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Is the TSA on the Brink of Collapse? | Episode 254
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Acting TSA administrator warns the DHS shutdown has pushed TSA to the brink, with nearly 500 officers quitting and airports facing possible closures; Chicago leaders face backlash after a college student was killed by an illegal immigrant.
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Sorry, that's not the major cam. That was a bit of a tease. I got a message yesterday from a couple who listens to the program who says, vince, we love the show, but we're concerned that you're not actually drinking coffee. That you may be deceiving us because you seem to drink it so fast. I do. I do drink it fast. Thank you. To Blackout coffee. I'm drinking the Bongino roast, by the way. The. Sorry, the Bongino army roast. I finally got my hands on it. It's good. It's really good. I really like this. Have you guys had this yet? It's really good. Anyway, you know, I don't even think. Is Blackout a sponsor today? They're always a sponsor, but they're not. They're not in the lineup. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Blackout. Look at this. We got the blackout coffee mug and everything. I don't even know. Yeah, there you go. You can see that. Thank you. Sorry, that's. That was a visual event for the. The Rumble audience. Rumble.com./, Vince, if you'd like to see the action. Me showing you what's in my coffee. It's coffee. It's not fake. Although I will tell you in real life that this is real life, of course. But in. In the media, a lot of the guys who have coffee cups on their set, they're not drinking coffee at all. They're drinking water. That's. There's no coffee in play at all. It's water. They're pretending to drink coffee. I'm not pretending. Fully authentic. 100% authentic here. It's a great day this morning. In addition to that personal detour, a big. I just want to start today by thanking my wife for 15 years of marriage. 15 years she's been putting up with this crap. 15 years now. Thank you, Alison, for that. It's our anniversary today, and so this morning, I had an array of. Of roses and. And things out for. I had a card. I bought a card for her, an anniversary card, and it was leaning up against the roses. So when she descended from. From upstairs, we. I'm always up earlier than everybody else, just kind of working on the show. And when she. When she came downstairs and she sees all these roses on the counter and there's a card there, she opened up the card and you want the secret gentleman. Here's what. Here's the move I pulled. I put $20 in the card. How good is that? 20 bucks for the lady. She. She opened up the card and the $20 came out. She goes, you're ridiculous. I don't know. I thought it was funny. I thought it was great. So anyway, so 20 bucks for the league. I'm making. I'm making steaks tonight. I bought a bunch of steaks. We're gonna do some steaks for the family, and it'll be nice. Yeah. Thank you. The chat saying happy anniversary. Thank you, slashes says you're a cheap bastard. Whatever. You know, I thought it was really funny. Anything to get her to laugh. If I can get her to laugh, mission accomplished. That's my anniversary gift, getting her to laugh. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. Yes. Anyway, all right, so thank you for that. It's. It's exciting to be married for 15 years and to a great wife. I've got a great kid. I couldn't be more blessed. It's like the best thing ever. So look for that. If you. If you don't have that yet. Look for that. It's great. All right, let's talk about what's happening in the world. We got a lot to get to. The President of the United States is calling on the United States Senate to get up off its ass and do something for us. Develop some. What do we call it? Testicular fortitude. Now's the time. Now's the time. It's long past time for you to do this. Here's the president today on Truth Social. He says, when is enough enough for our Republican senators? There comes a time when you must do what should have been done a long time ago. And something which the lunatic Democrats will do on day one. He's right about all that. It's so frustrating. You must feel the same way I do. It's so frustrating to know how right he is and how idiotic these Senate Republicans are being. Democrats are going to do this on day one. He says, if they ever get the chance. Terminate the filibuster. Terminate the filibuster. They're going to go for broke. They're going to try and pass everything by simple majority. You know what Democrats are going to do when they don't have a filibuster in the way? When they get rid of the filibuster, they're going to pack the Supreme Court. They're going to create states out of Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. In other words, four new Democrat senators. That's the plan. They're going to go for broke. They're going to go after guns, they're going to go after babies, they're going to go after our borders. They're going to impose an amnesty on the whole country to codify the illegal aliens who are here so that they can become long term permanent Democrat voters. They're going to go for broke. And Republicans have this amazing opportunity before us right now. Control of the House, control of the Senate, control of the presidency. This is the window of opportunity, a chance to do something good for your country. And yet they're still sitting on their hands, they're still dragging ass. It's still like herding cats just to get any of these guys on our side. It's deeply frustrating. Deeply. The Save America act is the most common sense thing that's ever been presented to the United States Senate. And they can't get that passed. And they're playing games with you. I said yesterday, you know, they're going all through this stuff like, oh, we're going to use reconciliation and no, they're not. Reconciliation ain't going to work. It's a lie. That's a budgetary thing. They're going to, the parliamentarian is going to throw all that stuff out. There's not going to be a Save America act and reconciliation. Stop lying to us. You got to pass this for real. And so the president's saying, I'm done with this now. I guarantee you that John Thune is furious about this. He might not show it in public. He is furious behind the scenes that President Trump is maintaining this pressure right now on him. President Trump says terminate the filibuster. Get our airports and everything else moving again. Also add the complete, all five items. Save America act, go for the gold President djt. So big news to start the day is the president is. Is telling these guys that they do need to get their acts together. You do need to scrap the filibuster fund, dhs, pass the Save America Act. Now, when he says get everything open again, you know what he's talking about, of course, is the nation's airports. All the chaos that Democrats have caused in air travel, it's still there. The president's done a good job this week in alleviating some of it, but there's only so much he can handle by sending ICE agents there. One of the most obvious reasons that we need to alleviate the chaos is the midterms. And Democrats love chaos ahead of midterms. They love it. They love it ahead of any election. I