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Bo Davidson
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Stephen Miller
Is America's Voice Live. And welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve Burke. The pulse of the people. We need somebody that's going to hear the people's voice, the truth the mainstream won't touch. This guy is by definition a globalist. And the stories that matter, rav's own Ben Berklam. Right up over this hill, the unarmed cartel.
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Mark Mitchell
I see him.
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Stephen Miller
I see him.
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Bo Davidson
Live.
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Mark Mitchell
Breaking news right now here on Real America's Voice.
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Stephen Miller
Unfiltered. These people are domestic terrorists and unapologetic. We're here to take a stand for God and country. Does feel good. America's Voice Live starts now.
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Bo Davidson
Well, welcome to America's Voice Live. I am Bo Davidson filling in for the great Steve Gruber who is on his way back from Norfolk, Virginia. Today is Monday, October 6th. Let's get into today's top stories. Well, thanks to President Trump, a peace deal is currently being negotiated in Egypt between Hamas and Israel. Many are anticipating the release of the rest of the hostages from the attacks two years ago tomorrow. That's October 7th. I'll bring on a former congressman to discuss that today. And also President Trump has deployed the National Guard to multiple Democrat run cities around the US in order to re establish law and order from DC To Portland as well as my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. I'll bring on a Tennessee state representative to discuss what it's looking like in Memphis today as well. And then later I'll bring on head pollster from Rasmussen Reports to discuss President Trump's approval ratings as well as polls on the ongoing government shutdown. All the details and updates coming your way today. But first I want to start with the U.S. navy. And off the top of the show here, I would be remiss. We all here at RAV would be remiss if we didn't mention the the action packed Sea Power and Freedom event that celebrated the 250th anniversary of the US Navy yesterday in Norfolk, Virginia, hosted by Steve Bannon with On the Ground reporting from Jack Posobek and of course the aforementioned Steve Gruber who normally hosts this hour. Our viewers here on Real America's Voice were treated to a thrilling and expressive celebration of one of the most powerful branches of the US Military. Here's a little recap of it. Take a look. In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of.
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Stephen Miller
The birth of the United States Navy. It is really jaw dropping. Thank God I'm an American. Bo, is the military getting weak the answer is no. This is about unity. Morale here is great.
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Benny Ray Harmony
We couldn't be more thrilled and excited to be here today.
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Stephen Miller
God bless United States of America and go Navy beat army. Cool ya Navy. We will fight, fight, fight. We will win, win, win. Congratulations once again on 250 years of total dominance. Stay strong. Thank you. God bless our sailors and God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much everybody.
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Bo Davidson
Real America's voice was the go to place today.
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Stephen Miller
Thank you guys for doing this.
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Bo Davidson
Well, that was a truly stunning display of American might. But right now we're going to take you live to Washington, D.C. where there's a gaggle with Stephen Miller. Let's take a look.
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Stephen Miller
Interagency irs, atf, dea, FBI and hsi. Then that gives you also the state resources too, the state troopers, state investigatory agencies than the National Guard. So that's one model. Then in the case of Portland, you have an acute crisis with threats to life and property at the Portland ICE facility. And so that is a reactive deployment. There is an acute ongoing threat to lives and property. And so National Guard was dispatched to protect ICE officers and their property in the conduct of their duties at a federal building. The president has also said that in the immediate future in Chicago, there's a need for the same. Obviously you saw, for example, there was two vehicle ramming attacks against ICE officers in Chicago. The President has indicated in the future there might be additional resources brought to Chicago. But the most recent order that you signed relates to the ICE mission. I hope that answers your question.
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Benny Ray Harmony
Will the White House abide by the polling?
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Stephen Miller
The reason I ask that the president has floated other cities, perhaps in New Orleans. Is that still consideration and is he considering others? Mr. Yeah. Governor Landry sent a request, as you know. And so we're working with Governor Landry as we speak to figure out an appropriate next step. I'm not going to sit here and say advance, what is next, obviously, in the case, you know, Memphis is a good example, a good model where the governor reached out to us, he said, we've had, in fact, I think Memphis for many years had the highest per capita murder rate in the country. He said that Memphis has been suffering from unimaginable levels of crime for years. We want your help. We want the full Washington, D.C. package. As a side note, we meet every week with city leaders here in Washington, D.C. and this has proven to be, in their own mind, in their own words, one of the most extraordinary things that anybody has ever seen. Yes.
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Benny Ray Harmony
You said the other day that you want to Use legitimate state power to dismantle left wing terror networks. Which organizations were you talking about? And what kind of state power are you envisioning using?
