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Hey, everybody. Welcome to Vince, brought to you by Blackout Coffee, the official coffee of all of us here at silverlock. Go to blackoutcoffee.com Vince. Use the code Vince. That's V, I, N C, E. And you'll get 20% off your first order. Man, it is great to be back with you today. My thanks again to Matt Van Swall and his wife Erin for our great conversation. The Labor Day special, if you haven't seen it yet, please go take a look at it. It was fantastic. Those guys are so good. And the reason I liked them so much was because it was about helping people break free of that left wing mindset and understanding how it is that people can be so misled into believing the lies that the legacy press tell. They were so good. Anyway, if you haven't seen it yet or listen to it, go back and check it out. It is great to have you back with us here. The best damn audience in media. I hope you had a great Labor Day weekend. The President of the United States had a great one. He was out golfing this weekend. He got to golf with his granddaughter. He had a good time. But the media, and mostly on social media, the left has gone absolutely crazy. They claim that President Trump is dead or dying or in such catastrophic health that he's on the verge of resignation later today. What is that? I'll explain it coming up in just a moment. Yes, it's the left going crazy, but there's a reason for that. That's all ahead on this edition of. Vince, Chris Bedford's gonna be with us today. We have a lot to get to. It is great, great, great to see you all. This program is brought to you by Express vpn. What you do online is not private. Data brokers are tracking and creating a profile of your online activities. And in the United States, they're legally allowed to sell that information to whoever wants to buy it. But there's a way to push back and hold onto your values, your autonomy, your freedom. And that's with ExpressVPN. With ExpressVPN, 100% of my online activity is rerouted through secure, encrypted servers, which makes it impossible for my Internet provider to know what I'm doing online. And it's none of their business. ExpressVPN also hides your IP address so data brokers can't use that number to build a profile on you and then sell that profile. ExpressVPN is easy to use. It just takes one click and it works on all of your devices. And you can have it on up to eight devices at once. So you can give the gift of privacy and freedom to your whole family. Right now you can get an extra four months for free. When you use my special link. Go to expressvpn.com Vince and get four extra months of ExpressVPN. That's E x p r e s s vpn.com Vince yeah, we did have a nice relaxing Labor Day weekend this weekend. Had some friends and family over. We just had a good time. The nice thing in Northern Virginia right now, it's just cool enough that it makes sense to get the fire pit going. So we got the fire pit going this weekend. We did some good things and thank you. On Friday. I had asked whether or not I could get a pizza dough recipe from the audience and a great listener sent along a pizza dough recipe which I made. I have not yet tasted it, so I'll give a full review when that occurs. But we've got it. It's ready. It's in the freezer. We're saving it up and then we're gonna start making it. Can't wait for that. Thank you very, very much. Hey. The Labor Day weekend is the space in which the left decided to fill with its insanity. They've been all weekend raging about the idea that President Trump is in poor health. In fact, if you look at some of the Google News results here, they're out of control. Trump responds to speculation about his health. Donald Trump posting week old photo raises eyebrows amid health speculation. On and on and on. Trump raises fresh. Well, this is about COVID 19. That's a simple separate thing. We'll get to that. Trump dispels health rumors, hits golf course. Yeah, yeah. So first of all, to be really clear, Trump is fine. Trump is fine. I had someone in my own family go, hey, what's going on with Donald Trump? Is he okay? Yes, he's fine. Why don't you think he's fine? Well, I was on Facebook and I saw these messages from people. They say he's not doing well. He's fine. He's doing all right. He's doing perfectly fine. There's a bunch of reasons. We know that. One, of course he spent the weekend golfing. He had a relaxing insofar as a president can relax. He went out to his Sterling, Virginia golf course and he got some rounds of golf in, which is good just like the rest of us. He tried to take whatever time he could off on Labor Day to get some time with the family and he did that. And then on Friday actually Going into Labor Day weekend, he had a huge interview with Reagan Reese of the Daily Caller. And now you'll know. Reagan is my White House correspondent over the Daily Caller. She's wonderful. And she had an hour long conversation with the President of the United States on Friday afternoon. It was great. They covered a ton of news. Look here. Here's a picture of the President and Reagan Reese for those of you on rumble.com. vince. And they're touring the Rose Garden together. They were walking around, kind of seeing the sights. The president straight up in the middle of the interview was like, hey, let's go look at the Rose Garden. I want to show you everything I'm doing. And so he took her out there and, and showed her the scene and what his plans are for the Rose Garden, how good it looks now. That's great. There he is in perfectly good health. And one of the things he revealed on Friday to Reagan, which I just can't stop cracking up about, is he plans on doing a presidential Wall of Fame display in about two weeks in the Rose Garden. And it's gonna depict, I don't know if it'll be all the presidents, but certainly a number of portraits of the presidents of the United States. And the portrait that President Trump is going to display for Joe Biden is not going to be Joe Biden's face. It's gonna be the auto pen. You know about this? Yeah, the auto pen portrait is going up in lieu of Joe Biden's face at the White House. The President revealed this weekend, which I was absolutely cracking up over. I texted Reagan on Saturday and I said, hey, how'd the interview go? And he said. And she said, rather, it was great. It went really, really well. And then she started reeling off some of the stories that she was able to capture in this conversation. And she says, you know, he's gonna post a portrait of an auto pen and then say it's Joe Biden. I said, no way. Get the hell out. And she said, no, no, I'm serious. Isn't that great? Really funny. Yeah. He said in the conversation that he's fixing things up at the White House right now. And he was showing her these frames. He was showing her the frames of where the presidential portraits