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Speaker 1: glad you with us all. It looks like funding for
Speaker 1: the wall is going to happen. One way or the other.
Speaker 1: One is the president declares a national emergency, and the
Speaker 1: other Congress actually cares about the men and women of
Speaker 1: law enforcement, and the families of those who have lost
Speaker 1: loved ones, and the drugs that are pouring into the country,
Speaker 1: and those that are victims of human trafficking. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought they had all the compassion in the world.
Speaker 1: The Left apparently not. And as the media is now
Speaker 1: highlighting for the first time, the furloughed government employees are
Speaker 1: not getting checks, and I could sympathize with them, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's difficult, challenging for some of them. I
Speaker 1: live paycheck to paycheck. I remember for a long time
Speaker 1: I had two hundred dollars an old Stone bank in Warren,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island. That's all I had. That was it. It's
Speaker 1: been all my money on college. Didn't have anymore, and
Speaker 1: I was living paycheck to paycheck. So the sooner this
Speaker 1: gets done, they get their money, They pay their mortgages,
Speaker 1: their rents, there car payments, and get their groceries and
Speaker 1: everything else. That they need to tweet in between. You know, Democrats,
Speaker 1: though they've got they bear a huge responsibility in this.
Speaker 1: They all supported this policy when Barack Obama was president.
Speaker 1: Barack Obama sounded like Donald Trump, so did Chucky Schumer,
Speaker 1: so did Hillary Clinton, and so did Joe Biden, and
Speaker 1: so did all these other hypocrites out there. And so
Speaker 1: the real reason they're not going along with this is
Speaker 1: because Donald Trump will get the job done. It's sort
Speaker 1: of like all the Republicans when they voted to repeal
Speaker 1: them replace Obamacare, knowing it's never gonna be law. You know,
Speaker 1: those show votes, as we called them at the time.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing here. Those were all show votes
Speaker 1: by Democrats to act like they really supported border security.
Speaker 1: But now that it means something, they're not going anywhere
Speaker 1: near it, and nor did they want in any way, shape,
Speaker 1: matter or form, any political success of the president. You know,
Speaker 1: one other thing I do know, and I do understand.
Speaker 1: By the way, is this on all right? Could we
Speaker 1: pull out all the plugs and turn that away from me?
Speaker 1: You're kidding me. I had no idea. It's here unbelievable. Anyway,
Speaker 1: All the Democrats in the media are saying that it's
Speaker 1: a horrible, horrible, and it's it's so inconvenient and so unnecessary,
Speaker 1: and it creates anxiety for so many people. I think
Speaker 1: that's going to be handled in pretty short order for
Speaker 1: those that are furloughed. But all the men and women
Speaker 1: in ICE, all the border patrol agents think about this.
Speaker 1: It all need to find new careers if the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party had their way, because before the twenty eighteen midterms,
Speaker 1: they wanted to abolish and some today Acasio Cortez wants
Speaker 1: to abolish ICE and the things that are being said.
Speaker 1: You know when they say manufactured crisis, Okay, that's a
Speaker 1: great term. When you watch and I hope you will
Speaker 1: watch tonight, Hannity, well you're gonna meet families that lost
Speaker 1: loved ones that were killed by illegal immigrants, including the
Speaker 1: police officer, a police officers seeing out in California. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna meet the parents of Pierce Corkrant they lost
Speaker 1: their twenty two year old son in Knoxville, Tennessee. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna meet other parents. You know, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a manufactured crisis in their lives. You know, we
Speaker 1: found an interesting statistic because and maybe I'm just thinking
Speaker 1: the numbers that we have been given were about three
Speaker 1: hundred overdose deaths a week, when as it relates to
Speaker 1: heroin h there is a Center for Disease Control study
Speaker 1: that shows it's well well over nine hundred a week
Speaker 1: in terms of opioid heroin deaths that take place. Ninety
Speaker 1: percent of that, of course coming across our southern border,
Speaker 1: which is a big deal. How many of you saw
Speaker 1: Jim Acosta. I mean, it's the greatest moment in the
Speaker 1: history of television. Jim acostas in McCallum, Texas, and this
Speaker 1: is you know, it takes us tweet tweets it out.
Speaker 1: I guess he's standing next to a barrier wall, you know,
Speaker 1: and he goes, I'm here the wall. That's right, and
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong. It's all fine. There's nobody here. And
Speaker 1: here are some of the steel slats that the President's
Speaker 1: been talking about right here, as you can see, yes,
Speaker 1: you can't see through these slats to the other side
Speaker 1: of the US Mexico border. But as we're walking along here,
Speaker 1: we're not seeing any kind of imminent danger. There are
Speaker 1: no migrants trying to rush toward this fence. Here in
Speaker 1: the McCallan, Texas area. As a matter of fact, there
Speaker 1: are some other businesses behind me along this highway. There's
Speaker 1: a gas station, burger king, and so on. But no
Speaker 1: sign of the now emergency that president who has been
Speaker 1: talking about. As a matter of fact, it's pretty tranquil
Speaker 1: down here is seeing it. I mean the president. The
Speaker 1: President literally tweeted out a cost that that's our point.
Speaker 1: If you build the barrier, you're not going to have
Speaker 1: the trouble. Now, there is a report out now that
Speaker 1: says a new migrant caravan, larger than the first one,
Speaker 1: is now forming in Honduras yet again and plans to
Speaker 1: leave next week. Now where we are in all of
Speaker 1: this is the Trump administration is going to make a
Speaker 1: decision at some point. How is it that they're going
Speaker 1: to approach getting the money? And there's different schools of thought.
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham says the President should declare a national emergency
Speaker 1: now there is the precedence for it. There will be
Speaker 1: a court fight that would ensue. The likelihood of judge
Speaker 1: shopping would be real. They would probably send it out
Speaker 1: to you know, California, Oregon and guarantee that they get
Speaker 1: a liberal judge and it gets the appeal would go
Speaker 1: to the ninth Circuit and then it would make of itself.
Speaker 1: Although you can't expedite all of that, and it could
Speaker 1: be done faster than people think could work its way
Speaker 1: through the courts in a shorter period of time. You know,
Speaker 1: I can tell you seeing this everywhere here. You know
Speaker 1: we have Long Island has a massive MS third teen problem,
Speaker 1: and many of the members of this game MS thirteen
Speaker 1: oh Long Island are illegal immigrants. Fox had a report
Speaker 1: that there was three suspects arrested following a bat and
Speaker 1: knife attack outside of a Burger King restaurant and by
Speaker 1: the way, a pretty well known area in New York
Speaker 1: on Long Island that I used to live. Anyway, goes
Speaker 1: on to say that two of the three were previously
Speaker 1: held by Homeland Security but were ordered released by federal judges.
Speaker 1: That's why judge ships matter anyway. One of them is
Speaker 1: twenty year old Nobel A Montize Zuniga, and you have
Speaker 1: Romone Aravola Lopez nineteen and another one, Oscar Canalius Molina, seventeen,
Speaker 1: facing second degree assault charges related to a brawl outside
Speaker 1: of a Burger King in Huntington Station has all happened
Speaker 1: Wednesday of this week. All three entered the US illegally
Speaker 1: as unaccompanied miners. Well, it's not clear what the groups
Speaker 1: were fighting out. One thing is clear. Everyone arrested are
Speaker 1: confirmed members of MS thirteen. According to the Suffolk County
Speaker 1: Police Commissioner, all three defendants were previously confirmed MS thirteen
Speaker 1: gang members. And it goes on to say that thereafter
Speaker 1: they were detained by the US Department of Homeland Securities, Immigration, Customs,
Speaker 1: and Enforcement, and then they were released from custody by
Speaker 1: a federal District County court judge. By the way, why
Speaker 1: don't we ever give out the names of these judges
Speaker 1: that put us in harm's way all the time they're
Speaker 1: in the country illegally. It was just sort of like
Speaker 1: the idiocy of catch and release. Yeah, come back and
Speaker 1: come to court in about a month and a half.
Speaker 1: Your court date is two months from now. Oh, nobody
Speaker 1: shows up. Why would they anyway, It goes on to
Speaker 1: say that these agents had wanted to travel to New
Speaker 1: York live with their mother, blah blah blah, and you
Speaker 1: know it's and this is hours before the President traveled
Speaker 1: to the southern border yesterday, where I was I think
Speaker 1: for the fourteenth time. Most of these people I know
Speaker 1: in my business, media, TV, radio, they don't ever go
Speaker 1: to the border. They've not seen the things that I
Speaker 1: have had the opportunity to see. Where we were in McCallum,
Speaker 1: Texas yesterday, and I've been all the way from the
Speaker 1: Rio Grand all across the border to San Diego. But
Speaker 1: you can walk across. On one side is Mexico. The
Speaker 1: other side, if you make it across, that's the United States.
Speaker 1: You could. And it's so shallow you can walk across it.
Speaker 1: And if you can't do it in a minute or less,
Speaker 1: that means you're really slow. You could have a cane
Speaker 1: and walk across in about a minute. I mean, blad
Speaker 1: that mister Marathon you know runner over there probably do
Speaker 1: it in twenty seconds, you know. Newsday had a report
Speaker 1: out today. In twenty seventeen, Long Island, New York, nearly
Speaker 1: forty percent of all homicides committed by MS thirteen gang
Speaker 1: members forty percent. Twenty seventeen, MS thirteen was responsible for
Speaker 1: fifty percent of homicides in Nassau count which is the
Speaker 1: county I was born in where I lived a big
Speaker 1: part of my life. Suffolk County twenty seven percent. Eight
Speaker 1: of the fifteen homicides in Nassau County believed to be
Speaker 1: victims of MS thirteen violence. And it's gotten to the
Speaker 1: point that they even at the Long Island Railroad, they're
Speaker 1: just shutting down crossings because that's where some of the
Speaker 1: gang members hang out. We wantn't you arrest them? Maybe
Speaker 1: that would solve the problem. Anyway, the Democratic wall is
Speaker 1: beginning to crack. I don't have a strong feeling either way.
Speaker 1: I know the President has the statutory legitimacy to declare
Speaker 1: a national emergency. That's not even in question, and he
Speaker 1: certainly has, as commander in chief, the constitutional authority to
Speaker 1: do this, and it's just a matter of which way
Speaker 1: he decides to go. Now, the administration is now laying
Speaker 1: the groundwork to declare a national emergency to build the wall.
Speaker 1: Fox News had reported that the President set those wheel
Speaker 1: in motion to fund alternatives or finding alternative ways to
Speaker 1: fund the wall. That means Nancy and Chuck can go
Speaker 1: pound sand and the White House has directed the Army
Speaker 1: Corps of Engineers to look at possible ways of funding
Speaker 1: the Border of Security. Sarah Sanders told Fox News last
Speaker 1: night as ongoing partial federal government shutdown over money for
Speaker 1: the border wall is less than two days away from
Speaker 1: becoming the longest in our nation's history. By the way,
Speaker 1: good things happened when New Gingrich had to shut down
Speaker 1: and fight with Bill Clinton. Anyway, the White House has
Speaker 1: directed the Corps of Engineers to examine the February twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen Emergencies Supplemental Budget, which included disaster relief of California, Florida, Texas,
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, among other states, to see what unsped funds
Speaker 1: could then be used to use for the border wall.
Speaker 1: Apparently have thirteen point nine billion dollars available. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna do it, let's get the whole thing done, and
Speaker 1: let's do it right. The numbers I found from the
Speaker 1: CDC are interesting because we had been sighting three hundred
Speaker 1: deaths in America a week as the number, but the
Speaker 1: Center for Disease Control CDC dot gov has different numbers
Speaker 1: about drug overdose deaths, and from nineteen ninety nine to
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, more than seven hundred thousand people have died
Speaker 1: from a drug overdose. Seven hundred thousand, around sixty eight
Speaker 1: percent of the more than seventy thousand, two hundred drug
Speaker 1: overdose deaths in twenty seventeen involved in opioid. You know,
Speaker 1: look at states like New Hampshire and Maine, in Ohio
Speaker 1: and Michigan and midwestern states. They are really I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like a death of day in some of these
Speaker 1: states and some of these towns. There was one report
Speaker 1: that per capita there was a city in Ohio prescribed
Speaker 1: opioids meaning like oxycotton is like six hundred per person.
