In a shocking move, the state of Michigan is offering homeowners $500 a month to house illegal immigrants in their homes. Plus, Mexico's President says if we don't stop the flow of illegal immigrants across the border, the problem will continue and Americans will die. And finally, you may have seen the world rocked when a Democratic mayor switched to the Republican Party in America.
00:01:16.120There's new poll numbers out over the weekend that show that Donald Trump, who lost Michigan to Joe Biden the last election, he won it in 16.
00:01:24.560Trump now tops Biden by eight points in a Michigan poll.
00:01:39.840They're now offering homeowners a $500 a month stipend if they'll welcome what they describe as newcomers, what that is, is an illegal immigrant into their home.
00:01:51.660And the state of Michigan will subsidize you $500 a citizen a month up to a year.
00:01:57.860So basically six grand is what they're willing to give you to house someone now.
00:02:03.380The program that Michigan has rolled out, it's called the Newcomer Rental Subsidy, and it's designed to provide shelter outside of state shelters for so-called refugees.
00:02:12.440And refugees is simply the term they use for illegal aliens.
00:02:50.660Others who qualify include individuals who arrived under the family reunification parole process for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Colombia.
00:03:02.000Who in Michigan, what Michigan taxpayer says, you know what I really want?
00:03:07.000I want my taxes going to paying my neighbor to put an illegal immigrant that Joe Biden led into this country into his house.
00:03:17.000And we'll send them $500 a month to keep the illegal immigrant there.
00:03:21.700That is how nutty today's Democrat Party is on this issue.
00:03:26.240Well, and my question is, and I'm not joking when I say this, is this not a form of just buying votes?
00:03:30.660If you're talking that each person is now worth $6,000 to a Michigan homeowner to house them,
00:03:39.340and I don't know if there's a cap that you can only have one or maybe you can have two.
00:03:43.900What if it's a family? I'm assuming we're not going to break up the family.
00:03:46.560So if you have a family of four and you house them, are we now talking that they're worth $24,000 to your bottom line?
00:03:55.700How is that not the Democratic Party basically buying votes saying, hey, you better keep us in office.
00:04:02.200You better vote for us because we're worth $24,000 a year to you right now.
00:04:05.700Well, and look, I'll read you a quote from Amy Hovey, who is the executive director of the Michigan State Housing Development Authority,
00:04:13.580who said the program would help migrants, quote, build a new life here.
00:04:17.620This program is truly a win-win as it addresses the most pressing barrier to refugee resettlement by meeting housing needs while setting up families for success with increased employment and opportunities.
00:04:32.300That's the position of the Democrat Party.
00:04:34.460You, too, can have an illegal alien in your house.
00:04:37.660Do they care about the cost of housing going up?
00:04:40.560I mean, is that a conversation you guys have in D.C.?
00:04:43.740Is that a question that anyone asks of the Democrats?
00:04:47.760When you have this many illegal immigrants coming into America, and I'll go back to what you were talking about at the very beginning,
00:04:54.180and these votes, it's not just the 320,000 illegal immigrants that we have flown into this country at the taxpayers' dollars paying for these charter flights.
00:05:03.320But if you look at how many illegal immigrants have come across the southern border since Joe Biden was sworn in,
00:05:10.280it's at least, at minimum, 7.2 million illegal immigrants that have entered the U.S. under the Biden administration,
00:05:16.220which is greater than the population of 36 individual states in America.
00:05:23.680And now we see housing cost issues, rent cost issues, and we see inflationary issues,
00:05:30.380and we see that we're seeing wages that are being undermined by illegal immigrants.
00:05:35.220If Michigan does this, and other states go along with it, which other states are as well,
00:10:43.700This is a story that The Daily Wire broke.
00:10:45.940And it's a memo that was sent by the diversity, equity and inclusion officials at the Biden administration's top intelligence agency.
00:10:52.620And it warns personnel not to use, quote, problematic phrases when discussing Islamic terrorism and foreign adversaries such as China.
00:11:02.920The unclassified newsletter, and it's from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is called, quote, The Dive.
00:11:10.720And it was obtained through Freedom Information Act request by The Daily Wire.
00:11:14.460It argues in its cover story that the intelligence community needs to focus on, quote, changing terminology related to counterterrorism because, quote, words matter.
00:11:28.660Here's more, quote, the article is about one of our goals, disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extreme violence.
00:11:41.300It goes on to declare that trying to remove, quote, certain phrases to identify international terrorism threats that are hurtful to Muslim Americans.
00:11:55.740Some of the problematic phrases include, but are not limited to, Salafi jihadist, jihadist, Islamic extremist, Sunni Shia extremism, and radical Islamist.
00:12:08.840Only in America could you have a memo that someone took this much time and wastes this time under the Biden administration to make people that are directly associated with terrorism feel better about, I guess what, not being a terrorist?
00:12:24.180Well, and sadly, this is continuing the path of putting politics above national security that we saw when Barack Obama was president.
