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24:53Trump knew that by being so close to Lindsay, it was gonna cost him with a certain set of that isolationist space, but he never wavered, and really tells you a little something about what they both felt about friendship and doing what was right. Let's show you two clips, though, of that 2018 moment, and for those of you that were not paying attention to politics back then, that Brett Kavanaugh hearing was absolutely insane. The media feeding frenzy, trying to destroy Brett Kavanaugh with no evidence and go into his high school yearbook and just absolutely demolish this man was completely absurd.

25:31Here is part one of the very hearing that Trump was referencing right there. Here's Lindsey Graham. If you wanted an FBI investigation, you could have come to us. What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020. You've said that, not me. You've got nothing to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell them that Lindsey said all over, because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you've done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics. And if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy.

26:16Are you a gang rapist? No.

26:23I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. Boy, y 'all want power. God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham, that you knew about it and you held it. You had no intention of protecting Dr. Ford. None. She's as much of a victim as you are. You know, I have to tell you guys, I'm scribbling about a little something that he said right there. You know, I always talk about the performative nature of politics and these people, like the fake emotion, right? And that Trump actually is so much more authentic than all these people. The Lindsey Graham that you saw right there, that fired up kind of a little bit sweaty, righteous indignation chip on his shoulder, Lindsey Graham.

27:03That was not the way he was. You could tell that that was real. That line, boy, you guys want power. God, I hope you never get it. Man, that is a freaking good line. That is a good line. You know what, Lindsey? I'm gonna start using that line and I will credit you for it because that is really good. Boy, you guys want power and God, I hope you never get it. Man, that is solid. You know, he also brought up another point before I throw to the other clip. He voted to confirm Sotomayor and Kagan. Now think about this. When the confirmation process is going on, back in the day before politics went completely partisan and haywire.

27:38The only reason that you wouldn't vote for somebody is if there was some absolutely glaring reason not to confirm them, meaning that everyone understands it's the president's purview to pick the nominee, and then unless you found a dead body in the closet or something completely insane, you basically vote for them. And Lindsey, what did Trump say? He was a born politician, he was a natural politician. He actually played by the rules. So do you think that Lindsey Graham wanted Sotomayor and Kagan, who are as left, left, left, left, as you can get, to be on the bench? Of course he didn't. But he looked at them.

28:15He said they were nominated, not by the president of my party, but my job here is only to vote against somebody if there is something insane. So he did what was right. He did what was right even when it was against the ideas and his view of the country. Here's a little bit more from that hearing. Would you say you've been through hell? I've been through hell and then some. This is not a job interview. Yeah. This is hell. This is going to destroy the ability of good people to come forward because of this crap. your high school yearbook. You have interacted with professional women all your life, not one accusation.

29:04You're supposed to be Bill Cosby when you're a junior and senior in high school. And all of a sudden you got over it. It's been my understanding that if you drug women and rape them for two years in high school, you probably don't stop. To my Republican and colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics. You want this seat? I hope you never get it. I hope you're on the Supreme Court. That's exactly where you should be. And I hope that the American people will see through this charade. And I wish you well. And I intend to vote for you.

29:52And I hope everybody who's fair-minded will. Man, I mean, again, that is good, that line. This will destroy the ability of good people to come forward. In some sense, that is what politics is more than anything else. Politics has become so evil, so grotesque, so rumor-based and everything else that good people don't want to get involved. So then people go, well, why do we have such a crappy selection of people? And why do we have the same politicians we had 40 years ago, because good people don't want to go through what Brett Kavanaugh went through. And by the way, guys, Brett Kavanaugh has not always in his now what, almost eight years on the bench, has not always voted with Trump.

30:39So all of the things that they threw at Brett Kavanaugh, that's a slight sidebar, were nonsense. But there you had Lindsey Graham defending, he was really defending the honor of the process there by defending that guy, as he had defended the honor of the process by voting to confirm two justices that he completely disagrees with. Now, I don't wanna get into all of the awful things that people said about him yesterday, but you get it. Online people are just horrendous. I do wanna read two from, I cannot believe that I worked for this guy. Like what strange existential thing that I do to have anything to do with this man.

31:15Cenk Uygur over on The Young Turds, he wrote,

31:35I mean, it's just, it's grotesque. You don't mean it, the condolences. It's obviously just half-assed nothing. And you know what's funny, before I read the second, oh no, I'll read the second one and then I'll tell you. Another one. Lindsey Graham has moved on to the next step of his journey. trying to convince Hades to attack Zeus and Poseidon. He says it'll only take a couple of weeks and won't require any ground troops and there's no way Poseidon can close that straight. And that is, don't think those two are just bad enough. His sidekick, who is basically his acolyte that learned everything from him, Anna Kasparian just wrote this, good riddance.

