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Taken Hostage | Episode 302
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A dramatic GOP Senate standoff forces a major DOJ reversal; California holds pivotal primary elections; tensions explode over ICE enforcement and immigration detention; Vince breaks down the latest developments in the Middle East; Marco Rubio testifies in fiery Senate hearing.
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Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Wednesday. It's so good to have you with us. Big election results are. Well, they're not done. They're coming in in California. And when Democrats are counting the votes, you can count on Democrats stealing the election usually. We'll keep an eye on what exactly is going on in California today with special attention on Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt and their respective races. Very interesting. We've got a lot to discuss when it comes to that. Also, we will take a closer look on all of the developments involving illegal immigration, Republican failures in the Senate, and the president's latest on what is going on in Iran. We've got quite a bit to talk about. It's all ahead on this edition of Vince, as always, so great to have you with us. The best audience anywhere. And I want to thank all of our west coast viewers who are joining us live this morning. I've noticed in the chat this morning we have in our live show a lot of people from the west coast, which again, the show starts so early on the West Coast. I know I can't control this other than we start at 8am Eastern each day, which means we start at 5am Eastern on the West Coast. God bless you if you're joining me at that time. Thank you for that. No doubt. Because in part you want to talk about what the hell's going on in your own states. I've got that. That's ahead on the program. Thanks for being here. Okay. Let me thank the great sponsors who make the show possible. I sleep so well each night, including on election nights, thanks to Helix. I love my Helix mattress. Allison and I sleep so well on our Helix mattress. And I think you're going to sleep wonderfully when you finally get a hold of a Helix. A lot of people in the chat have the Helix. A lot of people on our team have the Helix. Is it time for you to get a Helix? You can do it. 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Steve Hilton is currently the front runner in the race with a lot of these highly concentrated Democrat mail in ballot districts to count yet. So don't count Democrats out when it comes to election rigging. Steve Hilton is at 27.8% of the vote right now. Javier Becerra, Javier Bakaria, as Joe Biden called him, is at 25.4% of the vote. Tom Steyer trails at 19.6. And there's Chad Bianco, also a Republican like Steve Hilton. Chad Bianco is down there at 11.3. I think it's safe to say this morning that Chad Bianco is very unlikely to appear in those final two. There was a moment early in this race where we thought Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco could be the only two to appear on that general election ballot. This is the way the jungle primary works in California to remind people in case you're not from California or even if you are and you're a little confused about what's going on here. It's a jungle primary. Republicans and Democrats all run together and then at the end of that jungle primary, the top two vote earners go on to the general election. That could be a Republican and a Democrat. It could be two Democrats, two Republicans. Whoever the top two earners are, they're the ones who go on in November. That's the governor's race. And as of this moment, Steve Hilton and Javier Bakaria lead the way to show up on that general election ballot. Now, again, not a guarantee. And here's We've got a couple of things for you. Steve Hilton last night staring at the vote tallies coming and going. We're looking good. We're looking good. But he even acknowledges we're not there yet. Take a look here. STEVE hilton, we're not there yet, but it's looking good. It looks very much, it looks very much as if Californians really will have the chance to vote for change in November and take and take our state and take our state in a new direction, a fresh start for our state which is long overdue. But I just want to say something to every single person who voted for me and every single person who voted in this election. Whether you voted for me or not, I am here for you, for every single one of you. Yeah, he's optimistic, but you can tell, I can tell in his tone that he's concerned that he's being realistic about his chances here because we're dealing with one of the single most corrupt Democrat run states in the entire country. And that does not bode well for even the Republican candidates who are performing very well as of the election day tallies. Here's NBC News last night admitting that Democrat ballots as they come in could in the end wipe out Steve Hilton. Watch this cut to or it's just going to have to be such a flood of Democratic ballots coming in after, you know, being tabulated after election night or into the wee hours this morning. That would just lift both Democrats over, over Hilton. That's increasing what it needs to be for Steyer. That's what it needs to be for Tom Steyer, says the NBC data guy. And that is there a chance that that happens? Yes. Here's I'm telling you right now, I'll never sell you false optimism. I am very happy with Steve Hilton's performance and Steve Hilton has a very, very real chance of being on that general election ballot and God willing, he will be. So Californians have a great option that doesn't include Javier Bakaria or Tom Steyer, the guy who keeps talking about how elections are bought and paid for in the United States and then keeps failing to buy an election for himself. He's the huge Democrat donor that Tom Steyer. The Javier Bacaria and Tom Steyer. These guys are the establishment of the Democrat Party. They are definitionally the corrupt establishment of the Democrat Party. So if Californians, and by extension the rest of America gets a way to rescue that state through Steve Hilton, boy, that would be an amazing thing. It would be an amazing thing and it'd be pretty hilarious if on America's 250th birthday it took a former Brit who became an American to rescue such an amazing and historic state. It could be. It