1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,559 Speaker 1: We welcome in everybody's second hour of play in Buck 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: kicks off right now. So we's talked a lot about 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Portland in the first hour of program, and these dueling 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: issues of immigrations and customs enforcement particularly and lawlessness in Portland, 5 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: and then similar situation in Chicago, ice facilities under siege, 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 1: Democrats wanting illegals to just be able to continue to 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: break our laws with impunity. That's not how the law works, lives. 8 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: But then there's also just the crime issue and homicides, murders, 9 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: as salts, robberies, all of that, and the situation in 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: Chicago where you have still a very high overall murder rate. 11 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: It's America's third largest city. It's a beautiful city. I 12 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: love Chicago as a place, and it's got a lot 13 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: of great people. It's got wonderful food and architecture, and 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot of things going for Chicago. Here it's 15 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: a little cold in the winter, but a lot of 16 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: things going for Chicago. Sorry, I'm from Miami now, so 17 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: I get to say these things. Little chili in January 18 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: in Chicago, but I hear it's a lovely place overall. 19 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: And I've only been there once and I had a 20 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: great experience, I must say, but there's too much crime. 21 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: And the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, is an incompetent 22 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,839 Speaker 1: and is only making things worse there. And he sees 23 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: this as his chance to square off against Donald Trump. 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: So he's going after the President. Remember, the President wants 25 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: to make safe the city of Chicago for all residents. 26 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 1: In doing so, using federal law enforcement resources in federal 27 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: support to make it make their fewer murders and to 28 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: make it safer on the streets of Chicago. It would 29 00:01:53,040 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: disproportionately help minorities because there are more black resident of 30 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: Chicago who are shot and killed than anyone else. And 31 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: so it is actually a great service to the predominantly 32 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: black areas of the city of Chicago to bring the 33 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: crime rate down. It's very small percentage of people who 34 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: are doing a very large percentage of the violent crime, 35 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: and of those crimes, the targets the victims are largely 36 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: disproportionately black. We all know these numbers. We've all talked 37 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: about this. Meanwhile, Mayor Johnson, this is cut twenty three, 38 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: is attacking Trump for these efforts. 39 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 2: Play it a double minded man. 40 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 3: He is unstable in every way possible, unhinged and unhealthy. 41 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 3: The idea of described the American people as enemies from 42 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 3: within is clearly not just a sign of authoritarianism. He 43 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,799 Speaker 3: has totally imbibed the full spirit of tyranny, and our 44 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 3: cities are not training ground for the military. In fact, 45 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 3: even the notion to suggest that the brave women and 46 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 3: men who sign up to serve this country to fight 47 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 3: terrorism around the globe, to protect our way of existence, 48 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 3: turning neighbors on their own neighbors is not only unconstitutional, 49 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 3: it is reprehensible. 50 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: It is reprehensible. Huh, Mayor of Chicago is shameless. We 51 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: all understand what President Trump is trying to do here, 52 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: and he's trying to make Chicago safer. Let's look at 53 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: some of the Let's turn to the numbers, shall we. 54 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: Last year, twenty twenty four, that's the last year for 55 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 1: which we have full numbers, Chicago had five hundred and 56 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: seventy three murders. Now, that's the first time since twenty 57 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: nineteen that the number was under six hundred Chicago in 58 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Let me just see the twenty twenty 59 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: one had pulling it up as I talked to you, Wow, 60 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: in ninety four, there were nine hundred and thirty murders. 61 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 2: That's a lot. 62 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: Seven hundred and seventy eight murders in twenty twenty, seven 63 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight murders in just the city of 64 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: Chicago in twenty twenty. Now, I just got back, as 65 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: you know, from Taiwan. I was on a fact finding 66 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: expedition there on a whole range of things, mostly on 67 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: the national security and economic front, because Taiwan is critical 68 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: for well the world actually on those issues. And I'll 69 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: be explaining more of that. But how many murders do 70 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: you think Taiwan's a country of twenty three million people. 71 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 1: How many murders do you think Taiwan had last year? 72 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: Let me see, about two. 73 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,920 Speaker 1: Hundred in the whole country of twenty three million people. 