32:13You know, I get that this can all turn everybody, like make your heart black and you think you're so right and everyone else thinks they're so wrong, but let's try to do the reverse of this. Let's say Bernie Sanders died today. I think Bernie Sanders is a terrible person, right? I think he has ushered in so many of the wrong ideas. I think he has helped destroy what is good about this country. I think he's never created anything. I think he's made young people think that jealousy and envy and bitterness are a virtue. He's become a millionaire, decrying capitalism. I could go on and on about the things that I think about Bernie Sanders.

32:52Do you think that if Bernie Sanders died today that I would tweet good riddance? Do you think I would go on a crazy diatribe about how much I hated him on the very day he died? He's a human being. But these people think politics is everything. And when you think that politics is everything, when you don't think there's anything above us than politics, you will be the nastiest, grotesque, you will celebrate the deaths of human beings that you just disagreed with politically. And it's gross and it's awful. Oh, and by the way, here's a Texas Imam. His name is Dr. Omar Suleiman. In other news, Lindsey Graham is dead.

33:30And then he quotes, I am with Israel, do whatever the hell you have to do, level the place, do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin. Bye, Lindsey, may you live an eternity in ruins for the ruins you helped create in Gaza, Amin. And Amin in Arabic means, oh Allah, please accept it. That guy's just an imam somewhere in Texas. There are wars, wars get fought, and yeah, he did support Israel, and maybe Hamas and Gaza, the Gazans shouldn't have killed 1400 Israelis in a day, and then kidnapped several hundred others, including Americans and people from 30 some odd countries. Maybe they shouldn't have done that.

34:09and to end World War II, we dropped atomic bombs and killed people. Maybe Israel should have fought a lot harder and made this go a lot quicker so that people like you wouldn't have that talking point, although you would gladly make up some other talking point. But that's, you're telling me there are people in Texas that go to that man's mosque for spiritual renewal. The enemy is in the gates, guys. It reminded me of a quote that I say on the show every now and again, which is that the right thinks that the left is wrong and the left thinks that the right is evil. And I don't know that there's a better example of that.

34:42And in some sense, I think that quote is actually slightly shifting. And Dennis and I discussed that a bit over the years, sometimes at private dinners, that I am starting to think that these people are evil because I don't think there's a way around it in some sense. But that has been the going thing for years. They think we are all evil. We think they're wrong. And we try to explain to them why they are wrong. Why is socialism wrong? Why is communism wrong? Et cetera, et cetera. and they just go, well, you just wanna kill babies. You just wanna kill babies. You just wanna kill old people who don't wanna give them health insurance.

35:16And then if you know you have a whole bunch of evil people, if you think everybody's a Nazi and everybody's evil, you might start doing horrible things to them. You might actually assassinate the CEO of United Healthcare in the middle of the street in Times Square. You might do that. You might, I don't know, assassinate Charlie Kirk for trying to engage with young people about ideas. You might do some of that. You might try to kill the president of the United States because you think he's whatever you think he is. There is something else worth mentioning about Lindsey Graham, which is that he has been in the Senate for 23 years.

35:46When you think about somebody that is like as much part of the political machinery as possible, Lindsey would be right there, right? Trump said this was kind of prototypical politician. 23 years in the Senate. You know how much Lindsey Graham was worth, net worth? $1.4 million. $1.4 million. Ro Khanna is worth$230 million. Nancy Pelosi, what, 100 mil, right? We can go through the long list of these people. Elizabeth Warren, the millions and millions. Marjorie Taylor Greene,$25 million, and she was only in Congress for five years. Lindsey Graham, who they say, he was owned by Israel, and he was a warmonger and everything else.

36:25Funny, he never cashed in on any of that. Didn't get a secret check. Didn't get any shekels or anything else. He did what he thought was right. 23 years in the Senate, 33 years in the Air Force. And I've read, we're not gonna fully cover it today, I'm sure more will come out about him over the next few days. I think his parents died when he was very young. He ended up taking care of his young sister. By all accounts, he was a good man. All right, maybe you disagreed with some of his politics. But these people, I don't know, I'm starting to think they're evil. What can I tell you? Let's talk about Angel Studios for just a minute and then we'll have a bit more on Lindsey, literally the day before what he was fighting for and where that will be at politically.

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37:36To claim the offer, go to angel.com slash Rubin and become a premium Angel Guild member today. Okay, so let's continue with Lindsey for just a second because his legacy, I think he will be one of the people that hopefully, if America doesn't turn into a communist third world crapple, that we will look back and say, and say, boy, this guy, again, whether you agreed with everything he did or not, that he actually was a statesman, he loved this country, he dedicated his life to it, et cetera, et cetera. But let's show you some of the things that he was working on quite literally to the moment of his death, as Donald Trump was talking about.

38:13Here he is the day before he dies, he was in Ukraine talking about Russian sanctions. Take a look. So when I get back to Washington, I'm gonna go with Senator Blumenthal to the Republican and Democratic leader to see if we can find time to move this Russian sanctions package that would give tools to President Trump to help end this war. Okay, end the war. Again, this has nothing to do with whether you like Russian sanctions or you like what his position on the war was or you like what Trump's doing or anything else. This is a guy that was working, bouncing across the world. And put aside any of the conspiracy stuff, which I will cover in just a second, at least momentarily.

