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Well, there it is. New York stock exchanging is closing. There's the, it's a little overhang over the trading floor which is predominantly machines now. It used to be people, now it's predominantly machines. And they go up there for the, for the photo op. Dana or Dana, not even sure what that company is, but they went public or, or doing some sort of charitable event. Down about 90. I got 88 or so on my screen here. Not much movement there. All over the board. Earlier. Oil is up. Oil is down. S P down a little bit. NASDAQ took it the worst. Almost 1%. Lower. 196 lower. Good gold. Gold has been weak and it was weaker early and came back to 4400. So right around 4400 and the oil market up $3 and $0.50 to 9163. And that's on the heels of are gonna be discussions or is there not gonna be discussions with the Iranians? High level discussions or not. Oil markets all over the board. And I'm not talking about speculators, I'm talking about guys who do this for a living. ConocoPhillips, Shell, all the ExxonMobil, all the big oil companies are traders. They get in there and they hedge their either production or their refining capacity. They have to hedge in there and they're buying. So they have no idea where, where things are going right now. So you're going to see a lot of wild moves. And when oil moves big, so does the stock market. Inversely, oil goes up, stocks go down. Oil goes down, stocks go up. And that's basically what we're seeing and have been seeing for three weeks, since the better part of three weeks since this thing started. So think about this though. In 2006, 20 years ago, $20,000 20 grand equaled roughly 33 ounces of gold at the spot price. 20,033 ounces at those prices at that day. Those same 33 ounces today used to be 20 grand. Now it's worth $165,000. Smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals. And that's why you need to consider buying gold from my friends at Birch Gold Group. I say they're my friends because I use them. They're great, great, great people for buying and selling gold. For thousands of years, gold has been a store of wealth, of value and today it's a crucial part of any balanced strategy. Even better, Birch Gold can help you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered retirement account that holds gold in it. Just text America that word America to the number 989-898 to receive your free info kit on gold. No obligation, just useful information with an A plus rating. With a better business bureau and tens of thousands of happy customers, let Birch Gold help you diversify in gold. Now that's peace of mind. Text the word America to 989-898. Again, text America to the number 989-898. Our first guest is the senator from the great state of Wisconsin. I'll call him. A great senator from the great state of Wisconsin who holds telephone town halls to get information out to the people. I a majority wanted to know what's going on with the Save America Act. To give us the latest is Senator Ron Johnson. Senator, we know this. We know the issues. We know Democrats don't want to do it. They don't want it because it funds ICE and Department of Homeland Security. But why the hell isn't John Thune doing a bring it to the vote? Why? Just, just do the talking. Filibuster. What's his issue with that?
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Senator Ron Johnson
Well, first of all, I think both myself and Senator Lee are, are pretty pleased with the progress we've made. So we put it on the floor. Now we fill the amendment tree so we can control the amendments. Now it's going to be difficult to get to that calling of the question. But what we've noticed since we put it on the floor is now Democrats, they haven't defended their position. And the way they're defending their positions, they're saying, well, we're not opposed to voter id. You could have surprised me. So now we've got them in a situation where they're saying they support voter id. Well, now let's talk about how we can clarify The Save America act to accommodate their concerns. So this is how legislation is actually crafted. You put a bill on the floor, you allow debate, you allow votes on amendment to hone that piece of legislation. Part of that honing of the legislation is hopefully getting more support, maybe even support from the opposing side. So I'm not exactly sure what's going to happen with DHS funding. I hope we can get those TSA agents and other DHS employees paychecks. I mean, it's unconscionable what Democrats are doing. Hold that up. Yeah, I'm willing to compromise. I want to get those people paid. But when it comes to Save America act, talking to leadership, it's looking like they appreciate the fact that this is on the floor. We're putting pressure on Democrats, making them defend the indefensible. And if we go on recess break, we'll come back, we'll be on the Save America Act. And again, that's, that's a positive sign. My concern was all of a sudden cloture, it fails and we move on. I don't think we're going to move on. I think we're going to keep plugging away at the Save America act until we hopefully get something passed, even with a 60 vote threshold. We'll see how it goes. But again, I'm encouraged. I think Mike Lee's encouraged as well. So I'm, you know, don't, by the way, if this doesn't pass, don't blame John Thune. Blame Democrats. They're the ones who are opposed to any.
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Eric Bolling
No, I do. I do. Certain, we do blame the Democrats. Like they could have passed it. But a couple of questions. I still think I'm going to blame John Thune for not bring a talking filibuster because we like to see them defend their position. Thune simply said, here's my issue with Thune. Right. We have the President, United States is saying, senator Thune, bring it, bring it to the floor. Let's hear the talking filibuster. And Thune says, I don't see a path to passing, so I'm not going to do it. I mean, is he not one of us that has seen, you know, maybe you don't love everything that Trump has said and that may see the path that Trump sees, but usually turns out the right way for whatever reason. So my point is Thune is pushing back on Trump and I think that's where the opposition to John Thune comes up.
