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25:31In 1899, he wrote a book called River War and he wrote this, the influence of the religion, Islam, paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. That was in 1899, about 35 years before World War II, before post-World War II where the maps were redrawn or anything else. And I would also say that this is unfortunately what people call the soft bigotry of low expectations, that you think these people can't control themselves. They just can't control themselves and everything is our fault. So what he's selling you right there is exactly what the left has been selling us in America forever, right?

26:13When terrorists do things, it has nothing to do with their ideology. It has nothing to do with the book that they say they're doing it for or the shirt that they're wearing. When they do it, It has everything to do with America and Western values. It's just nonsense and it's dangerous. It's deeply dangerous. So tell me this. We saw this video over the weekend. I thought this was interesting. Here's an imam in Michigan. And I want you to very carefully listen to his words. And you tell me, is this because of America or because of something else? And that lack of fear of death is what has always given us power over them.

26:50I remember years ago, Ronald Reagan, a situation where somebody had jumped into a vehicle, I think it was in Africa, and they ran the vehicle into this huge building and blew it up and killed a whole bunch of people. And they came to Ronald Reagan to ask him about that. And he said, and I'm not a good imitator, he said, well, he said, how well do you expect to stop a man who is sitting in a truck full of spouses and he's running into a building saying, God, it's great. He couldn't understand that. Because when you reach that level where your love of this world is replaced by the love of the hereafter and therefore the removal of the fear of death is no longer there, you at the edge the wild harm is taken the softness is taken all these things are important do you realize how dangerous what that guy just said there he's applauding the suicide bomber because he has no fear that's kind of interesting he's saying his love of that other world is way more important than this world so he'll blow himself and as many people as he needs to he'll blow them up to get to the other world.

28:11And he says, he literally says, their lack of fear, their lack of fear of death gives them power. Now, is that because, is that notion because of the United States of America or because of imperial British policy in the 1940s? Or is there something else going on here? And why it is that Tucker seems to be intentionally confusing people about this, I do not know. But the next version of all of this is that they are going to call all of us Islamophobes. Now, a phobia is an irrational fear. I would say that it's perfectly rational to fear or not like an ideology, a political ideology, which is really what it is, that might subjugate you or subjugate women or minorities or want to take out Christians or Jews or force everyone to pay a jizya, a tax, to live in a place that is under their control, et cetera, et cetera.

29:09But here is communist slash Islamist mayor of New York City talking about Islamophobia. I think anyone who grew up post 9-11 knows that anti-Muslim bigotry isn't anything new here. But to you, does it seem like there's something different or something new this time? I think there's an unabashed nature to it and it is being echoed from the highest offices in this country they do so without any sense of shame and what is remarkable about Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bigotry is not that it is bigoted for there is so much bigotry in this country it is that there are very few who speak up in opposition to it the manner in which it has become normalized.

29:53And it is not exclusive to any one political party. It is endemic, frankly, to our politics. And what this kind of bigotry shows is a complete erasure of the million or so Muslims who call the city home. So evil. What he's doing, everything he's doing is a complete obfuscation of the truth. I was in New York during 9-11. My father saw the second plane hit from his office. My grandmother lived in New York. I had friends that lived in the suburb that couldn't even get out of the city that stayed with us for a few days. I've told you some of those stories before and written about them. The idea that there was somehow anti-Muslim bigotry after 9-11, that the question, whoever that interviewer is, everyone knows that there was, is complete 100 % lie.

30:40Everyone, it was America, everyone was bending over backwards to make sure to say not all Muslims and not be bigoted against people and everything else. It's a complete lie, but he still, he wants you to think that they're the victims. As they take over Times Square and thousands of them pray, and as they start using the Muslim call to prayer in Brooklyn and things like that, they're also the victims. It is deeply, deeply dangerous. Also, do we have some numbers on hate crimes? Yeah, we have some numbers. So right now? So yeah, in the last 20 years, we just checked on this and you can fact check us if you'd like.

31:18In the last 20 years, anti-Jewish hate crimes outpace anti-Muslim hate crimes 10 to 1. Not 2 to 1, not 3 to 1, not 4 to 1. By the way, as a Jewish person, I don't take any pride or happiness in that. I would prefer it not be there for anyone. But he wants you to think that he and his people are the real victims. It's completely absurd. Steve Dace, who I haven't had on the show in a long time, we could have him back on. He is a host over at the Blaze with Glenn Beck. And he's been one of the, I would say, more lucid critics of Tucker as he's sort of gone off the rails in the last six months. And I thought this was quite interesting.

