Chaos In Chicago; Illegal Attack Border Patrol | Episode 147

27:01So in other words, like that's their pessimistic take on events. But one way or another, I'm telling you, however this settles out, you can't draw districts based on skin color. Districts, look, if a community is predominantly one skin color and they happen to also be like a cohesive town, okay. So the district is majority black or majority Hispanic, whatever. It's a town. It's a coherent thing that should be a congressional district. You should draw it based on is this a real community. but you should not draw it based on, hey, what's the skin color of the people within the district? Let's carve it up so we can guarantee more Democrat seats.

27:41No, that's actually forbidden. And today the Supreme Court justices have an opportunity to smack this crap down. So this is a massive, massive case with big implications for the country, important ones. And you should know about it, which is why, of course, we're talking about it. That's what we do here on this edition and every edition of Vince. I've got a lot more to get to. Let's get to the Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom Ceremony at the White House yesterday. It was so great. I'll emphasize that in just a moment. Before we get there, though, I want to ask you something. How much time do you spend every day on a web browser?

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31:12Love doing it. All right. Let's see here. I've got some good stuff for you. I've got Charlie Kirk's Medal of Freedom ceremony, a posthumous Medal of Freedom ceremony yesterday for Charlie Kirk. Take a look here. This is the president of the United States presenting the Medal of Freedom to Charlie's widow, Erica, in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden. Take a look at this. On September 10th, 2025, at age 30, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while addressing a group of students. The United States honors him as a martyr for truth and freedom.

31:57There we go. Erica Kirk is there, his beautiful widow, dressed in all black. United States Marine hands the Medal of Freedom to the president. The president brings the Medal of Freedom, in a beautiful case, over to Erica Kirk. The crowd applauds. A touching moment, a sweet gesture, and a real demonstration of this country's gratitude to the role that Charlie Kirk has played in making it a better place to live. Thank you, Charlie. What a nice thing for the president to do. And the president himself, as you know, he's been very busy. He's been working on world peace, something that Charlie was very eager to see the president do.

32:39and he had to rush back from his trip to Israel and Egypt just to be able to make this ceremony. The president said that there had been some conversation about changing the date of it to accommodate his own busy schedule, but he said when he realized that this was Charlie's birthday, he said he really had no choice. He had to be back for it. Here's the president yesterday saying he raced home to do this. As you know, only hours ago I returned from a very historic trip to secure peace in the Middle East. People said that couldn't be done. Charlie felt it could be done. Charlie felt it could be done.

33:18Thank you. Thank you.

33:26Thank you very much. but I raced back halfway around the globe I was going to call Erica and say Erica could you maybe move it to Friday and I didn't have the courage to call but you know why I didn't call because I heard today was Charlie's birthday and I said you know that was a definite and I said we're going to have to forget about some of those very big very rich countries that expected me to be there and I can tell you based on the length of that flight I wouldn't want to go back tomorrow. But I would not have missed this moment for anything in the world. Nothing. What a nice what a nice remark.

34:07And what a nice effort that the president has undertaken. That Medal of Freedom, just so so people know, is the first Medal of Freedom to ever have a cross inscribed on the back of it. They actually were able to engrave a cross right on the back of it. And it says Charles James Kirk. Guys, can you pull my screen up? I just want people to see this. The back of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Here is Erica Kirk holding it in the image. Again, a cross for Jesus Christ. And Charles James Kirk, James Kirk inscribed on the back of it. Just really nice thing. And a nice gesture by the White House as they give her this wonderful gift.

34:52Yeah, isn't he the greatest? The chat say, man, this guy's such a great president. He really is. Thoughtful, too. They really, they kind of, they don't leave any detail out. They really think through all the details. I stink at planning things. I like, I put things together. I forget so much. And this White House, they just really think through all the details. So thank you to the president of the United States for being so attentive to that. And it's a sign of how much they love the guy. They love the, they really do. And we have a great country. That video, by the way, I believe was captured by Benny Johnson, who's great.

