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Also coming up today, the great David Buzzell will be with us from the Media Research Center. He's gonna assess all the latest insanity from the legacy press and why the truth is so much better. It's all ahead on this edition of. Vince, great to have you with us on a Friday. Always so nice to talk to you. We've got great sponsors on this program today. I want to tell you about Patriot Mobile. Patriot Mobile is, well, they're just amazing. What a great company that really, really loves our country. You know, when, when I first got connected with Patriot Mobile, my impression of them was like, well, you're the patriotic company. It's in your name. And very quickly I realized not only are they patriots, they have top of the line technology. It really is incredible. And it's made my phone so much better. Having Patriot Mobile, I just love it. I think you will, too. We're in such a great, great year. It's the 250th anniversary of our country. 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It supports the Christian conservative movement. It's amazing. Take a stand today. Go to patriotmobile.com Vince or go to 972-patriot. That's the number. Use the promo code Vince for a free month of service. Don't wait. That's patriot mobile.com Vince or call 972-patriot foreign. You know, this is, this is kind of fascinating. Yesterday, late yesterday, the President of the United States was looking to resolve the chaos going on at the nation's airports. And for those of you who didn't see or hear yesterday's episode, I'll just tell you in brief that Democrats love the chaos. They love the chaos. They're agents of chaos. They're AOCs. They're running around creating chaos on purpose because they think that it's going to hurt Donald Trump. They believe that there are enough voters who don't pay close enough attention who are going to see chaos going on around them and think I need to change the status quo. Who's the president right now? Let's get rid of that guy. Or who's the party that's in charge right now? Let's get rid of those people. I'm not going to vote for them or I'll vote for the other guys. This is what Democrats want. It's a tried and true method that they keep on employing. They did it in 2020 with the George Floyd riots. They're trying to do it yet again here in this year, 2026, going into the midterms. They love chaos. The purpose of all of this chaos you're seeing right now is to protect illegal aliens, keep them in the country, get derive electoral strength from having all of those illegals here and to depress Americans about the state of the country. That's it. That's all right. You know, we all nod in agreement. Yeah, that's right. That's true. Democrats love the cake. Yes. That's Star wars fan, 1977. The Democrats just want to watch the world burn. That's true. They want to watch it burn. They're happy with that. They think they derive power from the burning. But here's the way the President outmaneuvered them. Yesterday. He said this thing at the airports, you know, where people are getting log jammed for hours, where ice has done some effort to. Ice was relieving a lot of the pressure. Ice was showing up helping at like 14 airports, busy airports across the country. They're relieving the pressure, but there's only so much ICE can do. There's only so much they can do. TSA agents were calling out more and more and more. We were looking at 50% call out rates at airports. It just doesn't work. And so travelers miserable trying to figure out how they're gonna get to their destinations. The President said, you know what? I've had enough. I've had enough. In Washington, Democrats were demanding all sorts of favors for illegal aliens. Keep them here. Keep them here. And the President said, I've had enough of your crap. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to declare an emergency, and I'm going to fund TSA anyway. Can he do that? I just did. Here's the President of the United States yesterday making a move on this very thing. He said, the radical left Democrats and their leader, Kryon Chuck Schumer, have made it very clear where they stand, and that is on the side of criminal illegal aliens and not the American people. They are refusing to fund immigration enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their open border policies, which will never, ever happen again. They almost destroyed our country, allowing 25 million people to enter from prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, those that are drug dealers, thousands of murderers, many of whom killed more than one person. Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true national crisis. I'm using my authorities under the law to protect our great country as I always will do. Therefore, I'm going to sign an order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen, to immediately pay our TSA agents in order to address this emergency situation. Got it. And to quickly stop the Democrat chaos at the airports. Not an easy thing to do, but I'm going to do it. I want to thank our hardworking TSA agents and also ICE for the incredible help they've given us at the airports. I will not allow the radical left Democrats to hold our country hostage any longer. Thank you for your Attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. So where were we? We were at Democrats make Americans miserable. And they wanted to use it, as the President says, as a hostage crisis to protect illegal aliens. They were hoping that Republicans in the Senate, Republicans in the Congress and the President of the United States would just roll over and make the lives of ICE agents harder and more dangerous, that they would make it easier for illegal aliens to stay in the country. What did Democrats want? Democrats wanted judicial warrants, judicial warrants for every illegal alien to deport them from the United States of America. That would create immense amounts of traffic in our judicial system, like routing a five lane highway into a one street neighborhood. A complete traffic jam of our court system designed to protect illegals. And the President said, nah, I'm not doing that. I'm paying TSA anyway. I'm paying them. I'm going to use emergency powers to do it. Mark Wayne Mullen, the new DHS secretary, he's been on the job for like what, 48 hours? Instantly grateful for the President's action. Yesterday he said this. I want to thank President Trump for his leadership in finding a way to pay our TSA officers to end this chaos at the airports. These hours, long lines and thousands of Americans missing their flights was caused solely by the Democrats and their reckless DHS shutdown. Many of dhs, his frontline workers, are still not being paid. That included fema, the Coast Guard, cisa, that's the cybersecurity agency. The Democrats must stop playing political games with our national security, quit punishing our employees and reopen dhs. And he was right about that when he posted that last night at 8:02pm Eastern Time. That's when Mark Wayne Mullen posted this. So what transpired after that? After we get the President of the United States declaring an emergency, Mark Wayne Mullen thanking him for that and saying Democrats better do something. What happened? The Senate just passed funding for TSA and there are no restrictions on ice. I only repeat that. The Senate just sent a clean funding bill, clean funding package right out of the Senate overnight under unanimous consent. And there are no restrictions on ice. Now, where's the but in this but there's no funding, there's no additional funding right now for ICE or Border Patrol. And that specifically affects the civilian employees for those agencies. So you know, at those agencies they've got like administrative