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As many of you know, my
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Personal, most important issue is deportations.
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Immigration in general,
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We call it the one switch you can flip that will fix
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All that ails you.
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Many of the nation's problems, maybe not all, but
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Many of the nation's problems
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Originate from a failed immigration
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System, flooding the country with people
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That don't share our values, that,
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You know, end up becoming public.
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Charges that fill our streets, our dmvs, our hospitals,
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Our schools.
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And one of the central planks of president
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Trump's reelection bid was mass deportation.
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That the it was at the rnc.
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They had the signs, i think mass mass deportations.
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And you could always
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Get the sense that there was a little bit
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Of a messaging bifurcation inside the administration.
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There was the get the worse first guys there was.
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They all need to go, guys,
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I am in all they all need to go. guy.
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I believe
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Blake would be here all day and 100% charlie very much.
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I mean he would talk about the ten, 10 million people.
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And it's remarkable
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That in the early days of the administration,
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They would poll different things.
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You know, the press was trying to undermine the president,
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And they were trying to poll mass deportations.
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But consistently mass deportatio
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However, fast forward to right now,
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You have alex pretty renee good were two american citizens
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That were killed in their altercations with ice agents.
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That ended up dragging down some of the polling.
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Certainly,
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It got spun in the news media very successfully by the left.
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So there's no doubt that there has been consternation.
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And i think that's predictable.
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It's large scale
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Deportations are just one of those things
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That inevitably creates its own opposition.
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You get the photos of crying kids like this kid's crying.
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So i guess we can't have borders or laws anymore.
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And so what's happening today that we wanted to highlight?
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This came out just at the end of the show yesterday.
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Axios had one of their exclusives,
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And it's that reportedly,
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White house deputy chief of staff james blair
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Has been urging house republicans to basically
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Stop saying the phrase mass deportations pivot.
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The messaging
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To we're getting rid of violent
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Criminals, we're getting rid of the worst of the worst,
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And they also cite
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There's a politico poll that says about half the country
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Thinks mass deportations is too aggressive.
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That includes about 20% of trump 2024 voters.
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And we wanted to highlight that,
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Because i think you and i and charlie would have
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The same perspective, which is,
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Above all, we just we care about success.
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We don't necessarily care about messaging.
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So we think if it makes sense for the administration to pivot
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To, oh, we're getting rid of the worst of the worst,
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Go ahead and do it.
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What matters is reality.
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And so we i guess our caution to the administration
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Would be, don't let a pivot on messaging
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Turn into a pivot away from securing the border.
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Deportations, immigration, security, generally
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Because a lot of it has been a huge success.
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You can go through the numbers like we've doubled
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The number of ice arrests overall.
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There's the new fee on h-1b.
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Is there is the what, 33% drop roughly in foreign students
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Work visas?
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They've greatly enhanced putting americans first.
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There's been a not having us endlessly be the dumping ground
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Of the third world.
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There's been a full on ban of some visas
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Being issued to certain muslim countries and other countries
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That fail to vet, their, their population properly.
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And let's just go into the numbers
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On the polls, though, here,
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According to the latest poll on deportation, 64% of maga
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Says that trump's deportation approach is just right, 47% on
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Non of non maga republicans think the same
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With 21% of maga and 17% of non maga.
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Say that it is too aggressive or is not aggressive enough.
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Apologies.
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So so here's here's the caution.
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And i agree with blake.
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You want commerce not drama right.
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You want million of people removed from this country.
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You want it to be done quietly.
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You want it to be done efficiently.
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You want it to be done with no drama.
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This was the problem with minneapolis.
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And i will i will say
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You saw this from certain commentators like joe rogan,
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Who ended up endorsing president trump, saying that
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The immigration approach he thought was cruel.
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He thought it was cold.
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He saw that some of the memes from dhs were too aggressive.
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They were too performative.
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All of those things could be true.
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But again, keep the drama behind the scenes.
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Get the get the job done with technical precision,
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With professionalism.
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Do it without headlines.
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And that is the key because we always knew.
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But i want you to take your mind back to trump
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1.0 with aoc at the border crying in her all white outfit
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About kids in cages while the kids in cages
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Were started under obama as soon as a biden took over
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And there was, you know, 300, 350,000 migrant kids
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Missing in the interior, there was zero tears from aoc.