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Senator Ron Johnson
Yeah, but again, we put it on the floor. Okay. The problem with the talking Filibuster is, there really is not an enforceable two speech rule because back in 1986, Robert Byrd changed the precedent where you don't count motions and amendments as speeches. So again, when we were first talking about talking filibuster, I thought you could actually enforce the two speech rule. Now it would probably take hundreds of hours of floor time. And you know, I think Senate leadership, I think a lot of our colleagues were resistant to doing that. But once I found out that you can't really enforce a two speech rule, that there's unlimited number of amendments. Okay, so the talking field buster is not going to guarantee that we'd ever call the question in majority vote. You have to recognize that reality. But let's at least get on the floor and, and now try and pass it by winning the political argument. And leadership at our conference I think is giving us the time and space to do just that. So quite again, around the United States Senate, you have to take little wins as wins, but this is actually a pretty big win. We're on the bill, we're not getting off it. We're going to, if we even go on recess, we'll get back on it. We'll keep putting pressure on Democrats and who knows, maybe so much pressure, so much public pressure, something so popular even Democrats might have to cave to a reasonable national ID requirement for voting. That'd be, that would be a big win. Okay. Short of eliminating the filibuster, which there is a legitimate difference in our conference, those of us who just assume Democrats will end it next time they're in power. So we're willing to be in the punch versus those who would like to preserve the filibuster so that we can stop awful Democrat legislation in the future. Again, that's a legitimate difference. All right, well we have to recognize that reality too.
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Eric Bolling
Well, you say, you say hundreds of hours, Senator, it's, you get to 2, 200 hours in about a week, in the day, maybe a couple hours added to that. So hundreds of hours doesn't seem like a lot when they have to talk for non stop. And I'd like them to try and defend the reasons why they don't want to allow voters, they wouldn't have to
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Senator Ron Johnson
talk non stop, they just have to offer amendments probably in the middle of the night where we'd have to, you know, assemble a quorum to table the amendment, come back in again. It's. People made it sound easy. It's not easy. I don't think you'd ever get to a point where you could pass it with just a majority vote. I mean that's again, if there truly was a two speech rule. Yeah, we could wait them out. We could exhaust the two speeches that take 3, 400 hours. I had a continuous shift schedule in mind to do this. But we can't exhaust them with the two speech rule cuz they can offer unlimited amendments. So again, this is the next best thing. And again I'm saying this is being pretty effective. I'm pretty happy with the results, so.
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Eric Bolling
Well, we're not yet. Senator, I love you, you're a good man and you're MAGA and you're. I just respect everything you do. But I'm not happy with this because we, I don't see the, I don't see the end goal. How about this, I don't know decorum or protocol in the Senate, but why don't you just carve out just the voter ID portion of it and you fight, you fight the other crap later. America really wants this, the voter ID as we could really not care about most of the other stuff in that, that bill. But the voter ID issue is what we care about. Why can't you just carve that out and see what the Democrats have to say since they said they don't have a problem. Voter ID issues, that may be the
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Senator Ron Johnson
direction we're heading, but it takes some time. It doesn't happen overnight. It requires a debate, it requires the media getting involved, it requires Democrats caving and they've already caved. They're always saying, oh, we're for voter ID idea. Now we got to smoke them out and find out okay, what form, how it's going to be enforceable. That'll take some time. Why
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Eric Bolling
does Senator Johnson say I got an idea. How about Save America Act 2.0 where it's just the voter ID portion. Hey, who doesn't?
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Senator Ron Johnson
Who.
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Eric Bolling
All in favor? Aye. Let's, you know, let's move on.
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Senator Ron Johnson
But then it fails. If we just put it out the way we want to do it. We're gonna have to figure out how to get their votes short of ending the filibuster. And the reality is that we don't have the votes in the Republican conferences and the filibuster because Republicans definitely understand how the being able to filibuster, being able to block awful Democrat legislation has kept us off the socialist path for decades. And it's, a lot of my colleagues are finding it difficult to abandon that again. I'm just recognizing the reality that I think Democrats are going to do It. I'd rather beat him to the punch, but that's a legitimate difference in the conference. And again, I don't like this circular firing squad. I don't. In the end, if we can't get everything we want, I don't want blaming Republicans. I want people blaming the Democrats. They are the ones to blame. They are worse, no doubt.
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Eric Bolling
I don't want to muddy this at all. We do blame Democrats. But my point is the way from my standpoint, I've done this for 20 years. I've done this a long time. It seems like everything's a deal. Everyone's got. Everything's got a hook. I can't vote for that. I really am for it, but I can't vote for until I get what I want. Both sides do it. I mean, we know both sides do it. How about one thing? That is the voters are somewhere about 75 to 80% in favor of using an ID to vote across all party lines. How about just someone putting that up and not having a string attached for their own, the constituents benefit or their own benefit for once? Is that crazy?