are gonna go. And she said, they're very beautiful. And he was talking about how usually they use these frames for high end paintings. And then he asked her for advice. He said, what do you think about this? It's a decision I have to make. How about we put up a picture of the auto pen in lieu of Joe Biden. And Reagan responded that that was hilarious. And then Trump decided, okay, fine, we're doing it. And then it's gonna be up in about two weeks. He said it's all being prepared. So there you go. In case you were wondering, they are hanging an auto pen portrait of Joe Biden at the White House. It's just no other president would do this and thank God we have this one. Anyway, that's what's happening. So back to the President's health for a moment. So he's doing great. He was out, he did that hour long interview with Reagan Reese in the White House inside the Oval Office with Reag the Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary, Steven Chung was there, Steven Cheung, and they had a great conversation and the President hit a lot of issues. I'll go over some of them in a moment with you, cuz there's some things in there that I want to highlight for you. And then after that, again, spent the weekend golfing. He's perfectly fine. Look, one of the distinguishing features about this presidency is just how lively the guy is. How many press conferences does this guy do in any given week? I think one day in the last two weeks, he did like three press conferences in a single day. They kept inviting the press into the room. So his stamina is not really the question here. So what is going on as the left freaks out about his health? Oh, he's sick, he's not doing well, he's dying, he's dead. Well, one thing that's clearly going on is they're hoping he's ill, they're wish casting. The left does not desire the President's health. They don't desire that he succeed. They don't want him to get victories or wins. When the President comes out and he says, hey, I want to solve the crime problem, I'm going to take over the D.C. police Department, I'm going to deploy the National Guard, and then he has success doing it. What has the left done the last few weeks on that subject? They've lied to you, they've said no, D.C. was fine, there was no crime problem, there was nothing to fix. The President's an authoritarian. These police forces are arresting Americans. We're doing nothing wrong. They just made up everything they possibly could because the last thing they wanted was proof of how poorly they've run America's cities to include our nation's capital. And President Trump succeeding where they have failed us is a win for him and a loss for them politically. That's how they view it. So it's much better just to conceal all of that. So they're hoping he's doing poorly. They are rooting against him and they, no question, would love to see him be so catastrophically ill that he has to disappear from the presidency. That's what they want. The other thing, and you obviously cannot miss this in this stupid conspiracy theory that they're advancing, is they're projecting Joe Biden's failures onto Trump. They want people to think that Donald Trump has Joe Biden's illness. The left spent four years and since, and before trying to convince you that Joe Biden was of sound mind, that he was perfectly fine, that he had all of his faculties, that he was the President of the United States. Never mind the fact that we've now heard from all sorts of officials who are actually talking and not pleading the fifth in the Biden administration who said that Joe Biden wasn't with it. You just had a guy called Ian Sams, one of his top spokesmen, say that he only met with the President twice in the entire presidency. Yeah. Not a pure sign of stamina, is it? Not a clear sign of health, is it? No. So what the left is doing here is once again, somebody says, lawyer, says it correctly, deflect and project. It's gaslighting. That's right. Hard times, it's gaslighting. So they look at Trump and they go, well, shit, that guy's actually doing a lot of good stuff for the country, man. I wish he wasn't, cuz it reflects poorly on us, man, that really sucks that that last guy was a vegetable in the Oval Office. What can we do? Why don't we just say that Trump's got Joe Biden's problems, so that's what they spent the last week doing. Now, President Trump, for those of you who are listening to this, in the morning of September 2, 2025, the year of our Lord, you should know that there's a White House press conference of some kind coming up. A statement from the President Today at 2:00 clock at the White House, 2:00 clock PM in the Oval Office. Yeah, I know, but here's the thing, Justin reminds me that it's in the Oval Office, but we can't overstate what that means at all. First of all, and here, let me tell you why. One, we already know that the statement today is about defense. It's about defense. Now the media, the left is claiming that President. Just bear with me. This is so freaking insane. The left is claiming on The Internet. Today that Trump is going to announce his resignation. He's going to announce his resignation today at the White House. Remember those people who used to think that the world was gonna end in 2012? Remember that? They thought the world was gonna. What date was that? December. It was like, December something. December 20th or something. 2012. The people thought the world was gonna end. And so people literally gathered in Times Square, New York, to mark the end of the world. They were there and they were like, here it comes. They were watching their clocks, their watches. They were like, here it comes. And then, of course, you know what happened? The world didn't end. And so they started. They walked away. They walked away with their heads hung low because they were disproven wrong by the passage of time. Now, what will the left do today when Trump doesn't announce his resignation at 2:00 Eastern Time from the Oval Office? Well, nothing. They'll just pretend like they never said it. They'll just. They'll say, oh, it's all a part of a long orchestrated coverup. Yeah, yeah. Was it 1221? Is that right? December 21, 2012. Hilarious. Yeah. Ishmael Cord says the world did end in 2012. We just haven't noticed yet. Maybe that's what's going on. But. So President Trump is gonna make an announcement today. It's defense related. And here's Justin. Why? I don't think it's a big deal that it's in the Oval Office. Do you remember, like, a week or two ago, we got another announcement that, oh, the President's gonna make an Oval Office statement and nobody knew what it was about. Remember that? And then it turns out it was just so that they could announce that they'd be doing some sort of selection process at the Kennedy center for the World Cup. Okay, well, that's all well and good. I'm happy for another press