Speaker 1: Let's talk about the latest on the federal ice raids
Speaker 1: and the subsequent protests happening around the country. The flashpoint
Speaker 1: happened in Los Angeles, California, when overnight curfew was lifted
Speaker 1: at nine a m.
Speaker 2: Eastern.
Speaker 1: The curfew covered about one square mile in downtown LA
Speaker 1: with a protest against ice raids and troop deployments in
Speaker 1: the city had been concentrated. Similar protests took place in
Speaker 1: other cities, including in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Texas,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, and of course, the nation's capital, Washington, DC. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: three Democratic governors defended the state's immigration enforcement policies before
Speaker 1: the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
Speaker 2: Illinois Governor JB.
Speaker 1: Pritzkert, Minnesota governor and former Democratic Vice presidential nominee Tim Wallas,
Speaker 1: and New York Governor Cathy Hockel testified at what the
Speaker 1: committee describes as quote a hearing with sanctuary state governors.
Speaker 2: End quote and check this out.
Speaker 1: This was the sea in Los Angeles just this afternoon,
Speaker 1: as Homeland Security Secretary Christy nom was speaking.
Speaker 2: About the raids and protests.
Speaker 1: That's Democratic Senator Alex Badia of California, who was confronted
Speaker 1: by security and forcibly removed from that press conference. Badia
Speaker 1: spoke out during nomes initial remarks to reporters and attempted
Speaker 1: to shout questions at the secretary. The senator was shoved
Speaker 1: out of the room, taken to the ground, and handcuffed.
Speaker 2: End quote. You see, ladies and gentlemen, you see that
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 1: That's why they've been talking about Steven Aate Smith being
Speaker 1: a candidate for president of the United States.
Speaker 2: That's why you should be looking at Governor Wes Moore
Speaker 2: of Maryland.
Speaker 1: You should be looking at Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: You know, the people that don't engage in this kind
Speaker 1: of nonsense.
Speaker 2: You talking about propping yourself up.
Speaker 1: It's all nonsense. It's all used as a tool to
Speaker 1: divide us. On one hand, we have the President of
Speaker 1: the United States focusing our attention on illegal immigration and
Speaker 1: really highlighting it to the umph degree to make himself
Speaker 1: look good. Because you can't point to the terrorists right now.
Speaker 1: You can't necessarily point to the economy right now. You
Speaker 1: can't you can't look at the war in Ukraine with Russia.
Speaker 1: You can't point to that right now. You can't point
Speaker 1: to doge in what they're doing because Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: you have had your little tiff over the last week,
Speaker 1: week and a half, So you can't point to that
Speaker 1: right now. So what's a winning hand to play? It's this,
Speaker 1: it's immigration, it's migrants, it's those who are undocumented or
Speaker 1: here illegally. That's a winning hand and that's what he's doing.
Speaker 1: So you got that side. And on another side here
Speaker 1: you have this, Senator Alex Badia, can Christy Nole speak?
Speaker 1: Could you have waited till she finished to ask your questions?
Speaker 1: To shout your questions? You are a senator, right, you
Speaker 1: couldn't wait? So that was just you out of control
Speaker 1: because you were just losing it.
Speaker 2: Hup. You are United States senator.
Speaker 1: Couldn't compose yourself and let the head of Homeland Security
Speaker 1: finish her thoughts before you ask the question?
Speaker 2: Couldn't do that? Harm? Couldn't do it? Hah.
Speaker 1: I know you got an explanation for it. I know
Speaker 1: you got an explanation for it. And in fairness to you,
Speaker 1: because that's what we do here.
Speaker 2: Or to Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smithsrow, I'm gonna be fit to you by making sure
Speaker 1: the people hear what you have to say. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: Senator alexbdir, go ahead, let's hear you.
Speaker 3: If this is how this administration responds to a senator
Speaker 3: with a question, If this is how the Department of
Speaker 3: Home mad Security responds to a Senator with a question,
Speaker 3: you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers,
Speaker 3: to cus to daily abords out in the Los Angeles
Speaker 3: community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will
Speaker 3: hold this administration accountable.
Speaker 2: Really, how are you gonna do that unless you win
Speaker 2: at the post? How are you gonna do that? I'm
Speaker 2: all lives, take your time away. How are you gonna
Speaker 2: do that?
Speaker 1: Because I don't see how it's gonna happen. Senator Alex
Speaker 1: for did did you recognize that you sound a bit
Speaker 1: similar to a couple of other people. Let's take it
Speaker 1: to consideration. California Governor Gavin Newsom, according to a Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, reading from an article right here, hitting all
Speaker 1: of the greatest resistance hits democracy is under assault before
Speaker 1: our eyes. Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are
Speaker 1: at least able to defend themselves, who are at least
Speaker 1: able to defend themselves. He's assaulting the First Amendment. He's
Speaker 1: taking a wrecking ball to our founding father's historic project.
