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00:01:22FOUNDER ANKUSH KHARDORI ABOUT
00:01:24TODD BLANCHE'S NOMINATION FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.
00:01:27"WASHINGTON JOURNAL" IS NEXT, JOIN THE CONVERSATION LIVE.
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00:01:38HOST: GOOD MORNING.
00:01:42THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. ATTORNEY GENERAL NOMINEE TODD
00:01:45BLANCHE'S NOMINATION REMAINS UNCERTAIN AFTER SENATOR COLLINS
00:01:48ANNOUNCED OPPOSITION TUESDAY. BLANCHE MET YESTERDAY WITH TWO
00:01:52SENATORS WHO WILL BOTH LIKELY
00:01:55DECIDE HIS FATE ON THE SENATE FLOOR APPEARED IN NEVADA,
00:01:57PRESIDENT TRUMP PROMOTED HIS WORKING FAMILY TAX CUT AT IT
00:02:01ONCE THEY REALLY HAD OF MIDTERMS.
00:02:04IN MICHIGAN, ABDUL ELSE I HAD WON THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY,
00:02:07SETTING UP A FALL MUCH APPLICANTS REPUBLICAN MIKE
00:02:11ROGERS. TODAY, THE SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE VOTES ON
00:02:13WHETHER TO HOLD DR. ANTHONY
00:02:16FANNED THE -- ANTHONY FAUCI AND
00:02:21CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AFTER HE INVOKED THE FIFTH AMENDMENT REPEATEDLY DURING LAST WEEK'S HEARING.
00:02:24THAT VOTE IS SCHEDULED TO GET UNDERWAY AT 830 TIME THIS
00:02:28MORNING, AND WE WILL BRING IT TO YOU LIVE.
00:02:30FIRST, WE WILL TAKE YOUR CALLS
00:02:32ON WHAT YOU CONSIDER THE TOP NEWS STORY OF THE DAY.
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00:03:00WELCOME TO TODAY'S "WASHINGTON JOURNAL." WE ARE GLAD YOU ARE WITH US.
00:03:04LET'S START WITH THAT SENATE PRIMARY IN MICHIGAN.
00:03:06HERE IS THE WINNER, ABDUL EL
00:03:08SAYED, SPEAKING WITH REPORTERS
00:03:13YESTERDAY.
00:03:19[VIDEO CLIP] >>[VIDEO CLIP]
00:03:22>> I WANT US TO REALIZE THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THAT UNITES US NOW.
00:03:28THE GOP MAGA ALLIES WHAT -- YOU
00:03:36ARE ALREADY WATCHING IT ON TV.
00:03:38THEY WANT TO USE MY WHOLE NAME AGAINST ME.
00:03:42YOU CANNOT SAY THE NAME ABDUL
00:03:45EL-SAYED -- I WOULD BE HAPPY TO
00:03:48GIVE YOU LESSONS.
00:03:51BUT THEY UNDERSTAND THE ONLY WAY
00:03:54THEY THINK THEY CAN WIN IS
00:03:59DIGGING THROUGH THE MUD, BELIEVING WHAT DIVIDES US IS
00:04:03BIGGER THAN WHAT UNITES US. THEY WANT US TO THINK THAT THE
00:04:06REASON SOME OF US AND GOD IS
00:04:10BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE GOT. BUT THE REASON SO MANY OF US
00:04:13AIN'T GOT IS BECAUSE THE
00:04:17POLITICS ARE TAKEN AWAY FROM US. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE TAKING ON
00:04:21NOW. GETTING MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.
00:04:24MEDICARE FOR ALL IS A BIG NEED. IF YOU SUPPORTED ME OR YOU DID
00:04:28NOT SUPPORT ME, IF YOU VOTED FOR
00:04:32VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS IN 2024 OR YOU VOTED FOR DONALD TRUMP, IF
00:04:36YOU BELIEVE LIKE ME THAT YOU SHOULD ALSO BE ABLE TO AFFORD
00:04:40GROCERIES, YOU OUGHT TO AFFORD
00:04:41YOUR HOME, THAT YOUR TAX DOLLARS
00:04:46OUGHT TO BE INVESTED IN YOU RATHER BE SENT SOMEWHERE ELSE,
00:04:48IF YOU BELIEVE LIKE ME THAT A
00:04:51GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE IS
00:04:54OUR BIRTHRIGHT IN THIS COUNTRY, IF YOU BELIEVE LIKE ME THAT WE
00:04:58HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO STAND
00:04:59UP AND WALK WITH OUR UNIONS SO EVERYBODY HAS BARGAINING RIGHTS
00:05:03IN OUR COUNTRY, IF YOU BELIEVE LIKE ME THAT HE WANTED TO HAVE
00:05:07THE GUARANTEE TO PUT HEALTH CARE
00:05:08IN THIS COUNTRY WITHOUT SOME
00:05:12CORPORATION TRYING TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU CANNOT HAVE AND SHOULD
00:05:13NOT FIGHT FOR, I HOPE THAT YOU
00:05:17JOIN THIS MOVEMENT NOW. HOST: THAT WAS YESTERDAY IN DETROIT.
00:05:20PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS IN NEVADA YESTERDAY TALKING ABOUT HIS
00:05:24ECONOMIC AGENDA, AND HE ALSO
00:05:29TALKED DURING THAT RALLY ABOUT
00:05:32SENATE CANDIDATE ABDUL EL-SAYED. [VIDEO CLIP]
00:05:38>> IN CONGRESS, THEY ARE WORKING EVERY DAY TO DEFEND THE AMERICAN
00:05:41DREAM FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN. THE RADICAL LEFT, THE MANIACS,
00:05:45ARE TRYING TO DESTROY IT.
00:05:48IT IS A DISTANCE -- A DISASTER
00:05:50KNOWN AS A, NOT SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM.
00:05:53HE IS A COMMUNIST. AND THE POLLS WERE WRONG AGAIN
00:05:56LAST NIGHT WHEN THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A LANDSLIDE VICTORY FOR
00:05:59A HATER OF JEWS.
00:06:03THIS GUY HATES JEWS.
00:06:06SOMEBODY SAID THAT IS A LITTLE STRONG.
00:06:09NO, HE HATES JEWS AND HATES ISRAEL.
00:06:12ABDUL EL-SAYED.
00:06:15CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? THIS COULD ONLY HAPPEN TO ME.
00:06:19ABDUL EL-SAYED, LOVELY GENTLEMEN
00:06:23, THE MAN OF HATE. NOW HE SAYS I LOVE EVERYBODY.
00:06:27HE DOESN'T LOVE EVERYBODY. PUT HIM IN OFFICE, YOU ARE GOING
00:06:30TO FIND OUT WHAT HE LOVES. HE DOES NOT LOVE ISRAEL.
00:06:33HE DOES NOT LOVE JEWISH PEOPLE. HE HATES THEM.
00:06:37HE HATES THEM WITH A PASSION THAT BURNS IN HIS HEART, AND
00:06:41THERE IS NOT A FREAKING THING HE CAN DO ABOUT IT. THERE IS NOT A THING HE CAN DO
00:06:45ABOUT IT BECAUSE HE HATES THEM.
00:06:47IN MICHIGAN, IT WAS REALLY VERY CLOSE.
00:06:52THE POLLS AND THE POLLS BY THE
00:06:54PRESS OFTEN TIMES, THEY -- THE
00:07:04POST-CREDIT REALLY LONG. HE ALMOST LOST. BUT HE IS GOING TO LOSE TO OUR GREAT CANDIDATE.
00:07:08WE HAVE A GREAT CANDIDATE IN MICHIGAN. GREAT CANDIDATE.
