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Breaking news right now here on Real America's Voice. 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. Welcome to America's Voice Live. I'm Steve Gura. It is Wednesday, September 24, in the year of our Lord 2025. Let's get today's top stories. Thank you for being here. As always, we appreciate your support. Political violence continues to be an issue in America, from the attempted assassination of President Trump before the election to the assassination of Charlie Kirk just two weeks ago, and even the continuous attacks on ICE agents and law enforcement. I'll bring on a member of Congress to discuss that in detail today. Also, the budget deadline for September 30 is right around the corner. The House of Representatives has passed the budget sent to the Senate, but of course, the Senate stuck as always. We'll discuss that coming up as well. And then later, in a humorous twist of irony, Cornell University student councils are seemingly telling students not to attend university events if they don't belong to a marginalized group. Okay, you can't make this stuff up. All the details and updates coming your way today. But first we start with the latest attacks on ice. Agents continue to face threats as they continue to round up illegal alien criminals across this country. Earlier today a shooting occurred at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas that resulted in three people being shot. One of those victims has died. Details on the conditions of the other two victims has not yet been released. However, the suspected shooter has reportedly dodged from a self inflicted gunshot wound. The gunman identified as 29 year old Joshua John, who online has numerous associations with far left groups, including communist groups. According to a preliminary investigation, the suspect opened fire from an adjacent building at an elevated position. Rounds were found near the suspect's location containing messages that were anti ICE in nature. It's almost becoming predictable no ICE officers were wounded and it's not clear whether the victims included ICE detainees, but likely they were. You see, he was shooting indiscriminately into an ICE van in the Sally port of the ICE facility in Dallas. One can only surmise what his real intentions were. Senator Ted Cruz had this to say on the scene.
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Joshua Sherrard
This needs to stop. Violence is wrong. Politically motivated violence is wrong. It was two weeks ago today that we saw a political assassination in Utah that tore the heart out of much of this country. This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or cbp. This must stop. To every politician who is using rhetoric, demonizing ICE and demonizing cbp, stop. To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxxed and calling for people to go after their families, stop. This has very real consequences.
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Steve Guru
Oh, it does have very real consequences. How bad is it? Well, ever since the shooting in Dallas today, all over social media. Well, no ICE officers were shot. So clearly it wasn't an attack on law enforcement. Really? Really. An ICE van gets shot up from an elevated position at an ICE facility in Dallas. Three people are shot, but was not attack on law enforcement. That's what the liberal chattering class is saying all over social media right now. It's embarrassing and dangerous. You see the Democrats who are demonizing ICE officials and telling their brainwashed posse to go after them and their families don't understand the words they speak. They don't understand the concept of consequences. Borders are. Tom Holman does. He appeared on the Charlie Kirk show earlier today with Andrew Cole vet. This is what he had to say.
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Tom Holman
Well, this morning a long gunman was targeting a nice facility in Dallas, Texas. It's where aliens are processed either for removal or transfer to a facility. And again, it's the third Shooting that's occurred in Texas against immigration officials. And we had a shooter show up at a border patrol facility and open fire trying to kill border patrol agents. He was killed by agents. Then we had a group of people show up with weapons at an ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas and try to kill ICE agents. And they did shoot one officer, a local police officer who was also responding to the scene. And now we have this today where a lone gunman stood at perch and opened up on ICE during a transportation transfer. And we know we have at least two dead and officers are uninjured. And it later was announced by Kash Patel that one of the bullets had an anti ICE slogan on the bullet. So this was clearly a target attack.
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Steve Guru
Yes, clearly a targeted attack, just like Senator Cruz said. This must stop. Join me now to discuss former police captain, SWAT commander and current law enforcement director Joshua Sherrard. Joshua, thank you for being here. Look, we continue to see the same thing. And then you see this guy identified. So you've got this, this whole. It becomes too predictable. Luigi Mangione, Ryan Routh, Tyler Robinson, Joshua John Matthew Crooks, James Hodkinson. For anybody that doesn't know, who, doesn't know who that is, that's the guy that shot up the congressional baseball game. It's too predictable. It's not a both sides issue, Josh. It's not and I'm sick of hearing it. Your thoughts?
