STINCHFIELD TONIGHT OCTOBER 15TH, 2025

Summary

Podcast Summary: Stinchfield Tonight, October 15th, 2025

Podcast: Real America’s Voice
Host: Grant Stinchfield (iHeartPodcasts)
Air Date: October 16, 2025
Featured Guests: Congressman Randy Fine, Art Del Cueto, Jennifer Horn, Amanda Bartolotta, Britt McHenry, Ian Paisley

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Episode Overview

This episode of “Stinchfield Tonight” dives into the ongoing government shutdown, the impact of mainstream media leaks, border security concerns, and allegations of H-1B visa abuse undermining American workers. Host Grant Stinchfield brings on several guests for in-depth commentary, including Florida Congressman Randy Fine, border expert Art Del Cueto, Los Angeles radio host Jennifer Horn, investigative reporter Amanda Bartolotta, and live input from Northern Ireland’s Ian Paisley. President Donald J. Trump also appears in segments, discussing White House happenings and his legislative priorities.

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Main Topics Covered

1. The government shutdown and party blame
2. Media leaks endangering national security
3. Budget battles, staffing cuts, and judiciary interventions
4. Heightened threats against Border Patrol & ICE, and political response
5. LA County's emergency declaration due to ICE raids
6. H-1B visa abuse and its effects on US workers
7. Globalization, nationalism, and Western values
8. President Trump on government, security, and White House renovations

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Detailed Discussion & Timestamps

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1. The Government Shutdown – Who’s to Blame?

00:00–01:59, 06:30–09:57, 25:36–33:35

• Grant Stinchfield asserts the shutdown is orchestrated by Democrats to undermine Trump and MAGA’s successes, linking this to a broader disdain for American prosperity and "making America great again" (00:00).
• Stinchfield:

  “This is all about Democrats despising the success of MAGA and, of course, the success of President Trump, which in the end is about despising the success of America.” (00:10)

• 16th day of the shutdown, with economic impact estimated at $15 billion daily (00:50).
• Pentagon finds surplus funds to pay troops; Speaker Johnson accuses Democrats of using the military as “hostages.”
• Congressman Randy Fine predicts no end to the shutdown before an impending DC rally, hoping moderate Senate Democrats will “come to their senses.” (01:59, 25:36)
• Both host and guest frame the ongoing budget conflict as politically motivated and self-destructive for Democrats.
• Congressman Fine:

  “One of the things I've learned is a lot of people on the Democratic side hate America. And so hurting America is the goal, not a side effect.” (08:34, 32:12)

• Both decry perceived judicial activism for halting workforce reductions, saying “wacko left judges” are overreaching (06:30, 30:07).

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2. Media Leaks & National Security

02:24–05:14, 26:01–29:32

• Stinchfield criticizes the New York Times for exposing a covert US operation against the Venezuelan regime, arguing it endangers American operatives and undermines Trump (02:24).
• President Trump is heard dodging a question about CIA authority against Maduro:

  “Wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer? But I think Venezuela is feeling heat, but... a lot of other countries are feeling heat, too.” (03:30, 27:08)

• Congressman Fine rebukes the Times, calling disclosure “un-American” and lamenting journalistic prioritization of damaging Trump over safety (04:51).

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3. Budget Cuts, Federal Judges, and “Trimming the Swamp”

06:30–09:57, 30:07–33:49

• Congressman Fine argues for government downsizing and lauds the effort to trim waste, referencing Russ Vought’s plan for eliminating extraneous government workers (07:19, 07:42).
• Stinchfield highlights that the trillion-dollar annual deficit must be addressed; both men rebuke judicial halts as overreaching and motivated by liberal politics (30:07).
• Fine describes D.C. as worse than expected:

  “As bad as I thought it would be, it's worse. The problem is most of these politicians fear the wrong people. They fear the voters. They shouldn't fear the voters. They should fear their children...so many selfish decisions that aren't made in the best interest of the country.” (09:20, 32:58)

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4. Threats Against Border Patrol and Law Enforcement

10:14–16:17, 34:56–39:54

• Host details new cartel bounties for harming ICE and CBP agents: $2,000 for intelligence on agents, $5,000–10,000 for kidnapping, $50,000 for assassinations (11:27, 34:56).
• Art Del Cueto, former Border Patrol, decries politicians like Illinois Governor Pritzker threatening federal agents, saying such rhetoric “empowers the cartels, empowers criminals” (12:57, 36:34).
• Del Cueto describes ongoing dangers to agents’ families, rising doxing, and emphasizes the underrecognized heroism of BORTAC units, Border Patrol’s tactical division (15:24, 39:07).

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5. LA County’s Emergency Declaration Over ICE Raids

16:35–22:43, 40:10–46:21

• Stinchfield and Jennifer Horn criticize LA County for declaring an emergency in response to ICE raids, arguing it pays illegal immigrants to stay home and discusses offering eviction protections (17:10, 40:47).
• Horn explains extended eviction moratoriums have devastated landlords post-COVID, with no relief for property owners (19:39, 43:17).
• Horn:

  “You can break the law and get paid to stay home from work…we're rewarding bad behavior in Los Angeles because they just can't handle maintaining the law.” (19:12, 42:49)

• Both point out the difficulties this policy creates for affordable housing and small property owners (20:46, 44:23).

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6. Abuse of the H-1B Visa Program

47:03–56:16

• Stinchfield discusses WorldNetDaily’s investigation into widespread abuse of H-1B visas, especially by tech companies. Former Disney IT employees are cited as being forced to train their lower-paid replacements (48:55).
• Amanda Bartolotta (WND):

  “…a backdoor way of, you know, gaining those jobs…agreements with big tech companies with (the) India government to train Indian nationals…a backdoor way of bringing cheaper, more controllable foreign workers…” (50:32)

• Bartolotta warns of the magnitude of Indian influence: “It’s huge. The amount of data that they own that is ours…there’s a lot of security risks there.” (55:02)
• Stinchfield underscores the connection between offshoring, data security, and undermined domestic labor.

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7. Globalization, Free Speech, and Western Values

56:18–60:02

• Live segment from Liberty University (Brit McHenry, Ian Paisley).
• Paisley frames globalization as a “war on people,” but forecasts victory via steadfastness:

  “I’m prepared for victory…we need to just identify the problem and keep challenging it and not be afraid to speak up and push back on it.” (58:28)

• Paisley urges Americans and Brits to resist encroachment on free speech and national identity.

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8. President Trump Address Segments

60:02–74:36 (White House event, some choppy audio)

• Trump discusses foreign affairs (Russia, Ukraine, Middle East), hints the Ukraine war would have been avoided “if the right person were here” (60:02).
• Announces plans for a new White House ballroom:

  “…going to build the ballroom and I’m going to start right at the beginning…designed by one of the top architects in Washington…” (62:00)

• Praises safe streets and crime reduction in D.C.; credits this to deportations and strict immigration enforcement.
• Frames legislative win as “the great big beautiful bill,” combining tax cuts, social programs, and worker benefits all “in one” (69:39).
• Encourages continued engagement and closes on a note of appreciation for supporters and law enforcement.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On the Government Shutdown
  • “It’s all about Democrats despising the success of MAGA and the success of President Trump…” — Grant Stinchfield (00:10)
  • “Hurting America is the goal, not a side effect.” — Rep. Randy Fine (08:34, 32:12)
• On Media Accountability
  • “It’s un-American. It’s just wrong. They had a choice about what to do with it. And I think they made the wrong decision.” — Rep. Randy Fine, on NYT Venezuela leaks (05:25)
• On Border Security
  • “They’re empowering the criminals by saying those things…every threat moving forward needs to be taken serious.” — Art Del Cueto (36:34)
• On H-1B Abuse
  • “It becomes a backdoor way of gaining those jobs.” — Amanda Bartolotta (50:32)
  • “You’re now not just taking the jobs, you’re putting us at a national security risk.” — Amanda Bartolotta (55:46)

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Key Timestamps for Reference

