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Steve Rogers
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Alison Hans
The East Coast, 4am in the West. Coming up on American Sunrise Early Edition. Extreme brinkmanship this morning. War with Iran on hold overnight. Reports say a US Strike was imminent until Gulf leaders stepped in. As America's military builds, the question is, is this a pause or a final warning? We'll have the very latest. And here at home, extreme lawlessness in Minneapolis. ICE officers ambushed and attacked. Federal law is under siege. And now the Insurrection act is on the table. Those details ahead. And later, extreme consequences. The US Turns up the heat on Mexico, pushing joint operations against cartels and fentanyl labs killing Americans. President Trump says all options are on the table, including land strikes. That story right ahead. Three fronts, one message. American Sunrise EARLY Edition starts right now.
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Brian Glenn
Welcome to American Sunrise Early Edition.
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Steve Rogers
The.
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Brian Glenn
Show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage. You people and others like you built this country. Join us as we break down the stories that matter. F A F O.
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Nate
If you don't know, now you know.
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Brian Glenn
American Sunrise Early Edition on Real America's voice starts now.
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Alison Hans
Good morning everyone and welcome to American Sunrise Early Edition. I'm Alison Hans, live from West Palm Beach. It is so great to have you with us on this Friday. Let's bring in my co host, Brian Glenn. Good morning, Brian.
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Brian Glenn
Good morning, Allison. How are you?
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Alison Hans
I'M doing great. Well, we have a lot going on overnight, specifically in Minneapolis, where the President is drawing a hard line as violent anti ice protest escalate. He's warning state and local leaders enforce the law or he will invoke the Insurrection act, if necessary, to restore order. Now, Brian, this is not a move that we have. We haven't seen a move like this since the L. A Riots. It's, it's really extraordinary. And the question I want to ask you this morning is does the President have the right to step in at this point, in your opinion?
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Brian Glenn
He does. He has the right to step in, especially if this violence and chaos is spilling over and affecting innocent people, people that are not people that live in the neighborhoods, people who are trying to get to work, people who are just trying to live their lives. And, you know, we've seen the video. It's right there on the screen. I mean, they're, they were blocking federal minivans from leaving the area, pounding on the vans. Look, they're putting themselves in danger. And, and I think it's time to do it. And I know America right now is sick and tired of watching the crap in Minnesota right now. And it's time to hammer down and get that Insurrection act.
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Alison Hans
I think so, too. These people are absolute lunatics. They're not just driving around on the streets. They're using cars as weapons. They're using water bottles, filling them up, making ice, throwing that at cars, also breaking in to weapons lockers. I mean, it's absolutely insane. So that's something we'll be looking, looking out for in the next, I don't know, 24 or 48 hours into the next week. We'll see what happens. Another big story overnight. We're at a critical moment, of course, with Iran. And this is what peace through strength actually looks like. The military buildup, you know, the pressure campaign and it really, from President Trump, it's, you know, promises made, promises kept. We know that he has this, you know, kind of like a Trump strategy where it's kind of like a three dimensional chess. I don't know your thoughts.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, yeah. People often say that Trump plays three dimensional chess or 4D chess. I don't think I'm intelligent enough to keep up with that chess game. But definitely, President Trump definitely has a plan when it comes to the Middle East. He's got allies there that are trying to avoid any type of potential strike. And then on the fight against drugs, of course, we started with boats, and then we got Maduro. So Maybe there is a 40 chess game going on. I don't know. I'm just here to follow along the ride.
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Alison Hans
I'm following as well. I do not play chess. Definitely checkers. So I'm trusting in the commander.
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Nate
Okay.
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Alison Hans
Yes, Checkers. I'll take you on in a game of checkers. Well, Brian, in a world that feels increasingly unsteady, we can do this. We can take a beat this morning. Let's. Let's take a deep breath. Let's take it back and turn to God's word. This morning's verse comes from 2 Corinthians 3, 17, 18, the New International version. And it says, now the Lord is the spirit. And where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all who with unveiled faces reflect the Lord's glory are. Are being transformed into his image with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the spirit. Well, turning now to Minneapolis, where riots are spreading, police are under daily attack, and ICE agents continue apprehending violent criminals despite the chaos. Joining us now is retired U.S. navy intelligence officer and former police lieutenant Steve Rogers. Good morning, Steve. Thank you so much for getting up with us.