could be phenomenal. But it ain't over till it's over. And Democrats are running a lot of this. In fact, on the on the ballot count, we got Tom Steyer, goofball. Let's keep him away from elective office. Thank you, Josh, for video of Tom Steyer dancing like an idiot. Here's what we've got. And this will apply to the mayor's race, too. I'll get to Spencer Pratt in a minute. Race the races in California, the ballot count is expected to take weeks. Yeah, you heard me correctly. Weeks. This thing. The New York Times reports that in California, Election day will often stretch into Election week or even Election month because of the time it takes to count the state's high volume of ballots, mail ballots. That process, combined with the fact that many Democrats waited until the last minute to return their ballots this year, could lead to a long wait for a call for many races in the state's nonpartisan primaries. Typically, more than 80% of ballots in California are cast by mail. What chaos. What utter chaos. And the New York Times takes us back to the 2022 LA mayoral primary. That's where Karen Bass, the current idiot mayor of Los Angeles, had received about 37% of the reported vote by the end of election night, compared with the conservative Rick Caruso's 42%. By the time all the ballots had been counted, Karen Bass had risen to first place with 43% of the vote and Caruso had fallen to 36%. So just to remind you what the history is here in California, California is expected because this is the way they have it structured. They will keep accepting mail in ballots for an entire week after Election Day. So as long as the ballot says it was postmarked by yesterday, Election Day, then the ballots will continue to be taken and counted all the way for the next week, which is insanity. There's no excuse for voters not having a clean answer to who won the election by the end of election night. Florida can do it. They do it so. Well, so many states, oftentimes run by Republicans, so many cities and counties and towns oftentimes run by Republicans can do this like that instantly. Maximum efficiency, maximum credibility. California, maximum inefficiency, maximum opacity. It is impossible to know whether the election is on the up and up. Impossible. And in fact, a lot of Americans suspect it's totally fraudulent because that's the way California conducts its elections. California reporting. Some election observers are saying that, that Tom Steyer still has a realistic path right now in order to unseat Steve Hilton and join the top two with Javier Bakaria. So we'll keep our eyes on that. And then lastly, when it comes to that governor's race, and then I'll get to Spencer Pratt and how LA is going when it comes to that governor's race, I want to remind you of who Javier Bakaria is. I keep saying it like that because that's who Joe Biden called him. Javier Becerra was the HHS secretary under Joe Biden. Now chat. Do you remember the big scandal that Javier Becerra was responsible for? Any guesses? What was the big HHS scandal that Javier Becerra was doing? Do you guys remember this? He was. I'll give you a hint. It involved a lot of human beings. I'll give you another hint. It involved human beings that you would consider minors. What happened under Javier Becerra? There you go. Covering McGroin with immigration of children, the human trafficking of kids into the United States. That's right. Baser. Baser. Baser. And Cali. Baser in Cali. Thank you, Baser, for being in Cali and for joining us this morning. Yeah, he lost children. He lost all the kids. He imported them into the United States of America. And so we are. There's a possibility here, based on the current status of that race, that Steve Hilton is going to go against the child human trafficker for the general election in California. Boy, California, you're in a bad way if you chose a child human trafficker as one of your top two candidates. This, this guy's a complete disaster. And I want to. Let me just tell you, you know, Michael Shellenberger wrote a piece about this recently in, you know, kind of contemplating on the state of the California race. And he said, yeah, fact check. Yes, it's true. Javier Becerra lost track of 85,000 migrant children, many to traffickers. Now, I've seen higher numbers than that. In fact, I've seen hundreds of thousands, not just 85,000. But Michael Shallenberger Smart reporter digging in here. And he said the underlying problem is not that Becerra is a poor communicator, but rather that he is the person responsible for losing 85,000 migrant children under Biden's open borders policy, which was what that local reporter at KTLA was asking about when Becerra started freaking out at her is this going to be an ambush interview? I didn't know this would be an ambush. I thought this was going to be nice. I thought it was going to be a profile. Becerra was Secretary of Health and Human Services and under him, his Office of Refugee Resettlement couldn't even reach or find more than 85,000 so called unaccompanied children. After releasing them to sponsors, 11 ORR managers warned in a July 2021 memo that labor trafficking was rising and that the system rewards individuals for making quick releases and not one that rewards individuals for preventing unsafe releases. The New York times found that 13 year olds were working in ready meat plants, 12 year olds were working in Hyundai and Kia supplier factories, and children who should have been in the in middle school were working at commercial bakeries. That's all. That's all the poisonous fruit of Javier Becerra, the former HHS Secretary. He was a disaster. In fact, remember when RFK Jr. Came in, his successor, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Comes in working for President Trump thanks to your vote in 2024. Here's what RFK Jr had to say early last year. Here's cut five, talking about what Becerra left behind. We have ended HHS as the role, as the vector, the principal vector in this country for child trafficking. And during the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child trafficking and for sex and for slavery. And we have ended that. And we're very aggressively going out and trying to find these children. 300,000 children that were lost by the Biden administration. 