want you to think back to 2020. Remember, in that election, the rigging manifested itself in a million different ways, including the. And especially the ways in which elections were conducted. Suddenly, pandemic era rules, all the laws go out the window, ballots can be accepted at ridiculous locations and times, and it was completely opaque. Voters were completely unable to establish the credibility of the 2020 election. By the way, the Democrats changed it. That's all true. But in addition to that, they rigged the election by way of media manipulation, social media manipulation, concealing real information about Joe Biden and creating chaos in the summer of 2020. You remember that? Yeah, of course you do. The summer of 2020 was infamous for a million reasons. One, the entire country was on lockdown due to the fake Covid garbage. And then two, you had. You had people rioting in the streets of America, and the media telling us that that was the exception to the COVID rules. You were allowed to burn down your city. If you were doing it for George Floyd, that was totally fine. The health officials declared it was also insane. It was also very Orwellian. But that chaos was on purpose. The chaos was meant to convey to the American people that the guys who are in charge are incapable of bringing about peace. And regardless of the fact that Democrats are the one that. Ones that caused all the chaos, because they were, remember 2020, they were, regardless of that fact, President Trump was receiving blame, and the media was doing that on purpose. Remember, CNN had the death counter up on the screen, on the bottom of their screen, they would keep a death counter up for Covid. And it didn't matter that these weren't actually COVID deaths. It was just that that the classifications were intentionally distorted to make it seem like everybody was dying due to Covid. And Then Donald Trump was being blamed. And then the second, of course, Joe Biden came into office. CNN got rid of the death counter. Do you remember this? Just to remind everybody. And then more people died from COVID under Biden. And CNN never had a death counter on screen. Yeah, that's because it's politics. It was all designed to smear Donald Trump. So chaos was a part of that recipe. It was intentional. That's what it was. So burning down police precincts was meant to reflect negatively on Donald Trump. Oh, things are out of control. Who do we blame? Voters are gonna blame the guy who's at the top. Who's at the top? It's Donald Trump. So this kind of, let's call it what it is, this is like terrorism. This kind of terrorism was meant to compel an outcome. It was a part of an election rigging operation. So as we stare at the politics of the current chaos the Democrats are creating, don't underestimate their determination to continue this chaos, specifically because they want people to think of President Trump as a chaos president. They want voters to go to the polls in the midterms and to vote against him because they're under the impression that he's responsible for the chaos, when, of course, it's them all along. We've seen it happen before, we see it happening now. This is why I think AOC is so perfectly named Agent of Chaos. This is what she does. This is what her whole party does. She's just one of the most cartoonish expressions of it. So here we are again. We've got, we've got TSA defunded. We have TSA agents not showing up to work. We've got all sorts of madness at the airports and, and, and no deal in sight to fund dhs. Now, yesterday there was some sort of effort by the Senate to negotiate a deal here, and Bill Malusian has some of it. He says the DHS funding deal is falling apart. He said that yesterday afternoon, the Senate Republicans offered to fund all of DHS except for ICE's deportation wing enforcement and removal operations. ERO Democrats just countered and demanded additional concessions. They want major ICE reforms. They want to unmask ICE agents while they're deporting people. They want judicial warrants that's designed to freeze up the entire immigration system, etc. Republicans said, why would we agree to reforms for an agency that's being defunded? Democrats had an offer on the table to carve out ICE's removal operations and fund everything else within DHS. And they're saying no. They're demanding ICE reforms for an agency they're not going to fund. The Republicans are saying no. And the shutdown continues. We're now on day 40. It's become biblical at this point. We're at 40 days of shutdown at DHS now. Let me just kind of navigate through some of what the Republicans are offering here. This whole thing about like, oh, they'll fund everything except for ero. This is a shell game because the Republicans intend ultimately to fund the ero, that ICE deportation wing anyway through reconciliation. It's not, in the end, this is just kind of a semantics debate. The Republicans were trying to give Democrats cover, in other words, to vote for this and to keep funding, enforcement or removal operations. Now, that said, as you know, because you're probably thinking, well, didn't the big beautiful bill fund ICE already for years? Yes, it did. This is, we're talking, this is like $5 billion in top up funding. Again, as far as government spending is going, it's a relatively small amount. And, but in other words, Republicans keep coming forward and they're like, all right, here's some cover for you. Can you support this? And Democrats are refusing. They're refusing. They want, you know what they want? They want to abolish ice. They want to protect illegal aliens who are here in the country. That's it. That's the whole ballgame. They're agents of chaos. Which goes back to what the President said this morning. Stop dealing with these people like they're rational actors. Stop dealing with them like they're legitimate negotiators across the table from you who are going to be happy to make concessions, to come to some sort of middle ground. They're not navigating towards a deal. That deal is with the devil. How about no deal? How about get rid of the filibuster? You know, we've been very patient here. I would say on this program. We've been patient. Certainly this audience has been patient. You know, we've been encouraging the United States Senate to use the speaking filibuster. Don't change any rules. The current rules allow you to do your job and they haven't done that yet. So why don't we just go for Brooke? Why don't we just get rid of the whole freaking filibuster? Are the Senate Republicans gonna do it? No, I don't think they've demonstrated anything close to the testicular fortitude to do it. But President Trump is throwing down and he's saying, you'd better because these guys are never going to work with you. These Democrats are never going to do the right thing. How many opportunities have they had to do the right thing? A million. And they never do it. So you're going to keep going with the stupid gentleman's agreement with a party that doesn't have any gentlemen in it. Come on, just knock it off. So that's the latest on the DHS funding garbage and it's hurting TSA for real. Here's the TSA acting Administrator Ha Win McNeil. She was testifying yesterday before the Congress and she said my guys are getting destroyed right now. Cut one watch.