Speaker 1: And then when they can't get the pills anymore, then
Speaker 1: they go by heroin, and that heroin, more now than
Speaker 1: ever before, is being laced with fentenyl and Fentnol's guaranteed
Speaker 1: to kill you anyway. They said, on average, one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty Americans die every day, according to the CDC
Speaker 1: from an opioid overdose. That's a lot of Americans. And
Speaker 1: the crime statistics that we have last year, we have
Speaker 1: them available twenty sixteen. Illegal immigrants accounted for thirteen percent
Speaker 1: of all non immigration related federal sentences in fiscal year
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. But yet they're three point five percent of
Speaker 1: the population. I mean, these numbers are staggering, So Lindsay
Speaker 1: Graham is calling for the President to declare a national
Speaker 1: emergency and just build the wall. We'll get to that.
Speaker 1: Support on Capitol Hill to do this with the Republicans
Speaker 1: is building as well. Eighty eight percent of Americans disagree
Speaker 1: with Chuck and Nancy and they do think there is
Speaker 1: a crisis our border. Even the New York Times legal
Speaker 1: experts are saying that Trump can use Pentagon funds to
Speaker 1: build the wall. Wall Street Journal says the Pentagon has
Speaker 1: thirteen billion also available to build the wall, and the
Speaker 1: Pentagon saying that they're ready to help Trump build the wall.
Speaker 1: So it's all set in motion. We have the National
Speaker 1: Emergencies Act of nineteen seventy six that allows the president,
Speaker 1: and it's been used many times before to trigger emergency
Speaker 1: powers conferred on him by Congress. This is a Congressional
Speaker 1: Act that deferred so as a statutory authority as well
Speaker 1: as the constitutional authority. And it will get to all
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Speaker 1: has constitutional authority, which I'll get to in a minute.
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Speaker 1: days he might declare it, and if it comes down
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Speaker 1: powers that were conferred to him by Congress. By the way,
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Speaker 1: the hour, White House contemplating, according to The Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: that the shutdown will continue for weeks. It's a partial
Speaker 1: government shutdown. Now, if you're impacted by it and you
Speaker 1: didn't get your check today, it's it's a burden on
Speaker 1: those people, but it's also a burden on people that
Speaker 1: have permanent separation, like moms and dads that never see
Speaker 1: their kids again. It's certainly a burden on the on
Speaker 1: every small town in big city. The heroin epidemic, opioid
Speaker 1: epidemic that's going on now as of Saturday, though they
Speaker 1: did I guess they they're out of session now in
Speaker 1: the in the House, so that means as of Saturday,
Speaker 1: it will be the longest shutdown ever, which doesn't surprise
Speaker 1: me or mean anything. When the shutdown happened Bill Clinton
Speaker 1: and new Ingrich, we actually got a lot of good
Speaker 1: things done in the end of that one. Anyway, The
Speaker 1: President says he'll sign a bill giving federal workers back
Speaker 1: pay when the down is over. That's breaking news. He
Speaker 1: said he's not going to declare the national emergency right now,
Speaker 1: and the President made those comments just moments ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the messages that I appreciate their service to the country.
Speaker 1: They are incredible people for federal employees that we're talking about,
Speaker 1: But many of them agree with what I'm saying and
Speaker 1: what the people in this room who are experts are saying.
Speaker 1: They don't want to see people killed because we can't
Speaker 1: do a simple border structure, and I appreciate their incredible
Speaker 1: support we have. Yesterday, I was watching this morning and
Speaker 1: reading this morning that so many people are saying the
Speaker 1: President is doing what's right, and even though it's affecting
Speaker 1: us short term temporarily. As you know, a bill was
Speaker 1: just passed which I will sign in Congress making sure
Speaker 1: that everybody's going to be paid immediately upon when this
Speaker 1: is over. But I just really appreciate the fact that
Speaker 1: they have handled it so incredibly well, and many of
Speaker 1: them agree with what we're doing. We have no choice. Steve,
Speaker 1: go ahead, twenty four hours ago, you probably going to
Speaker 1: declare a nationally so I said I could do it,
Speaker 1: but well, I'll tell you why. It's the easy way out.
Speaker 1: But Congress should do this. This is too simple, it's
Speaker 1: too basic, and Congress should do this if they can't
Speaker 1: do it, If at some point they just can't do it,
Speaker 1: this is a fifteen minute meeting. If they can't do it,
Speaker 1: I will declare a national emergency. I have the absolute
Speaker 1: right to do it. It says as clear as you
Speaker 1: can now what will happen. I'll be sued, it will
Speaker 1: be brought to the Ninth Circuit, and maybe even though
Speaker 1: the wording is unambiguous, just like we're the travel ban,
Speaker 1: It'll be appealed to the Ninth Circuit and we'll probably
Speaker 1: lose there too, and then hopefully we'll win in the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court. But that's what happens. You can take the
Speaker 1: most perfectly word a document, as we have in this case,
Speaker 1: and they'll always bring it to the Ninth Circuit and
Speaker 1: then you never know what's going to come out of
Speaker 1: the Ninth Circuit, and you never know what's going to
Speaker 1: come out on appeal. But fortunately we have a Supreme
Speaker 1: Court that's treated us very fairly. So I'd rather not
Speaker 1: do it because this is something that Congress should easily do.
Speaker 1: This is something that the Democrats should do, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to give an easy way out of something
Speaker 1: as simple as this. Not only simple, it's easy, and
Speaker 1: it's going to sue pure. You know, we have a
Speaker 1: country that is under siege. You could actually you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't like the word invasion. We
Speaker 1: have a country that's being invaded by criminals and by drugs,
Speaker 1: and we're going to stop it. So I want the
Speaker 1: Democrats to come back to Washington and vote. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, All right. That's the President being very adamant
Speaker 1: with reporters and saying, well, if I have to, I'll
Speaker 1: do it, but it's gonna take the buddy's pushing the
Speaker 1: Democrats to do their job. The very same policies they
Speaker 1: supported for years, they say, but now that it means something,
Speaker 1: It's just like Republicans voting for repeal and replace. They're
Speaker 1: all four at sixty five times when it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: anything and it's never gonna pass. Then they got an
Speaker 1: opportunity when it would have passed. Oh I'm not sure now,
Speaker 1: or in twenty fifteen when you get seven Republicans in
Speaker 1: the Senate that vote for a straight up repeal of Obamacare,
Speaker 1: but they knew it was never gonna matter because Obama
Speaker 1: is never going to sign that, so they can vote
Speaker 1: for it. Then they can go back to the districts
Speaker 1: and tell people or their states and I voted to
Speaker 1: repeal Obamacare. So many of these politicians are so phony.
Speaker 1: You know. One thing you gotta like with this president
Speaker 1: is that he likes to fight for the promises he
Speaker 1: made and he's doing it. And I was there yesterday
Speaker 1: with him and did the interview. We'll air some of
Speaker 1: that interview coming up later in the program today. But
Speaker 1: and I'm listening all these border patrol leaders in this
Speaker 1: particular sector right where the Rio grand is and it's
Speaker 1: just a hop, skip at a jump, and you're in
Speaker 1: America with no barrier whatsoever. And I'm talking to these
Speaker 1: border patrol agents. I literally did the interview with the
Speaker 1: President standing up in front of literally mounds of drugs
Speaker 1: that they had confiscated this week. I told you, I've
Speaker 1: been to those drug warehouses. It's unbelievable. Now, this is
Speaker 1: an interesting fact found by ABC of old people. They
Speaker 1: actually did some work they found. According to the Federal Register,
Speaker 1: fifty eight national emergencies have been declared since the National
Speaker 1: Emergencies Act of nineteen seventy six, which allows a president
Speaker 1: to trigger the emergency powers conferred on them by Congress.
Speaker 1: And it's been in place now in various forms for
Speaker 1: more than like one hundred and fifty years. But anyway,
Speaker 1: fifty eight national emergencies have been declared since the National
Speaker 1: Emergency Act, the latest act. But we've had this going back,
Speaker 1: you know, before Lincoln was president, for crying out well,
Speaker 1: and thirty one of them are still in operation today.
Speaker 1: Continued today they're annually renewed and they're still in effect.
Speaker 1: You know, national emergency with respect to Iran, Well, that
Speaker 1: was Jimmy Carter when he was president. We can go
Speaker 1: back that far. Somebody used a lot of this was
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton used it on a number of occasions.
Speaker 1: George W. Bush did it on a number of occasions.
Speaker 1: Barack Obama did it, and a number of occasions, including
Speaker 1: I think one with Columbia because of the trafficking of
Speaker 1: drugs into the country. So there's no doubt about the
Speaker 1: statutory right of the president to do so or the
Speaker 1: constitutional right to do so. He's the commander in chief.
Speaker 1: First role as commander in chief is to protect the homeland.
Speaker 1: And I don't care what term you want to use,
Speaker 1: but people that keep entering our country illegally, that are
Speaker 1: pulling on our infrastructure in terms of our healthcare and
Speaker 1: our education and our criminal justice system. The four hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy court cases that have been set precedence as
Speaker 1: it relates to the nineteen seventy six Act, so the
Speaker 1: president can use those legal tools available available to him.
Speaker 1: And it's not a legislady he's saying, okay, with all
Speaker 1: the drugs coming into the country with all the human
Speaker 1: trafficking involved, with all the deaths that have taken place,
Speaker 1: and you're going to meet many of these angel moms
Speaker 1: and adds tonight. You know, if you watch Tannity tonight
Speaker 1: and you see these parents that lost their kids and
Speaker 1: they tell their stories, ask yourself, does that sound like
Speaker 1: a manufactured crisis to you? Or if you believe the
Speaker 1: you know, the Centers for Disease Controlled number nine hundred
Speaker 1: opioid deaths a week a week, or you believe the
Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security three hundred one thing that is happening.
Speaker 1: We're beginning to see the Democrats are beginning to get nervous,
Speaker 1: and some Democratic lawmakers are beginning to crack on their
Speaker 1: opposition to the wall, and apparently it's getting a little
Speaker 1: difficult in caucus sessions. One Democrat calling Peterson in Minnesota
Speaker 1: Democrats says he got sixty seven calls supporting the wall,
Speaker 1: five against. They are concerned about the trade situation, but
Speaker 1: from what I can tell, they're still hanging with the president. Today.
Speaker 1: We got sixty seven calls from building the wall and
Speaker 1: five agains. Challenge to me, like he's still pretty popular.
Speaker 1: Two O two, two, two, four thirty one twenty one.
Speaker 1: If you want to call you a member of Congress,
Speaker 1: you want to call your senator, you gonna let them
Speaker 1: know how you feel about all of this. You know
Speaker 1: all the polls that have come out. There's another new
Speaker 1: poll that chows the American people do, in fact, believe
Speaker 1: there is a crisis at the border. Morning Console poll
Speaker 1: seventy nine percent of voters believe there is a crisis
Speaker 1: and a problem at our southern border. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: how could you not think so? You know, I don't
Speaker 1: know anybody that has not been impacted by addiction. I
Speaker 1: mean in some way. I mean, you know a neighbor
Speaker 1: that's addicted. You have a friend whose son or daughters addicted.
Speaker 1: You have a friend whose husband or wife is addicted.
Speaker 1: You have a close family member that's addicted. Everybody's dealing
Speaker 1: with us, and these drugs are flooding into the country.
Speaker 1: You know, the human trapp picking. You hear these stories
Speaker 1: about young women from Central America, young women from Mexico
Speaker 1: trafficked up to the United States for to be prostitutes,
Speaker 1: ruining and destroying the lives of these young women, absolutely
Speaker 1: destroying them. Pat Buchanon thinks the president should just declare
Speaker 1: the national emergency. New Gingrich says he should wait, and
Speaker 1: the newt had the longest shutdown ever that's about to
Speaker 1: be broken. One thing that keeps coming up is, you
Speaker 1: know the media is claiming, well, I thought you said
Speaker 1: Mexico was gonna pay for the wall. And I played
Speaker 1: this before because when he was then candidate Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: I asked him specifically. I said, well, you don't think
Speaker 1: that he's gonna Mexico is gonna write a check. Do
Speaker 1: you think Mexico is gonna actually hand over the funds
Speaker 1: so you can build the wall? And he said no,
Speaker 1: not at all. Now they're saying they're not gonna pay
Speaker 1: for it. They will pay for the world. We're gonna
Speaker 1: build the world. We're gonna pay for the wall. We're
Speaker 1: going to stop businesses from leaving our country, and we are.
