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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Leadership Betrayal | Allen Jackson Now | January 8, 2026
- Well,
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- Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- We're going to begin tonight with what happens
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- When the laws of our country are ignored
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- And the fabric of our society begins to erode.
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- In this case,
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- Both the governor of minnesota and the mayor of minneapolis.
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- They've been publicly
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- Pushing back on federal law enforcement officers
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- Who've been trying to do the job that those
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- Two were supposed to be doing,
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- Which is protect the citizens of their state.
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- But tim walz and jacob frey are writing their own rules.
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- So this is what it looked like in minneapolis,
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- On a street full of protesters,
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- Including some of them in vehicles
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- That were moving from place to place to block the police.
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- When the ice officers tried to clear the street.
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- One of them, who was standing in front of an suv, was hit
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- When the driver, who had been told to stop
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- And get out of the car, stepped on the gas.
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- Well, the ice officer was hit by the car and was injured
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- As they shot the driver in self-defense.
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- As ice has gone around the country trying to capture
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- Criminals.
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- At least 100 vehicles have been weaponized.
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- Translation used to attack
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- Agents have been repeatedly injured,
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- But this was the first time that the confrontation
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- Ended with the driver being shot and killed.
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- Well, rather than defending the peacekeepers,
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- The governor said he's at war with the federal government.
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- The mayor also took the side of the protesters,
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- Telling federal authorities to leave
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- Using foul language in the process,
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- As if he was trying to emphasize that he really meant it.
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- Well, as i said at the open, the laws are being ignored.
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- The mayor and the governor
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- Are leading the charge, and the erosion.
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- It's underway.
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- Well, joining us tonight, the
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- Senior adviser on homeland security and immigration
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- At the america first policy institute, cooper smith.
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- Welcome back, sir.
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- Thank you very much for having me.
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- Let me start with a broader context on this.
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- 600,000 people who were here illegally,
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- Who've already been arrested this year.
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- At least 10 million remain.
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- But as federal authorities
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- Go from city to city to round them
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- Up, protesters are throwing up roadblocks.
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- And instead of doing the job they were elected to do.
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- Tim waltz and jacob frey immediately blame the officers.
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- Here's what they said yesterday.
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- This morning we learned that an ice officer
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- Shot and killed someone in minneapolis.
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- We've been warning for weeks
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- That the trump
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- Administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations
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- Are a threat to our public safety.
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- This was an agent recklessly
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- Using power that resulted in somebody dying,
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- Getting killed.
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- Families are being ripped apart.
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- Long term minneapolis residents that have contributed
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- So greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy
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- Are being terrorized.
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- And now somebody is dead.
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- Cooper how is i supposed to do his job
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- When the highest elected official in the state,
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- Or on the side of not just the protesters, but
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- In many cases, the criminals?
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- Yeah.
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- I mean, it's it's it's very difficult to do their job.
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- It's already a tough job.
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- You know, think about it like this.
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- Of course, ice is facing a 1,300% increase in and threats
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- And doxing against them,
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- Not to mention an 8,000% increase in death
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- Threats against them and often their families.
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- So, you know, the incident that happened yesterday,
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- A tragedy that it was a woman, of course, lost her life
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- Does not happen in a vacuum.
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- The agent himself was involved in another
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- Vehicular ramming incident, i think, in june.
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- So i think the context here is, is super important
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- For our viewers to to understand.
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- And you're right, i you cannot conduct lawful immigration,
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- Operations without the help of state and local police.
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- What i found so interesting
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- Is that after the shooting happened, mayor frye said, well,
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- We we called in local police who responded to the incident.
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- Well, my question to him is, why weren't
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- They there to begin with?
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- Why weren't they assisting ice in, for example,
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- Opening roadways or providing crowd control
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- Things that would've made their job a lot easier,
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- Both for the citizens
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- And for law enforcement who are a danger here.
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- You know, there's a method in winning the war on crime.
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- It's called the broken window theory.
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- It means that ignoring
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- Even small violations of the law leads to larger violations.
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- Well, we're
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- Well past broken windows and a lot of america's cities,
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- And we're beginning to question who's really in charge.
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- It's just the local police,
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- The state police, the fbi, ice, or maybe just no one.
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- Is this trump derangement syndrome being taken to a new
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- And dangerous level?
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- Yeah, i mean, absolutely.
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- Look, i mean, jacob frye in that press conference,
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- Which was just ridiculous and unhinged.
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- She said a lot of things that i disagree with.
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- I don't think he said anything i agree with.
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- But one of the things that that
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- Has been forgotten that he said is that ice is sowing chaos.