conference, but don't overestimate the setting. Well, it's the Oval Office. He's gonna announce war, isn't he? Maybe. Or he'll announce, you know, that we're throwing a big party at the Kennedy Center. Literally, anything can happen during the Trump presidency. So I should remind you what's going on here. So anyway, that's what's happening. The left is going crazy. They're mad at the Trump presidency. They wish Joe Biden wasn't a vegetable, and they're accusing the President of being completely, completely ill and a vegetable himself. So that's it. So they just lie? They're just lying. They're lying to you. And then big anonymous Twitter accounts are lying about the President of the United States. So in case you're wondering, President Trump is doing well. He's got a 2pm announcement, they're gonna be talking about something defense, and the left is still crazy. Does that about sum it up? I think that sums it up. All right. Just making shit up. Yeah, it's the new journalism says highway dog. Yeah, no, that's true. That's what they do. That's what they do. Let me get to the actual news by real journalist Reagan Reese at the Daily Caller, of course, had that big interview with President Trump on Friday, and I've pulled out a number of selections for you here. Here's if we could focus on this, fellows, on whether the Russiagate perpetrators should be arrested. This is. This is good. So Reagan asked whether or not the President of the United States would be okay with seeing John Brennan and James Comey arrested on national television. You guys okay with that? James Comey, John Brennan being arrested on national tv. CNN film crew standing outside of their homes. Would you like to see that? Yeah. So here's what the president said. He said, these are bad people, they're sick people, and, you know, the press plays along with it. But they should be arrested. That is. I mean, I'm probably answering the question more than you think I should. Said the President. They should be arrested because they're crooked and they got caught. Reagan responds, so James Comey and John Brennan, would you be comfortable seeing them handcuffed and arrested live on tv? The President says, would not bother me at all. Reagan, do you think it's a possibility? Trump. See, I would have answered that question that way four years ago. I wouldn't have. He said, wouldn't have answered that question that way four years ago. Do you understand that? I wouldn't because, well, Hillary's a good example. We had Hillary cold. I didn't wanna see that. I didn't want the, you know, the wife of the president to go to jail, but she was stone cold guilty of things. And if you remember, at the big rallies, I'd say, all right, take it easy. You know, they'd all say, lock her up. And after we won, before I won, just. They could do whatever they wanted. And after I won, yeah, I was very gracious. So here's the president, he's reflecting back on that 2016 election and all of the times, and perhaps some of the audience here was among that crowd, those crowds at those rallies chanting, lock her up. Lock her up. That Hillary Clinton deserved consequences for her violations of the law, which we are well aware of. And it's not just the theft of classified information, which of course, everybody knows she is guilty of. There's no dispute on that subject. But also, it was the Clinton foundation. It was all the money that was flowing in in order to buy influence to the expected President of the United States. Now, thank God she didn't actually become president. But, but, man, there were a lot of things that you could dig into related to Hillary Clinton and President Trump. He didn't, he went easy on her, his administration went easy on Hillary Clinton. And his reaction to that is like, you know what I learned from that experience? That that grace was never returned to me. That grace was not returned to me. In fact, I was treated like utter crap. I didn't break any laws and they dropped the full weight of the federal government on top of my head. So, yeah, no, that's, we're not playing like that anymore. We're done with that. In the words of the Secretary of Defense, we're done with that. We don't do that anymore. And so now the President has decided, yeah, I'd be perfectly comfortable seeing these guys arrested. Now. That James Comey and John Brennan quote from President Trump this weekend got a lot of attention in the left wing press. I knew they would, I knew they'd jump all over that. Good, good. You, you marinate in that for a while, as the President says. Yeah, I wouldn't have any problem with seeing these guys arrested on national television. NBC and all the other usual idiots went absolutely crazy this weekend, casting Donald Trump as some sort of tyrant. But you and I both know that every time we talk about this subject, it's that Donald Trump and his supporters who were subjected to tyranny, not the left. The tyranny came at the hands of the left, at the hands of people like James Comey and John Brennan. So if they're given a taste of their own medicine, it's because they deserve it. Not because they're being treated unfairly, but because they are being treated fairly. That's the lesson from that. So there you have the President saying, yeah, no consequences. They should definitely come for those guys. I've got a lot more for you, including some areas where I'm concerned about the President's answers. I'll raise those in just a moment with you here on. 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He's like, I'm not even gonna do the Arnold voice. But it's. He was really big into it. Anyway, highly recommended. Get Jacked Up Fitness. All right, let's see. President Trump on a bunch of other issues. Let's see, I'll bang through them here with you because you need to know the news we've got. Okay, here's one. This one I'm concerned about on illegal farm and restaurant workers in the country. You know, President Trump for a minute said earlier this year that, hey, look, we're deporting illegals, a lot of them, but we may need to go a little Easy on the farm workers. We may need to go a little bit easy on the restaurant workers. Now. I'm telling you right now, I have no interest in going easy on anybody. If you want farm workers in the United States, one, hire American. But two, if you need to bring in foreigners, you've gotta do it through a legal system. We can't have illegal alien farmworkers. Unacceptable. You can't have an illegal system that you just look the other way on and say, we're not gonna enforce the law in that area. Can't happen. So we need a better system than just bring the illegals in. You gotta have a legal system. So here's Reagan's question to the President on illegal immigration. Sticking on immigration, she said, are there still plans to provide deportation exemptions for illegal farmers and