• 00:00 — Grant frames shutdown as anti-Trump, anti-American prosperity
• 02:24 — NYT leak controversy, Trump’s response
• 06:30 — Federal judge halts firings, debate on bureaucracy
• 10:14 — Increased cartel threats against agents
• 16:35 — California emergency over ICE
• 47:03 — H-1B visa abuse discussion
• 56:18 — UK/Northern Ireland on globalization
• 60:02 — Trump at the White House, foreign affairs & renovations
• 69:39 — Trump on legislative wins, crime, and closing remarks

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Tone & Style

• Tone: Combative, patriotic, urgent, anti-establishment, and supportive of Trump/MAGA policies
• Language: Colorful, casual, and provocative with strong partisan framing
• Style: Energetic monologue with direct audience engagement, punctuated by brisk, assertive interviews

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Conclusion

This episode underscores the Real America’s Voice brand: a defiant alternative to mainstream media, unapologetically critical of Democrats, and ardently pro-Trump. The arguments center on government overreach, the consequences of unchecked immigration, and global threats to American sovereignty. Support for law enforcement is vigorously defended, and economic anxieties around middle-class erosion are foregrounded via the H-1B discussion. Trump's White House appearance encapsulates the party’s vision of legislative triumph, national security, and American exceptionalism.

Transcript

[Grant Stinchfield]

This is an I Heart podcast. Well, good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. As we look at this government shutdown, I want to make something very, very clear. This is all about Democrats despising the success of MAGA and of course, the success of President Trump, which in the end is about despising the success of America. And they will do everything they can to derail it. I am convinced that's what this government shutdown is all about. They want to derail President Trump's success of making this country great again. We now enter the 16th day that will be tomorrow of this government shutdown. Here's the Treasury Secretary. We are starting to cut into muscle here. We believe that the shutdown may start costing the US economy up to $15 billion a day. And this is a decision the Democrats are making. It's so simple, and I know you've heard it a million times, but it is worth repeating. They could literally sign onto this legislation and the entire government gets funded just as it was before. No pet projects for Republicans, nothing. Just moving on down the road, which I'm not a big fan of, but I'd rather our troops get paid. Now. We are told the Pentagon has found a surplus of money. They will pay the troops with the surplus of money. But as Speaker Johnson points out, this is the Democrats literally using our United States military as hostages. It's despicable.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Hope it ends soon. I don't think it will end before the, you know, hate America rally on the. On the Mall on Saturday where they. All the Marxists and antifa people and all the people who hate Trump and hate America will be there after that, though I hope there's a couple of sensitive Democrat sensible Democrats who will come their senses over in the Senate and vote the right way to do the right thing that they have always done every time in the past in their career, of course.

[Grant Stinchfield]

So somehow they want to make President Trump look bad. They don't want American success because then that would have Americans voting for Democrats down the road. Excuse me, for Republicans down the road. But in the end, I think they're really hurting their own party, and maybe they're too dumb to see it. This looks like a massive miscalculation to me. So you've got Democrat lawmakers, and then you've got the corporate media run by leftists. Enter the New York Times. The New York Times apparently exposed a highly confidential, top secret operation inside Venezuela to disrupt that very brutal regime that is sending all kinds of drugs like fentanyl to the United States to kill American Citizens. The New York Times exposes this, I believe, ultimately putting American operatives in danger, working inside Venezuela and then forcing President Trump to acknowledge that this Operation immigration is going down, taking totally away America's element of surprise as we try to fight back against that rogue regime. Here's President Trump.

[Donald J. Trump]

Does the CIA have authority to take out Maduro? Oh, I don't want to answer a question like that. That's a ridiculous question for me to be given. Not really a ridiculous question, but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer? But I think Venezuela is feeling heat, but I think a lot of other countries are feeling heat, too.

[Grant Stinchfield]

The New York Times is responsible for all of this. Now, I worked in mainstream media, and if you get word of covert operations, you should not be releasing those to the public because I do believe it puts American lives in danger. The New York Times doesn't care. They know their leftists will hate the idea of President Trump taking action against that rogue nation. And so that's what they want to do, is damage President Trump even if it gets Americans killed. Well, I want to bring in now to discuss the budget battle, the situation of leftists literally trying to destroy America and so many more topics. I want to bring in Florida Republican Congressman Randy Fine is with us. Congressman, welcome to the program.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Thanks for having me tonight.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely, I guess. Well, we'll take this backwards. Your thoughts? Because it's just started making news this afternoon about the New York Times exposing this operation inside Venezuela. President Trump being forced to acknowledge some of what's going on there. Your thoughts on that, Congressman?

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Yeah, look, it's incredibly disappointing. You know, members of the New York Times are still Americans. And what Venezuela is doing and has done is horrific and terrible and revealing confidential, secret operations by the United States government that are meant to protect the world, I think is really wrong. And I think those people need to go look at themselves in the mirror tonight and ask what's wrong with them.

[Grant Stinchfield]

How often do you think the CIA operatives are working in other rogue nations and running operations there? Is this commonplace, not just with this administration, but others as well?

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Well, I don't know. We have a CIA for a reason and they do things that are good. But what we've all agreed is what Maduro is doing in Venezuela is bad. I believe Democrats generally agree with that as well. And so for the left to go and expose this, which is meant to bring peace to our side of the globe, to get R of a ruthless dictator and to expose all of that, it's un American. It's just wrong. And I don't care if they got the information. They had a choice about what to do with it. And I think they made the wrong decision.

[Grant Stinchfield]

These debates go on in journalism school, you know, across the country since the beginning of time. And almost always you err on the side of if you could put American citizens in danger because of your reporting, you should not be reporting on that. But again, the New York Times doesn't care about that. I want to turn now to the budget battle. We got word from a federal judge now is temporarily hal firings of government employees. Your response to the point now where at least President Trump, if there's any benefit, maybe we can trim the size of government. But again, we get a judge who says, hold on.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Well, I think we have to take a look at whether this judge should continue to be a judge. The Supreme Court ruled that you can't go to some judge sitting in some city, in some state, and they can't make a ruling that would affect the entire country. That's exactly what happened here. Liberals ran to some leftist judge in San Francisco who told Donald Trump how he can run the country. You know, Democrats like to talk about no kings rallies. The only kings I see out there are some of these wacko left judges that don't seem to know their place.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, let me play a quote from Russ Vogt, the budget director. This, I believe happened before this ruling came down. But he gets to the heart of President Trump's plan. Here, take it, take a look. So are we talking 10 people? We talking a thousand people?

[Art Del Cueto]

We talking, we're definitely talking people, we're.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Definitely talking thousands of people. Much of the reporting has been based on kind of court snapshots, which they've articulated is in the 4,000, 4,000 number of people. But that's just a snapshot and I think it'll get much higher. Do you think the necessary, the cuts are necessary, Congressman? Fine.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Well, absolutely. Look, I want a smaller government. And if Democrats want to keep the government closed, the areas where people aren't suffering, they clearly, we don't need those people. And so if Russ Vaught can find thousands of wasted employees, people who are getting paid to do things that we don't need to do, we should get rid of it. People have to remember we run a trillion dollar deficit every year, spending a trillion dollars we don't have. So if Russ Vaught can help solve that problem by shrinking the size of government, I say more power to him.

[Grant Stinchfield]

How long is this going to go on for? I mean, you know, I said earlier, I know that you have leaders like Chuck Schumer and then Barack Obama before him when he was president that really, I believe they truly hate America. But I think this is a miscalculation. I know some of this is trying to damage President Trump. I think it's only damaging them. How long do you think this lasts?

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Well, I think you nailed it. One of the things I've learned. I'm the newest member of Congress, and one of the things I've learned is a lot of people on the Democratic side hate America. And so hurting America is the goal, not a side effect. Keeping the government closed hurts America. Giving money to illegal immigrants hurts America. Borrowing another trillion and a half dollars hurts America. So that's a win for them. I don't know how long it goes on. I hope Speaker Johnson is right that once all their buddies who hate America come and throw a big temper tantrum in Washington, it's over. But I don't know. I've been home now for four weeks. I'm ready to get back to work.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, I know you're one of the newest members of Congress. You campaign, like most people, wanted to drain the swamp and get down to the basics. Is there anything that surprised you since you've been there?