workers, people who assist the agents, the ICE agents, the Border Patrol agents, they work in administration, these types of things. The civilian employees of those agencies are not receiving money right now and they need to get paid. They've got families to feed. So does that fight continue? Yes, it does. But what happened here is overnight, the United States Senate suddenly had a window of opportunity to get TSA funding out the door, and they put. They. They took advantage of it. And the reason that window opened was because of what President Trump did. Under any other circumstance, it wouldn't work. It. It wouldn't work. But here's what President Trump did. Here's what he did. He took the chaos off the table. He brought relief to America's airports. Yesterday, he announced, I'm paying TSA anyway. I'm doing under an emergency provision. And in so doing, as Democrats are suddenly watching like crap, the chaos we were trying to create, the misery we were trying to create for the American people is suddenly disappearing. Democrats try and sprint in at the last second to try and share in the credit for that funding finally going through, because what other options do they have? Because at that point, President Trump has relieved the pressure at the airports, and then Democrats would be the only thing left for anybody to stare at. And they're like, wait a second. What? Why is there still a DHS shutdown? That's Democrats. So the second the misery ends for the average American, Democrats finally concede, and they're like, okay, fine, we'll pass some funding. So that's what happened overnight. I'm telling you, President Trump outmaneuvered these guys. Take a look at this. This is a CNN headline. This is just the overnight headline here. Senate unanimously moves to fund most of DHS except ICE and Border Patrol. In rare overnight session, the Senate unanimously moving to to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for ICE and part of Customs and Border Protection. Again, administrative positions with Border Patrol and administrative positions with ice. The agreement would fund other DHS components such as tsa, the Coast Guard. But the House will still need to act before the funded agencies within the department can reopen. More on that in a moment. The role that the House plays here. The move is meant to alleviate long lines at airports while lawmakers continue to debate possible reforms to immigration enforcement by dhs. The move came just hours after President Trump had directed his newly installed DHS chief to swiftly pay TSA agents in a bid to reduce lines at airports as talks appeared to have fallen apart. Talks appeared to have fallen apart. And President Trump somehow rescued the entire negotiation by paying TSA agents. While much of Washington slept and officials mauled how to implement Trump's order, senators focused on moving the funding they were able to agree on by unanimous consent. On his way to the floor in the wee hours of the morning Friday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters, we're going to execute on as much as DHS as we can tonight, and then we'll fund the rest of it later. Okay, so what happened? President Trump got funding for these agencies. He actually got it through the Senate and it passed via unanimous consent. And just to remind you, when, when, when they ask for unanimous consent in the Senate, the way it works is if any senator objects, then the only way to pass it with an act is with an actual vote. But nobody objected, so you're not going to see a vote tally for that funding effort. Last night it was just, hey, we want to pass this via unanimous, unanimous consent. Are there any objections? No objections were voiced. It moves on. Now. There are still other components. You still have ICE and Border Patrol administrative funding, civilian funding that needs to go through. And we still have the Save America act that we need to pass. There's some business before us to deal with. And this brings us to what will the United States House of Representatives do? Great question. So here's the state of play with the House right now. The House, according to some of the political reporting this morning, has, quote, big problems at least today in moving this DHS funding bill. This may not all go all the way through until at least Monday, but here's what's going on. Here's Jake Sherman at Punchbowl and he says the House is going to have big problems moving the DHS funding bill today. In the rules for this Congress, Republicans have handcuffed themselves. The majority cannot move bills under suspension of the rules on Thursdays, free Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Hardline conservatives hate moving bills under suspension because it bypasses the rule vote where they have the most leverage. Suspensions short circuit that process, but they need 2/3 majority anyway. The point, what he's getting at here is that there are all sorts of rules that Republicans have imposed on the House on themselves that would prevent a speedy push of this legislation through. So Speaker Johnson can go to the Rules Committee for this where he can try to get basically a temporary rule. There's no sure thing. If he does get one, he can try to pass it on the floor. That's also no sure thing. Rules are party line votes. Or he can wait until Monday where he can pass this on suspension. Either way, it's going to be controversial. He says maybe Trump can convince the House Freedom Caucus to join him, but I don't know that'll work. So no, Save America act is in this. And rules are hard in the best of times. So what you need is everybody has to be for it, essentially. And there are Republicans in the House right now who've already taken a pledge of kind of no new legislation without the SAVE Act. Now, is this technically legislation? Well, as a matter of, like, I mean, this is what the, you know, anything the Congress produces can be called legislation. But this is just a continuation of funding. It's not like. This is not like the invention of a new law. This isn't the creation of some brand new law. This is the authorization of funding to agencies that need it. This is to relieve pressure on the American people. And to be very clear, the White House has already indicated that DHS funding is definitely allowed. It was the President who originally said, I'm not signing anything else legislatively until I get the Save America Act. Yes. DHS funding. Yes. Let's get Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen into position. But for the rest of it, no. No new legislation. We need the Save America Act. We need it. That's the position. And I think House Republicans will probably be with the President on that specific arrangement. We'll see. But keep your eyes open on this. If you're listening to this on the podcast, chances are some of this has kind of been resolved by the time you hear this. Maybe. And if it hasn't been, then it might be Monday that we finally get that. That House vote. But I just don't see. I don't see a scenario, ladies and gentlemen, where this happens overnight. Were it not for President Trump paying TSA on his own yesterday. I don't. I don't. Oh, and in case you were wondering, remember when Elon Musk offered to pay tsa, Remember that, like a week ago, he was like, I'll pay tsa. Apparently, the White House said it's just. It's just not possible. They wish it was, but under the law, it doesn't work that way. You have to pay these officers. You have to pay federal government employees through congressional authorizations. That's the way it has to work as a. As a constitutional matter. So he. He wasn't able to do that, which is too bad, because that was a really nice and generous offer by Elon Musk. But the President