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Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt Wednesday, September fourteenth edition of the program. Appreciate
Speaker 1: you being with me. We have the Biden celebration at
Speaker 1: a moment where there should be no celebration of the
Speaker 1: economy at all. Bring you some moments from that just
Speaker 1: yesterday where it was clear that things are not going
Speaker 1: as this White House would like them too. We've also
Speaker 1: got more from the border. They said it was secure.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris told us specifically among other Democrats that was
Speaker 1: secure earlier in the week. That is certainly not the case.
Speaker 1: And the live action version of The Little Mermaid stars
Speaker 1: a black actress. This is creating a lot of discussion online.
Speaker 1: We will dive into oh, dive into Little Mermaid. Dive
Speaker 1: into that together coming up here in just a moment.
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Speaker 1: They had the FBI go chase down Mike Lindell. Mike's
Speaker 1: been talking about this. Chase down Mike Lindell and take
Speaker 1: his cell phone. And we believe this is part of
Speaker 1: the flurry of subpoenas that have been sent out there.
Speaker 1: The subpoena is sent with regard to either mar Lago
Speaker 1: or January sixth, or both the mor Lago documents. It's
Speaker 1: not clear exactly what the Democrat endgame is here, but
Speaker 1: it is clear what the opening salvo is Man, and
Speaker 1: that's just a it's meant to freak people out. It's
Speaker 1: meant to send a message. It's meant to make you
Speaker 1: really concerned about what happens if you stand with Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: What happens if you are an outspoken conservative who in
Speaker 1: the case of Mike Lindell, who's been a long time
Speaker 1: friend and sponsor of Man, who sponsors a lot of
Speaker 1: great content online, Mike Lindell having a cell phone taken
Speaker 1: from about the FBI at a Hearties. In fact, here
Speaker 1: we have Mike telling you exactly what happened day the FBI.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hear this, and you're probably already hearing in
Speaker 1: the news. The FBI came after me and took my phone.
Speaker 1: They surrounded me at the Hearties and took my phone,
Speaker 1: and I run all my business everything with um. They
Speaker 1: could have just do what we've done, is weaponize the
Speaker 1: FBI is disgusting I don't have a computer. Everything I
Speaker 1: do have that phone. Everything was on there, and and
Speaker 1: they told me not to tell anybody there's in order
Speaker 1: not to don't tell anybody. Okay, I won't. I am
Speaker 1: don't tell anybody. Well, clearly Mike is not gonna take
Speaker 1: that bit of advice. He's not going to listen to
Speaker 1: them on that one. Why would the FBI take Mike's phone?
Speaker 1: First of all, he runs his business, as he said,
Speaker 1: as from his phone. So this is a huge inconvenient
Speaker 1: it's a huge invasion of privacy. What possible justification for
Speaker 1: this could there be? Mike obviously has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the Mari Lago documents, not that we're aware of.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone believes Mike get anything to do
Speaker 1: with that. So is this about speaking to the White
Speaker 1: House in the aftermath of the twenty twenty election and
Speaker 1: trying to criminalize what is effectively debate over how the election, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, any irregularities or cheating the election, how
Speaker 1: to find that, what the electors should do in response
Speaker 1: to that, making a legal argument, which even if people
Speaker 1: don't like whatever the electors debate was after the election,
Speaker 1: making a legal argument cannot be made ilegal in this
Speaker 1: country if we want to say that we have a
Speaker 1: free country. Right, if you're going to say the constitution
Speaker 1: protects the following, Okay, maybe it doesn't. Maybe you're wrong,
Speaker 1: and that's what the final disposition maybe, but you got
Speaker 1: to be able to make that case. If you can
Speaker 1: make that case, then how are we in a free
Speaker 1: country If you can't make an argument that you believe
Speaker 1: the laws on your side. I mean, what's next. We've
Speaker 1: got to criminalize defense attorneys. All this person is clearly guilty.
Speaker 1: Look at all the Look at all the stuff being
Speaker 1: said in court that's not true about what happened here.