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Joshua Sherrard
Yeah, they're definitely following the playbook here and just building on the previous shooters experience and their, you know, modus operandi, so to speak. And we're seeing the same thing here. You know, we have the riding on the bullets. We have a similar sniper style attack like we saw, you know, in the Kirk shooting, with very similar callings to that shooting as well. So. And still similar questions to be asked especially with in terms of support, whether it was intel or information that he may have gotten from certain political groups or just certain groups in general, or if it was actually materialistic support. I mean, we're still waiting on a lot of answers on the heels of the Charlie Kirk shooting on some of those questions. And now some of these same questions are being brought up again on who is involved in this. While it may have just been a lone shooter, I think we can all agree that when we look at the Kirk shooting and all of the texts and the discord messages and the forums and the boards that there was a lot more going on that involved a lot more people. And I'm willing to bet that this shooting is no different and we're going to start seeing, once again, a network of individuals that either provided information and intel support or actually materialistic support to the shooting as well.
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Steve Guru
Yeah, we saw a lot of social media posts before and after the assassination of Charlie Kirk that would indicate that people had prior knowledge to the shooting. So far, nobody charged. And so that two weeks on makes me wonder, were there other people involved? Is the FBI running down leads? They had thousands of them, as you know. Josh, where are we in the investigation? Because if there were direct connections to Twigs, the roommate, the lover, for example, I would expect that person would be in handcuffs already. They're not. Your thoughts?
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Joshua Sherrard
You know, when we look at that network of people that may have been involved and we look at what kind of support. I just, I was doing an interview and a discussion with an FBI agent, former FBI agent, who worked in Counterterror in the intel center, and they talked about one of the most difficult things to do is determine the difference between having information that might have happened or information that could have led to, or a lead or a possible tip and actually having material and actionable intelligence to know that this was going to happen or to have actually assisted in the procurement of weapons or the provision of supplies or support, transportation. That's where it really delineates on whether law enforcement is going to be able to place those handcuffs on other individuals, whether they can prove that they provided that materialistic support.
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Steve Guru
Well, it's pretty clear that Robinson was asking his roommate, his lover Twigs, to go pick up the rifle. I mean, that was discussed in, in the text message. Then suddenly he changed the structure as if to cover his tracks. I don't know, but it seems to me if Twigg is involved, he should be in handcuffs now, and that's true of anybody else they can find. We'll see where this leads. What really has to happen is left wing violence has to stop. Josh, I'll give you the last word.
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Joshua Sherrard
Yeah, absolutely. All we're gonna see is an escalation of violence if we don't find a way to really get to the root of where this message is coming from. Where these groups are homebrewing, these domestic terrorists, for lack of a better term, you know, and just on heels, just a couple days after Trump has declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, we find someone that has ties to that group is now targeting ice. And if we don't really be aggressive about handling this and about getting to the root of this, we're only going to see this violence escalate.
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Steve Guru
There you go. Greatly Appreciate you being here. Thank you. We'll talk again soon. Josh, thank you so much. All right. Coming up after the break, Congressman Tim Burchin of Tennessee will continue the discussion of political violence in America, from assassination attacks to successful ones to the attacks on ice. We'll be right back.