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Steve Rogers
Good morning. It's a pleasure being here.
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Alison Hans
Oh, we love having you here. Okay, Steve, when I hear Insurrection Act, I'm a little confused. Maybe you can enlighten us on what that exactly means and what we would see with the Insurrection Act.
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Steve Rogers
Well, the Insurrection act was actually enacted in 1807. It's not new to the American people. It's been actually used by a number of presidents over the past few decades. But this is what it's all about. Once a city or a town or even a state loses control of law and order, the federal government, under the authority of the President of the United States, has every single right and all the authority in the world to send federal troops in to quell the disturbance and bring back law and order to these communities. Now, keep in mind that what we're seeing happen in Minneapolis is not a riot. I believe that it's now turning into an insurrection and it's going to be spread around this country if it isn't brought under control. Why do I say that? Most of the people that are living in that state, in that city, I believe, want to have nothing to do with what's going on here. But there are paid agitators from, I believe, left wing groups that are looking not only to riot and cause unrest in that city, but to take this government down. The President of the United States is well aware of this, and now he's going to take control of it. And by the way, I've been a strong proponent of the governor of Minnesota and the mayor of Minneapolis being charged with causing what we can now call an insurrection. And they ought to be charged and they ought to be prosecuted for bringing these agitators to a point where they are now endangering the lives of just about everyone in that city and state.
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Brian Glenn
Now, Steve, let me ask a quick question. Compare this to what we saw with the BLM riots in the summer of love of 2020. Trump didn't send anybody in to basically into Portland or any places in Washington. What makes this different than what we saw in the Summer of Love?
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Steve Rogers
Well, I gotta tell you, the one big difference is the amount of times that politicians in Minnesota, namely the governor and the mayor and others, including some law enforcement executives, coming out and pretty much telling the American people that they support the bad guys, not the good guys. I mean, that's what I get out of this. And during the BLM riots, I didn't see much of that. We did see a little of it, but not exactly what we're seeing right now. And by the way, in every press conference I've seen, there have been verbal attacks on law enforcement, on ice. These individuals, and I'm saying, again, some police executives, politicians, are actually emboldening people to go after ice, and we're talking about go after them with acts of violence.
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Royce White
They.
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Steve Rogers
That's what I see, that's what I hear. And there's the big difference.
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Alison Hans
And what happens with the National Guard? Because Governor Waltz came out a couple days ago or last week and he was intimating that he's in charge of the National Guard. What's the deal there?
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Steve Rogers
Well, you know, Alison, you bring up a very, very good point. I mean, this, this governor trying to bring the National Guard in to do what? To not to protect ice, but to protect the bad guys. That went through my mind. What happens if the National Guard confronts US Marines or the United States army on the ground? I believe that once the President invokes the Insurrection act, the Resurrection act, we need a resurrection.
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Alison Hans
We sure do.
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Steve Rogers
But the President invokes the Insurrection Act, I believe that he will have total control over all military personnel, including the National Guard.
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Alison Hans
Okay, very interesting. Well, Lieutenant Rogers, turning now to Iran, another big story and a critical moment in the Middle East. We're seeing the military buildup and the pressure campaign and certainly a clear message from the United States, which of course is peace through strength. And it does appear to be working, despite all of the Chaos on the ground. Your thoughts on where we may see this going go in the next 24, 48 hours?
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Steve Rogers
Well, I believe the American people in the world don't know what's going on behind the scenes. And what I believe is going behind the scenes is the brilliant strategy of the President of the United States. You know what that is? That is to get a coalition together in the Mideast. I believe they've been speaking to Saudi Arabia, to Qatar, obviously Israel. The American people need to understand that the Arab states in the Mid east have no use for Iran. They've been wanting this to come for a long time. And now once the president gets this coalition together, Iran's going to get a message. It's either going to be pretty much surrender or you're going to see shock and. Or point two, remember Iraq shock and ore. Well, I think Iran is going to suffer greater than what we did to Iraq. So this is what's going on now. And hopefully, hopefully, as you say, this peace through strength, showing our forces, showing what we have, showing them what we intend to use. I hope and pray that it's going to work.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah. You know, Steve, I'm starting to wonder if the American people are having a sense of fatigue when it comes to chaos and violence and escalations as we go into the midterms. Does any of these conflicts take away the motivation between the American voter to get up off their butt and vote for anybody? It just seems like the world's in kind of a disarray right now and that can weigh down on the voter, on the voter. What's your thoughts on that, Brian?
