Democrats Abandon Israel-Not Just the Squad, but now Schumer & Biden, plus Mexican President Tries to Blackmail America on Illegal Immigration
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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergusons are back, and they ve got a lot to talk about. They discuss the Democratic Party's historic pivot away from Israel, the border crisis, and the President of Mexico s latest threats to the United States.
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Senator, you are actually there tonight, correct?
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Just to take you behind the scenes of how this show works.
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A lot of times, you're in another city, I'm in one city, and then we're connecting to
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a third city, and we tried for like an hour the other night.
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It was after midnight, and so I'm glad to say we are all back together.
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Yeah, it was two in the morning when we finally said, okay, this is not going to work, because
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Yeah, and our producer is in Memphis, Tennessee, so it was hilarious, and we are all working,
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We have got a lot to talk about, because we obviously missed some big news in that last
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So let's talk about what we're going to chat about this today.
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Well, we're going to start with Israel and do a deep dive on really the historic move
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the Democrat Party is making, the Biden White House, Chuck Schumer abandoning Israel.
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And it is historic, it is tragic, it is enormously consequential, and we're going to explain exactly
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Secondly, we're going to go into the border and what's happening at the border.
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And in particular, this weekend, the President of Mexico threatened the United States.
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He threatened that the flow of migrants will continue unless America gives in to his demands.
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Senator, I want to start, and you mentioned this, talking about what's happening with Israel.
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There was a shocking moment at the United Nations, and I want you to break down exactly
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what happened, because America didn't vote against Israel, but they certainly didn't stand
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with Israel in a very important vote that took place, demanding a ceasefire, even though there
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are still countless, including Americans, hostages being held by Hamas.
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Well, this week was the culmination of what has been a systemic pivot by the Democrat Party
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away from Israel, and sadly, it is an historic pivot.
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It started in earnest two weeks ago, when Chuck Schumer went to the Senate floor and gave
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an utterly disgraceful speech, a speech with no precedent in our nation's history, where
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he demanded the elected leader of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, step down.
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It wasn't directed at Iran or China or Russia or North Korea or Venezuela.
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None of those did he demand their leader step down.
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But instead, only the nation of Israel, the only Jewish state on the face of the earth,
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And while they're in the middle of a war, while they are defending themselves in the wake of the
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And this was not just a comment off the cuff from Chuck Schumer.
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This was a long-prepared remarks that he went out and demanded, viewing Israel as a puppet
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state, that he and the other Democrats can treat like just people who must take their
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orders, demanded that the people of Israel, he chided them for daring to elect Netanyahu.
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And understand, this is not just an assault on Netanyahu.
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Israel has a democratically elected government.
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It is our job to deal with the leaders of Israel, regardless of who they are, if the
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And when Netanyahu was prime minister before, we dealt with him.
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When Naftali Bennett was prime minister, we dealt with him.
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Now that Netanyahu is prime minister again, we're dealing with him.
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So after Schumer gives his speech, immediately after, the White House is asked about it.
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And we thought the president thought it was a very good speech.
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So the White House immediately signals their agreement with it.
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And then that culminated in what happened this week.
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This week, the United Nations passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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Now, understand, the word ceasefire has become this leftist mantra.
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And what it means is, Israel, stop killing terrorists now.
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What immediate ceasefire means is, Israel, allow Hamas to win.
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What ceasefire means is, Israel, do not destroy the leadership of Hamas.
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It's okay with us, the Democrats, if they murder future Israelis.
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Apparently, it's okay with us, the Democrats, if they murder Americans.
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Since October 7th is one of the worst terror attacks in our nation's history.
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The resolution, now listen, the United Nations has always been a pit of anti-Semitism and Israel hatred.
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The United Nations, half the time it seems, the UN exists to give speeches and issue proclamations condemning Israel.
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But historically, so no resolution can pass, without the Security Council, all five permanent members of the Security Council have a veto.
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So historically, when the anti-Semites get going at the UN, America vetoes the resolution.
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Well, it turned out this was Biden's opportunity.
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And by the way, I believe the Biden administration teed this up.
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So the 14 other members of the Security Council voted to effectively condemn Israel, to demand an immediate ceasefire, which Israel's not doing.
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And the United States, Biden just declined to exercise its veto and allowed it to pass.