300,000 children lost by the Biden administration. HHS under Javier Becerra, the primary vector for child trafficking in America. Disgusting. Absolutely. Becerra should be in jail for that. And yet there he is near the general election ballot in California. In fact, remember what Becerra said? He wanted to rush children into the United States like it was an automotive assembly line. And you just heard me say, in fact, some of those kids actually ended up on the automotive assembly line. Cut six, watch this. If Henry Ford had seen this in his plants, he would have never become famous and rich. This is not the way you do an assembly line. And kids aren't widgets. I get it but we could do far better than this. We got to rush them in like they're an automotive assembly line and then just lose track of them entirely. That's pretty disgusting stuff. In fact, indentured child labor really exploded under Joe Biden. A lot of these kids trafficked in by the cartels working as slaves to work off cartel debts. It's pretty sick stuff. And you had Susan Rice even admitted at one point in a handwritten note that the Biden administration had caused this. The Biden administration had caused this. In fact, this is what she said at the time. This is B.S. this is a New York Times piece. Now, this dates back to April 2023. I always keep notes on everything, so I've had this for a while. She said, this is BS In a handwritten note, according to a copy of a memo reviewed by the New York Times. She said, what is leading to so called voluntary separation is our generosity to unaccompanied children. Generosity. Another way of saying that the reason families are being separated is because we are trafficking children into the country en masse. That's what Susan Rice even acknowledged. This is B.S. look at this. Let me see if I can zoom in on this for you. Look at that. This is BS what is leading to voluntary separation is our generosity to ucs. It's another way of saying the reason so many families are being separated at scale is because the Biden administration is importing children. That's who California may have on their general election ballot. Javier Becerra. And we would all do well as Americans to constantly remind everybody of what they're responsible for. And that's why I'm bringing it up today. I want you to know as we watch these election results. All right, coming up in a moment, what about Los Angeles? How's LA doing? You know, L. A is is is a desperate place because it's been run by Democrats directly into the ground. Can Spencer Pratt pull out an absolute political miracle? Is it possible? The answer is yes, it is. But we have to take a close look at the data and with an advanced look at what the weeks ahead might produce. It's all ahead on this edition. 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Now, based on all of the election analysis, who's going to be in second place? We'll see at this hour. Spencer Pratt's in second. Spencer Pratt's in second right now. So Karen Bass has 34.8% of the vote. Spencer has 30.4% of the vote. Nithya Raman 22.3% of the vote. Now, this is obviously a highly concentrated Democrat run city with Democrat corruption all over the place and an election season that. That's expected to stretch on for days, if not weeks. So anything could change about the rundown here. But at the moment, with 63% of the votes, Spencer Pratt is doing very, very well, which is. Which is great. And Spencer Pratt is also feeling very, very good for now. Take a look at Spencer last night with some of those election results coming in. Cut three. Well, obviously God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor. So it's gonna be a fun ride. I hope she's ready. Are you ready? I mean, I was born for this. Clearly, God wanted five more months of me exposing the corruption to this mayor. And sure enough, if he wins, that is. That is going to be the case. We'll get. We'll get more of that. And Spencer is just. I have been so impressed by this run. You know, there's. It was funny to watch some of the videos yesterday. Encouraging to watch some of the videos yesterday of the people who say they're voting for him and why. Here's one Democrat yesterday saying that he's backing Spencer Pratt because he vehemently agrees with his solution to homelessness. Watch this. Cut 4. As a Democrat, are voting for Spencer Pratt. Yes, sir. Why is that? I do like his approach for the homelessness of. As a person who used to be homeless myself, I was rendered the services that he's talking about. I was able to change my life 10 years sober with no alcohol and stuff like that. So his approach is really good. I do think it's fair for him to go off with the runoff with Karen Bass. This way, both of them can go ahead and prove to me why they deserve my vote. So as of today, I'm doing it. Yes. Because I do like his approach and I do think he deserves a fair chance. Yeah. But come November, it could be different. It's amazing. He's almost there. He's almost there. Like he's realized that the city has become a complete dumpster fire and that Spencer Pratt has great solutions. To getting out of it. But he's still holding out some sort of bizarro judgment on the final person to become the mayor. Look, Karen Bass may yet earn my vote. Let's just. It's such a low IQ assessment. It's so unfortunate. But. But Spencer Pratt is definitely turning some heads. That's the key. In fact, this is an even better assessment of Spencer and why he's. And why he's so different. Look at these two stereotypical Californians talking about. And I mean this in the best way possible, I talk about how much they love Spencer Pratt and why he's going to be such a breath of fresh air if he becomes the mayor. Watch this. Because he's speaking out against communism and socialism. And it is real big problem in our cities, especially in la, where it's turned to crap. It's not an accident. They're doing it by design. Karen Bass wants to destroy our city. And it's nice to see someone like Spencer. I can simplify it because those buzzwords are like, they, they, they. They melt the brains of, like, left, you know, leaning people. So let's just say it this way. He doesn't want you, a human feces, to be a part of your life. He doesn't want homeless children outside. Thank you. Like that. We. Oh, she ran away. We have someone. Homeless people outside of the element. We appreciate you. We've talked a lot about the homeless. Thank you. All right, listen, appreciate you, man. I got it. Thank you for navigating that so well. No, we