38:56Putting aside any of that for a second, it does tell you something about the fragility of life, like that you could be a vibrant, 71 years old, looked perfectly fine, perfectly healthy, there's no reason to think that you could just drop dead just like that. It just should make everyone stop and pause for a moment. And you see these things. There are guys that are in their 30s that are playing sports and suddenly have a heart attack or something like it, just about the nature of reality and the tenuous thread that we're all on as human beings on this mortal coil. But here is where I will go into the conspiracy thing.

39:29We'll just dance with it for just a moment. Here is Lindsey Graham in 2024 talking about some of the things that Russia does to their enemies. Putin's had an arrest warrant issued because there's no rule of law in Russia. People fall out of windows who are opposition leaders. People get poisoned. There is no rule of law in Russia. Interesting. So he does talk about people getting poisoned. We should note that at Khomeini's funeral last week, look at this, Lindsay posted this. This is literally from six days ago. There's Ben Shapiro too, it's evil. Ben, by the way, had his fifth kid over the weekend.

40:05So I'm also, dove to Ben. Lindsay saw that at Khomeini's funeral with the bullseye right on his forehead. At least they use a good photo of me, judge me by my enemies. I mean, that's when Trump says he was a great politician, like that's it right there. But anyway, we know that obviously Russia and the IRGC are in cahoots at some level, and we do know that Russia, that poisoning people is one of the Russian KGB tactics. So they will obviously do a toxicology report. Russia clearly was not happy with the guy because he was quite literally there pushing for more sanctions. Iran was obviously not happy with him.

40:41So I'll just leave that there. but I'm not gonna do what they do all over, what half these ding-dongs online doing political podcasts do these days, which is just extrapolate nonsense and create conspiracies around everything. But I think they at least let them do the autopsy, the toxicology report and everything else. But yes, Lindsey Graham is gone. And then there's something even weirder because when I saw the tweet that Lindsey Graham was gone, immediately, I read it as Lindsey Graham, but in my head for a split second, and I was like, oh, Mitch McConnell is dead because for a week now, when we covered it last week, Mitch McConnell's been missing for weeks.

41:17Nobody had heard anything from him. Then Scott Jennings on CNN said he spoke to him for 20 minutes, we played that video, but still there was no picture, there was no video, there was no proof of life other than I will believe Scott Jennings at his word. Well, finally, Mitch McConnell released a picture and a statement, this from Jake Sherman, over at Punchbowl News. McConnell releases photo and statement, and here's the statement, to my fellow Kentuckians, when you elected me to do a seventh term and made me our Commonwealth's longest serving Senator, you did so trusting that I'd keep showing up to fight for you every day.

41:50And over the past several weeks, Elaine and I have appreciated both your well wishes and your honest questions about what was keeping me away from the Senate. You all know how folks of my generation often hesitate to share their vulnerability that comes with growing older. Even in the public eye, I feel that same instinct. I can't help it. But at the same time, I've had more than my share of experience with physical vulnerabilities. Surviving childhood polio meant spending my entire life with mobility challenges. They haven't exactly gotten easier to manage with age. And last month I took a fall which landed me in the hospital.

42:21My doctors have confirmed that I didn't break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn't have a heart attack or a stroke. I don't have any tumors or hemorrhages, but I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I've also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia. I can assure you that I've been a good patient. At my age, I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do. I've submitted to every test they can think of to help figure out what caused this incident, and I'm continuing to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact, with signs of continued progress, I've been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I'll keep regaining my strength.

42:57As much as it frustrates me, this process takes time, and on the advice of my doctors, I won't be able to return to the Senate floor to vote quite yet, but rest assured that in the meantime, I'm not taking a break from the Senate business that matters to you. I've been working closely with my legislative staff on current issues and with my Kentucky team who will help provide timely constituent services across our Commonwealth. I've also been keeping in touch with my Senate colleagues on the appropriations process, midterm politics and everything in between. You're right to expect your representatives to work hard for you.

43:25And part of my decision to retire at the end of my term this coming January was being honest about the demands of Senate work. But I still have unfinished business to complete on your behalf and I have every intention of finishing the job you elected me to do. I'll keep working hard to get back on the Senate floor as soon as possible, and I'll keep you posted on the progress of my recovery. Until then, I'm so grateful for your prayers and well wishes. All right, so there's the picture, and there he is with his wife, and people are making all sorts of comments around that, and okay, fine, and was that taken at the hospital?

43:56And if it was, why doesn't he have an IV in, and nobody lays in jeans when they're in a hospital bed? Maybe that's at that rehabilitation center. I'm gonna take a slightly different tack on this one than I just took on Lindsey Graham, and it has nothing to do with Mitch McConnell's politics. Let's put that aside for a second. How old is he? No one that is his age that has taken these falls, that has had these moments that is where we've seen he freezes up and literally cannot speak. He has been missing for weeks. You are telling me that while this is all, he's going through all these tests and rehabilitation and they can't figure out exactly what's wrong with him, and all of these things, that he's also doing the work for the people of Kentucky.