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Oh, absolutely. Look, as bad as I thought it would be, it's worse. And the problem is most of these politicians fear the wrong people. They fear the voters. They shouldn't fear the voters. They should fear their children. Their children is who they're leaving the country to. And there are so many selfish decisions that aren't made in the best interest of the country that are gonna really damage the generations that come after us. I'm very fearful of the future of America. Thank God for President Trump. But a lot of these other people that are around are just a nightmare. And I'm very, very pessimistic about where we are right now.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Well, we're on the way to turning it around, so let's just keep saying our prayers and keep fighting like the dickens, which I know you're doing up there at Rep. Fine is where people could find you on social media. Congressman, it's great to have you on the program. Thank you.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Thanks for having me. I'll keep fighting.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely. I know you will. And. And we will, too. It's what Finishfield's army is about, is about fighting. And I'll tell you what, there's a group of people that need our help and our support. I'm talking about Border Patrol. I'm talking about ICE agents that now apparently have bounties for their heads. A new DHS warning has been issued that bounties originating in Mexico by the carte are being offered to shoot ICE and CBP agents in Chicago. Check this out. $2,000 will be given to gather information intelligence on these people, including photos of their family members. 5 to 10,000 to kidnap someone and create non lethal assaults on on these agents. And $50,000 for the assassination of high ranking individuals. That would explain what we heard last night from Border Patrol Chief Greg Bevino in Chicago. Listen, things have changed a lot since those bounties were put out. We've had to take different measures to keep our agents safe, our ICE officer safe and our allied law enforcement agents safe as they go into the field.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

And something else, Harris, that we're seeing is the lethality of the assaults against officers and agents.

[Grant Stinchfield]

He had a bounty on his head if you could believe it. Then of course, instead of protecting those people who are literally putting their lives on the line for us, they put a flag on their shoulder, march out that door every day and don't know if they're going to come home. You get people like the governor of Illinois, this Pritzker character who has other ideas for these law enforcement officers. The tables will turn someday. These people should recognize that maybe they're not going to get prosecuted today, although we're looking at doing that. But they may get prosecuted after the Trump administration for the things that they did because the statute of limitations won't have run things they did? Arresting illegal aliens, going out and tracking down criminals who have committed numerous crimes. What do you mean things that they did? If anybody needs to be arrested, it's as President Trump said, said Governor Pritzker needs to be arrested. I want to bring in now to discuss this border security advisor for the Federation for Immigrant American Immigration Reform. And of course he was a former border patrol agent. Art Del Cueto is back with us. Art, it is always good to see you.

[Art Del Cueto]

Thank you Grant. I appreciate you having me on, my friend.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely, buddy. So let's take this from first Pritzker, he's going to arrest your once fellow agents.

[Art Del Cueto]

See that's what's sickening. You got individuals that, you know, they got elected, they, they were put in so called leadership positions even though they're not really leaders. And now they're making these types of threats, these types of decisions and all along all they've been doing is, you know, empowering the cartels, empowering criminals. We have these threats. Look, you and I are friends. So, you know, but there's a lot of people that don't know. I've been receiving death threats since before 2016. And look, moving forward now, it's become even more and more serious because now they just want to dox everyone. You have leadership that's open and saying, hey, unmask. We want to see what you look like. So you're empowering the criminals by saying those things. And every threat moving forward needs to be taken serious. And when we're hearing Chief Bovino talk about, you know, a lot of these assaults have gone up, well, you know what, the assaults have gone up, but I want to see the prosecutions go up. If you're having people get assaulted, then you better be prosecuting those individuals for assaulting the agents as well.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Art, you know, I know the agents yourself are all big boys and girls. You guys can handle yourselves out out in the field. But when you see things like $2,000 given to gather intelligence on agents families, including taking pictures of their children, that to me, is when it reaches a whole nother level. And that from the cartels were very upset because the border is shut down.

[Art Del Cueto]

Absolutely. That's disgusting. Look, our families didn't sign up for this, plain and simple. And you're right. You know, a lot of us, we're big boys and we know what we're doing and we carry. But it's just not fair because you don't know. These people are slime balls, Grant. So they're not gonna come, you know, face you face to face and say something. They're gonna be hiding somewhere and come after you. And these people, they don't have any morals. They don't care about us. They don't care about our families, they don't care about our country. And at the end of the day, what's even more sickening is that you have politicians in this country that is empowering them. But I will say this. Hats off to the BORTAC agents out there within border patrol. You know, you got a lot of specialty units from ICE and HSI and everything else, but, you know, sometimes you see the bortacs, I don't think the BORTAC themselves get enough credit. So I do want to send a special thank you and shout out to BORTAC agents. You know, for the longest time, when I had security threats against me, they were always there to make sure that I was safe. And they're continuing to do their job. You know, that's the elite of border patrol.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Art, real quickly, tell folks at home What Bortech really is, it's a tactical.

[Art Del Cueto]

Unit within Border Patrol. They have, you know, it's regular. It's Border Patrol agents. And they go through a different type of training in order to assist with a lot of these situations. They get deployed in a lot of spots where, you know, it's more tactical. Right. So they're Border Patrol's tactical unit. And they do get deployed in a lot of very, very hostile situations. And, you know, hats off to them. They're the ones that you have seen getting attacked in Chicago. They were attacked in Los Angeles. I got several friends that were out there during those events. They don't get enough credit, honestly. The Border Patrol as a whole, they don't get enough credit as they should because they're the ones that are out there leading the way in uniform. You know, they don't have that extra distinction where they can go out there and plain clothes like the other agencies within immigration do.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, for sure. Which is why we try to give Border Patrol as much credit as possible on this program and have for a long time because we're so grateful to people like yourself, Art Del Cueto, and all the men and women that, that you used to work with before your retirement. We appreciate you, my friend. Thanks for coming on tonight.

[Art Del Cueto]

Thank you so much.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely. All right, Art Del Cueto AZ is where you can find him at Art Del Cueto AZ all right, folks, now I want to turn to California, Louisiana. County has declared an emergency. Well, they had a lot of rain out there, but this emergency is about the rain. They get earthquakes every now and then. No earth, no earthquake emergency. No fire emergency either. Sometimes they have fires. We know about that. The emergency is over. Ice raids. That's right. LA county declared emergency over ice raids. And the news media loves it.

[Jennifer Horn]

Federal immigration agents swarming car washes.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Home.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Depot locations and other businesses, chasing down and grabbing workers, loading them into vehicles and driving away. The chaotic scenes happening numerous times over the last five months since I started immigration enforcement operations in the Los Angeles area. Wouldn't it be a better way instead of grabbing people, force them into cars, arresting illegal aliens who snuck into this country, many of them who committed other crimes on top of the original crime of sneaking into America. But they won't talk like that. But that is literally fact. So anyway, because of that sensationalism, you got L. A County issuing a state of emergency. And here's what they want to do. They want to put aside money to pay the illegal aliens to stay home. Because the people that broke the law, speaking into the country. The people that broke the law going to work with someone who hired them, that's breaking the law. They don't want to go out in public because they fear ICE agents. So the county of California is going to pay them. Have you got that straight? This is County Supervisor Horvath. You know, I appreciate we've had conversation of kind of legal risk and if we feel very strongly that these are immoral, unethical actions and then that that leaves an opportunity for the county to lean in and be willing to take the legal risk to provide real protections to our residents. We're at a point that a county is going to pay criminals to stay home because they can't commit the crimes of working for a business that they're not allowed to work at.

[Donald J. Trump]

You understand?

[Grant Stinchfield]

Bringing in now to discuss this, my co host out on The Morning Answer AM870 in Los Angeles, Jennifer Horn is with us. Jen, welcome to the program.