31:55And it's a point that I brought up, I think, about a month ago. He tweeted this. How many times has Tucker Carlson posted about or in support of the Save America Act or on any of his shows? Tucker Carlson has not posted about or in support of the Save America Act on X based on extensive searches of his account. Searches using exact phrases like Save America Act, Save America Act, Save America Act, or variations, including from his handle in 2020, returned zero matching posts from him. Semantic searches limited to his username for relative content, for example, mentions of supporting the act, election integrity bills, tied to it, or related discussions also yielded no direct references.

32:36His recent posts focus on other things like foreign policy, free speech, wars, and interviews, but nothing on this legislation. There are no indications from web searches, including Fox News archives, his own site, or related coverage that Tucker Carlson has discussed or endorsed the Save America Act on any of his shows, for example, his podcast, former Fox program, or current platforms. The bill, a Trump-backed Senate measure requiring proof of citizenship for voting, voter ID elements, and other election reforms, has been heavily covered in recent days with Senate debates, Trump pressure, and GOP infighting, but Tucker is not mentioned in connection to it.

33:08Look, again, I don't love this podcast's worst stuff, but I think it's really important, and I'm seeing suddenly people are getting more, we don't need this up here anymore, I'm seeing more people get a little more discerning in who they're watching. You don't have to agree with me on foreign policy. I could be wrong about things. I'm telling you what I think, that's fine, right? And you should judge me on my track record and whether you think I'm honest and all of those things. But why would you, if you are someone that's roughly on the right, you're a disaffected lib, you're a hardcore conservative, whatever, why would you be backing somebody who not only is radically against Trump right before these midterms, where the whole freaking thing could come crashing down, and always is criticizing him and quite literally never talks about any of the legislation Trump is trying to get across the finish line that could potentially, and not ironically, save, it's the SAVE Act, save the country.

34:03Like if you're watching people on the right that never say anything good about the Republicans, never say anything good about Donald Trump, maybe they're not really on your side and they're tricking you and they're also somehow propping up Islam and they're also doing glazing interviews of all of the lefties that they bring on. But when they bring on Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee, they try to destroy them. Maybe there's something else going on there. Now, a guy who I think has been wildly consistent on all of this stuff is Mark Levin. And Mark Levin had Joe Kent on. Now, as you know, Joe Kent, who is under Tulsi Gabbard at DNI, he stepped down last week in what he said was opposition to the Iran war.

34:43We showed you that for years, he's been completely aligned with Trump on Iran and for military action in Iran. And there are many tweets about it, many public statements about it and everything else. So he's had a very, very recent switch and you can glean into that whatever you may. And it also turns out that apparently he has not been invited for the last few months. He was not being invited to certain meetings because many people thought he was leaking to the media. Mark Levin interviewed Joe Kent on the radio and asked him about that. Were you a leaker? Are you under investigation? Do you know whether you're under investigation?

35:22Let's try and clear the air right at the beginning. Sure, Mark. Thanks for having me on. I never leaked any classified information. And the stories you're reading are stories from leakers who are leaking, I guess, maybe an investigation about me being a leaker. So I think it's just immediate counter narrative. So nobody has contacted you from justice or the FBI or anything like that? Nope. Did you ever leak? Confidently? Let me do it this way. Did you ever leak classified information? You said no. Did you ever leak confidential information? Nope. Never? Never. Were you cut out? Okay, you're on the record.

36:05That's perfectly fine. And that's a good thing, Joe. Okay, so there Kent is on the record that he never leaked classified information. Now that's interesting. and we don't have information counter to that other than it is known for sure that he was being left out of meetings because people thought he was leaking classified information. But he's saying he never leaked classified information. Now, what's interesting about that particularly is that you may remember, what was it, last week, I had Andrew Colvett on. Andrew Colvett was Charlie Kirk's executive producer and right-hand man for many, many years.

36:39And Andrew, yeah, and Andrew over the weekend has now said, for some reason he didn't say this for the last eight months, but he did say it over the weekend, that he gave Joe Kent, who he was told he could trust, screenshots from a private group chat that Charlie was in and those screenshots eventually made their way to Candace Owens. Now did Joe Kent, who he gave them to, that's what Andrew Colbett is saying, did he give them to Candace directly? Did he give them to someone else? Now, screenshots in a private group chat are not classified, but that is showing that at least this guy, we should be looking at him with a bit of a skeptical eye.

37:23Here is a bit more Levin going after Kent because he keeps arguing that Levin himself and others lobbied Trump to strike Iran. President Trump said no nuclear weapons. And then through official engagements through the Israelis and then also the media echo chamber that wanted regime change in Iran said, no, no, we need to say that the Iranians can't. What about the media echo chamber, your buddies who didn't want regime change in Iran? There's a lot of echo chambers out there, wouldn't you say? It appears that your media echo chamber was much more successful. No, it wasn't. I never lobbied the president.