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We have already lost over 480tsos that this shutdown and our call out rates have accelerated as our workforce was still reeling from the last shutdown. Prior to this shutdown, our TSO call out rate was 4%. Now multiple major airports are experiencing days where 40 to 50% of their staff are calling out because they simply cannot afford to report to work. This has led to the highest wait times in TSA history with some wait times greater than four and a half hours. We are being forced to consolidate lanes and may have to close smaller airports if we do not have enough officers.
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40 to 50% of their staff at some airports are calling out half. Half. I mean when TSA is fully funded, sometimes it's a nightmare to go through security. You worry about that on a normal day when you've got full funding for tsa. Now they have no funding. These guys aren't being paid. Their lives are being destroyed by it. And half of them have decided I can't show up to work there because I'm not getting paid to do that job. I've got a family to feed. I've got a mortgage to pay. I've got to make my rent payments. I got to try not to get evicted. And those things are happening. Here's more reporting. Yesterday, Fox summarizing some more of the acting administrators testimony. Take a look at the impact this has had on TSA agents personally.
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The acting TSA administrator testifying just moments ago that the agency is suffering the highest wait times in the history. More than 480 employees have quit. TSA has been shut down for nearly 50% of fiscal year 2026. Agents are sleeping in cars, missing payments, receiving eviction notices. This is real stuff. And if the shutdown continues through Friday, $1 billion will have disappeared. That's a missing paycheck
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half the fiscal year, not half the calendar year. Half the fiscal year TSA agents weren't paid on time that fiscal year was from September of last year. What do they mean? Well, the Democrats keep shutting the government down. The Democrats keep shutting down either the entire or massive sections of the government over and over. We had the Schumer shutdown last quarter. Yeah. So as a result, TSA agents are now going, are lurching through all of this with each passing week, not knowing if they're going to get a paycheck because Chuck Schumer is, you know, uninterested in order in the United States, loves chaos. And the working people in the tsa, they're taking, they're taking it the hardest. As always, it's the people who can least afford it who take it the hardest as a result of the actions of Washington. That's what's happening here now. I know. I see some people in the chat saying, like, we should get rid of tsa. I totally agree. I've said this for years. I don't think we should have tsa. Some people think we should privatize it. I think we should really get rid of the security rigmarole at the airport. I think it's stupid. You know, the reality is like, TSA doesn't catch anything, unfortunately, like through the years, you know, all of the tests on whether or not they can even catch weapons and things going through security, it just, it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It's security theater. And in fact, in a lot of ways, it's kind of a humiliation ritual for Americans who are just trying to travel, to go between their various cities. We shouldn't be doing that. We should get rid of it. But insofar as we have it, we should meet our obligations to pay the people who work in it. And so their lives are being upended. American air travelers lives are being upended. And Democrats are loving this chaos because they're hoping it reflects back on Donald Trump. That's what's actually going on right now. So a lot of suffering going on thanks to Democrats, as usual. And in a moment, I'm going to share a video with you of one of these idiot Democrats, one of the truly dumbest members of Congress yesterday who built a trap for himself as he was talking about all of this. I'll get to it. And also the way that ICE is relieving things and what the president has in mind to help restore some order next, in the absence of Democrats ever coming to their senses. More ahead on this edition of vince. I want to thank one of our great sponsors today, Birch Gold. Birch Gold is great. I want you to think about something. 20 years ago, 2006. 20 years ago, five years before I got married, $20,000 equaled roughly 33 ounces of gold at the spot price. At Today's prices, those 33 ounces would be worth over $150,000. Quite a change. Smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals. Gold can help insulate you in times of war, geopolitical instability, high inflationary periods. 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He's once again continuing his tradition of the March Sadness Tournament. These are the dumbest members of Congress. Each. Each day, each passing day, I think, or every 48 hours or so, you get the chance to vote on the next round of the tournament. And he's got it all set up. He's got his. He's got his number one seeds all the way down to his 16 seeds. So please participate in that. And remember, it's not the most evil member of Congress. That's a different category. This is the dumbest member of Congress. These are the kinds of people that it might be hard to find two different brain cells to rub together. Yes, that's. That's the dumbest member of Congress. Trying to remember his number one seeds right now. I think. I think AOC is still up there. Number in a number one seed. Maxine. Not Maxine. Excuse me. Crazy Maisie Hirono is up there. Hakeem Jeffries, maybe. We talked about this. Those of you who were listening to the radio, show yesterday can probably hear this, but anyway, check it all out. It's on producer Jim's X account. Having said that, I want to share with you a guy who's definitely in the tournament. It's Sri Tanahar. Tanadar. Sri Tannadar. Yes, Sri Tanadar. The guy who wants to impeach President Trump and everybody around him. Truly one of the dumbest, but yet most hilarious members of Congress. Yesterday he was questioning the TSA administrator and it didn't go well for him. Take a look.