Speaker 1: This is what Gavin Newsom was saying about the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: Doesn't that sounds similar to you? Sounds similar to me.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at certain things like this and I'm
Speaker 1: saying to myself, where's that gonna get you? Because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, when you bring up the
Speaker 1: fact that you don't like what Trump is doing, and
Speaker 1: you're coming to the defense of migrants of immigrants, while
Speaker 1: it's admirable from a humanitarian perspective, all of us as
Speaker 1: human beings, as God fearing individuals, we don't want to
Speaker 1: see anybody suffering the way some of these migrants have
Speaker 1: been suffering. Make no mistake about that. This is not
Speaker 1: what that's about. This is about playing a winning hand
Speaker 1: or creating a winning hand, or incorporating a winning formula.
Speaker 1: Are you doing that? Set it up a deal? Are
Speaker 1: you doing that? Governor Newsom? Because this ain't a winning argument.
Speaker 1: The polls showed that. I don't want to hear anything
Speaker 1: about how there's no mandate with Trump.
Speaker 2: He didn't win fifty percent of the vote. Ain't either.
Speaker 1: He won a popular vote, he won an electoral college vote,
Speaker 1: he won every swing state. He increased his votes with
Speaker 1: young voters, black voters, Hispanic voters.
Speaker 4: Facts.
Speaker 1: It was an indictment against you as a party. And
Speaker 1: what has happened since that time? Now he's gotten into
Speaker 1: office and you're raising Holy hell because he's engaging in
Speaker 1: a level of extremism. To my degree, I feel this way.
Speaker 1: I don't like what I see Trump doing in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles at all. You heard Kevin Fraser come on the
Speaker 1: show just the other day and point out how overblown
Speaker 1: some things are. Right now, had this conspicuous presence that's
Speaker 1: been placed on the city of Los Angeles, where you
Speaker 1: got four members of the National Guard, four thousand members
Speaker 1: of the National Guard, and at least seven hundred members
Speaker 1: of the United States Marines protecting federal property, etc. Is
Speaker 1: all of that necessary? It does seem a bit extreme,
Speaker 1: But if you're a politician and you're trying to play
Speaker 1: a winning hand, if there's nobody in the streets throwing
Speaker 1: stuff at you, if there's nobody in the streets viewing
Speaker 1: hatred at you and being a bit belligerent, what would
Speaker 1: they have to show for the cameras. What would they
Speaker 1: have to show? And you, as a Democratic party, you
Speaker 1: have to remember what the backdrop of all of this
Speaker 1: is law and order from Trump, because they didn't appear
Speaker 1: to be law and order when Biden was in office.
Speaker 1: Open borders, you set nothing. Migrants coming through the streets
Speaker 1: of America, you set nothing. We got medical in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles paying over a billion dollars for migrants, but don't
Speaker 1: have some don't have enough for Los Angeleans who are
Speaker 1: born right here in the United States of America.
Speaker 2: What argument do you think is going to win.
Speaker 1: No one what sins believes that President Trump is totally right.
Speaker 1: This is not about right and wrong with him. This
Speaker 1: is about him knowing he has the benefit of the
Speaker 1: doubt on his side because of what you did over
Speaker 1: for over four years when he was out of office.
Speaker 1: If you were Gavin Newsom, as the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: alluded to, you know what you could have done to
Speaker 1: alleviate this. Since you want to take the Trump administration
Speaker 1: to court and say that he had no business federalizing
Speaker 1: the National Guard, you could have caught.
Speaker 2: The National Guard.
Speaker 1: You could have made sure that law enforcement throughout the
Speaker 1: city of Los Angeles had a very strong, vibrant, conspicuous
Speaker 1: presence where there it might have alleviated the possibility of
Speaker 1: him calling in, meaning Trump calling in the National Guards
Speaker 1: in the Marines.
Speaker 2: You could have done that, but you didn't. And because
Speaker 2: you did it.
Speaker 1: You gave him the opening to do it, because it
Speaker 1: makes you look like you're week on on crime, you're
Speaker 1: weak on lawlessness, you're weak on borders, all the things
Speaker 1: that got him elected.
Speaker 2: You're playing into his hand. And not only did you
Speaker 2: do it, Governor News now.
Speaker 1: Set it up a deer did it because we all
Speaker 1: know you could have waited for her to finish speaking. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say this, they had no business putting cuffs
Speaker 1: on Senate upidea escorting him out of the room, even
Speaker 1: forcibly was within bounds. The Secretary for Homeland Security was speaking.
Speaker 1: You let her finish. You don't want to let her finish, then, hey,
Speaker 1: they definitely should have removed you from the room.
Speaker 2: That is it.
Speaker 1: They didn't need to put you on the they didn't
Speaker 1: need to handcuffed you.
Speaker 2: All they needed to do was keep you out of
Speaker 2: the room.
Speaker 1: You are a United States senator, very disrespectful, comes across
Speaker 1: as authoritarian President Trump.
Speaker 2: Cross of the line, without question, without question.