35:24So thank you to Benny for getting that video of Erica Kirk showing people the back of the Medal of Freedom. Erica Kirk was wonderful, as usual. She said that this cross is the perfect birthday gift for Charlie. Take a look at this. Honestly, President Trump, I have spent seven and a half years trying to find the perfect birthday gift for Charlie. and it's so difficult and those of you that have spouses or loved ones you know how difficult it is sometimes to buy a gift for someone that you love because he wasn't a materialistic man so that also did not help but now i can say with confidence mr president that you have given him the best birthday gift he could ever have

36:10yeah beautiful beautiful so sad that um that he's gone but but erica kirk erica kirk has been so impressive through all of this she has just been an extraordinary demonstration of what it means to be a devoted wife uh and in his death she is she has become as fierce and as determined as ever which I love. Erica Kirk also said that she kind of she kind of she acknowledged a reality about Charlie, which is that Charlie was a prayerful man and that he prayed for his enemies. Yes. And he looked back and she looked back at President Trump as almost as if she was inviting him to start doing the same thing.

36:52Here's Erica Kirk yesterday in a in a light and touching moment. When it was costly, but that's what we're called to do. surprisingly enough he did pray for his enemies which is very hard but he did he did i he did

37:14no one else i mean i saw him do it no he never did it in front of anyone else but i can attest to that but he also loved people when it was inconvenient and he ran his race with endurance and he kept the faith. And now he wears the crown of a righteous martyr. Now he wears the crown of a righteous martyr. I love the president when she looks back at him and she goes, yeah, he prayed. Charlie prayed for his enemies. She looks back at the president and he smiles and he kind of shrugs like, all right, fine. He's better than me. He's a good person. It was funny. That's what the crowd was laughing at.

37:50And it was great. It was just wonderful. There's a lot of love there in that Rose Garden yesterday as so many of Charlie's great friends and admirers gathered together to celebrate him. Erica also called on all Americans to embody the Medal of Freedom that was given to Charlie yesterday. Charlie's not here to wear that medal, but the rest of us are here to live out its values. Listen to Erica. This is a commissioning. And my message is simple. I want you to be the embodiment of this medal. I do. I want you to free yourself from fear. I want you to stand courageously in the truth. Listen for the still, small voice of God.

38:38And remember that while freedom is inherited in this country, each of us must be intentional stewards every single day. God began a mighty work through my husband and I intend to see it through. And the torch is in our hands now. It's in mine. It's in yours. It's in all of yours. It's in all the students with Turning Point USA.

39:04We inherit freedom, but it is not guaranteed. It is our job to maintain it. We have an obligation to keep the flame of liberty burning in the United States of America. That's the role that Charlie played in his life. And so when she talks about the medal of freedom and what it implies for the rest of us, well, yeah, we should all live lives that comport to making this country a better place. We've got to do that. Boy, she's good. Isn't she good? She's very good. Really talented and thoughtful speaker. Finally, she shared a birthday message from their daughter. These poor children, I keep wondering, what do they know about this?

39:40They're so young. Erica shared a birthday message from their daughter. She asked their daughter, what would you like daddy to have for his birthday? And here's what their daughter said. And before I close, I'll share with you that I asked our daughter what she would like to say to daddy for his birthday. Excuse me.

40:09She said, happy birthday, daddy. I want to give you a stuffed animal.

40:25Oh, man. I want you to eat a cupcake with ice cream. And I want you to go have a birthday surprise. I love you, is what she said. And while our son is precious, he can't yet speak. in classic Kirk family fashion his actions spoke louder than his words and his gift to you Charlie and myself for that matter was deciding to become the man of the house and be fully potty trained at 16 months but Charlie baby I know that you're celebrating in heaven today but gosh I I miss you.

41:07It's got to be so tough. It's got to be so tough. Charlie's family was there yesterday. His parents were there. I hadn't really seen his parents throughout this process, and there were photos of them standing there as they honored Charlie. And my sense is that Erica's got a great support group around her, doing everything they can to help her. But, you know, as any widow knows, as anybody who's lost a loved one who's very close to them knows, you know, that that journey is tough. That journey is very, very tough. And Erica, under the circumstances, is meeting this moment magnificently. So God bless her.

41:47Thank you to the president of the United States for honoring Charlie Kirk in the way that you have and for using Charlie's passing as an invitation for the rest of us to try and double down on our resolve to make the country great. it's a really big deal at any rate thank you, what a nice event I see somebody in the chat pointing out Mary Margaret Olihan was there yeah we had Mary Margaret on the program yesterday she's the White House correspondent for the Daily Wire and she was there yesterday at the at the ceremony celebrating alongside so many people there were a lot of well-known conservative media figures there, people were close to close to Benny certainly all of the people, excuse me, it's not Benny Benny Johnson was there, close to Charlie I meant to say Benny Johnson was there close to the people who were part of the Charlie Kirk show there.