00:07:13BUT THE SOCIALIST CANDIDATE RAN
00:07:17A BIG EMERGENCE AGAINST THE COMMUNIST CANDIDATE IN DETROIT.
00:07:21I WAS SAYING IT IS PROBABLY CORRUPT.
00:07:23I DON'T KNOW WHO THE HELL THEY
00:07:28WANTED. I COULDN'T CARE LESS.
00:07:30ACTUALLY, WE DO BETTER AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS, ACCORDING TO THE POLLS.
00:07:33THE POLLS SAY YOU DO BETTER AGAINST THE COMMUNISTS.
00:07:37I THINK THEY WILL PUT OUT A STATEMENT.
00:07:40CONGRATULATIONS TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
00:07:43HOST: THAT WAS YESTERDAY IN NEVADA.
00:07:46WE ARE TAKING YOUR CALLS. OUR QUESTION FOR YOU, WHAT IS
00:07:49YOUR TOP NEWS STORY OF THE DAY? WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU RIGHT NOW?
00:07:53THIS IS JAMES IN TENNESSEE, INDEPENDENT LINE.
00:07:58YOU ARE UP FIRST.
00:08:01JAMES, YOU'RE ON THE AIR. YOU HAVE GOT TO MUTE YOUR PHONE.
00:08:05JAMES? OK.
00:08:09JOE IN GEORGIA, REPUBLICAN.
00:08:13CALLER: MIMI, LOVE C-SPAN, BEEN
00:08:16CALLING YOUR GREAT NETWORK FOR 30 YEARS.
00:08:19THE BIGGEST NEWS STORY IS THE GREAT STOCK MARKET, BREAKING
00:08:23ALL-TIME HIGHS EVERY SINGLE DAY. I THINK TRUMP IS BY FAR THE BEST
00:08:27LEADER IN HISTORY. I AM A STOCKHOLDER, BEEN
00:08:31INVESTED FOR 50 YEARS. WE ARE IN INVESTOR HAVE BEEN
00:08:35WITH DONALD TRUMP AS PRESIDENT. AND I AM SO HAPPY EVERYBODY I'M
00:08:39TALKING TO IS HAPPY. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK, A GREAT
00:08:43C-SPAN. HOST: THANK YOU. I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET.
00:08:47WHAT DO YOU SAY TO PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO BE IN THE STOCK MARKET?
00:08:51YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE CASE SHAPED ECONOMY, SO INVESTORS
00:08:54LIKE YOURSELF ARE DOING VERY WELL. BUT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN THE
00:08:57STOCK MARKET, WHO CANNOT AFFORD IT COME ARE DOING WORSE.
00:09:01WHAT DO YOU SAY?
00:09:03CALLER: MAY BE WHAT THEY NEED TO
00:09:05DO IS TRY TO FIND MAY BE -- HATE
00:09:08TO HAVE TO BORROW MONEY, BUT I THINK THE STOCK MARKET IS SO
00:09:11GREAT, YOU NEED TO GET EVERY AMERICAN POSSIBLE IN IT.
00:09:15MAYBE THEY HAVE GOT SOMEBODY THAT CAN LEND THEM A LITTLE
00:09:18MONEY, BECAUSE THE MARKET.
00:09:22TODAY, IT IS 50 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
00:09:26MY PREDICTION IS IT WILL GO TO $100,000 IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS,
00:09:31THEN $200,000 IN 10.
00:09:33WE ARE IN INVESTOR HEAVEN, MIMI.
00:09:37YOU DO A SUPER JOB AT C-SPAN.
00:09:40HOST: BARBARA IN GEORGIA, DEMOCRAT.
00:09:42CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
00:09:45HE IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT SOCIALISTS, DEMOCRATS OR SOCIALISTS.
00:09:50BUT DEMOCRATS OR SOCIALISTS, SO
00:09:53WAS JESUS, BECAUSE JESUS
00:09:55BELIEVED IN GIVING TO POOR PEOPLE.
00:09:58AND HE ALSO BELIEVED IN DOING WHAT WAS RIGHT.
00:10:02DONALD TRUMP IS ALWAYS TALKING
00:10:06ABOUT COMMUNISTS. THE DEMOCRATS ARE COMMUNISTS.
00:10:09HE GOT ON THERE AND HE RUN FOR
00:10:14PRESIDENT, THIS IS WHAT HE DID. HE SAID I'M GOING TO BE A
00:10:17COMMUNIST FROM DAY ONE, A
00:10:21DICTATOR FROM DAY ONE.
00:10:25HOST: ALL RIGHT. THIS IS SCOTT IN NEW YORK,
00:10:28INDEPENDENT.
00:10:32CALLER: GOOD MORNING. JULY 3 WAS MY LAST CALL, I GET
00:10:36SICK OF HEARING PEOPLE CALLING
00:10:39IN ALL THE TIME.
00:10:42WE HAVE PEOPLE CALLING IN ALL THE TIME, THEY ARE LYING TO US
00:10:45BECAUSE THEY ARE ON MORE THAN EVERY 30 DAYS. THAT IS NOT WHY I AM CALLING.
00:10:50DONALD TRUMP HATES THE DEMOCRATS.
00:10:52HE HATES MANY PEOPLE AND AMERICA.
00:10:55SO DONALD TRUMP, I CAN SAY, HATES AMERICA.
00:10:59DONALD TRUMP LOVES PUTIN, AND PUTIN IS THE MAIN COMMUNISTS WHO
00:11:03HAVE BEEN AFRAID OF SINCE 1980'S.
00:11:08I WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE DAY THAT RUSSIANS EVER NUCLEAR BOMB DOES.
00:11:12GUESS WHAT, THEY HAVE NUKES.
00:11:15ONE THING I AM REALLY UPSET ABOUT FOR THE PAST MONTH IS THIS
00:11:19POOL, THAT WAS A $1 BILLION
00:11:24CONTRACT BID THE COST OVER $16 BILLION.
00:11:27WHY IS NOBODY UPSET THAT A ONE
00:11:30MILLION-DOLLAR CONTRACT COST $16 MILLION?
00:11:33IT WAS DONALD TRUMP'S FRIEND, AND HE CANNOT EVEN DO THAT RIGHT.
00:11:36COME ON, PEOPLE, WAKE UP.
00:11:39IT IS ABOUT THE HUMAN RACE OF AMERICA.
00:11:41GOD BLESS US HUMANS OUT THERE, OK?
00:11:43TALK TO YOU NEXT MONTH. HOST: OK.
00:11:47ON THAT REFLECTING POOL IN FRONT
00:11:50OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON POST HAS THIS,
00:11:55TRUMP'S CLAIMS OF VANDALISM AT THE RENOVATED REFLECTING POOL
00:11:59CRUMBLED, AND TRUMP LASHES OUT
00:12:02AT U.S. ATTORNEY JEANINE PIRRO AS SHE DROPS THE VANDALISM CASES
00:12:06AND BLAMED DAMAGE ON RUSHED WORK
00:12:09BY A CONTRACTOR.
00:12:11IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ THE
00:12:14WHOLE THING, IT SAYS TRUMP FAILS TO FINISH THE JOB IN TIME FOR
00:12:17THE JULY 4 CELEBRATIONS.
00:12:23THE PROJECT LAUNCHED WITH A MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR NO-BID
00:12:26CONTRACT AND WITHOUT THE NORMAL REVIEW PROCESS, DEMONSTRATION OF
00:12:29HOW QUICKLY HE COULD TRANSFORM WASHINGTON.
00:12:34THAT IS THE WASHINGTON POST.
00:12:36THIS IS ALYSSA IN MARYLAND, DEMOCRAT.
00:12:41CALLER: GOOD MORNING, MIMI. I WANTED TO SAY, I AM CALLING ON
00:12:44THE DEMOCRATIC LINE, BUT BEFORE
00:12:47I REGISTERED AS A DEMOCRAT, I
00:12:51WAS AN AMERICAN. I AM AN AMERICAN.