38:01Hey, hey, pay attention to me. I never lobbied the president. You guys keep putting that crap out there. I met with the president once at his request, and I said to the president, ready for this, Joe? I said, they're telling, they're saying out there that I'm lobbying you. You know what he did? He laughed. You know what he said? Mark, I know where you stand. I watch your show on Saturday and Sunday. Anything I say here, pay attention. Anything I say here is what I would say. I did what? You can lobby him by using the power of your show. Come on, brother. You're sounding almost ridiculous now. Yeah, I'm sorry.

38:41That's really pathetic on Kent's part. Everyone can say whatever they want. I can say whatever I want. Mark Levin can say whatever he wants. Joe Kent can clearly say whatever he wants. Now he's not working for the government, and it sounds like he was doing some shady things when he was there. Everyone can say what they want. Trump makes the decisions that Trump wants to make, right? So it's just, it's actually somewhat grotesque. This notion, they keep pushing this, that Donald Trump doesn't know what he's doing. I mean, that's what Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson and several other of these people, they want you to think that Donald Trump doesn't make the decisions.

39:14And it is just absolutely mind-blowing to me that after 10 years, over 10 years of this, with Donald Trump, people think he doesn't know what he's doing, that he doesn't, he listens to people, absolutely. Does he watch TV? Does he watch Fox and other mainstream media? Obviously. but that he's not making these decisions. I mean, even if you just listen to the tenor there, it's obvious that Levin is telling the truth, right? It's obvious. And Kent is being a little wishy-washy. Okay, maybe you didn't leak classified information. You're now on the record as saying it. We'll find out if that's true.

39:46But at the very least, Colvette said he gave you the texts that somehow ended up in Candace's hands. So we'll see about that. Anyway, here's Trump and he's kind of had it with Kent. Do you know whether Joe Pence was leaking? Look, I'm not a fan of the guy. If you look at, and you never cover this, if you look at his truth or whatever he went on, if it's X or truth, if you look at his truths or his statements, he was all for everything. All of a sudden, he wasn't. He was a man that I met at Dover. He came and his wife was killed. He remarried fairly quickly. His wife was killed and I felt badly for him.

40:28He ran for Congress, he lost. He ran for Congress again and he lost. I said, you know, he's a guy, nice guy, seemed like a very nice guy. I met him. He was pretty heartbroken. Pretty. But I said, you know, it's a shame. He ran for Congress twice. Call him up, give him a job in the White House. Smart. They gave him a job in the White House. and this is what he does to me, you know? Being a nice guy doesn't pay off too much. Well, you're probably right about that. Look, the broader point here is let's say you have a, let's try to give Kent, if I gave him every bit of leeway as possible, let's say you were just putting aside leaks or anything else.

41:13Let's say his position, even though he has for years been encouraging Trump to hit Iran and talking about all the horrible things that Iran's done and everything else, Put aside that he flip-flopped on all of that just in the last little bit. What kind of person works for the administration? Let's put aside the leaks for a second. Put all that away. What kind of person works for an administration that you are welcome into? You work there for a year under Tulsi Gabbard, who is your friend. Remember, I told you the only time I met Joe Kent, we had about a half hour conversation, just the two of us.

41:41It was the evening of Tulsi Gabbard swearing in. There was a little dinner party after that we were both at. He was at the bar when I got there early. We had a drink and had a perfectly nice chat. you're kind of throwing Tulsi under the bus, aren't you? By immediately, the day after you step down, you're going on all of these shows to imply Donald Trump doesn't know what he's doing. Like that's the giveaway. That's the giveaway. Like if somebody was working for me, talking to you three, somebody was working for me, steps down and the next day starts going on the media to attack me, wouldn't that kind of tell you something weird was going on here, right?

42:22And Donald Trump is the one being wildly consistent. And Mark Levin is the one that's pointing out that people talk to President Trump about everything. Lobbying, like it's funny, the word lobbying, it's like people talk to Trump, Trump watches media, Trump makes decisions for himself. These people seem to think that after all this time, Donald Trump has no idea what he's doing. It's the height, absolute height of absurdity. But let's stop with that. Because now I wanna come back to some of the more granular domestic stuff. And there has been another murder of a beautiful young girl here in America.