can, we can. We just want to shout out June Cutter, the chief of staff of Spencer. She's incredible. Thank you. Okay, Halle, All I will say is that clearly they're. They're taking a few shots. They're feeling good out here. The margaritas flowing there at Don Antonio's, perhaps. I don't know for sure. Really suspicious. Amazing. Isn't that? Okay? This is like. I don't know. I don't know if there's a more perfect clip to encapsulate the madness of the moment you and I are living through. Can you, Josh? I hadn't even seen the full length of that clip. I love that. I'd seen the beginning of it. I didn't see how NBC had handled it. That's hysterical. So that's. What is that the Miz now network or NBC News? Whatever, whatever. The point is it's NBC. And so NBC has a microphone in front of these two guys who look like they're going to say they're dressed like Libs they look like they're going to say that Karen Bass is the greatest thing that's ever happened to the planet or whatever and that Spencer Pratt is like a MAGA extremist. Instead, they both say, Spencer Pratt's amazing. Communists suck. Socialists suck. Human poop on the sidewalk sucks. We don't want dudes whacking off in the middle of parks, homeless people everywhere. You know, just common sense stuff. NBC runs away from these guys going, you're not giving me what I wanted. I wanted you to attack Spencer Pratt. I wanted you to wage a war on common sense. That's not what they did. And instantly this woman runs away. And I love that the guys run after them because I don't appreciate you. They're yelling at the reporter now for censoring them the report. They weren't looking for an actuality. NBC wasn't looking for a real accounting on the street of what people think and what they want. They were looking to create a narrative out of whole cloth to advance a fiction. God bless those guys for standing up for Spencer in reality. That was a great clip. That was a fantastic clip. And you know, it wasn't shocking, but it was appalling the way NBC was acting. Just, just typical stuff. So Spencer Pratt's feeling good. You've got some Californians who are feeling very good about Spencer Pratt, but he definitely has a fight ahead of him. We've got to wait for these Democrats to count the votes. And this ballot count could take weeks. It could take weeks. So keep your eyes open on this race and continue to say your prayers for your country. For the longest time, I've, I know I've known some of the long suffering Republicans in California, these guys who've been fighting for many years to try and figure out a way to navigate back here, to try and retake the state, to make it the state of yesteryear, to bring back the Reagan era, to bring back when Pete Wilson was governor of the state. California has some amazing years that are behind it, but it would be a real tragedy for the United States of America if California's best years are always behind it. You know, one of the reasons California has become so desperate, in case you're wondering, how did this happen? The answer is that California opened its borders in a big way long before the rest of the country did. California has been importing millions upon millions of foreign nationals for many years and they've in many ways changed the composition of the state pretty dramatically. They've driven actual Americans out of the state by large. Numbers. It's become more and more expensive to even flee the state, as you probably well know. It's more expensive to get a U haul to leave than it is to go in. And it's impossible to live there and afford your lifestyle unless you're on the government dole. So, like, like, basically, you have maximum government dependency and then a small group of, of very rich Democrat elitists who are basically running one of America's prettiest states directly into the ground. It's become really tragic. And so how do we resolve it? Well, obviously, getting control of elections is a huge thing, and going after fraudsters is a huge thing. The more the Trump administration can bear down on California for legitimate reasons, the better. I'd like to see a very close watch on the way that this vote tally is being counted. And my suspicion is that Harmeet Dhillon, who is Harmeet, is a Californian, isn't she? Just off the top of my head, I thought she was a Californian. Hold up. Wanna verify this chat? You may verify before I can do it. She. Yeah, yeah. She built her legal and political career in California. And so Harmony Dhillon, who has a special concern about California's estate, is the head of the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice. And she's the perfect person to be keeping an eye on this because she enforces federal election law. She's responsible with enforcing federal election law. So, again, I'm just. I'm intuiting this from my excellent regard for Harmeet and from having had conversations with her through the years. We've seen many of our interviews. I think that they're going to be watching this very, very closely, and they should be, because step one, as this program has described, better than any other place, this audience knows better than literally anyone that step one to restoring our country is election integrity. It's why I've seen some of you say in the chat, it's why we need the Save America Act. It's why we need it so badly. It's because if we get credible elections, the only way any person who wants to hold elective office in the country can gain power is to legitimately convince voters that they're going to improve their lives. That's how you get rid of all of the nonsense distractions. It's how you get rid of the Pride Month horseshit where you see, like, everybody's flying pride flags. You saw Gavin freaking Newsom this week with the first partner, His. His wife that he won't even call his wife because he's such a cuck. These guys are talking about Pride Month and how much they love gayness and trans people and all this other stuff. That is all meant to be a distraction for the fact that they've driven America's states and cities into the ground wherever they hold power. That's what that is. You just saw this week the D.C. mayor, Muriel Bowser, as she does each year, bragging that D.C. is the gayest city in America. I think San Francisco would have something to say about that. But why? Why do we have cities competing to see who's the gayest? Why don't we have cities competing to