1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and Load from 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air. 3 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 2: As a guy who spent thirty four years deporting illegal aliens, 4 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 2: I got a message to the demands of illegal aliens 5 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 2: that Joe Biden's released in our country in violation of 6 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:36,839 Speaker 2: federal law. You better start packing now. You're damn right, 7 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: because you are going home. 8 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 3: We have seen one estimate that says it would cost 9 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 3: eighty eight billion dollars to deport a million people a year. 10 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's accurate or not. 11 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: Is that what American taxpayers should expect? 12 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: What price you put on a national security? Is that 13 00:00:57,680 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: worth it? 14 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,520 Speaker 3: Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 3: separating families? 16 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: Of course, yes, families can be deported together. 17 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 4: There's a wonderful book called Chasing Daylight by a guy 18 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 4: who was head of one of the big thing was 19 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 4: accounting firms like a Price Waterhouse Coopers or Cooper's, a 20 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 4: librand or whatever it was. 21 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: At the time. 22 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 4: And he's diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and he only 23 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 4: has a finite period of time to live. It is 24 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 4: not much. Let's say it's three months. He goes home 25 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 4: and he's a planner. He builds plans, he makes lists, 26 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 4: he executes what he does, and he's risen up through 27 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 4: the ranks of this company to be the head of it, 28 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 4: international well respected, blue blood, blue chip firm. So just 29 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 4: like an engineer or a scientist, he writes things down. 30 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 4: Is he plant plan, he executes him. And one of 31 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 4: the things he talked about of this diagnosis, he called 32 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 4: it the gift. And the reason he said it was 33 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 4: a gift is if you die. My brother died of 34 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 4: a heart attack two years ago, and we didn't get 35 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 4: to say by properly. Although I have lived my life 36 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 4: for years such that if I never see you again, 37 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 4: you know how I feel about you. You know that 38 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 4: I'm clear, I emote, I communicate, no regrets. So he 39 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 4: talked about this gift because now he got to say 40 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,519 Speaker 4: to people the things that were that mattered to him, 41 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 4: and he got to do the things that were important 42 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 4: to him. Because he said, if I were to have 43 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 4: lived twenty five more years, I'd slow roll this thing. 44 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 4: I'm going to do what matters most, which is tell 45 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,079 Speaker 4: people I love how much I love them and why 46 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 4: I love them. And he went back through his life 47 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 4: and did that he started with people he grew up 48 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 4: with in high school than college and early jobs. And 49 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 4: he said, this has been a great gift for me, 50 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 4: and then of course he died, but he talked about 51 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 4: the purpose he had, and he talked about the fact 52 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 4: that this accelerated what he would have never otherwise done. 53 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 4: Because it's weird, right if you're just sitting around and 54 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 4: you start calling everybody from high school and said, hey, Bobby, 55 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 4: I just want you to know remember that time you 56 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 4: gave me a ride when you didn't have to, and 57 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 4: it really helped me out. 58 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: And that's what you know. That's meant a lot to me, 59 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: my whole life. 60 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, you okay, you dying now, I just watching a 61 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 4: football game had to be weird, right, But when he 62 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 4: knew he had a finite number of hours left to 63 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 4: spend on this earth, it gave him a purpose, an 64 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 4: accelerated time schedule to accomplish things. Donald Trump knows four 65 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 4: years will come and go fast. It'll be gone before 66 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 4: you know it. He's done it before. He knows he 67 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 4: can never be president again. He knows he didn't just 68 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 4: say this to win your vote. He knows how messed 69 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 4: up things are in this country and that he's got 70 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 4: a brief moment to fix them. It's Joe Montana having 71 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 4: to drive ninety yards to score on the Cowboys in 72 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 4: the championship game. It's John Elway before the big drive. 73 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 4: It's Aaron Rodgers taking his team down the field to score. 