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Telling TSOs that untrained ice agents can do a better job than they can.
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I'm extremely thankful to the President for recognizing the crisis that we are in and leveraging assets across the Department of Homeland Security to assist our agency in this very difficult time. And the ICE agents that have shown up are there in the support of the TSA mission and we've been spending time training them the last few days. And we're seeing relief, signs of early relief at the airports where we're seeing along lines. And this is how we function as a department. We collaborate across the component agencies. And this just underscores the importance of funding the entirety of the GHS functions.
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Well, the ICE agents haven't been trained to do their ICE work. And now I don't know what kind of training you're giving them in this short time, but I see them all sitting down looking at their phones or chit chatting, but looks like they have no role to play.
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I've been talking to my field leadership, the ICE agents that are there doing non specialized screening functions. It's been incredibly helpful to alleviate the burden on our workforce. And we're getting positive feedback from passengers and our field leadership alike.
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The ICE agents are very bad, aren't they? No, actually they've been a great contribution to the airports. TSA is very grateful for their assistance, but they are not trained in anything. They don't know how to even do their own jobs. Actually, they've been wonderful, everybody with TSA, super appreciative advice. And they've improved every airport that they've shown up at. I love that. You know, just to give you an example, I was saying before, there's a difference between merely a dumb member of Congress and an evil member of Congress. And of course, there's some crossover between both of those categories. But SRI is so stupid that he created opportunities for her to speak and to posterize him like she was Michael Jordan in the 90s. It was amazing to watch. Normally, the way this works is if you want to impugn someone's character, and if you want to, like, spread some sort of lie, you just don't let them speak. You're, like, now, reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time. I didn't ask you a question. She's too stupid to even do that. Which makes him definitely in the running for the dumbest member of Congress. He's. He's up there. I saw some people saying in chat that Hank Johnson, though, is hard to beat. That is true, Hank. Speaking of, like, the Michael Jordan of dumbness, Hank Johnson is the dot. He's the dumbest of all time. He's. That guy is really. He's put up so many great points through the years. I mean, he truly believed at one point that if too many people stand on one side of the island of Guam, that it would flip over and capsize. I mean, that's. That's legendary stuff right there. That's legendary stuff. Yeah. And Sri Lanka. Oh, and Sri Tanadar, for those of you watching on Rumble right now. I totally agree. Did his hair move during that? His wig. That wig. I think he may have been wearing his wig backwards yesterday as he was attempting to question the TSA administrator. We've got some real dummies in there, and Sri Tanadar is. Is definitely one of them. Okay, so is. Is ICE all we're going to send? You know, one of the downsides to sending ICE to the airport, as great as it's been, I was on with. With our friend Dan Bongino yesterday talking about this. You know, I think that it's been a masterstroke by President Trump to send ICE to the airports, because, one, it helps relieve some of the pressure at the airports, namely places like Atlanta, which have much more improved wait times now thanks to the assistance of ice. I also think it's great that ICE officers are now being given a human face for the American people and not the lies that the media has been spreading around about them. So I think that's just been a brilliant strategy by the President of the United States. But here's the downside. Here's an immense downside. If ICE agents are at the airport, they're not out on the streets of America picking up illegals and deporting them, and we desperately need that. Coming up on the program, I'm gonna talk more about how vile some of these illegals clearly are and how desperately we need to get them the hell out of our country. So if ICE officers are doing one thing, they're not doing another thing. We've seen this happen before when the Biden administration assigned Border Patrol to be, you know, changing diapers and bringing families in and just like importing people by the millions. As a result, they're not on the border enforcing it. They're not patrolling the border. So there's a cost here, there's an opportunity cost to putting ICE at the airports. The president has a solution of sorts to this, and it might be a big one. Listen to the president. Here he is last night saying it might be time to send in the National Guard watch.