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Steve Rogers
When you opened up, there's something you said that struck me and boy, did you hit the nail on the head. They're fed up. They're just fed up with all this stuff. And I believe it's actually going to motivate the American people to get up, to get out and vote. And maybe they perhaps have realized that by a result of not getting up and voting, being apathetic, they're starting to pay attention. I'll tell you why. Because it's not only Minneapolis, but they see it in their own small towns and some of the larger cities. We see what's happening in New York, Chicago, Louisiana. And they're just getting so fed up about it. They know they have the power. They, the people, they know they have the power and they're going to use it. They're tired of the Gavin Newsoms. They're tired of the Democrats running to the microphone. It's always blame Trump. It's never let's try to work together to solve a problem. They're fed up and they're going to take action through the next election cycle.
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Royce White
I agree.
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Alison Hans
Oh, absolutely. Lieutenant Steve Rogers, so well said. Thank you so much for coming in this morning. We appreciate you so much.
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Steve Rogers
Thank you. And thanks for that prayer. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there's freedom. The spirit of the Lord is rising up in the United States of America. Keep that in mind.
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Alison Hans
Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you so much.
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Steve Rogers
Thank you.
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Alison Hans
Coming up, European troops on the ground in Greenland, a quick deployment. What it tells us about where this whole scenario is heading. That story is coming up next.
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Alison Hans
A place to make your stand. Take it easy. Ah, we're looking looking at a beautiful shot of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this Friday morning. Taking it easy. Absolutely loving it. Philadelphia, freedom. Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY edition. I'm Alison Hans. Coming up, Democrats escalating the rhetoric on immigration enforcement. A Minnesota congresswoman is comparing ice operations to 1930s Germany as calls to defund ICE grow louder despite ris violence on the ground. But first, a major development on the global stage. President Trump is doubling down on Greenland, calling US Control a national security necessity and saying anything less is unacceptable. The comments coming as Danish and Greenland officials meet at the White House with President Vice President J.D. vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio joining us now to discuss, discuss is Robert Charles, former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State. Bobby, good morning to you. Thank you so much for joining us.
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Robert Charles
Good morning.
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Alison Hans
Okay, so what does this moment tell us about President Trump's America first foreign policy?
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Robert Charles
Yeah, you know, context is important with respect to Greenland. This is a place that 56% of the people in their last poll wanted independence from Denmark. It's a place where we have a base called Bedit B, which is a, it's a space base, it's a navy base. We probably only have 150 personnel there, but during the Cold War we had 6,000 there. We were a very dominant force there. I don't think you're going to see any bullets fly. I don't think you're going to see anything like that. I think President Trump is a hard, hard nosed negotiator and he wants people to understand that as the Arctic gap opens, as there's greater vulnerability and Greenland has always been a part of our defense, greater vulnerability to naval activity by the Chinese and the Russians, both of whom have declared themselves Arctic states, whatever that means that he's going to, he's not going to let it just sneak up on us the way in many ways the loss of Cuba snuck up on us, you know, back in the, in the late 50s, early 60s. At the end of the day, he's going to make clear that the United States has vital national interests that do relate to Greenland. I don't think, again, I think this is really a brouhaha. I think it's really, you know, an attempt, an attempt to make clear to people that we are in a new strategic chess game with China and with Russia. Greenland and in fact, the old Arctic gap, what they call Greenland, Iceland and the UK represent a new choke point in that fight. And so at the end of the day, we would like Greenland very closely allied with us, probably allow more military personnel and more military activity back there again. But look, they were a founding part of NATO and at the end of the day, I think Greenland really has nothing to worry about. I also think their relationship to Denmark was already strained, so we'll see where that goes.
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Brian Glenn
I was just going to say I think they have a communication and a messaging problem in Greenland because I don't think that message is getting to the people of Greenland because they're quite honestly frightened of any type of American takeover just from talking to the Danish media and some of the people from Greenland at the White House this past week.