00:12:56AND I THINK DONALD TRUMP PUTTING
00:12:59UP HIS PERSONAL ATTORNEY AS
00:13:03ATTORNEY, SOMEONE WHO OWES HIS
00:13:08ALLEGIANCE TO HIM AND NOT TO OUR CONSTITUTION. AND ONE THING I WANT TO SAY
00:13:12ABOUT THAT POOL, DONALD TRUMP
00:13:16ACTS LIKE HE WANTS TO BE A MOB
00:13:20BOSS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS
00:13:23KNOWN ABOUT MOB LIKE PEOPLE --
00:13:27NO OFFENSE TO THEM -- IS THAT THEY GET KICKBACKS ON
00:13:30CONSTRUCTION PROPERTIES.
00:13:33IS THAT WHY HE WANTS ATTORNEY
00:13:36GENERAL, SO HIM AND HIS FAMILY
00:13:38WON'T BE INVESTIGATED ON KICKBACKS?
00:13:41THAT'S IT.
00:13:43HOST: AND THIS IS CONNECTICUT
00:13:50DEMOCRAT SENATOR RICHARD BLUMENTHAL YESTERDAY ON THE
00:13:51SENATE FLOOR, ABOUT WHY HE IS
00:13:55OPPOSED TO THE NOMINATION OF TODD BLANCHE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL. [VIDEO CLIP]
00:14:00>> IN FACT, THE DOCUMENT THAT
00:14:04PURPORTED TO SAY THAT THE TRUST
00:14:09FUND WAS DEAD, IN REALITY, IS A
00:14:16SHAM. IT IS A FRAUD ON THE UNITED
00:14:18STATES SENATE, JUST AS THE
00:14:22ALLEGEDLY COMMITTED FRAUD ON THE COURT IN FLORIDA.
00:14:25REASON IS QUITE SIMPLY THAT
00:14:27THERE WAS A CONTRACT HERE.
00:14:30THE AGREEMENT PRODUCE THAT CONTRACT.
00:14:34THE AGREEMENT WAS BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND THE UNITED STATES.
00:14:37DONALD TRUMP DID NOT IN ANY WAY
00:14:42FORGO ANY RIGHTS UNDER THAT CONTRACT. IT IS STILL BINDING.
00:14:45HE COULD GOING TO COURT TOMORROW
00:14:49TO ESTABLISH THE $1.8 BILLION
00:14:54FUND. LIKEWISE, THE IMMUNITY
00:14:57AGREEMENT, WHICH IS UNPRECEDENTED, WORTH HUNDREDS OF
00:15:00MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, IMMUNITY
00:15:05FROM AUDIT, GIVING HIM A FREE PASS FOR EVERYTHING THAT
00:15:08OCCURRED, THIS IMMUNITY
00:15:12NEGOTIATED BY TODD BLANCHE WITH
00:15:18ONLY TODD BLANCHE'S SIGNATURE ON IT.
00:15:23THE LIMITING OF THAT IMMUNITY OF
00:15:26TAX AUDIT FROM DONALD TRUMP, HIS
00:15:29SONS, HIS ORGANIZATIONS, WORTH HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS.
00:15:32UNPRECEDENTED, UNCONSCIONABLE. AND UNACCEPTABLE.
00:15:38AND ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES DEALING WITH
00:15:41POTENTIAL TAX VIOLATIONS OF LAW,
00:15:45SIGNING AWAY TAX LIABILITIES, NO
00:15:49MATTER HOW SERIOUS IT MIGHT BE.
00:15:52IT IS UNPRECEDENTED, AND NO ONE
00:15:57ELSE BUT THE PRESIDENT WOULD
00:16:01EVEN THINK OF TRYING TO GET IT
00:16:04IN THIS WAY, UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND HE WAS ABLE
00:16:07TO GET IT, ONLY BECAUSE TODD
00:16:12BLANCHE ACTED AS HIS PERSONAL LAWYER, NOT AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
00:16:16OF THE UNITED STATES.
00:16:19HOST: WHAT IS YOUR TOP NEWS STORY OF THE DAY? THAT IS OUR QUESTION.
00:16:23WE WILL HEAR FROM GUY IN OKLAHOMA, REPUBLICAN.
00:16:27CALLER: GOOD MORNING, ME MIMI.
00:16:29I AM ON CNN, "WASHINGTON
00:16:34JOURNAL" FAKE NEWS, AWESOME. MY TOP NEWS STORY IS ALL THE
00:16:40ELECTION. MARKWAYNE MULLIN EXPOSED FROM
00:16:41FOUR RED STATES, 258,000 ILLEGAL
00:16:47ALIENS REGISTERED TO VOTE. MIMI, FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A
00:16:51HALF, YOU SAID ILLEGALS DO NOT VOTE IN THIS COUNTRY.
00:16:54IT IS NOT HAPPENING.
00:16:56HOST: TO BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, DEMOCRAT.
00:16:59CALLER: GOOD MORNING. A COUPLE COMMENTS.
00:17:03FIRST, TRUMP SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN AN OFFICE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
00:17:12YOU HIT [INDISCERNIBLE]
00:17:18HOST: I AM HAVING TROUBLE FOLLOWING.
00:17:20CALLER: MY TOP NEWS STORY IS
00:17:23TRUMP SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN JAIL. HOST: FOR WHAT SPECIFICALLY?
00:17:27CALLER: FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
00:17:30THIS IS THE BIGGEST PRESIDENT
00:17:35THEY EVER GOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE
00:17:37TO TALK, THIS GUY GOT NOBODY.
00:17:41THAT IS WHEN PEOPLE START COMING FOR YOU.
00:17:46-- WANT TO GET RID OF THIS GUY. [INDISCERNIBLE]
00:17:51HOST: AND HERE IS ANDY AND LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, REPUBLICAN.
00:17:54CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
00:17:57A FEW TOPICS, IF I MAY.
00:18:02YOU CUT THAT FELL OFF EARLIER,
00:18:05BUT HE WAS TALKING PRETTY GOOD. HOST: I DO NOT TAKE PERSONAL
00:18:09ATTACKS. THAT IS WHY I CUT HIM OFF. CALLER: I DID NOT HEAR HIM
00:18:12SAYING ANYTHING PERSONAL TO YOU, THOUGHT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE NETWORK.
00:18:16ANYHOW, THE LADY CALLED IN TALKING ABOUT JESUS, SHE DOES
00:18:19NOT KNOW THE 10 COMMANDMENTS.
00:18:22APPARENTLY, SHE WANTS TO STEAL AND SAY LOOK WHAT I STOLE FROM YOU, LORD.
00:18:26YOU DO NOT STEAL FROM PEOPLE AND GIVE IT TO THE POOR.
00:18:29YOU GIVE IT TO THE POOR. YOU DO NOT STEAL IT.
00:18:33DO NOT MAKE YOURSELF A GOD.
00:18:34HERE YOU GO AGAIN WITH THE
00:18:40ILLEGALS. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS BACKDOOR AMNESTY. THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE
00:18:44FOOLS OF US. RIGHT UNDER OUR NOSE.
00:18:46YOU GIVE THEM ABILITY TO VOTE OR
00:18:49ABILITY TO GET A JOB, AND THEN
00:18:53THAT MAKES THEM LEGAL. SUPPOSEDLY.
00:18:55THEY GOT DOCUMENTATION, SO THEY ARE ALLOWED TO STAY HERE.
00:18:58ONCE THEY STAY HERE, THEY WILL HAVE CHILDREN, THAN THOSE
00:19:02CHILDREN WILL BE OK --
00:19:04HOST: GO BACK TO THAT, WHAT MAKES THEM LEGAL?
