440And they're openly not even asking the questions of her and Psaki.
00:16:08.100That Pete Buttigieg and others who are in the Obama cabinet, sorry, the Biden cabinet, are going to be facing, where she's going to have to answer for the lies she told.
00:16:36.140And in some of your news organization have have been very clear, have stressed that these right wing, the right wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation.
00:17:13.660But look, it's not like, you know, Sean Spicer.
00:17:16.880I've never heard Sean Spicer come out and be like every word I spoke as the as the press secretary for Trump was heartfelt and 100 percent accurate.
00:17:26.260I have not heard him try to spin us like that.
00:17:29.720And so do we her trying to come out now and be like, I am a political independent and I see the corruption, Dan, of both parties.
00:17:38.000And I will be your leader to the promised land of owning your own personal beliefs as opposed to just blind loyalty to these liars in office.
00:17:46.920Yeah, I mean, you know, it has been cringe inducing on so many levels the last month or so.
00:17:52.140Once Jake Tapper's book came out and you had Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, all these people who when asked, what did you know?
00:18:09.280When everybody knows and knew what was going on.
00:18:13.000Now, this is going to come back up in October.
00:18:16.720I think, Mark, you make a smart point.
00:18:18.400If she already wrote this and it was before all the kind of media dust up that we've had now the last month, it'll be very interesting if she does dig in and try to convince people like Joe Biden still that all was well.
00:18:32.460He should have never gotten out this ludicrous idea that he might have won.
00:18:37.020I mean, I think we might have lost 47, 48 states.
00:18:41.180I mean, the Senate would probably be 63 to, you know, uh, 37 or something of that nature.
00:18:47.960So Dan, Dan, who's this book for then?
00:18:50.840Like who you always have to think like, who's the constituency?
00:18:54.780I mean, look, there's always a few, you know, Japanese soldiers on the island after the war ended that kept going there.
00:19:00.520There are some in the Democratic base that, you know, want to never give an inch who think this is why we're talking about Joe Biden should all be about Trump and, you know, his mental capabilities.
00:20:01.940I mean, like, I'm not going to get into what my advance was.
00:20:04.360But again, that's that's all predicated on that.
00:20:06.940And I just don't see her being able to say I can sell this to to these people because I don't know that people who are pissed in the Democratic Party want to buy a book that that goes after John Kirby or Anita Dunn.
00:20:19.700And that to me, that's inside baseball.
00:20:21.680That's that's a book club, not a Sean's share screen and put up your book contract.
00:20:30.980Look, she's never been an effective communicator.
00:20:33.760That was the irony of her being chosen for this role.
00:20:36.520She never, ever in the four years was able to get up there without reading, just reading whatever she'd written down before she got out there.
00:20:45.400She doesn't have the ability to speak off the top of her head extemporaneously.
00:20:50.660She's going to be a disaster on this book tour.
00:20:52.980If anybody even mildly presses her, it's going to be really uncomfortable.
00:21:30.060Okay, let's move on to the big, beautiful bill, which now the Democrats have come out with their own name for, the big, ugly bill, which is not clever.
00:21:38.460And it doesn't work in an alliteration way.
00:22:29.000It will massively increase the already gigantic budget deficit to $2.5 trillion, triple exclamation point, and burden American citizens with crushingly unsustainable debt.
00:22:38.580But Congress is making America bankrupt.
00:22:41.440In November next year, we fire all politicians who betrayed the American people, which in this particular case would mean virtually every single Republican in the House.
00:22:51.360And so far, we believe virtually every single one in the Senate who are likely prepared to pass this thing, though that's slightly uncertain.
00:23:36.260So far, what I've found been comforted in is the Freedom Caucus, led by Andy Harris and several of those members, have not drawn a big line in the sand unless it's, hey, if you add more spending, we're going to have a problem.
00:23:49.280So right now, I think we're in a pretty good place.
00:23:51.720The bottom line is we have to extend those tax cuts.
00:23:54.200And that's what's costing, quote, unquote, a lot of money.
00:23:56.820The way Washington works is that they say tax cuts cost money.
00:24:00.960So by extending the 2017 tax cuts, that is scored as a cost.
00:24:05.180The second thing is, and we played this on the morning meeting this morning, right now, and I have the exact numbers here, that we spend $695 billion as a country on Medicare, $695 billion.