42:56You can really call this one Lake and Riley 2.0. It happened in Chicago, surprise, surprise. It was a Venezuelan illegal immigrant, surprise, surprise. And the Democrats are gonna say absolutely nothing about this. So I think it's valuable and important that we talk about it so you know about it. This is from Bill Belusion on Fox. Breaking, DHS confirms that the suspect in custody for murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago is a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught and released at the border by the Biden administration in May, 2023. DHS says he was also released from local custody after a shoplifting arrest in the sanctuary city of Chicago on June 19th, 2023.

43:37DHS identifies the suspect as Venezuelan national Jose Medina Medina. Medina Medina is accused of approaching Gorman while she was walking in a park with friends early Thursday morning. DHS says Medina Medina came up to her while wearing a mask and armed with a gun. As she attempted to flee, he fired his gun and shot her. Gorman was shot and pronounced dead at the scene. DHS statement, Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who released this illegal alien twice before he went on to commit this heinous murder, said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Biss.

44:15We are calling on Governor Pritzker and Chicago sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods. I mean, for God's sakes, that would be the lowest thing you could possibly do. Let's not release this guy. He just murdered a college student in cold blood. Democrats will not say a word about this. They do not care. I do not mean that to be hyperbolic or over the top or anything else. Democrats do not care. It was Biden or Autopen that let this guy in, then he gets to Chicago where he commits other crimes and he gets let out again.

44:50And then who pays for it? Well, it's a beautiful young college student from Loyola, right? She's dead. The Democrats will not care. And then they will tell you that the Republicans are evil for trying to make sure it doesn't happen again. Here's a bit more from Illusion. This appears to be Lake and Riley 2.0. Yet another Venezuelan illegal alien allowed into the country by the Biden administration, then released again by a sanctuary jurisdiction on a shoplifting arrest, now accused of murdering an innocent, an innocent young American college student. Absolutely insane. Here's Fox with a bit more on this guy's repeated arrests and how he was let out.

45:27Just profoundly absurd. This is Sheridan Gorman, 18 years old. She was a freshman at Loyola in Chicago, starting her whole life, her college career, out for a walk with friends by the lake. And it is the same lakefront that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker touted as very safe and said everyone was making too big of a deal out of crime in Chicago back in September. Here on the south side, early morning, lots of runners coming by on the lakefront path, lakefront trail. Absolutely gorgeous. Oh, yeah, absolutely gorgeous. Well, she's dead. And it's because you created a sanctuary state. Chicago became a sanctuary city.

46:11And we had a president who wasn't even president who let all these people in. I have Joseph doing what we call a side quest around here, which is checking top Democrat Twitter accounts to see if anyone has tweeted about her. Let's do Bernie AOC, Elizabeth Warren, pick 10 Dems. And we'll just see if anyone has said a word about it. And the obvious answer is no. You know what? We got bagels for Connor this morning. I will eat three bagels in succession at the end of this program if any of those Democrats in their last 10 tweets have said a word about her. I'm making light of this, but it's profoundly evil what they're doing.

46:45How evil is it? Well, we were all talking about how this was gonna happen while they were doing this. Here's Alejandro Mayorkas with his eyebrows talking about how secure the border was in 2023. I know you are asking for a yes or no answer. And the fact of the matter is that the challenges of the border are very complex and dynamic. All right, well, I'm going to take from that that if you can't answer yes, then the answer is no. That is not true. All right, so then you're saying all nine are secure. It is my testimony that the border is secure and we are working every day, day and night, to increase its security.

47:22The challenges that we are experiencing at the border cannot be overstated. Guys, I got to tell you, that's no less evil. Watching those old videos, it's no less evil than when we watch COVID videos. And if you get the vaccine, you won't get nor transmit COVID lies. They lied about everything. How is it that we got all these things right while the people who are supposedly in charge got so much wrong? He's going through as many Twitter accounts as he can right now. And it looks like I will not. How many calories are in a bagel? I already knocked out one this morning. You got to look at a good 4, 450 over there.

47:51If I knocked out three more, I mean, that's going to ruin the day. The other part of all of this is that the Democrats, what do I always tell you? If there's a bad guy, they love him. And if there's a good guy, they hate him. And this is a perfect illustration of that. This is Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy. This guy is an extraordinary tool. He went on The Muppet Show over on MS Now with Chris Hayes. And I'm always curious whose hand is up his butt. And here he is, Murphy, saying the quiet part out loud. The negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship. It was entirely on their terms in order to get Ukraine funding, right?

48:33Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years. So you are right that that has been the democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe. And it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country. What? Did he just say the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans? Well, if you're undocumented, you're not about you're not American. But I couldn't have heard that right. Could you? Could you? The negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship. And it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.

