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Allen Jackson: L.A. Protests | Allen Jackson Now

June 10, 2025 | 22:17

Allen Jackson: L.A. Protests | Allen Jackson Now
On this episode of Allen Jackson Now, Allen Jackson talks about the L.A. protests and troops.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: L.A. Protests | Allen Jackson Now | June 10, 2025
  • Well.
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  • Good evening.
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  • I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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  • One of the many things we've learned from the books
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  • About the biden white house
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  • Is that the president had little idea how big of a problem
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  • He'd created with an open border policy.
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  • Well, the senior staff certainly did.
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  • But they were more interested in trying to permanently
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  • Change the political direction of the country,
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  • Allowing millions of people to cross into texas,
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  • Maine, florida, california, and to vote for democrats.
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  • Law enforcement was handcuffed by the white house
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  • Border police were put on desk jobs.
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  • Some of the illegal migrants got so comfortable living here
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  • That they even began
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  • Handing back the free food they were given,
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  • Requesting meals that were more to their liking.
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  • No wonder they came by the millions.
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  • Well, immigration
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  • Was the number one issue for voters,
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  • And it's now reached a boiling point
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  • With violent protests in los angeles and other cities
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  • Gathering steam.
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  • A growing number of protests
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  • On campuses and members of congress
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  • Flying to el salvador, trying to make the false case
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  • That alberto garcia was a family man from maryland
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  • When he was actually
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  • A wife abusing human trafficker with a long criminal record.
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  • Well, so here we are with tom homan, kristi noem
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  • And pete hegseth
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  • Doing their very best to capture and arrest the bad guys.
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  • And the california
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  • Governor trying to draw president trump into a fight
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  • So he can try to attract
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  • Attention for his own 2028 white house run.
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  • With that,
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  • I want to bring in our guest
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  • Tonight, the former white house,
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  • The department of homeland security official, cooper smith.
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  • Welcome to our show, sir.
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  • Thank you so much for having me.
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  • Great to be here.
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  • We've got a lot to talk about,
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  • But let's start with the protest in los angeles.
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  • 700 marines are now joining 2000 national guard members.
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  • President trump
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  • Says the people that are causing
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  • The problem are professional agitators.
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  • And that's not just in l.a..
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  • He's threatening to have the california governor arrested.
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  • But some people think that would play right
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  • Into gavin newsom's hands as he tries to draw president
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  • Trump into a fight for his own political ambitions.
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  • So tell us, what are you seeing in this mess?
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  • Well, i think to your point about governor newsom,
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  • It's clear that he is making this a political statement, as
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  • Is mayor karen bass, who i think should resign in disgrace
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  • For taking the side of cartels, human traffickers,
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  • Rapists and murderers, and los angeles and isis simply
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  • Coming into that city
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  • To enforce the law that congress has passed.
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  • So if members of congress or these democratic politicians
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  • Don't want ice in their city,
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  • Well, they can work to change the law.
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  • But right now they have authorization.
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  • And president trump is absolutely going
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  • To use every tool in his tool belt to achieve the goal
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  • That he promised the american people.
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  • Eleanor, i just want to point out one thing.
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  • We conducted a poll here at fpi just a couple of weeks ago
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  • After 100 days in office for president trump.
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  • And the key takeaway on immigration
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  • Was, despite the media frenzy, you say about a very good garcia
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  • Or these couple of other cases on college campuses, 51%
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  • Of the american people,
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  • Republicans and democrats combined, support deporting
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  • All illegal aliens, regardless of criminal status.
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  • We're talking anybody who's here without, proper authorization
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  • Should go 51% of the american people support that.
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  • Well, let me ask about the problems on our campuses.
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  • You know, years ago in my neighborhood,
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  • You had to take an s.a.t.
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  • Test and fill out an application before colleges
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  • Chose the best and the brightest.
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  • Now it seems you can pay your way in from china
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  • And from other countries that hate us,
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  • Regardless of your background or your intentions.
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  • Senator blackburn agrees with president trump.
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  • That something needs to be done.