Speaker 1: They are being and they are being drained out of
Speaker 1: our country, our jobs, our money, our base, and our factories.
Speaker 1: We are we're going to stop it. You don't expect
Speaker 1: he's going to write a check. But what you're saying
Speaker 1: is that they will have to make concession. There's many
Speaker 1: different ways. So in other words, you don't expect Mexico to,
Speaker 1: says frump. Here's a check for tens not feasible. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't look good. So you think the deals that you
Speaker 1: make were more than compensate for the wall, even if
Speaker 1: we tax him. We may tax him, Look, it doesn't
Speaker 1: make any difference. Look we lose a tremendous amount of money,
Speaker 1: or do we have a trade deficit with Mexico fifty
Speaker 1: eight billion dollars year? People don't know that the wall's
Speaker 1: going to cost ten billion dollars. All right, so there
Speaker 1: you go. But the meeting keeps saying, well, where's Mexico
Speaker 1: paying for the wall? Well, he just did a new
Speaker 1: trade deal with Mexico. That's better for the American people.
Speaker 1: There you go, more profits. There's your wall. You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting that Dailey Caller picked up on something. I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty funny. If walls don't work, how
Speaker 1: come Democrats built a wall to protect their convention center
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen? And I know because I've been to
Speaker 1: all these presidential you know, these conventions, the Democratic Party conventions.
Speaker 1: There is another thing. You can't get into the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party convention unless you have a picture id Democrats don't
Speaker 1: want picture IDs when you're voting, but if you want
Speaker 1: to get into their convention, you better have a pictured
Speaker 1: id or else you're not gonna get in anyway. Protesters
Speaker 1: against the Democratic Party's nomination of Hillary Clinton were met
Speaker 1: with tall fencing around the perimeter of Wells Fargo Center
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia during July of twenty sixteen. Many of the
Speaker 1: protesters who gathered outside of the barrier were supported by
Speaker 1: were supporters of independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Some Democrats
Speaker 1: felt like they were cheated. They were and seeing the
Speaker 1: extensive security constructed by the DNC, they don't want to
Speaker 1: hear what we have to say, and that's why we
Speaker 1: are out here daily. Oh it's interesting, you'd even picturized
Speaker 1: d's to get in. You got to walk around defence,
Speaker 1: and you have to go through security, and if your
Speaker 1: last name is Hannity, it takes twice as long. They
Speaker 1: don't like to let me into those conventions, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: they don't have any choice. We see what's happening with
Speaker 1: our media. I mean, you have one station saying this
Speaker 1: morning that CNN called them the station's KUSI and CNN
Speaker 1: fake News called their newsroom asking if one of their
Speaker 1: reporters could give them a local view on the debate
Speaker 1: surrounding the border wall and the government shutdown, and they offered.
Speaker 1: Dan Plan too has reported dozens of times from the border,
Speaker 1: including one story from twenty sixteen that was retweeted by
Speaker 1: former Speaker of the House Knew king Rich and posted
Speaker 1: on the Drudge Report. We believe CNN declined a report
Speaker 1: from KUSI because we informed them that most border patrol
Speaker 1: agents we've spoken to tell us the barrier does in
Speaker 1: fact work. That's another thing. Why didn't Chuck and Nancy
Speaker 1: get on Air Force one yesterday and go travel with
Speaker 1: the president. I've been down on the border fourteen times.
Speaker 1: It's not a single border agent I've met in all
Speaker 1: that time, and I met a lot of them. They're
Speaker 1: all great guys. They're all are willing to put their
Speaker 1: lives on the line for us, and they all say, yeah,
Speaker 1: when we build the wall, yeah, we basically eliminate all
Speaker 1: illegal immigration from that point. Puma County is one great example.
Speaker 1: They went from five miles of all the sixty four
Speaker 1: miles and guess what, ninety seven percent drop anyway, So
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens, but it looks like the President's
Speaker 1: going to hold out, let the Democrats do their job.
Speaker 1: If they don't, he has the option of the National Emergency,
Speaker 1: which clearly he is going to use if he has to,
Speaker 1: not his first choice. We'll see what happens. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: So Kamala Harris, who's going to run for the Democrats?
Speaker 1: They're all trying to outdo themselves with the highest tax rate,
Speaker 1: which is not going to serve them well anyway. Carl
Speaker 1: Anderson twenty sixteen, leader of the Knights of Columbus. She
Speaker 1: starts asking questions of this guy, and were you are
Speaker 1: aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman's right
Speaker 1: to choose when you join the organization? Were you are
Speaker 1: aware that they opposed marriage equality? What does that have
Speaker 1: to is a Catholic group? Were you were aware that
Speaker 1: it's an all male group? Yes? So stop holding the
Speaker 1: American people hostage. M stop manufacturing a crisis. This president
Speaker 1: just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture
Speaker 1: a crisis. This is a manufacturing crisis. No crisis exists,
Speaker 1: and anyone making the argument is most likely guilty of
Speaker 1: fear mongering and willfully misleading the American people. Locals will
Speaker 1: tell him on the border, even conservatives, is that there
Speaker 1: isn't a national security crisis. The notion that we have
Speaker 1: a crisis there security crisis is absolute nonsense. This is
Speaker 1: a manufactured crisis, and a crisis that manufactured by the
Speaker 1: Trump administration. This artificial crisis of the president isn't going
Speaker 1: to justify his appropriating money for a wall that Congress
Speaker 1: is unwilling to give. Is there a crisis at the
Speaker 1: border of the President said there's a humanitarian crisis at
Speaker 1: the border, is there absolutely not. We have a challenge,
Speaker 1: oh our humanitarian issues or challenges for us. The big
Speaker 1: scam of the whole address is that there's a crisis.
Speaker 1: There's not a crisis. Some question if there is a
Speaker 1: crisis at all, as the President has claimed, there is
Speaker 1: not a crisis at the border. It's a manufactured crisis
Speaker 1: for the president to get a political when the crisis
Speaker 1: can have, as we see now a very elastic definition.
Speaker 1: And he's determined to convince you there is a crisis
Speaker 1: at the border, even though an intelligence official tell sin
Speaker 1: and quote, no one is saying is a crisis except them.
Speaker 1: If you ever doubted in any way, by the way,
Speaker 1: our two Sean Hannity's show Gladial with Us are told
Speaker 1: for you telephone numbers eight hundred and nine for one
Speaker 1: Sean if you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 1: If you ever had any doubt whatsoever that the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is in complete alignment agreement with and to use
Speaker 1: a phrase in collusion with the media in this country,
Speaker 1: this is the greatest example. They all they couldn't even
Speaker 1: come up with a second word. They all use the
Speaker 1: same word, manufactured crisis. Now tonight on Hannity on the
Speaker 1: Fox News Channel, You're gonna meet a lot of moms
Speaker 1: and dads that lost their kids to illegal immigrants that
Speaker 1: killed them. You want to tell those parents that this
Speaker 1: is a manufactured crisis, or any of the three hundred
Speaker 1: families that get news that a loved one is now
Speaker 1: dead from a heroin overdose. Of the heroine coming into
Speaker 1: this country, coming across the southern border is outrageous and
Speaker 1: of course, a very different story back in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: where the Democrats sounded more like Donald Trump than Donald
Speaker 1: Trump sounds like Donald Trump. But because this would be
Speaker 1: his success getting something done, they can't allow that, which
Speaker 1: now leads us to the possibility that the president will
Speaker 1: have to declare a national emergency, get Pentagon funds, and
Speaker 1: get the wall up one way or the other. New
Speaker 1: King Ridge is with us, former Speaker of the House,
Speaker 1: how are you. I'm doing well, and I think what
Speaker 1: you're doing tonight is what the president should do for
Speaker 1: the whole country. I think they should invite every family
Speaker 1: who has lost a loved one to an illegal immigrant
Speaker 1: to come to Washington, to the White House, have a meeting,
Speaker 1: and then go Uplin Capitol Hill and confront directly these
Speaker 1: people who claim that the death of their loved one
Speaker 1: is manufacturing. I think nothing would shrink the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: faster than to confront the families who have a legitimate
Speaker 1: personal experience that the country's not secure and that in
Speaker 1: fact Americans have been killed, they have been raped, they
Speaker 1: have been robbed in some cases, they have been tortured
Speaker 1: by MS thirteen gang members, all of these people who
Speaker 1: are here illegally. Well, I mean, this is the point.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that they've taken on this tact
Speaker 1: that somehow and just look at the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the families we're going to have
Speaker 1: on We're going to have a member of officers things
Speaker 1: families going to be on the show tonight, and another
Speaker 1: family mom and dad. On December twenty ninth last year.
Speaker 1: You know, just a few weeks ago, they lost their son,
Speaker 1: Pierce Corkrane. He was hit by an illegal immigrant that
Speaker 1: was apparently on drugs or drinking and driving on the
Speaker 1: wrong side of the road. He's dead. You know. Democrats
Speaker 1: thought it was a crisis when there was family separation,
Speaker 1: which had happened in the previous two administrations. They thought
Speaker 1: it was a crisis when our border patrol was be
Speaker 1: impelled with rocks and bottles, and to defend themselves they
Speaker 1: used tear gas. The media was screaming that quote, our
Speaker 1: ice officials are gassing children. They thought that was a crisis. Well,
Speaker 1: this is permanent separation. These are mothers and fathers that
Speaker 1: don't ever get to see their kids again. Well, look,
Speaker 1: I think there a couple of things going on. First
Speaker 1: of all, a large part of the Democratic Party cares
Speaker 1: more about the fate and people who are not legally
Speaker 1: here than they care about Americans. Will then, let's just
Speaker 1: be honest, they're bias. If you're an American citizen, why
Speaker 1: should they worry about you? You're not their constituency. You're
Speaker 1: not who they're emotionally attached to. They're more concerned about
Speaker 1: the treatment of a six year old or a nine
Speaker 1: year old at the border than they are about the
Speaker 1: death of an American from an illegal immigrance. And I
Speaker 1: think that's just a deep bias of the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: that has grown stronger over the last thirty years. I
Speaker 1: think second, you have a lot of Democrats who are
Speaker 1: for open borders. The new governor of California who represents
Speaker 1: sort of a California Crazy ideology. It's called for not
Speaker 1: just a sanctuary state, but for California do the sanctuary
Speaker 1: state with free medical care for everyone, specifically including illegal eleigrants.
Speaker 1: So Governor Newsom is going to make California the magnets
Speaker 1: of the world. If you know, if you need medical care,
Speaker 1: go to California, give it to you for free. Although
Speaker 1: also you can go to New York City and I
Speaker 1: would I would like to remind everybody that, yeah, Gavin
Speaker 1: Newsom has promised free healthcare for everybody, including illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: If you need healthcare, you know, all you really need
Speaker 1: is to get in your car or jump on an
Speaker 1: airplane and go out. Gavin Newsom said, it's going to
Speaker 1: be free, so why not do it? And I think,
Speaker 1: but I think it's the same open borders, you know,
Speaker 1: after all, wise, why should we think being American is special?
Speaker 1: And I think it's a deep, deep behavior now, almost
Speaker 1: an illness. And the Democratic Party and then the other
Speaker 1: part of the Democratic Party, of course, just hates Trump
Speaker 1: and that they don't want Trump to have a victory
Speaker 1: under any circumstance. And so you end up with a
Speaker 1: sort of a bitter end opposition, as when the President
Speaker 1: said to Speaker Pelosi, if we will reopen the government
Speaker 1: and that do everything you want, could we in the
Speaker 1: next thirty days solve the problem with the boarder And
Speaker 1: she said no, And then he said, well, that's why
Speaker 1: are in me? Why are we meeting? I'm out of here?