49:13The un I mean, when you talk about Orwellian, the undocumented Americans who are in this country. You mean illegal aliens who have broken the law by coming to this country. And those are the people you care about the most, which is why I have no doubt, and I will eat the three bagels if I am wrong. Can you check Chris Murphy's account? And has he tweeted about that young girl from Loyola? Obviously not. If you think Callie's a crap hole under Gavin Newsom, the next guy that could be governor there is a man who quite literally had sex with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang, check it for yourself. He farted on national television with Chris Matthews.

49:53And he's just all around just terrible douchey. He's just a douchebag. Can we show a picture of a douchebag or we'd be demonetized? I'm not even sure what a douchebag is, but he seems to me to be a douchebag. I don't even want to know what a douchebag is. Does anyone know what a douchebag is? I don't think any of you. No one in this room knows what you know what one is. All right, you tell me after. But the point is, here's a douchebag. Americans don't want ICE in our communities. They don't want them at our airports. They, by and large, as I support, want ICE to be abolished. They are not doing what we were promised they would do.

50:27All right. That is not, I am sure that's not what a douchebag is, what he just said right there. I didn't even watch the clip. Should we throw it again? I mean, I know what it is, but maybe let's watch the clip. But that is not, that is definitely, you are not right about that. Americans don't want ICE in our communities. They don't want them at our airports. They, by and large, as I support, want ICE to be abolished. They are not doing what we were promised they would do. All right. The point is, whatever a douchebag is, that's it right there, right? Like, he's a liar. He's a liar. Yes, this is what we want ICE to do.

50:59They're doing what Donald Trump was elected to have them do. And because you dingbats have defunded DHS, Donald Trump has now been sending ICE to deal with airport security lines, which they shouldn't have to do, but he's doing something because as we keep pointing out, ICE is funded through 2029. So you morons that have the government in partial shutdown right now, it's for no other reason than you are trying to exert maximum pain on citizens so that they hopefully will mistakenly attack Donald Trump over it. And I just know that that was wrong. My friend Sage Steele, she was on our actual friends podcast while I was away in Hungary.

51:37And here she talks about how the Democrats have these big cities. We know this. All the big cities are blue. And what it is doing, not only because of the illegal situation, but the crime and the economics and everything else, what are they doing to the black people who they purport also to care about? My husband and I were talking about this today, just in general with cities. And we were just in D.C. and some friends last night who were like, I've been here for 10 years and I cannot wait to get out, even though DC has gotten better once they let Trump help with crime. What a concept, right? But when you look at every single big city and it's, they're blue, the leaders, it's all blue.

52:13And this is not new, whether it's the drug use, the homelessness, the crime, Chicago, South side of Chicago. That is obviously the common denominator. And I hate that, right? I hate to be like blue, red, blue, red. too. He's a sane person living in a pragmatic world and doing what anyone would do. So that's my point. It's so, so that's my point is it's so rare and I don't care. Red, blue, just do your job, do it the right way, but the numbers forever. And we've talked about this from obviously a racial perspective as well. And in the black community and all of these cities and inner cities that have voted blue for the last 50, 60 years, what has happened to the black communities in those towns.

52:52Has it gotten an ounce better? Absolutely not. Right. So you might think it's a jump. We're talking about immigration. And then she's talking obviously about the black community in these big cities, but it's the same thing. Democrats pretend to do good while they do bad. Look what's happening in New York City now as the communist Islamist is taxing the hell out of people. More of them are leaving and thus they will need more money from, well, it will then, first they want the billionaire's money, then the millionaire's money. And then you make a couple 100 grand, which isn't an awful lot of money in New York City, and they're going to want your money too.

53:24And the services will get worse than everything else. Contrast that to a place like Florida, where we have no income tax. And yet somehow we have safe roads. We coordinate with ICE. So if a Florida state trooper finds a guy going down Alligator Alley and he's speeding, and it turns out that that guy is illegal, guess what? Instead of escorting him to his next stop, they're gonna escort him to Alligator Alcatraz. That's what we do. So what is so much of this about? Well, in the end, you can whittle it all down to Trump derangement syndrome, and I really believe that is fundamentally true. Here is Tom Holman with Sean Hannity.

54:01They hate Trump more than they love their communities. They hate Trump more than they take the safety and security of our communities. Look, it's just another one, another one. And I've been fighting sanctuary cities for 10 years. I have met hundreds, hundreds of angel moms and dads who buried their children because their children were killed by an illegal alien. And I can't tell you how many young women just in the past couple of years would be alive today. You know, whether it's Rachel Moran or whether it's, you know, Lakin Riley, whether it's just young lady. If they would simply just work with ICE, if their law enforcement would work with ICE when they arrest illegal aliens for crimes, we could save countless lives in this country.