44:40That like anyone that's been in the hospital with the 80 plus, how old is he? 84. He's 84. Anyone that's been in a hospital with an 80 something year old grandparent, how much work are they doing while they're doing all these other things? Not even just work, how much anything other than tending to their health and resting and listening to doctors. So I just don't believe the statement. I wish him well. Again, I'm not even gonna comment on any of his politics. It's largely irrelevant. But why are we subjected to this? We were subjected to four years of Joe Biden being president when we knew he wasn't president.

45:19We just watched Lindsey Graham just die out of nowhere. And now we have one of the most influential members of the Senate who is 84 years old and is basically incapacitated And if he wasn't, okay, well, thank you for the statement that you did not write, right? He obviously didn't write the statement. And thank you for that one picture. Well, if you're basically okay and you're basically doing the work and you put your jeans on yourself and everything else, how about you do a video statement? But he basically said, we'll see you in a couple weeks. I just don't accept it. I don't think it's okay.

45:51And I guess ultimately that'll, well, the people of Kentucky will make a choice next year, but it seems rather ridiculous to me. Here is Rob Frenierty over on Newsmax asking Timber Chet why McConnell's wife was meeting China's vice president while all this was going on. Is something weird going on there? Just days after McConnell went to the hospital, his wife, Elaine Chao, flew to China to meet with the Chinese vice president. Congressman, great to see you. What do you think is going on here? I think her ties to China have been suspect for a long time in the transportation world. And serving on transportation, that always raised an eyebrow for me.

46:40But, you know, nothing happens in this town by accident. Of course, I'm in Tennessee. Things happen by accident down here, but nothing in Washington ever happens by accident. It's just a cover-up on top of a cover-up. and that's why nobody trusts what's going on in Washington. Okay, so I don't know what's going on here, but let's remove Mitch McConnell for just a second. Let's just say, think of an 84 year old that's been in your life or is in your life right now. 84 year old goes to the hospital, has been falling repeatedly, freezes up, has trouble speaking, probably some other things, had polio as a child, whole bunch of health problems.

47:17The 84 year old goes to the hospital and the wife decides to take a trip to China. Does that seem odd? Does that seem odd? Think about your grandparents. Grandpa took a spill. Grandpa's in the hospital. Where's grandma? She went to China. Something is not right. I don't know what it is, but something is not right. Now let's try to tie all of these together. It's a little bit of a jump, but we showed you the picture, put it up one more time from the funeral of Khomeini, the picture of Lindsey Graham, if we have it for just a second, Lindsey Graham and Ben Shapiro. And there was one, obviously, of Donald Trump.

47:56And there were several other American leaders in there. They had Laura Loomer in there. I mean, it was just, it doesn't matter. It's okay. So you saw that at the funeral of Khomeini. I thought Greg Gottfeld made an interesting point here about the Iranian hatred of Trump and why they didn't exactly hate some of our other presidents. Take a look. I guess it tells you how dangerous Trump is to our adversaries, which is how it should be. Our adversaries should want him dead. I find that refreshing. They never would have targeted Joe Biden or Kamala Harris because they realize they're more harmful to the United States when they're alive.

48:37Keep them healthy. They wish Joe Biden was healthier. Our enemies love Joe Biden. He reminds me of when we used to sneak into a movie theater when we were kids. We always did it when the old guy with the bad eyesight was working. That's exactly how our adversaries looked at Joe Biden. Now's the time. Now's the time. Yeah. Yeah. This is where we're at. Why do they want to kill Trump? Why weren't they happy with Lindsey Graham? It's a bit of the sidebar from the McConnell thing for just a sec. Because they were doing things. And again, you don't have to agree with all of those things. But why didn't they care about Joe Biden?

49:13You know, it's sort of like the Epstein stuff. The Democrats didn't care about the Epstein stuff for four years under Joe Biden. The second Trump comes in, they're all obsessed with it. Then Trump releases three million documents and they still say he's protecting, even when their own guys didn't do anything. There is just something a little odd about that. All right, we're gonna do more on Iran right now because it is going, it's on again, it's off again, it's hot, it's cold, it's up and it's down, it's left and it's right. What else is in that song? Who is that, Katy Perry? Taylor Swift. That's Taylor Swift?

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50:13If you're looking for a simple way to support your nutrition without overthinking it, this is a great place to start. Go to balanceofnature.com today and get 10 % off when you use code Ruben. I've got five guys working on this right now. I was right. It is Katy Perry, and this sort of makes what the war is. It's hot and it's cold. It's in and it's out. It's yes and it's no. It's up and it's down. It's black and it's white. It's loose and it's tight. Loose and it's tight. That was in there too. You screw me. Anyway, the war is kind of back on. And it is Katy Perry. I finally get a reference that's not from 1984 and you undermine me.