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And I will say, let me just read the headline in The Guardian.
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Now, look, The Guardian is a lefty publication.
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But I got to say, the headline right after this happened really sums up where we are.
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The headline is, United Nations, Israel isolated as UN Security Council demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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And let me read the sub-headline because it's even more revealing.
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Israeli PM cancels White House visit by two ministers and says U.S. abandoned its policy in the UN after abstaining on vote.
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It's dangerous for Israel and it is dangerous for America.
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America, today's Democrat Party, it's heartbreaking, is in the process of abandoning the state of Israel.
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And that is a terrible development for the world.
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It's not just how orchestrated this was, but also how the White House doubled down on it so quickly afterwards.
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National Security Council spokesman John Kilby said this about the UN resolution at the White House press briefing room doubling down on their stance.
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This one didn't condemn Hamas, which is why we couldn't support it.
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But we didn't veto it because, in general, unlike previous resolutions, this one did fairly capture what has been our consistent policy,
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which is linking a hostage deal and the release of those men and women with, of course, a temporary ceasefire.
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I mean, when he's talking to you, it's like, what are you even saying, man?
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Like, you're trying to spin this and act like this is somehow consistency.
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This is clearly a change in policy, which is, hey, we know you guys have hostages, including Americans, which no one's talking about,
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which is also a disgrace, I think, of the media and the White House and the president.
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They're not talking about that at all, number one.
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But number two, they're saying, all right, well, let's just go along with a ceasefire while they have hostages.
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Well, you just listen to the words John Kirby said there.
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He said, the ones we vetoed, the prior resolutions, didn't condemn Hamas.
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Well, this one didn't condemn Hamas either, but they let it pass.
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And, you know, it's actually particularly revealing.
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Minutes before the vote on Monday, the U.S. decided, OK, we're in the middle of condemning Israel.
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Maybe we should ask that they should say something about Hamas.
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Maybe, you know, it's not a great thing to murder 1,200 people, to rape women and little girls,
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to take hostages, to mutilate their corpses, to desecrate their corpses.
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Guys, can we kind of say raping and murdering children is bad?
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And it turns out in the U.N., nope, sorry, sorry.
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So the Biden administration briefly asked, could you add a sentence or two condemning Hamas?
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And the anti-Semite said, nope, absolutely not.
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And John was asked, by the way, hey, is this the official new stance that we're basically
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walking away from Israel, certainly this administration?
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Here now, for the first time in a while, the United States is at least abstaining and allowing
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So the perception, broadly, is that the U.S. has no longer got Israel's back when it comes
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Nothing can be further from the truth, quite frankly.
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I mean, as you and I are speaking, we are still providing tools and capabilities, weapon
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systems, so that Israel can defend itself against, which we agree is still a viable threat
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He's like, no, no, nothing's further from the truth.
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Like, we're still sending them some stuff, so everybody calm down.
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Yeah, look, this White House, unfortunately, lies regularly.
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Here's what Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, who is Biden's ambassador to the U.N., quote,
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Quote, certain key edits were ignored, including our request to add a condemnation of Hamas.
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And we didn't agree with everything in the resolution.
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For that reason, we were unfortunately, note that word, unfortunately not able to vote
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In other words, we really would have loved to condemn Israel along with the other anti-Semites,
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However, she continues, as I've said before, we fully support some of the critical objectives
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There are a couple of really important points on this.
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Because Joe Biden and this White House, from the day they arrived in the White House,
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This U.N. resolution is just the most visible example.
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But understand, Biden came in the White House, one of the very first things he did is stopped
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enforcing oil sanctions on Iran and allowed what's ended up being over $80 billion to flow
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to the Ayatollah, who chants death to Israel and death to America.
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The Ayatollah, by the way, Iran, funds 90% of Hamas and 90% of Hezbollah.
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One of the second things they did is send hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaza.
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Gaza, the elected leaders of Gaza, are Hamas, the terrorist organization.
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To do that, they had to waive U.S. anti-terrorism law.
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I led a group of 19 senators urging them, don't do that.
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By the way, 150 House Democrats sent a counter letter saying, yes, do send the money to Gaza,
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even though it'll go to Hamas, even though it'll go to terrorism.
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We now know how the Biden administration resolved that issue, which is they concluded, yes,
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it was highly likely the money would go to Hamas.