see who's the safest? Why don't we have cities who are competing to see where people can succeed economically? Why don't we have cities competing to see who can be the best for families? They're competing to see who's the gayest. It's a clear sign that our election system is broken. The only way psychotic people like that gain power in America is if we don't have credible elections to begin with. Which is why step one is restoring the credibility of American elections at every single level. No more allowing foreign nationals to vote, even in municipal elections. It's only local elections. Hell with that. The voting franchise is for American citizens. Only American citizens. It's not for foreign nationals who happen to be visiting. That's insanity. Restore election integrity and when you do, you restore virtue to the United States. That has to happen. Coming up, I want to talk about some of those, I'm going to say it, utter jackasses in the United States Senate, in the Republican Party, who continue to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You have the perfect opportunity to take care of this country, restore election credibility and help get us on the right track. And yet you keep failing us because, let's be honest, you're just corrupt and we need to keep cleaning you out. More ahead on this edition of vince. We have a lot to get to. We have a lot to get to coming up. All right, let me thank two more great sponsors for you and then we'll dive right back into it. The reason we can do this show each day for free is thanks to sponsors like Block, Pocket Hose Ballistic. Love the pocket hose. Pocket Hose is great. 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Breaking tonight, the head of the Justice Department facing tough questions on Capitol Hill over a controversial anti weaponization fund that now appears to be dead in the water. But its demise could open up Republican funding priorities elsewhere. Correspondent David Spunt has got a recap from Capitol Hill. Good evening, David. John, good evening to you. This hearing ended just moments ago. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch told concerned lawmakers that this controversial so called anti weaponization fund is dropped and dropped permanently. We are not moving forward with the fund. Not moving forward ever. Correct. Notwithstanding what we do in those litigations and defending our rights and making sure our rights are protected, we're not moving forward with the fundamentals. The fund was announced just a couple of weeks ago, John, after President Trump decided to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS after an employee there leaked his tax returns. It would have given any and all American who believed that they were a victim of government weaponization a chance to at least file a financial claim. Last week, a federal judge in Virginia ruled the fund must be paused while she sorted through legal issues on Capitol Hill. Democrats want to force votes on a measure that would outlaw the fund or a similar fund in the future. Blanche says the part of the settlement with Trump protecting the president and his family from retroactive IRS audits is not going away. You just gave the president and his family, a tax immunity to the tune of about $100 million. Not true. Well, yes you have, my friend. That's not true. Not true. Well, there is another component to this story. While the anti Weaponization fund may be on ice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE may actually be funded. Republican leadership is moving forward with CPB and ICE funding likely now that the so called anti weaponization fund appears to be history. House Speaker Mike Johnson met with President Trump yesterday in person about this controversial fund and future funding parts of the government. Well, I told him that it was a difficult prospect right now given our vote tallies as far as the anti Weaponization fund is concerned. Blanche says that it's gone. However, in the eyes of the court, it still exists. Nothing has been filed yet on the docket. And that hearing in Virginia is still scheduled, John, for June 12th. Okay, so let me break down what exactly happened here. You heard a lot there from that report from David Spunt. The anti Weaponization fund is dead. That's according to the Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanche, no doubt because of conversation, I assume, conversations with the President, who wants one thing more than anything. He wants border security. What does President Trump want? What was he elected on? He wants border security. He wants foreign nationals to be deported from the United States. How do you get that? Well, you fund the agencies who do it. You have to fund ICE and Border Patrol. What was standing in the way of that? Senate Republicans. We've talked a lot about Senate Democrats standing in the way of funding for those agencies. That of course, is why we've reached this level where Republicans have to use a budget process called reconciliation to deliver the funding. The simple majority vote in both houses. But we couldn't get enough Republicans to do that right now because they wanted to kill the anti Weaponization fund. They found it politically difficult to explain. They didn't understand it well enough. They didn't care enough about it. They had contempt for it. So you see, what happened is Republicans in the United States freaking Senate just held border security hostage until Americans who've been hurt by their government were hurt even more. I hate to put it in those terms, but that is exactly what happened. That's just the real explanation for what happened. Republicans just held our sovereignty hostage until the anti Weaponization fund was killed. And I want you to, I want to project forward what's about to happen because these, these Republicans are morons. One of the reasons they were they wanted this thing killed is because they didn't want to have to take difficult votes in the United States Senate during a process called the vote a rama. So during reconciliation, there's a free for all vote where every, all the senators can present amendments, including from Democrats, and then the Senate has to vote up or down each of the amendments. And Republicans were concerned that if the, if the fund wasn't killed, Democrats were going to create a bunch of politically complicated amendments that they would