50:47Jesus. The war is back on. And, well, here's Fox reporting another round of strikes because Iran targeted a Cyprus flagship going through the Strait of Hormuz. Central Command just announced they began a third round of strikes against Iran in response to Iranian forces attacking a Cyprus-flagged container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM says the U.S. is degrading Iran's ability to attack ships, and the strikes are being carried out at the direction of the commander-in-chief. Okay, so look, here we are. We had 20 roughish days around that MOU, Memorandum of Understanding, that JD kind of worked, and it seemingly has fallen apart.

51:29Covered it towards the end of last week. The strikes have begun again, and it was not till Iran broke it, right? Iran started firing on ships again, in the Strait of Hormuz. Here's a bit more on what we just referenced right there. This from US Central Command. At 5 p.m. today, US Central Command forces began launching more strikes against Iran to continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The commander in chief has directed the strikes to hold Iranian forces accountable. You know, interestingly, what I would like to know here, if we can get, let's see if we can get a military expert on the show in the next little bit.

52:03But what I would like to know is in that we have so degraded their military, right? So as Hegseth keeps saying, the Navy's at the bottom of the ocean, they don't have an air force. What is it that they have around the Strait of Hormuz right now that is allowing them to shoot? And why is it that we haven't been able to just simply take those people out? So yes, we are now retaliating. Trump, who was on Jake Tapper, as we showed you, really to just talk about Lindsey Graham, they got into it a bit about Iran. Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. Is that true, Mr. President? It's open as far as we're concerned.

52:42Don't talk about it. Talk about the reason that you asked me to speak. Okay. We appreciate your time, sir. Are we back at war? And who controls the Strait of Hormuz? Well, I don't want to, out of respect for Lindsay, I'm not talking about them. We hit them very hard last night. So I don't want to talk about it, but I will say we hit them very hard last night. We had a deal with them yesterday. They were giving up everything. And then all of a sudden, two hours after that, they hit a ship with a drone. And I said, these people, there's something wrong with them. All right. So Trump may, it almost seems to me that Trump in real time is learning that maybe you really can't negotiate with these people in the way that he's been used to negotiating, right?

53:25I've talked endlessly about Trump and Art of the Deal and sometimes over the top bravado and a civilization is gonna end tonight and you do all those things. But if you're dealing with an apocalyptic regime that maybe just wants to do more, maybe their number one goal is actually damage to you, not really saving themselves or something of benefit to themselves, then maybe those standard negotiating techniques don't work. So if we're to take Trump at his word right there, which I will, he's saying two hours ago we had a deal and then a drone flies into a ship. So how do you deal with these people properly?

53:59I mean, I think that that's probably what much of the conversation around all of this is happening at the White House right now. We're gonna jump over to CNN. Scott Jennings trying to clean up some people who are just not as bright as him. In this case, it is former, oh no, it's Lieutenant Governor of Georgia. It is former, I had it right, former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, Jeff Duncan, who's basically accusing Trump of manipulating the markets throughout the war so that in essence, he's saying, so your buddies can make money. Scott Jennings deals with it quite effectively.

54:37Geoff Duncan:When markets are opening and when PR needs to be pushed out, it's a change in narrative. Scott? You seem to know exactly who Donald Trump is talking to. How do you know that? Well, just as an American watching it play out, It certainly feels as though there's no sort of organized fashion of what's going on. You said he's not talking to generals, that he's only talking to economic planners. I'm just asking how you know that. It seems to be a wild assertion. I just wonder what evidence of that there is. As a taxpaying American, I sit there and I watch this stuff play out within minutes after the markets close.

55:08Geoff Duncan:I watch before markets open. So no evidence. So here's what I think. I think we achieved a great military victory. The Iranian military is devastated. That's so great by Scott. He really has just sharpened how you throw some of this stuff back at these people. Like, you can have your theories. You have literally zero evidence that Trump is doing that. And that guy just doesn't look trustworthy or kind. He just doesn't even look like he's kind. He's like, well, I'm an American tax-paying citizen, so I could assume that I know what Trump's doing in the Oval Office. This is what they all do. This is what all, even the podcast circuit, the Megyn Kellys and the Tuckers, I know what Trump's secretly saying in the office.

55:45No, you don't. No, you don't. Are you in the office? and unless you've got somebody leaking to you, you don't know what is going on. So this is what all they've done. He just made up a fantastic story, confronted on it, and then he just sat there quietly, which is what they should do. All right, let's move on from Iran for a second. This story out of Minnesota, I mean, I don't know what the, I don't know what in the rice and bananas is going on in that state, but it is just completely insane. And this gets even crazier. This from the Department of Homeland Security. The United States Department of Homeland Security, DHS, released the following statement confirming that U.S.