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Stephen Miller
That's a great question. Thank you. And I'm glad for the opportunity to add a couple more details to that. So the struggle that's taking place right now is between the lawful exercise of power by the American people through duly elected government versus the unlawful exercise of street violence in the form of domestic terrorism. So again, the clearest example of this is when you have ICE officers who are carrying out the statutes and laws of the United States to arrest and remove illegal aliens who are being subjected to violent attacks in the conduct of their duties. That's an example of illegitimate violence, illegitimate power in the form of domestic terrorism being used to impede the conquest of their official duties. The answer to that in a civilized, modern, civilized society is to use legitimate state power, grand juries, subpoenas, arrest, and every other federal power at the disposal of the commander in chief to identify and find everybody who is trying to use the real and actual threat of violence to impede the conduct of these federal responsibilities and ensure that they're placed behind bars. I'm not going to give you any advance information about what these investigations have yielded so far. The Joint and Terrorism Task Force has the lead, but they have found that these campaigns. That's not of course, only against ICE officers. There's also conversation we're having about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the two attempted assassinations against President Trump, the, the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO, the attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh, which of course had an insane sentence of eight years. So it's the broader spectrum of political violence. But obviously ICE as an agency has been subjected to a nine month effort to substitute left wing violence for the votes of the American people. No federal officer in the Congress of Reduced Duties should have to worry about being physically attacked, being physically obstructed, being physically impeded, being doxxed, having a bounty put on them. And the fact that Democrat politicians are trying to normalize this really indicates how far we've gone as a society that there is not universal condemnation of this organized campaign of violence against ICE officers. Yes.
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Benny Ray Harmony
I don't know if many Democratic politicians who have endorsed these terrible incidences that you just referred to. And I also don't know of any evidence that there's some kind of vast underlying organization funding them. Is that what you're indicating is happening here?
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Stephen Miller
Yes, in fact, we know that it's true. But obviously.
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Benny Ray Harmony
Do you think Tyler Robinson was being funded by some terrorist organization.
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Stephen Miller
No, what I said was you asked whether there was some larger criminal conspiracy relating to domestic terrorism in this country. And I said, yes, there absolutely is. Now, of course, ANTIFA has been designated as a domestic terrorist organization. This is only one example of many in which we have. It's a typically continuum of violence. It involves both organized doxing, it involves violent threats and intimidation. It involves explicit calls to commit violence against a targeted person. Then that tends to escalate into physically violent and obstructive acts. And so it's this continuum that we see over and over again where they're trying to use illegal violence and intimidation to disturb the operations of the federal government and federal personnel. And we see this playing out over and over and over again. We've spoken several times about how sanctuary city leaders and state leaders, they might face charges for human smuggling, harboring illegal aliens. Also spoke about 13 USC 1324. And you know, it's since gotten worse. Today, Brandon Johnson signed an executive order prohibiting the use of city property for federal immigration operations. By the way, that's a great example on the Brandon Johnson. It's an example of how I was asked the question of, well, do you have any example that this behavior hasn't been condemned by Democrat officials? Well, I can go one better. The mayor of Chicago not only has failed to condemn the violent obstructive acts against ICE and law enforcement, but in the aftermath of two coordinated attempted murders of ICE officers through vehicle ramming attacks, he issued a no go zone for ICE officers. What do we think would happen if, say, under a Democrat administration, Republican officials declared no go zones for the FBI? What do you think the reaction to that would be? How many people do you think would be arrested and placed into jail over that? And so it's just important to understand these are not isolated incidents. If you can't see, then you don't want to see. In other words, if you can't see that since we've taken office there has been a organized systematized campaign to delegitimize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct and physically assault ICE officers in the continent of A duties, then I can't persuade you of it because you're choosing not to see what's right in front of your face. Yes, back there, sorry. Jay Jones has not dropped out of.
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Reporter/Journalist
The race for Attorney General.
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Stephen Miller
He's under immense pressure to do so.
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Reporter/Journalist
Does that surprise you?
