00:00:10.400And this week there were some major stories that you may have missed that I want to make sure you know about.
00:00:16.620First up, in a shocking move, Biden and Harris have expanded access for illegal immigrants in Mexico
00:00:23.620trying to come into the United States of America.
00:00:26.320This is they lie and tell you now they want a border wall and a secure border after claiming it was already secure.
00:00:34.060We're going to break that down for you.
00:00:36.240Also, there was an attack on Donald Trump at Arlington National Cemetery.
00:00:41.960Now, I'm talking about a political attack for him sitting down to honor their loved ones that gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
00:00:49.200In the exit from Afghanistan, well, the Gold Star families have come together to attack the media
00:07:46.120Over the holiday weekend, there was also a story, and it's sad because it had to be broken basically outside the U.S.
00:07:52.160with the Daily Mail, of a migrant gang that took over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado.
00:07:59.700This is a Venezuelan migrant gang that took over the apartment complex.
00:08:03.740It's interesting that it was a Venezuelan migrant gang that did this.
00:08:07.100And the video that we witnessed that went viral on social media, them knocking on doors with guns.
00:08:12.680These are people that aren't supposed to have guns.
00:08:14.640And then, if you go back just a few weeks ago, there was warnings that in Venezuela, they had started to empty out some of their prisons as long as the people they were letting out decided to go to America.
00:08:27.420So, hey, we'll let you out of our system being a drain on us, but you can't stay in Venezuela.
00:08:34.220And sure enough, there are consequences for allowing the members of society that are in prison in another country to come to America and think that they're going to be law-abiding citizens.
00:08:43.380The Daily Mail helped expose a lot of this.
00:08:46.580Well, Maduro, I believe, is absolutely doing that.
00:08:49.680He is deliberately sending criminals to the United States.
00:08:52.540He's sending murderers and rapists and child molesters.
00:08:57.180And it's the same thing Fidel Castro did in the Mario Boatlift coming from Cuba, where he emptied out his jails and he emptied out his lunatic asylums and he sent dangerous people to the United States.
00:09:06.700These are enemies of America that want to undermine America.
00:09:10.560The question you have to ask yourself is, why is Kamala Harris aligned with them?
00:09:15.760Why does Kamala Harris, when they send Venezuelan murderers to America and the Biden-Harris administration has them in custody, why does Kamala Harris release the murderers?
00:09:28.120And I think there's no more important question in this election than that question.
00:09:36.280You mentioned a moment ago, Senator, that the media doesn't like to cover these stories that are affecting Americans.
00:09:44.640And it was a group of illegal immigrants in San Diego County, California, that actually tried to hijack not one, but two school buses full of elementary and middle school students.
00:10:00.740The local media, not the national media, covered the story.
00:10:07.020A group of migrants tried to board a school bus this morning while it was traveling to a school.
00:10:11.900The superintendent for the Humboldt-el-Zura Union School District informed parents of that incident earlier today.
00:10:18.080It happened at one of the stops on the school district's bus route that heads to Oak Grove Middle School and Humboldt Primary.
00:10:24.580Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon, in a similar area along another route, the superintendent says that a group of migrants tried to stop another bus.
00:10:32.660Border Patrol, CHP and the sheriff's office have now been informed of these incidents.
00:10:36.660The superintendent says that for the safety of everyone, if a driver sees a group of migrants at a bus stop, they will drive past it on and move on to the next.
00:10:48.600This is a story that should be national news.
00:10:51.820It's sad that we're the ones that are having to turn it into national news center.
00:10:56.100But I don't want to live in a world where we got to have armed guards on every school bus because illegal immigrants might try to take over a school bus for whatever their nefarious reason may be.
00:11:06.680Look, our families are in danger because Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have chosen to allow violent criminals into this country.
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00:12:23.240Senator, I also want to talk about another story, and it may be one of the most pathetic, vile attacks that we have seen from the Harris campaign so far.
00:12:40.080And it was a fake story, a fictitious story that was clearly, I think, drawn up a play by the Harris campaign to, hey, let's make people not like Donald Trump.