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I sent ICE to the airports yesterday, and they have been so great. They have been so great. And you know what's happened? And they didn't need any rehabilitation, but they did in terms of the fake news. And they're doing such an unbelievable job at the airports that they had one line. It was four hours yesterday, and today was a half an hour. Big, big difference. And if we have to, we're going to send in the National Guard if we need to.
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You.
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Because we only, you know, we have 6,000 ICE agents and we have 40,000 of the other people that they're helping out, some of who really were forced. Because the Democrats don't want to pay him. The Democrats don't want to pay them. You have to remember that.
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Okay, I want you. There's a. There's a word he used in that clip which I love, Rehabilitation. He references. You hear him early in the clip, go. You know, ICE doesn't need rehabilitation. Except for the fact that because of the media, they do that. Like, basically alluding to the fact of what I just said this. God, I love when he does this. He is declaring outright that this has been a huge public relations coup for ICE agents. Suddenly, the American people are seeing them up close. Their. Their reputation is being rehabilitated, not because they did something wrong in the past. It's because they were wrongly being slandered by the left. And now the American people are working with them directly, and they're the sweetest, most helpful people imaginable at the airports. It's been a huge success. So the president clearly is thinking about both of these components. How can we relieve the pressure at the airports? And how can we give American people confidence in their ICE agents? Nailing it in both cases. But he's saying, look, it's not enough. We need more. And if these Democrats are not gonna work with us and if these Republicans are not gonna develop that testicular fortitude to get rid of the filibuster and fund dhs, right? Now I'm gonna have to do this on my own. I'm gonna have to do it yet again. How am I gonna do it? I'll activate the National Guard. I'll send them into the airports. We'll get everybody through and we'll let those ICE agents arrest more illegals. God, what a difference a president makes. All right, more ahead on the program, including some of the illegal alien crime that's going on in the country and the way Democrats are just being the most callous, disgusting people imaginable when it comes to watching American citizens being murdered in their own neighborhoods. That's ahead on this edition. Events. I want to thank Fast Growing Trees for being a great sponsor of our program. Great sponsor of our program. 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Yesterday, the great White House press secretary, Sweet Caroline. Describing the open border policies that Democrats continue to cling on to to this very day. Again, because they are agents of chaos that led to the death of people like Sheridan Gorman in Chicago. Watch.
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In recent days, we saw the deadly consequence of this deranged policy of Democrat open borders in an illegal alien agenda. A beautiful 18 year old girl, Sheridan Gorman, she was shot and killed in Chicago. Last Thursday morning while walking in a park with friends. The suspect in custody for murdering her is a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught and released at the border by the Biden administration in May of 2023. Why would the Biden administration catch and release of a Venezuelan illegal alien? That is not, not happening anymore under this president. But there are still tens of thousands, if not millions, of these illegal aliens in our country who seek to do harm to innocent Americans. Like this beautiful young woman whose family will now never be the same because of her death. To make matters even worse, this monster was also released from local custody, again after a shoplifting arrest.
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Where?
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In the sanctuary city of Chicago in Japan, June of 2023. Again, another innocent American citizen had her life stolen from her. Because Democrats embrace reckless open border policies and reckless sanctuary city policies which put criminals back into American communities. How many more Americans have to die before the Democrats end this madness? President Trump's position is very clear. He wants the federal government open, he wants the Department of Homeland Security funded, and he wants the Democrat shutdown to end immediately. The President will also continue to call on Democrat leaders in sanctuary cities and states like JB Pritzker, where this young, beautiful girl was murdered to cooperate with ICE and stop releasing illegal alien criminals into American neighborhoods.
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So you heard her layout all of those horrifying details about how this happens. Venezuelan illegal alien comes into our country, allowed in under Biden, and then when he comes, and then after that, he's picked up for shoplifting in Chicago and they don't hold him accountable for it, they just release him back on the public. And then there's. Then, as I understand it, there was a warrant for his arrest because he didn't show up to any subsequent court proceedings for. For the shoplifting charge, and they never took him into custody. And that left him free to, last week kill Sheridan Gorman. As she tried to flee this guy, he shot her in the back. She was with her friends trying to view the northern lights and she was murdered in cold blood. She was assassinated. And now the country's reeling again. Another Lake and Riley. Another moment where we all have to look with sorrow upon what just happened to our country and figure out, how do we stop this from happening? Normal people react that way. How do we stop this from happening ever again? The Democrats are not normal at all. In fact, here's Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson yesterday. This is yesterday, right in the wake of Sheridan Gorman's assassination by an illegal alien. Yesterday, Brandon Johnson, who at one Point had a 6.6 approval rating with his Own people in Chicago. He's the least popular BJ in America. Brandon Johnson, yesterday presenting a snowplow with the words abolish ice on the side of it. He thinks this is funny. Watch this.