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Stephen Miller
Sadly, it doesn't surprise me. Look, what you saw with the J. Jones comments and it's, it's a piece of this whole conversation was the deeply held inner monologue of a high ranking Democrat, someone who rose to the top of the ranks of the Democrat Party. So if you read the text message exchange, it's clear that he talks this way often and frequently. That is his homicidal ideation and his fantasies about elaborate murder and torture is something that clearly he is comfortable with and is doing frequently. So you have to ask yourself, what kind of system is someone operating in where they speak so freely and commonly about, again, elaborate murder plus against people they work with? What kind of system brings somebody up like that and elevates them to the point of nearly being the attorney in general? That's a system that has absorbed this narrative that we see so often, which is that the, that the Republican Party and in particular that the Trump movement, again from the Democrat narrative, is basically, this is a term I've seen is unpersoned, right, that they basically, they dehumanize you to the point of not having a right to live. And so we saw this, of course, with the four years of lawfare against President Trump and the desire to incarcerate him for life. Then of course, that kind of eliminationist conduct and rhetoric then leads and gives rise to more violent behavior like attempted assassinations. And now, of course, because so much of this conduct was never punished over time, now we see so many Americans, not all Americans, of course, many foreigners too, who feel very comfortable engaging in direct day to day violence against ICE officers. It's a common experience for ICE officers when they're conducting an arrest to be physically assaulted by, by others while they are carrying out an arrest. So you might be arresting, say a child pornography, illegal alien and you will get physically assaulted while you're doing it. Now ICE officers have to worry about getting sniped from rooftops when they're coming and going from their facilities. And we've normalized the idea. I haven't, of course, and you haven't, but others have that ICE officers should have to work in a federal building every single day where their attack going in, their attack going in, out, where every night there has to be street battle against armed insurrectionists every single night, night after night after night. That's normal. You ask why we need the National Guard, why we need troops, because it takes hundreds of additional personnel far beyond the resources of the federal officials working in Portland to hold and secure a perimeter, to provide freedom of movement. And it's not enough, by the way, you're an ICE officer, just stand here and, and put the line back here, right? They're under sniping attack. They're going to get rocks hurled at them, Right. They're in physical danger. So you have to clear a safe perimeter so ICE officers can carry out their duties without being an imminent threat of physical harm. And the fact that we've normalized these attacks on ICE officers, that is how you end up in a society in which domestic terrorism becomes the norm and eventually elections carry the day because violence beats votes. And that's what we're seeing attempted. And so when we see a muscular response to the federal government, it's because we're not going to let violence be votes. Next question.
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Reporter/Journalist
Stephen, three months from now, three months from now when we're having this conversation in December, what do you see the end game being? Because you clearly don't have trust in some certain local and state law enforcement entities. And so where do you see the National National Guard? Where do you see the military going? You suggested that if the courts rule against you, you will find other ways to use the military. That would lead me to believe that there's a conversation about the Insurrection act that has taken place. What should Americans expect over the next three and a half years? Understanding that there is a real likelihood that those same local law enforcement and state officials will never, ever cooperate with your efforts. Should people expect the National Guard and the military in their streets over the next three and a half years?
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Stephen Miller
I think that must, I mean, so to be clear, clear. The. You talk about the National Guard in their streets. So right now in Portland, having a National Guard deployed to secure a federal building in Portland. And so there's a lot of elements to your question. I'll try to get to all of them. But when I hear comments from Democrat officials saying that this violence from the left is being provoked their word by the presence of federal officials, think about how broken of a sentence that is. In other words, if tomorrow we went to say, Dothan, Alabama, and there was a federal building there and we put 100 police officers in front of, wouldn't be attacked, nobody would throw rocks at them, nobody would try to shoot them, nobody would do anything. They would say, hello, good morning, maybe they'd get them a cup of coffee before they go out for their shift for the day, they'd ask, how are your kids doing? How are your kids doing? They, like the Democrats, think that their own base cannot contain their desire to inflict violence upon the mere sight. In other words, National Guard is not being sent there proactively. They're being sent there reactively to defend ICE officers under siege. So in theory, if ICE officers were in the building and the National Guard was in the building and nobody was violently attacking them, the only thing that you would see is there's a building, there's ICE officers, there's guardsmen. The violence is entirely rioters choosing to show up and wage violence at a specific federal building. They've handed out flyers. I saw one at FIFA flyer recently and it said, we need to mobilize around the Broadview facilities, this is in Chicago, to shut down ice. So what does that mean when they say we're going to mobilize to shut down ice? What are they saying? They're saying they're going to carry out an insurrection against the federal government by using force, obstructive force, to keep ICE officers from going out and conducting arrests. Would we ever tolerate this with any other law enforcement agency? If we said shut down the FBI and say, let's say, let's pick one of the organizations that the media might understand better. So let's say the, the proud boys said we're going to shut down the FBI and they went and decided they formed a human obstructive wall in front of the entry and entrance to the Washington field office of the FBI and they attacked anybody coming and going. How many nights do you think that situation would persist for? Not even one, let alone over 100. We all understand this to be true. So to your other question, yes, the President has multiple statutory authorities under federal law to secure a federal bill. And so when a court issues an injunction, the only activity that's enjoined is what's specifically enjoined in that order, not activity that isn't addressed or spoken to. That order was another part of your, oh, in three or four months. So this is the most important point I can make. This is the behavior of the anti ICE rioters, violent attacks, doctors, is motivated by a desire to achieve a concrete outcome. In other words, their objective is fewer ICE arrests in Chicago, fewer ICE arrests in Portland. So very straightforwardly, the way to end this ongoing assault is to demonstrate that they will fail, that they will fail completely and totally. In other words, if you were able to secure these buildings using additional resources, you're not having your entire federal law enforcement apparatus doing nothing but physical building security. If you're able to use the National Guard to secure these buildings and free up your ICE officers and your FBI agents and everyone else to go out and do enforcement in the community, to go out and find dangerous predators and remove Them you will demonstrate very conclusively, as we did in Los Angeles, by the way, that all your riots and violence will get you is more deportations.