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  • Listen to how she addressed the situation at harvard.
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  • President donald trump is right.
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  • His assessment is accurate.
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  • These are adversaries.
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  • We do not need to allow them to come into our institutions,
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  • To do research, to steal our intellectual property
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  • And to do us harm.
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  • They are not our friend.
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  • They are our adversary.
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  • You know, it's really hard to know
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  • What's worse for the country,
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  • The gang members that isis rounding up or these university
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  • Plants that are radicalizing our students.
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  • Where do you think the emphasis should be as congress
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  • Looks for more funding for homeland security?
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  • Well, i think, yeah, i think president trump
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  • And his team can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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  • I would say, of course,
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  • The threat of the cartels and human traffickers.
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  • The unaccompanied children who came here
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  • By the hundreds of thousands under the biden term were lost
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  • By the biden administration should remain a priority.
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  • And i think
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  • People like stephen miller in the white house,
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  • Of course, borders our tom homan,
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  • Are going to continue to fight this battle day in and day out.
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  • Unfortunately, too much time is being spent in the courthouse
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  • Right now,
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  • Instead of on the streets cleaning up,
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  • Cleaning up the problem that biden created.
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  • But to your point about the campuses
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  • And the chinese individuals apprehended in recent days,
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  • I think it was at the university of michigan
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  • Where they caught now
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  • Three people who were involved in a bioterrorism plot
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  • To to bring in a sort of blight causing fungus,
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  • A sort of terror agent.
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  • In this the scheme that was clearly, facilitated by
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  • The ccp, or at least their,
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  • Affiliated individuals.
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  • So that remains a clear threat.
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  • Another story out of california,
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  • I believe, was at stanford university,
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  • Where a chinese individual was posing as a student
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  • And try to seek access to these sort of stem fields.
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  • Defense, ai, automation,
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  • All those fields where they obviously in the us,
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  • We have a huge defense industry and our leaders worldwide,
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  • And they want to steal that intellectual property,
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  • For their own benefit.
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  • So i think these are both distinctly unique threats.
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  • But i definitely have trust in headset.
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  • And i know it's a battle both of these fronts
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  • At the same time.
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  • You know, isn't a lot of this
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  • The result of the legacy media taking sides on immigration?
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  • You know, despite murders and rapes, drug deals, human
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  • Trafficking, their reports seem to be completely one sided.
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  • Trump is wrong, and the millions of people who are here
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  • Illegally should be allowed to get free
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  • Rooms, meals and transportation to the city of their choice.
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  • Their viewership is shrinking, but do you see any sign of
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  • Change coming in their perspective?
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  • I don't
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  • Know if i see any sign of change coming in the last,
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  • You know, 150 days of the trump administration
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  • Or any indication
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  • They're only going to double
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  • And triple down, which i find quite fascinating
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  • From a political perspective, because they
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  • They know that this is a losing issue for
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  • For left for leftist and progressives.
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  • Yet they continue to double down.
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  • So i don't know.
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  • But as to the,
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  • To the media smears and lies that we've seen over the last,
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  • Not just 150 days, but really 15, ten, 15 years.
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  • And the way i like to think about it is
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  • Their slogan here is right.
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  • They they focus on these slogans that they repeat over
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  • And over.
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  • You know, diversity is our strength.
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  • No human being is illegal.
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  • These are just meaningless phrases,
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  • And they're completely meaningless phrases
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  • That mean nothing to the american people.
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  • They have no nuance on them.
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  • And then when we come back with, well,
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  • What about human traffickers who are in our major cities?
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  • What about the children who were lost
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  • By the biden administration?
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  • They have no answers for any of this.
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  • So i see them as really, just a political apparatus
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  • Who are uninterested in law enforcement
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  • And enforcing the laws that congress has passed
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  • Or state legislatures.
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  • So it's it's embarrassing what the media has done.
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  • And you brought up a virgo, garcia, who has since been
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  • Returned to the us and now charged with with trafficking,
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  • This person was, as you indicated, was stopped
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  • In, i believe, your state in tennessee,
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  • On his way from texas to maryland with eight, 7
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  • Or 8 people in his car, none of whom had identification
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  • Of any kind.