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Senator Ron Johnson
I think it may actually come down to that. But remember we went to the Oval Office. President Trump wanted to keep it very skinny, just the same America Act. Then all of a sudden he decided to add more things. Okay, so now we'd have to dial it back to not only not, you know, the Full Safe America act, that also has citizenship requirement, which is already required, but it's not enforced. Maybe to pass it with 60 votes, we keep it just to voter ID. I don't know how this is going to end. All I'm saying is we're on a path to possibly get this passed, even without eliminating the filibuster, which I don't think we could do anyway. So again, when you're in the United States Senate, you got to take what wins you can, you can get. And right now we're on the bill as opposed to just, you know, throw up our hands and feet. Moving on. We're not doing that right now. And that's a good sign.
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Eric Bolling
All right, so we'll leave it there. But we would like you to represent the American people, not just state of Wisconsin. And, and about 75 to 80% of us are in favor of a voter ID. Let's get that thing done. Senator, really good to have you on, my friend. We'll talk to you again very soon.
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Senator Ron Johnson
That's the goal. Take care.
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Eric Bolling
All right, next guest is a friend of mine, a very good friend of mine, the sheriff of Lee County, Florida, who had a recent major takedown of drugs and guns and some cash to boot. Here to tell us all about it, Sheriff Carmine Marcino. Sheriff, really good to have you. I think the folks really understand that what a great law enforcement officer, officer of the court of the people that you are. Let's take a look at some of these pictures of a recent bus. Tell us how you got that, Sheriff Marcino.
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
So it's. It's great, actually. Every time you take drugs off the street, you save lives. And we know this. And the lower the crime rate, the better. When you take poison off the streets, people that they thrive on people's addictions and deal poison, we have to incarcerate them we have to help those that are addicted. When you look at those, eric, you have 4 kilos of cocaine, 15 plus kilos of ecstasy, 22 kilos of meth, 400,000 in cash, 16 firearms that are not supposed to be on the street, stolen vehicles. When you hit them, it's like an enterprise. You crush them. They stay away from this county. And while you do that, the crime rate goes down and people love and enjoy life.
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Eric Bolling
Where did you find them and how did it come down? Where'd you find out? The reason why I'm bringing this up, Sheriff, is because we're in the midst of DHS not being funded at the moment. ICE is being, you know, kind of push back on everywhere we go. But I know in Florida because I've written with, with various law enforcement agencies on busts and whatnot, the Force multipliers in effect down here in the state of Florida. Tell us about that.
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
100%. Listen, our federal officers do a great job. We look so closely with our local, state and federal partners. Dhs, Homeland Security, ice, the FBI, all of us work in conjunction. That's why we're safe. So to think about defunding them and to play a game is ridiculous. You know, the people we come into, Eric, those are the people. We're not going into restaurants and breaking the door down. We're not going to the people's homes and breaking the door down unless they're committing violent crimes and felonies, obviously. But during the course of our normal duties, if we come across a person who is violating law, who is committing a violent crime, and they're here illegally, we work with DHS and Homeland Security and we get them out of here. And I don't know why anybody could argue that point.
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Eric Bolling
Tell us about your murder rates and your murder conviction rates since in the last couple of years, since you've been
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
really cracking down, since we've targeted the repeat offenders, the drug dealers, and honestly, technology has changed the game as well. But, you know, with 13 homicides, 100% solved last year, 13 homicides, 94% waiting on DNA for one case before that, we used to be in the 40s plus, and we'd be probably 40 to 50% solved. So it's a game changer for us, and we've never been safer. And you know, Our governor, Governor DeSantis, he's a law and order governor. And I'll tell you, I always thank God and I thank President Trump at the same time. President Trump's done a great job in this administration. He supports Law enforcement. I still know why every day the man gets up and does what he does. But I couldn't praise him more for helping because I could tell you he himself, as president and this administration is the reason we can get our job done.
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Eric Bolling
When the top respects the police department, whether it's a mayor in a city, a governor in a state, or the president, United States, it makes all the difference in the world for you guys to do your job. I know this. I know this very, very well. You mentioned it.
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Eric Bolling
You're one of the cutting edge sheriffs in the country using it. Tell us about it.
