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Iran Tensions Rise, DHS Shutdown Fight, Fairfax School Assault Scandal & Trump’s Energy Triumph
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Host
We have another terrible story out of Virginia about the sanctuary policies and their consequences. A confrontation between a Republican senator and a Democrat House member over the shutdown. And we have the latest for you on President Trump calling on other countries to support our efforts in Iran. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill.
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Audience/Chorus
Everybody get up. Get up.
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Narrator/Commentator
The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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Political Figure/Patriotic Speaker
I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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Host
First off, critical programming tonight. The United States will compete in the championship of the World Baseball Classic. But before that, we go to Iran, where President Trump is beginning to call on other countries to join us in an effort to open the Strait of Hormuz and calling on at least seven other countries to send warships to protect the strait.
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Narrator/Commentator
We have some that are really enthusiastic. They're coming already. They've already started to get there. You know, it takes a little while to get there. It's like in some cases, you have to travel an ocean.
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Host
As President Trump is rallying other countries to join this effort that is critical to the world economy, some countries have begun to drag their feet a little bit more in what the level of involvement might be. Everyone is watching NATO to see what they do here, particularly as Turkey has seen some ballistic missiles flying into their airspace. Germany has said, this is not our war, which is creating a much bigger problem because President Trump and others are pointing to the fact that they don't necessarily believe that the war in Ukraine is our war, but we've given hundreds of billions of dollars in support and worked very cooperatively with NATO, particularly to sell them weapons, munitions, things like that, to help the Ukrainian effort. So President Trump and his team are putting a lot of pressure on our allied countries in NATO and around the world to join this effort. That is much closer to them physically than it is to us. Last thing on Iran, I would recommend checking out the National Review podcast on the media coverage of the conflict in Iran. The editors have an episode called the Way of War in which Noah Rothman does an incredible job breaking down some of the media malpractice we've seen in coverage of the situation on the ground. We expect Democrats to be antagonistic to President Trump. We don't necessarily expect it to feel like they're rooting for terrorists quite as much as it feels like they sometimes are. But with media, there's been such an interesting dynamic where we see reporters more willing to accept anonymous sources speaking on behalf of the Iranian regime than what our own White House and Department of War is telling us about what's happening on the ground there. And Noah's not somebody who goes out of his way just to praise President Trump, but he gives a very clear way window of American successes on the ground and what feels like a intentional effort to obfuscate those from our media. Yesterday we talked a little bit about the media's turn on Democrats over the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. It is starting to get very uncomfortable for Democrats in so many interviews where they're being pressed for why they're continuing to hold out.
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Commentator/Analyst
Isn't it time for Democrats to reopen and refund dhs?
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Democratic Representative
So first of all, Democrats have tried multiple times to try to get tsa, cisa, the Coast Guard funded. Republicans have refused time and time again to fund.
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Commentator/Analyst
Yeah, they want the whole agency funded.
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Democratic Representative
They want the whole agency.
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Interviewer/Reporter
Why can't your leaders break this deadlock?
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Host
Margaret, I think we should.
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Interviewer/Reporter
Is it responsible for Democrats to hold up DHS funding with the threat of terror attacks?
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Host
One thing I talked about yesterday is the fact that in the previous Democrat showdown, one thing that turned the tide against them and made them really feel pressure to open up was these tougher questions. The media feeling like they're starting to turn on them to say what is the point of all of this? And in some cases, like Jake Tapper and Cory Booker, Tapper pushed Booker on the fact that Democrats have already gotten a lot of what they want out of this. There is funding for body cams. Greg Bevino has been replaced by Tom Holman. We haven't really heard any stories about violent interactions with ice. But what's clear here from this is that Democrats simply want the issue to be able to run against ICE all the way into the midterms, even if it means keeping TSA unfunded, keeping FEMA on unfunded as we face a whole new round of winter storms. But one thing that happened yesterday that I thought would be really valuable to highlight is a showdown at an airport. Texas Senator John Cornyn went to the airport to give meals to TSA workers who are working without pay due to Democrat inaction. Now, House Democrat Greg Kasser went there to try and say, actually it's Republicans
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Republican Senator John Cornyn
fault, ICE funding Democrats have voted against. Then the Democrats brought forward a bill to fund TSA and the Republicans blocked it. That's the truth. There's only one truth. No matter what. Donald Trump.
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Analyst/Reporter
There's some truth to this.
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Republican Senator John Cornyn
No, there's one truth.
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Host
Now what Caster's Talking about there is the fact that now that Democrats are feeling all this pressure over their shutdown, they've tried to bring up small piecemeal bills to say we wanna keep all DHS funded, but let's just fund tsa, which is absurd. You need to fund everything. You need to have cybersecurity working. You need to have fema. But Democrats are feeling political pressure, so they're trying to break up the department where they can. Even though their larger goal of trying to take money away from ICE isn't going to happen. They're throwing spaghetti at the wall. And so we have this really interesting interaction between Casser and Cornyn.
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Republican Senator John Cornyn
Hey, Senator. Senator, I was hoping that we could
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House Democrat Greg Kasser
tell your Democrats to vote to pay the importance.
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Republican Senator John Cornyn
Let's do it. Let's do it.
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House Democrat Greg Kasser
No, why don't you do it time and time again? How about all the terrorist attacks like we've seen down on 6th Street? You want those to continue? These people are keeping us safe.