74 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 4: You know you got whatever. It is thirty eight seconds 75 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 4: and you're on your own five yard line. 76 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,719 Speaker 1: You don't have time to mess around. 77 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 4: So Donald Trump, the minute he won, started making announcements, 78 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 4: Here's what we're doing. 79 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: Here's what we're doing. Here's what we're doing. Here's what 80 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: we're doing. 81 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 4: And I love it. There is a sense of urgency. 82 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 4: I have a friend named Russell Lebar. It's a very 83 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 4: successful restaurant tour. He has over twenty restaurants and growing. 84 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 4: And if I ask him for a check or a 85 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 4: charitable cause like Camp Hope or Saint Jude, he will 86 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 4: drive it over. His office is forty minutes from my 87 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 4: office for my studio, and he'll arrive in thirty five minutes. 88 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 4: And I'll say, Russell, you could have mailed it, and 89 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 4: he says, sense of urgency. It's something is worth doing, 90 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 4: it's worth doing right now. And I've taught my kids 91 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,880 Speaker 4: sense of urgency and they know that comes from mister Obara. Well, 92 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 4: that's what Donald Trump is doing. He is building the 93 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 4: team to execute on the orders. He has named Stephen 94 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 4: Miller as his deputy chief of staff. Stephen Miller is 95 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 4: a guy. I don't know that he could fist fight 96 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 4: and win. Anybody win a fistfight, but man, this guy's tough. 97 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:18,479 Speaker 1: He is unafraid. He knows that the media hates him 98 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: and is out to defeat him. 99 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,239 Speaker 4: So this is a reporter asking for facts and figures, 100 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 4: facts and figures to back up the need for mass deportation. 101 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:36,280 Speaker 1: Children are dead and you are wasting my time. Do 102 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: you have any remorse for the dead children? Do you 103 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: care all about the dead children? Absolutely? 104 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 5: Then that's what I want to leave you with, is 105 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 5: that Donald Trump will figures. 106 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: Here's what's going to happen. 107 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,719 Speaker 5: Donald Trump is going to be elected president and the 108 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 5: migrant gangs are going to be sent home. Children's lives 109 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 5: will be saved, and you know who will benefit the 110 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 5: most are the working class Hispanic communities that are besieged 111 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 5: by gang violences. So you're the schools that are being 112 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 5: overtaken by migrant gangs. 113 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: You have emas thirteen. That is brutalizing children. 114 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 5: You have Kayla Hamilton, who is a twenty year old 115 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 5: autistic girl who was raped and murdered, beaten to death. 116 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 5: That will end. That will stop, and our children's lives 117 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 5: will be saved. That is the most virtuous thing that 118 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 5: can possibly be done. We are going to save the 119 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 5: lives of our children. We will not let Kamala Harris 120 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 5: condemn them to a life of misery, suffering and death. 121 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 4: If you really understand what's happening in this country, you 122 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 4: have to have a fire under your booty. You have 123 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 4: to be ready to get after it. And you know what, 124 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 4: I love Donald Trump does. He absolutely does. He is 125 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 4: seventy eight years old, and he knows my time on 126 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 4: this earth tomorrow is not promised. He's been shot in 127 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 4: the head within a few months ago. He knows they're 128 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 4: out to get him. He knows there are powerful people 129 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 4: out to get it, and he's out to save this country. 130 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 4: And he ain't wasting a moment. He's going to hit 131 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 4: the ground running on day one with the right team 132 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 4: in place. I'll tell you some more of who those 133 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 4: are coming up. I truly believe that the worst thing 134 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 4: that ever happened to America was slavery. 135 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: To Michael Berry Show. 136 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 4: And the best thing that ever happened to slavery was 137 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 4: America and the Republican Party reports that President Trump will 138 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 4: attend the UFC this weekend at Madison Square Garden in 139 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 4: New York City. Per UFC fighter bau Nicol, this will 140 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 4: be his first public event since being elected. 141 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: And let me tell you something. 142 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 4: You've never seen a crowd go more wild than they 143 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 4: are going to go for Donald J. 144 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: Trump when he walked in there. 