00:12:53.380Let's attack Donald Trump for standing at Arlington Cemetery with the family members of those that lost loved ones on the pullout from Afghanistan.
00:13:04.000On that arbitrary date that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wanted to say, we ended America's longest roar.
00:13:10.060We don't care when we're pulling out who dies or how many people that helped America are left behind to be attacked and tortured by the terrorists.
00:13:17.340We were literally taking orders from the Taliban at the very end.
00:13:21.320And Afghanistan Gold Star family members have come forward united in an incredible way.
00:13:28.160And I think it's sad that they had to come forward.
00:13:30.640They just wanted to honor their loved ones that gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
00:13:36.560They asked Donald Trump to come and be with them.
00:13:40.540The Harris campaign accused Donald Trump in a direct tweet that Kamala Harris put out of using this as a basically a publicity stunt.
00:13:51.780And these Gold Star families came forward and said, no, that's not true.
00:13:56.620We're not going to let you do this to Donald Trump.
00:13:58.780We're not going to allow the media to do this and drag him through the mud.
00:14:07.060And not only that, they said he knows our family members names.
00:14:11.360That's more than we can say for you, Kamala, who have not talked to us, don't know our kids names and have not reached out.
00:14:17.560Well, I have to say this whole thing has been utterly disgraceful how Kamala Harris and her campaign has handled it.
00:14:25.260It started with Donald Trump went to Arlington Memorial Cemetery to honor the 13 servicemen and women who were murdered, who were murdered in Afghanistan.
00:14:35.220He went and laid a wreath at their tombs to honor their death.
00:14:40.320And he did so at the invitation of the Gold Star families who wanted him there.
00:16:11.280Quote, we, the families of the brave service members who were tragically killed in the Abbey Gate bombing are appalled by Vice President Kamala Harris's recent attempts to politicize President Trump's visit to the Arlington National Cemetery.
00:16:27.260President Trump was invited by us, the Gold Star families, to attend the solemn ceremonies commemorating the three year anniversary of our children's death.
00:16:36.700He was there to honor their sacrifice.
00:16:40.360Yet Vice President Harris has disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into a political ploy.
00:16:48.260Vice President Harris bears responsibility for the deaths of our sons and daughters.
00:16:54.800Vice President Harris bears responsibility for the deaths of our sons and daughters.
00:17:02.300Her administration's catastrophic mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal directly led to the murder of 13 service members, including our children.
00:17:14.760Despite our multiple requests for a meeting to discuss the loss of our loved ones, Vice President Harris has repeatedly ignored us, showing a complete lack of empathy and accountability.
00:17:28.360This refusal to face the consequences of her administration's decisions is a deep betrayal to us as Gold Star families.
00:17:39.060President Trump, on the other hand, has been the only commander in chief to consistently recognize the heroism of our children.
00:17:47.460His attendance at Arlington was not for political gain, but to stand with us, to grieve with us, and to honor the legacy of those who gave everything for this nation.
00:18:00.160His leadership during his time in office was strong, and we have no doubt that if he were still commander in chief, our children would be alive today.
00:18:10.720Vice President Harris has proven herself unfit to serve as commander in chief.
00:18:17.720Her actions, both in the failure of the Afghanistan withdrawal and in her disgraceful politicization of this anniversary, have shown that she lacks the judgment, compassion, and leadership required for the position.
00:18:34.360We will continue to hold her accountable for the role she played in the deaths of our children, and we will not stand by as she disrespects their memory.
00:19:11.720And all because when you're the vice president, your words have power.
00:19:19.280And when you have Vice President Harris, who's the leading candidate, right, for the Democratic Party that, by the way, no one's ever voted for, but she's the nominee, attacking Trump, accusing him of playing politics by going to a cemetery to honor the 13 fallen service members who lost their lives.
00:19:34.680As a result, as you just read there, Biden's administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:19:41.680But they say, yes, this has made us a target of a lot of hate because now people are hating them for defending Trump.