00:24:17.860If we keep going down the path with the reconciliation, we're going to spend $835 billion.
00:26:48.640Yeah, and, you know, he was very angry about this AI deal that was signed in the Middle East with Sam Altman as the lead, his kind of arch rival.
00:27:00.200And I think, you know, so far, Megan, no one has gone to war with Donald Trump in a primary and won.
00:27:06.540So unless Musk thinks that he can kind of square off with Donald Trump and defeat him in terms of proxies and primaries, we talked about this earlier this morning.
00:27:16.880Like, I don't see any way that he actually moves the needle to have somebody say, I'm with Musk and not with Trump.
00:27:24.040And I think you have the yeah, and you have the CBO score just came out that 10.9 million people would lose Medicaid.
00:27:30.420So if you do what Musk wants, that number goes higher.
00:27:33.720And, you know, one cards out the whole the whole pile collapses.
00:27:39.900The thing about the Elon threats politically, like when before last November, was they had the implicit backing of Big Daddy.
00:27:51.160You know, like what was scary about that pairing was Elon's money and Trump's political might.
00:27:56.500But now if forced to choose, as these Republicans in the House and or Senate may be may have to, they're going to listen to what Trump says, not what Elon says.
00:28:07.380Trump is the one who can really hurt them, not Elon.
00:29:01.160And even if it's not, it's not going to scare these guys, because when Trump wants them to vote for this BBB, I think they're going to do it.
00:29:08.920I will say this from Stephen Miller, who works for the president, deputy assistant.
00:29:13.360He says the BBB is not an appropriations bill.
00:29:38.920Rand Paul, attacks the deficit impact of the bill, they're attacking the tax cut.
00:29:43.560Honestly accounted, extending current tax rates has zero deficit impact, which is why the bill, because of its spending cuts, reduces the deficit.
00:29:51.640The bill has three principal sections, tax cuts, welfare reform and immigration and border security.
00:29:57.140It is a dream bill. And really, that that piece of the border security is what is getting a lot of people on board, because Tom Holman has been jumping up and down, saying, I need more money.
00:30:08.480If you really want me to start deporting people at the rates, you're saying I need more money.
00:30:12.380And that's in here. So I think that piece of it will be very popular.
00:30:16.040I still don't think it's going to change the deportation numbers dramatically.
00:30:57.240What Trump has done is send a very strong signal that not only don't come, but if you come, we'll send you back.
00:31:02.320And that has acted as a massive deterrent for further legal aid.
00:31:06.260It's it's hindered, hindered the cartels and a lot of the other groups that had sort of persuaded people to pay hefty fees to come into to try to come to America.
00:31:16.180And so Trump has really shifted the entire tone and tenor of immigration so that people know that our country does not have open borders.
00:31:24.360We will not tolerate you coming over into our country.
00:31:26.680There will be no opportunity and you will be sent back.
00:31:29.020All right. So let me stay on the on the subject of immigration, illegal immigration, because there's a stunner of a story via the Daily Wire today.
00:31:37.760It's it's amazing when you think back and Sean, you were there.
00:31:40.660But you think back on the amount of coverage the Trump administration got, one point oh, on the family separation problem that was happening, how they found some families were being separated.
00:31:51.360And that was that took up so much ink in 2017, 2018, less covered was the Biden administration's separation program.
00:32:00.840And their reporting brings it down to one example.
00:32:05.160But this is happening all over the country, sadly.
00:32:08.200A 37 year old illegal named Wilson Manfredo Lopez Carrillo was arrested by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in Florida on May 22nd.
00:32:17.520What did this guy, Wilson Manfredo Lopez Carrillo allegedly do?
00:32:22.400He took in at least one 16 year old girl who herself was here illegally.
00:32:29.740She was a so-called unaccompanied minor who came across the border without a parent.
00:32:36.380And the Biden administration, rather than turning these children around or doing something to make sure that they were protected once here.
00:32:45.220And they were here because of the open border and the invitation that you just outlined, decided to place them with, quote, loosely vetted sponsors who had absolutely no relation to them.
00:32:57.560They were literally taking young girls and putting them in the homes of single illegal immigrant men without vetting them.
00:33:21.820The victim, quote, reported three instances of sexual battery, all occurring in February of 2024.
00:33:27.540They go on to say that the suspect, Lopez Carrillo, grabbed her, took her into his bedroom, removed her pants and underwear, proceeded to sexually batter her.