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Steve Guru
All right. We have a problem here in America, and that problem is political violence. Political violence from the assassination of the great Charlie Kirk to the multiple attacks on ice throughout the country, three of them being in Texas border state. It continues to go on. But if history has taught us anything, especially in the past few years, is that this is not an issue for Republicans. Time after time, we have seen the far left work themselves up to the point to where they are willing to take a life just because they don't agree with a policy or someone else's beliefs. This assassination culture has got to stop. It does. We have to get to a point in this country where this attack on Donald Trump, on Charlie Kirk and others comes to an end. We saw it again today. Look, we've got a guy perched. We've got a guy perched on a rooftop in Dallas, Texas, shooting into an ice van in a sally port, indiscriminately shoots three people, kills one. And you've got people on the Internet all over social media saying, well, that was an attack on law enforcement. Well, of course it was. It's an ice van at an ice facility parked at a sally port. You're at an elevated position. You can't see who's in that van. That's clearly an attack on law enforcement. To call it anything else is dishonest, dangerous. We shouldn't have to deal with that sort of thing. And that's a fact. We should not have to deal with that sort of thing in this country. The identified shooter now is Joshua John, 29 years old, associated with several left wings organizations. So there were several left wing organizations, including communist organizations and other radical leftist postings online. I don't have to stop and think about this. I know what this is. This is a terrible situation in America. Join me now. Tim Burchett, congressman from Tennessee. Congressman, thank you for being here.
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Tim Burchett
Hey, thank you for having me on. It's a very important issue.
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Steve Guru
It is a very important issue. Two weeks to the day that Charlie Kirk was gunned down in cold blood in Utah, right?
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Tim Burchett
Yes, sir.
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Steve Guru
Here we are with another shooting, another attack. Steve Scalise nearly killed at a baseball game by a radical leftist. Donald Trump nearly gunned down in Butler, Pennsylvania. This is not a both sides issue, Congressman. I'm tired of that being repeated. Let's talk about it. What are your thoughts?
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Tim Burchett
They always want us to play nice when we're in the majority. You know, they always talk compromise when we're in the majority. When Nancy Pol Pelosi was running Washington D.C. they never talked compromise. Look, this is radical people that have been radicalized. I think we better start looking at the source. You know, we're all puffed up right now, all the conservatives, we've kicked a few college professors out and a few, you know, idiots that get on the Internet. What we better start looking at is the people that are doing the hiring of these folks in these colleges and universities. I live in Tennessee, we're in the South. There's a weed down here called kudzu. You know, they bring in all these experts and they always do the same thing. They cut it down and then the goats eat it. Heck, I don't know, they might napalm it. But you know what it does? It comes back up in five different spots after that. And that's exactly what's going to happen right now. You know, the left is watching our reactions to this and how we're reacting. We're going after the obvious, the offenses, the surface cancer, if you will. But we better start getting at the source and the sources, these embedded people in our so called think tanks and our places of so called higher learning that we've got going on down here. And these state legislators better get engaged and they better start cutting the funding off and getting rid of these, these far leftists. And their agenda is one thing. You've got an agenda in Congress and that's to spin us into oblivion, spin everything we got, run us out of business, and then we will be forced into a Marxist type situation. You'll see the. You know, you see it in history with the dot, their. Their dollar or whatever, their choice of currency is devalued. And then people riot and then they overthrow, and then they say we're going to spread it out, even for anyone. And it works. It worked. Like Margaret Thatcher said, it worked for a little while till you run out of people to stop stealing the money from. And then we'll be. We'll be enslaved to this bunch. We better wake up. This is not some.
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Steve Guru
Archie, it is time to wake up. But, but, but how do you do that, Congressman, when you've got almost 100 members of Congress, Democrats, that would not vote for decency for Charlie Kirk in the House? How do you have a conversation with those people? Look, when. When the former speaker of the House of Minnesota was murdered in her home, every single Republican voted for a resolution saying that was wrong. Every single Republican voted for Charlie Kirk, but not Democrats. No, no. It's a. Both sides issue. No, it's not. No, it's not.
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Tim Burchett
We got to get the glove, take the gloves off and start fighting. We got to get some guts. We still have members, you know, that are going to want to. Let's just make friends. Look, we're not so far apart, you know. Yes, we are. At the core of this is just an evil hatred of this country and everything it stands for. And I would dare say that they would overthrow us just like that, and we would be out, because that is ultimately their goal. I can't say it either way. We got too many gutless Republicans that won't stand up and fight them either. They're just kind of wringing their hands, hoping this fight's never come to the floor. It's pathetic. I can't tell you how many times I've been talked to by someone in leadership or somewhere telling me, hey, man, you can't be saying that stuff on these shows. You can't say this stuff. And I said, well, it's the truth, right? And they say, well, yeah, it's the truth, but we just don't like you saying it. Look, we have got. We have got to clean house. Washington, D.C. people. It's like a trash can. People want to pick and choose. We need to turn it upside down and put a garden hose in it. Trump proved that. Donald Trump proved that. You know it and I know it. He won overwhelmingly. But guess what? Congress did not win overwhelmingly. Our agenda did not sell. His agenda did. America first. That's what the agenda is. And we better absorb that as a Congress. We will be looking for jobs next November. New jobs.