Speaker 1: And he was right. I mean, if their attitude is
Speaker 1: that there is nothing they're going to do that fits
Speaker 1: the commanders He's interests now, I will say, I believe
Speaker 1: it will be a mistake for him to use his
Speaker 1: executive power. I think this is an important moment in history,
Speaker 1: and I wrote my newsletter about this today. He should
Speaker 1: focus on winning this the country. I'm seeing Democrat after
Speaker 1: Democrat begin to weaken, and if he stays at it,
Speaker 1: you're president going to see Hio Democrats split that in fact,
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to pass them. Well, here's
Speaker 1: what's happening that the same media that backs up the
Speaker 1: Democrats with the manufactured crisis line, the same media now
Speaker 1: is is talking about this poor family has to sell
Speaker 1: their welding equipment, and this family is making cheesecakes just
Speaker 1: so they could pay their rent and they're selling the
Speaker 1: cheesecakes to neighbors door to door. And you know it
Speaker 1: is and I feel sorry I've listened. At one point
Speaker 1: in my life I lived, you know, pretty darn I
Speaker 1: was paycheck to paycheck for many years actually in my
Speaker 1: adult life. I know it's not fun when you don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of money and savings. And for a
Speaker 1: lot of these families, they don't have that money and
Speaker 1: it is inconvenient they will get all of the money
Speaker 1: back in time. But this is what's being played up
Speaker 1: in the media. But they don't put on the parents
Speaker 1: that lost their kids, and they only want to push
Speaker 1: the one side of the argument. But also, if you
Speaker 1: feel sympathy for government employees who are not going to
Speaker 1: be paid for several weeks, although as you pointed out,
Speaker 1: the Senate already passed to go and the guarantees they
Speaker 1: will get all the money when when this is over,
Speaker 1: they'll get paid to the the back pay. But if you
Speaker 1: feel sympathy, call Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be clear about this. It's in their power for
Speaker 1: a relatively small amount of money out of the total
Speaker 1: federal budget. It's in their power to work out in
Speaker 1: agreement with the commander in chief and have the government
Speaker 1: reopened tomorrow. So you know, this is not a one
Speaker 1: sided thing, and I think that we have to have
Speaker 1: the courage to santough. I noticed that there's a great
Speaker 1: story out today that CNN was trying to find a
Speaker 1: local station in San Diego that would reconfirm its bias
Speaker 1: that walls don't matter, and they couldn't find one because
Speaker 1: all the states local stations in San Diego were saying,
Speaker 1: of course they matter, and they had a ninety something reduction.
Speaker 1: And then yet another station and yet another station that
Speaker 1: actually tried to paint the president alter his look to
Speaker 1: make it more orange. I mean, this fair media, and
Speaker 1: you know I've never seen it this to this extent
Speaker 1: whereds this obvious and this transparent. But when they came
Speaker 1: out and we were kind of watching the SNL opening
Speaker 1: skit with Nancy and Chuck and it was a really
Speaker 1: bad open and I'm sitting there watching this train wreck,
Speaker 1: and they both used the word manufactured crisis, and that
Speaker 1: then was picked up by everybody in the in the media.
Speaker 1: I've never seen the alliance this tight where it is
Speaker 1: the same verbiage, it is the same phrase, the exact
Speaker 1: same arguments, They're the same, They're the same people. Supposed
Speaker 1: to be clear, the news media is the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: that sound like we were a quick kidding ourselves. They're
Speaker 1: not the news media. There the liberal propaganda alarm of
Speaker 1: the Democratic Plarty. I mean the New York side, the
Speaker 1: CBS News or CNN. They don't exist as news organizations
Speaker 1: their propaganda instruments. Let me ask you this. You all right,
Speaker 1: so you want the president to stay strong and keep
Speaker 1: the government shutdown, the partial government shutdown, which represents about
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the workforce for the government. All right,
Speaker 1: then all these stories furloughed, pain, misery, it's all going
Speaker 1: to be put on Donald Trump's lap, which is their
Speaker 1: emotional appeal, ignoring the families that are permanently separated and
Speaker 1: lost loved ones because of illegal immigration. So but the
Speaker 1: point is, the President seems to be laying the groundwork
Speaker 1: to declare a national emergency. Why would you why would
Speaker 1: you not go along with that strategy when it is
Speaker 1: according to every legal expert that matters that I've consulted,
Speaker 1: they all agree it's a slam dunk. Many Democrats agree
Speaker 1: it's a slam dunk. Okay, it's a slam dunk. You
Speaker 1: could have done it three months ago. And my question
Speaker 1: is really simple. We now have a genuine crisis of government.
Speaker 1: We have a vision between the new Democratic House in
Speaker 1: the presidented States. And the truth is that the truck's
Speaker 1: humor now is just you know, he's detail on Nancy
Speaker 1: Pelosi's machine. He's trying. He's tiding along behind Pelosi when
Speaker 1: she's leading away. Sooner or later, the President's going to
Speaker 1: have to wun a collision with the Democratic House. The
Speaker 1: sooner he does it, the better. If he side steps
Speaker 1: this fight right now and is clever and uses you know,
Speaker 1: a nice legal device, we're still going from right back
Speaker 1: to a collision. If on the other hand, he can
Speaker 1: raise the anti enough that marginal Democrats to win and
Speaker 1: say I can't take the heat. We're going to have
Speaker 1: to solve this. At some point. He will force the
Speaker 1: Democrats to start to learn that a president of the
Speaker 1: United States who has the power of the Viso ken
Speaker 1: in facts, imposed very substantial costs on a left wing
Speaker 1: radical House of Representatives. But I think for him to
Speaker 1: be clever right now, and he be legally able to
Speaker 1: do it, I just think that in the long term
Speaker 1: government of the United States, it's not a good solution,
Speaker 1: and we'll lead the Democratic House to cut the budget
Speaker 1: of whatever institution he gets money out of. All right,
Speaker 1: stay right there, that's their answer. We continue. Former Speaker
Speaker 1: of the House, new King Rich is with us eight
Speaker 1: hundred and nine for one seawn. If you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the program. Jay Secular, the President's attorney,
Speaker 1: is going to check in with us today about the
Speaker 1: legality of declaring a national emergency and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: a Texas representatives. Yeah, it's an op ed in the
Speaker 1: Federalists about the need for the border wall. I was
Speaker 1: there yesterday. You can walk across the Rio Grand It'll
Speaker 1: take you a minute. One minute, you can walk right
Speaker 1: across and you'll barely get your sneakers wet in some areas.
Speaker 1: Right as we continue with the former Speaker of the House,
Speaker 1: New King Rich, you're urging the president to just stand strong.
Speaker 1: I think Mitch McConnell's hanging in there pretty strong. I
Speaker 1: know that I've interviewed Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy. The
Speaker 1: House is strong, but I can see maybe a few
Speaker 1: Senators Lisa Murkowski, met Romney among them, you know, start
Speaker 1: peeling away. And I'm sure the Democrats are working very
Speaker 1: hard on that part so well. First, first of all,
Speaker 1: McConnell has said he won't bring up a bill the
Speaker 1: president's not going to sign. So as long as McConnell
Speaker 1: keeps his word, and he's up for re election in
Speaker 1: two twenty, and he knows that the most popular person
Speaker 1: in the Republican Party is President Donald Trump. So one,
Speaker 1: the Senate is a blocking place to start with. Two,
Speaker 1: the president's got the power of a veto. Now, to
Speaker 1: to override a presidential veto of this issue is impossible.
Speaker 1: You couldn't do it in the House, you couldn't do
Speaker 1: it in the Senate. It takes two thirds plus one.
Speaker 1: They'll never get that margin. So the president's a musician
Speaker 1: to try to teach the country a lesson, which is
Speaker 1: on this issue, the Congress has to negotiate and the
Speaker 1: Democrats have to learn to negotiate. And that's why I'm
Speaker 1: very skeptical of sidestepping this fleet. I think they need
Speaker 1: to turn up the heat. They need to make have
Speaker 1: you have you talked to the president about this? Have
Speaker 1: you told the President that no? You justly. I only
Speaker 1: realized today how real this is getting. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to call him and talk to them about it, because
Speaker 1: I do think it would be a mistake to go
Speaker 1: down that road. I think you should call him. I
Speaker 1: think I think he's winning, and I think that he
Speaker 1: needs to recognize and when people like you are a
Speaker 1: big part of this. As the country looks at families
Speaker 1: who have had people killed by illegal immigrants, the whole
Speaker 1: manufactured line looks cynical and sick, and I think people
Speaker 1: begin to realize that these are people who are really
Speaker 1: pretty despicable to describe the killing of Americans as something
Speaker 1: which is manufactured, when in fact is the tragic loss
Speaker 1: of life. All Right, New King Ridge, former Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House. Thanks for being one of us eight hundred
Speaker 1: nine for one Seawan toll free telephone number was down
Speaker 1: in Texas yesterday at the Rio Grand. When we come back,
Speaker 1: Representative Chip Roy from Texas, you put an op ed
Speaker 1: in the Federalists about the need for the order wall
Speaker 1: immigration reform. Remember I sat through a security briefing down
Speaker 1: in Texas. Six hundred and forty two thousand Texans victims
Speaker 1: of crime in a seven year period. Well, we'll play
Speaker 1: that tape when we get back. Criminal as have been
Speaker 1: responsible about six hundred and forty two thousand offensive criminal offenses.
Speaker 1: You look up there in the top less sexual assault,
Speaker 1: there's close to eight thousand victims, six hundred and forty
Speaker 1: two thousand crimes two Texas. In Texas along yes, over
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand individuals criminal hands, creed reflective day, they
Speaker 1: were committed over six hundred and forty two thousand crimes.
Speaker 1: That's the cause of no security. This is the first
Speaker 1: president to come down here to stop in here in
Speaker 1: five years. I came down here in November twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: During twenty fourteen we had the humanitarian crisis with undercompany children.
Speaker 1: I didn't have anybody from the White House come down
Speaker 1: here and show the support for the men and women
Speaker 1: the Board Patrols, CVP and DHS. Having the President come
Speaker 1: down here means an awful lot to argue. You hear
Speaker 1: the media, You hear the Democrats. They called us a
Speaker 1: manufactured crisis. Okay, what's your answer to that. So in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, we apprehended two hundred fifty six thousand people.
Speaker 1: We're on pace to apprehend over two hundred thousand people.
Speaker 1: Just yesterday I apprehended one hundred and thirty three people
Speaker 1: from different countries other than Central America and Mexico. Where
Speaker 1: from Pakistan, India, Romania, China, on and on and on.
Speaker 1: This isn't a magdive. Was yesterday just in this sector alone,
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty people were apprehended total. We continue
Speaker 1: to see increases. We're averaging about six hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: a day, all right, that is ahead of the sector.
Speaker 1: Mister Ortiz that I met yesterday, him and all these guys,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of time before the President came.
Speaker 1: I spoke with a lot of ICE members and Border
Speaker 1: Patrol agents and people from all sorts of law enforcement.
Speaker 1: And this is their reality. And there I am literally
Speaker 1: among the Rio Grand in McCallum, Texas, and the water
Speaker 1: is not that deep. You could walk across and it
Speaker 1: would take you less than a minute. If you're an
Speaker 1: athlete like Blair, you could probably do it about thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: That's all it takes. And then you walk right up.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to stop you. You walk from Mexico into
Speaker 1: the United States. Nobody's there, nobody to stop you. If
Speaker 1: you had the barrier put up, well, then that would
Speaker 1: then be the we'd at least be able to detect
Speaker 1: you there and be trying to climb the barrier, pushed
Speaker 1: down the bear whatever you're trying to do. Well, that
Speaker 1: gives a law enforcement time to do their job, which
Speaker 1: is what all these guys were saying. This helps them
Speaker 1: do their job. And when they tried it in Yuma,
Speaker 1: when they tried it in San Diego, Yuma went from
Speaker 1: five miles of fencing of sixty four miles of fencing. Well,
Speaker 1: then illegal crossings dropped ninety seven percent. Anyway, Congressman Chip
Speaker 1: Roy of Texas is here. He had written an opbed
Speaker 1: in the Federalists about the need for the border wall
Speaker 1: and immigration reform. This is the reality of all these
Speaker 1: border states. The first bit of tape you heard was
Speaker 1: when I was down there with a security briefing with
Speaker 1: Governor Rick Perry at the time, and in a seven
Speaker 1: year period, six hundred and forty two thousand crimes were
Speaker 1: committed against Texans alone, including homicides and including as you heard,
Speaker 1: sexual assaults. Sean, thanks for having me on. I'm delighted
Speaker 1: that you were down at the border. I'm delighted that
Speaker 1: you were gone down before the Governor Perry. I used
Speaker 1: to work for Governor Perry, worked for Senator Cruz and
Speaker 1: Senator Cornyn. So a lot of the guys that you've
Speaker 1: seen down there in the border who know what's going on,
Speaker 1: those of us from Texas know that this crisis is real.