56:19Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, ICE, has arrested and deported an illegal alien from Laos who has been pardoned by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his fellow sanctuary politicians despite a prior conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. That's the picture of the guy. He repeatedly assaulted and sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl, and Tim Walz let this guy out. Here's Tim Walz. I would state this, that I can find no reason how Minnesota will be safer or better if Mr. Vang is deported to a country he has not been to since he was a child. Fox 9 reports Vang's victim wrote a letter to the board forgiving him and they say that was a key factor in their move to pardon Vang.

57:10Charlie Wachling with. You can think of no way that Minnesota would be better if the guy who repeatedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl wouldn't be there. These people are completely out of control. It's not even suicidal empathy anymore. It's total retardation. That's what it is. That should be Gad's next book. I tried with suicidal empathy. It's, I'm gonna, remind me to text Gad after the show. Gad, I have a title for you. Total retardation. It didn't work. What could I do? What are you people talking about? And I suppose that's nice that the girl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted at 10 has written a letter about the guy, but that doesn't mean he should be here in the United States.

57:51And we know that the rate of recidivism amongst these people is incredibly, incredibly high. Here's Tom Homan, who has just about had it with Tim Walz. What would you say now to Governor Tim Walz? Can't say it on air, but look, who pardons a child sex offender, child rapist? I mean, that's how much he supports illegal aliens over U.S. citizens, U.S. citizen children. I'm glad Marco Rubio did it, but Marco Rubio did it. But, you know, this happens more times than you can guess. Why do you think they did that? They did that so we couldn't act to remove this person in the United States. So this happens a lot.

58:31But President Trump, the Department of Justice, and thank God Marco Rubio is all over this. We're going to fight him every time they come with this. I mean, it's so, it's like, it's not even worth me analyzing this. What are these lunatics doing? Tim Walls, it would be a pretty easy thing to be like, you know what, this guy did repeatedly rape and or assault a 10 year old girl. You gotta go, you gotta go back to Laos. I don't know how the weather, how's the weather in Laos? Laos right now, how's the weather? Doesn't matter, we'll get you a pair of shorts. It's probably very humid right now, right?

59:03It's in summer, it's probably hot as hell. What is it, what are we looking at? It's in the 90s, and it's probably very humid. So you know what, we're gonna get you some bug spray. We'll get you a nice pair of Lululemon, like a nice kind of breezy shirt. That's your parting gift for raping one of our girls and get the F out of our country. The fact that they are not interested in that is just extraordinary. I love this clip that we're about to show you. So this is back to CNN, one of their panel things, and Anna Navarro, again, a woman who, she has a job at The View, and then they somehow gave her a job at CNN at the same time.

59:35She's obsessed, obsessed with her hatred of ICE. And this is great. Caroline Sunshine, former Trump administration official, she then turns it on her. And this is very much what Scott Jennings did a moment ago when they turned it on these people and they don't know anything. Watch. But there's been now at least five people killed by ICE in the streets of America. Ruben Ray Martinez, they killed him. Young man, they killed in San Padre Island in Texas. Silberio Villegas Gonzalez. is Keith Porter, they killed him in L.A. Renee Good and Alex Petty, they killed them in Minnesota. And now Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

1:00:12Do you know the names as well of Americans who have been killed by illegal immigrants? Do you have that list too? I know some of the names. I don't have the list, but I do know some of the names. What are their names? What are some of their names? Listen, we have heard all of the names. No, just what are some of the names? This is not me doing a contest of whether you know the names or whether I know the names. Listen, we know the names. we've done this so many times before, how grotesque. You are just unbelievably grotesque, Anna Navarro. You don't care. I'll give you some of the names of people, of young women who have been killed by illegals.

1:00:46How about Laken Riley? How about Jocelyn Nungari? How about Rachel Morin? How about Liz Medina? How about Sheridan Gorbin? How about Ruby Garcia? How about Maria Plaits? How about Molly Tibbetts? How about Halle Helgelson? How about Chloe Poldzin? How about Katie Abraham? I mean, how about that? But you don't care. And by the way, several of the people that you mentioned that were killed by ICE, well, yeah. Renee Good, who was driving her car into an ICE agent. The other guy, Preddy, who days before had been attacking ICE vehicles and was known on their list and was being violent with them. And they are doing an incredibly difficult job, in large part thanks to people like you who've tricked young people into thinking that there are Nazis roaming the streets, even though you people are way closer to the actual Nazis.

1:01:31but again, they just don't, it's Tim Walz does not go, if 10 year old got raped and molested or whatever, I don't, why would I get rid of the guy? And Anna Navarro right there, well, they killed a bunch of girls, but I don't know, we've talked about this so many times, it's literally the video we showed you last week with that witch, what's her name? The witch woman from Congress, I hate, who's that disgusting Pramila Jayapal, where she's got Sheridan Gorman's mother up there, and Sheridan Gorman's mom is talking about about her beautiful daughter who's no longer with us saying that she's glad that she was murdered immediately so that she wouldn't have been gang raped and everything else.