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
I mean, we have Bill Bratton come down, the X NYPD commissioner, great guy, looks at our it. People from all over the world are flying in technology, technology, technology. I mean, we have LPRs. If you get in this county, as soon as you enter, you can't leave. If you commit a violent crime, we have homicides that, you know would be the case of who done it. Twenty to 30 minutes later, the person's in custody because of the technology. So using, you know, using technology, leveraging that, working smarter and harder, it's a game changer. And again, I can't. I can't praise the relationships enough that we have with our local, state, and federal partners. Governor DeSantis always has been a law and order governor. And President Trump and the job that he's doing, again, I see the difference. I have led an agency through different administrations. We are able to do our job. And you said it best, Eric. Mayors and other elected officials. Look at New York. That's my hometown. I'm ashamed when I see law enforcement officers getting hit with ice, chunks of ice, and they're getting cut in the face. Let me tell you something that will never happen here. Every cop will come out, and let me tell you, we will also. We meet force with force. And you, you hit a cop in the face and you cut his face, you're going to jail.
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Eric Bolling
Good, good. LPR being license plate reader. If I'm not mistaken, you're also using drone technology.
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
Yeah. So? Drones are amazing. Our patrol supervisors have the ability on the scene. If someone gets out of a vehicle, they take off on foot rather than launch the helicopter, which we can. We have three of them. We have the ability to launch a drone. The drone technology leaves the precinct and it's in route before the call is received by the deputy. It's amazing. The technology is leading the way, and our intelligence unit is just second to none. So we have the targeted violence unit that we're Working now with the FBI. And we're looking for the lone wolf. We're looking for the people that could go out there and decide today might be that day. Unfortunately. And we're watching, looking, and gathering intel constantly.
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Eric Bolling
Tell us how you got that bust. How'd that come down?
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
So our county commissioners work great with us. They doubled the size of narcotics unit. I said, listen, I need more people in narcotics. Drugs are the root of evil. People rob, kill, and steal for drugs. We doubled the size of the unit, and now we're out in full force doing huge operations every day targeting that 1 or 3% that deal poison. And let me tell you, the message is clear. We don't play in Lee County. You come to Lee county, you deal poison, we will hunt you down and charge you. Our great state attorney, Amira Fox, is the best, I'm telling you, the best in the country. We work together. And people that deal poison to commit crimes, they go to jail.
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Eric Bolling
All right, Carmen, there's something else you did as well, Sheriff Carmine. Animal Cruelty Task Force. I think this is awesome. Tell us about that.
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
You know, I've been an animal lover since I'm a kid, and I love animals. And I always said if I got to a position where I could use that power to protect those without a voice. So we have the Animal Cruelty Task Force. If someone abuses, neglects a dog, an animal, we go out in full force. We investigate. And now we have a registry. So their name goes on a list for five years. They can't have an animal. And we have zero tolerance on that. We have Nan's Ranch in memory of my grandmother. So every animal funded partially through drug money and also forfeiture money, we have the ability to now bring any animal that doesn't have a home. And the inmates take care of those animals. So the animals get love. The inmates see that worth. And it's been a great program.
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Eric Bolling
And I think DeSantis put something in the last ballot, if I'm not mistaken. Protecting animals as well, right?
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
Yes, sir. I mean, the governor stand steadfast with me. And again, I locally, we got it passed, and he got it passed throughout the state. So it's an actual unit, and you go on that list. You know, it's like the sexual predator list. You abuse an animal, a very specific person abuses an animal, that's one that has no heart. That's the making of a killer. And you know what? We're not going to tolerate that.
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Eric Bolling
Good for you. Good for you. Sheriff Carmine. Proud to call you my friend. As well, Sheriff, always good to see you, Lee County Sheriff. Folks, I'm telling you, people come around the world from around, certainly around the country to see how he's being so successful. Thank you for keeping Lee county safer. Thank you, Sheriff.
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
Thank you, sir.