Speaker 1: It's been real for a long time. And the problem
Speaker 1: is we've got Democrats who want to play politics when
Speaker 1: we're trying to make sure that we're saving the lives
Speaker 1: of American citizens. You're in danger, like Jared Fargas, who
Speaker 1: was murdered last summer by an illegal immigrant by somebody
Speaker 1: who has captured, release, captured, released, and now his beautiful
Speaker 1: mother Laurie no longer has her son because of an
Speaker 1: illegal immigrant who took his life, and the little girls
Speaker 1: who's you know and I know today are going to
Speaker 1: get snatched up the cartels and thrown into the sex
Speaker 1: trafficking trade because we refuse to do our basic job
Speaker 1: as a sovereign nation and secure our border. And this
Speaker 1: is not new. Tom Cobram was on the floor of
Speaker 1: the Senate a decade ago talking about rape trees because
Speaker 1: of how bad it was along the border, and it's
Speaker 1: only gotten worse as we've empowered the cartels. And the
Speaker 1: President is right, and I'm glad that he's focused like
Speaker 1: a laser on building fencing, securing the border, and doing
Speaker 1: the things we need to do to get it right.
Speaker 1: The border patrol agents down there, like my friend Brandon
Speaker 1: and Hector Garza and the guys down there that are
Speaker 1: doing the hard work. They're wonderful people and they need
Speaker 1: the resources they need to do their jobs. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're shining a light on this. Why why do
Speaker 1: you think the Democrats that supported this in two thousand
Speaker 1: and six and two thousand and thirteen many of the
Speaker 1: same people and now against it, vehemently against them? What
Speaker 1: do you things happen? This is pure politics. This is
Speaker 1: pure blind hatred directed toward the president of United States,
Speaker 1: without regard to their duty as congress congressman and congresswoman
Speaker 1: representing their districts and representing this country. To secure the border.
Speaker 1: They're baring their head in the sand. And frankly, let's
Speaker 1: be fair, there's been a bit of a bipartisan bearing
Speaker 1: the head in the sand over the last ten years
Speaker 1: and ignoring the crisis of the border. You've pointed that
Speaker 1: out over the years, and I'm just glad now that
Speaker 1: we seem to have a unified party behind a president
Speaker 1: who's willing to stand up and do the right thing,
Speaker 1: and we're winning, Sean. I mean, we're seeing spamburger down
Speaker 1: in Richmond, and we're seeing some of our Democrat colleagues
Speaker 1: start to talk about how hard it is going back
Speaker 1: to their district and the folks saying, hey, we want
Speaker 1: to get this border secure. I've got border patrol agents
Speaker 1: calling me and they're worried about their pay, and I
Speaker 1: understand that. And they're telling me, look, stand strong and
Speaker 1: keep fighting to secure the border because it's time to
Speaker 1: fix it. And I'm glad the president's doing it. Does
Speaker 1: it matter if the president keeps the government shut down
Speaker 1: and fights this till the end that way, or if
Speaker 1: he declares the national emergency and that probably takes it
Speaker 1: into the courts. Does it matter to you which way
Speaker 1: he does it? Well, I personally think he ought to
Speaker 1: just keep holding the line. We ought to come together
Speaker 1: as a Congress and we ought to put pressure on
Speaker 1: Democrats to do this straight forwardly and fund the necessary
Speaker 1: border security that we need. We're talking about two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty four miles of fencing, We're talking about immigration judges,
Speaker 1: we're talking about technology, we're talking about a humanitarian relief.
Speaker 1: This is money that we ought to spend and we
Speaker 1: ought to make the Democrats have to stand up and
Speaker 1: vote on it and do it. If the President has
Speaker 1: to go down the road of emergency declaration, we'll cross
Speaker 1: that bridge when we get there. I think that it
Speaker 1: is an emergency. I think that Democrats have authorized defense
Speaker 1: in the past. But I'd rather that we just keep
Speaker 1: doing the saying focus and doing our job, and the
Speaker 1: President ought to do that and draw attention to all
Speaker 1: of this, and so we know the longer we do this,
Speaker 1: the more people will pay attention and understand how dangerous
Speaker 1: Fentel is, how dangerous the cartels are, and that we
Speaker 1: shouldn't have the situation where a border troll agent is
Speaker 1: down there at eleven o'clock at night, alone with no
Speaker 1: radio signal, no cell signal, the cartels of operational control
Speaker 1: of the border, and he's sitting there knowing that he
Speaker 1: could be an endangered and he could do nothing to
Speaker 1: actually stop what's happening. We need to change that right now,
Speaker 1: and it's our duty to do it well. I think
Speaker 1: it could be done, and be done expeditiously and then
Speaker 1: put a lot Americans to work in the meantime. And
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's a wall, I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's you know, high tech fencing. I just we
Speaker 1: just need the barrier. I don't know if you've been
Speaker 1: to the Rio Grand area a lot, but you have.
Speaker 1: You been there many times. Whether I was working for
Speaker 1: Governor Perry, whether I was working for Senator Cruz, and
Speaker 1: then I was the first assistant Attorney General of the
Speaker 1: State of Texas. We litigated DAPPA in the courts and
Speaker 1: wanted to circuit. I've been down there meeting with Border
Speaker 1: Patrol and was last down there in August, and I'm
Speaker 1: actually going to go back down week after next, and
Speaker 1: those guys are on the front line. And if you
Speaker 1: go down there and you meet with border patrol as
Speaker 1: you have, you see what's actually happening, and you see
Speaker 1: how broken it is, and you I gotta tell all
Speaker 1: those guys are frustrated because they want to do their job,
Speaker 1: but it becomes an impossibility in terms of doing that
Speaker 1: job when you have all these obstacles and they're not
Speaker 1: giving you the help that they're asking for. And with
Speaker 1: the proven track record, Yuma is an exam ample. Also
Speaker 1: San Diego as an example. Parts of Texas have been
Speaker 1: an example. Where we built the wall, they stopped coming,
Speaker 1: no question, you know, and I know that in San
Speaker 1: Diego in the late nineteen eighties, before they put the
Speaker 1: triple layer fencing up along that fifty mile stretch, there
Speaker 1: were over six hundred thousand arrest a year. That numbers
Speaker 1: down to thirty thousand arrest. Fencing works. Is it perfect? No, no,
Speaker 1: No measure is going to be perfect. But fencing slows
Speaker 1: the tide allows us to focus the resources where we
Speaker 1: need to. You can still use border patrol agents, cameras,
Speaker 1: focus on points of entry and get operational control of
Speaker 1: the border. That's all we're asking for. That's what the
Speaker 1: border patrol agents want, and that's what Texans want. I
Speaker 1: can tell you on the front line it was a
Speaker 1: number one issue in my district in Texas twenty one.
Speaker 1: Lamar Smith has been a Stollard on immigration before me
Speaker 1: and happy to try to carry on his legacy and
Speaker 1: work with the President and try to get this done
Speaker 1: the right way. If your colleagues in the House, and
Speaker 1: you know, when you talk to them, obviously, Republicans seem united.
Speaker 1: Do you see any wobbling at all among Republicans or
Speaker 1: are they willing? You know, especially you're hearing every you
Speaker 1: know story about every furloughed employee who will they'll all
Speaker 1: get their back pay. I know it's inconvenient. I feel
Speaker 1: bad for them that it's inconvenient, but they'll all get
Speaker 1: back pay and the money that they would otherwise have had. Um.
Speaker 1: Do you think that which pressure is going to give
Speaker 1: in here? In your view? Well, what I'm seeing is
Speaker 1: a whole lot of pressure on Democrats to actually do
Speaker 1: their job to secure the border. Republicans seem united. They're
Speaker 1: saying the course, uh, they recognize how important it is
Speaker 1: to get this done right. I believe that we're going
Speaker 1: to continue to win this battle if we if we
Speaker 1: just take to the American people and why it matters,
Speaker 1: and you're exactly right. We're going to pay employees. I've
Speaker 1: deferred my pay until until we pay the employees and
Speaker 1: the border fill agents and others who are going about pay.
Speaker 1: And we should, but we should do it the right way.
Speaker 1: We should do it methodically. We should do our job.
Speaker 1: We should secure the border and uh and then take
Speaker 1: care of those that that we're relying on that pay
Speaker 1: when we get through it. So, um, we just how
Speaker 1: to stay the course. If we do so, we'll win this.
Speaker 1: But we can't back away. I mean, this is it.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the future of our kids. They
Speaker 1: didn't even have the fentanyl in the room yesterday because
Speaker 1: they were worried it was too dangerous to have around
Speaker 1: on display when they have to display of other narcotics
Speaker 1: and heroin and other stuff because it's such a dangerous drug. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: three if you take a grain of salt or a
Speaker 1: grain of sand and put three of them, they can
Speaker 1: kill a two hundred and fifty pound guy in seconds. Unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I got it's extraordinary. All right, thank you, Congressman.
Speaker 1: Congressman Chip Roy of Texas. Up close and personal. He
Speaker 1: sees what's going on. Quick break, we'll come back. We'll
Speaker 1: continue wide open phones as well as we get into
Speaker 1: our final hour Free for All. We'll be joined by
Speaker 1: Jay Sekulo. We'll talk about the legality of building the
Speaker 1: border fence and the judge shopping that inevitably would happen
Speaker 1: if the President declares a state of emergency. Hey, let's
Speaker 1: get to take some of our busy calls here at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour. Jay Secular, he is the
Speaker 1: chief counsel for the American Center for Law Injustice, counsel
Speaker 1: to the President. He'll weigh in on the legality of
Speaker 1: and the right which I've gone through in great detail
Speaker 1: in the course of the program today. If the President
Speaker 1: decides to declare a national emergency on this, let's say
Speaker 1: hi to Mike. Mike's in Ohio. Mike, how are you
Speaker 1: glad you called? I'd love to talking to you. Sean.
Speaker 1: I'll be real quick. I am the only compassive conservative
Speaker 1: left in my family, so I negotiate with my liberal
Speaker 1: brother and sister all the time. So I came up
Speaker 1: with an idea. I know it's crazy, but I think
Speaker 1: they would agree to. Good is what if we gave
Speaker 1: the Democrats the Kinsburg replacement with either Garland or somebody
Speaker 1: else that they would pick for Trump to get all
Speaker 1: his border wall. The number one slow down there as
Speaker 1: far as we know, she just had an operation, and
Speaker 1: you know we all should pray for her health and
Speaker 1: hope she's able to recover. Number one. Number two, you know,
Speaker 1: making deals where you hand out. We'll give the Democrats
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. No, that's what elections are about. That
Speaker 1: was a big part of the election. And if the
Speaker 1: Democrats don't want to do their job, look, you're gonna
Speaker 1: meet all these angel moms and dads and families tonight
Speaker 1: that lost their loved ones. If they want to say
Speaker 1: that this is a manufactured crisis, and look the American
Speaker 1: people in the eye or the inconvenience of being furloughed
Speaker 1: and not getting your check today, I do have sympathy
Speaker 1: for people that have bills to pay and Democrats they
Speaker 1: bear a big part of the responsibility. They won't even
Speaker 1: show up and negotiate. President has invited everybody, he took
Speaker 1: his vacation away. He stood in Washington. Anti Pelosi was
Speaker 1: in Hawaii. I guess Maxie Waters was having fun and
Speaker 1: somewhere I don't know where, but you know, they have
Speaker 1: to come to the table. And if they're just gonna
Speaker 1: say no and obstruct, no and obstruct, and we keep
Speaker 1: seeing the drugs pouring into this country, the human trafficking element,
Speaker 1: and we see people dying at the hands of people
Speaker 1: that weren't vetted that come into this country. You know,
Speaker 1: let's have that debate. And if it takes a while,
Speaker 1: it's going to take a while. Let's go to Bob
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Bob, how are you glad you called? Either? Sean?