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  • This is clear, clearly human trafficking going on.
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  • And unfortunately, he was not detained in that instance.
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  • But yet the media continues to to sort of root for his cause,
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  • Calling him, you know, of course, the maryland man,
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  • He's a he's a father.
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  • And releasing these pictures of them
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  • That are designed to appeal
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  • To our, our base human emotions, which are real, but
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  • They obstruct the facts of the situation.
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  • And the american people, unfortunately, are victims of
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  • Of the media's narrative.
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  • And i think that's why,
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  • You know, people like you and myself
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  • Are continuing to fight this fig
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  • But let's take a short break, and i want to suggest
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  • You use this time
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  • Just to jump on aj now.com, it's our new web home.
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  • There's lots of options for you there including.
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  • You can write me an email with your thoughts on immigration
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  • Or anything else you'd like us to consider.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We're back now with the director
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  • Of communications at the america first policy institute.
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  • Coopersmith.
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  • Let's move to the economy and the big, beautiful budget,
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  • As the president calls it.
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  • What's not beautiful is the dishonesty
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  • Coming from the opposition,
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  • Such as this comment from california senator adam schiff.
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  • If you're wealthy, you're going to get over
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  • A quarter million dollar tax cut every year.
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  • If you're poor, you're actually going to get a tax increase
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  • Out of this bill.
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  • So the benefits are heavily weighted
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  • To the wealthiest americans.
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  • And they're taking it
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  • From families that are hungry
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  • And they're taking it from families
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  • That will lose access to health care.
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  • You know,
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  • Adam schiff has a long record of storytelling.
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  • And with the protests heating up in la
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  • This week, republicans
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  • Believe that will bring even more enthusiasm
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  • Toward passing the bill,
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  • Since immigration is the number one issue
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  • And the bill provides more security funding.
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  • What are you hearing?
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  • I actually just wrote an op ed on the big beautiful bill,
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  • Just last week about how the bill is primed
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  • To supercharge the president's priorities on the border.
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  • Right.
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  • So it provides for about $45 billion for border wall funding
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  • And about an equal amount to supplant,
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  • Ice in order to carry out these deportation operations.
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  • That that border is our tom homan has been leading.
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  • So i think it, you know, no, bill is perfect.
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  • You're not going to find a policy person here
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  • In washington, dc
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  • Who's ever going to find a bill that they agree with 100%.
  • 00:10:48.674 --> 00:10:52.544
  • But in terms of extending the tax cuts
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  • That president trump passed in 2017, and supercharging
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  • The deportation and building and finishing the border wall,
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  • I'm absolutely supportive of those provisions in the bill.
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  • Well, the larger debate seems to be between those who think
  • 00:11:06.091 --> 00:11:09.094
  • The way to grow the economy is too late.
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  • Working people keep more of their income
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  • Versus those who think it's better
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  • To go after wealthy people and businesses.
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  • Doesn't the bill that's shaping up
  • 00:11:17.536 --> 00:11:19.171
  • Start us on the path to less spending,
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  • As well as letting working people pay less tax?
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  • Yeah, it absolutely does.
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  • And you're right to point out
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  • That, you know, this this idea that
  • 00:11:28.747 --> 00:11:30.816
  • That people on the left, people like adam schiff
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  • Like to propagate, that we're only for the wealthy.
  • 00:11:32.951 --> 00:11:36.522
  • You know, the tax cuts act in 2017.
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  • In fact, it affected basically all income brackets.
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  • So this is just a complete live from from progressives
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  • And the media. but that that is what they do.
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  • And they can't let president trump or his administration or
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  • Anybody on the right
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  • Get any sort of victory or credit for anything,
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  • Despite the fact that we had the world's strongest economy,
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  • From 2017 to 2021, when when biden came around
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  • And, you know, historic unemployment numbers
  • 00:12:01.280 --> 00:12:03.849
  • For hispanic americans, black
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  • Americans, asian americans, women, etc..