42:34And then, of course, like a lot of the, you know, my longtime friend, former boss Tucker Carlson was there and Jesse Waters and Bill O 'Reilly and Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly. They were all taking pictures together. Glenn Beck was there. So the world and not every, by the way, not everybody lives in Washington. People are all across the country. They all fly in for this. They were very serious about honoring Charlie. It was a really it was a really nice gesture. So anyway, it was that was great to see. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to the president of the United States. Now, also thank you to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

43:08Marco Rubio did something I thought was really great yesterday. And that was to start kicking out of the country all of these idiot visa holders who rooted on Charlie's death or somehow, you know, celebrated his assassination. It was it's just utterly contemptible that this has been taking place. And here's what happened yesterday. The United States, the Department of State posted the following to social media. The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans. The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk.

43:47Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the United States. And they give us helpfully they give us examples. They said there's an Argentine national who said that Kirk, quote, devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric and deserve to burn in hell. Visa revoked the Department of State revoked the visa for this idiot and said, no, you don't get to stay here. Being here in the United States is a privilege. Goodbye. You're disgusting. You're a disgrace. You don't fit in here. Go. You reject our country. Well, then we reject you. The Department of State also saying a South African national mocked Americans grieving the loss of Kirk, saying, quote, they're they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom and alleged, quote, he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash.

44:38Oh. Well, guess what happens? Visa revoked goodbye. a Mexican national said that Kirk died quote being a racist he died being a misogynist and stated that quote there are people who deserve to die there are people who would make the world better off dead visa revoked a Brazilian national charged that Charlie Kirk was the reason for a Nazi rally where they marched in homage to him and that Kirk quote died too late visa revoked. What else? A German national celebrated Kirk's death, attempted to justify his murder, writing, quote, when fascists die, Democrats don't complain. Visa revoked. A Paraguayan national charged that Charlie Kirk was a son of a bitch and he died by his own rules.

45:29Visa revoked. You You are out of the country. The president of the United States, Secretary Marco Rubio, will defend our borders, our culture and our citizens by enforcing our immigration laws. Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed. Get out is the message. Get out. Now, I've noticed that there are some people who consider themselves to be free speech absolutists, saying that the First Amendment is somehow conferred upon foreign nationals who say vile things about the people of this country and root against the culture of this country.

46:10That is not true. I don't know where these people come up with this stuff. No, when you are here on a visa in the United States of America, you are here with the blessing and permission of the American people. and if you root for the destruction of the American people, we have every right to revoke your visa and say, actually, you're not the kind of person that's welcome in our country. It's very different. Then, look, the United States Constitution is designed to protect to the utmost the rights of American citizens. Now, are there foreigners who become the beneficiaries of some of the protections of the Constitution?

46:46Sure, in limited ways, that does happen. For instance, if you commit a crime in our country, you're afforded due process rights, definitely. because we have a system of justice that makes fairness the most important quality. Has the left done things to diminish that? Absolutely. But yes, you will be the beneficiary of the rights that are granted to people who are within our borders. But it doesn't mean that every protection of the Constitution is yours. You're not an American citizen. So for instance, I'll give you a really clear example, one that I don't know anybody you can disagree with unless you're some insane Democrat on the Hill.

47:19Illegal aliens don't receive welfare benefits in the United States. They're not supposed to. Democrats are often trying to make that happen without out of sight of you. But it is illegal for federal welfare benefits to go to illegal aliens. Now, why is that? Because it's common sense. Why would we give federal taxpayer benefits to illegals? People were not supposed to be here. People were not entitled to them. Now, are those illegal aliens protected by the 14th Amendment of the Constitution? Equal protection under the law. Anybody who's here gets everything. No, they're not. We don't extend 14th Amendment equal protections to illegal aliens in order for them to take welfare.

47:57That's insane. Try that in court. See what that does in front of the Supreme Court. And the same is true of people who express insane opinions who are here as a privilege in the United States on a visa. If you come in here and you root on the death of American citizens, then a State Department with two brain cells to rub together should know that you should have your visa revoked and your ass should be kicked out of the country. So they are getting what they deserve. This amounts to winning. And our immigration system, you know, however you come into the country, should be done with a shared priority.

