WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 13 February 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:08.520 This is the US Report with James Morrow. Good evening 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.000 and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming up tonight. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:15.320 Voter ID passes the House of Representatives and everyone seems 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:20.040 to want it except the Democrats. I wonder why. Plus 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.439 the Democrats also take a hard left turn as more 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:26.639 and more identified not as Democrats but Democrats socialists. What 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:29.840 could go wrong? And I'll bring you the latest in 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.400 the bizarre disappearance of Arizona eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.440 But first let's have a chat, a bit of a 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.680 chat about race in America. I know, light and fun stuff, right, 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:48.120 and particularly the incredible hypocrisy of the progressive Democrat left, 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:52.400 which is very quick to scream racism when it suits 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:57.760 their purposes, while at the same time stoking a peculiar, bizarre, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:02.840 and some would say reverse racism the rest of the time. Now, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.360 a few days ago, the Democrats and most of the 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.759 media lost their minds when Donald Trump's social media team 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.759 posted a video about alleged fraud in the twenty twenty election, 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.040 and somehow that included a few seconds from another parody 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:21.040 video that had various Democrat figures portrayed as characters from 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:25.319 the Lion King, including Barack and Michelle Obama as a 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.880 couple of apes. Now, I don't want to relitigate this 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.680 whole thing. If you weren't living under a rock the 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.319 last week, you saw the outrage mostly confected. And I 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.240 say confected because at the same time as the left 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.640 was whipping up hysteria about the alleged racism of Donald 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.040 Trump and his whole administration and anyone who ever put 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:50.200 on a maga hat, well this video surfaced. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:55.160 I always tell people, the day the Latino, African, American, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:02:00.440 Asian and other communities realize that they are that they 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.320 share the same oppressor, is the day we start winning 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.360 because we are the majority in this country. Now we 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:09.960 have the ability to take over this country and to 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.160 do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.239 We have the ability to take over this country. Now. 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.680 That wasn't some random professor of third world literature at 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:24.800 a third rate community college. That was Jean Wu, a 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.720 Democrat member of the Texas State Legislature, calling for non 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.040 whites to unite against their common oppressor. And I think 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.320 we know who he means in the name of fairness 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:42.480 to do what needs to be done. Can you feel 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.240 the tolerance, Can you just feel the racial healing? Naturally, 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.360 there was no outrage of the media about what sounds like, frankly, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:54.720 a call to divide America, if not worse, by someone 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.520 who came to America from communist China as a little boy, 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:01.959 only to take his ticket into the land of equality 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.560 and opportunity and use it to spread the worst sort 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:10.760 of identity politics, pitting Americans against one another. Well, I'm 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.760 sure Beijing is really proud of their favorite son here. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.240 But that clip was not the only one that made 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.160 the rounds this week, but was ignored by all the 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.040 usual suspects. There was this vision of former New York 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:29.120 Representative Charles Barron talking about what, in any other circumstance 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.560 would sound like ethnic cleansing. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.560 I have the distinct honor to be able to come 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.600 before you and say I actually lost white population in 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:41.440 my community. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:43.800 I lost them. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:49.720 They left, they left. I didn't ask them why they left. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.240 So if you see one or two or three or 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.960 four or five whites in my neighborhood, they're passing through. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.520 And oh how they cheered, and oh how everyone who 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:09.720 condemned and condemns Trump remained silent. But you can only 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.160 imagine the reaction if the roles were reversed. Could you 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:15.960 imagine it now, I mean, just think about it. Imagine 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:19.440 a white politician talking about how he drove blacks out 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.560 of his district while the crowd laughed. It would be 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.560 rightly condemned as a clan meeting. And I mean, I 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.280 thought the point of the racial harmony the left has 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.039 preached my whole life was the idea that we would 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.719 come together to live together in perfect harmony, just like 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:41.080 that old coke commercial. Yet New York Magazine, a reliably 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.960 liberal publication, just two days ago, ran this piece by 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:50.560 writer Naomi Jackson entitled I miss my Black Brooklyn, and 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.159 she writes, I once lived in a black mecca, but 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.719 by the summer of twenty twenty two, my Toddler Son 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.720 and I were often the only black folks on the 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:04.520 place in Bedford Stuyvesant, a fact that felt both alienating 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:10.159 and surreal. I'm very bizarre. Again, imagine if a white 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.360 author talking about being replaced by black folks or feeling 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.280 like a stranger in their own neighborhood because of demographic changes. Well, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:22.080 we know how that plays out. Yet this is what 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.719 the left in America is pushing and pursuing behind closed 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.560 doors where they don't think the rest of us are watching. 