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Robert Charles
I think it's a good point. I think sometimes rhetoric just, look, we live In a time when emotion seems to run the show instead of that old George C. Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, even Ronald Reagan, sort of careful thinking about things, about how we're going to communicate. But, you know, at the end of the day, there's always a. I'm always intrigued and I'm really, really amazed in the way that Donald Trump is able to bring people around to a position by starting off on a completely different note and then bringing people around to his position, which is closer to where they wanted to be in the first place. So, you know, whether you're talking about the way immigration policy works. Look, nobody even talked about immigration policy to speak of before he said, got to have a wall. And nobody talked about fake news until he actually invented the phrase. And he got people thinking in a direction that they weren't thinking before. And I think what he's doing here is he's getting people to recognize we have a gap to the north, that both China and Russia are moving in, leaning in to take advantage of. How you address that gap is more a matter of what comes ahead, but it's more about recognizing that this was really a significant national security nexus or choke point.
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Alison Hans
Absolutely. And one of our guests yesterday mentioned it and made an analogy of looking at it kind of like the southern border in terms of protection. And I never thought about it that way. And so I think that's interesting.
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Robert Charles
Yeah, it is. I mean, look, I'm running for governor in the state of Maine. We have a northern border. That northern border has been penetrated even very recently by illegal aliens and by significant criminals, including a lot of drug traffickers. And I think as you close down the southern border, the entire northern tier becomes vulnerable from the far west and the northwest to the northeast and of course to the maritime. And we have a, you know, Maine has a 3,000 mile maritime border. Something to be considered if you're worried about Russian or Chinese subs or other naval activity. And frankly, if you go back in time, Both World War II and the Cold War, the Russians played a very big part in sort of penetrating our northern tier in the maritime domain. In fact, in Maine, we had a base, a P3 base that had ASW capability, anti submarine warfare. And we flew it all the time because the Russians, the Soviets at the time would come down, they had subs off our coast and they also had bear bombers off our coast. So it's not a false flag. It's a real concern. The question is how you deal with that maritime and northern gap security concern.
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Alison Hans
Well, Bobby will have you back to talk about Maine specifically and what's happening there. But thank you so much for joining us this morning.
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Robert Charles
Of course.
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Brian Glenn
Thank you.
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Alison Hans
Appreciate it. Coming up, what's happening inside Iran? A congressman's warning to the regime. That's coming up next.
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Alison Hans
Welcome back to American Sunrise. We're looking at a beautiful shot of Key Biscayne, the beautiful keys. Ooh, loving it there. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. I'm Alison Hans. Okay, turning back to Iran, where the regime has been brutally cracking down on its own people. Now, according to CBS, up to 20,000 have been killed. Joining us now is Congressman Randy Weber of Texas who has been leading the call to keep the pressure on and stand with the Iranian people. Congressman, thank you so much for being here this morning. We appreciate you.
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Congressman Randy Weber
Thank you, Alison. We appreciate real America's voice. Thank you. Thank you.
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Brian Glenn
Oh, thank you.
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Alison Hans
Thank you.
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Brian Glenn
Appreciate it.
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Alison Hans
From an America standpoint, America first standpoint, what does real accountability mean for the Iranian regime look like right now to you?
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Congressman Randy Weber
Well, they're gonna have to be deposed for lack of a better term. I love what your last guest, Bobby Martin said. Basically, you know, President Trump came up with wording, you know, talking about things that most people didn't even know he's going to put the pressure on. Of course, Bobby quoted Reagan. Peace through strength. Trump gets that. We have to remember the Iranian regime are killers because they Sent out. You know, they mine places. They send killers in a different area. They want to kill Israel. They want to kill all the Jews, basically. They want to destroy the state of Israel. And so we've come out and said, look to Marco Rubio with that letter, 59 co sponsors, 59 sponsors, including me. And we said, look, keep the pressure on. This is the time to keep the pressure on.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, And I agree with you. What they're doing to these people is horrible. We've seen videos. I know. I've seen some at the White House or some. These correspondents from Iran. It's hideous. But in terms of how much involved do we have our military in all of this? Because I'm just going to speak on. I've heard portions of the America First MAGA movement, the base, they want a better life from Iranians, but we don't necessarily want to have a heavy hand in changing that. What would your argument be to that?