Speaker 1: But they didn't arrest him. They did let him go,
Speaker 1: and within minutes he was outside holding his own press conference.
Speaker 2: That is Senate up a deal. So let's take that
Speaker 2: into consideration.
Speaker 1: Now that I've said what I had to say about
Speaker 1: the Democrats, who I think I'm playing right into Trump's
Speaker 1: hands and looking like absolute fools doing so, that doesn't
Speaker 1: absolve the Republicans, especially the number one member of the
Speaker 1: GOP these days, that is the forty seventh President of
Speaker 1: the United States. I want to race everybody out there listening.
Speaker 1: I almost caught a heart attack when I heard President
Speaker 1: Trump say what I'm about to show you.
Speaker 2: He said, play that tape please. We have a great
Speaker 2: country and we're going to keep it that way.
Speaker 4: And when it comes to Los Angeles or other cities,
Speaker 4: if we see other cities are gearing up and these
Speaker 4: people are agitators, they're paid, they're professionals, they're insurrectionists, their troublemakers,
Speaker 4: they're all of those things. But I believe they're paid,
Speaker 4: and we're going to find out through Pam Bondi and
Speaker 4: her great staff are great people.
Speaker 2: Justice who they are. Oh no you didn't, No, you didn't.
Speaker 1: Is that President Trump that just called somebody insurrectionists. People
Speaker 1: who are protested in the streets. Dare I say looterers,
Speaker 1: people that are defacing property with graffiti and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You called them insurrectionists.
Speaker 1: But those folks that stormed the US Capitol in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, bulldozing through barricades and capital security, they warn't surrectionists.
Speaker 2: But you're calling these folks directionists. Really, really?
Speaker 1: January sixth, defendants pardoned by Trump. Over one thousand and
Speaker 1: five hundred of them were pardoned by Trump. Where video
Speaker 1: is everywhere of them starming the United States Capital, going
Speaker 1: into chambers, sitting behind the desk of Nancy Pelosi, chanting,
Speaker 1: killed former Vice President Mike Pence. One woman was shot
Speaker 1: by Secret Service. There were a couple of people who died.
Speaker 1: And you call these folks in Los Angeles insurrectionists.
Speaker 2: See, ladies and gentlemen. This is what I meant by
Speaker 2: when I.
Speaker 1: Said, this is what the politicians have done to us,
Speaker 1: not all of them. There is good on both sides,
Speaker 1: there's bad on both sides. But this is what the
Speaker 1: nation's capital, the elected officials legislating and holding purview over
Speaker 1: our country, has done to us. They serve to divide us.
Speaker 1: They're not about bringing us together. They're about keeping us
Speaker 1: divided so we can butt heads with one another, create
Speaker 1: and then living the chaos we do create while they
Speaker 1: chill up on Capitol Hill having dominion over our lives.
Speaker 2: This is why these parties need to be purged. This
Speaker 2: is why there needs to be a cleansing in the
Speaker 2: nation's capital.
Speaker 1: I myself, I'm a fan of Governor Wes Moore Maryland.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of Jos Shapiro of Pennsylvania. I'm a
Speaker 1: fan of Marco Rubio, as crazy as that may sound
Speaker 1: to some of you because of what you see him
Speaker 1: doing as Secretary of State and heading our national security
Speaker 1: intelligence as well national security Rather, I get it. But
Speaker 1: seasoned politicians that know how to articulate themselves and are
Speaker 1: about legislation, are about policies and about laws in our
Speaker 1: land as opposed to creating chaos is what I'm down for.
Speaker 1: Guys like John Kasick, former governor of Ohio, Chris Christi,
Speaker 1: former governor of New Jersey. Not popular with a lot
Speaker 1: of people, popular with me. Nikki Haley, I would have
Speaker 1: voted for her. You don't need this chaos, This is
Speaker 1: exactly what I was afraid of, exactly what I was
Speaker 1: afraid of. Gavin Newsom clearly believes his strategy is to
Speaker 1: be antithetical to anything that is Trump. By showing his
Speaker 1: behavior can remen can emulate Trumps, and other Democrats are
Speaker 1: gonna follow suit. Maxine Waters, God bless her. In her eighties,
Speaker 1: she goes to some event daring federal officials to shoot her.
Speaker 2: Really, really, that's how we're going to behave.
Speaker 1: Like I said when I started, no wonder folks have
Speaker 1: me as a candidate for the presidency of the United
Speaker 1: States of America. Now, to be clear, I might cust
Speaker 1: some people out from time to time, ain't no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. But I would be about bringing people together
Speaker 1: and working on compromise. That's the kind of candidate we need,
Speaker 1: not me, but somebody committed to galvanizing instead of polarizing.
Speaker 1: The way this is going right now, times are only
Speaker 1: gonna get uglier before they get better. Because who's really
Speaker 1: sincere when they're talking about how we need to get better.
Speaker 2: I don't see any evidence of it. I just don't