have to vote no against or would feel uncomfortable doing that. I'm going to tell you right now, Democrats are going to do that anyway. So here's. So you got the worst of all worlds. You killed a fund that was designed to help American citizens who were truly hurt by their government. And Democrats are still going to force you to take the politically complicated votes you wanted to avoid in the first place, you utter morons. That's still going to happen. Hey, there. I'm Paula Pan. I help people make the smartest money decisions possible. If you don't control your money, it controls you. You're not in control of your finances, and you have to look outside of yourself to live the life that you want. You're not in control. You're like, like, what is it that you actually want? Money should follow the dreams and goals because sometimes you make the dream and goal the money. And you've always overworked yourself and you've exceeded what you've needed for the actual thing you want. Sometimes we forget, like, what's the actual thing you want? Afford anything. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. And I get the president's calculus here. I get the administration's calculus. They're just doing whatever they can to try and get funding for ICE and Border Patrol. But it was enough of a problem when they were dealing with these Democrat terrorists. Now they have to deal with the establishment Republican ones. It's maddening. And look, this audience, I know this audience is locked in on the politics. I know you're locked in on what the stakes are. I know you're locked in on what it takes to advance the Trump agenda. And yes, that includes growing the Republican margins come November in the House and the Senate. You have to do that. That's not an option. It's not. Despite the poor quality of a lot of these Republicans. It's not an option to just walk away and throw your hands up and be like, whatever, it's all over, and then destroy the country that you're supposed to hand off to your kids and your grandchildren. You don't have that luxury. Neither do I. We don't have that luxury. We've got to Stay in the fight, fight, fight. And in the meantime, we've got to clean out the Republican Party. We've got to put better people in place, which is why this primary process is so important, why it's been so important that President Trump has gotten rid of people like Thumbelina and Bill Cassidy and John Cornyn. That process is playing out and it needs to Continue. But at 30,000ft, I'm looking at something like this and I'm going, this is gonna dishearten people. This is. There's gonna be a category of American citizen. Oh, look at all this going. What the hell's going on in Washington? Why do I even engage in politics now? Again, I incur. I strongly stress to you that you and I can't become one of those people. You can't. Don't let the bastards get you down. But we've got to clean out the bastards in our own party. We have to keep doing that. We have to stay in that fight. And this is not glamorous. It's not wonderful. This is not. I'm not telling you, I'm. This is not the kind of segment I want to do that's going to be like, look how great everything's going. It's not going great. This is not great. And I've been flagging this for as long as this has been an issue, this anti weaponization fund. And I don't know, Chad, do you consume other media? Has anybody been. Anybody else been telling you how quality this thing is? I hope somebody else has been saying it. I've been saying it. American citizens who've been attacked at school board meetings. American citizens who've been censored on the Internet at the behest of the government. American citizens who are treated as extremists for practicing their Christian faith. American citizens who had their lives destroyed because they entered their own Capitol building. None of that should have ever happened. And they all have legitimate grievances that should be heard and that should be taken care of. And President Trump was trying to figure out a way to do that. And now Senate Republicans are standing in the way. And that whack job lady, was it Rosa DeLauro, the professor from Hogwarts who was going after Todd Blanche yesterday when she's like, president Trump gets immunity for all of his taxes forever. That is also a left wing fake news story of the week. That's also. I've already done this. I don't even know if I should play a chipper song like this. But it is this. And now it's time for the left fake scandal of the week. Extra, extra. Yeah. No, it's totally fake news. President Trump's settlement involves his prior tax filings. It doesn't have anything to do with any future tax filings by the President of the United States. Every tax filing going forward could potentially be audited by the irs. It's only for his past tax filings. Now, why would that be a part of the settlement? Because the IRS leaked his freaking taxes. That's why. The IRS leaked his taxes directly to the New York Times and ProPublica. They publish it for the world to see, which, by the way, exposed that President Trump pays his taxes and follows the law. And, and so therefore, as a part of the settlement in his lawsuit, he is immunized for audits of his prior tax returns. That's. It has nothing to do with the future. All of these things are either distortions or outright fabrications of the truth. And so it's up to the rest of us to constantly tell the truth with as much frequency and volume as possible. So there you go. That's another one of those left wing scandals of the week. It's just, it's just crazy. No, I know. People say, you're right. Clark says it should be the fake scandal of the day. One of the jokes is that it's the fake scandal of the week. I do that. We do that segment like, you know, practically at this point, seven times a week. It's, which is, which makes it amusing to me because it's always a left wing fake scandal of every hour. There's like another one every hour. It is, it is really, really amazing stuff. Speaking of our border security, Democrats are still trying to make our border make more chaotic. New Jersey Democrats yesterday filed a lawsuit to try and shut down the Delaney hall immigration facility, you know, where they've been staging these insurrections for over a week now. And they actually, they keep staging insurrections and they keep popping up every so often. For the last week, they've had