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  • So, the facts matter on this case for the extension
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  • Of the tax cuts.
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  • And i think we absolutely need to do it.
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  • It's critical and it should remain in the bill.
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  • And the big beautiful bill.
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  • With a fall fallout between the president and elon
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  • Musk and musk threatening to build an independent party.
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  • Do you have any fear that musk
  • 00:12:23.902 --> 00:12:25.304
  • Could derail passage of the bill,
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  • Since he's pushing for more, deeper cuts?
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  • I don't think so.
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  • I, i deeply appreciate what elon did.
  • 00:12:32.377 --> 00:12:35.047
  • You know, standing up the doge effort has his efforts last year
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  • I thought showed genuine courage
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  • That i don't think we often see from leaders and business.
  • 00:12:40.652 --> 00:12:44.223
  • Unfortunately, in this country,
  • 00:12:44.223 --> 00:12:46.258
  • They tend to be very risk averse people
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  • And try to stay out of politics.
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  • And if they do engage in
  • 00:12:49.795 --> 00:12:50.863
  • Politics, it's just lofty kind of diversity stuff
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  • And pride stuff, and it's really meaningless.
  • 00:12:53.832 --> 00:12:56.268
  • So i thought elon showed a lot of courage
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  • After the first assassination attempt,
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  • To side with, with an america first agenda.
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  • And i'm very happy with what's going on with doge,
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  • The $170 billion that they've saved.
  • 00:13:07.112 --> 00:13:09.248
  • That's that's money that taxpayers, can get back.
  • 00:13:09.248 --> 00:13:12.017
  • And, you know, unfortunately, it's our children
  • 00:13:12.017 --> 00:13:13.452
  • And grandchildren going gonna be paying
  • 00:13:13.452 --> 00:13:14.820
  • Back the, what, 36, $37 trillion that we have in debt now.
  • 00:13:14.820 --> 00:13:19.157
  • So i'm skeptical that that's going to derail
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  • Anything with the bill.
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  • The, the sort of fight
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  • Between trump and elon, if you want to call it that.
  • 00:13:25.063 --> 00:13:27.499
  • I saw the president say the other day
  • 00:13:27.499 --> 00:13:28.834
  • That he was deeply appreciative of of elon.
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  • And so i.
  • 00:13:30.802 --> 00:13:32.404
  • Well, another factor in the growth
  • 00:13:32.404 --> 00:13:33.906
  • This year will be consumer confidence.
  • 00:13:33.906 --> 00:13:36.208
  • And yet that confidence seems stalled by the tariff
  • 00:13:36.208 --> 00:13:38.810
  • Negotiations and the uncertainty about
  • 00:13:38.810 --> 00:13:40.979
  • Whether inflation might return.
  • 00:13:40.979 --> 00:13:43.048
  • How much time does the white house
  • 00:13:43.048 --> 00:13:44.516
  • Have before people lose confidence that republicans
  • 00:13:44.516 --> 00:13:47.119
  • Can improve their financial situation?
  • 00:13:47.119 --> 00:13:50.522
  • Yeah, i mean, certainly the
  • 00:13:51.123 --> 00:13:52.524
  • Time is limited and the trade negotiations are ongoing.
  • 00:13:52.524 --> 00:13:55.928
  • I think there's, you know, a great headway made with,
  • 00:13:55.928 --> 00:13:58.830
  • The united kingdom, with japan and a few other countries,
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  • South korea.
  • 00:14:01.667 --> 00:14:02.734
  • So we're starting to see the, the,
  • 00:14:02.734 --> 00:14:04.303
  • You know, the brics
  • 00:14:04.303 --> 00:14:05.504
  • Kind of fall into place in terms of the trade negotiations.
  • 00:14:05.504 --> 00:14:08.340
  • But i have no doubt that of all the people in the world
  • 00:14:08.340 --> 00:14:11.376
  • To negotiate,
  • 00:14:11.376 --> 00:14:12.477
  • I trust president trump to do that over anyone else.