restaurant workers? What's the policy right now? Reagan asked, and the President responded, we want to. We want to. Look, I've got two groups that in particular, like me, like me. They like me. People that don't want to allow people to come into the country illegally, and the farmers. So he says these two groups are at odds with one another. Okay? They really. With the farmers, they're great. And it's a little at odds because some of the people coming in for many years have worked on farms and they've been good, and in many cases, they pay taxes, you know, everything else. And you have. Some of my best people don't want anybody in for any reason, no matter what. No matter what. Very hard line stand. So we're working on legislation now that's gonna. It's gonna. I think. I think I'm gonna make everybody happy. Now, this is precisely. This is. So let me just back up for a moment. I said a moment ago, I'm not thrilled with the answer to this question, but there is a way that I could be happier depending on how this turns out. And normally with Trump, you just wait a little bit of time and you figure out what he's actually doing. You see it come into fruition in the real world, and you go, oh, okay, I understand that. Here's what he is getting at. He's saying they're working on legislation, which would mean a legal avenue for all of this. And he says, I think it's gonna make everybody happy. Now, here's what's not gonna make me happy. I'll just be honest upfront, and I don't. Look, Trump doesn't have to nail it 100%. I want him to, but, you know, I'm not gonna throw President Trump out or wish he was out of office, if he diverges on one thing. Because I've had a lot of. I've derived a lot of joy and satisfaction out of how successful he's been as President of the United States. No question about that. But if he comes up with a legal system where people go home and then they can legally immigrate back into the country on a temporary basis to do farm work, I'd be more okay with that system than amnesty. I don't want to see amnesty. If you've broken our laws, you've got to go. The consequence for illegally entering the United States is deportation. Go home. And then if you want to come back, we can come up with a system to accommodate that in order to ensure that American farmers get the labor that they're looking for. But don't encourage, don't reward law breaking. That's all I'm asking. No amnesty. No amnesty. And I think the chat agrees. Yeah, if you're here illegally, gotta go home. You gotta go home. They have agricultural guest workers. That's right. That definitely exists. That's where this thing needs to be. But people have to go home first. We've got to send that message, clearly. So I hope the president does that. They say they are working on a legislative fix. It can't be amnesty. It can't be amnesty. Additionally, we mentioned last week that the president. I played a couple clips for you. The president saying that he wants to welcome in 600,000 Chinese nationals into the US university system. Now, to be clear, that's more than double what it was before. We were at 270,000. We are right now actually at 270,000. The President's indicating that he wants to bring it up to 600,000 Chinese nationals. Now, I submitted to you last week that the reason for that is because the president clearly feels like he's getting some sort of benefit from China, that there's some sort of deal that's being made possible by the President's generosity here that's gonna redound to our benefit. Here's what the President said that Reagan asked him for more clarity on this subject, and here's how that went. Reagan said, you're allowing 600,000 Chinese students to still study here. She said the president responded, 600,000 over two years. Reese says, okay, over two years. I'm curious if this is a negotiation tactic or if this is something you think benefits the country. Trump responded, quote, I think it's very insulting to a country I have a very good relationship with. President Xi and I think it's very insulting to a country when you say you're not going to take your students. And they have probably 300,000. 600 is over two years, but they have, let's say, 300,000 to 350,000 students. It's also good for our system when you take them out. And you know who's gonna be affected? The lesser colleges. The top colleges aren't gonna be. It's the lesser colleges that are. He said. What he's saying is that, in other words, the small schools in the United States are very dependent on this money from Chinese foreign nationals coming in. And if the ChiComs are cut off from coming into the country, then where are these schools gonna get their money from? They're gonna have to close. To which most of us respond, good, they should close. Those schools, should shutter. Most of the schools at the bottom end of the university system are scams anyway. They're not real. They're just a way to put people into tragic amounts of debt without giving them an education that's worth the paper that it's written on. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. So, yeah, close the school. Reagan responded, so it wouldn't take Harvard out. You don't think. Because when I hear that, I think conservatives would say, all right, let's let Harvard and Columbia or the universities die. But you think it would hurt the lesser schools? Reagan asked. The president responded, I don't want them to die. No, I want them to be great, but I want to be fair. He said, and, you know, they're being punished, but, you know, I don't want. We have the greatest system in the world, university, young, you know, the high schools. And let's say you don't take Harvard. They're gonna develop schools and they'll be fine. They're gonna be fine. No, I think it's very insulting in that sense to be doing that. I think it would hurt the system. And, you know, I get along with China. Said the president, China's paying us a lot of money right now. They're paying us hundreds of millions of dollars. And do you understand what I mean by that? Reagan replies, yes. Trump continues, it's very insulating, insulting, rather to say we don't want their students. Yes, says Reagan. President responds, you know, I think it's good for us, but, you know, we're doing well with China. Reagan says, is there something you hope to get specifically in return for allowing their students to still study? The president says, no, no, I don't want anything in Return. We're doing well. They're paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yeah, okay. So this is not something I love. I'm not into it. I don't want to take 600,000 Chinese students into our country. I don't want to take 270,000. It's not about them being Chinese. It's about them being subject to the whims of the ChiComs, the Chinese Communist Party. I have no interest whatsoever in that. Now, the president