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:34.360 And it's not just African Americans. This mentality has infected 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:39.120 this entire side of politics and a phenomenon that started 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:43.000 when Barack Obama was president and he picked over the 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:46.120 countries healing racial scars by pushing the myth that there 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.279 was an epidemic of white cops shooting unarmed blacks. I 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.480 suggested that exploded in the BLM riots of twenty twenty. 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:58.440 And now this is gospel. This is what the left thinks. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:03.000 Here's Democrat at Kenned, Kentucky Representative Sarah Stalker. 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.719 I'm going to be honest. I don't feel good about 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.159 being white every day. I think we're missing an opportunity 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:16.240 when kids, when kids have a moment to reflect about 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.960 how the color of their skin does and does not 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:25.000 allow them to move through the world. It's running running 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.640 to them and trying to stifle that and trying to 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.000 say you shouldn't feel bad. So we don't want to 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.200 we don't want to ever expose you to something that 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.960 is going to make you have to pause and have 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.320 maybe some internal feelings it's a missed opportunity for some 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.400 really good dialogue. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.120 This is what she wants to teach kids now. I 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.600 talk about this not just because it's important to point 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:49.640 out the hypocrisy who jump on Trump for a racist 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:52.799 social media clip, but so also at the same time 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.520 spread the worst of the actual poison on their own side. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.520 But I also want to point out why the fight 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.320 over these things is so vital, because, as we have 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.720 talked about time and time again on this program, there 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.920 is a real danger of the US coming apart as 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:13.679 it approaches its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary this July. Remember, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.080 just a few weeks ago we had Minnesota Governor Tim 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.000 Waltz saying he feared a Fort Sumter moment in the 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.840 United States. Fort Sumter being where the first shots in 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:28.520 the Civil War were fired, a fight not over immigration enforcement, 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.520 but a fight over anti slavery enforcement again by the 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:38.680 federal government against again recals Democrats. This is why what 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.800 I'm talking about, this racial separatism by the party that 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.800 claims to want everyone to get along, feels like a 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:53.800 build up to something frankly, far far worse. Well, Republicans 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.440 had a huge win in the House of representatives this 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.680 week after they voted to pass the Save America Act, 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.760 which changes the voting rules by requiring how revolutionary voter 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:09.040 id when going to vote and restricting mail in voting. 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.680 The legislation passed two eighteen to two hundred and thirteen votes, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.960 but it still faces an uphill battle in the Senate. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.480 REPREISDENTI of chip Roy is one of those who has 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.559 been pushing for the legislation, and he spoke shortly after 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:22.880 the vote. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.280 It was on a bipartisan basis, we had a Democrat 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.040 join us. So now it heads to the Senate. So 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.240 the question now is whether the Senate will take it up. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.079 And I hope they will take it up, but not 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.679 just take it up. Take it up and press the 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.160 rules of the Senate to force members of the Senate 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.880 onto the floor and to debate and go ahead and 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.520 tell the American people why you don't support common sense legislation. 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.640 Joining me to talk about this and a whole lot 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.240 more is former White House Chief of Staff and Senior 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:53.800 Advisorate Bontai Partners, Mick mulvaney. Mick, thanks so much for 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.520 joining me tonight here. I don't get this issue at 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.080 all because polls show. That's something like eighty four percent 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.000 of Americans, and I'm talking black, white, Hispanic Republicans, even 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.560 Democrats all support this legislation. They think it's common sense stuff. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:14.560 And yet Democratic legislators are trying to stop this. It 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.520 looks like they will stop it in the Senate. It 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.880 looks kind of almost well, I don't want to be cynical, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.760 but it looks a little suspicious that they're so against 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:27.600 people having to show ID when they exercise their democratic franchise, when, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.920 as you know, you have to show an ID to 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.360 get on a plane, to buy a six pack of beer, 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.120 and do a million other things in American life. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.720 Yeah, James, it probably comes as surprise to a lot 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.680 of folks down there that we don't have to show 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.679 our ID in a lot of states. Keep in mind, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.120 this is done state by state. Right now, I must 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.160 show a voter ID here in Florida, where I live. 