00:19:52.620Say, oh, well, they're just Trump supporters.
00:19:54.500You know, the heck with them and attacking them on social media, all because they were trying to honor the memory of their sons and daughters, their husbands and their wives, their family members that were killed.
00:20:08.040And Vice President Harris, I think it's important to read part of what she put out on X, which started all of this.
00:20:17.400I want to know what you think about this, Senator.
00:20:19.960I think this was written by a campaign staff who said, let's let's start this thing.
00:20:24.480And she said, quote, as Vice President, I've had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times.
00:20:30.880It is a solemn place, a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation.
00:20:41.820And yet, as we reported this week, Donald Trump's team chose to film a video there resulting in an altercation with cemetery staff that apparently never happened.
00:20:54.400She writes the former president disrespected sacred ground all for the sake of a political stunt.
00:21:01.480So a woman who says this is not supposed to be about politics literally makes it a political stunt on her behalf to try to make people hate Donald Trump, which then in turn brought in these families.
00:21:13.720And now they're hating on them as well.
00:21:15.680Look, this was just a cynical attempt from the Kamala Harris campaign to shift the attention to one of the most egregious and catastrophic foreign policy failures of Joe Biden and her leadership.
00:21:30.660And this is a failure that led directly to the deaths of 13 servicemen and women.
00:21:36.240And let me make clear, that joint statement that I read a minute ago, it didn't just come from one or two family members.
00:21:43.240It came from Misty Fiocco, who is the sister of Sergeant Nicole L.G.
00:21:48.280It came from Cheryl Jules, who is the aunt of Sergeant Nicole L.G.
00:21:54.720It came from Christy Shamblin, who is the mother-in-law of Sergeant Nicole L.G.
00:22:00.140It came from Mark Schmitz, who is the father of Lance Corporal Jared M. Schmitz.
00:22:05.600It came from Jacqueline Schmitz, who is the stepmother of Lance Corporal Jared M. Schmitz.
00:22:11.440It came from Herman Lopez, who is the father of Corporal Hunter Lopez.
00:22:16.120It came from Jim McCullum, who is the father of Lance Corporal Riley J. McCullum.
00:22:23.140It came from Steve Nikui, who is the father of Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nikui.
00:22:30.160It came from Coral Doolittle, who is the mother of Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez.
00:22:37.680It came from Darren Hoover, who is the father of Staff Sergeant Darren T. Hoover.
00:22:43.380And it came from Kelly Barnett, who is the mother of Staff Sergeant Darren T. Hoover.
00:22:50.800Now, you want to talk about people who have moral gravity.
00:22:54.740They've given the ultimate sacrifice of their own children who died.
00:23:01.540And yet, you know what they also have said?
00:23:04.820So, Christy Shamblin, who was one of the people who signed it, she is the mother-in-law of Sergeant Nicole L.G.
00:23:12.600She has said that Kamala Harris's behavior shows that she believes, quote, service members are disposable.
00:23:30.640I think it shows that she believes our service members are disposable.
00:23:34.940And that's exactly the feeling that we've got from the White House, is that our heroes, our children, my daughter-in-law, was disposable and replaceable and not important.
00:23:51.400Our service members are the most important people in our society.
00:23:55.700And Nakui, another one of the Gold Star family members, said, not hearing from Harris is, quote, just typical from this whole administration.
00:24:07.880You know, they want to sweep this under the rug, never talk about it again, never honest.
00:24:13.120For them to honor and recognize the sacrifice of our children would force them to recognize that there was a mistake.
00:24:20.500And so they won't bring it up, you know.
00:24:41.180Complete lack thereof, to just abandon the 13, to never reach out, no condolences, no I'm sorry, no explanation, just absolutely ignore us and basically shut us up.
00:29:57.620You've got all the tweets, and yet all of a sudden in the ads, there's pictures of the wall.
00:30:01.820And then you went through to look at that wall.
00:30:03.920Like, what is that specific wall that's in her campaign ads now?