74 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,159 Speaker 1: There are two million people in Chicago, and Chicago had 75 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: seven hundred and seventy eight murders in twenty twenty last year. 76 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:06,039 Speaker 2: I know. 77 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: Let's say it's so let's say they're running at about 78 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: six hundred murders a year on average for the last 79 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: few years, because it's usually above six hundred, We'll we'll 80 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: be generous, We'll say about six hundred murders. So Chicago, 81 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,159 Speaker 1: a city of two million, has three times the total 82 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 1: murder rate of the entire nation of Taiwan with twenty 83 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: three million people, with multiple cities that have over two 84 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: million people. I think we can see what's going on here. 85 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 2: Right. 86 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: You might be thinking, well, what is it like to 87 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: be and I hadn't had this experience in quite some time. 88 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: What's it like to be in a place that feels 89 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: really safe. Well, when I was walking through a park 90 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: at about ten o'clock at night, a public park in 91 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: the downtown of Taipei, the main city, there were families 92 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: in the park at night, just enjoying, you know, because 93 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: it's nice and warm there. It's very similar to climate 94 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: actually in South Florida. It's nice and warm there. And 95 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: they all they had was some lamps providing an ambient 96 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: light from the city. It's quite a city TYPEI but 97 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 1: you had families sitting on the park benches in the playgrounds. 98 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:19,679 Speaker 2: Just like as if it was broad daylight. 99 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: There's no concern about I can't be in a park 100 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: at night because bad things will happen, And there are 101 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 1: little kids running around playing, parents sitting on the benches 102 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: watching for afar and I had people writing to me, oh, buck, 103 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: but it's like that in my town in South Dakota, 104 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: or it's like that in you know, in my town 105 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: of five hundred people in you know, South Carolina or something. 106 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, yeah, that's nice. But this is 107 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: a city of millions of people, millions of people consolidated 108 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: together in one place, and they and it's as safe 109 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: as a town of a few thousands in a very red. 110 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 2: Rural part of America. It is as safe that. 111 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: So you say, well, it must be possible. One of 112 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: the other anecdotes I have for this, which I thought 113 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: was so interesting, was that people would do this thing 114 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: where you would be in a cafe and they would 115 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: put their phone down. 116 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 2: And I would say to myself, wait a second. They'd 117 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 2: get up to go. 118 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: To the bathroom, and they would leave their phone at 119 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: the you know, their one thousand dollars iPhone or whatever 120 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: at their seat. I had never seen this before, right, 121 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: I would. When I lived in Midtown Manhattan, I was 122 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: worried that somebody was going to reach into my pocket 123 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: when I was sitting there drinking my coffee and try 124 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: to take my phone. They leave their phone there to 125 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: mark their seat to save their seat while they go 126 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: to the bathroom, and no one this is what you 127 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: had understand. I asked some of the locals about this. 128 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: No one thinks this is odd. They're like, yeah, of 129 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 1: course they want ever to know. It's It's like if 130 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: you're at a buffet at a hotel and you know 131 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: you leave your your napkin on the tables. Everybody knows 132 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: that you're sitting there. They do that with their smartphone 133 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: in public places where people are coming and going on 134 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: the street. 135 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 2: No big deal. 136 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: High trust society, a place where people do not have 137 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: to be worried, do not have to be concerned about 138 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: crime because it is not a realistic concern for them. 139 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 2: Now, I'm not. 140 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: Saying we're going to be able to turn Chicago into 141 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: Taipei in terms of safety and security. It would be nice, 142 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: but that's not gonna happen. I do point it out, though, 143 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: because we should know what is possible. We should know 144 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: that there are cities with millions of people living together 145 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: where there is basically no concern whatsoever about crime, and 146 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: then use that as a comparison to say Chicago, where 147 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: there is far too much crime for far too long 148 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be this way. Crime is a choice. 149 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 1: Society makes a choice about how much crime it will tolerate. 