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Congressman Randy Weber
Well, you know, this upcoming week is Martin Luther King Day and we should remember the quote, all that evil to Trump has to happen. Trump is for good men to do nothing. Now, the president has already demonstrated American firepower by going in with the bunker busters and taking out their nuclear capability. So do we have to put boots on the ground? I prefer not unlike a lot of people, I guess. But we ought to get solidly. In fact, I would say more of the world should get solidly behind the Iranian movement to put. Throw out those crazy dictators and those killers and become a stable nation that actually protects people's rights. And they don't have that now.
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Alison Hans
Well, Congressman, like to move on to Minnesota because I really do want to get your thoughts on what's happening there. And we're hearing overnight possibility of Insurrection Act. Do you think that's going to happen and what do you think that would look like?
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Congressman Randy Weber
Well, I'm not old enough, I guess, to have been involved in the Insurrection Act. Insurrection. I just look that old.
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Alison Hans
But you look great. You look great.
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Congressman Randy Weber
Well, thank you. I agree. The checks in the mail, our great president has. He has. People have discovered, especially other countries, our enemies, that when he says something, he means it. And so when you see all the graft and the corruption that's going on in Minnesota that's costing American taxpayers not millions, but billions of dollars, and the president is intent on doing something about it. Kudos to him. Now to the Minnesota government, my God, the governor's race, those kinds of people there, the fact that they're not coming out supporting the president's move to get all the criminals out. Something is very, very wrong in Minnesota.
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Alison Hans
And Congressman, I'd like to stay on that fraud topic for a moment. It is absolutely unbelievable what's happening in Minnesota. But as we're learning, it's not only Minnesota. This is going to be popping up across the country. And I think it's going to be shocking a lot of Americans.
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Congressman Randy Weber
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. You know, I'm sorry to say it, but you know, communism, socialism, call it whatever you want, is alive and well America. And if people don't realize that and get off, you know, dead center and go vote, as you pointed out earlier in the earlier segment in the midterms, to make sure we keep a free country and make sure that we don't have people who are getting taxpayer dollars and then sending them overseas to countries like Somalia, for example. I hope Americans are paying attention.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah. Randy, real quick, if I can turn our attention to fraud in the state of Texas, there's an independent journalist, Kaylee Campbell has been exposing massive fraud in HB1 visas up in North Texas. Some houses, residential houses having 60, 70, 80 visas to one house. Just want to get your thoughts on potential fraud that we could be finding very similar to some what's happening in Minnesota, but there in and I know you're down in South Texas, Southeast Texas, but up in North Texas.
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Steve Rogers
Sure.
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Congressman Randy Weber
Well, it's true about Texas all over. You know, I don't know if y' all know this, but I spent four years in the Texas legislature before I got demoted to Congress. And the governor has just recently said that there's going to do some research. We're going to in Texas. They're going to check all of these kinds of things that are going on. And you know, Trump has put a stop on a lot of these visas just here recently. And so Texas will go on there. We've got there's almost 2,000 miles of border with the United States and Mexico and Texas has almost two thirds of that border. Of course, our great President Trump started the border wall. He shut it all down under president I call him oh Biden because I think is Obama's third term. He said come one, come all didn' matter if you had a visa, didn't matter if you're legal, didn't matter if you're a criminal. Come on, come on. You're going to see our great Governor Abbott and of course our great President Trump that are taking these kinds of situations to task and fixing them.
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Alison Hans
And we there's so much focus on Minnesota right now. But when we do look at Texas and we look at the growths of mosques throughout the state and also looking at possibility of Sharia law in areas. Can you explain, explain to our audience what we're seeing or what you're seeing on the ground and what people are doing to stand up, to speak out about that?
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Congressman Randy Weber
Well, absolutely. And going back to when I was in The Texas House, 2009-2012, I had a bill to prevent Sharia law from being used in any Texas court of law, any Texas court. And unfortunately, the chairman of that said, of that committee wouldn't accept that bill. That was in 2009. Think about that and you watch Sharia law, where basically women have no rights, you would think our friends across the aisle, the Democrats, the liberals, whatever Republicans everywhere would say, look, that will not be tolerated in the United States. Now, Greg Abbott has taken steps. Governor Greg Abbott has taken steps in Texas. So it's not going to happen. I would hope that people all across the country, other state legislatures, other state governors would wake up and say, not here, not now, not ever.