  • 00:14:12.477 --> 00:14:15.347
  • One more question.
  • 00:14:15.781 --> 00:14:16.882
  • Even with all the friction, the democrats have done
  • 00:14:16.882 --> 00:14:19.251
  • Nothing to improve their
  • 00:14:19.251 --> 00:14:20.419
  • Standing is they're still trying
  • 00:14:20.419 --> 00:14:22.321
  • To come to grips with their election loss.
  • 00:14:22.321 --> 00:14:24.556
  • That's true of the legacy media as well, which still only knows
  • 00:14:24.556 --> 00:14:27.960
  • How to punch at president trump,
  • 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:29.728
  • Regardless of the progress we're seeing.
  • 00:14:29.728 --> 00:14:32.130
  • Do you think any of this is going to change
  • 00:14:32.130 --> 00:14:33.632
  • Across these next few months?
  • 00:14:33.632 --> 00:14:35.867
  • I wouldn't be too confident of that, alan.
  • 00:14:36.735 --> 00:14:38.403
  • I think it's best exemplified
  • 00:14:38.403 --> 00:14:40.405
  • By the statement that kamala harris put out,
  • 00:14:40.405 --> 00:14:43.709
  • Two days ago regarding the la riots, calling them again.
  • 00:14:43.709 --> 00:14:47.279
  • I'm getting, i'm remembering 2020 here,
  • 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.115
  • Calling them mostly peaceful protests.
  • 00:14:50.115 --> 00:14:53.452
  • And she was a person who was fundraising for rioters
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  • In minneapolis.
  • 00:14:56.788 --> 00:14:58.156
  • I mean, this is craziness.
  • 00:14:58.156 --> 00:14:59.391
  • So if we thought there was going to be any soul searching
  • 00:14:59.391 --> 00:15:01.860
  • From from the last over the last,
  • 00:15:01.860 --> 00:15:03.829
  • You know, 6 or 7 months after that,
  • 00:15:03.829 --> 00:15:05.864
  • The categorical defeat that they faced in november.
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  • I don't think that's happening.
  • 00:15:08.800 --> 00:15:09.868
  • At least i haven't seen it yet.
  • 00:15:09.868 --> 00:15:12.137
  • Well, cooper smith, thank you for joining us tonight.
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  • Thank you.
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  • We'll have you back soon.
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  • I'm sure we'll need some updates on what's happening
  • 00:15:17.743 --> 00:15:20.545
  • In a moment.
  • 00:15:20.545 --> 00:15:21.313
  • I'll have some thoughts of my own
  • 00:15:21.313 --> 00:15:22.814
  • About how we can lead the country forward from your home.
  • 00:15:22.814 --> 00:15:33.004
  • About how we can lead the country forward from your home.
  • 00:15:33.004 --> 00:15:36.796
  • When everyone is
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  • Left to make their own determinations of what is true.
  • 00:15:38.297 --> 00:15:41.167
  • We quickly find out
  • 00:15:41.167 --> 00:15:42.368
  • That we're living in the midst of the theater of the absurd.
  • 00:15:42.368 --> 00:15:45.671
  • We see spiritual
  • 00:15:45.671 --> 00:15:46.806
  • Forces of darkness expressed with increasing boldness
  • 00:15:46.806 --> 00:15:49.776
  • And frequency in some very tangible ways.
  • 00:15:49.776 --> 00:15:52.779
  • Things like lawlessness, like the violence
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  • Carried out on the streets of major cities
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  • Against law enforcement by criminal actors
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  • Who are here illegally, and by those who support them.
  • 00:15:59.352 --> 00:16:02.722
  • They burn cars of law abiding citizens.
  • 00:16:02.722 --> 00:16:05.258
  • They burn the american flag
  • 00:16:05.258 --> 00:16:06.793
  • Attack law enforcement, curse america.
  • 00:16:06.793 --> 00:16:09.629
  • Yet they fight to stay illegally in the very nation they curse.