150 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: But crime is a choice. We don't have to deal 151 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: with things the way that they are. And unfortunately, what 152 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 1: you see from the mayor of Chicago and from Governor 153 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: Pritzker is they don't want it to get better. They 154 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: want this status quo. The same way that the Taiwanese people. 155 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: And I say, I love Taiwan and I love the 156 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: Taiwanese people. They really endeared themselves to be talked about. 157 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: Everybody I dealt with there. Everyone is so polite and 158 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 1: considerate and friendly, and it's just a great place. It's 159 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: a great place the same way that they are proud, 160 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: and they should be because I talk to them. They 161 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 1: kind of giggle, they laugh when I'm saying, well, you 162 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: got it's so safe. 163 00:09:57,640 --> 00:09:58,319 Speaker 2: Heer. How is this. 164 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: Little old ladies walking around midnight by themselves on the 165 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: streets not a care in the world. Kids, I didn't see. 166 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 1: I didn't take the subway there. I took their high 167 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: speed trains to get around the countryside because I had 168 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: some places I had to go. 169 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: But they do. 170 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: They do have people. We'll get on these trains. I 171 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 1: thought I was sitting in the quiet car. If you've 172 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: ever taken the Asella from DC to or Boston down 173 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: to d C with the New York stop, I thought 174 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: I was in the quiet car. No, that's just people 175 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: are just quiet and respectful. They're not all, you know, 176 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: playing their iPhones on speaker phone. They're not all shouting, 177 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,880 Speaker 1: they're not all loud talking. I thought I was in 178 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: a quiet car. I was just in a Taiwanese railcar. 179 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 2: People just all being respectful. And there's no trash. There're 180 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 2: trash anywhere. 181 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: I mean, whether in the high speed train or on 182 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: the streets, there's no litter. 183 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: Isn't that amazing? 184 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: It turns out you don't have to have people just 185 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: drop being you know, they're big mac rappers wherever they're walking. 186 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be that way, and we could 187 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: all be in a place that is much safer in 188 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: this country, in the big cities, if we were willing 189 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: to make the necessary decisions. As a society. You get 190 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: the crime you tolerate. It is not a given. It 191 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: is not Oh, there's no way out of this status quo. 192 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 1: But when you have people like Mayor Johnson who don't 193 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 1: want it to get better. It won't get better. You 194 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: are locked into this. Here, this is cut twenty four. 195 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: Here he is saying that really, this is about a 196 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: war on poor people that Trump is waging. 197 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 2: Play it. 198 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 3: This is not about deportation, This is not about community safety. 199 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,559 Speaker 3: This is quite frankly, this is about for profit. 200 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 2: You know, we know that there. 201 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 3: Is an investigation right now that's underway with Tom Holman, 202 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 3: who took fifty thousand dollars thousand dollars from two FBI 203 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 3: agents because Tom Holman made a promise to direct contracts 204 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 3: to the very people who are running these detention centers, 205 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: who actually gave over almost three million dollars to President 206 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 3: Trump's campaign. 207 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 2: The president of the. 208 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 3: United States of America has declared war on poor people. 209 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 3: And if there was ever a time for working people 210 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 3: to stand up across this world, the time is now. 211 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 2: What a just rabble rousing, lying jerk. 212 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:35,840 Speaker 1: This guy is war on poor people. Trump's trying to 213 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: keep keep poor people from getting shot walking to the 214 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,559 Speaker 1: grocery store. He's trying to keep children from catching a 215 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: bullet from some gang banger who can aim and doesn't 216 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: care shooting it out with some other gang banger over 217 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: who gets to sell fentonal murdering people in the streets. 218 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,479 Speaker 1: Trump wants to stop that, and the mayor of Chicago 219 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: thinks that he's the good guy here. He thinks that 220 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: Trump's waging a war on poor people. 221 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 2: No, the war on poor. 222 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: People is from incompetent Democrats like the mayor of Chicago. 223 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: The war on poor people is from less left wing 224 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 1: race hustling democrats who don't want to take the necessary steps, 225 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 1: who don't want to do what they can do to 226 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: save lives and make those city streets safer. 