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Steve Guru
I think it's time to speak up and say we're tired of this. Look, I couldn't even tell you the number of people I've seen and talked to that were non political or left of center or whatever they might be agnostic politically that saw what happened with people on the left dancing on the grave of our friend Charlie Kirk. Absolutely turned a lot of people off. And do you really think that people. I'm watching the leftist post on social media right now. Oh, that was not an attack on law enforcement. No law enforcement people were shot. Let me get this straight. An ICE van is shot up at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, from a high position by a sniper, and that's not an attack on law enforcement? What is wrong with these people?
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Tim Burchett
And that's their agenda. And you better believe that talking heads on the big liberal stations are going to be spouting that out. They'll be repeating that. You can just put it on the split screen. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Every dadgum one of them will say the exact same thing. And that's exactly. They get their talking points from the DNC and they're hanging on and hopefully. But the problem is we got to do something with it. We've got the majority. Let's do something with it. Let's take that out for a walk. You know, that's why I put over 20 of President Trump's executive orders in the form of law. But guess what? Not a dad gum one of them has been heard in committee. Not one of them. We'll probably write somebody a strong letter or have a really vigorous hearing and get some great quotes. Embarrassing over the Internet.
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Steve Guru
Yeah, it's embarrassing. I know you're on a tight schedule here. I appreciate you coming. I'm going to turn you loose. You're not late to your next appointment. I appreciate you taking the time. I. We got a lot more to talk about here. So next time, come on in, we'll talk more.
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Tim Burchett
Thank you, brother. Have me on anytime. See you.
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Steve Guru
Really appreciate it. There you have. We're going to take a break. When we come back, the House of Representatives having passed a budget to fund the government on their end, will the Senate be able to get it done? Yeah, probably not. We'll talk about it straight ahead on America's Voice Live.
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Steve Guru
All right. Welcome back to America's Voice Live. Glad to have you here. As we continue, Congress facing another budget showdown and shutdown, possibly as the end of the month deadline looms. Senate Democrats are digging in, rejecting the clean bill the House passed that extends funding until Thanksgiving, instead pushing policies like Medicaid for illegal aliens, adding billions of the $37 trillion national debt. They would rather force a shutdown than show fiscal restraint. The Fed cut rates last week a meager 25 basis points from four and a quarter to 4%, nowhere near enough to ease the pain from the four years of Joe Biden's America last economy. Join me now, Tommy Aiello, senior director of Government affairs at the National Taxpayers Union. Tommy, nice to see you again.
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Tommy Aiello
Good afternoon.
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Steve Guru
Where do we go from here?
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Tommy Aiello
Yeah, it seems like we're careening towards a government shutdown. And as you rightly noted, House Republicans, they passed a clean CR that takes us for another seven weeks with the government funded, ensures that the government doesn't shut down. And it seems like Senate Democrats, they want to play hardball with, with, with Medicaid. They want to overturn many of the really good pro taxpayer provisions in the one big beautiful bill that, you know, protects people that actually need, genuinely need Medicaid coverage, really is a mistake on the Democrats and to try and reverse some of those good things.
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Steve Guru
Yeah, good to know that. So look, it's past the House. Right. It's on to the Senate. Yep. But the Democrats don't care. They don't care. And you know what? If it was the other way, the Republicans probably wouldn't help them either. But you know, this idea that somehow it's Trump's government shutdown. Look, last 12 times there were government shutdowns. I remember not caring honestly, is that fair? It doesn't affect most people. It doesn't affect most people.