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To all of the residents who participated in our snowplow naming contest, keep speaking up in every way and any way that you can. I look forward to meeting with the Chicagoans who submitted the winning names. And I look forward to seeing our city's pride, our spirit and even, yes, our humor represent us again next year. And so with that, take a moment to, I guess, take in all that you all have been waiting for. This moment is finally here. The snowplow with the most boats, most entries, abolish ice. Thank you very much.
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What a clown. What an absolute clown. You know, what is Sheridan Gorman's family think about all this? I'll get to that. They actually. They actually do have some thoughts about that Mayor. And they're being. They're being a little diplomatic about it. They're just trying to get justice for their daughter. And they're trying to prevent any of this from happening again. It's outrageous. But somebody asked him yesterday about this. Like, did you ever think about maybe not doing this? You know, Sheridan Gorman was just killed. You really going to go after the guys who are enforcing immigration law in the United States? Do you think maybe this is a bad idea? Maybe we shouldn't do this whole stunt? No, Nothing was going to get in the way of these anti ice antics yesterday. Cut eight. Watch this. Did you reconsider schedule rescheduling this event given the Sheridan Gorman by an undocumented immigrant?
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Well, look, as I've said before, my condolences to the family of Sheridan. This is a terrible tragedy. And what I've said from the very beginning, I'm going to continue to use every single tool that's available to me to protect the residents of the city of Chicago. And this tragedy is not going to deter us from our work. In fact, it's going to challenge us all to double down on our efforts to ensure that we are protecting every single individual across neighborhoods.
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Pay attention to that language at the end. We're going to protect every single individual across neighborhoods. He didn't say American. He didn't say Chicago. And he didn't say people who are here legally. American citizens. The people I'm tasked with protecting and serving. Nothing like that. He's talking about protecting illegal aliens. He thinks the murder of Sheridan Gorman is an invitation for him to protect more illegal aliens like her murderer. What a Scumbag. That dude is Brandon Johnson. And he was asked the other day, you don't apologize for what you did to her. You know that Sheridan Gorman is dead because of you, right? You understand that? An amazing moment as a reporter asked him, are you going to apologize yesterday? And watch him as his heart rate doesn't change at all. He just sits there and just neutrally stares back and gives some clap trap about senseless violence. Watch this.
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Continue to pray for those victims.
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Will you take this opportunity to apologize to Sheridan's parents for the policies that you promoted that have, that would directly cause her death? That suspect would not be in the city, would not be in the country. But for your policies, will you take this opportunity to apologize?
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Well, again, I believe that we're all, we're all grieving the loss of Sheridan and other folks who have lost their lives because of sense violence. And let's just be very clear between the Safety act and the Welcoming City ordinance. The Welcoming City ordinance was passed 40 years ago by the first black male in the history of Chicago. And the Safety act was passed under the governor at that time, who was Republican Governor Rauner. Thank you for your questions.
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Thank you for your questions. So this guy's like, obviously full of garbage. And, you know, no, he's not going to apologize. Not for what he did. You know, we're going to double down. He just said. And then two clips ago, you heard him say that we're going to double down. You know what they're doubling down on? Sanctuary policies. They're doubling down on making Chicago a hellhole. That's what they're doubling down on. Complete disaster. This is why also Democrats don't want election integrity. The only way you end up with a guy like that continuing to run a city like Chicago is if you lack election integrity. If the Chicago Democrat machine can get away with, in some cases, literal murder, if they can just keep doing that, well, then he's good. That's how the least popular BJ in America gets elected to be the mayor of the city. It's insanity. How do you go like Lori Lightfoot? Are you serious? Who are these psychopaths? Brandon Johnson. What an unimpressive asshole that dude is. And for him to sit there and be like, yeah, no, it's, it's like just senseless violence. The family of Sheridan Gorman is saying senseless violence. What are you talking about? They told cbs. They released a statement that CBS at least summarized what happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to a senseless tragedy, said the family. Nor can it be explained in general terms about public safety. Sheridan was our daughter. She was 18 years old. She was doing something entirely normal, walking near her campus with friends. She should be here. We will not allow Sheridan's life to be reduced to a talking point or a generalization. We expect leadership that is willing to, to confront hard truths and ensure that what happened to her does not happen again. So here we are yet again. What happens is they're never getting Sherrod Gorman back. That family is not able to get their daughter back. But what they can do is they can try and be advocates coming out of a tragedy like this to prevent it from happening to any other family. This is bravery on their part to be able to overcome obviously the trauma. Having just lost their daughter. Imagine like the last thing you want to do is engage in some sort of public debate over policy in the United States. They want to be focused on what's going on in their own lives right now. They want to be focused on dealing with this, this horrible, horrible murder and taking care of their daughter's affairs. The last thing they need in their lives is to be pulled into like public debates and things. But here they are, they're still speaking up because they don't want to see this fate befall any other woman in our country. God bless them for it and what an awful hand they've been dealt. Lose their daughter this way. And to have a mayor like that who they have to speak out against for trying to just gloss over the fact that their daughter got killed by his decisions, which is true. He should apologize, he should resign. And if there's any justice in the world, if there's a law that this guy broke, he should be in jail for what he did. Now there are Chicago Democrats, a couple of them, very few, but a couple of them who think this is completely out of control. One of them is a Chicago alderman who was just on television talking about this. Take a look. Eric Daugherty, who, by the way, I want to compliment Eric Daugherty, who is constantly posting so many great clips to the Internet. Appreciate his never ending efforts to do that. This is a clip that he highlighted. This is a Chicago alderman, Democrat, absolutely ripping his own party for what's happening here. Cut 10, watch.