227 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 2: It could be a. 228 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: Heck of a lot better than it is, and Trump's 229 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: trying to make it so. And you know, I'll be 230 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: honest with you so much about this country I am 231 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: so proud of. I do think we're the greatest country 232 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: in the world. I know we have our problems. I 233 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: love America, though, I truly do. When you come home 234 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: from being abroad, it reminds you how much you love 235 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: this place. But it is embarrassing how much crime there 236 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: is in our Democrat cities like New York, where I 237 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: used to live in. Though Chicago's way worse than New York, 238 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 1: It's embarrassing because it doesn't have to be this way, 239 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 1: and the leadership that says that it is. 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You saw it again last week 268 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 5: when he had one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in 269 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 5: the world coming into the Oval Office and promising to 270 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,160 Speaker 5: lower drug prices by two hundred, three hundred, one hundred 271 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 5: percent in many cases for various types of drugs for 272 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 5: American patients. That is a huge fix to a broken 273 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 5: system that has been ripping off the American people for 274 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 5: far too long. So the President's very committed to this. 275 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 5: But right now, we need to reopen the federal government, 276 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 5: and the President is remaining very firm in that position. 277 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: Catherine. 278 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 6: If the vote failed in the Senate today to reopen 279 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 6: the government. 280 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 5: Or that trigger layoffs, Look again, we hope that the 281 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 5: vote will not fail. Because this administration wants to reopen 282 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 5: the government. We don't want to see people laid off, 283 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 5: but unfortunately, if this shutdown continues, layoffs are going to 284 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 5: be an unfortunate consequence of that. 285 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: I mean for when that would happen. 286 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 5: We'll see how the vote goes tonight. 287 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 7: Is the White House floating a proposal to cap Obama 288 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 7: fair subsidies by denying them to new enrollees. 289 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 5: I have not seen a proposal like that, Emily. 290 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 8: Thanks Karen. 291 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 2: The President said yesterday he was considering a phase. 292 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 4: Two approach to Venezuela, as the President considering the. 293 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 5: US foods on the ground or any kind of supportive 294 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 5: overthrowing Maguro. I won't get into any specific proposals that 295 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 5: are being considered by the President in his national foscay. 296 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: So talking with Venezuela, I want to bring you mostly 297 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 1: the shutdown update. Look, we got to Speaker of the 298 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: House joining us in the third hour here on the program, 299 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: who will get into some of those details. But one 300 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,520 Speaker 1: of the latest from the White House there our friend 301 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt doing a fantastic job as per usual, but yes, 302 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: it is definitely the case that Democrats, I think are 303 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: being exposed here on what their real agenda is and 304 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: what they're willing to stand up and fight for, and 305 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: that is money for illegals health care. It's so funny 306 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,640 Speaker 1: to see they say, oh, we would never do that, 307 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: we don't want health care for illegals. Remember what happened 308 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,439 Speaker 1: on the debate stage in the election cycle in twenty 309 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:26,159 Speaker 1: twenty when all of those Democrats, all of them in 310 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,199 Speaker 1: that debate, on that debate stage, said they wanted to 311 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: give health care Obamacare to illegals, And now they act 312 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,159 Speaker 1: like they would never do that. 313 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 2: They're lying to you. 314 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: And also, Obamacare, we don't spend enough time on this 315 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: on the right, and I wish we would do more 316 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: on it. 317 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 2: Obamacare is a disaster. 318 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: Everybody who was a huge critic of it, saying it's 319 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: going to cost so much more, your coverage is going 320 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: to get last it was all true. 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We have 344 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: the White House addressing the shutdown and other questions right now. 345 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:13,160 Speaker 1: But on the shutdown issue, here's here's where things stand. Democrats, 346 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: I think that they are finding this is not breaking 347 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: the way for them that they have wanted it to. 348 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: They in general think that shutdowns are something that favors Democrats, 349 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: probably because they have the media in their back pocket. 350 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,719 Speaker 1: But here, here, let let's get into some of this. 351 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, for example, Senator Cruz, this has cut four 352 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: It's pretty straightforward. The Republicans have said they'll fund the government. 