came up with an option, an emergency order. An emergency order to pay tsa. And if Democrats had decided to fight that, and I guess they could have, but, like, what, were they really going to have a big battle and say, you're not allowed to pay tsa, you're not allowed to use Emergency powers to make people's lives better. Yeah. They saw what was coming, and suddenly they're now for TSA funding. And again, it doesn't include any restrictions on ice. The left was looking to make it easier for illegal aliens. There are no restrictions on ice. Are there still components to fight for? Absolutely. But this was a masterful move, I think, by the President of the United States. One more thing on the process here, because, you know, this really does matter. Lindsey Graham, who is the ridiculous United States Senator, he's the head of the Budget Committee, and he promises that the. The other component here, the civilian funding for eyes, the civilian funding for Border Patrol, that it's going to come through in the reconciliation package. Remember that? And that's fine. You can fund those guys through reconciliation. That's a simple majority vote in both the House and the Senate. He said that bill will focus on ensuring ICE and other vital functions of homeland security, as well as US Military and efforts to increase voter integrity are Democrat resistance proof. This is where he's BSing you, the voter thing, where he says that they're going to get aspects of the SAVE act reconciliation. Lindsey Graham is lying to you. There is no meaningful way to get elements of the SAVE act through reconciliation. Mike Lee, Sean Davis, Anna Paulina, Luna, anybody who's on our side in this fight has already been telling you there is no way we're getting any meaningful real reforms for election integrity through reconciliation. So Lindsey Graham can pay lip service to all that. That's not happening. That's not happening. He claims he's going to work closely with the President and his team in writing the bill. That'll be his effort to try and pass off blame to President Trump if it doesn't give us what we need. And this will be one of the most important assignments I've had during my time in the Senate. I'm looking forward to hitting the ground running. Yeah, good luck. Good luck. Lindsey Graham, anyway. But Lindsey Graham, he wields power in this conversation because he is in charge of that Budget Committee. He does handle this reconciliation process. And apparently he's been quarterbacking this notion that, oh, we're going to get parts of the Save America act passed. A reconciliation. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. And I don't believe we'll ever see it ever.
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All right. More in a moment. I want to talk to you about what? A story of heroism. A story of heroism by an ICE agent yesterday. I love this story. And also the President of the United States. Anybody see the President Yesterday at the Cabinet meeting or in the. Or in his interview with Fox yesterday. He was in rare form. He was hilarious yesterday. I've got the updates on just how hilarious the President is. We'll be joined coming up by David Buzzell. We have a lot to discuss, all ahead on this edition of Vince. All right, let's see here. Oh, Dream. Dream. It's a great sponsor. Well, Beam's the sponsor, Dream's the product, and I love it. You know, when you're a younger person, you can bounce back from a terrible night's sleep, but the older you get, not quite so easy. Which is why you really just need a great night's sleep. And you can do that if you have. Beam's Dream Powder really helps a lot. 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Tell your friends about it. Remember, go to shop beam.comvinshow. use the code VIN SHOW. With my Code Vince show, you can grab Dream for up to 40% off. Try it today. It's really good. It's really good. Okay, let's see what we have. Okay. Ice Agent Heroism. Ice Agent Arrow Heroism. This comes to us from John F. Kennedy Airport, New York, yesterday. Take a look here. This, this is a scene where there's a one year old boy who's in his father's arms waiting in a TSA line yesterday. And in this video, you'll kind of see his arms are kind of dangling because the boy goes limp. And. And if you're watching rumble.com Vince, what happens is, is the Ice Agent again, they're helping TSA at the airport, sees this, runs over, intercepts the father as he's running around trying to figure out what to do, gets to the boy. And then behind, kind of obstructed by the column that you're looking at on screen, he performs Heimlich on the child. This is a one year old baby. And if anybody's ever been trained in kind of this emergency response, it's a little bit different to do the Heimlich on a small child than it is on a fully grown adult. They're variations and methods here. This guy's well trained, he knows what he's doing, he intervenes, performs the Heimlich and he saves the child's life. Not only does he save the kid's life, they had an EMT come over and look at the kid afterwards and said he's good to go, the kid was good to go. And the kid got on the flight with the family and was able to head out. That ICE agent just saved a life. While also helping to alleviate some of that pressure at JFK airport, which is a very, very, very busy airport. What a, what an amazing story. And DHS released a statement to FOX about this. They said that it was two days ago now, that was Wednesday, that that occurred Thursday. The video came out. An ICE agent helped TSA operations at JFK jumped into action to save the life of a one year old child experiencing a medical emergency. The heroic actions of the officer began when that child became unresponsive in the arms of his father, unable to breathe for almost two minutes. Two minutes without breathing. Close circuit television. Reviewing a review of it, CCTV shows that a passenger in TSA PreCheck was holding that one year old in his arms. When the child's arms go lifeless, panic ensues and the father is seen scrambling around the area and calling for help. The agent working at his post heard the screams from the father and other passengers and sprinted to the scene. The father handed the child to the officer, who then assessed the unresponsive child, began performing the Heimlich maneuver and after a few seconds, the child started breathing again. EMS personnel arrive on scene, medical equipment. They further monitor, they reassess the child. The child was reassessed and cleared to be healthy enough to fly. Amazing. Just absolutely amazing. I mean, God bless that ICE officer. Hero stuff. That was hero stuff we saw yesterday. And this goes back to precisely what I was saying earlier this week, not that President Trump anticipated that ICE officers would be saving children from choking at the airport. But the President clearly thought through the value of having ICE officers dealing directly with the American people. And the reality of it is, we have seen endless video now of Americans who have been very happy to get assistance from ice, very happy to have them helping out at the airports. And I have on my X feed right now, I've got lefties who are still crapping all over ice, pretending like these guys are villains. And what are they doing? They're doing nothing. They're doing everything, Actually. ICE agents are the Marco Rubios of federal law enforcement right now. They do every job the President could possibly ask. God bless him for it, including saving lives. God bless him for it. It's been. It's been just amazing. Amazing to watch, amazing to watch. I also promise it's a Friday, so I think we should have some more fun, too. I promised that you would get some. Some great nonstop comedy from President Trump.