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- This is a term that he used
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- Multiple times in that press conference,
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- And i would contend that what's chaotic is allowing
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- Releasing rather criminal, illegal aliens into your city,
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- Which is not just happening in minneapolis.
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- It's happening in los angeles
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- And chicago and new orleans and charlotte.
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- And that's why the trump administration is targeting
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- These cities for immigration enforcement operation.
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- I would say it's chaotic to allow rapists and child
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- Molesters and pedophiles and gang members
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- And murderers roam the streets of your city.
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- And then when the federal government
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- Comes in to clean up this mess that you facilitated,
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- Then you immediately blame them for this chaos.
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- It's unbelievable and it's unforgivable.
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- Well, it seems to me that the betrayal of the leaders
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- Is even greater because they're demanding
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- Federal dollars,
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- Using them fraudulently, and then
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- Protecting the criminals they're funding with it.
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- That seems like the trifecta of betraying their responsibility
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- To lead. well, isn't it?
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- No, i mean, absolutely.
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- And look,
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- Vice president vance was just talking about this today
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- On the podium at the white house.
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- You know, all these things are happening
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- At the same time, which is pretty remarkable.
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- It's been a crazy week
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- For minnesota governor tim
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- Walz, who's a,
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- You know,
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- Disgraced governor who had to drop out of his campaign
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- Due to an independent journalist youtuber who simply walked
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- Around the streets of minneapolis uncovering
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- $110 million in fraud.
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- That was so obvious.
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- It makes you wonder, you know, cbs, abc, cnn.
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- Do you guys do
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- Any real journalism more, or do you just sit between d.c.
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- And new york and rehash what you're hearing from the field?
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- Because if they did any real journalism,
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- This would have been a story, you know, 5 or 6 years ago.
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- Not today.
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- You know, after the minneapolis incident,
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- Law enforcement eventually pulled back.
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- According to the secretary of homeland security,
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- It was an act of domestic terrorism.
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- Here's how she described it.
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- She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle,
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- And she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over it.
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- This appears as an attempt to kill or to cause bodily harm
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- To agents.
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- An act of domestic domestic terrorism.
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- 10,000 new ice officers are being hired.
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- The ice budget, it's been tripled,
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- But it's going to take some time before they can be deployed.
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- So do you think they should go back in
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- And weed out the criminal element in minnesota,
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- Or just wait until they have more support?
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- Well, i mean, of course they can and they should.
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- And vice president vance and president trump have said
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- Basically the same thing, that this is not going to deter
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- These domestic terrorism
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- Activities that you're seeing on the ground.
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- Again, not just in minneapolis, but in many major cities,
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- Sanctuary cities across the country
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- Are not going to deter, if anything, they're going to
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- To make it easier for them to do this.
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- Because, look,
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- The american people are fully on the side of law enforcement.
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- You can see it in poll after poll.
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- You know,
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- President trump obviously
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- Ran on a campaign of mass deportation after 15, 20
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- Million people
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- Were led into our country and have terrorized our citizens.
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- I mean, think back just a couple of weeks ago,
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- When, you know, an afghan refugee shot
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- Two national guardsmen here in d.c.
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- Due to these open borders policy.
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- So there's a lot of work that needs to be done
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- To undo the chaos and the damage that biden and his
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- Team caused.
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- You know, in city after city, mayors are holding back
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- The local police,
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- Doing nothing to protect the federal authorities.
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- On top of doing nothing to arrest
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- And hold the criminals who are already here illegally.
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- Is there anything you're aware of that could force the mayors,
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- The governors, or even the local police to get involved?
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- Well, sure.
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- And you're seeing the trump
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- Administration taking some some actions here, for example,
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- In minneapolis.
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- The department of justice is suing in order to
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- To get rid of their sanctuary city, policies there.
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- And you're going to see this across the country.
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- There is plenty that they can do.
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- Of course, i think federal dollars
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- Tend to be the best way to do so, because a lot of states
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- And local jurisdictions rely on federal money to
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- To fund various programs and salaries and whatnot.
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- So i think that's probably the best way,
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- Either in the courts or with federal dollars.
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- You know, there's
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- Additional money now to build more detention facilities.
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- Is that part of the answer instead of trying to send them
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- Back home overseas or wherever they came from?
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- Yeah, exactly.
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- And i think you're referring
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- To the one big beautiful bill, which of course,
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- As you mentioned, plus top isis budget by $45 billion
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- Had also set up border patrol's budget by $45 billion.
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- And we're seeing the great effect of that.