Speaker 1: I trained for the law enforcement before living and I'm
Speaker 1: furloughed and tomorrow missed my first paycheck. And I think
Speaker 1: there's blame to go around for both Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 1: But what's most important to me is why sites doing
Speaker 1: this Trump? I believe once to save American lives. All
Speaker 1: the stats he puts out, DHS puts out, you know,
Speaker 1: the border patrol agents you've seen put out is true.
Speaker 1: I know that, and it will save lives. And I
Speaker 1: think the Democrats know it will save lives too, because
Speaker 1: they proved the border wall already, but now they won't.
Speaker 1: Why is that because they want to spike Trump. So
Speaker 1: it's Trump to me wants saved lives. They want to
Speaker 1: spike Trump even if it costs innocent American lives, and
Speaker 1: I have an issue with that. Well, let me first,
Speaker 1: I can sympathize as somebody who for years of my
Speaker 1: early adult life live paycheck to baycheck and had no
Speaker 1: money in the bank, or two hundred dollars in the bank,
Speaker 1: you know, at the Old Stone Bank in Warren, Rhode Island.
Speaker 1: So I fully completely sympathize and understand with those furloughed employees.
Speaker 1: The good news is both Republicans and Democrats are saying
Speaker 1: that they will get all this back pay. It represents
Speaker 1: about eight hundred thousand people, about twenty five percent of
Speaker 1: the federal workforce. I know it's inconvenient, I know it's hard.
Speaker 1: I know it's difficult, But it's even worse when you
Speaker 1: have hundreds of Americans dying every week because of the
Speaker 1: ninety percent of heroin coming across the border, or or
Speaker 1: those illegal immigrants that are killing our fellow Americans. And
Speaker 1: you'll meet them tonight on Hannity. We're bringing these families
Speaker 1: in they'll tell you their story about permanent separation. Democrats
Speaker 1: got all worked up about oh, well, the kids are
Speaker 1: being separated from mom and dad. We have permanent separation
Speaker 1: in these cases. But all right, Bob, thanks for what
Speaker 1: you do. I do hope you get your check soon.
Speaker 1: I hope the Democrats do what they said they we're
Speaker 1: going to do five years ago, not doing it now
Speaker 1: because they don't want to help Donald Trump. We'll continue
Speaker 1: coming up next our final news round up and information overload.
Speaker 1: Our the laws one hundred percent on my side. So
Speaker 1: if we can't make a deal with Congress, and we
Speaker 1: should be able to make a deal with Congress. If
Speaker 1: you look Democrats in Congress, especially the new ones coming
Speaker 1: in and starting to say, wait a minute, we can't
Speaker 1: win this battle with Trump because of the fact that
Speaker 1: it's just common sense. How can we say that a
Speaker 1: wall doesn't work? They show on helicopters empty fields. Are
Speaker 1: people just running through and you put a wall they
Speaker 1: can't run through? What are the options though? If you
Speaker 1: declare a national emergency. The Pentagon also has the funds
Speaker 1: available that they would be able to help support the
Speaker 1: building of the wall. If we don't make a deal
Speaker 1: with Congress, which we should be able to really just
Speaker 1: common sense and there's some compromise needed. And look, they
Speaker 1: know that the walls were all right. That was part
Speaker 1: of my interview with the President from Texas at the
Speaker 1: Rio Grand yesterday. McCallum, Texas is where the interview took place,
Speaker 1: and the President saying that if Nancy and Chuck, if
Speaker 1: they refuse to do their job and support the things
Speaker 1: that they themselves supported passionately in just recent years, and
Speaker 1: they just want to stop the progress, how many more
Speaker 1: Americans have to die? How many more Americans are we
Speaker 1: gonna see angel moms and dad. You're gonna meet some
Speaker 1: of them on Hannitay tonight at nine. Is this a
Speaker 1: manufactured crisis in their life? Or that ninety percent of
Speaker 1: heroin that comes into this country comes across our southern border.
Speaker 1: You know, I actually found another statistic because we've had
Speaker 1: been saying and the Department of Homeland Security had put
Speaker 1: out that three hundred Americans every week die because of
Speaker 1: a heroin overdose. According to the CDC dot gov about
Speaker 1: drug overdoses, from nineteen ninety nine to twenty seventeen, seven
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people have died from drug overdoses sixty eight
Speaker 1: percent or more of than the seventy thousand, two hundred
Speaker 1: drug overdose deaths in twenty seventeen involved an opioid. On average,
Speaker 1: they're claiming one hundred and thirty Americans die every day
Speaker 1: from an opioid overdose. That's nine hundred plus a week,
Speaker 1: more than three hundred. Anyway, joining us, now, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the legality. If the President does decide to go
Speaker 1: this route and declare a national emergency or bring in
Speaker 1: the Pentagon or the Army Corps of Engineers, does he
Speaker 1: have the legal authority to do so? Will it be challenged?
Speaker 1: Jay Seculars with US chief counsel for the American Center
Speaker 1: for Law and Justice, also counsel to the President. How
Speaker 1: are you, sir, I'm doing great, John, all right, So
Speaker 1: let's go. If the President decides to go this route,
Speaker 1: I see every I don't see any legal obstacle. Even
Speaker 1: Democrats are acknowledging some of them at least, that the
Speaker 1: president has the authority to do this. If you want
Speaker 1: to go to the specific law that you know we
Speaker 1: can go to. We can mention this specific law in
Speaker 1: this particular case because he has a right to do it.
Speaker 1: So look, the president has both statutorially has the right
Speaker 1: to do it, and that is Congress created National Emergencies Act,
Speaker 1: so he has that. But he also has the authority
Speaker 1: under the Constitution of the United States as president, So
Speaker 1: he has both constitutional authority and statutory authority. That is
Speaker 1: legislation that was passed authorizing actions in the event of
Speaker 1: what is deemed by the president to be a national emergency. Now,
Speaker 1: by the way, some people are trying to complate this
Speaker 1: with an active war. That's not what it's about. It's
Speaker 1: not about an act of war. It's a national emergency
Speaker 1: for instant. President Clinton in nineteen ninety five issued a
Speaker 1: national emergency declaration because of drug cartels coming and dealing
Speaker 1: with the heroin epidemic, and he issued the Colombian drug cartels.
Speaker 1: He issued a national directive on that national emergency declaration
Speaker 1: so that he could take specific action. You mentioned the
Speaker 1: funding of this, and as you said, the for instance,
Speaker 1: the Army Corps of Engineers has at at least five
Speaker 1: billion dollars in discretionary funds for what's actually they actually
Speaker 1: have approximately thirteen point nine billion available from congressionally approved
Speaker 1: moneys from February twenty eighteen, and the Supplemental Spending Bill
Speaker 1: that's in addition to the five billion dollars they have
Speaker 1: under the Discretionary Act for civil expenditures. So it's not
Speaker 1: as Look, this has never been about the money. What
Speaker 1: is this about. Those that are opposing the president on
Speaker 1: this do not want the president to have a win.
Speaker 1: Look what he's offered. He's offered to negotiate. They don't
Speaker 1: want to negotiate. He has talked about comprehensive immigration reform.
Speaker 1: They don't want to talk about comprehensive immigration reform. He's
Speaker 1: talked about. You know the thing with Jim Acosta yesterday
Speaker 1: had seen and he goes to the water. He says,
Speaker 1: I'm at the border. I'm at the wall. There's a
Speaker 1: steel slotted fence here, like the president wants. Nothing's happening
Speaker 1: with common tranquill exactly precisely right, because there's protection. So
Speaker 1: I think the look from a legal standpoint, it's very
Speaker 1: clear that the president has the authority. Now you asked
Speaker 1: an interview with the president, the question about what will happen,
Speaker 1: so will they challenge it? And the answer to that is,
Speaker 1: of course they'll challenge it. The next question is what
Speaker 1: happens ultimately, Well, let me slow you down here. They're
Speaker 1: going to challenge it, and they'll follow the typical left
Speaker 1: wing route, which is to go judge shopping, and that
Speaker 1: means the lawsuit will likely happen in Oregon or California. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they'll go to the Southern District of California, they'll
Speaker 1: go to Hawaii, they'll go to Oregon. Like you said,
Speaker 1: they'll go to the Ninth Circuit. So you'll lose at
Speaker 1: the District court, you'll lose at the Court of Appeals,
Speaker 1: and you win at the Supreme Court, as we did
Speaker 1: with the case involving the travel restrictions that were imposed
Speaker 1: on the six targeted countries. Well, if it's a national emergency,
Speaker 1: can there be an expedited process, because how long is
Speaker 1: that going to take what you just described? I think actually,
Speaker 1: I mean I know that. My perspective on it is this,
Speaker 1: this is a question of law, not a question of fact,
Speaker 1: So it should move very rapidly through that. I think
Speaker 1: you could you could see this happen in months. And
Speaker 1: here's the real legal question. This is what people need
Speaker 1: to understand. What is the legal question here? The legal
Speaker 1: question is not whether whether the president deems there to
Speaker 1: be a national emergency. That's his decision as president. So
Speaker 1: the legal question is, can a judge, and this is
Speaker 1: what really would happen, Can a judge say I don't
Speaker 1: think there's an emergency, I being the Court the judge.
Speaker 1: Thus the president doesn't have the authority to act. And
Speaker 1: I think that's an overwhelming majority of the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: saying a judge cannot impose his authority over the presidents,
Speaker 1: especially as it relates to both constitutional and specific statute
Speaker 1: porty construction. Where the statute says the president has an authority,
Speaker 1: a judge cannot say, well, my view is the president
Speaker 1: got that wrong. So statutory on that issue. So the
Speaker 1: president constitutionally and statutorially has the ability to do this. Correct,
Speaker 1: And you're referring to the National Emergencies Act of seventy six, right, right,
Speaker 1: exactly correct. I explain Now, constitutionally, he's the commander in chief. Now,
Speaker 1: if Americans are being killed in part because of vulnerability
Speaker 1: on our southern border, wouldn't he wouldn't that be part
Speaker 1: of his job as commander in chief to protect the
Speaker 1: southern border, And that would then also allow and free
Speaker 1: up the military not only to provide funds, but to
Speaker 1: also be down on the border and protecting the border. No,
Speaker 1: that's exactly correct. So if you look at the overall
Speaker 1: authority of the president as commander in chief, it is
Speaker 1: very clear that it encompasses those kind of situations. So
Speaker 1: that's why I say, you both have a statutory right
Speaker 1: and a constitutional right. Now, the fact is that you
Speaker 1: may not even have to get to that because the
Speaker 1: statute is so clear. But clearly the constitutional right is
Speaker 1: inherent in the presidence authority as president of the United States,
Speaker 1: and a judge cannot impose his view of what the
Speaker 1: determination is over the presidents. Does the judge get to
Speaker 1: make the determination of what's a national emergency? Or does
Speaker 1: the president? And the statute says the president, and the
Speaker 1: constitution says the president. Well, it's not going to start
Speaker 1: stop liberal activist judges if it's a national emergency that
Speaker 1: the president declares. Why couldn't why wouldn't this go straight
Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court? Isn't there a path that they
Speaker 1: could date the original jurisdiction? So there's not original jurisdiction
Speaker 1: in that situation. But do you know how many items
Speaker 1: of law give the president the authority in the time
Speaker 1: of a national emergency existing on the books over four
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy provisions of federal law. So this is
Speaker 1: a well established right that a president has. So that's
Speaker 1: why I think it would move very quickly through the courts.