54:46It really is just crazy because if you think in this, I mean, we just read you the statement, but in this case specifically, it wasn't just, he didn't just get here illegally and then randomly murder her. He got here illegally and then also had already been arrested for another crime beyond being illegal here in the first place. And that douchebag, Swalwell, will have you believe that Americans are more concerned with illegal immigrants and criminals than they are with that young girl. And the media will keep running with that and they will keep telling you that Tom Homan and Donald Trump and me and you are the bad guys.

55:22And it's completely absurd. Now, one of the good guys that we have, he happens to be a Republican, is National Treasure Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana. So as you know, TSA, DHS is now in a partial shutdown. So TSA people are not being paid. And you've probably all seen the videos over the weekend. There were massive, massive lines in a lot of different airports. Donald Trump has decided to send ICE in to clean some of that up and do some of the checks. Democrats are going crazy because of that. But it is interesting that the Democrats are allowed to make sure that TSA folks and DHS folks don't get paid while they continue being paid.

55:58Well, Kennedy was not having it. As far as I'm concerned, if the TSA folks are not being paid, senators shouldn't be paid. I tried to bring a bill yesterday on the floor and got objected to by the Democrats, but we'll try again. Now that's something, that's a true politician, not a true politician, that's a good man. I will not be paid if the people that I am elected to govern over are not being paid because of what we are doing. That's pretty good. But instead, the Democrats won't even vote on that because they want to shut the government down, exert as much pain on the American people, again, hoping that the American people will point that at Trump because they're confused about what's really going on here, and they'll cash in their checks the absolute entire time.

56:43Here's some of the CNN video of the massive lines. This is at Atlanta airport. And once again, this is because of the Democrat DHS shutdown. We believe right now at the regular checkpoint, there's about six agents who are working the lines up front. So that's helping move things through. The TSA pre-check line is actually longer than the main checkpoint line. And I'm walking you this direction because I want everyone to see the active lines here at the airport, because that's when you get a good sense about how the security lines are working. We've actually tracked at least seven people today who have given us a different estimate for the time they spent anywhere from four hours to two hours.

57:21And that's mostly the pre-check. Okay, now the reason I wanna show you that video is because if you look at all those people there, let's assume that a huge swath of them are not particularly political, right? Maybe they watch a little CNN. Maybe they don't really pay attention to anything. Maybe they listen to a podcast here and there. But most of them that are now late for vacation, gonna miss a connecting flight, maybe they're not gonna get home for their kid's graduation or they're not gonna make their spring break vote or whatever it might be. For someone that's completely apolitical, you're on that line, all this is going down and people are like, yeah, there's a government shutdown, there's a government shutdown.

57:54Well, a huge amount of people are just gonna be like, oh, that's Trump's fault. They think president, right? President Trump, government, and they will blame him. So that, I'm telling you, that is what the Democrat calculation is here. They know it's on them, but they are hoping to extract pain so that your anger will be directed towards the president. It is deeply duplicitous, but that's absolutely what they are doing. And here's Timo Obama basically saying it. Yeah, it's unfortunate that Republicans have decided that they would rather force TSA agents to work without pay, inconvenience millions of Americans all across the country and now potentially expose them to untrained ICE agents and create chaos at airports throughout the land rather than get ICE agents under control.

58:42All right, you guys know, I don't like Dana Bash. There is something about her that is so fake and robotic and whatever. She's, you know, she has the same thing that the other one has, that Abby Phillip has. There's just nothing behind, give me a screenshot of her, there's just nothing behind her eyes. It's like, is she, like, what are these people? Yeah, it's unfortunate. But why, Dana, why not say there, why not say, excuse me, Timo, excuse me, Timo Obama, thank you for that speech. But as you know, ICE is funded through 2029, so the Democrats shutting down the government right now does nothing except cause pain for people.

59:17Why don't you say that? Why do you just stare like a deer in headlights as he lies to you? Try a little harder, lady. They don't expect CNN. They're not expecting much out of you, but you got to fake it a little bit, I would imagine. Here is a video of a guy, Congressman Democrat in Colorado. His name is Jason Crow, also blaming Republicans, complete and utter nonsense. But as a Democrat, I mean, look at Denver Airport near your district. They're asking people to donate gift cards for TSA agents to make ends meet. The airport says, you know, this is a huge generator in terms of what the airport does for the region.