is convinced, as he points out to Reagan, that this is a part of a broader relationship with China. He wants to be on good terms with this country, which is our biggest adversary. Unquestionably, he wants to be on good terms, and he sees this as a way to sweeten the pot in that relationship. But I do think it continues to be highly reasonable for you and I to be completely horrified by having 600,000 would be espionage agents here on behalf of the ChiComs. The national security laws in China established by the ChiComs are really clear. If they want you to act in their interest against the United States, you are obligated, you are duty bound to do that as a Chinese national here in America, or else your family back home will suffer the consequences of your failure to heed their orders. That's just the way it works. The president knows this, but he must also believe that the risk is worth taking, that whatever he's seeing is indicating to him that we need to have some sort of really good relationship with China that includes taking in 600,000 of their nationals. So, again, I'm enthusiastic about the Trump presidency. I love what he's done. I keep voting for him over and over and over again. That said, don't love this. Don't love this. All right, much more ahead on the program from the Blaze. The great Chris Bedford is joining us. In mere moments, I'll ask him what he thinks about all of us. That's ahead on this edition of. Vince, glad to have you with us after a packed day. You know, there's nothing better than sinking into a bed that actually helps you recharge. And that's why I am so thrilled that I switched to a Helix mattress. And let me tell you, it's been a total upgrade to my sleep. No more tossing, no more turning, no more waking up sore or groggy. Just deep, comfortable sleep that helps me wake up feeling like myself again. Helix Sleep is an award winning mattress company and they customize your mattress based on your unique sleep style. Are you a side sleeper? I am. I'm a Side sleeper. I punched in the stuff on the website. They asked me, they're like, are you a side sleeper? Yeah, side sleeper. Boom. They spit out a mattress that worked perfectly for me. You have back pain, you run hot at night. 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And when it comes to sheets, the thread quality matters way more than the count. That's where Bolton branch comes in. I have been sleeping so much better on my new sheets. In fact, Allison is crazy about bowling bread. She loves the sheets. They're really good. They use the highest quality organic cotton, making them soft and durable. Plus they get even softer with every single wash. It's more than the number of threads. It's about comfort and long lasting quality. So if you are looking for sheets that combine luxury and durability, Boll and branch is the way to go. Your sleep's gonna thank you. So feel the difference an extraordinary night's sleep can make with Bolen Branch. Get 15% off plus free shipping on your first set of sheets@bolendbranch.com Vince that's Boland Branch. B O L L a n d branch.com Vince Save 15% and unlock free shipping exclusions apply. Visit Bowland branch.com for details. Yeah baby. Hey, do I share too much about my bedroom activities? Is that what's happening here? Probably too much. We've got the Helix mattress and we've got the bowl and Branch sheets and I feel like I'm revealing a lot here. But we do love them. We sleep so well. All right, let's bring in Chris Let me bring in Chris Bedford, who's talking in my ear right now. I don't know if people can hear him. Chris Bedford, senior politics editor, DC correspondent for the Blaze is here. Hello, Chris.
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Chris was definitely harassing me during all of that. I had to turn you down, actually, because of your harassment. I literally muted you. I was like, mute. I got to turn Chris down while I was doing the live reads there. Thank you, man. It's good to have you with us. Hey, let me dive in really quick to what Reagan Reese was able to gather from the President of the United States on Friday. She got a couple of things out of him and some of them just instantly stood out to me. Like, whoa, wait a second. Not sure. I love this one. He indicated that he is trying to work out a deal that he says everyone is going to love when it comes to farm workers and hotel workers who are here in the country illegally. Now, Chris, whatever deal he comes up with, I gotta say, I don't love amnesties of any kind. What do you think of this?
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No, and props to Reagan, cuz President Trump is one of the hardest people on the planet to give an interview and make news with these days. He is a professional. He decides whether or not he wants to answer something. And usually your best shot at making news is when he says, we'll see, and then the media flips out. He says, we'll see about arresting this person or that. But she actually got. She stuck with it. Now, this is an interesting relationship. I remember touring in 2020 through the dairy farms and the cattle farms and talking to folks, and there was a real split. The farmers, which, you know, they have a reputation in the United States for just being the kind of guys who wake up before dawn. And a lot of them do. But by and large, they are massive corporations. But they still, especially the small, the few remaining independent farms, need to do good business. They've got the economy that they've run on for years, which, I mean, as we know in this country, farms have a long history of not paying locals to do the work. But they also were hit hard by the tariffs. They were hit hard by trade battles with Canada and Mexico previously. And they were sometimes seeming to regret their vote for President Trump in 2016, which a lot of them gave. So I know he's got a delicate balance there. But amnesty for powerful interests in the United States that once again are declining to pay locals is a difficult thing to sell. Now, you can make the case that there are a lot of these jobs, a lot of these towns really can't actually even put up the labor that's necessary. I've been to these places where a lot of the migrant workers live. I didn't check any papers, don't know who was legal or illegal. But they kind of live in almost group housing comfortably, eat their meals together, work together, and then leave after the season's over. And like the President did say, they are paying their taxes. These corporations are trying to stay above the law as much as they can, but it just doesn't sit right. I think you're right. A lot of those different deals that the President has to strike seemingly don't sit great with some of the mega base. Unfortunately, that is also a bit of the nature of politics, that it is the art of compromise.