Speaker 1: So that would mean that there would be an obligation
Speaker 1: at the lower courts, going to the Ninth Circuit, going
Speaker 1: then to the Supreme Court. Because it's in this category
Speaker 1: of a national emergency, they have a duty and obligation
Speaker 1: where they can't sit on it for a year before
Speaker 1: they decide the case. I think that's exactly correct. And
Speaker 1: there's another issue here too, and that is not just
Speaker 1: the issue of the judge imposing his view or her
Speaker 1: view of what the law whether there's a national emergency
Speaker 1: or not. It's again, it's not an you know, people
Speaker 1: are conflating this in the national emergency means it's like
Speaker 1: an act to war. That's not what it means. The
Speaker 1: national emergency is defined differently. And when President Clinton did
Speaker 1: it for a drug cartels out of Columbia, what's the
Speaker 1: If it was good in nineteen ninety five, it would
Speaker 1: be good now. I mean no question that the president
Speaker 1: has there's precedent not only in the law, but in
Speaker 1: fact on this. And when I say in fact, what
Speaker 1: I'm meaning is other presidents have exercised this authority in
Speaker 1: similar situations. So this is not unprecedented. We had new
Speaker 1: King Ridge on earlier Newts position is that the president's
Speaker 1: had a much better political position to keep the shutdown
Speaker 1: going and let and I said to them, well, if
Speaker 1: you watch every single other cable network except for Hannity
Speaker 1: on Fox, what you're hearing is are the difficulties. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is difficult for some of these furloughed employees.
Speaker 1: For them, they've got to pay their rent, they got
Speaker 1: to pay their mortgage, they got to pay for their cars.
Speaker 1: All of that money will eventually make its way back
Speaker 1: into their bank accounts. But it has inconvenienced them and
Speaker 1: worried them at a pretty high level. But he thinks
Speaker 1: it is a much better way to go than to
Speaker 1: declare the national emergency. Well, I mean, here here's the look,
Speaker 1: that's a political question, and I respect a New English
Speaker 1: Former Speakers judgment on that. I think, Look, the president
Speaker 1: has the authority to do this. Does that get the
Speaker 1: people back to work? That's all. You know. By the way,
Speaker 1: if he declares the national emergency, does it mean that
Speaker 1: the that you've reached this impass now and the government's funded.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that now the president can say we
Speaker 1: will now move forward on that because I've taken action
Speaker 1: since Congress would not. But that would be a decision
Speaker 1: that the president would make, and you know the political
Speaker 1: consequences of this. Look, I'm sympathetic for the people that
Speaker 1: have been furloughed. I mean, who wouldn't be You have
Speaker 1: to know, and I want them all to get look
Speaker 1: where it came from. That's a good point. But you
Speaker 1: know in a situation where you got a Democratic party
Speaker 1: that that just five years ago was sounding just like
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and that means Biden and Obama and Clinton
Speaker 1: and Schumer and all of them. And play those tapes
Speaker 1: over and over again. And then to take this stand
Speaker 1: here and to be so insulting when the President offers
Speaker 1: a meeting to solve the problem with the vice president,
Speaker 1: they send their aids or when Nancy Pelosi flippantly says,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a dollar, they were not serious about
Speaker 1: ever solving the issue. Is it just that they don't
Speaker 1: want Donald Trump to get the job done that they
Speaker 1: obviously couldn't get done. Yeah, no question about Look, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you look at this historically, and I have, every
Speaker 1: time there's been a real discussion of immigration reform Sean
Speaker 1: under a Republican, the Democrats have blocked it. Let's remember
Speaker 1: what George Bush tried to do, right, what Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: tried to do others. So here's what the President puts
Speaker 1: out in the last few days. We could get comprehensive
Speaker 1: immigration reform. The last thing they want is comprehensive immigration
Speaker 1: reform done under the watch of Donald Trump. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be realistic, because let's talk about the money we're
Speaker 1: dealing with here. Five billion dollars is less than one
Speaker 1: tenth of one percent of our budget. Less then one
Speaker 1: tenth of one percent of our budget. Twenty five billion
Speaker 1: dollars doesn't even reach like I think, it's point four
Speaker 1: percent of one percent. Point four of one percent lay
Speaker 1: a half a little more than half a percent of
Speaker 1: our budget. So this is not about the money. This
Speaker 1: has become an ideological battle between the left and the right,
Speaker 1: between the Republicans and the Democrats, ever you want to
Speaker 1: describe it. Over not the money, but a philosophical issue.
Speaker 1: If they don't want this president to have this win,
Speaker 1: well that's sad because in the meantime, well you saw
Speaker 1: what has happened in just the last two weeks with
Speaker 1: officers sing who, by the way, will be on Hannity
Speaker 1: tonight and here's Corkrane. His mom and dad will be
Speaker 1: on the program tonight. We're going to meet other angel
Speaker 1: moms and dads and they'll tell their story and I
Speaker 1: bet they have some strong words and thoughts about the
Speaker 1: whole concept and the whole idea that this is a
Speaker 1: manufactured crisis because it's not. Continue with Jay Sekulo, Chief
Speaker 1: council of American Center for Law and Justice, also counsel
Speaker 1: to the President. All Right, so the president now is
Speaker 1: his hand in a sense, he's got to make a decision.
Speaker 1: And what I'm hearing from my sources on Capitol Hill
Speaker 1: is the President's going to give them a deadline. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's up to the State of the Union address, maybe
Speaker 1: it's two weeks, three weeks, whatever, and if Congress fails
Speaker 1: to act, then he will declare the state of emergency,
Speaker 1: which you know, haven't been down there thirteen times, Jay,
Speaker 1: and having seen the drugs, the poorest porters, gang members
Speaker 1: arrested in front of me, and also talking over the
Speaker 1: years to many of these angel moms and dads. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you, every American should watch Hannity tonight and
Speaker 1: then decide for yourself if this is a manufactured crisis
Speaker 1: as they say. But how long would it take getting
Speaker 1: through the courts? If you're assuming they go to California,
Speaker 1: assuming they go to the Ninth Circuit, how long till
Speaker 1: it gets its way to the Supreme Court. I think
Speaker 1: it can move rapidly. I mean I think they the
Speaker 1: government can ask for expedited review at every step. In
Speaker 1: other words, don't just wait for when he gets to
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. Expedited review at the district court, expedited
Speaker 1: review at the Night Circuit Court of Appeals. I mean
Speaker 1: I've done cases where it's gone from you know, the
Speaker 1: district court to the Supreme Court in two months, in
Speaker 1: eight weeks, so it can happen. I mean I've had
Speaker 1: cases where I've taken a stay up to the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court from a decision in the day, right, So there
Speaker 1: is there are ways to move the case forward. But
Speaker 1: you do know they'll judge shop it. Oh, absolutely. I
Speaker 1: mean you gotta wonder if maybe it would be better
Speaker 1: if the Republicans they filed the suit in a more
Speaker 1: friendly venue first. Let them do it well, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're going to file a lawsuit as soon as
Speaker 1: the president, if the President takes action, they are going
Speaker 1: to file a lawsuit, and that lawsuit will be filed
Speaker 1: in a sympathetic jurisdiction, which means someplace probably in California.
Speaker 1: And in that case, and in that scenario, what I
Speaker 1: think will happen is we're going to have to just
Speaker 1: aggressively move for a review. And so you just got
Speaker 1: to get it up You got to get it upstairs,
Speaker 1: so the Supreme Court as quick as you can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and how long would an expedited review normally take. I
Speaker 1: think you could do an X. I mean, an expedited
Speaker 1: review properly played, could be done in in a couple
Speaker 1: of months. It could be pretty quick, and it quickly
Speaker 1: even go quicker if they It depends on I think
Speaker 1: if we get to actual real judges that aren't judicial activists,
Speaker 1: I can't see this losing in the Supreme Court. Jay Seculo,
Speaker 1: Chief Council American Center for Law Injustice also Counsel to
Speaker 1: the President. Thank you Jay for being with us. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred nine for one Sean told free telephone number. We'll
Speaker 1: get to your calls when we get back. As we continue,
Speaker 1: all right, twenty five now till the top of the hour,
Speaker 1: eight hundred nine for one Sean if you want to
Speaker 1: be a part of the program. So this yesterday was
Speaker 1: what my I'm trying to remember. We're trying to go
Speaker 1: back and at least twelve thirteen fourteen trips to the border.
Speaker 1: I'd been to McCallum, Texas before. I've been to the
Speaker 1: Rio Grand many times. I've been out there with some
Speaker 1: of these guys with gunships, you know. I remember one instance,
Speaker 1: and this was the we were there before Governor Perry
Speaker 1: got there one year, and you'd see people on the
Speaker 1: other side. I mean I probably could reach them throwing
Speaker 1: a baseball. I mean it's not that it's you know,
Speaker 1: you'll walk across in some areas where it's not deep
Speaker 1: at all, you can walk across and be in the
Speaker 1: United States from Mexico in about one minute or less
Speaker 1: and anyway. So, but also we saw people there that
Speaker 1: were armed, obviously dangerous on the other side of the border.
Speaker 1: And we had when I was with Governor Perry and
Speaker 1: El Salvadorian family crossed and we got people. As they
Speaker 1: pointed out yesterday in the briefing with the President, you know,
Speaker 1: they're catching people from forty countries, you know, Bangladesh, the
Speaker 1: Middle East, all over the world. People get to Mexico,
Speaker 1: go to the southern border and that is the one
Speaker 1: area that probably the easiest area to cross. And anyway,
Speaker 1: so we went over all this with the President what
Speaker 1: his plans are. And let me play this exclusive in
Speaker 1: view that I had yesterday with the President at the
Speaker 1: border in McCallum, Texas. Thank you, real Graham. Behind us,
Speaker 1: these are the guys on the front line. You're giving
Speaker 1: them encouraging messages. Right behind them is five hundred pounds
Speaker 1: of drugs that they have captured from this river. That's right.
Speaker 1: They are incredible people. We've just spent some time together
Speaker 1: and we had a whole group at a meeting we
Speaker 1: also had that was just covered on your network and
Speaker 1: other networks, and it's incredible the job they do and
Speaker 1: we really appreciate it. That's right. They have a tremendous
Speaker 1: amount of drugs that they just captured. Right behind us,
Speaker 1: and that's what they do. And if we had a barrier,
Speaker 1: a steel barrier, a concrete barricle, whatever you want, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have we wouldn't have the problem. I have some
Speaker 1: shots that will show in this people can walk across
Speaker 1: the river and or take them about it one a
Speaker 1: minute and a half, two minutes, that's all. And if
Speaker 1: there is no barrier, all those drugs get in. If
Speaker 1: these guys can't carry every second, every inch of of
Speaker 1: you the two thousand miles, that's right, they have easy
Speaker 1: access into the United States. We've built a lot of wall.
Speaker 1: We've renovated tremendous amount of wall with money that we've
Speaker 1: already gotten, and we're continuing that. But now we really
Speaker 1: just want to get it going and finish it up,
Speaker 1: and we're going to build the new wall. And it's
Speaker 1: common sense. It really is when you think of it,
Speaker 1: whether you're into the world of law enforcement, like these
Speaker 1: incredible folks behind us that understand the wall so easily.
Speaker 1: I mean, we would make their jobs so much better,
Speaker 1: and they could also go to other areas because we
Speaker 1: have the wall, you don't need so many people. We
Speaker 1: would probably pay for that many times in one year.
Speaker 1: If you think about just many times. So it's not
Speaker 1: a money thing, it's a political thing. They look at
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty race and they're not feeling too good
Speaker 1: about it. They'll do whatever they can to win. I
Speaker 1: have tapes of maybe twenty Democrats. They all use the
Speaker 1: same phraise manufactured crisis. Interestingly, they're best friends in the media.
Speaker 1: They're all using the same word, manufactured crisis. So we
Speaker 1: have drug cartels, we have gangs that we're dealing with,
Speaker 1: nine of America's heroin crossing our southern border. And then
Speaker 1: of course we've had homicides, and we've had sexual assaults,
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand violent assaults. What do you say to
Speaker 1: that talking point the media and the Democrats are using,
Speaker 1: this is manufactured. Well, you know, I watched last night.
Speaker 1: I saw in your show last night actually where you
Speaker 1: had anchor after anchors using the exact same word. It's manufactured,
Speaker 1: MANUSI sounds like they're in collusion, A little collusion. That's
Speaker 1: the real collusion. Okay, that's the real collusion. You take
Speaker 1: a look, because they all use the exact same term,
Speaker 1: I mean literally the exact same two words. But they
Speaker 1: had manufactured. I said, where did they come up with
Speaker 1: that it's a manufactured crasis. No, it's a manufactured sound
Speaker 1: bite because it was just a sound bite. But virtually
Speaker 1: every you know, I call it the fake news. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you haven't heard, because you're not fake news. Actually
Speaker 1: you're real news. And there is some of that. No,
Speaker 1: there is some of that around fortunately, and these are
Speaker 1: great people. These are patriotic people that do it correctly.
