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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kooner Report

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Speaker 1: Weekend edition WRKO, the voice of Boston.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning Kooner contrary. Okay, my friends, let me be

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Speaker 2: brutally honest with you, like I'm in the confessional. I

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Speaker 2: was gonna lead today's show with the Epstein files and

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Speaker 2: the dump of what is it three million documents and

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Speaker 2: photos and videotapes, which is a massive story and deserves,

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Speaker 2: you know, honestly, a lot of attention, primarily because it's

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Speaker 2: clearly a Democrat scandal. The names now that are being revealed,

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Speaker 2: whether they be in the media, in politics, in the

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Speaker 2: business world, in Hollywood, it's one prominent Democrat after another.

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Speaker 2: And so I was going to obviously talk about that. However,

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Speaker 2: President Trump on Wednesday, in fact, Wednesday Evening BC News

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Speaker 2: with Tom Lomis, gave one of the most consequential, important

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Speaker 2: interviews I think of his entire presidency and of his

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Speaker 2: entire administration, and it made big. It made news, obviously,

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Speaker 2: but it should be to me, the biggest story in America,

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Speaker 2: There's no question. And the reason why because you may

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Speaker 2: be saying, well, Jeff Jee half jehelf, if this thing

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Speaker 2: is the biggest story in America. Why aren't so many

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Speaker 2: Americans even know about it or even talking about it?

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Speaker 2: It's because, Frankly and I feel very sorry for Savannah Guthrie,

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Speaker 2: and I feel obviously very sorry for her mom, Nancy Guthrie,

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Speaker 2: who appears has been kidnapped and abducted. The media saturation

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Speaker 2: coverage of the kidnapping and abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the

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Speaker 2: mother of Savannah Guthrie, has now swamped everything else. It

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Speaker 2: has pushed everything else off of the news cycle. It

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Speaker 2: is twenty four to seven saturation coverage. That's all it

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Speaker 2: is now. It's been for what three four five days

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Speaker 2: to the point that this massive story, and it is

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Speaker 2: a massive story that we are going to be living

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Speaker 2: with for the rest of President Trump's term, and the

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Speaker 2: consequences in fallout have really outside of some important use

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Speaker 2: sites who picked up on it, really has now fallen

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Speaker 2: through the cracks. And so let me tell you exactly

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Speaker 2: what was said, and then I want to get your

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Speaker 2: take six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight.

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Speaker 2: As you know, there has been a huge public relations

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Speaker 2: backlash over the shooting deaths of both Alex Pretty and

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Speaker 2: Renee good and so, and obviously violent street protests, riots

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Speaker 2: really an insight has broken out in Minneapolis and in

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Speaker 2: other parts of Minnesota, but especially in Minneapolis. And so,

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Speaker 2: fearing now a blood bath in the midterms, fearing now

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Speaker 2: that Republicans are losing the immigration war, the pr war,

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Speaker 2: the political war, President Trump now has decided to make,

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Speaker 2: in his words, a strategic shift, and so on Wednesday evening,

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Speaker 2: in an interview with Tom Lomas, he said that we

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Speaker 2: are now going to be putting forth, going forward, a

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Speaker 2: new strategy from this point on. He said, Okay, we're

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Speaker 2: going to finish Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. It's going

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Speaker 2: to get completed. We are going to get all of

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Speaker 2: these violent, criminal illegal aliens that we set out to capture, detain,

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Speaker 2: and eventually deport. They have, by the way, captured and

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Speaker 2: detained over four thousand criminal illegal aliens. So even though

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Speaker 2: they faced massive obstruction, massive interference, they are still making

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Speaker 2: arrests and now we're looking at four thousand arrested and counting.

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Speaker 2: But going forward, he says, there's going to be a

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Speaker 2: new strategy. He will only deploy ICE agents to red states,

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Speaker 2: and this is the key to those blue cities. And

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Speaker 2: blue states that the mayors or governors quote unquote ask

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Speaker 2: for ICE agents to come. And as he said, you

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Speaker 2: don't have to just request, I want it in writing,

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Speaker 2: and you have to say please, don't. You can't just

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Speaker 2: say I want them, we need them. It's got to

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Speaker 2: be pleased, and it's got to be a written request.

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Speaker 2: In other words, going forward, President Trump now says he

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Speaker 2: will only send ICE into so called sanctuary cities if

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Speaker 2: and only if the mayors or the governors specifically invite,

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Speaker 2: specifically ask or request for ICE to be deployed. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: he says, I'm not wasting my time. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to see the images of these street protests and riots.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to see the possibility of activists clashing

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Speaker 2: with ICE agents and some of these activists, these anti

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Speaker 2: ICE agitators, getting caught up in a scuffle and being shot.