Speaker 1: We got to throw all the defense attorneys in prison.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know some people are probably a cheering
Speaker 1: sing yes, throw all the defenses. I walked into that one,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, it's absurd. But the
Speaker 1: message that is sent here is very clear. The message is,
Speaker 1: at a minimum, you step out of line and we
Speaker 1: will crush you. You step out of line and we
Speaker 1: will be visiting you, taking your phone and maybe making
Speaker 1: you get lawyers. A lot of expense, a lot of anxiety.
Speaker 1: You know, the FBI shown up for the average person
Speaker 1: saying we're taking your stuff. It's gonna make them really uncomfortable. Now,
Speaker 1: Mike is a high profile guy. He's got friends and
Speaker 1: allies like me and so many others on the conservative media.
Speaker 1: You obviously knows former President Trump personally well, so he's
Speaker 1: not just an everyday guy in that sense, although he
Speaker 1: was having dinner at a Hearties. You know, Mike is
Speaker 1: the real deal. You know, he's a real a real
Speaker 1: salt of the earth American's a good man. But you know,
Speaker 1: the fact that they would get away with this, this
Speaker 1: obvious intimidation in the rought up to an election. Keep
Speaker 1: in mind, this is a major sponsor of conservative content,
Speaker 1: like I said, including me, including my shows, and the
Speaker 1: fact that they would do this right before an election
Speaker 1: is clearly infringing upon the free media ecosystem that we
Speaker 1: need here to be able to get the truth out
Speaker 1: and have people make their cases to the public. So
Speaker 1: and then it just reminds me if they're willing to
Speaker 1: go to this length or these lengths, what makes anybody
Speaker 1: think that they're not actually going to they're not actually
Speaker 1: going to prosecute Trump. You know, they're really forcing us,
Speaker 1: They're forcing us to here, They're they're going into a
Speaker 1: position where Trump, if he doesn't get prosecuted, it's essentially
Speaker 1: an admission that all this was political, and all of
Speaker 1: this was you know, nonsense, underhanded gamesmanship from the Libs. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one part of it. And if they do prosecute him, yes,
Speaker 1: it would be flimsy, it would be the worst kind
Speaker 1: of third world dictator politics. But they're crazy, So I
Speaker 1: can't exclude the possibility, right, I mean, if you're if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit around here all the time say the
Speaker 1: Libs are nuts, which I do, how can I then
Speaker 1: turn around and tell you, well, reason will prevail here
Speaker 1: and they won't actually bring some charge um and you know,
Speaker 1: they bring an obstruction charge. For example, Julie Kelly, who
Speaker 1: I've been talking to about this on the radio show,
Speaker 1: she says that that what she thinks they're going to do, obstruction,
Speaker 1: which is interesting because for the lib audience that CNN
Speaker 1: and these other places, they've been trained to think that
Speaker 1: obstruction was what they were going to get Trump on. Remember,
Speaker 1: after the whole Muller probe there was no Russia collusion.
Speaker 1: They admitted that because they couldn't fabricate that evidence. Entirely,
Speaker 1: or rather the Special Council. Couldn't it have been fabricated
Speaker 1: by Democrat media, the Hillary Clinton campaign, all the rest
Speaker 1: of it. But when you look at what was said
Speaker 1: in that Russia collusion investigation, the Special Council, they claimed
Speaker 1: that ten counts of possible obstruction occurred, ten counts of
Speaker 1: possible obstruction. That was the whole big reveal. Oh we're
Speaker 1: gonna get them, and they didn't, because it turns out
Speaker 1: if you have somebody nailed on obstruction, you say which one,
Speaker 1: you don't say, there's ten possible places where maybe we
Speaker 1: could concoct some basis for doing this. That's what we
Speaker 1: saw there. But they were the lib audience was promised
Speaker 1: this Democrats, the Democrat base, the lunatic left. They thought, oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to get him on obstruction, maybe obstruction in
Speaker 1: the documents. Look at what they did to Roger Stone.