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Eric Bolling
Folks@old glorybank.com rev you never, ever, ever notice how the biggest threat isn't always the one kicking your door down. Sometimes it's the one already sitting at the kitchen table. Because while we're dealing with enemies overseas, turns out some of them already got a parking pass right here. And in some cases, a prepaid parking pass. Let me explain. The enemy is already here. I know how it sounds. To say that sounds bombastic, but it's true. At our schools, our universities, molding the minds of our young people, our future, our media feeding propaganda to the American people. On councils that mold city policy, in mayoral roles that run our big cities. Governors who defend our great states. They walk the halls of U. S. Congress. The enemy is already here and the proof is everywhere. This will blow you away. Last week, the de facto leader of the Iranian revolutionary guard was killed. He truly was one of the worst people, one of the worst of all of them. He led the protest crackdowns in Iran and is personally responsible for the brutal killings of thousands of Iranian protesters. And this. This is his daughter, who up until January, a few weeks ago of this year, was working at Emory university. She was living the good life right here in America while her terrorist father led a massacre in Iran. After protesters and protests raised outside of the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia where she worked, Lara Johnny was finally let go and sent back to Iran. The Iranian regime has been at war with the United States for 47 years. So why were regime family members ever allowed into America? When did the enemy within stop being a conspiracy. I don't know. And start being a resume. The children of Iran and the Iranian regime leaders are teaching at our elite American universities. Teaching. The same regime that chants death to America is apparently very comfortable sending their kids here to educate your kids. Totally normal. Nothing to see here, right? Move along, kids. Professor, Death to America Junior will be teaching Intro to Western Values at 9 in the morning. Sign up. And we're not just talking about one or two. We're talking about thousands of Relatives of top Iranian officials living in the United States. Thousands. Some studying, some teaching, some embedded in institutions shaping the next generation of thought. Is there any surprise then that the city of New York somehow thought this was a good idea? Is there any surprise then that there are several members of Congress who actively hate America and support terrorists? But sure, tell us more about how the real dangerous. Someone posting the wrong meme. The elites whose families run a regime that cracks down on dissent, funds terrorism just living among us. And it didn't just happen. We didn't just forget to lock the door. No. Groups like Hamas figured this out decades ago. Back in 1997, almost 30 years ago, when they were designated a terrorist group by the US Hamas was on a mission to change the perception of them in the West. The answer wasn't missiles or bombs. It was quiet. It was influence. Universities, institutions, the media narrative. Because if you can't beat a country from the outside, you slowly reshape it from the inside. And look around, we're seeing it now. College campuses or chanting for terrorist organizations is somehow activism where moral clarity is optional, but the anti American sentiment is practically a graduation requirement. Now and then when you think just maybe all of this is being exaggerated, well, you get New York City and the first lady there liking and celebrating content tied to terrorist groups and anti American rhetoric. And the media gives her a free pass too. In America, in New York, in the city where the 911 attacks took place nearly 25 years ago. Think about that. It's enough to make your head explode. Someone in power with influence and the ability to shape public culture. Here's the thing. We know this is happening. We talk about it all the time. We report on it, we post on social media about it. And then what do we do about it? Because somewhere along the way, we got very confused about what tolerance means. Tolerance used to mean that you can live your life and I can live my life. I live by that rule. I'm a libertarian. I'm tolerant. Now it somehow means we have to pretend not to notice when people openly oppose our values, are actively shaping our institutions.
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Here was founded after 911 because they recognized that some people did something.
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Eric Bolling
Some people did something. They murdered 3,000Americans. Some people did something. Elon Omar this is about ideology. This is about intent. This is about whether someone believes in the system they're benefiting from or whether they're quietly and actively working to undermine it. There's a big difference between someone coming to America because they believe in it or someone coming to America because it's A convenient place to operate. And right now we're acting like there's no difference at all. We're told, don't ask questions, don't connect the dots, don't notice patterns, because if you do, you're the problem. You're a bigot. You're a racist. But ignoring infiltration doesn't make you tolerant. It makes you dumb, naive, stupid, head in the sand. It makes you the problem. The same regimes that oppose their own people are exporting that influence here. Their elites living comfortably in the west while ordinary citizens suffer at home. That's a strategy. This isn't about just Iran, by the way. We've seen it inspired with ISIS attacks, radicalizations online, and the institutions where the ideology is being spread, not so quietly, right in our faces. This is what modern conflict looks like. Not just tanks and troops. Culture, narratives, influence. It's a normalization of ideas that should never be normal. Certainly not in this country. Maybe the biggest threat isn't the one trying to break in. Maybe it's the one that's already living here. All right, buddy, take a look at this watch. In just six months, the Edge has crossed 13,000 subscribers, over 2 million views, and get this, more than 70,000 watch hours. No gimmicks, no shortcuts, no fake numbers. Just real people showing up and leaning into something better. And here's what that tells me. There's a hunger out there for strength, for discipline, for clarity in a world that's gotten way too soft. And we're just getting started. Because this isn't about chasing views. It's about building something real with people who actually want more out of life. So here's the push. Let's get to that number at the top right there. That 15,000 subscriber level. If you've been watching but haven't subscribed yet, do it, do it now. And if you believe in what we're building, send it to one person who needs it. New episodes every Thursday, 10am Eastern. No politics, no noise. Just the Edge. Use that QR code and join the fastest growing channel that'll actually help you become your best self.
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Eric Bolling
Theme Today the theme is did they actually say that These days there are just so many examples about Democrats have said the quiet part out loud. And this particular one really says a lot about the Democrat Party, emphasis on rat. A young innocent woman, a loyal University of Chicago in Chicago student named Sheridan Gorman was killed, shot dead last Thursday by an illegal migrant, an invader. And that's the worst story for the left to digest. So what does Chicago alder woman Maria Haddon do? She employs the maybe she was asking for it argument. She implies that Sheridan Gorman caused her own murder. This is truly the lowest of the
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Crime Scene Witness or Reporter
low all the time, right? And they go out on the pier, they walk around. So the the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood. And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun. They might have startled this person at the end of the pier unintentionally,
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Eric Bolling
but that's it's wrong. Wrong place, wrong time. So she deserved to be murdered by an illegal that shouldn't have been here in the first place. You know, remember the old, the analogy, oh, she deserved to be raped because her dress was really. It's the same thing, you moron. It's the same thing. No, she didn't deserve being murdered by an illegal anytime, any place. An older clip has resurfaced of Connecticut's Democrat senator, by the way, Chris Murphy, proving what we've always known, which is that nobody matters more to Democrats than the undocumented invaders. Sorry. Not sorry, Chris, but the Internet lives forever, just like your love for an illegal. Apparently the negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship. It was entirely on their terms in order to get Ukraine funding.