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Host
Cornyn points to two things there that are really important. It is Democrats who have tried to block this funding. They can try and play word games and say, actually, we want to fund this and we want to fund that. But as Cornyn also pointed out, they are miles away from Austin where a terrorist attack happened just weeks ago and DHS isn't involved to help protect against things like that because of what Democrats are doing with their pointless shutdown. Yesterday we previewed another terrible story out of Northern Virginia, the consequences of Democrats sanctuary policies. This is Israel Flores ortiz. He is 19 years old, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who's currently enrolled at Fairfax High School as a junior. Now, in the last year, he has been reported to have sexually assaulted high school girls as young as age 13, 12 times. In this latest report, he has been charged with nine of them. And yet the school knew all this time and kept it from parents.
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Analyst/Reporter
Ortez as an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who crossed the southern border in 2024 and was released under federal government policy at that time. After his arrest, ICE issued a detainer for Ortez last week an order to deport him, but tells me the Fairfax county sheriff is not honoring that detainer.
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Host
So again, Ortiz entered in 2024 under the Biden administration and he has now sexually assaulted 9 to 12 girls who are teenagers who were ignored by the school. The school did not inform parents about this until months later. But Steve Discano, now, again, Steve Discano needs to be a household name. He is the Fairfax prosecutor who seems to want to do everything he can to help criminals and illegal immigrants at the expense of his own tax paying constituents. But Steve Descano's office first acknowledged that these sexual assaults have been happening all year, but also pushed to have him released from jail. At the same time, Fairfax county sheriff has said she will not comply with an ICE detainer. ICE has asked Fairfax county to hand him over to them so he could be deported. He is now a serial teenager sexual assailant and the Fairfax county leadership does not want him deported. Now again, I will highlight this every time we do one of these stories. Under the Democrat maps in congressional redistricting, Fairfax county will take control of five different congressional districts. The terrible leaders and the terrible voters who put them in charge will be running the entire state. So again, please pay attention to this terrible Virginia redistricting story. But the icing on the cake of this story is the fact that under these current Fairfax county leaders, this illegal immigrant serial sexual assailant could be back at school within a few weeks. Here's how parents are reacting to that and this entire story, they have attempted
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Interviewer/Reporter
to sweep it under the rug. They sent out a letter last night
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Parent/Community Member
saying again after they demanded it, multiple parents demanded that there be a letter before we got it.
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Host
Over the last few weeks, we've been talking about the impact of the Iran conflict on energy prices, particularly as Democrats have begun to try and use this conflict to blame shift the rising cost of gas for their constituents to President Trump, even though in cases like Gavin Newsom, we have seen them ticking up rapidly for a long time before this conflict even started. But one thing I wanted to highlight today was a great op ed in the Wall Street Journal from Kim Strassel. Trump's energy triumph. He prepared the US and its allies for the current troubles in the Persian Gulf. One thing I've talked about quite a bit here is the fact that what we've learned from this conflict is that energy security and energy independence equal national security. When you have to rely on countries like Iran, when you have to rely on things like the Strait of Hormuz to get your energy, you're in a much more precarious position and you have to make decisions about things like your national security and your economy based on those constraints. But what Kim is outlining here is the fact that President Trump has taken steps to further America's own energy independence so that we had the freedom and flexibility to take out the world's worst state sponsor of terror, even though presidents for 46 years have wanted to do that, that the US was finally in a position to disarm Iran is largely thanks to a plan Mr. Trump initiated in his first term to gain energy independence, which his team is now turning into energy dominance. Trump policies turbocharged a shale revolution that made the US A net exporter of petroleum products and the world's largest exporter of natural gas. One place within the United States that is experiencing less energy independence than the rest of the country is the state of California, which again, as we talked about, Gavin Newsom's now trying to blame everybody else, even though his specific policies have forced California to rely so much on importing energy from other countries like Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Here's Doug Burgum responding to Gavin Newsom's attacks on the Trump administration over Iran.
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Commentator/Analyst
Because of course, under Gavin Newsom, California used to have 40 refineries. Now they have eight. Two more are closing. They're going to be down to six with Chevron and Valero closing. California is the most energy dependent state in America, 63% of their oil gets imported. Their energy policies are as crazy as Europe. And part of the reason why their prices are so high is they've restricted supply
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Host
for you can't make it up segment today. We often like to highlight when people say the quiet part out loud. One thing we have been talking about up to this point is some of the crazier comments from Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Tallarico.
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Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Tallarico
I love and just say this because it's on my mind, the trans children. You can't call yourself a Christian and destroy God's creation with greenhouse gases.
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Host
Now, Talarico and his defenders have tried to say a lot of those are old comments. They're taken out of context, things like that. Talarico was pressed on if he still agrees or believes in a lot of those things. And what he said was quite illuminating.
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Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Tallarico
I, of course, looking back at some of these old statements from years ago would maybe word them differently or communicate them differently, but the values that I hold are still the same.
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Host
We love when people admit that they would like to have hidden their actual views just a little bit better, but they still hold them. James Tallarico likely still believes that we need abortion care for our transgender allies. He likely still believes that Christians would never support fossil fuels. But because he wants to run as a Senate candidate in Texas, he wishes he had hidden that a little bit better from you. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you for joining us on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe, leave us a review, tell your friends and we'll see you next time.