00:19:09WHEN THEY HAVE WHAT? CALLER: WHEN THEY HAVE CHILDREN,
00:19:13THEY HAVE A PERMANENT RIGHT TO BE HERE. THEN THEY WILL BRING IN THE
00:19:16PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS. YOU KNOW ALL THIS. HOST: SO WHEN THEY HAVE
00:19:20CHILDREN, IF YOU ARE ILLEGAL AND
00:19:21YOU HAVE CHILDREN -- NO, THAT DOES NOT CHANGE YOUR LEGAL
00:19:26STATUS. BUT THE CHILDREN UNDER BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARE
00:19:29AMERICAN CITIZENS. BUT IT DOES NOT GIVE PARENTS THE RIGHTS.
00:19:34CALLER: YOU ARE LEGAL ONCE YOU GET A RIGHT TO WORK.
00:19:38YOU GET DOCUMENTATION SO YOU CAN WORK.
00:19:41HOST: HAVING A WORK PERMIT DOES
00:19:42NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO STAY.
00:19:45IT IS NOT A GREEN CARD, IT IS A WORK PERMIT.
00:19:49CALLER: DO YOU SEE ANYBODY ENFORCING IT THOUGH?
00:19:53HOST: ENFORCEMENT IS A DIFFERENT ISSUE.
00:19:55CAN I GO BACK TO WHAT YOU WERE
00:19:57SAYING ABOUT, THAT JESUS DID NOT
00:20:01TELL YOU TO STEAL, THE 10
00:20:03COMMANDMENTS -- THE CALLER SAID
00:20:07WE SHOULD HELP THE POOR. TELL ME ABOUT THE STEALING PART.
00:20:11CALLER: YOU WANT TO STEAL MY
00:20:14MONEY AND YOUR MONEY, MA'AM.
00:20:16HOST: ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT TAXES?
00:20:20CALLER: ABSOLUTELY. YOU HAVE COMMUNISM. THAT IS THE WAY.
00:20:25HOST: DO YOU BELIEVE ALL
00:20:27TAXATION IS STEALING FROM PEOPLE?
00:20:30CALLER: NO, NOT TAXATION, JUST
00:20:34LIKE JESUS WAS SAYING RING FROM CAESAR.
00:20:40WITH GOD, THEY HAVE TO HAVE THE GOVERNMENT, YOU HAVE TO HAVE
00:20:43LAWS AND WAYS TO ADJUDICATE THOSE LAWS.
00:20:46YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE POLICE AND MILITARY TO PROTECT YOU.
00:20:50THOSE ARE ALL GOOD THINGS.
00:20:51BUT DO NOT STILL PEOPLE MONEY.
00:20:54FOR SOMEBODY TO GET A TV SET OR
00:20:58WHATEVER, THEY DON'T WANT TO GET OUT AND WORK.
00:21:01THERE WAS ALSO THE FELLOW
00:21:04TALKING ABOUT THE STOCK MARKET. YOU THINK EVERYBODY GETS A CHANCE?
00:21:07IT IS THE GREATEST TIME IN THE WORLD TO GET INTO THE STOCK MARKET.
00:21:11GET YOU A PIECE OF IT. START YOU A BUSINESS. HOST: I HEAR YOU.
00:21:16I AM JUST SAYING THAT THERE ARE
00:21:17PEOPLE, AS YOU KNOW, THEY CANNOT
00:21:20AFFORD TO EAT RIGHT NOW, WHO MIGHT BE DOWN TO ONE MEAL A DAY
00:21:23BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD.
00:21:27SO THEY'RE CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE STOCK MARKET.
00:21:31IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF THEM NOT REALIZING THAT COULD BE INVESTED
00:21:35IN THE STOCK MARKET. CALLER: PERSONALLY, TO HELP
00:21:37THOSE PEOPLE OUT -- WE HAVE A
00:21:42GOBLET -- A GODLY CHRISTIAN DUTY
00:21:46TO HELP THOSE PEOPLE OUT INDIVIDUALLY. NOT TO STEAL YOUR MONEY AND GIVE
00:21:50IT TO THIS OLD WOMAN OR MAN OVER HERE A CHILD TO SAY, LOOK WHAT I
00:21:53STOLE FOR YOU, LORD, LOOK AT THE GOOD WORK CITED IN YOUR NAME,
00:21:57AREN'T I GREAT?
00:22:00HOST: I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU SEE
00:22:03JESUS ADMONITION TO HELP THE POOR AS A PERSONAL THING, NOT A GOVERNMENT THING.
00:22:08YOU PERSONALLY SHOULD BE HELPING
00:22:11THE LESS ADVANTAGED, BUT YOU DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE GOVERNMENT
00:22:14HAS A ROLE IN HELPING THE LESS ADVANTAGED.
00:22:17CALLER: NO, THAT IS INDIVIDUAL. IF I STEAL YOUR MONEY AND TAKE
00:22:21IT FOR THIS OR THAT -- HOST: GOT THAT POINT.
00:22:26HERE IS VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE AT A ROUNDTABLE TALKING ABOUT
00:22:30FRAUD IN HIS EFFORTS TO COMBAT THAT. [VIDEO CLIP]
00:22:34>> I REMIND ALL YOU AND THE
00:22:36AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THE
00:22:41CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS DO NOT
00:22:42NEED REMINDING, FRAUD IS A
00:22:46CRIME. THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER HAS THEIR
00:22:48HARD-EARNED TAX DOLLARS STOLEN FROM THEM.
00:22:52I THINK MORE PROFOUNDLY AND MORE
00:22:56SADLY, THE SECOND VICTIM OF FRAUD OR THE PEOPLE WHO BENEFIT
00:22:59FROM PROGRAMS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE SET UP THROUGH THEIR
00:23:02GENEROSITY AND THE KINDNESS OF SPIRIT, THOSE PROGRAMS DO NOT
00:23:06FUNCTION AS WELL DO NOT EVEN HAVE THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO
00:23:10WORK BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM MY FRAUDSTERS.
00:23:13AN EXAMPLE THAT IS PARTICULARLY
00:23:16CLOSE TO MY HEART BECAUSE WE HAVE A TWO WEEK OLD NEWBORN AT
00:23:19HOME AS THE PROGRAM WE SET UP THROUGH THE MEDICAID PROGRAM TO
00:23:23ACTUALLY PROVIDE HIGH-QUALITY HEALTH CARE TO NEW MOMS AND NEWBORN INFANTS.
00:23:27PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD HIGH-QUALITY HEALTH CARE, WE AS
00:23:30A GENEROUS NATION AND SURE THEY
00:23:31HAVE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES THEY NEED.
00:23:36YET, WE HAVE, WORKING WITH DOJ AND OTHERS, IDENTIFIED AND
00:23:40PROSECUTED A NUMBER OF CASES OF PEOPLE WHERE THEY HAVE TAKEN
00:23:43FROM THIS PROGRAM, NOT PROVIDED AN OUNCE OF SERVICE TO A NEW MOM
00:23:47OR A YOUNG BABY, AND ENRICHED THEMSELVES BY LITERALLY TAKING
00:23:51MONEY FROM THE MEDICAL CARE OF A
00:23:56NEWBORN INFANT. THIS IS DESPICABLE BEHAVIOR AND
00:23:59SOMETHING WE HAVE ALLOWED TO GO ON FOR TOO LONG IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
00:24:03I AM VERY PROUD TO NOT JUST LOOK AT THE SORT OF QUALITATIVE
00:24:07STORIES ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON, BUT WE CAN MEASURE THE SUCCESS
00:24:10OF THE FRAUD TASK FORCE, WORKING
00:24:14WITH ANDREW FERGUSON AND WITH STEVE MILLER, TWO OF THE GREAT
00:24:17ALL-STARS OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, WE HAVE BEEN
00:24:20ABLE TO IDENTIFY $230 BILLION OF
00:24:26FRAUD JUST SINCE THE FRAUD TASK FORCE WAS SET UP.