145 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:07,839 Speaker 4: President Trump has been a UFC guy since before most 146 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 4: people knew what UFC was. 147 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: It is going to be so over. 148 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 4: The top, just insane love for this man. 149 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: And he's not running for office now. 150 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:30,000 Speaker 4: You do want your mandate, You do want people to 151 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 4: support what you're doing. So in a sense, you're always campaigning. 152 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 4: And Trump understands that. But I think he genuinely feeds 153 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,599 Speaker 4: off of the crowd and the love. I think it 154 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 4: sustains him. I think it nourishes him. Congressman Mike Watts 155 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 4: is a retired colonel and National Guard combat decorated Green 156 00:09:54,920 --> 00:10:00,439 Speaker 4: Beret and former White House and Pentagon policy advisor. Has 157 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 4: named him his National Security Advisor. Here is Mike Waltz 158 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 4: when he was a congressman, questioning Anthony Blincoln, who, by 159 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 4: the way, is the devil about the Biden administration's foreign 160 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 4: policy failures. 161 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: I just have a simple question for you. 162 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 6: Is the world safer under your tenure as Secretary? 163 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 7: I think the world is an incredibly dangerous place, but 164 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 7: we're able to deal with it more effectively and in a 165 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 7: more secure manner because we've rebuilt our alliances, created new ones. 166 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 6: We have more partners's our alliance with our Afghan partners. 167 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: No how's that going? Ones? 168 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 7: That the many that we've brought to the United States 169 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 7: since with throwing from afghanisty. 170 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:38,960 Speaker 1: Did deterrance failed? 171 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 6: Putin from invading Ukraine? 172 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 7: Putin was prevented because of our leadership in not erasing 173 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 7: preventing from race Ukraine from the man? 174 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: Could the invasion have happened? Did deterrence fail? 175 00:10:53,960 --> 00:11:01,920 Speaker 6: We had a whole panoply of threatened sanctions, isolation, diplomatic isolation. 176 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, he's still invaded. 177 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 6: He did indeed failed, And Noah has the terms failed 178 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 6: Iran supporting terrorism and its terrorist organizations and. 179 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 7: Attacking is fortunately horrifically Haurana supported terrorism for decades. 180 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 6: Mister Secretary, I have here the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, the 181 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 6: invasion of Ukraine, the unholy alliance between Russia and China, 182 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 6: Hamas and Hezbela attacks on Israel, Huti attacking international shipping 183 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:36,239 Speaker 6: hostages in Gaza, Iran flush with cash, the re emergence 184 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 6: of isis k now six thwarted attacks in Europe, increased 185 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 6: Chinese aggression, and the collapse of our influence in Central 186 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 6: Africa and the Sahel. And you're we get five minutes 187 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 6: for the million people I represent, a public hearing, and 188 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 6: you're going to tell the American people with this list 189 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:55,959 Speaker 6: they're safer. 190 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 7: Go let's go down that list. We ended American War. 191 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 7: We're better off for that Russian invasion of Ukraine. We 192 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 7: repelled it by bringing fifty countries together, getting the Ukrainians 193 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 7: what they need to make sure that it couldn't be 194 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 7: erased from the map, the cooperation between Russian and China. 195 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 6: I mean, at some point you have to look back, 196 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 6: take a step back, look in the mirror and say 197 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 6: our policies are failing, is crumbling. Fully, the American people 198 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 6: do not feel safer, totally disagree around the world. 199 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 4: You know, Anthony Blinken, John Bolton, Brennan, Dick Cheney. These 200 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 4: men are the types of men that are the reason 201 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 4: our loved ones died in Vietnam. They are the reason 202 00:12:54,320 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 4: that Marcus Latrell lost his three buddies and the Chinook 203 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 4: that came to save them. We absolutely took a swath 204 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 4: of an entire generation out in Afghanistan and. 205 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: Iraq, and what do we have to show for it. 206 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: These men are evil. 207 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 4: They sold more bullets and more guns, and they built 208 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,839 Speaker 4: more embassies, and some generals got some promotions. A lot 209 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 4: of people won, but America lost, and a lot of 210 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 4: families were hit hard. CNN Scott Jennings called Tom Homan 211 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 4: Trump's borders are the exact right choice. 212 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 1: Folks. 