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Sure it is, that's for sure. But at least in that case, it involves directly American interests and the cost of food and whether or not these farmers can get the work that they need, as I advocated a short while ago. I'd like to see people go home first and then if they want to come in legally, we have a legal means to do that, but not. I don't want to see anybody given a reward for being here illegally. I think that sends a bad message and it, by the way, becomes a magnet for more illegal immigration, which is exactly the opposite of what the President wants to do.
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And it protects them from exploitation by corrupt, wealthier employers who may know that you're an elite hero legally and be able to hold that over your head. They will hold that over your head, pay you those kind of wages, and take care of you in that kind of way.
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Yeah. Let me also ask you about China then, too. We've got the President indicating over the past few weeks that he wants to bring in some 600,000 Chinese nationals to attend universities. He did tell Reagan that that's over the course of two years. So maybe in a kind of a generous interpretation, you say 300,000 a year. We're at around 270,000 currently in the university system. Chinese foreign nationals. It honestly, once again, in terms of like, rewarding the people who do the bad things, does seem like we're rewarding China, which in the end produced Covid, just to remind people, and has been killing hundreds of thousands Americans a year with chemical precursors that become fentanyl and other awful drugs in the United States. And then of course, the ChiComs keep stealing from us like crazy. So this one's a Little hard for me to believe that the President would be okay accommodating all of these Chinese nationals in our country. What do you think of it?
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B
I can't stand it. There's no surprise, though. I mean, there was always a question of whether or not which way the President was going to go on his dealings with China. And I wrote about it for my Beltway Brief newsletter last week that this is. Well, President Trump has surrounded himself with a lot of hardliners on China, a lot of hardliners on immigration, which gave hope to those of us, I think you and I concluded, who want to see a total reset and reimagining of what the American Chinese relationship is. Those people are all around him. But the President, since his interviews in the 1980s, I was able to pull up a couple of those. Was always talking about not reimagined entirely relationships, but getting a better deal for the United States. So I was trying to get in questions when I was down at the White House press briefings over and over again. I could never get a straight answer from the press secretary or from Stephen Miller or from other people on what the President's goal was on trade war with China. Was it a. To decouple the two countries, to make it so that we were secure, to make it so that these students who, as you know, they don't leave China without Xi Jinping and the Communist Party's approval and are expected once here to actually commit espionage for China and like you were talking about earlier in the show, are under a huge amount of pressure to actually listen to the folks back home where their families are, where their, where their mothers and their fathers and their sisters and their brothers are. I don't see why that's actually a good thing for the country. But the President has always been interested in making a few more dollars. He looks at, which he talked about with Reagan, all that money coming into the Treasury. He looks at the trade changes. And that was always a question. Does he want to reimagine this relationship or does he just want a better deal for American businesses? And it seems like those US Chinese hardliners are gonna have to wait a little while longer for a president who actually wants to decouple the economies. Cuz this one just right now he's making big progress, but it's towards a deal.
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Okay, all right. So those are two areas that you and I have expressed concern. And it's good. I like having a president that actually listens to his base too. So this is a good part of that conversation. Let me get onto some other things now. We've got Congress coming back today, finally after its August recess, which they should have never taken, or if they were gonna take it, they should have just taken a real recess and let the President make a bunch of recess appointments in the process. That didn't happen. That drives me absolutely crazy. What does Congress have to tackle right now? Chris Bedford, what is on their agenda?
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B
Well, the three things they have are nominations for civilian appointees to the Trump administration, which is, I think at a record high. It's over 140 people waiting to get actually confirmed confirmed by the Senate. And there are talks right now between the White House and the Republicans to use the nuclear option on that. Typically, the Senate has been very jealous of its power to affirm and to be able to review presidential appointees. But it's gotten to a point where both parties, honestly, when the other side is in the office, aren't necessarily looking for the best candidate. They're simply looking to hold up the White House. And you can't get to those 60 votes with Democrat intransigents. So they might switch it to 51 and then start to crank through these nominations because nominations are third on their list of things to do. They've got a budget deal which they have to put together by the end of the month. That's gonna be one of the most difficult things, one of the most difficult aspects of this. Cuz every aspect of that requires 60 votes. So they're gonna need to play a little nice and let's say have 60 Republicans suddenly or suddenly a lot less Democratic senators, and that's not going to happen. And then the third thing that they're.
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Working on, on the nominees. Yeah, dog ear that for a second. Cuz I want to come back to that on the third thing, but on the nominees, I talked to Senator Eric Schmidt a week ago and he told me, he goes, hey, when we get back, I just need to tell you we are gonna accelerate the nomination process dramatically from where we were. And I was like, well, thank God for that, that nuclear option that you're talking about. Harry Reid already started that years ago when he said that you only need 51 votes to get a federal judge through. And then the Republicans responded with, okay, fine, we'll do the same thing for the Supreme Court. And they were able to get Supreme Court justices through on that basis. Why not just do it for all of them? I mean, the fact is the executive branch needs its people in place to conduct the affairs of the American people. And what they Voted for. It's ridiculous that even at this late date, all these people are being blocked. We need US Attorneys to prosecute all these criminals. It's crazy what the Senate is doing right now.