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Tommy Aiello
Yeah. I look at it from this way. No one wins in a government shutdown. Right. It means people that bureaucrats, they're not working, but they're getting paid to work. So it's very inefficient from a taxpayer's perspective. And it means small business loans can't get processed. It means fossil fuel energy projects can't have their permits approved. And it adds to this dysfunction. I think President Trump is exactly right to say let's just fund the government at the current levels to give us more time to negotiate. I don't think that's an unreasonable position. It's really the Democrats that are being the unreasonable ones and they want the government shut down so they can blame President Trump.
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Steve Guru
Yeah, of course they do. They want to get political points here. But I don't think there's any political points to be scored here. I don't. What are you going to win? Oh, the government shut down. People have work to do. They have got kids in school and a job to go to and I think to concern themselves with unless they work for the government in a non critical position. And if it's non critical, maybe we can get rid of that position altogether. Just an idea. But if they're in a non critical position, Tommy, they're gonna go home for a few days. What happens after whatever period of time they come back together, they spend more of our taxpayer dollars on stupid things. They go back to work, the people get their paychecks, the American taxpayer gets abused and everybody gets their money. My money. Where am I wrong?
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Tommy Aiello
Yeah. No, you're not wrong. And I would just say the Democrats position here is really not a very strong one.
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Tim Burchett
Right.
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Tommy Aiello
They're gonna be blamed for the shutdown. And it's always the ones that want to shut down the government that are blamed for it.
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Tim Burchett
Right.
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Tommy Aiello
Democrats, they want to shut down the government. If we don't extend Covid era Obama subsidies that, Obamacare subsidies that cost $410 billion. That's a lot of money. Roll back to the coverage of illegal immigrants receiving Medicaid coverage. What else? Work requirements, 20 hour a week work requirements for Medicaid, they want to roll those back. All of these things, it's going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year. That is absolutely ridiculous. So President Trump, he's called those demands ridiculous and unserious. He's 100% right. You know, I really hope he can find a way to keep the government open. But at the end of the day, if Democrats want to be the ones to shut it down, I think the American people are not going to look very kindly upon that.
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Steve Guru
Yep. All right. I don't think so either. I don't think so either. Look, plain politics, this is just. It's noise to most people. I mean, it's just noise. It is what we'd like to see. We'd like to see them, you know, take money out of the budget and save us tax dollars. We'd like to see them reduce the budget, reduce spending, stop squandering money. We'd like to see Doge ideas implemented so that the amount of tax burden we pay is lowered. Right. I mean, we'd like to see those basis points lowered on interest so we can get a better loan on a used car or a better mortgage rate so we can own a house. Isn't that what people are concerned about? I mean, honestly, no.
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Tommy Aiello
100%. And I think the Fed is going to line themselves up to continue to cut over the course of the next five to six months. That's a very good thing. It'll make credit cheaper, it'll make it more affordable to buy a house, refinance your house, get a car loan. All of those things are really good. And that actually impacts people's wallets. But, you know, at the same time, you mentioned we need to rein in spending. Totally agree. Right. We're running $2 trillion annual deficits. That's unsustainable.
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Tim Burchett
Right.
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Tommy Aiello
Whether the Democrats want to play ball to try and reduce government waste, that's up to them. There's a way to do it without them, and that's through reconciliation, the same process we did the one big beautiful bill act through. We don't need Democrats for that. We just need Republicans to step up and say we need to cut spending. We need to get our budgets in order. They can do it and they should do it.
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Steve Guru
Yeah, I agree with that. Shift gears just for one moment, because one of the problems here, I think, is who's in charge of the Democrats? How are you going to get a bill through when you've got Hakeem Jeffries over here, you've got Chuck Schumer, you've got Hillary Clinton out there using, again, incendiary language again today about, you know, Donald Trump and Republicans being fascist. If you have no actual leader of the Democrat Party, which appears to be the case, how do you move it forward? Yeah.