  • 00:16:09.629 --> 00:16:14.567
  • Well, add to that the people of influence
  • 00:16:14.567 --> 00:16:16.235
  • In politics, like former vice president kamala harris,
  • 00:16:16.235 --> 00:16:19.639
  • Who defended the, as she put it, overwhelmingly
  • 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:22.575
  • Peaceful protesters in her home state of california.
  • 00:16:22.575 --> 00:16:26.579
  • Remember, she was also the border czar
  • 00:16:26.579 --> 00:16:28.881
  • During the last administration.
  • 00:16:28.881 --> 00:16:30.950
  • Our borders have been open for a lengthy season,
  • 00:16:30.950 --> 00:16:33.686
  • Facilitated by the people who were in authority over us.
  • 00:16:33.686 --> 00:16:36.422
  • They were telling us of a porous, unsecure border.
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  • Was our imagination.
  • 00:16:39.192 --> 00:16:41.094
  • They counseled millions of people
  • 00:16:41.094 --> 00:16:42.562
  • To do something illegally as a means of joining us.
  • 00:16:42.562 --> 00:16:45.331
  • That's a very bad precedent to establish.
  • 00:16:45.331 --> 00:16:48.601
  • Well, i believe we're going to have to endure to walk
  • 00:16:48.601 --> 00:16:51.003
  • Through and even overcome
  • 00:16:51.003 --> 00:16:52.305
  • A season of confusion, chaos and disruption
  • 00:16:52.305 --> 00:16:55.441
  • Because the people that initiated
  • 00:16:55.441 --> 00:16:56.976
  • It don't want to see the moment of destruction disrupted.
  • 00:16:56.976 --> 00:17:00.680
  • And without the people of faith,
  • 00:17:01.314 --> 00:17:02.915
  • The world will just collapse
  • 00:17:02.915 --> 00:17:04.183
  • Into anarchy. you have a role to play,
  • 00:17:04.183 --> 00:17:06.119
  • And it's more than sitting in church.
  • 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.121
  • You see, there would be no restraint
  • 00:17:08.121 --> 00:17:09.489
  • To the forces of darkness that strive to plunge humanity
  • 00:17:09.489 --> 00:17:12.158
  • Into despair and brutalism without your faith.
  • 00:17:12.158 --> 00:17:15.962
  • Well, unfortunately, as christians,
  • 00:17:15.962 --> 00:17:17.730
  • We too often abandon our culture
  • 00:17:17.730 --> 00:17:19.799
  • To the demonic encroachment of tyranny by remaining silent.
  • 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:24.403
  • This isn't about political parties or candidates.
  • 00:17:24.403 --> 00:17:26.973
  • As christ followers, we have to engage.
  • 00:17:26.973 --> 00:17:29.275
  • A healthy,
  • 00:17:29.275 --> 00:17:30.543
  • Vibrant church is what brings freedom and liberty to humanity
  • 00:17:30.543 --> 00:17:33.980
  • And will secure not only our future,
  • 00:17:33.980 --> 00:17:35.748
  • But the future of our children and our grandchildren.
  • 00:17:35.748 --> 00:17:38.251
  • Your voice, it matters.
  • 00:17:38.251 --> 00:17:40.253
  • And if we'll use it to
  • 00:17:40.253 --> 00:17:41.454
  • Honor our lord, i promise there are more reasons for hope
  • 00:17:41.454 --> 00:17:44.724
  • Than despair.
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  • Fill us in. virginia wrote.
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  • If illegals are illegal, then they're criminals.
  • 00:18:23.096 --> 00:18:26.200
  • They're not citizens. they don't respect our laws.
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  • Why do they have any rights in our country?
  • 00:18:28.602 --> 00:18:30.470
  • They're hurting u.s. citizens.
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  • They should be cast out.
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  • You know, i don't disagree, phyllis.
  • 00:18:34.875 --> 00:18:36.210
  • I think the heart of that discussion is
  • 00:18:36.210 --> 00:18:37.811
  • If they entered our country by avoiding due process,
  • 00:18:37.811 --> 00:18:40.781
  • It seems bizarre to me now all the voices that are claiming
  • 00:18:40.781 --> 00:18:43.951
  • They should be given due process before exiting the country.