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Reporter/Journalist
That has happened in Washington D.C. that has happened in Washington D.C. has it not? Yet the men and women of the National Guard remain here in the streets instead of being at home.
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Stephen Miller
It's a great example, but not in the way that you phrased it. So you're, I know you all have.
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Reporter/Journalist
Questions, but it's, but I think that.
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Stephen Miller
That'S where.
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Reporter/Journalist
You'Re looking at Washington D.C. saying they complied. There is no mass. And the crime, President Trump said it's a crime free city. Now why are the National Guard remaining?
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Stephen Miller
And that is why you're adjacent to a great point. But the reason why there's, the reason why there's peace and calm in the city is because the criminal element is understood that their criminal activity will not achieve their desired outcome. That's the most important point. And the second thing is American cities here in Washington D.C. the National Guard, as John Fetterman has said, is one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to the city. It means you can go out to the National Mall and not have to worry about being attacked. But the other thing is, but you support them. In American cities long term, the National Guard deployment is part of a cohesive public safety operation like in D.C. and like in Memphis is an extraordinary blessing. The tragedy that I see is when I answered the question the way that I did. The tragedy that I see is when you have a six year old boy has happened recently whose killer who stabbed him in the head till the knife was blunt, got released from jail on good behavior. The tragedy is when you try to murder a Supreme Court justice and you're out of jail in eight years. Right. The tragedy is when you have somebody who's been in and out of the criminal justice system for, you know, well over a decade with 39 arrests, like in North Carolina and can just walk up to an innocent Ukrainian refugee and knife her to death in the throat. That's the thing that gets me upset and that's the thing that gets the American people upset. And the second thing to your question is putting people in jail who are committing this terrorist activity is the number one most important deterrent.
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Reporter/Journalist
But you've long term believed that over the next three and a half years that military.
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Stephen Miller
I think everyone wants me to move on to the next question. Thank you. I've been very patient. Thank you. Thank you.
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Bo Davidson
Last week Director Vote paused infrastructure funding.
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Benny Ray Harmony
In New York City. The Subway, Hudson River Tunnel, and then.
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Bo Davidson
He also paused funds in Chicago. They were connected to dei. But I mean, can we expect, for.
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Benny Ray Harmony
One, is the administration going after infrastructure.
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Bo Davidson
Projects and Democratic led cities and are.
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Stephen Miller
There other cities that the administration is A great question for. For Russ. Vote. I'll do two more.
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Benny Ray Harmony
Thank you. So just to be clear here, will the administration abide by the judge's ruling? And then also, can you just clarify, is the administration actively looking into other legal avenues to deploy the National Guard organ?
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Bo Davidson
I know you don't want to get into specifics.
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Stephen Miller
So, yes, the administration is going through the appellate process to obtain relief from the ruling, just as we did in the ninth Circuit in California. And at the same time, we're availing ourselves of all available options and we'll examine them. All right, I get to do two more questions. That's a short one. Venezuela, do you want to see Maduro out of Venezuela? What's next there? I have nothing to add to that other than what the attorney general and the secretary of state have said, which is that there's a $50 million bounty that has been placed on Maduro in connection to his, his indictment as a narco terrorist drug trafficker, and he needs to be brought to justice for the crimes for which he was convicted in an American court. Venezuela is run by a drug cartel that is guilty of not only flooding our nation with TDA and other foreign terrorists, but of course, helping to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans through deadly drugs.
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Benny Ray Harmony
So we've heard that the president is considering cutting off funding certain aid to Portland. What is the timeline on that and what is he considering cutting off?
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Stephen Miller
I'll get an update from Russ. Yes, sorry.
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Benny Ray Harmony
Regarding the shutdown, both the president and the House speaker has sort of alluded to being open to reforms to Obamacare. What reforms to the ACA would the White house actually support?
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Stephen Miller
Mr. My only comment on the shutdown right now is that that Democrats should support a clean funding bill to reopen the government and that it's outrageous to shut the government down in an attempt to get free health care for legal aliens. Time for one more question. Yeah, back there.