a ton of insurrections. It calmed down once the police actually started enforcing the law two nights ago, which was fun, A lot, a lot of fun. But apparently it's kicking back up again because now they're releasing the bad guys again. Nick Sorter was on, on television talking about this, I think last night, saying they're releasing all the bad guys again. So the violence is starting to ramp up again. And New Jersey Democrats, to include the state's governor and the attorney general, they're trying to sue to shut the entire operation down. They don't want immigration enforcement in the state. They don't want the immigration facility. They claim that it's because that there's some sort of health problems there and health inspectors aren't being allowed in. This is all just complete garbage. It's just complete garbage. DHS says this is a completely frivolous lawsuit. ICE is committed to transparency. Delaney hall complies with all required state and local laws. Just last week, May 28, four representatives of the New Jersey State Health Department arrived at approximately 11:00am they entered the facility. They inspected the Food Service Department. The inspection was completed, and then they departed around 12:30. We will continue to grant state and local inspectors access to the facility where appropriate. ICE is regularly audited and inspected by external agencies. All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and their lawyers. In other words, they're being well taken care of. And the left is responsible for yet another. Fake scandal of movies. It's always happening. It's just never ending. It's actually never ending. So it's a completely. A completely frivolous lawsuit. And the left keeps lying about ICE agents. They keep calling them Nazis and brown shirts and saying they're awful human beings, which is also another. And now it's time for the left fake scandal of the week. We got another one. Extra, extra. Cut eight. Here's Mark Wayne Mullen Descri, dressing down Chris Murphy yesterday for lying about ICE agents. Watch this. You know, I do have an opening statement here, but wow, Senator Murphy, the outlandish claims you made there, it's just flat wrong. I. You start saying we're breaking the law and you really start looking at it and we're enforcing laws that Congress did pass. That's reckless. When you start saying it's unconstitutional, what's unconstitutional that we're doing? We swore to uphold the Constitution just like you swore up the Constitution. For you to throw my 275,000 employees underneath DHS and with a broad stroke like that is reckless and irresponsible on your part. We're doing the job that Congress gave us the authority to do. And our men and women out there every single day is enforcing laws. If you don't like the laws, you can change them. We're not picking and choosing which laws we enforce. We're simply enforcing the law. Period. Full stop. When you throw out reckless terms and you start referring to our. Our agents as being dangerous, unconstitutional and lawless. That's why our agents death threats are up by 8,000%. I know that's not what you want, but your political theater, that's what it causes. When you start looking at assaults on our officers, they're up by 1300%. That's right. Senator Murphy, is that what you want? I don't think it is. I really don't. He does. But I understand the political theater. I understand he does want to get sound bites. And that was obvious because the whole time he was giving your testimony, he wasn't looking at me. He was looking at a camera. I get that. I get it. If you have bigger political ambitions, fine, just say it. But don't do it at the expense of my officers. We want to really talk about funding. You haven't funded my officers. CBP and ICE has been willing to do the job for free. Why? Because of a reckless administration. Prior to President Trump coming in and saving America, you had a reckless administration that was destroying America by letting millions of illegals into our country. We're a nation of laws, and we're going to enforce those laws. What separate us from other countries is because people respect the rule of law. Okay, let me. I want to first of all say that most of what Mark Wayne Mullen said was correct. Most of it was correct. That Chris Murphy and all these other Democrats who do know better are breathing life into all of the violence against immigration enforcers, against law enforcement. It's disgusting. But here's the problem I have with Mark. When Mullen's assessment. Chris Murphy knows what he's doing. He knows it. I mean, some of these Democrats may be dumb, but they're not that dumb. They know precisely what the result of their lying rhetoric is. It's violence. It's insurrection. Chris Murphy knows what he's doing. And Mark Wayne Mullen. I know what's happening. Mark Wayne Mullen hasn't fully broke free yet of his Senate relationships. He just left the United States Senate. He's maintaining some sort of collegiality, including with people across the aisle that he had to work with every day inside of the halls of that United States Senate. He's apparently not battle hardened enough yet. It's time, Mr. Secretary, to get battle hardened. You got to confront these guys for what they're actually doing. Because if you can't call out the problem directly, you can't fix the problem. And it's time to start calling out the problem directly. These guys are breathing life into violence and they're spreading these very dangerous conspiracy theories that are animating the assassination culture that has taken hold on the left. You're the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, you need to act like it. This is the moment, and the president put a lot of trust in you. Use it well. Use it very well. But he's right. Fundamentally. He's right about the fact that Chris Murphy and these other Democrats have led to immense increases in violence against ICE agents, threats to their lives and their families, which is why these ICE agents have to wear masks. They're concealing their identities because they're trying to protect their families. That's obviously good enough for the left. When they stage insurrections, Antifa is out on the street with masks on their face because they want to get away with breaking the law. Meanwhile, ICE agents are told they have to remove their masks so that lawbreakers can hurt them. That's disgusting. That's