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President Trump joined the Five yesterday on the Fox News Channel for was one of the most hilarious interviews, certainly of the last 24 hours. Definitely. But maybe his best interview of the week. Let's go with that. You know, it's hard to judge President Trump, the totality of his time in office and all of the interviews he's done, but this one was really funny. Yesterday, he was asked by. By Jesse Waters whether or not it was true that the new and yet unseen and perhaps dead Ayatollah Khamenei is a mangled gay dude. And the President confirmed it. And then he had a lot more to say.
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Listen, you kind of suggested that we'd
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knocked out Ayatollah Jr. Have we? And did the CIA tell you that Ayatollah Jr. Is gay?
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Well, they did say that, but I don't know if it was only them. I think a lot of people are saying that, which puts him off to a bad start in that particular country. You know, I sort of have to smile to myself when I say I see people trying to defend the Palestinian regime for women, women for Palestine, but they kill women. If you don't wear a certain group of. If you don't wear certain cloth all over your face, you have no chance of living. And, you know, when I look at gays for Palestine, but they kill gays. They kill them instantly. They throw them off buildings. And I'm saying, who are the gays for Palestine? And they have a significant amount of gays for Palestine. Now, I think when, you know, I did very well with the gay vote, okay? I even had. I even played the gay national anthem as my walk Off. Okay. And I think it probably helped me, but I did great with no Republicans ever gotten the gay vote like I did. And I'm very proud of it. I think it's great. Perhaps it's because I'm from New York City, I don't know. But, but the, the gay national anthem was my walk off. And I think it probably, but think of it. Gays for Palestine. But they kill gays in Palestine. So when they hear that, I think probably we can talk them out of it. It shouldn't be too hard.
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Because unbelievable. That's sort of, oh, that's so fun. I don't know. I don't know if I've ever heard him refer to YMCA as the gay national anthem. I've heard other people say that. But he straight up said, yeah, the gay national anthem is my walk off music. It's really, that's really funny. You know, one of my favorite things about YMCA now the music is, have you ever seen it played in public? They'll play it at like sporting events. They'll play it at weddings. You can instantly tell who the Trump supporters are. Like the real MAGA people because they don't do the traditional ymca. They're not doing, doing this with everybody else. There's just, they're just, they're hitting the Trump. You can instantly tell. It's really great. I love, I love the, I love the effect he's had on that is I got the gay national anthem. It's my walk off music. I was like, you know what? You just do you, Mr. President, you do you. Hilarious. A great interview. That was great. That was great yesterday by the President of the United States. He's, he's busy with this Iran thing. That's funny too. I love that of all things that like Iran headlines have to include the words gay national anthem to describe the president's commentary on the subject. It's just honestly, please appreciate these moments. You're going to look back on them fondly someday. Like, remember when that happened. You're going to love it. It's okay to pause for a moment and marinate in how fun this is. Because that's fun. I love that. All right. More ahead on this edition of Vince. We'll be joined in just a moment by David Bazell. We'll get an assessment of how the media are doing these days. Spoiler. Not well. Hey, I've been using the bone charge infrared sauna blanket. Know about this sauna blanket. It's amazing. It's nice to have a sauna at home. Just wrap myself up, let the infrared heat work its magic. And then Allison likes the red light face mask from Bone Charge because she wears it each night and it helps her a lot. You know, lots of people have been switched on to red light therapy and how good it is. This Bone Charge red light face mask. It's perfect. She loves it because it improves your skin's texture, reduces inflammation. She's seen incredible effects from it, and I think you will, too. I think you're going to like these things because they're great. They've been great for our wellness. They'll be great for yours. Very, very good. You know, if you're thinking about trying these products out, being able to have these kinds of great things at home, you're in luck. Head to bonecharge.com, b o n charge.com use the code Vince at checkout. Get 15% off. Both of these products have made a huge impact on us. I think you'll love them. Use the code Vince at Bonecharge. B o n charge.com Save 15%. These statements and products have not been evaluated by the fda. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease or condition. Also want to thank the fine people at Birchgold for sponsoring our program and for having a really great option. If you want to, you know, save some money in precious metals. I want you to think about something 20 years ago. 20 years ago, $20,000 equaled roughly 33 ounces of gold. Nowadays, those same 33 ounces, over $150,000 in value. Smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals. And gold can help insulate you in times of chaos. Like if Democrats ever, God forbid, are in charge again. You want chaos? Wait until that happens. Times of war, geopolitical instability, high inflationary periods. The company I trust to help you buy gold, Birch Gold. Birch Gold Group. See if holding gold in a tax sheltered retirement account is right for you, too. Birch Gold can help you convert an existing IRA or a 401k into an IRA in gold. Just text my name, Vince, to the number 989-898 to receive your free info kit on gold. No obligation, just useful information with an A plus rating with the Better Business Bureau and and tens of thousands of happy customers. Let Birch Gold help you diversify with gold. Now that's peace of mind. Text my name, Vince, to 989898. Again, text Vince to the number 989898 today. Message and data rates apply. All right, I'm happy To have. Joining us right now, the great David Buzzell. He's the president of the Media Research Center. You can find him on X at. David. David, great to see you today.