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But instead of following U.S. anti-terrorism laws, they simply waived it.
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And then understand what happened on October 7th.
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The world is watching in horror as 1,200 people are murdered by vicious terrorists who are doing
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This was, these were Nazi tactics by terrorists that hate Jews because they're Jews.
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And within hours of the October 7th attack, what did the Biden administration do?
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The State Department sent out a public tweet urging Israel, do not retaliate, do not strike back.
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Then the next day, Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, sent out another tweet saying,
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Israel should not retaliate, do not try to kill the terrorists.
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Again, I called them out, again, they deleted it.
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Over and over and over again, literally from October 7th, Biden has been pressing ceasefire,
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pause, stop killing terrorists, stop killing terrorists, stop killing terrorists.
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And then what has happened is the Democrat political base has gone crazy.
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There is a strong anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, angry leftist core in the Democrat
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How much of this comes down to the election coming up?
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And I ask that, and I'll give you my opinion is, I think this has a lot to do with younger
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voters, Senator, that they're afraid are going to abandon the Democratic Party if they don't
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back the Palestinians and Hamas and everybody but Israel.
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And they're seeing the poll numbers, and they're seeing that they need young people to come out
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and vote for them, that the under-35 voter in the Democratic Party is vitally important
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Is part of this just saying, well, we are willing to abandon our allies, and it doesn't matter
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if this puts us in bed with terrorists as long as we have a better chance of winning the next
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So there's no doubt the political pressure is a factor, and a significant factor.
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In fact, I'm told that there's a joke in Jerusalem that Chuck Schumer's speech was entirely about
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the two-state solution, the two states being Michigan and Nevada.
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In other words, Schumer was entirely responding to the fact that a big chunk of the Democrat Party
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But I want you to understand, it's not just responding to the fact that they've got some
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Listen, one of the reasons I am so sad, I am so concerned about what has happened, there
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are a lot of people, a lot of people in the pro-Israel community who focus on the squad.
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They focus on the crazy anti-Semites in the House.
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They focus on AOC and Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush.
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And look, those people are out there, they hate Israel, they're vicious, and it's kind
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of easy in the pro-Israel community to say that's the problem, is the extreme leftists.
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But I'm going to tell you that's not the problem.
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The problem is the so-called mainstream Democrats.
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This demand that Israel throw Netanyahu out, throw their elected prime minister out, came
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from Chuck Schumer, the elected Senate majority leader, the leader of the Democrats in the
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This decision to abandon Israel in the United Nations came from Joe Biden, the president
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And understand with Biden, his undermining Israel is not new.
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He's appointed anti-Israel radicals throughout the White House, throughout the State Department.
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And to be honest, in the Obama White House, they had the same issue where they undermined
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But let me tell you, actually, a very famous exchange that occurred with Joe Biden more than
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Okay, in 1982, Joe Biden is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and he's talking
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with Israel's prime minister then, Menachem Begin.
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And he threatens Begin with cutting off U.S. aid to Israel if Israel did not stop its, quote,
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And Begin responded with one of the most famous remarks by a prime minister in decades.
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And this was said to Joe Biden after he was doing what he's doing now, which is trying
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I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.
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Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens.
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Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country.
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Joe Biden has been doing this for more than 40 years, undermining Israel.
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But now he's not just some senator from Delaware spouting off.
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He is sadly the president of the United States, and it is extraordinarily consequential.
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Yeah, as much as they're trying to make this a election year issue to bring in young voters,
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I think conservatives and Donald Trump better make this an election year issue that you stand
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It's going to be, I think, a very, very big issue come November.
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Every single Democrat senator and every single Democrat House member should be forced to ask,
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answer the question, do you agree with Chuck Schumer demanding
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that Israel throw out its elected prime minister?
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And do you agree with Joe Biden abandoning Israel at the Security Council
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and allowing the enemies of Israel to force a resolution,
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effectively condemning Israel and demanding an immediate ceasefire that they stop killing Hamas terrorists?
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As far as I can tell, most Democrat senators and House members have not answered that
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And it should be, like you said, an election year issue.
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There was an issue, an interview, I should say, that happened on Sunday.
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A lot of people don't watch 60 Minutes anymore.
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But the Mexican president did do a sit-down interview.