213 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:50,199 Speaker 4: You probably noticed because I've been talking about it yesterday 214 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 4: and today. I'm fired up over this Tom Holman choice. 215 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 8: Well, first of all, i think mister Homan is the 216 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 8: exact right choice, and I'm glad the President has moved 217 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 8: on that so quickly because it was such a big 218 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 8: part of his campaign. Number two, Look, there's a whole 219 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 8: bunch of people in this country that don't need to 220 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 8: be here. In fact, there's I think one point three 221 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 8: million people who've already received deportation orders from federal courts. 222 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 8: They've already had due process, they need to leave, and 223 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 8: so there's a good place to start. There's a whole 224 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 8: other bunch of people who are here that we know 225 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 8: have committed violent crimes, either where they were or since 226 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 8: they've been here. 227 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: They need to be sent away as well. 228 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 8: So there are large numbers of people that need to 229 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 8: be taken out of this country, and I think mister 230 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 8: Homan is going to be the person who's most capable 231 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 8: of getting that done. And for those who think that 232 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 8: this is somehow unusual, it's not. Every administration deports people. 233 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 8: Barack Obama deported all kinds of people, lots of people 234 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 8: in fact, And so it's something that the executive branch 235 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 8: can and should do when due process has occurred, or 236 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 8: when we know there are people in the country who 237 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:53,359 Speaker 8: wish harm on American citizens. This should not be controversial, 238 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 8: and in fact, in the campaign it wasn't. Polling repeatedly 239 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 8: showed that people supported Trump's viewpoint on this issue. 240 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: And just so you know, it's the right choice. This 241 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: will take us to break an a. 242 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 4: Navarro on the view, is very unhappy about this choice, 243 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 4: and that when you're making the right people mad, that 244 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 4: makes me happy. 245 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 9: Look, Donald Trump won the electoral vote. He won, he's 246 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 9: going to win the House. He won the Senate. For 247 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,440 Speaker 9: all effects and purposes, He's got the Supreme Court. They've 248 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 9: given him immunity. This is what the country voted for. 249 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 9: This is you know a lot of people thought that 250 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 9: when he talked about mass deportations he wasn't being serious. 251 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 9: I don't know how many times he had to say 252 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 9: it for people to realize he was being serious. Well, 253 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 9: if you thought he wasn't being serious, the appointment of 254 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,000 Speaker 9: Tom Homan today as borders are and he will be 255 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 9: in charge of a mass deportation program, the largest the 256 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 9: country has ever seen, they say. And now Stephen Miller 257 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 9: as deputy chief of staff should let you know that 258 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 9: he was absolutely serious. And when you talk about mass deportations, 259 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 9: people think, oh, it's just going to be the criminals. 260 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 9: There's not enough criminals aliens in the federal prison system 261 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 9: for it to be mass deportations. What it means as grandmothers, 262 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 9: what it means as brothers and aunts, What it means 263 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 9: is auelas auelas. It means dreamers, it means your family members, 264 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 9: it means you're for your colleagues, it means your friends, 265 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,200 Speaker 9: it means people who are part of the society. And 266 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 9: look America, you. 267 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: Know, don't you come here illegally? The Michael Berry Show, 268 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 1: Michael Berry. 269 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 4: Show, arrogant, pretentious, false people every night on television claim 270 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 4: to know what the people think. They claim to know 271 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 4: what women think, and what Hispanics think, and what Blacks think. 272 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: And they love to. 273 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 4: Speak for the peasants because that's how they view us. 274 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 4: We're out here in the hinterland. But they don't know. 275 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 4: Sometimes they just make it up. But one thing you 276 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 4: learn when you're in that business is that whatever you say, 277 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 4: regardless whether it's credible or not, regardless whether it's based 278 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 4: in reality or any particular inside knowledge, is you seem 279 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 4: very confident. And in so doing, people at home who've 280 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 4: not learned to lie or be a fraud or pose, 281 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 4: they don't know that. One of the things about elections 282 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 4: is then you get to actually learn what the people 283 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 4: do think. So there's a very interesting Hispanics are an 284 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 4: interesting group or let them knows, whichever you prefer. 