00:24:29THAT IS CONSERVATIVELY ESTIMATING IT.
00:24:31ANDREW AND I MET LAST WEEK, AND
00:24:33HE SAID IF YOU WANT TO ESTIMATE IT CONSERVATIVELY OR
00:24:37AGGRESSIVELY, AND I SAID I KIND OF WANT TO AGGRESSIVELY BUT THEN
00:24:39ALL YOU PEOPLE WOULD CRITICIZE
00:24:42US, SO LET'S ESTIMATE IT CONSERVATIVELY SO WE CAN GIVE
00:24:45THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE MOST
00:24:47ROCKSOLID INFORMATION OF HOW
00:24:50THIS TASK FORCE IS WORKING TO PROTECT YOUR MONEY.
00:24:52WE HAVE STOPPED 56 MILLION
00:24:55DOLLARS IN FRAUDULENT PAYMENTS THAT WOULD HAVE GOTTEN
00:24:57FRAUDSTERS.
00:25:02HOST: THAT FULL EVENT IS ON OUR
00:25:04WEBSITE, C-SPAN.ORG.
00:25:07REGARDING NONCITIZENS ON VOTER ROLLS, THIS IS FOX NEWS WITH
00:25:10THAT ARTICLE.
00:25:13MORE THAN A QUARTER MILLION NONCITIZENS MAY BE REGISTERED TO
00:25:17VOTE IN FOUR STATES, CALIFORNIA
00:25:21WITH NEARLY 191,000
00:25:24REGISTRATIONS AS STATES ARE
00:25:26ASKED TO VERIFY VOTER ROLLS.
00:25:29POLLITT A FACT HAS A FACT-CHECK
00:25:32OF THAT, CHECKING THE TRUMP
00:25:33ADMINISTRATION'S COUNT.
00:25:37THE ARTICLE WILL GIVE YOU A
00:25:41BREAKDOWN OF WHERE THAT NUMBER
00:25:42MIGHT HAVE COME FROM.
00:25:51TO TEXAS, DEMOCRAT. CALLER: GOOD MORNING.
00:25:56I JUST LISTENED TO THE EPISODE
00:25:58THERE ABOUT THE FRAUD IN THE
00:26:02$230 BILLION FRAUD, AND IT
00:26:06CRACKS ME UP THAT TODAY WE'RE
00:26:09PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE EVIDENCE
00:26:11OF SOME FRAUD THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS DOING ALMOST
00:26:14EVERY DAY.
00:26:17IT IS JUST SO FUNNY TO LISTEN TO
00:26:20VANCE GO ON WITH STEPHEN MILLER SITTING NEXT TO HIM, THE
00:26:24ARCHITECT OF THE ICE ACTIVITY
00:26:29GOING ON IN AMERICA, TALKING ABOUT FRAUD. REALLY?
00:26:33COME ON NOW. WHEN YOU HAVE GOT KING TRUMP IN
00:26:36THE WHITE HOUSE TALKING ABOUT
00:26:39COMMUNISTS WHEN WE HAVE AN
00:26:42ALMOST FASCIST GOVERNMENT LIVING
00:26:43RIGHT NOW TODAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND IN WASHINGTON, AND
00:26:47HERE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT DEMOCRAT SOCIALIST AND
00:26:51COMMUNISM. REALLY? COME ON NOW.
00:26:53THIS IS 2026, AND ALL OF THAT
00:26:57DOES NOT MATTER ANYMORE. WHAT WE HAVE NOW IS A MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHO WANTS TO BE KING
00:27:01FOR LIFE.
00:27:04AND HIS ADMINISTRATION IS LETTING HIM HAVE THAT.
00:27:07AND THE DEMOCRATS WHO ARE SPEAKING FOR THE MERE ORDINARY
00:27:10PEOPLE ARE BEING LABELED AS COMMUNISTS. WELL, IF YOU HAD A CHOICE
00:27:14BETWEEN WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW TODAY AND WHAT THEY SAY IS
00:27:18COMMUNISM, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT IS
00:27:20THE LESSER OF THE TWO EVILS.
00:27:25THAT IS THE COMMENTS I WANTED TO MAKE.
00:27:28HOST: OK, ROMEO. TELL ME ABOUT THE SENATE RACE IN
00:27:33TEXAS, BETWEEN DEMOCRAT JAMES TALARICO AND REPUBLICAN KEN PAXTON.
00:27:36HOW ARE YOU FEELING ABOUT THE CHANCES OF TALARICO? WHAT DO YOUR NEIGHBORS THINK?
00:27:43CALLER: I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE A TIDAL WAVE OF BLUE HERE IN TEXAS.
00:27:47IF YOU REMEMBER, WE USED TO HAVE
00:27:49AN RICHARDS AS OUR GOVERNOR IN THE 1990'S.
00:27:53WE WERE A DEMOCRATIC STATE UP
00:27:55UNTIL THE TEA PARTY, AND THAT ASPECT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
00:27:59TOOK OVER.
00:28:02TEXAS, WE HAD LYNDON JOHNSON,
00:28:05ANN RICHARDS, THE LIST GOES ON.
00:28:09HOST: BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK IT
00:28:11IS THAT IT WILL BE THIS BLUE WAVE?
00:28:14WHAT ARE THE ISSUES YOU THINK THAT TEXANS ARE GOING TO VOTE ON
00:28:19FOR SENATE? CALLER: MY DAUGHTER STRUGGLES TO
00:28:22GET CHILD SUPPORT FROM A DEADBEAT DAD BECAUSE THAT
00:28:25ATTORNEY GENERAL HERE IN TEXAS, THEY ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB.
00:28:29SO I PREDICT ACROSS THE COUNTRY
00:28:33A TIDAL WAVE OF BLUE. HOPE TO SEE IT.
00:28:36I WILL BE EARLY VOTING IN
00:28:40NOVEMBER, AND TALARICO IS MY PICK.
00:28:43HOST: WE WILL BE WATCHING VERY CLOSELY ON THOSE MIDTERM
00:28:47ELECTIONS. ROMEO DID MENTION ICE AND
00:28:51IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT. THERE IS AN ARTICLE ON THE WALL
00:28:52STREET JOURNAL THAT SAYS
00:28:56AIRLINES PUSH BACK AGAINST ICE ENFORCEMENT AT AIRPORTS.
00:28:59IT TALKS ABOUT HOW -- AND THIS
00:29:02ONE CASE, THERE WAS AN ICE
00:29:07OFFICER THAT TRIED TO BOARD A SOUTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT IN DALLAS TO MAKE AN ARREST, BUT
00:29:11THE AIRLINE REBUFFED HIM.
00:29:16IT SAYS OFFICERS AT ICE HAVE MADE OCCASIONAL ARREST AT
00:29:19AIRPORTS OVER THE PAST YEAR, BUT
00:29:21THE AGENCY HAS SINCE STEPPED UP ENFORCEMENT.
00:29:25TOP ICE LEADERS HAVE TOLD OFFICERS THEY SHOULD ATTEMPT
00:29:29ARRESTS AT TSA CHECKPOINTS WHEN POSSIBLE, BUT THEY BELIEVE THE
00:29:32DIRECTIVE HAS NOT BEEN FOLLOWED.
00:29:36IN RECENT WEEKS, OFFICERS HAVE BROADENED THEIR APPROACH TO MAKE
00:29:39MORE ARRESTS NEAR GAETZ AND
00:29:42TICKET COUNTERS AT AIRPORTS IN SAN FRANCISCO TO MIAMI TO KANSAS
00:29:47CITY, MISSOURI.