Speaker 1: But you know, when I hear that term manufactured and
Speaker 1: you see every sing group using it, it's very sad.
Speaker 1: We lose three hundred Americans a week of the heroine
Speaker 1: comes into the country, but in the last two weeks
Speaker 1: we lost officers sing in California. Then Pierce Cochrane I
Speaker 1: had his parents on the shoulders, said that I don't
Speaker 1: know how you recover after losing a child killed by
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. I've met and I've interviewed so many angel
Speaker 1: moms and dads too. Are they going to say that
Speaker 1: to them the people that lost their loved ones, their sons,
Speaker 1: their daughters, their parents, or you know, many of the
Speaker 1: people that aren't getting their check, they get it, they're
Speaker 1: going to get it soon. But many of the people
Speaker 1: they're with us one hundred percent. They want us to
Speaker 1: win this battle. These people want us to win. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants us to win this battle. It's common sense. Death
Speaker 1: is pouring through. We have crime and death, and it's
Speaker 1: not just at the border. They get through the border,
Speaker 1: but then they go all they filter into the country,
Speaker 1: and you have MS thirteen gangs in different places like
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and you have gangs all over Long Island,
Speaker 1: which we're knock in the hell out. But there should
Speaker 1: be no reason for us to have to do this.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't be allowed in and if we had the barrier,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to get in. Okay. So the
Speaker 1: point everybody that I have met and spoken to, they
Speaker 1: all say, tell the president if you see them, hold
Speaker 1: the line. Now, you said earlier today that it's likely
Speaker 1: that you're very likely going to declare a national emergency.
Speaker 1: How soon would that happen? Now, if we don't make
Speaker 1: a deal with Congress, most likely I will do that,
Speaker 1: I would actually say I would. I can't imagine any
Speaker 1: reason why not, because I'm allowed to do it. The
Speaker 1: laws one hundred percent on my side. So if we
Speaker 1: can't make a deal with Congress, so we should be
Speaker 1: able to make a deal with Congress. If you look
Speaker 1: Democrats in Congress, especially the new ones coming in and
Speaker 1: starting to say, wait a minute, we can't win this
Speaker 1: battle with Trump because of the fact that it's just
Speaker 1: common sense. How can we say that a wall doesn't work?
Speaker 1: They show one helicopters, empty fields. Are people just running
Speaker 1: through and you put a wall they can't run through?
Speaker 1: What are the options though? If you declare a national emergency.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon also has the funds available that they would
Speaker 1: be able to help support the building of the wall
Speaker 1: if we don't make a deal with Congress, which we
Speaker 1: should be able to. Really just common sense and there's
Speaker 1: some compromise needed. And look, they know that the walls work.
Speaker 1: You know what works a wheel and a wall. It stays.
Speaker 1: They call it a medieval thing. Well, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at all these very expensive cars all over here,
Speaker 1: loaded up with machine guns, and every single one of
Speaker 1: them has wheels. It's a wheel is an old thing
Speaker 1: and a wall is an old thing. There are two
Speaker 1: things they work. They work. A wall would be so effective,
Speaker 1: it would solve so many killings and so much death
Speaker 1: and drugs and human trafficking. Would they tape up women
Speaker 1: on their face, They tape them up and they put
Speaker 1: them in the back of a car or a van
Speaker 1: and they drive right through our border. I guess the
Speaker 1: next most important question is when you do that, would
Speaker 1: you expect they're going to go judge shopping, They go
Speaker 1: to the Ninth Circuit, they go to California to start
Speaker 1: the process. Is there are your attorney's telling you there's
Speaker 1: an expedited way perhaps to the Supreme Court, and they
Speaker 1: are saying there possibly is, and hopefully we wouldn't even
Speaker 1: have to go through. Is very clear. I mean, we
Speaker 1: have the absolute right to declare a national emergency and
Speaker 1: this is security stuff. This is a national emergency. If
Speaker 1: you look at what's happening, and you just heard the
Speaker 1: statement they came in last week or this week from
Speaker 1: Pakistan and different people they got them. Do you see,
Speaker 1: Sarah Cardinal Leslin have people from Bangladesh and they come
Speaker 1: in through the southern border because it's really considered the
Speaker 1: space into the place where they can get in and
Speaker 1: we want to close it up. These people have done
Speaker 1: the greatest job. It's hard work and it could be
Speaker 1: a lot easier, and it would be virtually one hundred
Speaker 1: percent effective. And Nancy and Chuck know that. But it's politics.
Speaker 1: It's about the twenty twenty campaign. It's about running for president.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing. They're already doing it. It's a shame.
Speaker 1: We got to put the country first. When you see you,
Speaker 1: when you see the same Democrats, Hillary or Mama, Biden,
Speaker 1: Schumer all supporting this, you know in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, right, they're not supporting it now? Is it
Speaker 1: because you're the president? They don't want you to get
Speaker 1: a wind. Shouldn't the wind be about the country being
Speaker 1: saved or more secure? They know what I'm saying is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right. And it's not only us, it's
Speaker 1: everybody saying it. These people say it, everybody says it.
Speaker 1: If you don't have a barrier, whether it's a steel
Speaker 1: barrier or a concrete wall, substantial and strong, you're never
Speaker 1: going to solve this problem. You're never going to solve it.
Speaker 1: And I don't need this. Look, I could have done
Speaker 1: something a lot easier. I could have enjoyed myself. I
Speaker 1: haven't left the White House because I'm waiting for them
Speaker 1: to come over in a long time. You know that
Speaker 1: I stayed home for Christmas. I stayed at the White
Speaker 1: House for New Year's and I think it tweeted Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve all alone? Where's Chuck and Nancy? My family? I
Speaker 1: told them stay in Florida and enjoy yourselves. But the
Speaker 1: fact is I want to be in Washington. I mean,
Speaker 1: I consider it very very important. Last question, timeline, before
Speaker 1: you think you have to go the route and declare
Speaker 1: a national emergency, well, I think we're going to see
Speaker 1: what happens over the next few days. They should do
Speaker 1: it immediately. Look, we're not going anywhere. We're not changing
Speaker 1: mind because there's nothing to change your mind. But the
Speaker 1: wall works. It's not a question like, well maybe it
Speaker 1: won't work. It'll work one hundred percent. Now we're adding
Speaker 1: onto that equipment to find drugs that are hidden in cars.
Speaker 1: I mean there's incredible equipment. We're adding sensors, we're adding drones.
Speaker 1: But what we need is we need the barrier. If
Speaker 1: we don't have a barrier, if we don't have a
Speaker 1: steel or concrete barrier, we're all wasting a lot of
Speaker 1: time and lives will be saved. I know you're you're
Speaker 1: thinking about the furloughed employees. You support them, getting all
Speaker 1: their back pay one hundred percent. I support them tremendously.
Speaker 1: But I also support families like the sing family and others,
Speaker 1: others by the hundreds and by the thousands that have
Speaker 1: lost somebody because our policies are so bad, and especially
Speaker 1: at the southern border. They've lost and they've had people
Speaker 1: so badly hurt. But they've lost them, they've lost their lives,
Speaker 1: they've lost they've lost their heart out of the family.
Speaker 1: I support those families, the Angel moms, you know the
Speaker 1: interviews very well, and so do I. I I support them too.
Speaker 1: Does it mean a lot to you guys that the
Speaker 1: President's down here, yes? Or absolutely? And as he describing
Speaker 1: the situation accurately, and if you get the wall, the
Speaker 1: drugs will stop. You can stop the cartels, human trafficking,
Speaker 1: drug trafficking, the gangs. Yes, it will help. It will
Speaker 1: improve refect by what percent. Like the chief said, the
Speaker 1: majority of our traffic is u is usually coming through
Speaker 1: areas that don't have a wall, just like this. Five
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pounds a dope, mister President, thanks for
Speaker 1: taking time, Thank you very much. Thank you guys for
Speaker 1: what you do too. Thank you. We appreciate it, all right,
Speaker 1: now tonight on Hannity, we're gonna have angel mom's, dad's families.
Speaker 1: They're gonna tell the stories exclusively to us. I wonder
Speaker 1: what they think of the Democrats and the media saying
Speaker 1: that this is a manufactured crisis. And literally you could
Speaker 1: fill a stadium. There are so many people family members
Speaker 1: that have lost loved ones and it's sad that they
Speaker 1: don't seem to care even a wit about them by saying,
Speaker 1: it's kind of insulting. That's that's the manufactured crisis. That's
Speaker 1: my son or daughter. What do you mean a manufactured crisis?
Speaker 1: Or if you lost a kid to heroin? Where the
Speaker 1: heroin come from? Well, nine out of ten times it's
Speaker 1: coming from Mexico. Right, This whole United talkie point among
Speaker 1: Democrats and their cohorts and the liberal hate Trump media
Speaker 1: of Oh, this is not a crisis. It's a manufactured crisis.
Speaker 1: Manufactured crisis. Really, let me play this for you and
Speaker 1: then we'll tell you what we have on Hannity tonight.
Speaker 1: President Trump must stuff holding American people hostage. Might stop
Speaker 1: manufacturing a crisis. To manufacture a crisis, this is a
Speaker 1: manufacturing crisis. No crisis exists, and anyone making the argument
Speaker 1: is most likely guilty of fear mongering and willfully misleading
Speaker 1: the American people. Locals will tell him on the border,
Speaker 1: even conservatives, is that there isn't a national security crisis.
Speaker 1: The notion that we have a crisis, their security crisis
Speaker 1: is absolute nonsense because it is a manufactured crisis, and
Speaker 1: a crisis that manufactured by the Trump administration. This artificial
Speaker 1: crisis of the president isn't going to justify his appropriating
Speaker 1: money for a wall that Congress is unwilling to give.
Speaker 1: Is there a crisis at the border of the president
Speaker 1: said there's a humanitarian crisis that the border is there?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. We have a challenge, oh our humanitarian issues
Speaker 1: or challenges for us. The big scam of the whole
Speaker 1: address was that there's a crisis. There's not a crisis, folks.
Speaker 1: The president has manufactured one heck of a political crisis
Speaker 1: for himself. Donald Trump is manufacturing a national security crisis.
Speaker 1: You will hear them say, is that this is a
Speaker 1: manufactured crisis. It's not a national security crisis. It remains
Speaker 1: a Seinfeld shutdown, all about all about nothing. What happens
Speaker 1: when there is a real crisis, when there is a
Speaker 1: real emergency. Does he take to the airways, Do we
Speaker 1: give him the yearways? Do we believe him? Some question
Speaker 1: if there is a crisis at all, as the President
Speaker 1: has claimed, there is not a crisis at the border.
Speaker 1: It's a manufactured crisis for the president to get a
Speaker 1: political when the crisis can have, as we see now,
Speaker 1: a very elastic definition, and he's determined to convince you
Speaker 1: there is a crisis at the border, even though an
Speaker 1: intelligence official tell sin and quote. No one is saying
Speaker 1: this is a crisis except them. The way he was killed,
Speaker 1: what my family is going through right now, I do
Speaker 1: not want any other family, law enforcement person to go
Speaker 1: through that. Whatever it takes to minimize put a stop
Speaker 1: to it. My family fully supports it. I want them
Speaker 1: to go to work, be safe, come home to their
Speaker 1: family safely. And I always, every day I was, you know,
Speaker 1: scared that I would lose my son. Never in my
Speaker 1: wildest dream that I am very imagined my son dying
Speaker 1: at a family outing a criminal illegal alien that killed him. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to be interviewing parents, family member of those
Speaker 1: that have been killed by illegal immigrants, angel moms and dads.
Speaker 1: I wonder what they think of the media and politicians
Speaker 1: saying it's a manufactured crisis. Well of all of that,
Speaker 1: don't miss it tonight nine Eastern Hannity, Fox News. Have
Speaker 1: a great weekend. We'll see it at night at nine.
Speaker 1: Back here on Monday,