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We know this is performative.
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We know that they do this to gin up sob stories
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And to turn the
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The population against the president's agenda.
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My warning is this there is no single tactic,
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No single policy plank of the trump
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Administration, that it is as popular
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As deportations, as immigration itself.
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The issue is the border got cleared up really quickly.
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Right?
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And we even saw from the for beat
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For breezier polling that people don't
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It doesn't move the needle to talk about
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The secured border, but it's incredibly important
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In the second that border stops being secure.
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It will become a massive issue again.
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And that's more to the point, is okay,
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Whether it's popular or not actually executing on mass
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Deportations, it
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Above all, it matters because it is of existential
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Importance to the.
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If you want to see your future, just yesterday,
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The united kingdom has moved to take famous brits
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Off the money.
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They're going to take winston churchill
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Off the money, jane austen off the money
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And replace them with nature scenes.
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And a clear reason they're doing this is they've
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Brought in so much replacement level immigration,
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They basically have to abolish their own history. they
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Made a great
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Brits are white christians and that's,
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You know,
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They're offensive to muslims who've come to the country to,
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You know, oh, they they helped colonize india.
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They have a lot of indians in the country.
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Like it's basically they have to destroy their own legacy.
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They have to wage war on themselves.
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And the mass replacement level immigration into america
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Was the left's way of waging war on this country.
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They're bringing in people hostile to american history,
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American values, american religion,
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And also people who are going to be a drag
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On the american state. they're bringing in dependance.
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They're bringing in, frankly, some of them are essentially
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Parasites on america.
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And that's all deliberate on their part.
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They want to bring in people
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Who will immediately go on the dole,
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Who will immediately cause problems.
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And you need to undo that or it will destroy america.
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So if you need to say
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We're focusing on the worst of the worst,
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But we're still sending letters to the businesses that say
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You're employing people illegally under the table.
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This is a great go for it. they're doing that right now.
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Keep doing it.
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There are ways in which you can message effectively
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That you can actually prosecute the case effectively.
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That will be more in terms of total numbers
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Of deportations, then doing raids out on the street.
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Right.
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Because what we've learned, the learnings are
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That that becomes, causes your for the left.
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The left wing media will spin it up
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And make it a huge drama.
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And you'll get karens
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From all over the country driving to minneapolis to go,
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Put themselves in the front lines of a war
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They know nothing about and don't understand.
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Go after the businesses.
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Go after the visas, go after the overstays.
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Go after the prisons at the local level
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With the blue cities, the blue states.
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And you will get commas, not drama.
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And that is the key.
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I think mark wayne mullen can achieve that goal.
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I think you follow the model that homan has put forward
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In minneapolis, where he's getting participation
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From local jails and prisons, and that is the key.
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But do not get soft.
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Do not go squish on immigration.
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It is the one unifying policy of the entirety
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Of the coalition.
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Of the coalition.
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You cannot break into the country and get off scot free.
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There's that's not an option.
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Sovereignty has to matter.
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We no exception.
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They all have to go.
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How we get there, the message that we get there that well,
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I guess you could say that you could message that.
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I think that's a fair word.
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All right. so why this is important okay.
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So we go to war, we have an excursion.
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There's a conflict strikes against iran.
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Whatever word you want to use for it.
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And guess what happens.
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We get an austin nightclub shooting from,
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Muslim radical islamists.
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We get, ieds thrown at,
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Anti-muslim protesters in new york city.
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But everybody, you know, abby phillips thinks that it's,
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It was against against mayor mamdani.
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You've got a consulate that gets shot up in toronto.
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So you.
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So we've now imported a bunch of people
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That hate us, that don't share our values,
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And that
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If they could offended,
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They're going to turn their weapons on us.
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That is failed immigration.
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That is absolutely the reason why we should not be importing
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People that hate us.
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Now, you turn our attention to abby, phillip and cnn.
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I watch this actually live.
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I don't know why i did.
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It was like the remote got changed,
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And all of a sudden it was on cnn.
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And i couldn't believe the way they were talking about
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Immigration and muslim immigration.
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The starting point for their conversation
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Was you're a bigot.