Speaker 1: See this is why I have to have to look
Speaker 1: at this from what the facts are and then what
Speaker 1: the lunatic reaction to this all will be. Roger Stone
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. I mean, they said that he lied
Speaker 1: to the Special Counsel about a non event, effectively, about
Speaker 1: something immaterial to anything that matters, and they sent dozens
Speaker 1: of FBI agents to his home, and they tipped CNN
Speaker 1: off so they could film the whole thing to try
Speaker 1: to humiliate him. In that environment, with that FBI, with
Speaker 1: that Democrat deep state Department of Justice, would they maybe
Speaker 1: as a last ditch effort, especially if the midterms go
Speaker 1: heavily Republican, which I'm hopeful that that will happen. Why
Speaker 1: should we believe that won't be the come It's worthwhile asking,
Speaker 1: right that they will decide to prosecute Trump. They will
Speaker 1: decide to throw a wrench into the gears of our
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Speaker 1: First of all, here is Kamala. I mentioned this Kamala
Speaker 1: back on Monday. I want you to hear this again,
Speaker 1: saying that the border is secure. Play twenty would you
Speaker 1: call the border secure. I think that there is no
Speaker 1: question that we have to do. What the President and
Speaker 1: I asked Congress to do is the first request. We
Speaker 1: may pass a bill to create a pathway to sistum ship.
Speaker 1: The border is secure, but we also have a broken
Speaker 1: immigration system, in particular over the last four years before
Speaker 1: we came in, and it needs to be fixed. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have two nine people across this border for the
Speaker 1: first time ever. You're confident this border secure? We have
Speaker 1: a secure border. Just repeats it. We have a secure border.
Speaker 1: No one believes that. And there are some photos now
Speaker 1: circulating on the daily mail of these campsites that are
Speaker 1: popping up all over El Paso of legal migrants who
Speaker 1: are showing up. They get into this country and they're
Speaker 1: now living on the streets. In New York City, you
Speaker 1: have illegal migrants that are being bussed there from Texas
Speaker 1: who are now being put up in hotels at taxpayer expense.
Speaker 1: That's also happening, and we're being told that the shelters
Speaker 1: are overwhelmed, so New York is now sending some migrants,
Speaker 1: so all this headline today to Florida. So they're moving
Speaker 1: the migrants around because there's so many of them. It's
Speaker 1: obviously a major factor in the resources that these cities
Speaker 1: have to deal with these kinds of issues, deal with
Speaker 1: these kinds of challenges that come about when you have
Speaker 1: people that arrive in a country you have no legal status,
Speaker 1: maybe don't speak the language. So that's a major consideration
Speaker 1: right now for places like New York, DC, in Chicago.
Speaker 1: But I thought that illegal immigration, it just makes everything better,
Speaker 1: Everything works so much better when you have more and
Speaker 1: more illegal migrants in the country. Well, it turns out
Speaker 1: that is not really what we are seeing here. And
Speaker 1: it also is the case that as the American people
Speaker 1: will focus in more on how five million people have
Speaker 1: come into the country illegally over the last two years.