totally disgusting. And Marquis Mullen would do well to get tough with these guys. A lot tougher. A lot tougher. So that's the state of the immigration stuff. We've always got more of that to deal with. Before we go today, I do want to hit some Iran war updates with you because that's a huge, huge story, too, that we can't dip without talking about. Marco Rubio testified before the United States Senate yesterday, the Secretary of State, and he offered some good news about the state of Iran's navy. It's now being used by the fish. Listen, Cut nine today, there is no Iranian navy. There is no such thing. There's a bunch of Boston Whalers with machine guns on them, but there is no navy. There is no Iranian navy. It lies at the bottom of the ocean and will soon, within a number of years, be prime fishing spots because they'll turn into reefs. That's pretty funny. And it's true. It's one of the things that makes it funny. It's true. It's totally true. Iran's navy is at the bottom of the sea. To the extent that they have a, quote, navy, they have a bunch of what Marco Rubio said, just Boston Whalers with machine guns on them. That's really all they've got. And can that cause problem? Yeah, we've seen that. We've seen that before. Look at Afghanistan and Iraq. Can smaller arms fire and improvised explosive devices cause trouble? Yes. And it can go on for a very long time. So no question. I had a. Somebody was asking me yesterday, Vince, if, if Iran doesn't have a navy, how can they shut down the Strait of Hormuz? How can they be jamming up traffic in this trade of Hormuz? I was like, very Simply, if they have anything that can threaten millions of dollars of cargo, like just a small boat with, like, a bomb or an IED or a little mine placed in the strait, they can cause a lot of chaos. That you've got these big companies who are very fearful to lose a tremendous amount of cargo with even small threats. So, yeah, no, the Iranians can and have continued to create all sorts of chaos. And the President is trying to resolve it. And he asked us all this week, let him cook. And that's, that's my attitude on it. Let him cook. Let him handle this. He says it's all going to work out. Well, it always does. There was a great moment yesterday as Marco Rubio dog walked another Democrat senator called Jackie Rosen. She accused him of partying instead of handling Iran negotiations. This was back when JD Vance was leading a delegation in Islamabad. Remember JD Vance, after 12 hours of negotiations with the Iranians, said, to hell with this. I'm walking away. He brought all sorts of intel back to the President of the United States. Here's Marco Rubio smacking Jackie Rosen around yesterday. Cut 11. Watch. This is why I was shocked to see that you were at a party with President Trump in Miami instead of accompanying Vice President Vance to Pakistan for negotiations. What party was I at? I was at a party, publicly reported, and there's photos there. But what party? No, no, no, no. But you're going to say that. I'm going to answer it. I. I'm going to answer that question. That's an absurd statement. I was not at a party. If. Finish my paragraph. He can answer. People are going to slander me. I'm going to answer. And Jared Kushner, both of whom were never confirmed by this body to be America's diplomats, accompanied the vice president in the negotiations. Even Iran's foreign minister was not there yet. You were not. Was there. Excuse me. And you were not. I just feel that's embarrassing for us and it's embarrassing for you. So Mr. Secretary of Congress represents the American people. We have the power to confirm who represents America abroad. We confirmed you to be our Secretary of State. We confirmed you to be in the negotiations that are happening. And it's just unthinkable to me that you are not. You are missing high stakes negotiations or that you're not involved. It's sad. Senator Rosen, your time's up. Secretary Rubio, you're 100% inaccurate and 100% wrong. Here's why. Number one, the vice president, the President of the United States was there, and he wasn't confirmed by the Senate. He was elected by the American people. He is the second in line of the presidency of the United States. He was president. Mr. Witkoff is the President's envoy for negotiation, for peace deals. Mr. Kushner is a private citizen that serves as an advisor on these functions. They were the team that we sent to Pakistan. I was not at a party. Where I was is next to the President because in the midst of those negotiations, I was in communications with them. And in fact, I think there is media reporting from that evening. I on how multiple occasions I went into a back room, I came back out and spoke to the President and was constantly updating him. On that evening, I spoke to Mr. Kushner and our negotiating team and Mr. Woodkoff on at least six occasions, including twice on a secure line from the phone they had access to over there. So you don't know what you're talking about. Senator Rosen, he has the floor. I know your staff wrote up this cute statement for your TikTok video, but it's not true and it's not real. That's not what happened. Okay? I'm the national security adviser and Secretary of State. I was co located with the President in the midst of a high stakes negotiation so that I could immediately inform him about events occurring halfway around the world. I was where I needed to be at that moment because we had a very capable team on the ground in Pakistan. Led by the Vice President. Led by the Vice President of the United States. Okay, okay, look at this now. This is such a great comparison that I didn't even anticipate. Look at the difference, Mark Wayne Mullen is still trying to play nice with Chris Murphy being like, look, I know you didn't mean to threaten ICE agents when you said that, but that's the effect of your words. No, no, no. You got to get to Marco Rubio's level. You got to get to Rubio's level. Rubio is also a former senator. And now there he is looking at Jackie Rosen, who's lying about what the administration is up to with Iran. And he goes, you know what? I know your staff wrote up this little script for you so you can make a TikTok video. Everything you just said was a lie. We're actually working on this, and you're an embarrassment. And good for Marco Rubio for doing that and for addressing yet another. 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