285 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: I don't care. 286 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:49,000 Speaker 4: They're an interesting group to study as voters because blacks 287 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 4: tend to vote as a block, closer than any other group, 288 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 4: certainly closer than whites or no matter whether they're rich 289 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 4: or poor. They have in the past. Now there was 290 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 4: a change this time. A large large portion of Blacks 291 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 4: will vote the same or have voted the same. His 292 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:15,800 Speaker 4: fanics not so much, because you've got, first of all, 293 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,880 Speaker 4: you've got Hispanish from Mexico, which are very different than 294 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 4: those native to Cuba, which is very different than those 295 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:28,239 Speaker 4: native to Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico. And you got 296 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 4: the Texas versus Florida versus New York, Vibe Arizona and 297 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 4: California thrown in there. But an interesting thing has happened 298 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 4: this election in my home state of Texas, where Star 299 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 4: County ninety seven percent Hispanic went Republican majority Republican first 300 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,680 Speaker 4: time since eighteen ninety two. I read a good piece 301 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 4: by a fellow named Layton Woodhouse. Don't know him, but 302 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 4: it's well written. It appeared in the Free Press, which 303 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 4: I subscribed to, and it was entitled the Latino Democrats 304 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 4: who Flipped for Trump. A report from the Border Star County, 305 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,239 Speaker 4: Texas hasn't voted for Republican president since eighteen ninety two. 306 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 4: Now quote the GOP is what the Democrats used to be. 307 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 4: Alberto Olivaris is a fourth generation Tehano who worked for 308 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 4: Customs and Border Patrol for twenty six years. He's also 309 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 4: been a Democrat most of his life. He says, I 310 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 4: was a Democrat because I was told I was, said Olivares, 311 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 4: a square jawed, fifty four year old in a cowboy 312 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 4: hat and boots. I didn't want to be different than 313 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,480 Speaker 4: my parents and my brothers and my sister. But he 314 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 4: said he was so turned off by what he saw 315 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 4: as President moroacc Obama's failure to support law enforcement that 316 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 4: he switched parties. He said, I had to deal with 317 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 4: the feeling of divorcing my family, he told me over 318 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 4: a Coca Cola and Rio Grand City, the seat of 319 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 4: Star County. This year, he became the first person, as 320 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 4: far as he knows, to run for local office as 321 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 4: a Republican here. 322 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: Since the eighteen eighties. 323 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 4: During his campaign for county sheriff, he was careful not 324 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 4: to mention Donald Trump, fearing an association with the former 325 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 4: president could hurt him In this traditionally Democrat area, but 326 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:27,120 Speaker 4: he said voters kept bringing up Trump themselves, telling Olivares 327 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 4: how much they liked the billionaire from Queens. I saw 328 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 4: this myself more than once when I heard drivers honk 329 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 4: their horns in town at trucks waving flags for Trump. 330 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 4: A tectonic transformation is underway in the Rio Grand Valley, 331 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 4: which is a reflection of what's happening nationally. Olivares said. 332 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 4: The GOP is what the Democrats used to be. Star 333 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 4: County is almost one hundred percent Latino. In years past, 334 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 4: that should have made it a lock for Democrats and 335 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:03,800 Speaker 4: for generations it was Los democratas isay portolos pobdes. That's 336 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 4: their catchphrase, said Olivaris of the local Parti's mantra, which 337 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 4: roughly translates to Democrats will represent the poor. For decades, 338 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,919 Speaker 4: there simply was no Republican party in the area. In 339 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,040 Speaker 4: twenty ten, when Olivaris's wife voted wanted to vote in 340 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 4: a Republican primary, poll workers had to make phone calls 341 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,880 Speaker 4: and send her to numerous polling stations just to track 342 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,639 Speaker 4: down a GOP ballot. But last week the county flipped 343 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,439 Speaker 4: to the Republican party for the first time in one 344 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 4: hundred and thirty years, voting for Trump by about fifty 345 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 4: eight percent. The last time Star County voted for Republican 346 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 4: presidential candidate was in eighteen ninety two for Benjamin Harrison. 