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Cancer Recovery Advocate
Right? Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years. So you are right that that has been the democratic strategy for 30 years maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about, most of the undocumented Americans that are in
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Eric Bolling
this country, the people we care about most, the undocumented US Senator continuing With our theme of did they actually say that? The Democrat pundit named Ashley Allison on CNN actually compares the President, United States to an Iranian regime leader. But she doesn't stop there. She actually suggests he might be worse.
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Political Commentator
The leaders of the Iranian regime, they lie. I think the problem is we don't know if our president is also telling the truth. And so it feels like there are two bad actors in this case. And I am confused. I really don't know. I want my president to.
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Eric Bolling
You're equating the American president to the Iranian regime.
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Political Commentator
No, that's not what I did.
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Sheriff Carmine Marcino
You said two bad actors.
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Political Commentator
But two bad actors don't have to be the exact same type of bad actors. One is a little bad, one is a little worse. I don't know.
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Eric Bolling
One's a little bad, one's a little worse. You can. That's a comparison, lady. You don't understand. That's literally the textbook of comparison is what you just said. Maybe you should open a textbook once in a while. More of did they actually say that? Democrat, Maine Governor Janet Mills, remember her? She yelled at Trump and Trump said, that's going to not work out so well for you. Janet Mills now running for Senate, and she's being questioned about whether or not she can be trusted after she defended Dementia in Chief Joe Biden after that disastrous debate against Trump. And her answer tells you everything you need to know about the mass cover up.
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Advocate for Working with Cancer
You defended Biden after his disastrous debate. You said, quote, over the next several months and especially in the coming days, I look forward to the president demonstrating to the American people the same heart, determination and vigor he brought our conversation this evening. But then in a recent interview with Atlantic, you said that you felt that he should drop out and encouraged it privately, but you still gave that statement and you said that his decision to run again, quote, that was sad. So why should voters trust your judgment now when you had one opinion privately that was very impactful in the fate of our country in the grand scheme of things. And then now when you're vouching for your own health, tell us why we should trust you.
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Eric Bolling
Listen, I wasn't going to kick the guy when he's down. I wants to be US Senator. Wants to be US Senator. Good luck with that. Right here. This is an absolute clown show at this point. No, no person on the left can actually prove that they were born because none of them knows where their birth certificate is. Is that about right? We're supposed to believe that the Senate Minority leader, Chucky Schumer, can't prove he was even born about Mike. Let me ask you a question.
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Cancer Recovery Advocate
Could you find your birth certificate now I couldn't. Could you find your.
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Political Analyst or Commentator
And it's. This is, you know Trump said it, he said this is the way when he knows he's getting killed in election it's to bag. It's to cheat and steal the election in a different way than he did in 20. In 2021.
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Eric Bolling
I'd like to ask you a larger question.
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Political Analyst or Commentator
Can I say on this save?
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Eric Bolling
Sure.
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Political Analyst or Commentator
You can't even use military ID. And here's what happens. This. They the, the. Just a minute. I wrote an op ed.
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Advocate for Working with Cancer
It's in the New York Times.
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Political Analyst or Commentator
Can I show it?
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Eric Bolling
It's a good one, Senator. It's a good one.
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Senator Ron Johnson
Of course you can show it.
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I hope people will read.
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Cancer Recovery Advocate
This is your table.
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I haven't seen it here, here.
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Eric Bolling
Hey Chuck. You can go to the state, your own state where you're born. Vital records office, county clerks, health department in your state or in your county vital check and online service. Right or gov plus those are just four or, or you can go to the hospital that you were born and they'll get you all those will get you a birth certificate. The fight over the SAVE act has revealed one obvious truth. The Democrats are petrified of losing their illegal voter base. Think about it. Why should needing to show a federal ID significantly shrink the voter base unless people are here voting illegally? Cory Booker shines a light on the truth yet again.
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Cancer Recovery Advocate
It would cause chaos to voting and really shrink the voting rolls 5 or 10%.
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Eric Bolling
How does that happen if you're not, if you're not illegal and we pull you out, how does that shrink the vote? The legal voters base is still there. The same number. Math. Just do a little mathing, Corey. We love it when CNN is forced to admit something positive about Trump administration. When it became clear that the President's decision to send ICE officers to airports was actually helping and was positively received by travelers. Well, that must have stung just a little bit.