00:34:12.480He tried to downplay their significance.
00:34:13.840It sounds like they've got this guy dead to rights.
00:34:15.500Um, and then even she confronted him about the possibility of a pregnancy and he mentioned giving her a pill.
00:34:22.220So it's, I mean, this guy is, he looks guilty to high heaven.
00:34:25.740So now he's in jail and a judge has determined he is an illegal himself.
00:34:30.880And, uh, the daily wire reporting that more than 120,000 of these unaccompanied alien children entered the country annually during the Biden administration.
00:34:39.060A hundred and 20,000 as part of a loophole that let illegal immigrants stay in the country.
00:34:45.400If they said they were under 18 and not with their parents, they write there was, there were no safe homes waiting to take in hundreds of thousands of children.
00:34:53.060So the Biden administration began sending them to live in the homes of illegal immigrant adults who often were not related to them.
00:34:59.240It was impossible to vet them since the sponsors were illegal themselves.
00:35:04.200And since HHS is not a law enforcement agency, uh, and they go on to say that HHS, uh, officials used makeshift vetting, such as having sponsors just text a picture of a foreign passport into HHS.
00:35:21.180But there was no way of knowing anything about them.
00:35:23.960And, uh, most of them had never even been seen by a government official prior to the young girl or young boy being dropped off to them.
00:35:33.000Alejandro Mayorkas said after the children were delivered to these so-called sponsors, the federal government was no longer responsible for them.
00:35:39.280He claimed that stopping the trafficking of children for labor was outside of my responsibility as the head of DHS.
00:35:46.960This is horrifying and I don't see the wall to wall coverage now of the consequences of doing this, nor at the time when we knew it was a problem.
00:35:58.900And by the way, the Democrat party got behind it as part of their platform.
00:36:03.080They thought this was such a grand idea.
00:36:05.900Tell it to the 16 year old girl whose life has been changed forever.
00:36:08.360Here's why this is infuriating for two reasons.
00:36:11.160First of all, every administration's policies that impact people, particularly kids, need to be scrutinized.
00:36:17.920And as you suggested, there was excessive coverage of the Trump policy in Trump 1.0, but there needed to be a lot and there was.
00:36:27.280Infuriation number one, the policy continued.
00:36:30.840The policy continued and no one in the administration resigned over it.
00:36:34.540In fact, the resignations were largely people who thought they were too draconian in how they were treating immigrant people coming to the country illegally.
00:36:41.460And the media is infuriating because because it's obvious that this is one example, but an important one of the inhumanity of the Biden immigration policy.
00:36:52.180Having the open border, people dying on the way to get here because the border was open, the way these kids were treated.
00:36:57.420It was an inhumane policy, and yet it was constantly said by the press, well, the Biden policy may be flawed, but at least it's not inhumane the way the Trump policy was.
00:37:06.340Yeah, they said it was affirmatively humane.
00:37:08.380And that was his stated goal in his executive orders, undoing the Trump immigration policies on day one, that we want a more humane immigration policy.
00:37:21.980And just to say real quick, there's many other examples on the face of it.
00:37:25.520You don't need lots of facts to know that the Biden immigration policy was inhumane.
00:37:31.360The fact is, when we talk about family separation and Trump won, the reason that families were separated is that as young children, particularly women, girls, were brought over the border,
00:37:42.340if the two adults or single adult couldn't identify them in a positive way as being their child, then they were separated to ensure that that person wasn't trafficking the young girl in particular, right?
00:37:57.220That was literally the reason why this was occurring, because we couldn't confirm that an individual, a young child, was who they said they were or that who the parent or the guardian said they said they were.
00:38:07.780So part of it was for their exact safety.
00:38:09.700This was the opposite of what Biden did, allowed them to come in and say whoever they wanted to say they were.
00:38:15.460When you meet with border officials that I've done down in Arizona, they'll tell you stories of these young individuals, and not just kids, by the way, it's actually adults as well.
00:38:24.400They are brought into this country through a variety of restaurants and other hospitality organizations, check, cash, and whatever, where they're saying that there's this funnel.
00:38:32.520They get brought up, brought to cities and towns all over the country to perform these services, to work in different industries and different businesses that are run by cartels.
00:38:43.900And what we were doing in the first Trump administration was trying to ensure that these people weren't bringing brought in for nefarious purposes.