48:30Because the immigrant wants to come here because they want to benefit from being in the United States. Fine, I understand your incentive structure. Our incentive structure needs to be, do you improve our country? We welcome you if you benefit us. That's the system. That's the system. This is a bargain we're making. We're not rolling over. We're not kicking the doors open. We're not saying anybody come in. If you come in, you assimilate, you integrate into the country, you join it, you become a productive member of it. And that's the means by which you get in. Otherwise, stay out. And if you're here already, we'll take you out.

49:09Thank you to the State Department for doing this. You know, it's crazy that it takes this much. Like, it's just crazy that it's taken this long to be this sensible, isn't it? And this administration has demonstrated a lot of common sense. A lot of it. Okay, let me see. Boy, I'm telling you what, I've got so much I want to get to today. I don't want to miss out on anything. So let me try and do some rapid fire here. There's a Politico report. So there's something going on here. Democrats are the winning that I'm describing is driving Democrats crazy because they cannot find scandals to wrap their arms around.

49:51They are struggling to find real scandals to smear Trump with. So what they are relying on is what Nancy Pelosi calls the wrap up smear. And the wrap up smear is very basic. It's basically the left lodges some sort of fictional or unrelated complaint against the people that they hate in the hopes that it sticks. And then somehow voters will hold them accountable for things that they didn't do or distortions about their record. So we just got a version of this yesterday. And it comes to us from what you guys were calling earlier, as Dan calls it, bullshit-ico, politico. And this is the story. You ready?

50:33You ready for this? This is super dramatic. So just prepare yourself for how crazy this is. Here's the headline on it. I love Hitler is the headline. I love Hitler. Leaked messages expose young Republicans racist chat. OK. And so the piece revolves around a number of apparently young Republicans, young Republicans as an organization, I guess, primarily based out of New York in this case. where you had these young people, none of whom I've ever heard of. I have no idea who these people are, candidly. And I've been in and around conservative politics and conservative media for a long time. I have no idea who any of these people are.

51:16But Politico is insisting that they are the epicenter of the Republican Party. This is what they're trying to imply, that somehow this is everybody. And what you read is a bunch of, this is a group chat that these guys were having privately amongst themselves where they were saying stuff like, I love Hitler. Now, clearly, anybody who writes that, I mean, that that has to be some sort of dark, insane joke. But they're edgelords. They're people who are just edgelording each other. They're trying to be as dark as they possibly can. And if you read through these things, you're like, is that is that was that a racist comment?

51:46Flatly. There's flatly racist, bigoted garbage in this. But again, I'm wondering, what the hell does this have to do with anything? Candidly, with anything, with the rest of us. So Politico goes out of its way to write this big scandalous story and they try and link it to the Trump administration. And in fact, they say there was one person who was apparently on the receiving end of these chats who works at the Small Business Administration. One person in the chat works in the Trump administration. He serves as a senior advisor in the office of general counsel within the U.S. Small Business Administration.

52:24But here's the thing about that part of the story. you ready for this that person did not have much to say in the chat but he didn't offer any push back against the offensive rhetoric in it either he declined to comment that's the scandal that this guy was ignoring his group chats do you know how many group chats i get put on that i don't even want to be a part of and i'm like i maybe one day i'll go and check what the hell these people are talking about. You're really trying to create a scandal here? Talk about a bunch of garbage. And so what you're witnessing right now, as is typical, is the media has suddenly found a bunch of text messages that they're interested in.

53:07And they involve unknown so-called young Republicans who are trying to out-edgelord each other. Now, if you had one of these Democrats in front of you who was saying, I'm so scandalized by this, here's a simple question. Name one person in this text chain. Name one. Go ahead. I'll wait. No, no, no Googling. No, no, no. Just name one. I don't know who any of these people are. Nobody knows who any of these people are. It's completely irrelevant. Yeah. We have no idea who the hell these people are. Meanwhile, the leading candidate for attorney general in the Commonwealth of Virginia, or at least up until recently, the leading candidate, Democrat Jay Jones, has texted that he wants two bullets in the head of his Republican political opponent.