[Jennifer Horn]

Just when you think it can't get any crazier, Grant just LA says hold my beer. And here they come. Can you, I mean, can you believe it? What a gig. You can break the law and get paid to stay home from work.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, tell me that. And this next phase, which hasn't been voted in yet, but a possibility is to provide eviction protection to these illegal aliens that they can't be evicted. And so because they can't work. So the landlords just lose the money.

[Jennifer Horn]

Yeah, they're going to stick it to Mr. Furley. This is just great. And by the way, the landlords have already had it tough. You know, during the COVID pandemic, we had a two and a half year eviction moratorium. So you had people losing literally billions of dollars rent money that will never be recouped, that just has gone away. And landlords are just starting to rebuild back now, the moratorium went almost until 2023, if believe it. And now fast forward, President Trump does what he's supposed to do, which is enforce the law and has federal agents going in and enforcing immigration laws. And the county of Los Angeles says, well, wait a second, the state of emergency is now in place so that we can do a couple of things. As you mentioned, the eviction moratorium will be on the way. You know, that'll be coming next, the emergency funds and services. And again, we're rewarding bad behavior in Los Angeles because they just can't handle maintaining the law. These few women on the board of supervisors. Wolf, Katie Porter could get a job there.

[Grant Stinchfield]

It amazes me that this is what they decide. And then you and I talk about this all the time in the morning. California is so concerned about low income housing they want to bring. How are you going to bring in low income housing when you're telling every landlord who would have a multi family house or apartment building that a we may give eviction protection to the tenants if they can't pay you. Nobody's going to come in and build high rise apartment buildings with that law in place.

[Jennifer Horn]

No. In fact, I think I've told you myself, I actually have some land and I've always been thinking about, gosh, I should put a duplex on there and you know, become a slumlord in some terrible town in Los Angeles. No, I'm just kidding. But seriously, you could be Mrs. Firley, I'm gonna be Mrs. Roper. Please, that's more my jam. But why you have to think tw about whether or not you want to do that? Because I actually this. I don't even know if I shared this with you, but a listener to our morning show came up to me during the COVID pandemic at one of our events, almost in tears because he said he was losing his own home because he couldn't afford to keep up with the property taxes on the property that he was renting because none of his tenants were paying rent and they didn't do it for two and a half years. That doesn't mean that the property taxes stop. That doesn't mean that the cost of being a landowner in Los Angeles stops. It just means that revenue stops because the board of supervisors has decided that it is better for people to stay home and fear monger to make President Trump and immigration agents look bad.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Jen, most people take out mortgages, loans on these. That's right, family properties. And the bank's not saying, oh, California gave an eviction moratorium, you don't have to pay the note. This is insanity. And to think they're getting a moratorium because they're criminals and they're afraid of being arrested. I mean, that is the highlight of it all. Gen Horn as always, I appreciate you coming on tonight. Thank you.

[Jennifer Horn]

Thanks for having me.

[Grant Stinchfield]

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[Donald J. Trump]

All right?

[Grant Stinchfield]

Big business is exploiting legal immigration policy to undercut American workers. All right, what's being done about it? I don't know. We're gonna talk about it next foreign Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Stitchfield. As we look at this government shutdown, I want to make something very, very clear. This is all about Democrats despising the success of MAGA and of course, the success of President Trump, which in the end is about despising the success of America. And they will do everything they can to derail it. I am convinced that's what this government shutdown is all about. They want to derail President Trump's success of making this country great again. We now enter the 16th day that will be tomorrow of this government shutdown. Here's the Treasury Secretary. We are starting to cut into muscle here. We believe that the shutdown may start costing the US economy up to $15 billion a day. And this is a decision the Democrats are making. It's so simple, and I know you've heard it a million times, but it is worth repeating. They could literally sign onto this legislation and the entire government gets funded just as it was before. No pet projects for Republicans, nothing. Just moving on down the road, which I'm not a big fan of, but I'd rather our troops get paid now. We are told the Pentagon has found a surplus of money. They will pay the troops with the surplus of money. But as Speaker Johnson points out, this is the Democrats literally using our United States military as hostages. It's despicable.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Hope it ends soon. I don't think it will end before the, you know, hate America rally on the. On the Mall on Saturday where they. All the Marxists and antifa people and all the people who hate Trump and hate America will be there after that. Though I hope there's a couple of sensitive Democrat sensible Democrats who will come their senses over in the Senate and vote the right way to do the right thing that they have always done every time in the past in their career, of course.

[Grant Stinchfield]

So somehow they want to make President Trump look bad. They don't want American success because then that would have Americans voting for Democrats down the road. Excuse me, for Republicans down the road. But in the end, I think they're really hurting their own party and maybe they're too dumb to see it. This looks like a massive miscalculation to me. So you've got Democrat lawmakers and then you've got the corporate media run by leftists. Enter the New York Times. The New York Times apparently exposed a highly confidential, top secret operation inside Venezuela to disrupt that very brutal regime that is sending all kinds of drugs like fentanyl to the United States to kill American citizens. The New York Times exposes this, I believe, ultimately putting American operatives in danger, working inside Venezuela and then forcing President Trump to acknowledge that this operation is going down, taking totally away America's element of surprise as we try to fight back against that rogue regime. Here's President Trump.

[Donald J. Trump]

Does the CIA have authority to take out Maduro? Oh, I don't want to answer a question like that. That's a ridiculous question for me to be given. Not really a ridiculous question, but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to answer? But I think Venezuela is feeling heat, but I think a lot of other countries are feeling heat, too.

[Grant Stinchfield]

The New York Times is responsible for all of this. Now, I worked in mainstream media, and if you get word of covert operations, you should not be releasing those to the public because I do believe it puts American lives in danger. The New York Times doesn't care. They know their leftists will hate the idea of President Trump taking action against that rogue nation. And so that's what they want to do, is damage President Trump even if it gets Americans killed. Well, I want to bring in now to discuss the budget battle, the situation of leftists literally trying to destroy America, and so many more topics. I want to bring in Florida. Republican Congressman Randy Fine is with us. Congressman, welcome to the program.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Thanks for having me tonight.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely. I guess we'll take this backwards. Your thoughts? Because it's just started making news this afternoon about the New York Times exposing this operation inside Venezuela. President Trump being forced to acknowledge some of what's going on there. Your thoughts on that, Congress, Congressman?

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Yeah, look, it's incredibly disappointing. You know, members of the New York Times are still Americans. And what Venezuela is doing and has done is horrific and terrible and revealing confidential, secret operations by the United States government that are meant to protect the world, I think is really wrong. And I think those people need to go look at themselves in the mirror tonight and ask what's wrong with them.

[Grant Stinchfield]

How often do you think the CIA operatives are working in other rogue nations and running operations? There is this commonplace, not just with this administration, but others as well.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Well, I don't know we have a CIA for a reason, and they do things that are good. But what we've all agreed is what Maduro is doing in Venezuela is bad. I believe Democrats generally agree with that as well. And so for the left to go and expose this, which is meant to bring peace to our side of the globe, to get rid of a ruthless dictator and to expose all of that, it's un American. It's just wrong. And I don't care if they got the information. They had a choice about what to do with it. And I think they made the wrong decision.

[Grant Stinchfield]

These debates go on in journalism school, you know, across the country, since the beginning of time. And almost always you err on the side of if you could put American citizens in danger because of your reporting, you should not be reporting on that. But again, the New York Times doesn't care about that. I want to turn now to the budget battle. We got word from a federal judge now is temporarily halted firings of government employees. Your response to the point now where at least President Trump, if there's any benefit, maybe we can trim the size of government. But again, we get a judge who says, hold on.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Well, I think we have to take a look at whether this judge should continue to be a judge. The Supreme Court ruled that you can't go to some judge sitting in some city, in some state, and they can't make a ruling that would affect the entire country. That's exactly what happened here. Liberals ran to some leftist judge in San Francisco who told Donald Trump how he can run the country. You know, Democrats like to talk about no kings rallies. The only kings I see out there are some of these wacko left judges that don't seem to know their place.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, let me play a quote from Russ Vogt, the budget director. This, I believe happened before this ruling came down. But he gets to the heart of President Trump's plan here. Taking. Take a look. So are we talking 10 people? We're talking a thousand people.