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.640 You don't have to show it in other states, predominantly 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:54.720 Democrat states like California. Say so, it's been an issue 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.800 now for a long time. You would think it's a 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.679 common sense issue. Here's the issue. Here's what Democrats say 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:04.880 is that it disenfranchises people who can't get IDs. And yes, 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.520 that sounds as crazy to you as it does to me. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.120 And if your cynicism is as healthy as mine is, 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.000 you have to wonder are they really just interested in 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.360 trying to get people who aren't supposed to vote to 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.360 be able to vote. And that's going to be the debate. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.840 What you just saw Chip Roy referencing there is the 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.480 Senate filibuster. Keep in mind, this is one of those 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.080 pieces of legislation that will take Democrat votes in the Senate. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.720 In order to pass it will need sixty votes, which 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.760 means they'll need Democrat votes and they've only got one 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.319 of those so far, Senator Fetterman from Pennsylvania. It's going 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.880 to be a very very difficult task to pass this 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.600 because Democrats simply want to have people who don't have 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:43.920 IDs be able to vote. 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.000 Gosh, and you know, you can only wonder why. I'll 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.240 leave that to our viewers to work out their own 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.079 list of potential reasons for that. But I want to 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.439 also talk about another big piece of news this week 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.920 out of Washington again, and I don't know, it seems 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.760 like everybody wanted the Epstein files release and then now 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.520 they don't because US Attorney General Pam Bondi have Bondi 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:07.720 has defended the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:12.240 at a hearing this week, as lawmakers, including Republicans, expressed 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.160 frustration about the amount of material that was put out 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.160 there and then redacted. The day started with a call 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.599 from survivors demanding more names being released. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:26.080 The people who have harmed us. They are hidden while 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:31.439 survivors have been exposed. Abusers' names and contact information is redacted, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.360 while our faces and stories are left on full display. 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.360 And survivors of Epstein's abuse even released this announcement on 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.640 Super Bowl Sunday. 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:47.160 After years of being kept apart. We're standing together, standing 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.559 together because this girl deserves. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.199 The truth, because she deserves the truth, because we all 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:54.280 deserve the truth. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:57.720 It doesn't get any bigger than that. And we finally 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.840 got to the hearing of Attorney General Pambon, except it 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.319 was more than an attack than an actual hearing. When 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.000 Bondi was ambushed. I have a look at this. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.400 Merrick Garland sat in this chair twice. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:10.720 Attorney General. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:12.920 Okay, I'm going to finish my answer. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.920 No, I'm going to reclaim my time. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:16.600 You're not going to answer this question. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.840 So let me just hare what a massive question. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.120 When you restore her time, the witness is interrupted? 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:24.280 Got her with this woman? 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.839 Let me have my you showed it. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:28.719 I find it. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:29.559 How many have you. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.240 Ex Excuse me, I'm going to answer the question. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:33.400 I answer my question. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.640 I'm going to answer the question the way I want 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:36.400 to answer the question. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:37.360 You can answer the. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:38.240 Question I asked. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.120 You can let her filibuster all day long, but not 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.880 on our watch, not on our time, no way. And 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.480 I told you about that Attorney general before you. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:47.240 You don't tell me. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.559 I did tell you because you saw what you did 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.960 in the Senate lawyer not even a lawyer. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.120 Mick, that was less a Senate than Jerry Springer? What 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:56.000 did you make of it all? 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.160 James Listen, I've been to those hearings. I've been on 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:01.920 both sides of those hearings. I've been sitting behind the 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.200 die is asking the questions. I've been the person answering 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.640 the questions. They are theatrical by design. Anyway, You very 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.320 rarely find anything out new or interesting in these hearings. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.959 Most members are just trying to members of Core, trying 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.920 to get material for their social media. But I've never 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.880 seen one like this. I felt like buying popcorn and 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.920 just heading back and watching the show. But put the 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:23.680 hearing aside. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:24.280 It's hard to. 