347 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,239 Speaker 4: There's no better place to witness America's political realignment than 348 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 4: the small Texas border towns along the Rio Grand. Across 349 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 4: the country, the swap from Democrat to Republican has been 350 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 4: unfolding for decades, but it went into overdrive with Trump's 351 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 4: arrival in US politics in twenty fifteen. In twenty twenty, 352 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 4: it became clear that a seismic political shift was underway 353 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 4: when Trump almost won Star County, taking forty seven percent 354 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 4: of the vote in a county that had voted for 355 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 4: Hillary Clinton four years earlier in twenty sixteen by seventy 356 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,640 Speaker 4: nine points and for Barack Obama by seventy three points 357 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 4: in twenty twelve and eighty four points in two thousand 358 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 4: and eight. Olivaris said, of Trump almost winning in twenty twenty, 359 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 4: we were so close. Everyone was ready to flip in 360 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 4: Star County. You can see the change happening across two 361 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 4: key access class and race. 362 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 1: Rio Grand City is a poor town, with the. 363 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 4: Median income of forty four thousand, barely half the median 364 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 4: income of the country as a whole. Almost everyone has 365 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 4: a Spanish surname, and most people are bilingual. But Star 366 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,000 Speaker 4: County has found itself increasingly out of place in the 367 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 4: progressive Democrat Party of the twenty first century. As Olivari's says, 368 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 4: people here are conservative. Although Olivaris lost the sheriff's race 369 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 4: this time, if he tries again, it's highly likely he 370 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 4: could win and become the area's first Republican public servant 371 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 4: since the age of westward expansion. 372 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time. The Rio Grand Valley 373 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 1: is now Trump Country. 374 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 4: I spent last weekend in spent last weekend in Rio 375 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 4: Grand City, asking people there how they voted in this 376 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 4: presidential election, whether their choice represented a departure from the past. 377 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: The pattern was unmistakable. 378 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 4: The region is full of lifelong Democrats who are now 379 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 4: stalwart Republicans. 380 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: I was raised in a Democrat family. 381 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 4: A forty eight year old Mexican American man told me 382 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,399 Speaker 4: as he leaned against the tailgate of his pickup truck 383 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 4: about to go for an afternoon run, he was reluctant 384 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:45,159 Speaker 4: to give me his name, but he told me he 385 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 4: grew up a farm worker, toiling in the fields with 386 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 4: his parents when he was twelve or thirteen. Now he 387 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 4: says he works as an EMT and he's been in 388 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:57,360 Speaker 4: the Rio Grand River many times, saving the migrants from drowning. 389 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 4: Today he's a Republican and he's happy that Donald Trump 390 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 4: will be our next president. Tradition, Values, rules was how 391 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 4: he described his worldview. I'm going to skip down because 392 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,479 Speaker 4: I'm running out of time, But it's stories about people 393 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 4: with a deep connection to Mexico put an even deeper 394 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 4: connection to Texas. And it's really only in South Texas 395 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 4: that you feel these things, that you experience these things, 396 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:35,959 Speaker 4: and it's hard for people outside of Texas to understand 397 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 4: these people. They are deeply Texan, deeply proudly Latino, and 398 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,360 Speaker 4: deeply proud of their heritage back in Mexico. 399 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:54,639 Speaker 1: And guess what. They don't want a legal immigration, they. 400 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 4: Don't want boys playing girls sports, they don't want the 401 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:04,600 Speaker 4: nonsense of the life. And frankly, I'm glad the Democrats 402 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 4: are disrespected because I'm honored to have them vote for 403 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 4: Donald Trump. And the words of those chordsmen aren't shore and 404 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 4: the words that were taken by robint FP. 405 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 5: These children speak Chinese ambatic. 406 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: I like to tell stories to make a point. You 407 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: probably figured that out, so let me tell you a 408 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 1: quick story. 409 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 4: So in two thousand and one, I was the youngest 410 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 4: city councilor ever elected in the city Houston, and the 411 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:34,400 Speaker 4: first Republican elected citywide. We had single member districts forever, 412 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 4: and then they added some at large districts well. To 413 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 4: win at large in the city. You would think of 414 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 4: Houston as very conservative if you don't live in Houston, 415 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 4: but the urban environment is really Detroit, Chicago, La New York, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami, Miami. 