59:56This is hurting your community. So we are ready to go. They are in control of every facet of government. But in the meantime, these people are left stuck. We're about to be in spring break, heavy traffic season. That's the report. They are in control of every element of government. They're in control of what we vote for and don't vote for. We are saying, let's open it back up. No, that's not what you're saying. You're saying we'll open it back up if somehow ICE is gone. That's what all of you are saying. The lady who scares children at night and the Islamist and the other one, that's what you're all saying.

1:00:29So it's just a lie. That's all they do. Here's Tom Homan again, this again with Dana Bash, and just note the nothingness behind her eyes. And he makes the point that ICE, which we're now sending in to do the job that TSA should be doing because of the Democrats should focus on airports where there are the biggest problems right now. And how many ICE agents are you considering deploying to do this? Again, that's going based on discussions we're having today. I think we need to, my opinion is that we concentrate on airports where the longest waits are. We prioritize those. A large airport where there's a long wait, like three hours.

1:01:08I think we got to prioritize what we do like we do everything else. So yeah. Okay. Honest answer. We'll prioritize it. We'll figure it out. I don't know the exact number, but we're going to go to airports where they need the most help. Dana, I would imagine you fly a lot. You might want to thank Tom Homan because it's your side that's causing the problem. A little bit more from CNN. It's like bashing your head in with a hammer. But here they are actually explaining that having ICE agents suddenly appear and work is fixing all of the lines in this case in Atlanta. Finally, we can take a deep breath here.

1:01:39The numbers have dropped off. The lines are getting shorter. I think the average wait time now is under 40 minutes. So if you have a flight to catch today, it's a good time to come to Hartsfield-Jackson International. Talking about those ICE agents, you can see a few behind me right there. And then I'm going to walk you this direction and you can see some more of them gathered over here. This is what they've been doing for the most part today is doing the patrols around the airport, talking and gathering. Well, that's pretty good. Ice comes in when people are working, then things start moving along a little bit better.

1:02:10That's nice to see. But the Democrats are just insane. They're just insane and they want you to pay for their sins. However, as you know, there is one sane Democrat. He is the Senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, who one day I guarantee you, before he's done, not only will be a Republican, but will wear a button down shirt. And here he is questioning the Dems. Why are you defunding DHS while we're in the middle of a war. And we've also had four Islamic terrorist attacks on our soil. I've been consistently the only Democrat to vote against this shutdown. It's wrong. You know, you witnessed what happened in Michigan.

1:02:50That individual drove into the synagogue. He showed up to kill 150 toddlers. So why would you want to make America more unsecure in the middle of these kinds of attacks? And now if you've seen any one of those disaster movies about a cyber attack. Well, guess what? The cybersecurity agency is under DHS and that's shut down right now. And now you will also see people, if you're flying, you're going to see long, long lies. And I am there all the time. I ask all of those TSA agents, hey, do you like getting paid? Yeah, yeah, we do. Yeah, we do. People do like getting paid. If I stop paying you guys, would you keep showing up?

1:03:30Wow, even you. I really thought you would still show up for just for all the Celsius that you're drinking. Yeah, terror attack in Michigan, terror attack in New York, terror attack in Austin. He points out the cyber division is shut down right now. The Democrats are creating the conditions for more violence and more just general pain for you because of what's happening at the airport. And he's the only guy speaking up against it. Here he is on the All In podcast talking about that the only unifying principle that the Democrats have is hatred of Trump. Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today?

1:04:06Oh, we don't have one. I think the TDS, I think that's the leader right now. You know, right now our party is governed by the TDS. And now it's made it virtually impossible without being punished as a Democrat to agree something's good. I agree with the other side. And I would define that by epic fury. I am literally the only Democrat in America in Congress that I've come across that's saying, I think it's a great thing to break and destroy the Iranian regime. So the Democrats, he's right. All that they are doing is being oppositional to everything, no matter how many young girls get killed at college by an illegal alien, no matter how long you have to wait at the airport, no matter whether you try to go out to a club in Austin and you get shot by an Islamists.

1:04:56The only thing unifying them is that they hate Trump. Here's one more from Petterman illustrating just that. You asked me earlier, what's the leader of the Democratic Party right now? I would say it's TDS. That's driving the conversation. If he supports, you know, he could come out for ice cream and lazy Sundays and now suddenly Democrats would hate it. We would want to vote it down. Man, I could go for an ice cream and lazy Sunday. That sounds pretty great to me. But he's right. He's right. And by the way, Trump understands this, and he's going to have to keep leveraging this idea. You know, that's what happened at the State of the Union.