Speaker 1: Why is that illegality not an issue at all for
Speaker 1: the federal government. But you know they wanted to force
Speaker 1: you to get a shot, or that you should get
Speaker 1: fired from your job. Basically, you know they want to
Speaker 1: raise your taxes. That you don't pay your taxes, you
Speaker 1: go to jail. Any one of you listening this right now,
Speaker 1: Your taxes mean nothing to the treasury as an individual,
Speaker 1: makes no difference whatsoever. But if you don't pay your taxes,
Speaker 1: what happens you go to prison. Why it's the law,
Speaker 1: That's what they'll say, right, Okay, So then why are
Speaker 1: people able to come to the country in violation of
Speaker 1: federal law and stay here in violation of federal law
Speaker 1: and break a whole host of other laws, you know,
Speaker 1: document fraud things like that when they're in the country
Speaker 1: because they're here illegally, because they're a protected class. That's
Speaker 1: really the Democrats don't want to say that, but that
Speaker 1: is the truth of the matter. Oh, I mentioned, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to get to it. The aftermath of the
Speaker 1: Biden party yesterday, you know, the big victory dents they
Speaker 1: were doing outside the White House. People were really having
Speaker 1: a tough time with this when the stock market got
Speaker 1: clawbered yesterday, absolutely clawbered. And here, for example, over at CNN,
Speaker 1: which is regime media. But they're a little more cautious
Speaker 1: these days than they used to be because they realize
Speaker 1: that people aren't buying the anti Trump left wing Oh
Speaker 1: but we're still a news organization. They're not buying that,
Speaker 1: So they're having to go more toward a centrist point
Speaker 1: of view. Here is or just objective I should say
Speaker 1: point of view. Here is a CNN cutting away from
Speaker 1: the Biden ceremony yesterday as it was happening, because it
Speaker 1: was just too much to take. So I think the
Speaker 1: Republicans who stood up. Okay, you're listening there to President
Speaker 1: Biden at the White House. He's celebrating the passage of
Speaker 1: the Inflation Reduction Act. He says that he's been fighting
Speaker 1: big Pharma for decades. But there is this unfortunate split
Speaker 1: screen right now with the Dow taking a total beating
Speaker 1: down more than twelve hundred points, and so it feels
Speaker 1: like it's hard to be celebratory for some people in
Speaker 1: the crowd. Yeah, this is the day on which the
Speaker 1: White House celebrates the Inflation Reduction Act when we get
Speaker 1: a new report that shows that inflation is still especially high,
Speaker 1: and what we're seeing on Wall Street is a reaction
Speaker 1: to that, anticipating what's coming from the Fed, theia that
Speaker 1: will come on, whether to increase or likely they will increase,
Speaker 1: but by how much the interest rates. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big interest rate increase coming next week, probably maybe
Speaker 1: a full point. It's gonna have a huge impact on
Speaker 1: the market, on finances, on everything else. And so while
Speaker 1: the Biden administration for political reasons, because we're going into elections,
Speaker 1: trying to do the whole h Look, all great things
Speaker 1: are here, all right, I'm we're I'm a big aviator.
Speaker 1: She can't see my face, and my eyes look a
Speaker 1: little vacant behind the glasses, but you can't see. Not
Speaker 1: a joke. Not a joke. Actually, do we have Biden
Speaker 1: saying the United States of Schmamerica or whatever he was
Speaker 1: that he said? This was I think this was actually
Speaker 1: from last week. But this is the person they want
Speaker 1: in charge of the nuclear codes. The person they want
Speaker 1: is the commander chief United States Military. Here he is.
Speaker 1: This is the United States Kamara, for God's sake, United
Speaker 1: States ship kamarre Ah. You know, get off my on.
Speaker 1: Biden's yelling at all the kids across Samerica. It's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1: But this is the guy who they have put in charge.
Speaker 1: This is the guy that we're supposed to listen to,
Speaker 1: you know, the steady hand on the economy and national
Speaker 1: security and all the rest of it. So c Ann cutaway.
Speaker 1: This was even better Neil Cavudo yesterday on Fox during
Speaker 1: this celebration. You know, Cavudo is a very even temperate,
Speaker 1: fair minded guy, and during this broadcast, this is he
Speaker 1: just feels need to jump in. He's just like, this
Speaker 1: is just this Biden Celebration's crazy town. Watch big farmer
Speaker 1: block Medicare from negotiating lower drug pices. All right, I
Speaker 1: do not want to be a party crasher, but we
Speaker 1: interrupt this celebration for a hard, cold dose of reality.
Speaker 1: Stocks tanking because inflation is accelerating, the very inflation that
Speaker 1: the President says he's made great progress addressing Fox on
Speaker 1: top of a sell off the likes of which we've
Speaker 1: not seen in quite some time. In percentage terms, the
Speaker 1: roughly four percent hid in the Dow is the worst
Speaker 1: we've seen in two years. Ditto the SMP five hundred
Speaker 1: and again the NASDAC all hit and hit hard because
Speaker 1: inflation remains stuck and no one can get it under control.
