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00:09:20.000And now, guys, let's get into all of the top headlines.
00:09:24.000And we'll start with the big story down in Mexico, where Mexican authorities have confirmed that the cartel kingpin known as El Mencho, the founder and leader of CJNG, I guess, was killed in a military operation over the weekend.
00:09:44.000He had a $15 million bounty on his head.
00:09:48.000This was one of the most wanted men on the planet and indicted by the Department of Justice for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, methamphetamines, and cocaine into the United States.
00:10:02.000And according to intelligence, his cartel had a present in all 50 states.
00:10:08.000They were flooding our communities with poison.
00:10:15.000The cartels responded by unleashing a wave of violence across Puerto Vallarta and other cities across the country, lighting up cars, shutting down airports, putting up blockades, and exchanging fire with local police.
00:11:16.000This happened because of a bold, decisive actions.
00:11:20.000This happened because the Trump administration designated the CJNG as a foreign terrorist organization back in February of last year.
00:11:30.000Just like we saw with the capture of Maduro and blowing up drug boats, we are not going to sit by while our country is poisoned with drugs and with violence with no consequence.
00:11:43.000And by the way, remember back in March when our State Department revoked the visas of Mexican band that was glorifying El Mencho at their concerts?
00:11:50.000Because once again, this isn't the Obama or Biden administration that just let this behavior run rampant with no consequences.
00:16:00.000You take the next one and the one after that, because the alternative, you know, the Biden approach, the Obama approach, was to look the other way while Americans died by the tens of thousands every single year from this poison that they've been peddling.
00:16:17.000This is what it's going to take for a secure hemisphere.
00:16:22.000You designate these animals as what they are, terrorists.
00:16:40.000When they started defending narco-terrorists as poor fishermen looking for a better, better life, yeah, with Quad Mercks on the back of a GoFast boat.
00:16:48.000Yeah, that's a totally normal fishing boat in Venezuela.
00:16:54.000They're going to interview so-called experts who will wring their hands about this strategy and warn about the dangers of making the cartels mad.
00:17:07.000That's not an argument for letting the most powerful drug lord on the planet continue to operate freely while American kids die from fentanyl-laced pills they bought on social media.
00:17:18.000That's the most insane logic I've ever even heard.
00:17:21.000And it's the logic that got 100,000 Americans killed every year for years while nobody did anything.
00:17:31.000And just so everyone understands, these cartels operate like their own military, like their own nation.
00:17:38.000They have their tentacles across global economies, within law enforcement agencies, and even within the Mexican military.
00:17:47.000This is not a ragtag group of criminals who are just going to go away.
00:17:51.000This is a paramilitary narco-terrorist empire, and its leader is now gone.
00:20:13.000We have to abolish the Customs and Border Patrol in the way that they currently exist and replace them with something that actually does the work that we need for them to do.
00:20:20.000We're working at holding these people in this administration accountable.
00:20:34.000Well, first, let's look at what they don't need to do.
00:20:35.000They don't need to go into communities like Memphis.
00:20:36.000Do they need to deport illegal aliens?
00:20:38.000Where they're currently terrorizing and traumatizing our communities.
00:20:42.000What we also need to make sure is that we have elected officials that are creating a pathway of opportunity for people who currently undocument it.
00:20:48.000Do we need a federal law enforcement agency to deport illegal aliens, yes or no?
00:20:53.000We do need a federal law enforcement agency that deals with immigration that doesn't kill illegal aliens.
00:20:58.000What we do also need is laws that make sure that people are.
00:21:01.000Is there a single illegal alien that you would deport?
00:21:03.000You know, this is what I want you to focus on.
00:21:08.000There are a lot of people in this country and in this community, in our community that have done so much to make them better, and we need to be prioritizing power opportunities.
00:21:16.000Is this the Democratic position in 26?
00:21:19.000But there are no illegal aliens that should be deported.
00:21:20.000The Democratic position in 26 is that we don't terrorize American citizens.