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Hey, Vince, how are you doing, buddy?
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I'm doing all right. I'm doing all right. And good, good to have you here, man. I. Yeah, man, I thank you for your organization's never ending work, holding the media accountable, keeping track of what they're up to.
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Someone's got to do it. Someone's got to do it.
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I appreciate that. You know, let me. Let me just start with what I've been talking a lot about during the show here, which is the media's distortions about the men and women of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We've seen a lot of threats to the lives of ICE agents, the skyrocketing assault rates and death threats. We've seen assassination attempts on ICE agents in the last year. And President Trump just put a very human face on ice by deploying these guys to the airport. Once again, I think he's outmaneuvered the media pretty substantially here. But what do you make of all of this, of the media's treatment of that agency and how out of step it is with reality?
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Well, just like President Trump, the media coverage of ice has been nearly universally negative. 97, I think, was our number going back to February. Here's how this sort of manifests itself kind of in the real world now. You're right. I mean, they're enjoying some positive exposure, you know, being at the airports. I think there's an ICE agent who saved an infant's life just yesterday. Yeah, I think it was in New Jersey. I'm sure you were talking about it.
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Yeah, jfk. Now, the Minnesota Star Tribune. Right. They rocketed up the charts in the top 50 websites in America in the month of January. Why? Because Google News picked them up five times and Apple News picked them up 11 times. All negative headlines about ice, every single one of them with gems, including such as ICE shoots man in leg. Right. Leaving out the fact that there was a Venezuelan national on the run who had deportation orders slip sliding around through the ice, turns around, realizes he can't outrun these guys and tries to attack the ICE agent. And the ICE agent follows protocol and shoots him in the leg. I mean, he could have shot him in other places, but he shoots him in the leg. But here's the Minnesota Star Tribune that comes out of nowhere as a top 50 website in America. And this is how, like, polling can get affected. Right? And this is how the president's numbers and ICE numbers can go down. Because if you're just a headline scroller, if you're a nurse in a hospital on her beat and you're relegated to just whatever MSN gives you on your personal computer, or if you're the housing contractor going from job to job and you're just headline scrolling through whatever Apple pushes you, that's what you're going to get. It's just this anti ICE all the time, anti Trump all the time. So it's good on the president for him to do that. I would advise if this thing goes, if the airports remain clogged this weekend, I would deploy the National Guard. But obviously, you know, that's, that's a higher pay grade than, than what I've,
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the president has suggested he might do that this week. To your point, although, as we were discussing earlier in the program, it looks like the funding is coming through. Also, the president yesterday declaring an emergency to say I'm funding TSA anyway. So there's a lot of options on the table right now to alleviate some of that congestion at the airport. But on this, on this point about kind of how out of control the left is and the role the media plays in it, you know, for so many years, David, we've talked about that. The reality that, you know, speech is not in and of itself violence. The left is routinely accused the right of being violent just by saying true things out loud. But it doesn't mean you shouldn't be responsible with your speech. I mean, what role do you detect between the media's behavior and the assassination culture that's developed on the left?
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B
Well, let's look at the DHS shutdown specifically for a second and just how out of control and out of sorts the coverage was. Yesterday morning, Apple News presented POLITICO's main image of Chuck Schumer standing in front of a sign saying that Republicans had blocked TSA funding eight times. Now that is an outright flat out lie. Now, I expect that out of Politico. Right. And you can sort of isolate Politico as this Washington inside the Beltway rag that it is. But when Apple takes it and, and broadcast it to its reportedly 125 million users a day, that is an ecosystem with which the Republican Party and even the conservative movement combined can't really compete with at that kind of a rapid pace, 125 million people just get the flat out headline and the massive if a picture speaks a thousand words, Vince. Right. That's the picture that 125 million people saw was that the Republicans had blocked TSA funding. Let me put on Chuck Schumer.
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Let me put it up for those of you watching rumble.com Vince, fellas, if we can go full screen on me for a moment. Here's the, the image that David shared to X over the last 24 hours. This is again a political headline generated on Apple News. So so many people see this just on their phones. They're all use, like so many people using iPhones. They get their Apple news item and there it is. It's just Chuck Schumer holding a little sign and multiple times on the same image it says Republicans have blocked funding for tsa. When of course that's a perfect inversion of the truth, David. It's a perfect inversion of the truth.
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What are Republicans options after that?
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Right?
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B
I mean you could, you could, I mean, I mean message wise I would advise them to be full throated and calling out this distribution bias and being unified in calling that out, but they don't because they're not unified on just about anything these days. And that's, that's a problem. But what the Senate rules assumed, you know, in some, when they're crafted by our founders, an equal opportunity for distribution, an equal opportunity for debate. And we don't have that right now politically. And so I just think politically it's unsustainable for the Republican Party to be going up against that level. We're not, we're sort of beyond bias. Yeah, this is just this blockade of the conservative viewpoint created at the point of entry. Right. This isn't just a news operation, this is the phone itself.
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Yes. And as far as Republicans go, just to pull away to the political question for a moment as they're dealing with Democrats, they're not dealing with good faith negotiators. It's not trying to navigate towards some compromise position. You're dealing with hostage takers, you're dealing with people who are rooting against American citizens and for illegal aliens. At that point maybe you should actually change the rules of the Senate like the President said earlier this week, and pass things that benefit Americans and not illegals.