Speaker 1: Inflation remains stuck. Yeah, it's gonna get worse too, or
Speaker 1: rather it goes on and it's worse every month because
Speaker 1: the effect on prices will continue, the price of food
Speaker 1: still going up, the price of rent, the price of
Speaker 1: housing going up. And what does anyone think happens when
Speaker 1: they increase the rate? The FED rate, which is I'm
Speaker 1: gonna guess gonna go up by point seventy five. It
Speaker 1: may go up by it may go up by a
Speaker 1: full point next week. That could happen. Here is former
Speaker 1: Obama administration economist Steve Rattner who's saying, look, it's more
Speaker 1: economic pain ahead. Meaning basically, he's telling everybody, look, we're
Speaker 1: going into while while Biden's throwing a inflation deflation whatever
Speaker 1: victory party, anti inflation victory party for a bill that
Speaker 1: if anything makes inflation worse, the whole thing is so
Speaker 1: crazy town. A former Obama guy, who's a smart guy,
Speaker 1: Obama administration official, Ratner is saying, look, the pain is coming.
Speaker 1: We're heading into an inflate in a recession. How long
Speaker 1: with these rate heights, Steve, will it take to see
Speaker 1: inflation come down using this blunt instrument, this tool of
Speaker 1: raising rates to bring it down? Is that a short
Speaker 1: term goal or is that something that takes a lot
Speaker 1: of time. That's exactly the right question, Willie. And what
Speaker 1: yesterday's numbers did was it increased the probability of there
Speaker 1: being what we call we're calling a hard landing that
Speaker 1: there's going to have to be a recession here to
Speaker 1: get inflation down anywhere near the fence two percent target,
Speaker 1: and so we're going to have to see what comes
Speaker 1: of it, but it's certainly not going to happen in
Speaker 1: the near term. There's only one more report before the
Speaker 1: midterm elections, and we're looking at a much longer process
Speaker 1: than that, and the question is going to be how
Speaker 1: consumers react of these numbers, well economic themthetically, it's not
Speaker 1: going to be good. The short version of the version
Speaker 1: of this is that it's it's not going to go well.
Speaker 1: We are heading into a recession, and the recession in
Speaker 1: part will be pushed by the reduction rather the elevation
Speaker 1: of the FED lending rate Fed interest rates are fed's
Speaker 1: going to send interest rates up, and that's going to
Speaker 1: mean that the cost of everything is going to be
Speaker 1: going up, to the cost of borrowing is going to
Speaker 1: go up, which was going to raise prices in a
Speaker 1: whole range of areas. This is going to be really
Speaker 1: negative for the economy. There is very clearly an effort
Speaker 1: underway to just hold back the dam of realization from
Speaker 1: breaking here before the election, because the one thing that
Speaker 1: Democrats know they can't talk their way around is everyone
Speaker 1: realizes that their inner recession and that the Democrat policies
Speaker 1: worsened their recession. That's abely going to be an enormous,
Speaker 1: an enormous drag on them going into this midterm election.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a massive, massive problem. So I
Speaker 1: think it's important that we tell the truth about what's
Speaker 1: really going on here and what's really going to be
Speaker 1: happening in these in these midterm elections. So that's why
Speaker 1: we're focusing on the economy, focusing on the border crime. Crime.
Speaker 1: I mean, here is Tucker last night on his show,
Speaker 1: because I talk about crime frequently here, it's so important
Speaker 1: because it's out of control. It really is dangerous in
Speaker 1: so many of these cities. Here's Tucker on his show
Speaker 1: saying that he wants a nonviolent civil disobedience campaign to
Speaker 1: get more attention for how the authorities have to tackle
Speaker 1: the problem of crime. Watching those crimes are so appalling,
Speaker 1: their attacks not just on individuals but against civilization and
Speaker 1: humanity itself, that they at this point really do require
Speaker 1: in immense and organized nonviolent civil disobedience campaign. So just
Speaker 1: pick one of those videos that ran, who's the prosecutor
Speaker 1: to let that person out, refuse to charge them in
Speaker 1: the first place, Who's the politician who decided that attacker
Speaker 1: had more rights than the old lady he was beating up.