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If you think there's a problem with islam.
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Well, listen,
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Charlie was very clear about this, will maintain it.
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There's a difference between macro and micro there.
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Yes, there are micro independent
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Instance is where you meet very kind muslims
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That are very nice and they're very respectful.
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They're proud to be american.
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I'm not saying that doesn't exist, but on the macro,
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When you import millions of of muslims,
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Don't be surprised when a few of them try and kill you.
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That is the lesson of western civilization
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In muslim immigration.
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And you look at, the uk, you have people from the united
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Arab emirates
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Refusing to fund students abroad to the uk
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Because they might get radicalized
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And come back to the uae as radical jihadist.
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That's the problem.
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And you see this in melbourne.
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Melbourne, australia is now a hotbed of
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Muslim radicalization.
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New york city, these these kids in at gracie mansion
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Were from pennsylvania living in a $2 million mansion.
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It didn't matter.
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They got radicalized because they were offended.
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So now,
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I mean, if you contrast this, blake,
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With what happened in world war two,
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Did we have a bunch of muslims screaming in the streets upset
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At our foreign policy?
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Well, no, we didn't even really have
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That many, like, you know.
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No, just no, it was 97% support.
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Yeah. well, that's very interesting.
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So now we have to play the clip
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Because there's everybody's talking about it
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And she's since apologized for it.
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This is cnn's abby phillip claiming that the attempted
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New york city
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Bombing was actually an attack against mayor mamdani,
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13 two republicans say muslims don't belong here
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After an attempted terror attack against new york's
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Mayor, zoran mamdani, and the house speaker, mike
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Johnson, says nothing really to condemn those comments.
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She repeated this,
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Apparently 2 or 3 times during the broadcast.
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And then this morning, she was finally forced
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To correct the record show.
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188 this is her apology.
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I want to correct something i said last night.
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The bombs thrown in new york city
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Over the weekend by isis inspired attackers
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Was thrown into a crowd.
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Well, there's yeah,
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Grammatically, it's a poor
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Tweet was thrown into a crowd of anti-muslim protesters.
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I hate it when bombs just get thrown.
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And not specifically targeted at mayor mamdani.
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That wording was inaccurate.
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I didn't catch it ahead of time.
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I apologize for the air.
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So the question now has become, was she intentionally lied
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To our audience, or was this a i think someone was.
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I don't know that.
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I think people they fixate on the talking head
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And really the process is at cnn or cnn is laundering
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What occurred, which is that, okay,
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There was an anti-islamic march.
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And then while people were protesting and trying to say,
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Love is love, let everyone in here, they
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They got the, they got a very rude encounter.
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With what the religion of peace often actually is, which is
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You had people
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Whose parents were welcomed into this country,
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Who clearly had tremendous opportunities
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Because they're able to live in a $2 million house.
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This country treated them
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Incredibly well, and their children
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Got radicalized and tried to murder people.
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I tend to think because you you worked on tucker carlson
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Show at fox, so you understood the process from producer
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Getting that, transmitting that information to the host.
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Tucker. in that case.
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So the same thing is happening here.
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But what i actually believe here
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Is this is this is confirmation bias run amuck.
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So if you show these images i've got them in the chat here.
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Look at axios
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When they first described this event over the weekend.
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Explode device
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Thrown outside new york city mayor mamdani residents.
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You can see abc,
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Abc made a bigger deal about jake lang, who was the,
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You know, anti-muslim protester in front of the mansion
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Than they did about the bombs going, being thrown.
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So what happened here was you had a bunch of confirmation
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Bias with the producers that are 20 somethings.
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They didn't check their work.
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They believed the first story out of the legacy media,
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Because the legacy media media is loathe
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To point out the obvious that islam, islamic,
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Americans in this case, muslims have a terror problem.
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They didn't want to bring that up.
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And so she saw the initial reporting, ran with it,
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Didn't think there was any problem with it.
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I think it's confirmation bias run amuck.
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And we see this, by the way,
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With the assassination of charlie,
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The legacy news media like jimmy
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Kimmel went out and said it was maga who did it.
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Do you know that there's still only like 30 or 40%
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Of the american population that understands
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That it was a left winger who killed charlie?