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Tommy Aiello
The funny thing is, I was reading an article today. Most of the Senate, most of the people that are running in Senate primaries for the Senate are saying Chuck Schumer shouldn't be a majority leader if they take back the Senate.
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Steve Guru
Right.
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Tommy Aiello
Chuck Schumer, he's basically a lone man taking a walk. He doesn't have the full command of his conference or caucus behind him. I think if this government shutdown drags on and they realize that they're getting blamed for keeping the government shut down, you're going to have individual members buck party leadership and actually caucus with Republicans to try and open the government again. Hopefully we don't have to shut down the government at all. But, you know, just reading the tea leaves, it really doesn't seem that the conference really wants to do that. It's Chuck Schumer trying to hold everybody together. But I think if this drags on, he's not going to be very successful in that regard.
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Steve Guru
I'm not sure Chuck Schumer will be in charge of the Senate Democrats if he continues down this road. I don't think Hakeem Jeffries is going to be in charge of the House Democrats, honestly. I mean, everybody wants, you know, changes, right? Everybody wants. And when I say everyone, I mean Democrats are not impressed with their leadership. I just saw polling over on Chicken Noodle News, they don't like them at all. Anyhow, I give you the last word.
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Tommy Aiello
No. Also, I would just add Chuck Schumer is deathly afraid of a progressive primary opponent in 2028 from Alexandria, Ocasio Cortez. So he needs to try and take this attack Donald Trump attack Republican stance. That is really going to play well with the party base. That way he can keep a seat in 2028. But I'll bet you she primaries him and she beats him.
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Steve Guru
Yeah, wouldn't that be something? Frightening, that is. Tommy, I always appreciate you being here. Senior Director of Government Affairs, National Taxpayers Union. Look out for my money, would you please?
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Tommy Aiello
We try to. Thank you.
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Steve Guru
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Steve Guru
All right. Marginalization is a buzzword of sorts that has been used by many college age students to explain why things are going bad for them. Oh, I'm part of a marginalized group. Like what? The group that doesn't study or the one that stays out too late, you know, doesn't do your homework? Which one? Now it seems the word is being used as exclusionary as Cornell business students who did not fit the specific mold of marginalized were specifically told, don't attend these meetings by a student council. Their appearance could make those belonging to the group uncomfortable. You know, if you're a white guy, don't show up. Really does not look good when these groups actively prohibit others from joining while screaming discrimination. It's Counterintuitive to the point of being absurd. Additionally, these practices are an active defiance of the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle DEI altogether. However, these schools don't care. They think they can do as they want. Join me now to discuss is Campus Reform correspondent Michael Duke. Michael, nice to see you. Thank you for being here.
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Michael Duke
Thank you for having me.
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Steve Guru
All right, so let me see. If you're white, you can't attend business school meetings. If, if you're what? If you're a Christian, you can't come. What are the boxes that get checked that make you excluded?
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Michael Duke
Well, earlier you said exclusionary. I'd like to correct you by saying it's segregated. It's not exclusionary at all. It's segregated, Steve. And you know what we're seeing out of Cornell? We have a student council telling students that if they're part of a non marginalized group, they're going to have negative hiring outcomes. They're threatening their livelihoods, they're threatening their life after college, and it's all in the name of DEI elements. One of the terms that they used was allyship and action. Something which we've already seen in the Leadership Institute's Campus reform is reported at other colleges and universities across the nation when they hosted segregated graduation ceremonies for students who identify as BIPOC or lgbtq. It's outrageous that we're even talking about this today. It has no place on college campuses.
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Steve Guru
Yeah, I agree with that. It has no place in college. It's segregation. Didn't we have a whole civil rights movement about all of this? And now they want to segregate it. They desegregate. Segregate. I'm so confused. It gives me a headache. Help me here.
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Michael Duke
Well, the bottom line here is just that students, right now, they're being taught that the meritocracy doesn't exist, despite the fact that President Trump lawmakers, many academics and countless students want the meritocracy to resume, to be brought back to universities for this mantra and dogma of DEI to be reversed. You know, right now what we're seeing on campuses is that students are being told that it's how they look, their identity, or other characteristics or factors about them, that's what's going to get them hired. Now, if I have a hiring manager who's a business student now, but a hiring manager in 10 years, and they're basing me based off of those factors as opposed to whether or not I'm qualified for a job, that's just outrageous. We're Teaching students the exact wrong things that are going to have negative outcomes both now and in the future.