1:02:06And Jayapal has the temerity to go up there and go, you know, we've talked, we've had four hearings on this. These people are grotesque. But thankfully Donald Trump is president. Thankfully we've closed the border and we're doing at least a little something on with the illegals here in our country. Here is Chase's Jamie Dimon, basically shutting down an Axios reporter on criticism of Trump. How fearful are you to speak the truth? I'm not. I want, you know, I think, this is the important part. You can't comment on every little thing. And particularly when people make statements that you know they're going to modify later.

1:02:43So, you know, you guys are always chasing your tails because, you know, he's like putting out the lure out there and the press all goes running to it and they waste so much time. So take immigration. We should all be embarrassed that we now have immigration border control, that we didn't have. And when we didn't have it, everyone said, well, it can't be done. It's hard to do. Well, no, actually it got done damn quickly. And we need border security. Yeah, yeah. Do you guys remember when at the height of all of that stuff with Biden in the border, what did the Democrats keep saying? We need bipartisan support for a border package.

1:03:18Remember, we were in DC that week and I interviewed about 20 congressmen and senators. And all the Republicans were like, the Democrats keep saying it, it's just not true. And of course it was not true. I had Ro Khanna in and I cannot stand that guy anymore. And he kept saying, we need bipartisan support. And I said to him, well, what do you mean? Can't the president just do it? And he's like, well, we need bipartisan support. Like they're just broken records and we didn't. So if Trump did nothing else in this presidency, he at least stopped the invasion. Although I hate to tell you guys, it's only a temporary stoppage because if the Democrats ever get power again, they will open up the country without question.

1:03:52And why would they open up the country? Because they wanna flood us with new voters so that they never lose power. That is the point of the SAVE Act. Here is Trump telling Kristen Welker, that Lindsey Graham, that his last moments, what was he talking to Trump about? Surprise, surprise. President Trump, thank you for joining us and my condolences to you. Well, thank you. He's a tough one to lose. He was great. He was unique in every way, actually. He was, Mr. President, and I know that we are all just absorbing this news. We are all in shock. Can you tell us, Mr. President, how you received this news and your immediate gut reaction when you heard it?

1:04:33So what makes it even stranger is that I got a call last night sometime in, you know, the early evening, maybe in the sevens. And he called and he said, we're all set for the Save America Act. He was pushing the Save America Act like crazy. So again, we referenced it earlier, but Trump was just on the phone with the guy. He is gone and Lindsey Graham wanted to talk about the Save America Act. And remember, the only way this thing will pass is if the Republicans will do it by simple majority. And there's still a bunch of squishy Republicans, most notably John Thune, who don't seem to want to do it.

1:05:08But if the Republicans do not act now, don't take my word for it, take the Democrats' word for it. When they take over, they will pack the courts, they will make DC a state, they will potentially make Puerto Rico a state, they will change every norm to ensure that they never lose power. Because what was the line that Lindsey Graham said before? Boy, you want power, God, I hope you never get it. And he damn well was right. Here is Utah Senator Mike Lee telling Maria Bartiromo that everyone wants the Save America Act to pass and they damn well better get it done. Examine what it is that voters want right now.

1:05:46Overwhelmingly, not only do they support this bill, but they understand that it ought to take preeminence. It ought to take precedence over other legislation we should be supporting right now. So I think that's where the disagreement lies, is in the vision that we can pass this, even though we don't yet have 60 votes. We do have a simple majority. And on the technique, the method by which we bring it about. But it does take effort and some creative thinking. We can get it done. Yeah, they can. Look, they're not going to get Democrats to come across on this thing, but they can do it by simple majority if they have the wherewithal to do it.

1:06:20And by the way, Mike Lee is probably next to Rand Paul, the most libertarian senator in the Congress. So he's not one for just like voting on things that will give the government more power, doing things that are against the norms or anything else. But he clearly sees the severity and the importance of making sure that, I don't know, people have identification to vote. And yes, don't worry, if you're a woman who got married, you will still be able to vote. Lordy, lordy. All right, but what this all leads us to is that we can hope. We can hope and pray and do everything we can to make sure that Trump and the Republicans stay in power.

1:06:56And as always, you can agree with a lot of their policies. You can disagree, but they're kind of, let's just say ballpark roughly sane and right-ish about most of the things. Then you have another party that is now full of open communists, socialists, jihadists, crazy clown people. They are out of control. I think Freddy Krueger, Jason, who was the guy from the Halloween movies with the Michael Myers, a bunch of bad people over there. Not great people, okay? But they have to decide what they wanna do in the future. So let's jump over to The View. Let's offer up a warning for the people. And here they are talking about their potential 2028 candidates.

1:07:34My hot take of the moment is the most likely person to be the Democratic nominee is Kamala Harris. In every poll she is still, it's usually her and Gavin Newsom neck and neck. I have a list here. She's usually ahead. If I may just finish. I have a better list. She is usually ahead. I love her. She was great, but she didn't win one time. What makes you think she's going to win again? I find it hard to believe that based on the money she raised, the name ID she has, and I don't think the party would pass over her for a generic white man. I like John Ossoff. He's 39 years old. I like Josh Shapiro, 53 years old.