353 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: It's Democrats that want their special goodies in addition to 354 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: the the continuing Resolution funding. So it's Democrats who are 355 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: throwing their little tantrum, and Senator Cruz is saying, maybe 356 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: they should stop stop throwing tantrents. 357 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 6: Play for the real reason we're having the shutdown is 358 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:02,359 Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer is at a political crisis. A couple of 359 00:20:02,359 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 6: months ago, he agreed to allow the government to stay open, 360 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 6: and his left wing base got furious with him. He 361 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 6: is looking over his left shoulder, terrified that AOC is 362 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 6: going to primary him. And so this is a temper tantrum. 363 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 6: This is Chuck Schumer and the Democrats saying, we hate 364 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 6: Donald Trump, and we hate Donald Trump so much we 365 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 6: are going to shut the government down. The government will 366 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:27,439 Speaker 6: reopen when Schumer's temper tantrum ends. But this is pure 367 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 6: political theater, trying to guard his left base. 368 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 2: So that's one part of it. 369 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: Democrats trying to figure out how to play this when 370 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: it comes to their constituencies and what this looks like. 371 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: And I like that Senator Cruz goes after the possibility 372 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: of an AOC primary. Oh man, wouldn't that be great? 373 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,159 Speaker 1: It would be such a fun thing to do to 374 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 1: just just pop the popcorn and watch AOC try to 375 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 1: take Schumer down. And he's got to be thinking about that. 376 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 2: Schumer. He's a guy who say what you will about him. 377 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,479 Speaker 1: He knows how to keep that funding flowing for his 378 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: campaigns and he wants to keep that Senate seat. But 379 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: AOC would have a big advantage with well, a whole 380 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 1: bunch of things, but certainly with her media profile and 381 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: using digital media. This mom, Donny guy, by the way, 382 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 1: New York, I'm worried. I'm worried about what's gonna happen 383 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,760 Speaker 1: to you guys. I really am, including my own family 384 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 1: that's there. This mom, Donny guy's a disaster, really truly. 385 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: He he'sn't even worse. 386 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 2: I thought he was really bad. 387 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,440 Speaker 1: But the more I'm seeing from him, I think he's 388 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 1: worse than I thought, which I'm not even sure I 389 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:40,120 Speaker 1: knew that was. 390 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 2: Possible, but it is because he is. It's not good. 391 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 2: It's not good. 392 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna get some fellow Floridians out of 393 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: this bargain, some people who are sane, but I know 394 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 1: a lot. 395 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 2: Of people are. It's not as easy as just picking 396 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 2: up and leaving. I was lucky. 397 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:01,919 Speaker 1: I was not yet married, had a mobile job, I 398 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: didn't have a kid yet in school, so it was 399 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: easy enough for me to move. 400 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 2: I know it's hard for people to just pick up 401 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 2: and move, and they. 402 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: Shouldn't have to, right, You shouldn't have to flee some 403 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: communist maniac in a state like New York, which is 404 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 1: a great place and has so much going for it. 405 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: The city of New York, I should say, which has 406 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: so much going for it. 407 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 2: But here we are. 408 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 1: There, here's Trump. Let's just let Trump weigh in. This 409 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: is cut one on the shutdown and the possibility there 410 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: could be some Democrat job cuts from this. 411 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 2: Go for it, but it's all because of the Democrats. 412 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 9: The Democrats are causing the loss of a lot of 413 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 9: jobs with their it's a shutdown. 414 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 2: It's their shutdown, not our shutdown. It's their shutdown. 415 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,920 Speaker 1: It is their shutdown, the Schumer shut down, if you will. 416 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 1: They have decided that it is so important for them 417 00:22:53,760 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: to try to get these Obamacare ACA supplemental payments out there. 418 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: Let's just make this really easy Obamacare, which is this 419 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: signature achievement, if you can call it that. 420 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 2: But the main thing. 421 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 1: That Barack Obama in eight years got done was Obamacare, 422 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: as we know, I know, ruining the country and igniting 423 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: race riots and all that. Yeah, that too, But the 424 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: main thing from a legislative standpoint is Obamacare. And they 425 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: promised that this was going to cover everybody and it 426 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: was going to bring cost down. That was really it 427 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,720 Speaker 1: was going to cover everybody and bring costs down and 428 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:47,560 Speaker 1: also not explode deficit spending. And what you've seen is 429 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,360 Speaker 1: that it was a It has failed on all fronts. Essentially, 430 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: it has covered more people, but overwhelmingly through medicaid. Medicaid 431 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: is busting budgets in stea all over the country. And 432 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: there's the complicated machinery of how these states are funding 433 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 1: these programs and how they're like what they do in 434 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: a state like California, they spend in order to get 435 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,399 Speaker 1: they spend more to they can get more federal matching dollars. 