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Well, I mean, not only are they not operating in good faith, they really don't have to, you know, they, they don't have to. They don't have to be concerned with election security, they don't have to be concerned with national security, they don't have to be concerned with TSA lines, they don't be concerned with any of that stuff. Why? Because Apple does the work for Them. Why, why bother? Why you just got. Get out and do get the placard behind you and go and, and go nuts. So it's a terrific advantage that the Democrats had. I kind of hat tip them for being able to figure this out. But this is something that the movement, I think, has been a little bit of a blind spot, big time blind spot for us. The point of entry, the bias at the point of entry. Yes, the conservative movement, and you and I have been in doing this for many, many years. The conservative movement has come an awesome long way.
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Yeah.
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B
And being able to get its message out. But, but boy, oh boy, 125 million at the blink of an eye is tough to compete with.
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A
Yeah, no, of course. And as you know, there are elections decided by sometimes just a couple of votes. And if a couple of people are misled, that can change everything. And in fact, you, you, quite famously, your organization looked at what happened in the 2020 election when the Hunter Biden laptop story was buried by the media and found that had more Americans actually known about it, if it wasn't censored, that could have actually determined the results of the election and President Trump would have won in that cycle.
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B
Yeah. So, I mean, this is one of the criticisms of the. Excuse me, of the left wing press as well. Excuse me. The right wing does not have, you know, investigative journalists. Well, tell Miranda Devine that I dare you, I dare you to go tell Miranda Divine a new approach, that she didn't break the Hunter Biden story. Of course she did. And that was summarily censored by. By. By the socials and the news apps. The news aggregator apps.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, this is. And it would have resulted in a 9.4% swing, according to our poll. Nine point. And then if you spread that out across the swing states, President Trump would have won in a landslide.
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Yes.
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B
But it's actually cascading down to other, all sorts of other issues. This IOC thing, you know, banning the transgender stuff was kind of interesting. No coverage on that, Vince. No coverage on the networks of that. Now, that kind of surprised me. But then I think about it. If they had won, if transgenders had been able to stick around in the Olympics, that would have led news coverage all night long.
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Well, let's talk about that issue. So what, what David's referring to, the ioc, the International Olympic Committee. Yesterday, they came up with this, this crazy new policy that you should only participate in your own gender sport. Finally, the Olympics is not going to allow men to cheat in women's sports. Anymore. No more Emain Khalif or whatever the hell that guy's name was, going into the boxing ring and then punching women in the face. Somebody came to their senses. Somebody got hit hard enough in the head to finally wake up and say, okay, wait a second. Let's not allow this anymore. So yesterday they come out with this ruling, and then I'm looking at some of the coverage yesterday, David, and I saw the Associated Press had a headline. This is a real headline. I'm just going to read it to you. Trans women athletes are banned from the Olympics by a new IOC policy on female eligibility. Trans women athletes. So if you don't know a ton about this subject, if you're looking at it, you're going. Women athletes are banned from competing with women. No, they're just. It's. It. The. The deceit is a part of the scam that they're really trying to convince you to reject reality here.
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B
It's. That's. That headline is a lie. They all ran with the word banned, except for, oddly enough, espn, which chose the word excluded. You know, distinction without a difference. But they all ran with this word that, you know, transgender women were banned. A lie. A biological male can go compete. Go for it. Try to get inside the Olympics and try to win. I mean, you're. More power to you. You're not banned at all. You just got to participate in the category with which you were born. So, look, not to sound too sick of panic, Vince, but I think you'd agree with me, all kudos and credit to the president on this one. No one carried. I mean, surely there's a lot of pro family organizations out there. We know them well, and they did Yeoman's work on this. But no one carried this message further and wider of no men in women's sports than the President, United States. Yes. And. And he deserves a ton of. Of public credit for that.
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A
And the credit extends. The credit extends to the base that got him elected this cycle.
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B
Sure. Absolutely.
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A
There's a lot of people who voted for him on that basis. They looked at this and they were like, what? No men cheating in women's sports? I mean, one of the craziest pieces of. Pieces of statistics I've heard in the last year or so, David, about this idea that men can pretend to be women. You know, in our federal prison system, among the female prisoners, 15%.
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B
Where's this going?
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15. No, no, no, I'm serious. 15% of the inmates in women's prisons were men.
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B
Oh, I don't.
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I don't 10% of them were men pretending to be women in women's prisons. This is the kind of crap the Trump administration was elected to fix.
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B
Yeah, yeah. Or how about men jumping into the military, declaring themselves a female for the purposes of getting a taxpayer funded transgender surgery. And that was, you know, kind of a mini epidemic within the military ranks. So that was another thing that he was elected to fix. So promises made, promises kept by the, by the president and his administration on this, this will obviously have downstream effects to our local communities. If you've had kids in the sort of COVID era, anywhere between fifth and eighth grade, you're kind of biting your fingernails. Like if you have daughters anyway, are you going to see some kid Molly whop your, your daughter on the soccer field on a random weekend? If you're in a public, if you're in a public league. So hopefully common sense prevails at the local level.
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Right.
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Because now you've that. Now these guys, these league administration administrators who are just like so afraid of offending anybody, now they, now you can go to them, say, look, the Olympics aren't doing this, so why are we?
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Yes.
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Except of course, if you're in Virginia, I'm sure these guys will find a way to keep the boys in.
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Can I just use this all, by the way, as another invitation? If have a kid who's in youth sports and you see this percolating around you, confront it early and loudly. There are going to be plenty of other parents around you who all support you, but there's a lot. Unfortunately, what I see is there's not a tremendous amount of bravery around this issue, despite the fact that so many people know the truth. Everybody wants to be agreeable. Nobody wants to upset the apple cart. You're upsetting the apple cart if you're letting boys cheat in girls sports. So let's start there. They're the ones who did it. That was the belligerent act. Why don't you step up and defend your kids? I mean, this is a, this is, there's always those little calls to action keep appearing in your life. I think God places them there from time to time.