1:08:03I love Josh Shapiro. Gavin Newsom, 58. That's the problem. And J.B. Pritzker, 61. What about Pete Buttigieg? What about Pete Buttigieg, Wes Moore? Do you realize how insanely scripted the show is? is that Joy has to be looking at a piece of paper to tell you the people that she thinks should be president. Okay, and then, but what about Pete and everything else? If I was handed a piece of paper to tell you, oh, I'm sorry, I've just been handed a piece of paper, these are the people that I'll be supporting potentially in 2028. President James Marshall, that was Harrison Ford in Air Force One, 62 years old.

1:08:38He would have my vote for sure. Oh, actor from several movies, including Cocoon and Police Academy, Steve Guttenberg, great guy. I've met him a couple of times, 67 years old. Mike Tyson, 60 years old. I would vote for Mike Tyson. Willy Wonka, local chocolate man, age unknown. And Wilfred Brimley, deceased. Oh, he was in Cocoon 2. Oh, what a strange and interesting list. Thank you for that. Gavin Newsom was not mentioned by those creators. Oh, but what was interesting about that though was did you see what they all did there? They all mentioned the non-completely psychotic people. Now they're all sort of bad politicians and they don't stand for anything.

1:09:20But what they were all trying to do over there on The View, you've got Elisa Farah, Republican, getting a cookie. I'd love to vote for Josh Shapiro. Then how are you a Republican? Like, yes, he's not a jihadist, but he's not, he's just not great and he's a Jew. So there's no chance in high hell he's getting nominated by the Democrats. But she's like, I'd love to vote for him. What kind of Republican are you then? That's one thing. But then Joy busts out the list. She says Josh Shapiro. What else did she say? She said, oh, Ossoff. Well, he is a lefty nutbag. But they didn't go full jihad yet. So they're trying to paint that, oh, but these are the, J.B.

1:09:54Pritzker. Like, no, you're a bunch of losers, losers. Speaking of losers, here's Gavin Newsom. You know, when I ran for mayor, just for what it's worth, I ran against a member of the Green Party, which was, you know, had aspects of the DSA that we know it today. There's so many aspects of the debates and arguments today that are just deeply familiar, and I think it's a very healthy thing. I'm one of those Democrats that deeply believes in addition, not division. And so I want a big tent party. I want to win. Meaningless nothingness. Again, I say big tent more than anybody. How many times have I said big tent this year?

1:10:27Can we AI that, figure that out? Like, no, a big, a tent is only as big as the poles that hold the tent up. It's only as strong as those poles, right? So you don't want a big tent that has everybody, so now what's going on in the tent is just a free-for-all, a psychotic orgy of lunacy. What you want is, oh, we have some differences, but we basically think we can make this thing work, and there's gonna be times where it's gonna be pretty stressful. But all of these Democrats, they're all saying the same thing right now. This is exactly what, what's his name out of Newark, Cory Booker was saying, and what Newsom is saying right there.

1:11:00They're just saying the same thing. I believe in addition, not subtraction. I believe in big tent. What you're saying is we're letting the inmates in. They are going to murder and maim and potentially rape all of us, and then we'll see what happens. That is what they are doing right now, and I would offer them good luck with all of that. But let's end with people that are creating, because there are people that are creating, and most of the people that are creating are moving to places where you can create, and you can flourish, and you will have a little skin in the game, and you are less inclined to be beheaded while on the way to get lunch.

1:11:34Here is Elon Musk in October of 2024 explaining why people are moving out of Cali and why states' rights and the ability to still move around this great country are so important.

1:11:46Geoff Duncan:There will not be any meaningful elections in the future, just like there aren't in California. And the whole, all of America will be Californicated. Not in a good way. Yeah, Californicated. Ouch. So, we don't want, that would be a bad situation. In fact, it will actually be worse than California. The reason it will be worse than California is the one thing that holds California back from being even worse than it is, is that people can move out of California and still be in America. Now, what happens when there's no place to move? It'll be way worse than California. And that's the point, guys.

1:12:28Look, we're watching this sorting happen, right? Elon's not just saying it right there. He very publicly took his companies out of California and Gavin applauded him for doing it, was so proud of himself and lost all that tax money. And again, it's not always about just the money, it's the people, literally the five people that are sitting in this room with me, I got them out of California. They're all decent citizens as far as I can tell. They're all moral people. They all put money back into the economy. They go to restaurants and well, not totally moral. All right, the point is they're not, what would we say, not completely horrible degenerates.

1:13:07Oh, he's a little, all right, all right. Look, I got four out of five that are doing all right over here. You know what I'm saying, guys? And so it's not just the money, it's about the people, you freak. So thank God the founders set this thing up so that you could move around. Thank God we have the protections that we have. Thank God that we have a separation of powers and these are all the things that the Democrats want to destroy and they will not do it on my watch. That is our program for this Monday. Thank you for watching. Post game show 30 seconds. RubenReport.Locals.com. See ya. Do we have a problem?