53:53Two bullets. And there are media crickets about this question. Two bullets to the head of Todd Gilbert, the former Speaker of the House. He also suggested that he wanted to see Todd Gilbert's kids die in order to change political outcomes in the state of Virginia. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Not on the left. J.D. Vance has weighed in on all of this. He's noticed the ridiculousness of all of this. And he wrote the following on X last night. Quote, this, meaning what J. Jones said, is far worse than anything said in a college group chat. And the guy who said it could become the attorney general of Virginia.

54:36I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence. that's why that man deserves to be the vice president of the united states he is not falling for that ship he's not falling for it does this excuse people acting poorly no you should comport yourself well remember that the internet is a constant record of everything you do try to be the best version of yourself including in private always but should this be used as some sort of broad smear against Republicans everywhere, this random political garbage? No, it's insane. So any Republican who falls for this crap, who plays by their rules, who says, yeah, go ahead, stab me some more.

55:22You're a psychopath. You're a psychopath. You're a masochist. And J.D. Vance is saying, I'm not playing this game. So Vice President Vance instantly detecting the tremendous amount of horseshit that's at play here and calling it out. So good for the vice president of the United States. Really very good. Okay, one more thing for you today that I wanted to get to because I can't resist. I can't. Psycho Gate continues. You know, Katie Porter, she's the leading candidate for governor in the state of California. She's a crazy person. She treats everybody around her like crap. She treats interviewers like crap.

55:59She treats her staff like crap. She doesn't think the voters are worth a thing. She believes in abortion to solve inflation. She said every possible psychotic thing you could possibly imagine in public and certainly in private. And here she is trying to rescue her failing candidacy right now. She just did an interview yesterday where she's pretending to be contrite. This is with Nextar. She sits down for an interview. She's pretending to be contrite. Now, pay attention to this because you can tell that she tried practicing it before she sat down for the interview. And she's leaning into a speech pattern that she doesn't normally use.

56:37And the speech pattern here is up talk. Up talk is when you end each sentence in a higher register than you started it in. And usually it's a very clear sign of insecurity, a very clear sign. And so what ends up happening here is Katie Porter tries to up talk her way out of Psycho Gate. Take a look at this. Should California voters feel confident that there aren't any more Katie Porter videos out there? Well, what I know is that I could have done better in those moments. Better? I'm going to be focused on earning their votes and earning their trust. That's true in every election. I've only ever had tough elections.

57:13So I'm absolutely aware that I'm going to have to continue to show them. I'm going to have to answer every question. I'm glad I got to continue that interview and finish that interview and answer all her questions. and that's what I'm going to continue to do. But not just the CBS interview, the interview with the staffer. Can voters be confident that there won't be another one of those videos that's going to come to light? What I do know is that I could have done better in that situation. But that's not a no. So is there potentially another video that we're going to see? Nikki, I'm going to be honest with you.

57:43I know that that video, and that video was several years ago, as you know, and I apologize to the staffer. That's super important to me. and will continue to try to hold myself to do better. That's what I can promise. But not that there's not going to be any more videos because that's what people are wondering. Are we going to see something else like that? I can tell you what I've told you, which is that I'm taking responsibility for this situation and I'm also not going to back down from fighting back for California, from being tough. I don't think this is a moment where the same old, same old is going to cut it.

58:20But that doesn't change the fact that what I did to that staffer was wrong. I've acknowledged it. Wrong to her? She just keeps going. It's so crazy. Are you listening to this shit? Oh, my gosh. She's unreal. And imagine how angry she is. My favorite part of that interview is she has to control her normally unbridled rage. She can't. So you know what's playing out in Katie Porter's head as she's doing this? She says, I just want to grab this woman by the throat And I want to dislodge her trachea I want to pop her head off of her body I want to chokeslam this lady For daring to ask me these questions And she's doing, you know what the interviewer's doing?

59:01The interviewer's doing my favorite thing to do to Katie Porter Follow-ups She's asking follow-ups And Katie Porter is just struggling to keep her head above water I love it I think the whole thing is so freaking funny It's unreal So at any rate, we'll keep following the Psycho Gates saga because it's hysterical. And I'm going to do everything I can to help the good Californians here. We have to. We've got to help our brothers and sisters in California. You know, that golden state needs to become golden again. We are living in the golden age of America, after all. Thanks for joining me today on this edition of Vince.

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