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Well, he's absolutely blaming Donald Trump. And listen, I'm not a rabid Trump supporter or hater, but if you're going to blame the federal government, then blame it. Where this problem began, which was under the Biden Harris administration that allowed 15 million people from South America, Central America and across the oceans to come through our southern borders, manipulate asylum, be poorly vetted and then scattered to the seven winds of the United States. That's where this problem started. And I have yet to hear a single Democrat hold Biden and Harris accountable for what has happened because they knew who they were allowing in. They have their information, they vetted them poorly and still let them go even, even when they were criminals. And to say it's Donald Trump, Donald Trump's fault simply because we refuse to work with them to go after those high priority targets. There are 2,000 priority targets in the city of Chicago right now who we know are dangerous, courtesy of the Biden Harris administration that vetted them. But we will not allow the Trump administration to remove them simply because we don't want to look as though we're capitulating to him.
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That guy's Raymond Lopez. Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez said, I don't agree with Trump on everything. You don't have to agree with Trump on everything. But the common sense approach is to say get these illegals the hell out of our country. And he's like, look, Biden let In, he said 15 million, whatever the number is, tens of millions of illegal aliens. The answer to that is eject them. But Democrats don't want to. Now why is that? Now that alderman may not be in on the scheme, but one Illinois former Illinois governor knows exactly why these Democrats are doing this. Rod Blagojevich, remember that guy, Rod, former governor of Illinois. He just posted something fascinating to x. Look at this post. The reason Democrats like Pritzker impede law enforcement aid and abet illegal immigrants, wait four days to say anything about an 18 year old college student murdered by an illegal immigrant and vigorously oppose voter ID is obvious. Illegal immigrants have become a voting block for the Democratic Party. That's the former Democrat governor of Illinois, a guy who had his own corruption scandal in the past, who's now saying out loud that the whole reason these Democrats, Rod has had a big change ever since he's been, ever since he got the pardon from Trump and he's a lot closer to President Trump these days. He's just, he's just coming out and saying it. These Democrats have a voting bloc in illegals. They're deriving political power from illegals. The last thing they're going to do is rat out their own voting block. That's it. Robert Gojevich stating this yesterday. It's amazing. So, you know, and by the way, not surprising at all, of course to the rest of us who've been Paying attention. But that's what's happening right now in Chicago. It's just utter madness. Now, one more thing. On Sheridan Gorman's murder. You know, she's a student. She was a student at Loyola in Chicago. And there's a student newspaper there at Loyola, the Loyola Phoenix. And they've been covering the impact of her death on the campus community. As you might expect, it's gotta be huge news on a college campus like this. And if you were to go look at their newspaper right now, it's just headline after headline about campus reactions to the death of Sheridan Gorman, which, again, makes a tremendous amount of sense. Here's what doesn't make any sense. They have apologized for referring to her killer as an illegal immigrant. I know, I know. My buddy Blake Neff over at. Over at the Charlie Kirk show highlighted this yesterday. He says Sheridan Gorman's own student newspaper has now issued an apology for calling the criminal foreigner who murdered her an illegal immigrant. Instead of a resident. Instead of a resident. Here's the statement that they made. Let me see if I can tighten this up for you guys to see it. Here's the statement that they made on their newspaper. Editor's note. On March 23, a post on the Phoenix's Instagram page carried the following headline. Immigrant man charged in murder of Sheridan Gorman. DHS involved immigrant man. He's an illegal alien. First of all, the headline was incorrect to begin with. So if they want to apologize for something, don't call him an immigrant. Call him an illegal alien. That headline didn't reflect the most important elements in the story, and it was taken down minutes later to prevent any further harm. Harm to affected community members. Harm? The hell are you talking about? Effect. You mean illegal aliens who murder Americans? That's the harm you're worried about? Additionally, in the body of the original post, we described the man who was charged as an illegal immigrant using language provided by the Department of Homeland Security. That language does not align with Associated Press style, nor does it align with the values of this newspaper. The Associated Press style. You know, for. For those of you who are coming up who want to be journalists or in the journalism industry, whatever. I mean, there's a lot of people who still follow AP style for things, or at least they did. You know how crazy and left wing and how woke and garbage AP style is. Now, you know what they do? Ap, the Associated Press, they capitalize the word black, but they don't capitalize the word white in reference to people. It's patronizing, divisive, discriminatory. Garbage is what it is. And so this idea that you would follow. Oh, we have to follow AB style. We can't refer to things by what they actually are. Illegal aliens. You can't say that. That's. That's a mean thing to say. No, it's a. It's a factual thing to say. The truth is not mean. The truth is the truth. Just declare it. And they go on here and they're using the same sort of bumper stickers that the left uses in this conversation. No human's existence is illegal, says the Loyola paper. No human's existence is illegal. And we quickly changed our wording to reflect that. Nobody said that a human's existence is illegal. There's