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Steve Guru
Yeah, this doesn't go anywhere good. Because if you can exclude these people. Look, it's not legal. Let's just jump right to it, Michael. This is a violation of federal law dating back decades, as longer than I've been alive. It's not legal. You can't do that. But then again, by the same token, I just saw Tennessee State University, a whole mob of people run two guys out because they had red hats on. Go figure. Because they want to sit there and talk about DEI and the mob rules. And the police escorted him out of there. I mean, having a conversation about DEI or segregation or putting people on a list so they're not allowed to attend. I mean, it's not getting better, it's getting worse. And again, it's not a both sides issue. I mean, we just saw Charlie Kirk get assassinated for debating on college campuses where we should be debating every topic under the sun and deciding which side we're on. This, this is insanity to define, Michael.
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Michael Duke
Yeah, well, I'll give you a very good analogy here. We're talking about Cornell University. Imagine just for a second if their football team said, if you're part of a non marginalized group or community, you're not going to practice with us, you're not going to play with us, you're going to get no playing time. There would be outrage beyond compare. The fact that we're not seeing it at this level just because it's a student government seeing it is just outrageous. We need a good solution to it. And I'll tell you what it is. It's the meritocracy, the assessment of whether or not you've worked hard, you're gritty, you've had accomplishments and achievements because of your willingness to work hard and do for yourself. Those are the aspects that are going to propel you in life. It's the whole reason why I'm sitting in this chair today. Not because I'm white and not because of any other factors. That's what students need to be taught in the classroom, outside of the classroom as well, because it will have negative effects if we continue this dogma DEI outside of college and into the business fields. But moreover than all of this, the meritocracy just wins. It promotes competition. It promotes students to do 1% better every day. And by all means, we need more students to have that mentality.
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Steve Guru
We sure do. We need more students have the mentality of, you know what, I can defend My position rationally, logically, I can defend my point of view because I believe in these things. Not, oh, I don't want to hear what you have to say. You must be silenced. Because that's the mentality. They've been taught what to think. They have no idea how to think. They just follow along like sheep. And that's not. It doesn't matter what color they are or what sex they are. They've been conditioned that you have to follow the dogma. Here it is, Michael. It's got to stop. I'll give you the last word.
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Michael Duke
Yeah, I completely agree with everything that you've just said. DEI is only something that seeks to divide students rather than bring them together. There's a reason why we call them college communities, not college sex. Not college Tribes is another great term. It's college communities. We need students to bring together everything that they have because at the end of the day, a community of a university is exactly that. Students should be able to go to class, study, eat, sleep, and do everything else on a college campus together, rather than look at things through an invisible line that the left has drawn on campuses. It's outrageous that we're even having to talk about it, but it seems like if we bring the meritocracy back, which is what President Trump seems to be doing, and students seem to appreciate and are thriving on, on campuses, the future is going to be somewhat bright.
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Steve Guru
Yeah. I hope you're right, Michael. I hope you're right. I hope the future is bright. As always, thank you for being here. Nice seeing you again.
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Michael Duke
Thank you, Steve.
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Steve Guru
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Steve Guru
All right. According to reports, nearly 60 people arrested in chaotic protests on 42nd street near the United nations as President Trump delivered his speech at the General Assembly. You probably knew that dozens of demonstrators shouted anti Trump slogans, waved signs reading reject Trump and arrest Trump as they block traffic and typical behavior. Not only that, a climate protest was also being held near the UN where protesters marched down a nearby street resulting in the arrest of 47 people there. Other protesters, including anti Israel groups, that grew to about 150 people on the same street. But there was another protest, a peaceful one, one that's calling for a democratic republic in Iran instead of the current regime that feeds off of violence. The first time since 1979. That's what they're asking for. The Iranian people are not happy with the current regime and they want change. They just can't get there because it's dictatorial. Here with me to discuss this as a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. It's Iran's Parliament in exile. Dr. Ali Savafi. Doctor, thank you for being here. Tell me about it. Pretty good turnout. You had a setup right there in front of the United Nations. Iranian flags, people turning out, supporting your efforts to have freedom in Iran for the first time since 1979. How to go?