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And totally agree. And totally agree. It's, I understand how difficult it is. It's a 45 minute game. You're looking at your watch, you're grinning your teeth, you're like, yes, this kid gonna just like elbow my daughter here or spike a volleyball in her face. And you're just trying to hope and pray that you get through it. And then you deal with the car ride home and, and how to address it with your daughter. But you know, guys, especially fathers, need to as much as possible be vocal that, that we're not going to allow this sort of thing. So.
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And it's good for your kids. It's really good. It's good for your kids, not just to protect them in sports, but also to teach them a very early lesson about the world that they're going to go into. Because I remember, I remember when I was a young, when, when my daughter was very young and I was thinking, I'm like, do I tell her about like the world? Like how much of the world do I expose her to? Right. We always try and gatekeep your kids a little bit. Like you don't expose them to all the horrors, but you want them to know about some of it. And I realized very early, I was like, oh, this is a very important issue. If I can talk to her about this, she'll understand it intuitively. Because kids aren't gonna lie to you. They're not gonna deceive you. They're like, that's crazy. Why would a boy play with girls? That's right. And then you just basically start going down that road with her and it instantly sets their mind in the right direction. So these are good conversations to have.
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B
Yeah, I'm always been a fan of protecting any child's innocence any step of the way. That's sort of been my default. Except of course, if you're in Virginia. Vince, if you're in Virginia, which has gone communist. Yeah, good luck. I mean the counties have all the power. They don't care about the Olympics. They will. I mean, they're letting 19 year old boys who have been credibly accused of sexually assaulting like close to a dozen girls just march around their high schools like it's no big deal. So I would not advise putting your daughter in a Virginia public sport.
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It's, it's too. Okay, so, I mean, I was, I didn't realize we talked about Virginia. But let me just engage you in this. I'm a Virginia guy and I'm infuriated by what's happening under Abigail Spanberger. The, the governor who pretended to be a moderate is now running a completely radical operation in the Commonwealth. And there's a couple elements here I want to just. Let's just focus first on safety. You have illegal aliens in the state who are murdering American citizens in cold blood, who are consistently released by George Soros funded prosecutors like Steve Descano in Fairfax County. That and the media in the state. I don't know how much local media you consume, but it doesn't seem like most of the local media gives a damn about this. They're not covering it with any ferocity. The exception to that is Nick Minock at the ABC affiliate in the D.C. area. He's a, he's an amazing reporter, awesome reporter. What is that? Whatever happened to local media covering with aggression besides Nick covering with aggression the crimes that were happening in their own communities?
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B
Well, I mean, just look at the, look at the affiliates. I mean, Sinclair owns WJLA where, where Nick works. So you get, you know, the, the pursuit of balance corporately from Sinclair and its local affiliates. But WSA9, Channel 9, CBS, that's Gannett. NBC's is basically nationally affiliated with the NBC brand, Channel 4. So it's, you're just not going to get the kind of coverage that, that Nick has been doggedly pursuing and he's been. We're gonna off spoiler alert. We're gonna media research there. We're going to honor him with a, with a Bulldog Award for, for investigative journalism. We need the, the country needs dog and investigative reporters at the local level. And Nick has been on these stories for the better part of three years now. So let's just not tell him that we're going to give an award yet.
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A
Wait, does Nick know this yet?
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B
No, not yet. Since he came up, we just had a meeting about it. Like we want Nick to get this
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A
award, so I love that.
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B
Yeah, but.
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A
Well, congratulations, Nick. You're probably finding out now seeing the clip, but, but congratulations. It's well deserved. I, I keep saying, I look at that guy, Nick Minock. If you give. For those of you who, who don't see all his clips and by now you probably have because a lot of them go national just given all of his aggressive local coverage. I keep looking at him going, that guy's on the Bill Malusion track. Like, you know, Bill, Bill comes up in Los Angeles. Fox detects at the national level. Holy crap, this guy's a talent. And they pull him up from LA and they now make him the big national reporter. He's covering the border crisis. He's got all sorts of amazing coverage. I think Nick Minock is like five seconds away from some big network who actually knows what it's doing and knows that people want real journalism. Paying him a lot of money and pulling him up to the national level.
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B
Yeah, well, I mean, look, Washington D.C. is really no different than, than basically the rest of the country in the sense that we're watching two different movies, right? If you go to if, if. If the ABC affiliate, wjla.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And Sinclair is that. If that is your go to home, you're watching one movie, you're watching Fairfax county deteriorate both. You can't write, you can't get R bus without looking over your shoulder. And you can't send your kid to school without them looking over their shoulder. But if you're looking at Channel nine, Channel four, you don't have you. There's none of those issues. There's none of that coverage as far as. As far as they're concerned. Abigail Spanberg can do no wrong. She's trying to fix an unfair congressional map.
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Right. This is. Okay, this is what I wanted to ask you about. So. So Democrats are rigging the election right now in Virginia. They're attempting to. What's standing in their way is this referendum with a rigged ballot question on it. It's asking Virginians, do you want to restore fairness to elections, yes or no. And the answer to that question is no. You vote no. Virginia, when you go to the ballot box between now and April 21, vote no on that and tell everybody, you know to do that, too. But she's trying to rig the election. I've noticed, David, that in the media that it's Obama ads that are blanketing the airwaves with a couple of Abigail Spanberger ads telling everybody to vote yes. What is this media environment and this attempt to rig the election?
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B
I saw the Obama ad last night doing some streaming on. I think it was Hulu. And there it was a couple of different times in the show that I was watching. I was like, wow, okay, this is a major investment by the Democrat Party in Virginia and nationally. I think it's basically funded by Soros himself to get this through. And you wish the Republican Party would have the. I mean, I know the speaker has poured in some money to get back on the air to combat this, but, gosh, the Republican Party needs to get off its duff here, get on the air more robustly. If President Obama can do it, then some of the figureheads within the Republican Party can do it. And this is where I got to see seriousness of purpose and seriousness of effort from the Republican Party that they really want to stop this theft.