00:12:34.120When Barack Obama was president, I actually chaired a hearing that examined the purge that the Obama White House insisted DHS do to remove from their records any reference to radical Islamic terrorism or Islam or Muslim or jihadist.
00:12:51.980And they erased, and they erased over 800 times, they erased those words from their records.
00:12:59.040And by the way, the word purge, that's not me adding that word to it.
00:13:05.080That was the word that was used by the political official in the Obama White House in the instructions to DHS.
00:13:13.620Well, these same radicals are now running Biden's intelligence agencies.
00:13:20.880And this article is part of a newsletter that is created by ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Accessibility Office.
00:13:33.020And it was sent to personnel throughout the intelligence community, which includes the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the DHS and the Department of Justice.
00:13:43.980All of them are being told the fact that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was one of the two terrorist groups that carried out October 7th.
00:13:54.400October 7th was carried out by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:13:58.960Apparently, that is an inconvenient fact to the language commissars who, I presume, want to edit out the word Islamic from the name of the terrorist group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:14:14.140Look, they're not murdering Jews because they dislike their hairstyle.
00:14:18.640They are murdering Jews because they have a perverted view of radical Islam that mandates jihad and countering jihadism, countering the radical religious extremism behind it.
00:14:32.920It is only possible if you acknowledge it exists.
00:14:36.100And so on one level, you say, OK, this sort of language, political correctness stuff, it's silly.
00:14:41.880But in this instance, it's much worse than silly.
00:14:45.140It is dangerous because if the intelligence community has no idea, refuses to acknowledge what is actually happening, it means they will be utterly ineffective in fighting against it and keeping Americans and our allies safe.
00:15:00.560Yeah. And this is one of those moments when you say, what are they focusing their time on right now?
00:15:06.440Is it political correctness or is it actually keeping us safe from actual jihadist terrorists that they're afraid of offending by using the name?
00:15:13.580It reminds me a lot of the president saying that the individual that killed an innocent young girl in Georgia was an illegal immigrant and then apologized to the to the illegal immigrants for calling that individual who is the alleged murderer an illegal immigrant.
00:15:33.800And it's like, what are you focusing on? What is important to you? Protecting innocent people, protecting people from terrorist attacks?
00:15:41.460Or is it the this this this PRPC wokeness? Is that matter more you than than actually fighting the bad guys?
00:15:50.560Well, unfortunately, based on things like their late night votes, where every Democrat voted against the American citizens, voted in favor of illegal aliens, voted in favor of sending billions of dollars to Iran.
00:16:02.540Again, it's not difficult to figure out where their priorities lie right now.
00:16:06.520Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.
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00:16:46.980Senator, I want to move to another issue.
00:16:49.120There was an issue, an interview, I should say, that happened on Sunday.
00:16:53.540A lot of people don't watch 60 Minutes anymore.
00:16:56.960But the Mexican president did do a sit down interview and it actually took a couple of days until anyone noticed it, which was, I think, the most unique part of this first off.
00:17:06.180And then what he said, it was diplomatic blackmail, as it's been described by many.
00:17:13.040As the Mexican president said that the flow of illegal immigrants will continue unless the U.S. meets some of his new demands.
00:17:21.820In an interview, he was asked about the flow of not just illegals, but also drugs coming across the southern border.
00:17:28.440And here's what the president of Mexico said about America.
00:17:32.100He thinks you have the power in this moment to slow down migration.
00:17:42.900But we do want for the root causes to be attended to, for them to be seriously looked at.
00:17:47.960With the ear of the White House, President Lopez Obrador proposed his fix, that the United States commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, lift sanctions on Venezuela, end the Cuban embargo, and legalize millions of law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S.
00:18:08.880If they don't do the things that you've said need to be done, then what?
00:18:32.380Senator, there's like five different things I want to discuss with you.
00:18:37.180Let's just start with, number one, this is diplomatic blackmail, $20 billion a year.
00:18:42.540And 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, then you give what we want with Cuba and Venezuela.
00:18:55.040And then if you keep giving us $20 billion a year, we might stop the flow of fentanyl coming across the southern border.
00:19:01.140This is extortion on a level that I can't even get my head around from Mexico.
00:23:02.760And what he said is you either help us secure the border or I'm going to oppose, I, Donald J. Trump, I'm going to impose a 25% tariff on everything coming out of Mexico.
00:26:19.800And 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.
00:28:11.280But this is, and by the way, understand the total volume.
00:28:15.280Last year, over 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses.
00:28:21.72070% of that, over 70,000, was from fentanyl.
00:28:27.340And the vast majority of that was Chinese fentanyl manufactured in Mexico by the Mexican drug cartels.
00:28:36.060And AMLO is saying, sadly, with Biden's blessing and the Democrats' blessing, we're going to keep it flowing.
00:28:41.280As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
00:31:06.760And you don't run with a party's support.
00:31:10.340Now, what do I think would have actually happened if I had just come out and said six months before the election, I'm actually a Republican.