  • 00:18:43.951 --> 00:18:47.854
  • They don't respect our processes.
  • 00:18:47.854 --> 00:18:49.356
  • They don't respect our laws.
  • 00:18:49.356 --> 00:18:50.958
  • Why do we imagine they would submit to them
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  • As they're being invited to exit the country?
  • 00:18:53.260 --> 00:18:56.396
  • Karen in kentucky wrote, the
  • 00:18:56.997 --> 00:18:58.632
  • Anti-semitism across our country continues to shock me.
  • 00:18:58.632 --> 00:19:02.169
  • Are we not teaching children the truth about the holocaust?
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  • No, i don't think we are, karen.
  • 00:19:06.373 --> 00:19:08.375
  • But i think more importantly, we haven't taught the children
  • 00:19:08.375 --> 00:19:11.178
  • The truth about anti-semitic semitism.
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  • Easy for me to say.
  • 00:19:14.281 --> 00:19:15.682
  • Through all the generations,
  • 00:19:15.682 --> 00:19:17.484
  • The hatred of the jewish people is not a 21st century issue.
  • 00:19:17.484 --> 00:19:21.421
  • It's in the pages of our scripture.
  • 00:19:21.421 --> 00:19:23.156
  • It was happening in the first century
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  • And it continues to happen today.
  • 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.294
  • It's going to take some intentional work
  • 00:19:27.294 --> 00:19:28.962
  • On behalf of the churches to help us all understand that
  • 00:19:28.962 --> 00:19:32.699
  • As christ followers, we're indebted to the jewish people.
  • 00:19:32.699 --> 00:19:35.802
  • Without the jewish people, we have no scripture.
  • 00:19:35.802 --> 00:19:38.238
  • We would have no messiah.
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  • We don't stand apart from them.
  • 00:19:40.073 --> 00:19:42.175
  • We stand in a faith
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  • That has been extended to us because of their faithfulness.
  • 00:19:43.644 --> 00:19:46.780
  • And we haven't done a great job on that assignment.
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  • Kyle in texas wrote.
  • 00:19:50.384 --> 00:19:51.652
  • What do you think about the very public
  • 00:19:51.652 --> 00:19:53.253
  • Fallout between president trump and elon musk?
  • 00:19:53.253 --> 00:19:56.556
  • You know, big picture.
  • 00:19:57.024 --> 00:19:57.958
  • I think it's unfortunate.
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  • I'm most grateful
  • 00:19:59.626 --> 00:20:00.761
  • For the work that elon musk has done in helping
  • 00:20:00.761 --> 00:20:04.097
  • Expose the excess, the waste and the fraud in our government,
  • 00:20:04.097 --> 00:20:07.634
  • How it's been spent.
  • 00:20:07.634 --> 00:20:09.069
  • You know, from a distance, i think watching that play out,
  • 00:20:09.069 --> 00:20:11.371
  • They serve in two very different
  • 00:20:11.371 --> 00:20:12.572
  • Roles, and that's very apparent now.
  • 00:20:12.572 --> 00:20:14.708
  • The spat seems to be the difference to me in a consult
  • 00:20:14.708 --> 00:20:18.278
  • And someone who's the responsible party.
  • 00:20:18.278 --> 00:20:20.781
  • The consultant comes in and accepts
  • 00:20:20.781 --> 00:20:22.182
  • A very specific assignment, but the responsible person is left
  • 00:20:22.182 --> 00:20:25.285
  • To have to make the all the pieces fit into the puzzle.
  • 00:20:25.285 --> 00:20:29.122
  • And that's not always easily done.
  • 00:20:29.122 --> 00:20:31.325
  • And the consultants don't always cheer.
  • 00:20:31.325 --> 00:20:33.460
  • I think they're going to work out their differences
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  • And work together for the betterment of our country.
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  • Well, we appreciate you giving us
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  • Few minutes of your time this evening.
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  • I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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