00:21:27.000Would you advise Alexander that you can't say there is a single illegal alien that should be deported by the federal government?
00:21:34.000What is shocking to me is that you think you can narrow the challenges of the issues of immigration into one yes or no question when the reality is the policies and practices have led to the deaths of American citizens and has not produced no deportations.
00:22:26.000If you think that I don't understand foreign policy, because out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I paused to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on earth.
00:22:42.000I'm afraid the issue is not my understanding, but rather the problem is perhaps you've gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks.
00:22:54.000I mean, a week after Munich, after what we saw there, I mean, I know we discussed it on the show last week, guys.
00:23:01.000The jokes really do write themselves at this point.
00:23:05.000And speaking of which, did you see what Gavin Newsom did this weekend?
00:23:09.000While speaking in front of a black audience, he decided to really try to bond with the group by saying that he had low SAT scores and can't read.
00:23:22.000I mean, I literally, is this like, okay, I got to ask my team because I thought it was AI.
00:26:49.000Here's where it gets absolutely hilarious.
00:26:52.000To shovel snow in Zohron Mandani's New York City, to pick up a shovel and clear a bus stop, you need to bring multiple forms of identification.
00:28:08.000You can show up with like, I don't know, like the lint from your drying machine and be like, here you go.
00:28:16.000I'm whoever I say I am and I can vote.
00:28:19.000But to shovel snow in New York, to be able to volunteer and shovel snow in New York to get like, you know, maybe a couple bucks an hour, maybe the city's going to pay a little bit, you need to bring two forms of ID.
00:28:29.000But to vote, to cast a ballot in an election that determines the fate of the largest city in America, millions and millions of people, you have to show up with jack crap and just say, you know, take my word for it.
00:29:34.000How is shoveling snow in New York City?
00:29:38.000How come there are no Democrats on TV right now screaming that shoveling snow in New York City is now Jim Crow 2.0 because everything else that requires ID that doesn't get Democrats power needs ID and isn't Jim Crow 2.0.
00:29:56.000But actually needing an ID to register to vote or to show up to vote, that is somehow Jim Crow 2.0.
00:30:02.000Please explain to me like I'm a three-year-old the difference.
00:30:07.000Please explain to me how one is Jim Crow 2.0 and the other makes total sense.
00:30:13.000Please explain to me how shoveling snow requires multiple forms of identification, but to register to vote and to actually vote requires next to nothing.
00:30:41.000You've heard every major Democrat and every major news personality for the last few weeks since talking about the Save America Act get on TV and tell us that it's racist.
00:30:51.000They've spent years telling us that requiring ID to vote is Jim Crow 2.0, that it's discriminatory, that it disenfranchises minorities.
00:30:59.000They've frankly said that people are too dumb to be able to get ID.
00:31:02.000If you're too dumb to be able to get ID, are you not too dumb to be able to get ID to shovel snow?
00:31:09.000That's an insurmountable burden on the poor and elderly.
00:31:50.000The Save America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to get registered and an ID to vote in federal elections, just passed the House and now is in the Senate.
00:32:04.000And the entire Democrat establishment is losing their minds over it.
00:32:09.000Chuck Schumer is promising to block it.
00:32:12.000But ask someone to bring a passport with photos, a social security card, and two forms of ID, copies, just to shovel a sidewalk for $19 an hour?
00:32:45.000You know, they still maybe occasionally get to travel to family or see them, you know, get a cheap flight on an airline to be able to go somewhere once in a while, even if they're pretty poor.
00:33:49.000We couldn't have made the case for voter ID better if we'd written it ourselves.
00:33:58.000But when it comes to winter ice, yesterday was nothing but good news.
00:34:06.000TMUSA men's hockey has won the Olympic gold medal the first time in 46 years since the 1980 miracle on ice, beating Canada 2-1 in overtime.
00:34:22.000Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal less than two minutes into overtime.