00:31:18.540Some Democrats would have gotten together and said, well, this is an opportunity for us to run an ostensibly just overtly partisan candidate.
00:31:27.780We're going to do something that's never been done in Dallas before, which is to just make it partisan.
00:31:31.580Like, to say, okay, we've got an R running, and now we're going to run a D against him.
00:31:36.380The problem is that the R you're talking about for four years well enough to clear the field and win with 98.7% of the vote.
00:31:44.340So let's just go back and say a Republican who's been that effective, who happens to also be African American and supported by the African American community.
00:31:54.820We think that that person would lose simply by saying, I've become a Republican.
00:31:59.680I think what happens is I won the first race in a contested nine-person field that it went to a runoff with 12% of the vote.
00:32:21.880There's no question I still win that race because I'm the incumbent at that point.
00:32:25.600No incumbent mayor, we've had Republican and Democrat mayors before, by the way.
00:32:30.000No incumbent mayor seeking re-election in Dallas has ever lost, ever.
00:32:34.080All right, so let me ask a final question, which is you have started now a national organization, the Republican Mayors Association.
00:32:41.800And you have been out articulating that Republicans need to have an agenda for the cities, that we can't just write off big cities where an awful lot of Americans live.
00:32:52.800And I think that's a very important message.
00:33:11.540I said this in the Wall Street Journal, and I meant it.
00:33:13.420It's a two-way benefit for America and for our party.
00:33:20.040Now, America needs the leadership that Republicans provide at the local level because of the things we talked about just a few minutes ago.
00:33:28.460A Republican mayor is going to, because it's part of the DNA of the party, is going to be right on law and order issues, going to be right on public safety.
00:33:38.540People who've asked me about that, I've said, let me just quiz you very quickly.
00:33:43.340Every bad idea you can think of about public safety came from one side of the aisle.
00:33:47.940There's not even a mixed bag on this issue.
00:33:50.040If it's a bad idea when it comes to public safety, defund the police, don't prosecute shoppers, whatever, Republicans don't propose ideas that undermine law and order.
00:33:59.160Not every Democrat believes them, but they only emanate from the Democrats.
00:34:07.000So a Republican is going to be right on law and order and public safety.
00:34:10.780A Republican mayor is going to be right on taxes.
00:34:12.740A Republican mayor ought to be right on infrastructure spending and investing prudently.
00:34:19.120And there's studies that show, I mean, have proven that you actually have lower debt levels and you issue less debt when you have a Republican mayor versus a Democrat.
00:34:29.900An MIT professor actually studied this and concluded that it is a statistically significant different level of debt associated with a city when there's a Republican in charge and a Democrat in charge.
00:34:42.160So we actually need Republicans running our major cities because 80% of Americans live in cities.
00:34:49.620By 2050, that number is going to be 90%.
00:34:52.040So the country actually needs the leadership.
00:34:54.660But I'm actually telling you as a group of partisans, we actually have to pay attention to this.
00:35:00.060And I think we have to pay attention to it because I, in my heart of hearts, believe that by being competitive in the cities, by basically re-engaging, because we were once engaged.
00:35:13.700There was a Republican mayor's association at one time.
00:35:30.540And we were more competitive in our cities at one time.
00:35:32.840We need to get more competitive there again because the margin of victory at the state level in states like Wisconsin, in states like Michigan, in states like Pennsylvania,
00:35:43.580is the difference between performing at the city level in, you ready, Madison, Green Bay, and in Detroit, and in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh by just five or ten percentage points better.
00:36:00.180So, in other words, engaging in the cities in a more significant way and having the GOP brand associated with the things we're talking about at the local level, it doesn't take that many votes.
00:36:11.840And now, all of a sudden, the whole state is no longer lock, stock, and barrel going one direction because of the advantage that's been run up in the cities.
00:36:21.080You've cut into the advantage that the cities have.
00:36:24.420You know, Eric, I'll tell you on that point.
00:36:27.800So, Heidi and I met 25 years ago when we were both working on the George W. Bush campaign in 2000, the presidential campaign.
00:36:34.960And actually, in that campaign, you know, I was a young, 29-year-old staffer, but I wrote a memo urging that the campaign consider, at the time, Condoleezza Rice as a VP nominee.
00:36:51.080And in the course of the memo, I laid out all sorts of reasons why I thought this was worth considering carefully.
00:36:57.760But one of the things I did is I did an electoral analysis.
00:37:00.400I looked at the three preceding presidential elections, and I posited a series of hypotheticals.
00:37:07.760I said, what would have happened if Republicans had gotten 5% more, 10% more, or 15% more of the African American and Hispanic vote?
00:37:19.460So, I didn't posit, what if we get 50% more?
00:37:24.320So, goals that were achievable, I believe.
00:37:28.720And I ran through the numbers, and the one that stood out the most was if Republicans had gotten an additional 15% of the African American and Hispanic vote in 1996, Republicans would have won an additional 96 electoral votes.
00:37:47.520I mean, it flips the election dramatically.