00:30:07.580And you found something very interesting about this specific portion of the wall.
00:30:11.260And what's, I think what's also really remarkable, this is like, I mean, you heard her talking about it there,
00:30:15.600that with Trump's wall in his campaign during his presidency, there was really no greater symbol of Trump's presidency than the wall
00:30:21.700and the way that Democrats were attacking him over the wall and his restrictive immigration policies.
00:30:26.240So we looked in that ad, and if you look at it, that exact area of wall is in Sasabe, Arizona, and that is a portion of wall that was actually built by Donald Trump.
00:30:37.440It was built in an area where there was not previous wall.
00:30:41.500It was actually pretty controversial when they were building it at the time.
00:30:45.040So just to see that, and then there are other images.
00:30:47.400She's using his wall that he built to say, look at what I did, basically.
00:30:51.160And the other images of the wall, we weren't able to pinpoint, but there's telltale signs that that was a Trump wall
00:30:57.560because there's an anti-climbing plate on top that became popularized during the Trump years.
00:31:02.540It's really incredible reporting and important, right?
00:31:05.400Andrew Kaczynski and Kay Fowle, thank you very much.
00:31:08.360Now, there's also another theory, Senator, and that could be they were just so embarrassed.
00:31:12.040Hold on, before the theories, before the theories, I do want to take the very end, the comment, it's really incredible reporting.
00:32:56.260And that is, in fact, the job of journalism to call people out when their record is directly contrary to what they're saying on the campaign trail.
00:33:06.900You look at the CNN interview that you mentioned, and that was my third possibility, is it really seemed to do some damage to CNN.
00:33:18.180They were embarrassed at how much they were called out for just propaganda that night, even from putting live.
00:33:25.780You and I talked about this, putting up live on the screen when the interview was taped.
00:34:22.000But I also think the other part that hurt them and embarrass them was the interview was incredibly short compared to what normal interviews of this magnitude are.
00:34:31.600I mean, you look at the town hall last night that that happened with Trump and Hannity.
00:34:36.920I mean, it's solid hour plus on these things.
00:34:40.300And her interview taped, edited in the daytime and then, you know, claiming it's live at night.
00:34:47.080I think that that is a point where they're like, OK, maybe we have to bring the pendulum back here a little bit because we look so much like we are a mouthpiece for a campaign.
00:34:55.520And if she loses, that puts us in a really bad situation.
00:35:01.240And you asked a minute ago if they're trying to cover their bases.
00:35:04.600You know, I actually, you know, I'm I'm a believer in Occam's razor that sometimes the simplest explanation is is the best.
00:35:11.960I actually think in this instance, the dissonance, the the the contrast between what Kamala Harris is campaigning on and what she has said for her entire career.
00:35:27.480It is so massive that I think they just ended up saying, all right, let's let's say it.
00:35:34.480I actually think even though they're propagandists, it's to see her embracing.
00:35:43.560Trump's border wall is a level at which, you know, I asked a minute ago if they could get embarrassed.
00:35:49.740I think for a brief moment in time, they actually wanted to be journalists.
00:35:56.920And I have a and by the way, let's be clear.
00:37:16.580You know, I years ago, one of my very first bosses had had a bit of advice for me that I think was really insightful and is about government.
00:37:26.660And it was never ascribed to malice what can be explained with incompetence.
00:37:33.500In this instance, at least to me, I'm not reading a whole lot of Machiavellian, you know, positioning in CNN doing this.
00:37:44.740I think it was just there were like, holy crap, this is BS.
00:38:56.720And I do think there was a level of just corporate servility that we want this interview and we will abase ourselves.
00:39:08.140We will we will abandon any pretense of journalistic ethics.
00:39:13.260We'll do anything we can to to to get this interview.
00:39:17.560And so I think it's easier in a story where you don't have Kamala Harris and in particular the context where they won't give anyone an interview with Kamala Harris when you don't have her there.
00:39:28.820It is easier to actually run one real story for three minutes out of the 24 hours a day you're on TV.
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