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Bo Davidson
Brian, you call the legal ruling legal insurrection. Are you recommending the president take action.
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Stephen Miller
Against judges in the ruling Disagreement? No. It's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him or herself the powers that have been relegated or delegated by the Constitution to the president, that that is a form of a legal insurrection. And we have seen, we have seen over the last nine months an ongoing legal insurrection in which district court judges as a class in many cases have issues which might have been overturned so much have issued rulings that are flagrantly unlawful and unconstitutional. And it is an insurrection against the laws and constitution of the United States. And we need to have district courts in this country that see themselves as being under the laws and constitution and not being able to take for themselves powers that are reserved solely for the President. One more question.
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Benny Ray Harmony
Is Farmer Relief going to be announced this week?
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Stephen Miller
Sorry back there.
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Benny Ray Harmony
Nice White House staffers being let go.
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Stephen Miller
Having no information on that.
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Benny Ray Harmony
Do you believe that he should be parkwalked? Is he above the law? Is Christopher Ray next?
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Stephen Miller
I sure, I sure, I sure hope I don't need to say something. I sure hope that James Comey is not above the law. And I think American people want to make sure that James Comey is held to the full legal standard to which any American who committed similar crimes to be subjected. Next to you, one last question.
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Benny Ray Harmony
As we're seeing a surge of attacks on ICE agents, including for example, the shooting in Dallas this weekend in Chicago. Ten cars, you know, surroundings, another one ramming into an ICE vehicle. To what extent does administration believe that such attacks are organized and based on that possibility or we're alluding to antifa. How does that change the calculation and how the ministry respond to these attacks?
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Stephen Miller
Yeah, as I've said repeatedly, this is organized domestic terrorism. The purpose of domestic terrorism is to obtain through violence and intimidation and the threat of violence, a change in politics or policy that cannot be obtained through lawful democratic means. So when you have a 10 car ramming attack with armed attackers clearly intending to murder ICE officers in the conquest of Judas, what else can you call that? Remember, the central issue that was litigated in 2024 was whether or not to turn back the border invasion. Americans voted to send the illegals home. The invasion that took place was one of the greatest crimes that had ever happened in the history of this country. And now that ICE officers are simply trying to execute on the mandate of the last election and the laws that were passed by Congress, they have been the victims of an unceasing campaign of violence and intimidation and terrorism. As Secretary Nelson said, there are now bounties on the heads of ICE officers. They had to shield their families identities at school and in public. They're being constantly doxed and threatened with assassination. We're just days from an attempted mass assassination of ICE officers at an ICE facility. And the response to that has been to try to, for example, in Chicago, to try to prevent ICE Officers from being able to enter key parts of the city to conduct their responsibilities. This is an all out campaign of insurrection against the sovereignty of the United States because the Democrat Party and those who are committing violence in this country do not believe in legitimacy of the sovereign territory of the United States. And they don't want any of these illegal aliens to go home. So they want to cement by force, by violent force, the invasion that took place between 2021 and 2024. Thank you.
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Bo Davidson
Is karma relief going to be announced in the South Carolina fire?
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Benny Ray Harmony
Steven, have you heard anything from law enforcement on that?
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Stephen Miller
Cause what I heard so far was.
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Bo Davidson
That, well, you just heard from Stephen Miller there giving a gaggle at the White house in Washington, D.C. talking about law and order and the use of National Guard and of course, organized domestic terrorism. He did reference that the government shutdown still is in effect in Washington, D.C. as the Senate gears up to vote again tonight on a budget. So will Chuck Schumer and his Democrats continue to hold the government hostage? Well, here with me to discuss this is a new addition to the Rav family, real America's Voice correspondent and an old friend of mine, Benny Ray Harmony. Benny, good to see you again.
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Benny Ray Harmony
First off, Bo, thank you so much. And this is kind of a full circle moment being side by side with you right now.
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Bo Davidson
It is, it is. And I do remember seeing you at Turning Point USA events in the past. So we have that sort of special connection as well. And we are full circle. Well, Benny, to the point, with the government about to enter its sixth day of the shutdown, do you see a resolution being reached today or is that sort of shortsighted?
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Benny Ray Harmony
No, Bo, I don't. And to be quite honest with you, I don't think this is at all about the American people at this point. Point. This is about the Democrats wanting they are mad that Trump won the election. They saw the revival that is starting to happen in our country and they their hope, and this is, this is at least what I believe their hope is that the public will blame President Trump. And I'm just going to tell you right now that is not happening. It is very clear what the American people think and they're seeing the same thing. I don't think. I think it's going to be a while before we see a resolution to this. Sadly, the Democrats would rather argue and debate Mike Johnson than actually take care of the citizens and their constituents in their districts.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah. And Benny, I'm curious, are Schumer and Jeffries still adamant on the issue around the Obama ERA subsidies for Medicare or do you think they've pivoted to anything else?