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Speaker 2: He said, I don't want these images on the screen.

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Speaker 2: It's bad for the country, it's bad for our stability. Frankly,

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Speaker 2: it's bad for us politically. And so he says that

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Speaker 2: his strategy now is to make it crystal clear to

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Speaker 2: every single blue city mayor and blue city governor now.

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Speaker 2: And this applies specifically to Brandon Johnson of Chicago, Mayor

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Speaker 2: Michelle Woo of Boston, Mom Donnie of New York City,

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Speaker 2: Karen Bass of Los Angeles that he says, we will

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Speaker 2: not send in ice agents whatsoever unless you request them

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Speaker 2: to come, and we want it in writing. In other words,

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Speaker 2: I want to send them to places like New Orleans.

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Speaker 2: He mentioned New Orleans and his interview with Lambis or Memphis, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Even though these tend to be blue cities, they're in

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Speaker 2: red states. The mayors are welcoming ice in. They want

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Speaker 2: ice there. The governors have requested for them to go there.

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Speaker 2: They're giving them the proper local law enforcement and state

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Speaker 2: law enforcement backup to conduct their operations, to share in

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Speaker 2: important information. He says, So unless we get absolute cooperation

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Speaker 2: from mayors and governors predominantly in red states. But okay, fine,

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Speaker 2: we'll do it in blue areas. But it's got to

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Speaker 2: be with a specific request and an invitation, he said. Otherwise,

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Speaker 2: we are not going into these sanctuary jurisdictions. Let those

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Speaker 2: mayors and those governors live with the consequences of their

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Speaker 2: decision if they want to caudle. This is what Trump

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Speaker 2: basically said to Lamas. If they want to caudle murderers

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Speaker 2: and rapists, if they want to caudle pedophiles and sex

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Speaker 2: and drug traffickers, if they want to see their crime

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Speaker 2: rates explode, and he said, that's what's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Their crime rates are going to explode. If they want

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Speaker 2: to have more waves of migrants coming into their cities

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Speaker 2: as they move from say red states or red jurisdictions

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Speaker 2: to these sanctuary jurisdictions, then it's on them, and it's

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Speaker 2: on their voters who put them in office. So basically,

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Speaker 2: he's saying, you want sanctuary cities, you want these criminals,

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Speaker 2: You want this crime, You want this chaos and anarchy

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Speaker 2: and lawlessness. You know what you want it, you got it,

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Speaker 2: But don't come crying to me when the consequences are

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Speaker 2: brutal and devastating and your voters eventually turn against you.

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Speaker 2: I'm only going to go where I'm wanted and where

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Speaker 2: Ice is wanted. Now, let me make two points, and

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Speaker 2: then I want to open it up. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: place some cuts because I want you to hear it

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Speaker 2: straight from him. I don't want people to say I'm

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Speaker 2: mischaracterizing the president's position because I'm telling you, I'm not

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Speaker 2: what Trump is calling. This is an invitation only model.

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Speaker 2: The model now is not mass deportations and deploy ice

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Speaker 2: wherever they feel as important to nab as many illegal

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Speaker 2: alien criminals as possible, whether the mayors or governors want

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Speaker 2: it or not. It's now invitation only, and he believes

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Speaker 2: it's going to be more effective. According to him, tap

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Speaker 2: down the temperature. It's going to end a lot of

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Speaker 2: these street protests and street riots, and he believes in

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Speaker 2: the long term it's going to be a more effective strategy.

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Speaker 2: Now to many people who like this new shift, their

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Speaker 2: argument is he's now meeting the reality of the moment.

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Speaker 2: Politics is the art of the possible, and so he's

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Speaker 2: making a strategic retreat. He's trying to ease political temperatures

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Speaker 2: prevent the possibility of more violence. He doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: see any more Americans citizens get shot or get killed

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Speaker 2: in confrontations with ICE agents. So if the Blue States

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Speaker 2: and the Blue cities really don't want to control their

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Speaker 2: criminals and really want to live with illegal criminal migrant crime,

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Speaker 2: let them live with the consequences the implications, and then

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Speaker 2: clean them out from areas like the Red States where

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Speaker 2: people want to see the law enforced. And so Trump

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Speaker 2: is playing three D chess. He's out maneuvering the media,

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Speaker 2: he's out maneuvering the Democrats and these sanctuary jurisdictions. I disagree.

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Speaker 2: That's the argument that many are making. I hear you,

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Speaker 2: but I disagree. I think the president has caved. I

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Speaker 2: think this is a massive, important surrender. I think now

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Speaker 2: he has reversed his mass deportation policy. And I did

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Speaker 2: not vote for this.

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