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Senator Ron Johnson
Finally we can take a deep breath here. The numbers have dropped off, the lines are getting shorter. I think the average wait time now is under 40 minutes. So if you have a flight to catch today, it's a good time to come to Hartsfield, Jacksonville international.
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Eric Bolling
Oh, see that cnn admit that your lines are getting shorter. Oh, sorry, cnn. By the way, we did talk about how Trump said I like CNN more than Newsmax yesterday, didn't we? Oh yeah, I think we did. What's this? A Democrat admitting that a Trump policy has actually helped to improve the situation. Democrat Congressman Steve Cohen is forced to admit on cnn, of course, of all places, that the president's crime crackdown has made his city of Memphis safe.
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Cancer Recovery Advocate
I just last, I want to ask
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Advocate for Working with Cancer
you, Trump is taking some credit for
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bringing down the crime in a district that you're well familiar with there in Memphis. Do you give him some credit for that?
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Eric Bolling
Give him a little bit of credit.
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Cancer Recovery Advocate
We need, we need more policemen. We're about a thousand short in our police force. So having additional FBI agents, having additional DEA agents, having additional alcohol, call firearms, tobacco people. There are other federal law enforcement groups that have been increased their, their, their, their enrollment here in Memphis.
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Senator Ron Johnson
They've helped, it helped.
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Eric Bolling
You love when they have to admit it. By the way, CNN moving to the center a little bit. I don't know, maybe Larry Ellison and his son are pushing CNN to do something that they could never do themselves, which is be fair, be journalists. How about that, Ben? How the heck do you subscribe to that show called the Edge? It's blowing numbers off the charts. How do we do that?
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We we crossed 13,000 subscribers last night. The ban of war rooms coming out in force. I need the bowling army at 4 o' clock to come out in force, too. Please subscribe. It sends a message to YouTube. We get pushed further and further. The bigger we get. Thank you for watching Rav from morning to evening, all the way through the night, waking up the next morning watching Rav. Thank you for watching bowling at 4:00'. Clock. Appreciate that very, very much. And also thank you for really, really considering a subscription right now to Eric Bowling the Edge on YouTube. We'll be back two and a half minutes. I hear, I'm hearing something. Am I hearing. Well, I'm also hearing God, grits and guns. But I, I call out, that's got your in goods. I'm also hearing maybe Mr. Bannon might be in the seat. We'll be back in two and a half. All right, there it is. God, grits and guns. I call God Gibson guns. Yeah, I'm from Florida. Florida. We, we love grits in Florida, but it's got grit and Guns. That song is moving up the charts. I hear it's going to be on Billboard chart. That's pretty amazing. All right, let's jump over to Mr. Stephen K. Banham because we've been breaking down this, this whole, you know, market, the oil markets, the effect on our economy thing since this, this war, this conflict started. And we've been doing it all over Rav and it's been really well, well received across, across platforms. I'm being pulled from different shows to talk about what they see with when I'm on Bannon's War Room, it's pretty amazing because they can't get the man himself, but we can. Look at how lucky we are. We got Stephen K. Bannon. Steve, after we spoke last this morning on your war room, there were a couple of headlines, a couple of headlines that came out. I'm not kidding, you can laugh, but I'm being serious. One of them was according to Axios, and you pointed out, unbelievable, Axios has a pipeline into the administration. U.S. iran may hold high level talks as soon as Thursday. I just read that on the way in. And also two minutes ago, Israeli Channel 12, a cease fire for a period of one month will be announced according to a mechanism that Witkoff and Kushner are working on. And I literally just got that two minutes ago. This stuff going to work. What do you think, brother?
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Steve Bannon
Here's what I think. I think it's a very fluid situation, you know, because you were his first choice to be a secretary of commerce in the first administration. You've known President Trump for many decades. You know, he's a master dealmaker. And you know, after we got off too, the reason I was chuckling is that we had talked about the foreign ministers meeting in Riyadh. The Saudis actually leaked out that they were now going to join the fight and they were pushing Trump to continue the military conflict. So we talked about the increase in oil. There's so many moving pieces to this. So in the fog of war, what I would tell people is just the Centcom, I think, announced they had another hard hit last night. And I believe Admiral Cooper came up maybe in our cold open and told the Iranian people, hey, duck and cover, because we're coming in harder and harder. We're not going to ease up on this regime. I would just tell people to. It's one of the reasons we try to show every side of this, but only we try to curate, Eric, what we think is most important. That's why the look into the market is so important, because it's not that Trump's getting whipsawed by daily moves in the market, but he understands that in this major geopolitical fight that the Persian Gulf is central to that and that oil, whether people like it or not, whether the climate change people wish windmills were more important. As you know, being an old trader, oil is just central to, is just central to the world's economy. And so I would tell people, that's why I'm glad we focused this morning on this Pakistan alternative. It looks like the field marshal may be the lead sled dog. I think they are trying to work on something to have some sort of military stand down so they could, they could eventually get to, you know, get to some sort of accord or get to some sort of deal. But I will tell you, I think CENTCOM is going to continue to pound and, you know, the 82nd Airborne, 3,000 troops, I think are forward deploying from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 5,000 Marines are headed there, will be there by no later, looks like Friday. So more assets are coming together. The conflict itself, I think, is still as intense as it's ever been. When you have, Admiral Cooper's a pretty low key guy, come out and say get ready because we're coming in hard. I would say everything's on the table right now and people should stay tuned hour by hour about how this plays out.