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Benny Ray Harmony
Honestly, bo, that's a really great question and I hope that's something I'm going to get into here soon. But I really don't see see anything large happening right now. I think they are going to make this and drag it out as long as they can. And the question is, is this really about Medicare and Medicaid? You know, is this really what they're saying it's about? It's hard to believe anything these days.
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Bo Davidson
Well, I know, Benny, that that sombrero on Hakeem Jeffries is going to grow by a day. I think we're up to a 10 gallon hat, hopefully at this point. I know that keeps being a meme that people see. I do want to ask you, Benny, just about your, your transition here to RAV and just I, you know, I think people noticed what you did and what unfortunately happened to you for speaking your heart and your mind. And I feel confident that you would do it all over again. And so I'm just curious to get just kind of your perspective on that in the aftermath and coming and joining the Rev Team.
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Benny Ray Harmony
No, you're right, Beau. When Charlie was assassinated, I think something snapped inside of all of us, not just me. And I loved my job. I was very passionate about my hometown community and getting to tell those stories. And that tribute that I did at 11:30 on Friday the 12th, I believe it was not something that I thought would end my career. With our ABC affiliate in Springfield, I saw something happening in America. And you know more than anyone, when you have the honor to broadcast and you get to sit in these chairs, it's our duty to connect with the people that are listening and watching us. And in central Illinois, it's a very large Christian and conservative values place. And I was getting messages from people saying, why aren't you talking about the Charlie Kirk stuff? Why isn't your station covering anything? And I thought it was time for me to explain maybe why I wasn't in the best mood or I could tell that. And I knew they can tell something was up. And so I just, I thought it was my duty to give that tribute to Charlie. And it was no intention for any of this to happen. But I truly believe this is God's plan and I'm excited to be joining the RAV team.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah. And when one door closes, another one opens. And here you are here at rab. Before we let you go, Benny, just any advice to those young aspirational journalists like you were at one time who feel afraid for speaking their minds and standing up for their principles.
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Benny Ray Harmony
You know, Bo, I have probably gotten at least 10 plus messages from young journalists that are at affiliates. Just like I was saying, how bold of an action that I made and how that inspired them to fight for their values and their mission. And if that is all that comes out of this, is encouraging these young journalists to not listen to the chatter in the newsroom. Don't allow your general manager and your news directors to tell you, no, you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, you are right and there is truth in everything you say. And so I just encourage anyone in those roles to speak up regardless. Because God does have a plan for you and he will deliver.
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Bo Davidson
We can't always see it, but you're 100% right. God does have a plan. Well, thank you, Benny, and welcome to the Rav family.
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Benny Ray Harmony
Thank you, Bo.
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Bo Davidson
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Mark Mitchell
We have. We've leaned more into online panels, which a lot of people use, but we still use Robo Dial IVR because we're getting more older people than a lot of other folks. They're having a hard time getting to those people. But, you know, if you look at the people who are perennially accurate, U.S. big data poll, Trafalgar and Insider Advantage, we all have different methodologies. But you know what? We're all accurate. It's because we're not shilling for the establishment. We have the desire to actually put out real numbers. And that's really what we all share in common.
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Bo Davidson
Well, Mark, with the government shutdown taking up a lot of this news cycle, is Rasmussen seeing or hearing anything in regard to how people feel about the shutdown as a whole? And who do they feel is most to blame for it?
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Mark Mitchell
It's always a political football. And I'll tell you, Donald Trump's support is sticky. What you didn't see on that chart was a huge honeymoon, but you didn't also see any huge dips, too. I think it'll rapidly recover, but every time there's a shutdown, we poll on this. Remember, we had the largest shutdown in the history of the government under Trump. And, you know, only 10% of people said it had a major impact on them. And a year after the case, most people said that it was, you know, way nowhere near as bad as everybody predicted. And so everybody focuses on the blame thing. Oh, it's going to blame Republicans. Oh, they're going to blame Democrats. Well, when we polled, people say they blame Republicans and Trump by plus 12 points over Democrats. But the thing is, is that a lot of that blame is coming from Republicans and Trump supporters who want to see the government shut down. And so what nobody else pulls on and then we do is that time and time again recently with these shutdowns, a majority of voters say, yes, if we can get spending cuts, if we can get spending freezes, we Support the government getting shut down. So my advice, because everybody was really happy when Doge was taking a hatchet to the government is fine. Keep it shut down. Make the Democrats beg to reopen the government because you're hacking hundreds of thousands of federal workers you're picking apart. Listen, if we're not going to get reform through legislative action, let's try other ways. But you know, I would love to see them use the nuclear option now too and pass all of these good bills, like finally give Americans a reason to vote Republican. Pass simple one page, very clear bills that are popular, like election reform, stuff like that.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah, it's amazing how in a shutdown when you can actually get done. President Trump is seeing some dips. We mentioned that at the top. But are the Democrats doing any better in terms of favorability? And if so, where are the areas that they're improving?