436 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 2: They're running all. 437 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: Kinds of scams essentially to just create this massive slush 438 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:27,879 Speaker 1: fund and Medicaid. There's so much of it too that 439 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with actual care and. 440 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 2: It's a disaster. 441 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 1: But okay, before we get into all or without even 442 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 1: getting into this state funding of these things, have your 443 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: premiums gone up? All of you are saying yes, have 444 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:45,679 Speaker 1: your premiums gone up? 445 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:46,159 Speaker 7: A lot? 446 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 1: As in are you in whatever healthcare plan you have 447 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 1: which you weren't allowed to keep? That was the big 448 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: promise of obamaca if you like your plan, you can 449 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,159 Speaker 1: keep your plan. No, you can't. And on your new plan, 450 00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: do you have better coverage? 451 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 2: You don't. Are you paying a lot more for it? Yes? 452 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 2: You are. 453 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,120 Speaker 1: Was the whole Obamacare game, other than being a huge 454 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: giveaway to really the insurance industry, but was the whole 455 00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: game that you were subsidizing. It's just a complex scheme 456 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: for you to subsidize other people's healthcare. That's what medicaid is. 457 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 1: But that's also what a lot of Obamacare exchanges are 458 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: really all about. It is healthcare socialism. It's exactly what 459 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: people who were criticizing it, like me at the time, 460 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: said it would be. But then you add to that illegals. 461 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: You add to that the millions and millions of people 462 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: who have come into this country who are illegal aliens, 463 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: who are also getting healthcare now in something like emergency 464 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,320 Speaker 1: room care. You've seen New York City with its surge. 465 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 2: Of migrants in. 466 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four, thirty percent of emergency room visits where 467 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 1: legals because they just use it as Okay, now I 468 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 1: have a toothache, I go to the er. I need 469 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: prescription glasses. I go to the er and they don't 470 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: pay anything, and no one thinks they're going to pay anything. 471 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: So that's one part of this, right, But the way 472 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,879 Speaker 1: it works is even more complicated and more nefarious, I 473 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 1: would say, than just you having to shoulder the burden 474 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: of people coming into this country and making the because 475 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: the money comes from somewhere, right, someone is paying. 476 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,000 Speaker 2: For all these illegals. 477 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: Oh, and you also pay for it with your time 478 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 1: if you try to go to and this is true 479 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 1: if cities across the country, if you try to go 480 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: to the emergency room for an emergency. I know, they 481 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,360 Speaker 1: say they do triage, but they're overwhelmed. They got doctors, 482 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, maybe you get seen before the 483 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: illegals if you've got like a you know. 484 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 2: A stake knife in your shoulder when you come in. 485 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: But if you go in there and you know you're 486 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: having a problem and you want to get seen quickly 487 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: and it's not like immediate life or death, you got 488 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,199 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of illegals who are in there, who 489 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: are also being seen, who are being seen ahead of you, 490 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: and they're using it, like I said, for non emergency care. 491 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,639 Speaker 1: But then you look at what happens in say California, 492 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: New York, where they do give they do give health 493 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: care to illegals as part of their state programs. Well, 494 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,359 Speaker 1: then what California does is find every creative way possible 495 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 1: to make the federal government pay more health care funds 496 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 1: into the state of California, which are then fungible, which 497 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: then California uses to cover illegals. 498 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 2: This is the game. 499 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: And they say, oh, but none of these Obamacare dollars 500 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: go to illegals. Okay, but California, the state of California 501 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: has a budget, it has money that it spends. And 502 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: if California is spending money covering illegals and also taking 503 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: federal dollars to shore up whatever wild spending spreees it's 504 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 1: going on with healthcare generally, guess. 