1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Hammer and Nigel show. Let's tamer 2 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: right over there, kind of very special guest on the hotline. 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 2: Senator Jim Banks joins, US Senator, is it against protocol 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: if you wear candy striped pants through the wholes of 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: the US Capitol building? 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 3: Is that allowed? I haven't tried, but I think it 7 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 3: should be totally allowed. 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: Before we get into the Indiana football Hoosiers, which is 9 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 2: a fun story, might even be the biggest story right 10 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 2: now in central Indie, let's get into what you're seeing 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 2: coming out of Minnesota, the ice raids, the response to 12 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 2: the ice raids, which I think is actually a very 13 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:48,840 Speaker 2: big story. Some people have compared what's happening to these 14 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 2: ICE agents to, oh, I don't know, an insurrection if 15 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: you will. What are your thoughts and what you're seeing 16 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 2: to the response to ice. 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 3: Well, it's disgusting. These ICE agents are there to keep 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 3: us safe, to deport criminal illegals. That's exactly what Donald 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 3: Trump was elected to do. He was elected to get 20 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 3: these criminal illegals off of our streets. And what we've 21 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 3: done in the in the Senate over the last year 22 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 3: is to fund ICE to support the President's mass deportation efforts, 23 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 3: that there were provisions in the big beautiful bill that 24 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 3: funded more border patrol agents and more funding for ICE 25 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 3: so they could get this done. I'll tell you what, guys, 26 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 3: this is very popular with the general public to get 27 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 3: these violent criminals off of our street like ICE is doing. 28 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 3: But these lunatic left wing liberals who are protesting and 29 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 3: and and frankly, who are are cheering on violence against 30 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 3: our law enforcement officers, these ICE agents, that it's despicable, 31 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 3: it's disgusting, and we should hold these people accountable for it. 32 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 3: President Trump isn't turning a blind eye. He's standing up 33 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: for his ICE agents and all of those who are involved. 34 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 3: But you have Tim Waltz, the crazy idiot governor of Minnesota, 35 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 3: who's calling for violence and and we can't we can't 36 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 3: put up with that. 37 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 2: I was going to follow up you kind of alluded 38 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 2: to it there. How big of a role of what's 39 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 2: happening right now in Minnesota the nightly you know, disruptions, 40 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 2: the chaos of attacking ICE agents like we saw it 41 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: last night, How much of that has to do with 42 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: the rhetoric coming out of the governor of Minnesota and 43 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 2: the mayor of Minneapolis. 44 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it has a lot to do with 45 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 3: I mean, if you're elected, leaders are saying this is 46 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 3: okay and violent radicals should show up and go after 47 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 3: these ICE agents. I mean, the governor of Minnesota is 48 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 3: calling for the doc saying of these ICE agents to 49 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 3: look them up and find them and harass them, and 50 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 3: that there's obviously a direct link between the violence that's 51 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 3: occurring to where these officers and the violent rhetoric of 52 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 3: of the governor and the mayor of Minneapolis. But if 53 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: I lived in Minnesota, I mean, thank god I don't, 54 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 3: but if I did live in Minnesota, I would be 55 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 3: really happy to know that ICE is arrested over four 56 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 3: hundred illegal aliens that include pedophiles, rapists, and violent criminals 57 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 3: and got them off in my streets. So why would 58 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 3: the governor be okay with going after the law enforcement 59 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,320 Speaker 3: officers who are making that possible to get that type 60 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 3: of crime out of Minnesota and out of our country. 61 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 3: That's what it's all about. 62 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,480 Speaker 1: Yes, Senator, these people are talking out of both sides 63 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: of their mouths. On one side, Tim Wallas is saying 64 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 1: protest peacefully and don't take Trump's bait. But on the 65 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: other side, they're comparing Ice agents to the Gestapo, and 66 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is an authoritarian dictator and a fascist and 67 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: he's going, you know, Jimmy Kimmel on late night TV 68 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: shows holding up red T shirts that say Trump will 69 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: kill you. What do you expect? What do these people expect? 70 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: What are you going to do when you see that 71 00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: kind of rhetoric? 72 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uncalled for. Thankfully, Governor Waltz, who is a 73 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 3: total buffoon, is not running again, and Minnesota can have 74 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 3: a do over. I don't know that they'll ever elect 75 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 3: a Republican governor again, but at least they get rid 76 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 3: of this guy and the mayor of Minneapolis who's saying 77 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 3: all these crazy things as well. But it's not just 78 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 3: in Minnesota. I mean you see you see Democrats all 79 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 3: over the country who were talking like this and and 80 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 3: going after these these Ice agents. We had we had 81 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 3: a protest in my and my Fort Wayne office this 82 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 3: week that were anti ice protests and I posted a 83 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 3: picture of it on Twitter. You can go and find 84 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 3: it on my on my Twitter account. Senator Senator Senator 85 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 3: Jim Banks or Senator Banks and think it was the 86 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 3: account handle. There was like there were like seven of 87 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 3: them protesting in my fourth Wayne office. But these these 88 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 3: Democrats who are in office, they they you know, they 89 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 3: they they they totally placate these radicals in their party 90 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 3: who think the ICE is evil or the anti law enforcement. 