00:29:48IT SAYS MANY PEOPLE TAKEN INTO
00:29:51CUSTODY HAVE NOT TRADITIONALLY BEEN TARGETED BY ICE.
00:29:56EARLIER CASES PRIMARILY INVOLVED FINAL DEPORTATION ORDERS.
00:30:00THE ARRESTS NOW INVOLVE PEOPLE
00:30:02WITH EXPIRED VISAS BUT ANOTHER
00:30:04FORM OF LEGAL STATUS PENDING,
00:30:09SHOWING GREEN CARD OR ASYLUM APPLICATIONS.
00:30:12VISA HOLDERS WITH APPLICATIONS PENDING HAVE TYPICALLY BEEN ALLOWED TO CONTINUE WORKING IN
00:30:16THE U.S. AND HAVE PROTECTIONS FROM BEING DEPORTED.
00:30:19ICE HAS ARGUED THAT THE EXPIRED
00:30:21VISAS ARE GROUNDS FOR ARREST.
00:30:23HERE IS SEAN IN COLUMBIA, MARYLAND, REPUBLICAN.
00:30:28CALLER: HELLO, HOW ARE YOU.
00:30:30THIS IS A QUICK ONE.
00:30:33MY MAIN NEWS STORY IS THE RAPID GROWTH OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE
00:30:37DEMOCRATIC PARTY, FUELED BY THE FAR LEFT.
00:30:40THERE IS SUCH A CIVIL WAR GOING
00:30:43ON IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY RIGHT NOW. THEY KNOW THESE PEOPLE CANNOT
00:30:47HOLD NATIONAL OFFICES, SO THE
00:30:51DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS BEING TURNED UPSIDE DOWN BY A VERY FEW THAT
00:30:54WANT TO TURN THIS COUNTRY INTO A SOCIALIST COMMUNIST COUNTRY.
00:30:57THE OTHER POINT IS TO THE WOMAN
00:30:59THAT CALLED JESUS A SOCIALIST.
00:31:03UNFORTUNATELY WITH THIS PARTY, THEY WOULD HATE JESUS SIMPLY
00:31:05BECAUSE HE IS JEWISH.
00:31:08THANK YOU.
00:31:10HOST: HERE IS GEORGE IN COLORADO, INDEPENDENT LINE. GO AHEAD.
00:31:15CALLER: YES, GOOD MORNING.
00:31:17I AGREE ON THAT GUY 100% ABOUT
00:31:22JESUS CHRIST. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NO POLITICS IN AMERICA. IT IS OVER.
00:31:28TRUMP ON FEBRUARY 28 STARTED THE
00:31:31WAR WITH IRAN WITHOUT EVEN
00:31:34BRINGING IT TO CONGRESS OR ANY
00:31:37OF OUR ALLY FRIENDS, THOSE PRIME
00:31:46MINISTERS IN EUROPE.
00:31:47IT IS OVER FOR THIS COUNTRY.
00:31:51HOST: TELL ME MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU MEAN BY OVER.
00:31:56CALLER: COMPLETELY OVER, MA'AM.
00:31:59YOU WOULD BE A FOOL TO THINK
00:32:02THAT THIS COUNTRY IS NOT OVER. IT IS OVER.
00:32:06THE WORLD IS ON FIRE.
00:32:09WE DROPPING BOMBS ON PEOPLE.
00:32:12I MEAN, ISRAEL, I MYSELF AM A
00:32:16JEW,
00:32:18MY FATHER WAS HUNGARIAN JEW, MY
00:32:23MOTHER WAS IRISH CATHOLIC, AND I GREW UP IN NEW YORK, WENT TO THE
00:32:27SYNAGOGUE ON SATURDAY AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ON SUNDAY.
00:32:29TO ME, IT IS OVER.
00:32:32I TURN ON THE NEWS, I SEE
00:32:36EARTHQUAKES, HURRICANES, TORNADOES.
00:32:39IT IS JUST THE WORLD THAT IS
00:32:40HEATING UP TO 142 DEGREES IN
00:32:44JAPAN YESTERDAY, WHICH IS
00:32:48CELSIUS. WE ARE SEEING IT ALL OVER THE
00:32:51WORLD.
00:32:53WHAT PEOPLE NEED TO DO IS WE'RE
00:32:5718 INCHES FROM A GOD WHO HAS CREATED US, FROM OUR KNEES TO
00:33:01THE FLOOR, PEOPLE.
00:33:05CHRISTIANS. WHAT CHRISTIANS? THEY GOT BIG CHURCHES IN THE
00:33:08UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WITH
00:33:10ONE POMPOUS ASS PERSON PREACHING
00:33:14FROM A PULPIT TO 5000 PEOPLE. HOST: WE GOT YOUR POINT.
00:33:19THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER SAYS THIS, SENATE REPUBLICANS ARE AN
00:33:22CAMPAIGN CALLING EL-SAYED
00:33:28DANGEROUSLY RADICAL AFTER MICHIGAN VICTORY. [VIDEO CLIP]
00:33:30>> THEY HAVE TAKEN TO CALLING ME
00:33:35DANGEROUS.
00:33:39I AM DANGEROUS.
00:33:41OUR STATE WILL NOT DEFEND GUY
00:33:47ENFORCING FEDERAL IMMIGRATION POLICIES. I'M SURE I DANGEROUS.
00:33:50>> ABDUL EL-SAYED, DANGEROUSLY
00:33:55RADICAL. >> I FOR SURE AM DANGEROUS.
00:33:56I AM PRETTY DAMN DANGEROUS.
00:34:01HOST: WHAT IS YOUR TOP NEWS STORY OF THE DAY?
00:34:06MARY, DEMOCRAT, SOUTH CAROLINA. CALLER: GOOD MORNING, MIMI.
00:34:10I WANT TO SAY SOME THINGS AND
00:34:13HOPEFULLY YOU AND YOUR LISTENERS CAN MAKE SOME SENSE OUT OF IT.
00:34:18I WAS BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA AND
00:34:21MY PARENTS MOVED TO NEW YORK IN 1948.
00:34:23SO I GREW UP -- I KNOW DONALD
00:34:27TRUMP VERY WELL BECAUSE I HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF LIVING THERE
00:34:30AND GOT A CHANCE TO SEE THE
00:34:36NEWS.
00:34:38HE IS VERY GOOD WHEN TALKING TO THE NEWS BECAUSE HE HAS FOR
00:34:42YEARS AND HAS PERFECTED IT. I CALLED YOUR SHOW ONE TIME AND
00:34:45ASKED WHY DONALD TRUMP -- THE
00:34:50SPEAKER THERE SAID HE IS THE MOST HATED PRESIDENT IN THE WORLD.
00:34:53HE CAN'T BE, BECAUSE I NEVER
00:34:55HEAR ANYBODY TALK ABOUT WHAT HE DID IN NEW YORK.
00:34:59HE USED TO OWN THE PAGEANTS, AND
00:35:08THERE WAS A BIG SCANDAL ABOUT THAT, WHAT HE DID TO THOSE YOUNG
00:35:10GIRLS THERE AND TO THE U.S.
00:35:16TEENAGERS. THAT NEVER CAME OUT.
00:35:17IT NEVER CAME OUT ABOUT HIM
00:35:21AFFILIATED WITH THE MAFIA IN NEW YORK.
00:35:26NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THAT.
00:35:28THEY TALKED ABOUT THE EPSTEIN,
00:35:30THAT HAPPENED BACK IN THE 1990'S, THAT IS PROBABLY COMING OUT.
00:35:37ALL THIS STUFF, NOBODY IS SAYING ANYTHING.