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You know, i wish,
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I wish i could entirely blame the left for that one.
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Well, i wish i could too, but there is an apparatus.
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There's a machine, of media that whitewashes over
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The sins of the left
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Because they don't want to admit the truth
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That, yes, you have a political violence problem on the left.
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Yes, muslims commit terror.
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And we should be honest about this instead of content
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That you see this in canada, you have a trans shooter
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And they call it, what do they call it, a,
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A person, like a, a person,
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A shooting person, i forget, but the point is,
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They didn't want to admit they were trans.
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Okay, this is a problem with the legacy news media is
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They don't want to admit that their narratives
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Have completely fallen apart.
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And that's what i think happened here.
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I think abby phillips.
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Why why blame cunning when incompetence will do?
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Why why blame cunning when incompetence will do?
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Welcoming back to the show, one of the fan favorites.
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One of our favorites is kane over at citizen free press.
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Kane welcome back my friend.
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We want to thank you.
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Yeah we wanted to get your.
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By the way, we have a fancy new phone
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Graphic for you there that we put together.
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How about that? yeah.
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You need a parent in the bad days.
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Yeah.
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We got a little, color there for you. so.
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Kane, i wanted to get your vibe.
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Check on the citizen free
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Press on the, cfp nation there.
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But what they're feeling about this iran strike.
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How's it going?
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How much patience do they have?
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Are people freaking out yet, or are we good?
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Yeah.
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Well, you saw
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Probably in the stack yesterday the quinnipiac poll
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That showed that 85% of republicans
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Are supporting president trump in the military operation.
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And you probably also saw last week
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The poll from cbs, that i put a couple of headlines up
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About that, that show that this was kind of,
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You know, the approval was sort of a time based approval that
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If that if the the operation lasted less than plural months.
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So we can assume that they,
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You know,
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Most readers were thinking eight weeks
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If it lasts less than eight weeks.
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It was a it had a plus 52 rating with 76 to 24.
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And then if it lasted longer than eight weeks,
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In other words, if it became months,
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It dropped to a minus eight approval.
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Can trump declare victory when he doesn't have
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Regime change, when he doesn't have complete,
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And you know, and we'll look, i don't think it'll stop him.
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So there's the first thing i think
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Trump will still declare victory.
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Will the people accept that declaration?
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For the most part, i think they will.
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I think people understand
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That regime change is really, really sticky and difficult.
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And that's how you end up in a six month war or a one year,
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Or in the case of iraq, a multi-year war.
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Right? really get it? so,
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A slight little tangent i put in the stack yesterday
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That israel
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It was netanyahu's
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Direct message to the iranian people
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Talking about how
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There will be actions
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Coming in the next few days, slash weeks
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That will really set them, will set the people up
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To take over the, you know, to do it themselves.
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So, you know, the long winded answer your question
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About whether he can declare victory without regime change.
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I think the people will forget him.
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I see, you know, just getting rid of
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The ayatollah is enough of a headline that i
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That i really think that that will give him a positive,
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You know, what will give trump some benefit?
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And but yeah, i mean,
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If you ask democrats, yeah, they're going to point out,
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You know, if regime change isn't successful,
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They're going to point that out at every opportunity.
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So it's not going to be a clear cut argument.
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But i think that if you ask me whether it's a successful
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Look, if if we destroy how many thousand
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Ballistic missiles and all of their launchers
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And destroyed their
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Manufacturing capabilities for these advanced weapons,
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I think all of that makes the operation a success.
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If he wanted to end it today,
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I would consider it a success.
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Kane, there's a troubling potentially
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Article out of axios that suggests that
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The white house is going to pivot on messaging.
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No more. deport them all.
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No more mass deportation talk.
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We're just getting criminal illegals out.
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You're take. yeah.
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So we
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Have at least 30 million illegal aliens in this country.
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Even with self-deportation, which dhs said
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Was 2.2 million last year.
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In addition to what six hunt?
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They said they
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They physically deported over slightly over 600,000.
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So the combined number was 3 million.
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So let's say that we had that that same success
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For these next three years.
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Well, we got 3 million each year
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To 2.2 from from self-deportation
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And close to 800,000 from physical deportations.
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The point is that would only add up to 12 million.