416 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: Less so today. But anyway, so. 417 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 4: We get I get elected and there is a fellow 418 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 4: who is brought in to be the dollar a year 419 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 4: transportations are n It was David Sapristin, and I chaired the airport, 420 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 4: Transportation and Infrastructure committees. It was three different committees. They 421 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 4: gave them all to me because that was where I 422 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 4: geeked out that in the budget. So he and I 423 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 4: had to work together. He did not have a city position, 424 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 4: he didn't need one. He's a billionaire. But he immediately 425 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 4: asked me for a meeting, and he said, look, I 426 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 4: don't intend to overstep your role as the chairman of 427 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 4: the Transportation Committee. I'm only going to do this for 428 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,360 Speaker 4: a year and I want to get some things accomplished. 429 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 4: I don't get paid for this. I don't need to 430 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 4: do this. He lived at the time in Malibu, at 431 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 4: three houses in California. He had kids, adult kids in 432 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 4: New York. He had apartments all over the world. But 433 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,239 Speaker 4: he had built his empire in Houston. And how he 434 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 4: had built his empire was he had owned a Ford 435 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 4: dealership in his early twenties in Baltimore, where he was from, 436 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 4: and he would drive into work every day into downtown Baltimore, 437 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 4: and some days it would take him twenty minutes and 438 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 4: some days it would take two hours. So he said, 439 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 4: what if somebody could tell me about the traffic patterns. Now, 440 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 4: for you young folks, you go, oh yeah, just look 441 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 4: at your Apple mounts, or hey, just go to Way's 442 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 4: or just look. 443 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: It wasn't that simple back then. 444 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 4: You didn't know how long it was going to take 445 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 4: to commute into town back in the day, because there 446 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 4: wasn't any way to tell you. There was no traffic 447 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,200 Speaker 4: on the radio So what he did is he went 448 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 4: in and he figured out he put he rented a helicopter, 449 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 4: and he put the helicopter up in the air, and 450 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 4: the helicopter would communicate with a person that he hired 451 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 4: to sit in his office at his Ford Dealership in 452 00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,920 Speaker 4: downtown Baltimore, and then he would sell that to the 453 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 4: radio station. And how he sold that is a whole 454 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 4: different things. It's fascinating, And it was called Metro Traffic, 455 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 4: and Metro Traffic grew to go nationwide and Westwood One, 456 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 4: which is one of the competitors of the company I 457 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 4: work for, which is iHeartMedia. Westwood One bought them for 458 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 4: one point two billion dollars. They had one shareholder, It 459 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 4: was David david Is David Sapristein became a mentor of mine, 460 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,800 Speaker 4: and I learned a lot working beside him. We flew 461 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 4: to Seattle to see what they were doing. We flew 462 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 4: all over the country to see what people were doing 463 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 4: with parking, what people were doing with how to tow vehicles. 464 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 4: So he commissioned a study from a wonderful group in 465 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 4: college station at the Texas A and M University Transportation Institute, 466 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 4: and we learned why traffic was so bad in Houston, 467 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 4: and that was the number one issue. 468 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: People wanted the traffic fixed. Will nobody ever fixed his problems. 469 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:19,959 Speaker 1: They just talk about it. 470 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 4: Right, We've got unwed mothers, and we've got people in poverty, 471 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 4: and we've got people without insurance. But nobody ever actually 472 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 4: solves the problem. They just talk about it. Well, David 473 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 4: wanted to solve it, and that was right up my alley. 474 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 4: So we start doing these studies and we find out 475 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:45,520 Speaker 4: in very short order that fourteen percent of traffic delays 476 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 4: are from cars on the side of the road and 477 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,960 Speaker 4: causing accidents. So what if we get those cars moved off. Well, 478 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 4: the toe industry has a lock on that, and we 479 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 4: had something at the time called the tow truck. So 480 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 4: when a car would go down on the side of 481 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 4: the road, if there was a tow truck literally driving 482 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,640 Speaker 4: behind it instead of pulling right up in front of it, 483 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,520 Speaker 4: locking it up and hauling it off, couldn't do that. 484 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,280 Speaker 4: Anybody who got to the accident before an officer arrived 485 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 4: would be part of the group. 