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Brian Glenn
Randy, I'm gonna. I'm gonna change the topic. I'm gonna pivot hard right now to something I think you know something about.
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Congressman Randy Weber
Okay.
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Brian Glenn
Are we about to see a good crawfish harvest come this spring? We get into March, April, May. What the crawfish looking like this year?
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Congressman Randy Weber
You know, if I don't answer that, if I start backing up, you'll accuse me of crawfishing. So I better answer that. It's gonna be great. Of course, you know, my district starts at the Louisiana border. That other.
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Brian Glenn
I know.
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Congressman Randy Weber
And we go down four counties. We got Jefferson, Orange County, Jefferson County, Galveston county, southern half of Missouri County. Crawfish for us is a big deal. There's crawfish farms not just in Louisiana. They're in Beaumont, Texas. We should have a good crop. And I'll tell you what, Southeast Texans, we love ourselves some crawfish.
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Brian Glenn
For someone who went to Lamar University, I think I know something about crawfish and kegs and a good time and some country music.
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Congressman Randy Weber
Just kegs? Did he say kegs? Alice?
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Mike Britton
Never.
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Alison Hans
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Brian Glenn
Welcome to American Sunrise Early Edition, the show where faith, freedom and the values that built this nation take center stage.
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Alison Hans
Welcome back to American Sunrise EARLY edition. I'm Alison Hans. Let's bring back my co host Brian Glenn. Okay, Bry, what does the President and the White House have on the schedule today?
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Brian Glenn
I'm going to apologize just for a second, Allison. My mind is still on eating crawfish and drinking cold beer and listening to country music, going back to my Texas days.
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Alison Hans
I like it.
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Brian Glenn
Good times there. Actually, he's got one event he's flying off to. Back to Mar a lago at 10 o'. Clock. It's what they call the great investment in rural health. It's an historic event that takes place at 10 o' clock there in the East Room. And of course, we'll have that for you as it happens live right here on rulemaker's Voice.
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Alison Hans
That's awesome. Brian, I do have to ask you a quick question about being with the were you with the hockey team yesterday at the White House?
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Brian Glenn
I was The Florida Panthers making their back to back appearance at the White House. One last year in 2025 and then one previous year in 2024. So they're the first back to back sports team that we've seen there at the White House. We'll see if anybody else can do it this season.
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Alison Hans
That was really cool. Two things about that. I think I saw everybody wearing the red Trump ties.
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Robert Charles
They were.
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Alison Hans
Which I thought was very respectful. I thought that was really cool. And then. Was that a gold hockey style stick that they gave him?
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Brian Glenn
Yeah. And he made a joke. It was. And he made a joke earlier when he was at the podium. He saw it and said, I hope you guys gonna give that to me, but if not, I'm just gonna take it. I'm the President, United States. I can do that. And I thought that was a pretty funny joke considering we talk about Greenland and all this other stuff.
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Alison Hans
Anyway, it was fun, but it really was great because he grabs the hockey stick and then he walks out like.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, he said it's good for slapping. So if you hockey fans know exactly what I'm talking about when it comes to slapping, very cool.
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Alison Hans
Okay, let's now turn to Minnesota Democratic Representative Angie Craig, who's comparing ice. This is unbelievable to 1930s Germany, when Hitler led the Nazi party. Listen to this. But what I can tell you what is happening in America. The path that we are traveling certainly reminds me of many of the images that we saw in the 1930s in Germany. And we should stand up to this lawless administration. And right now, nothing should be off the table. This type of rhetoric is what fuels the fire. And joining us now, Royce White, Minnesota state Senate candidate. Okay, Royce, good morning to you. Thank you so much for being here.
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Royce White
Good morning. Thanks for having me.
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Alison Hans
Okay. What does this language do to law enforcement on the ground?
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Royce White
Definitely makes them. Makes it more difficult for them to do their job. There's no doubt about that.
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Steve Rogers
Yeah.
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Alison Hans
And Brian, go ahead, please.
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Brian Glenn
I was just going to say, not only do job, it puts them in danger, I personally think. Right.