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- You know, with seven months
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- Of nobody released into the interior room,
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- I remind your audience that just a couple of years ago,
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- It was tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands
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- Of illegal aliens
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- Being released monthly by the biden administration.
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- Now, that number is zero
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- Over a number of months.
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- So that big, beautiful bill money is getting spent
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- Right now.
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- The bill was passed, of course, on 4th of july.
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- So it's going to take some time.
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- You know, the ice officers,
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- They just put out a press release, dhs,
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- Saying that they blew past
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- Their expected 10,000 of actually hired 12,000
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- New agents.
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- So i think over the next, let's say, 3 to 6 months,
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- We can expect much bigger operations
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- In a lot of major cities, targeting,
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- Of course, criminal illegal aliens and sanctuary cities.
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- Well, cooper, we need to take a short break.
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- Would you stay for another segment?
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- Absolutely.
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- In the meantime,
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- You can log on to aj now.com and send us your thoughts
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- On this discussion for a future program.
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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 cooper smith,
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- The senior advisor for homeland security and immigration
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- At the america first policy institute.
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- Was it january 1st?
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- The us travel ban has been expanded to 39 countries.
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- Some are under a full ban and others under a partial ban.
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- That was following the washington,
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- Dc, shooting by an immigrant from afghanistan
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- Who killed a woman
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- Serving in the national guard and seriously injuring another.
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- Can you tell us what the extent that this expanded ban
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- Will help us to better isolate potential troublemakers
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- Before they get here?
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- Yeah, yeah, i believe so.
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- And look, president trump attempted
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- This back in the first term as well.
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- The senate up in the courts ended up going all the way
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- To the supreme court.
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- What he's using here
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- Is called 212 s authority, which gives the president
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- Unilateral authority to stop immigration
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- From anywhere in the world for basically any reason
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- That can be tied to national security
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- Or the safety of american citizens.
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- So he has complete authority to do so.
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- And i think what you're seeing
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- With the countries that he's targeting.
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- Look, when somebody applies for a visa or is trying to come
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- Here, get get a green card, or is just a tourist.
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- Often law enforcement agencies have to run against
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- Criminal databases and ask the home government
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- Of the immigrant, you know, who is this person?
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- What is their background?
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- Do they have a criminal record, etc.?
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- And unfortunately, with a lot of countries,
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- The countries that you would expect.
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- Right. libya? somalia? yemen?
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- Haiti, venezuela.
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- They don't have those records.
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- They don't keep records like we do here.
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- So it's totally understandable
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- That for those countries, we should take a pause
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- And understand who's coming here and why.
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- You know, my memory is during his first term,
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- He was accused of being xenophobic.
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- It seems abundantly clear now he was genuinely trying
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- To protect the american citizens.
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- I wish we'd listened sooner.
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- Now, that's that's absolutely correct.
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- And look,
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- We mentioned this in the prior segment, but,
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- You know, think about the operation.
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- I think it was called
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- Welcome allies or allies welcome that that biden,
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- Did after his embarrassing debacle in afghanistan, which,
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- Of course, led to 13 servicemembers dying in kabul.
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- And then what did the american government do?
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- We brought in tens of thousands of afghani refugees,
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- Many of whom we now know are tied to terrorist networks.
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- But then alejandro mayorkas, the dhs secretary
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- Under biden, was saying 100% of these people were vetted.
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- Well vetted against what?
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- Against what database?
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- That the taliban, who now runs afghanistan is.
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- It's just it's crazy.
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- So to think that we can vet and properly
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- Understand and screen people who are coming here
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- From those parts of the of the world, rather is crazy.
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- Well, you mentioned it briefly in our earlier segment,
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- But another important issue this year is tracking
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- The fraudsters, who are also breaking the law
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- That minnesota seems to bring ground zero.
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- Billions of taxpayer dollars have been stolen.
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- Congressman comber
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- Had this to say about what's being done right now.
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- The u.s.
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- Department of homeland security is on the ground conducting
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- Investigations of suspected fraud sites in minnesota.
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- The u.s.
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- Department of health and human services has frozen
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- Child care payments and started requiring documentation
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- To prove entities are indeed providing child care.
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- Other federal agencies are halting
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- Grant programs investigating public housing
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- Fraud and strengthening program eligibility requirements.
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- Isn't this another case where the broken windows
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- Of small time fraud
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- Have now grown into billions of dollars being stolen?
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- Yes, i mean, absolutely.
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- And look what what the congressman was referring
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- To is a whole of government approach here.
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- It's actually really remarkable to think about what
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- Nick, surely, again, this independent journalist
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- Was able to accomplish with a simple 42 minute, youtube video.