Speaker 1: Why aren't fifteen thousand people blocking that person's office or
Speaker 1: chain themselves to the front door, demanding an answer again,
Speaker 1: Why isn't there massive nonviolent civil disobedience that can change this?
Speaker 1: Barking about it uncable news clearly isn't working. We've been
Speaker 1: doing it for five years. Why isn't there more of
Speaker 1: a focus on this, Well, I can tell you it's
Speaker 1: because not only are Democrats responsible for pushing the policies
Speaker 1: that led to so much of this, but they want
Speaker 1: to continue it. We have not suffered enough. In our
Speaker 1: cities and towns, even royal areas. I've seen major increases
Speaker 1: in crime because when you open up the prisons and
Speaker 1: let people out, when you refuse to prosecute people, It's
Speaker 1: not just the cities, I mean their criminals going to
Speaker 1: be more criminals in circulation everywhere, at least in the
Speaker 1: region of where these policies are being instituted. That's why
Speaker 1: Shougo is getting rid of cash bail. They've got this
Speaker 1: they called the Safe t Act, and that'll be starting
Speaker 1: in January of this year. It's also gonna make a
Speaker 1: whole range of serious crimes non arrestable. Chicago is going
Speaker 1: to be doing this, just to give you a sense
Speaker 1: of how crazy the Democrat state legislatures are. Mayor's offices, governors,
Speaker 1: they're not They're not yet at the point where they
Speaker 1: realize the suffering has to stop. And I just mentioned
Speaker 1: this before you know. I'm I'm watching a little bit
Speaker 1: of the Lord of the Rings prequel. I watched a
Speaker 1: little bit of that recently. I've watched a little bit
Speaker 1: of House of the Dragon, so it's I forget what
Speaker 1: the Lord of the Rings one's even called, but anyway,
Speaker 1: the House of the Dragon I've been watching. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of discussion about the Lord of the Rings
Speaker 1: trilogy and Wokeness, And now you also have a discussion
Speaker 1: that's broken out online about a black mermaid in the
Speaker 1: Little Mermaid Live action movie. I find I find, you know,
Speaker 1: the the casting of actors and actress of any color, creed, etc.
Speaker 1: As long as it just has fealty to the story great,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as it's just meant to tell
Speaker 1: a good story. So I don't see any I don't
Speaker 1: see the issue with having a Little Mermaid been changing
Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid from being a you know, there was
Speaker 1: a cartoon before. I don't think they've made a live
Speaker 1: action version of it before. I don't see the issue
Speaker 1: with that. I think it's fine. The issue I see
Speaker 1: with other series is when it feels like they're pushing
Speaker 1: diversity for its own sake at the expense of storytelling.
Speaker 1: An example this would be in the show Billions, where
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, all of a sudden, the most genius
Speaker 1: person on Wall Street is a trans individual who goes
Speaker 1: by the pronouns they that felt like that felt like
Speaker 1: there were some politics there, right, I mean, and who
Speaker 1: was twenty two or something like that. By the way,
Speaker 1: so twenty two year old transgender walls three geniuses cast
Speaker 1: in the show Billions, right at a time when the
Speaker 1: transagenda is particularly in the news and everything else. You say,
Speaker 1: that feels like politics. A Little Mermaid is black. I
Speaker 1: hope it's a great I hope it's a great movie
Speaker 1: and it's really entertaining and kids love it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: so I don't really. I see there's wokeness and then
Speaker 1: there's just telling good stories. As long as you're telling
Speaker 1: good stories, great all in favor of casting whoever people
Speaker 1: want to cast. Kind of talk to you more about
Speaker 1: all this. Tomorrow Team talk to you then Shield Tie