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A
Look, I mean, I know, I know in your life, David, that you encounter some of these donors. I mean, are they aware of the stakes here? Are they aware of the role that they can play? I mean, right now there's a grassroots effort. I will say that one of the. One of the optimistic storylines here is there is a grassroots effort in the state of Virginia right now that's pretty aggressive. We're watching Republican districts show up in big numbers to vote. They're clearly outraged by the threats to their liberties and the attempt to steal the entire United States House of Representatives. But what, what. Is there no fire in the belly among the donor class? Are they not aware? I don't comfortable with Democrats.
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B
I have not seen the pitch for them to contribute to. That's just sort of from my perch. Now, again, I gotta take off my media Research center hat when I talk about some of this electioneering stuff. But, yeah, I have not seen that pitch. Now, I've also not seen the Republican. The threatened members within the Republican. The. The members within the Republican Party.
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A
The Virginia congressional delegation.
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B
Yeah, the delegation and stuff. I have not. I mean, I know they're upset, but how upset are you?
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Those guys? In so far as I like them all, but I.
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B
There's just. There's not a lot. There's not a ton of aggression in
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A
so far as I've seen their involvement. To their credit, I will say they were involved in the lawsuits that have been in this. In the court process here to try and stop all of this from happening. And that court process continues in Virginia. But the, but the courts ruled that this ballot referendum can happen anyway, even if they're going to overturn it with the court process. So that's the way that I know that I've seen some of these members of Congress involved. But, but I think your, your fundamental point is totally right, which is like, where is everybody? Why is it, why is it left guys like me and you people who live in Virginia to be like guys. The whole country can be stolen here. It's not just about Virginia. The entire United States House of Representatives is on the. Is on the verge of being stolen. Basically.
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B
You and. You and I are old enough to remember Bill Clinton being convicted of lying in a federal deposition.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And the entire Democrat Congress joined him on the Capitol steps in solidarity. Solidarity in support of him. Obamacare. When obamacare was passed, the entire Democrat coalition walked out on the capital steps with Pelosi with their gavel about to destroy the United States health insurance system. And they were giddy. These are the types of things you got to do to compete with. When Apple broadcasts a lie to 125 million people, you've got to show that get up and go. And it's going to be necessary to motivate the base to get out in the midterms. I mean, it's just if you're, especially if you're what it seems more and more likely that you're not going to pass the Save America, you're not going to pass that kind of stuff. You've got to give some people a reason to, to, to get out in the rain and vote for you. Yeah. And, you know, and this has just been, this has been an issue for quite some time. I think Trump's, the enthusiasm for Trump kind of masked it because he was so dogged and he was such a good campaigner and he was so aggressive and he knew his, so his social, he knew how to use social and digital tools.
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A
Yes.
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B
And he went on podcasts and he would do four speeches a day. None of these other guys can seem to be able to do that.
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Maybe.
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B
So that's the kind of energy that needs to be, that needs to be brought to the table.
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A
Here's the good news. We're still in the Trump presidency. We're still in the Trump era. And he is the most exceptional political force that any of us have ever or will ever see. And as a result, if anybody can make the midterms a big success, it's going to be him. The guy's already on the campaign trail. He's got J.D. vance on the campaign trail. They've got a big convention coming up. Don't underestimate that. That midterm convention is coming up this year. Never before, nothing like this, a presidential caliber midterm convention happening. And of course, It's America to 50. David. This is a big year to celebrate our country and that could have some long lasting effects for us.
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B
And I, and I, and I think they've settled into this messaging rubric of common sense versus chaos versus crazy. Common sense versus crazy.
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A
And I like it.
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B
And yes, we have our criticisms of the Republican Party apparatus. Yes, we've got some people in leadership positions that are, they have lost their fastball, to put it kindly. And yes, that quote in Politico from a GOP anonymous, Senator, I just want to go home.
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A
What?
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B
Yeah, he's talking about the Save America Act. I mean, this was the story in Politico. It's like he just doesn't want to fight and I just want to go home. Okay, yes, there's plenty of those guys. However, the alternative is crazy, right? The alternative is open borders, crime at your bus stops, accused rapists in your schools. Right? That is the alternative. Yep. And I think that's what's got to be on the ballot in addition to obviously President Trump. His performance is going to be on the ballot as well.
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A
Yep, yep. Don't get deterred. Keep moving forward. We can do it. Thank you. I really appreciate our conversation.
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B
Absolutely.
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A
Great to talk to you today, man. Take it easy. Is David Bazelle with the Media Research Center. He's, he's all over the media issues, all over the political issues. He does it all. Thank you as always, David. Okay, we've we've got a lot more to get to today. We're going to do it on the big national radio show. The Vince show is at noon to 3 Eastern time each day. You can get your local radio listings@thevinshow.com or join us on Rumble. That's from 1 to 3 Eastern Time. We do it live on video. And of course, we got the great Rumble Chat going. It'll be awesome. Rumble.com Vince the excellent Dan Bongino program coming up today, 10am on Rumble. Rumble.com Bongino the amazing Haley Caranilla coming up at noon. She's on Rumble Live. Rumble.com Haley. Haley with Two Wise. Why? Because it's Friday, obviously. And also that's how her name is spelled. And I'll see you on Monday. I hope you have a fantastic weekend. Look at you. Cheerios. Got to run. See you. Cheerio. Have a great one. Everybody's got people, got people have places to be. I'm glad you were here this morning as always. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Tell other people about the show, subscribe to it, make sure to like and comment and share it. It helps us a lot. Appreciate you. Back with you Monday.