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And it actually took a couple days until anyone noticed it,
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which was, I think, the most unique part of this, first off.
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It was diplomatic blackmail, as it's been described by many.
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As the Mexican president said that the flow of illegal immigrants will continue
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In an interview, he was asked about the flow of not just illegals,
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but also drugs coming across the southern border.
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And here's what the president of Mexico said about America.
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He thinks you have the power in this moment to slow down migration.
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But we do want for the root causes to be attended to,
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With the ear of the White House, President López Obrador proposed his fix,
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that the United States commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean,
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lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo,
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and legalize millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S.
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If they don't do the things that you've said need to be done, then what?
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Your critics have said what you're doing or what you're asking for to help secure the border is diplomatic blackmail.
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Senator, there's like five different things I want to discuss with you.
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Let's just start with, number one, this is diplomatic blackmail, $20 billion a year.
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And if you give me $20 billion a year, and then you allow all the illegal immigrants to become citizens in your country that are there,
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then you give what we want with Cuba and Venezuela,
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and then if you keep giving us $20 billion a year, we might stop the flow of fentanyl coming across the southern border.
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This is extortion on a level that I can't even get my head around from Mexico.
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And the Mexican president, everyone calls him AMLO.
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AMLO is short for his full name, which is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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He has been vocally and viciously anti-American his entire life.
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That was his campaign, standing up against the Yankee imperialists to the north.
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His demands are in the embargo against Cuba and in the sanctions against Venezuela.
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He's standing with communist dictators in Cuba and Venezuela.
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That's who he aligns himself with, is the hard left, anti-American, communist axis through Latin America.
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Now, that being said, is he trying to extort America?
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Of course, is the threat that the flow of migrants will continue unless you pay us off $20 billion a year to Latin American countries.
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He's saying, well, we'll keep these migrants coming unless you pay us off.
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Just, you know, a bag of cash each week would be good.
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It's almost like, is there a difference between the president of Mexico and the cartels of Mexico?
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Because the way he was talking seems like the same type of conversation you have with the narcos.
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Well, and by the way, AMLO, one of the problems is his government has very much been in bed with the narcos.
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They're facing enormous violence from these multi-billion dollar global criminal cartels that AMLO has facilitated.
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But I'm going to say something that's going to surprise you.
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I'm actually not terribly upset that AMLO is doing that.
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He is an anti-American leftist who is going to behave like a thug.
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But you know why I'm actually not all that worked up about what he said?
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Understand, this crisis at our southern border is not because of AMLO.
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Like his comment, you could stop it, couldn't you?
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And well, yes, but pay us money for us to stop it.
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The 10.4 million illegal immigrants, they're glad of them.
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They want 10 million to become 20 million, to become 30 million.
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And so AMLO, listen, you know, do you get mad when a little like yapping dog comes and yaps at the door?
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But if we had a president, I'll tell you, when Donald Trump was president, AMLO was terrified of him.
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And by the way, AMLO actually did a pretty good job when Trump was president because he was so afraid.
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And what he said is you either help us secure the border or I'm going to impose, I, Donald J. Trump,
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I'm going to impose a 25% tariff on everything coming out of Mexico.
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It terrified him because he believed Trump would do it.
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Number one, AMLO put 6,000 troops on Mexico's southern border.
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Mexico is much more narrow at the south than it is at the north.
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At the north, Mexico has a 2,000-mile border with the United States.
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At the south, their border is much, much smaller.
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AMLO put 6,000 soldiers on their southern border.
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And critically, because of Trump's threat, AMLO agreed to the Remain in Mexico agreement.
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It said anyone that crossed illegally into Mexico and most of the people coming at that time and now were not Mexicans.
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At the time, they were mostly from Central and South America.
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Remain in Mexico said they would stay in Mexico.
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These illegal immigrants would remain in Mexico while their U.S. asylum case was proceeding.
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And what happened when suddenly people paid cartels thousands of dollars, traveled all the way north, and discovered, holy cow, I don't get to come into America.
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The numbers plummeted to the lowest rate in 45 years.
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So when AMLO says this, by the way, the instant Joe Biden became president, the numbers skyrocketed because Biden is weak.
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And actually, everything AMLO is threatening, Joe Biden and every other Democrat in Congress wants him to do that.