00:38:51.240Quite the opposite happened, as you described.
00:38:52.900The Biden administration knew the same thing and said, let's take the guardrails off and just assume that they're all here for the right reasons, which we know by the very nature of how they're coming into the country isn't.
00:39:03.280So what we're seeing right now, Dan, as Trump tries to clean up these messes that Joe Biden made, is the Democrats are out on the street, the left, out on the street, trying now to actively stop ICE as it goes from city to city and make arrests of people like this, Lopez Carrillo, trying to get them out of our country.
00:39:28.040And we saw some extraordinary videotape yesterday out of Minneapolis.
00:39:35.820This is near Bloomington Avenue and East Lake Street, which is near the whole George Floyd-a-palooza problem, where ICE officers and DEA and Minneapolis police, not to mention local sheriff and FBI, were there looking for illegal immigrants.
00:39:51.260And protesters came out, witnesses had called for people to show up, and they tried creating a human barrier.
00:40:59.260But this is how they responded, and we're seeing in other cities, too, as ICE tries to go in there and do the job again of cleaning up the Biden mess.
00:41:09.320Yeah, you know, two things come to mind.
00:41:11.400The first is what you guys were talking about earlier in terms of the Biden administration and the press, kind of the Biden administration not accounting for these children, their terrible policy.
00:41:21.520The press not wanting to talk about it.
00:41:23.480The thought was that it was helping Democrats to push this under the rug, to not give it oxygen, when in fact it was hurting us.
00:41:32.520Voters were hearing about it because there's alternative ways, you know, alternative media platforms like your own that are immensely popular.
00:41:40.520It was actually festering and becoming a huge political problem until the party realized too late.
00:41:45.320The second now is, you know, Democrats are all the rage right now in the party.
00:41:50.340If you're in, you know, K Street or you're going to all these confabs they're holding about how do we win again, is we have to make changes.
00:41:57.980We have to have ideas and we have to be bold.
00:42:02.260The thing that's missing is nobody wants to take the first step.
00:42:06.280This is not even 80-20, it's 90-10, right?
00:42:09.420The public is overwhelmingly supportive of cracking down on drug dealers, of bad hombres, let's call them, and dealing with people who are here illegally.
00:42:19.240It's one thing to say, I object, you know, in terms of like, just say you're on the Senate floor.
00:42:24.520It's another thing to get in their way and stop federal agents from executing the law.
00:42:32.400And I think this is where some, yeah, somebody needs to step forward.
00:42:36.200There's a whole host of issues this applies for and say, enough, we were wrong, they are right, and support cleaning up the broken illegal immigration system.
00:42:48.380I just want to give credit to the independent reporter, Nick Shirley, who was on the scene in Minnesota during that, was protesting and was doing the reporting there, so good for him.
00:42:58.980Just some young reporter should put that video on an iPad and walk around Capitol Hill with a camera person and show that video to every Democratic member of Congress and say, what do you think?
00:43:10.340So you should definitely go to Hakeem Jeffries and ask him, because he's out there right now trying to demand that ICE agents, who are now, in some cases, wearing masks, that they be identified.
00:43:26.720He wants them to be unmasked, that they are masking to protect themselves and their families, which we'll get to in a second.
00:43:34.080And Hakeem Jeffries well knows it, and nonetheless comes out and says this in Sot 9.
00:44:27.620People are out there taking photos of the names, their faces, and posting them online with death threats to their family and themselves.
00:44:36.780So I'm sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I'm not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line and their family on the line because people don't like what Immigration Enforcement is.
00:44:49.660They are wearing those masks because we ran an operation with the Secret Service.
00:44:53.680We arrested someone that was going online, taking their photos, posting their families, their kids' Instagram, their kids' Facebooks, and targeting them.
00:45:03.220So let me ask, is that the issue here, that we're just upset about the masks, or is anyone upset with the fact that ICE officers' families were labeled terrorists?
00:45:15.500DHS adding today, Sean, ICE officers now facing a 413% increase in assaults.
00:45:36.500Secondly, they didn't seem to have a problem when all of the Antifa folks were running around vandalizing cities, destroying property, attacking folks.
00:45:44.120They didn't seem to be concerned that the criminals were wearing masks, did they?
00:45:47.640And I think the last thing is, and this is what you talked to Dan about, at the end of the day, why are they not siding with law enforcement, right?