505 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 2: What this is like. When they used to say, remember 506 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 2: that one. 507 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:15,119 Speaker 1: Of the big lies about planned parenthood, with its decades 508 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: of murdering babies in the womb, planned paranoid, it was oh, well, 509 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: none of the dollars will go remember the high Demendment. 510 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: None of the dollars will go toward abortion, only go 511 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: toward women's healthcare. If I tell you, hey, you're running, 512 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: you need money for your household budget, I'm going to 513 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: give you one thousand dollars a month, but only for food. 514 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: You can't use it for gas. Well, if I'm giving 515 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: you a thousand dollars, what difference does it make. I'm 516 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 1: giving you one thousand dollars, right, whatever, the money that 517 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 1: you were going to be spending on food can now 518 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: be used for gas. This is how they play the 519 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: game of giving illegals healthcare coverage, and this is why 520 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: Democrats are fighting so hard on this issue and why 521 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: people like. 522 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren Sharp shut he's just shaking her fist. 523 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: Here she is when CBS asks her if Democrats want 524 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: to provide healthcare to non citizens, this is cut to 525 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: listen to what Senator Warren when she goes on the 526 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,040 Speaker 1: war path, she's scary. 527 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 2: Listen to what she has to say. 528 00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: Publicans say, what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for, 529 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: as they put it, illegal aliens. 530 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 2: I know that's not strictly true, but there is a provision. 531 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 2: Excuse me, not strictly it's not true, but. 532 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 7: Out why it is a flat out lie the way 533 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 7: that they frame it in Medicaid, there is nothing in 534 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 7: Medicare that permits one undocumented immigrant to get one dollar 535 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 7: of assistance. 536 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: But they get it. And now they've already admitted that 537 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 1: it does happen. They just say it doesn't happen. It's 538 00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: the classic Democrat sliding scale. It's not happening your line. Okay, 539 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: it's happening, but it's not happening that much. You know 540 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: where they'll eventually be as people see more than numbers. Okay, 541 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: it's happening, and it's a good thing. Shut your face. 542 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: Why are you such a racist? That's where we're headed, 543 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: you know, but Elizabeth Warren fired up there, someone better 544 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,239 Speaker 1: hands her a peace pipe. Very upset, very unhappy with this. 545 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: But people are sick of Remember, our healthcare has gotten 546 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 1: more expensive and worse, and illegals are getting health care 547 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: out a whole bunch of ways, and you are paying 548 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: for it, and your children and your grandchildren will be 549 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: paying for it. And that's wrong. We should not be 550 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: the soup kitchen and emergency room for the entire world's poor. 551 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: And that's what we are right now. And it's not fair, 552 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: it's not right. We have Americans who need help. We 553 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: have Americans who are struggling. 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Today, 580 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: two guys. 581 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 8: Walk up to a mic Hey Anything Goes Clay Travis 582 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 8: and Buck sext to find them on the free iHeartRadio 583 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 8: app or wherever you get your podcasts. 584 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 2: All right, welcome back in to Clay and Buck. 585 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: We should be joined here in just a few moments, 586 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 1: a few minutes, i should say, by Speaker of the 587 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: House Johnson. So that will give us the most up 588 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:33,880 Speaker 1: to date possible from the inside of the Capitol and 589 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,400 Speaker 1: of this negotiation process on the Schumer shutdown. And I'm 590 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: going to ask him some specific questions about exactly what 591 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: we were just talking about, what's really at the heart 592 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 1: of this, and why are Democrats so dead set on 593 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: Well they set this thing off. Remember, Republicans said, here's 594 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: here's the cr let's just keep funding the government. 595 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 2: No big deal. 596 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 1: Democrats said, no, I want more stuff beyond just funding 597 00:32:58,360 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: the government. 598 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:00,479 Speaker 9: WHOA. 599 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: No, you are not in the majority. You do not 600 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: have the White House, you do not have the House, 601 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: you don't have the Senate. 602 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 2: What all right? 