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Eric Bolling
Brilliant strategy. You know, show the force, get in the region, make them believe if you're and know because they likely are, they're ready to go, it's go time for the US and then you bring them to the table and say, you know, we're going to walk away from this right now with the deal or, you know, look what we, look what you got in your, in your future. But Steve, we talked about something I think was very, very important, someone no one's talking about. We talked about this morning that this, there's almost like a collective desire between these Arab nations, these OPEC produce oil producing nations to keep the prices high. And my point was when you hit Iran, what we're doing with Iran and the, all the other countries are going to benefit from this higher price. But just bringing oil from $55 a barrel up to, let's say this does happen and we get to $120 a barrel, which is not unreasonable. It was there a week and a half ago for a brief minute. But if it stays there for say 60 days, this turns into the $120 a barrel. They produce 3 million barrels a day, that's $360 million a day and over the 60 day period, if it lasted that long, it could be a lot longer. We're going to hand them $21.6 billion in a war dividend. Now, I don't think we want to do that, do we?
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Steve Bannon
No, I think this is the whole quandary that the Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury Besant finds himself in. And he's been very reluctant to say they get the cash. But the whole thing about their oil things, the 140 million barrels that's on the high seas, about where the cash goes from that somebody. I think the calculation was five or six billion dollars right there. What would happen to proceeds back there? No, I think this is why if you look at Trita Parsi or any of the people that are close to the regime or close to elements maybe fighting the regime, but fighting it inside of Persia, they keep talking about sanctions. They talk about sanctions. And as you know, Eric, the most important sanction was the one on oil and the inability to, to basically trade. And that's why the Chinese Communist Party that they continue to let go. And I understand some Chinese flag vessels are paying some sort of fee and getting through there. So like I said, I think that's a huge element about the oil prices in Iran and what will happen there. I also think that this development with the Saudis and some people are saying, oh, it's just Israeli intelligence putting that forward, but it looks like at the senior levels of Saudi Arabia, they're one of the people telling President Trump to finish it, they don't want to be held hostage again, although as you talked about this morning, they don't. They probably more than anybody need, given the way that they have essentially not been a good steward of their resources and have really made some investments that haven't worked out. They probably Saudi Aramco and the, and the Saudi Arabs probably need 120, $140 oil better. Worse than anybody, sir.
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Eric Bolling
Yeah, they, they thrive on 120, $140 oil or dollar oil. These force majeures you point out this morning, there's a force majeure. Cutter. Where is Cutter? I'm still trying to figure out if Cutter is a friend or a foe. I literally cannot figure out where they are in relation to our foreign policy. Do you?
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Steve Bannon
I don't think I've been anti Qatar because I was with President Trump the first time we took the trip to, you know, Riyadh, Jerusalem and in the, in Rome, the Vatican actually peeled off after the Riyadh trip to come back because that's when Mueller really announced they were ramping up to go after President Trump. So Reince and I actually headed back to put together a legal team for the president. But in Riyadh at that time, Qatar was the most arrogant of the nations of the Gulf Council. They would not agree to the memorandum of understanding we had about the funding of terror. And remember the fingers being pointed them to be the funder or the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas. Now, I have never seen shortly after that Riyadh trip, as you remember, Eric, they were cut off by the Saudis and UAE and really a beginning of a military conflict that they could have evaporated. Their whole kingdom could have evaporated. Their Emirati, their emirate could have evaporated in 30 days. They managed to pull themselves out. And they're one of the most powerful entities, I think, in Washington, D.C. because they put a ton of money into schools, into education programs, universities in this country. I don't trust the Qataris. I think they're the most untrust of all of them. I think they're still the biggest funder of the Muslim Brotherhood and the partnership that I've talked about now for about two years of the Qataris. And the Turks, to me, is the big threat in the Middle east because Erdogan and the president thinks very highly of him. Whether folks like that or not. He really thinks very highly of Erdogan. Erdogan's, I think, been very open about the reestablishment of kind of the Ottoman Empire and a caliphate from Turkey that would eventually control the two holy sites, like they did for, I think, five or six hundred years, up until.