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- You know,
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- He filmed with an iphone and walking around minneapolis,
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- And it led the entire federal government
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- To align themselves against fraud and waste and abuse.
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- It's really just remarkable.
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- Well, finally, there's a question i've asked several.
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- Guest.
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- It's about the dangerous state we're in.
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- You know, it only took 19 terrorists
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- To conduct the nine over 11 attacks.
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- But because of biden's open borders, we now have
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- 18,000 people here who were tied to foreign terrorist groups.
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- Are those are the top targets for tom homan and kristi noem,
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- Even as they go up against tim walz, gavin newsom, pritzker
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- And illinois and all the others?
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- Absolutely, absolutely.
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- And they should be.
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- Look, borders, our tom homan has been talking about this
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- Since the beginning of the administration,
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- Really since the election.
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- He said that, you know, the vast amount
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- Of people, again, 15 to 20 million that biden let in.
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- We don't even know who these people are.
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- We don't even know what country they're coming from.
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- Of course, prior to that, what you referenced
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- The 18,000 known or suspected terrorists,
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- We thought the american people thought it was.
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- Only i put that in quotes, 400 or 500 known
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- Or suspected terrorists who came during biden's administration.
- 00:15:51.478 --> 00:15:54.515
- Turns out it was exponentially higher than that.
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- So from a law enforcement perspective,
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- I absolutely hope that and i pray that they are
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- Focusing on those those terrorist elements.
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- You know, the great charade of the open
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- Border was it was presented as an expression of compassion
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- In reality, from the see, today, it seems to me, was much more
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- An act of aggression against the american public.
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- Am i reading that wrong?
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- No. i think you're absolutely right.
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- Look, this is for the left, for the media.
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- They have a near religious fervor and dedication
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- To to multiculturalism, to globalism, to to whatever ism
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- You want to call it.
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- But at the end
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- Of the day, to me, and i think i've said
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- This on your program before.
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- It's about political power.
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- This is why they're doing this.
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- There's no other reason.
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- Nobody in government can possibly tell me that
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- They want to have terrorists or gang members, or rapists
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- Or pedophiles come into our country,
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- Unless there are some other ulterior motive.
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- And you have to imagine with
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- Congressional apportionment, right?
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- We know that the us census unfortunately in trump,
- 00:16:56.243 --> 00:16:59.413
- President trump is trying to change this
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- Does count illegal aliens, right?
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- So in certain states
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- Like california, it's it's reasonable to know reasonable
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- To expect that
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- About 10 to 15 of those seats actually wouldn't even exist.
- 00:17:09.323 --> 00:17:13.093
- And their political power would be significantly lessened
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- If we did not have tens of millions of illegal aliens
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- Here in the country.
- 00:17:18.866 --> 00:17:19.800
- So this, this religious fervor, dedication
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- To open borders to me at the end,
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- At the end of the day is all about political power.
- 00:17:25.105 --> 00:17:27.908
- Well, coopersmith, thank you for your time
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- And for your clarity of thought.
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- We hope to see you again soon.
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- Thank you sir.
- 00:17:35.182 --> 00:17:36.517
- In a moment, the hope that exists
- 00:17:36.517 --> 00:17:38.785
- Even when things begin to seem pretty tough to address.
- 00:17:38.785 --> 00:17:42.156
- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
- 00:17:50.010 --> 00:17:54.503
- We are witnessing
- 00:17:54.937 --> 00:17:56.305
- Spiritual forces of darkness being expressed with increasing
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- Boldness and frequency in some very tangible ways.
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- We've seen exposure
- 00:18:03.712 --> 00:18:04.680
- Of the most widespread fraud in our history.
- 00:18:04.680 --> 00:18:07.816
- The theft of taxpayer dollars on an unimaginable scale.
- 00:18:07.816 --> 00:18:11.887
- Minnesota has been in the spotlight billions of dollars.
- 00:18:11.887 --> 00:18:15.457
- But nobody imagines that it's limited to minnesota.
- 00:18:15.457 --> 00:18:18.627
- For years now, we've had open borders.
- 00:18:18.627 --> 00:18:20.963
- Tens of millions of people
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- Have poured into our nation illegally.
- 00:18:22.431 --> 00:18:25.167
- Nations simply cease to exist if they have open borders.
- 00:18:25.167 --> 00:18:29.471
- We've had sanctuary cities and sanctuary states.
- 00:18:29.471 --> 00:18:32.308
- Those aren't safe places.