[Art Del Cueto]

We talking.

[Grant Stinchfield]

We're definitely talking people.

[Art Del Cueto]

We're definitely talking thousands of people.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Much of the reporting has been based on kind of court snapshots, which they've articulated is in the 4,000, 4,000 number of people. But that's just a snapshot, and I.

[Art Del Cueto]

Think it'll get much higher.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Do you think the cuts are necessary, Congressman? Fine.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Well, absolutely. Look, I want a smaller government. And if Democrats want to keep the government closed, the areas where people aren't suffering, they clearly, we don't need those people. And so if Russ Vaught can Find thousands of wasted employees, people who are getting paid to do things that we don't need to do. We should get rid of it. People have to remember we run a trillion dollar deficit every year, spending a trillion dollars we don't have. So if Russ Vaughn can help solve that problem by shrinking the size of government, I say more power to him.

[Grant Stinchfield]

How long is this going to go on for? I mean, you know, I said earlier, I know that you have leaders like Chuck Schumer and then Barack Obama before him when he was president that really, I believe they truly hate America. But I think this is a miscalculation. I know some of this is trying to damage President Trump.

[Donald J. Trump]

Trump.

[Grant Stinchfield]

I think it's only damaging them. How long do you think this lasts?

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Well, I think you nailed it. One of the things I've learned, I'm the newest member of Congress, and one of the things I've learned is a lot of people on the Democratic side hate America. And so hurting America is the goal, not a side effect. Keeping the government closed hurts America. Giving money to illegal immigrants hurts America. Borrowing another trillion and a half dollars hurts America. So that's a win for them. I don't know how long it goes on. I hope Speaker Johnson is right that once all their buddies who hate America come and throw a big temper tantrum in Washington, it's over. But I don't know. I've been home now for four weeks. I'm ready to get back to work.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, I know. You're one of the newest members of Congress. You campaign like most people wanted to drain the swamp and get down to the basics. Is there anything that surprised you since you've been there?

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Oh, absolutely. Look, as bad as I thought it would be, it's worse. And the problem is most of these politicians fear the wrong people. They fear the voters. They shouldn't fear the voters. They should fear their children. Their children is who they're leaving the country to. And there are so many selfish decisions that aren't made in the best interest of the country that are gonna really damage the generations that come after us. I'm very fearful of the future of America. Thank God for President Trump. But a lot of these other people that are around are just a nightmare. And I'm very, very pessimistic about where we are right now.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Well, we're on the way to turning it around, so let's just keep saying our prayers and keep fighting like the dickens, which I know you're doing up there at Rep. Fine. FIN F I N E is where people could find you on social media. Congressman, it's great to have you on the program. Thank you.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Thanks for having me. I'll keep fighting.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely. I know you will. And, and we will too. It's what Finishfield's army is about, is about fighting. And I'll tell you what, there's a group of people that need our support. I'm talking about Border Patrol, I'm talking about ICE agents that now apparently have bounties for their heads. A new DHS warning has been issued that bounties originating in Mexico by the cartels are being offered to shoot ICE and CBP agents in Chicago. Check this out. $2,000 will be given to gather information intelligence on these people, including photos of their family members. 5 to 10,000 to kidnap someone and create non lethal assaults on on these agents. And $50,000 for the assassination of high ranking individuals. That would explain what we heard last night from Border Patrol Chief Greg Bevino in Chicago. Listen, things have changed a lot since those bounties were put out.

[Jennifer Horn]

We've had to take different measures to.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Keep our agents safe, our ICE officer safe, and our allied law enforcement agents safe as they go into the field.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

And something else, Harris, that we're seeing is the lethality of the assaults against officers and agents.

[Grant Stinchfield]

He had a bounty on his head, if you could believe it. Then of course, instead of protecting those people who are literally putting their lives on the line for us, they put a flag on their shoulder, march out that door every day and don't know if they're going to come home. You get people like the governor of Illinois, this Pritzker character who has other ideas for these law enforcement officers. The tables will turn someday. These people should recognize that maybe they're not going to get prosecuted today, although we're looking at doing that. But they may get prosecuted after the Trump administration for the things that they did because the statute of limitations won't have run things they did. Arresting illegal aliens, going out and tracking down criminals who have committed numerous crimes. What do you mean things that they did? If anybody needs to be arrested, it says President Trump said Governor Pritzker needs to be arrested. I want to bring in now to discuss this border security advisor for the Federation for Immigrant American Immigration Reform. And of course, he was a former Border Patrol agent. Art Del Cueto is back with us. Art, it is always good to see you.

[Art Del Cueto]

Thank you, Grant. I appreciate you having me on, my friend.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely, buddy. So let's take this from first. Pritzker, he's going to arrest your Once fellow agents.

[Art Del Cueto]

See, that's what's sickening. You got individuals that, you know, they got elected, they were put in so called leadership positions, even though they're not really leaders. And now they're making these types of threats, these types of decisions, and all along all they've been doing is, you know, empowering the cartels, empowering criminals. We have these threats. Look, you and I are friends, so, you know, but there's a lot of people that don't know. I've been receiving death threats since before 2016. And look, moving forward now, it's become even more and more serious because now they just want to dox everyone. You have leadership that's open and saying, hey, unmask. We want to see what you look like. So you're empowering the criminals by saying those things. And every threat moving forward needs to be taken serious. And when we're hearing Chief Bovino talk about, you know, a lot of these assaults have gone up, well, you know what, the assaults have gone up, but I want to see the prosecutions go up. If you're having people get assaulted, then you better be prosecuting those individuals for assaulting the agents as well.

[Donald J. Trump]

All right.

[Grant Stinchfield]

You know, I know the agents yourself are all big boys and girls. You guys can handle yourselves out, out in the field. But when you see things like $2,000 given to gather intelligence on agents families, including taking pictures of their children, that to me is when it reaches a whole nother level. And that from the cartels who were very upset because the board border is shut down.

[Art Del Cueto]

Absolutely. That's disgusting. Look, our families didn't sign up for this, plain and simple. And you're right, you know, a lot of us, we're big boys and we know what we're doing and we carry, but it's just not fair because you don't know. These people are slime balls, Grant. So they're not going to come, you know, face you face to face and say something. They're going to be hiding somewhere and come after you. And these people, they don't have any morals, they don't care about us, they don't care about our families, they don't care about our country. And at the end of the day, what's even more sickening is that you have politicians in this country that is empowering them. But I will say this. Hats off to the BORTAC agents out there within border patrol. You know, you got a lot of specialty units from ICE and HSI and everything else, but you know, sometimes you see the bortacs. I don't think the BORTAC themselves get enough credit. So I do want to send a special thank you and shout out to BORTAC agents. You know, for the longest time when I had security threats against me, they were always there to make sure that I was safe. And they continue to do their job. You know, that's the elite of Border Patrol.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Art, real quickly, tell folks at home what Bortech really is.

[Art Del Cueto]

It's a tactical unit within Border Patrol. They have, you know, it's regular, it's Border Patrol agents and they go through a different type of training in order to assist with a lot of these situations. They get deployed in a lot of spots where, you know, it's more tactical. Right. So they're Border Patrols tactical unit. And they do get deployed in a lot of very, very hostile situations. And, you know, hats off to them. They're the ones that you have seen getting attacked in Chicago. They were attacked in Los Angeles. I got several friends that were out there during those events. They don't get enough credit, honestly. The Border Patrol as a whole. They don't get enough credit as they should because they're the ones that are out there leading the way in uniform. You know, they don't have that extra distinction where they can go out there and plain clothes like the other agencies within immigration do.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, for sure. Which is why we try to give Border Patrol as much credit as possible on this program and have for a long time because we're so grateful to people like yourself, Art Del Cueto, and all the men and women that, that you used to work with before your retirement. We appreciate you, my friend. Thanks for coming on tonight.