486 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: The lottery. They would literally draw straws. 487 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,840 Speaker 4: Once the officer arrived, they said, all right, there's four 488 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 4: of y'all waiting here, So here we go, and whoever 489 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 4: was pulled out of the hat would get the toe 490 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 4: because they would get paid. 491 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 1: Right. 492 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 4: Well, that would cause people to drive dangerously to get 493 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 4: to the accident before the officer did to have a 494 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 4: chance to get the toe, because that's the big money 495 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 4: is a downed car on side of the road and 496 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 4: take them off. So we created something called safe Clear, 497 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 4: which was we created zones on the highway and you 498 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,719 Speaker 4: had to respond and we got real time data on 499 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 4: how fast the cars moved. Guess what, Now we had 500 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 4: accountability built in. Now we had people getting the cars 501 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 4: out of the way, moving the cars. 502 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: Off the track of the off the side. 503 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 4: We had training done for the police departments the city, 504 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 4: the county, the Metro who were working the roads and saying, hey, 505 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,239 Speaker 4: when there's an accident, unless there's a fatality. 506 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: Get the damn accident off the road. 507 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 4: But see officers, God love them and I do, they 508 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 4: got nowhere to be they're on duty. So how many times, 509 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 4: especially on the Texas highways, I would tell you it 510 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 4: probably happens where you live. It takes you two hours 511 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,200 Speaker 4: to get up past an accident, and then you get 512 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 4: past it and you realize the cops are just standing 513 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 4: around talking to each other. What do they care if 514 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 4: you arrival on time? But that means people don't get 515 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 4: to the hospital on time. That means products don't arrival 516 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,880 Speaker 4: on time. That means the eighteen wheeler driver, the long 517 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 4: haul driver who needed to go from California to Florida 518 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 4: and get back on time now isn't going to be 519 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 4: able to drop his load on time. And that pushed 520 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 4: everything in the supply chain back. 521 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 7: Well. 522 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 4: I say all that to say this Time magazine declared 523 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 4: that the two cities in the world, after one year 524 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 4: of us working on this, the two cities in the 525 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 4: world with the most innovative approaches to reducing traffic congestion 526 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:33,080 Speaker 4: where Tokyo, Japan and Houston, Texas. I was so proud 527 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 4: because David would study the issue, we would collaborate on 528 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 4: a solution, and it was my job to get it 529 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 4: through city council and the mayor would get all the credit, 530 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 4: which was how it should be. He's the mayor, he 531 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:49,239 Speaker 4: gave me authority to do this. I got to do it. 532 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 4: He's a Democrat. I'm a Republican, but he understood it. 533 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 4: David Sapristin's a Republican fact. His nephew was head of 534 00:32:54,720 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 4: the RNC, David Cypristin brought a body of knowledge in 535 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 4: problem solving. He brought a crazy desire that whatever needs 536 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 4: to get done will get done to get to the solution. 537 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: Why do I tell you that there's nobody in the. 538 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 4: Government of over twenty thousand people would have been able 539 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 4: to accomplish any of that. So bringing in an Elon Musk, 540 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 4: who doesn't need a job to lead government efficiency is 541 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:36,080 Speaker 4: an indictment and an embarrassment to every federal government employee 542 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 4: and the media who defend them. And that's why, as 543 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 4: you'll see coming up, they want Trump or they want 544 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 4: Musk deported. 545 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: That's why they're tearing down Musk. 546 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 4: That's why Musk must not succeed, because Musk proves that 547 00:33:53,960 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 4: entrepreneurs are problem solvers, they're visionaries, they accomplish things just 548 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 4: like Trump does, and they don't want that to happen. 549 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,640 Speaker 7: Coming up, mm hmm,