00:35:42DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN PERFECTING
00:35:50EVERYTHING CRICKET HE DID BACK IN THE 1990'S.
00:35:54HOST: YOU SAID DONALD TRUMP HAD AFFILIATIONS WITH THE MAFIA?
00:35:58IS THERE EVIDENCE OF THAT OR IS THAT SPECULATION?
00:36:02CALLER: NO, NO, NO. LOOK IT UP, IT WAS A SCANDAL
00:36:06WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO GET THEM
00:36:08TO GO WITH HIM WITH THE CASINOS
00:36:12AND DIFFERENT VENTURES HE WANTED TO DO.
00:36:15AND HE WAS AFFILIATED WITH MAFIA.
00:36:18IT WAS A BIG SCANDAL WITH THAT. YOU CAN LOOK IT UP.
00:36:22EVERYTHING I AM SAYING, YOU CAN LOOK IT UP.
00:36:24THEY NEVER TALK ABOUT HIS FATHER
00:36:26BEING ARRESTED TWICE.
00:36:30THE KKK.
00:36:34AND DONALD TRUMP WAS RAISED UP AS A RACIST.
00:36:37NOW HE IS A RACIST AND A BIGOT.
00:36:40HE DON'T LIKE POOR PEOPLE, NEVER DID.
00:36:43HE ALWAYS HUNG AROUND PEOPLE THAT WAS RICH.
00:36:47HE NEVER CARE ABOUT POOR PEOPLE. THAT IS WHY HE NOT DOING NOTHING.
00:36:51HE DON'T CARE ABOUT US. IF YOU ARE NOT A MILLIONAIRE OR
00:36:54SOMEBODY IN HOLLYWOOD, AND THEN
00:36:57DONE TURN HIS BACK ON HIM, THE HOLLYWOOD PEOPLE DID. AND THAT IS WHAT HE DID ALL HIS
00:37:01LIFE.
00:37:04HE CLOWNED AROUND WITH RICH PEOPLE. HOST: GOT THAT.
00:37:08TO FLORIDA, REPUBLICAN.
00:37:10CALLER: HEY, IT IS BEN FROM
00:37:14FLORIDA. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT ABDUL EL-SAYED'S VICTORY.
00:37:20I THINK FLORIDA REPUBLICANS CAN
00:37:20LEARN A HELL OF A LOT FROM THAT.
00:37:26HE IS ENERGETIC, TALKING ABOUT
00:37:29POLICIES, TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON IN MICHIGAN.
00:37:34YOU GOT THE STEVENS CAMPAIGN, SHE CANNOT SEEM TO SHIFT THE
00:37:38FOCUS AWAY FROM HER GENERALIZED
00:37:41TALK --
00:37:48HOST: THIS IS ALEXIS IN MICHIGAN, INDEPENDENT LINE. GO AHEAD.
00:37:53CALLER: YEAH, I WANT TO TALK
00:37:58ABOUT THE MICHIGAN SENATE
00:37:59PRIMARY FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:38:04I JUST WANT TO SAY I AM AN INDEPENDENT.
00:38:06I CALL ON THE INDEPENDENT LINE.
00:38:12MICHIGAN, THE YOUNG FOLKS WHO VOTED FOR HIM, THEY JUST MADE A
00:38:16BIG MISTAKE, BECAUSE I BELIEVE
00:38:17THE OLD WHITE MAN WILL WIN BY A
00:38:20LARGE MARGIN IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN.
00:38:23BORN AND RAISED IN THE STATE,
00:38:26AND I JUST DO NOT THINK, NUMBER
00:38:29ONE, PEOPLE WILL VOTE FOR THE
00:38:32FIRST MUSLIM SENATOR, AND NUMBER
00:38:35TWO, I DO NOT THINK THEY ARE
00:38:36GOING TO VOTE FOR HIM BECAUSE HE
00:38:39IS TOO COCKY.
00:38:42HE IS SO BRASH AND IS JUST BRIMMING WITH, YOU KNOW, JUST
00:38:46LIKE DONALD TRUMP, BRIMMING WITH
00:38:49EGOTISM AND ARROGANCE AND HE IS THE BEST AND HE IS THE SMARTEST
00:38:52AND HE IS THE BEST --
00:38:56HOST: ALEXIS, YOU KNOW DONALD TRUMP WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT.
00:39:02YOU SAID HE IS PROUD AND
00:39:05ARROGANT LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP. IT WORKED FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP, APPARENTLY.
00:39:10OR AT LEAST PEOPLE DID NOT MINDED. CALLER: EXACTLY.
00:39:14BUT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED,
00:39:17MICHIGAN IS AN OPEN PRIMARY, AND
00:39:18I KNOW REPUBLICANS IN MY FAMILY
00:39:22WHO VOTED IN THAT ELECTION THIS
00:39:26WEEK TO GIVE EL-SAYED ALL THE
00:39:31VOTES SO HE WOULD WIN AGAINST THE MODERATE, WHO I DID NOT LIKE
00:39:35HER EITHER, THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS
00:39:36WHEN YOU HAVE AN OPEN PRIMARY. I DO NOT BELIEVE IN THIS.
00:39:41BECAUSE THE OTHER SIDE, MEANING THE REPUBLICANS, GET TO GO TO
00:39:45THE BALLOT BOX AND SAY, HMM,
00:39:50WHICH CANDIDATE DO WE WANT TO RUN AGAINST?
00:39:52AND THEY CHOSE EL-SAYED.
00:39:55I THINK MIKE ROGERS IS GOING TO SWEEP IT. IT IS UNFORTUNATE.
00:39:58I THINK THE YOUNG FOLKS WHO SUPPORTED HIM ARE GOING TO GET A BIG WAKE-UP CALL.
00:40:02I DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST HIS ECONOMIC POLICIES.
00:40:05I HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH HIS SOCIAL POLICIES.
00:40:10THE ICE STUFF, IMMIGRATION STUFF. I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR
00:40:13THAT IT WAS AN OPEN PRIMARY, AND
00:40:16REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR HIM. HOST: ALL RIGHT.
00:40:21LET'S HEAR FROM LET'S HEAR FROM
00:40:24ABDUL EL-SAYED YESTERDAY. [VIDEO CLIP]
00:40:30>> THAT'S THE BEST YOU GOT?
00:40:34YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT YOU WANT TO DO.
00:40:36MY NAME IS NOT RAISING YOUR GAS PRICES.
00:40:40MY NAME IS NOT THE REASON YOU CANNOT AFFORD YOUR GROCERIES.
00:40:44YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:40:47YOU CAN POINT TO MY NAME ALL YOU WANT.
00:40:51I HAVE BEEN AND ABDUL IN MICHIGAN MY WHOLE LIFE.
00:40:54THIS IS THE BEST PLACE TO BE ABDUL. YOU KNOW WHY?
00:41:00THEY ARE OPEN-MINDED, EARNEST,
00:41:02AND GREAT, THE MICHIGANDERS.
00:41:07MICHIGANDERS ARE SICK AND TIRED
00:41:09OF BS POLITICS COMING INTO
00:41:13NEVADA WHEN THERE'S SO MUCH MORE .
00:41:17PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO COME TOGETHER AROUND IT.
00:41:20IF ALL YOU GOT IS THAT HIS NAME
00:41:21IS ABDUL AND MY NAME IS MIKE,
00:41:24YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED.
00:41:28BUT THAT IS THE ONE THAT WANTS TO STOP SENDING MONEY ABROAD.
00:41:36HOST: WE ARE ASKING ABOUT YOUR TOP NEWS STORY.
00:41:39IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, LINE FOR DEMOCRATS.
00:41:42YOU ARE ON THE AIR, DAVID.