- 00:18:32.308 --> 00:18:33.976
- Some of our most populous cities are refusing to obey
- 00:18:33.976 --> 00:18:36.712
- Federal laws while they demand federal funding.
- 00:18:36.712 --> 00:18:40.449
- It's become commonplace to have people
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- Who oppose law enforcement to publish the home addresses
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- Of law enforcement
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- Officers, to make them more available
- 00:18:47.223 --> 00:18:48.824
- Targets for those who wish them harm.
- 00:18:48.824 --> 00:18:51.327
- It's unthinkable.
- 00:18:51.327 --> 00:18:52.728
- We've seen lawlessness and violence
- 00:18:52.728 --> 00:18:54.597
- Carried out on the streets of major cities
- 00:18:54.597 --> 00:18:56.665
- Against law enforcement by those who support
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- Criminal actors who are here illegally.
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- No. perhaps they were emboldened by the words of minnesota
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- Governor tim walz.
- 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:05.374
- It was a few months ago
- 00:19:05.374 --> 00:19:06.342
- When he put the lives of ice staff in danger
- 00:19:06.342 --> 00:19:08.711
- By blatantly associating them with nazi germany.
- 00:19:08.711 --> 00:19:12.348
- You know, according to dhs, over 100 vehicle ratings
- 00:19:12.348 --> 00:19:15.017
- Of federal officers have taken place in recent weeks.
- 00:19:15.017 --> 00:19:18.520
- Isis faced a 1,300% increase
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- In assaults in mainstream media.
- 00:19:21.290 --> 00:19:24.360
- They're quick to support false narratives
- 00:19:24.360 --> 00:19:26.428
- When everyone is left
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- To make their own determinations of what is true.
- 00:19:27.463 --> 00:19:29.665
- We quickly find out
- 00:19:29.665 --> 00:19:30.866
- That we're living in the midst of the theater of the absurd.
- 00:19:30.866 --> 00:19:34.203
- We're living in a time when observable truth
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- Is often denied in the public square.
- 00:19:36.038 --> 00:19:38.540
- You and i,
- 00:19:38.540 --> 00:19:39.241
- We're going to have to become
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- More discerning consumers of information.
- 00:19:40.276 --> 00:19:42.978
- We're going to have to let god's truth
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- Be our grounding anchor, and not simply accept
- 00:19:44.280 --> 00:19:46.448
- What the talking heads are saying to us.
- 00:19:46.448 --> 00:19:48.550
- If we'll do that.
- 00:19:48.550 --> 00:19:49.685
- I promise there's reasons for hope.
- 00:19:49.685 --> 00:19:52.087
- We'll be right back
- 00:19:52.554 --> 00:19:53.656
- With your emails.
- 00:19:53.656 --> 00:20:02.003
- With your emails.
- 00:20:02.003 --> 00:20:06.027
- Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts.
- 00:20:07.094 --> 00:20:09.430
- Your emails are always a highlight of the program.
- 00:20:09.430 --> 00:20:12.099
- Judy b from california
- 00:20:12.099 --> 00:20:13.567
- Emailed the interview you did with pastor rob mccoy.
- 00:20:13.567 --> 00:20:17.071
- It was so good.
- 00:20:17.438 --> 00:20:18.939
- You two should take that on the road.
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- You were both just awesome.
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- Thank you for sharing. god bless you.
- 00:20:22.877 --> 00:20:24.645
- Well, judy, thank you.
- 00:20:24.645 --> 00:20:25.913
- I've been looking for something else to do with my free time.
- 00:20:25.913 --> 00:20:28.816
- I'll talk to pastor rob and see if he wants a roger.
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- Jay barth from palmdale wrote in.
- 00:20:32.486 --> 00:20:34.889
- Well, pastor, you're right.
- 00:20:34.889 --> 00:20:35.990
- God is moving.
- 00:20:35.990 --> 00:20:37.058
- After waking up to maduro.
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- God and harmony.
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- Maybe soon. out of the capital.
- 00:20:40.227 --> 00:20:42.129
- That's definitely one of those i know that you god moments.
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- Happy new year.
- 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:47.201
- God's made you a beacon of light.
- 00:20:47.201 --> 00:20:49.503
- Well, thanks for the reminder.
- 00:20:49.503 --> 00:20:50.738
- And god is moving in the earth.
- 00:20:50.738 --> 00:20:52.506
- Let's be sure we keep our attention
- 00:20:52.506 --> 00:20:53.941
- Focused on the good things
- 00:20:53.941 --> 00:20:55.109
- That's god's doing, and not get captured
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- By the reporting on the darkness.
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- There's good things ahead, and that is a real reason for hope.
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- I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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