00:36:02.000And, you know, this is the best moment in USA hockey in a long time.
00:36:07.000And to be a part of this group, like I said, to do it, my brother, we've had such a fun couple weeks, me and Quinn, in the Olympic Village.
00:36:14.000And we're just happy this is the way we finished it.
00:36:17.000Guys, that's what representing your country looks like.
00:36:21.000Not whining about politics, not doing it for the Democrat sound bites or the narrative, kowtowing to the media, probably planning to get some, I don't know, corporate woke sponsorship later on.
00:36:35.000Not saying it gives you mixed emotions because you probably don't even know what you're talking about.
00:36:39.000Not deflecting or moving to China to skate for them despite being born in America, raised in America, educated in America.
00:36:47.000But, you know, they'll write you the big checks.
00:38:22.000Emotional as you would understand, Meredith.
00:38:26.000Waiting for the kids to come back to her.
00:38:38.000For those who don't know, Johnny Grudeau and his brother Matthew were tragically killed in 2024 when they were hit by a car while riding bikes near their New Jersey hometown.
00:38:53.000The team had his number 13 jersey hanging in their locker room throughout the entire tournament.
00:38:59.000And after winning gold, they skated with it alongside the American flag.
00:39:05.000That's, guys, that's what sports should be.
00:42:06.000The USA women's hockey team also won gold this year, by the way, also beating Canada 2-1 in overtime on Thursday.
00:42:14.000We swept Canada in both hockey gold medal games, men and women, both in overtime, both 2-1.
00:42:24.000You can't script it any better than that.
00:42:28.000I can see the eagle coming in and just grabbing that Canada goose and just eating it on the ice.
00:42:34.000And figure skater Alyssa Liu also took home gold in Milan.
00:42:40.000And that victory carried with it an even bigger geopolitical implication.
00:42:47.000The CCP was so furious, the Chinese Communist Party was so mad that Alyssa refused to skate for Team China that they sent spies after her and her father in America.
00:43:00.000The FBI discovered the plot and they were prosecuted.
00:43:05.000They were persecuted by the CCP for the Tiananmen Square protests and fled America.
00:43:31.000Team USA finished with 33 gold medals, or it's 33 total medals, 12 gold, 12 silver, 9 bronze, the most gold medals ever for the U.S. at a single winter games.
00:43:44.000An absolutely incredible and dominant performance.
00:45:55.000You know, John Roberts is basically a Democrat.
00:45:57.000Whatever it matters, it's easy to be a Supreme Court justice, even the conservative ones, conservative ones in DC, as long as you give up on the big ones like they always do.
00:46:08.000But here's what the media won't tell you.
00:46:12.000Within hours, he signed a new executive order imposing tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, a completely different legal authority, and started at 10%.
00:46:25.000And that by Saturday, he raised it to 15%, effective immediately.
00:46:30.000And the world knows my father is serious.
00:46:33.000They know the tariffs are coming one way or another, and they'd rather negotiate than fight.
00:46:41.000If you read some of the dissents on these things, they were brilliant.
00:46:45.000If you read the six votes, they were literally trying to justify this in machinations that if you converted it to literally anything else, it would make absolutely no sense.
00:46:58.000But again, you're always going to have a bunch of these guys that are just too weak to fight back.
00:47:05.000They don't follow the letter of the law.
00:47:08.000They understand what the narrative, and they try to create some sort of crazy chart to show you, well, this is how we get there and it's fine.
00:48:11.000And guys, I want you to step back for a second here and see the big picture.
00:48:18.000This is all what American strength looks like in every arena.
00:48:23.000When you project strength, when you refuse to back down, when you treat threats as threats and enemies as enemies, good things start to happen.
00:48:34.000And when you project weakness like we did for the last four years, when you look the other way, when you treat the border like an inconvenience and the cartels like a nuisance, you get 100,000 dead Americans a year.
00:48:48.000You get fentanyl in every city in this country.
00:48:51.000You get a world that doesn't respect you.