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It's almost like he's empowered to say this because he's actually backed up by the American policy.
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He is going to engage in anti-American rhetoric.
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This Biden White House is not capable of strength against leftists, against enemies of America.
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They're only capable of strength against our friends.
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They're only capable of undermining allies of America.
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But because AMLO is a leftist, just like in Cuba, they're communists, just like in Venezuela, they're communists, just like Lula in Brazil is an anti-American leftist, just like Petro in Colombia is an anti-American leftist.
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Every anti-American leftist, this administration gives everything they want, and usually they want to give them money.
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So when actually AMLO is saying lift the Cuban embargo, you know what?
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Biden White House wants to lift the Cuban embargo.
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When AMLO says end the sanctions against Venezuela, you know what?
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Biden wants to end the sanctions against Venezuela.
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This is, they are, to use the old communist phrase, they are fellow travelers.
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You mentioned the drug aspect of this, and I want you to hear what he had to say and everybody listening, because there's zero compassion.
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The number one killer, 49 under in this country, is fentanyl in this nation more than anything else.
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And he was asked about the drugs, and he kind of mocked America and laughed at America's demise when it comes to drugs and the deaths that are happening.
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The head of the DEA says cartels are mass-producing fentanyl, and the U.S. State Department has said that most of it is coming out of Mexico.
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Or rather, they don't have all the information, because fentanyl is also produced in the United States.
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The State Department says most of it's coming from Mexico.
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Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada, and in Mexico, and the chemical precursors come from Asia.
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You know why we don't have the drug consumption that you have in the United States?
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Because we have customs, traditions, and we don't have the problem of the disintegration of the family.
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Because drug trafficking exists, but not the consumption.
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I mean, he's laughing when he gives the last answer there.
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Like, he's smiling and smirking when he's like, ha-ha, this is hilarious.
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Like, I can't believe you guys are even asking me these questions.
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And he's lying when he's suggesting that fentanyl is manufactured in large quantities in the United States.
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The vast majority of what is killing Americans is being manufactured in Mexico.
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Now, he's right that the precursors are coming from China.
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It's the Chinese communists who are sending it to Mexico.
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It's the Mexican drug cartels who are manufacturing it, and they're smuggling it over the border.
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There's some fentanyl production in the United States, but it is very minor compared to the volume coming from Mexico.
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But this is, and by the way, understand the total volume.
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Last year, over 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses.
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And the vast majority of that was Chinese fentanyl manufactured in Mexico by the Mexican drug cartels.
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And AMLO is saying, sadly, with Biden's blessing and the Democrats' blessing, we're going to keep it flowing.
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And finally, Senator, today is Good Friday, and I know that you wanted to take a moment
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and just talk about this Good Friday and Easter on Sunday and say a little something to everybody listening.
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Well, look, I hope everyone has a wonderful Good Friday.
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For those who are Christians, I hope you reflect on the extraordinary sacrifice that God sent his son Jesus to give his life for us.
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And on Good Friday, he was crucified for your sins, for my sins, and he died and was buried.
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And three days later, and we celebrated on Easter, he rose from the dead and rose from the dead to bring us the gift of salvation.
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And Easter is a wonderful time to reflect on that extraordinary love that God has for us.
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And so I'll tell you, I have been crisscrossing the state of Texas for this entire past week.
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I've been all over the place, and so I'm looking forward to the next couple of days just taking some downtime with Heidi and the girls.
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We're going to go to a ranch of a friend of ours and just spend some time with the ranch.
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The ranch is actually some friends of our daughters, so they're going to play and hang out on the ranch,
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and I suspect we'll sit out by the fire at night, and we may smoke a cigar or two and just spend time with family.
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And actually, the ranch has, I think, 20 cats at the ranch, so my daughters in particular will be thrilled because 20 cats is a lot more than they're used to.
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And so it's going to be a really good time just to be together with family.
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And I would encourage everyone, don't let work consume so much time.
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Don't let your other activities consume so much time that you don't pause, particularly at the holidays,
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to hug your wife, to hug your husband, to hug your kids, to just sit and listen to them.
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Don't forget, we do the show Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, and if you missed anything this week,
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So maybe if you're traveling over the weekend to get to the lake or whatever, grab the weekend review as well,
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and the senator and I will see you back here on Monday.