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Dr. Ali Savafi
Well, first of all, thank you very much, Steve, for having me on the show. Yes, as you said, actually this was a major two day event. Both days yesterday and today, there were thousands of People out there from 46 different states across America. And as you said, they came to support a free, democratic and secular republic in Iran. They are all supporters of Mariam Rajavi, who's the president elect of the ncri, the main coalition that has been fighting against this regime for some 47 years. And they basically called on the UN to hold the Iranian regime accountable for countless crimes against Iranian people, including the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988 and recent spate of executions under the so called moderate president pezesh Gyan, some 1800 since he took office, which comes to like three and a half, one person every three and a half hours. So clearly they were very, very vocal, very enthusiastic. And I think they send a strong message that the Iranian people want regime change, although not through foreign intervention nor requesting for any kind of financial assistance, but they need moral and political support from the international community.
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Steve Guru
Let me tie this into the recent events here in America that have been heartbreaking for millions of people. And that's the assassination of Charlie Kirk, obviously. Obviously. But for you and for so many people, you know, assassinations and executions and violent attacks on your side, they're all too common, aren't they?
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Dr. Ali Savafi
Indeed, speaking of that, my own brother, older brother, who was an American educated aerospace engineer and ironically a prolific writer and editor, was executed at the age of 29. Actually, come September 27th will be the 45th anniversary of his execution. So yes, for all of us Iranians who aspire for a democratic circular government that is part of the international community and wants to be at peace with its neighbors, this has been a very heart wrenching, difficult struggle. But we have kept it up and we will continue to do so until freedom comes back to Iran. As you may know, of course, freedom is not something that is granted. You must earn it. And of course the Iranian people have paid a heavy price. 100,000 of supporters of the opposition have been executed by this regime in the past 47 years. But the spirit of resistance is very strong. And of course, within Iran itself, there are thousands of resistance units who are fighting this regime every day as we speak. And so we are quite hopeful and very determined to change the course of life in Iran and make Iran great again.
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Steve Guru
The impression for a lot of folks since the American attack on the nuclear facilities in late June is that this regime is more fragile than it's been in all the time since 1979. There's an opportunity here for the, for the Iranian people to be free potentially. I'm not sure how you get there. I'LL give you the last word here, Dr. Because I think a lot of us hope to see a free Iran. It's a beautiful country. To put it back in the league of civilized nations would be a wonderful thing, not just for you, but for the world. I'll give you the last word.
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Dr. Ali Savafi
Yes, of course, you said it, I think aptly, at no time during its 47 year history, the regime has been so weak and vulnerable. And of course, Iran right now as we speak is like a powder cake and anything might spark another nationwide uprising. That is what we're working very hard at. And we are, of course, quite confident of our chances. We will continue to persist. And of course, having the moral support, the political support of the international community would encourage and embolden and empower the Iranian people to in a sense, carry out this one last year. To use the football analogy, we're like at the goal line and we just need a little bit of a push to go over and win victory for our people.
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Steve Guru
Dr. I appreciate you being here. We wish you only the best. I'm glad you had such a successful time over the last couple of days in New York to, well, to present your case again to the world. It's time for Iran to be free again, for its people to be free. And we appreciate you taking time and being here. Thank you, sir.
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Dr. Ali Savafi
Thank you very much. Steve. Thank you.
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Steve Guru
Greatly appreciate it. I mean, can you imagine your country's taken over by barbarians 46 years later, man, tough stuff. After the break, we'll have a story that reminds us of how wonderful America is. Plus your answers to our America's Voice Question of the day. How can we solve the issue of political violence in America? We'll take a close look after this.
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