[Art Del Cueto]

Thank you so much.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely. All right, Art Del Cueto AZ is where you can find him at Art Del Cueto az. All right, folks, now I want to turn to California, Louisiana. County has declared an emergency. Well, they had a lot of rain out there, but this emergency is about the rain. They get earthquakes every now and then. No earth, no earthquake emergency, no fire emergency either. Sometimes they have fires. We know about that. The emergency is over. ICE raids. That's right. LA county declared emergency over ICE raids and the news media loves it.

[Jennifer Horn]

Federal immigration agents swarming car washes.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Home Depot locations and other businesses, chasing down and grabbing workers, loading them into vehicles and driving away. The chaotic scenes happening numerous times over the last five months since I started immigration enforcement operations in the Los Angeles area. Couldn't it be a better way, instead of grabbing people, force them into cars, arresting illegal aliens who snuck into this country, many of them who committed, committed other crimes on top of the original crime of sneaking into America. But they won't talk like that. But that is literally fact. So anyway, because of that sensationalism, you got L, A county issuing a state of emergency and here's what they want to do. They want to put aside money to pay the illegal aliens to stay home. Because the people that broke the law sneaking into the country, the people that broke the law going to work with someone who hired them, that's breaking the law. They don't want to go out in public because they fear ICE agents. So the county of California is going to pay them. Have you got that straight? This is County Supervisor Horvath. You know, I appreciate we've had conversation of kind of legal risks and if we feel very strongly that these are immoral, unethical actions and then that that leaves an opportunity for the county to lean in and be willing to take the legal risk to provide real protections to our residents. We're at a point that a county is going to pay criminals to stay home because they can't commit the crimes of working for a business that they're not allowed to work at.

[Donald J. Trump]

You understand?

[Grant Stinchfield]

Bringing in now to discuss this, my co host out on the Morning Answer AM 8:70 in Los Angeles, Jennifer Horne is with us. Jen, welcome to the program.

[Jennifer Horn]

Just when you think it can't get any crazier, Grant just LA says hold my beer and here they come. Can you, I mean, can you believe it? What a gig. You can break the law and get paid to stay home from work.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, tell me that. And this next phase, which hasn't been voted in yet, but a possibility, is to provide eviction protection to these illegal aliens that they can't be evicted. And so because they can't work. So the landlords just lose the money.

[Jennifer Horn]

Yeah, they're going to stick it to Mr. Furley. This is just great. And by the way, the landlords have already had it tough, you know, during the COVID pandemic, we had a two and a half year eviction moratorium. So you had people losing literally billions of dollars, rent money that will never be recouped, that just has gone away. And landlords are just starting to rebuild now. The moratorium went almost until 2023, if you can believe it. And now fast forward, President Trump does what he's supposed to do, which is enforce the law and has federal agents going in and enforcing immigration laws. And the county of Los Angeles says, well, wait a second, the state of emergency is now in place so that we can do a couple of things. As you mentioned, the eviction moratorium will be on the way. You know, that'll be coming next, the emergency funds and services. And again, we're rewarding bad behavior in Los Ang because they just can't handle maintaining the law. These few women on the Board of Supervisors, Katie Porter could get a job there.

[Grant Stinchfield]

It amazes me that this is what they decide and then you and I talk about this all the time in the morning. California is so concerned about low income housing they want to bring. How are you going to bring in low income housing when you're telling every landlord who would have a multifamily house or apartment building that a we may give eviction protection to the tenants if they can't pay you? Nobody's going to come in and build high rise apartment buildings with that law in place.

[Jennifer Horn]

No. In fact, I think I've told you myself, I actually have some land and I've always been thinking about, gosh, I should put a duplex on there and, you know, become a slumlord in some terrible town in Los Angeles. Now, I'm just kidding. But seriously, you could be Mrs. Furley, I'm going to be Mrs. Row Roper. Please, that's more my jam. But why you have to think twice about whether or not you want to do that? Because I actually this. I don't even know if I shared this with you, but a listener to our morning show came up to me during the COVID pandemic at one of our events, almost in tears because he said he was losing his own home because he couldn't afford to keep up with the property taxes on the property that he was renting because none of his tenants were paying rent and they didn't do it for two and a half years. That doesn't mean that the property taxes stop. That doesn't mean that the cost of being a landowner in Los Angeles stops. It just means that your revenue stops because the Board of Supervisors has decided that it is better for people to stay home and fear monger to make President Trump and immigration agents look bad.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Jen, most people take out mortgages, loans on these. That's right, family properties. And the bank's not saying, oh, California gave an eviction moratorium. You don't have to pay the note. This is insanity. And to think they're getting a moratorium because they're criminals and they're afraid of being arrested. I mean, that is the highlight of it all. Jen Horn, as always, I appreciate you coming on tonight. Thank you.

[Jennifer Horn]

Thanks for having me.

[Grant Stinchfield]

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[Donald J. Trump]

All right.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Big business is exploiting legal immigration policy to undercut American workers. All right, what's being done about it? I don't know. I'm going to talk about it next. Welcome back everyone. Liberals are going crazy because the state department has revoked visas of six foreigners who not just spoke ill about Charlie Kirk but really was wishing for more harm on American citizens. Some of the things written were this. This was an Argentine national who posted. Just came on here to say Charlie Kirk can rest in effing well, you read it there. Okay, here's another one. Visa revoked from a South African national posted. Charlie Kirk won't be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf, a movement of white nationalist trailer trash. And some of them got a lot worse than that. They were calling for the death of Americans and there were some pretty vile comments made. They're out of here. And it's not free speech issue by the way, folks, we have a right to say who we want in America. You have the right to free speech there. You can say those things. You also might lose your visa if you do that. Simple. Now to a story that I saw written by the organization WND World Net Daily about the H1V H1B visa program that their extensive investigation has found that it is being abused by by foreign nations, by foreign nationals. And this abuse is apparently being enabled by bureaucrats inside our own government. The government is enabling this visa fraud. Now the fallout from this H1B visa abuse is hitting the middle class very hard. They spoke to a number of whistleblowers. One of them had testified before Congress talking about having to train their replacement. This was a former Disney employee telling that story to Congress. I walked into a small conference room with about two dozen highly respected fellow IT workers. The Disney executive made a harsh announcement to us all. All of you in this room will be losing your jobs in the next 90 days.

[Congressman Randy Fine]

Your jobs have been given over to a foreign workforce.

[Grant Stinchfield]

In the meantime, you will be training your replacements until Your jobs are 100% transferred over to them. And if you do not cooperate, you will not receive any severance pay. Can you imagine being told to train your replacement again? What do I say? Oh God. Not happening for me. Anyway, so this is a serious problem. What else did she find? And I'm talking about our man Amanda Bartolotta, who is the senior, senior investigative journalist at World Net Daily. She wrote this piece. Amanda, welcome to the program.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

Thank you for having me and thank you for playing that clip. I think it's so important for people to hear that testimony. For sure.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, absolutely. You know, I was going through your piece and I saw certain things like the workplace being disrupted by design by these H1B visa programs. What did you mean by that?

[Amanda Bartolotta]

Well, it's done through a couple different ways. One, a lot of the corporations have already planned the replacement and so they bring in these contracting companies to come in and just overhaul the entire system. They have you believing that this is for augmentation, that they're going to be there to support you. So you're doing all these knowledge transfers. At the end of the day, what they're doing is they're transferring this work to H1B workers that will eventually be just working for that employer anyways. So it becomes a backdoor way of, you know, gaining those jobs. But then on top of that, there's other things that are happening all at the same time, which through my investigations and it gets exposed in the whistleblower, is that there's also agreements with a lot of these big tech companies with the India government to train Indian nationals in India in special skills that the employer decides is is tailored to them. And so they have a back in door way of bringing cheaper, more controllable foreign workers here through that pipeline as well.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Let me try to lay this out. As you say it. So India, which seems to be a huge proponent of this H1B visa program, is now looking at this as their people are an exportable product. Knowing that they're exporting this labor to the United States and ultimately some of that money gets sent back home. This is part of how their economy works. Am I reading this right?