00:46:25.380And the Democrats' concern is for the criminal, not the law enforcement individuals and their families who are putting their lives on the line to protect us and whose families are dealing with the consequences.
00:46:40.460I never thought I'd come to a place in politics where one party would be for law and order and for protecting the country, and the other side would be for open borders and the criminals.
00:46:50.140And for doxing the children of ICE agents?
00:46:53.360I mean, Dan, these guys don't make a lot of money.
00:46:55.160They don't have the kind of dough that would allow them to go out on the streets of America and protect us and also have a paid security guard back at home protecting their children because some lunatic leftist has doxed the family.
00:47:09.920That's why they're wearing the masks, and yet they still offer identification to anybody when they're doing the arrest.
00:47:17.260They make clear that they say who they are, what agency they're with.
00:47:20.600It's not like they're trying to fool people that they're not ICE agents.
00:47:23.680They're just not showing their individual identities because of this.
00:47:47.460Trump accelerated and has gotten it almost down to zero.
00:47:50.440So now the question is, what do you do with the 20 million people here, right?
00:47:53.720And I think some of them are truly, like, good citizens whose kids are in Little League and they own the local, you know, pizza stand or whatever.
00:48:53.320She does that all the time and not everyone has to care.
00:48:55.500She's not in a position of leadership.
00:48:56.780But when Hakeem Jeffries says what he said about law enforcement, every rank and file Democrat, every candidate for office that they're trying to get to run has to answer for that and has to understand where the position of the party is.
00:49:10.640He's really screwing his own caucus when he does stuff like that.
00:49:13.840Well, and that's, you know, I'll just say this quickly, Megan.
00:49:16.460The problem Hakeem has is he's terrified of the base.
00:49:49.200So you're saying the base is still that the base is normal or the base is not?
00:49:53.400I can't like I can't figure out within the Democrat Party whether they're still normies or they've been completely taken over by the radical left.
00:50:00.080Unfortunately, it may be the latter, but we're working on changing that.
00:51:59.700Let's spend a minute on some foreign policy issues, because there's a shocking, although not, story involving some Chinese nationals here in the United States in the press today.
00:52:09.000You know, you hear this stuff, it's like straight out of a spy movie.
00:52:11.540You can't really believe this crap goes on, but it does.
00:52:14.040And the FBI is weighing in on it, Kash Patel in particular.
00:52:19.600Citing here, information from the New York Times and the Department of Justice.
00:52:22.920Two people, Young Quinn Jian, 33, and Zun Yong Lu, 34, who are Chinese citizens, have been charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy smuggling goods into the U.S., false statements, and visa fraud,
00:52:37.220according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr.
00:52:41.840It appears that the male half of this, Mr. Lu, has fled back to China, so he's probably not going to be facing justice anytime soon.
00:52:50.500But the female half of this couple, Young Quinn Jian, is in a whole lot of trouble.
00:52:55.060The FBI arrested her in connection with allegations related to the pair's smuggling into America a fungus called Fusarium graminarium, Fusarium graminarium,
00:53:09.900which scientific literature classifies as a potential agro-terrorism weapon.
00:53:15.160Ms. Jian was arrested and booked in the federal courthouse in Detroit.
01:41:02.320It was very cool. I have to say he pulls up in the beast and well, it wasn't officially the beast
01:41:08.960because he wasn't yet president, but like the big motorcade and you're backstage and you can hear the
01:41:13.140crowd going wild waiting for him to come. And, you know, he comes in, could not have been more gracious,
01:41:17.880of course, and then a little bit more with between yours truly and Justin Wells before I was about to go out and speak.
01:41:25.540This exchange was with one of Trump's guys, but about what to expect, because I had no idea whether I was going to speak
01:41:31.580alone. Was Trump? They were like, he might call you up. Like, what does that mean? Here's a little bit of that.
01:41:36.840I've never done this before. So like, when I get up there, should I keep it tight? Should I like do? How long should I go for?
01:41:44.380Keep it somewhat tight, but trust me, he'll kind of lead you in the right direction. I'm sure he's going to throw things at you and you guys are probably going to communicate.
01:41:50.020Okay. I'll get some more clarification. Will it be like a co-bit?
01:41:53.200It very well might be. It very well might be. Okay. I'll be right back. Thank you guys.