WEBVTT - The U.S. Report | 27 March 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.440 This is the US Report with James Morrow. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.200 Good evening and welcome to the program. Here's what's coming 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:16.160 up tonight. Donald Trump slams Australia. Is the Donald Albo 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.560 bromance officially off? Plus have Democrats killed off? Butter id 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.200 despite just att everyone outside of politics thinking this is 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.560 a good idea And guess what I've got some Hollywood 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.320 Hall of Fame hypocrisy. I just hope elitist Jimmy Kimmel 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.600 never needs a plumber. I'll explain what that's all about 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.880 a little bit later in the show, but first, I've 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.840 got a riddle for you. When is a bad news 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.440 story a good news story? Well, it's when even CNN 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.040 has to admit that a Trump policy is not only working, 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.400 but is loved by the public. And it's even worse 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.360 than when that policy involves using Immigration and Customs Enforcement 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:01.760 agents aka ICE officers, whom the Left has spent the 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:07.319 past year demonizing as gestapo goons. First, a little background. 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.840 Since mill of February there's been a government shutdown on 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.119 that has affected the Department of Homeland Security in the US, 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.000 which is in charge of the TSA, which, if you've 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.399 ever traveled in the United States is one of the 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:24.600 great all time handbrakes on a good time. As a result, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.399 security cues were stretching for hours at some airports, because 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.720 of course, they've got to make sure every water bottle 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:37.520 is emptied at every granny patted down. Not good. So 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:41.160 enter Donald Trump, who, throwing the switch to solution mode, 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.880 said Hey, I've got an idea. Let's send ICE Agency 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:49.280 in demand the checkpoints. And well you'll never guess what 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.640 happened next. Over to UCNN. 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.160 The story right now, Sarah, quite honestly, is the fact 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.000 that the lines have disappeared. We haven't seen this like 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.080 in a week, so this is good news. If you 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.600 have a flight to catch, you should know that you 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.200 can probably maybe take a deep breath. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:07.360 At one point, this line stretched all the way down 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.360 the hallway. This one has gone as well. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.360 Oh that must have hurt to put the air across 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.800 the country. Travelers seemed pretty chufed with the arrangement. Actually, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.360 like this fellow, and you're not gonna believe it. He's 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.240 from Brooklyn, did not bother nobody the one. They can 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:24.679 check my bags and get me on my flight, and 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.959 I'm good to go, right, I want to get I 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.040 want to get to the Bahamas. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:30.520 I want out of here. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:40.160 These agents. Forget about it. And then there was this traveler. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:43.520 I wish you're happy with ICE. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.040 Yes, I like that, I happy with the ICE. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.320 Hang on a second, that guy spoke with a foreign accent, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.840 and according to the left, well shouldn't ICE agents have 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.919 executed him by now? Seriously, though, the only people who 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:02.000 don't seem happy about this are you guessed it, democrats. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.000 The last thing that the American people need are for 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.840 untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:13.680 the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:18.440 Kill them. Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, the local district attorney that's 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.600 a crown prosecutor to you and me, was threatening to 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:23.639 jail ICE agents. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:28.919 The President cannot pardon you, and yes, I will put 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.880 you in handcuffs, and I will put you in a courtroom, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.280 and if necessary, I will put you in a jail cell. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.520 If you decide to make the. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.320 Toronzo floor of this airport anything like what you did 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.880 in the streets of Minneapolis, I don't know. 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.320 I'm still stuck on the romance of the Toronto floors 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.480 of the Philadelphia Airport. How a romantic and I guess 0:03:52.600 --> 0:04:02.320 I think we can guess how this traveler voted. So well, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.400 do everyone accept the haters? But there is, of course 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:09.360 a bigger problem, and that's this. While it is fantastic 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.800 that ICE is unjamming backlogs at airports, one of the 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:17.440 greatest practical things that the Trump administration could do to 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.480 make the lives of passengers more pleasant everywhere would be 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:27.080 to simply wind up the Transportation Security Administration the TSA. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.839 Remember this was created as a knee jerk reaction to 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.040 airline security after nine eleven, when there was an urgent 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:39.840 called to do something to prevent another such mass casualty hijacking. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.120 And that was understandable. But in the twenty five years since, well, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:48.800 it's mostly been a disaster. It subjects travelers to invasive, 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.520 time wasting, bureaucratic nightmares. In twenty fifteen, it was revealed 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:58.160 that tsaaigents were missing ninety five percent of threats in tests. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.560 And guess what real evidence they've gotten any better. So, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.200 mister President, I know you're watching, I know you love 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.280 the US report. Ditch the TSA and put airport security 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.520 back in the hands of private security, which by the way, 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.000 does a pretty good job here in Australia with one 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:21.200 tenth the hassle. Not only will it make traveling easier, 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:25.320 it means the nation's airports also cannot be held hostage 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:34.320 by Democrats every time there's a fight over funding in Congress. Meanwhile, 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.800 amid all the talk of war and oil shocks and 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.839 everything else, it is worth remembering that in just two 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.880 years time we're going to be deep into the twenty 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:47.239 twenty eight presidential primaries. And a warning about this next item. 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.400 You might want to get your sick bags ready, because, 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.680 according to this report in Axios, many of the Democrat 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.080 hopefuls have decided that the road to the White House 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:03.120 leads through the psycho Hiatrist's office. Yes, forget the strong, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.279 silent type. Democrats are now reportedly planning to lean into 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:11.800 their childhood traumas in the quest for votes I know right. 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.800 Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has apparently written in his new 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.839 memoir about his traumatic childhood. In it, he writes that 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.640 his mother, Judy, could be unstable and said he and 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.919 his siblings believed, quote, if we were good, we could 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.800 stop the chaos and the yelling. Not sure if he 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.440 also recounts his feelings about reports that the tolerant Democrat 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.120 Party decided that his being Jewish was also a bit 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.440 too much for him to be named Kamala Harris's running mate. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.799 That's a whole other story. Then there is the Patrick 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:49.400 Bateman slick California Governor Gavin Newsom, who's gone public with 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.760 his own Mommy Dearest story. In his new book, Newsom 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.279 recounts that, despite a childhood of wealth and privilege, his 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:04.320 own mother told him, amid apparent struggles with dyslexia, it's 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.120 okay to be average. Gavin. Well, thank god he never 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:13.520 used wire hangers. But white. There's more. Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker, 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.120 himself from a family of literal billionaires and an heir 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.000 to the Hyatt hotel fortune. Not that there's anything wrong 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.000 with that. Just the other day did a big interview 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.600 with The New York Times in which he went into 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:31.120 great detail about his mother's alcoholism. Now, it's two points 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:35.160 to make about this. Firstly, these stories confirm a theory 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.320 I have long held that the best predictor of someone 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:43.320 being a progressive liberal is unresolved childhood trauma. Paired with 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.800 the rest in development, leading to an overwhelming desire to 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:51.320 remake the world as the carrying safe space that they 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:55.480 feel they were once denied. But secondly, it also suggests 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.880 that when it comes down to it, the Democrats are 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.640 in a bit of trouble here. They desperate, They're trying 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.000 to make over the country, not win an Oscar. Yet, 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.760 what have they got Trump derangement syndrome, Democrats, socialism, put 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.200 America last, and all of this other stuff. No wonder 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.080 they're already wearing their hearts on the sleeve because they 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:27.640 don't have a lot going on in their heads. Now. 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.040 Conservatives in the US are once again gathering for one 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.040 of their largest annual conferences, Seapack USA is underway this 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.960 week in Texas, and for the first time in a decade, 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.839 President Donald Trump is skipping the event. I guess he's 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.520 got a few things on at the moment, as discussions 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.480 about the Iran War takes center stage. To join me 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:51.920 now is retired US Army Infantry colonel author attorney Kurt Schlichter. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.679 He's in Texas for the conference and he joins me now. Kurt, 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.240 welcome to the program. Tell us, first of all, what's 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.560 having at SEAPAC this year's mood like, well, the mood 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:02.920 is good. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.280 I mean, we obviously have challenges facing the midterms. The 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.760 Iran Wars of course the topic of conversation, but you know, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.440 the conservatives are pumped and motivated. I did a panel 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.400 today with Nick Shirley, who was exposing fraud in Minneapolis 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.800 and California, that went over really well. I think there's 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:22.760 a lot of optimism. You know, the regime media would 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.920 like us to be pessimistic, it'd like us to be sad, 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.160 it would like us to think that we're doomed. Well, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:28.679 we're not doomed. We're going to win. 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:29.679 We're going to prevail. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.040 And that's the great part about Sea Package with a 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:33.360 bunch of people who feel like you did. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.199 Yeah, well, I mean, you know, I've been to Sea 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.240 Pack in Australia a number of times here and it's 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.320 a fantastic event they do here. But the question of 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.520 course right now is Iran and there's a lot of 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.000 people in the press who are talking about, well, Maga 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.040 is split. There's a lot of division over the Iran War. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.160 You hear some of this in the press. Are you 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.280 hearing that on the ground there, or is the magabase 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.080 the Trump base all in on epic fury. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:02.080 Look, the Mega base under stands that Iran is a 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.959 generational enemy that for nearly fifty years has chanted death 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.199 to America and then proceeded to carry it out, killing 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:12.320 and maiming thousands of Americans since the Ayatola Coamani took over. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.959 And it's time to put this to an end. It's 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:20.160 time to put this festering sore, you know, and lance 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.480 the boil. And that's what we're doing. And we're you know, 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.040 this is going to help redefine not just the Middle East, 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.559 but the entire globe. When you look at Venezuela and Cuba, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.800 which are both both moving away from being you know, 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:40.199 essentially communist states adversity the United States Iran moving and 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:45.640 reconsidering our alliance in NATO in a more reasonable way 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.440 where the NATO alliance picks up its own share of 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.320 the weight. I think America is in the process of 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.280 redefining the international system that's endured for about eighty years 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.000 since World War Two. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.560 And I think that that system, Kurt had been dedicated 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.920 on this idea of sort of managed American decline. And 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.720 I think that's turning around. But you mentioned NATO, and 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.240 I think that's really interesting because a little while ago, 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.760 Donald Trump hit back at Germany's Defense chief Bars Pastorius, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.800 who earlier slammed the war on the Iranian regime. Here's 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:15.800 what Trump had to say. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.520 When I heard the head of Germany say this is 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:26.280 not our war about Iran, I said, well, Ukraine's not 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.920 our war. We helped, but Ukraine not our I thought 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.000 it was a very inappropriate statement to make. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.680 Kurt. I thought that was a fair point. And I mean, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.640 you know, why should Germany or for that matter, Australia 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:41.640 expect American help in their fights our fights if they 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.640 won't help America in something that they're trying to do 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.040 to make civilizations safer everywhere. 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.640 I don't think it's unreasonable to ask what's in it 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.240 for us when it comes to an alliance. All Right, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.920 Nations have their own interests. They should pursue their own interests. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.720 A reasonable person expects a nation to pursue its own interests. Well, 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.240 America has its own interests too, and perhaps some people 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:11.960 don't like it. Perhaps some people would rather have America 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.480 pursuing other people's interests. And for a long time we 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.680 did do that, but that's over. Donald Trump is not 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.640 that kind of leader, and there's certainly pushback. That's trying 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:29.560 to get Americans to kind of re embrace a dying 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.120 model and it's just not going to work any Yeah. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.000 Well, just on that dying Moleald Trump also had some 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.760 choice words for Australia a few hours ago. Have a 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:39.200 look at this. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.280 I think he did something that was shocking. He didn't 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.800 want to help us. Australia to Australia was not great. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.240 I'm a little surprised by Australia. We never really had 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:53.120 very much support. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.960 I again read aright that there is no request being 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:03.760 made to Australia that has not been agreed to. President 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:08.760 Trump is up to him to explain his comments. But 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.600 of course I make the point as well that Australia 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:19.520 wasn't consulted before this action was undertaken, and I respect 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.800 that that's a metaphor of the United States. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.760 We've spoken before about the close bond between our two 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.200 nations here before, but it does seem that given Australia's 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.560 inability to field any sort of aid for this or 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.160 other missions, does he have a bit of a point. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.199 Well, while he does. You know, of course I started 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.920 on the military during the Cold War, when most of 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.320 our allied nations had considerable military forces of their own. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.920 The question now isn't so much if our allies are 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.000 going to help, But you know, name the ship and 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.800 the type of ship that can deploy in seven days 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.600 and actually contribute in the Persian Gulf, and I think 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.280 most of our allies would be hard pressed. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:00.440 To do that. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.480 Yeah, well, certainly Australia showing itself fairly unable to do 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:08.079 that sort of thing here. But meanwhile, there's also been 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.680 plenty of scrutiny around the mainstream media and their reporting 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.319 of the war. But I want to draw your attention 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.840 to our old friends at CNN, who incredibly confirmed that 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:21.239 their own reporting, at least one instance, was total nonsense 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.120 when they accused Trump of lying about Iran talks. How 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.560 a look at this? Are there as. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.680 Important breaking news coming into the situation room. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.960 We're now learning from a senior Iranian source that there 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.600 has been an outreach between the US and Iran. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.000 The source tells CNN that this was initiated by. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.720 Washington and this was after, of course, CNN had run 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.080 down the whole idea that there were any talks taking 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:46.000 place at all. They pivoted on dime. They did a 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.760 full one eighty. Any wonder if people don't trust this 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:49.920 stuff anymore. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.840 No, there's no wonder. Look, you can't believe anything the 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:57.720 regime media tells you. Why when your source is Iran? 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:03.160 You know that's already the problem, man, I I You know. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.120 The beautiful thing about Trump, and the thing that a 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.760 lot of foreigners don't understand about Trump is Trump is 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.960 out to pursue America's interest and frankly, for a long 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:17.520 time in America has not purely promoted its own interests. Well, 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.360 it's kind of doing that now, and a lot of 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.360 other countries are upset by it. Remember, the only thing 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.280 that constrains America is America. You can't force America to 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.720 do anything. You can try to talk America into doing something, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.840 and for a long time that succeeded. Well, you can't 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.120 talk Trump into a bad deal. He's not going to 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:43.720 do it. And Trump represents a significant portion of the 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.400 American public, not all of us. There are a lot 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.880 of people who have kind of globalist, leftist mindset, but 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.200 most Americans think that the United States primary interest should 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.400 be the United States, And frankly, I don't think that's unreasonable. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.240 Kurtz Schlicker couldn't say it better myself. Thanks so much 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.760 for coming on the program. Really appreciate your insights. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:04.040 Thanks for having me. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.880 Now moving on to a subject we've spoken about an 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.040 awful lot over the last few weeks. The Save Act, 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.160 which would, among other things, force voters to show ID 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.520 when they go to vote in a US election. Pretty 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.200 civil stuff, right acceptance, having a hard time getting through 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.080 the Senate, with even Republicans helping to stall it earlier. Today, 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.520 senators block the proposal in a fifty three to forty 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.040 seven vote. But I want to show you a clip 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.680 which has resurfaced this week from twenty twenty four, where 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.840 a senior Democrat gives away I think the game about 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.160 why they don't want to support this at all. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.720 Have a look the negotiation didn't have a path of citizenship. 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.960 It was entirely on their terms in order to get 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:51.960 Ukraine funding. Right. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.720 Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.680 twenty years, So you are right. That has been the 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:05.560 Democratic strategy for thirty years maybe, and it has failed 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:06.520 to deliver. 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:07.080 For the people. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:11.160 We care about most the undocumented Americans that are in 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:12.040 this country. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.439 I loved that little moment there when he stopped himself 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:19.040 and he said, undocumented Americans. Yeah, just trying to fix 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.159 that one up. But you heard it right. The people 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:27.679 that Democrats care most about are undocumented. Let's bring in 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:32.880 to talk about this. Former Republican National Committee spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipco. Elizabeth, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.240 thanks so much for coming on the program here. I 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.639 just feel like the Democrats have showed their hand so 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:43.639 much with this Save Act. Everybody in normal world thinks 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.600 this is a good idea, and yet they don't want 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.240 this to happen, and you can only think of some 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:49.960 pretty sinister reasons why they don't. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.600 I completely agree. It's great to be back with you here. Look, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.520 I think for the average American they're actually surprised if 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.520 they're following this because very often you see Paul Titians 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.800 talk as if they know what they're rallying for, they 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.240 know what it is that the people want, and very 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.520 often they fall in line with what polling shows because 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.639 that's what they have to do as elected officials. And 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.719 yet with the say BacT, when you look at polling 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.199 and you look at the fact that nearly eighty percent 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.280 or more of Americans in every single poll or survey 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.920 that you look at, agree that they want voter ID 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.240 to be a requirement when going to place that vote. 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.200 And it doesn't make any sense that Democrats are pretending 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.560 this is some kind of sinister idea, pretending it's going 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.280 to hurt black Americans or married women or anything else. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.600 I think the whole thing is embarrassing. I think if 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.520 you look across the world, you see how many people 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.960 realize it's important to bring an idea when they vote 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.040 in their national elections. I think it's embarrassing again to 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.520 try to pretend that Americans are too stupid to get 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.439 a birth certificate or sign up online to get new 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.520 paperwork or whatever it is that they're claiming people aren't 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.439 unable to do. And again, whether they're wrong or they're right, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.119 if the majority of Americans want something done, that's what 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.120 elected officials are in place to do. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.400 Well. Yeah, I mean, I thought Elizabeth that was left 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.920 that was all about defending democracy, and I thought democracy 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:05.800 was about listening to the will of the people. But 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.800 this vote here that just happened, this fifty three forty 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.080 seven vote. My understanding. Tell me if I'm wrong, is 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.399 that this was for a stripped down proposal that would 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.920 just be about you know, voters have to show an 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.720 ID a driver's license, not even proving their citizenship. Now 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.239 you go to America, a lot of places you've got 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.119 to show an ID to get on a plane, to 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:26.680 buy a six pack of beer, to buy a deck 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.000 of smokes, to get into some office buildings. Are they 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.639 saying that there's some segregation in America where African Americans 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.760 where married women who have changed the names, they're barred 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.040 from all of these activities. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.800 That is apparently what they want all of us to believe. Look, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:45.359 I have to be honest. I didn't even know that 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.080 there were options to go and vote without that ID. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.080 And like you said, it's not about a birth certificate, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:52.440 it's literally just about a driver's license. I didn't know 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.919 until I went to college, when I got my school ID. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.600 I can tell you in Pennsylvania in graduate school and 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.160 I was told of that school ID, which many members 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.720 of my class who were not American citizens also had. 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:04.560 We were all told as a group that you could 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.080 use that school ID to go vote in elections in Pennsylvania. 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:10.040 That's how I learned that this was an issue, and 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.000 when I look into it, I realized how many states 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.480 have those very same laws. And again, it's not about 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.320 a birth certificate, it's not about any kind of complicated materials. 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:20.360 It is a basic license, basic ID card without which 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.720 you cannot go to a doctor's appointment, or buy alcohol 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.320 or drive your car. It's something that most Americans have, 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.399 and also at something most Americans should be able to 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.760 prove that they can get in order to participate in 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.280 the privilege that we have here in voting in these elections. 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.560 It just seems like the simplest stuff and the only 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.200 explanations why they don't want this, I think a pretty 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.639 sinister But I also want to talk to about a 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.320 really shocking and distressing story out of Chicago, where we've 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.919 seen a lot of controracy around this shooting of a 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.320 young woman, a student at a school there. Prominent democrat 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:53.320 Maria had and is under fire for suggesting that this student, 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.680 eighteen year old Sheridan Gorman, she was shot and killed 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:03.119 near her college campus, allegedly by an illegal Venezuelan migrant. Well, 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:05.800 they said that she was just in the wrong place 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.640 at the wrong time and This is something that we're 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.399 hearing from an awful lot of Democrats who seem to 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.160 be saying, Hey, what's the big deal here, It doesn't 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.480 matter they were illegal or not. Tell us about this case, 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:18.520 because it's really grim. 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.160 It is atrocious, truly. Look you look at our country's history, 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:24.840 you look at what's happened the last few years, You 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.640 look at how our country nearly shut down over the 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:31.080 murder of George Floyd, and then you wonder why there's 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.359 not less of a response, but basically no response. This 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.200 innocent girl, as you mentioned, Sheridan Gorman, who was eighteen 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.760 years old, had her entire life ahead of her, and 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.879 it should be an easy thing for Democrats, Republicans, anybody 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:45.440 to condemn. Again, I don't care how you feel about 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.040 Donald Trump. I don't care if you associate with Republicans 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.399 or Democrats or anyone in between. I think we can 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.399 all agree when something like this happens, we should come 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.200 together as a nation and warn this poor girl's life 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:57.520 and try to be there for her and for her family. 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:00.800 And yet we're making this political. You're saying that it 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:04.520 was this innocent girl that was at fault at President Trump, 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:05.359 who was at fault. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:09.399 Yeah, and I'll mean, like, look at Illinois Governor Pritzker, 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:12.800 who is a potential candidate for president. Well, he's turned 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:15.520 this around to be all about Donald trumplely this. 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:19.760 There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.200 beyond the borders of Illinois. That's their national failures of 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:28.000 failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:29.560 president to follow. 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:32.000