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Mark Mitchell
So you hear a lot in the headlines about how Democrats have the lowest favorability ever. And it is low, but it's nowhere near that fake 19% Quinnipiac number. The last time we tested it, it was 46. But people don't like Republicans either. It's 47%. And that's one of the things that we've been following. People voted for Donald Trump. There was a lot of crossover appeal because of his anti establishment platform. These people aren't necessarily going to convert to Republicans. And so that's a big concern for November of 2026. Republicans have to give those people a reason to vote Republican. And the polling shows that so far they haven't quite done that yet. Democrats lead narrowly on the last generic ballot. We run by plus two. And that's expected to. But right now it looks close. And a lot of stuff can obviously happen between now and then. But it's like with the mandate that Trump got into office, you would love to see the Republicans actually support him and again earn the vote of the American public who might be complacent in the fall of 26.
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Bo Davidson
Well, Mark, let's, let's zero in on a Democrat right now, or if you want to call him that, Zoran Mandani in New York. How is he faring so far in New York's mayoral election? It seems like he's around 45%, but it seems like most people still prefer somebody else.
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Mark Mitchell
Yeah, but you know, I don't see, like, if one of them drops out, I don't see a ton of Eric Adams support going over to Curtis Leo. I don't think any of these guys have a chance. I think Mamdani is going to win because that's the trend of where liberals are going. The Democrat Party is getting more and more liberal. And unfortunately, a lot of people like to say that Gen Z is getting more conservative. They're not. They voted for Trump because he's anti establishment, but they think the whole system stinks. They don't think capitalism works. They want a Democrat socialist. And so if Trump can't fix things and America can't recover its economy, rebuild the American dream, the newer generations are going to go into the hands of open communists. And we're seeing it in New York City. And I hope this guy doesn't mess things up too bad. Maybe, maybe they'll moderate him a little bit, but this is the future.
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Bo Davidson
Well, it seems like he doesn't have majority support, so I think that'll present a very interesting situation in New York if he is elected, which, as you said, he probably will be. Finally, Mark, with respect to the situation in Gaza to further develop this week, is there any data you have that shows how people are feeling about President Trump's handling of the issue as a whole?
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Mark Mitchell
We've done a lot of polling on this. It's kind of indeterminate. A lot of Republicans still support Israel, a lot of Democrats don't. Israel is also losing a lot of support in the younger generations. I don't think a lot of people are really hanging on every word about what's going on over there either. What I can tell you is that bombing Iran to take out the nuclear program was popular, yet people also don't support American involvement with troops and that Israel has been losing support over what they've been doing. They are increasingly losing a PR battle. We showed them losing 16% of support among Americans versus Palestinians over a one and a half year period. I think if we polled it again, we find it to be even worse. And I think a lot of people have questions about how they're increasingly trying to influence public opinion over here. So my advice, listen, is it can't continue. It's not going to go well for them in a public opinion sphere. And I think it's also being perceived as derailing Trump because his highest numbers that we saw were in the middle of June and he had plus 8 net approval rating. Well, what happened when those numbers started tanking? It's when America got involved in the stuff with Israel and Iran. So my advice is focus on the domestic policy agenda. The reason that Americans put MAGA into the White House, which is to rebuild the American class, economic populism People don't want Romney. They don't want policy. They don't want granddaddy Republicanism. They want aggressive action to reform a broken and corrupt system.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah, I agree with that. And you look at social media and I've seen a lot of people on the right, especially younger generation Gen Z, shifting on this issue pretty rapidly. So that's a very interesting point, Mark. Well, thank you so much, Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen. We really appreciate you and always your excellent data. Thanks, Mark.
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Mark Mitchell
Great to be here.
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Stephen Miller
Thanks.
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Bo Davidson
Don't go anywhere, team. America's Voice LIVE will continue after a brief commercial break. Welcome back to america's Voice live. I'm Bo Davidson in for Steve Gruber. Let's be honest, folks. Taxes are never fun. And if you owe back taxes, haven't filed, or you forgot to file for an extension, you then you could be facing penalties from the irs. Nobody wants that. But that's where Tax Network USA comes into play. They have helped their customers save over a billion dollars. That's with a B when dealing with the irs. Here with me to discuss this is the spokesperson for Tax Network usa, Cameron Kenzie. Cameron, it's great to see you again as always. Returning to this topic of taxes, which can be a little bit icky, can you tell us a little bit about Tax Network USA and what services you guys offer?