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Absolutely. And under President Reagan, H.W. bush, Bill Clinton, even George W. Bush, there was a history of just voice vote yeses where these nominees just sailed through unless they were particularly troublesome. Remember, the Green Czar for Barack Obama was one of the few who was held up by Republicans at the beginning of his administration saying, no, no, no, no, no. We want to take a look at this guy over his 911 comments and this and that. Of course, of course, he's still with us today as a prominent commentator. Now it has continued to get worse and worse and worse. And the only democratically elected person in the entire country, nationally elected person in the entire country, the President. United States, deserves to have the people around him who are able to actually execute his agenda. And it has shown, we saw in his first term in office what happens when you don't have the right people in place, that deep state Democrats are able to retard your administration's agenda every step of the way, commit sabotage, do everything, commit leaks, do everything that they can to try and slow down the democratically elected president. And you need those people. And that's part of what the Democrats are doing. They just don't have. The Senate hasn't had time to get to them with the schedule that they have for September and October and November. So the nuclear option is basically the only way they're going to be able to do this unless they put aside the budget, which they can't, and the NDAA, which no one in D.C. will.
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A
The NDAA, is that the third thing you were referencing?
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Exactly that. That's not even due until the end of the year. But they want to get it done earlier. They want to be able to get the money flowing to the Pentagon. They want to be able to actually invest in new programs and new systems. So the NDAA they've set for themselves, they're going to try and get their homework done early, get it done by the end of September, which is, you know, it's surprising to hear that from the U.S. senate that likes to push things to the very end. Now, this is definitely must pass legislation is what they call it, but there are already some Democratic Easter eggs have shown up in it. We have a story that just went up moments ago. I was just editing it for Blaze News about how Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, if you remember him, the first Tim to lose as vice president to Donald Trump. He's back and he's put into the NDA something that would take Pete Hegseth and the Department of Defense's ability to rename bases and to undo that committee that was erasing all kinds of historical names from American military bases and assets, to take that away for the state of Virginia, which is something that seems to have been debated and discussed and dealt with in the committee itself, in the Senate committee, which their hearings are classified. So when we've reached out to. To Republican senators in that committee, they've had to say, listen, I can't talk about this because of the classified nature of these hearings. But also that Senate committee has Armed Forces, Armed Services has kind of a gentleman's tradition about it where they are much more likely to wheel and deal in a way that was common in D.C. for a long time, but still exists there. And this seems to be a carve out, and that's gonna cause some trouble with the Republicans, and it's certainly gonna cause some trouble with the MAGA base that even if it's just Virginia, the recommendations of these renaming commissions went above and beyond what the American people had long settled. And Pete Hegseth has gone back as Secretary of Defense and changed a lot of those names back in kind of cute ways where he's come up with different people who are named after these famous generals and commanders, and they're going to try and strip that. That's the first Easter egg and there are many more to come.
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Yeah, it's too much. I'm glad you're staring at it and getting the news out to the rest of us. Thank you. Chris Bedford, as always, from the Blaze. Great to talk to you today, sir. Can't wait to do it again soon.
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See you again soon, Vince.
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Thanks, man. All right, there he is, Chris Bedford. Now that he's going away, he won't be able to harass me anymore. He was harassing me before. All right, I've got some other items to get to you right now. Crime is a massive problem. Among the other things that the Congress needs to contemplate doing is extending President Trump's ability to run police, the police force in Washington, D.C. this current invocation of the president's ability to run the D.C. police Department, that goes back to the D.C. home Rule act of 1973. It allows him to have 30 days to run the cops in the nation's capital. That expires on September 9th. That's just days away, folks. The President is not Going to have a control of the D.C. police Department a couple days from now. And that will be a disaster. The White House has requested, the President has requested that Congress extend his control of the D.C. police Department. And given the President's success in dropping crime by upward violent crime upwards of 40% in the nation's capital, Congress should absolutely sign off on extending the President's authority here without question. You want the nation's capital to continue to be safe. You want the good times to continue rolling. Let the President continue to fix things in D.C. so Congress has to deal with that. The other thing here, the other cities in America that desperately need a rescue are run by Democrats. And these Democrats hate Donald Trump with the passion of a thousand burning suns. They hate him. And the last thing they want him to do is fix the mess that they've created. Watch this. Here's 6% approval rating. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson screaming this weekend cut one, that he doesn't want any support to stop the violence in Chicago.
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Look, God bless you all. God bless the labor movement. God bless the greatest freaking city in the world. Chi Town. No troops in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. No troops in Chicago. Invest in Chicago. Invest in Chicago. No troops. Invest in Chicago. Invest in Chicago.