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There are 30 million here.
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So i have always objected to this language of of deport
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Them all.
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I don't think it's possible to deport them all.
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And it kind of frightens people.
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I think what that axios article.
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Now, first thing, i had some doubts
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About that article because i quoted one guy.
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Right. it was one.
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It was james blunt got him all of a sudden.
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But it quoted
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One source who,
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Having met with the private retreat of house republicans,
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Told them to to change their messaging.
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So that's why i said semantics.
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I really think that they're just saying that the phrase
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Mass deportations isn't isn't, polling very well anymore.
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It's not a positive phrase that, that independents
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Are reacting to. right.
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They're looking forward to the midterms.
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This is all about
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How the how the independents are going to vote
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In the midterms.
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So it's a phrasing thing.
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I don't think it means that anything has to change
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About the underlying way that we go about it.
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And the last point
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I'll try to do this in 20s to before i throw it back.
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It's it's a complicated thing.
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We do not see these really ugly scenes in red states. why?
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Because the red state
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Jails and sheriffs are cooperating with us.
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It's these blue states, these sanctuary states
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Where we get no cooperation.
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We don't know when these people are getting out of jail.
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So we sort of have to go grab them on the streets.
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So that that's sort of why minnesota happened.
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So i say continue, deport as many as you possibly can,
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Criminal or quote unquote non-criminal,
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Even though
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It's a criminal violation to come into this country
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Illegally deport as many as you can.
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Let's try to do 3 million a year and i'll be happy.
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I'll be thrilled if we got rid of 10 million
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Illegal aliens at the end of four years.
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Thrilled. yeah.
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I think, if you do not give the base something to vote
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For in the midterms, they will not show up.
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And midterm elections are base elections.
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Those are turnout elections.
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You need your most reliable people generating enthusiasm,
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Generating activity and energy
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So that people show up to the polls.
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Final two minutes here.
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Blake, i don't know if you have a
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Thought on that, but i just think it's
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So essential for the country to deliver on this.
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Yeah,
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You make that point again and again, and it's important.
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Like the politics.
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It's almost like to to zoom out.
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It's you.
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You look at the politics and say make it work.
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You've got to make it work politically
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Because the thing itself is essential.
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I mean, it's just like
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We should view it at least as important
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As whatever's going on with iran.
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You know, you would say, does the base or not,
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Some sway.
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Does the public really want to bomb iran?
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Well, the polls say pretty ambivalent about it.
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But if they were close to getting a nuclear bomb,
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If the threat was of a serious nature,
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The president just has to do it. he has to do it.
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And then you sell it because you had to do it.
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Same thing with deportations.
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This is an existential threat to the country.
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You've got to make the people who are here illegally go home
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And you sell it however you can.
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You have to approach it with that attitude.
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Amen. yeah.
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Final minute to you, speedy. and seen.
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Yeah.
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Expediency. i like the point.
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You know, you mentioned something
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About obama deportation numbers.
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So that triggered something in my head.
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That's the big mystery, right?
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We've seen it.
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How did obama deport so many?
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How did biden deport so many?
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It turns out there's a fudging of the numbers.
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There.
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And you can look this up.
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And i want the audience,
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If they aren't aware of it, to look it up.
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What it was is
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The border was wide open with obama and biden.
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Correct.
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So they had a huge number, a huge pool of millions
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In this case
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Of fresh people at the border every year that they were able
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To, many of which
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Whose asylum claims were denied or whatever,
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They were able to quickly deport those.
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So that's how their numbers got stacked.
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That's how obama was able to deport
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Three, you know, 3.5 million.
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Trump doesn't have the benefit of any of that
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Because the border is effectively shut.
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And any,
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You know,
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Any traveling migrants from central or south america
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Knows that the border is shut.
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So they're not showing up.
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So we don't have those easy deportations.
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So that's i just thought it's a good point that, no,
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That's a good point down to me.
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Like i was a hack deeper in the numbers.
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Cain a lot of those were just prison
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Transfers, jail transfers too.
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So yeah.
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Citizen. well, anymore check it out today.
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Cain, you're the man. we'll talk.
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Thank you guys. thanks, brother.
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Citizen Kane: March 12, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

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