[Amanda Bartolotta]

Absolutely, yes. Remittances and knowledge transfer, brain gain, all of it. It plays a big piece to why this is so important to the India government and why they try so hard to not only protect that pipeline, but to expand it as well, in trade.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, so Nvidia is one of these companies. All these big tech Companies use these H1B visa program. It's designed to bring super skilled workers. And apparently we have a shortage of in America, but that shortage is bogus, which we'll get into the government part of all of this, the United States government's role in all of this. But this is the CEO of Nvidia. He doesn't even care about the fines if they get caught. Apparently, watching Only America has a phrase that says the American dream. There's no other country that has something other, you know, some other country dream. And so we would like to create this opportunity for all of our employees. And I hope that this opportunity persists for everybody else. I do think that President Trump's H1B policy enables us to continue to attract the world's best talent and enable them to come to come to American companies. All right, what he didn't say there, which was asked the question. He's happy to pay the $100,000 to bring these people in, and that is about proving to me anyway just how cheap he's getting this labor for if he's happy to pay $100,000 per visa.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

Well, part of that is, and this is what people are saying out loud, is that the new proclamation allows for if you already are in states on a different visa, that that fee does not apply to you. While 71% of our visas go to F1 students who are already here on a foreign national student visa. So they're already maybe less than. And it's less than 20% because not only is you have that 71% with student visas, but then you have people who are here on H4 and on the other spouse visas that are also transferring into the H1B visa. So really, that $100,000 fine is really easily worked around. And that's where another thing that we've watched how the industry has been discussing what they will do and they're starting to use other visas. So the L1 visa, they're exploring B1 visas, and that's all illegal. You can't use or substitute one visa for another. If it is meant to be a H1B visa, you can't all of a sudden create a management position that would not have existed without this proclamation.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, it amazes me. And no one's really sounding the alarm. President Trump talks about it a little bit. We need more ATT attention on this. You're certainly doing that at wnd. Last question for you. One of My biggest concerns, these are tech workers. They have access to servers, to data, to sensitive information, tech information. Many of them are dealing with federal government contracts. How big a role does India have right now with dealing with some of our most critical infrastructure here in America? Amanda?

[Amanda Bartolotta]

It's huge. The amount of data that they own that is ours, with the fact that they have a huge amount of security risks they had in 2024, I think it was over 5,000 complaints a day of cybercrime. So this is where our data is going. And their country doesn't have any protections around data for our PII information. They're having a lot of data breaches. A lot of our third party apps are being just handed the keys to our data. So there's a lot of security risks there. So when we're hearing that, okay, if you want to make this visa harder to get, we're going to just offshore more data, I think that that makes it even worse. You're now not just taking the jobs, you're putting us at a national security risk.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Yeah, you sure are. You know, we talk a lot about China and their role in having access to critical infrastructure here in the United States. We don't talk a lot about India, but we talk about brics, nations that are literally waging war on America. Brazil, Russia, India, China, all in that list. And I'm grateful, Amanda Bartolotta, that you brought attention to this. And please keep us posted anything else happens or if we can help you with legislation that may. May solve this problem. Thank you.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

I appreciate it. Thank you.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Absolutely. You can find her at World Net daily. It's a great operation there exposing all kinds of craziness. All right, folks. Globalism and the destruction of the west are two of the biggest threats we face. Is the next generation prepared? That is next foreign. Welcome back, everyone. We have eyes out on the White House in the East Room where there is a dinner about to unfold. President Trump is expected to enter the room and we will go out to that. Sometimes he says some things, things sometimes he doesn't. But we are ready for it. But before we do that, I want to go out to Liberty University where Real America Voice, Washington, D.C. correspondent Britt McHenry is live with a former member of Parliament for Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley. Brit. Ian, welcome to the program. Thank you. Great to be on your show. Thank you. It is great. Brit, I know you have some questions for Mr. McHenry. Why don't you take it away from here? I'll go with Paisley. Yeah, yeah.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

Well, it's A pleasure to have Ian with us.

[Grant Stinchfield]

You know, you missed it, Grant. I ran into the banquet room to grab this gentleman because you were being mentioned. I was being mentioned? You're Secretary of State for the Environment. Denseldon was talking about me while you came to grab the Mexicans. I gotta go. Yeah, I gave, like, baseball cues. I'm like, we gotta go.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

All right.

[Grant Stinchfield]

So, earlier today, I spoke with General.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

Michael Flynn and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Both touched on issues with globalization as a detrimental effect.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

Liz specifically targeting First Amendment rights in the UK along with other fractures in the government.

[Grant Stinchfield]

And Flynn discussing the deep state issues.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

What are your thoughts about globalization as it affects the UK And Ireland?

[Grant Stinchfield]

Well, look, we're in the midst of a war, and this is a war on people. It's a war on our future. But I'm glad to say we're going to win this war. We've read the ending. The ending's clear. We're on victory footing. We're with a conqueror and a conquering king. So I'm prepared for victory on this. And we really need to just identify the problem and keep challenging it and not be afraid to speak up and push back on it. But what about those problems, specifically in.

[Amanda Bartolotta]

The UK we, with the things I.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Mentioned, where do you think they need to improve upon? Well, the United States has started to fight this battle, and it's really pushed these. These. These things back, which is wonderful. And now, thankfully, people in the United Kingdom are starting to realize that they, too, can fight back. And we need to encourage them, we need to give them confidence, and we need to give them encouragement and support that they should stand up and oppose these things that are wrong. I mean, to attack a person's freedom of speech, it impacts on their religion, on all of their rights, and on all of their identity, and we've really got to push it. Okay. And. And anything. It's Grant. Grant, you there if you want to add anything? Yep, I am. And, Mr. Paisley, I apologize, but the big man himself is out at the White House, and we're going to dip into that to hear what the boss has to say. Our president, President Donald J. Trump.

[Donald J. Trump]

Everyone wants to see it happen. Countries that didn't get along with each other are now seemingly in love with each other. Now, the Middle east have changed, perhaps, but the deal will stay, be there, and it's going to be. I think it's going to be something to remember. We have. We've said them now eight wards. If you think one of them, one of the easy ones, I Thought was going to be Russia. I thought the Russian Ukraine would be easy. Would have never happened. It should have never happened. But a lot of people are being killed in that war that was. It's the bloodiest wars since the Second World War. I think that we'll get that one too. We'll stop. You know, it's not from the US these soldiers that are dying all over the place, 7212 they say last week, 7212 soldiers for no reason. Should have never happened. If the right person were here, it wouldn't have happened, I can guarantee you that. But it did happen and we've made some good progress, interestingly, made a lot of progress today because of what took place in the Middle East. Only the key thinking business people would understand that of which we have a lot of them. We have a lot of legends in the room tonight. And that's why we're here to celebrate you because you've given tremendous amounts of money to see a bull run built for the first time at the White House. The White House for 150 years plus they wanted to have a ballroom and it never happened because they never had a real estate person. For me, I like it. For me, it's like I love it. In between China, Russia and everything else that we deal with, it's going to be a great ballroom. Going to be a great ballroom. As an example. This has really been the ballroom for many years and it holds 100 people, of which we have 125 today, I tell you. But now we have 128. And I've never seen it with 128. And by the way, you can have a little good entertainment from the military band right after this. You'll see some really talented musicians. They're going to do a few songs and you're going to love them. They're very talented people, but so for years they've wanted to have it. And when they have the head of China, the head of any country we have, many, many of the countries came and they'd always put the tent out on the lawn and if it was not raining, you'd get away with it a little bit. But it's still a tent. And the biggest dignitaries in the world, not only political, in many other ways too. And so I always said that I pull it off again. We are going to build the ballroom and I'm going to start right at the beginning. We had it designed by one of the top architects in Washington who's very, very respected and very, very Respected, actually. And we started the process and we have it concluded and it's actually starting right behind us. And if you look, this is really a knockout conversation. Show you, I guess, maybe. So we don't really want you to walk on there, but you can take a look if you want. There it is. Because we took out all the strength from underneath that collapse. We collapse it that over the next few days it's going to be demolished. Everything out there is coming down and we're replacing it with one of the most beautiful, beautiful ballrooms that you've ever seen. And you have some pictures and basically it's right here. Here's your White House, here's the West Wing, and here's the east side, which has been tinkered with for years and years and years. And they had a. Originally a very beautiful building. They called it the East Wing, but that was sort of semi knocked down about five dimes and change and redone everything else. It was Originally done by McKim, Mead and White. And so that came down. And mostly it's taken down already and we've started excavation. I'm very good at building things on time, on budget. Dad, I can tell you, you're not going to see like the Fed where they're up to $4 billion or something to paint some walls. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. This guy, he's too late. He should have been too late with that one. Nothing done. Didn't need to be done. He could have painted the ceilings. They ripped down a gorgeous ceiling like this. And then they said, we have a problem. Now we have to put one up. How do you do a ceiling like this? And they're way over budget. They decided they wanted to do a basement, but unfortunately the basement is right next. You know, you're right next to the Potomac. And when it went down, they should have stopped immediately because that they should have known. But they have a little thing going, the Potomac river, where the basement is. But they said, we're going to get it done anyway. So you build what's called a reverse bathtub. And it's not that uncommon, but it is actually a reverse. You seal it. The problem is nature always wins. I know a lot about reverse bathtubs. I've done it. And it's something you only do in emergency. There was no reason to do it there. They could have asked me to think about it. They could have added three floors, floors on top, and it would have cost about $2 billion less. So they ended up in this disaster of building a basement in the Potomac river, keeping the water out very hard to do as you're pouring your concrete, which has to be dry. And it's been a disaster. This is the same guy that keeps your interest rates, too.