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It's so outrageous. It's so outrageous. There's Brandon Johnson. And so what Brandon Johnson is saying is that he doesn't want the criminals to be stopped. The only thing he wants is more money. Invest in Chicago. HE SCREECHES he wants you to take money out of your hard earned paycheck and send it to him so he can squander it and not improve the situation for the people who live in Chicago at all. Did you see what happened in Chicago this weekend? 54 people were shot. 54 people were shot. That's just going into Monday morning. 54 people shot. Seven people were killed this weekend in Chicago. And the President of the United States is on the verge of sending the National Guard in. They can't come to soon enough. And look, if you were a person who actually cared about the well being of your city, you wouldn't be protesting the President, sending in backup. You'd be asking him for more. If Brandon Johnson, with a 6% approval rating, cared about the people of Chicago, he would be calling the White House switchboard right now and asking to speak to anyone who can help get the ear of the President to send the National Garden. Please, I beg of you, help us. That's not what he's doing. No, no. To Brandon Johnson, the man who you just saw on Stage screeching about how he doesn't want any help. To Brandon Johnson, a bloodbath weekend in Chicago is totally acceptable, totally defensible, and the status Quo should remain. 54 people shot, seven people killed. President Trump thinks we need better. And he's right. We definitely need better. Chicago deserves better. Way better than the least popular BJ in America. Brandon Johnson. There he is now. The New York Times was raging this weekend about the use of the military to clean up Washington, D.C. and they had this piece, it's so ridiculous. They had this piece called Crime Festers in Republican states while their troops patrol Washington. You got this. This is a clever little stunt. So the way that it worked originally was, hey, President Trump, don't send in law enforcement. Don't rescue D.C. if you do that. That's tyrannical. And then when they discovered that people loved the president's rescue, they changed the narrative. They moved the goalposts around the field and they said, well, the president's not sending the troops in into the hardest hit areas of D.C. the ones with the most crime. So rather than, hey, stop sending in troops, it's now, you sent them to the wrong place. You should send more of them to eastern D.C. and it turned out the White House came back and they said, actually, we've been doing that. And 50% of all of the arrests have taken place in the worst districts, the worst wards in Washington, D.C. we are stopping crime everywhere we find it. And so then the media moved on from that, and now the current version is, well, you should be going after red states, not the nation's capital. You should be deploying the National Guard to red states. That's where all the crime is. The New York Times says, here's what's going on. The crime is in the blue cities of those red states. So, for instance, they point to the state of Tennessee and New York Times does, and they're upset that the Governor, Bill Lee, dispatched the National Guard to help President Trump get control of the nation's capital. Now, Tennessee, just like every other state, does have a vested interest in the nation's capital being safe. That capital belongs to all of us. It's not any one state. It belongs to all of the states. It belongs to the American people. So Tennessee isn't doing something that works against its interests by helping clean up the nation's capital. It's very much within the interest of the people of Tennessee to have a safe capital. But the New York Times is concern trolling the governor, Governor Lee saying, oh, so why don't you send the National Guard instead to your own cities? Why are you sending them to the nation's capital? And then they point to Memphis. They say, Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation's capital. According to FBI statistics, Nashville has a higher rate of violent crime than Washington as well. Now, what do those cities have in common? Who runs Memphis? The Democrats. Democrats are running these cities into the ground. And the New York Times has decided that the headline on this story should be that it's Republican states that have a catastrophic crime problem. Well, sure, in the areas run by Democrats. And should the president do everything that's within his power to try and bring peace to all of these cities? Definitely. But why is he doing it by himself? Why is he alone on this? Why aren't there more people helping him? What is wrong with you, you human scum, that you would allow crime to get worse in your communities just because you hate the President of the United States? It's normal people. It's vulnerable people who have to bear the cost of your political cruelty for that. Unreal. Then again, Democrat leaders, if you can call them leaders, are just out of control. You see that? New York Congressman Jerry Nadler is leaving Congress after a thousand terms. Yeah. Nadler has announced that he's resigning. He'll waddle off into the sunset. For the last time. He's headed out the door, and he leaves us with a bunch of young Democrats who are even crazier than he is. Check out Jasmine Crockett this weekend, who, by the way, may actually lose her congressional seat anyway thanks to Texas redrawing its district boundaries. So she's gonna have to fight for that seat. We'll see if she can retain it. But check out Jasmine Crockett this weekend. It turns out whatever evolution she's going through, she can now no longer speak English. Here she is cut three maybe.
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Because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian they is. Yeah. I don't know how many of them on that side are getting divorced because they getting caught up sleeping with their co workers, staffers, interns, all the things. Yeah, you ain't got to believe me. Just go Google. You'll find some of it, I'm telling you. And the wives is being messy and petty. They putting it in the divorce. I'm like, oh, that's got to be true, because your lawyer would know that they gonna lose it if they.
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What the hell did she just say? We're done with that shit. I don't. What has happened to that lady? You know, when she came into office, when she ran for the first time, she was speaking the queen's English. She was. I think at one point she was saying, what? She's an unbelievable human being. What in the world is that? Now I know there's gonna be people who say on the left, who are gonna be like, well, Vince, you just don't understand. That's what we call code switching. It's code switching. Just changing your presentation based on the audience. Now, you know what that is? That's insecurity, is what that is. That's insecurity. If you have to pretend to be a different person for every audience you speak to, you've got some problems. You've got some big problems. That lady's got some big. What was that noise she made, guys, at the very beginning of that clip? Justin, can you play that again for me? What was the very first. Like the first three seconds? What was that, baby?
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Cause these people, they are crazy. Because they always talk about how Christian they is. Yeah, I don't know these people.
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That's enough. Cause these people, they are crazy. Yeah, you are crazy. Holy cow. Well, I do hope she loses her seat. We're working on that in Texas. Boy, oh, boy, there's Jasmine Crockett. So, you know, we kicked one dude out, Jerry Nadler, he's headed out. Ain't that a kick in the nads? But then Jasmine Crockett, that's what we're left with. We'll see for how long. All right, I've got a big show for you today coming up. National radio show. Reagan Reese is gonna join me on the program. We'll talk about her big conversation with the President of the United States last Friday. What it was like to sit with the President for an hour, take a tour of the Rose Garden. Every other detail from that conversation that's ahead on the big program. And then I'll be back again tomorrow on this podcast. Vince, it's always so great to have you with us. The best damn audience in media. We'll do it again soon.