603 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: Government shutdown here? We are time for Democrats to see 604 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,800 Speaker 1: the light and be reasonable. Well, that means we could 605 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: be waiting a very long time. VIP email from Mike. 606 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,800 Speaker 1: I agree with President Trump using the National Guard, but 607 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: here's a different approach. Don't go into these Democrat run 608 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: cities that are saying they don't need them. Then flood 609 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,719 Speaker 1: the TV and radio stations with ads, dating or already 610 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: you are ready to send them into help. But your 611 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: Democrat leaders say there's no crime problem if you agree 612 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: to keep voting Democrat. If you want law an order, 613 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: vote Republican. 614 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 2: Mike. 615 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: I like the idea, but I think Trump just wants 616 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: to save people and prove the process. Unfortunately, some of 617 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: these cities Democrat voters, they just haven't suffered enough. They 618 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: will not change their minds. They refuse to see reality. 619 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 2: Think about it. 620 00:33:54,760 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 1: Lori Lightfoot was a horrible mayor for Chicago, absolutely an incompetent. Uh, 621 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: just a disaster, and their crime rate was through the 622 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,720 Speaker 1: roof and the riots and the George Floyd stuff and everything. 623 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: And then Chicago decided to elect Brandon Johnson, who might 624 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: be worse as a mayor. Hard to imagine. People keep saying, Mom, 625 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: Donnie's gonna be the worst mayor in America, worse than 626 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson. Really, I mean that's possible, Mom, Donnie could, Mom, 627 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: Donnie could go for the crown here, he could be 628 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 1: the champ. But it's tough. Brandon Johnson's really bad. Is 629 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: Ted Wheeler still the mayor of Portland? I remember he 630 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 1: was his Guys, who's the mayor of Portland right now. 631 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,799 Speaker 1: I don't know the mayors of every city. I know 632 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, but I don't know the mayors 633 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: of every city. Offhand. It was Wheeler, which was hilarious 634 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,320 Speaker 1: because I remember he went down during the George Floyd 635 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 1: Riots and he went down to downtown Portland to tell 636 00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: Anti fuzz. 637 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 2: He's like, I'm with you, guys, and they. 638 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,960 Speaker 1: Were like, shut up, you you will you know, capular 639 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,320 Speaker 1: capitalist swine. 640 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 2: I mean, they absolutely hated his guns. That's the best when. 641 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 1: You're a cringing, bowing, kneeling, scraping lib politician. Keith Wilson 642 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,759 Speaker 1: is the current mayor of Portland, Oregon. I'm sure he's 643 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:16,320 Speaker 1: just I'm sure he is Ted. 644 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,879 Speaker 2: Wheeler two point zero. He's got to be. He's got 645 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,920 Speaker 2: to be because they're. 646 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: Not allowing, not allowing law enforcement to help their federal 647 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 1: counterparts local law enforcement. So that's all you have to 648 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,840 Speaker 1: know about so much as a leader as a mayor. 649 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: Let's take Lisa calling in from San Antonio, Texas, wants 650 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 1: to chat. 651 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 9: What's up, Lisa, Well, I'm glad you're back, and I 652 00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,960 Speaker 9: just wanted to give people some example of what's really 653 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 9: happening in the emergency rooms in the medical centers. My 654 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,640 Speaker 9: father fell, he's ninety three and split up in the 655 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 9: back of his head, wasn't seen for four to five 656 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,360 Speaker 9: hours after getting to the emergency room because it was 657 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,800 Speaker 9: so full and overcrowded. Then he was released until after 658 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,400 Speaker 9: midnight that night. That's from eleven am on a Sunday 659 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 9: to after midnight on a Sunday when he finally was 660 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,320 Speaker 9: able to be released with staples in his head because 661 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:17,280 Speaker 9: of the overcrowding of the emergency rooms because of the illegals. 662 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for calling in. Sorry your dad had to 663 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: go through that. But this is happening all the time, 664 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 1: all across the country. So you're paying for with your 665 00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,839 Speaker 1: tax dollars, you're paying for with your time. You're paying 666 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,799 Speaker 1: for with your suffering when you're sitting there waiting to 667 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 1: actually get seen in an emergency room, and Democrats want 668 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: to tell you there's no problem. 669 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 2: Be quiet. 670 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:38,319 Speaker 1: Sound sounds kind of xenophobic or racist to even care 671 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,359 Speaker 1: about all the illegals in these emergency rooms. 672 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,200 Speaker 2: That's what they want to tell you. 673 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,520 Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to you a speaker Johnson here 674 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,279 Speaker 1: in just a few moments about this shutdown. Also, my 675 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 1: interview with the president of Taiwan. Is China getting ready 676 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,279 Speaker 1: to invade and why should Americans care about it? And 677 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,399 Speaker 1: what should President Trump know about it? That's all coming 678 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:56,080 Speaker 1: up next hour.