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Yeah, it's always nice to have someone in your corner. I know that everyone can relate to that. Cameron, explain how your tax prep services work. Just show me, kind of walk me through what a person has to do.
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And Cameron, just my Last question before we go. What advice would you give to someone who's really struggling and underwater with tax debt?
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Yes, you too, Bo. Thank you.
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Stephen Miller
Wow.
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Bo Davidson
Okay, so we're seeing some support there. Here's another one here from another user. Let's see, we've got giving them more support, unlike Cracker Barrel. Not surprised there. Cracker Barrel has been big, big faux pas. But I think they're turning things around, hopefully. Here's another comment. I would rather give my money to companies who support the original values that made this country the greatest country on earth. Amen to that. And our final user says here, although they are providing better options for cooking and backing America, they are still lacking quality workers and zero personal touch computer generated orders. And then you pick up. I can't even read this. It's so small. But basically sounds like they're not too thrilled about the computer generated orders and they think they need to pick it up. So there's a contrarian opinion. I would like to bring in Eric Bolling now to discuss this just for a little bit. We've got Steak N Shake, Wagyu beef tallow, 100% grass fed beef tallow here. These are things you can order from steakandshake.com or at the franchisees themselves. Eric, have you ever been to Steak Shake before?
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Eric Bolling
I have. I love Steak and Shake and I love them even more now because they're putting the flag in front of their, their, I guess the franchise locations. Now I'm not really sure how it's because their company has locations and their franchisees. Maybe they're going to make it a requirement across all of them. That's fantastic. I will tell you, I have never had tallow before. I have no idea what tallow is but it sounds, I think it comes.
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Bo Davidson
It'S beef fat, I think. And that's supposed to be better than the seed oils that, that Bobby Kennedy has been saying we should be rallying against. So there you have it, steakandshake.com where you go to your local Steak and Shake.
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Eric Bolling
It's amazing how you know, some people have leaned into it like American Eagle with Sydney Sweeney and then you have Cracker Barrel who screwed up and now they're, they're leaning into it the other way. And we would see these companies just nosedive in market shares and whatnot when they come out with these one side, one sided ideas like if they push back against maga, they just get smoked and they're learning their lesson. MAGA has never been. We on the right have never been about boycotting. We've been about boycotting support Blue are doing things right. But I think people are starting to realize that you can't alienate half of your customer base by becoming so political. Let's just, you know, keep politics out of sports and maybe restaurants.
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Bo Davidson
Well, what's amazing too is I go to Cracker Barrel every now and then and it's kind of like it's been such an establishment at what it represented. To see them flip so markedly from that I thought was just, I couldn't.
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Eric Bolling
One CEO.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah, one.
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Eric Bolling
And you know, the founder, the founder was watching this happen. He had sold out years prior, shaking his head so I can't believe this has happened to the company that I built. And they're to their credit, they're trying to make it right. I don't haven't followed up though. Did they let that person go, that CEO go Because the person who at Anheuser Busch, remember when they did the Dylan Mulvaney push for, for trans. Somehow someone thought a trans spokesperson for a football beer brand would be a good idea. That person got bounced right away. That was a $16 billion mistake she made. I don't know.
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Bo Davidson
I think it was still there.
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Eric Bolling
They'd be wise to.
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Bo Davidson
But at least Steak and Shake is leaning into this. You're going to see these giant American flags and I'll tell you when you're on 95 or you're on some highway. And you see that kind of makes you want to go there. Pay attention.
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Eric Bolling
And Trump. Trump paved the way. You remember Mar A Lago put a big flag up, and he was being fined $1,000 a day by the city of Palm beach until he became president. He said, I'm just. I'm reversing all my fines. And has that monstrous flag at Mar A Lago. And then he put one couple at the White House now, too. So he's. He's all about it. They're following Trump's lead, which is a good thing.
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Bo Davidson
Yeah. Kudos to Steak and Shake for. For stepping in American values.
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Eric Bolling
Yeah, and kudos to me learning about beef tallow.
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Bo Davidson
Me too. Apparently, the fries are made in it, and so you can cook steaks in it, vegetables, anything you want. It's supposed to replace those terrible seed oils like canola that are not supposed to be good for you.
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Eric Bolling
Got it, Got it. Well, listen, hey, great, great job. Great hour, Bo.
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Bo Davidson
And thanks, Eric.
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Eric Bolling
Good to be on set with you. All right, folks, why don't we do this? It's just about 4:00'. Clock.
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Bo Davidson
This is an iHeart podcast.