not a single person who's said that. To exist is. Nobody said that. In fact, conservatives are the party of life. We. We want people to be born, we want them to thrive, and we want them to follow the law. It's not your existence that makes you an illegal alien. It's that you violated our laws that makes you an illegal alien. It was an action, not existence. But this kind of wordplay that the left engages in is a form of mind control. It's meant to manipulate people into compliance. It's meant to be moral blackmail to get you to open your borders to invasion. That's what this is. It's always been like this. And these kids, I say kids because they're college students. They're falling for it. They're falling for this. There's a struggle session going on at Loyola right now. It's the same kind of Marxist struggle session that we've seen throughout history. We're seeing it again here in all of these institutions of higher learning. And imagine spending. You know what they spend to go to Loyola with these kids or their parents in most cases, are spending. It's upwards of $77,000 a year to pay for both tuition and room and board to go to Loyola. $77,000 a year. Who can afford that? That's a lot of money to go to a school like this. And what are they learning? They go there to learn that the truth doesn't exist, that the truth is hateful, that saying that violating the law is somehow a moral failing. Their heads are being filled with left wing propaganda. And just picture how strong that propaganda is. Their classmate just got murdered in cold blood by an illegal alien. She was trying to get away with him. He shot her in the back. The villains in this story are crystal clear. It's the Democrats who allowed this to happen, and the Illegal alien who pulled the trigger. And yet the school newspaper is bowing down before those very same left wing forces and apologizing for using language like illegal immigrant. We've got a massive problem in higher education. Massive. And I know on the right, we've been on this for a while, but this is yet another reminder of it. These kids are going and their families are going into massive amounts of debt to have their heads filled with garbage. And then what happens after that? Well, then they go into the workforce, then they come to Washington, then they join a Senate office, then they get elected to Congress, and then they saw more chaos, wielding more power to do it. They become the Governor of Illinois, J.B. pritzker, they become the least popular BJ in America, Mayor of Chicago. That's what happens. And so we got to put a stop to this early at the root causes. We got to put a stop to this in higher education. You can't have that. And Loyola should be ashamed of this. If there was any sense of shame in the leadership of that university, they should be ashamed of the fact that they have students who are making excuses for murder. It's just awful. It's just awful. And it's also not the first time We've heard this a lot. You know, remember, it reminds me, actually of what happened a couple years ago. Do you remember when, you know, President Otto Penn apologized for calling Lake and Riley's murderer an illegal alien? Do you remember this? Can we flash back to this, guys, do we have that clip? Let me see here. Josh, do we have that by any chance? I don't know if I see that in the cut sheet. Yeah. Okay, good. Let's play Biden. Here he is.
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Notice the look of surprise on your face when you walked into the chamber. You saw Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was priceless. You feigned shock at seeing her, but during your response to her heckling of you, you used the word illegal when talking about the man who allegedly killed
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Lake and Riley, an undocumented person. And I shouldn't have used illegal. It's undocumented. And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I talked about in the border was that his, the way he talks about vermin, the way he talks about these people polluting the blood. I talked about what I'm not going to do, what I won't do. I'm not going to treat any of these people with disrespect. Look, they built the country. The reason our economy is growing. We have to control the border and more orderly flow. But I don't share his view at all.
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So you regret using that word?
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Yes.
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Illegal alien murderers are vermin. There's no question about that. They built the country, you utter psychopath. Illegal aliens built the country. Apologizing for referring accurately for a single moment in time to Lake and Riley's murderer. What an embarrassing party. What a corrupt party. It goes back to where we started. Today. The president is pointing out something really obvious. It's impossible to work with these people. You're going to get a deal with them. President Trump is more likely to get a deal from the Iranians than he is from the Democrat Party. That's the truth. And once America wakes up to that fact, we'll be in a better place. All right. I've got a lot more coming up today on the Vince Show. We'll cover the big national radio show. We'll cover a lot more, including the specifics on everything that's developing with Iran. That's 12 to 3 Eastern time nationwide. Go to the vinshow.com get your local radio affiliates there. You can also head to rumble.com@/vince. That's at 1pm we start the video broadcast there so you can join the chat. It's going to be awesome. We had a great, a great crew getting together for that. Dan Bongino's excellent program starts at 10 o' clock on Rumble. Rumble.com Bongino Go check out his show. And then we've got Haley Carinea. Wonderful. Rumble.com Haley with Two Wise. Why? Because she is wonderful. She's live at noon Eastern on Rumble. Check her out. She's great. And as always, thank you for being here. I'll be back with you tomorrow for a mighty Friday episode. I gotta go make some steaks for my wife. Tonight we have to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. Love that woman. I'll talk to you soon.