[Grant Stinchfield]

All right, so we lost our feed with President Trump and we will get back out to him momentarily with that. Let's take ourselves a quick break. Welcome back, everyone. We want to get back out to the White House, where President Trump is addressing the guests in the East Room.

[Donald J. Trump]

A circle that was built 150 years ago. Nobody knows really when. And in fact, they put a couple of columns on each side. So you have two columns on one side, two columns on the other, but yet in the middle, just a circle. And everyone that passes it said something was supposed to be built there. That's true. But a thing called the Civil War interfered. That's a good reason. I would say I can. That would be a good reason. Right. The great Ike Pro model, the Civil War. If you said you're having a war, I think they have a good reason not to build again. You know, they were building the Washington Monument, then they stopped, and you could see where they stopped because the stone is a little different color when you get up to the middle. But anyway, they stopped here and then they were. In 1902, they were going to put a statue of Robert E. Lee up. Would have been okay with me. A lot of people wouldn't have liked it. Would have been okay with me. Would have been okay with a lot of the people in this room, but they didn't do that. And so for years and years, it sat. And every time somebody rides over that beautiful bridge going right to the Lincoln Memorial, it's so beautiful.

[Grant Stinchfield]

Right?

[Donald J. Trump]

It's. They literally say something's supposed to be here. And so we have version of it, sizes of it. And it's going to be. It's going to be really beautiful. I think it's going to be fantastic. There's a rendering of what it will look like. You have three sizes. That would be the largest one. This is just a model of what it would look like in either of the three. Any of the three sizes, which is right here. I don't know if you can see it. So that's Lady Liberty. Lady did the other ear. Lady on top. But so the sizes would be very different. And this is sort of facing this way. They did this. So this would be a small, medium and large. Whichever one, they look good. I happen to think the lodge looks much better. Why are you shocked to hear that? So we're going to, you know, just do something for the city. I'm so proud of what we've done with crime. This is a very safe city now. This went from a very unsafe city where you were afraid to go out to dinner to a city that's extremely safe. The people we have working on this, it's been a miracle almost. It took 12 days. We took out 1,700 people, brought them back to their countries from where they came. Many of them were let in through the Biden open border. Brilliant thing where they let people in from jails, from prisons and mental institutions in. That's a mental institution on steroids. And I mean they were literally emptying out insane sounds into our country. This is Venezuela, but other countries also, not only Venezuela. And speaking of Venezuela, we've, you know, we have a lot of drugs. We had a lot of drugs coming in by water and that stopped. In fact, nobody wants to go fishing in. Nobody wants to do anywhere, anything near the water. They might have a beautiful boat and they might as well get rid of their boat because they are very nervous.

[Grant Stinchfield]

About.

[Donald J. Trump]

Going on the water. It's been amazing. So now we were having miserable subway train of people and drugs. A lot of them coming from Venezuela, a lot of them come from Mexico and calling me until all fairness. But we, we wanted to knock out one track and I can tell you we cannot find anybody anymore. We're lucky, dad. They're lucky. There's not a boat on the entire ocean that we can see outside of the ocean lines and even they're a little bit concerned about. But it shows you the power and the strength and the technology of our great military. We have, you know, I rebuilt the military in my first term. We had a great first term. We had the best economy ever. We had a rebuilding of the military. We had the big tax cuts and the wonderful. All of the assets of the tax cuts, including the one year depreciation. You write it off in one year. Now we have better under the great big beautiful bill because we have no tips for. Think of this. You have no tax on tips and you have no tax on Social Security and you have for your workers. You have no tax on overtime. It's really a middle, I would say a middle of the road bill from the standpoint of who is it representing? It's the workers. It's the biggest bill ever passed in the history of Congress and I'm glad we did because we don't need any more bills. We have everything in that one plus we have the deductibility every single year for 10 years. The other one had it for one year. You had a rush this year. This time you don't. Actually, I was in favor of rushing because that's awfully good for elected elections. But it's not about elections. It's awfully good. So you have deductibility. You have so many different things. We have great social programs, $50 billion going to rural hospitals. So the great big beautiful bill, and we got it all in one. I was very happy because we had little arguments about that. A lot of people wanted to do it in small chunks. I said, if you do it in small chunks, you'll never get it approved. You'll get some approved, but not all of it, and not even close. You get approved much less. I would say less than 30%. So they've never done this before. They put every single thing that I wanted for four years in one bill. And we call it, some people call it different. I call it the great big beautiful bill because that's what it is. And this will keep us, what we want to manage it. Now we're going to manage it. All you have to do is that. But we got it all approved. And one of the things I thought, though, while I do, because it's so relaxing for me, real estate is relaxing for a lot of people. Real estate is a very trying business. I've always liked it. I've always done well with it. I love building things. And this way I can build some beautiful things. And this again, has never been built. And we're going to start that pretty soon. It's going to be great. And then the ballroom for the White House is the thing that you people have really, really been very generous with. And we're going to build a room that's going to be able to hold literally the inauguration if we want. All of the glass on the sides is bulletproof. It's 999 people. It can hold. So if we figure we have 125 people in here approximately now, which I've never seen before, I've always heard it's less than 100. But it's amazing when you have too many people, you can fit them in. You know, you can always fit a few more people in. And pardon the fact that you're a little tight at your table, that's okay. That's better than lots of room for everybody because nobody shows up. Right. But you've been, you've been so generous in your contributions, very substantial money, fully financed. It's fully taken care of now. And in fact, we'll have money left over, and we'll use that for something. We'll use that probably, maybe for the ark or something else that will come. But we love to fix up Washington. If you went to the Oval Office, you'd see the Presidential Walk of Fame and you've heard about it, and with the exception of one particular picture, there's no controversy. It's just. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. It's this beautiful long wall that existed for a long time. It's just literally a wall with half windows on top, and that was originally built as a swimming pool. Now it's where the press is on the other side of the wall. And it's very interesting, all these people over here with all their cameras, although they've been very respectful. I'll tell you what, they've been very respectful for what's taken place over the last week. So I want to thank you. This is just a small little group. They have a big group downstairs. They have a lot of reporters downstairs wanting to be where they are. I don't know. These, I guess, are you special? This is Doug, who's the. He won the highest awards there is in photography, including Pulitzer Prizes. Right? He won many Pulitzer Prizes for.

[Grant Stinchfield]

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