00:41:44CALLER: YES, COULD YOU ANSWER THIS QUESTION FOR ME?
00:41:48IS DONALD TRUMP FACING INDICTMENTS?
00:41:52HOST: RIGHT NOW, THE ANSWER IS NO BECAUSE HE IS PRESIDENT.
00:41:55CALLER: OK, SO WHEN HE STEPS
00:42:00DOWN IN 2029, HE WILL BE FACING
00:42:04INDICTMENTS? HOST: I AM NOT SURE, DAVID.
00:42:06BUT WE HAVE AN ATTORNEY COMING ON NEXT, AND WE WILL DEFINITELY
00:42:10ASK THAT IF YOU WOULD LIKE. CALLER: YES.
00:42:15YES, BECAUSE I AM BELIEVING THAT --
00:42:18HOST: YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FOR
00:42:20THE PREVIOUS INDICTMENTS, LIKE
00:42:24JANUARY 6?
00:42:30CALLER: YEAH, I THINK THERE ARE A COUPLE MORE. NOT FOR SURE. HOST: AND THE CASE IN GEORGIA.
00:42:37CALLER: DONALD TRUMP, WHAT HE IS
00:42:40TRYING TO DO, IS GET MORE
00:42:45REPUBLICAN VOTERS TO MORE
00:42:52DEMOCRATIC VOTERS.
00:42:53SO IN 2028 FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL
00:42:58ELECTION, THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF
00:43:00THE UNITED STATES IS GOING TO BE REPUBLICAN.
00:43:03SO IF HE IS FACING INDICTMENTS
00:43:05IN 2029 OR WHATEVER, HE MAY GET
00:43:11TRIED AND CONVICTED, GO UPSTATE
00:43:14OR WHATEVER, AND THEN THAT NEW
00:43:17REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL PARDON HIM.
00:43:22CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG. HOST: OK.
00:43:25WE WILL ASK ABOUT THAT. GREGORY IN PENNSYLVANIA,
00:43:29INDEPENDENT.
00:43:33CALLER: MORNING, THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL.
00:43:35I HAVE ONE THING TO TALK ABOUT.
00:43:39IT HAS BEEN AN ISSUE ALL THE TIME, NOT JUST TODAY.
00:43:42I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SAYING THAT
00:43:46THE IRS IS STEALING THEIR TAXES
00:43:50AND THE GOVERNMENT IS STEALING
00:43:51THEIR TAXES, AND THE THING IS,
00:43:56THEY GOT TO REMEMBER, THEY VOTED
00:43:57IN THE PEOPLE WHO DECIDE ON WHICH TAXES THEY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY.
00:44:03SO IF ANYBODY IS MORE
00:44:05RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT, IT IS THE
00:44:09REPRESENTATIVES, OF COURSE. IT IS NOT THE EMPLOYEES, JUST
00:44:12LIKE EMPLOYEE OF OTHER AGENCIES.
00:44:19PEOPLE ELECT THEM FOR NO REAL REASON AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
00:44:22THAT IS THE KIND OF THING I AM TALKING ABOUT, NOT RIGHT.
00:44:26ANOTHER POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS
00:44:28I HEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK
00:44:30ABOUT HOW THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON CHRISTIAN VALUES.
00:44:35CHRISTIAN VALUES WERE PART OF WHAT THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON.
00:44:37IT WAS ALSO BUILT ON OTHER VALUES FROM OTHER RELIGIONS.
00:44:42BASICALLY, OUR FOUR OFFENDERS --
00:44:46OUR FOUNDERS, YOU CAN SEE THEIR
00:44:51RELIGION IS MASON.
00:44:53SOME CHRISTIAN, BUT THEY WERE
00:44:56MASONS ALSO.
00:44:58BACK THEN, YOU WILL SEE THE
00:45:05CAPITOL BUILDING, IT WAS FULL
00:45:09MASON REGALIA THEY WERE WEARING.
00:45:12SO THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT JUST BUILT ON CHRISTIANITY, IT WAS
00:45:15BUILT ON CHRISTIANITY AND ON
00:45:19PRINCIPLES TAKEN FROM CHRISTIANITY, PRINCIPLES TAKEN
00:45:23FROM OTHER RELIGIONS, PUT TOGETHER BY THE MASONS AND CAME
00:45:27UP TO FORM GOVERNMENT. HOST: ALL RIGHT.
00:45:30DOUG IS A REPUBLICAN IN VIRGINIA, GOOD MORNING.
00:45:35CALLER: MORNING. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT
00:45:38IS, WHEN DID WE GET TO WHERE WE ARE IN THIS COUNTRY?
00:45:41THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED BY YOUR
00:45:45GREAT GRANDPARENTS AND MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS, THEY DID NOT HAVE
00:45:48MEDICAL, THEY HAD NO ONE HANDING THEM FOOD. THEY HAD NO ONE COME AND SIT AT
00:45:52HOME IF YOU HAVE A KID AND PAY FOR THEM. YOU WORKED.
00:45:57THAT IS HOW YOU GET AHEAD.
00:46:01PEOPLE WHINE ABOUT THEY CANNOT GET IN THE STOCK MARKET.
00:46:05WELL, I HAVE WORKED THREE JOBS MOST OF MY LIFE TO GET WHERE I AM AT.
00:46:09I DIDN'T ASK NOBODY TO TAKE CARE OF ME OR GO TO SCHOOL AND RUN UP
00:46:12A BILL AND THEN SAY, WELL, I
00:46:16CANNOT PAY IT, LET THE GOVERNMENT PAY IT.
00:46:19I WAS DRAFTED OUT OF SCHOOL, WHO IS PAYING ME?
00:46:22I HAD TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY. PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN.
00:46:26YOU CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE WAR
00:46:27AND WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW
00:46:31BECAUSE 17 PEOPLE DIED IN FOUR
00:46:33MONTHS, THAT WAS 15 MINUTES IN VIETNAM.
00:46:36PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO GROW UP AND
00:46:39GET BACK TO WHERE WE WERE BEFORE THIS RUNS OUT.
00:46:43IT IS NOT OUR FIRST TIME WITH COMMUNISM.
00:46:46THEY HAD IT IN HOLLYWOOD YEARS
00:46:48BACK, THE 1920'S.
00:46:51PEOPLE LOST THEIR JOBS AND NEVER COULD RECOVER FROM IT.
00:46:54PEOPLE NEED TO JUST STOP WHINING
00:46:56AND START BEING AMERICANS. HOST: WE WILL END IT THERE FOR
00:47:00THIS SEGMENT.
00:47:01COMING UP IN ABOUT 45 MINUTES,
00:47:04SCHEDULED FOR 8:30 A.M. THIS MORNING, WE WILL PROVIDE YOU
00:47:07WITH A LIVE COVERAGE OF THE SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY AND
00:47:11GOVERNMENT REFORM BUSINESS MEETING. MEMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO VOTE ON
00:47:13A RESOLUTION TO HOLD FORMER TOP
00:47:17HEALTH OFFICIAL DR. ANTHONY FOUND SHE IN CONTEMPT.
00:47:22FIRST, OPEN FILE FOUNDER ANKUSH
00:47:27KHARDORI WILL DISCUSS THE CONCERNS ABOUT TODD BLANCHE POSSIBLY BECOMING THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES. WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK.
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00:49:31>> "WASHINGTON JOURNAL" CONTINUES. HOST: WELCOME BACK.
00:49:36WE'RE JOINED NOW BY ANKUSH KHARDORI, FOUNDER OF OPEN FILE,
00:49:39HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT
00:49:41NOMINATION FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, TODD BLANCHE.
00:49:45WELCOME TO THE PROGRAM. TALK ABOUT OPEN FILE AND WHAT YOU WRITE ABOUT.
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