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Royce White
Oh, absolutely. I mean, but, you know, it's the rhetoric from the Democrat Party in general. The Renee Good's death, you know, her tragic death can be laid at the feet of the rhetoric of the liberal mainstream media in this country since President Trump has took office and done exactly what he's supposed to do in trying to remove every single illegal immigrant that came across the border during the Biden administration.
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Alison Hans
What's really unbelievable to me is that seeing the video of how indignant the Somalis are coming up to the ICE enforcement. We know this fraud is going on, and they're coming out and defending the fraud. It's absolutely mind blowing to me.
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Royce White
Yeah. I mean, what can you even say about it? Belly of the beast. Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Belly of the beast. The focal point of American politics. Once again, the Somali community has to own what's. What's taking place here in terms of fraud. When it's all said and done, it's going to be upwards of $25 billion, if not more. It could. It could reach 50 billion. There's no bottom to the pit. And if people in the Somali community were the, you know, perpetrators of that fraud, then we should be able to use the word Somali with no fear or shame.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah, I agree. And I think we're going to find, Royce, other communities around this country that have this high concentration. I don't care if it's people from Ethiopia, Somalia, or any country. If we see that there is a little bit of evidence of some fraud, you might want to dig a little deeper, because if there's smoke, there's fire, and obviously Nick Shirley, you know, kind of sniffing it out there. But I think this is the beginning of what will be like a major investigation across the country and. And fraud.
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Royce White
Absolutely. But I want to go back to this. This comment, the. The, you know, the Nazi Germany comment. We. We can never forget, like, Bet, like Ben and always says, this is the. This is the primal scream of a dying regime, and that's what Angie Craig is doing there and all the other Democrat politicians in Minnesota. But never forget who the Nazis were. They were the working class that unionized. They became the bourgeoisie. They took political power, and then they kept political power by instituting police, a police state. I think the buried lead here for the Democrat Party is we think that they wanted to bring these illegals in just to. Just to win elections or change elections. I think it's much more sinister than that. I think they plan to break the country to a place where they could justify their own martial law. That's. That's my honest opinion of it.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah. No, I. I think we. I think that the very thing that takes down this country are the rights that we grant to those who come in our country and in this faith, in this case, illegally, but they will use those rights against us to take us down and divide us. And that's kind of what is happening right now. And if you look at the people that are protesting, it's an overly educated white woman or man from the suburbs who was affluent and bored most of the time. In this case, I think a lot of unemployed video game players and, you know, Jarrido eating, you know, Mountain Dew chugging people that are sitting at home with nothing to do, and they see that this is Royce. You've seen this. They're having a good time. This is fun to them.
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Royce White
Absolutely. No, it's a cosplay theater. And part of the breakdown, like I said, the primal scream of the dying regime also falls on the followers as well. And they're having trouble trying to justify, trying to parse how Barack Obama in 2008 says illegal immigration is breaking the law. Bill Clinton, illegal immigration is breaking the law. Chuck Schumer, Illegal immigration is wrong. They're having trouble trying to sort that out ideologically. And I blame the institutions, I blame the academic institutions and all the liberal mainstream media who have weaponized this propaganda and put people's lives at risk. First, our federal ICE agents who are doing their job, but also the protesters who blindly follow them.
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Alison Hans
And Royce, where are the men? Where are the men? I know you're always pointing out the gender issue in all of this. It's a lot of liberal white women out there stirring this up. Why is that?
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Royce White
Let's say the crisis of femininity is a failure of masculinity. The. The liberal variety. Man has conceded what he knows to be, you know, logically indefensible in pursuit of his own romantic goals. Yeah.
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Brian Glenn
Did you see. We did see the viral video, though. Uncle John. Uncle John. You know, Uncle John. That took out like six or seven of those protesters. One with the megaphone. Props to Uncle John. Those are where the men are at right now. They're holding the American flag. They're not holding the antifa flag. Royce, you're great. We love you. We really appreciate you coming on today.
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Royce White
Thank you, guys. Godspeed to you.
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Alison Hans
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Alison Hans
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Steve Rogers
Absolutely.
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Alison Hans
And if we Want this parallel economy to take off. This is it. This is it. You got to do it. Mike, you're awesome. Thanks so much. Have a.