91 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 3: I mean, they're talking about defunding defunding ICE, and normal 92 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,720 Speaker 3: regular people are saying, no, don't do that. Give them 93 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 3: more funding so they can get these criminals off of 94 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 3: our streets. So it just goes to show that the 95 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 3: Republicans are on the side of law and order and 96 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 3: getting having safer streets and getting criminals off of our streets, 97 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 3: and Democrats want more crime and they want to promote 98 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 3: that type of activity. 99 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 2: Senator, everything you just said right there kind of took 100 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 2: me back to the Summer of Love. If you will, 101 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: back in twenty twenty, substitute the word ICE for police. 102 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 2: Do you think the radical left side of the Democratic 103 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 2: Party wants another George Floyd like situation where there's disruptions 104 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 2: and violence every night. 105 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 3: I don't know if they want it, but their type 106 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 3: of rhetoric is what's going to lead to it. And 107 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 3: so many other issues that are going on, like the 108 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: cost of healthcare and all kinds of other issues that 109 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 3: we're dealing with in Washington, you know, the the our 110 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 3: national security and and these Democrats are so crazy, they're 111 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 3: so they're so off base with where most Americans are. 112 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 3: They they want Donald Trump to fail, even on issues 113 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 3: that they previously. They previously were for getting rid of 114 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 3: of of getting rid of madurea and holding him accountable. 115 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 3: Now they're against it because Donald Trump actually did it. 116 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: On healthcare, they want people to suffer. The Democrats want 117 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 3: your healthcare premiums to go sky high so that you 118 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 3: hurt because Donald Trump's in the White House. I mean 119 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 3: that's and then you have these of the violence and 120 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 3: and and the crime on the streets, and uh, keeping 121 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:46,119 Speaker 3: violent illegal criminals, rapist pedophiles, violent criminals on the streets 122 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,240 Speaker 3: so have come to our country illegally. They don't want 123 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 3: Ice to come in and and get these criminals off 124 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 3: of our street because Donald Trump is responsible for it. 125 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 3: I mean, it's a it's a wild scenario, but I 126 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 3: think most people see see through it. They get it. 127 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 3: They they want law and order, and they appreciate what 128 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:03,239 Speaker 3: Donald Trump is doing to make it happen. 129 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 2: Senator Jim Banks with us, all right, let's get down 130 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 2: to the important stuff here. What kind of food spread 131 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 2: are you going to have on Monday when you're watching 132 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 2: the Hoosiers put up a forty burgger on the Hurricanes. 133 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 3: Well, man, I'm going I wouldn't miss this game. I'm 134 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 3: a diehard Indiana Hoosier fan. It's something I've never I 135 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 3: don't tell most people, but it took me eight years 136 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 3: to get my four year degree in Bloomington. I wasn't 137 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 3: a great student, but I went there because I loved 138 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 3: Indiana basketball. I was there at the tail end of 139 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 3: the Bobby Knight era. I got to go to so 140 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 3: many basketball games. When I was a student in Bloomington 141 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 3: in the late nineties, the football program was so bad 142 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 3: that they gave away free football tickets to students who 143 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 3: lived in dorms just to get us to show up 144 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 3: so that half of the stadium would be full. And 145 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 3: the only time the stadium ever was full was when 146 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,520 Speaker 3: Ohio State came to town. So this is so cool 147 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 3: for our state. This program is so good. Fernando Mendoza 148 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 3: is a class act. He's the next generation has A 149 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 3: has someone truly to look up to in Fernando Mendoza. 150 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 3: I'm going to Miami. I'm going to cheer on the 151 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 3: Hoosiers in person, and it's it's it's a game that 152 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not even nervous about it. I mean, 153 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 3: these Hoosiers are going to be so well prepared, and 154 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 3: this is so exciting for Indiana. 155 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 2: Firing off any mean tweets to any Florida senators or 156 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 2: you know, trolling DeSantis at all. Would you get down there. 157 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 3: Senator, I'll be happy to do that. I did bet 158 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 3: my my freshman colleague, Ashley Moody is the new the 159 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 3: new senator from Florida. We have a little bet going on. 160 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,480 Speaker 3: And I usually think these these bets between politicians are 161 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 3: cheesy and and goofy, but I feel so good about 162 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 3: this one. I was happy to bet her she's going 163 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 3: to bring me in my office Cuban coffee to to 164 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 3: our office when the Hoosiers when I don't, I have 165 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 3: no doubt. I mean that the other end of the bet, 166 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 3: I mean, I bet her Albanese gummy bears made in Indiana. 167 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 3: But I'm I might give him to her anyway, but 168 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 3: you know that she's gonna be She's gonna be serving 169 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 3: good Cuban coffee to my office. I'm looking forward to 170 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 3: that fantastic. 171 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 2: Have a great time down in Miami. Represent the Hoo's 172 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 2: your nation, Senator, and we'll talk to you soon. 173 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 3: You got it, Have a good, good day. Go to 174 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 3: Who's Yours. 175 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 2: It's the Hammer and Nigel Show.