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:29.800 Imagine the administration handling the Epstein situation any worse. The 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.520 next day after that hearing, the Republican chairman of the 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.840 Oversight Committee came out and said that he was going 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.400 to continue to hold hearings until he got to the 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.640 bottom of things. These are Republicans, these and these are 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.840 not anti Trump Republicans. These are folks who like Donald Trump, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.880 support Donald Trump, were coming out to say. Now that 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.480 the Epstein thing is not going away, it's hard to 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.760 imagine that the administration, the Department of Justice handling it 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.320 any worse. They have this slow trickle of new information 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.199 is going to come out. Keep in mind we've only 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:59.000 seen roughly, by some estimates, half of the documents so far. 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.679 This is going to be the gift that keeps on 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.680 giving that nobody wants in this administration. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.280 Well, I mean, it does look like it's having a 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.199 lot of repercussions around the world. I suspect Keir Starmer's 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.160 government in the UK is going to fall as results 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.280 of some of the revelations in these files. But in 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.440 the US. It strikes me that the politics of this 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.000 actually should be playing Trump's way, and they aren't, because, 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.920 you know, Epstein has almost now become a byword for 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:29.240 the billionaire elite class that everybody hates as part of 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.640 the general populist vibe. Why isn't it cash and fire 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.240 more for Trump in the other direction? 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.400 Populism? That's a great question, by the way, and not 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:40.240 heard anybody here ask it. This is the answer. There's 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.920 a populist movement right now on the left and the 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:44.880 right in the United States, all around the world, but 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.600 especially here. And it's the populace who say to themselves, 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.520 you know what, we don't care who the rich and 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.640 powerful are with. They're Democrats for Republicans. We're sick and 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.560 tired of them getting treated differently than ordinary folks. That's 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.760 sort of a populist message. And it's folks on the 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.160 populist left and the populist right who are not going 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.280 to let this go. And keep in mind, the populist 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.640 right is Donald Trump's base. They love Donald Trump, they 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.800 really do. But he ran saying that he would expose 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.760 the Epstein files. They expect him to do, to disclose 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.560 the Epstein files. It hasn't happened fully yet, and they're 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.880 they're going to They're not going to forgive him forever. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.800 The administration needs to figure out how to handle this 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.840 better than they have because the base is the folks 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.359 right now demanding that there'd be better disclosure on these files. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:31.360 Yeah, it does sort of feel like we could be 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.840 in a situation where as I was saying, goes the 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.760 revolution eats its own. I want to turn to foreign 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.960 policy here because Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Yahu, he's been 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.160 at the White House this week with Iran dominating the agenda. Now. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.040 Both leaders signaled that there's plenty of work to do 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.320 still to reach some sort of deal with Tehran. On 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.960 Truth's Social following the meeting, Trump said that if a 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.280 deal cannot be reached with Tehran, we will just have 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.280 to see what the outcome will be. Last time I 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.640 Ran decided that they were better off not making a deal, 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:05.680 they were hit with midnight hammer. Nyahoo also finally committed 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.000 to joining Israel's joining Trump's Board of Peace in Gaza. 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:12.760 A lot to unpack from this, but we're still not 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.880 seeing the big action that Trump seem to have been 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.600 foreshadowing on Iran. What's the hold up? Is it actually 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.200 just maybe too complicated a mission to try and topple 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.040 these leaders with air strikes in Tehran. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.560 Two things, and you and I may have talked about 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.280 this last week. What would be the two things that 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.080 would keep Trump from moving right now? Number one, that 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.320 there aren't ready physically, they don't have the assets in 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.480 the area. Now they have been moving assets into the 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.720 air this reporting here in the last twenty four hours 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.640 that there's a second aircraft carrier headed to that part 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.840 of the world. But the other issue is this, I'm 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.360 not sure the administration is convinced yet that sort of 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.640 a political decapitation taking out the leadership of Iran would 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.760 make things better or might make it worse. In Venezuela, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.400 they knew what would happen. They take Maduro out and 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.360 the vice president could take over, and there'd be a 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.480 government to run the country. It wouldn't descend into immediate chaos. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.040 I'm not sure they've satisfied themselves yet that of what 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.520 would happen in Iran if they take out the senior leadership. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.640 So it's those two things that the assets, the military 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.800 assets in theater, I think are going to be solved 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:19.760 here in probably the next couple of days. But if 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.159 you continue to see a delay by the Trump administration 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.120 on military kinetic action, it's because I don't think they're 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.000 convinced yet that it would make things that much better 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:28.280 and could make things worse. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.840 And is there a danger just very quickly that you all, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.560 politics is local that people who voted for Trump saying 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.240 no more foreign wars would just say, oh, we did 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.120 not vote to get involved in this sort of stuff 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:40.800 in the Middle East. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:42.840 No, I don't think that's part of the deal here 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.680 as long as there's not a prolonged engagement. The base 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.400 may have reacted negatively in a very short term to Venezuela, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.880 but they're not penalizing the president because we don't have 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.840 permanent boots on the ground. There's not an extensive engagement 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.960 of soldiers on the ground there in Venezuela, and the 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:00.639 same would be true in around Yeah, you're right, you 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.440 put troops on the ground in Iran, there could be 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.520 a backlash, But sort of this tomahawk diplomacy tactical strikes 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.240 I think would be politically very palatable here right now. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.920 Mick Malvanie, Thanks so much for your time. Always fun 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:12.720 to talk it all through. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:14.119 Thanks Ed. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.640 All right, well, let's go over to Minnesota now, where 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.280 Donald Trump's borders are. Tom Homan has said that an 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:25.439 immigration crackdown will end after two very high profile months, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.639 and this follows widespread protests about deportations and the death 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.719 of two American citizens who were shot and killed in 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.800 the process of those protests. Now, Tom Homan called the 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.640 operation overall a success. But joining me now to discuss 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.840 this and more is Republican strategist and former spokesman for 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.199 Ted Cruz Ron Naering Ron. What do you make of 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:50.760 the Trump administration's moves in Minnesota? The governor Tim Waltz 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.399 has certainly been furious about ICE's presence. Is there a 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.960 danger that the optics of this are giving the left 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:57.320 a win? 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.600 Well, let's start with every American deserves to be safe 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.639 and feel safe in their own community. But there's a 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.520 problem today, and that is that so many criminal aliens 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.760 have been allowed into the country and many of those 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.800 people are committing crimes that many of these neighborhoods have 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:17.440 become unsafe. And we've also seen some of the measures 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.120 of fraud that have been committed by those criminal elements 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.639 in states like Minnesota and elsewhere as well. So we 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.080 start with first principles. The Trump administration is going to 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.119 continue to work hard to remove those people who are 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.000 in the country illegally who've committed violent crimes and other 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:34.600 forms of crime, so to make our streets safe again, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.199 so to make our parks and our sidewalks and our 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.160 neighborhoods safe once again. I think the Democrats will try 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.320 to paint this to some type of win, but in 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:44.600 the long term, the Democrats have to try to defend 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.720 the fact that they are fundamentally opposed to a program 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.639 to take people who are violent criminals who are in 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.320 the country illegally. We have the opportunity to send them 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.360 out of the country where they will not make more 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.359 Americans into victims of whatever crime they're committing. And this 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.800 is the position which a Democratic party finds myself in 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.920 right now. They're reversing who the true victims are, Which 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.320 are the victims of these of criminal aliens who are 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.880 committing crimes. Those are the people who the President's looking 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:10.199 out for. 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.560 Yeah, and absolutely right, Ron, But one of the things 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.960 that we're seeing here is that this fight over immigration 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:19.399 is part of a much bigger discussion within the left 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.960 and within the Democrats. But what sort of party they 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:25.600 are becoming? And I've note that the Democrat socialist movement 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.760 has really been taking off lately. We've seen it in 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.360 New York and now in LA a radical Democrat socialist 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.000 group has published a forty page manifesto which I think 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:38.439 would frankly transform the city into a socialist tellhold. Among 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.520 the things they want to do are ban Airbnbs, use 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.399 golf courses for public housing, allow non citizen immigrants to 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:50.919 vote in local elections, and enforce a school curriculum that 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.719 supports social justice. Well, I suspect it already kind of 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:57.640 does that already in California. But Ron, this is part 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.960 of a bigger identity crisis on the left, now, isn't it. 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.760 Sure? This is straight out of the Cuba Plan, the 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.840 Venezuela Plan, the North Korea Plan. And there's really no 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.800 distinction between what you find in this radical document and 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.840 what some people in the Democratic Party, like AOC or 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.439 the new Mayor of New York are openly advocating for. 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.800 This is a straight on war on America's middle class. 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.959