1:05:36Stand up if you're for American citizens more than illegals. And he illustrated to the entire world that the Democrats are here for illegals more than for citizens, which is why not one Democrat, he just checked, in their last 20 tweets, one big-time Democrat has tweeted about that girl from Loyola. because they don't care. They quite literally don't care. They care more about Kilmo Arbrego Garcia, who beat his wife with a boot and was a human trafficker and an illegal and a member of a gang from El Salvador. They care more about him than the people that he harms. But he's also right that the Democrats have no leadership and Schumer, poor schmuck Schumer, that's what we're gonna call him for now, Chuck Schmuck Schumer.

1:06:24There's just, everyone hates him because he's not a radical ding-dong like the true AOC Ilhan's, but he's just nothing. He's just absolutely nothing, who, as we've pointed out 20 years ago, was saying the exact same things on immigration that Donald Trump says now, which is exactly what Barack Obama used to do and everything else. Kristen Welker asks Murphy, this Connecticut Murphy, this guy is just, he's terrible. You thought the other clip was bad. Here's another one. Basically, who's your leader and what are you going to do? And Murphy just lays it out. Nobody knows. And to this point, leadership is, of course, leading the charge here.

1:07:01And there's a lot of focus on Chuck Schumer right now. The Wall Street Journal reporting that there's growing frustration with Chuck Schumer, which spurs talk of replacing him. Senator, do you want to replace Leader Chuck Schumer? Well, I think we are united right now as a caucus. There's always a lot of focus on Senator Schumer and Leader Jeffries. Those are very hard jobs, especially at a historic moment like this. That's not a yes. Well, no, we are united as a caucus right now. Let me just be clear about that. We are united in ending this war. We are united in reigning in the lawlessness of ICE.

1:07:34And we're going to be united in winning the election this November. All right. So the point is, Schumer, you're on borrowed time one way or another. Like, nobody likes you. And I guarantee you guys, mark my words, put a bookmark on this one, whoever they bring in after Schumer will be worse than Schumer, right? To whatever degree he's holding the dam from them becoming an entire jihad party, you will see it will be worse after him. So how do we end this show? Obviously, the Democrats are nuts. Obviously, Trump's trying to do a lot of good things. There's podcast wars where Trump's being undermined by people on the right.

1:08:09Well, what I would say is that whatever happens in the future, The Republicans have a pretty deep bench, whether in 28 it is Marco Rubio, whether it is J.D. Vance, whether it is Don Jr. or Ted Cruz or whoever, there are sensible people. There are people that have a certain set of values and they might get some things wrong, but they're pretty decent. And one of them is Ron DeSantis, who has run this state just so unbelievably well. As you know, he went on Sean Hannity's new podcast, which I think I'm on in a couple of weeks. And Hannity asked him if he would consider running for president again and kind of what happened last time.

1:08:52Will you run for president again? We'll see. I mean, you know, I think that, you know, in 24, like in Iowa, the people that voted for Trump, if he wasn't running, I would have gotten like 90 percent of those people. They were conservative voters, right? They didn't want the non-conservative. You know, they wanted me. And so, but the timing didn't work out, obviously, for that. So you just got to see what happens. Yeah. Look, I don't want to get ahead on all of that. And we don't have to rehash the primary or anything else. And he was probably in a little bit too early. And I think he'd have to be a little more refined in a few ways of dealing with the media and things of that nature.

1:09:25But the point is, there are sensible people. There are sensible people who care about America, who are doing good things, who have track records. You know, the Democrats keep plucking people from obscurity. Even Mamdami, you have a state assemblyman who missed something like 80 % of the votes, who's an absolute activist more than anything else, who's never run as much as a sneaker store, which is a perfectly honorable job, by the way, who then they say, okay, be the leader of the world's number one city in the world. And they say, go ahead and do that because you're good for the media, or that's what they've done with AOC or the rest of them.

1:09:59The Republicans will have an opportunity to showcase serious people, which is why this administration is so good. And that should be starkly obvious. And that's why we got a hell of a lot of work to do from now until November to make sure that the Democrats don't, I keep ending every show the same way, but that the Democrats do not win the midterms. Because if they do, Trump, the experiment, this entire thing is basically over overnight. And if he wins, imagine what Trump, imagine what two years of Trump, where he knows he's not running for reelection and he can really go all in. He could fix more than I think we could possibly imagine.

1:10:34So that is where we are at. I'm going to call it at a nine three because of what happened earlier. Connor, happy birthday to you. Did you eat your little guacamole? I brought him a personal size guacamole, which you did. It was pretty good, right? A little extra lime in there. There you go. All right. Post game show 30 seconds, rubenreport.locals.com. See you tomorrow.