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Mike Britton
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Alison Hans
Oh, have a great day.
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Mike Britton
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Alison Hans
Have a great day.
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Brian Glenn
Thank you.
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Mike Britton
Thanks.
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Alison Hans
Coming up, a whole lot moving fast. Global tensions, new signals from the White House and. And what the Trump agenda means. Next, we'll break it all down with a preview of American Sunrise with the one and only David Brody. That's up next. Stay with us. Welcome back to American Sunrise. We're looking at a beautiful shot of New York, New York. Love it. I'm Alison Hans. Let's bring back my co host, Brian Glenn. And joining us, of course, is America's Sunrise host, David Brody. Good morning, David. How you doing?
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Royce White
Good.
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Nate
Allison. Hi, Brian.
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Brian Glenn
What's up, Nate? What's up?
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Alison Hans
Hanging out. Hanging out. Having a good time. Okay. We're psyched. It's Friday. I know. We've been talking a lot all week about MAGA and the response to some of President Trump's actions here in the country and around the world. I'm gonna let you pontificate.
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Nate
Well, that's dangerous, by the way. Yeah, let's just start. Let's just start with that. Let me just say one thing. There's a lot to talk about, but when Tim Wallace said yesterday, lower the temperature. He's telling President Trump to lower the temperature.
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Brian Glenn
Really?
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Nate
I, like, threw up in my mouth. Are you freaking kidding me?
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Alison Hans
Yeah.
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Nate
I mean, what in the world? Yeah. How about you stop calling ice Gestapo? Okay, maybe we start with that and then we can talk. Anyhow, that's it. That's all I wanna pontificate about.
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Alison Hans
No, and when he says. When he says these things, it's like he's looking at the camera and he has these dead eyes where it's, you know, he's reading a teleprompter. He's not. This isn't coming from his soul. It just. It's really creepy.
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Nate
Wow, it's. It's creepy. I don't know, it may be coming from a prompter, but I. I think he believes every word of it, sadly.
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Alison Hans
Okay.
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Brian Glenn
Yeah. Well, I think they're losing control. I mean, not only are they. Is he losing control of a state, Democrats are losing control of their base, the American people, any type of chance of winning in 26. Because they see all this chaos. So I don't think they know what to do right now. I don't think they know what to say.
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Congressman Randy Weber
Right.
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Nate
And let's remember. Let's go back to rules. For radicals. And Saul Alinsky.
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Robert Charles
Right.
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Nate
They love chaos. Chaos is part of the playbook. So you throw in chaos and then what do you get? You get Republicans looking at each other, trying to figure it out. You got Trump doing his thing, which is great, but you wonder how much Republicans are gonna actually get behind him. And then they're gonna be backstabbing. And then the point is, is that liberals would love nothing better than for President Trump to basically invoke the Insurrection Act. They want that. They want the fight. They want the chaos. Yeah.
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Brian Glenn
Brian David wrote real quickly. Hot sports take. Florida Panthers were at the White House yesterday with the Stanley Cup. Is there any chance the Washington Capitals are going to finally make their visit to the White House?
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Nate
Possibly when I'm 83 years old, which will be in about 23 years. I was at the Caps game last night. You know, I'm season ticket holder.
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Brian Glenn
A tough loss.
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Nate
I mean, this team can't put together two wins in a row. But then again, it's Washington. So dysfunction and Washington go hand in hand. That's the way I see it. But yeah, the Florida Panthers are at the White. We're at the White House because they will be at Capitol One arena tomorrow night against the. Against the Capitol. And guess what? What a shock. I'll be there because I have no life and I just care about season tickets. So there you go.
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Steve Rogers
That's great.
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Alison Hans
They need some gold hockey sticks.
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Nate
Yeah, well, Trump can supply those gold hockey sticks, I'm sure.
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Alison Hans
Yeah, well, you know, I think when I think back on this week.
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Robert Charles
I.
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Alison Hans
Don'T know what this says about me, but my favorite part, President Trump flipping the bird.
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Nate
It's called the super bird at Denny's is what that's called.
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Alison Hans
Happy Friday, everyone. David Brody's up next with American Sunrise. Do not go anywhere. We're right here for it all.
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Steve Rogers
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Alison Hans
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